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Can we get a thread going for counteies that have literally never done anything wrong?
>Genocide is more stylish than other countries:manly battles
>Will invade countries over ethics
>average 800,000 enemy pows every war all well fed
You cant lose with this country.
England?
Iceland
>Literally never participated in military conflict
>Has some cool writers and artists
>BTFO'd bankers
>>1126026
>btfod bankers
Themselves?
>you can't disprove Solipsism
>you can't disprove Idealism
>you can't disprove Nihilism
Why do philosophy?
Because even if you can't prove or disprove unfalsifiable concepts, you can still discard them.
There are good arguments against all of them. Solipsism is funny in that it doesn't matter if it's true or not.
Alien here. I can.
I've spoken with dozen philosophy majors and literally no one understands Heidegger. Why is he so influential? What is he saying, for Gods sake.
>>1125662
i think he tried to cover his idealessness with convoluted language intentionally out of vanity -
many philosophers ánd sociologists fake originality like this
>>1125662
>forget about becoming(something) and just revel in your Dasein
Sorry OP. Most people who even try to understand him are usually leftist materialists who only read him to see what their leftist idols saw in him. You need to have randomly experienced Lichtung to truly understand.
>>1125662
He argued reality is not composed of "things" so much as subject-dependent-contextual-possibilities. He tried to avoid the blind faith in the modern scientific world view, and he failed, unfortunately.
I admire the way they defeated the Hungarians in Lechfeld and ended their raids in Europe
>>1125646
>Nice things about germany history
it'll end soon.
Even if it failed, the HRE at least tried to be Holy, Roman and an Empire
>>1125646
They had pretty cool military uniforms throughout history
what's the deal with the septuagint? why do they translate passages so differently in some cases? is the septuagint a translation of a different hebrew bible than the one we have today? do jews hold it in high regard at all? how did it originate?
also what's with those dead sea scrolls?
>>1125644
>what's the deal with the septuagint?
It's the oldest translation of the Bible.
>why do they translate passages so differently in some cases?
Because different translators were working on it with different processes and mastery over the languages. Sometimes they're more literal, sometimes they go for an interpretive translation.
Please refer to the New English Translation of the Septuagint - I'm referring to both the...
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>>1125740
>The Masoretes weren't there to standardize the texts
Are you saying that before the Masoretes there were more versions of the Hebrew Bible commonly found? Not sure if I'm understanding you.
>>1126046
Yes, and Qumran shows that.
It seems to me that everything we do, feel and say is of a rather superficial nature. I'd be interested in reading philosophical approaches on how to deal with the apparent lack of meaning in everything.
So, any good recommendations?
>>1125627
>It seems to me that everything we do, feel and say is of a rather superficial nature.
Put some more effort in it.
Foucault, Derrida, and Althusser went into how ideology is created and sustained, so that might be what you're after
>>1125638
Fair enough. It seems to me that we only harbour and express our feelings in an attempt to create a narrative of some sort in our lives. It seems to me that all of it is just so we have something to occupy ourselves with, because otherwise life would be too plain. It may also serve to justify the actions dictated by some of our most basic instincts such as self-preservation and reproduction. So, despite all of our grand and noble concepts such as love, justice, etc., I only see a mechanical behaviour fighting desperately...
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can you imagine how progressed the world would be if we had no religion.
Ye m8, the dark ages
There's a chance there would be no society.
>>1125544
>John Lenin quote
>edgy pic with tumblr filename
Can we compare Britain leaving the EU to the time we left the Catholic Church under Henry VIII? What similarities/differences are there?
Well there's no qts getting beheaded
Henry VIII recognized that there were two Empires: Europa and Britannia. The establishment of a national faith in England was well overdue by his time. Today there is Britain, Europe, and Russia, each with their own destiny. The establishment of a national destiny is well overdue in Britain.
Anybody know anything about the Ottoman trade deal we had under Elizabethan rule that Catholic nations couldn't get because Islam was considered evil by the Church?
This Spring marks the 100th anniversary of the Asia Minor Agreement (Sykes-Picot) that split up the Arab remnants of the Ottoman empire between France, Britain and Russia.
The agreement wasn't honored in full, particularly by the Brits, and laid the foundation for the past century of instability in the region.
>>1125365
Gee I wonder why..
>>1125365
I love it, its karma. The Arabs betrayed the rightful Caliph, now they get the kaffir's reward
>>1125376
>the rightful caliph who painted nude-females.
Who are the great historians?
I'm an ausfag and recently really got into J. Rufus Fears, watched a whole boatload of his videos on Rome, Greece and liberty. I would like to read/see more from people such as himself. Which historians are impressive for information and the telling of history?
Wish all professors were like this man, he was insightful, engaging and timeless.
>>1125318
Titus-Livus, Sallustus and Taine
They were writing about living things, not dead ones. I hates these fucking old historians with their old books.
>>1125568
>They were writing about living things, not dead ones. I hates these fucking old historians with their old books.
For about thirty seconds I thought about explaining why this is wrong. But then I realised that your mental development must have halted at six, so I'd be wasting my time.
>>1125318
Georges Duby
Runciman
Le Goff
All top-tier for the medieval period, some people will detest Duby though
Were medieval European Christians’ attitudes towards non-Christians consistently negative?(Particularly 1000–1300)
Mostly yes. There are some exceptions, like Saladin who was praised highly by Richard the Lionheart and subsequent people.
Very ironic that back then europeans consider saracens to be effeminate and sneaky minded while arabs considered them to be alpha male idiotic brutes. Now its the opposite
>>1125187
Yup.
How did they manage to create borders more beautiful than 99% of famous artwork? ;_;
>>1124958
>austro
>hungarian
>""""""empire"""""""""
>>1124963
pls no bully ;_;
Unnatural borders a shit.
SHIT.
Were Templar's good guys?
Also, what is the opinion on modern orders that have come from them?
>>1124916
Yes, and some are good, others are misguided douchebags.
They were pretty morally ambiguous
>>1124916
Some people actually believed that they were better than monks because they actually went out and defended the Holy Land.
> "History is leading up to me saying 'History is leading up to me.' "
> "My country is literally God-tier."
He was right. Absolute spirit is ai. See Nick land for more.
>>1124794
>>1124891
Red-pill on Hegel. Is he good from a right-wing perspective? I've heard everything from he was a liberal atheist to he was an ultra-conservative christian monarchist to his philosophy made no sense so anyone can interpret it as he likes.
>>1124949
>he was a liberal atheist to he was an ultra-conservative christian monarchist
He was both, but probably more of the latter.
He said Christianity was the best religion because it had the best combination of Finite and Infinite, where other religions have too much of either.
But then he said Christianity would be supplanted by "Philosophy" and he specifically means his own philosophy.
> Is he good from a right-wing perspective?
Probably...
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>Italian tactics
>>1124772
What tactics? Cadorna had only one idea in his mind: frontal charge regardless of conditions. And if it fails, it must mean the soldiers were cowardly commies.
And Italian soldiers kept on charging and charging and then they get the reputation of cowards.
Funny how the world works.
>>1124927
Meanwhile British soldiers who run away from danger are incredibly brave.
Truly, the Perfidy of the Anglo knows no bounds.
