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DAILY REMINDER THAT THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IS THE WORST THING THAT HAPPENED TO MANKIND
http://editions-hache.com/essais/pdf/kaczynski2.pdf
I would say it was a necessary evil
>>1396603
It is like adapt or die type of thing yea
>people living in an industrial society have the choice to completely abandon the industrial economy and live like medieval peasants
>medieval peasants don't have the chance to live like first worlders
Post favorite theories, complaints, ideas.
Who's your favorite philosopher? Why?
OP here. Ganna bamp.
Why did Descartes believed his thinking proved God's existence? What duties does he think God has to fulfill?
I always thought that was conceited as fuck. Why do humans seem to believe that thinking is such a huge deal? Humans seem to think everything revolves around them. Granted, humans can do many things other beings cannot. However, I'm still clinging on to the idea that there are other, possibly more powerful beings out there.
If humans stopped existing, would "God" cease to exist, too?
Is the self a metaphysical construct?
>>1395683
I think that depends on what you define the self as, and what your belief of reality consists of.
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>>1395550
In order to avoid attracting predators/scavengers and as a burial rite.
>>1396549
But it says cause they were starving,
>can't into agriculture?
>>1396820
Humans didn't practice agriculture in the era these beings existed.
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Was the Industrial Revolution a mistake?
Yes.
Agriculture was a mistake
>>1393923
Yes.
The taxonomization and commodification of man has already begun. Soon we will all of us be but a piece of the machine.
Was the Iranian Revolution the worst thing for Iran?
The part where the Ayatollahs took over was.
Albeit the Islamic Republic was probably still an improvement over the Shah.
>>1393920
This. I rather wish Iran had gone in a different direction than theocracy, but I'll take the Islamic Republic over the KSA any day.
>>1393917
The fall of Persia to the Muslims was much worse to Iran. Being exhausted by war with the "Romans" allowed them to be overtaken by Arabic Muslims who over time would extinguish the unique Zoroastrian culture of Iran/Persia.
Let's have a thread about torture.
Who were the most torturous in history?
Can torture be justified?
>>1392702
>Who were the most torturous in history?
The US
>>1392702
>Can torture be justified?
Yes, if suffering of one person can save lives of many.
>>1392702
>Can torture be justified?
No, Torture is a permanent evil, and thus forever unjustifiable.
Let's talk about axes being fucking shit and warhammers being amazing.
Warhammers were pretty much only used when expecting to be fighting against armour
>>1392441
And axes were used pretty much only when expecting to chop wood so that's still a massive improvement.
>>1392447
The Danes, Franks and Anglo-Saxons were all fond of using axes in warfare.
As a two handed weapon they are lethal.
>You can't invade all of us
>Fuck you yes I can
How did this happen?
>>1391903
Lopez expected to gather support from Uruguayan blanco oppositionists, as well as from Urquiza in Argentina. This would have meant a serious threat to Buenos Aires and would have forced Brazil to terms. However, Paraguay didnt receive the expected support from the blancos and Urquiza even asked for Buenos Aires support to smash Lopez's forces.
So Lopez had a plan, he wasnt completely crazy. It was too risky, but it was nit impossible for him ti have succeeded.
>>1391903
didnt almost all their population die?
He wanted to be the South American Napoleon, but he ended up as the South American Hitler (war on multiple fronts, BTFO, half the population died and the country loses territory and relevance for ever).
>Swords were not weapons they were in fact fishing tools.
Jesus Christ what's up with all the swordhate shitposting lately? Are we getting raided by /tg/ or something?
>>1394727
Some spear obsessed guy is really mad.
He just wants to be contrary.
>>1394730
Even fucking Reddit knows swords were dog shit.
/int/craft has launched!
IP is intcraft.online
Current Year - Factions - World Map - Guns
Recipes (will be updated)
Guns: http://imgur.com/P6IVnyY
Enchants and armor
Projectile Protection/Protection are disabled, you can craft iron armor put not diamond armor.
Sharpness/Power/Infinity/Flame are disabled, you can craft iron swords but not diamond sword.
It is recommended to use guns for PvP rather than swords/bows
When you spawn you will have the option to choose from 4 different warps, each one will teleport you to a random location...
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here are the gun recipes
>>1387678
>2016
>historical
>>1387678
Do I need a legitimate copy of the game to get in?
Is universal suffrage a mistake?
Would you be able to vote without it?
The US constitution, for example, originally gave the right to vote to not just any white men, but property-owning white men.
So super upper-class white males were legally privileged to run the country. In today's terms that would be a white man making near 300,000 dollars per year (the approximate threshold to make it to the 1%). These would be the people able to vote. Does this describe you? No? Then you support universal suffrage.
>>1394218
>Super upper-class white males were legally privileged to run the country
>implying its actually different today
>>1394218
That's a pretty fallacious and frankly stupid dichotomy you've got going there.
Would Europe be better off, or worse, were it not for this man?
Probably worse. The Catholic Church would have no motivation to spur counter reformation efforts, and Europe would essentially be stuck under the influence of the Catholics in their most corrupt and detrimental phase
his biggest influence was telling the bourgeois that they could get wealthy without feeling guilty or fearing going to hell.
It is impossible to think of the USA or modern Switzerland, Netherlands or England without Luther.
>Know that Marriage is an outward material thing like any other secular business.
>But the woman is free through the divine law and cannot be compelled to suppress her carnal desires. Therefore the man ought to concede her right and give up to somebody else the wife who is his only in outward appearance.
>Suppose I should counsel the wife of an impotent man, with his consent, to giver herself to another, say her husband’s brother, but to keep this marriage secret and to ascribe...
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>90% of soldiers aim to miss and cant bring themselves to harm the enemy
Who actually believes this dumb fucking meme?
I am assuming you watched the new LindyBeige?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zViyZGmBhvs
>>1390795
Saw it in my suggestions, didn't even realize it was new. I like Lindy though, he has good videos.
>>1390790
I think it depends on the war. American Soldiers in Vietnam who were drafted to fight would be much more likely to miss than French soldiers at Waterloo.
some common language root yet to be discovered amongst paleosiberians?
>live the same arctic, tundra, steppe reindeer, fishing lifestyle
>live next to each other
>all look the same
>be language isolates
Nivkh
Ainu
Mongolic
Tungusic
Turkic
Yenisei
Uralic
Koreanic
Japanic
Yukaghir
Eskimo–Aleut
Chukotko-Kamchatkan
paleosiberian language families are distinct from one another yet the people...
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Steppe is like the prehistoric version of a superhighway.
A large number of pastoral people, none of whom had writing, have been following their herds or fleeing other nomads across the steppe since the domestication of cattle.
This leads to genetic and linguistic diversity.
>>1383844
but this did not occur in africa where there is the savannah (african steppe)
all the paleo-siberian families are identical except linguistically
the difference between a samoyed, evenk, chukchi, yakut, mongol, manchu, korean, eskimo, khanti is minimal
>>1385795
I am pretty sure the Africans thanks to their climate had a more well functioning agriculture than those Siberian peoples had. This did allow for another form of conquest, correct me if wrong.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_pretenders
Some interesting ones below.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayezid_Osman
Current head of the House of Osman (Ottoman Empire)
>http://www.royalark.net/India4/delhi21.htm
Genealogy of the Timurid Dynasty (Mughal Emperors and descendants of both Genghis Khan and Timur the Lame)
>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/3537292/The-Chinese-man-who-would-be-emperor.html
Head...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
>>1386632
>Head of the Qing Dynasty (last Emperors of China)
No he's not
Manchu fucking shits
>>1386854
>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/3537292/The-Chinese-man-who-would-be-emperor.html
This. If we're going to revive the monarchy then let's dig-up one of confirmed descendants of the Zhu family of Ming or Zhao family of Song.
