Why was everyone in premodern times so cute (serious question)?
Pic related, this is actually a guy.
>>1596512
>Pic related, this is actually a guy.
And looks like it. If you believe that that bust looks feminine, you have cognitive problems.
>>1596512
t. guy who never saw a bust of socrates
>>1596563
Oh, my bad.
What are your thoughts on Tito?
Did he really 'Make communism work' from an unbiased perspective?
Did he truly love his people?
Killed innocent women ans children during the bleiburg repatriations alongside (majority) innocent soldiers, butchering around 100,000 people in total
>>1596444
It should be a crime to waste trips on weak bait
>inb4 svetoid
Many theists would argue that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. So, if I am an atheist must I also be a solipsist?
>>1596368
Nah, you can hold two conflicting views without much of a problem.
>>1596368
How are any of these things related?
Solipsism is the only rational position, yes.
What are the best speeches ever?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoKzCff8Zbs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwFvJog2dMw
>>1596309
Hate the uplifting music in the background. It tries to artificially make a speech more compelling than it was.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
>>1596309
>whigism
dropped
What did god mean by this?
"Welcome to Earf"
>>1596260
NOTHING, BECAUSE GOD DID NOT CREATE THE WORLD.
>>1596260
He created America so Americans can live there and drive in big cars, shart at their marts, eat loads of fastfoods and get obesity. Jesus was American by the way and he wants Americans to spread into the universe.
t. expert
What events occurred which changed Christianitys original message of "If you want to enter eternal life, keep the commandments" to "If you want to go to Heaven just believe!!!"?
I am rather sure that many Lutherans think focusing on faith alone is enough to start keeping the commandments.
Why do people keep posting that fake quotes?
>>1596218
literative ability transgressing from priest class to pleb class
Hey /his/,
I'm a really bored German and just wanted to ask, if you could hit me with some trivia about the Holy Roman Empire.
Weak bait
1/10 made me reply
>>1596206
It was neither holy, roman or an empire.
It's the most holy and roman of all empires
I'm just so jaded with art / literature / philosophy / humanities as a whole. I've repeatedly talked about the Munchhausen trilemma and the academia-media-publishing industrial complex and its relation to social posturing. I can't stand all of it. Even Harold Bloom fucking agrees with me.
There are more tiresome trends I'm noticing as well. The institutionalisation / academisation of things is brain-dead. There are so many low IQers / underagers on here talking about which degree they should do to be a writer (and analogous topics on /tv/). Holy lol.
>>1596091
>frogposter
>calling anyone else low IQ
read more
>>1596099
The implications of the Munchhausen trilemma, which crystallised what every person knows deep down, were staggering. Don't act like a stemtard popsci faggot who thinks that memorising and regurgitating random shit brings insight
Do you have a life philosophy? I try to, but I always end up discarding all spooks, whether I want to or not.
Other than trying to meditate as much as possible, and setting small goals to complete each day, no.
Philosophy isn't about making your life better, it's about the theoretical frameworks of political ideologies that manage the lives of plebs and workers and shit. If you read philosophy to "feel better" you're doing it wrong.
>>1596087
>Philosophy isn't about making your life better
>If you read philosophy to "feel better" you're doing it wrong.
I see different things here desu. Explain it.
Hey /pol/ I figured that its about high time I learned about the glory that was the Roman empire before western civilization is destroyed so im asking for any good documentaries for me to watch. Also prefer a quality of atleast 480p so i dont have to deal with eye rape
Rome is overrated.
>>1596043
Nah, nigga
You're just ignorant
>>1596043
Perhaps if you could show me a documentary i could begin to learn just how over rated it is!
What are some of the first instances in history where cannabis was used for its effects on the mind, and for what purpose? Also, how prevalent has the general use of the plant been in history as a whole? E.G clothes, paper, e.t.c.
>>1595956
2700 year old chinese tomb found with pot for the afterlife. first recalled c.2012
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/28034925/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/worlds-oldest-marijuana-stash-totally-busted/#.V72uX_l95hE
>Nearly two pounds of still-green plant material found in a 2,700-year-old grave in the Gobi Desert has just been identified as the world's oldest marijuana stash, according to a paper in the latest issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany.
>A barrage of tests proves the marijuana possessed potent psychoactive properties and casts doubt on the theory that the ancients only grew the plant for hemp in order to make clothing, rope and other objects.
>They apparently were getting high too.
Lead author Ethan Russo told Discovery News that the marijuana "is quite similar" to what's grown today.
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2 books,
Terrence Mckenna Food of the Gods (treatise on the subject of humans symbiotic evolution with spiritual psychedelics)
Marijuanna, the first 12000 years - specifically details the myriad of uses empires made off the cultivation of the plant specifically to feel good, expand the mind
I believe it was purposefully used, in the right mind, for the purposes of greater militeristic enterprise through insight, essentially showing a gear shift to one generation of evolutionary genesis through the use of the plant. From personal experience (check out erowid - a website which is a vault on user reported quasi scientifically experiences with any and all mixtures/psychedelics for varying purposes). And its use as a pain relievent is second to none, again benefiting a warlike culture and mind (yeah animal farm bnw 1984 etc comes to mind but if theres no inner circle free from this shit then there's nothing).
Endocannabinoids are physioanatomically evolved into our dna and structure... we evolved at least 100k years through symbiotic use with specifically cannabis, to remove it from our diet (a western phenomena arising in the last 100 years - globally) is suicide-genocide. From Queen Elizabeths buttcramps to Ghengis Kahns glory. Ameican presidents, etc. Fuck I hate you Harry Anneslinger...
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>>1595956
Spanish Armada was made out of Hemp. Any Empire.. like literally all of them in varying degrees are directly successfully attributed to the use & cultivation of cannabis for the last 100,000 years +++++++++
I had a conversation with one guy who was claiming that Hitler was a great person, because he wanted german race to shine, and the fact that he was guilty in killing millions of people doesnt make him bad at all. How can i argue with someone who claims shit like that? Define good actions as those that bring most hapiness, bad that bring the opposite, than Hitler is obviously bad, but how can i argue if he doesnt accept those definitions? Please help, i`m reading stuff about objective morality right now, but it seems like it will take me a long time before i arrive somewhere, and i desperatly want to prove that this guy is full of shit.
>>1595840
How do you know the elimination of Jews didn't bring the Germans, who outnumber them, happiness?
>>1595840
>i`m reading stuff about objective morality
discard that right now and read The Ego and Its Own
>>1595845
Because they were raped and murdered in the end? Also, i understand that the metrics of happiness are ambiguous, but intuitevely we could say that the more harm you are causing to other people, the worse person you are.
My son turns 18 in a few months and he loves History, but I have no idea what to get him. He wants to become a Modern History teacher when he leaves school.
What Do ?
Get him a sword or something, he could hang it in his office
>looking for parental advice on 4chan
You must be 18+ to be on this website, my wife's son.
Ah I see what you're hinting at.
So here are my fares:
If you want to make it look like an accident, it'll be 20,000 $.
And if you don't care much about it, and I can dispose of him in whichever way I want, it'll be just 10,000 $.
Are Germans the biggest enemies of the Latin civilization?
They're the biggest enemies of civilization full stop.
GERMANIA DELENDA EST
>>1595682
Yes OP.
>Visigoths
Invite Arabs to Iberia
>Luther
Praises Islam and Ottomans
>Friedrich the "Great"
Helps Turks and says Islam is wonderful
>Hitler
Thinks Islam was made for Germanics
>Merkel
Inivites hordes of Arabs to Europe, they rape and destroy European culture
They're the biggest Islam enablers in the whole Europe.
>>1595699
Don't forget this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor
>Hinduism, as well as most Indo-European religions were based on hallucinogenics
>Christianity was based in alcohol
>Islam on opium
>atheism on memes
What is going the next religion to be based on?
probably adrenochrome and jenkem 2bh pham
Vidya
Virtual reality
4chan
Waifus