Decapitation competition.

a reply to: RussianTroll

Why, what would you like to buy?

As to Western culture well.

During the Reformation and Enlightenment, the ideas of civil rights, equality before the law, procedural justice, and democracy as the ideal form of society began to be institutionalised as principles forming the basis of modern Western culture.

I would like to see where the world would be without the Renaissance and/or industrialisation?

Because without the influence of Western cultures, they may never have taken place, so there is that.

originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: RussianTroll

Why, what would you like to buy?

As to Western culture well.

During the Reformation and Enlightenment, the ideas of civil rights, equality before the law, procedural justice, and democracy as the ideal form of society began to be institutionalised as principles forming the basis of modern Western culture.

I would like to see where the world would be without the Renaissance and/or industrialisation?

Because without the influence of Western cultures, they may never have taken place, so there is that.

Are you comparing the history of millennia-old civilizations with the sect of Catholicism, the so-called Reformation, which is 500 years old?
Alas, I think in more powerful categories.

originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: RussianTroll

The West never stopped thinking RT.

The book is from ancient China, and attributed Sun Tzu, so it would be attributed to Eastern descent.

Ummm...do you really aspire to be the ball of yarn that the cat plays with...or the mouse...?

It...is...kind of fitting when you...think...about it...



YouSir

a reply to: RussianTroll

I'm plainly stating that without the influence of Western culture, the world may never have witnessed the likes of the Renaissance periods or Industrial Revolution, simple as that really, and no two ways about it as history clearly illustrates.

Think however you wish but there is no real comparison between civilisations of the past and the present age really.

The world has never been like this before.

For a start world population only reached one billion in 1804.

As to power, again we put pale in this day of age to anything that amounted to or was reminiscent of power in yesteryears gone by.

a reply to: YouSir

Ummm...do you really aspire to be the ball of yarn that the cat plays with...or the mouse...?

Ummm why do you ask?

The only thing i aspire to be these days is to be happy.

It...is...kind of fitting when you...think...about it...

Then please elaborate.

a reply to: andy06shake

If you think so, then at least don’t try to explain to people who study and are carriers of more ancient civilizations what their sages wrote and what meaning they put into their thoughts.

a reply to: RussianTroll

if you think so

I do think so, and so does recorded history.

then at least don’t try to explain to people who study and are carriers of more ancient civilizations what their sages wrote and what meaning they put into their thoughts.

Do tell if you think its applicable?

Ancient civilisations have never come close to the power and technological prowess Humanity wields in this day of age.

And you are going to be hard-pressed to present anything thing from the past short of legend and hyperbole that proves otherwise that amounts to proof of the tangible sorts.

a reply to: andy06shake

How do you respond to people who try to tell you how you can sleep with your wife and raise your children?

Answer for yourself and then you will understand my answer to you))))

a reply to: RussianTroll

How do you respond to people who try to tell you how you can sleep with your wife and raise your children?

Im not sure buddy, having never met your wife or kids, you tell me?

And I'm not quite sure how that answers the questions or is applicable either.

Answer for yourself and then you will understand my answer to you))))

You want me to provide your answers?

RT im not quite sure how that would work. LoL

a reply to: andy06shake
There is one very powerful word in the English language that describes your schizophrenic assumptions. But I won’t use it, because you already know it))))

a reply to: RussianTroll

So a personal attack because you are unable to dispute the fact humanity is more powerful than she has ever been in the past, or provide any sort of tangible evidence, to back such a claim?

How very predictable.

Good luck buddy, the world is what it is, and how it got that way plainly recorded via history.

It's bloody, it's nasty, and it's not very nice, but it is established fact for the most part.

a reply to: andy06shake

There is no need to pass off your subjective view as objective truth.
This can lead to great personal disappointment.

a reply to: RussianTroll

There is no need to pass off your subjective view as objective truth.

This can lead to great personal disappointment.

Somebody is opening fortune cookies.

An American invention no less, attributed to a Japanese fellow named Makoto Hagiwara, who lived in San Francisco back in 1914.

originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: YouSir

Ummm...do you really aspire to be the ball of yarn that the cat plays with...or the mouse...?

Ummm why do you ask?

The only thing i aspire to be these days is to be happy.

It...is...kind of fitting when you...think...about it...

Then please elaborate.

Ummm...if you insist...

The ATS member...whom I would thoroughly enjoy having many long and interesting conversations with while nursing a bottle of Sortilege...known colloquially as...Russian Troll...Has been playing with you...much like the afore mentioned cat... and it's ball of yarn...

Russian Troll...is extremely well versed in Sun Tzu's..."The Art of War"...and also in..."The Art of Irony"...and ..."The Art of Sardonic Sarcasm"...

You...Sir...have been...Russian Trolled...



YouSir

originally posted by: RussianTroll

originally posted by: Kurokage
a reply to: RussianTroll

I think the Member is refering to the book 'The Art of War' by Sun Tzu.

I am very glad that the West is starting to think. I hope that with my head))))

Do you think we all sit in caves and have never read a history book RT?
The books 'The Art of War' written SunTzu and the Book of 5 Rings written Miyamoto Musashi (the Greatest Samurai who ever lived) have been known about for a very long time in the west.
The West have had thinkers for a very long time, something Russia seems to have forgotten how to do lately.

originally posted by: RussianTroll
a reply to: andy06shake

There is no need to pass off your subjective view as objective truth.
This can lead to great personal disappointment.

I think you're maybe talking from experience, RT.

a reply to: midicon

Sometimes I think human history is a horror story.

That's pretty much bang-on-the-money midicon.

The majority of the time really.

Have to ponder what the future will make of our antics today comparatively speaking 200 or 300 years down the line?

a reply to: andy06shake
This video proves nothing.

a reply to: LuckY28

I don't think there is much dispute as to the horrendous acts of depravity Unit 731 and Shirō Ishii got up to in the name of biological warfare and science.

What part of the video is it you have an issue with or dispute?