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Darryl :
Shattering the fantasy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7IAZ_QMipM
Joan :
Truth is simple. It is effortlessly always already the case. We could say that it is simply present moment experiencing, just as it is -- this ever-changing, ever-present happening that has no beginning and no end, for it is always Here / Now.
Apparent complication arises when the thinking mind tries to make sense of this inexplicable happening and take hold of it conceptually. To some degree, this kind of conceptual thought is functionally necessary. It...
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If there is total dark, we would not see the rope so could not imagine it to be a snake. Hence “ignorance is bliss,” as in deep sleep - there can be no error. Similarly, if there is total light we see the rope clearly - in complete knowledge, we know everything to be Brahman. Knowledge is also bliss! The error occurs only in partial light or when the eyes are defective. Then there is partial knowledge; we know that some “thing” exists. This part, that is not covered by darkness or hidden by ignorance is called the “general part” (sAmAnya aMsha) and is “uncovered”...
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For a perceiver who sees a snake, that snake is “relatively” real (vyavahAra) and causes as much mental suffering as would a truly real snake. There only ever was a rope but the ignorance of this in the mind of the perceiver creates the illusion of a snake and the suffering follows. Once light (i.e. the light of knowledge) is introduced, the mistaken perception of the particular part is corrected; the unreal snake disappears and the real rope is revealed. The associated fear etc. also disappears. What has happened is that a valid means of enquiry has been undertaken into...
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When a mistake of this type occurs, what is happening is that a real part and an unreal part are getting mixed up and this is effectively how Shankara defines adhyAsa - the mixing up of real and unreal. In the case of the rope and snake analogy, the error can be viewed as a “misperceiving of the rope” or as the “superimposition of a snake” or as “the mixing of part of a real rope and part of an unreal snake.” When we say “there is a snake,” “there is” is the general part, which could be viewed as belonging to the rope, which is real, while “a snake” is...
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HOLA.
EL ACUEDUCTO DE GUADALAJARA FUE SUPUESTAMENTA CONSTRUÍDO EN EL AÑO MILNOVECIENTOS (1900) E C , DE ACUERDO A FUENTES "OFICIALES", SIN EMBARGO, EN MENOS DE CIEN AÑOS FUE REDUCIDO A CONDICIÓN DE RUINA.
COMO FUE QUE EL ACUEDUCTO DEVINO A SU PRESENTE CONDICIÓN?
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HELLO.
GUADALAJARA'S AQUEDUCT WAS SUPPOSEDLY BUILT IN THE YEAR NINETEENHUNDRED (1900) C E , ACCORDING TO "OFFICIAL" SOURCES, HOWEVER, IN LESS THAN ONEHUNDRED YEARS IT WAS REDUCED TO RUINS.
HOW IS IT THAT THE AQUEDUCT CAME TO ITS PRESENT CONDITION?
>>1360269
Porque fue edificado con materiales de mierda
>>1360269
i don't know, i'm not from Guadalajara. ask google
>>1360294
ERES IGNORANTE, E IDIÓTICO.
I need your help, /his/. Anybody who has any knowledge of the assignation of the Archduke of Austria-Hungary, tell me what happened. Just off the top of your head. No wikipedia, no looking things up. What happened, how did he die? How did Gavrilo Princip get him?
>>1360268
He shot him. The Archduke asked his wife to not die for their children. In typical noblewoman fashion she denied this request.
The End.
He wanted to shoot him but missed his chance, went to drink in a bar, the archduke ended up driving past his bar, he got up and shot him and history was made
>>1360268
Archduke drives into main road.
Nedjelko fucks up throwing the bomb and it bounces off the hood of the Archduke's car and into the path of the motorcade behind.
Bomb explodes, Nedjelko tries to cyanide himself to death, but the cyanide was expired.
Motorcade reaces... I forget, and the Archduke's pissed.
Attempt is called off, but Gavrilo moves on with the plan.
Archdukes wanta to continue with whatever he wanted to do, so he tells his driver to go on.
Driver does not know that there was...
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A long time ago England was ruled by indigenous Anglo-Saxon kings.
In 1066 vikings living in northern france invaded and took over. Gradually over time they culturally became English, but they remained part of Royal houses based in Northern France/Western Europe. In the 13th century they conquered Wales, then after they conquered Ireland.
Then one king decided to split from the Catholic church, establishing the Church of England.
Then a queen left no heirs and a Scottish King took the English throne. The aristocrats didn't like the absolutist tendencies...
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>indigenous Anglo Saxons
>>1359953
ok I guess that should be part-indigenous instead of pure indigenous.
>>1359949
>vikings living in northern france
Stopped reading right there. Please read sources outside the isles
When and why did art become more about ideas than about technique and training?
>>1359633
About the time photography obviated technique.
Art isn't about ideas, it's about being avant-garde. Avant-garde is the sum of valued content. Whether that is an idea or a feeling or just something that looks avant-garde doesn't really matter.
It happened when sculpture and painting were divorced from architecture.
The reason is that art and beauty stopped having a role in everyday life as people became more focused on utility.
Now art needs to have some extrinsic purpose to justify its existence rather than existing for its own sake. It has to make a political statement or drive "progress" in some way. Things that merely look nice do not hold much value in our society and people tend not to spend time on things that society doesn't not value.
JUST
>>1359495
>.gif
How did Hannibal know his cavalry would best their Roman counterparts?
Wouldn't his whole plan fall apart if his cavalry weren't able to complete the encirclement?
>>1359643
Because Roman cavalry was infamously terrible, and his own horsemen had kicked their asses before at battles like Trebia and Trasameine.
What is it to be "Holy"?
"Holy" literally means set apart. It means to be set apart from the rest of the world.
Something set apart, generally with respect t something set apart for God, but it can also apply to God himself as he it set apart from creation itself.
What is it to be "Roman"
we all know that every super power throughout history will decline and fall .. how do you think the US will collapse ?
>>1359349
Not even joking.
Total meme saturation
Internal strife
Political instability
Economic instability
Costly military interventions
Insolvency of the service based economy
In what ways did the Crusades benefit the world?
created the first international bank
>>1359334
It helped to rekindle trade between Europe and Asia. Also much information such as medicinal ones were obtained through the crusades.
In what way did the sack of Baghdad benefit the world?
>Hey we could re-take Constantinople for Christendom!
>What do you say we do my Bulgar brother?
>Nah fuck that
>Let's attack the Serbs over some shitty land in Macedonia
>Say no more senpai
>>1359281
Clearly they were dumb enough considering the Second Balkan War...
Why did Europeans wear such wacky clothes from ~1500 to ~1800?
>>1359272
Colors were a symbol of status
Dyes were expensive
>>1359272
Because
They could
>>1359272
They wanted to show off.
Which set of philosophies should I study if I want to become an übermensch master manipulator?
Ayn Rand?
Nietzsche?
Stoicism
Absurdism
Hedonism
>>1359136
If that line of thinking interests you, objectivism or existentialism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlatan
What the fuck was his problem?
american military bases in the holy land.
He literally spelled it out for you. You don't have to wonder: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden%27s_Declaration_of_War
>>1358988
He was muslim
>Lutherans and Catholics, Protestants, all of us agree on the doctrine of justification. On this point, which is very important, he (Martin Luther) did not err. He made a medicine for the Church…
Seriously, what did he mean by this?
And no, I'm not making this up:
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/full-text-pope-francis-inflight-press-conference-from-armenia-45222/
>>1358946
>doctrine of justification
>On this point
>he (Martin Luther) did not err
Sola fide confirmed. Catholics BTFO.
He means now that the Lutherans have female ordination and gay marriage, they're ready to be reconciled.
>>1359017
really your hate boner for the catholic church is something else. The pope reaches out to people outside the church and you treat it like he is rewriting the doctrines on gay marriage and premarital sex.
Honestly it seems like many Orthodox resent the Roman church for its prominence
Who let the Colosseum go to shit? And how did that diagonal part come off so cleanly?
No answers. Did anybody take care of the structure after the Romans?
>>1358811
Probably not.
Renovating/fixing historical building is more a modern thing.
Catholic church couldnt give 2 shits about it, they often took parts off for building materials, most notably the marble cover
