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Did the Ottomans invent drag queens? 2016-02-09 00:37:58 Post No.670315
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Did the Ottomans invent drag queens?
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2016-02-09 00:37:58
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>The köçek (plural köçekler in Turkish) was typically a very handsome young male rakkas, or dancer, who usually cross-dressed in feminine attire, and was employed as an entertainer.
>The youths, often wearing heavy makeup, would curl their hair and wear it in long tresses under a small black or red velvet hat decorated with coins, jewels and gold. [...] They were said to be "sensuous, attractive, effeminate", and their dancing "sexually provocative". Dancers minced and gyrated their hips in slow vertical and horizontal figure eights, rhythmically snapping their fingers and making suggestive gestures.
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hot. gimme more, op
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>>670315
No.
I'm happy enough to say that the idea of men wearing clothes that society has decided are more suitable for women was not invented in the last one thousand years.
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>>670315
Japanese had it way back in the Jomon era 1500 years ago.
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Is national debt immoral as it forces consecutive generations into an unfair situation?
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youre acting like its a choice
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>>670311
Why isn't it?
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>>670318
how is it not?
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opinions on great man theory? it seemes too simplistic but when i read about extremely unprecedented events, like genghis kahns conquest and hitlers rise to power it just feels like thats whats happening
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>>670288
Behind every great man there are millions of "lesser" men simply doing what they're told and not taking any credit for it.
Yeah it's probably too simplistic but history is divided on leaders and followers anyway.
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I tend to think that the 'structure' or the the collective situation of all the people within a country tend to dictate the overall direction the course of history takes, its more that certain people end up adjusting the margins
But then consider a Prussia headed by Bismarck versus a Prussia headed by Willy
You'll get a vastly different courses run by the state depending on if its run by an diabolical mastermind versus a histrionic
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>>670288
I'd tend to believe it given that even the great men will eventually fall or falter. Hitler went mad, Napoleon stopped being so aggressive and quick thinking, Alexander and Genghis Khan just straight carked it. While I recognize correlation isn't always causation, most of these do have a traceable pattern
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>It particularly devastated Paraguay, which suffered catastrophic losses in population—some claim that almost 70% of its adult male population died—and was forced to cede territory to Argentina and Brazil.
>70%
Is this legit?
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>>670238
Argentina had a significant African population that was killed in droves as cannonfodder and now they are almost completely gone through assimilation.
70% seems right
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>>670238
Yes I believe Paraguay was a regional power that thought it was a global power and got its ass beat by Brazil and Argentina.
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Agnostic with no axe to grind one way or the other here but I have some honest questions about the 'argument from morality' for God that I hope some kind anons, from either side of the argument, will answer.
I fully appreciate there are other ways to formulate it but the way I keep seeing it given is...
1) If objective morals exist then God exists.
2) Objective morals do exist.
3) Therefore God exists.
My questions are....
a) Is it true? Do objective morals exist? And can we say that 1) is true i.e. is it true that if objective morals exist then God exists?
b) Is it valid? Obviously the above wording is valid but if we dig deeper into logical justificiation is it valid? Because it seems that 2) is usually justified by saying that objective morality comes from God, which would make the whole argument circular.
c) What are the other ways to formulate the moral argument and are they worse / better?
Thank you /his/
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How can morality ever be objective when it deals entirely with the outcomes for subjective beings?
Oh yes, because some people are scared of answers as complicated as 'it's good for this person but not this person'.
Objective morality is a logical contradiction. And when it's presented seriously, it's always elevating one subject to the status of object, so their outcomes are considered above all others.
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>>670200
Thank you.
I understood the first two lines fine but I did not understand this...
>Objective morality is a logical contradiction. And when it's presented seriously, it's always elevating one subject to the status of object, so their outcomes are considered above all others.
What do you mean by 'elevating one subject to the status if object'?
Sorry if I am being dumb.
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>>670207
>What do you mean by 'elevating one subject to the status if object'?
When people say that objective morality is defined by god. They aren't saying there is objective morality, they're saying that god is the only subject that matters.
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Have Richard Dawkins invented or discovered atheism?
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No.
/thread.
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Dunno about that but I know your mom discovered my dick last night.
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>>670193
Then who did? And was atheism invented or discovered?
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What is the best book to read to understand the economy of Nazi Germany?
Im not really interested in WWII or the wartime economy but rather how Hitler brought Germany out of the depression.
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>>670164
Wages of destruction, the writer knew Albert Fucking Speer.
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>>670164
>but rather how Hitler brought Germany out of the depression.
So you're interested in lies and falsifications?
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>>670164
I'd like to know more about this as well
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>post yfw the rebels got cucked by General Sherman
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>>670150
Are you trying to claim
a) That General Sherman was personally capable of tupping every Southern woman who was not a slave or free black?
b) That you are a smug anime girl?
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>>670203
a) yes
b) yes
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Can we have a late Roman Empire thread ongoing? It's a subject rarely discussed on /his/, as well as an extremely interesting period in history to explain the causes leading to the downfall of one of the most powerful (both politically and economically) empires in history.
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WESTERN EMPIRE STRONK
EASTERN EMPIRE IS SHIT
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>>670058
>Can we have a late Roman Empire thread ongoing? It's a subject rarely discussed on /his/
The late Roman Empire is probably the single most discussed topic on /his/.
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>>670065
Not really, it's mostly Byzantine (or Eastern Empire) discussion. I've rarely seen any discussion on the Western Empire.
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Why use chariots when they could just ride horses?
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>>670007
more stable fighting platform, especially to throw shit or shoot shit is my guess.
Also, maybe more protection? thats just a guess however.
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>>670007
Chariots came before horseriding so it doesn't have to answer to why Chariot when you can horseride, but the other way round.
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>>670036
well...why ride a horse when you can use a chariot then?
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What happened?
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>>669900
The Eternal-Anglo simply became more subtle to fit with the zeitgeist of the times, now they control the world through skillful manipulation.
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>>669928
>Nation of shopkeepers indeed
Napoleon was right.
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>>669937
If Napleon was right he wouldn't be dead.
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What is the true reason for the collapse of the Roman Empire?
I found a nice resource by William Durant
http://www.daniellazar.com/wp-content/uploads/Durant-Christ-and-Civ.pdf
where on around page 803 of the pdf it's got some great details on the economic, political, military, and social causes, but lots of people have debated that Christianity was the downfall, what do you all think?
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>>669858
Yeah, Christianity definitely fucked up the Empire,
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splitting the empire was the biggest mistake. the west was piss poor compared to the east so without that income everything went to shit
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>>669858
They were an empire. So the same thing that happens to every empire happened to them.
Eventually you run out of places to loot, and it's all downhill from there. And once you can no longer loot your own youth to force them to loot other places, you hire mercenaries from those places, and then you've crossed the singularity.
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Question Regarding The Reconqista 2016-02-08 22:26:50 Post No.669814
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Question Regarding The Reconqista
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Why was it that the Europeans saw it fit to spend over 700 years retaking the Iberian peninsula, but made minimal or no effort to take back, say, Egypt?
After all, Egypt was just as much a part of Christendom as Spain or Portugal before the Muslim conquests. Was it purely for geographical reasons? Was it because the people of Iberia largely did not convert to Islam, and if so why was that the case?
>inb4 the crusades
The Crusades were only a response to Muslims not allowing Christian pilgrims into Jerusalem; if the Seljuks had not concurred Jerusalem from the Egyptians, the crusaders would not have gone straight for the Holy Land.
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Option A: Spend a fortune on building up a large enough army to sustain an oversee invasion and defend home country.
Spend another fortune building a navy to defend and transport your invasion army.
Option B: Invade neighbors and take their land for yourself.
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>>669828
Egypt was just an example. You do realize that Europe and Asia are geographically connected, right?
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>>669864
>You do realize that Europe and Asia are geographically connected, right?
No matter what way you choose to enter Asia, you're going to be confronted with hundreds of miles of swamps, deserts, mountainous regions, and Islamic civilizations where either there will be little to no forage and potable water along the way, or people will try to kill you, so I really don't understand the point you're trying to make.
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Why do people on these internet forums call spooks memes?
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It satisfies their ego my friend, why else?
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>>669722
can someone explain spooks? I sort of get the idea but I can't find a simple explanation.
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>>669857
A spook is a term stirner uses to describe an immaterial idea, concept or construct that "possesses" people to do things they ordinarily wouldn't. Morality, Ideology, Religion, Superstition, Honour, are all examples of spooks.
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>Western 'cavalry'
>Eastern 'infantry'
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>>669625
> Implying knights wasn't boss on the battlefield.
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>>669698
In a European setting.
Pretty shite in Asia though.
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>>669625
Western knights were an effective counter to the Mongols who had wrecked the Hungarian and Polish light cavalry in the same way they had wrecked the Eastern lighter cav.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Mongol_invasion_of_Hungary
Knights were bretty gud.