Is logic universal?
>>3172833
1. THE ANSWER DEPENDS ON WHICH KIND OF LOGIC YOU ARE REFERRING.
2. THE UNIVERSE IS LOGICAL; THE LOGOS IS LITERALLY THE PROTOCOL ON WHICH THE KOSMOS FUNCTIONS.
>>3172833
As long as the axioms are not disproved
>REEEEEE >>"""INFINITY"""" I HATE MATH FUCK CANTOR REEE
>The history of the world is but the biography of great men
This might not technically be "true" but it is still the most enjoyable way to look at history. Just reading about the daily lives of ordinary people gets extremely boring very quickly. If I'm reading about history, I want to read about generals conquering their enemies, the rise and fall of tyrants, scientists making ground-breaking discoveries, inventors inventing things, explorers venturing into uncharted territory, detectives investigating hideous crimes, guerillas fighting to defend their homeland, etc. Discuss.
>>3172765
then you're not studying history, because history is more than just men
>>3172771
OP is like most people on this board - a hobbyist pedant about small factoids about the wars of minor societies who doesn't begin to have a coherent understanding of the arc of history or the means to interpret it
>>3172795
your a dorable
>it's never coming back
>>3172683
good
>>3172683
good
>tfw he almost conquered turkey
Are there anyone who was really clever here ?
A.I. will rule us soon but no one of talk about it ?
your vision is blind ?
You don't love humankind ?
I wish I could reach through the my monitor and repeatedly flush your head down the toilet, you fucking nerd
>>3172649
not agrument
>>3172656
Don't make me hoist you from the flagpole
So apparently UCLA's gonna introduce a nordic studies major. Anyone know what this major would encompass? Would it be the same as Scandinavian studies major? Will it be harder than other humanities? Need info
Why don't you ask your academic advisor when you start college next month?
>>3172516
It will be centered on the great African KANGZ of scandanavia, and the subsequent whitewashing of their history
>>3172526
this
Did you know Sweden was always multicultural?
Were knights really like dark souls?
What do you mean? Like, how they dressed, how they fought, what they did, what do you mean?
>>3172097
Exactly like dark souls. If a knight died they would reappear at a bonfire.
>>3172119
Loyal and aesthetic.
What if every man were a king?
>>3172091
Then there wouldn't be kings, longboy.
>>3172091
But nobody wears a crown?
>basically the only Southern politician of his era who cared about and helped poor people regardless of race/religion
>becomes a fascist in every alternate history scenario
Why is this?
Can someone help me find out who are the people on this picture. I can recognize only a three of them.
? ? Beethoven
? Chopin, Nietzsche
Schopenhauer ? ?
Lenin ? Oscar Wilde
The real question is not "Who are the people in the picture"..... the real question is WHERE THE FUCK IS HITLER. HE SHOULD ALWAYS BE CENTER OF ATTENTION
>>3171999
Top middle looks like Napoleon in his imperial regalia (a gold laurel-wreath crown).
>one of the lowest loss rates (relative to what he inflicted) of any commander in the war
>got the nickname "Unconditional Surrender" for his habit of capturing entire armies, which no other commander managed (he did it 3 times)
>unfazed by Lee's hyper-aggressive tactics, doggedly pursued and eventually outmaneuvered him
I don't even know what people think could've been done better. The Overland Campaign was costly yeah, he misjudged Cold Harbor, but he backed Lee into a corner, then managed to sneak around him and would've taken Petersburg and Richmond in June of 1864 if Baldy Smith hadn't fucked up his orders. As it was he still ensured the eventual Confederate defeat, and after the 10 month siege he finished the job cleanly. And his overall strategy was highly effective. Plus, he pulled it off while drunk half the time (if you believe rumors spread by his rivals) which counts for something.
Not saying Lee wasn't a great leader who deserves a lot of the veneration he gets, he kept the Confederate cause alive far longer than it would've gone otherwise. (A fact which I'm sure caused him some very mixed feelings after the war.) And his army was far weaker by early 1864 than it had been earlier in the war, with lesser commanders, though the soldiers themselves were grizzled veterans and had an edge on the green Union kids, in addition to the advantage of being on defense. But I'd rate Grant just as highly as a commander, he saw the situation very clearly, didn't fuck up and took the initiative, what more can you ask for?
He also kicked the Jews out of the area he commanded in 1862 for doing illegal trading lol
>>3171975
Grant's legacy takes a hit because his was straight blasted for most of his presidency
nobody doubts his military prowess
>>3172002
He got duped by a bunch of charlatans yeah but he did good stuff too. Equal rights amendments, did his best to nip KKK in the bud without coming down hard on the entire south, etc. All in all things could have gone a lot worse.
>>3172039
i wish Sherman entered the political realm, he would have cleaned house
He's the hero America deserved, but not the one it needed at the moment. So we'll ridicule him because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A pretty decent guy.
America turning on him is why the country is in the state it is
>using a TDK quote to defend LE STEM PRESIDENT
>>>/reddit/
Did he do literally anything right?
Genetically speaking, do Indian people have any relation/connection to Europeans?
Just saw this clip on YouTube and it made me wonder.
https://youtu.be/C2SNZzrN6FQ
>>3171729
Yes, it's all true.
Ancient peoples did have skins the color of polished gold.
>>3171742
So that does mean Indians are the closest to what a Proto-Indo-European were like?
>>3171729
many indians ive noticed on the internet reject the indo european migration into india theory. but its a known fact that proto indo european iranic tribes migrated from central asia to northern india and absorbed the dravidic peoples living in the northern part of the subcontinent which provided a substrate for their language and culture. genetically this frame fits with the genetic evidence from studies done on higher caste people from northern india and even commoners.
Will movies withhold the same historic weight as paintings of the Renaissance or antiquity?
For example, would a historian from 100/200/500 years from now, look at "Training Day" (technology willing) and discern how we lived and how life was actually like in the post modern era USA?
>>3171574
No doubt. However, I think that if Hollywood movies survive, then probably there will be a lot of nonfiction that survives too - including small-scale personal stuff like home videos. My guess is that historians would prefer to use that rather than fiction.
>>3171877
that's kind of a dubious hope, anon. historians today still use texts written to flatter emperors. and sure, there's source criticism, but that doesn't mean that household archaeology and things are woven very well into historians' grand narratives about especially classical civilizations around the Mediterranean
>>3171574
no, movies as an art form are seen as fiction from the start. Paitings cant really tell a narrative like a film either. I think people may look at movies to gain some insight on how it was back then, but I doubt anyone will see training day as an accurate historical document
Which of his ideas do you think best stands the test of time? Do you believe he is as influential as he was a century before?
>>3171485
t. Hobbes
His belief that the government should make some concessions if they want loyalty and obedience is the foundation for most western governments.
Though the property thing might be controversial.
>>3171524
If I remember my history right, Jefferson replaced the property line with "pursuit of happiness" in the declaration of independence?
Born during the 30 years war and he was 10 when the English Civil War started. Sounds pretty awful.
Was/is the Yakuza a force for good?
>>3171256
>Was/is the Yakuza a force for good?
It depends on who you ask. If you ask downtrodden civilians whose police are useless, they are a force of good. If you ask the businessmen who fell for their traps and lost the business they put their lives into, they might not be.
Here is some food for thought. The Japanese Yakuza have gone unattested by the Japanese government, until recent times because the American government is putting pressure onto their government to try to pressure the syndicate. Why tho? They are not outright criminals. They are NOT drug dealers.
They are gamblers and businessmen. Irezumi is the best form of tattoo and you should check out Twilight of the Yakuza.
They're generally the first to send blankets and food whenever there's a natural disaster, so they have their upsides
>>3171322
>Yakuza aren't drug dealers
What drugs are you on? Yakuza also deal with prostitution.
What if the Trojans had won?
>>3171239
Less interesting/dramatic movie
>>3171239
Then the Myceneans would have gone home and the rest of the Bronze Age probably would have played out more or less the exact same way
>>3171239
No Iliad and Odyssey.