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Has there even been a dictatorship which allowed freedom of speech? What were the results?
>>501116
DEFINE "FREEDOM OF SPEECH".
>>501127
Search out Mosely speaking about the freedom of speech in east london. I really like mosely, as i do Mussolini. they are great speakers, but mosely resonates much harder with me as he speaks my mother tongue
>>501116
>Has there even been a dictatorship which allowed freedom of speech?
Roman Empire.
>What were the results?
Varied.
Tell me about Eridu, the first-ever city.
one of the most developed cities in iraq by todays standards
>>501049
I'm reading 'Babylon' by Paul Kriwaczek; according to him the excavation site is a bunch of successively larger temples built on top of one another, the oldest being a tiny, ten square foot chapel built of sun-dried bricks (significant because every other building would've been a reed hut) dating to ~5400 BCE.
Originally the site was on a freshwater lagoon or marsh with a nearby river and much closer to the ocean, and the abundance of delicious fish and mussels is probably what brought people...
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Today, it is a pile of sand.
One day, our cities too will be piles of sand.
Is there anything beyond physical experience?
Are emotions anything more that chemical reactions to stimuli?
Is there any evidence for anything otherwise.
Reminder that muh feels is not a good answer.
Neither is an argument from ignorance
finally i have a reason to post this
>>500757
Your words are just some pixels dude lmao
>>500777
I'm not saying the chemicals aren't beautiful or that we'd be better of without them (It would be disastrous actually) I'm just asking is there anything beyond the physical?
Any good book to learn the history of american slavery?
>>500505
Twelve years a slave
>>500505
MY MOMMA WAS BORN IN THE ERA WHEN
>>500505
I can't think of any books about slavery without an agenda. Just read all of them.
So was Wendigo psychosis a real thing, or just imperialist propaganda used to demonize tribal peoples?
>imperialist propagnda
It's a fucking part of Algonquin culture, not something made up by Westerners. The Algonquin peoples believed that eating human flesh gave you an insatiable hunger for more. This is even found in European myths.
It's a myth saying why cannibalism is bad. Once you break that taboo it's very easy to justify doing so again. It's very easy to run out of food in a hunter-gatherer society that's just getting into agriculture. Don't eat people, it's bad, you'll become a monster,...
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Wendigo psychosis predates European contact with the Americas m8
>>500534
That's not demonstrably true; the Algonquians had no writing system pre-contact. All evidence we have for Wendigo beliefs comes from post contact, when Europeans encountered the Algonquians and recorded it, or when contact with Europeans transmitted writing to the Alqonquians and they recorded it themselves.
In fact, a number of scholars have theorized that wendigo beliefs popped up as an indirect result of contact, with the natives creating it as a sort of unconscious coping mechanism, to deal with all...
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>We're proud Hittites, begone Hellenic and Semitic scum
>100% pure Roman, Rome was a Trojan colony
>Gre- I mean Roman, Christian and proud! The Saracens and Mongoloids must be repelled!
>We are the nexus of Islam. Anyone who submits to the one true faith may join our great nation!
>Not a single drop of Anatolo-Helleno-Armenoid-Islamic blood but only the purest steppe blood. Islam is the religion of an immoral Bedouin...
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>>500411
I think you are under the impression that anyone save for a small group of ultra-nationalists think like this.
Because the overwhelming majority of studies have found again and again that modern Turkish people are overall the same as the neolithic farmers who first lived there?
>>501191
>neolithic
What was the backup plan if D-day fails? Did any country was thinkong about using biological/chemical weapons?
>>499954
>What was the backup plan if D-day fails?
Try it again somewhere else (probably southern France) or throw everything at Italy
>>499954
How are you defining "failing"? Anzio was considered a failure, but the Anzio kind of failure at Normandy would likely just warrant more men being funneled in, more bombs being dropped.
And in any case, Dragoon is good to go like a month later, and good luck parrying that with what the Germans have in southern France.
>>499967
Could the allies assemble a force big like d day again in a shor time?
Was it the consensus in the 1930s that capitalism was on the verge of collapse?
Capitalism collapses regularly from time to time.
>""""""""""""free"""""""""""" market
>>500079
Socialism collapses all the time
>>500253
>>500079
>>499886
That leaves us with only one other Ideology.
Diszkusz
>>499500
this treaty shouldn't happen. I hope Hungbros will take their land back.
>>499500
shit happens
>>499692
I always knew you were not a real Slav, good to have you with us bro.
>>499692
With what? We have no armed forces and hungarians are genrally retarded
The other day I read that Stephen Hawkings had said that asking about the origin of the universe is pointless since we can't get information beyond that point. I forget what else he says aside from that but according to his logic he says that the uncaused cause is unnecessary to speculate about.
(he also says that philosophy is dead)
Oh yeah, the point of this thread.
I want to ask: if we can't know what happened before everything then is it really unnecessary to speculate?
It doesn't make any more money for anyone or provide us with more physical comforts, so yes, it not only is unnecessary, it is even counter productive, because it is a threat to our comfort and causes pointless dissension.
>>499441
then such being the case, what's the deal with Dawkins and Co. that still try to prove a universe from nothing? wouldn't it be better to preach pure agnosticism?
Why do you Sop/his/ts hate scientists so much?
Is it because science has become more valuable to society than philosophy?
>>499413
>Why do you Sop/his/ts hate scientists so much?
This is untrue.
Nobody here hates scientists, where the hell did you get that from?
The only people visibly butthurt about science are some christian /pol/acks but there's only a few of them
>>499423
what the fuck am i reading
Why was this guy hated by everyone? He had the same views as John Paul II and Francis. He was also a better theologian than both of them.
He looks creepy.
The media unjustly blamed him for the sex scandals.
>He had the same views as John Paul II and Francis
No, he criticizes the theology of liberation.
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19840806_theology-liberation_en.html
He was immediately replaced by a liberation theologian jesuit.
>>499393
No, he was directly involved in cover ups during his earlier work.
>atheism
>intelligence resides in the brain
>the brain is a human organ
>DNA/Genetics determines the structure and function of human organs
>DNA/Genetics has nothing to do with intelligence
Either intelligence is a property of the soul, or it is a property of the physical body. If the former, God exists. If the latter, intelligence is determined by DNA.
QED.
The brain is developed in part as a result of DNA, but it's paths and formation are altered as a result of environment, use, habituation, etc. It is clear that the repeated use of aspects of the brain alter it's composition, see neuroplasticity. It is not entirely determined by genetics as a result.
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>>499332
> My arm is a property of my physical body
> Out of nowhere, a rock falls and completely crush it
> "Surely this isn't caused by environmental factors but determined by my DNA"
Also, intelligence existing as a property of the soul, taking soul to be a metaphysical consciousness, does not necessitate the existence of God. All it necessitates is a metaphysical reality, the contents of that are unclear aside from a soul.
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Why do you need a PhD, or even a Masters, to do historical research or even teach college classes on history?
Why are the standards so high for who gets to become a historian? There are people making lots of money with only bachelors in STEM fields, doing more than just the most entry-level STEM jobs, who remain in the field for life without needing more credentials. Though obviously you need to at least have a Masters to get some of the higher level engineering jobs.
Still, you really only need a Masters to get a high level engineering job, not a PhD.
So...
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>>499214
Engineering is a higly technical job and most of its science was actually done in the industry Its an experimental endeavour buitd by people who were trying to achieve practical goals History is a field built by academics who rely on the academia to support and verify their research
STEAM jobs can be trained while in the middle of doing the job. They can be given simple tasks today while in mid-training. You can't do that with history.
>>499214
They're disenfranchising us, anon.
Philosophers suggest that humans can do more than simply exist. Philosophy encourages humans to do something with their life. It encourages action in life. To prove that this is possible, one can easily turn to the great figures of history who risked everything and worked painstakingly hard to make change as they saw fit. Is this not the perfect way to inspire one to make change?
Academia realizes this. They don't want people thinking for themselves when it comes...
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why bother calling this board history and "humanities" if all we're allowed to talk about is history and centuries dead philosophers?
who has been the most influential philosopher of the 21st century so far? I want to look into more modern philosophies and ways of thinking.
>>499109
Elliot Hulse is a bretty good philosopher.
His ideas are almost a blend of Transcendentalism, Classical Philosophy,small parts of Eastern Philosophy, and the streets. He also supports strength training for everybody, and runs a strength camp. His YouTube channel is dedicated to lifting advice, life advice, and philosophical speeches.
Beware though, he gets way too into some Eastern rituals.
https://www.youtube.com/user/elliottsaidwhat
>>499163
I was under the impression he was a meathead by the way /fit/ talks about him.
It's kind of too early to tell--we're only in the second decade of the century. Anyway, you don't find many philosophers with the same kind of stature as Kant or Hegel or Heidegger. Philosophy is mostly an academic industry these days, pretty insular and focused on very particular, esoteric 'problems' that are completely opaque and untranslatable for laymen.
If you're interested in current debates in philosophy, just subscribe to our look up any of the numerous publications that are being put out constantly.
