Does anyone think that if MENSA took political, economic and military control of the entire planet it would improve or not?
No more Donald Trump. No more business without a moral compass. No more North exploiting South.
>>674019
Donald Trump has an IQ of 150.
>he believes the IQ test actually measures anything other than memorization meme
When was scientific racism debunked?
>>673830
When the jews won the war
>>673830
Around the time we started sequencing various African subpopulations and discovered there was more diversity within Africa than outside of it, making statements such as 'Africans are genetically less intelligent' nonsensical, since Africans do not have homogenous gene pool.
>>673860
I fail to see what makes it nonsensical. Even if you show that there will be many exceptions to the rule, the rule still exists.
>committed wholesale slaughter of buffalo
>completely subjugated Mexican-Americans and Chinese immigrants, while other immigrant groups were also treated poorly
>raped native lands and forced Indians onto reservations, if not just killing them outright
>slavery and Jim Crow
>blatant corruption and crony capitalism, laying the foundations for economic woes we're arguably still dealing with today
>cities full of ghettos and squalor
We voluntarily (though violently) ended slavery, which is noble, but is there anything else redeemable about 19th century America? I know no society is perfect, and you can't apply today's standards to the past, but even by contemporary standards a lot of what America did was horrible and immoral.
Oh no not the buffalo
Most of the world was like this for millenia and the US was among the first large states to end or suppress these things.
Through history the US has been a force to improve living standards and humanitarianism, but because it did not completely eliminate them promptly enough it is often lambasted as being the cause of these ills.
>>673832
Tatanka is pretty delicious friendo
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>>669362
>tfw we could have had wolfsheim christfag threads in /his/ but we're stuck with constantine threads
poor trade
>for the benefit of christfags who use bump limits as an excuse to abandon arguments
>>673474
>Neither of them employs scientific method.
Referencing the lack of reproducibility here? Courts deal in the purview of science overtly. I don't know what Euclid means as such.
>The universe would not begin at a specific time, because the condition for it to begin would be infinitely occurring.
There can be an arbitrary number of possibilities where a universe would begin at a specific (or non-specific) time, only once. I didn't see you rule all of them out. The causes underlying the universe need not be probabilistic, deterministic, physical, non-physical, hyper or hypodimensional, or anything else until you give evidence for one of the possibilities.
>Yes, but judging by radiation, if we've gone through cycles, they weren't infinite. A hundred or so cycles is the greatest estimate for that possibility. Unless of course you're referencing the black hole idea.
How could you possibly use radiation to measure how many big rips, heat deaths or expansion and contraction cycles there could have been?
>>673474
>The universe would not begin at a specific time, because the condition for it to begin would be infinitely occurring.
And just to point this out again before I go to sleep, I'm only going along with this for the sake of the argument. You first have to prove that there's such a thing as time outside of spacetime, and that "before the universe" is a coherent concept. Far as we can tell, spacetime wasn't a thing before the big bang.
Watch Constantine create a new thread in a few days and link to the old one saying "In this thread we proved jesus existed".
Fucking hell these internet missionaries are insufferable. The christian equivalent of socjus bloggers.
We're the Nazis Übermensch?
>>673396
Yes.
>inb4 general hate again
Daily reminder countries aren't real. The
Only reason nationalism exists is because people think that maps show borders and different colors and stuff that aren't actually there in real life. This is why nazis and nationalists are viewed as idiots.
>Rapes were allowed in practice by the German military in eastern and southeastern Europe, while northern and western countries were relatively spared. In Occupied Denmark, which initially agreed to collaborate with Nazi Germany, rapes were not widespread, and German officials promised to punish them.
>By contrast thousands of Soviet female nurses, doctors and field medics fell victim to rape when captured, and were often murdered afterwards. German soldiers used to brand the bodies of captured partisan women – and other women as well – with the words "Whore for Hitler's troops" and rape them.
>Following their capture some German soldiers vividly bragged about committing rape and rape-homicide.
>In the Soviet Union alone an estimates regarding the rape of Soviet women by the Wehrmacht range up to 10,000,000 incidents, with between 750,000 and 1,000,000 children being born as a result.
>A 1942 Wehrmacht document suggested that the Nazi leadership considered implementing a special policy for the eastern front through which the estimated 750,000 babies born through sexual contact between German soldiers and Russian women (an estimate deemed very conservative), could be identified and claimed to be racially German. (It was suggested that the middle names Friedrich or Luise be added to the birth certificates of male and female babies.) Although the plan was not implemented, such documents suggest that the births that resulted from rapes and other forms of sexual contact were deemed beneficial, increasing the "Aryan" race rather than as adding to the inferior Slavic race. The underlying ideology suggests that German rape and other forms of sexual contact may need to be seen as conforming to a larger military strategy of racial and territorial dominance.
Hol up. Is all of this actually true? If yes, how the fuck do Germans get to get away with whining about Soviets raping German Women at the end of the War.
>>673351
>Germans being whiners
What a surprise.
>>673351
>Soviet Union
Dropped.
>>673351
In France, German troops were forbidden to rape or even have consensual sex with non-prostitute French women
German authorities created brothels to satisfy the needs of soldiers so they wouldnt need to rape/seek sex with regular women
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_military_brothels_in_World_War_II#German_brothels_in_occupied_France
Hello /his/
I was wondering if someone can recommend me a comprehensive book abut Scotland's history? Preferably from the 13th century onwards. I am mostly interested in the documentation of the normandization/englification of Scottish royalty and subsequently the shift from Gaelic being the majority spoken language of the people to English. Also the aspect of how this shift was being perceived by most of the intellectual class in later centuries.
If someone could help me with some authors that'd be swell!
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anyone?
ANYONE
What made the USA so religious?
Wasn't it basically founded by religious loons who thought Europe was 2sinful4them?
Puritans and the Geneva Bible.
>>672746
Also think about the psychological effects of having to build your own shitty church and run it while living on the plains virtually alone and surrounded by savages
Is there such a thing as Jewish theology?
From my understanding Jewish scripture is either pure ethics/jurisprudence (in the wide sense of the term), or some form of mysticism that's not logically falsifiable; and while Maimonides has some dialectical elements he's not that consistent, and he's not a representative of the Rabbinical tradition as a whole.
So in general, are there 'canonical' ideas about the nature of God, the universe, the human being, etc. in Jewish scripture?
All religions are ideology and philosophy. Some are more tangible and direct than others.
>>672444
That wasn't the question OP asked. Are you Jewish?
>>672427
Kabbalah.
I am not Jewish or religious person. But to read Old Testament in any other language than Hebrew is to miss out 90% of the metaphysics and sublime meanings one verse may have.
There are four levels of interpretation in Kabbalistic tradition.
Peshat (Hebrew: פשט lit. "simple"): the direct interpretations of meaning.
Remez (Hebrew: רמז lit. "hint[s]"): the allegoric meanings (through allusion).
Derash (Hebrew: דרש from Heb. darash: "inquire" or "seek"): midrashic (Rabbinic) meanings, often with imaginative comparisons with similar words or verses.
Sod (Hebrew: סוד lit. "secret" or "mystery"): the inner, esoteric (metaphysical) meanings, expressed in kabbalah.
Kabbalah is considered by its followers as a necessary part of the study of Torah – the study of Torah (the Tanakh and Rabbinic literature) being an inherent duty of any observant Jews.
Even simple verses like opening of the Bible in plain English:
>"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
In the original Hebrew language and in Kabbalistic analysis you find multiple levels of interpretation, symbolism and meaning for this verse. English version can never portray such things without the original text and interpretation.
Does /his/ speak Latin?
I've always wanted to learn, but is it worth learning to speak a dead language? How many hours of study am I looking at to be able to speak it half decently?
>speak Latin
Legere et scribere possumus, hoc satis esse credo.
>>671967
But I can basically already do that
I want to be able to speak it and think it
>>672058
Nobody knows the pronunciation. Translating Latin is more realistic: I learned it in four years at school.
>2016
>not going beyond good and evil
>not looking at why people believe what they believe rather than the appeal of the idea
>not destroying old idols
>not philosophizing with a hammer
>not accepting God's dead
>not reminding 4chan Christposters that they only see God's shadow, and we're in the thousands year long process of casting light on it
>not being thrilled at the thought of sailing open seas
>not being this fucking based
God is dead fellas.
Zoroaster > Jesus
Fakers can't even comprehend the original
>christfag threads blow up
>nietzsche threads get ignored
typical echo chamber autists
>>672599
Nietzsche has a horrible aftertaste.
"God is not real and moral nihilism is acceptable"
Can I get an explanation on who built the pyramids? Anywhere I look is clickbait conspiracy theories
>>671519
I know it sounds crazy but I think they're the work of Egyptians.
Egyptian labourers.
>>671519
They were grain silos built by the egyptians
Was Stalingrad the closest thing to hell on earth humanity has experienced?
I'd rather be there than Leningrad.
>>671194
That would probably be the Thirty Years War in general.
Siege of Leningrad was pretty shit because of the starvation. Also the first day of Iwo Jima was probably pretty fucking crazy because of how small of an island it was and the frequency of casualties over a short period of time
Are there many historical examples of women serving in ground combat roles?
Soviet women serving as snipers is common knowledge, though how much of it is propaganda?
>>670959
Most PLAF local forces were women.
It was more common than normal
When you are being invaded, and the rifle allows you to kill a man from 100 yards away, and you are on your home turf, then women are useful soldiers. Soviet women did not join the rank and file on the march to Berlin, but did engage with the enemy during the blitz.
Nachthexen
Is Islam incompatible with western liberal democracy?
What can be done, if anything to reform Islam and open it up to liberty and representative government?
No.
But you can always try to twist something so it can fit in something else.
Nukes.
>>670884
Western liberal democracy isn't even compatible with itself, and the west will slowly, but surely, be taken over by foreigners who will turn it into the same shitholes they came from.