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Ancient Rome
Was there really ever anything better?
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1950s america
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1920s america
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>1950s america
wew lad
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Was European imperialism neccessary to industralice the world? 2016-12-07 01:30:12 Post No.2054722
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Was European imperialism neccessary to industralice the world?
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Was European imperialism neccessary to industrelice the world?
Couldn't non-europeans have gotten their technologies by traidng, like Japan?
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>>2054722
Japan had a centralized goverment and tradition. Niggers didn't even reach the bronze age. How do you expect them to trade when they were not even capable of mining or grow crops?
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>>2054722
Is Africa industrialized?
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>"I'm a free thinking individual that thinks for myself and comes to my own conclusions."
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>>2054559
So how do you say it correctly? I would say:
>"I'm an individual with limited capacity for free thinking as it is influenced by multiple biases and biophysical factors. I might come to my own conclusions but they are not independent of what others think nor fully free."
>*Tips fedora*
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>>2054605
>"I've read the ego and it's own and have identified the spooks in my life that I may still pursue them rather than blindly follow them."
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>>2054559
"I have facts and reason on my side"
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Convert me to Orthodox Christianity 2016-12-07 11:55:41 Post No.2054528
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Convert me to Orthodox Christianity
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There seemed to be a ton of Orthodox lads on the board not long ago, so if any of you are still around, please present solid arguments as to why I should look into the Eastern Churches as opposed to other forms of Christianity, namely the Roman Catholic Church.
Philosophical and Theological arguments are preferred; not >muh Catholicism is not Christian or >muh Pope is a cuck.
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I converted to Eastern Orthodox aftr watching George do it on Seinfeld. I liked it up until 9/11 happened. Thats I became agnostic.
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>>2054528
Post more orthodox art instead of rambling
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>>2054528
I'd also love to be convinced.
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>alexander 5' 7"
>hannibal 5' 7"
>julius caesar 5' 7"
>augustus tried to claim 5' 7"
>genghis khan 5' 7"
>timur 5' 7"
>nobunaga 5' 7"
>napoleon 5' 7"
>hitler 5' 7"
5' 7" is the perfect historical height
manlets win again
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Why do you think they felt the need to have power over other people?
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>>2054483
power over other people is a useful thing to have
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>>2054483
Because they had alot of confidence, insecure people dont do the things the historical manlets did.
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Could you recommend some good books on christianity and christian theology? What are the most important early christian works? What are the must-reads? (>inb4 the Bible) Or some novels written by christians that show their worldview? (I know about Dostoevsky and Lewis, but can you recommend any of their works?)
Also religion general thread. What do you believe in and why?
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Euphoric
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This documentary made me finally see that
1) Race doesn't matter;
2) Religion matters;
3) Fundamentalist, Bible-believing Evangelical Christianity is the true religion;
4) Judaism is the religion of the Anti-Christ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=typ2pl2L47k
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4532404/
In fact, there are only two races, Abraham's sons according to the spirit and the sons of Satan; only two nations, the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of this world; only two cities, heavenly Jerusalem and Babylon.
Discuss.
Disclaimer: I'm submiting this under History and Humanities because it covers many topics under humanities such as history, religion, anthropology, etc.
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>>2054361
On a scale of 1 - 10 how good.
Is it biased?
I started the video is it worth watching the whole thing?
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Please refrain from posting here, you're smelling up the place
>>>/x/
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>>2054361
>we discuss anthropology
The only people I see discussing that bullshit are stormfags and the /his/torians who debunk them, and then the threads that get derailed
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Are mystical experiences genuine or do we make them up? I had one the other day where I was completely sober laying in bed and began to feel like I was outside of my body and feeling the presence of God or some divine power. It felt good and I was self aware the whole time. I'm not sure I could have stopped it. It just gradually ended after about 30 seconds and I felt normal again.
Is there a rational explanation for these sort of weird spiritual occurences?
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there's a 'rational' explanation insofar as you feel the need to identify what you experienced as mystical, because that's what your culture tells you these kinds of things are. whatever you actually think it is is your call.
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>>2054329
What's the scientific reason for feeling this way though?
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>>2054332
idk, probably. would that really satisfy your curiosity about the whole thing?
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how entrenched is postmodernism in current day humanities 2016-12-07 08:42:38 Post No.2054194
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how entrenched is postmodernism in current day humanities
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is it pretty much done away with now or is it still creeping here
are we still getting papers like "the hegemonic whiteness of non-binary queer bodies in hyperreality capatalist structures via Deleuzean superconstruct"
or are we passed that era of shit?
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>>2054194
>past the Era of Hyperreality
Have you ever visited social media nigga?
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>>2054194
No. We're just past the peak.
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>>2054194
Your most recent contact with a humanities department please? Stuff like this doesn't get funded anymore.
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Exam time is coming
Post question and hope some kind anon helps
I'll start
>exam topic
Sources and media
>problem
Can't remember the whole semantics stuff behind it and no clue how to remember what media was used in X era
>examples
Semantic rules : a source is created by historians and doesn't "happen"
Media :
Ancient wax tablets
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bump w/ /his/ humor bread
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>>2054127
>Exam time is coming
It's two months off in my country.
Where do people have exams in december? Anglo countries?
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yurop
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If you were given a choice between studying the Old or New Testament which would you prefer?
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>>2054095
New Testament. I'm reading a book involving a socialist Jew, so it wouldn't hurt to start reading another
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OT of course. gotta learn more about slaughtering priests of Ba'al and forging scripture
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>>2054100
HEY GUYS, I """""FOUND""""" THIS BOOK ON OUR LAW
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Would you all consider the Civil Rights movement a revolution? 2016-12-07 07:15:21 Post No.2053910
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Would you all consider the Civil Rights movement a revolution?
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I was thinking back to almost 10 years ago when I was in the English class everyone has to take at my university, and my writing course about revolutions. I wrote a paper describing how the civil rights movement was a revolution. The sweaty overly nervous post-doc who taught our class said that it was not one. While it obviously didn't upend any governmental bodies or anything it lead to a very slow changing of social classes and power structures though there is still inequality in the US.
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>>2053934
You're not supposed to be racist, anon.
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>>2053910
Per O'Neil's Essentials of Comparative Politics:
"Revolution is a public seizure of the state in order to overturn the existing government and regime. Unlike a coup d’état, where elites overthrow the government, the public plays a key role in a revolution. Revolutions often, but not always, involve violence."
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>>2053944
That's racist tho
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Was Rome the greatest empire to have ever existed? Yes or No?
I personally say yes. The cultural influences it had on the world permeate literally everywhere
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>>2053899
The empire of Christ? Hah! Where is this god-man? Upon which throne does he sit? Show me this king who rules his domain without horses and steel that I may conquer him.
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Persia has a solid claim as well, I believe.
Rome was the greatest republic though, no question
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>>2053893
In regards to ancient Empires, absolutely.
Though I would say that the British Empire was pretty amazing
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The KKK get brought up pretty often nowadays... how bad were they really?
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>>2053848
Well, they rose up against Spanish abuses after a century of pleading to be a formal part of Spain. I don't think they were pretty bad at all desu.
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>>2053873
But you are racist /pol/
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>>2053873
I love /pol/ because of how contradictory you lot are.
>Holocaust didn't happen
>Holocaust was good, fuck jews
>We aren't racists, muh buzzwords
>Nothing wrong with racism
>Deus vult, muh sandcoon religion
>lol turn the other cheek? cuck
Legitimate question: Do you /his/tory buffs happen to think religion (in general) has caused more conflict (and war, and death, etc) then it has prevented or resolved? Do you think religion has had, ultimately, a net positive or net negative effect on humanity?
I was just wondering, and while all anecdotes I can think of point one direction, I figured I might swing by and ask people who'd probably know better.
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>>2053711
That's difficult to answer because you have to be familiar with the history of the entire world for all time
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>>2053711
>do you think religion has caused war
Yes.
>has it had a positive/ negative effect on humanity
debatable. Most western culture derives from Judeo Christian beliefs which has been a bench mark for western society in granting people rights and liberties, and as it progressed, and reformed so did the faith.
You can be a gay catholic in the west for example.
On the otherhand, if we're talking about religions like Islam, which has led to totalitarianism and Muslims advocating for its reformation, then it's certainly had a negative effect.
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>>2053718
For a completely and totally 100% accurate answer? Yes, undoubtedly.
But being more passingly familiar with history then I am can give an inherently more correct answer then just speaking out my ass. Knowing better, even if it's not knowing BEST, still sounds good to me.