Some of you muslims are alright. Don't go to Bagdad tomorrow.
>>1346337
Thx senpai
friendly reminder that no matter how remarkable the mongols were, they were the bane of civilization
the only reason european powers dominate today is due to the fact that they didn't rape and pillage the west
imagine a world where Genghis Khan wasn't born
>>1346350
>Finns would look euro
huh, makes you think
Has social media in general, over the past 20 years, negatively or positively impacted social skills/emotional intelligence/social interaction in general?
just look at /r9k/
>>1346223
Define these things and explain on what basis you want to evaluate them:
>social skills
>emotional intelligence
>social interaction
If you cannot do that, any discussion is pointless.
>>1346223
ITT: High school kid doing homework.
>mfw there are still people who think Confucius was a real person
>mfw there are still people who think Jesus Christ was a real person
>>1346151
He was. He was just a Diogenes fan boy
>>1346151
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus_on_Jesus#Testimonium_Flavianum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_on_Christ
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/godlessindixie/2014/09/04/an-atheists-defense-of-the-historicity-of-jesus/
>"He certainly existed, as virtually every competent scholar of antiquity, Christian or non-Christian, agrees"
- Bart Ehrman
>"There are those who argue that Jesus is a figment of the Church’s imagination, that there never was a Jesus at all. I have to say that I do not know any respectable critical scholar who says that any more.
- Michael Grant
>"In recent years, 'no serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non historicity of Jesus' or at any rate very few, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary.
- Richard Burridge
Help me /his/, I swear to god early today I read that the Jerusalem Cross was tattood on Crusading knights as a way to say "If I fall in battle, bury me as a Christian"
But now I can't find any source saying that and I think I'm having a stroke. Is it some other symbol that was used for that? Pease help me out
I always wondered how popular were tatoos in the middle ages in general .
>>1346012
Tattoos were a sin.
I haven't found anything about it, but the British kings George V and Edward VII both got Jerusalem cross tattoos when they visited the city.
Why did Christianity in general develop such a hatred of homosexuality?
It's not as though we did anything wrong to them.
>>1345880
Because Christianity is a form of Judaism.
>>1345880
Because Paul.
>>1345880
>we
What was being a criminal, gangster, thug, or general bad guy llike before the 18th century?
Were they as flashy as criminals now?
Were gangs all about the loyalty and respect like today?
What was a prison sentence like?
Did criminals tattoo themselves like the Russian mob or Aryan Brotherhood?
Did they form gangs in prison ?
Where? The world is a big fucking place with a lot of different views of crime.
>>1345706
just for starters ancient Rome just to keep it simple.
>>1345715
Have you ever heard of the circus factions in the late Roman/ Byzantine empire?
Basically the circus factions were the different factions who fought in the horse races, named simply by colors. The two big ones were the greens and the blues, but there were other smaller ones (like the yellows). While they started as simple chariot racing teams, they quickly grew to become essentially gangs. People from the blues would specifically cause violence against the greens, and vice versa. Both recruited from the younger male population, and were thought to have used most of the same methods that gangs today use (being part of something, having a brotherhood, etc). The greens and the blues basically ended up becoming incredibly widespread in most major cities, and were the cause of a ton of civil disturbances in the Roman/ Byzantine empire. They quickly took on political stances of their own, and basically evolved into ultra violent gang political parties. As such, they were responsible for quite a few overthrows of emperors, including Maurice, but they are probably most well known for the Nika riots in Byzantium under Justinian where half the city was burned down.
So anyways, theres my input. Its pretty interesting stuff, and if youre looking into the history of gangs, I would start here.
Translation error or anubis cult?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynocephaly#Saint_Christopher
bump
What is Kosovo and why does NATO care so much about it? Why were Serbs chimping out at Bosnians and Albanians?
>>1344108
>Yugoslavia exists
>Tito dies
>Nationalist circles, especially Serbian, start rising
>Kosovo is considered a symbolic part of Serbia as battle of Kosovo (which Serbs lost) is a very significant event for them
>Except it's full of Albanians now and it's a special autonomous part of Serbia
>Serbs manage to lose almost every single piece of ex-Yugoslavia, some relatively peacefully like FYROM or Slovenia, some with a fucking retarded agreement which fucked Bosnia and Herzegovina up forever and some swiftly by force like Croatia
>Slobodan Milosevic decides that the best course of action would be diverting attention at something else like kicking Albanians out of Kosovo for muh Greater Serbia
That's when NATO came into play
>Americans generally don't care about Yugoslavian wars as they consider EC/EU to be able to solve everything by itself
>Surprise, they can't do shit
>Finally Americans decide to do something, first diplomatically
>Dayton Agreement happens, Bosnia and Herzegovina is fucked up forever
>Croats kick Serbs out on their own
>Finally when Serbs clearly prove they learned nothing and want to genocide Albanians too, NATO bombs the shit out of them
Mind you, all sides in Yugoslavian wars happened to commit war crimes and Albanians are disgusting, but it just so happens that Serbs were the absolute worst of them all.
That's about it, inb4 some asshurt Serb shows up.
>What is Kosovo
Kosovo is Serbia. I say this as someone with Ustase blood. Kebab pls go.
>>1344213
Oh no. Not this meme again.
Anyone read this book yet ? your thought ?
>inclusive institution
>extractive institution.
>>1343417
Kamasutra is better desu.
>>1343417
It's a fun read but like any book that tries to cover such a broad sphere it be nit picked here and there but over all it was enjoyable
Right about many things but kind of naive, no institution is inclusive, just limited by outside forces.
Are we advancing as a society or are we just degrading?
>>1342816
Reject the idea that there is a monolithic society, and that it rests somewhere on a linear scale. If you do this, it will be much harder for people to tell you what to do and how to think. If you are, then you are much freer to actually contribute to your community in a meaningful, productive way.
>>1342824
>then you are much freer to actually contribute to your community in a meaningful, productive way.
What a load of crap.
>>1342828
care to explain?
What are the best books about the Romanovs?
the communist manifesto tells you everything you need to know about them (the ruling class)
>>1343095
Such as?
>>1343093
Implying she's not the best Romanov.
Thinks economies derive from ethics, rather than the reverse. Untenable. Backward. Useless. An apocalyse cult and nothing less.
>anarcho capitalism
feudalism
>anarcho primitivism
stone age
>anarcho syndicalism
hell on earth
Moronic luddite garbage
How do we solve the problem of consiousness /his/?
Also, is it possible that the suggested proximity to a solution is illusory?
Is it possible we, like scientists/philosophers in newton's time, think its all practically done and we just need to fill the gaps while in actuality, there are still many paradigm shifts to come?
Define this "problem of consciousness".
>>1353551
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
>>1353369
>Is it possible we, like scientists/philosophers in newton's time, think its all practically done and we just need to fill the gaps while in actuality, there are still many paradigm shifts to come?
yes
I wonder if they're gonna show Nat Turner kill women and children in this movie.
I'm already seeing posts from black people and others hyping his movie up and calling Nat Turner a hero and a symbol of freedom.
This board used to be good. Nice post. I hope you can articulate and contribute more in your next ones.
Can we be sure he actually did that personally though? Afterall he was a man of God. They will probably show some of the slaves he riled up killing women and children and him trying to stop them.
>>1336500
What?
Was women's suffrage a good idea?
First for no.
One vote for household now!