I've been interested in the pacific for some time now, and i was wondering if /his could tell me what distinguishes these regions
>Polynesia
Bumperino
>>1743047
Mnemonic key:
>Polynesia
Lots of islands
>Micronesia
Small islands
>Melanesia
Nigger islands
Any questions?
Today marks the 900th anniversary for the battle at Stamford Bridge.
I just thought you should know that
Good show Harold
>>1743012
>900th
I TRIED SO HARD AND GOT SO FAR BUT IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER
Why does India and China have a fuckloads of people?
>>1742937
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition
I wanna say cannon fodder for war since the chink civilians/combatants made up the bulk of casualities of WW2 and were pretty much top on any list of casualties.
But it's probably more of "me so horny" syndrome.
Good place for crops. Bet you didn't even know that
What good is free will without knowledge?
>>1742846
I don't understand how Adam and Eve are the progenitors of the human race. Wouldn't their line have died from the effects of inbreeding a few generations in.
>>1742849
dude metaphors lmao
What good is knowledge without the instruments to use it?
How does one oppose the virulent subjectivism of the postmodern condition and nihilism without resorting to religious conceptions?
become the uberman
>>1742630
Does this mean giving the Overmen the authority to decide what is valuable, thus true?
How does one attain this?
>>1742616
Subjectivism in what sense?
Russia literally owned Alaska, not only that but making it a nearly-contiguous (perhaps so with the Aleutians) 3 continent state spanning more than 2/3 of the world's longitude
>at one point Finns, Alaskans, and Persians were all countrymen
>>1742412
>Never Again
>tfw people don't think of modern Russia as an empire because it's contiguous
Thread about the greatest city of its time
>>1742378
CHI
CA
And when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that straight and level causeway leading to Mexico [i.e. Tenochtitlán], we were astounded. These great towns and cues [i.e., temples] and buildings rising from the water, all made of stone, seemed like an enchanted vision from the tale of Amadis. Indeed, some of our soldiers asked whether it was not all a dream. It was all so wonderful that I do not know how to describe this first glimpse of things never heard of, seen or dreamed of before. . . .
Bernal DÃaz del Castillo (1492-1580), who was a foot soldier in the army of Hernán Cortés
Isn't postmodernity inherently a bad thing?
Where Modernity sought to bring order to the world, to find the most extreme examples of things, and define them - Postmodernity
Seems to want chaos. It looks to find beauty in juxtaposition, in the abstract, in the ugly. It seeks to create stories without a defined end point. It tells us that there is no greater narratives - that science cannot give us a definite answer for anything, and nor should it try to.
Doesn't Postmodernism seem counter intuitive in this respect? Somewhat nihilistic?
We live in an age now where anything is acceptable. Art has gone crazy with its freedom, as has literature, and there seems to be no moral to anything. No God, no reason, no cure, no reason that cannot be countered by a less logical reason, because no logic has any real foundation.
Modernism still strives on - because so many believe in it, and yet so many wish to do away with logic and let the world go crazy. Why??
Humans are not equipped with the will to live. They dragged kicking and screaming to life by gross biology. Everybody is wishing for a savior, and getting themselves ready to let go by making themselves despise life.
>>1742325
Why are you reifying "modernity" and "postmodernity"?
>>1742376
Because those titles encapsulate the ethos of the periods they have been ascribed to?
Did ancient humans really live for hundreds of years?
well it's in the bible so yes.
>>1742288
>Noah lived for 950 years
What did YHWH mean by this?
>>1742285
Just because you got disease and malnutrition and war doesn't mean you can't have a few people living past 100.
If you mean in Patriarchal times, who the fuck knows?
Hey /his/ I'm not sure if here's the place for it but here goes.
I have this artifact I'm having some issue identifying and I want to learn more about it, I'm hoping to look into the region it came from and the group that produced it. Assuming it's not a replica.
It's supposedly Pre Colombian and was believed to have been from the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Northern Colombia. Aside from that I don't know much.
Here's to hoping I can learn more about the wonders of this object, assuming it's not fake.
That is the head of the great Khagan Mehredjin Dagon of the Gökturks.
It is said whoever gazes into the stoney eyes of that statue too long will find his spirit gaze back behind you.
>>1742266
My nigga I don't know shit but I know sure as hell that ain't from the Sierra Nevada
My best guess is it's Purépecha but yours is as good as mine
Go get it checked out dude
That's an aztecian bust of a quoxalotylic soldier, probably from around 1300-1500. It was probably part of some architecture and was broken off.
What does /his/ think of televangelists? how did this happen?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a54iqEr1flQ
>>1742153
do not underestimate the power of the holy ghost
>>1742153
>how did this happen
>>1742161
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_solae
Was the civil war really about slavery? I can understand why the south would want to fight a long costly war to preserve it but I can't understand why the north would fight a war to abolish it (if that makes sense) so it leads me to conclude that there's more to it.
>>1742147
The North fought to preserve the union. The South fought for states rights (to own slaves).
>this thread again
South seceded over slavery.
North fought to restore the union and because the South attacked a federal fort.
>>1742147
Its was about the North being unionist dicks that couldnt stand the idea of a non united America.
Reminder that if it wasn't for the Ottoman Empire, Protestantism would just be another quashed heresy.
Prods literally sided with heathens. They do not deserve to be called Christians.
>>1742137
nope all of that pertains to the city of man not the city of god, luther was an augustnian don't you know.
>>1742149
Luther was a heretic who should have burned at the stake
>>1742137
How did the Ottoman Empire prevent Protestantism from being quashed?
Not sure if this is the best board
>where can you buy original artifacts from antiquity?
I've always wanted some stuff from Babylon or Sumeria and various other civilizations . All I can find on eBay is reproduction
Good luck finding anything that old, most of its in museums somewhere.
>>1742076
I heard ISIS has some pretty crazy deals on shit like that.
>>1743514
Bomb the shit out of them and take their artifacts
How did this man kill 30% of Cambodia in only four years?
What was it all for?
Sometimes people go insane out in the jungle.
See also: LRA, Shining Path, most of Liberian history past 1980
>>1742066
Those organisations weren't nealy as successful as the Khmer Rouge.
Sometimes Asian despots just go nuts and try to wipe out humanity.
>Heaven brings forth innumerable things to nurture man.
>Man has nothing good with which to recompense Heaven.
>Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill.