We are all the tightrope walker.
Why do you say that? Zarathustra singled out the tightrope walker because he lived a dangerous life unlike everyone else.
>>437546
Because the Zarathustrian reader will ultimately try to walk the rope and will probably die before reaching the other side.
>>437559
At least Zarathustra will take care of my body.
I'm reading about the Kabbalah but I'm so horribly confused.
What IS kabbalah? Why did so many Christian philosophers fall in love with it? What influence did it have on secular 20th philosophy?
It's a mystical tradition that probably didn't begin with Adam
Christian philosophers fell in love with it because it seemed like it was *THE* hidden Jewish knowledge that unlocked the secrets of the divine energies governing the universe
From what I understand it influenced members of the Frankfurt school, but I'm not saying they were conspirators against the white race, only that some of them used kabbalistic principles in their work. This is widely documented b
>>437310
>From what I understand it influenced members of the Frankfurt school
WHAT? LOL No. Frankfurt's were influenced by Freud. Why would philosophers trying to analyze contemporary secular politics care about mysticism? Most of them were atheists and Kabbalahism is not compatible with atheism in anyway.
>It's a mystical tradition that probably didn't begin with Adam
No parts of the Christian religion texts are said to have been from Adam. The first 5 books of the bible are supposed to have been written by Moses and the other ones by various other authors.
Kabbalah is an oral tradition more than 2,000 years old.
>>437252
>What IS kabbalah
Jewish mystism. By doing certain rituals, having secret knowledge, and meditating you can connect directly with God. God has a symbotic relationship with humanity. You can become healthier by connecting to him but he's also connected to humans and his despostion will change based on the health humans. So if humans become more violent God becomes more violent.
Alot of the mystism has to do with reading the old testament in a special way or super-analyzing the text. It also has a lot of stuff about the secrets of angels, what heaven is like, etc.
>Why did so many Christian philosophers fall in love with it
It was mostly Protestants. Protestants had denied all spirtuality on earth, saying the holy spirit is not present in any rituals. So they had no way of connecting to God. Kabblah allowed them to do that.
Also Kabbahism comes from a time before Jesus. Christian teaching is that the Jews before Jesus were still 'chosen', still in God's favor, so these teachings were respected as being of great spiritual worth. Basically any Jews before the time of Jesus are prophets.
Kabbalah, Theosophy, Luciferianism..
It's all demonic shit.
If you were convinced that your world wasn't real, and that you had to destroy it in order to return reality to what you thought it should be against the wishes of everyone living in it, then would the moral soundness of your goal merely be dependent on whether or not you were right?
It is as it should be. All is well with the cosmos.
Wouldn't the utilitarian be concerned with providing the most benefit to the most people? If you're acting alone against the wishes of all, you are not doing that
>>437138
If you thought it wasn't real you wouldn't think there was anyone in it wishing against its destruction.
The 1,500-year-old slab of marble with Hebrew inscriptions unearthed by University of Haifa researchers in Kursi on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. The discovery is the first piece of evidence confirming the existence of a Jewish or early Christian community in Kursi, mentioned in the New Testament as the place where Jesus performed the Miracle of the Swine.
In the Holy Bible, Jesus Christ was described to have confronted Satan directly in the land of the Gadarenes or Gerasenes where the Miracle of Swine took place. This dramatic confrontation when Jesus cast out demons was recounted by no less than three apostles—Matthew, Mark and Luke with varying nuances.
Archaeologists from Israel now believe they have found evidence of the biblical event in Kursi, the historically Gentile district of the Decapolis on the eastern shores of the Sea of Galilee, Breitbart reported.
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/site.where.jesus.christ.drove.demons.into.the.sea.uncovered.confirming.biblical.event/74039.htm
>>436679
>www.christiantoday.com
Hiding thread. Bye now.
>christiantoday.com
>Breitbart reported
>>436679
>1,500-year-old slab
>first piece of evidence confirming the existence of a Jewish or early Christian community in Kursi
Uh, the Christian monastery built on the alleged site of the miracle was destroyed by Persians 1400 years ago, and was of course significantly older.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursi,_Golan_Heights#History
Of course it proves absolutely nothing other than the existence of Judeo-Christian temples in 500 AD, which has never been a controversial claim.
Was Judas the only jew in group of follower of christ?
No.
/thread
>>435121
All of Christ's original followers were Jewish, as was Christ himself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Christianity
>>435129
Smarf wasn't jewish, he was from Egleboid IV.
How do you atheists deal with the fact that:
>Egyptian chariot wheels are found in the Red Sea
>Millions of brimstone balls are found in Jordan
>Noah's ark has been found in Turkey
How do you deny archeological evidence?
obvious bait but
>woah egyptian items found in a sea bordering egypt!!!!
Why didn't they dump them in the Atlantic? God is proven, thank you anonymous.
sources, citations, etc.
>>435036
Google you retard.
What are your questions regarding traditions of mysticism? what are your interests?
Personally, I find Sufism the best hope for those of us in the West to come to a deeper and more authentic understanding of Islam.
How do I into Mysticism?
Are there some books I should read?
Are there any mystic practices you would suggest?
Spiritism/mysticism is satanic shit.
You're delving into the occult.
>You will never live past 45
>You will never know a town which does not smell like crap
>You will never stop smelling of crap because bathing encourages sinfullness
>You will never live in a house that's not partly made of crap
>You will probably never go more than 30km from the place of your birth
>You will never learn to read or write
>You will always be a subject bound to obey the whims of your knight, baron, count and king rather than a citizen with rights and a say in how your nation is governed
>You will never make more than a couple of shillings a year
>You will never have a child without worrying about him/her dying from illness in infancy
>You will never know what it is like to enjoy a pizza with a side of fries along with a hot cup of tea
>You'll always have to worry about some succession dispute or territorial conflict leading to a war, in which armies will march by and steal all your food as they go and maybe refrain from raping you if they're in a good mood
>Your children and grandchildren and their grandchildren will never know anything better for another twenty generations until James Watt gets his steam engine working
MFW
Filthy peasant.
>>434324
Who the fuck drinks tea with pizza?
>>434363
I drink tea with literally everything.
I have a cup of tea with my beer.
This is a statue from the Nok Culture. Existing between 1000 bce and 300 ce, the Nok Culture emerged in what is now Nigeria and is notable for independently developing iron working.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/iron/hd_iron.htm
The Noks were Caucasian
>>433950
Yeah, just like how the people of Iran were blonde haired blue eyed germans or some other ass backwards nonsense.
Give. Me. A. Fucking. Break.
Looks Yoruba, not Nok.
Nok art was far simpler in terms of its realism.
I've really never understood why the Germans didn't try and utilize the hatred that most Eastern Europeans had for the Soviets. It seems like a no-brainer to recruit the natives to fight the oppressive government that you were also fighting against. Why would you alienate the population that greeted you as holy saviours? Was it only hatred of Slavs, or would fielding an army of Slavs(even only as partisans) have been unfeasible for some reason?
>>431292
The wonders of racial ideologies, my friend.
>>431292
Why would you go into places like Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and Croatia and recruit their citizens for war when their governments willingly became your ally? I mean between Hungary and Romania you have nearly 1.5 million troops fighting on the Eastern front.
Or do you think the Nazis should have deposed leadership of said countries and would have been better at recruitment?
>>431308
>The wonders of racial ideologies, my friend.
Is that the only reason though? It seems like such a short-sighted waste.
>>431317
I should have clarified, I meant in countries like Ukraine or the Balts. Lots of burning hatred for the Soviets in those countries, and a huge pool of potential soldiers(at least on paper).
Was Antebellum South a shithole?
It was the landed gentry. The well-to-do of America, before the war.
>>430630
This
If you were a landowner, you were a New World leisured aristocrat
It was a shithole for blacks, and probably tough for all the common white farmers too
Mods are asleep post hot sexy 10/10 quotes
> “The displacement of class politics by identity politics has been very confusing to older Marxists, who for many years clung to the old industrial working class as their preferred category of the underprivileged. They tried to explain this shift in terms of what Ernest Gellner labeled the “Wrong Address Theory”: “Just as extreme Shi’ite Muslims hold that Archangel Gabriel made a mistake, delivering the Message to Mohamed when it was intended for Ali, so Marxists basically like to think that the spirit of history or human consciousness made a terrible boob. The awakening message was intended for classes, but by some terrible postal error was delivered to nations.”
― Francis Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
Inside every revolutionary there is a policeman
– Gustave Flaubert.
>>430031
>Just as extreme Shi’ite Muslims hold that Archangel Gabriel made a mistake, delivering the Message to Mohamed when it was intended for Ali
Can angels even fuck up in Islam? I thought they had no free will.
I'm reading this right now. It's interesting and a little less high horsey than End of History although Fukuyama still on occasion reads like he takes writing tips from some of the more pretentious undergrads he has taught.
Can a culture survive as long as there is someone who lives according to it?
Let's say that tribe A conquers tribes B, C, and D. Tribe A makes them speak their language, worship their gods, and follow their cultural mores.
A few generations later tribe A gets wiped out by a meteor. Can tribes B, C, and D call themselves the cultural successors of tribe A?
>>437585
This is basically what happened to the Jews. They had other cultures imposed on them for literally thousands of years and had to keep their own culture a secret, often having a public face of following the dominate culture and a private life of being Jewish.
They survived and the other cultures died off.
>>437585
Wouldn't it come down to: how much tribes b, c, and d have benefitted/adhered to the ideology and/or way of life?
Yes.
Hey /his/torian [wannabes]
So I graduated with a 1:1 history degree from a top UK uni this summer. I am now at a crossroads, and I wonder if anyone here who took the arts route can advise.
I have the opportunity to study a Computer Science Master's, and switch into STEM. It appeals because of the relatively good pay, the stead demand for tech workers, the opportunities for remote work, and the opportunity to do something USEFUL with knowledge gained.
This STEM route is less appealing, though, when I think of how much I truly love history. I love reading, books, arguments, curiosities from the past. These things genuinely make me so happy. I consider a history PhD at times, but then I feel the knowledge gained is like pearls thrown in mud- who can honestly say I might make a real difference in the world for those who need it by pursuing history?
Moreover, job opportunities don't seem great.
Idk, any history PhDs here? Can you recommend the arts, or do you think I should carry on with my route into STEM?
Why not? There's nothing stopping you from going back and getting another degree after you have money.
>>437335
they call it work for a reason
even if you majored in a subject that you loved, chances are if school didn't already, your job would turn you hate it
>>437449
well the thing is, if he becomes a historian he will spend the next 40 years of his life teaching highschoolers for minimum wage if he's lucky.
Do you think he had any painkillers in his system when he did this? No way anyone can stay calm getting burnt alive through sheer will.
its happened numerous times and even on video dude just look on liveleak or something im too lazy to look for you also I dont think the narcotics exist that would make you not feel being on actual real life burning fire
>>436867
Pain is actually a choice, which is something most people never realize. But if you DO realize it, and you exercise your mind to accept that reality, you can learn how to simply ignore pain signals and how to partition them within your mind.
Buddhist meditation has elements of this, though it's not limited to Buddhism or even meditation at all; it's more of a process of exerting control over one's nervous system, which can be done in a variety of ways.
Fuckers can slow their heart to a few beats a minute, not too much a stretch to imagine they can master physical response to pain
