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We all agree that Richard Nixon/Tricky Dick was a good president, right?
Some facts:
1. Yes, he was a paranoid alko and that did lead to the poor bastard's downfall.
2. He was a liberal.
>>365174
He was pretty much the only U.S President who could cease being butthurt at China, so props for that.
>>365253
Jimmy Carter's administration had to invite him to some White House thing because he was good friend's with Mao.
>>365266
Reading the conversations between Kissinger/Nixon/Mao/Zhou Enlai is quite marvelous. They talk of Hegel, Winter War, invasion of Taiwan, nuclear war and dismantling USSR in perfect calamity.
Who'd win in a all-vs-all fight, a samurai, a Roman centurion or a crusader?
Neutral battlefield.
Go back to History Channel with your juvenile questions you monumental faggot.
>>365171
History channel documentaries are all fucking bullshit.
>>365161
I would say a samurai because he didn't need a shield like the two others manchildren
OK, lads. Nobody get up until we've all solved this.
How do you want to know that it's Linear A?
Linear A produces gibberish when assumed to be the same as Linear B. This is why people think it's Minoan (Or at least Wikipedia says so).
But has anyone checked to see if that gibberish is consistent with Indo-European in some form or another?
>>365009
It's not gibberish, it's just a non-IE language (they survived well into the Iron Age, see Eteocretan). No fucking shit we can't understand it.
Does philosophy in today's world have any practical value or has it just become another way to entertain the mind? Does it make our lives easier?
Roman style Stoicism is valuable.
Both for yourself (it has a better strategy for happiness than our culture does) and for society (more virtuous people, less pleasure seeking).
Modern philosophy is mostly useless. I don't think anything done in the last century is of much value.
>>364828
Here we goes again. The same thread every couple of days.
It'll be useful once philosophy cuts off the academically incestuous tumor that is Marxist/the cult of Social Justice.
It'll be interesting to see what happens in Japan. They cut funding to the humanities department of their universities. I predict an upsurge of thinkers who can actually think as opposed to spitting Dworkin's cunt juice everywhere.
You're ottoman sultan in the early 17th century and you feel as if shit is hitting the fan as corruption is everywhere and the military is complacent and becoming backward , what do you do to save the empire ?
>>364815
convert to orthodoxy and rename my empire Rome
>>364837
this.
>>365000
trips confirm best decision
Is Praxeology really as bullshit as non-Austrian Economic Schools make it sound like?
Do other schools of thought in social sciences employ similar deductive methods?
That omic is cringe-inducing.
>non-Austrian Economic Schools
You mean the ones people think are somewhat accurate?
lol'd at the end.
>>364704
>You mean the ones people think are somewhat accurate?
Yes.
who are the most important thinkers for the 21st century?
>>364591
>inb4 zizizekek
me
>On 8 October 1912, during the First Balkan War, Lemnos became part of Greece. The Greek navy under Rear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis took it over without any casualties from the occupying Turkish Ottoman garrison, who were returned to Anatolia. Peter Charanis, born on the island in 1908 and later a professor of Byzantine history at Rutgers University recounts when the island was occupied and Greek soldiers were sent to the villages and stationed themselves in the public squares. Some of the children ran to see what Greek soldiers looked like. ‘‘What...
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>>364583
>I find this [SIC] really interesting that just 100 years ago people claimed being legitimate Romans.
WHY?
>>364583
In Turkey greek speakers are still called Rums. Greeks from Greece are called Yunans or something.
Why is there something rather than nothing?
How do various religions and philosophical systems explain this? For example, the ones that deal with a certain perfect, supreme entity, how do they explain the creation of an imperfect world out of it?
Christians generally believe that since humanity abandoned God, God has decided to allow imperfections in the world to show humanity that they need them.
God is basically a gigantic bitch who acts like a jealous girlfriend throughout the entire bible
>>364471
they need him*
1 and 0
1=existence
0=non-existence
if there's something there's everything causality is a metaphysical law, existence explains itself, it exists because it exists, if it didn't nothing would have existed and you'd have a 0,metaphorically speaking.
What does /his / consider to be the best historical books ever written about the crusades that isn't apologetic?
>We now know that human beings have lived on the Japanese archipelago for about 100,000 years. Volume I of The Cambridge History of Japan proposes to cover the first 99,000 years,
>540 pages
...
>>364359
Not implausible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_Man is ~750k years old. Hominids have been in East Asia for a long time.
>>364359
Homo the Genus, not Homo sapiens (if it's even true at all)
>>364363
Moar like the first Turk amiright?
>"Fellin' thim big trees wuz hard werk but we erned us all an onest week's wages."
how do you respond?
>>364302
That's a really big tree
>>364305
yes it is
>>364302
Good for you.
Were women in the olden days uglier than today?
Whenever you look at the old photos and drawings of women considered great beauties they seem homely compared to today.
Was it a difference in standards? Would 10/10s today not get a second look back then?
Or was everyone unhealthy, full of toxins/fetal alcohol syndrome?
>Was it a difference in standards?
Yes, this is something very well known to us.
I'd like to have a discussion of course but it's already well established that standards change with time.
Because the use of make-up wasn't as advanced or widespread.
>>364222
Thoughts on Timothy Snyder?
One of the all-too-rare Eastern Front historians in the west who are able to read Polish sources.
>>364219
Admitting that USSR and Nazi Germany were as bad as each other is something I can already give him respect for.
>>364236
He also takes a huge shit on the partisans, especially UPA.
If you want to read some butthurt:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/09/timothy-snyders-lies/
Not only he did nothing wrong but in fact he did everything right
prove me wrong
Well no. What he did wrong was constantly antagonize his own retainers.
The dude had to deal with one betrayal or another almost nonstop. It ultimately lead to his demise.
Hideyoshi and Ieyasu were far better in securing the loyalty of their retainers and allies.
Will say though, Japan probably would have been better off with the Oda shogunate.
>>364203
Another Nobunaga thread from that Nobunaga poster. Glee.
>>364203
I think he's the only man worthy of being called a hero of the sengoku period.
