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British Empire: how big was it and why did it collapse?
At its peak, the British Empire was the largest the world has ever seen, and its legacy can still be felt keenly today, for better or worse.
The territories it controlled ranged from tiny islands to vast segments of the world’s major continents.
As the National Archives writes, the history of the British Empire is “both a British story and a world story”. But how did this vast empire rise and fall?
How did the empire come about?
The British began to establish overseas colonies in the Americas in the 16th century, writes the BBC, but it wasn’t until the 18th century that its expansion really accelerated.
British expansion, particularly in Asia, was facilitated by the construction of trading posts set up by the East India Company, a London based trade business.
In the face of increased competition from the French East India Company, the organisation expanded its territorial claims in India with the use of a private army of more than 260,000 men, until the Indian Rebellion of 1857 saw the British Crown assume direct control of the Indian subcontinent – the epicentre of the Empire.
How big was the Empire?
From India, further expansion was undertaken through Asia, and by 1913 the British Empire was the largest to have ever existed.
It covered around 25% of the world’s land surface, including large swathes of North America, Australia, Africa and Asia, while other areas – especially in South America – were closely linked to the empire by trade, according to the National Archives.
As a result of its size, it became known as “the empire on which the sun never sets”.
It also oversaw around 412 million inhabitants, or around 23% of the world’s population at the time, writes the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
The map below shows the British Empire at its territorial peak in the early 20th century.
While proponents say it brought various economic developments to the parts of the world it controlled, critics note the massacres, famines and the use of concentration camps by the British Empire, The Independent writes. For good or ill, it brought new language, sport and religion to different parts of the globe.
Why did it fall?
Although there is no single answer to this question, the collapse of British imperial power can be traced “directly to the impact of World War Two”, the BBC says.
The campaigns it waged in Europe, Asia and Africa virtually bankrupted the UK and the subsequent debt it acquired severely comprised its economic independence; the foundation of the imperial system.
The Empire was overstretched and – combined with growing unrest in various colonies – this led to the swift and decisive fall of many of Britain’s key assets, some diplomatically, some violently.
In 1947 India became independent following a nonviolent civil-disobedience campaign spearheaded by Mahatma Gandhi. Britain had lost the jewel in its crown, and this kickstarted a domino effect across the Empire.
“Less than a year later, communist guerrillas launched a violent campaign aimed at forcing Britain from Malaya,” the Imperial War Museum writes.
“In the Middle East, Britain hurriedly abandoned Palestine in 1948. Ghana became Britain’s first African colony to reach independence in 1957. By 1967 more than 20 British territories were independent.”
Little remains of British rule today across the globe, and it is mostly restricted to small island territories such as Bermuda and the Falkland Islands. However, a number of countries still have Queen Elizabeth as their head of state including New Zealand, Australia and Canada – a hangover of the Empire.
83 Comments on "British Empire: how big was it and why did it collapse?"
fmr-paultard on Fri, 1st Jun 2018 10:13 am
collapse of byzanine was like waht’s going on in america right now. basically the empire attracted people who outsourced defense to a small group of elites. when mehmed asked teh rich why they didn’t contribute to defense. they answered that they were saving wealth for mehmed. true to a muslim he had them you know what
Outcast_Searcher on Fri, 1st Jun 2018 11:00 am
paultard: Relax Francine. And take your meds so you can be coherent.
fmr-paultard on Fri, 1st Jun 2018 11:17 am
outtard, yo’re a sexis grammar nazi. u have nothing to add to the discussion.
jawagord on Fri, 1st Jun 2018 11:24 am
It effectively ended with the start of WWII when Britain was unable to defend it’s colonies against Axis powers, followed by the rise of America as the world’s only super power at the end of WWII. Still much better to have had an British Empire dominate the world than a French, German, Dutch, Russian, Ottoman, Japanese or Chinese empire whose colonial benevolence pales in comparison to the British.
cottager on Fri, 1st Jun 2018 12:31 pm
Japanese world empire would surely look like mass extinction event. The other alternatives are a bit better, but not so much.
Cloggie on Fri, 1st Jun 2018 1:00 pm
The British empire, like all the European empires, was a real empire, with hundreds of thousands of Europeans administering lands overseas. Compared to that, the US empire is a virtual empire, based on the dollar, media with global reach and a network of military bases, a global reserve currency, globalist institutions like the UN, WB, IMF, but no foreign administrators. It’s an empire lite.
Why did the British empire came to an end? Because of treason from within, emanating from the world’s first neocon, Winston Churchill, this half-American operating solely in the interests of international Jewry, not the British.
In 1871 a united Germany came into being, with a population size that of Britain and France combined. On the basis of competence and productivity alone, the 20th century should have been the German century, replacing the British 19th century. But the British decided to not let this happen without a fight and as of 1891 decided that Germany needed to be destroyed:
Germania Delenda Est
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Review_(London_newspaper)
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2014/10/08/britain-masterminded-ww1/
A coalition was set up with France (Entente Cordiale), ending 1000 years of Franco-British hostility and later Russia was added to the club. The gun was loaded and pointed at Germany and the waiting was for the proper moment and that moment came with Sarajewo. The Russians mobilized on a pretext and the Germans realized the mobilization was aimed at them. When the Germans asked if the French would remain neutral in a German-Russian armed conflict, the French refused to answer, meaning they wouldn’t. The Germans knew they were trapped in a war they could not escape. When the Germans asked the British if at least they would remain neutral, the natural born perfids ensured that they would and politely informed if they could help defuse tensions. The Germans realized that if they were to have any chance at all in a two-front war, they had to take out one after the other, so they decided to attack France first. And on the moment the German armies rushed through Belgium, “suddenly” the British realized that they had some 80 year old assistance treaty with Belgium… and declared war on Germany, which had been the plan all along.
Germany, that didn’t want this war at all and made several peace proposals a la “group hug and go home”, almost won the war, certainly after they had defeated Russia in 1917. But helas for Europe, the British made a deal with US Jewry over the future status of Palestine and the latter brought the US in the war on the side of Britain, in a war that had nothing to do with the US.
The Allies won, not because of a military defeat (there never were foreign troops on German soil in WW1), but because the Germans trusted the Americans as honest brokers, but they betrayed that trust.
Germany, whose only sin was that they made better products than the British, were thrown into the abyss of Versailles, poisoning European relations. When the Weimar Republic was threatened to be taken over by the communists, like had happened in Russia, with millions killed. A nationalist leader stood up and defeated the communists and in 1933 took over government. His strategy as described in “Mein Jihad” had always been based on an alliance with Britain (his biggest mistake, it should have been France all along). And Chamberlain, a smart, rational statesman and not a coward at all (in fact my favorite politician in the run-up to WW2, with the Austrian #2), who only had the best interests of the British Empire in mind, knew that he had nothing to fear from this corporal he had to deal with.
Chamberlain, throughout his entire political career had refused invitations from Roosevelt, because Chamberlain knew he was up to no good and keen to throw Europe in a war that would only benefit the US, with a giant economy of 29% global GDP, but geopolitically a backwater and determined to change that.
And they had Winston Churchill (WC) to do their bidding. As of the mid-thirties this broke politician, but kept afloat by Jewish money, began to beat the war drums and when the Austrian made a tactical mistake over Prague, WC got the upper-hand over Chamberlain and the war guarantee for Poland, pushed for by (((US diplomats))) was signed, so all the US had to do was to incite the Poles to do whatever they wanted (like lusting for Prussia or throwing out Germans forced to live in Versailles-Poland), forcing Germany’s hand.
In the devastating war that followed, where the Anglos aimed for total destruction of Germany without compromise, and who behind the scenes long had an agreement with the Soviets about the desirability of the destruction of Europe and its worldwide empires.
After the war the US had little mercy with the British empire and declared the age of the Europeans empires in general for over, without publicly stressing too much that the age of the US empire had begun.
An age that is now almost over.
MASTERMIND on Fri, 1st Jun 2018 1:42 pm
Clogg
“There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.”
–Helen Keller
Davy on Fri, 1st Jun 2018 2:40 pm
“It’s an empire lite.”
LMFAO, Then why are you so obsessed with it? I think the US empire was the most potent Empire ever and the shortest. You can’t stand it neder now that Europe is just a backwater. This is the reason you fantasize about a PBM empire nonsense constantly and obsessively. It is pure hubris and a sickness of the mind.
Cloggie on Fri, 1st Jun 2018 2:48 pm
PBM-latest:
https://www.rt.com/news/428469-juncker-end-russia-bashing/
“Time to end ‘Russia-bashing’ – EU Commission chief Juncker”
“So we have to come back to, I wouldn’t say normal relations with Russia, but there are so many areas, so many domains, where we can cooperate in a better way with research and innovation and others. Not forgetting what our differences and divergences are. But this Russia-bashing has to be brought to an end,” he said.“
Cloggie on Fri, 1st Jun 2018 2:50 pm
Juncker: “Putin is my friend”
https://www.trouw.nl/democratie/jean-claude-juncker-poetin-is-mijn-vriend~a7236236/
(April 28, 2018)
MASTERMIND on Fri, 1st Jun 2018 2:53 pm
Clogg
Would you stop sucking Putin’s cock for one day please? You are totally obsessed with politicians..Especially authoritarians..Soon limits to growth will reveal their true impotence..And then its to the gallows the elites will go!
BILL on Fri, 1st Jun 2018 3:04 pm
Yes if all things were equal Germany would be the European leahatrs. Shame that they were scapegoated by tbe so called winners. SO Many shameful acts carried out on the good people of Germany. They tried and executed the officers of the German Army on false wittness.
RUDOLF Hess jailed for life In Spandau prison all alone ,then hung when he was 93 years old as they never wanted him to tell his story.
CHURCHHILL was a drunken fool and an OPPORTUNISTIC ASSHOLE that cared not for any Human. Took the money from the jew to do thier bidding.
Norman Pagett on Fri, 1st Jun 2018 3:52 pm
the british empire expanded rapidly because we were sitting on more concentrated energy—coal—than saudi has in oil
in addition we had colossal amounts of iron
then somebody found out how to smelt iron using coal, the result was guns and iron ships far in excess of anything anywhere in the world.
so we invaded everywhere, and looted even more resources
but of course we ran out of energy, and the means to sustain our military—just as all empires do
and just like all empires, we were in denial for 50 years, fighting wars to suppress the ”natives”—as did the french and others.
denial is the driving force at the end of empire—we remain certain that ”more” is an infinite commodity, so we vote for it,
the book “The End of More” (Pagett Amazon) explains why there isnt any more.
the oilparty really is over folks
Cloggie on Fri, 1st Jun 2018 4:04 pm
“the oilparty really is over folks”….
So let the renewable energy party begin!
MASTERMIND on Fri, 1st Jun 2018 4:23 pm
Clogg
Renewable’s can’t replace oil because they produce electricity..And oil is used for 90 percent of the worlds transportation..
why do you keep making this same mistake?
MASTERMIND on Fri, 1st Jun 2018 4:27 pm
Global civilization will collapse within the next ten years according to (Meadows, 1972)
(Motesharrei, 2014) (Turchin, 2010) (Ehrlich, 2013) (Turner, 2014) (Korowicz, 2012)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/apocalypse-soon-has-civilization-passed-the-environmental-point-of-no-return/
https://www.nature.com/articles/463608a
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800914000615
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3574335/
https://www.scribd.com/document/379418787/Is-Global-Collapse-Imminent-An-Updated-Comparison-of-The-Limits-to-Growth-with-Historical-Data-Turner-2014
http://www.feasta.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Trade-Off1.pdf
Manila1 on Fri, 1st Jun 2018 4:34 pm
Interesting, MM. Ten years? I give it less than five. probably before 2020. Globalization in its present form that is.
If that ends “civilization” so be it. I would prefer living with less than not living at all because there was a nuclear war.
MASTERMIND on Fri, 1st Jun 2018 6:27 pm
Madkat
I said within ten years..personally I think the collapse will happen around 2020-2025..but I say ten years..Just to give myself some wiggle room..
MASTERMIND on Fri, 1st Jun 2018 8:00 pm
Madkat
Pentagon will ‘compete vigorously’ with Beijing in South China Sea – Mattis
https://www.rt.com/usa/428519-pentagon-mattis-china-pacific/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=push_notifications&utm_campaign=push_notifications
Manila1 on Fri, 1st Jun 2018 8:01 pm
MM, wiggle room is a good idea as who knows what rabbit will be pulled from the hat to extend BAU. For my part, I hope it is longer then 2020 so I can continue to prep and complete some business in the Us. But, it could happen tomorrow.
MASTERMIND on Fri, 1st Jun 2018 8:50 pm
Madkat
Yes the elites will use every bullet in the box to kick the can..and then they will throw the empty gun at it..then they will rip out the kitchen sink, and throw that too..
MASTERMIND on Fri, 1st Jun 2018 11:24 pm
Real Time with Bill Maher FULL SHOW (June 01, 2018) HBO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DxxJtU9xps
Cloggie on Sat, 2nd Jun 2018 4:33 am
Little remains of British rule today across the globe, and it is mostly restricted to small island territories such as Bermuda and the Falkland Islands. However, a number of countries still have Queen Elizabeth as their head of state including New Zealand, Australia and Canada – a hangover of the Empire.
They are going to lose Gibraltar soon as well.
Meanwhile their capital is colonized itself, by Muslims, just like Washington is no longer a majority white town, should give you an idea who runs the West and (((who))) won WW2:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uTiANSbg8ss/maxresdefault.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJheODYpuEI
Expect the glorious Houses of Parliament to be the Great Mosque of London by 2030 and the Big Ben turning into the Big Bin.
And if no revolution will happen, the rest of Britain wil follow later this century. It is unlikely though that that revolution will originate from Britain itself. Although the British will turn into a lobster in 5 minutes on a Spanish beach, they are too globalist to have any talent for white nationalism. UKIP passes as a pro-British party but in reality they are mostly anti-European. Frontman Farage even wants to increase skilled immigration from the Commonwealth and since Canadians won’t be coming in large numbers, that will mean mostly Indians and Pakistani.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3630847/More-black-people-allowed-Britain-leave-EU-immigration-non-issue-says-Nigel-Farage.html
Perhaps Britain can apply for membership of the Indian Empire, just a thought:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoCSWxfWT8Y
No, the anti-globalist = anti-oligarch revolution started shortly after 2000 in Moscow and is “rolling out” westwards and already has captured entire Eastern Europe and countries like Austria and Italy, with France currently “at 36%”, Holland and Sweden “at 20%” and Germany “at 16%”, but all rapidly rising.
Boy, does Russia deserve to be recognized as a fully fledged European country!
In America you could argue that populism is “at 50%”, but that is not entirely true, because the globalist big-business Republican Party was essentially hijacked by a populist with money, where until 2016 the Reps were committed to the cause of globalism and multiculturalism. An ideal republican was a millionaire, wearing a suit and tie and who has a foreign wife. Are we cosmopolitan or what!
Cloggie on Sat, 2nd Jun 2018 7:24 am
US imperial overstretch latest:
“MATTIS SLAMS CHINA OVER SOUTH CHINA SEA”
https://www.infowars.com/mattis-slams-china-over-south-china-sea/
Friendly advice for Washington: retreat to Hawaii. Don’t look for a fight with adversaries you can’t beat.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 2nd Jun 2018 7:39 am
Clogg
Inforwars and the tabloid daily mail..Jesus Christ you are stupid..
Boat on Sat, 2nd Jun 2018 9:08 am
Clog
How about don’t build military structures outside your 200 mile zone without permission from the host countries.
Cloggie on Sat, 2nd Jun 2018 9:44 am
Infowars and the tabloid daily mail..Jesus Christ you are stupid..
Hey millimind, in that Vancouver of yours the Chinese are taking over! You think that they will be loyal to Ottawa till kingdom comes? Don’t think so. They see North-America like the Europeans saw it in the 19th century: a territory to colonize.
https://mobile.twitter.com/i/web/status/1002915419597033473
Davy on Sat, 2nd Jun 2018 10:51 am
Shut up dumb dutch guy, mm lives in Michigan. You old guys on this board are losing it. You and 3rd world need assisted living.
Cloggie on Sat, 2nd Jun 2018 11:09 am
“mm lives in Michigan.”
How do you know that, simpleton?
Davy on Sat, 2nd Jun 2018 11:17 am
dumb dutch guy I listen to you dumbasses. I don’t act stupid and wild with extremism. This just shows how little you know about the US and its people. You are lost in your narrow internet land.
Manila1 on Sat, 2nd Jun 2018 11:56 am
“I don’t act stupid and wild..” Hmm. Well, maybe not wild, just stupid, delusional, immature, arrogant, frustrated, and more and more irrational concerning the rest of the world. Keep waving that baby killer flag. Maybe they will bury you with it when your end comes.
Davy on Sat, 2nd Jun 2018 12:13 pm
3rd world you are a stupid old man losing your mental faculties and single handedly destroying this forum with your hate and discontent. bit yourself
Cloggie on Sun, 3rd Jun 2018 3:21 am
India turning away from the US empire after turning away from the British empire earlier:
https://twitter.com/HenryMakow/status/1003038901714538496?s=20
Elon Musk, the “Henry Ford-lite” of our age:
https://www.rt.com/business/428007-musk-media-anti-semitism-row/
Davy on Sun, 3rd Jun 2018 6:01 am
neder, India is another failed Bric in the making. I don’t hear much about the Brics lately like we did a few years ago. Even 3rd world is not cheerleading them anymore.
Davy on Sun, 3rd Jun 2018 6:16 am
“JPMorgan’s Stunning Conclusion: An Italian Exit May Be Rome’s Best Option”
https://tinyurl.com/ybckz8wu
“Putting this all together, the lack of any internal devaluation so far and the unattractiveness of a Greek style PSI leave limited options to Italy to adjust within the monetary union. This, coupled with Italy’s massive Target2 imbalance which becomes an instant asset the moment the country decides to exit the Eurozone and never repay it much to the chagrin of Mario Draghi, together with a decent current account surplus – one which would only soar should Italy revert to the lira supercharging the country’s exports, which as explained above reduces the own cost of exiting the euro from a narrow current account adjustment point of view, will likely continue to make the country vulnerable to populist pressures to exit the monetary union. That is the gloomy, if stunning, JPMorgan conclusion, although as a hedge, the bank also notes that the road to Quitaly, as the Greek fiasco in 2015 showed all too clearly, would be anything but easy and neither Brussles nor the ECB would go down without a fight. JPMorgan also notes that the above take also ignores other potential costs from an exit highlighted by the market reaction this week, such as the possibility that it could trigger a broader crisis and, if the Greek script is repeated, capital controls. Then again, if Italy ever got to the point where lines of panicked depositors form outside Italian banks a la Greek summer of 2015, one can wave goodbye to the euro and the European experiment.”
Cloggie on Sun, 3rd Jun 2018 6:20 am
“neder, India is another failed Bric in the making. I don’t hear much about the Brics lately like we did a few years ago.”
You want to see things that are not there:
https://tradingeconomics.com/india/gdp-growth-annual
If 7% economic growth is a “failure in the making”, I would love to know how “success in the making” looks like.
Davy on Sun, 3rd Jun 2018 6:34 am
‘If 7% economic growth is a “failure in the making”, I would love to know how “success in the making” looks like.”
Neder, you don’t read enough about India and their cascading problems do you? Of course they are going to have 7% growth because of an exploding population. That does not mean they are not a failure in the making. You are such a binary number fool. You throw out numbers that look good for your agenda but don’t understand the numbers. Stick to your renewables and stay out of business, finance, and economics. In these areas you constantly fail miserably. Why do you think I call you the dumb dutch guy.
Cloggie on Sun, 3rd Jun 2018 6:36 am
““JPMorgan’s Stunning Conclusion: An Italian Exit May Be Rome’s Best Option””
If meathead puts his source in a tinyurl, you know in advance he wants to hide it. The only good reason to wrap a link in a tiny url is because:
1) it is a long link AND
2) there are no hyphens in it to supprt wordwrap
In all the other cases it preferable to show the potential reader what the source is… like riot-blog ZeroHedge, run by a Bulgarian Jew.
US imperial JP Morgan is just as an “honest broker” as your average DailyMail reader is: they all are dying to see continental Europe fail, if necessary by Anglo bombs and holo-lies, so their “Five Eyes” remains on top:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
An enterprise somewhat at odds with the simultaneous ambition of their Zionist dominated Deep State to replace the Anglo population with third worlders, an ambition “our own” millimind is broadcasting 24/7 on this board.
Advice to continental Europeans: let them blow up themselves, so we don’t have to do it. In the end 2-3 billion Eurasians only have to pick up the Anglo pieces:
https://documents1940.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/worldmap-multipolar-world.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va6MAwexpnE
In the mean time: install offshore wind towers, vote populist (but not too much), have secret agreements with Russia and China, eat cheese, drink wine, repeat cycle.
Cloggie on Sun, 3rd Jun 2018 6:39 am
Neder, you don’t read enough about India and their cascading problems do you? Of course they are going to have 7% growth because of an exploding population. That does not mean they are not a failure in the making. You are such a binary number fool. You throw out numbers that look good for your agenda but don’t understand the numbers. Stick to your renewables and stay out of business, finance, and economics. In these areas you constantly fail miserably.
Every society has “problems”, but not every society has 7% growth. You would love to have their problems in this (economic) respect.
Why do you think I call you the dumb dutch guy.
Because you are mentally a 12 year old, stuck in a 60 year old body, without real arguments. Hence you have to resort to name-calling, because that is all that is left to you.
pointer on Sun, 3rd Jun 2018 7:42 am
Here’s what preppers don’t get: impermanence, and ultimately, irrelevance. What does prepping get you? In the end, you’re dead. And in a hundred years, who cares that you got a few extra years, eating canned cat food at the end? Will that be some big win for you? Most likely, you won’t remember, and — perhaps to add cruelty to the situation — no one will remember you existed either.
Ah, I can hear you all saying, “But during the twilight years of our lives, at least we had a modicum of comfort, while the stupid billions who did not prepare starved and died in the streets. Is that not better than starving and dying with those stupid billions?” To that I say: “It does not matter. Discomfort is temporary and ultimately forgotten.”
So what is permanent and ultimately relevant? Maybe nothing. Maybe something. I don’t know. Philosophers through the ages, including those who frequent peakoil.com, don’t know either.
Davy on Sun, 3rd Jun 2018 8:25 am
“Here’s what preppers don’t get: impermanence, and ultimately, irrelevance. What does prepping get you? In the end, you’re dead. And in a hundred years, who cares that you got a few extra years, eating canned cat food at the end? Will that be some big win for you? Most likely, you won’t remember, and — perhaps to add cruelty to the situation — no one will remember you existed either.”
So pointer, piece of mind is unimportant? Not panicking in a crisis so you can make logical choices better is irrelevant because you know, we are all going to die? Accepting that this world is not safe and it future dangerously exposed to failure should not be thought about because who cares? Businesses do risk management and people buy insurance. Should that be stopped? The way of life of rational prepping is rewarding and highly educational but per you reasoning, who cares. No one will remember you either for not prepping, pointer. I may not live long in a mad max situation but a true prepper knows that mad max is not the only crisis scenario. A real prepper, not to be confused with the loonie toons on tv, has done the academic study to know existential crisis situations are part of a process with wide ranging results of unfolding reality. This is global too so we must consider place as well as time. A real prepper cares about his life, his stuff, and his community and wants to improve resilience and sustainability. This is how civilizations survive. I am not going to criticize you for not caring unless you try to diminish what I do. For those who can’t or those who are cavalier I say fine but don’t whine when SHTF and you are in panic mode. Don’t attack me for being smart. I know there is an opportunity cost to prepping but I made a choice.
“Ah, I can hear you all saying, “But during the twilight years of our lives, at least we had a modicum of comfort, while the stupid billions who did not prepare starved and died in the streets. Is that not better than starving and dying with those stupid billions?” To that I say: “It does not matter. Discomfort is temporary and ultimately forgotten.”
WTF was that pointer? I think what is going on with you is cognitive dissonance. You are nervous about not prepping so you attack those that do.
“So what is permanent and ultimately relevant? Maybe nothing. Maybe something. I don’t know. Philosophers through the ages, including those who frequent peakoil.com, don’t know either.”
Yea, we can say that about most everything pointer. The more we think we know the less we know because we find out how little we know to begin with.
JuanP on Sun, 3rd Jun 2018 9:25 am
Pointer, I am a prepper. I understand perfectly well that I am going to die. What matters to me, though, is how I live my life until I die. I often point out here that death is the only certainty in life. I am not concerned with what others think about me or who will remember. Why should I care? You seem to be overly concerned with other people’s opinions of you. And I will not be eating canned cat soup; I have been a gourmand all my life and I only eat premium organic food.
I am glad, though, that you have learned that our lives are irrelevant and impermanent. That is one of the most important lessons in life. But since nothing really matters, why not have a good life and help others do the same? Why do you resent preppers?
MASTERMIND on Sun, 3rd Jun 2018 9:33 am
Survivalism is an undiluted cocktail of solipsism and fear. Its adherents are — undoubtedly — bananas.
Davy on Sun, 3rd Jun 2018 9:45 am
Then by your definition your are bananas because you are an atheist and atheist are generally solipsists lost in isolated egos.
MASTERMIND on Sun, 3rd Jun 2018 10:29 am
Davy
All thinking men are atheist..
-Hemingway
Davy on Sun, 3rd Jun 2018 10:45 am
I would expect that out of you and I imagine you will go like he did.
MASTERMIND on Sun, 3rd Jun 2018 10:54 am
Davy
Hey if you want to die from starvation or conflict go right ahead..But those are very painful ways to die..I would prefer not to suffer..
MASTERMIND on Sun, 3rd Jun 2018 11:04 am
The world is waiting for the US to fall so they can finally begin the reset. We all know the economy is a joke, but it keeps getting propped up by gimmicks at the Fed.
It’s similar to relatives standing around the death bed of a dying relative. Everyone says nice things but inside will be glad they finally die because that relative is such an asshole. In fact, they’ll be dancing in the streets when they’re finally gone.
Cloggie on Sun, 3rd Jun 2018 11:17 am
All thinking men are atheist..
-Hemingway
Hemmingway exagerated his atheism and sunk into the depravity of sympathy for the Stalinists.
For the rest I agree with the statement.
God/afterlife is for weak cowards. Paganism is acceptance of life without a fake belief in a reward afterwards. Real values are family, tribe/nation, science, skills, technology, land.
https://neweuropeanconservative.wordpress.com/2014/07/29/defining-paganism-faye/
MASTERMIND on Sun, 3rd Jun 2018 11:26 am
Clogg I found you your dream woman..
https://i.redd.it/vtnakvaafp111.jpg