>Don't make an idol of me
What did he mean by this?
You gotta admire the balls of a guy who writes a song about Jesus and titles it "new nails"
>>1462352
He didn't say it, YHWH did.
See Exodus 20 starting at verse 4. YHWH explains his Commandment and reasoning better than I can.
>>1462409
He is YHWH.
>Want to adopt neopaganism
>Afraid I'll get bullied by my friends
What do /his/?
>>1462351
why would they bully you?
>>1462538
for being a edgy nerd i guess
>>1462351
Get bullied and hopefully they break your spine
>Aristotle invented logic
>>1462343
Formal or informal logic?
>>1462347
Neither
>>1462343
He actually did though. Logics are formal systems of reasoning, abstracted from any real content, and based solely on terms. Aristotle was the first person to invent a system of logic. Who invented a system of logic before Aristotle ?
How come Germany has historically made the worst allies they could conceivably make given the diplomatic resources of the given time period?
I mean, they kind of had to ally themselves with central european meme countries like Austria-Hungary due to the similar circumstances of being sandwiched between France and the Russian Empire.
One has to wonder why they didn't become homies with the Brits. Was it because the Germans wanted to establish an overseas empire too, and the Germans' ambitions for a huge warfleet to support/protect that empire made the British empire feel uneasy?
People who are more familiar with the era; why didn't the Krauts and Limeys buttfuck each other?
>>1462338
They had a good thing going with Russia for a long time, the Holy Alliance/League of three emperors.
>>1462377
>trusting the British
Yeah because that turned out well for everyone who did it.
Also because Britain had an antagonistic disposition towards Germany's increasing industry.
Don't forget Wilhelm II completely fucking over Bismarck's web of diplomacy.
The only humanities students who don't graduate straight into barista school end up filling HR departments, where they continue to pester the actually contributing members of society. The only purpose liberal arts seems to serve as a way for normalshits to continue to impose social norms on nerds after high school.
So are you saying you disagree with your pic?
I'm a /hist major, and I like anime, am a virgin, and am socially inept. And I have no real direction in life too.
Honestly, that lib arts image probably best describes business majors. Just add "Douchebag" to the list, and remove the first two.
>that image
Neat, what university or college did Green Pill go to?
>>1462378
He studied at his local Buddhist Shogunate.
>borrowed Plato's complete works from library and it's due today
>only bothered to read 5 dialogues
>completely agreed with the "I only know that I can't know anything except this" lesson
>don't have the patience to read 1000+ pages of mental masturbation when I literally understood Socrates's main principle before I even opened the book
Am I doing anything wrong? I don't want to be one of those pseuds who talks about philosophy solely by worshiping famous people and saying nothing of substance. I'm a skeptic ffs. I literally cannot see how dozens of philosopher king wank fantasy pages can enlighten me.
>inb4 but he influenced so much
Either he influenced so much that I don't need to read him or you tell me right now why you haven't read the Bible, Torah, Qur'an, harry potter, and game of thrones. I pick neither of those options btw.
You're too much of a pleb quit wasting your time
>>1462294
The masterpieces of Plato are Republic, Parmenid, Phaedo, Timaeus if you didn't read these dialogs, you didn't really read Plato.
>>1462294
Plato is a master of the western cannon. His works, though at times long, seem to shoot off the page at great speed.
Truly, reading such an explosive mind is, in a way, like stockpiling ammunition against ignorance.
After reading Plato, the walls of ignorance will crumble under the explosive strength of his tightly fused arguments.
Which of you opinionated faggots keeps crashing threads that have already finished thinking? Learn to let history settle its own account, asshole.
>>1462267
I literally can not parse the meaning of this post.
>did we lose a war
>That's not America
What is Canada?
How much of todays crime is drug related? Most of it? Most criminal syndicates revolve around drug importing and manufacturing.
I remember reading somewhere that during the prohibition era alchahol cartels in mexico would do what they are doing today with the drug cartels (very violent practices) some of these cartels are now legitimate buissnesses as the prohibition was ended.
When will governments realise drug use is not a crime, but a mental health issue and an illness. When will they stop punishing these peoples with the same degree as murderers and kidnappers?
What would the world look like if all illicit drugs were no longer illicit?
>inb4 everyone would be on drugs
That's wrong. There are people who don't drink and smoke. I know people who grew up most of their lives in Amsterdam but have never tried weed as they see the negative effects as worse than the positives. Drugs do not suddenly make everyone want to do drugs.
There is also the huge postivie of them being billion dollar industries, even on the black market. Legal drugs = less taxes, so long as the govt's successfully regulate that is.
Drugs should be legal. State has no right to protect you from yourself, and drug control is a resounding failure.
>>1462261
>crime is drug related
>solution is to have more drugs
???
This is like the condom argument
>>1462268
If, hypothetically, widespread drug abuse were to have a large negative societal impact, than the state has a responsibility to intervene.
When did the Roman Empire and and the Byzantine Empire begin?
With Constantine? Zeno? Heraclius? Michael VIII?
>>1462207
The fall of Carthage in 698 is a good point of demarcation.
Generally, it's hard to say.
CE 324 when Constantine deliberately decided to create an Eastern capital
After the deathsof Justinian and Belisarius.
Was Socrates the most intelligent human being to ever exist?
>exist
>Not Aristotle
>Not Newton
>Not Gauss
Shit thread.
Why do you think he was all that intelligent?
I'd say his defining characteristic is stubbornness.
What do you guys think of Eliade?
>>1462130
Read like half of the first two of his 4 volumes about history of religion
I really liked them.
>>1462690
I started with that but ended up turning to his shorter works and fiction first.
ITT examples of retardation from historical philosophers
>You pass someone running towards you faster than you pass someone standing still, therefore motion doesn't real.
>t. Zeno
>>1462090
>runners A and B pass each other at 20 mph but pass point C at 10 mph simultaneously
>this is fine
Well... motions doesn't into real entirely.
You see, it's not that light speed is the fastest speed there is, it's that only photons travel at the speed of speed. There is a good reason it's depicted as 'c', it's just speed. Everything else is slowed down, most things we can perceive are slowed to the material level.
>>1462144
Well... yeah. Their velocity is the same, 10mph, but their speed relative to each other is 20mph.
Simples.
What's the closest we've come to achieving his Utopia?
>>1462084
20th century, The third reich.
Define Utopia.
>>1462117
That could've achieved utopia, but it failed, so it doesn't count.
Hey /his/ can you answer me this question
what is (with your personal opinion) literature?
>>1462027
the eating of fecal matter by our ancestors 100k years ago in times of hunger and then munching through our own literal fecies as we chew and make mouth motions we formulate language and thus from shit cometh .
>>1462032
Oh my, thank you :)
I will rewrite it with non bad words
thank you <3
>>1462027
You know there is a while board dedicated to that you fucking fag
And it's convienently named /lit/erature
Favourite artwork and why?
why not?
This one
Lotta stuff going on in this one. Battlefield in center, cannons, cavalry and pikemen meet, soldiers locked in the embrace of death. Foreground, the dead and mangled, looted by a victorious enemy (note the empty purse). Right, a burning and plundered (barrels) town, murdered civilians, crows arrive to feast. Left, a soldier (likely the artist?) throws his head back and drowns himself in wine.