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I read a study that said atheists tend to rate disproportionately higher on tests for autism or something like that.'
While obviously not all atheists are what medical science would deem autistic (to say nothing of 4chan's understanding of the term), this did make me wonder if famous atheists or agnostics in history display any behavior that we'd consider legitimately autistic in their lives or writing.
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People who can't into the sacred and beautiful, and scoff at the spiritualists' appreciation for this life that was given to us inexplicably and unsolicited are joyless autists, go figure
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in my experience Newton is the only historical figure you can legitimately bet on maybe having had autism imo, so go figure
In general I don't think it's very fruitful to speculate either way.
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>>552018
>tfw I am increasingly identifying with this statement
I used to be full fedora
now I'm debating which ikon to buy
How come when Africans were colonized they weren't almost wiped out like Native Americans?
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>>551702
The Africans were immune to European diseases? Unlike the natives, Africans were in close promity with Europeans/Middle Easterners. They also didn't want to take and settle on the lands in Africa but rather exploit the resources.
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White people weren't interested in moving into that shithole.
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There were also a shitton more Africans than there were Indians.
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To what extent can one believe in Christianity if they do not believe that Adam and Eve existed at all?
I am not necessarily referring to the account in Genesis. Bar a few protestant churches most people have clocked on to the fact it's allegorical.
That said, even Catholics are required to believe in them as historical figures:
"390 The account of the fall in Genesis 3 uses figurative language, but affirms a primeval event, a deed that took place at the beginning of the history of man. Revelation gives us the certainty of faith that the whole of human history is marked by the original fault freely committed by our first parents."
From what I understand, the Orthodox and Anglican positions are less defined but overall similar to the Catholic stance. After all, where else could ancestral/original sin come from? I've recently started going to church again and this is something I still can't get my head around.
Interested in what /his/ thinks.
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its only allegorical to people without strong enough faith
there is no missing link, we aren't related to those apes of which we have found fossils.
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>>551674
lol
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>>551674
>two humans literally ate a fruit and that's how evil entered the world
It's only literal to people whose God and vision of reality is so small they don't understand the fall is an allegorical depiction of the dawn of the limited, discriminating consciousness, the descent from Being to Becoming
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Let's educate people on historical misconceptions. Explain one popular case of history that is incorrect.
When Karl Marx writes that "Religion is the opium of the masses", he does not merely bully the religious. Opium here refers not to the popular 19th century image of London opium dens where the privileged go to entertain themselves. Nay, Marx is speaking of sedation as a suppressant of pain. Marx considered religion to be a human invention created to heal the wound created by the alienating world. Most of his philosophical influences at the time, while being phenomenal and intelligent men, were in Marx's opinion hiding behind the guise of religion and abstract philosophy in order to avoid having to condemn the state and society that produced the wound. In their weakness, all of them aside from Feuerbach would fall back to Christian obscurantism, rather than social critique. their fear of tearing the veil protecting the Prussian society being so strong. All this is apparent from the quote in context.
"Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo."
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Unlike your average documentary or history teacher tells you, the medieval economic system was a very efficient apparatus given all of its limitations and issues. Also, serfs were not slaves and they couldn't be somehow freely be executed by noblemen. In fact, all the nonsense Game of Thrones et al presents about direct hierarchy and all that did not exist. Landlords were in practise neutered mafia bosses, who didn't govern the villages but collected the reaps. The most they usually did was sometimes bullying the farmers and create insecurity with land grants. But that's about it.
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Despite the claim that 6 million Jews died in the holocaust there is no evidence for it. Anti-Semitic historians have attempted to keep the number low in order to trivialize Jewish suffering. The actual number is closer to 20 million
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>>551581
why u gotta be like that man
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All of the men in this picture died. Some of them died with frozen shit and piss molded into their legs if that part of their body died first. Some of them will contract disease and be thrown from buildings by their comrades. Most of them will starve or freeze to death, however the lucky ones will be killed in combat.
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>>551501
You'll die too one day anon
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Of the 600,000 Wehrmacht one the eastern front, 100,000 were alive at the fall of Stalingrad. of the 100,000 that surrendered, less then 5,000 survived.
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>>551509
And who knows how?
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Does anyone else get very sad when they study history, particularly great individuals?
I recently watched the 'Alexander' movie Ultimate Edition (this thread isn't about the movie), and I realised when it ended that nothing I ever do in my life could even come close to that.
I'm sort of miffed I won't be able to leave my mark on the history books like he did.
Within 4 generations, no one will have known you even existed - much less care about you. However, names like Caesar, Napoleon and Alexander the Great will live on for thousands of years.
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Who cares if history remembers a few conquerors. Oh no the faggot who killed thousands of people is better than me waahhhh
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>>551485
>senior
>majored in history
>see it's all the same
>deep depression
>damned near didn't graduate
We all go through it.
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>>551485
Just get a high score.
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How did the Japanese or the Korean people arise? Apparently both countries used to share the Chinese language script until they each adopted their own.
Why the difference between Korea/Japan and China? Is this merely a social phenomenon or could the difference in the few IQ points be traced back to geographical explanations?
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My guess is that for Korea, Sejong made Hangul and rice paddy fags could learn how to read and write.
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>>551320
They were all part of a giant east asian linguistic and cultural family. China itself is still made up of different major cultures, and languages. The government there is working for a common language that we all know as manderin. Korea, and japan were just never under any major chinese dynasty because of geography mostly. Japan is a bit off on it's own though. They have some influences that I'm not sure people haven't pin pointed yet.
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>>551320
I would give your thread an elaborate, concise reply, (spent one year abroad in South Korea, doing "South Korea Studies", at Korea University) but you had to be the biggest fucking faggot and bring up IQ tests and your little "rankings". Eat shit. I will never understand this fucking /int/ bullshit mentality.
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Hey /his/,
Why do we focus on the Vikings (memes or not) when we talk about the history of Scandinavia. There's so much other awesome history there - the Christianization, the stave churches, the Baltic trade, the Dano-Swedish struggle for hegemony, the Stormakstiden, Gustavus Adolphus, the Deluge, the Kalmar Union, Talvisota, the rescue of the Danish Jews, the Shetland Bus, the sabotage of the Vermork hydro-plant, Sweden's double-edged neutrality, the death of Olof Palme and Dag Hammarskjold, and the social changes of the postwar era.
ITT we talk about Scandinavian history - no Vikings allowed edition.
For example, did you know that Swedish troops destroyed more of Poland than the Nazis? Or that the Danes have preserved the pike that killed the first Swede to step on the walls of Copenhagen during the Swedish assault of 1659?
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>>551238
Cause samefag.
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The poles are still mad about the Deluge (aka the great swedish cuckolding of Poland). Even to this day their butts are still blistered at the mention of sweden. They fear we will cuck them yet again.
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inb4 that one butthurt cuckold with the hateboner for vikings
> Or that the Danes have preserved the pike that killed the first Swede to step on the walls of Copenhagen during the Swedish assault of 1659?
Link?
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Is Indy Neidell the best youtube historian?
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>>551121
>best youtube historian
I think you mean "least worst." And he's a sports historian. He was only picked by the channel because he has good showmanship, familiar with youtube formats since he had a youtube series before this one, and (just barely) comes from the same background the show is about.
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No, the best would be John Green :)
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>>551140
John "THE MONGOLS, BIATCH" Green is one hell of a historian tbqhwy, senpai.
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I'm sure this question has been asked a million times but I'm going to go ahead and ask it anyway. Is a Philosophy degree worth my time and money? There's almost no arguing that if I want to earn lots of money there are degrees that are in much higher demand that will almost certainly help me achieve that goal much easier than a Philosophy degree will. So if I was to take a degree in Philosophy it would be for the sake of taking a Philosophy degree and the love of knowledge. However, is it really necessary to take a degree in Philosophy to pursue Philosophy? I don't see myself ever wanting to dedicate my entire life to Philosophy but I would still consider it to be one of the most valuable things in life. I have actually already applied for a Computer Science degree and have already received conditional offers but its not too late for me to change my mind. Computer Science is something that I am also interested in and it will also mean having great graduate prospects.
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i'd say start a book club
but most phds don't attend those.
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>>551049
Get a good analytical philosophy degree from a top school and be the spawn of the rich and you'll be asked to solve major financial problems and make rich men richer.
I don't think you have the mind for that though.
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>>551057
How else can I obtain analytical skills obtained in a Philosophy degree without a Philosophy degree
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How come non-european/western/christian countries
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have so much gay sex, but don't identify as not straight?
Is it a christian morality thing?
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>>550994
personal identity is only a meme since the enlightenment.
personal identity through sex is only a meme since the 70s and the apology of the fusion of hedonism with human rights.
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>>550994
19th century medical thing
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>>551014
>19th century medical thing
>medical
explain
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Biggest 'Fuck You's in history.
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Everything related to Franco-German relations between 1871 and 1945.
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Is the Will real?
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Define "will". And for that matter, define "real" as it relates to abstract concepts.
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>>550371
>define will
schopehaurian definition of Will
>real
existing
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>>550379
Then the answer you are looking for is embedded already in the question.
Thanks for playing.
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If you like the empire more than the republic, you are feeble minded. FACT.
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Explain.
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>>550355
The interactions of a senate competing for power, the amazing power and intimidation senators could work with as senators among kings, the ruling through client kingdoms. That was interesting and unique. When they got one monarch and turned into an orthodox empire, there just wasn't much to them, it's boring.
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>>550785
So basically you consider a goverment a comedy show?
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Help me identify this man. 2016-01-13 06:46:27 Post No.549851
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Im hoping you guys can help shed some light on the identity of this highly decorated german officer from ww2. Any info or help is greatly appreciated.
Seriously, i'd be happy if i just knew his name.
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>>549851
Hans Landa
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>>549851
Go ask LIFE magazine http://s72.photobucket.com/user/lexichelle/media/Inspiration%20and%20Such/WWII/74fz1.jpg.html
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All of those awards he wears had literally tens of thousands of recipients.