had a lot of germanic refugees

>>792008
Like Yurop today

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>>792008
Harsh taxes on the poor, widening gap between rich and poor, settled foreigners in your local town, Christianity going from just being that of the urban poor to even people out in the countryside, walls being built around all the towns again, soldiers being stationed on the walls with heavy artillery, peasants being tied to the land in a form of proto-serfdom.

>>791980
>journalists in charge of understanding quantum mechanics

This is fucking babby tier. No, reality doesn't depend on human consciousness. Boltzmann brains have nothing to do with that.

>>791980
>the guardian
why don't you post a reputable news organization?

>>791986
>Bernard d'Espagnat
>journalist

>>791948
Quelle partie? Wallonie ou tous Belgium?

>>792686
L'entierete de la Belgique.

C'est un etat artificiel ayant a sa creation pour seul but d'empecher les Francais de tapper les Allemands et les Hollandais, et vice-versa.

C'est une relique d'un temps passe, il est grand temps qu'elle rejoigne la France.

>>791948
t. butthurt dutchman

been reading Enneads after some light exposure to his philosophy. reading his work with a solid background in mysticism/religion has been fucking awesome.

he's probably one of the smartest individuals I've ever, ever read, the guy is a treasure. he really was on to something. i don't think i have a single problem with any of his philosophy anywhere

Nice blog. Subscribed.

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What stuck out to me while reading his Enneads:

>the soul is only evil "when it thinks the body's thoughts"

>the soul understood almost as a shaft of light that falls on matter, as an impersonal, "natural" process, and less some vague force with aims and aspirations of its own (except for the Good)

>Happiness as being not a life of pleasure, but living life through and in "the faculty competent enough to announce pleasure's value [in the...
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How are they failing? They've effectively established Pax Americana without the need of forcing their ideology of others. That's soft power projection at its finest. On top of their apex military, what's left to secure their seat at the top? They're doing everything advantageously.

>>791435
It never tried to spread freedom and democracy, just its own hegemony

>>791435
>America tries to spread freedom and democracy

You don't actually believe that do you?

The Turks also called themselves "Romans," lol.

really good thread

>>791290
>Christian caliphate
The Caliphate was an Islamic copy of the Empire, so kind of?

The distinction between the Roman "Republic" and the Roman "Empire" is meant to differentiate between their forms of government. It's pretty significant, seeing as how in the Roman Republic, there was no permanent autocrat in charge of the government (hence Republic) and in the Roman Empire, an emperor stood as the head of the government (hence Empire). It really isn't hard to understand.

>>791035
>If the emperor calls himself princeps he isn't an emperor
Anon he was called imperator anyway. The word just means "leader"

Is there any chance the Roman empire would have done better if Julius Caesar had just cleared out the corruption from the Republic instead of declaring himself dictator?

>>791013
It's just a perspective.

Science has yet to prove the nature of reality and mind to be reducible to natural processes -- although it certainly seems to hint toward that. Even if it were true, moreover, the language of cognitive science is young and the brain is a very complex organ and it might be more useful and expedient to talk about minds using older more time-tested conceptual terminology from other schools of philosophy.

Platonic forms.

>>790762

British forces in North Africa faced a perennial struggle to keep sand out of vital equipment. After almost a year and a half of testing various solutions, they came to the conclusion in late 1941 that condoms worked best to keep machinery free of sand.

Mozart was black

>hitler started his own culture/church
>christians and jews btfo
>christians and jews use the new jer u.s.a. lem to kill hitlers church
>europe btfo
>better make all reports and facts surrounding the war as trivial, hazy, revisionist as possible.
>goyim_can_never_know.jpg
>???
>profit

Peanut farmer.

Not the president we needed but the one we deserved. Fantastic human being.

Good guy, smart guy, bad president.

Best move: DoE.

>>790704
But he was Italian so your entire thing doesn't work.

>>790715
How so ?

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PROPOSISION
EXCEPCIONELLE

>>790575
Romans die swarmed by zergs

>>790575
In terms of ancient empires, Chinese win battles, Romans win wars.

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>>790575
>Roman Empire under Augustus
>in its prime

>>790375
>those dudes kissing

kek

>>790378
Yeah its a picture celebrating the constitution of 1880 which made homosexuality legal before that it had to be kept secret.

>>790381
Is that why they're chaining that poor woman to that rock?

>>790146
Feudal ownership of peasants as property.

The middle ground between slavery and wage slavery.

>>790146
The thing that kept peasants alive.
Many like to forget that self sufficient people (note, I did not say societies) are a relatively new concept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vahagn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayk

>>790125
Me

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>>790125
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixtab