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The reason you guys hate Turkey and the Ottoman Empire is because of Islam. Just fucking admit it. Not because of 'muh oppressed slaves' or whatever like that.
The Ottoman Empire was on par with Persia, China, and Rome. They basically did the same shit and did so in a more difficult timeperiod.
>>1394228
It's part Islam, part butthurt greeks.
>>1394228
Dude even other Muslims hate Turks
I admit it, what's your point?
Who was the greatest leader in the history of the world?
Also - who was the greatest leader of the past 300 years?
>>1401685
Under what criteria?
>>1401690
Virtue and contribution to humanity.
People can also just list different leaders for various categories as well.
>Who was the greatest leader in the history of the world?
Jesus. He founded God's own church, laying the foundations to a religion that would forever impact the everyday lives of everyone.
>Also - who was the greatest leader of the past 300 years?
Hitler, tied with Napoleon.
Napoleon's leadership made it possible to conquer a lot of land for the French, he was an unique individual, not the kind of guy you can just replace. Napoleonic era simply wouldn't have happened without him.
Hitler...
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>If you stop existing when you die, that just means that you have to make the most of this life!
Is there a worse atheist meme than this? You can only make the most of your life by long-term planning. But if you take your long-term planning seriously, everything has a value of zero.
On atheism, a person on their deathbed might have regrets. But that's fine, they just have to wait a few minutes and then they won't feel regretful anymore. Not much of a problem.
>>1402734
>You can only make the most of your life by long-term planning
this is an opinion
>if you take your long-term planning seriously, everything has a value of zero.
this is also an opinion
I don't get it you're just sharing opinions, is this your blog?
>>1402775
Neither of them are opinions, friend.
The first is obvious. You won't make the most of your life by eating every cake put in front of you. You need to think about what you want to do in the future, and how to get there.
The second is also obvious. For the same reason that you shouldn't just eat every cake in front of you, you also shouldn't care about forming any memory that will be destroyed when your brain is destroyed.
>>1402781
An atheist is perfectly capable of devoting themselves to a greater cause or wanting to leave a mark on the world. It doesn't matter if they won't be around anymore to enjoy it.
What you're talking about a nihilistic hedonist.
What was his problem?
One man can only be so right.
Sounds like a sensitive guy and thoughtful guy who paid for it in his developmental years. I don't mean sensitive in a bad light, either.
>>1402547
I'm pretty sure he was molested in his childhood in some way.
Are there any ideologies that can be practised in a society in which the powers that be are actively working to eliminate that ideology?
Anti-natalism. What is the worst that they can do? To help you existing?
>>1401472
Christianity
Communism is inherently built to be good at underground resistance / subversion of the dominant ideology
Why don't they teach anymore, or at the very least integrate it into higher education in some form?
Because religion has no place in science. Try to name one invention where theology played some role. You can't, because it is a useless garbage.
>>1401482
A priest came up with the Big Bang theory and a monk discovered genetics. Also you're a fag.
>>1401487
Big Bang Theory and Genetics aren't based on the Theological Statements. It is like saying if inventor of computers was gay then Homosexuality should be considered as the basis of a computer science and integrated into higher education in some form.
Is the abolition of all hierarchy a noble goal? Are anarchists? Or is some hierarchy necessary, or even good in itself, to maintain order.
>>1401008
You would have to abolish human genetics to abolish hierarchy.
>>1401326
>he thinks the most fit are the ones who rule
>Is the abolition of all hierarchy a noble goal?
technically most countries don't even have hierarchies. People who talk of "class" talk about informal and de facto terms that can be used against anyone that has some power. Kinda a buzzword at this point
>Are anarchists?
not really since it allows the ignoble to rule uncontested (I mean who's goinna stop them? the police? the army?)
>Or is some hierarchy necessary, or even good in itself, to maintain order.
if...
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"Will to power" really should have been translated "will to action", I think we could have cleared up all of the edgy misinterpretation, and the Christian misinterpretation, if people understood that.
Why does this guy trigger Christians so much? The book "American Nietzsche" talks in great depth about how much American evangelicals freaked the fuck out about Nietzsche's writings, and it's just so beautiful.
>Let us look a century ahead, let us suppose that my attentat on two millennia of anti-nature and the violation of man succeeds. That party of life which takes in hand the greatest of all tasks, the higher breeding of humanity, together with the remorseless destruction of all degenerate and parasitic elements, will again make possible on earth that superfluity of life out of which the dionysian condition must again proceed. I promise a tragic age: the supreme art in the affirmation of life, tragedy, will be reborn when mankind has behind it the conscousness...
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>>1401035
Kek he did like war and strife, but you're taking alot of that shit in the wrong way.
>>1400993
How about people actually read the fucking books to understand the words in context?
No, we don't need more dumbing down of the culture.
No, it will not work because stupid people are stupid.
I need some help on my Art Appreciation test
What's the answer, /his/?
>>1400580
>the question is racist
Can this actually be real
I know nothing about African art, but maybe the one on the right, since it's more stylized? And if I remember right the ones like on the left are pretty sophisticated bronzework
I don't trust you OP.
Why doesn't the question start with a capital letter?
Anthems/Military marches thread : Obscure edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eKOSPGcoyw
>>1400457
Sure, have some.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq4xgu8A56w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMp_Zp4hBJs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30hqVHdEzKc
>>1400795
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFh3yElSAZQ
So can we all agree on Henry VIII as summarizing the archetypical douchebag? I mean, look at the guy:
>Has GF
>Mad at gf cause he won't give her a son (seriously who the fuck wants a son)
>Asks God for more GF
>God tells him he can only have one GF
>Tells God to go fuck himself and declares himself Pope of England in return
>Gets second GF
>Still...
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>(seriously who the fuck wants a son)
Bait.
>>1400429
no it isn't
>>1400403
As the king, your top priority is to have a son. Even ruling is less prioritary, others can do that for you.
What is it about these strange ideas that interest us? The need to rebel from authority? The implications and possibilities it brings to light?
>>1400393
>What is it about these strange ideas that interest us?
they're just easy ways to explain complex issues.
>>1400492
This, also being (or perceiving oneself to be) a part of an enlightened minority always boosts people's ego.
Same reason people believe in God tbqh.
Did Stalin care about his Georgian roots?
I didnt know Stalin was from America
>>1400347
Yeah, he chewed tobacco and kept black slaves at his homestead
>>1400347
He liked to pretend he didn't (Stalinism was all about Moscow-led Moscow-centred world commie domination) but he did. He liked his Georgian foods, and he showed some prefernce to Georgians. He was also an extremely paranoid person though, so he wouldn't hesitate to kill anyone gaining too much influence outside his control...
How much power does the Catholic Church have?
>>1400326
Less than the jews. They have the upper hand in the Religious Pod race
If the pope openly called for another crusade how many troops would he be able to put together?
Not very many.
Little explicit political power, plenty of economic power and the ability to influence beliefs and attitudes of the weak and powerful.
What else could Lee have done at Gettysburg? If he maintained a defensive position, all the Union army had to do was wait and starve him out. Vicksburg was also about to fall to Grant's forces, so the South needed a major victory that would've made the Union's victory in the West meaningless. If Lee simply moved his forces back behind the lines in Virginia, the public probably would've viewed it as a Southern defeat. From my point of view, the man had little choice but to attack.
>>1400279
Lee could've pulled his troops out of Gettysburg in the dead of night and moved them up towards Philadelphia or Washington and forced the Union to chase after them as Longstreet repeatedly suggested.
>Alternatively, he could've moved his army to retake some of the Virginian ports like Norfolk or forgone an offensive altogether and sent part of his Army to deal with Grant at Vicksburg (he did just that at Chickamunga).
>>1400279
Probably nothing that /his/ armchair generals could figure out
literally nothing
