Who really was Joseph Smith?
>>1600670
He was American.
>>1600670
A man convicted of fraud.
>>1600670
He was a big guy
Does anyone know any good documentaries about tanks or something related?
>>1600664
Based cromwell
>>1600664
Shark tank
The Word of Tanks (I know, I know) developers hosted a pretty good panel with a number of AFV experts several years ago, it's around 6 hours long.
What are your views on Terence McKenna and his ideas?
dude DMT lmao
Well every individual I've met who aligned himself with this fellow was either a whore, uneducated, a junkie or a thief.
Psychedelics are a great introduction to the incredible strangeness of our subjective experiences and how vastly different their potential is than we expect from being normal Western children. But if their use indicated some other truth or scientific truths, it seems like those would have at least accidentally made their way into science by now.
What if the nuclear bomb was invented in 1899 as opposed to the 1940s?
How different do you think the world would be now?
>>1600389
We would have 40 years of clean energy more (>implying they wouldn't fucking dump uranium in the backyard), and either Paris or Berlin would be nuked.
So all positives
>>1600389
depends who it was invented by
also if we'd been depending on nuclear energy for the last 100 years the climate probably wouldn't be so fucked up
>>1600389
Scenario is shit desu. The technological level you have to be on to develop an atomic bomb would quickly lead to a catching up in other areas.
Trying to develop a scenario where late 19th century western civilizations posses 1940 level atomic bombs:
I guess they would have been used in europe. They used Gas in WW1 and i think they would have used the a bomb too. They wouldn't have a deeper understanding what these weapons really do (like the US in 1940).
More important, i think these weapons would have been used to hold together the crumbling colonial empires. The rationale would be to scare "the savages" into submission.
When you hear Lacan, you might think I mean a fraud or ersatz Freud. This is not what should happen, I tell you. You are all misled with your pitiful Münchhausen regressions to remember that biological imperative is endemic to our survival and, as such, the survival of the inquisitor. All these books about logic and mathematics? They're just a game of mental cricket conceived by one Holy Algebra-Triangulus Pythagoras, a cultist who would rather dig in the dunes than eat a handful of beans. What we need is Knowledge, like Tai Lopez said in Lecture VII A of 2014 (Bloom). Lacan, the luminary himself, was by far the closest philosopher since de Sade with his invocation of the phallus as savoir absolu - possibly influenced by the suspended phallus columns of India, venerated by all genders. To Lacan, there was only one question: How do you get laid in the twentieth century? Many moons passed like many a good piss when, out of the blue, it hit him like a hotheaded schoolteacher at the gymnasium: You can't have good sex without objectifying women. Then, who better objectifies things than a philosopher? It was his task, then, to infiltrate the sphere of the academy and goodfuck his colleagues' wives (or phalli) to keep the entire human race survived by his progeny. You see, we are all Lacan's children. The lectures and persona were just covers, a means to attaining and perhaps inseminating the big Other, usually referring to his own mother.
>>1600189
>Tai Lopez
>>1600204
True wisdom.
This is a Lacan thread now.
What was his endgame?
Crashed this continent with no survivor.
Complete global saturation
>>1600048
Will there ever be a return to totalitarianism in major nations, or have we learned our lesson? I suppose it's easy to say that it "went away too easy" from this generation's viewpoint, as world war 2 and the cold war grow more distant by the day, but I just feel like it could creep back up on us pretty easily. Any thoughts or recommended reading on the subject?
>>1599979
Totalitarism is always a posibility,but that kind of regime,as you look throuhh history only comes from harsh conditions
totalitarianism, if looked at simplistically is the amassing of great power in the hands of a few or of a single person.
In this sense many of us in the western world live partially under totalitarian regimes, like working in a corporations that has a pyramid like control scheme, i.e. a totalitarian one.
Political regimes are ways of managing people and order them through different means.
Democracy allows "the people" to vent frustrations and make a stand in critical moments when something very displeaing is happening and yet western democracy is the result of the nation and as individual nations lose hegemony and instead insternational groups gain more power people might find themselves living next to people with whom they are in stark opposition. This lose of cultural homogeneity, that maintained by a strong relatively closed off state, might lead countries towards a strong vertical structure that uses a lot of force to keep these different groups from escalating tensions between one another.
So, a strong state whos job it is to forcfully seperate and allow different groups to coexist despite having radically different views of life and having affiliations with other people across borders.
Seems to me this is happening already.
The issue is that we are not really beyond countries. Under what principles can bigger structures be created and maintained by force? Meaning managment bodies that are above countires that have the power to persuade people into giving them authoritatie power?
Totalitarianism is a meme for twelve years olds who've just discovered 1984
Is "being remembered" or "having your name in the history books" the ultimate scam? Even if you ignore how worthwhile It is, it seems like it's 100 % hopeless to achieve. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Newton, and Einstein are already hogging half the limelight and all the first three did was unfalsifiable assertions and mental masturbation.
Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Hitler: Good attempts.
Business people are never remembered. I listened to the in our time episode about George Berkeley. All he did was make up an unfalsifiable system and he will be remembered more than 10 times as much as Bill Gates, Messi, Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs, and Taylor Swift put together, even ignoring the University of California Berkeley completely.
I think scientists and Mathematicians are at a disadvantage altogether. You can't metaphorically provide solid foundations for people to climb higher, like George Boole or Lev Landau (random names). You need to metaphorically create a self perpetuating shit cannon that allows future scholars to splurge your shit everywhere. That's why Keynes and Friedman will be remembered more than all current Economics memorial prize winners put together.
Why do you care? It's not like you're going to achieve anything notable if you spend al your time hand-wringing on 4chan
please lurk before posting
>>1599933
It's a matter if you actually desire notoriety or not
If you're being "sold" the idea of being remembered then you've already lost. If you're being sold anything you've lost.
>there used to be 9 slaves for 1 citizen in Rome
>You're more likely to be descendant of a slave than a royal blood if you were part of the empire
>>1599626
>You're more likely to be descendant of a slave than a royal blood if you were part of the empire
Actually you're 100% likely to be a descendant of both.
>>1599635
Of you were descendant of both that means you're a slave
>>1599650
No it doesn't.
What are some good resources on Georgian history and culture? Has anyone visited, or are any of you from there? What are some interesting things to know about it?
Looking through bibliographies I found:
Suny, Ronald Grigor, ed. Transcaucasia, Nationalism, and Social Change: Essays in the History of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Rev. ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
>>1599544
>Part 1 approaches the ancient roots of Caucasian civilization and the impact of Russian rule. Part 2 looks at the rise of nationalist movements, the emergence of revolutionary parties, and the first wave of modernization of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, while Part 3 carries the story into the Soviet period, in which profound social and economic transformations took place. The final section explores the end of Soviet rule and the emergence of independent states.
Start with the Kingdom of Georgia
I'm looking for an introductory book on economics. Basically, what I'm looking for is a rundown of general economic terms and principles followed by a rundown of prominent economic schools of thought. Could you please reccomend something?
Das Kapital
Definitely Das Kapital
http://www.archaeology.org/news/4784-160823-denisova-cave-needle
Cool but so?
>>1599292
Oldest needle found so far, and it's in Denisova territory, suggesting that the Denisova humans had a more sophisticated material culture and technology than we had hitherto assumed.
>>1600151
>Denisova territory
Isn't that close to the proposed Aryan homeland?
Why is the ego not a spook?
Who's asking?
>>1599277
If you actually read Stirner instead of memeing, you'd know.
>>1599277
Shouldn't you bother learning what a spook is before wondering whether something is a spook or not?
So /his/ now that the dust has settled, good guy or bad guy ?
Or both ?
Just a shitty mediocre dictator who was still in power then the neo-cons went wild.
>>1599140
he was more intersting then the alternative, public face dictators always are
Literally Arab Hitler.
Tell me about the Turks. Where did they come from?
Most of them today are ultimately Muslim Greeks
Hell?
Tartarus?
Gehenna?
It really just depends on your mother tongue
>>1599101
well memed