I just received my dna test back from ancestry, is there a way I can use this to discover my ydna?
>>442356
we're all related, cousin.
btw why haven't you called?
>>442356
Are you a male? It should've come with the Y-dna haplogroup results
>>443726
Women are subhuman, kek
Why is the US so 'weird' when it comes to coming out as an atheist?
It's literally a non-issue in the rest of the developed world, but in the US they seem to have a genuine prejudice against it, similar to homophobia. They have conventions, support group,s and what they refer to as 'civil-rights' actives pertaining Atheist rights.
Why is this?
I'm not an atheist btw, just curious about this.
>>442137
Things go weird in America.
>>442137
>USA
>developed world
>implying
They are not convinced of their lack of belief.
If they were, they wouldn't spend hours on literature, videos and the internet looking for the lack of an answer.
What do you think of the 80s?
How come the best movies and music came from that period?
Back when gangs looked like this
>>442044
it had lots of aesthetic
It's impossible to have a full understanding of history. Most people only have a passing understanding of a few things related to their nation's history. Even expert historians usually just specialize in a certain area of history.
In this thread, describe an area or even in history that you barely know anything about to the best of your ability, and an "expert" /his/torian will elaborate on it with a reply.
Good thread start.
>>441983
>describe an area or even in history that you barely know anything about to the best of your ability
A positive view of the Confederacy persisted in the US (compare to, say, Nazis in Germany) because a lot of people don't mind racism and still relate to their cause to this day.
>>441983
>a full understanding of history
The problem is there are always two sides to history, you'll never truly have a full understanding since people tend to fall to bias and sources are almost always biased
I know a good deal about the Middle Ages but fuck all about Antiquity
Who's your favorite historical figure that died a virgin?
>>441906
tezla or andy warhol
Big sexy Karl
Jesus, the most important man that ever lived.
God Himself in the flesh.
Why was teleology basically taken for granted in Hegel's philosophy?
I've only read books *about* Hegel, but it seems central to his system that the world is tending towards some goal, some end point, and that this end point makes sense of all the intermediary stages leading up to it. Was it merely an assumption on his part that the universe has an intrinsic endpoint that it develops towards? And was this assumption not questioned because, at that stage of natural science, it seemed incontestable that nature contains some beings (organisms) that can't be understood except from a teleological point of view? Is this assumption - and thus the Hegelian architecture built upon it - obsolete in the light of contemporary, especially evolutionary, science?
>>441675
I don't know much about Hegel's ideas, but if he was suggesting >the universe has an intrinsic endpoint that it develops towards
Then I'd agree that the modern understanding of evolution refutes this point
>>441719
The question wasn't whether it is true, but why Hegel conceives of the world this way in his philosophy.
The reason people only read books *about* Hegel instead of directly by him is that he writes so obscure that it's hard to grasp him if you read him in German and beyond your reach if you read him translated, to the degree where several Hegelian professors can have very different opinions on what he actual meant.
Still, from *my* understanding, it isn't about material objects but cultural progress reaching a point where ideas have been proposed, opposed, and created new ideas to the point where every possible idea have been discussed and history finally "understands itself".
To compare it to evolutionary theory; species may rise and fall but by the end, they too will have dwelled on the different concept until all of them are extinguished and all that's left is the Hegelian end-game.
We all know the Earth is about 6000 years old.
But is it possible to know the exact time?
It's 10:05pm CST, mate.
59XX something.
It will be exactly the 6000th year when Christ returns and sets up the millenial kingdom.
>creation was 6 days
>7th day for rest
>human history will be 6000 years
>last 1000 years for rest
>>441240
The last 1/4 of this image scare me beyond belief and I don't know what to do, especially the Great White Throne Judgement
Lets talk about the people who coined the phrase "Assassin"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassins
>>441118
What does that cat say?
>>441131
meow
>>441131
Consider, that is a magic animal. Typical jinnee.
His tail is so cute,
so not be with him rude.
Was most of history really boring for people? First a couple hundred-thousand years of hunting and gathering, then just farming until like 100 years ago.
>>440679
Yes, we are very really lucky.
>>440679
A true saying it is, Desire hath no rest, is infinite in itself, endless, and as one calls it, a perpetual rack, or horse-mill.
>>440686
Care to translate?
What do you guys think of Anthropology? Any favorite authors or books?
>>440571
What type of anthropology? The study of language? The study of pass times? Of rituals?
>>440594
Cultural anthropology i guess im talking about
>>440663
>Cultural anthropology
>>>/pol/
>>>/x/
Phys or gtfo this board
Why is Germany such a fucking joke?
>lost every war they fought
>genocided jews, gypsies
>put prominent people of culture in concentration camps
>enslaved entire nations and wiped them out under the germanic boot (evil)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ztOV2wrrkY
Did anything good came out of this country? Ever? So fucking pathetic.
>>440293
>implying WW1 and 2 were the only wars ever fought
>implying organizing a genocide is a joke
>implying you werent the first to kiss that boot if they came kicking your door down
>Did anything good came out of this country? Ever?
germany was the leading power in technology and innovation before the first world war
also, whats with the flood of germanophobs since the last weeks?
>>440293
germany is the leathercoat of europe. works hard, does his shit, but noone likes him, everybody fucks him into ass. then he goes mad and kills the minorities. next are the turks, you can fucking bet on that.
Why is Merkel letting so many violent and uncivilized foreigners into the country responsible for the Holocaust?
Whats the name of the philosophical era we're living in right now?
Existentialism
proto-socialism
Era?
Well we got some post-analytics and postmodernists floating around at least.
Why has modern Italy had such a pathetic military?
>lost 2 of 3 independence wars, relying on first the French and then the Prussians to gain anything
>defeated by Ethiopia, the most embarrassing defeat of European forces by native Africans in the modern era
>unable to decisively defeat Austria-Hungary despite the Habsburgs being distracted by Russian and Serbia until A-H was literally dissolving in October 1918
>utterly trounced in WWII to the extent that they switch sides
Just what gives? How did Rome's descendants fall so low?
They were issued wine rations
>>439984
Italy has lost battles. It has lost no wars.
( except the one against the somali talitoyus.). They always switch to the winning side before the war is over.
>>440032
>Italy has lost no wars
>except
lol Italians
These kids are descendants of the Ottoman dynasty. How does this make you feel?
>>439213
That Whore Roxane has truly won.
>>439213
These are the descendants of a man executed by the Ottomans. How does this make you feel?
The Ottoman upper layer were also white, be it the hellenized royalty (Mehmet II himself was related to the Byzantine imperial dynasty), or the Janissaries who were largely turkified white Balkanites.
It's just 90% of their former subjects who are the shitskins. Modern Turkey is ran by plebeians.
Also fun fact, Ottoman dynasty is now mostly converted to christianity.
If anyone posts this all they've done is demonstrate that they haven't read Guns, Germs and Steel.
Occasionally it is possible to tame a Zebra, especially if you're a handler paid to do so in a society which already has well established agriculture employed by someone with an appeal to novelty. Even so they've never been successfully domesticated. They're very difficult to capture alive and very difficult to put under control in no small part due to their aggressiveness. Zebras kill more zookeepers than any other creature. Even when 'tamed' Zebras are touchy creatures, note that the lady in this image is riding a cart pulled by a Zebra, not the Zebra itself.
Zebras were never domesticated for the same reason that European Bears were never domesticated (even though there have been instances of tamed bears). They're too much hassle to economically domesticate.
>>438980
>implying zebras can harm the human masterspecies
>>438980
Literally tamed aurochs.
>>438980
Domesticated is just taming + selective breeding + time
The wild ancestors of the domesticated horse were also large muscular pray animals can that could kill a man with one kick, horses today can still do that
Saying domestication was impossible is a cop-out