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If humans had evolved with the ability to commit suicide by overriding their survival instincts, how would history have turned out instead?

Would slavery still exist? Which wars would be lost and won? Which countries would be ruling the world today?

>inb4 humans would go extinct because everyone would kill themselves

Pretty sure only the weak willed would only kill themselves instantly. But otherwise most will still want to live.

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Hey /his/,

im looking for books like "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" - timeless history books.

Can you recommend some to me?

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Why have there been combatting opinions throughout history as to what exactly causes inflation?

I recognise that the economy is inherently unstable but why are there so many differing schools of thought?

Do you think this reveals the absurdity of viewing Economics in terms of 'theory'? Is the fundamental fault of Economics the idea that a theory can explain its functioning or failures?

Has monetarism become obsolete?

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>ancient greece
>renaissance
>?
Will there ever be a 3rd era of extreme aesthetics?

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>The Late Upper Paleolithic Model, or Upper Paleolithic Revolution, refers to the idea that, though anatomically modern humans first appear around 150,000 years ago, they were not cognitively or behaviorally "modern" until around 50,000 years ago, leading to their expansion into Europe and Asia.[6][17][18] These authors note that traits used as a metric for behavioral modernity do not appear as a package until around 40–50,000 years ago. Klein (1995) specifically describes evidence of fishing, bone shaped as a tool, hearths, significant artifact diversity, and elaborate graves are all absent before this point.[6] Although assemblages before 50,000 years ago show some diversity the only distinctly modern tool assemblages appear in Europe at 48,000.[17] According to these authors, art only becomes common beyond this switching point, signifying a change from archaic to modern humans.[6] Most researchers argue that a neurological or genetic change, perhaps one enabling complex language such as FOXP2, caused this revolutionary change in our species.[6][18

Was it autism?

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Should a Christian read other philosophy, /his/?

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>tfw no one will ever make a bust of you

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What is the point of modern Philosophy as a study?

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>"Hello dear sir, may i inform you that you have not signed the social contract that will give you the benefits of society in exchange for your rights"

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Hey does anyone have any pics of King Josiah? I'll dump what I got.

>2nd Kings 23
>4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el. 5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven. 6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people. 7 And he brake down the houses of the Sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

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The original thread got deleted, so I guess I'll just elaborate that it's a genuine question.

As I heard Jewish people as we know them currently converted and aren't the people that Moses originally freed from Egyptian slavery - but that slavery is exactly what connects black people with original Jews. Someone brought to me that black people were originally the ones in Jerusalem and were pushed back because of Romans and I want to know how true that is.

So, how was it?

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Were the Poles betrayed?

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>This piece consisted of a starving dog chained to a wall in a gallery. What is more fucked up, is that only a few feet away, just out of the animal’s reach was the title of the work spelled out in dog biscuits tempting the animal. The artist, Guillermo Vargas, received many death threats during the showing. He claimed that this piece was to highlight the hypocrisy of a society that takes no notice of a dog dying in the street, but gets angry when one is being chained to a gallery wall.

What happened to art, /his/

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I want to read the really gruesome and authentic accounts of the Eastern Front in WWII. Like really horrific but real war stories of what the suffering was like. Does anyone have any book recommendations?