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Why is getting involved in a land war in Asia one of the classic blunders?
Too much land
>>393220
People underestimate how massive the land is and how massive the population of said land is. Also fuckhueg mountains everywhere leading to a random desert in the middle of the continent
>>393476
The Mongols seemed to fare pretty well.
ITT: Historical figures that were actually not such great people, contrary to popular belief. I'll start.
What does "great people" mean?
>>392578
more great than me for sure
Science is based on observation and empirical reasoning. You observe the world around you, you take notes about phenomenon and try to figure out ideas as why it might happen. Then you test your claims, record the results and to see if your ideas hold up: if the results turn out to be positive then your line of thinking probably was on the right track and if they turn out to be negative then you learn that said idea is probably incorrect but at least you know that said line was probably not the case and the data you did collect might be useful down the line. Then (in part to...
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>>391736
Science and faith are not in conflict—unless you want them to be. If someone places faith before truth, then they are stepping out of bounds. But if faith is what one has because something is true, and not the other way around, science becomes the One True Faith. This is another counter-intuitive feature of science: it is thoroughly empirical, built on observation and evidence, yet “empiricism” is not observation and evidence alone, but a view of things that is constructed from observed facts, and the whole enterprise...
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>>391736
Read Kuhn, then Lakatos, then Feyerabend.
>>391736
Religion is based around politics and identity.
>“In his lectures to young communists in Germany during the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, psychologist Wilhelm Reich theorized that the suppression of sexuality was essential to an authoritarian government. Without the imposition of antisexual morality, he believed, people would be free from shame and would trust their own sense of right and wrong… Perhaps if we were raised without shame and guilt about our desires, we might be freer people in more ways than simply the sexual.”
>When the infant physical affectional variable was combined with permitted pre-marital sexuality my prediction of peaceful or violent cultures rose to 100% of the 49 cultures where this information was available. Further, these cultures were matrilineal where 78% of the nine cultures that also had information on extramarital sexuality also permitted extramarital sexuality.
>The ultimate human spiritual-sexual state, however, can only be realized when the human female (whose brain is uniquely designed for the spiritual-sexual...
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People should feel shame & guilt about wanting to engage in behaviors that spread disease, ruin their sexual organs, and reduce their capacity for pair-bonding
It's that time of day again.
Certainly better than in modern day Zimbabwe, that's for sure.
>>397017
Grandfather was around during Rhodesia, said it was shit if you weren't white and Mugabe was just a fuck up.
>>397025
>Certainly better than in modern day Zimbabwe, that's for sure.
Bullshit. Bullshit thinking. Bullshit evidence. Bullshit argument. Supply your moral or political perspective which says what "better" is for a person or people, and then supply evidence to support your claim.
Be bold, be right, actually make a fucking argument you horrible cunt.
Ben Franklin in Video Games:
>Bumbling, absent minded, timidly overly polite, "jolly"
Ben Franklin in Television:
>Steely, restrained, reserved, tactful, arrogant
Which was it? Or was it both?
>>397030
He was a party animal who loved French babes, and he was also quite intelligent and politically as well as socially aware.
Not even Murrifat by the way.
>>397030
>Trusting the depiction of Asscreed, a game by Frog faggots which has misrepresented every period since the first game
>>397030
What games are you playing?
Why is he treated as a saint by Americans?
>>397000
Because Americans refuse to do research.
If they did, they would find he:
>gave weapons to Iran
>armed literal terrorists in South America
>armed literal terrorists in Afghanistan
>legalized abortion as governor of California
>signed the automatic weapons ban bill into acton
Quite anti-American of him.
>>397016
This desu
the Eternal Californian strikes again.
>>397000
Because we're engineered to be actually retarded.
Why? Why were my Irish ancestors so backwards and messed up?
They were seem as barely human by the rest if Europe at the time. What went wrong?
>>396947
>What went wrong?
Designated drinking streets
Also Celtic kuck blood
Look at Germany ;_;
>>396952
What does that mean?
Archaeologists claim carbon dating of ancient weapons found in Kessel proves Roman emperor led massacre of Germanic tribes on Dutch soil
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/11/julius-caesar-battlefield-unearthed-southern-netherlands-dutch-archaeologists
So wheres my reparations Italy?
>>396881
>emperor
based Caesar still delivering after thousands of years
Who were the greatest Trolls in history?
You could argue Socrates, but Diogenes probably trumps him, and then we have fellows like Luther and potentially you could even argue Jesus himself if you really wanted to take the religious route.
Kierkegaard
>>396392
Al Sharpton.
Cicero
What say you of Uncle Ho, /his/?
>>396108
He's a monster who persecuted political enemies as harshly as Stalin or Mao, but on a much smaller scale so it's not one of history's "great atrocities"
People call him a hero because he bloodied America's nose, but during the time between the Vietnam War and the division between North and South Vietnam, free travel was permitted between the two states and millions fled North Vietnam for good fucking reason.
>>396127
Go back to gangbanging in Southern California, Nguyen.
>>396137
I actually live in Arizona topkek
Christians, why do you fear death? If you live according to the bible, only a bountiful heaven awaits you. Or is it that you don't have faith is the bible, you worry that your religion may not be correct, or is it because you've committed an unforgivable crime? Or is it because you're secretly atheist?
I do not fear death at all. I have uncertainties about it, but I am fine with dying. I just fear the way I am going to die is all.
>>395500
I worry for what's going to happen to other people who don't have faith. I don't want to see otherwise good people not receiving a reward after death.
I'm not worried about my reward, I'm worried about other people.
>>395780
Gay as fuck
There is literally nothing wrong with mob rule
Yes there is
>>395411
oppresses the rights of the minority
>>396207
>implying we don't have tyranny of the minority in 2015
Is this film an accurate depiction of the Qin dynasty? I know the sword fighting is extremely realistic, but what about the buildings, outfits, weapons etc.?
>>395343
Qin was shit.
Song and Ming is where it's at.
>>395353
>Not the Tang
You have access to a time machine, allowing you to travel into the past or the future, no consequences.
Where would you go, what would you bring, who would you meet, and what would you change?
make as many time paradoxes as possible just because I can
>>395240
>what would you change?
>no consequences
Nothing, apparently.
I've always wanted to see how battles from just about every era looked, because I'm not inclined to believe that it looks anything like my Total War games.
Anything from the Civil War back really. Would also just love to see the sights, Babylon would be my first stop.
