Why is cannibalism taboo? What really separates it as a way of disposing corpses that makes it worse than cremation or burial, provided the corpse isn't too old/rotten?
>>2440794
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)
>>2440808
this only comes from eating certain parts of the body. we don't eat every part of say a cow, for example
>>2440794
1. The same reason its taboo to eat you pets or your neighbors pets. You form an emotional connection with the person and eating them seems disgusting and disrespectful.
2. The only logic behind it is to prevent the spread of easily communical diseases. Not just prions as indicated above, but parasites, which can lay eggs or live in the gut, liver, muscle, or brain. Viral and bacterial spread is also possible to spread. That is most likely the evolutionary reason. Of course if you are selective, eat nondiseased, and well-done specimens you could probably avoid those issues. Thats why it goes back to reason 1 in our society.
Make no mistake when food is seriously scarce pets, neghbors pets, and people always go back on the menu.
Why do so many Americans think that America's imaginary intervention following WW2 is the reason for Japan's prosperity today? It's so common to hear people say America gave huge amounts of "aid" and some people even say America provided Japan with technology. Of course they can't ever give you any details.
>>2440740
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Japan#Outcomes
>>2440759
Linking to a wiki page that has nothing to say on the topic really showed me up, burger. I guess you win this round.
>>2440772
>Linking to a wiki page that has nothing to say on the topic
Are you retarded?
Hello, I wanted to know or was the war against the church of Scientology. If I am not mistaken it allowed to condemn members Anonymous has +15 years in prison alos that the rapists, terrorists, and other pedophiles, are sentenced to sometimes - of 1 month of prison and will explode a bomb after . I wanted to know if it was not possible for the Lulzee to resume service to dismantle once and for all this sect.
>>2440604
>church of Scientology
who?? i think you are in the wrong board
>ywn be a trillion year old Space Admiral with Clear Metahuman abilities and defeat the Arch-Psychiatrist and his evil empire of brainwashed engrams.
I saw this painting as an area of discussion about the ineptitude of society. And it was in this connection (to have such a great condemnation for having only shared a point of view) that I was here. Can you give me the correct table, please?
I need a history topic that I can talk about for 5-8 minutes in class
Any ideas?
Important events, people, etc.
I like to make my presentations funny, so suggest something that isn't dark, like the Holocaust, please.
The Bromance of Muir and Roosevelt
>>2440600
Sounds fun.
Where can I learn more?
American Civil War
>Communism has never work...
>>2440563
Goering wasn't communist
>>2440581
he was a big guy
>>2440586
for jew
Why was Carthage so much cooler than Rome?
Underdog, plus everyone is fed up with Rome's bullshit by now.
>>2440511
>sacrificing humans like savages
>cool
>>2440511
there's absolutely nothing that's cooler about Carthage than rome.
The fuck are you on about? Carthage didn't even have a warrior society, they were merchants that paid others (or promised to pay others) to do the fighting for them. They had like maybe a couple thousand actual Carthaginian soldiers. They lose a single fucking battle in africa and lose the entire war. The Romans meanwhile lost countless battles on their homeland and we're never conquered. It's because romans are fucking badass fanatics that never surrender and Carthaginians are bitchmade little trading faggots that gave up immediately the first battle they lost in their home territory.
Tell me, /his, how can anyone stand up to this supreme historian?
>>2440491
Is anyone gonna watch Believer on CNN.
>>2440491
I emailed him once asking him question about his meme book on Jesus. I basically asked him by his thesis had already been outdated by books by Ehrman Fredrickson and White in the 90s and he responded but in a tricky rhetorical way and didn't really asnwer teh question.
I was pleased he responded at all though desu.
will have my BA in History in a few months, and I'm trying to pick an MA to pursue...thoughts?
right now it's between Political Science, Library Science, or Secondary Education. Secondary ed is tough to find a job in (I'm from NY). Library Science seems methodical and boring, would only enjoy it i could work at a university. Politcal Science seems intriguing, but i'm afraid it's too corporate or business-like.
end goal: a decent full-time M-F job that'll get me to at least ~$60K by the time i retire.
Advise? Thoughts? Anyone have a degree in any of these fields? Anyone working in these fields?
Anything is greatly appreciate. Thanks
>>2440490
>end goal: a decent full-time M-F job that'll get me to at least ~$60K by the time i retire.
Learn computer programming or network administration.
Commission in the Army.
They don't care what the degree is in, and you get to kill people for a living.
>>2440516
No.
t. Network Administrator with Computer Programing experience.
Those jobs are pretty much all doomed to be exported. Half the time, in programming, you're competing with IT guys on the other side of the planet for lowest bid.
Secondary education is actually your best bet of those three, even if you might have to move to find a job. Don't concentrate on any job that could be done remotely, by a computer, or flipped on its ass every four years (unless maybe your family has some solid political connections). They are fine as stop gap measures, but not as a long term careers.
What if it had survived, boys
non-sequitor. It was doomed to fall by God
How would these Japanese even have the manpower to rule this huge area all spread out.
It was just militaristic bloodbath land grab for the hell of it. Everyone was in a war frenzy that century.
>>2440472
>imperialism surviving in the 20th century
Eventually would have been force to break up from external political pressures and internal civil strife due to incompatible cultures. Just look at China, they've been struggling to keep Tibet under the fold and it's been ducking years, it's probably cost them more than they gained from that shithole.
>sacrifice your empires & relevance to stop germany from taking over europe
>germany ends up dominating europe anyway
mmmmmmmm yes
i understand le france(r) didn't have much of a choice, but britain? yikes
>>2440435
>germany ends up dominating europe anyway
Kek
>>2440435
The only thing Germany dominates is the duty to give all their money to Poland to fund their Jesus statues
Are there people who truly believe that the world would be better off right now in the absence of US global superiority following WW2?
In the context of what would have likely occurred without the presence of the US, and relative to how other countries have historically behaved while in power, US global influence has been pretty damn positive.
Having the central focus of power shift from Europe to North America is arguably the best thing that's ever happened to the world for peace and prosperity.
Fuck off retarded yank
Yes. They tend to be evphoric Evropa reactionary types.
>>2440434
>North America
Fuck do you mean by North America, just say the USA. Mexico and Canada are completely irrelevant.
Why did he hate the Gauls so much? Was it really necessary to kill 1 million+ of them? That's on par with the Holocaust considering the low population of that era.
I don't think he hated them at all. He's quite nice about them in his commentaries.
>>2440372
He was butthurt because his wife cucked him with the Big Gaulish Cock, and his wife's son wasn't a dicklet like him.
>>2440372
>Gaulocaust
>real
I wonder who could be behind this post
Can you imagine the amount of cultural change and history someone who lived through the late 1800s to the late 1900s went through?
Christ! It almost can't be imagined!
So they would've missed the fall of Communism?
31 years old here. It's not much different than my life.
>born in 85
>by the time I'm 6ish, personal computers are widespread
>by the time I'm 13ish internet is widespread
>by the time I'm 16ish cell phones are widespread
>by the time I'm 22 smart phones are widespread
Pretty amazing in retrospect, but it wasn't an unimaginable change.
>>2440232
Seeing the first flight as teenager
Seeing a man on the Moon as a senior
Did a technology ever evolve faster?
What is the difference between Catholic transubstantiation vs. Anglican/Episcopal understandings of Eucharistic theology?
capers
>>2440217
One is based on what Christians always thought it was, the other is based on one theologian's opinion
>>2440914
>one is based on a cherry-picked collection of retards
>the other isn't
ftfy
In our history the franks have built a kingdom in gaul/france. What would be an good alternative candidate? Alans? Burgundians?
Free Brittany.
>>2440201
Visigoths. It was only chance that pushed them out of Gaul and they were the strongest kingdom in the area.
>>2440214
>Alans?
Not numerous enough, and they assimilated too fast.
>Burgundians?
Arians, they Christian Gauls would not have tolerated them.
>Visigoths
The Visigoths were cowards, Gregory of Tours say it in History of the Franks.