You have 23 minutes to explain why the hegelian dialectics results in absolutism.
>>3095816
Do your own homework.
>>3095816
Philosophy alone cannot tell us anything about the real world. Like all forms of mental masturbation, dialectics is unfalisifiable woowoo for morons who think they're too smart for religion.
>>3096132
Let's face it. They probably ARE too smart for religion.
>go back in time
>locate PIE urheimat
>kill them all
>PIE expansion never happens
How does the ensuing world peace affect the development of mankind?
>>3095757
Not much, civilization would have developed anyway in Europe, Minoans were already fully civilized and civilizations were starting to develop in western Europe, it would've gone down more or less the same
Europe would be a Mediterranean shithole, Jesus Christ.
Just imagine a continent full of Sardinians.
Swedish Sardinians, Irish Sardinians, Moldovan Sardinians.
WORST timeline.
>>3095833
Imagine how many different Nuraghi
Why do we tell our children there is hope in the world?
>>3095550
Because most people (parents including) are stupid and unironically believe this meme.
>>3095550
To try to make our childrens lives better by sacrificing our sanity so they may have a betrer chance at the game of life than we can possibly procure
Because there is dickhead.
There's lots of hope, hope will probably never die - surely the pain comes from our hopes being denied?
How did ancient trade work? How did people know where to go if all you could see was the ocean and no way to tell when to make a turn? Also didn't it take a very long time to sail a few hundred miles? How could it even be profitable if it took so long?
>>3095451
Most of the routes where bound to the prevailing winds, monsoon winds and th currents. For Europeans likely the most defining moment was when the Portuguese learned the volta do mar maneuver late in the 15th century.
>>3095451
>How did they know where to go
Use the stars and constellations as landmarks.
>Know when to turn
Tradewinds and lots of luck and hope. Sailors didn't always have a long life expectancy
>Take a long time to go a couple hundred miles
It took a few weeks to cross the Mediterranean, yeah. That's why sailors kept pickled eggs that lasted forever and drank their own piss when the water ran out.
>How could it be profitable
You need to see it as exploiting the regional differences in value. For instance, in Northern Europe it was really hard to find or make purple dye. A piece of purple cloth was worth a fortune. Down in Syria they made tons of purple cloth from grinding up shrimpy things, so it wasn't worth quite as much there. A merchant could go down to Syria, spend his life's savings on purple cloth bought at the "Syrian Price", go up to Germany or Sweden or whatever, sell it to all to the noblemen and royals up there for the "Northern Price", and have enough money to last him for ten years before he goes and does it all again. You could do the same thing selling anything people really, really wanted that was plentiful somewhere else. Selling wood in a desert, selling fine ceramics from the orient, selling iron in a deficient place like Japan, selling spices to Europe, or even doing the Transatlantic thing and just selling shitloads of slaves you captured basically for free. Asl ong as you're selling something worth a lot you're in good shape.
>>3095451
Most of the stuff was not sent directly from the place of production to the final place where it's been found. There were a lot of middlemen involved. It's not that hard to sell things to your neighbours.
Why didn't Soviets invade them after 1948, like they invaded Hungary and Czechoslovakia?
Were they afraid of the Yugoslav warrior?
>like they invaded Hungary and Czechoslovakia
Uhhhhhhhhh
>>3095536
Sorry, protected against Western imperialism.
>>3095565
what are you talking about? Czechoslovakia was liberated, last soviet forces left by december 45
Hey /his/
Can you do me a favour and try to decrypt this cipher I made?
Firstly, I assure you that it actually does mean something.
Secondly, I created this cipher as the base of some encryption software I'm working on.
Thirdly, you have one hint to ask me for. The first serious question (that doesn't give away what it says) will be the only one answered unless I deem others necessary. THE KEY WORD CAN BE ASKED FOR.
If enough people reply to this saying they give up, I will reveal the message, however the process will NOT be revealed. If you can figure out the message, I will reveal the process.
Just a game for you guys, but a serious test of the security for my cipher. I chose to test it out on here because this place seems to have some pretty serious minds.
Cipher is as follows:
YBANXEXNYBELCGELNEHUNFMZLJBPOEGPWUBCTWJ
>>3095409
>Software
Go to /g/ you fucking bellend
>>3095409
>>3095424
Did
Why don't people wear cloaks or capes anymore? Is it because people spend more time indoors and indoor heating is so ubiquitous?
Or were cloaks not common attire in the past either and they only seem like they were because historical paintings depict people in relative opulence?
>>3095316
We have tailored coats now.
>>3095316
What purpose do they serve?
>>3095316
Don't worry mate, yours looks fine
How can humanity make death seem less scary? It's one of the few remaining fears we haven't defeated yet.
>>3095291
You know, the way to do it was here from long time ago
im not afraid of death! im afraid of injury
>>3095291
If death doesn't scare you then you have something wrong with your brain. If there is anything that is a suitable subject for fear, surely that thing is death.
What are some of the biggest/most significant prison breaks in history? Whether in sheer volume or significance in the escape itself (whether for morale or propaganda, etc)
>>3095225
bump
very interested in this
You posted it.
>>3095225
google it
Is there a case to be made for objective morality? If so, what is it?
Self-sacrifice to a degree where you're still in a position to greatly help people.
Utilitarianism to the point where you don't inflict cruelty on the few.
>>3094986
neat
>>3094974
Make it so that people have to suffer the consequences of their moral systems/ideology. Moral relativists will shun back to something that looks a lot like bourgeois/socially-constructed/Judeo-Christian/[insert buzzword] morality fairly quickly.
Is math discovered or invented?
>>3094934
Math is simply an abstract language.
Invented. There aren't set values, but only means of measuring things.
Maths is by and large the result of the ability to measure things.
>>3094934
Math and Language(words and symbols) are metaphysical concepts.
Why do Dravidian Indians claim Aryan civilization for themselves?
Indo-Aryans were bright-skinned, they had hair varying from dark brown to blonde and red.
>>3094877
Aryans weren't more developed than people conquered by them. In fact, this conquest caused stagnation by establishing caste system.
>>3094888
Yeah. History has shown that culture's focused on war will always surpass 'rich' cultures i.e roman's and egypt, mongols and china etc etc
>>3094888
They would be speaking Chinese right now if the Aryans hadn't invaded
Harappa WEAK
>be Lutheran
>accompany my Evangelist friend to his local mass
I finally understand why Catholics hate us. They didn't even have pews, just regular fucking chairs in rows. And for some reason they had group prayer to "heal" diseased people in the congregation, like they're all fucking saints or something, or that the prayer becomes "more powerful" when there's a bunch of you.
JUST
>>>/r9k/
I think I speak for /his/ when I say that nobody cares about your blog.
>or that the prayer becomes "more powerful" when there's a bunch of you
Protestants confirmed for Orks
>>3094823
Kek. They all believe they have apostle-tier faith to do stuff like healing people by praying. Also, speaking in tongues.
I wish they actually read the bible, in the original text or at least bible with linguistic analysis notes.
>Caesar described the cultural differences between the Germanic tribesmen, the Romans, and the Gauls. He said that the Gauls, although warlike, could be civilized, but the Germanic tribesmen were far more savage and were a threat to Roman Gaul and so had to be conquered.
What did caesar mean by this?
he correctly anticipated a threat to civilization and tried to warn future generations
>>3094403
Why does everyone ignore this?
>>3094418
Blame Augustus for shitting his pants and tearing hair at the mere mention of Teutoburg forest.