What are the arguments for Free Will? What are the arguments for Determinism?
The way I see it:
>Physics and chemistry follows on deterministic processes.
>The human brain controls the human body
>The human brain is beholden to physics and chemistry
>The human brain follows deterministic processes
>The is no free will
>>2930907
when you lack the willpower to distinguish between yourself and your thoughts then of course this is true, and you are acting only from conditioning and experiance, but when your practice controling your mind and thoughts you give yourself the chose of free will
>>2930907
>con
The Universe is deterministic, humans are part of the Universe, ergo, humans are deterministic.
>pro
Muh magic sky pixie says we have free will
>>2930907
Just ask anyone who believes in free will to define it. No coherent definition = nonsense concept.
when you go dummyhard for capitalism
if /pol/ wants their vision to come true they should go to a state like oklahoma for a year and see how they like only getting money from fast food and forced to only believe in southern baptism
>defending south vietnam's sovereignty from north vietnamese imperialism is wrong
>>2930861
They expect to become billionaires with no hard work so they love ghettoized post middle class society
Give me a basic gestalt.
>>2930833
Things got a little out of hand
>>2930833
Cut off black hands, build some stuff, married a 16 y/o prostitute in the last years of his life, wanted to invade the Netherlands.
>>2930833
His rule was even handed
>conquers more territory in Asia than Napoleon does in Europe
>defeats Napoleon in battle
Why do people rate Napoleon over Wellington?
I'm assuming it's racism, that people think Indian armies couldn't possibly be the equal of European armies. Even though the Indian states Wellington was beating were richer and more powerful than the European states Napoleon was beating.
Really makes you think
>>2930811
Not really racism, more the eurocentric view people have.
>>2930811
I'd bet there are pages about French villages on Wikipedia right now that are longer than pages about Indian cities.
It's not just deliberate Eurocentrism but it's easier for dumb people to think only one place has happenings in the world at a time. Thus Greeks disappeared after Cleopatra, who was black anyway.
brits will never stop being completely deluded
Why was french the lingua of the Russian nobility?
french was the lingua franca of the world m8
>>2930544
because it was lingua franca of all European nobility
Why doesn't Israel just build the 3rd temple already? I mean, they de-facto own the land, so it's not like anyone can stop them.
On that note, if they named the country Israel why didn't they restore the monarchy? Reviving the holy kingdom of Israel as a republic seems like utter sacrilege.
not allowed until world peace(tm)
the majority of the jews need to be in israel, they need a messiah, and the temple has to be in a specific location which is on arab soil right now
>>2930461
> why didn't they restore the monarchy
because Israel it´s the work of secular socialists
So what was happening here? What lead to the fall of the Visigoths to the muslims?
I barely find any documentation on these guys, or how life was during their rule, only how they got destroyed in Guadalete, leading to the Ummayyad Caliphate controlling almost all of the Iberian Peninsula.
>>2930459
They opened up the border.
visigoths were a bunch of barbarian niggers constantly fighting each other
>>2930482
So they were in constant civil wars until they got btfo?
Was there any practice during medieval Japan of capturing nobles for ransom like in Europe? Were Japanese too quick to commit suicide precisely to avoid such results in every case?
>>2930297
I know they took hostages a lot to broker deals, but I'm no japan expert
>>2930297
They did, I think. Minamoto no Yoshitsune, if I'm not mistaken. Was seppuku really that prevalent in premodern Japan? Or was it just as common as Roman suicide?
Seppuku during the warring states happened but is was Roman tier. An acceptable way to regain honor, but not the only way.
Edo period is when everyone went crazy about glorious suicide.
Shitskin number 3.
OFFICIAL OLD TESTAMENT POWER RANKINGS
1. Moses
2. David
3. Elijah
4. Joshua
5. Caleb
6. Ezekiel
7. Jeremiah
8. Gideon
9. Samson
10. Uriah
>>2930261
1. John the Baptist
2. Elijah
3. David
4. Caleb
5. Samson
6. Joshua
7. Paul
8. John
9. Peter
10. Moses
>reading the bible
>mfw Daniel Chapters 10-12
wtf, I'm Christian now
>>2930170
You just made this thread. Go away
>>2930582
Yeah but it had a picture for ants and I'm wondering how you historyfags deal with this. I mean basitcally we're down to bedrock with this one, either its a forgery or this indicates some genuine prophetic power in the book. On the other hand there is plenty in the way of failed prophecies in the book.
>>2930170
Jews, Pagans and everyone else BTFO
Why are smart people so much more likely to be insane?
You culd easily call it autism, but imagine being around people who will never understand the way you think. Every day of your life is this attempt to deal with people who can't comprehend your shit. It's basically everyone's biggest fear
>>2930045
Autism correlates with mental retardation actually
>>2930089
Well considering it is mental retardation I wouldn't call it a correlation and more of a causation
>be chief of the NKVD overseeing arrests and execution of millions of innocents
>get killed yourself once you've outlived your usefulness because Stalin wants to cover his tracks
why is communism so shit? it's literally commies killing each other and dragging innocents with them under the pretext of "revolution"
>>2929862
>he hasn't read about France it's bourgeoise revolution
>>2929862
>millions
>innocents
>>2929941
yeah, those russian peasants that got sent to gulag were clearly plotting to kill stalin
>stop being eurocentrist
What's your opinion on John Green?
He makes shit books for plebs, makes really dumbed down videos for plebs, and married his highschool crush who didn't even know he existed untill he got rich.
>>2929671
pervert
He doesn't seem to care much about what the truth is.
Why do the east-romans look like Persians?
Why did knights look like cataphracts?
Why does OP look like a faggot?
Because they served similar roles and had access to similar technology.
>>2929560
Why do the Greeks look like Persians?
You could just as easily say that Persians looked like Eastern Romans.
I don't know an awful lot about Eastern Rome suspect it might be a similar case to the late western army, where people accuse late Roman soldiers of "looking like Germans", when in fact it was the Germans copying Roman fashions and not the other way round.
What's your favorite historical film, /his/? Bonus points if it is historically accurate.
inglorious basterds although it's not really accurate.
the quiet american is also interesting.
>>2929288
Copenhagen.
>>2929878
Inglourious Basterds is an interesting film to me because any one scene from it - seriously, any 10-minute segment - plays like a fucking masterpiece. I was so excited for the rest of the movie after watching the first segment. But the movie overall doesn't hang together very well, something's off with the pacing. It's like 5 fucking fantastic short films with no momentum or narrative cohesion connecting them.
One thing I will say is that Tarantino does food porn like nobody else. That movie never fails to make me want a glass of scotch, strudel and espresso, or a tall glass of milk.