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Punic Hebil
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posted 17 May 2013 00:12 EDT (US)

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Hannibal the Conqueror
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(id: HannibalBarcaXXI)

posted 19 July 2014 16:45 EDT (US) 1776 / 2504

I'm in Kuwait. Nothing special about this place other than the oil. And the scorching desert sun too. My place back in Syria is like effing heaven, beautiful place really.

"I long for Darkness."
- Cormac McCarthy, The Sunset Limited.

"We are a species that ravages, plunders, kills, destroys, rapes and enslaves in the name of progress."

Edorix
High King of Britain

posted 20 July 2014 08:25 EDT (US) 1777 / 2504

I really hope things settle down in this region. I am tired of Israel being the only "fully developed" country or "advanced economy" in the region; I had high hopes for Syria when I was younger. At this stage peace has to be tantamount - but I cannot help wondering whether it's possible without Western support for the established order, which seems unlikely (or even if then).

Enkidu of Uruk
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(id: thekid951)

posted 21 July 2014 14:21 EDT (US) 1778 / 2504

Hey guys - thekid951 here. Been like a year again, I think. Sorry! Thought I'd pop in.

How's it going guys?

General Sajaru
Tribunus Laticlavius

posted 21 July 2014 14:52 EDT (US) 1779 / 2504

Hey Kid! Good to see you. How have things been with you?

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." - Ronald Reagan
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Hannibal the Conqueror
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posted 21 July 2014 15:40 EDT (US) 1780 / 2504

Hey Kid! Its been quite a long time since you've come on here, so welcome back! How're things going for you?

@Edorix

Things won't settle down in this region until the oil dries, and the people die. Superstition has brought us down, and left us behind technologically and culturally by hundreds if not thousands of years. And I'm not talking about religion, but about fanaticism and superstition in their extreme forms. This will be the cause of our downfall, and frankly the way I see it, there's no saving this region or the people within.

Israel will remain a developed country for a while, but as with everything, it will not live for long. My guess would be 5-15 years before it all falls apart, mostly due to the growing extremism and zealotry in the region, and the infighting that will occur among various the various factions of Israeli politics. And when it'll happen, things will get very bloody.

Syria has progressed a lot more under Assad jr. than it could have under his father's rule. But I'm afraid that all of this economical development he's done still doesn't help much, because without political reform it still leaves us helpless in the face of the pathetic aristocrats who're manipulating the government to their ends.

Western support wouldn't do much good in Syria. Not at all. Just as "Eastern" support hadn't done us much good in the past 50 years. It created an authoritarian government which oppressed those who criticized its policies, restricted our political rights and disseminated their vile propaganda into our textbooks and corrupted education as a whole. Just as Eastern support nurtured an authoritarian government and strengthened its authority over its people, Western support wouldn't do any better. Support for the current political system would only yield failure, and if the West tries any of its other "alternatives", all you'd have left is an ancient land whose cities overflow with the blood of millions of the minorities. Doesn't get uglier than having extremists tear the country apart with their emirates. I think our best bet at survival and reconstruction is just distancing ourselves from international politics, but with so much at risk both sides aren't going to give up after already having gone so very far to achieve their goals.

"I long for Darkness."
- Cormac McCarthy, The Sunset Limited.

"We are a species that ravages, plunders, kills, destroys, rapes and enslaves in the name of progress."

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Enkidu of Uruk
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(id: thekid951)

posted 21 July 2014 15:46 EDT (US) 1781 / 2504

Pretty good. Trying to wrap up my thesis now. Think it'll be done by January. I started on this forum as a 15 year-old interested in history and now I'm almost full circle, graduating as a history major

Not sure what to do after that though.

Edorix
High King of Britain

posted 21 July 2014 16:45 EDT (US) 1782 / 2504

Is anyone ever? That's a genuine question.

Awesome Eagle
Spear of Mars
(id: awesomated88)

posted 21 July 2014 19:41 EDT (US) 1783 / 2504

Not sure what to do after that though.
Is anyone ever? That's a genuine question.

*puts hand up cautiously*
I do...

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Edorix
High King of Britain

posted 22 July 2014 03:20 EDT (US) 1784 / 2504

Then you probably haven't thought about it enough.

I'm kidding, but that's what I meant by it. I don't doubt there are some people for whom a particular career path is obvious - I find myself thinking about it all so much a choice is impossible.

Awesome Eagle
Spear of Mars
(id: awesomated88)

posted 22 July 2014 03:34 EDT (US) 1785 / 2504

Well maybe that is the issue, overthinking, rather then over feeling. I feel I know my right path, but if it turns out to be, it's on to the next one.

Although, many people are a whole lot more rational then I am and I cannot give my experience as the be all and end all. How much more do you have on your degree Eddie if you don't mind me asking?

Edorix
High King of Britain

posted 22 July 2014 04:17 EDT (US) 1786 / 2504

I started on a three-year archaeology course at UCL in 2012/13, but dropped out.

I re-started on a three-year degree in Anglo-Saxon & Celtic at Cambridge in 2013/14, which I intend to see through. Two years left of that. Unfortunately I don't get to do the module which I basically switched course for, Celtic philology, until the final year, but it's still a good course for me.

Despite being extremely academic now, and having grown up doing that kind of thing as well, I don't really want to be an academic afterwards. Tough to get employment, and precious little money for a long time. Plus if I keep up my current record I could end up with a double first, from Cambridge, so it might be a bit of a waste to pour my time into squabbling with other scholars. I think I'd quite to go into politics eventually. You know, make the odd nazi post in the House of Commons just to get kicked out and thereby qualify as an oldie.

Terikel Grayhair
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posted 22 July 2014 04:29 EDT (US) 1787 / 2504

Those are some pretty deep and well-developed thoughts there, Hannibal. Impressive, and more, quite likely.Welcome back Kid!I took my history degree and used it to get a commission in the army, then used that to get to Europe where I lifted boxes for a while. Now I run my own archive center. I don't know what I will do next, but it sure ain't going to be lifting boxes. That shit is for the young.

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Enkidu of Uruk
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(id: thekid951)

posted 22 July 2014 08:26 EDT (US) 1788 / 2504

Quoted from Terikel Grayhair:
Now I run my own archive center.

That's massively interesting. Care to elaborate? Where do you do this, and what kinds of documents do you archive?

What I mean with "not knowing what to do next", is, that I do know that I want to continue studying, but I'm just not sure what exactly. I'm not patient enough for an academic carreer, so I'm definitely not gonna be a research assistent nor will I try to apply for a PhD. But I was thinking of studying maybe Arabic history and language. Or maybe I'll just do a one-year teacher's degree so that I have time to think what I really want to do next. I'd love to get involved in some projects in the Middle East, like collecting oral testimonies from Palestinian refugees or something. Loads of projects like that going on.

By the way, when's the last time we've heard something about Tryhard? Has he been around in the last couple of years?

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Jax
HG Monument
(id: Jax Omen)

posted 22 July 2014 10:42 EDT (US) 1789 / 2504

He died, unfortunately. You won't be seeing him again.

house won this

General Sajaru
Tribunus Laticlavius

posted 22 July 2014 11:44 EDT (US) 1790 / 2504

Stop giving out personal information about forumers Jax

Tryhard doesn't visit the Rome side of things much these days; he's more in OD.

DominicusUltimus
Legate

posted 22 July 2014 14:34 EDT (US) 1791 / 2504

CA have finally added the 'Death by being thrown by an elephant' in the Rome 2 Patch 14 Beta

I am beside myself with joy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE81_cvsKy0

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Terikel Grayhair
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posted 23 July 2014 04:13 EDT (US) 1792 / 2504

That looked like it hurt real bad, DU. Ouch and then some.

Getting stepped on didn't look too healthy either.

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General Sajaru
Tribunus Laticlavius

posted 23 July 2014 10:39 EDT (US) 1793 / 2504

CA have finally added the 'Death by being thrown by an elephant' in the Rome 2 Patch 14 Beta

It's about time; sending a couple of units of Armoured Elephants charging into a massed unit of Romans is one of the best parts of being Carthaginian or Selucid in Rome 1.

Ischenous
Legionary

posted 23 July 2014 13:35 EDT (US) 1794 / 2504

Should include Yubtsebs again.

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Hannibal the Conqueror
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posted 24 July 2014 14:20 EDT (US) 1795 / 2504

Apparently, Dennis Prager's two month old video about the Arab-Israeli conflict has creeped up into dozens of humanist pages I like on Facebook. I find it pathetic that freethinkers could spread such material. But then again nothing surprises me anymore.

EDIT: Does anyone have Arma 3? If so, have you heard of the 2017 mod?

It's going to be amazing

PS: 1789th post by Jax!

"I long for Darkness."
- Cormac McCarthy, The Sunset Limited.

"We are a species that ravages, plunders, kills, destroys, rapes and enslaves in the name of progress."

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Edorix
High King of Britain

posted 25 July 2014 04:13 EDT (US) 1796 / 2504

Apparently, Dennis Prager's two month old video about the Arab-Israeli conflict has creeped up into dozens of humanist pages I like on Facebook. I find it pathetic that freethinkers could spread such material. But then again nothing surprises me anymore.

I think humans are fundamentally irrational creatures when it comes to rationalism. From one perspective, it would be far more rational to be irrational like everyone else...

For what evolutionary purpose did we evolve rational thought? Not for the mere sake of rational thought, one may be sure. What happens if we briefly dispense with the idea of rationalism as a good thing in and of itself... Obviously it is a very practical good per se in some cases, such as the rational self-interest in abiding by the laws of one's society, but humans also have other drives: competition.

I think that things humans get heated up about are usually, in one way or another, ultimately, social imperatives. I fancy the purpose many irrational ideas serve is to create and define social groups, to provide non-antisocial (in the sense that they are turned against things outside the social group) outlets for (particularly male?) competitivity. Religion is of course the best example, perhaps the quintessential "irrational belief" from which social groups can be constructed.

... or so I have recently been thinking. Discuss.

Oh, and I haven't seen the video, I just thought I'd have a go at deconstructing the notions of freethinking and humanism from a freethinking humanist perspective.

Hannibal the Conqueror
Legionary
(id: HannibalBarcaXXI)

posted 25 July 2014 17:32 EDT (US) 1797 / 2504

I agree, irrationality often is disguised as rationality, because the majority believe in the same thing. We can see this everywhere these days.

Rational thought is often used by human beings, but in matters other than politics, or any other field dealing with human social and cultural constructs, rather than fundamental science and the like. Critical thinking skills and rationality are required in various aspects of a "craft" or of a field of education, in Math you can't go on proving theorems without using proper logic and following the rules. However the inability of humans to maintain their rationality with regards to certain topics is due to a long history of the same, primarily due to society's influence and what the media propagates.

I think that's an accurate description of the social constructs that surround us. The primary purpose for such 'groups' is to maintain control over their 'members' and instil obedience in them, its only rational because then those members would seek their figures of authority for guidance, thus granting the higher-ups in the hierarchy of these groups complete and utter control over the members. I find this reality daunting, so many people completely inundated by war, politics, choosing sides and the like, while they're ignoring that they're just pawns, expendable pawns in such conflicts. Sad.

"I long for Darkness."
- Cormac McCarthy, The Sunset Limited.

"We are a species that ravages, plunders, kills, destroys, rapes and enslaves in the name of progress."

Pitt
Tribunus Laticlavius

posted 28 July 2014 06:40 EDT (US) 1798 / 2504

Speaking of irrationality, today marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War. Although at this stage it's still a fracas in the Balkans.

As late as 24 July 1914, Asquith could write "Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything other than spectators."

"Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French." - P.G. Wodehouse, The Luck of the Bodkins

Enkidu of Uruk
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(id: thekid951)

posted 28 July 2014 07:31 EDT (US) 1799 / 2504

What annoys me the most is the plethora of sh*tty WW1 histories that are going to be published in the wake of the hundred-year anniversary. Books that could've perfectly been released two years earlier - or not at all - but were scheduled for 2014 specifically to benefit off of the media and the many commemorations that are going to be held. Sure, some of them might be good, but most are going to be awful.

Hannibal the Conqueror
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(id: HannibalBarcaXXI)

posted 28 July 2014 14:09 EDT (US) 1800 / 2504

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b67OGUsQC44&list=UUEHsSWvrGVSIA63OV3J6vhA

What does everyone think of that? I've been watching StormCloudsGathering's videos as of late, normally I don't watch politics-related videos, just science and entertainment stuff, and I was wondering what you guys thought about it.

Speaking of the 100th anniversary for WW1, I do hope that humanity learns from its past mistakes which have inflicted a great deal of damage on not only humans, but the planet as a whole. I've read somewhere that we're on the brink of the next great extinction, and given the fact that great civilizations do not continue indefinitely and end up falling, we don't have much time left.

"I long for Darkness."
- Cormac McCarthy, The Sunset Limited.

"We are a species that ravages, plunders, kills, destroys, rapes and enslaves in the name of progress."

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