Why were there so few Eastern Philosophers ? I could fill a whole paper with the names of Western Philosophers.
>>1467261
BECAUSE TRADITIONAL EASTERN SOCIOCULTURE IS EVEN MORE STRICTLY CONFORMIST, AND CONSERVATIVE, THAN TRADITIONAL WESTERN CULTURE, THEREFORE EXCEPTIONAL PERSONALITIES ARE RARER.
>>1467261
Because you were raised in the traditions of Western philosophy? Because you are too lazy to do even a cursory google and discover that Eastern philosophy has just as long and varied a history as Western? Because this yet another shitty bait thread? All of the above?
>>1467362
Jaha I only see one person in your shitty .png
Checkm8 fag
STEMfag here, want to expand my knowledge in humanities. History, philosophy, art, linguistics, anything.
How do I go for it? Books? Sites? Documentaries?
>>1467073
literally just read wikipedia nonstop for like a year
or don't, play videogames or whatever
>>1467073
>linguistics
Melvyn Bragg is a fun starting point.
>>1467073
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/pub
http://pastebin.com/bf5fZE9b
Dear /his/,
I am beginning a new semester of college this coming August. I'm a History Major and I'm taking a class on a subject I'm very excited about, World War II.
However, I'm a little bit worried. I've had a basic history course with the professor before, and he was great, but I feel like he's little bit liberal. What are some liberal interpretations of World War II? I'm looking to get exposed now so that just so I can be prepared and understand the perspective more, and not say something stupid in class.
Germany is evil and Hitler wanted to take over the world and cleanse the world with the blue eye, blonde hair Aryan master race. Six million Jews, holocaust, etc...
lol the /pol/ tween cancer generation is off to the debtmill and a life of wagecuckery
hot tip: make sure you interrupt the teacher at every opportunity and redpill him with an infographic
>>1467094
Then complain about getting flunked on /pol/
Are there any jains in this board?
I want to learn more about your religion, please direct me.
dejainerates go
Read about Mahavira
wtf happened to Catholic monasticism?
It used to be like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShNmSty7lkU
>there will never be a worldwide blackout that destroys all electronics and plunges the human race back to subsistence farming
>>1467016
If that were to happen, the massive majority of the population would soon perish, because without advanced agriculture, we can't produce nearly enough food to support our population, and on top of that, without advanced methods of distribution, we couldn't get it to most people.
>>1467053
What a glorious dream.
Who is your historyfu?
>Francis Phoeboipucci
DNC stream and chat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzFWdAs5VTc
literally >>>/pol/
As interesting as this is please go to /pol/
What was living in 19th century London like?
>>1466686
>EIY GUVNAH, WOCHA SAY I GOBBLE YA KNOB? ONLY 5 QUID AND A BIT O YA TIME.
>>1466686
>WUEL I ABSOLUTELY LUV DA 16 HOURA WOURKING CONDITIONS AND ME GIN RATIONS, NOWHER BETTA THAN THE OL TEXTILE MILLS!
>>1466694
>gets shanked by jack the ripper
Why is the word "ancient" used so often to describe medieval French things?
>>1466644
>French
>French
>French
Right.
>>1466644
>expecting anything from clickbait articles
>>1466679
I just looked up "Ancient French" and it gave me Mont Saint Michel. I'm just responding to recent things I've seen like "ancient town Rouen", "Ancient Regime", and "ancient abbey".
Who was the bigger threat to humanity; the Soviet Union or the United States
>>1466632
Both were equally on the verge of turning the world into the wasteland from Fallout.
>>1466632
The Soviet Union. The inherent imperialism within socialism (worldwide revolution) gave the Soviets a casus belli to meddle in the affairs of any nation.
It was not neccesary for a nuclear war to bring about the socialist '''paradise''' but it was required.
The oligarchies
What is the history behind conversion to Judaism?
Is it all a scam or do Jews see converts as Jewish as themselves?
Converts have usually been rare because Jews don't prosletyze or conquer and people don't want to cut their penises. But yes or did happen, which is why there are jews of various ethnicities.
They certainly don't, which is why marriages between jews (by blood, according to their talmudic racial laws only someone with a kike mom is a kike himself) and non-jews are literally ilegal in pissrahell
>>1466589
Jews actively discourage conversion. Its an ethno-faith, they dont generally want random subhumans joining in
Was the Succubus the medieval conception of "if you masturbate all the time, you'll lose motivation"?
>>1466553
It was literal demonizing of women.
>>1466553
For all of history, except for the modern age, women were recognized as the hyper-sexual gender.
>>1466553
No, it was the explanation for wet dreams, sleep paralysis and various inconvenient births.
>Israel and Saudi Arabia do not have diplomatic relations. News reports have surfaced indicating behind-the-scenes diplomatic and intelligence cooperation between the countries.[1][2][3]
I know the House of Saud has always been publicly against Israel, because if they weren't the whole Middle East would turn on them, including their own people, but it seems to me they've always been on the same page when it comes to Middle East geopolitics ever since they both got close to America. Am I wrong on this?
>After the Arab Spring, Israel views the Saudi government as "guarantor of stability", according to the New York Times. In 2011, Israel approved a German sale of 200 Leopard tanks to Saudi Arabia.[11] The approval came from Uzi Arad, the national security advisor to Benjamin Netanyahu.[12]
>>1466512
>but it seems to me they've always been on the same page when it comes to Middle East geopolitics ever since they both got close to America. Am I wrong on this?
No Saudis talk shit about Israel because they have to. The real Geopolitics is, as it has been for decades, US interest/Petro-Dollar interest vs opponents. Saudis hate radicial Islam they can't control, they hate Iran, they hate Americas enemies, they work with Israel. They just allow their elite to send money to radical Islamists they are comfy with.
The real conflict in the Mideast is Saudis vs Iran, which is really US hegemony vs national sovereignty.
>>1466552
So the current situation really started with the Iranian Revolution?
>>1466605
>So the current situation really started with the Iranian Revolution?
Kinda. Once a US puppet wasn't in Iran, the Sunni-Shia divide was exploited. The Saudis and Iran are fighting for influence in the Mideast in Iraq and Syria and they are both seeking international help from the US and the very weak Russia/national sovereignty types across the globe respectively.
Saudis are the number one Petro-dollar state on Earth. They known where their wealth and power comes from.
Was ancient Rome capitalist?
>>1466479
Of course.
>>1466479
It was slave-alist
As far as I know they had private ownership of capital, however the state was pretty invasive and could expropriate individual's estates to have their wealth, or punish them for their political sympathies, or just for sheer avarice.
Though sometimes the line between public & private wealth could be blurred as political office was often a means to amass wealth. Governors would extract wealth from their provinces for example, and might be counted on to use their own wealth for public means.
Franco-Turko alliance? Christian treason or French necessity?
>>1466393
It was necessary for France. They wanted to became the leading power in Europe and so they had to do it, because
Hapsburg, their worst enemy, had Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, and a big part of Italy (Naples, Sicily, Milan, "Stato Dei Presidi", and some others) and the Pope, Toscany, Piemont, Genoa, were his allies. France was surrounded by the Hapsburg, and so they thought to play their game by making alliances with the Ottoman empire, and even with the Protestants Princes in the Empire.
France never really cared about religion, if it wasn't necessary to their policies.
Both.
They funded Protestant Sweden in the war against the Catholic rulers as well.
Why wouldn't you ally with the strongest power in the world?