Archived threads in /his/ - History & Humanities - 557. page

>>3120960
A: John
B: Emily
C: Sir, if you don't want the surgery, i will attend Amber. If still refusing, then Amber.

Harvest all their organs for my reanimated army.

>>3121018
This

John can't "transfer" treatment onto whoever he wants.

He has the right to decline treatment of course, in which case the next most seriously injured person should be treated

>>3120946
they let black people in thats what went wrong

>>3120984
This

>>3120946
>>wonder what went wrong
even the romans knew you have to civilize the conquered populations
the romans spent time civilizing the germans, which is how europeans managed to move from mud huts into real civilization

The book? If it ends on -ow you should just ignore it
The GW? A definition of a crony, plus, a war criminal and a terrorist. It makes sense that Americans love this piece of shit

>>3121010
wtf I hate the constitution now

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>>3120925
I remember that we had him running with his tail between his legs throughout most of that "war"

>>3120688
I believe that Julius Caesar and his clan the Julii were in a state of poverty during his rise to power. I believe that all of their wealth seized by Sulla or something like that. Also Vespasian was had humble beginnings as a mule breeder in a rural Italy until he entered the system and eventually became emperor.

>>3120703
>during his rise to power
i wasn't clear enough in the OP but I meant were born into poverty and essentially had no contacts with the powerful
>>3120701
coolio, thanks.

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Substance Dualism is laughed at nowadays.

The idea of a ghost in the machine absurd giving the interactions of mind and brain. Destroy a part of the brain and you destroy conscious mechanisms. If the mind were like a ghost piloting the machine then the ghost should remain intact whether the machine is damaged.

However, people take this to imply materialism/physicalism: that we are nothing more than our physical makeup and our mind is either housed in our brains (almost like dualism) or is identical to our brains and/or its functions. This is a non-sequitur. This only implies that substance dualism is false.

More to come on materialism/physicalism (from here on known as physicalism)

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Physicalism suggests that all of reality is composed of matter or the physical, which is supposed to be non-mental and exists independently of consciousness (objective). However, consciousness exists (subjective). We know consciousness exists more certainly than anything at all. Even if you're skeptical about whether you're in the matrix or if this is a dream, you're still aware that you're aware in each scenario. No matter what you're still conscious, this you definitely know for sure if there is anything that can be said to be known for sure. However, this is impossible if all of reality is supposed to be physical, which is non-mental. If all is non-mental how can there be the mental? This is where reductionism fails on its face given the hard problem of consciousness.

From here the only way out for the physicalist is to a) deny consciousness, which is simply contradictory given we are most certain about the awareness of our awareness more than anything in our perceptions or ideas or b) embrace non-reductive physicalism.

However, this cannot work as noted by Jaegwon Kim in the Exclusion Problem. You will either end up lapsing right back into a substance dualism or you will fail to account for mental causation and you're right back to the mind-body problem of substance dualism all over again.

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Idealism works as a perfect alternative to Substance Dualism and Physicalism. Idealism embraces the reality of consciousness without trying to reduce it, thus avoiding the hard problem of consciousness altogether, and embraces a non-physicalist monism which faces no exclusion problem whatsoever so there's no issue of mental causation. No mind-body problem, and no skeptical problems if all of reality is consciousness. This works as a perfect ontology and epistemology and could provide fertile ground for a meta-ethics given morality seems tied to conscious agents most of all rather than non-conscious entities.

>>3120619
He did kill a shitload of natives, but they were scalping people so who gives a shit.

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Nope.

>>3120619
I would say Zachery Taylor. Absolute madman who stoped the expansion of slavery despite being a slave owner, Grant saw him as a mentor, died from eating tons of cherries jubilee.

>>3120574
Thank God.

>life doesn't last forever
It's taking it's sweet ass time

>>3120577
>>3120583
Why do you guys hate life

While alive, you get to read my amazing threads

When you are dead, it's all over

>>3120562

That depends entirely on the culture in question.

>>3120562
Depends entirely on the Person

>>3120562
It depends on how you kill yourself

At least half of /his/ probably wasn't even born yet.

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*defends livelihood*
heh, nothin personnell...homie

>being old enough to remember shit that happened in 1992
Go to bed, grandpa.

1. My ideal self
2. Can't surpass the ideal, also too lazy
Ideal self is one where I get off my ass and actually finish my work instead of shitposting on an image board for ancient mongolian tapestry

1. Someone in the mould of Cincinnatus or Washington; one who in a time of crisis takes immense power and saves their country, then, rather than use their power to enrich their self, gives it up and returns to an austere life.
2. Because I'd go overboard trying to solve too many problems and would end up being a Caesar or a Napoleon instead.

>>3120545
>Because I'd go overboard trying to solve too many problems and would end up being a Caesar or a Napoleon instead.

lol more like you'd keep getting slammed into the lockers at lunch time. Stop pretending, kid.

>>3120364

A terrible disaster, Italy should have been unified by the cultured and sophisticated Tuscans, not the barbarous and simple-minded Piedmontese subhumans.

>>3120364
Italy was a mistake.

>>3120364
It was really fucking cool and one of the people in the Thousand later tried to fight in WW1 at the age of 77. He was denied.

>>3120154
>false equivalence
>strawman
>loaded question

2/10

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>>3120179

3/10. Has elements of a decent argument, but it's constructed poorly.

Better to complain about the initial suffragists being upper-class white women who argued that their vote would help keep the poor and coloreds down, that British suffragettes engaged in domestic terrorism, and that suffragettes would go around and harass {in some cases, assault} every able-bodied man in Britain to go sign up for the army to the point where the government had to print special ID cards for people who worked in key factory positions.

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>>3120123
Woooo hooo look at the caveman!

>>>/pol/

>>3120178
>le /pol/ boogieman

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Better yet, he kept insisting he found Asia even when the rest of the world realized it was new continent

>tfw you blunder yourself into being one of the greatest explorers in history

>>3120098
They probably didn't think it looked much different, since you see Roman emperors and Muslims and such looking no different than Western Europeans in the medieval artworks of Western Euro books.

Pic related, Alp Arslan and Romanus Diogenes after the Battle of Manzikert

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>>3120134
Oops

>its great to become second class citizens

I think the people that got the most immediate benefits were the people under Roman rule. At the time taxes were high and religious persecution was common (muh nature of Christ and other ecclesiastical tomfoolery). The Egyptian and Syrians both had different ideas of how to be Christians compared to the Romans. When the Arabs arrived they were very "worship how you want as long as you pay this lower tax than you were paying under Roman rule." However over time the existing Roman and Persian customs and laws were replaced and became more in line with Arab/muslim ones because more people were converting to Islam (less taxes). Once the various religious groups started becoming minorities they were treated much less kindly and the rights for women that were initially present because of Persian and Roman customs were ARAB'D.

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>>3120080
Not true whatsoever. No one was second class citizens. Christians and Jews have lived peacefully under Islam for over a thousand years. They were protected citizens. They never offered these privileges in return to Muslims. In fact, most were joyous when the Caliphate expanded into their territory. Compare that to how they have treated Muslims. Christians repaid us for what we did for them with the Crusades, Jews repaid us for what we've done for them by stealing Arab land and creating Israel. It's bullshit.

>>3120000
i know that armenians or persians weren't happy to be conquered. armenians and assyrians had much more freedom under sassanid rule. initially the coptic and syriac monophysites were ok with the arab conquest until they were marginalized and were shoah'd in later centuries. jews enjoyed islamic rule.