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Arab conquerors. By the time the Arabs showed up in Egypt no remnants, besides the monuments, of Ancient Egypt remained
>>570283
I must have missed that time the Ptolemies genocided all their Egyptian subjects.
>>570283
What happened to them?
Alright guys, do your best to convert me to your religion or lack thereof. I will not reveal which religion I do or don't practice, or whether I practice at all.
>>570260
My god could beat up your god.
>>570260
The total lack of any indication god exists.
>>570260
Bow down to the Glourie of the Amazing Dildoni.
What further proof of divinity do you need than having a really big penis?
Doesn't he just talk in circles? What does he actually advocate?
Selling yourself out.
>>570251
His eyes are so offset it irritates me
>>570251
worthless
useless
shitstain
bitch
faggot
reporting
How doomed is this city?
>>570085
Over-regulated, overtaxed, crime-ridden, corrupt, shitty weather, and with few of the next big 21st century industries.
Great city, but pretty fucked desu
>>570085
What is that?
>>570085
That's a flag, not a city
How would the history of Japan change if the Shogunate won the Boshin War? Did they even have a chance?
>>570036
not much.
Both Shogunate and Imperialists were reform minded.
Maybe Japan ruled by a Junta as opposed to...using the Emperor as a puppet and rule indirectly
>>570036
Japan would still try to industrialize, but would take much longer because of the lessened European/American trade. So they don't become the dominant East Asian power in time for the two world wars, which means no Japanese hegemony in China. What would have happened to China in that scenario is a question more versed in the topic than I am. Anyway Japan would still probably fall to American influence at some point during the Cold War, and if not that, then Soviet influence, so it would basically become another pretty...
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>>570036
Bump
Sup
I'm on Netflix right now; any /his/ approved shows or movies? My account is Canadian, if that helps.
Narcos
The Thick of it
British satire of third way politicians in office
Recomending the standard meme movies
Platoon
Das boot
Am I right in thinking that before Arab conquest, these were the dominant races:
Iran and Iraq: Persians
Syria: Assyrians and Semites
Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine: Semites
Egypt: Copts
Tunisia, Algeria, Libya and Morocco: Berbers
Sudan: Nubians
Somalia, Mauritiana and Djibouti: Who knows?
>>569756
>Iran and Iraq:Persians
Mesopotamia (Iraq) was not, nor was it ever, Persian
>>569784
yes it was. did the persians skip mesopotamia in their way to fight the greeks?
>>569756
Can Persians and Semites even be considered "races"?
I just read this "masterpiece," and though it is very profound at times and at the very least entertaining at others, Something doesn't sit quite right with me.
The second part refutes that an aesthetic existence can have true meaning like that of the ethical; until the point at which one is told to despair, it is very successful at illustrating this. My problems are that I fail to see
>how one is to despair/"choose the absolute absolutely."
>how the ethical lifeview is any different...
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I mean not to claim that my blasphemy nullifies what has been said. I merely explain why I do not repent to what I do not believe in. My next point of disagreement is much more crucial.
If cultivation of talents and forgetting oneself in work are not the ethical, how does duty provide an alternative? If one's duty and oneself are inseparable from tasks, how is this finding self in duty significantly different than losing oneself in work? Are not talents essential to these tasks? Yes the ethical life-view would believe they are; the aesthetic holds that they are essential...
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My third objection is of equal importance to the previous and will show to what extent I am not a philosopher in any true capacity.
If an asthete despairs and devotes himself to the universal in his doing his duty, how is he to avoid the sorrow of failing to attain the universal? Vilhelm explains to us that one may set himself to the task of the ethical and fail to achieve it. His is a purgatory devoid of joy or possibility to escape. He admires the universal yet cannot enjoy it himself; it is forever external to him.
Back to this former asthete. Say he sees his duty as concrete tasks which will improve humanity either ethically or intellectually. He builds talents to achieve these goals. When he has these talents, he must find the tasks about which he must set himself. In this movement he is in infinite sorrow. The tasks are ahead, the aesthetic life behind, and he lies between. He has not fulfilled his duty yet, as such he has an infinite possibility of failure, or worse death before success.
Say he realizes his place is far away. He is a young man with little prospects to leave; he knows he has a place, yet he cannot be there. The asthete (who has not yet despaired) believes he has no place; when he finds uncomfortable situations, he has the comfort of saying "Ce n'est pas de ma faute." The reformed asthete has not this satisfaction. He can only suppose that while he was an asthete, he cheated himself out of the means to escape. Now he knows he has a place at which he cannot be and he repents to himself, yet cannot forgive himself.
This man may find his place, he may accomplish his duty; however, he has not, may not, and has chosen to give up the satisfaction of the aesthetic. How can this man find meaning or beauty in the ethical when it only promises him the pain of failing the universal?
>>569711
It's metaphysics, therefore meaningless :^)
Will he be remembered, or was he just a fad in the eyes of history?
Our great grandchildren will find out.
Well apparently he himself was ok with just being blinked away from existence.
His brother will be remembered as the last representant of old British values. Christopher was just a typical Trot with no historical impact whasoever.
So after the Great Fires of London in 1666, Thomas Hobbes' atheism was cited in parliament as a probable cause. It was also debated whether to punish him for causing the fire, and his books were burned at Oxford. And at Cambridge and Oxford, any professors who showed support for Hobbes would lose their jobs.
Does anyone have other accounts of Christians being idiots and punishing atheists for no reason in history?
Can you prove it didn't cause the fire? Yeah, that's what I thought fedora.
Classic.
>>569608
Go tell reddit we are biggots so you shitheads can find a new place to suck eachother off in. And take our religious posters with you.
Does religion do more harm than good, /his/?
>>569388
Doing good or evil is up to the individual himself. Religion can not do good or evil on its own.
The only real problem with religion isn't even a problem with religion itself but rather a problem with human beings and their inability to be subjective, cosmopotilan creatures.
"It's different therefore I must kill it" and "They have more than I do therefore I must kill them" have been human traits since we were even human. Religion, in the hands of people who are this debased, will always end badly.
>>569405
but it influences the individual's choice, especially if you are raised as a religious person. People won't blow themselves up in the name of logic and science.
>>569284
And as a lighthouse.
Who were they? What'd they do`They were dutch, but not.. Actual dutch government? Were they independent? pls explain
>>569195
It is pretty easy.
They where Africanised dutch colonisers.
They where put under british control.
Two factions of Boers declared independence.
There was a third one but they where barely independent.
They lived for a while.
Then the Boer War came
They died.
IMO if the dutch maintained control over their cape colony it would have been much better.
>>569195
>were
You do realize they still exist right?
There's like 3 million of them...
At least tell us what the colors represent OP
Is this accurate?
>>569416
>/x/ isn't Stirner
>>569416
Schopenhauer fits much more to /r9k/
>>569416
/r9k/ is much too self-hating to be Nietzsche, Schopenhauer is their man.
>"The European habit of indiscriminately killing women and children when engaged in hostilities with the natives of the Americas was more than an atrocity. It was flatly and intentionally genocidal. For no population can survive if its women and children are destroyed.
>"The destruction of the Indians of the Americas was, far and away, the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world. That is why, as one historian aptly has said, far from the heroic and romantic heraldry that customarily is used...
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>>568151
specious moralism.
>>568151
>>"The destruction of the Indians of the Americas was, far and away, the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world.
>>568151
>Indians of the Americas
Into the Trash it goes
Also for South America The Native Population didn't disappear
They were Just Cucked into mongerlism By Horny Spanish men
