So has there ever been a truly peaceful civilization in all of history?
America. It only goes to war when it has to/is forced to
>>1136066
>America
Peaceful epochs are blank pages in the book of history, anon.
>>1136100
just like rome
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriori_people
a better question would be if there is any way for a truly peaceful society to exist when non-peaceful competitors also exist
>>1136960
Depends on what extent you believe peace must be pursued while remaining peaceful.
In Civ, me playing a peaceful civ is eliminating anyone who declares war on me.
>>1136019
My friends don't argue with each other and we're all different races and genders. Sometimes we play videogames together and when we got out we split the bill evenly among us all.
>>1136484
so is history really just >muh legacy?
>>1136019
San Marino?
the meaning of peaceful has been cucking beyond belief in modernity
in the ancient civs it had nothing to do with being a hippy defeatist faggot
>>1137722
cucked*
>>1137722
>the meaning of peaceful has been cucking beyond belief in modernity
>in the ancient civs it had nothing to do with being a hippy defeatist faggot
Probably because peaceful and pacifist mean two different things but you're not educated enough to put your thoughts into words.
>>1137730
Muh semantics
>>1136019
Germany since 1945
>>1136019
Yes, The Essenes are profoundly peaceful.
>>1136019
Yes, the Moriori people who kept to the ideology despite it leading to them being genocided (and literally eaten) by other Polynesians.
>Despite knowing of the Māori predilection for killing and eating the conquered, and despite the admonition by some of the elder chiefs that the principle of Nunuku was not appropriate now, two chiefs — Tapata and Torea — declared that "the law of Nunuku was not a strategy for survival, to be varied as conditions changed; it was a moral imperative."[18] A Moriori survivor recalled : "[The Maori] commenced to kill us like sheep.... [We] were terrified, fled to the bush, concealed ourselves in holes underground, and in any place to escape our enemies. It was of no avail; we were discovered and killed - men, women and children indiscriminately." A Māori conqueror explained, "We took possession... in accordance with our customs and we caught all the people. Not one escaped....." [19] The invaders ritually killed some 10% of the population, a ritual that included staking out women and children on the beach and leaving them to die in great pain over several days. The Māori invaders forbade the speaking of the Moriori language. They forced Moriori to desecrate their sacred sites by urinating and defecating on them.[20]
>After the invasion, Moriori were forbidden to marry Moriori, or to have children with each other. All became slaves of the Ngati Tama and Ngati Mutunga invaders. Many Moriori women had children by their Māori masters.
>>1136019
peace is another term for the recuperation period for going back to war
a civilization will only have peace if it is incapable of going to war
>>1139084
>Reads Tolstoy once
>>1137717
Not really a civilization.
>>1137339
Yes.
As Bob Dylan once said, "peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle." No civilization can be truly peaceful.
>>1136019
The Minoans weren't pacifists, but their society seems to have been extraordinarily peaceful. Crete was unified, apparently peacefully, from a very early period, and the great "palaces" they lived in show no signs of fortification, in very sharp contrast to the "cyclopean" walls which are near-universal in other bronze age civilisations.
>>1139481
Bob Dylan a faggot :)
It's all butt a figment of your imagination.
>>1137903
Because their military only wen't on "peace" missions, killing people in the name of "peace".
>>1136019
Cucks and beta males of /his/ will talk about a bunch of obscure civilisations. Nobody fucking CARES about them. The reason why EVERYONE wants to be EUROPE is because, our aggression is civilised and is what has pulled the world into modernity.
You guys are the blight on the world; how does it make you feel?
Anyone else think of Bane when they see the peace sign now?
>>1139510
That's only because they had a beast of a navy and natural defenses.
>>1139590
Sure, but there's no evidence they ever waged a war, or conquered territory or even a city. They set up colonies in the Agean and dominated the trade networks of the eastern Mediterranean, and that means they must have been able to protect themselves, but their society honored athletes and women, not warriors.
>>1137903
>NATO member
How about no?
Ages past, when man still walked with God.
>>1136019
Tibet, maybe?
