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How did Tokyo recover so well from the firebombings?
What if the US dropped a nuke there instead?
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The same way as Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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>>1453989
Capital influx from the US and they're a very laborious and industrious people.
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Let's see if /his/ have good philosophical stances. Post, and shitpost about how dumb everyone is.
1. A priori knowledge: yes or no?
2. Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?
3. Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?
4. Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?
5. Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?
6. External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?
7. Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?
8. God: theism or atheism?
9. Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?
10. Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?
11. Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?
12. Logic: classical or non-classical?
13. Mental content: internalism or externalism?
14. Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?
15. Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?
16. Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?
17. Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?
18. Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?
19. Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?
20. Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?
21. Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?
22. Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?
23. Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?
24. Proper names: Fregean or Millian?
25. Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?
26. Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?
27. Time: A-theory or B-theory?
28. Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch?
29. Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?
30. Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?
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Both answers retarded, for all questions.
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>>1454001
t. person whose opinion is irrelevant
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>>1453973
So, did this turn out like you hoped?
Why did Old Norse names (Hodr, Baldr, Sigurdr) have the suffix -r?
Pic unrelated
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because of rhotacization of proto germanic -az and other similar sounds.
e.g.
PG :Segaz --> ON :sigr
elgaz --> elgr
also it's probably a nominative case marker.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nxaMf9bc9U
how realistic is this scene?
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this shit is sharknado stupid. but it's 100% realistic.
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>>1453511
That's some real looney toons shit
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Let's talk about Russia. Is it part of European Civilization? Was it significant in The Cultural Dominance of Europe and scientific progress?
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>>1453503
As a nation I guess it would count as European just because how intermixed it's been in European politics for the longest time
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>>1453503
She was,but not as significant as Great Britain,France and Germany.
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How can we objectively measure the virtue of the man?
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>>1453422
money
>if you're so smart, why aren't you rich?
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>>1453422
By how many Fiery Doritos® Locos Taco Supremes he can eat in one sitting.
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With the sole exception of furs and saltcod could the Norse have developed any economic reason to more heavily explore, settle, or trade in North America?
Would the warmer conditions of the period have allowed them to sail or travel overland (pic related) to Asia effectively enough to trade?
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>>1453264
The conditions by which they rapidly colonized Iceland, likely as a result of population contraction from the end of the Viking expansions, ever have spread to the maritime islands, Newfoundland in particular, which had a more favorable climate? Or was their dependence/desire for continental European goods too great for them to remove themselves so far from the market?
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Is occidental culture unique in its culture of recreational drug use? Things like bars, cafes, and even the poorer classes having a drink of a alcohol during a meal or a cigarette after. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like most of the world's cultures have seen drugs as spiritual tools.
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T. Edward Said.
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>>1453223
Alcohol and tobacco were used recreationally literally everywhere they were known.
Only hallucinants and similarly heavy shit were seen as spiritual tools.
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>>1453223
>are things like taverns exclusive to the West?
you're retarded
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>"history is written by the victors"
Then what about the Spanish Civil War?
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While the fascists were still in charge, I'm sure their history books painted them in a very positive light.
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>>1453083
Internationally they were vilified though.
Franco was never respected by anyone and he was only tolerated by the West because he was anticommunist during the Cold War.
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Tell me, are the fascists in power now?
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Why are so many contemporary philosophers moral realists?
Are they afraid of the war of all against all?
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>>1452956
That's a nice frog you have there.
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>>1452966
Thank you.
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Are they really?
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I believe it is quite certain that 'homosexual' (people who were exclusively interested in their same-sex, rather than opportunists or those engaging in formalized, ritualized homosexuality) persons have existed for all of human history. It even appears that a number of important figures have been homosexuals.
My question is: why is it that only until the 21st century has there been a call for integration of homosexuals into mainstream society (legalizing same-sex marriage, declaring discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation to be illegal, etc.)? Why did no one in the past ever attempt to take this step?
>inb4 "too controversial/people wouldn't have stood for it"
There are examples of rulers enacting measures that were just as controversial and sudden and even ridiculous, with the restoration to the norm having taken some time to occur.
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>>1452759
Because back then even gay people needed to have gaybies.
Modern society destroyed traditional family values, which were, marriage for the joining of families, arranged marriage by your parents or family, spawning heirs and progeny, and women being wombs for this purpose.
Someone introduced this stupid concept of marrying for love, and eventually, gay men with gay lovers wanted to also marry for love.
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Because being exclusively homosexual is a meme and is a result of modern day identity politics.
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>>1452801
Only because high rates of reproduction are no longer called for in post-industrial societies.
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JUST FUCK MY SECOND EMPIRE UP FAMPAI
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>>1452337
That is the face of a defeated man. I wonder what he'd have to say about today's France.
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>>1452352
questions like these are meaningless because we live in such a different world that it'd take these people years to just comprehend all the changes and scientific advances before they could say what is good and what is bad about the modern nations
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>>1452337
Say no more senpai.
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Where do slavs come from and what is their connection with the sarmatians? Everywhere I look gives me a different version.
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They were descendants of Spartacus, everyone knows that
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>>1452231
Eastern Europe, between the Baltic and Ukraine, they were not Sarmatians, as some Poles would like to believe, but as an Indo-European people living on the border of the steppe they were closely related to them.
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Who are this guys with white heatgears? And what does it mean?
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>>1452112
I assume those are dunce caps and the people wearing them are dissenters.
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>>1452112
They're landlords, who were publicly shamed such by Mao and his forces.
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>>1452112
Chiang Kai Shek was a huge cuck who caused the Rape of Nanking and China to fall under Mao
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I'm aware it's mind blowing, but by researching lineages and just how far they go back to history, as well as the riches of some of the oldest families, turns out the same folks have been mingling in the hubs of society since the middle ages. After this point, you are able to research it pretty accurately through the migrations, old documents, name changes and so on to the earliest European kingdoms whose rulers were either close or distant members of old once Roman aristocracy, some of them claiming Roman Republican heritage and beyond, which would be mythical origins going back to Troy.
Basically, 'the western society' is invention of the same clique that's been around maybe since Egypt and the Orient through Greece, Rome and later moved onto the UK and America.
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>earliest European kingdoms whose rulers were either close or distant members of old once Roman aristocracy, some of them claiming Roman Republican heritage and beyond
Propaganda. They were descendants of germanic chiefs.
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>>1452054
Nah dude england was settled by troy and poland by smartians, all those rich people were the descendents of ancient oriental lines and not newly anointed merchants and commanders