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Started by Nihilist, April 06, 2012, 06:07:38 PM

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Amicale

#15
April 07, 2012, 02:23:28 AM
Hey, Nihilist, welcome to HAF. :)



"Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb we are bound to others. By every crime and act of kindness we birth our future." - Cloud Atlas

"To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is to never die." -Carl Sagan

Nihilist

#16
April 07, 2012, 03:03:18 AM
Thank you its good to be here and now I'm free to roam :)

DeterminedJuliet

#17
April 07, 2012, 05:13:29 AM
Hi there! Welcome.
Your studies sound very interesting! :)
"We've thought of life by analogy with a journey, with pilgrimage which had a serious purpose at the end, and the THING was to get to that end; success, or whatever it is, or maybe heaven after you're dead. But, we missed the point the whole way along; It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing, or dance, while the music was being played.

history_geek

#18
April 07, 2012, 05:26:39 AM
Quote from: Nihilist on April 07, 2012, 01:08:08 AMAs I studied history more and more I realized that morality is nothing more than a human construct with social, economical, or political benifets to those that follow them. And I began to notice a pattern that morality changes depending on who is in power at the time. Hence me becoming a moral nihilist.

Nice to see somebody else took this road as well ;D I, unfortunately, don't have formal education in history, but it has always been a dear hobby of mine, war history in particular. Here's hoping we'll be having some interesting discussion in the hopefully-not-far future ;)

Welcome to the forum!
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"Any sufficiently advanced alien is indistinguishable from a god."
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Amicale

#19
April 07, 2012, 05:29:23 AM
Quote from: history_geek on April 07, 2012, 05:26:39 AM
Quote from: Nihilist on April 07, 2012, 01:08:08 AMAs I studied history more and more I realized that morality is nothing more than a human construct with social, economical, or political benifets to those that follow them. And I began to notice a pattern that morality changes depending on who is in power at the time. Hence me becoming a moral nihilist.

Nice to see somebody else took this road as well ;D I, unfortunately, don't have formal education in history, but it has always been a dear hobby of mine, war history in particular. Here's hoping we'll be having some interesting discussion in the hopefully-not-far future ;)

Welcome to the forum!


Fellow history geek here, as well - did my undergrad in it. Looking forward to some interesting chats on HAF with you (both!) about history, morality, etc!


"Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb we are bound to others. By every crime and act of kindness we birth our future." - Cloud Atlas

"To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is to never die." -Carl Sagan

OldGit

#20
April 07, 2012, 12:34:51 PM
Welcome from a fellow Latinist and amateur historian.  My greatest interest is Roman, Dark-Age and Anglo-Saxon Britain, so Ave, frater!  OG hateð gretan.

I'll probably be asking for your input now and then, it that's OK.

Anti-antidisestablishmentarianism

#21
April 07, 2012, 08:44:37 PM
Welcome! Roman military history?? I see another takeover! Asmos beware!!
"All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." -Voltaire
"By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out". Richard Dawkins
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