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Is it normal for a Caliph to remain this distant and out of the picture?
You barely hear or see Abu Bakr al Baghdadi.
>>1120419
Never claimed to be Caliph. Only retards believe that a Salafi would like the people who tried exterminating them for 1000 years.
He claims to rule over the Sunni Arabs of Iraq and Sham. The only reason they revived the Ummayad flag was because that was the only time In history it was relevant.
>>1120419
But he's not a Caliph, just some faggot leading a crumbling organization, who is going to be in some deep shit pretty soon. It makes sense he'd hide.
>>1120457
I dont know is isis really crumbling?
They have been saying that since early 2015
Why did God make man? Why did he need us? And what about heaven and hell? We're they in existence before the fall of man? If so,why?
I do not want the Christian point of view. I just want a logical philosophical discussion. And I know most of this board doesn't believe in God or Adam and I respect that but please don't mess this thread up.
>>1120399
You're asking me if I know God's motivations? All I can do is wonder, and that takes us nowhere. Don't waste your time on questions like this, friend.
Because Universe is the eternal chess game between God and the Devil, and we are their pieces.
>I do not want the Christian point of view. I just want a logical philosophical discussion.
>And I know most of this board doesn't believe in God or Adam and I respect that
>please don't mess this thread up.
Make up your fucking mind nigga.
How come charlatans who spout "prophecies" about deities today are mocked, but centuries ago people bought into their shit by the thousands?
Was the world just younger?
>>1120246
Plenty of people made fun of them back then
But today you can be locked up and drugged for talking like that whether you have divine providence or not
You're not giving ancient people enough credit. For example, Muhammad was mocked for peacefully spreading his "visions". He realised that violence and terror was the best way to spread beliefs and Islam was born.
Jesus was seen as a lunatic and Christians as twisted cultists for centuries
>>1120246
>How come charlatans who spout "prophecies" about deities today are mocked, but centuries ago people bought into their shit by the thousands?
Have you ever met a conspiracy theorist? If you go to a party full of people, and someone's talking about NWO, lizard people, 9/11, etc. There's always a bunch of retards who legitimately believe that.
How did we go from this...
To this?
I dont know, but you can go back to pol
>the more I learn about history the less prone I am to invective and rhetoric
>the more I learn the more I am removed from dichotomous and perfunctory "good vs evil" historical interpretations
>the more I learn the more I understand that almost every single conflict, controversy, war and military regime in history have tenable and justifiable reasons for the actions on all sides and factions
>the more I learn the more dizzily overwrought I become and the less I know how to trust historical accounts and reports from any side of any argument on any conflict whatsoever, from the mundane to the most outstanding
How do I overcome this completely overwhelming feeling? I know that this likely a self-realization that is necessary and very uncomfortable for anyone who takes history very seriously, but this is a new sensation for me. How do you and have you all overcome this dilemma?
>>1120111
>How do I overcome this completely overwhelming feeling
You don't
Embrace your wisdom and enjoy it
>>1120111
Embrace it. You're now smarter than 95% of people when it comes to history.
You missed the point about how every single historical event is linked and nothing occurs in a vacuum.
You just stop giving a fuck and go on with your life. To be honest, just pick your bias and shill your side.
North Korea is a the world's first false flag nation, designed by Western Policy Makers to discredit Marxist thought worldwide.
>>1120038
Plenty of things can discredit Marxist thought, but whatever NK is, it isn't Marxist, so it can't really discredit it. Shit thread.
>>1120045
Do you think the average western citizen thinks about it that way? No. They think "Marxism = muh mao, muh kim, muh stalin"
In this regard the propaganda was successful
>>1120038
Fucking triggered Communists get the fuck out REEEEEE
What does philosophy have to say about what the point of society and the human progress should be?
Not in the sense of "hurr durr human are made to procreate", but I mean what we as conscious, modern people should strive for. Should it be a society of leisure where everyone can spend their time following their interests as machines replace labor? Or a society of discovery: trying to learn more about everything for the sake of knowledge itself? Etc.
What do some well-known philosophers have to say?
Don't ask /his/ about philosophy.
>>1120001
Why's that?
>>1120009
You'll get a headache and no answers.
>The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent...
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>>1119937
That she successfully outkiked me.
why do you keep posting this instead of just reading it, it's hardly the most opaque thing by Butler
>>1119937
What a lifeless way of writing.
Did the French revolution mark the beginning of the idea of a nation, or did it simply mark the beginning of using the word "nation" to explain something that has always been there?
Neither. It marks the beginning of the the idea that countries should be based on ethnicities.
>>1119766
Let me rephrase that, making less assumptions.
When did the nations form, and at what point in history could you expect that a french man living on the border with Germany would find himself closer to far away Paris than to the german village next to his?
>>1119766
>Neither. It marks the beginning of the the idea that countries should be based on ethnicities.
Bullshit. Nationalism as in the french revolution refers to the sacralization of the country. It has nothing to do with ethnicity, dumb shit
Is the School of Life a cult?
To me they seem a bit overly confident in telling other people exactly how they should live their lives. Not so much "here's an idea", more "do this, be like this, this is how it is".
The whole BUY OUR THINGS-angle doesn't help. For example you're prompted to buy this "Imperfection pot" for £50 so you can remember how wow no1's perfect and it's OK, buddhism lol :))) http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/imperfection-pot/
Then again I suppose they need a source of income and I'm...
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it's shady in a different way, the whole point is that nobody cares enough about it for it to be a cult
you're meant to see their well-produced short videos and their skinny books and just go on with your life, perhaps a little bit amused with how quaint the whole affair is and then never think much about it again while your wallet is a little less thick
You can also buy this plain black "Philosopher's jumper" for $183 you guys
Hurry up you guys before they run out of stock n all the other kids at your philosophy department will laugh at you for not having one!!
http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/the-philosophers-jumper/
>>1119669
It, like all things, abuses information to control the populace.
Listen/watch for bite sized information. It's run by literal cucks who are just trying to jew you, so don't listen too much.
Why do some people say it's satire?
>>1119623
Because they're dumb cunts.
>>1119623
modern culture is almost entirely opposed to the ideas within, leading to an inability to understand how a person could believe these things unless it is a joke of some kind. The prince is antithetical to modern intellectualism
>>1119723
this
why are eastern buddhists normal people that have lives and even if they don't they're meditating hermits. while western buddhists are vegan liberal proto-weeaboos that have no jobs or normal friends?
it's like they're two completely different religions
>>1119563
Because westerners don't really believe in anything.
They just do all that buddhist shit to feel special.
>>1119563
Maybe ascribing to Eastern practices while living in the West is an act of defiance. It's merely a counter-culture, a lobby against the Western Capitalist Military Industrial Patriarchal Complex.
If that was the reason for the mass adoption of it, the disparity you posit becomes understandable.
Now fuck off with your shitposting and personal blog.
>>1119563
>why are eastern buddhists normal people that have lives and even if they don't they're meditating hermits.
Because they give alms, listen to the monks, participate in temple rituals and activities that are open to lay followers, and await the opportunity to reincarnate as a Buddhist monk or nun in the next life, while being good people and gaining merit in this one.
>while western buddhists are vegan liberal proto-weeaboos that have no jobs or...
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Feeo free to ask an Hare Krishna anything.
Any question will be answered.
>>1119542
Do you poo in the loo, or in this board?
>>1119542
Are you white?
>>1119556
I actually use a toilet.
How could capitalism even compete?
>>1119539
It did, and it won. Sheltered middle-class faggots posting /leftypol/ will never change that.
Why is Russian empire so cool and artsy and high class while the USSR is full on pleb and shit buildings and stupid art and stuff?
Why is 50-60's America so cool and powerfull and high class while the moder USA is full of apple-fappers and daring niggers and capitalist shit?
Tell me about Louis. Was he a good monarch, or as some people think, the best monarch France ever had?
He was ok. He was mostly lucky enough to become king just as France had become the dominant power of Europe once again, which was mostly thanks to the work of Richelieu. Louis XIV was reasonably good at exploiting this advantage, and used it to durably expand France's borders, and neuter the French nobility.
He was far from the best monarch France ever had though. I'd put Philip Augustus, Philip the Fair, Saint Louis, Louis XI, not to mention several Merovingians and Carolingians ahead of him.
He burned my hometown in the war of palatines succession. So he is the greates evil.
No but seriously
>>1119444
This
>>1119417
>as some people think, the best monarch France ever had
Who thinks that?
