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>>430456
>Is it apropos that the "Father of History" seemed to just reiterate stupid stories he heard from a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy that knew the wife's cousin of some other guy who says that this thing happened?

But anon, Ibn Khaldun railed against exactly that

>>430472
Go on.

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>>430483

>>430090

>flexibility and judicial balancing of power against the rest of the state is bad because someone might have to read more.

Were your mother and father brother and sister?

Pleb

>>430096
I didn't even mention shit like precedents (tens of thousands of precedents).
ONE CHAPTER OF YOUR CRIMINAL CODE OF ONE FEDERAL ENTITY HAS 45000 WORDS
Did American jurists ever hear about concept of legal brevity?

DUPLICATE THREAD

>>429824

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>>429854
That thread is shitty. OP talks about being an organic computer- SUDDENLY, we should no longer believe in the esoteric.

This is a less schizophrenic thread.

>>429858
The golden ratio only approximates those shapes, though.

>>429858
Radiation of particles approximates logarithmic decay, which points to the number e

>>429398
because they care

Because they don't mince words about the suffering intrinsic to material existence and so their beliefs and methodologies are infinitely richer for it

Did you read Church Father, Aquinas or Christian mystics?

>science is the only way to obtain knowledge

This is autism.

>>429394
Isn't it?

>>429371
Solipsism is the philosophy of the socially misadjusted and the depressed, if that's what you mean

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>>429118
rationalism is a nihilism

>>429120
what's rationalism?

>>429122
nevermind i wikipedia'd it.
so what would be the opposite to the rational view? if something can't be comprehend through reason then can anything be comprehended at all?

>>429047
bump

>>429047
Calvinism is the idea that there is no free will and the whole human race are just puppets on a string for God and that God has predestined newborn babies to go to hell by deciding they will not accept the religion. It's the idea that all other religions are secret Satan in disguise.

It's one of the most retarded theological positions.

>>429062
Yeah, it and its extreme opposite, pelagianism, were debunked centuries ago

>>429031
Honestly, at this point in time I think it would be incredibly difficult to find unbiased sources about the severity and actuality of human rights abuses under apartheid. It's too recent an issue, and it's still too polarising.

I can't give you much help, unfortunately, but I can tell you that my mum, who is South African, told me once that if there were human rights abuses (apart from the restrictions on work and movement) committed by the state, almost no one really knew about it - on account of a lot of censorship by the government. She said that's why, even though you had a sizable group of White South Africans protesting against the law very early on, not too many people were against it. By the late 80s though, the general opinion among White South Africans was that it was bad, and most of them wanted it gone. I'm not saying no one knew what was going on, people just weren't aware of the severity of it (if it was severe at all).

Realistically though, white rule itself wasn't all that great, which may come much to the dismay of post-Apartheid white South Africans and other non-South African whites who idealise the system despite never living under it. The economy wasn't doing great, you couldn't travel easily or find work abroad due to being international pariahs, and the government was relatively corrupt and oppressive towards dissent (not much better than the one now, mind you). It was in no way "heaven on earth", That's just my two cents though, actual South Africans or people more knowledgeable about the subject are free to interject and correct any of my misconceptions.

>>429271
Appreciate the thought from your mom. The most difficult part about all of this is that you're right when you say that
>It's too recent an issue, and it's still too polarising.
Apartheid South Africa isn't quite on the level of Rhodesia because there is a 'hero' in the story represented by Nelson Mandela, unlike Mugabe and his massive failures. Still though I think it's important to recognize that we are talking about a state that went from creating and then dismantling its own nuclear weapons to replacing three finance ministers in one week. What's most difficult is trying to find material that demonstrates the efficiency of the Apartheid system as well as its social misgivings. A perfect example that I was able to find would be white Afrikaner unions convincing their employers to increase wages to push blacks out of the job market by making them too risky an investment given the higher wages. This resulted in more skilled workers being hired but created and economic dead weight loss through the decreased purchasing power of the formerly employed blacks.

Interesting fact: South Africa was better under white rule

introduce a minimum wage

>>427917
In what year do I become emperor? If it's 476 exactly I don't see much of a way out

>>427917
Not kill my only competent generals (Stilicho, Aetius) for one thing. Put all my priorities to secure North Africa and use the wealth to appease the barbarians to go home. Afterwards, connect both empires together.

The Romans despite declining numbers in their army actually won most of their engagements. Losing North Africa was the killing blow.

>>427330
You don't because it's true.

>/his/ please help me confirm my biases

>>427330
You don't. Anyone who commits to spouting crap they don't actually know about isn't worth the time.

If you really want to, just recommend him to watch the Civilization documentary series, the first two episodes do a good job addressing that or refer him to the wikipedia page on science in the middle ages

And after that, get better friends

>>427330
you tell them to go read a book about the subject and stop spouting ignorant shit

Because G-d protects them.

As in before the dispersal from Israel by the Romans or after?

>>427136
Because jews, annoying as they are, don't typically proselytize

The tyranny of the masses is just as bad as having a traditional tyranny.

>idiocracy
>good

>>427086
Learn this difference:
demagoguery
democracy

Should be in Plato.

>>426989
It's a meme. Russia wasn't particularly brutal before the bolshevik takeover.

It is not a meme, claiming Mongol heritage was common even for the last Rurik tsars as a way to gain more prestige. The oppressive autocratic police state and eternal hunger for clay is what mentally separates them from other Slavs.

Fukuyama generally is full of shit. His 'End of History' essay is so short-sighted and west-centristic it makes me wanna tear the paper apart. I thought we dropped the teleological views on history after the dismissal of Hegel. Apparently political scientists still haven't reached that point.

>>426655
>inventions
Wouldn't discovery be more apt?

Also wouldn't that mean that animal domestication was solely developed by men?

>>426655
>developed by women

>Implying this isn't just pure conjecture, certainly possible though

>>426655
>One of the most profound inventions in human history was developed by women.

So? Men wound up doing the majority of the farming once it became an intensive, rather than supplementary, way of obtaining food.