There are two types of spirit in this world, negatives and positives. Forget the usual connotation you associate with those words. This is not a measure of judgment, but two opposites on a pole. The negatives are necessarily bad, they are just a complement of nature. The negatives are the ones who stay back, they are the dreamers. They are not active forward. The positives are not necessarily good by nature, they are just a complement of nature. They are the ones that move ahead, they are the doers.They are active forward.
sometimes there are 3
>>865202
This is nuanced on many scales, the inclination in politics of rights to be conservatives. They are the ones who see the world as it is at the moment. They are needed to meet the task in front. The left dream of how the world ahead can be. They are needed to establish the world ahead. However, once that world is established the right is needed to move forward and build the world ahead. Hence the world must move on a pendulum. However the positive right and negative left do not move in the same way. The right moves in a straight line, moving steady and gradually. The left stays in the back and thinks of the world in the far point ahead, and put forth the ideas to form that dot. While the negatives create that dot the positives lead society forward to reach that goal. Positives are active because they must face the world ahead and move. The negatives are passive because they stay back and dream of the point the collective sum of souls want to reach. The positives and negatives are the two parts of every spirit called the Collective Spirit.
The world is therefore both dualistic and one. There are two great creative forces in the world, what many interpret to be gods.
>>865202
Often time spirits are put into roles.Negatives are the cool hues of the universe. The cold temperature, the dark night, the moon, the mother's gentleness. They are submissive, more passive, and bring forth the future. Positives are the warm hues of the universe. The heated temperatures, the bright day,the sun, the father’s guidance. They are dominant, more active, and pull forth to reach that future. The two forces make the sphere of Collective spirit.
Proper scientific method positivism makes metaphysical claims, but it sets out from the dismissal of the metaphysical and try to show its own truth by opposing itself to strawmen, i.e. metaphysicians. All positivists are metaphysicians, and no metaphysician should be given too much control over what anyone believes.
If your theories are based in explicit metaphysical statements, even if those statements are just something like "Metaphysics is nonsense" or "No metaphysical statement is either true or false," you should confine these claims to philosophy (i.e. the discourse which leads us to the things which are) and not bring metaphysics into anything else. Metaphysics cannot be supported or refuted except by metaphysics.
Two principles, summarized
1) Claims about metaphysical claims are themselves metaphysical claims
2) Metaphysical claims made by anti-metaphysicians can be ignored
Positivism dismisses metaphysics in general.
This is incoherent.
1. Positivism dismisses metaphysical statements as nonsensical or neither true nor false.
2. If (1) then positivism makes metaphysical claims.
3. Therefore positivism makes metaphysical claims.
By the first principle, positivism is making metaphysical claims. By the second principle, we can ignore everything positivism says about metaphysics.
YOU'VE CONVINCED ME YOU ARE AMAZING GOOD JOBBBBBBB
This is cool and all, but I'd expect any /his/torian to know this. Doubt you'd find some Dawkins or Harris lover on here.
>>865071
>1) Claims about metaphysical claims are themselves metaphysical claims
This isn't obvious and needs defending. This doesn't apply in analogous cases. For instance, the claim "phrenological claims are universally false" is not a phrenological claim, it is a claim ABOUT phrenology, not a claim WITHIN phrenology.
At its height would it be fair to call Mexico a world power? How much influence did it have over other regional powers?
No, while powerful, the Aztecs were in no way a world power. They didn't even know most of the world existed.
>>864978
Mesoamerica =/= Mexico
Aztecs =/= Mexicans
>>864963
I would say that while it was new spain, it definetaly a world power due to gdp, and just by seeing those old cities you can see how rich it was.
then in the 50s, 60s, it probably was the most powerful of the non aligned countries. it had a super infrastructure for the population, and a nuclear capabilities. I mean, no other country at the time could take communists and such without an american invasion except mexico. then at the beginning of the 70s as the government started losing power, and the united states really tried to make a coup happen in 1968 the country really went to hell. it's always has had a huge fucking economy, but with huge wage disparity.
I think it's asian inceldom + psychopathy + white ambition, most full asians are generally too timid or shy to pull it off.
>greatest mass-murders were Eurasian
>
mfw
>>863571
>asian inceldom
>white ambition
literally the stupidest shit ever written
>>863571
>Leopold II
>Mao Zedong
>Hitler
>Pol Pot
>Stalin
"Eurasians"
Were there any benefits to Africa from European colonisation?
>>863369
the german giraffe parades are shaping quite nicely this year
Well Europeans did leave some infrastructure behind (railways, harbors and such) but because Europeans left such a mess of government behind there was no one to take care of those.
it sucks because i know the only reason i have all of this shit, is because some poor asshole built it for me in some shit hole 3rd world somewhere.... feels bad man.
>King of Kings Pt. 2
>From Biblical-era coup conspiracies to the horrific aftermath of ancient combat this second installment of the series on the Kings of Achaemenid Persia goes where only Dan can take it. For better or worse…
Rev up those podcast players...
http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-57-kings-kings
>>863058
Hi redd!t.
>>863072
>anything I don't like is reddit
My drive back home from school is seven and a half hours. Always difficult to hold off listening to his new shows before the next break.
The year is 1500.
Italy has been magically unified under a stable constitutional monarchy.
How different would things have been?
It would split up again
The big blue blob takes the northern part of it.
>>863022
No war in Italy with France and Spain.
What would England have been like in the following centuries if the Pope had granted Henry VII his divorce or if his wife had granted him a male heir? If England had remained Catholic what major changes would History see?
Well, I suppose there wouldn't have been all that fighting between Anglicans and Catholics now, would it?
This also changes North Americans, because it's not Puritans migrating, but Catholics - UNLESS Britain pulls a Netherlands/Geneva and goes Protestant during the Reformation.
Shelly and Blake murder the pope
>>862858
WASC does not sound as good, they will need another labell.
Who is the Queen of /his/?
Is it Cleopatra, Catherine the Great or Marie Antoinette?
Which historical figure gives you the yfw no gf?
Theodora
Olga of Kiev
>>862902
>tfw Olga will never step on you
Why did the Pirates Republic of Nassau fail?
Did they ever have a chance to succeed?
It was too rad to last
>>862559
Do you agree that they were within their rights to say "Fuck the king" and set up shop on New Providence?
>>862566
yep
>Is supposed to return during England's greatest hour of need
>Look at England today
>He's a no-show
What's his problem?
He's waiting for the civil war to start.
King Arthur is gonna show up when something truly apocalyptic occurs
artu was a moor!
Everybody with a Jewish mother is Jewish.
If a Jewish woman has 8 daughters, and all these daughters have 8 daughters, 64 Jews are created in 3 generations, even if the daughters marry outsiders.
Does this mean we will one day all be Jewish? In less 1500 years, almost every European became a descendant of Charlemagne. Any descendent of a Jew is Jewish, if it comes through the unbroken maternal line.
How long will it take for all people on earth to be Jewish?
I hope for your sake that this is bait
All people on Earth are already Jewish. All other "people" are merely chattel.
It's pretty mind-blowing that for thousands of years, a race of people could be so hated and persecuted, yet survive.
If Ottoman had survived after WW I , Would it become a Super Power today ? Look at all of those vastly oil fields from Iraq to Saudi.
No, because Turks are retards. Russia also has shitload of oil but they're still 3rd world garbage, because Russians are also retards.
>Automans surviving WWI
Thats a tall fuckin order m8
Looks at what a shithole the Middle East became after the demise of Ottoman Empire
ITT: Post WW2 stories you heard from your relatives, who've experienced it (mention who as, what and where did they serve, if they did so; have they been wounded, etc.). Greentext preferably - I'll start.
>1944
>Latvia
>Be my grandfather, mid-thirties
>Have nothing to do with warfare for your whole life
>Despise both USSR and The Third Reich and their ideologies
>USSR pushes The Third Reich back to the Baltic region
>Get drafted to the Waffen SS to hold USSR back
>Go through basic training that takes a few weeks
>Instantly become an officer - get to hold a whole company.
>Go to war
>MP 40
>Get to your enemy as close as 5-10 meters once
>Get your shin pierced by a shell splinter once
>Fight until Berlin capitulation
>>854513
>Be a kid in Ukrainian village
>Soviets come back
>"Mobilize" absolutely every male of age
>Put them in front of the troops as a meat shield
>Don't give enough weapons
>No training either
>Everyone dies
Fun.
>>854513
>Grandfather
>In the Solomons
>I think 1943, but I'm not 100% sure.
>Lots of jungle fighting, some of it quite literally hand to hand, with bayonet and rifle butt.
>His group captures a man, they weren't Japanese Japanese troops, but auxiliaries from I think Korea, work crews that were given rifles and told to go fight.
>Still hostile, but not quite the "fanatic" level of Japanese from Japan.
>Trying to get him to talk, rough him up.
>Nothing.
>Grandpa eventually gets him to open up by bribing him with a chocolate bar.
>>854513
>be Jew in Germany in 1937
>get yanked off the street and put in line for concentration camp
>cop who you just happen to be best buds with sees you
>grabs you out of line, says he's taking you for 'questioning'
>leads you down a side street, then tells you that everything is going to shit, and it's time to take your family and go
>you escape to England and then to Burgerland
Sometimes you just get really, really fucking lucky.
For anyone interested in or puzzled by buddhism or meditation, I am dropping by to recommend this book. I picked it up at my uni's library and I have to say I am pretty damn impressed with it. It explains mindfulness (awareness) meditation in a very clear and direct way, with no hippie fluff interrupting it. Also, the author's prose is pretty amazing.
Also, buddhism thread.
I'll check it out.
any mediators here? I have been meditating for about a year now. Two years once the summer hits.
>>850397
What's up senpai.
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