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Who's your favorite historical figure that died a virgin?
>>441906
tezla or andy warhol
Big sexy Karl
Jesus, the most important man that ever lived.
God Himself in the flesh.
Why was teleology basically taken for granted in Hegel's philosophy?
I've only read books *about* Hegel, but it seems central to his system that the world is tending towards some goal, some end point, and that this end point makes sense of all the intermediary stages leading up to it. Was it merely an assumption on his part that the universe has an intrinsic endpoint that it develops towards? And was this assumption not questioned because, at that stage of natural science, it seemed incontestable that nature contains some beings (organisms) that can't be understood except from a teleological point of view? Is this assumption - and thus the Hegelian architecture built upon it - obsolete in the light of contemporary, especially evolutionary, science?
>>441675
I don't know much about Hegel's ideas, but if he was suggesting >the universe has an intrinsic endpoint that it develops towards
Then I'd agree that the modern understanding of evolution refutes this point
>>441719
The question wasn't whether it is true, but why Hegel conceives of the world this way in his philosophy.
The reason people only read books *about* Hegel instead of directly by him is that he writes so obscure that it's hard to grasp him if you read him in German and beyond your reach if you read him translated, to the degree where several Hegelian professors can have very different opinions on what he actual meant.
Still, from *my* understanding, it isn't about material objects but cultural progress reaching a point where ideas have been proposed, opposed, and created new ideas to the point where every possible idea have been discussed and history finally "understands...
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We all know the Earth is about 6000 years old.
But is it possible to know the exact time?
It's 10:05pm CST, mate.
59XX something.
It will be exactly the 6000th year when Christ returns and sets up the millenial kingdom.
>creation was 6 days
>7th day for rest
>human history will be 6000 years
>last 1000 years for rest
>>441240
The last 1/4 of this image scare me beyond belief and I don't know what to do, especially the Great White Throne Judgement
Lets talk about the people who coined the phrase "Assassin"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassins
>>441118
What does that cat say?
>>441131
meow
>>441131
Consider, that is a magic animal. Typical jinnee.
His tail is so cute,
so not be with him rude.
Was most of history really boring for people? First a couple hundred-thousand years of hunting and gathering, then just farming until like 100 years ago.
>>440679
Yes, we are very really lucky.
>>440679
A true saying it is, Desire hath no rest, is infinite in itself, endless, and as one calls it, a perpetual rack, or horse-mill.
>>440686
Care to translate?
![anthropology[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/2Baug8t.jpg "anthropology[1].jpg")
What do you guys think of Anthropology? Any favorite authors or books?
>>440571
What type of anthropology? The study of language? The study of pass times? Of rituals?
>>440594
Cultural anthropology i guess im talking about
>>440663
>Cultural anthropology
>>>/pol/
>>>/x/
Phys or gtfo this board
Why is Germany such a fucking joke?
>lost every war they fought
>genocided jews, gypsies
>put prominent people of culture in concentration camps
>enslaved entire nations and wiped them out under the germanic boot (evil)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ztOV2wrrkY
Did anything good came out of this country? Ever? So fucking pathetic.
>>440293
>implying WW1 and 2 were the only wars ever fought
>implying organizing a genocide is a joke
>implying you werent the first to kiss that boot if they came kicking your door down
>Did anything good came out of this country? Ever?
germany was the leading power in technology and innovation before the first world war
also, whats with the flood of germanophobs since the last weeks?
>>440293
germany is the leathercoat of europe. works hard, does his shit, but noone likes him, everybody fucks him into ass. then he goes mad and kills the minorities. next are the turks, you can fucking bet on that.
Why is Merkel letting so many violent and uncivilized foreigners into the country responsible for the Holocaust?
Whats the name of the philosophical era we're living in right now?
Existentialism
proto-socialism
Era?
Well we got some post-analytics and postmodernists floating around at least.
Why has modern Italy had such a pathetic military?
>lost 2 of 3 independence wars, relying on first the French and then the Prussians to gain anything
>defeated by Ethiopia, the most embarrassing defeat of European forces by native Africans in the modern era
>unable to decisively defeat Austria-Hungary despite the Habsburgs being distracted by Russian and Serbia until A-H was literally dissolving in October 1918
>utterly trounced in WWII to the extent...
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They were issued wine rations
>>439984
Italy has lost battles. It has lost no wars.
( except the one against the somali talitoyus.). They always switch to the winning side before the war is over.
>>440032
>Italy has lost no wars
>except
lol Italians
These kids are descendants of the Ottoman dynasty. How does this make you feel?
>>439213
That Whore Roxane has truly won.
>>439213
These are the descendants of a man executed by the Ottomans. How does this make you feel?
The Ottoman upper layer were also white, be it the hellenized royalty (Mehmet II himself was related to the Byzantine imperial dynasty), or the Janissaries who were largely turkified white Balkanites.
It's just 90% of their former subjects who are the shitskins. Modern Turkey is ran by plebeians.
Also fun fact, Ottoman dynasty is now mostly converted to christianity.
If anyone posts this all they've done is demonstrate that they haven't read Guns, Germs and Steel.
Occasionally it is possible to tame a Zebra, especially if you're a handler paid to do so in a society which already has well established agriculture employed by someone with an appeal to novelty. Even so they've never been successfully domesticated. They're very difficult to capture alive and very difficult to put under control in no small part due to their aggressiveness. Zebras kill more zookeepers than any other creature. Even when 'tamed'...
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>>438980
>implying zebras can harm the human masterspecies
>>438980
Literally tamed aurochs.
>>438980
Domesticated is just taming + selective breeding + time
The wild ancestors of the domesticated horse were also large muscular pray animals can that could kill a man with one kick, horses today can still do that
Saying domestication was impossible is a cop-out
Discuss sieges and shit here
What siege you guys wanna start out with?
>>438924
Whats the most obscure siege weapon?
>>438924
Siege on, young Trebber
>>438990
mangonel
catapult and trebuchets retarded half-brother
How did Somalia manage to fall so hard?
It has:
>oil
>a great geographical location
>ores
>one religion
>one language
>a single native population
It had the potential to turn into a fairly rich trading nation. Where did it fuck up?
It's inhabited by Somalis.
>>438625
This. Tribalism killed Somalia.
>>438632
Colonialism with no exit strategy is what ruined it. Not saying it was a utopian before england took somali land and italy the rest but that divison didnt help
How come Germany and Japan of all countries turned into economic juggernauts following WWII despite having suffered crushing defeats, the devastation of their lands, and being branded as pariahs of the international community?
>>437922
US help to prevent the USSR from ever gaining influence in them.
>>437922
Because they had good economy and infrastructure pre-war, and they had the technical expertise to rebuild all of that.
American economic aid also helped a lot.
If the Soviet Union got to Japan instead I'm sure they'll be a third world shithole that's only famous for exporting prostitutes and mail order brides like the Slavic countries.
>>437930
>I'm sure they'll be a third world shithole that's only famous for exporting prostitutes and mail order brides like the Slavic countries.
Exactly like East Germany.
Why didn't Ethiopia expand deeper into Africa?
Also, East Africa general.
towards central africa? i thought that was terra incognita until europeans explored it.
>>437876
Kingdom of the Kongo was there.
I'm asking about the coast however, like where Kenya and Tanzania are.
>>437861
Tse flies. Whenever someone asks why Africans haven't done something obvious it's always those satanic flies
