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Lets talk these dudes. Were they right? Wrong?
Discuss
Aristotle > Plato
>>924040
Aristotle > Plato = Socrates
>>924038
You should actually put some effort into your post.
What were the main reasons for the demise of the Norse on Greenland? Is there currently a consensus among historians?
>>924035
Wasn't there something like a little ice age that drove them out?
>>924035
The Inuits come and wipe out a population already under severe stress from changing climate.
Shit was cold bruh
Aint no trees or shit
Native Americans are genocidal pricks
Let's have a serious discussion with out memes
What do you think about it?
I thinks both sides wanted to win for political motives, wherever won the war won the next term or keep in power
It´s amazing how close Argentina was to winning, or at least to inflict big damage to the task force
> Argie sub gets into firing position right under the fleet but torpedoes malfunction
> Skyhawks skim the waves to bomb the ships, dumb bombs don´t explode
>>924041
Argies were stupid. To begin with, they should have made bigger landing strips on the islands for their Mirages, and should have mined the strait between the two islands
>>924041
>Argie sub gets into firing position right under the fleet but torpedoes malfunction
Fun fact, british used WW2 surplus torpedoes because their brand new hot shit they were proud of since 60's quite probably didn't work either because it wasn't even tested. They've had it for like 20 years and didn't test it properly.
What happened to the samurai culture that disappeared so quick in Japan after the arrive of the europeans?
>>923827
>that disappeared so quick in Japan after the arrive of the europeans
Uh, no it didn't.
It wasn't Europeans. Samurai culture was alive and well until rebels took down the shogunate.
samurai culture persisted until the restoration in which the han system was abolished and the samurai were made jobless
Why did they stop being a thing?
Did any civilization not practice it at some point?
>>923801
What, arranged marriages?
>>923809
Yeah, I guess I forgot the topic,
>>923813
It's long death march started when Christianoty and the idea both partners must accept the marrige became a thing and it finally began to fully die as invidualism took over.
Is Rome overrated in the West so westerners can pretend to have a great history like Arabs and Chinese?
>>923757
Rome has every right to be called one of the greatest civilizations ever.
>>923757
>china
>great history
of being btfo by either themselves or their neighbours?
>great history
>Like Arabs
Low quality bait, Abdul.
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Post the most noteworthy historical persons from your homecountry. Let's bash and insult each other's picks.
>>923671
>Hoorn
>>923671
Faggot, not picking the founding father
What was land of Hungary like and who lived there before the Magyar settled there?
>>923640
>What was land of Hungary like
like shit for anyone who wasn't a part of nobility
and on top of that, as the WWI approached, they tried to culturally and linguistically destroy their minorities, who lived there before they moved in, which answers the other half of your question.
>>923645
but who lived there before the Magyars?
>>923652
mostly slavs
i wanna be Traditional.
Marry a nice woman and go to church every sunday.
>>923568
oh shit nvm, i don't want to be traditional.
>>923568
Then secretly practice alchemy and tantric yoga and advocate for the coming of the avatar and the future IMPERIVM.
Thoughts?
It's served its purpose in the past but the increasing scientific development and individualism has rendered it pretty much useless. That said, buddhism lifestyle appeals to me even though I don't know dick about it.
Anyone have any good entry-tier buddhism books?
>>923432
Hell yeah dude check out The essence of Buddhism I have it, it's a great way to get started.
>>923432
This Is It by Alan Watts.
It is common to say that someone who is far too conservative or reactionary to modern tastes is "to the right of Genghis Khan", but is it true that Genghis Khan could be considered right-wing?
He did destroy the traditional Mongol way of life and created a whole new multicultural and meritocratic bureaucracy to manage their empire, isn't this sort of a left-wing thing to do?
>>923398
>applying the right/left dichotomy to a fucking medieval-era conqueror
You might as well ask if Genghis was more of a Protestant or a Catholic.
>>923398
I've always hated that stupid phrase for precisely that reason
Temujin is an annoying historical figure because just about everyone knows of him yet hardly anyone actually knows anything about him
>property
>morality
>>923337
the idea of "social constructs"
touhou
>Hey, you know how like pretty much every war ever was about gaining ground and strategic points? And then forcing the enemy into a position where they logistically couldnt fight anymore so they would have to give in to our demands?
>Well we are going to reinvent the wheel and do away with that approach to war. Just focus instead on killing as many enemies as you can. Even if you take a hill or something, just retreat from it after. That way, the enemy will go back there and we can kill even more of them
Seriously,...
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>>923336
>Seriously, what the F U C K where they thinking?
Honestly I have no fucking clue. The Vietnam War was the biggest clusterfuck imaginable, I guess they thought that they were fighting against an ideology rather than a country, and therefore the only way to win was to kill everyone with the ideology?
"For them, the war was about heavy bombers dropping thousands of tons of ordnance a day on nothing. You could see planes being loaded with bombs, taking off, and dropping the bombs at the end of the runway, just to land again, so they could fill the papers on their bogus missions, rinse and repeat, all the while we were getting pounded in the jungle..."
-some retired marine
>>923336
>>Hey, you know how like pretty much every war ever was about gaining ground and strategic points?
Actually warfare post-middle ages was mostly about destroying the enemy's field army.
Is it immoral to indulge in luxuries (buying an ApplePhone, going on holidays far away, and so on) instead of giving your money to people who would otherwise starve / live in abject poverty?
>>923276
there is no objectively correct answer to that
morality is personal
>>923276
You should take a course on ethics if you're interested in this question.
Also, there's a few good TED talks about this topic.
https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about_charity_is_dead_wrong?language=en
>>923276
Personal opinion.
1.You have to use what you have and have what you need. This meaning that if you need some expensive shit of course go and get it without second thoughts.
2. We have to make a distinction between collective actions and individual ones. You cannot take all the heat (even theoreticall) on yourself in affairs that touch thousands, millions or billions of people.
Why don't more people talk about Jean Baudrillard?
1, he is French.
2, he writes about "the theoretical subject" as if we are expected to understand what he means. 3, he has been exposed by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont as an unrepentant, and scandalously imprecise, user of scientific terminology.
4, in 1991 he wrote an essay, called "The Gulf War Did Not Take Place".
>>923245
literally who
>>923287
>4, in 1991 he wrote an essay, called "The Gulf War Did Not Take Place".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulf_War_Did_Not_Take_Place
>"Contrary to the title, the author believes that the events and violence of the Gulf War actually took place, whereas the issue is one of interpretation: were the events that took place comparable to how they were presented, and could these events be called a war?"
Lets not throw the...
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