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Just finished reading an excerpt of the diary of Peter Hagendorf, a landsknecht who fought in the 30 Years War who obsessed over bread, I would really suggest reading it, really highlights the brutality of warfare in ye olden days i.e ridiculous child mortality and rape and pillage. (His wife even goes looting for him)
Has anyone else on /His read it? What do they think? On that note can anyone suggest any little known diaries which are quite in depth from any time period
>>393272
Would read. Is there a download link somewhere?
>>393272
>who obsessed over bread
elaborate
>>393272
>(His wife even goes looting for him)
u wot m8
Why do retards insist on calling Napoleon a dictator when this term was invented to describe authoritarian rulers that came AFTER the age of monarchies?
Every fucking relevant country was ruled by a "dictator" in Napoleon's era, why insist on him being one while seeing the Russian emperor or the Prussian king as regular monarchs?
I bet it's because Hitler made normies mix up the definitions of "dictator" and "conqueror"
No, a dictator isnt "someone who invades foreign countries".
>>392986
It's a 2010's thing; hate just about every european historical figure on the as long as they aren't women.
Not even a /pol/tard, but you KNOW these people are just looking for things to be outraged at. They'll call Napoleon a dictator and Boudicca a heroine for torturing roman women
>The term "dictator" is a modern invention
It's fucking Roman you dolt.
>>393008
Who exactly are "these people"?
Hola. Any of you know good philosophy youtube channels?
>>392915
school of life is actually good
School of life has some interesting videos on specific philosophers and philosophy
But for the most part, it's filled with euro lefty propaganda nonsense
>>392915
pretty sure god isn't a fucking normie REEEEEE
During my time casually browsing the fields of philosophy and science there's been a recurring theme of stating "X is an illusion" wherein X is some massive thing that defines how humans interpret the world. I've seen it all, I've seen serious heavyweights in the field say things from time itself (a few quantum theories), reality (ala the Matrix, Descartes) to movement (Zeno) to consciousness, to free will (determinism), to the concept of the "self", to morality (Stirner and friends), to basically everything (solipsism)
Honestly, looking...
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>>392854
Those are just a few of the things off the top of my head, too. I've even seen claims that causality itself is an illusion.
View philosophy for what it is; professional shitposting.
>>392854
"X is an illusion" is an illusion.
>/his/ will defend this
>>392812
>history
just rename it to religious faggotry already or create a general
Are there people here who are actually religious?
I thought we already solved this shit.
I have no idea why history and philosophy were tossed in together in the first place instead of two separate history/archaeology and philosophy/religion boards.
Speaking in a strictly historical sense, without theoretical "examples", did the economies of 20th century fascist states differ much from plain old Keynesian capitalism in liberal democracies?
>>392525
They were state capitalists like the Soviet Union. There was more autonomy in the sense that big corporations were allowed to remain as seperate entities from the state but at the same time those private corporations were forced to produce and develop what the state demanded of them.
>>392579
They were not like the soviet union, rather they privatised a lot of state services.
>>392579
So basically gunpoint capitalism? I'm guessing they were also quite heavily protectionist.
I've heard they had something of a state welfare system, but I'm not sure if that's stormfag propaganda.
>Why aren't you polyamorous yet?
>I just find it hard to believe that a God who claims to be the "Most Merciful", "Most Forgiving", or "Most Kind, Benevolent" etc. would make such a great human being suffer
>The greatest trick that religions ever pulled was to pretend that the central religious question is "does God exist"?
>When will atheism overtake christianity? Do you think we'll live to see the day that...
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>Sorry anons, I only deal with facts.
>>392261
>Sorry anons, I can't stand shitfight arguments on unanswerable questions whose evidences are based on feels of either side
ftfy
Also 4chan's "religious" are only so because Atheism was discovered to be mainstream outside this hugbox, quit pretending.
Do like the rest of us and patiently wait until Euro time.
Is there any reason why western military doctrines were not adopted by native Americans en masse?
Was it not efficient enough to them, despite the fact that they suffered devastating losses from battles against Anglo soldiers?
>>392171
And where were they going to produce an enlightenment state governing a proto-capitalist mass economy from?
>>392202
Copy and paste whatever the fuck the colonials were doing.
As if they couldn't see the thirteen colonies's administrative and military efficiency.
>>392208
Yeah, because you'll suddenly generate university trained patrician land owners operating export oriented estates.
Are new age religions respectable in any fashion?
>>392151
Absolutely not. Pseudoscientific bullshit with a heavy helping of DUDE WEED LMAO
The Catholic Church hit the nail on the head with their analysis:
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/interelg/documents/rc_pc_interelg_doc_20030203_new-age_en.html
It's a long read, so tl;dr: it's the sacralisation of psychology.
If you like the concepts of New Age read Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung. They accidentally created New Age. Basically they started teaching that all religion can be interpreted symbolically and that they actually share a ton of themes. These themes are supposed to be ancient that we have been subconsciously passing down through myths, dreams, and we are subconsciously programmed to respond to them.
Unlike the hippies that run the religion they actually approach the ideas an intelligent way. The Hippies ran with their idea to say that not only are all religiously symbolically...
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Why can't materialists prove even a SINGLE THING (ONE) exists independent of human perception?
>>391952
Because noumenal experience is definitionally impossible.
>>391952
Why can't anti-materialists explain what experience and perception are?
>>391952
theories that are untestable and unprovable like the idea that all is within the mind are not worth discussing because they hold no basis
where can i start learning religion? kinda interested
Learn about or start believing in?
>>391327
learn about it.since i think im a fool if i believe religion but i know nothing about it.fyi im christian
>>391323
Karen Armstrong's The Great Transformation is definitely an excellent start, it covers the history of almost all of the major religions of the past and present. Her other book, The History of God, is also extremely good but more focused on the Abrahamic religions.
Is 24 too old to start learning philosophy?
You're too old when you're dead
It's too young
>>391285
Ghosts BTFO
Who wants to hear about the beginnings of BP? Okay cool. I'll post an excerpt from the book "Bad Ideas" by Robert Winston.
>As the industrial revolution gathered pace in the 18th centry, factory owners looked for ways to maximize production. An easy fix was to run factories all night, which prompted engineers to look for more efficient ways of providing lighting. It wouldn't prove to be the final solution, but along the way oil presented itself as an abundant and efficient commodity. It wasn't long before people noted its...
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>In 1901 a pharmaceutical salesman named Sidney Reilly set out of Tehran with a case of patent medicines. Charming and handsome, he swiftly became a regular face at the dances and cocktail parties of the city's various international locations, as well as an intimate of the Grand Vizier to the Shah. After staying for several months Reilly departed with a book for of medicine orders, all of which were subsequently fulfilled. it was only when Reilly's grateful clients tried to order medicines a second time that people began to scratch their heads.The...
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>The British Government, appreciating the potential of this new fuel source and keen to protect it's own access to it, was nervous. Persia lay in the buffer zone between Russia and British India, who's ongoing cat & mouse struggles were dubbed "The Great Game" by Rudyard Kipling. For Britain the Middle East covered vital transit routes to the Eastern colonies of India and Malaya. For Russia it was an ambivalent and troublesome territory on the fringes of it's own (mostly Islamic) colonies.
>Both...
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>>391217
>18th centry
century, and you mean the 19th
>factory owners looked for ways to maximize production
that was very much the 19th century, and it was profit they were attempting to maximise, not output. Prior to the 19th century, factories, or manufactories, were sites in which slaves or prisoners did traditional handicrafts or commodity (as in "bulk good") production like sugar.
>which prompted engineers to...
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>At least 505 kills.
>In 100 days.
>With iron sights.
>In -40F to -20F temperatures.
>Would stuff snow into his mouth to stop his breath from steaming
>Artillery strikes couldn't didn't kill him.
>Takes explosive round to face.
>Survived.
Will there ever be anyone more badass than Simo Häyhä?
You missed /k/ desu. Not disagreeing with you but you'll actually get replies there.
>>391170
I see. Will take thread there than.
>>391162
You forgot the 200+ kills he made with his Suomi submachine gun.
Eternal recurrence
"Fellow man! Your whole life, like a sandglass, will always be reversed and will ever run out again, - a long minute of time will elapse until all those conditions out of which you were evolved return in the wheel of the cosmic process. And then you will find every pain and every pleasure, every friend and every enemy, every hope and every error, every blade of grass and every ray of sunshine once more, and the whole fabric of things which make up your life. This ring in which you are but a grain will glitter afresh forever. And in every one of...
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>taking it literally
>>390614
How do you interpret it then?
>>390609
>What does this mean for people who are born with horrible genetic defects or those who are in excruciating pain all their life? Eternal agony?
You're not quite getting it I think, your question is directed too narrowly. He's speaking in more of a cosmic sense. The event that sparked the universe itself is destined to repeat over and over again forever therefore the life you've lived now therefore is bound to recur again eternally so make it worth while. Participate...
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