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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-B%C3%A9del_Bokassa
Did he do the right thing declaring himself Emperor?
In my opinion, in the long run, it could have led to legitimization and redemocratization as per constitution, while still allowing for gradual return to stability.
Plus, better than president-dictator bullshit.
>>1384645
Maybe not, but he definitely did the wrong thing by spending a third of his country's annual budget for his coronation when he could have used it for more productive means.
>>1384869
I mean, yeah, but when 20 million $ is a third of your annual budget then it's not hard to do that.
>>1385082
I spend less than 20 million dollars everyday
Did judaism try to match itself with a wholesome world view? Christian philosophers tried to understand the world through their christian beliefs and faigh in god. Did jews do the same? Are there any attemps to sort of take the specificly jewish religious writings and construct a wholesome world view through them?
I mean like hegel or spinoza(yes he was jewish but he did not really rely on judaism).
If there arent any why not? Maybe later ones? were jewish communities too conservative? Spinoza was cast out for his ideas for example..
Were there any attemps in the...
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>>1384616
>a wholesome world view
meaning what?
>>1384627
Like an attempt tp explain the world through jewish faith. make assertions about the nature of being etc...Like hegel for example.
>>1384676
>>1384616
You should check out Maimonides's work, especially a guide to the perplexed.
Although, I should warn you, despite it being a "student tier" book by Maimonides's own standards, he pretty much assumes you have the entire OT and Talmud more or less memorized, so it can be tough to get through if you don't have a thorough background in Judaica.
And you get pieces of that in the Gemara itself, but just due to...
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Doing philosophy is producing philosophical content.
Writing essays, books and so on.
To do it correctly one has to write ellequently and be able to express himself precisely while relying on established philosophic terminology and history.
Philosophers have certain intuitions and ideas about different topics and they explore them and write their ideas or conclusion.
What I want to ask is, can people who are not philosophers and who are not as precise in their wording or as able to put all they think and feel into a proper philosophical structure still intuitivly...
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this is actually a good thread that deserves a response
im only able to contribute that i feel a pretty unpleasant cognitive dissonance as long as im not able to formulate precisely what bothers me about a certain issue
its like feeling dishonest because you are bothered while not even knowing what your exact problem is
>>1384558
>To do it correctly one has to write ellequently and be able to express himself precisely while relying on established philosophic terminology and history.
Read pic related.
Literally impossible to do what you are asking, at least with English. Writing something and expecting to be understood in something such as philsophy is pointless and that book will explain why.
It's also a fun read which touches on a few instances in history which happened a certain way because...
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>>1385907
But this is why I mentioned intuitions.
It is exactly when you are not clear, not specific that intuition comes into play.
When you describe a yearning, a confusion, a desire that is somewhat general and yet and because of that is relevant and inspiring and interesting.
Imagine a person that does not know your language but wants to convey to you the wonderful feeling he gets when looking at the stars at night.
He cannot relate it to you using clear words but through gesticulations, body movement, , and...
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Is this movie historically accurate?
The alleged "war crimes" are still fairly controversial in some schools of mainstream academia.
What about the male-model assassin part?
>>1384488
Nah
I mean did you see lee Harvey, the archdukes killer, or Booth
Not really male model material
What traits do you think are missing?
It consist of:
- Openness to experience
- Conscientiousness
- Extroversion
- Agreeableness
- Neuroticism
Other psychologists have suggested: religiosity, manipulativeness/machiavellianism, honesty, sexiness/seductiveness, thriftiness, conservativeness, masculinity/femininity, snobbishness/egotism, sense of humour, and risk-taking/thrill-seeking.
My picks:
Pessimism -/- Optimism
High trust -/- Low trust
Note: I am somewhat skeptic of the Big Five but it seems to be the best we have so far.
>>1383913
OP here, shameless bump. No love for psychology aye? I think that snobbishness/egotism is too similar to agreeableness. The other ones seem good.
I myself thought of risk averse -/- risk-taking too. A book on animal personality talks of bold vs shy, I would consider that risk averse vs risk-taking.
> it it seems to be the best we have so far
Socionics is better as it tends to focus on traits more objectively unified by neural system works than on unified by lingustic descriptions.
> What traits do you think are missing?
The point of factor analysis isn't to find quadrillion psychological traits, but to simplify quadrillions of them into a small number of properties. That way each trait and its impact could be proven without huge doubt. For example, conservativeness could be factored with closeness...
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>>1384181
>Socionics
Bit spooky to be honest as it incorperates Carl "Spooky boy" Jung. I see it catched on in Russia. Something to look into anyway.
>So, question here isn't about what missing, but about what can't be reduced to what is already here.
Interesting. I suppose you are right and the Wikipedia also mentioned this.
So instead of expanding it, one should see if alternative traits do not instead correlate with the ones already...
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Is it true that it was uncommon for women to shave their legs prior to the early 20th century?
Yes.
>>1383766
Yes but they also had less hair because their endocrine systems weren't fucked up by processed sugars and birth control pills.
Yes, but women are generally less hairy than men. Also pretty much only their husbands actually saw their naked legs.
Hey guys, i have a theory of modern architecture and why japanese architecture fits in so well. Le Corbusier, godfather of modern architecture, got influenced by his traveling to turkey a lot. He saw the houses at bosphorus and got inspired by the idea of horizontality and coloms behind walls.
So my theory, the osmans got there influece from 12-13th century china, the same time as chinese culture arrived in japan. The culture in japan got preserved, so old Japanese houses make a lot of sence in modern architecture. Do you understand what i mean? Is there any prof to my theory?
>>1382826
>Is there any prof to my theory?
Making a theory and then searching for evidence to support it is irrational unless you have an agenda to push. Make your theories based around existing evidence.
>>1384442
conduct research before posting about research methods next time okay pal
Does this not go beyond arts? I think the overall cultural trend is towards minimalism, ever since we rejected the golden mean of hellenism/aristocracy. Minimalism is a way of reintroducing moderation into the dominant populist/democratic zeitgeist, but under the guise of modesty instead of discipline/breeding (which we rejected with the revolution).
/his/ humor thread
>inb4 "A Brief History of Germany"
Post your favorite coat of arms/heraldry
>>1372786
I'll bump this. I'm no heraldry buff but I'd like to see more of it.
Arms of the British statesman George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham.
>>1372948
>dat inbreeding
Mentally-out Jehovah's Witness here, trapped in cause I'll be shunned by my family if I formally leave the faith. Ask me anything.
>>1370052
So, why exactly do you guys think that the pronunciation of the tetragrammaton has been lost? When did this supposed loss happen?
>>1370062
To my knowledge, we acknowledge the tetragrammaton pronunciation, but stick to using the name Jehovah cause it's more widely known (so they claim).
>>1370071
Oh, interesting. I guess that having people shout at you from streetsides isn't the best way to pick up the creed.
By the way, what caused you to be mentally out of the group?
What would be some of the theological implications of evolution being true? Primarily talking about Christianity.
It would show that the Bible was written by men thousands of years ago and should be looked at as a guide to living a moral life rather than the word of God.
>>1367062
It took God a billion+ years to create mankind instead of one day.
The end.
>>1367088
I don't understand why Christians take genesis so literally. I'm an idiot and can understand that it could be a metaphor for a much bigger period of time...
>>1363945
CK2
Total war anything, playing Shogun 2 atm.
>Your Generuh is inah gravuh danguh my lord
>>1363950
CK2 + the HIP mod
Why can't pan-slavism work?
All rebelled against each other as part of Yugoslavia, Ukrainians rebelled against Poland when under Polish control, all rebelled against Russia when under Russian control.
It's inherently Orthodox.
because slavs are fucking savages that' why
Panslavism is simply another form of multiculturalism. There is no pan-slavic culture. Sharing a linguistic family is nowhere near the same thing.
You're asking distinct peoples with very different histories to pretend like those histories don't exist and to superimpose some sort of manufactured unity that never arose organically through time and natural institutions. You leftist scum.
John 20:23 says that those sins which are not forgiven (or remitted, or loosed, however you translate the word) by the Apostolic office, will not be forgiven in heaven. This ties in with Matthew 18:18, where Christ tells the Apostles anything they loose (or forgive, two translation of the same word) will be loosed in heaven, and that which they don't will be bound.
Since Christ makes it explicitly clear that if you do not gain forgiveness through the Apostolic office, how do Protestants justify saying you don't need to seek forgiveness through this office?
This...
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Predestination. They literally don't give a fuck.
>>1389604
Predestination is more of a Calvinist thing though, isn't it?
>>1389609
Total predestination. But even Luther adhered to predestined salvation, he just through everything else was up to us, but whatever we did had no effect on our salvation.
In ancient times military leaders were expected to join in on the combat.
But now leaders command from the rear. Who's idea was this? Was the person who started this trend accused of being a coward?
The last ruler who commanded his own troops was Napoleon. All his enemy rulers were sitting safely back at home in their comfy palaces while millions were slaughtered on their behalf.
In the past the easiest way to attain power was using violence, so the elite were pretty hardcore, now they can use complex political and financial systems
>>1389245
Nevermind wrong thread
