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I've heard that Japan was very sexually open until western influence turned them uptight. Particularly, I've heard it said that homosexuality was honorable and accepted.
Is this a white guilt meme or is it accurate?
Where'd you hear this
Kinda.
Love between men and young boys was common and a natural/expected relationship between a lord and his ward.
Cases of extreme loyalty were even romanticized by the Japanese such as the case of Mori Ranmaru and Oda Nobunaga.
During the Edo period Japan was pretty open about sexuality especially in artwork. Homosexual and bisexual relationships weren't frowned on like most other places. That came to a halt during the Meiji Restoration in the 1800's but even those effects are exaggerated.
That changed again during the 1920's...
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>>508946
Various articles. Court of public opinion.
I'm not an expert in Japanese history, but it sounded a little too simple. Thought I would ask here
What is a good book to read about stoicism?
Ideally, a contemporary look at the philosophy.
Read the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Then read Epictetus' Discourses.
The rest is rest. Seneca was not much of a stoic, there are few fragments of Musonius, Marcus Aurelius was not a professional philosopher and his books were his exercises. And we have almost nothing on the other ones.
>>508864
The SEP article is pretty good. Then move on to the Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy for greater depth—though still accessible to non-classicists.
AA Long, Epictetus - a Stoic and Socratic guide to Life (2002)
B. Inwood, Reading Seneca (2005)
R. Brouwer, The Stoic Sage - The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2014)
I haven't yet gotten around to reading Eric Gunderson, Sublime Seneca (2015)
Can someone give me a sum up of what was the main "dogma" of the stoics?
>wake up
>Asia is now this
What do?
>>508676
Wonder at where all the bullshit flags came from. Fucking seriously.
>>508676
declare ron
>>508676
>nazi flag but with axe and arm instead
>frank what is this
![kotkin-stalin[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/HUWlN1h.jpg "kotkin-stalin[1].jpg")
was josef stalin an übermensch
No. He was the apex of wanting others, and himself, to buy into dogmatic thought.
>>508576
no, but Zhukov was
He was a vile gangster.
What does make u interested in history, guys? What u find the most entertaining about history?
>>508557
"Is the alive man himself what we must found in the dust of the archives and the silence of the museums"
>>508588
Who said that?
"if you don't know history, you'll always stay as a child in front of the events"
I think Cicero said something like this
The United States of America has been referred to as 'the Great Experiment' by some scholars and otherwise throughout history. In a time when the kings of Europe were busy centralizing power and increasing their authority, the Founding Fathers sought to create a free man's republic, free from an abusive central authority and with rights and independence.
Has America, the Great Republican Experiment, succeeded? Or has it failed?
>>508531
It failed, obviously, given how the USA centralized anyway.
>>508531
Last time I checked, it's still among the world powers...
How are you, personally, measuring failure and success? I would assume this question determines your answer.
>>508551
This. It centralized.
>GUYS, LETS NOT MAKE A STANDING ARMY BECAUSE THAT IS THE TOOL OF TYRANNY. MILITIAMEN WITH THEIR OWN FIREARMS = TRUE DEMOCRATIC ARMY
>Standing army after WWI.
What books should I read on Charlemagne to understand how he impacted Europe?
Zero impact
>yfw you realize Charlemagne, and Charles V Holy Roman Emperor were the same person
>>508287
This annotated bibliography. the section on "Charlemagne, Legend, and Reality" looks promising for your topic of interest OP
http://pastebin.com/QYMYkwq8
Lets ignore that pedo gay tribals and talk about the state itself, like its history, colonialism and what it is today
>>508240
>let's ignore
Like 90% of the country is tribal. You have to at least acknowledge it as part of the underlying pre-colonial societal structure.
Well, it's probably the single most heterogeneous state on the planet.
Like 600 different languages are commonly spoken.
This probably contributes to the long histories of corruption and civil unrest, albeit so does being run by the Dutch.
They were bro tier in ww2, Kokoda and all that.
So what's the Butterfly Effect actually? All I hear is that the popular understanding of it is wrong - same with how Murphy's Law keeps getting used the wrong way.
>>508223
I'm actually not sure myself, but I hear it has something to do with Chaos Theory. That everything is interconnected, hence, a butterfly flaps its wings and a plague happens.
I'm probably really butchering this theory, I'll shut up now.
>>508268
>...a butterfly flaps its wings and a plague happens.
wtf really? so we arent we all out killing butterflies if they do so much damage to the world
is it cos they look nice?
>>508268
Something like that.
A butterfly flaps its wings, a man sees the butterfly and touches it, he gets a disease, a plague happens
Do you think agriculture was the start of the downfall of mankind? Is it the root of mankind's biggest problems?
>>508189
Indeed, agricultural lead to a surplus of food, which in turn lead to protecting that surplus. This of course put humanity down a path towards civilization instead of hunter/gatherer.
But here is your problem OP. You are under some strange utopian assumption that Homo sapien sapiens living in a pre-agricultural age did not have their own "problems".
Would you OP, be so quick to thwart the plethora of inventions and ideas that have come out of civilizations (the computer you are typing from for...
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>>508189
>root of mankind's biggest problem
wew lad
>>508189
>agriculture was the start of the downfall of mankind?
o i am laffin
What drives some languages to consist entirely of open syllables (like Japanese, Swahili, etc) while some languages have exceedingly complicated consonant clusters?
the morphology? languages which favour inflection tend to have clusters
>>508035
language change (which results in extant phonologies) is all random chance. there's no particular set of language features that encourage one or another sound change.
>>508035
The bants.
One use of language change is encoding and sibbolets, sorry shibboleths, sorry zipoulits.
What is the most unbiased book on Israel/Palestine.
>>507800
Dont think you are going to find one, unless it was written by an alien. Only thing you can do is read books by both sides.
The Torah
Is it worth it to learn an ancient language? If so, what language do you recommend?
>>507727
It really depends on what interests you. For example, if you are a Westerner who wants to dive into Western literature and Western Ancient culture. Greek and Latin is best.
If you are interested in South Asian culture, Pali and Sanskrit is best.
Follow what you are interested in, or you will never find the motivation to move forward in an ancient language. Do you want to read the words of the Buddha? Words of the Bible? Words of the Quran? Words of Greek plays? Words of the Roman thinkers, historians, and...
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Go with Latin, easy to learn, still useful, and you can be fancy with it. Same applies for Turbo Pascal
>>507832
>and you can be fancy with it.
This actually very true. I sometimes spice up my writings and talk with a little latin, my Professors seem to love it.
Is there anyone in history more deserving of the title of 'absolute madman', than Oda Nobunaga?
From a military standpoint?
Hernan Cortez and Pizarro both come to mind. I'm sure there are others.
![Lope_de_Aguirre_2[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/9BkEGru.jpg "Lope_de_Aguirre_2[1].jpg")
>>507573
>Missing El Mano Loco of El Mano Locos, Aguirre
>Nicknamed El Loco ('the Madman'), he styled himself '"Wrath of God, Prince of Freedom, King of Tierra Firme"
Jack Churchill.
I don't believe in real life. I am dead and this is a dream. You are all illusions, projections of my mind.
Actually, delusion is a better term than illusion, for illusion implies that there is something that is being mistakenly perceived, and there really isn't anything. Only the Great Delusion. A horse with no rider, a dream with no dreamer.
>>506499
Ok mate.
Scuse me I got a bus saver ticket to buy.
>>506499
Could you make it clear as to why you believe that?
>>506499
>implying you're not simply a projection of MY mind
