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Since rape(criminal act of unwanted sex on another) is a concept brought up only by humans since the dawn of human civilization, isn't it technically a social construct( that is universal). Or does the fact that it is universal in pretty much all human societies make it naturally evil( i.e. like killing)?
>>510627
Shark attacks are natural, lightning strikes are natural. There is no 'good & evil' in nature.
>muh naturalistic fallacy
>is a concept brought up only by humans
That's not entirely what rape is though.
It's a phenomena apparent in more species than humans.
We're not the only ones who rape.
There are two sides to rape: the physical act, which is in no way a social construct, and the reaction to it.
> isn't it technically a social construct
Yes.
Tell me about post-war Japan and how it became what it is today.
>>510358
The Korean war and horrific dictatorial brutality towards the Japanese working class.
>>510358
Being a US military base, Korean War accelerating its economy, general ordnung, being open to western ideas on management and industry.
>>510358
Japan got a boner
STEMlord here. What's with the STEM vs humanities dichotomy that I find on here and /sci/?
1) They're not mutually exclusive, and
2) The conflict seems entirely manufactured. The truth is that none of us are going to be making 300k/yr starting unless we were born rich anyway.
Part of the inter-university competition for resources.
Each one has to argue that it's 'more useful' to humanity/society, in order to get the big bucks.
But, at the end of the day, we'll all agree that it's those b-school faggots we really dislike.
>>510331
Hey, I work in a business school. We're basically just an arts faculty hiding behind a corrupt curriculum forced upon us.
>>510333
Perhaps. But the faculty is paid so much more than anything a lit/hum prof could hope to make
If Germany won the 1st World War, the German revolution wouldn't have happened, so Hitler never rises to power, and the Holocaust doesn't happen, and Socialism/Communism is contained. Do you agree?
>ANOTHER "WHAT IF" THREAD.
COMMIT SUICIDE, OR ALTERNATIVELY, DO NOT MAKE TRITE AND FUTILE THREADS.
>>510183
French Mutinies. Russian Mutinies. British Mutinies. Austro-Hungarian Mutinies. Ottoman Mutinies.
>>510183
No.
There is no one "Germany Wins WW1" that you can start diverging alternate history from. Depending on how Germany wins; you can branch off into all sorts of different scenarios.
A world in which
>Schlieffen plan is supplemented with a suicide cruise like Lisle Rose recommended, BEF is severely delayed, and the Germans spill over at the Marne (or the Marne never develops like it does historically), war ends in the western front in 1914 but with most if not...
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![Islam_by_country[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/qpC2Hp8.png "Islam_by_country[1].png")
Is "Islam" a separable civilization?
I ask because it has its roots in the Orthodox and Jewish world (Byzantium etc) and only took over that world without wiping it out in Eastern Europe, parts of the Levant and so on.
Could Islam be destroyed by empowering heterodox Islamic sects, Christians, ethnic minorities, etc, in the same way you could probably destroy "Jews" by putting them in gas chambers, etc?
(not advocating anything political here)
Seems like the center of Sunni Islam (Arabia) would be the main place to either restrict...
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>Germany
>>510164
Germans allied Turks in WWI. Hitler made overtures in WWII. Will Germany/Merkel fight alongside Islam and Sweden in WWIII?
>>510136
>Attempting to destroy Islam
Are you fucked up on something? Why Tf would you want to do that unless you are an AmeriDumb.
Carry on in that case, youve been envying them since 1779
i want to start learn and believe more in science rather than religion
where should i start and who or what create us in science
welcome to the future my friend
>>510112
Oh that's easy.
Science believes that 20 billion years ago, nothing exploded, and became everything. And then 3.6 billion years ago, the Earth's surface cooled, and clouds formed from volcanic gasses and it caused rain. And then it rained on the rocks for billions of years and it formed a soup, and then the soup came alive, and formed the basis for all living things, including humans.
Science will teach you about how the eye, for instance, had to evolve slowly over billions of years, through trial...
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Let's start with bettering our English.
what does /his/ think of this?
http://www.newappsblog.com/2015/12/is-ancient-greek-philosophy-western.html
>>510064
Hu hu ho! A blog of angsty white people hating western civilization, what a surprise.
Why should I take these people seriously?
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This is quite an old idea found in some classic works like E.R. Dodd's 'The Greeks and The Irrational'
You really see Greek philosophy in a new light when you read it alongside Indian works from the same period.
>While scholars have sensed a philosophical kinship between Eastern and Western cultures for many decades, THE SHAPE OF ANCIENT THOUGHT is the first study to provide the empirical evidence. Covering a period ranging from 600 B.C. until the era of Neoplatonism and a geographical expanse reaching across the ancient world,...
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pretty cool find
I am currently a junior in college studying history. I have read history books since I could read and am getting pretty good grades. Any advice/tips to help get a better edge over my classmates? Any tips for going towards a masters? Any help is welcome and appreciated /his/ bros.
>inb4 "you'll never get a job with a degree in history"
>>509959
>Any advice/tips to help get a better edge over my classmates?
Read the seminal works of the discipline and major works of theory about reading. EP Thompson. Hayden White. Chris Hill. Harry Braverman. Engels. Marx.
>Any tips for going towards a masters?
Why would you do a course work masters in a research driven field?
If you want a professional masters:
Archivism
Librarianship
Curatorial studies.
>>510009
What if I want to be a history professor?
>>509959
Start reading articles in academic journals. You'll find things you don't know about, have to research them for yourself, and likely have to do some further looking-up whilst doing that. Bibliography is key.
You need to know the scholarship if you're going to have anything interesting to say, even if it's only marginally original.
Are animals happier than humans?
>>509905
Rousseau, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche think so, it's just that happiness is only a measure of chemical response in the brain and we can control that easily with drugs, as we can with the Will, so both Will and Happiness seem like insignificant things to base the worth of life on now that we know that.
There's no way to know.
>>509927
There are fmri's. We can measure dopamine levels in animal brains in response to stimuli.
In all honesty, how would one go about finding out the correct religion/denomination or at least the most correct theology? Is it even possible?
>>509900
If you're looking for salvation, you just don't.
If God is truly benevolent, then it would understand your skepticism and as long as you are a good person, you will rewarded.
If it is not benevolent, it probably isn't worth worshiping in the first place.
The answer is subjective, there is no objective true religion so as long and you live for god, being to help fellow man that seems to be the most objective thing followed in most religions. If anything is the correct way to do things that's it.
>>509980
Hello Marcus
Are Samaritans closer to classical Judaism than Orthodox Judaism is? They still have a clergy and expiate sins with the blood of the Passover Lamb.
>>509839
Considering that the Passover offering has nothing to do with remission of sin and is most structurally close to a thanksgiving offering rather than a sin offering, I would guess no.
>>509839
Samaritans and Karaite Judaism are more conservative and closer to classical Judaism.
Orthodox Judaism was formulated after Islam.
>>509860
> they're wrong because they didn't change!
>be Harold Godwinson, 1066
>just obtained throne from my brother-in-law Eddy the confessy
>some norwegian guy tries to take me over
>baka.benedictinescript
>straight kill that bitch
>then some chad french guy lands south in my kingdom
>go down to face him
>finna shmack this ho at hastings
>chad...
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>>509644
rozzle
>>509644
GET OUT NORMAN
>>509644
underrated
kek
So I think this is a cool time to make a thread about the history of the search for effective birth control throughout the ages. Was this a universal endeavor for every society? Feel free to post some great sources. I have a few from ancient Rome. For some reason placing some deer hide with spider worms on a woman was seen as effective according to Pliny the elder.
Also smearing honey in a chick's vag by Soranus .
I know the Egyptians made condoms.
>>509289
From what exactly?
>>509322
Skin of some animal, wasn't it? I've also heard they shoved mud up in there too, but then Egyptians spanned a long time.
Did the third world "Non-Aligned Movement" actually achieve anything of value during the Cold War or was it as completely irrelevant as today?
In principle the idea of poorer nations banding together to protect themselves from the ambitions of the Western block and the Soviets seems pretty cool... but they didn't actually achieve anything did they?
It was really only unified on the grounds that the members were not officially aligned with either the United States or the USSR
I don't think much would've been possible, considering the vast differences among the members on issues like economics, religion, foreign policy etc
Ask Nasser.
>>509014
They ultimately failed in most cases to protect against the influences they sought to reject. Especially in Latin America and Africa, there were tons of superpower-backed revolutions, coups, and upheavals that there was little international cooperation to combat.
That being said, there were a few nations like Yugoslavia, Egypt, Syria, etc who played off both sides for their own benefit.
History's greatest invention of all time. I'll start: the harem.
/thread
>Posting /thread in OP
This kills the thread
The opium den.
Am I doing it rite?? XXD
>>508913
>I'll start
>/thread
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