Testosterone is bad not only for individuals but for the world world because it promotes violence and has exceeded it's evolutionary need.
We're coming to the technological level in our society where artificial insemination and male impregnation and government-mandated reproduction probably aren't far off.
Explain why we have a need for a hormone that promotes narrow thinking, rash decision making, and physical violence, because I don't think anyone here can.
>>1735921
>government-mandated reproduction probably aren't far off.
What's the point of breeding human when unemplyoment is going to rise due to automation?
>>1735921
chicks dig it
To balance out the other hormones dipshit
>literally all of ancient greek knowledge came from ancient egyptian priests, even most known philosophers and scientists of ancient greece went to ancient egypt to learn from those priests
literally who were they?
>ancient Greek
You mean Minoan and Mycenaean?
Because by the time of Hellenic Greece, the Greeks were really their own thing.
>>1737207
You got what I meant, no need to be a dick
Because Egypt was a continuous and stable culture going all the way back to before the Bronze age. "Egypt" was absolutely ancient. Egypt was a thing for some 4,500 years when HOMER was kicking around. They had literally thousands of years of knowledge, wisdom, and thinking.
And Greece is a collection of shitty city-"""""states""""" scraping in the mud compared to a real and perceived intellectual eternal.
What caused the shift of African American music that had historically been rock music to a much less skill intensive hip hop?
How do you go from this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UoL3dgGxiQ
to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UFIYGkROII
Capitalism
Jews
Can't we at least appreciate this masterpiece of a song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrdQiGotAoo
You're gifted a one use time machine, no return trip. Would you use it /his/?
>>1734515
Yes. Go back two years ago before i met her. Before all the pain.
>>1734515
Future. Literally every historical period would be shit to live in compared to today.
>>1734515
2003 to kill moot
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37452287
> Two skeletons have been discovered in a London graveyard which could change our view of the history of Europe and Asia.
> Analysis of the bones, found in a Roman burial place in Southwark, discovered that they dated to between the 2nd and 4th Century AD and were probably ethnically Chinese.
> Dr Rebecca Redfern, curator of human osteology at the Museum of London, told BBC Radio 4's The World at One the find was "the first time in Roman Britain we've identified people with Asian ancestry" and it was "absolutely phenomenal".
Who were they?
>>1733158
chink slaves probably
>>1733158
China-Rome contact confirmed.
>>1733158
A really really adventurous merchant.
You are Hitler in 1942, you can order the development and production of the Tiger to cease and focus full production on the Panther instead. Would you do it?
>>1732533
Hitler lossed more so than he would've because of letting people with no military expertise, like himself make these kind of decisions. The average 4channer has nowhere near the experience or knowhow to make that kind of call, even the best of /k/ would be a risk.
>>1732533
I'm pretty sure that the Panther was still in development and only went into production in 1943. Although if anything I would give Heinz Guderian near total power in deciding what armored vehicles were being produced.
if i were hitler i'd kill myself and leave a suicide note reading "i was wrong and i'm also gay"
How do we make Islam great again?
Islam was never great
Islam was never great
Where did it come from? Every article and source I can find seems to indicate that depression has risen steeply in the last 50 years, at least in the west? What has caused people to become so hopeless on a large scale?
Industrialization? Feminism? Families spreading apart for work?
>>1731763
Developments in psychiatry / healthcare = more people are able to get diagnosed.
There's no sudden "epidemic" of depression.
>>1731778
I'm skeptical about that to be honest, people are offing themselves in record numbers. So being diagnosed has little to do with people actually killing themselves.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/health/us-suicide-rate-surges-to-a-30-year-high.html
>>1731795'
That seems to prove (if I understood it correctly) the opposite in a bit longer period.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0779940.html
Why don't Muslims rage after what the Saudis did to Mecca?
What? For a long time now it's been more than a modest courtyard where Mohammad (PBUH) lived.
cool hotel
>>1732199
At least it had lots of heritage sites and not one monstrosity like in the picture. The Saudis bulldozed everything.
Are there any neo-pagans who take it seriously or are all neo-pagans hurr durr dude weed lmao atheism hippies?
>>1734023
You just posted a neopagan who is one the of the least hippie guys on Earth.
>>1734054
Yeah but does he seriously believe it?
>>1734071
Yeah but lowkey
Also ITT: post the best Burzum bops
>implying it's not Det Som Engang Var
if incest was practiced by several monarchs and nobility. how did it become taboo all of a sudden? it's a pretty natural thing and there's nothing morally wrong with it.
Everyone knows monarchs are generally morally repugnant failures of human beings.
Don't imitate them.
That one Spanish retarded Habsburg was so bad that it is now a joke tier.
>how did it become taboo all of a sudden?
It was always a little taboo, it was just never avoidable until recently.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3803648/A-meeting-two-ancient-empires-Chinese-skeletons-Roman-cemetery-promise-rewrite-history.html
Fascinating stuff, any /his/torians able to elucidate on the importance of this?
It was some merchants looking for more shekels and this will inevitably be misinterpreted and turned into propaganda by people who hate the west as Chinese playing a hugely significant role in Roman and therefore European history.
>>1733552
Fuck off back to where you came from, thanks.
Would we not have written records indicating East Asians lived with/among the Romans, even if in their outlying territories?
The following is from John Norwich's Byzantium: Decline and Fall. If this story interests you and you want something more detailed, I recommend Roger Crowley's 1453, which is a whole book about this event.
>John VIII Palaeologus had died childless. His first wife had succumbed to the plague at the age of fifteen; his second he had refused even to look at; his third he had dearly loved, but she too had failed to present him with an heir. Admittedly he had five brothers - too many, as it turned out, since they were endlessly squabbling among themselves and he had proved totally incapable of keeping them in order - of whom the first, Theodore, had predeceased him by four months and the second, Andronicus, had died young in Thessalonica. Of the three survivors - Constantine, Demetrius and Thomas — John had formally nominated Constantine as his heir; but Demetrius, who was consumed by ambition and had already made one unsuccessful bid for the throne after his brother's return from Florence six years before, immediately hurried from Selymbria to Constantinople to claim the succession. As self-proclaimed leader of the anti-unionists - and recognized as such by George Scholarius - he enjoyed a certain popularity in the capital and might well have achieved his objective had it not been for his mother, the Empress Helena; but she at once declared Constantine the rightful Emperor, simultaneously asserting her right to act as Regent until he should arrive from the Morea. Thomas, the youngest of the brothers, who had reached Constantinople in mid-November, gave her his full support; and Demetrius, seeing that he was beaten, finally did likewise. Early in December the Empress sent George Sphrantzes to the Sultan's court to obtain his approval for the new basileus.
>Meanwhile two envoys had sailed for the Morea with powers to invest Constantine as Emperor. Clearly they could not perform a coronation, nor was there any Patriarch at Mistra; the ceremony which was held there on 6 January 1449 was almost certainly a purely civil one, consisting of a public acclamation followed by a simple investiture. Such a procedure had at least one perfectly valid historical precedent: Manuel Comnenus had been similarly invested by his father John II in the wilds of Cilicia. But on that occasion, and even when - as with John Cantacuzenus in 1341 - a coronation had taken place outside the capital, it had been thought proper to have the Emperor crowned by the Patriarch of Constantinople in St Sophia as soon as this was practicable. With Constantine XI Dragases - he always preferred to use this Greek form of his Serbian mother's name - no such full ecclesiastical coronation ever occurred. How could it have? The Orthodox Church, since the Council of Florence, was in schism. The Patriarch Gregory III, a fervent unionist, was not recognized - and was indeed execrated as a traitor - by well over half his flock. Constantine himself, though he played down the issue as much as he could, had never condemned the union; if by upholding it he could increase even infinitesimally the chances of Western aid it was, he felt, his duty to do so. But the price was high. The anti-unionists, who continued vehemently to proclaim the folly of seeking salvation from Western heretics rather than from the Almighty, refused to pray for him in their churches. Without a coronation in St Sophia he had no moral claim on their loyalties, or on those of any of his subjects; yet any such coronation would have caused widespread riots and might even have triggered off a full-scale civil war.
>When Constantine Dragases first set foot as Emperor in his capital on 12 March 1449 - it is a sad reflection on the state of the Empire that he had been obliged to travel from Greece in a Venetian ship, there being no Byzantine vessels available - this whole impossible situation was immediately clear to him; yet Pope Nicholas V, who had succeeded Eugenius in 1447, was either unwilling or unable to accept it. Ever since ecclesiastical union had first been mooted, the Papacy had insistently refused to see the difficulties involved on the Byzantine side; and Nicholas was no less blind than his predecessors. When in April 1451, in yet another attempt to convince him, Constantine sent to Rome a long and detailed statement by the anti-unionist leaders, he only urged the Emperor to be firm with his opponents: if they spoke against the union or showed any disrespect for the Church of Rome of which they were now members they must be properly punished. Meanwhile, he continued, Patriarch Gregory - who had resigned in despair a short time before must be reinstated; and the decree of the Council of Florence must be properly proclaimed in St Sophia and celebrated with a Mass of Thanksgiving. In May 1452 he finally lost patience and dispatched Cardinal Isidore of Kiev as Apostolic Legate to settle the matter once and for all.
>The Emperor, meanwhile, had had other problems to consider, among the most pressing of which was that of the succession. He was now in his middle forties, and twice widowed. Both his marriages had been happy, but neither had proved fruitful. His first wife, Maddalena Tocco, had died in November 1429, after little more than a year of marriage; his second, Caterina Gattilusio - daughter of the Genoese lord of Lesbos -whom he had married in 1441, had survived for only a few months before dying at Palaiokastro on Lemnos, where she and Constantine together had been temporarily cut off by a Turkish fleet. Clearly he must now find a third. Various possibilities were explored. In the West there was a Portuguese princess, who happened also to be the niece of King Alfonso of Aragon and Naples; Isabella Orsini, daughter of the Prince of Taranto, was also considered. In the East, it seemed that either the ruling family of Trebizond or that of Georgia might be able to furnish a suitable bride. The Emperor's old friend George Sphrantzes was accordingly sent off to these last two courts to take diplomatic soundings.
What's the deal with Marcus Aurelius? Why was he so plagued with anxiety as emperor even though he grew up a stoic? Also is Meditations worth reading for any purpose?
Because his rule was basically trying to put out one fire or another.
Meditations is interesting to explore his frame of mind while in power.
>>1731792
>Why was he so plagued with anxiety as emperor even though he grew up a stoic?
Following stoicism does not make one a stoic sage. Only a stoic sage would be immune from negativity.
Was he anxious?
They're such a.. Unique bunch of people. Almost as if they're aliens to Europe.
Also, any good books on them while we're at it?
What do you want to know? Most English material on Finland and the Finns is horribly outdated so I'm not going to recommend any books.
>>1728373
>Non-Nato member
>Dat long border with Russia
I would be nervous, desu
>>1728424
We have a decent enough army with the professionals having recent experiences from peacekeeping missions and the conscription method proving to be effective and popular.