After giving your soul to the devil what would happen to you?
Would you go straight to hell or serve him after death or something?
Also is this a new concept mainly ised in cinema or are there also folklore stories etc where it happens with witches or something?
>>1464978
i don't know how far back the idea goes, but it was a belief about witches during the Salem Witch Trials
I always the thought the whole "Don't make a deal with the devil" thing was based on warning people to be wary of entering into shitty contracts in general, the devil being a metaphor for "money lenders."
I'm thinking of a "stranger at the crossroads" kind of story (the stranger is the devil) from Louisiana... Not sure of previous origins.
It's a good argument for the Christian devil being a trickster archetype.
Is having a Buddha statue in your home idolatry?
If you worship it, yes.
In a Western home is signals, um, certain information to me.
Is idiocy.
Note: I am saying interesting as in non-boring. I am not implying the black swan man is always right.
But at least he supports several of his ideas with science, which most philosophers don't do.
Most philosophers do (or did) base their ramblings on pop-science and naturalist observations.
literally who/what
>>1464850
Examples?
Philosophers I know either ignore science or have a very limited knowledge on it.
Taleb might be wrong on certain "tings", he does seem to be more knowledgable than others.
No matter how many women I fuck, I will never find the jungian archetype of the goddess in any of them, ever.
> yfw no goddess gf
>>1464842
Maybe cuz that Carl Jung guy was full of shit and drugs?
Because Jungian psychoanalysis is on par with Scientology, Alchemy and other kooky shit.
>>1464842
/HIS/TORY
Go away you stupid fuck
Is Voltaire the most based writer of all time ?
>Millionaire
>Idolized by the whole continent at the time he lives
>Rekt the Church
>Rekt the French Monarch
>Enlightenment Era a.k.a Age of Voltaire.
>>1464806
I'd fuck him
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>>1464806
I like him based solely on the fact that he has a cool name.
The history, theory, tactics, and art of good old-fashioned gang fightin (without guns)?
>>1464657
FM 3–21.8, The Infantry Rifle Platoon and Squad
>>1464657
Gangfights literally have no science to it but tribal-tier posturing, tit for tat killings, and intimidation.
You're breakin my heart!
Educate me on the most horrific atrocities in history.
Nothing specific.
Lets just have an interesting thread here.
I am especially interested in WWI. But anything goes in here.
The more detailed the better.
Scaphism. Persian torture-execution.
"[The king] decreed that Mithridates should be put to death in boats; which execution is after the following manner: Taking two boats framed exactly to fit and answer each other, they lay down in one of them the malefactor that suffers, upon his back; then, covering it with the other, and so setting them together that the head, hands, and feet of him are left outside, and the rest of his body lies shut up within, they offer him food, and if he refuse to eat it, they force him to do it by pricking his eyes; then, after he has eaten, they drench him with a mixture of milk and honey, pouring it not only into his mouth, but all over his face. They then keep his face continually turned towards the sun; and it becomes completely covered up and hidden by the multitude of flies that settle on it. And as within the boats he does what those that eat and drink must needs do, creeping things and vermin spring out of the corruption and rottenness of the excrement, and these entering into the bowels of him, his body is consumed. When the man is manifestly dead, the uppermost boat being taken off, they find his flesh devoured, and swarms of such noisome creatures preying upon and, as it were, growing to his inwards. In this way Mithridates, after suffering for seventeen days, at last expired."
—Plutarch, Life of Artaxerxes
Nanking.
I have some questions about the central banks around the world and wondered if people had the answers.
We've all seen the familar meme about there only being a few countries with non-rothschild controlled central banks with that number lower after the invasion/bombing of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.
The truth obviously is a lot more complicated then this but in general its undeniable that in most of the major countries in the world outside of the Russia/China camp and "outlaw" countries that they all have central banks that are more or less independent in their desicion making although some of these are public (on paper at least) and others private like the US Fed.
Aside from unsourced meme images I have never seen any evidence that the Rothschilds or any other group of closely-linked people control most of the worlds central banks, I would be interested if someone had some evidence they could point to but thats not my main question.
My main question has to do with the main flaws of central banks (especially ones in private hands) and secondly whether there is any solid evidence for state-controlled central banks or metal-backed currencies and other anti-neoliberal policies performing better then private central banks in modern times such as the last decade or two.
I'm fully aware of how the US Fed since its inception has caused massive inflation and devalued the currency and racked up debt etc, what I want to know is are there any examples of major or even moderately powerful countries with either non-fiat currencies or state-controlled central banks that have taken decisions regarding monetary policy that can be studied and pointed to as evidence for that system working better then the US Fed system. Also are there any non-pariah/zimbabwe-tier countries that issue their own debt-free currency (i.e. not borrowing it at a cost from the central bank).
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Can anyone recommend me some good military marches? The rarer, the better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYniRx6ETxI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7b8E2lgLY4
>>1464586
sbyashennaya boiná (sacred war) mt favourite
>humanities
Why couldn't it just be history
Why did he have to ruin the board before it even took off
Can we petition to make it just history
>>1464368
Fuck you. Also most threads are history anyway. Also: double fuck you.
>>1464378
>most threads are history
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>tfw cant fucking tear myself away from the internet
>"happenings" and weird shit occurring all day everyday
>the slightest hint of a pattern sets my conspiracy detector off the charts
How do I take the long view? If history repeats itself then why care about the past? Why do we bother having art when the real world is weird enough?
And why bother putting effort in to life when I am a devout Spook fearing Stirnerite? I could sit back and watch stuff happen
lol being this much of a dead inside ambitionless cuck
Stirner was a mistake
http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/takepart/time_commanders
Are you going /his/?
Sure.
Hope we can hear some of the CA banter they added in rome 2 and attila
>say goodbye to your wives
>for soon we will be saying hello.
>>1464335
>no richard hammond
dropped
>>1464361
>Cheer you misserable lot!
I'm hype for an ancient battle show that actually shows some degree of scale, last time History did it, they just covered a faggot in make up and had him slicing at CGI in slow motions.
I am really interested in Vatican Secret Archives. May some of you know some articles, websites and etc. that provides information about these archives? Or maybe you know something interesting? I would love to hear it.
>>1464290
No. They're called the secret archives for a reason.
>>1464517
What's the reason though
That the existence of the archives is supposed to be a secret or that the contents of them are a secret?
>tfw just hired as a high school history teacher.
I'm pretty excited. Who else on /his/ teaches?
>>1464275
Why would you ever do that?
Kids are little shits.
>>1464291
I'm teaching high school AP juniors and seniors.
>>1464295
They're even worse
https://screwplato.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/are-philosophers-giving-up-on-reason/
>I recently read What Philosophers Know, by Gary Gutting, for one of my philosophy courses. The book is, in essence, an attempt at rebutting skeptics of philosophy who say that philosophers have not established any disciplinary knowledge; the idea is that he will rebut these skeptics by showing what knowledge philosophy has gained. Unfortunately, the book ends up justifying skeptics rather than rebutting them – the entire book consists of Gutting describing a philosophical dispute, reassuring everyone involved that they are entitled to their opinion, and then moving on. His “philosophical knowledge” is simply that “everyone is entitled to their opinion” repeated over, and over, and over.
thoughts on this? I found this blog and it is pretty much my opinions restated
>>1464248
Well, the blog is sad.
https://screwplato.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/dropped-out-of-university-ending-the-blog/
>>1464248
le ebin skepticism is the cringiest fad around
engage and refute an idea on its own merits instead of hiding behind the trilemma you pseud pussy
like lmao get a load of this shit:
>I “withdrew” from this university semester, and don’t plan on going back. Although it is unfortunate to quit before I can figure out whether (the vast majority of) philosophers are actually as staggeringly incompetent as they appear to be, or are simply playing an elaborate practical joke, I simply couldn’t stand it either way.
h-heh... it appears... my euphoric intellect... was too much... for these bird-brains... heh...
lmao
>>1466483
I mean he isn't even wrong, but not for the reasons he thinks.