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In this game when your city is invaded you can just call commoners to arms and they throw rocks at the enemy how historically accurate it is?
100%
>>1390570
Well Pyrrhus of Epirus was killed by an old woman with a roof tile
>>1390570
Fairly accurate
they wouldn't just chuck rocks though
Have any philosophers argued that moral actions are morally good because they are beautiful, or that the most beautiful actions are the most moral?
>>1390377
Nietzsche.
Hume.
>>1390377
>“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” – that is all
>Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
>tfw you realized there really is only one type of value, and "truth value" "aesthetic value" and "moral value" are just the contexts
I read Euthyphro and Cratylus. Isn't the answer obvious in both cases? It's all subjective and piety and names are defined through axioms?
My own thoughts: Honestly, I'm not impressed. I think this is what philosophy is like when you don't have 2000 years of prior literature to endlessly cite and regurgitate and worship. You quickly come to the conclusion that you can't really know anything except your inability to really know anything. When you ask philosophy lovers about this you get a huge amount of obfuscation and unwillingness to seriously...
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Dude it's just spooks lol
>>1390371
I get the impression you're trying to learn about philosophy and listened to some idiot who told you to start with the Greeks. As you've discovered, this is worthless advice. Start with a modern thinker, the Greeks are interesting only as historical curiosities.
How is philosophy relevant anymore science covers everything.
>How do you know it could be a demon tricking you? Or we could be brains in a jar!
That's irrelevant we can't know that, nor can you prove that hypothesis we can observe and act by the rules of this reality of simulation. We can't truly be certain of anything but we can live with 99% chance of being right
So I know the left symbol is the celtic cross, but what is the right symbol?
I regularly see it in pagan-related content, yet I can never find a meaning to it.
Is it simply a stylized celtic cross?
Something else entirely?
gnostic
sometimes called a sun wheel not sure on the originl artifact though migration era Germanic for sure thougb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_cross
What are these feels...
>>1390074
also good /his/ comics
>>1390074
what am I looking at
>>1390140
Your life.
What's the most off-the-wall, unbelievable thing in history that's either true or probably true?
>>1389907
A woman got pregnant from anal sex.
http://www.womenshealthmag.com/mom/pregnancy-from-anal-sex
>>1389907
Aliens have infact visited earth in the past. They had little interest except for passive cataloging and soon left. They maintain only a vague interest and observe our planet from a considerable distance.
>>1389914
/thread
>founded by a slave
>first people to defeat the Mongol Horde
Can we have a thread about the Mamluk dynasty? They seem interesting I wonder why /his/ doesn't talk about them more
>Baibars I, an upwardly mobile ex slave who had once been returned to the market place by a dissatisfied buyer on account of his excessive ugliness.
>>1390237
>YES, WELL DONE QUTUZ, WELL DONE
>HOWEVER
pls respond
Is Australian history boring? I think it's pretty interesting a bunch of convicts being sent to Australia and building a great nation eventually earning their freedom.
The best war that Australia ever participated was the Emu War.
Explorer shennanigans are fun. Everything else up until the first world war is incredibly boring.
A lot of abo history is taught in primary school too, which should be considered a form a child abuse.
>>1389636
>building a great nation
I live in Australia and I can tell you that it's not 'great' by any means.
Comfortable living in the urban areas, sure. But there's nothing here that makes me feel proud of being a citizen.
was there ever a person like the man with no name in actual US history in the wild west?
>>1389556
There were Outlaws, thrillseekers, and bandits.
There were mercenaries.
They were much likely less appealing than TMWNN.
I mean TMWNN doesn't rape or kill innocent people like most outlaws did back then.
And his chaotic neutral ploy of taking Ugly from town-to-town and setting up a hanging only to rescue him is too fraught with danger to actually work IRL.
Moreover the towns would just telegraph each other about the criminal pair.
>>1389564
This desu. They were also extremely rare. The "Wild" West was never really like it was in movies, outside of the Army vs. Injuns movies.The Wild West was just as peaceful as the current West is today (sans California, in which case it's even more peaceful). Life was harder on the frontier, but it was fair and there was actually not that much crime.
Frank Canton
>>1389620
No, the Wild West was extremely violent compared to its relatively low population density, which normally entails tranquility. Even being much more peaceful than contemporary California doesn't change that, since contemporary California is radically urbanized.
What does /his/ think of Richard Nixon?
>>1389548
Was he a crook?
>>1389548
despite what the edgelords here will tell you, he wasn't a very good president, though not nearly as bad as history will remember him. everything about his FP was kissinger (I don't really want to talk about him since I don't know as much about him, some people love the guy others hate him). he was also a raving lunatic and everyone on the secret service thought so as well. noteworthy for stalking the halls of the white house drunk as fuck and crying and yelling at portraits of JFK.
Can't...
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>>1389548
I know anarchism is a popular ideology among /his/torians, and I'd love to be educated about it. What are the differences between the different sects in layman's terms, and what are the supposed advantages that anarchy would bring?
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-anarchy.pdf
https://libcom.org/files/AlexanderBerkman-ABCofAnarchism.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPl_Y3Qdb7Y
>>1389370
>I know anarchism is a popular ideology among /his/torians,
Is it? I've found /his/ to be pretty politically moderate (for 4chan at least)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Defense_of_Anarchism
It's more of an exploration of the philosophical implications than having any particular political agenda, which I like about it.
It also actually has good points
>>1389370
Anarchism is a utopian ideology, and like all utopianisms it's chief failing is it's denial of human nature.Anarchists believe that people are born as blank slates, and that they could be raised to be purely unselfish and cooperative with the right kind of education. Sadly, humans /do/ a nature, and it is primarily self-interested. Even if 90% of the population got on board with an Anarchist agenda, the remaining 10% of free riders and psychopaths would quickly drive the system into the ground.
Why do some people just live happy lives with minimal effort?
Are they just plebs?
>>1389340
Because that's an illusion. It's not completely happy and it never takes no effort.
The great illusion of depression is that is the process of a rational process rather than base animal instincts.
>>1389340
Dumber people are happier.
What's the value in anything, really.
I mean, this is entirely based upon what you value in life and as we know, everyone has different values and goals.
/bearGod thread/
So much has been going around for kek and qek, its time for a new set of God..I am doing research on a group called 'the inbetween'.. from my own research and speaking with knowledgeable individuals, this group came far before any form of religion, close to the period between stone men, and civilization..
The most interesting thing is how they acted, they would walk around with nothing but white robes on, or naked. Normally they would be naked walking around with nothing but seeds just planting them around, they would travel to far lands...
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they are also called 'the originals', the only group to be in constant contact with the creator, they would go around and offer people two different types of gifts, one of power and eternal life, one of a humble life and death.. one choice was the monk's path in life, like them, the other would result in the death of the person.. they were the first culture to successfully reincarnate and recall past lives.. they would be friends with all animals, as they believed all humans had animal spirits, and theirs was the bear, live meager lives, loved honey and foraging,...
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Supposedly this faceless God went around to the different parts of the world and found a couple torn by love, both thought they were right yet each were wrong. He offered them his gift and they infact ended up killing him together.. He reappeared many times to them, with different appearances, and they used him to conquer the world and create religions and government establishments with his powers. He told them each time he would come to collect, and they would have to love each other and commit suicide together or they would lose each other becoming nothing but mere specs only...
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He wrote and acted as the God in all the major religions, being used to kill his own people and those from around the world. He did this willingly, though being corrupted each time, letting the couple think they were gaining more and more power each time over him. Everytime he gave them an out and let them reset if they would give up every power they had, they did not and kept continuing their ways all the way until the end. He warned them one day he would come back and take everything back, and they would never know about it.
More accounts of him walking around with...
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How was free speech in the Third Reich ? I'd assume that it wasn't good, but as they were leftist on the cultural plan..
You could openly criticize communism, unlike in the USSR
Saying that it might be possible that maybe Germany might possibly kind of lose the war got you sent to concentration camp.
Calling Göring a fat pig got you sent to concentration camp.
>>1389203
>How was free speech in the Third Reich ?
There was none.
>no more deluded by reaction, on tyrants only we'll make war
>the soldiers too will take strike action, they'll break ranks, they'll fight no more
>and if those cannibals keep trying to sacrifice us to their pride
>they soon shall hear the bullets flying, we'll shoot the generals on our side
>so comrades come rally, and the last fight let us face
>the internationale unites...
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because it's true anon
>>1389102
Because it was a noble cause. Despite the socialists being wrong, their driving motivations were good
> back in the day so good?
Because there was real necessity for them to be good.
