Has anyone else gone from being homeless to being leader of one of the most powerful nations on Earth?
Technically, Genghis khan was homeless
>>1162233
His home was whatever piece of ass he could find.
>>1162268
>Genghis Khan lived in ass
Why has the American method of bringing in democracy by force failed spectacularly in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia and Vietnam, yet has been relatively successful in Germany, Japan, Korea, Yugoslavia, Panama, and Grenada?
You can bring a horse to water but you can't make it drink. Any attempts by America to democratize the reason has been met with an emphatic "Nah" by the countries we did it to
>>1162014
It failed in Yugoslavia. It's just that Yugoslavia could, after civil war, re-organise themselves, draw new borders etc.
In Germany, Japan, Korea and Panama, stable strong countries with modern economy. Therefore America invested into those countries so they could develop their own economy(and in case of SK - military).
In Afghanistan the US wanted to support their Opium-producing friends, the development of the country would only make things worse for those(as it would need that the labour would get more expensive and the government more able to go in and fuck them up for producing drugs). Other than that it was to piss off the Russians. Saudi Arabia exploited that and placed their wahabbi plants inside.
In Iraq and Libya the point was to remove all oil producers in the region that didn't want to be dominated by Saudis.
In Somalia they went in for the image but after they took first serious casualties they've pulled out because lol - what's the point of meddling there.
In Vietnam it was all because they wanted to stop teh communism. To do so they've supported retarded, uber-religious dictator who was religious minority(Christian) and absolutely hated the majority(Buddhists).
That they've failed to the point where they were supporting the Red Khmers who were attacked by NV is another thing.
>>1162014
Because only brutal dictators can make those countries work.
Pardon my ignorance, but how are the east religions considered 'atheist'? (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, etc).
Here's a nice topic related Steely Dan song for thread theme (yes, it's Bodhisattva)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAEphHf0P-c
>>1161861
they are atheist in the sense that they do not subscribe the any theological doctrine whatsoever.
However, depending on what kind of Buddhism we are talking about, they do believe in gods, but these gods trapped in samsara.
Again depending on the sect of Taoism, they do believe in gods.
Confucianism is more of a cultural/political ideology, but even this doctrine believes in what is called the mandate of heaven.
Atheism is defined as a belief there is no god. Those religions do not believe in a god. Therefore they are atheistic in nature
>>1161861
>Buddhism
It's a heterodox, nastika current of Hinduism that rejects the Ishvara.
>Taoism
At least originally, the Daodejing puts the Dao at the center of the cosmos without anthopomorphizing it.
Daoism is polytheistic as fuck now.
>Confucianism
Confucius goes out of his way not to speak of Heaven to his disciples.
>If you can't serve man, how can you serve Heaven?
Why is the American media bombarding people with hedonism without raising a philosophical discussion about it? Almost seems like a religious indoctrination.
>>1161718
Hedonists don't like acknowledging things that don't bring them pleasure. That's the nature of it.
Because Americans are stupid
BECAUSE IT PRINTS MONEY, BIIIIIIIIIIITCH
But seriously, it makes the money and they fill a demand that the consumer makes of them.
https://www.quora.com/Whats-your-take-on-John-Searles-Chinese-room-argument/answer/Scott-Aaronson
>Let me share an amusing anecdote. The first few times I taught my undergraduate computability and complexity course at MIT (6.045), I included a lecture about the “great philosophical debates of computer science”: the Turing Test, the Chinese Room, Roger Penrose’s views, etc. My goal was always to get the students arguing with each other about these questions.
>But I always failed, because I couldn’t find a single MIT undergrad who thought Searle’s position made sense and would argue for it. With increasing desperation, I’d argue Searle’s position myself, just to try to get a rise out of the students—-but they’d calmly reply that, no, if a brain passing electrical signals around can be conscious, then a mechanical contraption passing slips of paper around can be conscious too … or at any rate, I hadn’t given them any real proposal to differentiate the one from the other. Why wasn’t that obvious?
>I had to discontinue that lecture…
Yeah. And?
>None philosophy shows misunderstanding of philosophy and passes this misunderstanding onto others.
Shocker.
Searle is a hack, it is known, this isn't an indictment of philosophy.
How did Russia lose the Russo-Japanese War?
Underestimation of the enemy, poor to non-existent intelligence, confusion and rivalries within the chain of command, the shitshow that was Tsushima, the comparative discipline, training, organisation and intelligence of the Japanese forces and a reliance by the Russians on obsolete equipment and units (e.g. Cossack cavalry units).
>>1161633
All of this.
It's worth being said however, that by the end of the conflict Japan itself was strained to its limits. The peace that concluded the war was not one of the victor dictating terms to the defeated, Japan (somewhat begrudgingly) forfeited a fair amount of the concessions they had hoped to gain from the war for the purpose of reaching a hasty conclusion. They were aware that the full weight of Russian manpower was never brought to bear.
>>1161621
They had their fleet in the Baltic when the enemy was in the pacific
What are some /his/ approved tortures and executions?
Inb4 scaphism, brazen bull, and blood iggle
I dunno why but to me there's something beautifully simplistic about tying a person to a stick and just fucking setting them on fire.
>>1161611
Celine Dion, Justin Bieber amd looping the Barney song until the detainee is driven insane.
I know the rules of this board, but BARNEY SONG TORTURE.
>>1161618
Kek
Tell me about them. Their condition of living, was it a good country for it's time, military strength, general acts of badassery, religion and other facts I should know about the lovely mix of baltic and slavic kingdoms!
Oh my fucking god it was awful.
One of the darker periods in lithuanian history, rivaled only by the nazi and soviet occupations
>>1161552
Oh dear. That so?
>>1161535
Comparatively sparsely populated except for the Polish core lands.
Harsher serfdom instituted than was common during the Middle Ages
Elective monarchy which meant strong nobles/magnates
All in all live as gentry or noble was probably quite a bit of fun and rich city merchants or craftsman didn't have it bad either, but for your average rural fuck it was quite a bit shittier than being a farmer in Western European countries. Side effect of the serfdom was that urbanization never really took off which hurted Poland in the long run.
>A strong state which does not exist for the sake of its nation is not a fascist state but a tyranny
Is this accurate?
>>1161492
The quote is debatable, but I hardly see how it applies to France anyway.
all states all fascisms all nations are a tyranny
>tyranny
>bad
Can /his/ debunk Objectivism?
Capitalism a shit
>>1161270
Wrong son, objectivism is wrong for other reasons though.
>Islamic
>Golden
>Age
>French
>Second
>Republic
>Peaceful
>Abrahamic
>Religion
More like Demonic Satanic Cult
>>1161335
Bro did some muslim fuck your sister or something you seem really butthurt.
Is there a more JUST tier country than Paraguay?
>Leader inherits relatively prosperous country from dad
>Decides to needlessly declare war on all his neighbors
>Gets utterly BTFO
>>1161168
>prosperous
meme marxist historiography from the 60s, my friend. Paraguay was as shithole as any other South American shit hole of the time.
>>1161168
Germany.
>>1161181
It had no slaves and an emerging industry, railways and produced its own gun powder. Prosperous or not was on the right track and the war was a catastrophic setback.
Why was there sucj a focus on mosaics and poetry in the muslim world?
Was it persian influence?
>>1161130
>Was it persian influence?
Yes. Bedouins were also pretty big on poetry too though.
>>1161130
>mosaics
Well you can't depict anything natural, so the only thing left is to fall back to drawing geometrical patterns
Islamic architecture used mosaic technique to decorate religious buildings and palaces after the Muslim conquests of the eastern provinces of the Byzantine Empire. In Syria and Egypt the Arabs were influenced by the great tradition of Roman and Early Christian mosaic art. During the Umayyad Dynasty mosaic making remained a flourishing art form in Islamic culture and it is continued in the art of zellige and azulejo in various parts of the Arab world, although tile was to become the main Islamic form of wall decoration.
The first great religious building of Islam, the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, which was built between 688–692, was decorated with glass mosaics both inside and outside, by craftsmen of the Byzantine tradition. Only parts of the original interior decoration survive. The rich floral motifs follow Byzantine traditions, and are "Islamic only in the sense that the vocabulary is syncretic and does not include representation of men or animals."
Why was Greek society so based?
>no Christianity
>fun buttsex with young boys
>open mockery for people who didn't know themselves
>no pride was a mortal sin
>everything was a fucking competition, refusing to compete made you a bitch
>literally banned wars before the olympics so people could watch in safety
>athens held races to see who the oldest men were
>the greek plays were written in competitions
>literally held off the persians
>recognized at first the delicate balance necessary between Dionysus and Apollo
How was an ancient society so fucking based and full of life where ours is filled with weebs and 4chan users?
>>1161009
I could imagine what joy they lived in. That joy we'd have in Europe if our leaders wasn't spineless mudslime lovers...
>tfw no hot juicy boyslave
>doing most things by hand chiseling our physique
Just fuck me up senpai
Songs about Islamic history anyone?
>>1160911
>songs
>islamic
>history
>>1160931
>sound
>human
>information
>>1160911
>raghead
>sand niggers
>Shitskins
