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Why does noone remember the Korean War?
>>991756
I do, I'm sure you do since you typed out the words 'Korean War'
>>991756
Because it isn't over
No jews in it so no movies in Hollywood.
Are anti-globalists small minded losers or pragmatic realists? Has history been heading towards a one world government?
And how would your opinion change in these two scenarios; 1. Humans "conquer" space travel and explore the galaxy and live on other planets. 2. There are no other signs of life that contact us and humans can barely do anything in space, not even live on Mars.
>>1007316
Most people can't even get their own lives in order; how could you expect someone to run the lives of 7 billion?
>1
Good. I think we need the space. Too many people, too many problems.
>2
Well that would suck.
>>1007316
>Has history been heading towards a one world government?
Not really, but it would be nice if it were.
Why not question globalists themselves first? Why is globalism desirable?
>You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realise this and you will find strength
/his/ seems to like stoicism, so lets have a Stoicism General.
I'm trying to read Meditations daily, just a little bit, to focus my mind before getting into things during the day, it's a great aid for that kind of stuff.
all self-help philosophy is trash
Stoicism is avoiding pain instead of confronting it, it's pretty disgusting in all honesty
>>998837
If you ever get the time, try to read the Enchiridion by Epictetus.
What went wrong?
While it do have a bunch of issues many that denounces it seems to do so simply because it don't allow them to use a limited period in time (That may very well have ended before they themselves live) to make themselves look better than another culture, country or race or claim their accomplishes are due to their race just being superior (Which becomes hard to do if someone tells you another race now worse off used to be better off than you while pointing out that "no, they didn't use too have a majority belonging to your race, invasions don't work that way")
The...
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An entomologist deciding he could write about a book about human history and then thinking he was talking about something new because of his complete lack of knowledge about history or archaeology.
There's nothing really wrong with the facts of the book, but the points Diamond makes are pretty juvenile and show a complete lack of knowledge of the fields he was discussing. He basically ended up making similar argument to academics from the early 20th century. There's a reason actual academics don't like Diamond, and it's because he popularized seriously...
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>>998531
I finished it yesterday. I think its great.
Before Roman Empire embraced Christianity, how common was gay sex in their society?
Common enough that Julius Ceasar was once known as the Queen of Bythnia for his role as a power bottom.
Ubiquitous, though catching was generally viewed as being for sissies.
>>993641
>all you have to do to fix your reputation is publicly top someone in the marketplace
Truly a utopia
How does a smaller country BTFO a larger one?
>>999144
Not all territory matter
>>999144
Try to outdo them technologically, forge a coalition against them, try to conquer their capital fast and hold it until the warscore goes to 40-50% then sue for peace.
Simple, by taking advantage of their internal conflicts, allying with their enemies, having larger armies with better equipment, training and competent leadership.
Can we all just agree that Maoism is the worst form of communism?
Agreed.
Can we all agree that comparing projected to actual population growth in the same timeframe as the marriage laws and inflating the crude death rate to the point when statistics from the 50s prove that he would have saved technically 30 million isn't some old bullshit. mmm hmm.
Maoism is fucking based and you're an ass fractured Titoist who's sucking up to the anti-communists like you've always fucking done.
Fuck outta here/
>>996358
Color me surprised. An actual Maoist on /his/.
No one even brought up the death tolls fucktard.
Maoism is retarded.
>muh peasant revolution
>muh protracted people's struggle
>we can fight the bourgeoisie by forcing intellectuals to farm
>turning farms into steel mills
>collective agrarian socialism
Holy shit, Maoism is cancer. So...
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At the risk of sounding retarded, I really want to know: why is it so important to Christians that Jesus was a verifiable historical figure? Isn't this obsession contradictory to the requirement of faith that Christ purportedly requires?
>>1005045
They tend to get butthurt when people bring it up. That's about it.
Because Christ was God incarnate. Christ came down and took the form of man. He absorbed sin for man so that man could be given the gift of eternal life. Not Christian but raised Catholic. There is a lot of history behind this, as Christians didn't all necessarily agree about the divine nature of Christ in the early days of Christianity before Constantine converted the Empire. gnostics for example
Not a Christian but I imagine any amount of evidence that could be used to make their version of events seem more plausible would be welcomed, even if it's not required for belief.
why are people against hedonism? do they hate pleasure?
>>1001152
because hedonism doesn't make you happy
>>1001152
dude weed lmao
>>1001157
what does make you happy?
HOWDY GERMANIC SERVANTS
In the end, it had to be non-german unifying germany.
>"Germanic" king
>Germans can't even pronounce his name
>>1000699
10/10 vid desu
> Chinese younger brother of Jesus
> literally 100 000 000 people dead
You can't made this shit up
I'd be pissed too if my big bro got killed
>>997435
It's fucking China. If millions of peasants don't die of hunger due to war disrupting agriculture, they don't even bother recording it.
>>997435
The scale of death and destruction in China whenever shit hits the fan is incomparable. Poor fucking chinks
>Fuck up the ancient world by causing the collapse of the Roman Empire
>Fuck up the Christian world by starting the Reformation
>Fuck up the Christian world even further by starting the 30 Years War
>Fuck up the world by creating Communism
>Fuck up the world by deliberately escalating WW1
>Fuck up the world by starting WW2 and in the process making nationalism a taboo subject forever and plunging...
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Mandatory viewing for every thread about Germans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ztOV2wrrkY
You know the solution.
>>994761
You forgot about conquering the known world and dominating it ever since.
Was Jesus a virgin?
>>994466
Better question is; did jesus smoke weed?
Do you think Jesus watched God's Not Dead 2?
>>994466
Probably? I'm not totally clued up on Christianity but if sex before marriage is a sin and Jesus didn't marry and is totally sinless then he was likely a virgin.
>Faith ends up wavering
>Decide deism is right
>Three months later
>Read a good argument for Christianity/Catholicism, or inspirational Christian history
>Faith rejuvenated
>Go to mass every Sunday
>Three months later
>Think of a theological question I can't find a satisfying answer for
>Go...
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Do you have any stage you would prefer to stay in?
1) There is nothing wrong with this. Altering your personal convictions based on new ideas is healthy, in my opinion.
2) Atheism is correct.
>>1003834
I have to admit that Santiago Matamoros looks awesome every time
Who would win in a fight: Voltaire or Charlemagne?
>>1000805
>Charles
>The
>Great
Charlemagne
Gold is a very valuable commodity.
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