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Change one event in history and fix everything. Go.
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Birth of mohammed.
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The Mongolian empire never really collapsed
>we Mongols now
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Umayyads conquer the Franks

Would've solved so much stuff

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>[T]he designer hypothesis immediately raises the larger problem of who designed the designer.

Has a proper response to this ever been formulated?
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>>884969
>not understanding that the design argument is predicated upon the correctness of the cosmological argument's premises
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>>884969
Only a bunch of arguments by necessity which really don't address how creation by an infinity complex creator solves the problem of complexity
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>>884975
>problem of complexity
What's that?

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>structuralism
>post-structuralism

What's the deal with people's sudden obsession with this? In the last two years I keep seeing it all the time on 4chan. And I heard it in real life a few times too, used by "hipsters" (it's a meaningless buzzword, but I don't know what to call them) and nerdy suburban white teenagers. Seems like ever since this Derrida guy got more popular and acknowledged, all the kids have been talking about this and name-dropping this "le epic structuralism" and "post-structuralism". Is (post-)structuralism an epic new meme?

Why do people keep using this so much? Is it to show that they know a new word or something? To seem cultured? Can someone explain this to me? And what exactly are these terms? Why are they being mentioned so often? And is it somehow related to "deconstruction" (and what is that?, I read that no one knows, not even the guy who coined the term)? And what do people usually refer to when they mention structuralism or post-structuralism? What areas/activities or studies? Is it related to philosophy? Is it a movement in philosophy? Is it related to arts? Literature? Sociology? Psychology? What is it? Is it somehow related to modernism and metamodernism?

What books should I read to learn more about it?

Am I first supposed to start with the Greeks, all le ancient philosophers, then all the relevant philosophers in the last 1000 years, you know, Kant, Heidegger Foucault, Saussure, Descartes, Locke, Marx, Hegel, Sartre and everyone else? If that's the case then forget about it. But I doubt any of you actually read works from all of them and are still capable of understanding (post-)structuralism.
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currently doing an essay on poststructural feminism and rape in the united states military

quite interesting Tbh
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>>881629
Thuy Johnston (a name that (like Phuc Stevenson (named (by me, not his parents (government attorneys (I know what you(Katrina?)’re thinking, how did lawyers raise a postman and under what kind of class system does this novel operate?))) after the 2011 NBA champion Deshawn Stevenson)) implies (to assumption-prone readers) that Mrs. Johnston was pro-trad enough to take her husband’s (we’re being implicitly socially conservative (by not acknowledging the likelihood that she’s gay (or adopted or a pop star with a stage name)) for the sake of space (yes le parentheses man is economical as fuck with space)) last name but still asserted enough cultural dominance to give her child a decidedly ethnic (to Americans (UT didn’t stand for U of Tel Aviv or what have you)) first name. Marv “Yellow Fever” Johnston’s dainty Asian bride has the cultural steering wheel (or maybe they’re sticks for her (that’s too absurd to be earnestly racist (also I’m Asian (half (I mean Obama can make black jokes (is that the same thing? Yellow peril and Jim Crow Seattle but look at China’s GDP compared to every country in West Africa (which is to say we’re not in the same boat (which is to say I’m sorry for all the ching-chong jokes (but I still get the appropriation pass to name my characters Phuc and Thuy and Trang (oh shit you haven’t met her yet (“Trang West is an 11 year-old Nepali yak-milking enthusiast at George W. Bush (Honor the Texas flag (“just like you like it”)) Middle School …”)))))))))))) is a grad student at UT. She’s with Wynn despite a 7-year age gap and the murky (is it murky if she’s a woman? (yes)) ethics of a TA fucking a freshman undergrad. She’d actually be a rapist in a few states since...
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Structuralism and post-structuralism are opposites. Structuralism tends to be obsessed with tradition and duality while Post-structuralism seeks to deconstruct everything.

For instance, structuralists will say the male/female conflict is an important theme of human society, while a post-structuralist will say gender doesn't exist.

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I recently (a few months ago) read Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer. In it he talks about the settlement of what became the U.S., broken into four regions: New England, the Midlands (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware), Tidewater (Virginia, Maryland, and the Carolinas), and Appalachia. He talks about what sort of people generally settled there from the British Isles, and how all four regions can trace their cultural lineage to a region of Britain.

New England was settled primarily by Puritans from Anglia/Eastern England, Appalachia by northern English and Lowland Scots (who also made up most of the people who went from Britain to Ulster, and then from there to America too), the Midlands by Quakers and merchants (a lot of Dutch there too, but he was focused on Britons mostly) from central England, and Tidewater by the very rich and the very poor of southwest England, coming to establish plantations or work as indentured servants, respectively.

I was wondering what sort of Britons settled in Canada? Was there a real "type" of people who came? I would guess merchants maybe, because of the resources and it doesn't seem like the type of place you could make vast plantation estates in like the South. You don't really hear much about any sort of Puritan heritage in Canada either like in New England, but then I don't know much about Canadian culture or history so maybe there is. Did you not get many people from Britain until after the Seven Years War?
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Not many people came here until after the Seven Years War. Before then it was mostly French.

We've got mostly descendants of Highland Scots and Northern English in the Maritime Provinces while United Empire Loyalists settled in Ontario and New Brunswick after 1812. Not sure about Newfoundland but they were a British colony until 1949 so I'd assume they're all descended from more recent English and Irish immigration.
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>>903028
Interesting, so did all of your French people outside Quebec get deported to Louisiana? I also heard of a few Acadians going to New England too. But like was the whole population almost transplanted? And why did Quebec stay French?
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>>903051
No there are lots of French people in other provinces. Basically Quebec is the epicentre and the fewer it gets the further away from it you go, with BC and the territories being the least amount of francophones and the maritimes/parts of Ontario being the most.

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>He worships 3 gods
>He worships 0 gods
>He worships millions of gods

Explain why your not bowing to Allah (Swt) in humbleness and rejection of the sinful self.

Islam is the answer.
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>speaking an indo-european language
>subscribing to a semitic religion
daily reminder islam is literally judaism with more pedophilia
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>>902991
>not worshiping haruhi

shiggity
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>>902991
>islam
>anything other than jewish fanfic written by a wealthy Arab who liked to take hallucinogens

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How does one become a patrician?
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>>902687
Masturbate to fine art
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>>902687
engage in lively debate with the /his/ board of 4chan.
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>read philosophy
>listen to great works of art music
>read great works of literature
>fuck fine women/men/both/etc. (fuck a finely lubricated hand if you must)
>lift with a good regimen
>run marathons
>learn fine dance and visual arts
>paint in your spare time
>schmooze with nobility
>take government office
>spend the rest of your life there, slowly burning out

Final step
>laugh at plebeians

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You know how today everyone who is offended by the opinion of someone else they just call them a nazi, reactionary, communist etc.

What did people call each other to mean roughly mean the same things before these terms came into being?
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In 18th-early 19th century Europe they'd call you a Republican.
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Heretic, hussite, kaffir, barbarian, peripatetic, stoic, cynic, optimate, populare, radical, pedophile, faggot, etc.
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>>902767
>stoic
that was an insult at some point?

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>So I told the Kaiser to invade Belgium in order to get to France and he actually did it!
>What an absolute madman!
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>>902535
>So I told Bush to invade Iraq and he actually did it!
>What an absolute goy!
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>>902535
>mfw people think the Maginot line was a failure
>mfw people forget that Germany invaded through Belgium in WW1
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>>902602

The real judaization occurred with Bill. You're right about Good Goy Bush, though.

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http://www.strawpoll.me/7215229
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>No Dental Hygiene option

Shit poll desu mate.
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I like how Britain wasn't even a blip on the radar of any of those people.
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>>902482
yeah sure thing retard

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Why did Germans become such a large portion of America?
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A lot of them were protestants fleeing the Christians in Europe. That combined with the incentives of 19th century march to the west for immigrants to consolidate the land made it possible for a lot of Germans to move to America.
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>>902322
Aren't most German-Americans catholic?
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>>902319
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_revolutions_of_1848%E2%80%9349


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty-Eighters

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I think it's unfair how all western historians accuse the soviet union of being the aggresor in the winter war presenting their opinions as if they were facts..
Why don't they teach the competing theories of what happened and let people choose what to believe?
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The winter war isn't that important, would you like if they began to touch alternative theories for the holocaust, world war two and operation barbarossa as well?
ANy reason you care so much for this one war?
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Kind of pointless when official soviet documents about the war that were unlocked back in the 90s confirm they started it.
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>>902004
Not OP, but I fucking hate all Finns.

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What do you suppose possessed the first man that made a boat and went out to sea? Like wtf waz he thinking. "Yep. Water as far as the eye can see. It's totally a good idea to get on this piece of wood and see how long it goes on for. I totally won't starve to death seperated unimaginably far from my family."
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>>901980

I imagine the earlier boats were made so they could go out further to get fish (makes sense, logically). And then as their boatmaking skills improved they were able to go on longer voyages before finally realizing that besides getting to fish boats could be used to explore, trade, and go on raiding expeditions.
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People initially navigated along the coasts.

/thread
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>>901980
First boats, or at least rafts, were being used before the first sapiens ever even evolved, homo erectus was able to colonize islands.

I imagine a lot of the first quests out to sea were rafts to hug the coast, and then getting dragged out to the open ocean by currents or a storm.

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You can go back and live for a few years in any age or time frame of human history. Diseases and warfare and all that aside, what do you pick? Choose 3, and explain why you like them and would've liked to experience them.

For me, the first answer is a close call. My three choices are the Viking Age c. 1030, when Knut the Great was King of England, Denmark, and Norway, or the Napoleonic Era, or the 1870s, specifically in Germany. These are my three favourite time periods (I don't count the World Wars here because I certainly wouldn't have wanted to experience them - props to my grandpa, great grandpa, and all those uncles who served in them), and I think for me it would go:

>Victorian
>Napoleonic
>Viking

Victorian would be fascinating as such a unique time of great technological and political advancement. Such sheer amounts of great change have never been paralleled as those in the late Industrial Revolution times.

Napoleonic would be also super fascinating for me, especially since I work at a Napoleonic heritage site, and since I've done some reenacting as a British grenadier.

Viking would be partly an ancestral call for me, but not just because they're stereotyped badasses. There's still today even a great deal we don't know about them, and these are things I wish I could know.
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>>901643
Roman empire (my ancestors were from central Italy)
sometime before the seven years' war
wouldn't really want to go to any other points in history, so for my third one I'll just say the year 2100
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>>901691
Only two periods of interest?
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>>901643
Prehistory, senpai.
>living in utopia, go out for hunt with bros when feel like it, teaching bitches how to swim
>absolutely no moral values, fug the lolis and everything fertile that is fuckable
>go to cave with my artistic niggas for some prehistoric graffiti
>yfw meeting actual we wuz kangz niggas nobody in the present age knows
>unspoilt nature and air, just how mother earth intended

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziyarid_dynasty

>Born to a Zoroastrian family native to Gilan, Mardavij was an anti-Muslim, who sought to revive the Sasanian Empire which was conquered in 654 by the Muslims. He first started his career by joining the army of his kinsman Asfar ibn Shiruya. Mardavij, however, later betrayed him, and killed him, conquering much of Jibal. He then set out to conquer Hamadan, Dinavar and Isfahan from the Abbasid Caliphate, and thereafter declared himself king of Iran, making Isfahan his capital.

>He then defeated the Daylamite military leader Makan ibn Kaki, and conquered Tabaristan in 932. By 934, his authority was acknowledged as far as Shiraz and Ahvaz.However, his goal of recreating the Persian Empire was ruined when he was murdered by his own Turkish slaves in 935.

Tell me about the Ziyarids, /hist/.
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>>901627
Glad some real Muslims reminded him of what life in Persia was after Khalid
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>>902362
Based Khalid
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>>902362
>>902388
t, Memet

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Is there any possible way to not be a hedonist?
Doesn't every person want to achieve as much pleasure as possible?
Even strictly religious people are basically hedonist, or not?
They want to achieve the most pleasure by getting in to heaven.
I seriously can't think of anyone not beeing a hedonist.
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Think about soliders.
War is painful, short, and than you die. Some things are worth suffering for.

If all people cared about was maximizing pleasure we would all be on drugs. In fact we would demand the government pass out drugs to everyone for free as the ultimate spreading of joy.
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Pleasure is the emanation of joy
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>>901517
Ya but even soldiers are somewhat hedonistic because they think their participation in war leads to a bigger pleasure for the country etc.
If you know what I mean

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