What are the greatest human accomplishments mankind has ever achieved besides going to the moon
>>2219911
The discovery of anal sex.
>>2219911
That was a shitty, useless achievement. World wide connectivity through the internet is far more impressive.
>>2219918
Butthurt Ivan detected.
Just a question from an ignorant STEM student:
How can I study humanities? I'm used to make repeated lists of exercises in order to learn mathematics or programming and etc, but what is the method used by humanities students? what method can I use in order to, for example, fully understand a philosophy/history book?
Live your life and read and absorb deep shit
>>2219534
But what should I do
Should I read the book first, and then read it again but taking notes (or use any x method instead like a resume etc)
Take non-degree seeking classes later in life after spending your free time reading. Honestly at this point in my life (soon to graduate with a humanities degree), I envy those who went into STEM or even trade school. My only real option is law school, unless I decided to apprentice in carpentry or some shit, but I will say that studying philosophy at a college level was worthwhile on a purely intellectual standard. I wish everyone could have that experience, but it unfortunately is not something that necessitates material success. Make the most of the opportunities that you degree will afford you, and spend a lot of time at your local library, chatting with the students in philosophy and history if you have the chance. Hopefully some day you'll have the leisure and the wealth to pursue some form of strict education in the humanities, but make the most of your talents now.
Is religion escapism?
>>2219484
Could be for some.
Why would you ask such a vague and open ended question?
>>2219484
If it's done right, yes.
Escaping hell.
>>2219484
>anything that isn't the capitalist worker drone lifestyle is escapism
kys
There is something I find very interesting about the Kennedy assassination.
Most people believe there was a conspiracy behind it but the interesting part is that people have such diffrent views about who they believe was really behind it. There is no general majority census as to WHO was behind it, but there does seem to be a majority census that there was a cover up.
Who didn't want Kennedy dead?
So who does /his/ believe was behind his death?
>>2219431
Most people believe there's a conspiracy simply because it's a meme at this point, not because they actually know anything about the events.
Fun fact: The KGB was heavily involved in promoting conspiracy theories about Kennedy's death.
>>2218058
By the time they discovered oil they either puppet or part of US/Mexico.
Is that the flag of Chile?
>>2218120
no that's Texas.
What is the worst scientific experiment you can think of?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_of_despair
This one is quite creepy.
>>2217269
They should try that on humans
Unit 731
Nazi human experiments
>>2217269
Anti-tobacco industry paid scientists to grow beagles since they were puppies in a lab letting they breathe only tobacco fumes to try to prove tobacco causes cancer. After years of this experiment no beagle developed cancer.
Of all the individuals in history, which one is worthy of the epithet, "Turkslayer?"
>>2216480
>>2216480
>>2216480
Vlad, not many people are such good turk slayers it makes the Christians afraid of you.
What is Gnosticism? How does it differ theologically from more mainstream movements like Catholicism and Protestantism?
>>2223169
This is about the style and level of quality you'll get from the board (unless ape of Thoth comes here) so i'll save you the trouble. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Gnosticism
>>2223184
Do you think I'd get a better answer going to /x/ and asking ape?
>>2223217
I don't frequent /x/ too often so I wouldn't know. Ape and a couple of other guys are pretty good with religious doctrine. The rest is rather "meh"
What is your favourite Holy Roman Empire substate?
>>2221701
Hesse.
>>2221701
Bohemia because fuck germans
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Are you a vegan?
If not, you must somehow justify the murder and torture you put animals through on a daily basis. I bet it's something like "they aren't human."
Well I've got news for you. That reasoning is a spook. It has you by the balls, and you are so thoroughly spooked that you ignore what's right.
Do what Stirner would want. Become a vegan today.
>>2221542
Why should be a vegan?
Other's suffering is a spook
Pity is a spook
The weak should fear the strong
Animals are already killed, the only difference is if they are killed for a reason or their sufffering would be wasted for nothing.
>>2221542
>Do what Stirner would want
The desires of a dead man are a spooky
Will ancient languages ever be revived? Or at least reconstructed to the point of being able to take classes?
>>2220434
revived probably not because you need a community of speakers who have an extremely strong motivation to speak a dead language to each other and teach it to their children instead of the languages they can speak naturally and easily. it's possible but it probably needs some sort of a strong ideology and institutional support behind it to succeed. the israelis did it, they were motivated by zionism to revive hebrew even though most of them spoke yiddish as a native language. the resulting modern hebrew language is quite different from the classical language though - especially the pronunciation which is heavily influenced by yiddish and therefore ironically sounds a bit like a german accent.
apparently there are also some villages in india where sanskrit was revived as a spoken language motivated by hindu nationalism, but again the result was not the same as the classical because it was acquired by adult native speakers of other languages.
in both of these cases the languages were still in use as liturgical languages though so they weren't fully gone even though they weren't spoken any more.
as to the reconstruction to the point of being able to take classes, that has already been done for almost every ancient language that has enough surviving records to reconstruct it. there are even some enthusiasts who are trying to revive a modified spoken form of proto-indo-european.
Sanskrit is having a revival as far as I know. There's some 14000 native speakers, which isn't alot in a country like India, but there's something like 1.4 million second language speakers of it too.
Also, distinguishing between Ancient and Modern Greek is kind of hard, because apart from some grammatical differences and pronunciation it's essentially the same language.
>>2220480
I did modern Greek for a year and I played civ 5 and listened to Alexander talk and he sounded completely incomprehensible to Mr. Byzantine Greek was much easier to understand tho.
I know it's not cool on 4chan to express atheism, the arguments it uses are seen as tired and reddit. The social distinction may be apt, but that doesn't mean the content of the arguments are wrong.
I do not see how theology is a serious subject while scientology and mormonism are obvious bunk, aside from the fact that one is established and shrouded in the mystery of history while Joseph Smith is in recent history so the emperor has no clothes.
Perhaps there is a case for a will to starting the physical universe, and platonism does have a semi convincing case for an external world, but the idea of a personal god still just seems superstition to me, and the bible is obvious mid east barbarism as seen by ISIS today (with some nice poetry sprinkled on top).
How are Hitchens and Harris wrong when it comes to religion? I think the new atheists are wrong with their logical positivsm and utilitarianism but when it comes to Judeo Christian religion and values they seem on point
They ignore the basic fact that religion is an ingrained part of human psychology.
Hence why even Neanderthals buried their dead with grave goods for the afterlife.
Also, if moderate religion was eliminated and it came down to religious extremists vs atheists, the atheists would get rekt everywhere except for China.
>>2220310
>ingrained part of human psychology
Many unpleasant things are ingrained deeply within us, doesn't mean we shouldn't try our best to overcome
>>2220302
>the bible is obvious mid east barbarism as seen by ISIS today (with some nice poetry sprinkled on top).
Statements like this are why #NewAtheism is a joke and if you need that joke explained to you then it's even funnier.
name a greater man
(napoleon is his equal, not greater)
>>2219684
Alexander the Great
>>2219684
I'll let the Germans handle this one. Repeatedly. And at great, great length.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeXG9-wyzw0
An unexpected furor was caused by the exhibition in New York, “The Lost World of Old Europe”, wrote the New York Times. Long before the flourishing of Greece and Rome, even earlier than the first cities in Mesopotamia and Egypt, at the downstream of Danube River lived a nation ahead of its time in trade, arts and craftsmanship.
Many American specialized issues and daily newspapers point out that, during its efflorescence the “Old European” civilization had been one of the most advanced cultures in the world. In 1972, near Varna (Bulgaria) was discovered the Varna Necropolis and its priceless Chalcolithic treasure. Also in the Durankulak complex, which is a Neolithic settlement with 1200 graves was excavated the biggest prehistoric treasure in southeast Europe.
The people on the northwest Black Sea coast were a highly developed community, its traditions merging with the heritage of the Thracian ethno-cultural community and later the Ancient Greek civilizations, the oldest of them being the Mycenaean civilization (2700-1120 BC).
Douglas Bailey from the University of San Francisco writes the following in the exhibition’s catalogue: “The ability to build, use and understand symbolic objects, defines people as such. This capability unites us – the modern people – with the Neolithic people and Paleolithic artists”. Evidence of this are the golden, copper and ceramic bracelets, figurines and dishes.
According to Michel Louis Seferiad, an anthropologist in the French National Center for Scientific Research, these items are shrouded by ancient mysteries, cults and myths. Also in these lands were discovered the oldest written signs in the world.
The discoveries of Transylvania (Romania) and around Vinča (Serbia) are approximately of the same period. In addition, even older are the symbols on a small clay dish found in the village of Gradeshnitsa (Vratsa, Bulgaria). Their age is considered to be at least 6000 years.
In comparison we point out that the Sumerian script, until recently considered the oldest one, was created around 3100 BC. Due to the big popularity of the exhibition in the USA, now Europe also begins to notice these facts. New discoveries point out something really sensational: The Balkan area is the cradle of civilization, these lands were inhabited by a highly developed culture that is much older than the Mesopotamian civilization, says Deutsche Welle.
In his book “The mysteries of the Danube Civilization” Harald Haarmann proves that the Balkans were inhabited by the civilization that developed the first written language. Haarmann calls this culture“Old European”. It existed on the territories of modern-day Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece as well as parts of Ukraine and Hungary. According to archaeological discoveries, its emergence can be traced back to 7000 BC. Haarmann claims that words, which have hitherto been considered as Ancient Greek, are actually “Old European” and are still used today. Such examples are fireplace (кaминa, kamina), olive (мacлинa, maslina), ceramics (кepaмикa, ceramica) metal (мeтaл), hymn (химн) and others.
The Danube civilization arose 2000 years before that of the Sumerians.
Haarmann confirms what has long been known that the oldest gold in the world was found within the territory of modern-day Varna (Bulgaria). According to results from modern methods and techniques, it was made in 4500 BC, which means that it is 2000 years older than the famous Egyptian gold treasure.
In 1875, archaeological excavations led by the Hungarian archeologist Zsófia Torma (1840–1899) at Tordos (today Turdaș, Romania) unearthed a cache of objects inscribed with previously unknown symbols. In 1908, a similar cache was found during excavations conducted by Miloje Vasić (1869–1956) in Vinča, a suburb of Belgrade (Serbia), some 120 km from Turdaș. Later, more such fragments were found in Banjica, another part of Belgrade. Since 1875, over one hundred and fifty Vinča sites have been identified in Serbia alone, but many, including Vinča itself, have not been fully excavated.[1] Thus, the culture of the whole area is called the Vinča culture, and the symbols are often called[citation needed] the Vinča-Turdaș script.
The discovery of the Tărtăria tablets in Romania by Nicolae Vlassa in 1961 reignited the debate. Vlassa believed the inscriptions to be pictograms and other items found at the same place were subsequently carbon-dated to before 4000 BC (while the tablets themselves cannot be dated by physical or chemical methods[2]), thirteen hundred years earlier than the date he expected, and earlier even than the writing systems of the Sumerians and Minoans. However, the authenticity of these tablets is disputed.[3] To date, more than a thousand fragments with similar inscriptions have been found on various archaeological sites throughout south-eastern Europe, notably in Greece (Dispilio Tablet), Bulgaria, Romania, eastern Hungary, Moldova, and southern Ukraine.
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Just kidding, don't please.
It's an interesting topic because these cultures built actual planned settlements. Oldest settlements, first proto writing.
Also some interesting fish like statues.
I read somewhere that there are some things that suggest river/fish worship, i'm not sure tho.
> 8 years long war
> billions died
> white peace
Was it pure autism?
>>2216247
Pretty sure the US gave guns and money to both sides as a hilarious prank.
Sadam realized Iraq woukd basically be afghanistan for the next 800 years if it remained landlocked and went on a yolospree.
Outside of that he was a stalinabo who was physiclly incapable of diplomacy.
Even if the shia where being paid by enemy nations to destablize the country and where traitors, he just fuled the flames.
>>2216361
> he was a stalinabo
He even looks like Stalin. Was he just larping?