Or husbandus if that's your thing
>""""New"""" Atheism
Was that necessary?
>>873887
Not really. There's nothing new about people deciding to be idiots.
>>873894
>>873887
It's necessary to distinguish the tradition of philosophical atheism from pop science authors writing baseless screeds against religion.
I'm not sure I've been getting a clear answer on this from folks, especially self-proclaimed conservatives here in the States, and I wanted to get your guy's input on it.
How much do guys like William F. Buckley and Robert A. Taft have in common with modern, self-proclaimed conservatives like Ted Cruz and Charles Krauthammer as far as ideology is concerned?
>>873884
Opposition to liberal ideology. Thats it.
>>873916
Plus guns and freedumb of speech.
>>873884
It used to mean a desire to follow the Constitution's goal of limited federal government, state control of most issues, and judicial interpretation of the Constitution only.
Now we have "conservatives" wanting bigger, more centralized government, and justices who want to use judicial review to re-write laws, and change the existing laws, constantly.
Every right thinking person in America votes conservative; unfortunately, there are at least twice as many wrong thinking people in America, who merely want to vote themselves money from the treasury in one form or another.
What separates man from beast?
>>873516
Art and science.
The constraints of civilization. Without social regulation, man is nothing but a wolf to man.
I think it's the ability to think rationally, and to act according to reason, as opposed to only acting on instincts and emotions.
What are some Disturbing/Creepy occurrences in history /his/? Preferably Pre-1950's as more recent events don't ever seem to be unexplained.
>>873402
Hinterkaifeck was pretty creepy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinterkaifeck_murders
>>873704
>Six months earlier, the previous maid had left the farm, claiming that it was haunted; the new maid, Maria Baumgartner, arrived on the farm on the day of the attack and was killed hours later.
Oh shiiii-
>>873704
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinterkaifeck_murders
Damn dude thats a good one. Calculated as fuck.
What went wrong?
Islam hates sculpture and painting
>>873146
Islam hates art.
Islam has a thorough dislike of the products of creative professions.
So my dear couch philosophers,
What is freedom to you?
Worth diying for?
What about political and social freedom?
In a few months I'll enlist in the military and I thought I should ask 4chan's most intellectual board for their views.
>>872815
Branch? MOS?
freedom df= the power to do whatever I want to whoever I want whenever I want with whatever implement I want in the context of market capitalism
Freedom is an illusion
Is Varg right about Christianity? Is paganism the true European religion?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6FjGSM0qQo
>>872005
>varg
'no.'
>>872005
No, he is wrong and his accounts on history are superficial as fuck. For example there was almost no torture in the middle ages. It is clearly a device of the Early Modern times. His game is shit too (or so my brother told me).
Also Fallen was his last good album
>>872005
This thread again.
Who /Roman Catholic/ here?
Do you feel that this experience brings you closer, culturally, to Rome and the Ancient World?
Are you still in touch with the faith?
Let us discuss.
>>871206
I am
No
Yes
Just like eating McDonald's doesn't make me feel more American, worship at Catholic Mass doesn't make me feel more Roman. The Church is just too modern and international.
I was confirmed but now I reject the church and its teachings.
I didn't keep going when I went off to school. I'm glad I was raised Catholic though, it's somewhat interesting and you do feel connected to something greater.
How bad is North Korea, really? What factual accounts do we have of life there? To what extent is the information we know just capitalist propaganda?
My biggest question is to how does their deprivation of common goods (wide variety of cars, Internet, western film/music/video games, malls, retail, etc) affect their sense of happiness? In other words, because of this "forced purity/rurality", are they truly happy, do they delude themselves into thinking they're happy, or are they not happy at all? Are they aware of the "benefits" of the west? Does the forced ignorance about the existence of, say, personal computers and smartphones make their life better, or not? Do they live in Plato's cave?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4hLctBvojE
Looks like a nice place, desu.
Clean, not a lot of traffic.
>>869624
>Do they live in Plato's cave?
y
>>869675
Yeah, it looks like a fucking video game. Super clean, not many entities (mechanical or human) around, everything seems coordinated, the trees are all at the same distance... but then again it's approved footage by their government. What are we not seeing, and how much of what he hear from dissidents is real?
Was prohibition actually a failure? Wikipedia claims that based on liver cancer rates, alcohol usage nearly halved.
It seems that this failure myth was invented by the alcohol industry.
>>869555
How do you mean by failure?
If it was successful, wouldn't we still have it today?
>>869569
>implying politics is about what works and what doesn't instead or what is popular
>>869555
When your goal is eliminating all alcohol use, only managing half is a failure yes.
Was he real person?
Yes. Repent.
No. A bunch of people on strange mushrooms invented him.
Probably one of the many apocalyptic preachers in Judea.
Is this a Christ allegory?
>>869200
>be around before christ
> must be a Christ analogy
>>869272
>he thinks the recorded Norse sagas are pre-Christian
Pro-tip: Most of them were written by Christians
>>869280
recorded by christians*
/his/torical filename thread
>>868995
>weekend at St Bernays.jpg
Daily reminder that naive realism is a metaphysical belief.
And no one claimed otherwise.
>>868332
Except all the STEMlords ever
>i LOVE science but metaphysics is USELESS *tips*
>>868335
That's more of a logical positivist thing to say than anything that has anything to do with naive realism.
Empirical idealism is arguing for naive realism in a sense I suspect whatever strawman you're attacking wouldn't agree with.