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How does one become self-actualized?
>>473405
wu wei zazen
>>473405
"Self actualization" is a meaningless slogan designed to sell people a cure for an imaginary illness.
>>473407
Mixing without thought both Zen and Tao is degenerate as fuck. Get rekt.
Just got this book from my uncle yesterday. From what I've heard about it, it seems a little... bleh.
>According to the author, American history is to a large extent the exploitation of the majority by an elite minority.
MUH OPPRESSION! Now, I'm no historian myself but I've had a lecture on historiography and I've got a bad feeling about this. What do you all think?
>>468837
This is the newest /his/ meme isn't it.
Chalk another one up for Australian shitposting.
don't read it then you ignorant pleb lol if you're gonna get spooked by a book
>>468841
Considering that there were threads trashing Zinn on day one of this board, it's not new.
Zinn seems profound until you start taking actual upperdivision history classes and you learn that history is not a black and white narrative of heroes and villains, oppressors and victims, but a lot more contingent and nuanced than what Zinn writes. Also, he has awful citation and relies heavily on secondary sources, its basically a left-wing synthesis of American history.
Reading an American History textbook...
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What made Indo-europeans so successful,/his/?
>>468172
Probably cows and horses.
Horses
>>468172
How did IE-speakers end up in sri lanka?
What did /his/ major in?
I'm starting my Theology studies next year (minor in Music).
Post your major and be judged harshly
>>470628
Psychology :^)
>>470630
Is the Myers-Briggs Personality Test just psyeudo-science or actually accurate?
>>470628
Good, I need someone to flip my burgers
Majored in IR and Master in Supply Chain Management btw
Thoughts?
Both are paralels to the new covenant.
Circumcision is a carnal act, and shows that the demands of the old covenant are also carnal, the Pascha is unleavened, just flesh but no spirit, and the Law is based on carnal justice instead of spiritual love (it even uses very carnal terms as its basis, "eye for eye" and "tooth for tooth).
The sacrifice was important, because it highlighted that God rejected the sacrifice of one's firstborn (in contrast to Moloch), yet God gives *us* that, illustrating that we love because God loves us, God doesn't...
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> And then he said "I don't listen to the voices in my head"! الحمد الله ونبيه محمد
>>465010
> fictional character
> hearing voices
pick one, get consistent
>There are few wars between good and evil; most are between one good and another good.
How true is this?
Not very
Very
>>473922
Meaningless quote.
What the fuck is the deal with this country? It's a Romance speaking country surrounded completely by Serbs (and dirty Magyars), is no where near close to the heart of the Roman Empire, yet call their country "the land of the Romans", and is pretty much the only place where East Romance languages are spoken.
Why do they still speak a Romance language? Why did they speak one to begin with? Why is their country name so blatant for a backwater land?
Romania is the only true heir to the Roman Empire.
Truly the Mexicans of Europe.
>>470213
What's with all the Romania threads lately
HAHAHAHAHA
HAS ANY OTHER COUNTRY BEEN THIS KEKED BEFORE???
Yep
>>463125
Yes
>>463125
Let's be honest; Hungary needed to be trimmed down. I just dont understand why Trianon gave Slovakia and Serbia a shit ton of land where Hungarians lived, when it was touching the hungarian border.
Was it just spite? Not going to touch on Szekelysobbgspifsland or whatever.
Fossil fuels are the greatest thing that ever happened to humanity
>humanity
Only a part, a certain economically well off humanity. Another (larger) rather considerably large part still doesn't "participate" in the benefits of the massive rise in labor productivity that fossil fuels allow for.
>inb4 a bunch of greenfags flood the thread
Goddamn do I love natty. Literally the best energy source in the world.
That being said, fuck all you fuckers; I'm getting my study in Nuclear Engineering. I'm about 10-15 years ahead of the curve and I'll be making bank working on 4th generation nuclear weapons and building MSRs
dont fossils gro on tres??
What is the greatest dynasty in European history?
>>455948
Without specifying what would qualify "greatness?"
Hard to argue with the Hapsburgs, I guess.
Habsburg
Capet
Hohenzollern
Carolingian
Ottoman (not European per se, but a part of European history like you said)
>>455984
Speaking of Carolingian, how did they lose all their power so quickly?
Hey /his/,
Why do we still continue to use a non-existent human construct to define the way we behave and think.
Morality is the enemy of efficiency and will slow the progression of our species.
The whole basis of behaving and thinking according to our feelings is the one of humanity's greatest flaws.
Can someone prove me wrong?
>>474866
>morality
Not our problem mate. We do ethics and power and the past as it essentially happened here. For morality go over to /pol/, they handle the "ought"s.
>>474871
And constantly get called a nigger and a jew?
No, i want the actually intelligent minds of /his/ to help me out with this.
>>474876
>And constantly get called a nigger and a jew?
>No, i want the actually intelligent minds of /his/ to help me out with this.
Fuck off mate. Off-topic. Fuck off to where it is on-topic or one of the off-topic boards.
We handle "is" around here, not "ought." That's why we're >actually intelligent.
>tfw I've been pronouncing Nietzsche "Nee-chee"
pleb
Kant is pronounced like cunt
>>471734
Everyone just says "kawnt" though.
Can someone explain positivism and why positivist is used as an insult?
It's always used as an insult when you see pretentious people talking about exalted topics such as art, religion (and how its so important blabla), some parts of philosophy, culture.
Then some guy wades in with logic, facts, demands for falsifiable claims... and is instantly denounced as a "positivist".
Can someone explain? I mean yeah, I guess Godel showed everything is bullshit, the idea of falsifiability isnt falsifiable, blabla we cannot know nuthin. But the idea of...
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Positivism mostly fails by giving people a false sense of knowledge as something mechanical that, once you figured out the logic behind it, works like a clock and never has deviations.
It doesn't take into account that we don't know everything, we don't know how much we don't know, and that everything we do know can be instantly proven wrong without any warning whatsoever.
Ironically, most critics of positivism also seem hilariously unaware of this fact and propose 'alternatives' to it, forgetting that they will most likely suffer...
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It's autism.
You can't build a philosophy on the scientific method because the scientific method itself requires a philosophical basis (rationalism). Positivism is a snake eating its own tail.
>>470649
>the scientific method itself requires a philosophical basis (rationalism
No, it really doesn't. Rationalism will tell you absolutely nothing about what you don't know. See how you're doing the very things I told you you people would do? Read this again:
>Ironically, most critics of positivism also seem hilariously unaware of this fact and propose 'alternatives' to it, forgetting that they will most likely suffer from the same problems
Has history vindicated him?
>>469770
>Has history vindicated him?
In what sense could Roy Cohn's drunk dog boy be "vindicated?"
He never published a list to be held accountable against. His alcoholism is neither here nor there. His media stunting was shown in his era to be limited. And of course Roy Cohn went against the pentagon.
>>469770
Basically yes, many commies were in the USG at the time despite the protest of commies (>>469821).
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2013/09/technology-communism-and-brown-scare.html
Pretty much yeah.
Can we have a thread without autists raging on viking-autists?
Post anything bronze age senpai.
The Vikings were fucking stone age
It's worth noting that despite living in the iron age vikings were so shit they were below stone age.
t. Norwegian historian
>>466206
Did I miss something?
Why are there so many fucking viking threads today?
