I don't know why but I'm in the mood for shit about romance. Post shit that melts your heart.
>The son of Afonso IV and his consort Beatriz of Castile, Peter was married in 1336 to Constanza of Castile; but she died in 1345, and Peter is chiefly remembered for his love for Inês de Castro, the lady-in-waiting of Constanza
>She was later killed by three men on orders of Afonso IV due to suspicions that the Portuguese court would fall into Castile hands
>The Portuguese king conducted a public trial of Pêro Coelho and Álvaro Gonçalves in 1381. After finding them guilty of Ines' murder, the king ripped their hearts out with his own hands, according to chronicler Fernão Lopes, because of what they had done to his own heart. Diogo Lopes Pacheco escaped to France and died in 1383
>According to legend, Peter later had Inês' body exhumed and placed upon a throne, dressed in rich robes and jewels, and required all of his vassals to kiss the hand of the deceased "queen". However, contemporary evidence that the event occurred is minimal; Peter did have Inês' body removed from her resting place in Coimbra and taken to Alcobaça where it was reburied in the royal monastery. Peter had two tombs constructed, one for each of them, so they would see each other when rising at the Last Judgment. The tombs show Peter and Inês facing each other, with the words "Até o fim do mundo..." ("Until the end of the world...") inscribed on the marble
>You will never love a woman so much that you go nuclear and rip out her killers' hearts with your own two hands
>>916479
Nobody has any stories? Damn.
>a young German princess and a Russian prince overcome the disapproval of their families, as well as the national and religious barriers between them, to be together
>have five beautiful children
>everyone gets shot in the basement by Communists
>>916479
Does a female love a man as a man loves a female? No; the female does not love the man; at best, the woman loves to be loved as well as adores to love to be loved. Most of the men love a woman such as most of the females loving their children, up to, for too many men, talking to the female in puerile manner in public; whereby most of the men completely failing to understand that a man must take a female with detachment, such as an owner loving his dog, such as the scientist towards his experimental subject. The lovers plays along, play her game precisely for he is not egotistic, but only narcissistic.
Her lack of reflexivity renders her the most untameable creature that so many men attempt, drawn by her, to domesticate only to perish faster than a moth on a night lamp, due to their innate failure to seek a reality outwards themselves, something that the inwards attention of the female prevents her to endure. Her nudity is the force of the woman : she makes her lack of apparent shield the most powerful one, so that the woman never lies to who takes the moment to observe her, yet without hesitating to crush every man whom she judges cruelly unworthy of her. So much power appears as beauty itself but, naturally, once that the higher man reaches her, he understands at the same instant her vacuity, or rather, the debilitation of his original quest.
Is there a historical precedent of backpackers?
>>916469
yeah, gypsies
well desu unless you were rich everyone would just pack up their shit and walk places, so yeah, everyone.
Ibn Battuta
Sort of, but it was much more restrictive before the 70s, because old fashioned tents were hella heavy. Modern tents are basically spinoffs of Bucky Fuller's tensegrity concept.
Was Voltaire based or just an edgy faggot?
>>916442
He was a pompous presumptuous bitch but he did raise some good points. Candide is nice.
>>916442
He, Hume, Spinoza, & Pico della Mirandola are the primary men for smashing all of medevil philosophy. Make of that what you will.
>>916458
this
He was THAT GUY who always is so smug thinking he is always right
He just incidentaly was also pretty smart and born in the right place and time so he made some good points for the era
What do you think?
I think therefore I am
It's logical to assume souls could exist but impossible to prove.
I am alive.
Therefore I have physical and possibly spiritual needs.
If I meet my needs fully then I am physically and possibly spiritually satisfied.
Being physically satisfied might make you like a king.
Being spiritually satisfied might make you like a god.
For the sake of argument lets call complete satisfaction at any one point in time order.
In life one should constantly strive for order and eliminate entropy.
Perfect order all the time can only be achieved by functioning in such a way to assure satisfaction at all times.
The way one functions can be called a form.
To achieve the best form possible I follow these steps.
1. Write down needs.
2. Write down goals. You should pick goals based upon needs. If you achieve all goals you satisfy all needs.
3. Turn goals into actionable steps. All steps completed in order completes goals.
4. Write schedule to complete steps.
5. Follow schedule.
>>916429
except you deny the dynamic nature of your existence. achieving order is impossible even for the smallest amount of time because the world around you (including your body plus physical needs and the objects in the outside world needed to satisfy these needs) just like the world within you (including "spiritual" needs) are in constant change. The moment you write down needs they are out of date, the goals you pick refer to an image of the world that is no longer valid and the schedule you try to enforce upon your life can correctly be applied to a certain unique situation, one exactly like which will never again arise.
This is what happens when you forget to introduce the dimension of time to your schema.
>>916494
I define one of my needs as the need to reasses needs.
Goal to create the most accurate list of needs possible and reasses/make changes daily.
Of coarse you are right that I can't perfectly conceive of or codify needs, and they change so I will always have a certain amount of imprecision.
Perhaps I wouldn't even exist if I perfectly satisfied all needs. If i did exist in that state then perhaps I'd be god. I am alright being human so I'm alright with a little bit of imprecision.
>>916494
Perhaps you are wondering if I can't achieve order why do I strive for it?
To answer my own question:
Idk life seems pointless to me so I do what seems most logical.
If I cared I would probably a) be a theist b) make up some other reason to live.
c) commit suicide
But these all seem pointless and illogical so... meh
Why didn't Britain (or another European country) colonise China like they did India?
India was way more divided, China had a more advanced military, the costs would be too great, it's just a hellhole to administrate
>>916238
England did not "Colonize" India or conquer it at all. It bought the Zamindars using Bengal.
The East India Company lost the Sepoy Rebellion until The Battle Of Delhi brought the Marathas in.
>>916242
>India was way more divided
China would have put up a much fiercer resistance, the costs would not be worth the benefits in the short or long run.
Who was more successful in Afghanistan? The USSR or The US?
The United States. Either way, neither of them pacified the county and neither of them ever will. I
>>916108
Did the US control more Afghan territory than the USSR? Cause I cant find any maps that show how much both controlled.
I was say it was Soviet Russia because they simply failed to take down a political enemy.
The USA did that as well as build up the political enemy in the first place.
Will history look back fondly on Pope Benedict?
I already do compared to Francis
>>915748
Better one that cover up a dozen kiddy fiddlers than one that welcome a thousand.
>>915732
He wasnt the greatest, but he wasnt a bad pope either.
Most people give him shit because of palpatine
Should Asceticism be relevant for the modern world (practiced for non-religious reasons)?
In order to, say, focus on the higher meanings of life, aside from the worldly pleasures.
asceticism is just the other side of decadence
t. neechee
>>915454
Asceticism comes naturally from obsession. Those who are obsessed with so called higher meanings tend to be ascetics even if they don't know it.
>>915478
This. Both obsessive hedonism and aestheticism represent a society that is incapable of having a stable hierarchy of bodily needs. In one side they all go all out on the other side they completely reject their own bodily will, which is essentially a longing for death.
The idea of a wide-spread asceticism movement also directly harms the nation since the economic game is now done on a global scale. People need to have strong material desires in order to the better paying, more important, harder jobs.
Why the hell did none of the generals or Party members ever think of just arresting this bastard? I mean, when Stalin locked himself away after learning of Adolf Hitler's betrayal, he was worried the men that came for him would arrest him and remove him from power, so it's clear that they *could* do it if they wanted to.
I never understood that with despotic dictators. Why don't the Party and the people just turn against them when it's clear they're not doing any good for the nation?
>>915289
Have fun trying to arrest him and then the rest of your cheeky breeky friends get scared and jump to his aid instead. Or have fun trying to bring up the idea of arresting him and immediately getting sold out by one of your friends. Or have fun managing to arrest him and then being quickly disposed of as a rival for the reigns of power once he's gone.
It's like when one guy with a gun is holding up dozens of people. Obviously he can't kill them all if they bum rush him but in order for the move to be made someone has to be willing to take on a lot of risk. Even worse than that in the case of a dictator you can't necessarily trust the other people being threatened.
>>915289
Do you understand how paranoid people in such regimes are in high places? He was a hated man for sure. Same thing with Adolf, these both people feared for their life all the time. Stalin went full paranoid -mode in his old days as the Doctor's Plot proves (Stalin went full Jew conspiracy -mode )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_and_antisemitism
60 million people. It shall never be forgotten.
>The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
Well then where do they come from /his/? Where the hell do they come from?
Subjective experience and surrounding culture
>>914920
Divine revelation obvs
>>914920
Ideas are just higher, less intense impressions.
"Good" and "bad" come from our gut feelings, ethics just dress up this impressions.
Can someone attempt to explain Zen Buddhism to me? Every book I've tried to read on it says it is unexplained but that doesn't make any sense. Probably because I am a filthy westerner but can someone who knows a lot about it try to explain it?
The incommunicable experience of is-ness.
You can't explain it or intellectualize it. Just meditate.
>>914635
this looks promising
Kasulis, T. P. Zen Action/Zen Person. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1981.
>An insightful philosophical survey of Zen practice, thought, and personhood, reaching back to Nāgārjuna and Taoism but discussing Japanese Zen approaches from Eihei Dōgen, Hakuin Ekaku, and others.
>>914641
Then why does zen Buddhists usually have teachers if it is simply meditation?
Also isn't Nirvana/Satori achieved randomly in Zen? How would meditation lead to something random?
Why did Castilian become the dominant language even though the man in the Iberian Wedding was from Aragon?
>>914567
Probably because Castille was bigger and Iess diverse.
>>914567
But Spain doesn't speak Castilian they speak Spanish
dude liked castille better than aragon, moved his capital there and in fact the aragonese even rebelled against him
tl;dr he was a c.uck
>Sparta was only good at war because during their height, they were the only city state that actively prepared and drilled for war. Everyone else was an amateur militia. In context of other groups that trained for war, they were nothing special
Do you agree with Hans van wees, /his/
>>914248
No thats bullshit. All city states spent at least 1 month of the year training their citizens in hoplite warfare. It was a legal requirement if you were a citizen.
>>914248
Special operations forces are only good at war because they actively train for it
>>914255
>1 month per year vs 20 years of constant training and active service
It really bothers me when people claim statistics on something or indeed any kind of detail on events of which we couldn't possibly know.
For example, people claim 50 million or so killed in china during the cultural revolution or what ever they called it, great leap forward. But this isn't the chinese number, and only the chinese have the number, so how did anyone arrive at 50 million, or indeed any number? How could they possibly give a number that isn't pure guess work and fiction?
Any other "how the fuck could you possibly know that" that is commonly accepted?
The amount of people that died form anti German massacres in Poland before world war 2, the total amount that has died from Capitalism and the amount of Muslims that died from the crusades.
Not commonly accepted really, but they got still got their fair share of believers.
>>914003
So 0, 0, and.... 0
#notallmuslims
>>914003
>Anti German Massacres in poland
never really heard of them
>Capitalism
That would be pretty hard to judge seeing as how what is even the cause of an ideology is impossible to begin with anyway.
>Crusades
There were body counts for many cases, but it's pretty hard to give an exact number but out of these it would probably be the easiest to give an estimate for that is based on body counts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_border_conflict
Why was such atrocious international policy tolerated?
>>913758
Because commies.
Literally
>>913758
Because Russians are deathly afraid of China and want to suck up to it.
If you are wondering why the "international community" didn't react: nukes.
But then, why would the "international community" of the US, Europe, Canada and Australia do anything about the two main opposing powers competing among themselves, essentially weakening their offensive potential?
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