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Why is the Helter Skelter theory still accepted as truth even though there is no evidence at all that Charlie was ever a fan of the Beatlels?
Why are more plausible theories like the Bobby Beausoleil copycat murders or the drug-deal-gone-wrong theory ignored by the popular media to this day?
>>844110
Because he is completely insane, but also the game is his, he deals the cards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2oZWpqtNi4
>>844110
I think the trial of Charles Manson was more of the interesting ones, because he did not get even a chance to defend himself.
Not only, Charles Manson never killed anyone himself. The whole end-game seems that all the "pupils" seem to put the blame on him and take no responsibility for their actions.
People like Tex Watson were crazy amphetamine addicts who would have ended up doing something as stupid as murder with or without Charles Manson.
Why didn't humanity advance pretty much at all between when they first evolved 200,000 BC and 10,000 BC
190,000 years of nothing.
>>859795
There weren't important enough population hotspots.
The more people you have the more you can pull more surplus resources together.
Farming played a pretty important part in this.
We did speed up a bit ~50,000 years ago (maybe due to the development/refining of language.
>>859795
my guess is ice ages
>mfw when philosophically uneducated people use the "positivism" straw man against every criticism of "philosophy of science"
What are things that annoy you in philosophy debates?
>>859746
>philosophically uneducated
thats just an ad hom. your argument is wrong now
>morality
>>859746
>mfw when philosophically uneducated people use the "positivism" straw man against every criticism of "philosophy of science"
Can you give an example of this? You mean the focus on empirical evidence?
Were chastity belts really used int history to keep wifes from cheating?
>>859493
Dunno but that looks like a pretty uncomfortable if efficient design.
>>859548
effective for getting lead poisoning, for sure
>>859548
The problem is always the same, how does she poop and clean herself after wards ?
That hole is small and likely out of alignment.
I saw pic related at the field museum yesterday. It said the following on the display:
> Roman coin
>2nd-3rd century ad
> likely the visage of Fortuna, goddess of luck and fortune
Now to me it looks like she is holding a stalk of wheat, so I would think it was actually Ceres. Thoughts?
>>858876
Looked around and could not find any coin similar...atleast with Fortuna or Ceres in them.
Also from what I saw, the pic related is more usual way Romans pictured stalk of wheat, on coins.
>>859011
Ahh thanks. How about the inscription on this one? I see DNVALENTINI, I understand that as divine Valentinian, then I see INVSPFAVC. I figure invictus for the INVS, but after that I'm lost.
I had a great time at this museum, I'll dump some other pics later maybe if the thread lives.
>>859069
Fack, forgot pic
>beauty is subjective therefore it's illusory/artificial/arbitrary/contrived in some way
>>857963
Beauty is objective. Plebs are just too dumb to understand it.
>>858034
So what are fetishes? Why dont we all want to fuck the same thing?
>>858041
sexual attraction isn't the same as aesthetic beauty
it's a mechanism, like appetite, that's shaped by your surroundings and crude conditioning practices
Who exactly are the Iberians? Who are they most closely related to? Do they count as white? Spaniards, Portuguese
They are mostly Anatolian farmers
Like other southern europeans, mostly prehistoric farmers from anatolia
>>857491
Is that what southern European means? Not actually originating from Europe?
Hey /his/, I'm really interested in learning about cults and how they form. Is there a prime example of one? It can be any kind of cult, a religious cult, a cult of personality.
Scientology?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
Cargo cults are quite interesting.
>Cargo cults often develop during a combination of crises. Under conditions of social stress, such a movement may form under the leadership of a charismatic figure. This leader may have a "vision" (or "myth-dream") of the future, often linked to an ancestral efficacy ("mana") thought to be recoverable by a return to traditional morality.[1][3] This leader may characterize the present state regimes as a dismantling of the old social order,...
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>>857358
>social stress
>charismatic figure
> a "vision" of the future
Trump
Make America great again
Is he just another iteration of the cargo cult?
"I think, therefore I am"
Can you spot the fallacy?
Is/ought?
>>857026
Oh Socrates himself was permanently pissed.
no but i can see this clever man has a clever phallus for which to give to those around him who dont have a clever phallus of their own to share with the world haha
Imagine all of these were independent states.
How does this make you feel?
>>856990
How many people would live in the state of Nevada? Or North Slope? Or fucking Dade?
What the fuck even is this?
>>856990
I wouldn't mind it actually, a lot of those states actually make more sense based on local economies and culture. I really like snake Kansas and the state of Navajo.
>>857013
Pure unadulterated autism is what it is.
But imagine if this is what the mainland American continent looked like. Imagine the amount of flags... Yes... How different languages would develop.
Imagine this was America from 1800 to now. How diverse and interesting the continent would've been...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/arts/hilary-putnam-giant-of-modern-philosophy-dies-at-89.html
RIP
>>856797
Damn, that is a shame
Had a lot of respect for Putnam, one of the few people who went back and criticized their own work.
Absolutely based guy, and contributed a ton to so many branches of philosophy.
rest in power niqqa
>>856797
>>856881
WHHHATT! Thanks for posting OP, I didn't know this.
I'm not a huge Putnam fan, but this guy deserves huge respect.
I agree, he deserves respect in part because he's one of the thinkers to go back and change his views--he wasn't afraid of admitting that he was wrong or had made a misstep. And I think that's really deserving of respect.
One of the funniest anecdotes I heard about Putnam--and the story was meant in jest,...
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>>856902
Heh that's funny
What modernly is the best bible translation? I've been wanting to read it but I only have King James Versions sitting around the house which are a trudge to get through due to the language.
>>856657
Young's Literal Translation
Everything else is trash, and possibly heretical
>>856657
The New American Standard. It's the most accurate version so far, ahead of the KVJ, and is eminently more readable (although a bit less poetic.)
The only translation of the bible in English worth reading is the King James Version. It's the only one with an ounce of literary merit. This is true to such an extent that I suspect the untranslated original to be a piece of shit in the writing department.
I was watching this video expecting to see mutants and bandits. But it looks like the land and animals are all healed up.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d40_1458333988
So what do you think /his/? Is nuclear fallout a meme?
Also post interesting stuff and pictures.
bumping for artifacts
Do you also think Godzilla is real?
nuclear war isn't that bad, just after WW2 we should have threatened to use the A-bomb on the red army to get them to retreat to pre WW2 borders, patton was right all along
Why does /his/ hate on Protestantism so bad?
>>856551
Because it was the equivalent of islamic fundamentalism "we only need the one book?" and created a schism in europe that would never repair itself
>>856551
destroyed tradition, aesthetics were generally trash, split apart europe into years of bloody war, and destroyed the concept of christendom forever.
I see more posts by that one guy who thinks the Catholic Church is the whore of babylon
Lets say a sizeable group of Fuegian fishermen (lets say 200-300) get stranded on the Antarctic Peninsula. What are there odds of survival prior to the age of discovery? One would think they could live off the fat of the sea in the milder climate of the Peninsula.
>>856456
>What are there odds of survival prior to the age of discovery?
Extremely little to none. Humans struggle to survive there now even with modern technology and with regular visits and trade to restock them. For these hypothetical communities, there would be no resupply ships coming in. No metal and very little rock to build anything with, and the native wildlife wouldn't offer nearly as much in the way of building and tool materials the way Arctic people have. Even the northernmost...
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>>856456
It would be impossible unless they could make boats, spears, and fishing net out of whale bone, leather, and sinew. Without boats they could only eat penguin, and I don't think they could.
>>856573
There's also the seals there and whales themselves, but that would be difficult to sustain any real populations alone. Some lichen grows there but who knows if it's edible or not.
