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>war war

Sorry I meant world wars

If everyone had just decided to bomb Prussia when they started to make a fuzz with Denmark everything would have been fine.

You're definitely on the harder side of the debate.

If the great powers of the time could have somehow formed a proto league of nations, passed SUCCESSFUL arms reduction treaties to stop the arms race, not had the big alliances which ended up dragging everyone into the war, signed free trade deals...

Basically what kept peace after WW2 was the Bretton Woods economic system, the european economic community (proto-EU) + nukes, and none of that was really possible pre-war, there just wasn't any intellectual support, or public awareness or anything of that nature. Neither did any of the powers realise how bad the war would be in terms of casualties and the massive destruction of accumulated wealth of Europe.

Anything covering the fall of the ottoman empire(as well as western interaction with it), the effects of the first world war on the region and then the influence of ideology and the cold war.

British colonization of Iraq and subsequent influence on ex-colonial regimes by the British after the 8 February revolution left more scars than anything else

>>876894
Gulf and Iraq wars are also very relevant

He apparently thought Socrates was mad, thats all ever mentioned between the two.

Specifically the story goes something like "Plato once described Diogenes as a Socrates gone mad, but Diogenes scolded him for being redundant"

>>876854
Isn't he one of Socrates' disciples?

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>>876864
>Diogenes
>a disciple of Socrates

>>876808
I mean people paint it as crazy but their initial practices and meditations are actually quite useful and when you start out it's almost a nice little religion. So it's quite easy to get wrapped up in it and forget about Jesus and succumb the The devil's trick. See any religion that doesn't explicit state the Jesus Christ is Lord is a false religion and is spread by evil.

>>876808
I would assume predatory recruiting plays a significant part in securing new members.
Sunk cost fallacy.
Attachment to others in the cult.
Their openly antagonistic behavior towards apostasy.
Their hostile bullying of members.

I can't explain how it got powerful because I have no idea how this "Religion" hasn't been shut down yet.
I assume nepotism and outright infiltration of government plays a role.

>>876808
Tom Cruise.

Their members literally increased 10+ fold after he endorsed it.

It's not very powerful or widespread now nor was it in the pre-Cruise era, it always exagerates it's numbers.

>>876669

Franco had like 90% of the Regular Army, the entire Colonial Army and the active support of Italians and Germans.

The Republic had enthusiatic common people grouped around a variety of, often clashing, political factions and Ruskys selling them crap war material for literal gold.

The wonder is they managed to last 3 years.

>>876669
>How did the Nationalists win the Spanish Civil War?
Nazi Germany and Italy, specially Italy considering his relative size in Europe, spent a shit ton of money and don't get me started in the Condor legion and the CVT.

Also the nationalist side was far more concentrated into winning than killing each other, I can't say the same about the republican side...

>>876753
Franco was a sneaky bastard.

Books>alternatives.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3048297/evidence/everything-science-knows-about-reading-on-screens

I honestly think books will be entirely phased out in 50 years. There's just such an advantage to e-book readers and electronic storage. I can store literally 100,000 books on my harddrive, and already such a harddrive is every mans property. Universities and schools will just issue every student an e-book reader, or similar device, instead of books.

>>876311
>http://www.fastcodesign.com/3048297/evidence/everything-science-knows-about-reading-on-screens

I just skimmed that article.

Well, this will be an interest-
>Vox
wew lad.

>>876277
The article mentions Harper's Magazine. A very reputable magazine.

http://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/

And about Harper's Magazine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper's_Magazine

He wrote a song called Pastime with Good Company, which is very catchy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YcDFOu6qWw

>>875583

I didn't know he was the Justine Beiber of his day.

From what I read, this was written when he first landed on the throne.

I'd hate to see the song he would write near the end.

>>875572
Henry allowed his feeling for women to define everything about him, including how he governed his state and his personal faith. Its the most beta shit I've ever heard of. Anne Boleyn was the most successful beta hunter of all time ... other then the beheading thing.

He's got a point but maybe insists on it a bit too much. I don't think continental philosophy says 'nothing,' but what it says, it says with an extreme lack of clarity that's kind of annoying. It's closer to the arts than to the sciences in that it develops 'themes' and 'motifs' moreso than testable hypotheses, but that doesn't mean there's no reason to study it.

>actually not understanding the coffee without milk or dusty balls jokes

>Why does the government give money to those sneaky conniving continentals

They don't. Continental philosophy has almost no impact on academic philosophy. It's sold in art galleries and Waterstones to pretentious teenagers, and remains largely unread even by them. These people are hardly a dominating force in academic, hoovering up all the research grants.
The main effect of continental philosophy is to make laymen think that philosophy is bullshit.

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>>875380
The IVC was already dead when the Aryans arrived. The Aryans were pretty impressive for their oral religious culture, whether Iranian Zoroastrianism or Indian Vedas. The way thousands of Vedic hymns and mantras as well as the entire Avesta were preserved entirely by memory for thousands of years is pretty incredible.

You're right in that they had no real civilization for their first millennium in India (while the Iranians adopted it from Elam/Mesopotamia).

>what's the matter with all these people on here who are claiming to be the purest Indo Europeans around
No more autistic than the people who claim they're superior because they have 'Neanderthal blood'. I guess it's just a holdover from the early 20th century when nobody really knew shit about the actual Aryans and assumed they were all some glorious warrior race.

>>875380

there was no Aryan invasion

stop clinging onto myths perpetrated by half learned 19th century orientalists

>>877208
t. pajeet

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>>875350
>What's the appeal?

Pic related.

Esperanto is the product of pure buttautism.

>>875350
If I recall right, learning Esperanto is really fucking easy.

>>875350
Even more confusingly, there are several rivals for Esperanto and no one really knows which language will become the standard in the end (if ever.) Esperanto is the one most people heard of (even if they've never heard it spoken), but a single marketing campaign could turn that around.

On the flip side, Esperanto has official divine approval from a Japanese deity, so if you're a weeb it's an easy choice.

Do you think Subutai and friends would have taken the HRE if Ögedei hadn't died and all the Khan's had to pull back to hold a kurultai to elect a new Khagan?

>>874892
Yes.

>>874892
probably

>>874786

so is this book any good? Is it suggesting that Jesus was just an hallucination from a mushroom? Or is it just trying to demonstrate a connection between two religious traditions?

>>874786
Lenin was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI_CSKSshWg

>>874795
/thread

>>874163
they burned alive because they thought it would be cool with 100% oxygen pressurized atmosphere, velcro everywhere and 100000 small thingies that could give off sparks at any second. they even ignored all warnings.

if that's the toned down version, what really happened?

Official conclusion is that they were asphyxiated within about half a minute of fire breaking out. Rumours from technicians present have involved a cable whipping around and almost decapitating someone, for instance.

>>874163
NASA and the Challenger disaster is often discussed in social psychology and sociology due to being a perfect example of a phenomena called "group think" that tend to emerge in heterogeneous groups, especial if it's a group of people expected to be very competent at what they're doing. The investigations afterwards could see truly huge fuck-ups and people have tried to find explanations of it. Taken from http://courses.washington.edu/psii101/Powerpoints/Symptoms%20of%20Groupthink.htm

> Symptoms of Groupthink

> What are the signs that group loyalty has caused members to slip into a groupthink mentality? Janis listed eight symptoms that show that concurrence seeking has led the group astray. The first two stem from overconfidence in the group’s prowess. The next pair reflect the tunnel vision members use to view the problem. The final four are signs of strong conformity pressure within the group. I’ll illustrate many of the symptoms with quotes from the Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster

> 1. Illusion of Invulnerability. Despite the launchpad fire that killed three astronauts in 1967 and the close call of Apollo 13, the American space program had never experienced an in-flight fatality. When engineers raised the possibility of catastrophic O-ring blow-by, NASA manager George Hardy nonchalantly pointed out that this risk was ‘‘true of every other flight we have had." Janis summarizes this attitude as ‘‘everything is going to work out all right because we are a special group."11

> 2. Belief in Inherent Morality of the Group. Under the sway of groupthink, members automatically assume the rightness of their cause. At the hearing, engineer Brian Russell noted that NASA managers had shifted the moral rules under which they operated: ‘‘I had the distinct feeling that we were in the position of having to prove that it was unsafe instead of the other way around."

what DIDN'T go wrong?

Nothing went wrong and it's something in the making. The board is too slow for meta-threads.

The only then I can think of would be if there was a sticky like the one on /sci/.

>>873946
Well I was referring more to Mobutu, not to /his/ specifically.