>You will never see a well traveled, well sexed, and well paid cynic.
I heard this in a coffee/book shop. How true is this?
0% true
>>1606215
Nice arguement bro.
>>1606242
You didn't ask for an argument.
>Balthasar Gérard was the assassin of the Dutch independence leader, William I of Orange
>At his trial, Gérard was sentenced to be brutally – even by the standards of that time – killed. The magistrates decreed that the right hand of Gérard should be burned off with a red-hot iron, that his flesh should be torn from his bones with pincers in six different places, that he should be quartered and disemboweled alive, his heart torn from his bosom and flung in his face, and that, finally, his head should be taken off.
>Gérard's torture was also very brutal. On the first night of his imprisonment Gérard was hung on a pole and lashed with a whip. After that his wounds were smeared with honey and a goat was brought to lick the honey off his skin with his rough tongue. The goat however refused to touch the body of the sentenced. After this and other tortures he was left to pass the night with his hands and feet bound together, like a ball, so sleep would be difficult. During the following three days, he was repeatedly mocked and hung on a pole with his hands tied behind his back. Then a weight of 300 metric pounds (150 kg) was attached to each of his big toes for half an hour. After this half hour Gérard was fitted with shoes made of well-oiled, uncured dog skin; the shoes were two fingers shorter than his feet. In this state he was put before a fire. When the shoes warmed up, they contracted, crushing the feet inside them to stumps. When the shoes were removed, his half-broiled skin was torn off. After his feet were damaged, his armpits were branded. After that he was dressed in a shirt soaked in alcohol. Then burning bacon fat was poured over him and sharp nails were stuck between the flesh and the nails of his hands and feet. Gérard is said to have remained calm during his torture.
Why are the Dutch such brutal, inhumane barbarians?
>>1605953
If you look at history, Regicides have always been dealt with the shittiest punishments.
Well, this case, it wasnt technically a regicide, but assassinations of leaders meant fucked up punishments for the assassins.
>Gérard is said to have remained calm during his torture.
>>1605953
They're essentially Germans in denial so this shouldn't be surprising.
What went wrong?
Melanin
Nothing. It's just a natural process that probably has happened a million times already in other places of this universe.
>>1605924
Everything looks just fine from that level of magnification
What do you think of Christopher Langan and the CTMU? I was quite happy with my reductionist, mechanist view of nature and its inherent meaninglessness. Now I'm starting to think there is a divine power in nature and that my soul is incongruous with grace. I'm worried my soul is in danger of interdiction by teleological mechanisms built into the structure of the universe.
>>1605851
Absolute trash
Meaningless gibbberish
http://goodmath.scientopia.org/2011/02/11/another-crank-comes-to-visit-the-cognitive-theoretic-model-of-the-universe/
>>1605851
He needed to actually read some philosophy of mind and give better defenses.
What is ironic absurdism?
give me some examples please
When Sisyphus gets to the top of the hill he lets go of the rock himself.
>>1605859
One must imagine Sisyphus as a shitposter
Let's discuss the family as the basic unit of society.
How do families interact with a larger society?
How does family structure affect the interactions between non related individuals?
What factors both societal and individual can result in the breakdown of family ties?
>>1605824
The household unit is relevant for the study of economic systems, the family unit is relevant for the study of nepotist systems.
>How does family structure affect the interactions between non related individuals?
The point is that it affects interactions between related individuals, man. Unless you're talking about how non-related people can end up filling the roles of relatives.
>What factors both societal and individual can result in the breakdown of family ties?
economic hardship and mental illness mostly
>>1605834
Well i was thinking how socialization within the unit effects peoples interactions once they venture outside of the unit (like a kid going off to college and thus no longer under direct family influence).
Although
>Unless you're talking about how non-related people can end up filling the roles of relatives.
is also a very interesting area to look at.
>>1605824
it is natural for men like you to crave the validation of their existence and get depressed if they fail to feel relevant, responsible, dutiful.
The best way for a man to cater his need for approval is to serve some woman (and some of her children) through emotional&financial support, which he sees as ''a childish useless submissive woman'' [or whore and he feels betrayed by her]
Men are pleased to contribute to someone else life, to support their family.
Why women are a good way to feel relevant? Because women love to be provided for and each woman will always find a man ready to please her.
[for most men, the best feeling of feeling real is when the girl moans from your cock in her pussy, or for the most impotent, their tongue in the pussy]
THe problem for men is that they are disposable in the eyes of each woman, since all men wish to serve the few women who talk to them.
Men must thus invent several ways to please women, invention and creativity which strengthen their feeling of being worthy, relevant, in touch with reality.
Men are too impotent to find other way to feel real.
Once that the a woman replaces a man by another provider, the man gets very upset and depressed.
THis leads men to think that they are better than women, stronger, smarter and that they must built a life outside women. Some men manage to indeed built an empire, but they will always loose it for some women.
Women give meaning to men and betas, no matter how successful outside women, will always give up everything for some relationship with some woman who claim to fancy them.
Between the time of the Second Punic War and that of the Gothic War, what were the biggest technological advancements that originated in the Roman Republic or the Roman Empire rather than being imported? Were the soldiers under Scipio Africanus equipped worse than those who fought under Belisarius? Was the average pleb household in Constantinople under Justinian more advanced than one in Rome 750 years earlier?
Define "advance(ment)(ed)".
On the military side of things, they were certainly equipped differently, and I'd say that a sleeved shirt of mail or scale is preferable to a tunic+heart protector, but that doesn't necessarily speak to the effectiveness of the army overall.
concrete
>>1607351
Advancement as in new technologies, both military and civilian.
what is the historical purpose of the institution of marriage ?
does same-sex marriage threaten this purpose ?
or is there even a reason to maintain the historical purpose ?
>>1605781
>what is the historical purpose of the institution of marriage ?
Forces fathers to stay with pregnant women and prevents women from engaging in natural hypergamy.
>>1605781
>what is the historical purpose of the institution of marriage ?
To make witness between two family groups that a couple agreed to live with each other willingly, and recognized the pairing as extensions of family units in some cases. No foul play was happening, and blessings given to the couple, like property n shiet. In some societies, it was also done to compensate the brides family for the loss of a member & that member's labor (hence all the fucking bride prices).
Same sex marriages bring nothing to the table (i.e. no children) and therefore, are just reactionary acts by modern homosexuals.
>>1605804
addendum: my point is Homomarriage doesnt threaten marriages. It's just pointless and empty in their end.
I got questions.
- Why did the Anglo Saxons convert to christianity where as the continental Saxons were getting bummed by the Franks?
- Why did they sod off to modern day England in the first place?
- What made them anglo? Just like.. their new home?
- Did the continental Saxons actually do anything? More than rolling around the mud, praise their holy tree and Woden?
- How come they resisted christianity where as.. the Anglo Saxons didn't?.. Or did they?
>>1605778
I'm not an expert but it might have something to do with the local britins whch were already mainly christian at the time so the saxons might have converted to keep the conquered saxons easier under control.
>>1605778
Britain had a preexisting Christian population
Anglo comes from Angles, one of the peoples who migrated along with Saxons and Jutes
>>1605830
Conquered britons* I meant
Was a third Anglo-American War ever feasible after 1865, or were the cultural/economic ties too strong by that point?
>>1605776
Cultural/economic ties weren't that strong in 1865, it wasn't until the 1890s that the Anglo-American lovefest started. And even then it's very possible.
The US could have easily ended up on the side of the Central Powers instead of the Entente in WWI, all it would take is a different president and a little luck.
>>1606238
Nah. The British textile industry was hugely dependent on American cotton. The American Civil War was a disaster for British textile workers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancashire_Cotton_Famine
>>1605776
Yes, war plan red
I need a good documentary about the history of Britain and Ireland, like the book "History of Britain and Ireland: the definitive visual guide".
Can you help me?
Thank you.
please
help
>>1605749
Read the book, do your homework.
Tell me something about Frederick II
>>1605719
Tell me about Frederick II why does he wear the crown?
>>1605774
If I pulled that off would he die?
>>1605719
He came after Frederick I
Did Britain have any wars in the 1900s?
I'm in the Caribbean, and IIRC, Britain lost a lot of its Caribbean colonies/countries because it was broke, partaking in a long war.
Was it called the 10 year war?
I'm trying to find info on it online, but don't know what it was called.
>>1605645
World wars 1 and 2? Is this some kind of joke/bait?
>>1605645
>Caribbean education
>>1605645
Is this bait?
We are the one force that desires good, but creates evil.
We are the one force that desires evil, but creates good.
Humanities was a mistake.
>>1605642
Explain your reasoning.
>>1606333
Threads like this existing.
My therapist recommended for me to read biographies to inspire me, but they just make me more depressed because it seems like every great person had pretty much everything set up since childhood to be great, and I can't identify with that at all.
Are there any great historical figures who spent the first 25 or so years of their life doing nothing, who went through a crappy education with 0 friends in life? someone who struggles with basic social skills, is pretty dumb generally, and can't even get a simple job? and then after that they bettered themselves and started to do awesome important things?
Hitler
>>1605571
Hamilton was born a bastard on a shit island in the Caribbean, but 30 years later he was George Washington's right-hand man and one of the most respected leaders in America.
>someone who struggles with basic social skills, is pretty dumb generally, and can't even get a simple job? and then after that they bettered themselves and started to do awesome important things?
None of this applies to him though, or to anyone else who mattered historically.
>>1605571
>Are there any great historical figures who spent the first 25 or so years of their life doing nothing, who went through a crappy education with 0 friends in life?
Genghis Khan had everything stolen from him by his father's rivals. He grew to build one of the largest empires in the history of man. His people were so poor, they made clothes from the skins of field mice and ate insects just to survive. He brought them in control of the Silk Road.