Is Hofstadter correct that there is a "paranoid style in American politics"? Don't most countries have this kind of politics or is just America that attaches conspiracy theories to almost everything? Is it necessarily even a bad thing?
>I choose American history to illustrate the paranoid style only because I happen to be an Americanist, and it is for me a choice of convenience. But the phenomenon is no more limited to American experience than it is to our contemporaries. Notions about an all-embracing conspiracy on the part of Jesuits or Freemasons, international capitalists, international Jews, or Communists are familiar phenomena in many countries throughout modern history. One need only think of the response to President Kennedy's assassination in Europe to be reminded that Americans have no monopoly of the gift for paranoid improvisation.
http://www.randomhouse.com/highschool/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307388445&view=printexcerpt
>>1133395
The guy most likely to become our next president spent years claiming that our president was actually a Kenyan because he's black. People actually believed his absurd and nonsensical conspiracy theory for some reason, and still respect him. Burgers in general are paranoid morons who follow fearmongering idiots.
>>1133519
>The guy most likely to become our next president spent years claiming that our president was actually a Kenyan because he's black.
But he is half-Kenyan, his Dad was a Kenyan government official. Unless you are implying his real dad is Frank Marshall Davis...
Daily reminder that Christ's Church was dead for over a thousand years until THIS based man raised it from the tomb.
>>1133379
Daily reminder that St. John Paul II the Great had an official Marvel biographical comic published. By Marvel.
>>1133401
MCU movie confirmed.
>>1133401
Cucks of a feather, after all
The olmecs had running water in 1300BC , modern natives living there dont.
We dont give enough credit to ancient people We tend to consider them as primitive when they were very smart and creative.
Can we post ancient inventions?
Olmec underground water system
>>1133435
WAS
>>1133715
DESIGNATED
Doesn't Russel's Teapot completely negate falsification? What's ironic is that the fedora's that love one the teapot are also always talking about falsification?
You read russel only to further your religious delusion and yet are shocked to find what you were looking for. I don't think its applicable in any case
>>1133282
It's about the "but you can't prove that it doesn't exist" arguments that are constantly made and why they're wrong.
It basically is a long winded explanation of Possible != Probable.
>>1133282
>Doesn't Russel's Teapot completely negate falsification?
That's the point.
I have a question to ask about abortion.
I've heard that Catholics think that unborn babies go to hell or at least purgatory because they weren't baptised.
However, I've heard protestants say that unborn babies go to heaven regardless because they are free of sin and which is why they have adult baptisms.
However, if Catholics are right, then it means that God is a ripe bastard and damns unborn babies to hell for no fault of their own.
If protestants are right, then it means we should abort as many babies as possible so that they don't grow up to be degenerates and have the chance of going to hell when they were guaranteed a path to heaven as a dead baby.
I mean who is right... Or does god just say try again baby and try to get born again through reincarnation which means abortion isn't as bad as many make it out to be.
>>1133270
I think most Catholic theologians today would say they (probably) go to heaven. But some theologians historically have argued they go to hell or limbo, which is really neither. Limbo is no longer considered a valid theory so its not in the picture anymore.
>>1133270
Unborn would go to heaven due to having committed no personal sins against God. The unborn would fall under something similar to invincible ignorance for pagans. pagans can be saved if they were never shown the Word and lived moral lives by God's standards. Not sure why that wouldn't apply to fetuses.
>>1133301
Along with being, in effect, counted as a kind of martyr baptized by blood.
What does /his/ think of Roman revivalism on a much larger scale similar to the rise of German nationalism in the 30s. Are the Italian people willing to stand up to the plate and reforge their empire?
>>1133148
I'm still amazed how this clusterfuck managed to stay a single country for so long.
>>1133148
You mean like exactly what Mussolini did?
Yeah, nah. Fuck that.
>>1133148
It's a shame a pan-North African Latin colonial identity didn't catch on. Letting the Italians keep Libya and Tunisia, French Algeria, Spanish Morocco, and working together to keep the Mediterranean coast and assimilate the colonies
Deep question boys.
What is history in you're own interpretation?
>>1133062
Your sex life when I steal yo bitch
>>1133062
A collection of facts and extrapolations interpreted through a systematized framework that allows us to model past events
Its fucking record of history. Fuck you. The brain washing system turns out chodes like you who talk in such idiotic language that sounds like a sophomoric essay question
deep question, you even hear yourself talk, dude?
I come from /agdg/, looking for an idea for a game. I don't know what kind of game, what characters or what. I tend to seek out inspiration before I structure out the dev process.
So, what aspect of history and humanities do you think is a little under-rated, that might be worth looking into for amateur gamedev? Setting, city, time period, the story behind some specific building or work or dynasty?
Really vague I know! But maybe something comes to mind?
>>1132800
Medieval peddling
>>1132824
Hmm, any particular aspect? Peddling as in, just trade? Europe, or elsewhere? What's your favorite aspect of medieval peddling? Don't mean to interrogate, just looking around for inspiration
>>1132800
I've always wanted to see some kind of either strategy game or RPG or maybe some kind of hybrid game where you run a mercenary group in the Italian wars.
Your goal would be to amass money and notoriety, and who cares who wins in Italy as long as you make out well.
>you have no control over your emotions and how you feel about something, as well as what you know
>you do however have complete control over your actions, that is a separate entity from your emotions entirely
>you can never use your emotions as a way to excuse your actions
Discuss.
General philosophical discussion is also welcome.
i love uneducated philosophy
Start with the greeks
>>1132674
>random nonsense babble
>discuss philosophy
>need to write a report for class, otherwise teacher wont let me have my juice box
fuk
I'm not well versed on the subject and there seems to be a lot of conflicting accounts of what led to the destruction of "black wall street".
Was all of it because of the girl in the elevator and the alleged assault, or was it jealousy for the perceived prosperity the blacks were enjoying in spite of segregation?
also, did the blacks make it worse by fighting back?
Niggers simply wanted to fuck up the surrounding areas economy
a basic rundown would be nice OP
>>1134875
It was white people who started it.
>>1132539
They defended themselves when planes were used to bomb them out. The TT around the nation would have done the same, it luckily was a mobilizer for the TT/BVs to completely unify politically with the black masses
Also you seem like you want answers because this is your homework
ITT: Historical pics that make you think 'neat.'
>>1132411
https://youtu.be/RF6044hZ0i8
What do you guys think? Is he right?
>>1132137
>1 hour of talking
Why can't people learn how to write so I don't have to sit through their fucking rambling.
>>1132137
>cerebellum
As fascinating as I find the idea of exploring Aristotle's sensorimotor coordination, I think you mean cerebrum, Stef.
>>1132873
Not an argument
>Oh why, YES of course a squad of heroic American soldiers could have hold off an assaulting company-sized Waffen-SS unit supported by Tiger tanks and Panzerjagers
>t. Steven Spielberg
>>1131802
Make a movie about a battle that goes exactly how it everyone thought it would or make a movie about a battle where a miracle upset happened leading to and underdog victory......... t. every director ever
>>1131802
but they didn't.
they were being buttfucked until the miraculous timing of American air support and allied troop reinforcements.
>>1131802
Stay mad
>Voltaire was one of the wisest, funniest and cleverest people of the 18th century. He continues to have lots to teach us about toleration, modesty and kindness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAzKGkTIKpg
>"Voltaire did not limit his attack to aspects of Judaism that Christianity used as a foundation, repeatedly making it clear that he despised Jews."
>J'ai toujours fait une prière à Dieu, qui est fort courte. La voici: Mon Dieu, rendez nos ennemis bien ridicules! Dieu m'a exaucé.
>>1131475
Yeah, kinda, sorta.
>>1131524
Also:
>The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous — cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.
>Essai sur les Moeurs et l'Esprit des Nations (1753), Introduction, XLII: Des Juifs depuis Saül
Where did the Yamato and others come from /his/?
My guess is they came from here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_(state)
>b-but they're Korean
Koreans look completely different to Japanese most of the time, Japanese gene pool is definitely from somewhere else
So far I got:
Yamato - Wu, eventually some Baekje refugees
Izumo - Shilla??
Kumaso/ Hi - Emishi???
Chikushi - Gaya???
Kenu - ???
Koshi - ???
bumpu
>>1130556
Never understood why the Wa claimed Taibo and Shaokang as their ancestors. The dearth of archaeological,genetic and linguistic evidence makes it highly unlikely that Japonic originated in southern Jiangsu.
>Yayoi most likely came from Korea.
If toponym glosses are to be trusted then Jin/Sam Han may have been populated by Japonic speakers.
Genetic affinity of Koreans/Japanese(especially southwestern Korea).
Koreanic loanwords,shared mythology,technological diffusion etc.(http://www.academia.edu/9192084/Korean_Contributions_to_Japanese_State_Formation_As_Seen_in_the_Mortuary_Record_from_300_B.C._to_700_A.D)
>>1130651
Japan's rice is extremely similar to Southern Chinese rice.
Japanese archies compared DNA/skull with early South Chinese peoples, its very similar
http://www.trussel.com/prehist/news111.htm