Why did the proletariat fail to rise up and seize the means of production from the bourgeoisie? The global revolution should have happened by now.
>>942677
because humans aren't computers
Labour unions
The ruling class would never allow it
For you people in a single image, what define The First World War?
/his/ is like 25% WW1/WW2 photos.
Jesus Christ.
>>941427
German soldiers trying to save a Frenchman from drowning in a mudd hole.
Because of how the people that killed each other really didn't have any reasons to hate each other.
>>941437
that's touching
I didn't quite catch that, can you repeat what you said?
>>941320
>holy
>>941323
>ROMAN
>>941326
MEMES
Library link as usual-
Temple of Solomon the King (occultism, esotericism, anthropology and religion resources):
https://mega.nz/#F!AE5yjIqB!y7Vdxdb5pbNsi2O3zyq9KQ
(For the topic of this thread, scroll down to Gnostic Studies).
This is going to be another thread that's hard to approach. It takes 300 pages to give outlines of Gnosticism so I can only give the crudest sketches while directing folks to primary source material.
Who, or what, where the Gnostics? A Christian sect is the easy answer, but you'll quickly find that their opponents painted them as immoral Godless heretics, and their modern extreme apologists like to paint them as innocent contemplative ascetics. The truth is either in between, or both; Gnosticism is not a monolithic ideology. It comes in many strains and flavors: Ophites, Sethites, Mandaeans, Valentineans, Barbeloites, etc., etc., etc., the list goes on. For better or worse, the literature on Gnosticism is better in German, so I'll be borrowing quotes from snippets of translation. RE: The nature of the Gnostic cults - Sloterdijk's distinction between libertine and ascetic Gnosis is illuminating:
>"The amoral style leads to a homeopathic ascetic: this weakens the Evil of sin, in that they are committed thoughtfully and ironically, as if by quota: the Gnostic embraces the sin and experiences thereby a critical decay in his own body, finally to climb out of the gutter fully burnt out. — The world is a pornographic purgatory, from which to filter the immaculate Pneumata. The abstaining style, in contrast, applies allopathic methods against the sickness of the World: against the poisons of the cosmos it administers immediate flight from the world as an antidote. Civil disobedience against the lower body, general strike against the astral works, bathings in tears, fasting of the heart."
>>940755
This begs some questions: At the beginning of the 3rd C. Clement of Alexandria condemns the Carpocratians for their rites which he describes as excuses to indulge in gluttony and lust. A little while later Celsus accuses Origen of doing this shit, and he quickly points the finger at the Ophites. What's less known is that even the Gnostics were accusing each other of practicing this sort of thing: Pistis Sophia curses, even into the outer darkness, in the name of Christ, those who eat of a lentil dish made with semen and menstrual blood. Two Egyptian testimonies appear in the 3-4th C. that continue this motif, probably in the vein of Phibionite festive meals. The Book of Jesu condemns similar practices. Oddly, though someone then in turn accuses the Barbeloites (who consider the text Pistis Sophia as a core component of their faith, the one that condemns sexual practices) of “obscene rites:...Epiphanius (died. 403) makes this claim in Panarion 26. Irenaeus accuses some Gnostic sect of eating a lentil dish made from menstrual fluid and semen.
A lot of people like to paint the Gnostics writ large as this highly puritanical sort of ascetic group. The fact remains that SOMEONE out there was a dirty degenerate sexual heretic, and I wanna know who, goddamnit. They are probably singularly important for transmitting what few scraps of practice the West inherited.
Gnosticism is characterized by by complex theologies which were borrowed from Neoplatonism and modified according to emerging Christist religion and, to a lesser extent, from the last gasps of the Hekhalot/Merkavah traditions of Hebrew Mysticism. Different sects had different trajectories of practice. The Mandaeans town down the high philosophy in favor of a REJECTION of Christ in favor of John the Baptist and other mythical figures; they become more magick/mythic oriented than dwelling on the taxonomy of reality.
>>940784
As mentioned, other groups have more complex cosmologies. Pic related is a diagram of the Ophite cosmos; with it's division of reality into strata. Above is the Kingdom of God as Father and Son, below being the realm of Life, Spirit, and Soul, ruled over by Sophia; manifesting as both Gnosis (Knowledge) and Synesis (Insight). The intersection is Sophia's subtle nature.
>>940797
Still others are more complex, such as this diagram of the cosmological structure of the Secret Book of (Apocryphon) John.
Anyhow, the two most important texts I can think of are Kurt Rudolph's “Nature and History of Gnosticism” and “The Other Bible” edited by Willis Barnstone. With these texts one gets enough of a footing and understanding of Gnosticism as a whole to figure out which sects attract one's attention the most so one can focus on a particular sect or denomination that resonates with Self.
Who would win in their battle against each other?
>>937574
>dude memes XD
Probably the navy seal depending on how much ammunition he had
>>937596
Shouldn't be possible for him to kill that many people at once.
>>937606
With a good distance between him and his opponents and several high capacity weapons? Well...if the scenario were such that each of these groups were unleashed into a varied terrain in which to do battle, I could see one highly skilled man hiding and foraging for a bit while larger groups fought. Occasionally putting down small groups before relocating.
Why were the 1970's so bleak and depressing?
What?
Economic stagnation
Nothing to do
Crime abounds
>>925899
ny was at the time, i guess
would you rather witness a speech from Jesus or Muhammad, if you could go back in time?
Jesus.
Jesus managed convince a bunch of cunts to (literally) eat his own body.
Muhammed was just a normal leader whose disciples were great conquerors.
neither, since I don't speak ancient goat herder language.
>>923522
That's Ali pbuh, not Muhammad pbuh.
Why did it take a Catholic man to rid Europe of Communism while you sat on your asses for 60 years of Bolshevism.
Not our job.
>>958209
...only to be taken over by Islamists. Great job!
>>958231
The world's largest Orthodox country, Russia, have a population that's 15% Muslims.
>tfw humans will probably be gone, forever, within the next thousand years
I just want to believe we"ll leave earth
>>957070
Why would that happen
I don't think we'll be gone, Just that we'll fuck up big time, and hopefully have a longer term perspective after.
>>957070
En annan Varld. Alfadern ar vor sol. Ulmodern ar vor jord. Skaparan ar ingen gud, skaparen ar vor volk pa vor jord.
Hello /his/ can you help me dive into philosophy, I've been interested for quite a bit but I have no idea where to start or how to. Thanks
>>956915
>where to start
WITH THE GREEKS
>>956915
I'm currently trying to get into it too, I've been making a list and this is the beginning of it
o Intro Books
The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russel
o Background Books(not important in my opinion)
Mythology
The Odyssey
The Iliad
The Histories
o Pre-Socratic
The First Philosophers ISBN-10: 019953909X
o Plato(428BC - 348BC)
Meno
Apology
Crito
Euthyphro
Phaedo
Symposium
Timaeus
Lysis
Ion
Republic
Laws
o Aristotle(384BC – 322BC)
Ethics
Politics
On Poetry
The Organon
Physics
On the Soul
Metaphysics
Rhetoric
o Epicurus(341BC – 270BC)
The Essential Epicurus ISBN: 0879758104
On the Nature of Things ISBN: 9780674992009
>>956965
Thanks a lot man!
Was Hitler a good strategist. Or were all if not most of the Nazi victories achieved because of Hitler's top staff
He was right to support the armored attack through the ardennes in 1940. Other than that I can't think of any other situation where Hitler's Judgement was helpful.
>>956062
He was setting himself up for failure all they way back during his jail time, with that Greater Germany crap.
I hate how paradigm shifts are never accounted for. War changed dramatically during ww2
If the SU hadn't invaded alongside and the Poles had sufficient forewarning, how differently would the ensuing conflict had gone?
>>949592
Not gonna lie, dude. This is a retarded question. Germany was a war economy, and was preparing for war; no matter the cost. Poland would still get buttfucked, End of discussion.
>>949607
Which is why it took them over a month.
Also note that I specified that the Poles could get fully mobilised and it wasn't a surprise. Considering Germany lost 25% of it's initial attack force in the first few days...
the Heer was hella overrated, you can't disagree with that.
>>949607
People tend to brush over the war in Poland but there was significant resistance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_M%C5%82awa
>>949592
Afaik Poland had virtually no air force so that's a factor. I guess they would have switched to gorilla warfare pretty early. Poland is quite big and you got woods and swamps and stuff.
What are some essential or recommended reading for Roman History?
Not that.
>>958807
Why, and what do you suggest in its place for Late Roman history?
>>958815
He was a rabid anti-Catholic who claimed that evil Christianity destroyed Rome and plunged the world into a thousand years of Dark Ages, a view universally rejected by any serious historians today.
The guys over at /k/ told me that this Pilotka is from the 80s and that the star is wrong. I was wondering if anyone here could confirm and tell me where I could get an authentic and correct star for this. I paid 10 bucks for it so I won't be devastated if it's fake but it would be cool to make it fully authentic if I can.
>>957400
I think the insignia is taken from a peaked cap. I don't think the hat itself is "wrong", it just has the wrong isignia attached to it. Since it's from the 80s, I doubt it is fake at all, since there is plenty of surplus junk still being sold.
>>957409
Do you happen to know what the correct insignia would look like for this cap? I have seen so many kinds.
>Otto von Bismark was the best politician ever
>Turns all of europe against him with his blatant war mongering
>Loses the colony game without trying
This guy is a bigger meme then churchill
>>957360
>describing a historical figure in 3 greentext
Your post is an even bigger meme than he was
>>957360
>Turns all of Europe against him with his blatant war mongering
Fought several years just to unify Germany then established a balance of power in Europe that existed until Wilhelm 2 joined the aggressive grab for colonies. He was actually pretty based, but his system of alliances could attribute to the bigger problem of WW1 (which was a direct result of Wilhelm 2's war mongering, not Bismarck's).
>Loses the colony game without trying
Why play it?
>>957360
>then
