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ITT: We summarize our knowledge of philosophers in as short a description as possible.
Nietzsche - Suffering is worth your while if it makes you a greater and more fulfilled human being. Also religion is icky.
Thomas Aquinas - Someone had to get the ball rolling.
>Hobbes
POWAAAAAHHHH
UNLIMITED PAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
Marx - People don't like the work they're often forced to do
I think we can all agree that, until 1500 or so, Great Britain and Ireland were nowheresville.
- Venerable Bede writing the history only of the British Isles
- Beowulf (English retelling of a Danish story)
- Duns Scotus
- Arthurian legends that were treated as basically "noble savage" legends by the rest of Europe
- Chaucer
...and that's about it. It is only in the last 500 years or so that the British Isles produced anything even sort of noticeable.
Yeah
Europe was also shit until about 1500 years ago when the savages in the North adopted Mediterranean culture and the new Hyperborean era began
Now we live in a Kali Yuga, waiting for the desert-peoples to overwhelm the noble ice-lords of the North
there was a worldwide struggle that started in 3000 bc and ended in 1492, thats when the west solidified itself as the best.
And now the end is near
So I face the final curtain
My friend, I'll say it clear
I'll state my case of which I'm certain
I've lived a life that's full
I've traveled each and every highway
And more, much more than this
I did it my way
Regrets, I've had a few
But then again, too few to mention
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exception
I planned each charted course
Each careful step along the byway
Oh, and more, much more than this
I did it my way
Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew
But through it all when there was doubt
I ate it up and spit it out
I faced it all and I stood tall
And did it my way
I've loved, I've laughed and cried
I've had my fails, my share of losing
And now as tears subside
I find it all so amusing
To think I did all that
And may I say, not in a shy way
Oh, no, no not me
I did it my way
For what is a man, what has he got
If not himself, then he has not
To say the things he truly feels
And not the words he would reveal
The record shows I took the blows
And did it my way
Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me
I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed
She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb
In the shape of an "L" on her forehead
Was he the most well-spoken figure of the past 50 years?
>>535077
No, he slimely abused the lowest tricks of rhetoric.
HOW
DARE
YOU
>>535211
This sounds like you have a problem with his debating method, you call it slimey, I'd call it appealing to the audience.
He was one of my favourite journalists, and I liked listening to him, maybe not the most well=spoken, but one of my favourites.
>>535077
He could remain impressively coherent even after 15 drinks of Johnny Black. I've moved on from him as a serious atheist thinker and journalist, but he had a way of illustrating the most salient objections.
So my girlfriend sent me a Latin textbook as a Christmas gift. This happened after mentioning in a conversation I would like to learn it. She already did it in middle school, so I can't bullshit my way through this and now must learn Latin.
I'm already doing stuff on memrise, and the book in question is Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata by Hans H Orberg. While language learning normally falls under /int/ or /lit/ I gather, Latin seems to be more /his/ than anything and I hope some anons can help me out. I want to get to the level where I can at least read some...
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>>534739
Read the vulgate cover to cover along with Seneca and Cicero. Also, read online Catholic encyclials in Latin.
And she's probably a good one. Godspeed, OP.
you're missing a great opportunity here OP
imagine all the things that could happen if you let her help you learn, assuming she's willing to teach you
me and my gf had fun learning linear algebra together before she moved away
Not Wheelock? OP's GF = pleb.
So what exactly is time?
velocity x distance
>>534690
That depends on your metaphysics my friend. Either it's relational or substantial, depending on how one views the ontological status of spacetime. Relativity demonstrated that absolute time does not exist outside of an individual's reference frame, but it did not probe its structural nature. Presentism, Eternalism, or the block universe are all viable options.
>>534720
>presentism
>a viable option
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Who's from amond the Norman theory supporters, first belongs the conclusion that the Byzantine sources suggest the existence of not one but several tribes with the name "Rus".
BUMP
Why nobody want's to enter this thread?
What is the Norman theory?
>>534603
Reported to the dean for cheating. Enjoy your expulsion.
what was life on the frontier like?
>>534246
What frontier
>>534252
North America after the Louisiana Purchase
>>534246
I just came back from watching The Revenant. I loved it. Every scene made me feel like I was there.
Was General Zukov really a great general? Was he really the best in WWII? Or did he just send a lot of men to their death and have a lot killed?
>>534154
Great? I'd argue that he was, if only for his more pragmatic approach of handling things. Tactically, he may have been lacking, but he was excellent at handling the strategic side of things, which is what really matters in a war.
Best? Definitely not.
>>534154
>Was General Zukov really a great general?
IMO yes. People go "lol zerg rush", but especially in 1941, the Red Army was in shambles. Poor training, poor doctrine, with peoples revolutionary spirit meant to compensate for a whole host of material deficiencies, and organziational bottlenecks.
Just look at various sections of the front before and after Zhukov showed up. He almost always stabilized things where they looked on the brink of collapse.
Furthermore,...
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>>534154
>Was General Zukov really a great general?
Yes.
>Was he really the best in WWII?
Probably not. The best was probably some undersung divisional commander on the Eastern or Chinese front.
Out of men operating at his level it is hard to make a comparison. I mean Ike was FAR less adept at managing the human resources issues he faced, probably helped him become a better president.
>Or did he just send a...
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What is enlightenment?
the supreme knowledge conforming to reality
>>534078
Enlightenment is the overcoming of genetically inherited tendencies through the application of willpower. A simple example -- let's say a person is born to a couple who both have a strong addiction to alcohol. And let's say this person is descended from many generations of alcohol addicts. This person inherited the genetic factors that make them prone to alcoholism. A form of enlightenment for this person would be to understand all of this and through the application of willpower avoid becoming addicted to...
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If Nietzsche's ubermensch (or the "extraordinary man", in Crime and Punishment--by the way, the word for "extraordinary" here can also be translated as "transcendent") is someone, like Mohammed or Napoleon, who destroys all values to make way for values he created, then isn't Jesus Christ the greatest ubermensch who ever lived? Like with every "extraordinary man", Great bloodshed and pain were required to bring about his values (he predicted, "I do not bring peace"), but unlike with all the other ubermensch, this bloodshed...
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>>534055
Any great man theory would have Jesus as one of the most important men in history.
Jesus wasn't advocating the 'weaponizing of passions'
>>534066
Isn't that exactly what he did? Passion, specifically love, was what all his values were engendered by, and he wrought destruction on the old values that were almost sensible (love your friends, hate your enemies).
My mothers side of the family claimed to descend from the Romanov family. it has been passed down, i do not know for how long. I have no idea if this is true or not. My mother barely knows anything in regard to this due to not being interested and the rest of the family doesn't know i exist. what do you suggest i should do about this? i barely know anything about russian history.
any help would be appreciated
Research your family history, perhaps pay one of those places that goes through archives.
Basically with no way to really help beyond that with literally no evidence or ideas.
Just a moment. So she was attempting to explain to you, that you were formerly monarchs et cetera?
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Where does the idea that a strong, powerful, and wealthy nation has a "moral obligation" to help those less fortunate than itself come from? Is it an idea only present in the West?
Is it the idea of a "moral obligation" the biggest spook around?
Christianity.
>>534025
This. Absolutely no question.
>>534025
/thread
I'm a Christian myself, and even I say this. The problem with this theory is not that they should be working to help or improve these other countries. The problem comes when there are those who will put on a false sense of piety to champion this idea and loot and exploit those other nations. However, one must take into account the reality that imperialists must have known; that if they had not exploited the other countries for their untapped wealth, another power was going to do so and victimize their...
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hey /his/
what kind of swords would the apostles have carried?
Roman gladius?
Which Game of Thrones character are you?
>>534022
wat
Can we have a topic dedicated to the dissolution of this nation?
BUMP!!!
What happened in the immediate time after the dissolutions. I know there was some kind of armed coup crisis but know nothing else.
What about it?
