Archaeologist here. Ask me anything except will I examine your bone.
>>1345480
Have you planted anything fake in the ground for future archaeologist's to find?
How much do you know about ceremonial/decorative flint tools? Would this be something that arose after the specialization of labor?
T. Mayan collection from US library of Congress
>>1345480
Will you examine my penis?
How can Christians be so ignorant as to actually believe that their Christian religion is actually a fulfillment of Judaism?
The New Testament's theology is completely different from the Old Testament of the Hebrews. By reading the NT, one sees the introduction of certain themes that simply aren't found in Judaism, but that are very obviously influenced from Greek mystery rites. The entire concept of a suffering deity, of a deity whose suffering and death 'redeems' the world; the idea of followers mystically sharing in this deity's suffering, the strong emphasis on forgiveness of sins and salvation through belief, and of reaching a pleasant/'good' afterlife by performing proper rites and/or subscribing to a certain deity - these are all undeniably elements borrowed from Greek mystery religions and neo-Platonism! The Orphic rites, the Eleusinian rites, the Attic rites, the cults of Serapis and Dyonisus and Isis. These thematic elements are completely alien to Jewish theology, hence why the Jews themselves rejected (and still do) Christianity; there is no 'continuity' between the New or Old, save whatever convoluted excuses Christians use to attempt to reconcile the two.
Does Yahweh the war god ever give the impression of being a 'suffering deity'? Isn't it odd that the New Testament places undue emphasis on an afterlife, yet the Old Testament made no mention of it, such that the concept of an afterlife did not even develop until well into the Second Temple period? Isn't it strange that Jesus bore none of the attributes or signs that Yahweh himself promised the Jews the Messiah would have?
In essence, to put it in simplest terms - the New Testament is a Greek fanfiction to the Old Testament: it is not 'canon', and attempts to reconcile the two are just too problematic and self-defeating.
>>1344406
All of the prophecies about the coming messiah are about Jesus.
>>1344406
Job was suffering before Greece was founded.
So were millions of other people.
>>1344406
>Isn't it strange that Jesus bore none of the attributes or signs that Yahweh himself promised the Jews the Messiah would have
All of them.
Isaiah 53 is all about Jesus. So is Psalms 22.
Why don't you know any of this, when you clearly have a contrary opinion to the facts?
>In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. [Genesis]
This is pretty logical and reasonable if you really think about it.
God is abstract, and science can't go to the very beginning, because there are events that happened before their idea of "the beggining"
The idea here is that God, created the heavens and earth and the earth is one of many objects in the heavens / cosmos.
God is the origin, whatever originally created everything that is God. That first thing, the first cause.
So even here too.
It would make no difference what religion you are or are not.
The fact is that we are alive and we are real and that our lives were caused by something.
The fact is that there was a creation because everything is created via cause and effect.
Something caused the heavens and the earth and itself, and the heavens and their orbits, the planet we live on and our lives are the effect of SOMETHING.
>>1349540
But who created God?
>>1349692
Whatever did, something created whatever created before that and that before that and something before that
You guys know the drill. Continue where you left off.
Anyone who thinks evolution is real outta be burned at the stake
They are dangerous and could start another mass shooting at any moment
>>1342407
Columbine: never forget.
What are the ten most significant events in the history of mankind?
List them in order of importance.
why are there no replies in my thread?
please respond
>>1342520
I start, you finish
1 According to DNA studies, modern humans left Africa in a single migration, spreading across the planet after just one tribe crossed into today’s Arabia 70,000 years ago
it’s reckoned that every human alive now who is not sub-Saharan African ultimately derives from a single woman.
2 11,000 years ago the planting and selection of cereals, alongside the tethering of some animals. It meant that people stopped being nomadic hunters, and human populations grew, trapping farmers with more mouths to feed.But without it there would have been no villages, towns – no empires.
3 1532AD Pizarro ambushes the Inca emperor Atahualpa,overwhelmed first by Spanish gunpowder and then by microbes. Some 95% of the native population disappeared after Europeans arrived in the Americas.
Francisco Pizarro’s obsession with gold and silver meant he melted down priceless artworks and sent them home as dreary blocks of bullion. The Spanish blew the wealth on church decorations and unsuccessful wars. Meanwhile, Pizarro’s men missed the really valuable object of all – the potato
People seem to think the roles people take on in the bedroom reveal their "true" selves. If a successful alpha male turns out to be a cuckold/submissive in the bed, we laugh and think "oh, he is ACTUALLY just some pathetic beta in truth". If a self-proclaimed feminist turns out to like being dominated sexually, we think she's a fraud who just can't admit at other times she like the patriarchy. Etc etc.
But what is actually the truer self? The person we become in the most intimate and intense (sexual) moments or the person we're the rest of time, the majority of the time?
It's easy to answer we're both, but clearly, as given examples show, in practice we tend to associate the sexual self as the true self. Why is that? Should we stop thinking that way?
As a philosopher of virtue ethics, I'm going to tell you that the true self is created by continuous habits. As a philosopher in general, I'm going to tell you to read Foucault.
>>1338772
>the true self is created by continuous habits
Right, but what's the answer then?
It's our sexual habit, but it's a habit we (often) do much more rarely than all our other habits. The successful alpha man spends much more time performing his habit of being domineering and assertive at work than he spends being whipped which is his sexual habit.
Doesn't answer which is the truer self.
>Why is that ?
I'm no philosopher of any kind, but I suppose it is because in bed we often act directly on our desires, while in normal society we act according to social restraints and constraints first.
Our behaviour is much more controlled and artificial in our daily lives, though of course sex is not devoid of lies, roles and such.
Was the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom the 19th century equivalent of ISIS?
>>1344082
In terms of what they did, their rise and why they did it? Kind of.
Their beliefs from a Christian standpoint were waaaaay more heterodox than ISIS's is from an Islamic standpoint at it's core level. Sure ISIS ignores contemporarily accepted interpretations of some concepts on Jihad. But Hong Xiuquan flat out rejected the trinity and styled himself the brother of Christ. And held all sorts of other batshit religious beliefs.
The Taiping's closest modern Muslim equivalent would probably be Nation of Islam if it was a fully armed expansionist political force.
Anyone else also remembers the beautiful days when ISIS didn't exist and people didn't compare everyone who behaved at least a bit rude in history to them?
>>1344291
Don't worry, Anon. In a few years ISIS will be gone, and another Islam-based religious group will be murdering their way across a part of the world.
And it will still be #nothingtodowithislam
>Wake up in Anarcho-Socialist Utopia
>Have a hearty breakfast of dry grain and water
>Consider sharing this bounty with my neighbors
>Realize that my first neighbor, Bob, was forcibly conscripted into the Revolutionary Guard, despite being a pacifist
>Second neighbor, Jim, was beaten to death, accused of spreading counterrevolutionary literature
>Take a stroll to work
>Only pass 3 kulak families hanging by the lamp posts.
>Go to my job at the factory
>Once the workers had the means of production, we voted ourselves a 4 hour work day.
>Start around 10
>Take a long lunch break at 12 and decide not to come back
>Go for a walk around the park
>Consider stopping by church for a service
>Realize that all priests have been murdered by revolutionaries, and their churches blown up
>Decide to go home
>The door is kicked open, and there's a guy dying on my couch
>Try to call a doctor but the power is out
>Realize that most doctors fled as the revolution was occurring, leaving us with a massive shortage.
>Not that it matters, as the power is out. Since it's past 3, the electric workers are done for the day
>Roll dying guy out onto the lawn
>Eat a meager cup of bean soup
>Read the only book I have that was deemed "non-counterrevolutionary" by the "People's Literature Society": Green Eggs and Ham
>Go to bed, thanking Bakunin that we live in such a prosperous society free of exploitation
>>1341854
Such is the life of man under socialism imposed by young ideologues
"Inventing a fictional world to justify your ideology is the masturbatory exercise of a person that lives in his own echochamber"
t. Ayn Rand
>>1341888
Uhhhhhh she didn't actually say that did she?
Why is a certain subset of the pop sci crowd so vehemently hostile to any way of thinking about the universe that privileges life and consciousness? Why are atheist materialists so absolutely hellbent on denying the dignity of being human?
What are you talking about
>>1341047
>le feign incredulity fedora man
every fucking time
>>1341057
You gotta elaborate to get a serious response you dumbass chr*stian nigger
Any patricians in /his/ actually comprehend an ancient language?
Recommended resources etc.
Accurate Power Ranking?:
Classical Greek > Latin > Classical Arabic > Sanskrit = Syriac = Ancient Egyptian > Other
>Latin = Classical Chinese
FTFY
>>1334238
Latin > Attic Greek > Sanskrit > Lojban (original language of humanity) > Classical Chinese > Ancient Egyptian > Sumerian
>>1334414
>Lojban (original language of humanity)
Just had to google this. Seems to be some sort of even more gay Esperanto.
Why did Dixie lose the civil war? Was it because they had no highly advanced military telegraphy network like the yankees did?
Inferior logistics all around, basically. The feds had superior manufacturing, railroad networks, better organization, and almost the entire navy. Ultimately most of the business of fighting a war is getting your troops where they are needed, with full stomachs and decent shoes.
>>1328272
a lack of manpower and lower manufacturing ability
also the good guys don't always win
>>1328285
>Dixie
>good guys
Pick one, Jed. You're part of the Union now. Stop being so assblasted over the defeat of a shitty country that existed for a few years to prolong the life of plantation slavery.
Went to Yale and Harvard Business School.
And yet dumber than shit. Daddy's influence and money kept him in University. GW is like Trump in that everything he became and did was possible due to daddy.
>>1349445
I promise you that the breadth of George W. Bush's knowledge and intelligence puts yours to shame.
Lenin
We do leftists fetishize the French Revolution when the American Revolution is literally history's only perfect revolution that didn't end in Terror and Tyranny?
>>1344876
Because leftists desire the overthrow of power structures in order for it to be a "revolution"
The American Revolution was not a true revolution.
It was a colonial war.
The colonists broke from the home country.
The revolution was in the former of government the ex-colonists chose to implement.
I would consider the Civil War a drastic example of unresolved issues coming back to haunt us.
So, blood has definitely been shed post revolution.
>>1345682
Former (sic)
Should be "form".
Would feminism have ever existed if Western Europeans had lived in those patriarchal, patrilineal and patrilocal joint families typical of Russian, Chinese or Indian peasants?
Is Western feminism, ironically, a by-product of Western history?
>>1344337
>Is Western feminism, ironically, a by-product of Western history?
>is western feminism related to western history?
I don't get what that would be so ironic by that.
>>1344337
This sounds fucking horrible desu.
I'd rather chose my friends and acquaintances instead of having to deal with every shitty cousin or aunt in the family while hearing your senile grandma spouting off crazy shit.
The reason they still live together is because they're fucking poor.
I bet you the first think a chink or indian will do once he has money is buy his own home.
>>1344618
He's one of those reactionaries who tries to insist that liberal values are counter to Western society rather than the product of Western history and thought
>>1344678
Yeah, it's wealth and birth control. Until the 70s, it was very normal for Irish American families to have over six children.
Would you agree that a nation exists on the foundation of it's people?
>i.e Sweden for swedes, England for england etc etc
If so, would you agree then that most western european countries have in fact failed it's people and let outside interests take over a major part, if not all of, politics, media and culture?
>“Let’s not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That’s a 19th century idea and we are trying to transition into the 21st century, and we are going to do it with multi-ethnic states.”
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/1999/kosovo-and-far-right
>>1344983
how was this achieved?
>Would you agree that a nation exists on the foundation of it's people?
It's based on blood, culture, language and land.
> would you agree then that most western european countries have in fact failed it's people and let outside interests take over a major part, if not all of, politics, media and culture?
Here I assume people = those who historically/originally belong to the nation, ie the blood, culture and language part.
Yes, but failing was inevitable because the nation is not real, abstract, and too binary for a post world war 2 world.
It's not even failing when it's inevitable imho.