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How do monarchists cope with the fact that every single monarch has been a tyrant? Not to mention the overwhelming majority of said tyrants have been completely incompetent clowns.
Tyranny is necessary evil against people freedom.
>muh absolute power is bad
Just kill yourself
>>720153
tyranny being inevitable, it is better if the tyrant is raised from infancy to rule rather than being the most vicious socio who murdered his way to power
How come the Middle East lacked continuously existing nations compared to Europe? At some point there was a France, an England, a Spain and Italy and so on, but whenever you look at maps and timelines of the Middle East it's mostly dynasties, with maybe an Egypt or a Persia that was more like another dynasty whose borders happened to coincide with modern Egypt/Iran? Even when dealing with barbarian or tribal states it's usually an ethnonym for European kingdoms like Visigoths or Lombards or Saxons while the same kind of thing in the Middle East tends to get named for...
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>>718696
Nationalism is a relatively new idea that originated in Europe. Before Napoleon there really wasn't a France or an Italy like we refer to it today.
However, because of nationalist revisions of history we tend to look at Europe through a lense of the currently defined nation-state borders.
>>718696
It doesn't really have so much to do with the difference between the concepts of nations as it does the difference between the concept of titles. In Europe, the title of a count, duke, king, baron, or whatever would be pretty clearly defined by what they ruled over. In the Islamic world it didn't really work that way. Titles were less definite, but were still things that could continue through different people, just based on influence, and not clearly what they rule. In the same way a Saxon and later a Norman...
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>>718708
they didn't have treaty of westphalia
What do you think about Attila the Hun?
>>717776
I try not to think about Honorary Mexicans.
>>717776
He Dindu Nuffin
>>717776
I take a few seconds to remember he's not Ghengis Khan.
If the pope has so much faith in God, why would he need to get around in his bullet prrof pope mobile?
>>717476
Christians are followers of a way most chodely. They feel a need to compensate for their shriveled, useless dicks.
>>717476
block out the haters
>>717476
Practical necessity. Also, God doesn't usually reach down and stop someone from dying.
The most important Pope died crucified upside down. Most of our saints of the early era died horribly. The apostles all carried swords, why not take practical steps to not die?
What are the differences between Nietzsche's philosophy and that of Stirner?
If you had to choose, which one would you prefer?
Stirner's ideas are actually based in reality, Big N's ideas are what you would get if you talked to a recovering 10 year meth addict, who is now enrolled in a community college Philosophy 101 class.
No. More. Stirner. Threads. Plz.
>>717087
>not an argument
Was the Turks conquering Constantinople as bad as people on 4chan make it out to be?
By the time it had fallen, the Byzantine Empire was a pretty shit place to live, most of it's land had been taken by the Turks and Arabs, and it was poor. The Ottoman Empire made the city a financial powerhouse once more. Also, /pol/ will have you believe that le Mudslimes killed every Orthodox Christian in sight, rather than allow freedom of religion. Mehmed II certainly treated them better than the Catholic crusaders ever did.
And no, my name isn't Ercan or Sezer. I'm...
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Calm down Mehmet.
I'm much more buttflustered about Persia falling to the Muslim hordes tbqh. It's basically cuckolding on a cultural level. The forced impregnation of your culture with some dirty abrahamic bullshit. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>716592
It's a symbolic butthurt for a lot of people, not a practical one.
Why are there so many Catholics in Africa when they could easily just follow Ethiopian orthodox instead of being under the fist of Rome.
Following Rome is a lot easier
How the hell did Ethiopia not become a Muslim country like literally every other country around them?
>>716526
Balls of steel.
>Is vigilantism ever justified, morally or otherwise?
>If yes, when and where is the line drawn?
>Is vigilante violence justified to bring criminals to justice when the police/state is failing to do so such as in Mexico and various places in the Middle East?
>Is it ever justified in the sense of citizens resorting to intimidation and violence against authorities that are abusing their power?
>Is vigilante...
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>any real difference between vigilantism and terrorism?
Not in terms of actions, but in motivations. Since motivations can never really be known, anyone's free to spin the narrative to actions as truth. That being said, Vigilantism isn't at odds with crime, but at odds with law and order.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi3Hyxuf5AE
Haven't some vigilante groups in Mexico been having more success against the cartels than the police, feds and military?
To what is Book of Revelation exactly correlated? Did John of Patmos thought of Rome and Roman authorities when writing it?
>>715350
>he thinks the Apocalypse of St. John is allegorical
>>715358
>he thinks it isn't
It is correlated to future events of inevitable second coming of Christ and also to past events where emperor Nero is the Antichrist and prophet The beast from the earth has also been interpreted as the Islamic prophet Muhammed is beast.
Does anyone else find themselves switching between non-beleif and Christianity every few months?
I keep going between deism and Catholicism every 3 months it seems. What should I do?
Christpost on /his/. Whatever you believe at a given time, argue vigorously for the exact opposite. It will help you determine what you actually believe and what you know to say because it's been drilled into you. For example, I realized that I am not actually Orthodox and Catholicism really does make more sense to me, despite my upbringing.
>>713411
>tfw can't tell if he's telling the truth about his spiritual development or if he's an Orthodox arguing as a Catholic
I do like the idea of false flagging being good for the soul though.
>>713392
No. Because no true Christian goes to non beleif
If Amerindians weren't largely wiped out by disease would the Americas have ended up a lot like the current state of Africa?
>>713302
No
No, theres fuel and natural resources there, as well as great shipping options.
Problem is indians and settlers had beef going back to the 1600s before the u.s. even existed. They wouldnt peacefully coexist long enough for the global cuckings of the post ww2 era.
>>713302
I doubt it. While I've hardly studied the matter, two things strike me as being very important.
Where the Europeans are concerned, Africa is a very disease-ridden, dangerous place, which prevented large scale immigration to the various African colonies.
Furthermore, the various African political entities were considerably more advanced than the Amerindians. AFAIK, the Africans had things like ironworking, wheras the Amerindians didn't until they came into contact with the Europeans. Granted,...
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Is there any valid refutation of stirners concept of the "spook" or "fixed idea"? After fully understanding him I feel as if im speechless in refuting him. The fixed idea of me wanting to be a "virtuious" or "honorable" man means I would go out of the way of my own desires to subscribe the the concept of virtue/honor. Stirner was right when he said our minds are haunted!
>>713116
Virtuous* sorry
Its defining is tailored to egoism. A spook as any idea you put above the self. But you could just say it's any idea you put above the family! But, you say, the family itself is a spook! But that's based entirely on you saying a spook is any idea you put above the self. You're begging the question with your definition.
>>713129
Really the problem is that stirner didn't realize the self is a spook
It's literally all spooks. Everything. There is no escape.
What was so bad about the Thirty Years War? Name of some horrible things that went on.
>>712998
Nothing just the Catholics getting rekt
The fat guy in the pic got killed.
Up to 40% of the people living in the German states died.
