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Why again everything being a chemical reaction and thus free will nonexistent is wrong? It makes the most fucking sense.
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> everything being a chemical reaction
But what about quantum effects?
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Read David Hume, pleb.
http://www.davidhume.org/texts/ehu.html
http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/understanding/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Enquiry_Concerning_Human_Understanding
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>>2187845
> David Hume
> Knowing about chemistry of brain
Could as well suggest to read mahabharata on subject of neuropsychology.
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What was his end-game, /his/?
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>>2187519
To be a mediocre autocrat
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>>2187519
>implying castillians are smart enough to have an end-game
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>>2188512
>implying galicians are smart enough to have an end-game
Fixed
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Which religion has the coolest looking holy men? I vote for Russian Orthodox or Mongolian Shamanism.
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probably muslims with their slim fitting long sleeved shirts and pants of the same colors
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Why couldn't we annex Canada in 1812? 2017-01-06 04:46:52 Post No.2187461
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Why couldn't we annex Canada in 1812?
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I mean, we had like, a significantly bigger army than Britain, why the fuck didn't we conquer that shithole?
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>>2187461
Casus belli or gtfo
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Canada a shithole? Nah its beautiful. White house on fire tho lol
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>>2187040
Not much. Besides Ohio, Illinois, and Michigan, the Midwest is a decent place to live.
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>>2187040
Automation and farm subsidies
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>>2187040
Shitty sports teams
How well would society actually work if we all spoke the same language, used the same currency and were the same race?
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>>2185581
>were the same race
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>>2185581
I'd assume we might have a better understanding of one another.
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How would the economy do?
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/His approved Presidents
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Donald J. Trump
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JIMMY CARTER DID NOTHING WRONG
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>>2185565
He sucked ass
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You're sitting in history class when you hear a raspy, lisp impeded voice say
'stalin was just as bad if not WORSE than hitler'
What do you do?
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>>2184911
Nothin,i agree,why say something?
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>>2184911
I would say they were both evil, and there are a lot more in depth Napoleon books. Also War Thunder sucks dick and the Tiger Tank was one of the worse choices Germany made.
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>>2184911
I tell him to get the fuck away from me holy shit have you heard of personal space.
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What is your favourite period of history, and why?
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Industrial Revolution.
Only reason why most of us are alive.
I don't think any of us can grasp just how routine death and disease was in everyone's daily lives. At least not until the Simian Flu kills civilization and sends us back to the stone age.
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>>2184751
To study? Hmmm...
As much as I love my Roman history, I do love the history of Renaissance Europe to around the end of WW1.
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>>2184751
1950's America. I mean living in America and being an Adult Male, Female, or even a child, had the highest standard of living in human history. Plentiful well paying jobs, the Nuclear family, no internet to corrupt youth, strong conservative values, malts and fries in the diner, comfy high schools.
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Do like this answer though.
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Which one was the best China?
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top left
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Qin or Ming
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>>2183860
Fuck me, That period is so complex.
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What historical event triggers you the most?
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Kronstadt
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With sea-jews you lose.
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eunuchs make me pretty angry, especially when you read up on the actual...*procedure* to create them
So why did great civilizations develop in Central America but North America was still mostly mud huts and teepees?
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As a dumb guess I'd say that simply because nobody found and colonized it until Columbus (excluding whatever literal whos stumbled across it and set up camps), and even then it was an extremely slow trickle of people until some time in the 1700s when full on colonization started.
The native Americans were there however, and they had a stable way of life. They didn't have huge numbers but they were successful, they lived in balance with their environment and has no need or desire to form a huge great civilization.
Anyway this is all from a non-historian's POV so there's probably a much more informed explanation.
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>>2177205
climate probably
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I hear that a contributing factor was that the only domesticable animal in the Americas was the llama.
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What would have happen if France became a communist state in 1871?
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>>2176016
It neighbors would be extremely cautious.
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>>2176018
>encourage clerks
I never realized there were people that actually did this
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>>2176016
would've been much like the Napoleonic Wars, if France was the one to instigate the World Revolution.
Coalitions of western european nations would fight France in order to protect their respective empires from revolutionary overthrows orchestrated by the French.
Considering the French were steamrolled by Germany in the Franco-Prussian War, I doubt france would get far with such a wild card revolutionary regime. Russia barely pulled it off and only because there was the World War going on at the time to keep the rest of Europe busy.
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Why didn't Germany get it's infantry weapons right until 1943? I mean bolt-action rifles? 9mm submachine guns?
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infantry weapons literally don't matter
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>>2175754
Care to elaborate?
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>>2175764
a majority of casualties come from artillery, the only vaguely relevant small arm is the medium machine gun and maybe some light anti-tank weapons. The wehrmacht had good (some argue the best) of both of these
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Why is it so important for Christians to maintain that their Jesus Christ was born of a virgin birth? I'm beginning to think that the idea that his mother Mary was a virgin was borrowed from the pagan traditions of the Romans and Greeks, especially since it raises so many problems and questions if taken at face value.
For one, Christians believe God created humans, and in them, all the biological processes required both to live and to propagate. And God saw it, and called it "good". But yet, the notion of birthing a child is to God so obscene that he makes his incarnation be born in an un-natural fashion, rather than simply using the method he himself had created!
Secondly, Christians believe Jesus was fully human, and subject to the biological processes of a human. So God spared Jesus the ritual defilement of being from natural birth, but did not exempt him from equally 'disgusting' processes and bodily phenomena such as defecation, urination, sweating and body odor, vomiting, sneezing or coughing up phlegm, etc: all acts that he must have committed in his lifetime, since all humans experience these (it is even possible he masturbated, but I won't stress this). It seems incredibly arbitrary for God to have spared Jesus the "impurity" of being conceived by the union of egg and sperm, but to have not cared whether his Divine Incarnation shat from his asshole or whether he stank to heaven after days of not bathing in the Judean desert.
Additionally, a number of early Judeo-Christian sects didn't hold the idea of Jesus being born of a virgin birth, and most of these sects seemed to gravitate towards the idea that Jesus was more a great teacher or Jewish Messiah than an actual divine being. It really does seem likely the virgin status of Mary and virgin birth of Jesus was a tradition borrowed from the pagani.
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yiff in hell
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Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. (Isaiah 7:14)
Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. (Matthew 1:23)
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>>2175102
And how is a "virgin birth" to be a sign to anyone, considering this Mary was an obscure common woman that no one knew? The only way you could say she is a "virgin" for sure is to have followed her around, and nobody did that, especially for this woman who was rabble. It's incredibly easy to retroactively claim such a woman was a "virgin". But more than that, it's a terrible sign - who the Hell is going to notice it?