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Why did the Holy Roman Empire have to fall?
What was the point of it even existing in the first place when it was not Holy, not Roman and not an Empire?
>>1104287
It fell because it was a bizarre Model Civilization that couldn't survive the development of Nationalism.
Horo is a best
>>1104296
>what is Germany
Why were most philosophers unmarried and childless?
transcend base pleasures
acquire knowledge
>>1104276
that's a pretty spooky
>>1104272
Because philosophy is gay.
Will someone explain Watergate to me, and why it was such a big deal?
>>1104268
When you have the medias on your side, you can make anything a big deal.
>>1104268
The President paid to cover up a break in at the Democratic Nat'l Comm Hqtrs at the Waterfate hotel in Wadhington DC.
>>1104268
>tfw Nixon was less crocked than every guy in office since Reagan
>these were Hitler's greatest """allies"""
Loving every laugh, why did he even bother with allying with Hirohito, what exactly would he gain?
>>1104091
He thought Japan could waste British and French resources in Asia and hoped they'd invade the USSR from the Pacific, which they never did.
Even the Ustase were of more use than the Italians
>>1104105
Killing serbs is always of use
First stage of his life as a Muslim
His name is Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Mansour. He was born in Sohag the Capital of the Province of Girga in Upper Egypt in the Year 1871. As it was the tradition that time, he went to study the Qur’an at a school annexed to a Mosque run by a good teacher, Sheikh Massoud El Azzazi. He studied and learned the Qur’an by heart in a few years. He showed intelligence and diligence. His father sent him over to a nearby town to study since it had an Islamic Center frequented by students from all over Upper Egypt. The center had a famous...
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Second stage of his life as a Muslim
Mansour finished his education and went back to Sohag around the end of 1891 where he spent his days reading and exploring the Qur’an and Hadith and the Sufi principles and Allah's revelations.
He was a man of few words and spent the evenings contemplating and praying following the ways of the great Sufis.
He then spent time writing poetry and prose to express his devotion to Islam and the Prophet, and gave his opinion on religious issues. That was the time he became popular and changed his life from an introvert...
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Exploring Christianity
In 1893 he decided to explore Christianity. He was driven by a desire to strengthen his faith and zeal in Islam and his desire to defend it.
He studied some of the old manuscripts: "Finding the truth" which was written by El Hindi to contest and debate Christianity and Christians.
He asked his spiritual leader Sheikh Ali Bader if he could invite Christians to debate with him on Christianity and Islam. The Sheikh was not in favor of the idea, replying that we are bound by our book which respects the Christians and Jews'...
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After the service, a date and time for a meeting was agreed upon. They met and the discussion proceeded to subjects like the oneness of God and the Trinity.
He spent the time in futile arguments with no end in sight. After the discussion he felt the superiority of Islam over Christianity. The Christian priest told him that we all seek God and suggested that in his prayer to seek the truth. Sheikh Mansour felt offended and answered: "Do you think I doubt my faith? I pray five times a day to Allah because I seek him and believe in him and his Islam".
When...
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What's the difference?
>>1104023
None.
>>1104023
Gays, divorce, nationalism and the 4th crusade.
One has been at the helm of Western civilization since the fall of Rome; the other is backwater slav wizards and bogans with no historical merit, relatively speaking.
I can't decide if this is a question for /his/ or for /lit/, or if it doesn't belong in either.
How much blame does the Pharaoh of the Exodus deserves for being a hard-ass about letting the Israelites leave Egypt, when it was God, apparently, that 'hardened his heart' to the idea in the first place?
Furthermore, how much blame do the characters of the Aeneid deserve for their actions, when the gods (Juno/Venus) keep on meddling with their heads all the time? e.g. Dido is actuated by Venus' love potion; the war in Latium is triggered by...
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>>1104020
none, Yahweh hardened his heart to show off
>>1104020
>Pharaoh
Pharaoh was fucking retarded, but in a way that is not unreasonably so. He had to maintain his standing as the morning and evening star, why should he let some smarmy kike from the desert tell him to release his impossibly large workforce due to some divine mandate. Was he not the incarnation of a god himself? Why was Yahweh any more powerful than the hundreds of gods that the Pharaoh or Egyptians were aware of? To bow before Moses would be an indication of weak power and weak...
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>>1104020
https://youtu.be/-tVTEyuCKn4
Can we have an actual, meme-free discussion of spooks?
No, spooks are not a spook.
Spooks are just the Buddhist concept of anatta with the Self immunized from the same critique because "Muh feelings"
Its literally just saying "In addition to phenomena, which is real and exists, human beings create a vast web of abstractions and social conventions that are purely imaginary and exist only due to group consensus" or "social constructs" in faggot jargon.
Stirner hit upon this idea, but immunized the self as a creative nothing instead of a collection of aggregates because again, "Muh feelings".
>>1104018
this thread is a spook
Spooks aren't the interesting part, though. The interesting part is the philosophy behind them.
Was greater Syria ever a recognized concept historically or academically?
Like greater Iran was?
>>1103999
Nice trips
Yes, it was a concept in Crusader and later Ottoman times, though it didn't have political independence
The French took the idea when they gained colonial control of the reason
>>1104009
And what made "Syria" Syria?
>>1104046
Sykes Picott.
A lot of countries in the Middle East (even in Africa despite not having to do anything at all with the Picott treaty) have the same borders as colonial divisions.
Many of these borders are delimited by merely geographical features. A lot of rivers, mountains, etc, are borders in the Middle East. If not, imaginary lines created to simply separate a chunk of land from the other.
When these colonies gained their independences they kept their original colonial borders instead of regrouping...
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What is the cause of this autism?
>>1103923
Feudal boundaries in a modern world. There are a couple micro enclaves in western Europe. Most the rest of the world lacked that regions stability.
>>1103923
Feudal banter.
>>1103923
>enclaves within enclaves
Literally terminal autism
ITT: Post times we laughed at god
>dedicate chastity to christ in exchange for musical genius
>some hedonistic newfag shows up that could fuck every half decent looking female and also makes music that makes mine look like utter shit
>he defiles my name at a masquerade ball
>set him on a path of self destruction
>he dies
Grazie Senore
Salieri bless. The king of mediocrity.
That film is a legit 10/10. The extended cut is flawless.
>>1103830
>/his/ - Television & Film
Can someone make an essential political philosophy reading list?
>>1103750
start with the greeks
The opium of the intellectuals
The open society and its enemies
>>1103750
The Epic of Gilgamesh, and continue from there until Atlas Shrugged
Why Marxist-Leninist leaders in Eastern Europe hated?
Was it because they were socialist or was it because they were representatives of the oppressive Soviet empire?
the latter
I mean there was probably division between left and right in those countries but the whole "being Russia's bitch" thing sort of soured the whole marxist thing for everyone.
>>1103721
no homo bruv
>>1105847
Homosexuality is a decadent bourgeois disease, Soviet men will International-kiss out of brotherly love and camaraderie.
Who's the earliest serial killer we know of?
Let's define a serial killer as someone who kills multiple people for self gratification. So no assassins or bandits
pic unrelated
>>1103604
Well, I'll start this off with an obvious choice. Jack the Ripper.
Let's see who can beat it.
>>1104037
Elizabeth Bathory ;)
>>1104043
Gilles de Rais -__-
Why did the Russians replace a neglecting father (The czar) with an abusive one (Stalin)? Because of the West? But again, communism is a Western ideology.
And why is this pattern repeating itself? They either go full dictatorship or full chaos with nothing in between. They either embrace the West and even glorify it or hate it and isolate themselves. They either submissively bear the yoke of the government with extreme humility and only when they are literally starving they rebel with extreme fury and violence.
What are the causes of this? Is it paternalism? Is...
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The British and Germans funded a revolution to get their old enemy, the Russian Monarchy, out of the picture. See: The Great Game. Imagine what Britain could do without Russia fucking around.
Then Hitler came along and the US needed to check German expansion so they propped up the Soviet Union. Dumb Russians keep Germany occupied on the East (The work to feed, supply, arm, and equip the Soviet Union profited US industries anyways), while America and Friends whack at them from the west.
After WWII, the Soviet Union had received enough aid and gobbled up enough...
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>>1103560
Wall Street funded the Bolsheviks.
>>1103580
They lost everything. In the 50s and 60s socialism was extremely popular, Russia had nukes and a ton of allies including China. If they played their cards right, they could be a prosperous superpower.
De-stalinization was one mistake. Not providing consumer goods another. It's ridiculous and hypocritical. "Stalin was a dick for being so harsh, but you still can't have toilet paper." It doensn't make any sense.
