don't understand that thread but I love how you can find hand paintings like that all over the world
someone went there thousands of years ago and decided to leave a mark for other people to know

>>1365992
>don't understand that thread

Semiotics. Semantics. Symbols. All have the same place in communication as they do hands on that wall. Ideas communicated less as rationalizations and more what rationalization would look like under a certain set of emotions, themselves simulated. All is symbols.

Spooks are an outdated concept that's far easier to understand, and yet wrong. In fact, falling to semiotics more than anyone by basing it only upon that.

>>1366014
you havent read stirner, have you?

>>1365937
Pro tip: don't even bother. You're a peasant all the way down like 99% of the population.

That aside, most places keep physical records. Your local municipality or whatever, should have some shit archived, although I don't know how accessible it would be.

>>1366123
>tfw this is true to no end

I looked at mine as far back as around 1066, and it was the most boring thing I have ever seen

My mums side is Scottish
>Miners
>Miners
>Farmers
>Some soldiers

Dads side is England
>Soldiers
>Soldiers
>Soldiers
Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>1366123
>tfw wuz actually aristocrats n shiet

>>1365848
If I had to guess, I would say that the biggest problem is that it made the American ideal inherently contradictory. To quote writer Samuel Johnson: "How is it that we here the loudest cries for liberty from slavers?"

>>1365848
like >>1366623 said, it went against many of the ideals trumpeted during the revolution. Otherwise it became an easy way to attack the south during rising tensions between north and south over tariffs and expansion.

Since the 3/5s Compromise, although the precise things being contested varied

Washington d.c

>>1365769
>What state had it the easiest during the American Civil War?

Tie for every northern state except Pennsylvania.

>What state had it the worst?

Probably Georgia.

>>1365816
I think Oregon had it easier than the rest of the north
>all the way out west
>on top of that they have California as a buffer zone

Atheism mostly only exists in the context of Abrahamic religion, the term doesn't make much sense outside of it

>>1365591
It just means that there is no god or gods.
Granted god is a nebulous term and it probably makes more sense to use it in the context of abrahamic religions since monotheism tends to embody significantly better what is meant by god by most people.

>>1365631

>It just means that there is no god or gods.

Again, in an Abrahamic context. For instance, there are a lot of Hindu atheists

Cold War bibliography:

http://pastebin.com/eEbXk5kp

The sr71 radar didnt work to hide it from nornal positions. It used radar jamming and flairs to throw off heat seeking and radar guided missiles combined with its anti radar chasis and paint. It could evade any manually driven missile.

It should stay decommisioned; although the earlier meme reasons have little foundation, it would be more politically heated today, and advanced missiles may finally be able to shoot it down.

File: 250px-Mao_zedong_pct.jpg (32 KB, 250x359) Image search: [Google]

32 KB, 250x359

I think we all know that JFK's assassination was the best during this period. If we talk about unsuccessful attempts then let's just go with Castro.

Franz.. Franz had a hard life.

>>1364629
Oh I suppose...

>>1364629
>BTFO by S-P
Literally when? France and Prussia did all the work, S-P got btfo and had to be handed concessions by France.

Shameless self-bump

>>1364611
Industrial Revolution did not really reach most of the mediterranean. You should search for it in Northern Italy and Spain specifically.

Greece for example never had an industrial revolution. They just got a few factories here and there. Think southern italy was largely the same but I dont know.

>>1365550
What about Northern Africa? Did they underwent any industrialisation under colonialism?

>>1364583
It started short after the II Republic was funded, some veterans/fascist/traditionalists/reactionaries generals such as Franco, the soontobe next big boss, started a rebellion from the canary isles and in different places from the peninsula.
Basically there were two sides: The fascist one composed of veterans, soldiers, "policemen" and extreme right wing such as Falange and the Republican side composed of people who liked the republic, communists, anarchists, some international soldiers and left wingers.
The...
Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.

File: 1433962481351-3.gif (285 KB, 400x296) Image search: [Google]

285 KB, 400x296

After the libertarian organisations defeated the military on July 19 1936, there was possibly the greatest revolution in human history. It shouldn't really be looked at so much as a civil war but as a revolution and counterrevolution. George Orwell's book Homage to Catalonia is a really good account of this repression by what was basically a successful Stalinist conspiracy to take over the Republican government.

This was successful mainly because the other countries had a policy of non-intervention, the excuse for this being an opposition to the USSR, but it...
Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>1364620
>Falange
>far right
By the way, you're omitting that the communist barbarians were carrying the Red Terror.

>I read Night in grade school and later came across some accusations that his accounts were partially fictionalized

Here's the thing: all memoirs contain elements that are partially fictionalized. This is true across all time periods, all genres, all events. It's not limited to Night, it's not limited to WWII memoirs, it's universal.

The primary reasons for fictional elements in memoirs are:

-For narrative/structural purposes. For example, someone might combine locations or people into one person in order...
Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.

File: Slavic Stańczyk.jpg (28 KB, 500x689) Image search: [Google]

28 KB, 500x689

>>1363472
Man, this sounds naive, but I've often wondered how anyone managed a memoir/autobigoraphy when many I've read had such extreme detail and depth when my own memories seemed to lack the organization of those within a great autobiography.

I thought perhaps I just had comparatively poor memory and when writing about distant personal events, I'd use some of the same techniques you've listed as a crutch, but seeing that it's more common than I imagined is reassuring.

>>1363472
You failed to mention insanity. Several memoirs contain claims that can only be explained away as hallucinations, hysteria or various disorders. Or deliberate lies, I suppose.

>>1362611
You're right.

/thread

Ancient Chinese.
Umayyad Caliphate.

>>1362611
Just like european Union.

You'll hear a lot of ad hoc reasons but the bottom line was that men in industrialized countries were turning into miserable drunks and so there was a crackdown on alcohol all throughout the West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was the War on Drugs of its day.
In France they famously focused on absinthe, they just attributed it all the ills of alcoholism and ignored other liquors.

File: LipsThatTouchLiquor+picture.jpg (37 KB, 500x400) Image search: [Google]

37 KB, 500x400

fucking women mang

>>1371328
Yea but banning it? Just tax the shit out of it

Why not make a more constructive thread and see if you can raise the quality level?

>>1370847
This. You should ignore the problem and hope that it goes away.

>>1370847
First step to recovery is acceptance, and we have to address the problem before we fix it.

Problem is it's been addressed too many times.

>>1370360
Image:

>Three different models explain the causal mechanism of free will and the flow of information between unconscious neural activity and conscious thought (GES = genes, environment, stochasticism). In A, the intuitive model, there is no causal component for will. Will influences conscious thought, which in turn influences unconscious neural activity to direct behavior. In B, a causal component of will is introduced: unconscious neural activity and GES. But now will loses its “freedom.”...
Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>1370360

Why would they reverse the direction of the dotted and solid lines on C?

Conscious thought is like the internet.

>>1370378
>The dotted arrow 2 in C indicates a subservient role of conscious thought in directing behavior.


because conscious thought is secondary to background neural activity.

The reason that they're considered unable to consent is that we have decided that the brain of a child is too physically immature to reason on certain things. We restrict them from other things (especially medical procedures) for the same reason.

That being said, you obviously haven't researched jack shit regarding this topic considering some of the points you bring up.

>>1368446
Several reasons:
1) Sex is a mean of procreation and kids aren't geared towards it(before widespread legislation kicked in, "if it bleeds it can breed" was a common attitude towards it). Now I don't agree with it fully because casual sex is cool but there is a point in it when you think of what does it mean when you think of paedophiles from this side - kids have very minimal amounts of "sexual" physical characteristics, therefore a person who is attracted to them is at least some heavy...
Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>1368446
Children are stupid, to be blunt. Sex is just sex, but unwanted sex is traumatic, if there is the slightest risk of sex being traumatic and no reason to have sex it is unjust. The margin of error shouldn't be in the "grey area".

also this >>1368488
>you obviously haven't researched jack shit regarding this topic
You are obviously that pedophile rumored to spend all day posting this everywhere on 4chan even...
Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.