Was it justified?
>>405077
It was just, but still a horrible thing
>>405077
yes
>>405077
The alternative would have been continuing to firebomb Japan, which killed more people and then invading it.
The allied planners expected an invasion of Japan to have so many casualties that we pre-made so many Purple Hearts, that same stock is still being issued today in the Iraq war.
Anyone who says "Japan was ready to surrender, they just wanted to keep their emprah" is forgetting that when the Emperor was about to surrender there was a fucking military coup from the last few fanatics trying to avoid surrender. Japan's willingness to surrender before the bombs wasn't a universal sentiment. There were factions fighting each other the entire time, trying to surrender or avoid surrender.
Who is the best commander in history and why Khaleed ibn al-Walid?
>>404581
This meme again?
>>404603
Do eurocentrists think only western commanders are noteworthy?
>sandnegroes conquering sandnegroes
Tell me how this is in anyway significant? Alexander conquered more land in less time against a superior foe at a younger age.
Been listening to the Hardcore History series for a while now, but I'm running low and have a long road trip in front of me. Anyone have good history podcast recommendations?
>>403495
Go to bed Dan.
Stop advertising yourself.
>>403502
Why would I advertise by asking for other shows to listen to? ;_; Just kidding, please give me money.
>>403495
If you're looking to learn about a range of topics with some interesting entry-level discussion between older people, the In Our Time podcast has an extensive playlist of podcast about history, philosophy and other subjects. They're only 45mins each and rarely go into too much detail, but they're nice to get you started on a particular topic.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01dh5yg?page=2
You wake up. You're Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. The year is 1912. You have five years to stop the revolution from happening. What do you do?
>>402121
Abdicate
>>402123
To who?
Start a russian type of Meiji restoration
Historically, what people, groups, or countries were absurdly lucky?
>>401656
Europeans, generally
>>401656
Spain, England/GB/UK, France, Austria, Prussia/Germany?
Only reason Sweden have been allowed to do pretty much anything or attempted anything trough history is because the other major powers always assumed that, due to the land size, about as many people lived there as in France.
By the 18th century, everyone assumed it lived 20 million people in Sweden while it was closer to 2 million.
This despite the Swedish government having a very good count on their population trough Church-books keeping tabs on everything, to the degree that pretty much everyone can track their lineage back to the 16th century.
Jew here, I have a question for Christians. Why do you think the messiah has come? He is supposed to fulfill a list of prophecies:
>The whole world will worship the One God of Israel
Isaiah 2:11-17
Currently does not happen.
>Knowledge of God will fill the world
Isaiah 11:9, Jeremieah 33:31
This means irrefutable evidence. Knowledge, not faith.
>All Israelites will be returned to their homeland
Isaiah 11:12
I am still in America.
The Jewish people will experience eternal joy and gladness
Isaiah 51:11
Holocaust? Inquisition? Progroms?
Nations will recognize the wrongs they did to Israel
Isaiah 52:13-53:5
Holocaust deniers
The peoples of the world will turn to the Jews for spiritual guidance
Zechariah 8:23
Spiritual, not monetary.
Weapons of war will be destroyed
Ezekiel 39:9
Not destroyed by nuclear weapons.
All of the dead will rise again
Isaiah 26:19
You claim one dude, I want them all.
Also, Ezekiel 40-42 lists exact specifications for a third temple as a building, not a person.
The Messiah will be a warrior king. He will also be preceded by Elijah. He will be a human, born of a young woman, and will not die and come back as he will have a mortal life span to fulfill the prophecies.
As per Bar Kochba, who was thought to be the Messiah. Once he died, the Rabbis shrugged and said "I guess it was not him". So the Messiah must be alive in order to fulfill the prophecies.
>Why aren't you a Jew?
Would if I could. It's impossible for a goy to become a true member of the tribe.
I actually agree entirely, Jesus messianity should be based upon his resurrection not by artifically aligning him with prophecies
>>400457
This. You may convert, but you will always be a second class Jew. Even by marriage the club is exclusive, and your kids may inherit your stigma too.
wewps
How are my fellow egoists doing?
>>400045
>how
>are
>my
>fellow
>egoists
>doing
spooks
>>400048
>"my" - a spook
You dun' goofed.
>>400060
>imposing random spooks on others
Just how spooked are you
Well, /his/?
Modus ponens:
If free will exists, then evil will exist.
Modus tollens:
If evil does not exist, then free will does not exist.
even if free will didn't exist in heaven it wouldn't matter anyway since you are already following god's will in the first place
like if someone made a law forbidding you from sticking your head in a pile of shit.
>>391244
I don't see how that works.
You wouldn't say free will doesn't exist because I can't choose to massacre an entire city with laser beams from my eyes.
Why would it affect my free will to choose whether to have a cup of tea or coffee it was impossible for me to choose to rape or kill?
I'm a Solipsist. Can anyone of you 'people' refute this position?
We don't have to because we don't care.
>>407625
I'm telling you I'm real. Would you doubt yourself?
>>407625
fucking kill yourself you nigger piece of shit
Has the Quran ever been proven wrong (as in, different texts in the same style could be written)? Because that sounds relatively easy to do, yet it hasn't apparently happened in half a century.
>>406098
Pretty much every single 'holy' book has been proven wrong. The believers don't care, thats why you call them believers.
>>406112
The Quran is the only holy book that claims to be the direct word of God and that says "ok, do this simple thing and it'll prove me wrong". Hence why I'm making this thread.
But thank you for your euphoric reply nonetheless.
Why the hell does this country exist
Out of all the European countries that seem to be randomly placed, this one seems to be the most out-of-place
>>405258
if celts somehow survived why not illyrians?
>>405258
the country is not out of place, not even the people, but the culture is out of place. when ottomans came they subjugated the albanians to basically be their house servants providing them with women and children. the albanian society became so tied to the ottoman culture through this symbiosis and islamisation that today the country is more ottoman middle eastern than european, aswell as their culture and mentality is.
>>405258
The powers that be were really keen on letting it exist for some reason. Even the Greek parts in the south.
What happened in the rest of the Roman Empire? The provinces way out on the edges of the maps. I know about all the slave revolts and the invasions and the battles and all that, but were they actually living the Roman life in the meantime? Was the ruling class ethnic Roman or ethnic Dacian/Illyrian/Gaul/whatever? Did they have more to do with Rome or with their barbarian bros outside the empire? Did everyone in the empire's borders actually speak Latin, or just the government?
>>400858
>barbarian
Rome was barbarian. They were brutal murderers, they brought nothing to Europe but a Dark Age.
They were the destroyers of Civilization.
>>400858
The big lot of them spoke some manner of Vulgar Latin.
Is this board complicit in the closing of Being that is the trajectory of the west since Plato?
Are German, Ancient Greek and Sanskrit the most philosophical languages because of they have a lot of grammatical cases and therefore allow you to speak and think of "Being?"
>Is this board complicit in the closing of Being that is the trajectory of the west since Plato?
Probably, I don't see how it couldn't be. This is a place where petty academic arguments are carried on in a more violent way than they can be in journals and institutions. It's a toxic academic environment; the Academy was the beginning of this decline, and we've removed all virtue from the concept of logos, so it seems like Heidegger would loathe us.
>Are German, Ancient Greek and Sanskrit the most philosophical languages because of they have a lot of grammatical cases and therefore allow you to speak and think of "Being?"
It probably also has a lot to do with the fact that the concept of Being was first known in Greece, India, and China and the lingual baptism of the concept occured when those languages were relatively young, or at least had young scripts.
>>409700
top lel
Yeah, I think Heidegger is interesting but flawed because there's a lot of pro-Nazi thought in his philosophy and ultimately the Nazis were flawed (even if you don't invoke the Holocaust).
While I do see the similarities in the three languages, and how German and Greek are similar, I feel this kind of German patriotism was blind. Finnish could easily have the claim for language most open to Being.
Heidegger would probably contest that German is closest to Homeric Greek. I can't confirm nor deny but I'm skeptical of his emphasis on language in general.
>>409728
>I think Heidegger is interesting but flawed because there's a lot of pro-Nazi thought in his philosophy
If you actually read Sein und Zeit, you would know that wasn't true.
The only reason you say that is because you know that Heidegger was associated with the Nazis.
How are meds, "yolo" culture, finding "your passion", and seeing a therapist going to help?
According to this logic, apparently I should just kill myself, but ironically capitalistic society suffers a net loss in my absence because of perceived losses such as:
>lost taxes
>lost revenue to consumer firms
>lost money to Big Pharma
>lost investment to Banks
>lost cheap labor to prisons
>lost "talent" or "genius" to the economy i.e. I could have been the next Steve Jobs, Bill Gates etc.
>>409311
So join ISIS then
In'shallah my brothers
>>409311
Kys Marxist scum
society will banish you
or you can migrate to a less materialistic culture but with that comes less comfort and less technology
For most of the medieval era and even up until recent centuries in elite eduction, the standard model was the so-called "Trivium et Quadrivium": the study of three foundational subjects (trivium) followed by four additional subjects (quadrivium).
This was the international "gold standard" basis for what made up a well-educated classical learned man in the Western tradition.
From wiki:
"The Trivium is a systematic method of critical thinking used to derive factual certainty from information perceived with the traditional five senses: sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell. In the medieval university, the trivium was the lower division of the seven liberal arts, and comprised grammar, logic, and rhetoric (input, process and output).
Etymologically, the Latin word trivium means "the place where three roads meet" (tri + via); hence, the subjects of the trivium are the foundation for the quadrivium, the upper division of the medieval education in the liberal arts, which comprised Arithmetic (number), Geometry (number in space), Music (number in time), and Astronomy (number in space and time). Educationally, the trivium and the quadrivium imparted to the student the seven liberal arts of Classical antiquity."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrivium
(Con't below)
(Con't from above)
The original meaning of "Liberal Arts" stems from the trivium and quadrivium – they were studied by "free men" (the literal meaning of "liberal"), and thus were considered a higher form of education than that aimed at a purely practical end, which would be studied by a bondsman or tradesman of lower social standing.
Of course, these days the "liberal arts" as currently construed have largely become a snakepit of leftism and degeneracy, and generally worthless both intrinsically and compared to a practical STEM degree.
Nevertheless, thanks to the magic of the interwebs, we can reconstruct the trivium and quadrivium in all its original glory. I hope this thread can serve as a resource for doing just that.
2 good places to start: this guy has put together a website with tons of resources (including audio and video). Lots of free links:
http://www.triviumeducation.com
And then there is archive.org, where one can find most of the "great books" of clasical times online in English and their original languages:
http://www.archive.org
There is also Project Gutenberg, chock full of classical goodness:
http://www.gutenberg.org
All other resources, links, etc. are welcome and encouraged.
Because a classical education having a worthwhile value is something that could not happen to me bar myself becoming spooked
Meh. Bump.