what is it about persia that made it ahegemonic power for thousands of years
>>356673
>hegemonic empire
>thousands of years
kek
>>356678
it literally was though
>>356678
Well Persia had been an Empire since the late 2nd millenium BC's Median Empire until the mid 1900s.
With the exception of during its time under the Greeks, Arabs, Mongols, Tamerlane, and if you wanna be technical a Turkish dynasty.
That's still ~2000 years as a territorial empire.
What are the chances there is a God or a spiritual world, but its nothing humans think its like
>>356669
>My kingdom is not of this world
--Jesus
saying the word spiritual has too many socially constructed implications. But yeah i would say something huge exists beyond our sensory perception
>>356669
slim to none
humans are a species that only have existed in a very small fraction of the entirety of the universe and the planets history
they likelihood decreases as we come to realized that although we are an amazing feat of evolutionary change, we aren't all that, thus are precognitive believes that can't be empirically tested tend not to hold water when it comes to reality.
What's so bad about determinism anyway?
What does determinism even mean?
literally nothing
>>356590
>the doctrine that all events, including human action, are ultimately determined by causes external to the will. Some philosophers have taken determinism to imply that individual human beings have no free will and cannot be held morally responsible for their actions.
It doesn't matter to the majority of people. We have free will sufficient enough for people's everyday whims to fulfill the idea of free will.
Would his plan to invade China after the korean war work?
Of course. God-emperor Doug was fucking invincible.
>>356658
This guy gets it.
>tfw no joint invasion of China and the USSR involving Patton and Doug.
>>356658
As long as he's running away.
Why did Europeans abandon their traditions and way of life for a religion that originated in the Middle East?
Spiritual decay really.
>>356466
Where it was a deliberated choice, it was for the advantages of literacy.
>>356466
Christianity, as with all religions, started in one tiny place, when the rest of the earth was populated by a wildly marvelous diversity of religious beliefs—and yet, curiously enough, the concept of warfare over religious differences was virtually nonexistent. Most people in ancient times believed it was proper to respect the gods of other peoples. This changed on a global scale when Christianity was spread, quite literally, by the sword. Those who attempted to assert their religious differences were harassed, tortured, robbed of their land and belongings, even killed. Before it achieved political power, Christianity was a small sect, a heresy against the Jewish faith, that had to accept equality among all the other religions of the Roman Empire. Yet it was the first religion to openly attack the religions of other people as false (the Jews, at least, were a little more tactful). Needless to say, Christianity only truly flourished when it had the ability to eliminate the competition—when it had the full support of Rome’s Emperors after 313 A.D., and when, in 395 A.D., every religion other than Christianity was actually outlawed. Through force and decree Christianity was immersed in the cultural surroundings of lands near and far, and in an environment where it was widely accepted, if not the only thing accepted, it spread and planted itself among subjugated peoples. As kids grew up taking Christian ideas for granted, they often did not realize that only a few generations ago those ideas were entirely alien.
Cont.
So what can /his/ tell me about the U.S. Involvement in WWI
If the US didn't help take down Germany how would things be?
What if the British didn't intercept the Zimmerman letter, would Mexico help out Germany?
>>356420
the more interesting question is if the zimmerman telegram was intercepted or manufactured, imo
>>356420
Mexico wouldn't have helped out anyway. America outnumbered, outgunned, and out spent Mexico in every possible category, and the Mexican government knew it.
anybody else thing the zimmerman telegram was a false flag type deal? why on earth when germany want to extened the war when they were getting their asses kicked?
>fierce warriors who never lost a battle!
>but they lost almost every battle they participated in
>actually they were peaceful traders
LMAOing at vikingboos just admit your heroes were bandits in boats
WE
Muh Nordic heritage *has 3 chins*
Vikings were the ghetto rats of their time. Discuss.
>yfw Greek was spoken in 5000 BC
>>356385
No. That's older than Proto-Indo-European itself.
>>356385
Old Europe > S*mer
>>356385
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%83rt%C4%83ria_tablets
so how did the space race help the communists stay alive??
The Mongols successfully invaded Russia, I don't see why ISIS couldn't do it.
Well they collapsed so I guess you could say it didn't, if anything they got BTFO even faster by America because they landed on the moon and had their missile defense program
>>356315
The Chechens actually won one war against Russia.
>1 Tiger tank is worth 4 Sherman tanks. The Problem is the Americans always bring 5-some kraut general
Is this true? was German engineering really that fucking amazing and the only reason they lost is because of assembly line supplies from america and assembly line lives from Russia?
Tiger tanks were not common.
1 Panzer 4, the most common tank, is work 1 Sherman, roughly.
1 Tiger probably is worth 4 Shermans, if the Tiger wants to work that day.
>>356284
Kind of. It also had to do with the daily bombings absolutely wrecking the manufacturing capabilities.
So yes the plan was to throw 5 shermans at a tiger with two in front and sending the rest around the side. Generally at least one would make it to the rear and be able to get a kill shot. So statistically, 1 tiger is worth 4 shermans in an engagement.
But the means to produce Tiger tanks was limited to begin with and was only getting more difficult to produce while Shermans and T34s were being cranked out uninterrupted. So while a tiger may be able to take out 4 shermans, when it was killed it was far harder to replace.
Germany could never attack the production capabilities of the allies and theirs were always vulnerable. They were doomed the moment Barbarossa stalled.
>German engineering really that fucking amazing
Not really, they made everything too complex which made things more prone to errors and harder to repair/manufacture
Even if they had superior tanks they didn't have enough oil to run them, and they ran out of pilots(and fuel) which left the tanks venerable to allied air support
How can someone be an Anarchist while eating meat as far as slaughterhouses are a huge form of opression and violence ?
How can you fight for freedom when you support this ?
>>356273
One of the basic tenets of anarchism is that people aren't animals
That's why they shouldn't be oppressed
>>356296
Why should people have the right to opress animals though?
What makes a man better than a horse?
>>356296
Sounds like some kind of extended racism
Was Pearl Harbor a surprise attack or did FDR keep the people in the dark and frame it as a surprise attack for justification in entering the war?
The latter 2bh
>>356269
Of course it was a surprise attack. There is literally no reason to think otherwise.
The Japanese planned it as a surprise attack, they coordinated it as a surprise attack, and launched it as a surprise attack.
It was a surprise attack.
>>356269
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v12/v12p119_Stolley.html
Are countries, nation-states, and other geo-political divisions arbitrary? Whats the chance of a multi-ethnic empire springing up again?
ISIS, EU, USA, Russia are multiethnic
eu
nato
un
opec
asean
is there a powerful entity thats not multi-ethnic?
>>356533
China.
>inb4 the 9% of their population that isn't Han
Why have philosophers failed to have universal agreement about anything?
>>356030
because they'd lose their 'jobs' if they did
Philosophers are contrarians and maybe there is no universal truth.
>>356030
why have human being failed to have a universal agreement about anything?
What went right?
Everything prewar.
>>355972
The manned torpedoes.
The hats.
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