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People seem to think the roles people take on in the bedroom reveal their "true" selves. If a successful alpha male turns out to be a cuckold/submissive in the bed, we laugh and think "oh, he is ACTUALLY just some pathetic beta in truth". If a self-proclaimed feminist turns out to like being dominated sexually, we think she's a fraud who just can't admit at other times she like the patriarchy. Etc etc.
But what is actually the truer self? The person we become in the most intimate and intense (sexual) moments or the person we're the rest...
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As a philosopher of virtue ethics, I'm going to tell you that the true self is created by continuous habits. As a philosopher in general, I'm going to tell you to read Foucault.
>>1338772
>the true self is created by continuous habits
Right, but what's the answer then?
It's our sexual habit, but it's a habit we (often) do much more rarely than all our other habits. The successful alpha man spends much more time performing his habit of being domineering and assertive at work than he spends being whipped which is his sexual habit.
Doesn't answer which is the truer self.
>Why is that ?
I'm no philosopher of any kind, but I suppose it is because in bed we often act directly on our desires, while in normal society we act according to social restraints and constraints first.
Our behaviour is much more controlled and artificial in our daily lives, though of course sex is not devoid of lies, roles and such.
Was the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom the 19th century equivalent of ISIS?
>>1344082
In terms of what they did, their rise and why they did it? Kind of.
Their beliefs from a Christian standpoint were waaaaay more heterodox than ISIS's is from an Islamic standpoint at it's core level. Sure ISIS ignores contemporarily accepted interpretations of some concepts on Jihad. But Hong Xiuquan flat out rejected the trinity and styled himself the brother of Christ. And held all sorts of other batshit religious beliefs.
The Taiping's closest modern Muslim equivalent would probably...
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Anyone else also remembers the beautiful days when ISIS didn't exist and people didn't compare everyone who behaved at least a bit rude in history to them?
>>1344291
Don't worry, Anon. In a few years ISIS will be gone, and another Islam-based religious group will be murdering their way across a part of the world.
And it will still be #nothingtodowithislam
>Wake up in Anarcho-Socialist Utopia
>Have a hearty breakfast of dry grain and water
>Consider sharing this bounty with my neighbors
>Realize that my first neighbor, Bob, was forcibly conscripted into the Revolutionary Guard, despite being a pacifist
>Second neighbor, Jim, was beaten to death, accused of spreading counterrevolutionary literature
>Take a stroll to work
>Only...
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>>1341854
Such is the life of man under socialism imposed by young ideologues
"Inventing a fictional world to justify your ideology is the masturbatory exercise of a person that lives in his own echochamber"
t. Ayn Rand
>>1341888
Uhhhhhh she didn't actually say that did she?
Why is a certain subset of the pop sci crowd so vehemently hostile to any way of thinking about the universe that privileges life and consciousness? Why are atheist materialists so absolutely hellbent on denying the dignity of being human?
What are you talking about
>>1341047
>le feign incredulity fedora man
every fucking time
>>1341057
You gotta elaborate to get a serious response you dumbass chr*stian nigger
Any patricians in /his/ actually comprehend an ancient language?
Recommended resources etc.
Accurate Power Ranking?:
Classical Greek > Latin > Classical Arabic > Sanskrit = Syriac = Ancient Egyptian > Other
>Latin = Classical Chinese
FTFY
>>1334238
Latin > Attic Greek > Sanskrit > Lojban (original language of humanity) > Classical Chinese > Ancient Egyptian > Sumerian
>>1334414
>Lojban (original language of humanity)
Just had to google this. Seems to be some sort of even more gay Esperanto.
Why did Dixie lose the civil war? Was it because they had no highly advanced military telegraphy network like the yankees did?
Inferior logistics all around, basically. The feds had superior manufacturing, railroad networks, better organization, and almost the entire navy. Ultimately most of the business of fighting a war is getting your troops where they are needed, with full stomachs and decent shoes.
>>1328272
a lack of manpower and lower manufacturing ability
also the good guys don't always win
>>1328285
>Dixie
>good guys
Pick one, Jed. You're part of the Union now. Stop being so assblasted over the defeat of a shitty country that existed for a few years to prolong the life of plantation slavery.
Went to Yale and Harvard Business School.
And yet dumber than shit. Daddy's influence and money kept him in University. GW is like Trump in that everything he became and did was possible due to daddy.
>>1349445
I promise you that the breadth of George W. Bush's knowledge and intelligence puts yours to shame.
Lenin
We do leftists fetishize the French Revolution when the American Revolution is literally history's only perfect revolution that didn't end in Terror and Tyranny?
>>1344876
Because leftists desire the overthrow of power structures in order for it to be a "revolution"
The American Revolution was not a true revolution.
It was a colonial war.
The colonists broke from the home country.
The revolution was in the former of government the ex-colonists chose to implement.
I would consider the Civil War a drastic example of unresolved issues coming back to haunt us.
So, blood has definitely been shed post revolution.
>>1345682
Former (sic)
Should be "form".
Would feminism have ever existed if Western Europeans had lived in those patriarchal, patrilineal and patrilocal joint families typical of Russian, Chinese or Indian peasants?
Is Western feminism, ironically, a by-product of Western history?
>>1344337
>Is Western feminism, ironically, a by-product of Western history?
>is western feminism related to western history?
I don't get what that would be so ironic by that.
>>1344337
This sounds fucking horrible desu.
I'd rather chose my friends and acquaintances instead of having to deal with every shitty cousin or aunt in the family while hearing your senile grandma spouting off crazy shit.
The reason they still live together is because they're fucking poor.
I bet you the first think a chink or indian will do once he has money is buy his own home.
>>1344618
He's one of those reactionaries who tries to insist that liberal values are counter to Western society rather than the product of Western history and thought
>>1344678
Yeah, it's wealth and birth control. Until the 70s, it was very normal for Irish American families to have over six children.
Would you agree that a nation exists on the foundation of it's people?
>i.e Sweden for swedes, England for england etc etc
If so, would you agree then that most western european countries have in fact failed it's people and let outside interests take over a major part, if not all of, politics, media and culture?
>“Let’s not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That’s a 19th century idea and we are trying to transition into the 21st century, and we are going to do it with multi-ethnic states.”
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/1999/kosovo-and-far-right
>>1344983
how was this achieved?
>Would you agree that a nation exists on the foundation of it's people?
It's based on blood, culture, language and land.
> would you agree then that most western european countries have in fact failed it's people and let outside interests take over a major part, if not all of, politics, media and culture?
Here I assume people = those who historically/originally belong to the nation, ie the blood, culture and language part.
Yes, but failing was inevitable because the nation is not real, abstract, and too binary for a post world war 2 world.
It's not even failing when it's inevitable imho.
I'm starting to believe that a god might exist, but he's a cruel and sadistic god and very likely a Lovecraftian eldritch abomination.
>>1344785
Start over.
>>1344785
You're not wrong.
Came to the same conclusion during a bad shroom trip. Wasn't the best experience.
Who had the most powerful human mind in history?
Un noteworthy. The wisest people in history would have inferior brains to 22 year old men.
In addition, intelligence is a meme. Life is learning from experiences then playing your luck, there is not even free will. All the prodigies you know are memelords. The richest 400 people in the world would have lost 130 m in brexit unless they correct their positions, soros himself only was in the green because he hedged into gold, and that hyper jew nazi sith lord would shit on your favorite intelligence celebrity.
>>1341824
Has cynicism ever gotten anyone laid?
>>1341805
Obviously, this guy.
What could Germany & the central powers have done to win WW1?
not start it
>>1333606
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>le vikings were shit fighters xD
explain why they always are on the lists of best warriors then
http://www.thetoptens.com/greatest-warriors-history/
http://www.wonderslist.com/10-legendary-warrior-cultures/
>>1348795
afaik:
>verified religion that glorifies death through violence as the way to the good afterlife
>only dying in battle while truly trying to win counts
>some of them are mixing in hallucinogenic drugs to literally go berserk
>civil disputes are often settled by one-on-one combat
>men and women are all trained in martial skills
Fearless and truly...
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ok, summerkids, this is BAIT
do you remember what we do with BAIT? no? YOU SAGE THEM!
identify and sage the bait threads
you autismal cancers
If the vikings were so good, why did they never reach the moon?
What is the general opinion of the scholars here of indulgences? Are they a part of christian doctrine?
yes, it makes perfect sense
the church spends the money on the poor and spreading the faith, if you pay indulgences this means you're a better person and don't deserve as much time in purgatory
>>1348326
in what way did the church spend money on the poor?
seems dishonest to have a hand between the individual and God
>>1348308
The scholarly opinion is that indulgences weren't what they are usually thought. There were "buy your salvation" things, rather something along the lines of "make a donation, may the Lord look favorably at you".
The problem which made Luther and many others so anal about was the fact that the sale of indulgences was franchised out to private contractors who often used, in modern terms, misleading and fraudulent advertisements.
