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The divine irony of material rationalism 2016-08-16 17:52:12 Post No.1557654
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The divine irony of material rationalism
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2016-08-16 17:52:12
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Does anyone else find it perfectly ironic that material rationalism - which has not even rationally explained matter yet - now behaves exactly like the stereotypical "religious nuts" material rationalists like to invoke?
It has sacred texts, dogma, prophets, hierarchy based on money and power, and it's in a tragicomic impasse where its utter failure to find a single material underpinning of the human experience after centuries of searching is directly proportionate to its hysterical rambling about a mythical day of reckoning where such insights will supposedly be gained, though not a single material rationalist can tell us when this will happen, how this will happen, and who will do it.
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>le brainlets le
>lel autism if you disagree with me
Can you please fuck off of /his/, forever? Or at least have a trip so that I can filter you
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>>1557654
religion correlates to childbirth increases like sections on a farm for different animals (religious groups)
as for ur post id proverbially fuck it but i wouldnt ever admit to it claim it or name it
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>>1557654
>DUDE LIKE NON-RELIGIOUS PEOPLE ACT LIKE RELIGIOUS PEOPLE LMAO
It's time to slit yourself and bleed to death man.
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I'm not a history buff and I've never taken a particular interest in history prior to my present, although that's not to say that I don't find history interesting.
I have a history resit coming up for university that I'm currently studying for (I didn't sit the first one because I had a crisis with another essay so I got an automatic zero). I'm not really looking for help or answers, I'm studying by myself, but I did want to ask those of you here that present a real and legitimate natural interest in the histories, what do you find the best method of educating yourself on these matters - pure, brute rote memorisation of going over the facts and the dates again and again and again, or frequent contemplation of the information you're absorbing? How do you manage to remember it all?
With all these facts and data I'm just having a difficult time staying focused and prone procrastination.
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Think of it not as facts and dates to cram into your brain, but as a story in which the facts and dates are details.
Imagine yourself telling someone about, to use your picture as an example, how Constantinople was taken by the Ottomans. You wouldn't just jot off a bullet point list of events and times that they happened, you'd make it flow as a narrative. Imagine the major players not as names to memorize, but people who had their own motives and emotions that lead them to do the things they did.
In short, make it interesting for yourself and the facts and dates will root themselves in your mind. I find that writing out or telling someone else what you're studying helps cement that knowledge as well.
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I try to create a timeline in my head of when certain things happened in what order, but usually not the exact specific date unless its necessary. For example I don't know what day exactly the Defenestration of Prauge happened, but I do know that it happened shortly after Ferdinand became >Holy >Roman >Emperor, and started the 30 years war in 1618. To me its fun seeing how a single person or event can cause a chain reaction that lasts for decades and see what caused what.
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>>1557624
Think of how you can remember lines from a poem, a book, a play, a movie. It's sort of like that. Humans are pretty good at memorizing narratives, characters, etc.
Try and pick out a major figure important to the events you're studying, and follow his story through them. Then pick out another, and another.
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>>1557441
1. Minoan (Crete)
2. Mycenae (Greece)
3. Rome (Italy)
4. Franks (France)
5. Holy Roman Empire (Germany)
6. Imperial Federation (England)
7. Anglo-Saxon (I, International)
>Rhodesia, never forget.
6000 years strong.
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>>1557585
If there is a West is there also a East?
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>>1557750
xionagu
huns
mongols
manchu
nuclear crater
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>>1557585
wtf is this map/post
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Can we take a moment to talk about the eternal Habsburg and how it single-handedly destroyed Europe
>Destroys France through the Coalition wars and Marie Antoinette
>Kills Franz Ferdinand and starts WWI
>Gets fucked by Sardinia and Prussia, then puppets them after their respective unifications
>Destroys the Spanish Empire after taking them over
>Starts Thirty Years War which puts the HRE into decadence
>Puts Adolf Hitler as German Führer, finally destroying Germany
>Stops Russia from liberating the Balkans from the T*rks
>Ends Papal influence
>Reason why the Anglo was so powerful
>Gets fucked by Hungarians, only able to save it's Empire by declaring Franz Joseph Kaiser of Austrians AND Hungarians
>Most houses that suffered under Habsburg influence have died off
>Most houses that didn't die off under Habsburg influence are piss poor """noble""" houses which descendants are commoners
>To fuck over Europe again by electing a Nazi as president
Why is Austria prone to ruining everything?
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>>1557406
catholics are the worst thing that ever happened to this world
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>>1557406
Dude Gavrilo Princip killed Franz Ferdinand.
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>>1557406
When did the Habsburgs puppet Prussia? By its formation as a kingdom in 1701, it was largely independent of Imperial hegemony.
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Hey guys I recently discovered and being listening to a couple of podcasts: history on fire by an italian guy with HEAVY accent but enterteining, and the lesser bonaparts, by a couple guys that review history in a very funny way, it's almost comedy. Do any of you know of really interesting podcasts that I'm missing?
>inb4 dan carlin or history of rome
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History podcasters have basically unionized at this point
Just go on the facebook group
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In Our Time is good
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OP here, forgot to add that I'm suscribed but haven't listened yet to Revisionist History, Our Fake History and The History of Byzantium.
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Was Yashodapura(Angkor) the greatest city of its time?
Some sources say it was the most populated place on earth
Pic related is the palace at phimeanakas
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>>1557212
Wat Paramavishnuloka in its heyday
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>>1557212
It was the biggest pre-Industrial city ever built in terms of area, though it was low density. Population estimates are up to a million, which makes it one of the biggest cities of its time, though probably still smaller than some Chinese ones.
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>>1557244
I don't like the Bayon area because there are creepy faces all over the temples.
Basically Jayavarman VII was the ultimate narcissist and he put his face everywhere lol
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Can we talk about how 10/10 the 717 Siege of Constantinople was?
>Muslim armies make camp
>immediately attacked by Bulgars
>Maslama tries to scale the Theodosian Walls
>defenders just pick his men off
>Maslama tries to attack the sea walls
>fleet gets burned alive by Greek fire
>negotiates with Leo
>Leo convinces him to burn his supplies to prove that he's about to take the city
>Leo then doesn't let Maslama in
>worse winter in anyone's lifetime
>Muslim armies starve
>Romans sit in comfy in Constantinople
>Maslama forced to get reinforcements from Christians
>Romans attack them
>most of his reinforcements run away or defect to the Romans
>Muslims forced to go home
>sail back
>volcano erupts and sets flaming hail upon the retreating Muslims
>plague breaks out in Cilicia and devastates remaining land forces
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>>1557091
>romans
>speak greek, don't have a republican government, aren't Roman Catholic, don't live in Rome, couldn't hold Rome
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>>1557091
lets talk about how the islam experiment started at saracen and ended at mongol
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>>1557091
>romans
>not greeks
Other than that, yeah, it was 10/10
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Any examples when country started obviously losing war and failed hard? Can't think about a one, there were fair chances most of the time.
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Can you rephrase that?
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>>1557010
>hmmmmm
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>>1557010
Second Schleswig War
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Can 5 F22 with pilots send back in 1940s defeat the entire Air Force of Nazi ?
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>>1556934
Is that assuming you've sent the shitload of logistics, technical staff and industrial power needed to support them? Maintenance of modern aircraft is fuckhuge. If any of this is missing they're as good as scrap
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With such gargantuan disparity of technology I'd guess the WWII era pilots would resort to flying with huge nets attached to bring the F-22's down, there simply is no chance for the outdated plane. WWII planes might win because there's only 5 F-22's, but resorting to non conventional methods.
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>>1556934
An F22 carries 8 air to air missiles and has a 20mm cannon with I think 500 rounds.
5 planes means 40 missiles, all of which are likely to hit and kill. Harder to guess how much the cannons could do, even a ww2 plane can twist and dodge and you won't hit every shot with the gun, nor will every shot kill.
Assume each Raptor can kill 12 planes. The Luftwaffe can absorb 60 planes lost in 1940. The answer is no.
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Why don't history programs and documentaries ever mention how far more civilians died during the allied "liberation" of the netherlands and belgium than during the german invasion?
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Why doesn't the bible censure the jews for genociding other tribes?
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>>1556878
>Why would the victors write history the way it actually happened
Gee, I don't know.
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>Allies know Germany moved all their industry underground
>Allies keep bombing anyway because fuck German civilians
Shh...
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http://bigthink.com/videos/steven-pinker-on-artificial-intelligence-apocalypse?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox#link_time=1471019956
Is this top tier social science?
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It's wrong, it's ALL wrong.
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>Pinker believes an alpha male thinking pattern is at the root of our AI fears, and that it is misguided. Something can be highly intelligent and not have malevolent intentions to overthrow and dominate, Pinker says, it’s called women.
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>>1556912
Women don't act horribly because of a sense of domination over others, but out of pure malice. A bad woman is worse than a bad man.
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Is it right for government to control sex life of the people? Should it made reproduction mandatory to preserve the nation?
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>>1556767
No, if it's between consensual adulte no one care.
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>>1556767
If anything reproduction should be limited to preserve the nation, you fucking moron.
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>>1556767
What is that picture trying to imply?
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Is it true to say that Christianity is an anti-human ideology in its core?
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>>1556753
at its core its a cannabis cult since the time of moses, abraham, and before.
jesus was so big because it took it from the aristocratic priest-king class through the bourgeois through the proletariat
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>>1556753
All the Abrahamic religions are death cults
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>>1556772
Cotton is softer
>no pesticides
Kekd, I have to put nets on my plants to keep bugs off in late summer
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Do you think that science will be replaced by another belief system or is it the last (and thus the greatest) of all belief system mankind has, and could, conceive?
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I don't see science as a belief system, but a system with which to seek out and categorize knowledge. I'm sure something superior to the scientific method will pop up, though.
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>>1556754
I don't see how something superior to the scientific method can pop up.
Maybe something will but I can't think of a way that it can.
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>>1556834
Well people didn't think the scientific method could exist until it did.
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Was it autism?
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why
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>>1556709
Of course it was autism, he was a Sardinian after all.
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>>1556709
Yes