>Oh lord, please cleanse this world of all the filth that lives upon it.
>except me lol
worst 'historical' figure ever
he was picked out by god so it's cool
>>1496601
Dude survived 10,500 BCE Black Sea basin flood.
Arrives on shore with family and some chickens.
Locals say, "Wow!"
Legend told around campfires for several millennia and spreads planet wide.
Somebody finally writes it down.
Pretty simple really
Ah yes the flood where God in his celestial laziness decided not to change the minds of the people of the Earth, but simply drowned them
what are the dead sea scrolls?
>>1496598
One of the esoteric branches of Christianity that was purged at Nicea in favor of simplistic literalism.
>>1496614
Dead Sea Scrolls, not Nag Hammadhi, buddy.
OP, the Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of texts found at a pottery factory where they were hidden, perhaps around the time of the Roman-Jewish war in the 70s. The Catholic scholars who inspected them initially thought they must be the work of a monastic order having mistaken the pottery factory they were discovered in as some sort of religious settlement), and determined that it must tbe the writings of the Essenes, a small apocalyptic religious group among the Jews at that time. In all likelihood, the find is probably more interesting than that, namely, it's probably the library of a private man in Jerusalem at that time, with a wide swath of interests, since the texts seem to represent all different manner of viewpoints. The biblical texts found also show the Masoretic text that the Old Testament is based on is largely good, with minor variations.
>>1496598
oh look, an ancient document with clear fucking handwriting, not chicken scratch
>humanity is nothing more than a spook to me
>spend months at a time strategically dispelling spooks from people's heads, and writing philosophy
>get bored of one spook after a while and move on to my next spook but that's okay because there's literally billions of you dirty little spooks to fuck around with
>some people actually believe I care about them as people but the truth is I only use them for my egoist self-interest
>>1496558
One might describe your behavior as being "spooky". haha
So this spook thingy is basically sociopaths using philosophy to prove they are intellectually and morally superior to plebs who, like, care about stuff ? Is that it ?
Do roachies even possess the faculties necessary to become spooked?
What could go wrong?
Possibly the greatest triumph over the white devil before the Haitian revolution
What could pawssibly go wrong?
T. Gaius Terentius Bubsy
>>1496559
>all the layers of irony or ignorance in this post have given me leukaemia
>white devil
Black Haitians who ruled after they gained independence weren't so great, devilish you might say.
>triumph
They had to pay France to not invade them, for about a century. The USA went to war over paying the Barbary States far less than this; Haiti had no capacity to prevent being shaken down.
>greatest ever
Ottomans? Mongols?
Who was the worst Cold War president?
My choice is Reagan
>funded, armed and trained the Taleban and Mujihandeen, including Bin Laden
>gave a shit load of arms to the Islamic Republic of Iran in order to finance a right wing putsch in Nicaragua
>orchestrated the CIA cocaine smuggling ring that set off the crack epidemic
>Ended the cold war.
You out forgot the most important bit.
>>1496520
>Reagan
>not Gorbachev
Keep drinking the patriotic Kool-Aid m7
>>1496516
>Reagan
I don't know about worst seeing as he has LBJ to compete with but he is hands down the most overrated
>War has always been motivated by money & resources.
do people actually believe this?
Fear. Honor. Interest.
Some do. And they are wrong. Ta-da, your magnificent thread done and dusted in under two minutes.
i always hated how people say money is inherently the root of all evil. Marxists have gotten so much mileage out of this. They legitimately believe that if money was removed from the world the human instinct to strive to influence others and accumulate power will just go away
>2030
>"HITLERS 1933 INSTAGRAM posts were found, containing many SELFIES at the building sites of concentration camps!"
If Hitler didn't kill the Jews why is he so liked?
>>1496438
Fucking savage!
Has this ever been asked on /pol/? Curious to know the backlash it would cause.
If there was a race of human that was completely domesticated and was literally physically and mentally made to be low-class citizen, pretty much like house-elves from Harry Potter or dogs, which would be more immoral, keeping them as slaves or forcing them to live free?
>>1496370
I don't know why don't we put out a poll with kfc meals?
That said, it is immoral to keep an individual down. It is worse to set an individual "free" suddenly into an urban jungle with no skills. I never understood why it had to be "all slaves are free" and not any slave born after this date MUST be educated, All slaves have rights, etc
Why couldn't slaves in North America be turned into useful people over generations instead of loathed and mistreated to this day?
If their females looked like this then hell nah I'm not releasing them.
>>1496376
Have to allow the possibility of social mobility for meritocracy.
Continuing to call them slaves and mostly treat them as slaves would create a us and them mentality even worse than the one they have now.
If they are just an underclass, identical or almost identical in rights and protections, then in theory they are still in your group, just at the base level rather than wherever you are in the theoretical hierarchy.
You can't have semislaves, they'd just use the power they had to escape bondage.
Why did it happen?
Spain had to get rid of the disease that were Republicans.
The command of the opposition was sadly usurped by that faggot Franco.
>>1496356
Because of a butthurt military
>>1496360
That "Butthurt Military" turned out to be the most effective military force of the century. Winning stunning victories not only over the republic, but also over the Soviet Union and Morocco.
Why did the concepts of prophets and martyrdom exist in the middle east but not in europe?
Pic unrelated
>prophets
Oracles speaking for the gods, poets divinely inspired by the muses, etc.
>martyrdom
Is the idea of a self-sacrificing hero really that foreign? I don't think so.
>>1496465
I mean prophets neing divinely inspired to rule or create a new religion.
It isnt foreign only due to us adopting an abrahamic religion. Where in a euro religion can you find a martyr? All you see are warriors and kings.
they had similair ideals like the concept of "lof"
its just a case of the Semitic mind giving birth to an idea that wasnt conceptualized somewhere else
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEg_Oys4NkA
yfw you realize he is right.
tl;dw:
>guy is an atheist, studies comperative religion
>creates an algorythm to track the origin of religions
>all religion fall into one of few categories
>you can easily track down what the lie was that started a religion from their mythology
>it usually comes from a personal relevation of a prophet, or someoene claiming to have uncovered the tradition from an obscure past
>Judaism doesn't fit any of those categories
>in the Bible all Jews hear the voice of God at the Sinai mountain
>Jewish genealogy was famously precise, rabbis tracked their family tree all the was back to the time of Moses
>the origin of Judaism is completely unique and unexplainable
>in nature, everything happens more then once: that's the meaning of the word natural, it's replicable, explainable and can be observed happening more then once
>non of those fit the origin of Judaism
>therefore, it probably has supernatural origins
>>1496373
Doesn't apply to vedism
>>1496373
Considering that the Hebrews were polytheists like everyone else in the levant before they were monotheists, this sounds like horseshit.
I'd like to discuss the physiology of humans. I don't know much about it and it is a very intersting topic. How did it change over time?
All I know is that height changed a lot over the years and people in the early middle ages were a lot smaller for example. But what about other stuff?
Todays humans are lazy and spend most of their days sitting and eating, so one could think that someone (lets stick to our example of early middle ages western europe)
back then was a lot "fitter" (both in actual physical capabilites and also visually). On the other hand, malnutrition and generally worse nutrition were the rule
(or am I wrong here?) and in order to be a ripped cunt you need good nutrition, so maybe the opposite is true and what they considered a huge and massive warrior would today
be your average gym-goer? What about other things like immune system? Again, was is better because people were outside and exposed to nature or was it worse due to nutrition?
Would your average peasant in scandinavia catch a cold as fast as I do today when I don't close the zipper of my jacket in a cold night?
What about aging? Would someone that survived childhood and became an old man be healther than todays elderly or a near-deaf, near blind, toothless guy?
What about hair? Did as many people go bald as today? Were people more or less hairy compared to today? What about bone density or wound healing?
These are just some aspects, but I'm really interested in everything related to the topic.
To sum it up: How would the body of an average medieval peasant be different from an average western european person today?
Bumpo, sounds interesting.
Dont know why, but in my head old time soldiers were short but thick+strong as fuck. Just imagine pitbulls
>>1496346
Certainly shorter, most likely underfed, depending on the kind of work he did he might have spinal problems, arthritis and who knows what else
>>1496346
>back then was a lot "fitter" (both in actual physical capabilites and also visually)
Physically, on average, they were. Visually? Lots of people were skinny as fuck.
>what they considered a huge and massive warrior would today
be your average gym-goer?
You are taking all civilizations into account. It highly depends. The average person that hits the gym nowadays has no knowledge of what (s)he is doing and is just doing repetitive movements for some muscle growth. Technique, which humans nowadays highly lack, was (and still is) crucial in combat.
>What about other things like immune system?
Our immune system hasn't changed greatly in just a couple thousands of years. People were way more likely to die in the past, obviously.
>Would someone that survived childhood and became an old man be healther than todays elderly or a near-deaf, near blind, toothless guy?
We do anything to keep people of old age alive. Human beings couldn't deliver such a high level of medical care in the past, so people were likely to die when a mild virus hit.
>What about hair?
>Did as many people go bald as today?
>Were people more or less hairy compared to today?
>What about bone density or wound healing?
Do you really think the human body changed that much in a couple of thousand years due to evolution? These changes are very slow.
>How would the body of an average medieval peasant be different from an average western european person today?
Peasants were left untreated, so injuries, infections and any other ailment would both build and stack up.
Why is this area considered the cradle of civilization?
What about all the humans in Africa? Why aren't they considered the first civilization? Is it because they were made up of tribes?
And also, why did the three Abrahamic religions originate from the Middle East? Specifically this region too. What is it about this place that had people write up books that were good enough to convince masses and change the world?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_of_civilization
>>1496276
Because unlike most hunter/gathering tribe societies, it had a lot of natural, fertile soil where people developed agriculture and that attracted more people so they eventually built towns and created a society. Now with food, river water and animals people could focus on developing their society further. For example math and writing was developed due to increasing complex situations such as needing to know how many resources there were. Writing and math eventually gave way to stories, and other subjects.
While Judaism in its ancient polytheisic form was always there, the two other ones became huge entirely due to chance. Christianity only became as big as it was thanks to Rome who controlled parts of the Midddle East back then. Islam has somewhat the same circumstances as Christianity in the sense that it was the state religion of a huge caliphate.
>>1496276
"A civilization is any complex society characterized by urban development, social stratification, symbolic communication forms (typically, writing systems), and a perceived separation from and domination over the natural environment by a cultural elite."
"The Bronze Age is a time period characterized by the use of bronze, proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization."
the first known early bronze age civilizations were located in the Levant/Mesopotamia.
Were the middle ages really as shitty, dark, violent and ignorant as our society makes them to be?
Isn't this just projecting? There were no fucking world wars, holocausts, school shootings and sky high divorce rates in the middle ages.
Sure, you didn't have much "freedom" but you did the same thing your dad did and your wive and children were obedient and you were obedient to the king. That's gods eternal order. Doesn't sound like a bad deal to me.
Be more specific.
>>1496263
there were no world wars, holocausts, school shootings and sky high divorce rates in ancient aztec society
is their society far better than our own because of this? think before you post next time please
>>1496263
The one projecting here is you. And if you want to show exemples of modern fatalism then use something else than such biased 'hololcaust' or 'school shootings'. There are much worse stuff in the world out there.
>Sehnsucht is difficult to translate adequately and describes a deep emotional state. It is sometimes felt as a longing for a far-off country, but not a particular earthly land which we can identify. Furthermore, there is something in the experience which suggests this far-off country is very familiar and indicative of what we might otherwise call "home". In this sense it is a type of nostalgia, in the original sense of that word.
>C.S. Lewis described Sehnsucht as the "an unnameable something, the desire for which pierces us like a rapier at the smell of bonfire, the sound of wild ducks flying overhead, the title of The Well at the World's End, the opening lines of "Kubla Khan", the morning cobwebs in late summer, or the noise of falling waves."
If you're reading /his/ and are interested in history you too likely feel nostalgia for places or times that you never knew or experienced. What triggers it in you?
>>1496104
Sauce of webm; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvUeo5sagkA
Candid shots of people in old dress does it for me.
fascination with the condition of primordial man in the state of nature - savageness and beauty everwhere, death always a moment away, life-force so strong and visceral
>>1496104
difficult to translate my ass
-aboo