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What exactly is materialistic about Marxism? I don't quite understand it.
>Morality, religion, metaphysics, all the rest of ideology and their corresponding forms of consciousness, thus no longer retain the semblance of independence. They have no history, no development; but men, developing their material production and their material intercourse, alter, along with this their real existence, their thinking and the products of their thinking.
>>1361309
Congratulations, you're stupid.
Don't worry your little head about this stuff and run off to somewhere else.
>>1361334
I'm sorry, I just need help on the whole materialism vs idealism thing.
What would dialectical idealism be?
Who did more to destroy the Great Library of Alexandria? The Romans or Christians?
Fire
>>1361247
The fire that the Romans started or the fire that the Christians started?
>>1361262
The one time Christians burned the Library it no longer had any books.
Also the only time the library itself was purposefully burned was during a Muslim invasion.
Is Nick Land the greatest philosopher alive? It took me a while to grasp his philosophy but now I realize everything he's predicted is coming true.
Yes.
>>1361229
Nope
>>1361511
Then who is?
Redpill me on this man. Is he worth listening to? Why or why not?
>>1361177
He looks like an evil wizard.
>>1361181
kek
Don't you want wizard powers anon?
Listen to his stuff about TV coming to his town. I think it's still on YouTube.
What went wrong?
>>1361164
EVERYTHING
>>1361164
California is only one out of 50 states.
>>1361164
Marginalist economics and general access to wealth.
Who was Khidr?
This mysterious character has significant value in Islam. Unlike all saints, prophets and leaders mentioned in the Quran - he is the only one that is seemingly exclusive to Muslims.
As in you'll find all other characters in the Quran to be also present in the Bible and the Torah and other Judeo-Christian beliefs and documents. Except his man.
the tldr about this man as observed in the Quran:
Moses declares he is the wisest most knowing human on Earth after one of his sermons. God declares that that's not true and to seek out a wise man by taking a fish and roaming the Earth until the fish escapes him. Moses takes a young student of his and sets out to find this man. The fish escapes and Moses finds the man at the "junction/meeting of the seas"
Moses begs the man to take him along and teach him from his wisdom. The man famously and repeatedly tells him "you will not endure my ways"
What follows are three distinct stories that happened with Khidr and Moses:
1- Khidr punctures a ship
2- Khidr kills an innocent child
3- Khidr mends a stone wall in a town where the town folk were inhospitable and vile to them.
Moses confronts the man every time about his seemingly evil/useless deeds; the man then explains that he punctured the ship so that it would be deemed unworthy by a famously corrupt king would have seized it otherwise
He killed the child because he would grow up to be mischievous and evil. And God would replace him to his parents with a good son in his place.
He mended the wall because it belonged to sickly father whom would soon die and leave orphans behind. and that the wall would collapse unearthing a treasure underneath when the orphans are older.
Have these stories been mentioned before in any Judeo-Christian or even Greek mythology? or is this truly the only character / story line that is a new addition and exclusive to Islam?
This story is what made me renounce Islam, barbaric af. Anybody has more info on this dude?
it should be mentioned that Khidr is now and has been for quite sometime the poster child of Islamic mysticism. he is believed by many muslims to be timeless and immortal. he is said to eat like us but doesn't need to.
"Immortality" is exclusive to him and to Elijah in Muslim tradition. his wisdom and mystical nature also lead to him being adopted and heavily revered by many fringe sects in islam such as Sufis.
>>1361056
He sounds a lot like Utnapishtim, sometimes called "the Sumerian Noah", who was the sole survivor of the antediluvian world who knew the ancient ways of worship and taught them to Gilgamesh, allowing him to re-found the "true" religion on his return to Uruk. Even the fish part is mirrored in the Sumerian, it's one of the methods of achieving immortality that Utnapishtim teaches Gilgamesh.
Did people think of him in the 19th century like we do of Hitler now?
Only leftist morons think of Napoleon as a 'Hitler' like figure. The know nothing of the man and quickly lump him in with the 'tyrants' because he claimed himself emperor.
>>1361088
>dem hitler dubs
People did think of him that way in the 19th century though
"Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the
Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war,
if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by
that Antichrist- I really believe he is Antichrist- I will have
nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer
my 'faithful slave,'...
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>>1361107
Just because he was an aggressive war monger. Compared to actual tyrants Napoleon isn't that bad at all. Napoleonic Code is considerable less drastic than the final solution and whatever the Mongols did.
He just wanted to unite Europe under one language [French] and it has practically happened anyway with English.
Debate time.
Give arguments for and against religion.
Note: Here the issue of the existence of God will not be treated
pls no
it would be all memes and edges
>>1360734
Humans can't agree on what religion is right, the Universe is huge and people assume god would want anything to do with this planet. It's not really about religion though the real question is what happens after death, since we have limited time on this planet we want to do our best to get into a better life. Which is why people raised a certain religion won't ever question it because they want the best outcome after this life and questioning their belief is seen as bad because "have faith".
Polytheism is the best type
What went wrong, /his/?
>>1360704
Austria is a small, mountainous shit-hole with little or no industry and a tiny population.
>>1360704
They persecuted the Slovene minority and thus never received the help of their meme magic.
Seriously though from the accounts I read Austrofascism is one of the comfiest fascism, if we ignore their failed economic policies.
Vampires.
What was the origin or the myth?
Did they represent something else in life that was plaguing the peasants?
Related, how do most persistent myths get started?
They aren't a myth. They were real at one point, and would drain people of their blood.
>>1360631
Sure thing, buddy.
>>1360646
Don't give me that look. The story of vampires persist to this day.
Is it true that Arabs were admired by the British and the West in general as having a beautiful culture?
>>1360617
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism
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Yup just watch some of the 20's movies
>>1360628
So 19th century Araboos basically?
what's the point of roman empire -wank that many anons are so smitten with? wasn't the republic better?
>>1360582
>wasn't the republic better?
>>1360582
>wasn't the corrupt and inefficient senate better then the glorious Augustus
>>1360582
Cucks like cults of personality.
>be Catholic
>apologize to gays >>1359070
>wash refugee feet
>pray to Allah (see Lumen Gentium, Nostra Aetate)
>remember salvation comes not by works, but faith alone >>1358946
>even though atheists can go to heaven
http://www.catholic.org/news/hf/faith/story.php?id=51077
Wew.
Are...
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>>1360449
>be protestant
>truly believe in god
>live a life of sin and debauchery
>become a serial killer with hundreds of victims
>thanks to protestantism, end up in heaven
Seems good
>>1360480
Reminder that if you are literally Hitler but believe in God, you will go to Heaven according to protestantism
Did the Trojan War even happen?
The more I read about it, the more it seems to be a series of military campaigns than it was an actual war. And the City of Troy, whatever it was based on, appears to be very clearly embellished for the story.
>>1360426
Theres a high chance it was based on an event that happened even if the story itself didn't happen
They didn't believe Troy was real.
>IT'S ALL MYTHOLOGY WAKE UP SHEEPLE
Then they found it.
ILION/TROY IS BYZANTIUM/CONSTANTINOPLE/ISTANBUL.
I know that crusades were out of the fashion by 15th century, but I was always wondering would there be some form of reconquista of the Byzantium and Holy Land if the Americas were discovered like 50 or 100 years later.
Wew, anybody?
>>1360341
>reconquista of the Byzantium
Crusades are what destroyed and allow the Byzantium to be conquered in the first place.
Latins and greek were seriously at each others throats for the whole duration of the crusades.
>>1360461
I know about 4th crusade and all that come after. I was thinking after the fall of Byzantium, well in into 16th century, because you had religious turmoil and population boom in western Europe that blow their steam on Americas.
