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Can art threads be a thing here where we just post and talk about art?
We used to have them on /lit/ but that's pretty much done now.
>>350083
Is there a purpose for art beyond decoration?
>>350099
pleasure?
emoition?
spiritual elevation?
>>350114
Taking a few minutes of your time to look at some drawing is pure snobiness, and you know it.
Why do they look so Asian?
>>349995
Sunlight
>>349995
Just like Asians developed squinty eyes because they had to squint to see individual grains of rice, the Khoisan had to squint because there was lots of sand and it was really bright
>>349995
They both adapted to bright deserts/frozen wastes?
What are the biggest blunders in history?
Gaddafi as well.
When will the general public learn that toppling middle eastern dictators usually just makes things worse?
>>349414
>fires Bismarck
>somehow manages to fuck up diplomacy with Britain
>doesn't renew the non-aggression pact with Russia, so Russia allies itself with France
>invades Belgium so Britain enters the war against him
>what is diplomacy
>mfw fighting half of Europe helped only by Austrians (shitty at war) and Turks (shitty at everything)
>>349455
The same can be said about Hitler. Germans are great at war but holy fuck are they bad at diplomacy
>not even soldiers just pirates
>avoided combat prefering to attack undefended targets
>when they fought they lost majority of time
>run away on multiple ocasions
>muh brave warriors
What the fuck? Hell even among pirates they were pussies if you compare them to the guys from golden age of piracy.
>facing larger enemies is what it takes to not be a pussy
>>349137
>What the fuck?
It's your own fault, you should know better than to listen to 19th century historians on any subject, it's always nationalist propaganda.
>>349137
The same could be said of most people.
Going against stronger or equal forces is dumb most of the time.
What did the medieval Yoruba cities look like? Architecture, politics, etc.
>>348993
Big blocks of stone with people in them, with politics the likes of which no mortal man could conceive.
I don't know why someone thought it was a good idea to discourage generals in the sticky. They are essential for minority interests. Must be one casual fucker who conceived that.
For example this thread could be part of a wider non-Eurasian civilisations general.
>>348993
I got your back senpai
Which is it, /his/?
Monads.
>>346596
There are some theories that say that consciousness is the act of several parts of the brain communicating and debating with itself, instead of just merely reacting to external stimuli
My money is on funtionalism. Conciousness is *probably* a mechanism to help us survive and preform the same tasks all other mammals on earth effectively. But from that we birthed existentialism, which comes with it's own sleu of problems.
But with that being said I could also see it being a quantum thing, or simply the conciousness exists in another dimension of sorts that we just can't discover yet. I believe fully mapping the brain will give some powerful insights. Ultimately whatever we think is probably wrong, and we will never be certain of anything. I...
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Philosophy question:
Red and blue ball sitting on table.
Me: which ball will I pick up next?
God: <names a ball>
Me: <picks up the other ball>
Does this thought experiment prove future reading is impossible?
>>345211
God would've known you'd pick up the other one
>>345211
It proves that God would be shit at poker.
>>345220
But if he names red I'll pick up blue, and if he names blue I'll pick up red. I'll DEFINITELY pick up a red or blue ball, why can't God tell me which one I'll pick up?
Was American imperialism a bad thing?
>was
>>345180
Yes. In some cases American "intervention" was justified, in others it wasn't. It was mostly out of self-interest.
>>345180
Ask Latin America
Even though we've had some fun with them in Czechoslovakia, Soviets were far less brutal
ITT: inaccurate but good /his/ films. I'll start.
>>344689
Is that the Mongoria movie with the ghengis and the khans
That was a good one
Once upon a time in China is a great very inaccurate movie
So was Ip Man
>>344689
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qbd-yjd06c
Sadly, the three of them never came back from the dead to have one last discussion.
Troy (2004)
Sean Bean, Eric Bana and Peter o'Tool carried that movie.
Does religion (Christianity especially) hold back science?
>>344289
Not usually, doesn't help it either though
Occasionally. But I wouldn't say that Christianity is especially guilty of this. If anything, for long periods of time, Christianity actually HELPED spread knowledge and scientific understanding. Even today, the best research comes from nations that are or were Christian. And compared to, say, Islam, Christianity as a whole is positively pro-science, even if there were(and still are, for some people) some sacred cows like Earth being at the center of the universe.
The churches have done much to foster scientific progress, but I wouldn't say that's a direct result of Christianity, rather the institutions having enough money to create/maintain/fund educational facilities.
ITT: the three things in history you would change if you could.
Mine:
>Byzantium wouldn't fall to the Turks
>Scotland and England wouldn't unite
>No WWI
>Moors conquer Europe
>Olmec civilization flourishes into the modern day
>Egypt never undergoes Arabization
>>343954
>the Sima family never usurps the Cao family so China doesn't go under the Jin dynasty which lead to the Wu Hu uprising and subsequent growth of nomadic steppe powers which prevents the Xianbei, Shatuo Turks, Khitans, Jurchens, Mongols and Manchus from ever becoming powerful
>Lenin dying
>Soviet Union dissolving
>9/11
Post your favorite flags ITT. I like flags with eagles on them. They're really a noble bird.
This is my favorite French flag.
While we're at it, what's the historical reason for this?
>>343411
I really like the flag of the Republic of China.
Has India contributed anything valuable throughout history? Do they have anything to be proud of?
no poo comments pls
>>343206
Place the feces into the toilet bowl.
But yeah, they did. 0, the numbers as we know it, Damascus Steel, and making sugar powder.
Buddhism and epicureans
bhagvad gita is pretty dope too
>>343206
Ironically enough, they invented toilets.
Which school of tank design is superior?
The russian durable, easy to produce, easy to drive, easy to repair tank or the german heavy, powerful, expensive and complicated war machine?
Does this logic also applies to other historical weapons, like the crossbow-longbow comparison, and the spear-sword one?
Also talk tanks, I know next to nothing so I'd love some links and such to light reading or videos.
Quantity beats quality with tanks every time. A tank is really just a cannon on tracks. It's only meant to withstand infantry fire. But it can't even do that now that TOWs exist. Basically you can't build a tank with armor strong enough to withstand fire from another tank.
> 1950
> Still having a turret
Best tank coming trough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZm7sLzDwGY
>>342853
>Let's align the cannon with the chassis
>Surely that will make target acquisition fast and easy!
Claim your /his/ waifu before someone does
>muh dick
>>341775
Literally have this picture printed out, cut and posted above my dorm bed (among other things)
I like me a strong woman.
>>341787
I'm getting a little turned on by the difference in size between the women
