Why crusaders destroyed Muslim Golden Age? Was there no limit to their barbarism?
>destroy Muslim civilization
>bad
Also, as much as I'd like Europe to get the credit, the Mongols did most of the heavy lifting.
>>3039770
Muslim Civilization is better than Muslim chimp out that exists now. Same how Saddam was the better alternative to ISIS.
It was mostly the Mongols and their sack of Baghdad. But Europeans did do some shit, which was likely because they have a historical tendency to dehumanize other cultures and view them simply as commodities to be extracted.
Growing up means realizing popular cultures reverence of this guy is entirely undeserved.
That's the most retarded thing I've ever read on this website
>"I'll make it about an emperor who ruled in accordance with the eternal laws of the universe, and lived in harmony with nature." Said the Playwright.
>"an emperor who ruled with such justice and wisdom that conflict and destruction were unknown during his reign"
>"all his subjects lived accordingly, without deceit, without chaos, without wrath, without jealousy, without greed"
>"each man during this reign lived without ambition, for he knew everything he desired was already in his possession"
>"such was the wisdom and majesty of this emperor's reign"
>The producers looked to eachother nervously.
>>3039697
Fpbp
/his/ brain expansion thread?
Can you TW for ableism? Thanks
>>3039480
>bait
>>3039470
This one doesn't make any sense, some of the good leaders are the the bottom.
Zizek vs Peterson.
Lacan vs Jung.
Both employ Hegel.
Though I can't help but think the discrepancy in their fields of expertise will lead to a fundamental disconnect in any conversation.
Peterson isn't a philosopher and Zizek is not a psychologist. I think Zizek has a bigger and wider knowledge base overall.
>>3039451
Spoiler alert!
They agree with each other.
>>3039451
I think Zizek would have an aneurysm if he got into a heated debate.
>>3039451
>Lacan vs Jung.
>Both employ Hegel.
Reminder that /his/ is a scientific board and that pseudoscience such as psychoanalysis has no place on this board
Why is Evangelicalism looked down upon?
If someone honestly believes I'll suffer forever in hell if I don't repent and join their cult I really don't mind them trying to 'save' me. If they really believe eternal paradise awaits me if I do, I don't mind. They're wrong of course but I appreciate the the thought.
As long as it's non-violent and not too coercive what does /his/ think of Evangelicalism?
>>3039278
The problem is that it tends to bleed over into politics.
>>3039278
Evangelicalism worms its way into politics way too fucking often and forces its ideology on the public. They're not too dissimilar to political Islam.
When Hitler realised the war was totally lost in 1945, surely he knew that the Soviets would be more ruthless towards Germany and the German people than the Western Allies?
Wouldn't it have been a better option for Germany to put up a weakened resistance to slow them and push all their forces east to keep out the Soviets for as long as possible to prevent them taking German land? Just because the Soviets would be significantly more brutal in their conquest. Maybe the rape of Berlin wouldn't have happened and Germany would be unified after the war.
One of the reasons Hirohito surrendered to America is because the USSR recently conquered Japanese Manchuria with over a million men. He and his generals thought a peace under American occupation would be less brutal than under the Soviets. Maybe they only believed this would be the case because of what happened to Germany.
>>3039205
heres a better question
"why wasnt hitler smart"
>>3039205
He actually thought he could win a war on two fronts
>>3039205
Hitler blamed the German people, army, and generals for his failures.
He wanted them to suffer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_Decree
Why are (other than the jews) women blamed for everything bad that happens?
Because, in most western countries, women are to blame.
>>3039147
Bitter virgins lashing out. They cant compete or live in the real world so they look back to earlier times and fantasize about their life being better there somehow.
They aren't.
>tfw the CIA destroyed Soviet civilization
>>3038988
>tfw Stalin destroyed Trotskyite civilization
We've been over this already, OP, how many times will you make this thread? Soviet civilization was shit, but not as shit as American """civilization""". There is nothing in the fall of the USSR worth lamenting in the long run.
>Soviet
>civilization
fake news
Did Rome make any cool art?
>roman art
>>3038844
Well they're excellent at architecture, if what you mean paintings, statues, etc the surviving ones are particularly excellent
>>3038867
I want to read about American history, can you guys recommend me something better than this?
don't tell me to go to /lit/ you guys are smarter than them
>>3038811
I don't know, just wanted to say Paul Johnson is the single biggest jewcuck I've ever read.
>>3038811
What's wrong with this? I'm reading it right now and, while I don't think it's perfect, it's certainly not terrible.
Also The Americans by Daniel J. Boorstin.
>>3038815
>he hasn't read Howard Zinn
i hear he is the origin of the whole "Wewuzery" of Ancient Egypt
He was /our guy/
>>3038543
WUZ
would it of been more peaceful?
Matriarchy instead of Patriarchy
>>3038495
yes, because humans would die out after 1 generation
>>3038495
no, women are insane children who are jealous of each other and start fights over every single little thing, and I'm not even talking about that time of the month yet
>>3038495
Literally impossible unless you changed the nature of women to be like men, and then it's a patriarchy.
>be british empire
>be one of if not the most powerful empire in the world at the time
>have the most feared navy
>defeat france in the seven years war
>gain a lot of land
>tax the fuck out of the american colonies
>still lose to colonist rebels who are mostly just farmers, many with no prior military experience, or even if they do have any they didn't rise very high in the ranks and may have never even seen battle
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>3038476
>Be incompetent British general
>Commit treason for personal advancement
>Become founding father of a nation that think oil and colouring make cheese
i think it shows the british "empire" was more like a trade company with thugs and a small army of professionals in case of european chimpout
>>3038524
http://www.bbc.com/news/education-22730613
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/675831/British-produce-meat-bacon-beef-milk-eggs-farms-UK
OK /his/ bear with me, because I think I'm going insane. I've come to the conclusion that any process in the universe, even human thought, can be expressed mathematically. There are two corollaries:
>There are processes whose mathematical expression we do not understand right now (if there really is anything in the universe we would currently call "supernatural", I think it falls under this).
>There are processes whose mathematical expression we may simply be unable to understand at all, ever, due to the limits of human ability (though something more intelligent, like an advanced AI, may be able to understand).
If we can express relatively simple electrical signals and chemical interactions mathematically, and understand correlation between these and similar factors in the brain to human thought, doesn't it stand to reason that, were our mathematics advanced enough, we could accurately simulate and predict human thought?
Are we really just machines, analog computers? Is the brain really just some soft circuit and the human mind is software written in chemical interaction?
Well take another class of quantum mechanics. You can't predict or calculate everything so accurate as you claim. Randomness is a real thing anon.
This is more of a /sci/ thread but I understand, you don't want to be blown away by responses you can't even begin to understand.
Do we need another global viral pandemic similar to the Black Death in the 14th century in order to end our modern version of Feudalism?
>>3038398
What we need is people not being fags who speak in hyperbole; ( men and women ) those of us who speak the Truth.
Then people will band together in a way that has value in rejecting our autistic society.
>>3038398
We need something better.
It's more simple than that. All we need to do is to just stop electing conservative politicians who think that free market capitalism that actually benefits society is more realistic than unicorns.