what is the point of experiencing life if it is all just meaningless in the end?
>>2953134
Because life is meat and meat twitches as long as it has order and energy.
>>2953134
You presuppose it's meaningless, from which no, you can't derive a point.
But it's only meaningless if you think it is; you reject the possibility for argument in your post by assuming your ideology.
I believe there is a meaning in the end. Obviously it is a blind opinion, I have no proof of this, as do every different opinion.
But the experience of life itself made me to believe on a meaning.
Tell me about Omasrska
Wtf happen?
>>2953094
serbian concentraton camps in the 90s
>>2953084
Staged photographs. Those people were in a refugee camp where they received food and shelter, not a concentration camp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xss0Ep1MJM
Who was the best leader of Rome and why is it Numa Pompilius?
If you don't recognize that Numa was optimus maximus rex/consul/princeps how do you call yourself a true /his/trionic?
FUCKING SABINE NIGGER NO ARYAN BLOOD WHATSOEVER HE WAS BASICALLU ACHEW
>>2953113
>stormposters out
>>2953016
Cincinatus stands out as everything you hope for in the leader of a republic. Someone who's does the job not for immediate personal benefit and power, but for the good of society and posterity
>ywn meet the Tarim Basin people
>ywn see the Greco-Buddhist temples
>ywn visit Bactria
>ywn hear Turkic people praise Tengri
>ywn see the Baiman Buddhas
FUCK I HATE MUSLIMS. Why does Islam have to ruin everything it touches?
>>2952999
Muslims, you did this.
>>2952999
Trips don't lie. Looking at it now, you wouldn't believe that Afghanistan used to be such a nice place.
>>2952999
As the parable says- by it's fruit, you shall know a tree. What are the fruits of Islam? Judging the nations where it is implemented- largely ignorance, superstition, violence and poverty.
name as many reasons why the Roman Empire is the greatest nation that ever existed.
Julius Caesar
You can nitpick but generally their military was top-tier
>>2952991
language
legions
laws
medicine
roads
bridges
aqueducts
thermae
tunnels
theaters
circus
bread
sponges
sandals
togas
memes
So it nihilism a pleb tier or patrician tier ideology?
pleb
acknowledging it and overcoming it is god tier
Depends on if you're the one getting your johnsson cut off, Lebowski.
Nihilism is just 1 perspective out of an infinite amount, and while there might exist some sound arguments for why it should be privileged compared to other perspectives, good arguments also exist for the other perspectives.
>Japan moves capital from Kyoto to Tokyo
>still Japan
>Brazil moves capital from Rio de Janeiro ro Brasilia
>still Brasil
>Russia moves capital from Moscow to Saint Petersburg
>still Russia
>Roman Empire moves capital from Rome to Constantinople
>it's suddenly an entirely different country
Really makes you think
>>2952736
>ROMAN Empire moves capital from ROME to Constantinople
>it's suddenly an entirely different country
Truly makes one ponder.
>>2952741
/thread
it wasnt though
the change happened after the west fell
Why was WW2 propaganda so hilariously terrible?
>>2952649
Because those generations hadn't been conditioned by years of memetic warfare.
can you believe this is actually supposed to be anti axis?
>>2952662
If I lived during the war in the US and knew nothing about the Axis, then I'd join them as a soldier as soon as I would've seen this poster.
Conas atá sibh?
Let's have a comfy Celtic thread where we talk about Celtic history, culture, languages and so on.
I'll start things off with some discussion of the Táin Bó Cúailnge. Has anyone here read it (in English or Irish)? Would you recommend it? I want to read it but I haven't yet; I figure I'll like it because I enjoyed the Greek classics at school but it'd be nice to hear opinions of fellow /his/torians.
Also can anyone point me to a good resource for pre-Norman Irish weapons, clothing etc? I'm very interested to see what that stuff was like.
And one more question for my fellow people of Celtic descent: what do you think of the LARPers/wewuzzers/"plastic paddies"? I think they're harmless enough but I know some folks IRL who really hate them lol
Feel free to discuss anything else Celtic too, doesn't have to be just Gaelic, I just thought I'd get us started with that.
>>2952569
All celtic lands belong to the Anglo-Saxon realm
>>2952569
Not to derail the thread, but this made me think of something:
Why is it that the modern Celtic languages, all in the western half of Europe, never developed along the lines of "Standard Average European"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Average_European
"Based on nine of the above-mentioned common features, Haspelmath regards French and German as forming the nucleus of the Sprachbund, surrounded by a core formed by English, the other Romance languages, the Nordic languages, and the Western and Southern Slavic languages. Hungarian, the Baltic languages, the Eastern Slavic languages, and the Finnic languages form more peripheral groups.[6] All languages identified by Haspelmath as core SAE are Indo-European languages. However, not all Indo-European languages are SAE languages: the Celtic, Armenian, and Indo-Iranian languages remain outside the SAE Sprachbund.[7]"
I can understand Armenian and Indo-Iranian not developing the features because they were so far away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_AJbEoArkU
>>2952576
Bretony and Galicia say otherwise Germanic scum.
Does karma exist if evil people got away from Justice?
>>2952512
First Karma is not a bank account for good and bad deeds. Second it does not exist.
don't confusing karma with this new age bs
i wish there was some kind of /oriental studies/ since you guys here are too western and euro-us-centric
Making bad choices increases the chance that bad things will happen to you. It's still just a chance though. Sometimes you get lucky.
Hi, in our 1° post we talk about the great myth about the superior intelligence of the atheist. (if our post broke the rules of 4chan, please tell us)
>"atheists are smarter than religious."
Why humanities why
>>2952462
Look, I can pretend to be retarded too!
>Myth
Dutch are taller than Vietnamese
>Reality
The majority of Dutch have normal height, like the Vietnamese. In both groups exist tall and small people.
How comfy was the life of a Eurasian Steppe nomad?
What point in human history was the comfiest to live in?
>>2952451
now
>>2952451
Being a nomad is an awful existence you are constantly moving looking for food and alone in a see of grass. There is a reason most nomads take the first chance they have to leave the nomad lifestyle behind.
>>2952559
this of course. the question is pathetic and op is underage.
So, was it genocide? Will we ever know for sure how many lives were lost?
I'm sorry, pic related is a better image. Also, this:
> "Survival was a moral as well as a physical struggle. A woman doctor wrote to a friend in June 1933 that she had not yet become a cannibal, but was "not sure that I shall not be one by the time my letter reaches you." The good people died first. Those who refused to steal or to prostitute themselves died. Those who gave food to others died. Those who refused to eat corpses died. Those who refused to kill their fellow man died. Parents who resisted cannibalism died before their children did."
>>2952407
>So, was it genocide?
Yes, Ukrainians were singled out for annihilation. inb4 "Ukrainians are Russians"
>Will we ever know for sure how many lives were lost?
No, because the Soviet records are sketchy. They intentionally delayed the census of 1936 because of the Holodomor, for example.
>>2952407
Many lives were lost but it was a famine not a genocide. Also the Ukranian kulaks were uncooperative and were acting with profit-driven motives, so they were punished accordingly.
Earth is about to be destroyed, and you're going to be rescued as a curiosity piece to represent the dominant intelligent life form from the planet. You're allowed to bring with you one artifact in order to represent man's achievement.
What do you select, and why?
>>2952300
A modern long-range nuclear missile, or if that's too big then a smaller nuke of some kind. One object representing the pinnacle of human weapons development and (close to) the pinnacle of our understanding of physics, as well as the invention that ended large-scale warfare between great powers. If I can bring a modern missile it will also show the absolute extent of our development of computers as well.
I can show it to an alien and say "we got this far", and they would probably be able to glean a solid understanding of our total scientific progress before destruction.
>>2952300
This video:
https://youtu.be/rw0GjxqVFdI
>>2952300
I bring an HD full of hentai so I can be like "This was the apex of gorious rapenese culture, unlike the majority of filthy gaijins on Earth!"
Why did it take so long for industrialization to take off? Imagine where we could be now if Aristotle had invented the steam engine...
>industrialization was good
Wew
>>2952242
You couldn't have had the industrial revolution without the agricultural revolutions in England and Scotland first. You need a boost in ag productivity before you can have large numbers of peoples in factories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Agricultural_Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Agricultural_Revolution
>>2952244
without industrialization you wouldn't have a computer in the first place