After reading Max Stirner's, The Ego and Its Own
The God Delusion may be the spookiest thing ever. Dawkins is still a based asshole and witty as fuck.
>>822268
>The God Delusion
Dawkins isn't scholarly qualified to talk about religion. It's like a dude writing a book 'the third trimester and what to expect'.
Dawkins is spooked by 'evidence'?
>>822275
Do you even know who Max Stirner is?
The guy was atheist
Unfortunately, other atheist hated him
Looking at you Marx and Engels
Philosophically, should you do what makes you happy with not a lot of money or should you make a lot of money at the expense of your happiness?
Asking for uhh, a friend.
>>822152
The latter option is more spooky than the former.
>>822154
I've never read Stirner, could you summarize this "spook" thing?
What would you do with a lot of money? Humans work to live, not live to work.
When /pol/ says "Sikhs are bro-tier", implying they "remove kebab"... can someone tell me what the actual history is behind Sikh and Muslim relations?
Thanks
bump. come on guys , one of you must know
Fuck off to /pol/
Sikhism develop as a synthesis of Hinduism and Islam during the Islamic conquests of India as essentially an islamists resistance organization. To this day, one of their compulsory requirements is keeping a knife for public security (Muslims again) and they are the de facto soldier class
How did this dull-eyed hickish peasant who looks like your typical rural village drunken sleazeball become the 'red emperor' of the entirety of China?
>>822024
Dull eyed hickish peasents wanted to be lead by a fellow dull eyed hick peasent
>>822024
Because the vast majority of China's population at the time consisted of dull-eyed hickish peasants who wanted one of their own in charge.
>>822024
mandate of heaven ran out on his predecessor.
Most Americans refuse to learn about history of the 19th Century because European imperialism is deeply upsetting to them. Intellectually, US academia is stunted by ideology and is not open as the rest of the world. In comparison, there is intense study of the colonial experience in other parts of the world.
Americans are reaching a point where in the study of history, they are starting to fall behind due to lack of academic freedom. I come from a third world country with heavy government interference, and even then it has freer history departments than can be found in an average US college.
>>821990
>Most Americans refuse to learn
Care to give some examples?
>>821994
In the US, the best funded programmes are naturally American studies (and its sub branches) and social history
Okay guys help me out here.
Who was worse? Hitler or Stalin?
Does it matter? They were both leftist socialist authoritarians.
>>821958
Stalin. Neglect through ignorance or lack of caring is one of the worst things a human can do.
>>821958
>worse
People who attempt to inject whiggish moral judgement into history.
If pre-colombian South America lacked writing, doesn't this negate the axiom that a state cannot exist without written language?
wait, that's not an Inca painting.
That's eight-deer
or eight-dog
>>821924
ceramics
![tumblr_static_quote-the-history-of-all-hitherto-existing-society-is-the-history-of-class-struggles-karl-marx-250999[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/CFm5Cfq.jpg "tumblr static quote-the-history-of-all-hitherto-existing-society-is-the-history-of-class-struggles-karl-marx-250999[1]")
>The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Only one sentence into the first chapter of the Communist Manifesto and Marx already completely destroys his credibility as a historian. Why does anyone take this hack seriously?
>>821837
He has no credibility among economists, very very little among historians, but for some reason sociology and philosophy still embrace his work.
>>821878
>Now he's just a dead dog.
Not on this board.
Why do humanities scholars have the same dumb ideological reasoning as a 18 year old communist (Noam Chomsky politics tier) although having tons of knowledge on their concrete area of studies?
>>821831
Can someone explain this image to me
>>821831
I can try. It's a symbolic portrayal of America that's probably a little more telling of the artist than it is the United States.
The top left is a distracting record. The top right big nosed(jewish) patriarchs hiding behind their money.
The women are portrayals of glorified women. The head is a symbol of the Ku Klux Klan. Holding a noose and a club to beat the drum with a tommy gun one arm of a politician the other of a criminal.
A jewish flag where the crotch should be. One leg is obviously a missile attached to some kind of faucet (oil?) and the other leg is defining beauty standards.
The drawing screams "America is some crazy giant monster coming to FUCK our SHIT UP HARD".
>>821898
>america
>having a real culture
Pick one and only one... that's prety much what it means
"In twelve years from now, you will not recognize Berlin." - Adolf Hitler (1933)
Because Hitler did that.
>>821748
Start shit, get hit.
>>821767
He didn't start the war.
>philosophy is useless!
While true, philosophy does deal with many "useless" things as far as the average and even above average person is concerned, how come people don't realize that philosophy is a natural, inevitable product of cultural health at its peak?
It doesn't matter that it's useless, when a culture is at its healthiest peak in history and courageous and ripe enough for serious contemplation, philosophy always happens naturally. Useless or not, it is a sign of the highest health.
A culture and even an individual that never engaged in philosophy never reached that peak of health and natural born strength like the Greeks did.
PROOF? EVIDENCE?
>>821620
But that's using an arbitrary definition of health that you yourself have decided upon. It's circular logic, isn't it?
>>821710
>But that's using an arbitrary definition of health that you yourself have decided upon.
Can you verify that?
R8 em
1. Gilgamesh
2. Jesus
3. Abraham
4. Martin Luther
5. Issac Newton
6. Hitler
7. Albert Camus
8. Martin Luther King jr
9. Muhammad Ali
10. Micheal Jackson
(11). Kanye Kardashian.
1. Diogenes
Everyone else
>2. Jesus
Are you kidding? I thought this was a list of real actual people who existed.
>>822310
Jesus was a real historical figure, only autistic fedora tier atheists deny that
are laws a perversion to evolution, are we impeding ourself through government and certain rules and eventually regressing our true potential. for many things like eugenics and...using 100 percent of mind and being less restricted unable us to leave and progress to the point of immortality
Evolution doesn't mean progression. It just means better at fucking out loads of little guys to fuck out their own loads and so on.
>are laws a perversion to evolution
Evolution has no goals, it's just a process, and it often involves trade-offs between multiple interacting factors, such as between natural selection and sexual selection.
>>821543
are laws impeding our progress?
Out of all the Hellenistic philosophies which ones are the most helpful/insightful?
>>821523
meh, the golden age was dead by that point.
platonism and stoicism took their stranglehold.
Fallibilism
There are tremendous insights to be gleaned by people who managed to see things needle-like.
However, I'm on your boat of seeking out a sum of the most "helpful/insightful"
Honestly, I'd be good with just Marcus with healthy incursions into Heraclitus and doses of Epicurus (Plato and Aristotle are both maybe just a bit too deep for practicability)
If you're willing to adventure beyond the Greeks for a reconcilable group that'll set you up for life
Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
Lev Tolstoy, "Gospels in Brief"
Ludwig Wittgenstein, "Tractatus" & "Investigations"
The Tao Te Ching or Te Tao if that version floats you
The Collected Writings of Abraham Lincoln (read this in conjunction with the Tao)
Dashes of Schopenhauer, the Bhagavad Gita. A slim volume on Zen
Is it conceivable that the west doesn't like Communism because corporations have no power in them?
>>821461
yes
No, the mass murders and brutal oppressive dictatorships are why the West doesn't like communism.
Corporations can work with communist regimes
