>>2924835
>yfw you read The God Delusion for the first time
For real, this book helped me a lot in quitting church.
I was raised in a protestant family that went to church every week. When I was 15 or so I started doubting that shit. Having no resources or even a clue how to articulate those doubts, I ignored them mostly. Friend of mine finally gave me this book.
Ofcourse we both went through a retarded phase of trying to convince all religious friends that they were retards and generally being a dick about it.
Highlight was the time we were celebrating a friends sisters 18th birthday church acceptance thing (dont know the english term) and were all piss-drunk. Asshole of a friend baited me into trying to convince that same girl she should have quit the church. It was about the equivalent of trying to convince a freshly married couple that monogamy is for idiots only.
Quit being an asshole about religion the next day. To be fair, had quite a lot of good talks with my parents about religion in the past few years. Mutual acceptance and all that.
I guess The God Delusion is just the Fight Club, the Gin Tonic, the Neutral Milk Hotel for Atheism: a low entry gateway that blows your mind, causes you to act like a dick and leads you to greater discoveries that leads you to realise your gateway was shit.
>>2924865
Why do people act like a dick over atheism? Is it part of American culture?
what is the significance of 4chan as an intellectual/political movement? what do you think about "hiding your power level"? should 4chan be completely integrated into the public world?
Realistically, how you plan to integrate spaghetti dropping artists in out society?
>4chan
>intellectual movement
>political movement
Sweetie I like this site better than Facebook. I think I will explore it some. I left you your chicken tenders on the counter.
I'm getting tired of this /pol/ meme that the Soviet Union and Communism was a Jewish conspiracy to destroy the world. Let's get real here, even if you don't like Jews they definitely had little influence in the USSR. Pic related, it was anti-Capitalist propaganda showing what Western Capitalists looked like.
Night of Dead Poets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Murdered_Poets
Soviet Union breaking ties to Israel from the 6 Day War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union_and_the_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_conflict#Effects_of_the_Cold_War
Anyone else got things to read? I know the sources above are wikipedia so let's switch it up a bit.
Some Jews are self-hating Jews. Just because they hated another group of Jews, doesn't mean they were not Jews themselves.
>>2923957
The Soviets were very anti-religion in general up until about WWII.
>>2923967
the mental gymnastics here are /pol/tastic.
Ok, enough post-industrial wankery, let's discuss the most criminally overlooked era in history: Early Modern Europe.
>the rise of firearms, but still primitive enough to exist alongside pikemen, cavalry, and castle sieges
>Reformation: Christian sectarianism on par with the Sunni-Shia violence of today
>Polish-Lithuanian Commowealth
>Dutch Golden Age
>the Age of Sail and Discovery: there's a whole world out there!
>Renaissance, pre-Enlightenment science (astrology and alchemy as serious disciplines), the printing revolution
>Italian city-states in constant conflict using mercenaries, including the infamous War of the League of Cambrai
>Sweden as a European power
>peak Turk and the Ottoman conquest of southeast Europe
>Tudor England and the Elizabethan Era
>Portugal as THE eminent maritime nation
>rise of the Habsburgs amid the eternal clusterfuck that was the HRE
>gratuitous moustaches, puffy sleeves, feathered hats, and codpieces
>>2923672
gotta agree famalam
The Reformation was essentially a rational democratic revolution against a murderous theocratic monstrosity maintained through brainwashing and terror .
>>2923729
Hussites did it better
Why does everyone hate them?
>>2922714
Kebabs
Is Albania the most woke European country?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkan_sworn_virgins
>>2922714
Still living in soviet era.
Just know you were an ooga booga savage before getting civilized by my ancestors or the ancestors of someone living in other bubbles
But I live in Mexico.
>>2920410
So you still aren't civilized
>>2920400
Isn't Chinese civilization over 5 millenia old?
Who was the most aesthetic NatSoc?
Heydrich.
Just what the *FUCK* was this about?
Who was in the right?
>>2919016
>Just what the *FUCK* was this about?
Henry VI, the king of England, was weak and chronically ill with some kind of disease that rendered him occasionally catatonic. He clearly couldn't run the country like that, which meant that he needed a set of advisors/guardians to actually run the country when he was in a stupor.
Essentially, the War of the Roses started off as a series of competitions as to who would be the royal guardian, which was complicated by the fact that Henry would occasionally snap out of it and reverse the decisions of the battlefield or the intriguing, which usually led to another round of fighting after he went back inside his own head. Once you have several years of the great houses of England killing each other and getting vendettas though, the violence became its own cause, to get back at the other guys for the last one of yours they killed or exiled.
>Who was in the right?
What the hell does that even mean?
>>2919083
>What the hell does that even mean?
Who were the good guys?
>>2919258
There are no good guys in history.
what religion do you join if you believe in a monothestic abrahamic God but you think Islam is false doctrine and there are no jew communities around you?
There are three Abrahamic religions.
You just ruled out two of them.
Gee I don't know OP, I'm not that smart myself, so I'm also unable to solve this difficult problem.
>>2930387
*dibs*
>>2930387
>Christianity is polytheistic
What are some interesting things we don't know about history?
>>2930134
we don't know :)
>>2930134
history is anime running at 7000 frames per second
That the past was great. Sadly it's so distorted.
Discuss economic theories, argue over economic history, and ask your economic questions.
&Humanities needs a dedicated economics thread each week. I'll do my best to make that happen.
Furthermore, I'll answer all questions to the best of my ability. I focus less on theory and models, and more on economic history and results.
Finally, keep the shitflinging to a minimum. A slow and comfy thread is better than a shitfest.
The Silk Road is more important than the Roman Mediterranean sea.
Therefore it is obvious the Mongol Emperors were wealthier than the Roman Emperors.
did they really happen?
>>2929587
Yes, Soviet Command had a shit of a time dealing with it considering rape was punishable by death
so I heard a vatnik say that after 3 days commissars went blamming their soldiers who were looting and raping. is this true?
>>2929612
They started long before that, the Soviets wanted a loyal German client state and the rapes were really fucking bad PR. Soviet propaganda really fucked up with the muh revenge line
Maybe its the fact that Rommel never committed atrocities like German commanders in the eastern front. Maybe its because he obviously hated Hitler and the Nazis in his book (albeit he wrote it after he was condemned to death by them). Maybe its because North Africa + Nazis reminds me of the first Indiana Jones movie.
But I want to like Rommel and the Afrika corps, this is probably more emotional than logical.
>>2929441
No one in the German officers truly liked Hitler but they all believed in the German war goals, Rommel included. Haven't read up recently but he helped the SS in multiple operations as an organic unit.
>>2929441
>Maybe its because he obviously hated Hitler and the Nazis in his book
And after he spent years sucking up to Hitler personally to be able to call the guy in to win his disputes with his army superiors, volunteering to command the dude's bodyguard for him every chance he got, and shooting propaganda films for the Nazis after the fall of France.
>>2929441
Rommel was a career opportunist, Africa might have been a "gentleman's war" but he used his closeness to Hitler to get ahead of other officers because his career had stalled during the inter-war. Doesn't really make him a bad person, just kind of a dick
The moment when FDR signed the declaration of war on Germany. Who are the men surrounding him?
>>2929155
Almost certainly members of congress or the cabinet. Nice three-piece suits btw.
>>2929155
Jews
>>2929258
>three-piece
>ever being nice
Has real communism been tried?
>>2929005
real communism is an illusion as the theory is flawed from the start. It'll always end with the same totalitarian shitfest.
>>2929009
What is the flaw?
>inb4 I haven't read Marx but I critique it anyway
Every day my friend