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Let's play a game.
Someone posts a philosopher, and then someone has to explain one of their ideas in 140 characters or less, and follow it up with another philosopher.
I'll start.
![Karl_Popper[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Bs3ENNe.jpg "Karl_Popper[1].jpg")
There's no logical reason something has to be a certain way based on how it is; you can't derive an "ought" from an "is".
>>341816
Metaphysics are bunk, not yet unproven ideas with explanatory power and readily shown false are useful.
Arendt.
>>341823
...readily able to be...
What were the chances of an Japanese invasion of Australia during World War 2 actually succeeding?
Pic related it the Japanese advances in Southeast Asia and the Southwest of the pacific
Buckley's.
>>341760
>What were the chances of an Japanese invasion of Australia during World War 2 actually succeeding?
0
First off, everything important in Australia isn't up north like the little arrows show, it's in the southeast, where the concentrations of population and industry are.
Secondly, they never fully secured the Solomons and the southern parts of New Guniea. Invasions are more than just landing troops in once; you have to land them, secure ports, ferry...
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>>341760
>What were the chances of an Japanese invasion of Australia during World War 2
nil
>What were the chances of an Japanese invasion of Australia during World War 2 actually succeeding?
nil
We Aurelian now
>>341652
majorian
always majorian
Domitian, Hadrian, Julian the Apostate
>>341857
>Hadrian
Africanus meus
Teach me of the life and times of the self proclaimed prophet Muhammad.
Is there any real evidence he was a prophet?
Was he a good man?
General Muhammad thread.
>>341581
How can there be real evidence of being a prophet?
>>341605
based anon
>>341605
From what I have heard Muhammad was around when we had lots of good record keeping, maybe someone recorded some Arab guy doing miracles or predicting the future etc.
Was Stalingrad the turning point of the war?
400,000+ Germans, 200,000 Romanians, 130,000 Italians and 120,000 Hungarians KIA/captured, and for nothing. Obviously they could've been put to better use elsewhere and have won.
>>341437
OKH estimated the number of dead and missing inside Stalingrad at 209,529
>Was Stalingrad the turning point of the war?
It was also a moral victory over the enemy. The German beast was wounded, and began to bleed.
>>341437
No, Leningrad was the turning point of the war. The American materiel that kept the Russians alive at Leningrad tying down the Germans gave Stalin more time to regroup his forces and construct more military vehicles, that would eventually win Stalingrad,
Just how "Germanic"/Anglo-Saxon are the modern English and Lowland Scots today?
Pretty Germanic.
>>341411
There's not really a clear "Germanic" node genetically to distinguish from Celtic. Really it's more like there's a continuum of Irish - general British - SE English - Dutch/Frisian - German - Scandi
>>341429
Thus literally has nothing to do with the specific Anglo saxon heritage and just shows one paternal ancestor out of thousands
>>343492
This is also wrong
We have the autosomal genetic information from the body's of actual early anglo saxon settlers in England.
So what are the percentages?
Its seems that the modern english are usually around 20-40 percent anglo saxon. Those with the highest percentages lived in the south east. The closest modern...
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How could he have pulled it off? Pulled off at Hugemont? Send Grouchy more direct orders instead of having him guess and flounder? Maneuver his grand battery to bypass Wellington's reverse slope?
Also, what was his end game. Say he did route the Dutch-English Army and break the Prussians? Then what?
>implying the general has any effect on the fate of the battle
>Say he did route the Dutch-English Army and break the Prussians? Then what?
Then he has to face the even bigger Russian and Austrian armies.
He should have fought a different battle.
Preferably on the defense rather than the offense.
Specifically at Waterloo?
He should have put a 3rd of his army in front of Wellington and used the majority of his forces to fight Blucher before reorganizing and attacking the Brits.
Not sleeping half the day away might also have helped.
![e224e2e3804b506d87d88d65464630b2[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/F5jmfuS.jpg "e224e2e3804b506d87d88d65464630b2[1].jpg")
So last night I took a larger dose of acid than normal. I am now interested in Buddhist philosophy as I believe they're just interpreting the same things I felt last night. Im sure I'll end up being wrong but what books would anyone recommend me to fully understand what the Buddhists teach.
>>341304
mention one of the things you felt please. be specific and descriptive
>>341304
>but what books would anyone recommend me to fully understand what the Buddhists teach.
What meat would anyone recommend me to fully understand being a pig.
>>341304
From one psychonaut to another, many legitimate Buddhist teachings can be a drag and seem counter to what you've experienced.
Do some preliminary reading on Indra's Net, the Gate of Oneness, and some Alan Watts. If you find yourself more interested, delve deep into the Sutras.
Personal history thread.
Do you have any significant or interesting ties to history?
My grandfather was a WW2 P-47 fighter pilot, he flew 117 missions (mixture of bombing and escorting) across Europe, and junked (so shot up they became unusable) 17 planes total.
His planes name was the "El Texano".
This is the interesting part.
He was one of the only recorded Pilot of WW2 to fly a German aircraft with his own flight tag painted upon the side.
Here is what's more interesting,
The plane he flew was from the very own
Hans Ulrich Rudels...
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Hello, German here.
Not a Nazi but funny story from grandad about the war.
>be grandad
>be out east
>capture some Russians, about 5 of them
>some Partizans try and attack us, kill two and capture three; all Jewish
>fucking around waiting to get them picked up
Okey
>commander walks around and goes finds three shovels
>throws them at Russians feet, tells...
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>American revolution
>American civil war
>iran-iraq war
>vietnam war
>gulf war
>invasion of iraq
These are all shit names for wars. I'm not even going to google the history of Vietnam, I know they've been in a war before the cold war. Whoever named the Persian gulf conflicts has failed at life and should be shot.
Funny, shrewd, and insightful. Subscribed!
Ok faggot, give me a better name for the vietnam war
>>341141
The Trans-Continental Capitalism & Communism Conflict
I'm legitimately curious about the Siberian campaign amidst the Russian Revolution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_Intervention
Why did it turn into such a shitshow? How did the Czech Legion get stranded so far from their home? Where did Sternberg get the bright idea to revitalize the Mongol empire? Were the Cossacks the complete douchebags everyone made them out to be?
>Were the Cossacks the complete douchebags everyone made them out to be?
Always, and forever.
>calling Czechoslovak legion a Czech legion
Triggered t b h
>>341011
Czeched'
linguistics are humanities
discuss linguistics in here
i had an idea. why dont we make english 100% agglutinative (not inflected; that's different)? we can remove redundant root words and organize the dictionary by root word, prefixes, and suffixes. anything to make english more consistent!
>>340998
>english
>consistent
colour me surprised
>>340998
Because I like having lots of words and ways of pronouncing words.
It's fun.
>>341217
fun but not easy for foreigners and kids learning all that shitty spelling
>I must unite the tribes of the steppe under a single Khan
>I must unite all the dicks in one cereal bowl
>>340840
This guy triggers me quite a bit.
I can see where he comes from, he puts on a little contrarian spice to make things interesting and even brings his teacher into things.
I guess his weakness is that he's general history and also catering to people looking into general history, so when a war is generalized and the contrarian perspective is brought forth my jimmies start shaking.
>>340840
>I must unite all the kucks under one Chinese cartoon forum
Just how bad of an idea was the kamikaze /his/?
I understand the point was to strike fear but it seems like something out of desperation rather than any sort of winning strategy.Has there been any stupider ideas besides the kamikazi?
>>340763
Japan had no winning strategy by 1942. Kamikaze made perfect cultural sense in this context, which the IJA and IJN elites were fully aware of.
It was combat effective. Would have been tactically and maybe strategically effective. IF they had had the planes crash into troop transports instead of warships.
>>340763
>Some college graduates, who did not volunteer willingly, were pressured to circle "desire earnestly" in the survey.
>Many former students from Japan's elite colleges such as Tokyo, Kyoto, Keio and Waseda volunteered as kamikaze pilots in World War II.
The Kamikaze program was designed to weed out "liberal" minded educated citizens who the government thought were a risk of undermining the war effort.
is it possibly to be completely without faith? not just religion, faith in everything and anything
>>340685
Wouldn't that basically just end up being solipsism?
>>340685
Isn't that just being depressed?
>>340703
i guess there are leaps of faith in that too, you have to presume that you are real and you know what real is
