>give speech
>some moron shoots me
>finish speech
>'murica
what are /his/ thoughts on him? Solid president in my opinion. Did some cool shit.
meme-tier
favourite president of le modern gentlemen's blogger
Seemed like a legit guy. Yellowstone exists because of him and he made Latin America butthurt.
>>379719
Not only Yellowstone
The grand canyon park too
And pretty much every other national park
Orthodox Jew (the black hat non-Zionist master race kind), AMA.
>Tikku Olam
How significant is this concept in your sect, in Zionist sects, and in pre-Zionist Judaism?
>>379680
Hey you already made this thread. Long live Israel :^)
>>379689
Tikkun*, sorry, I don't speak your liturgical tongue.
Were ancient statues really as ugly as the reconstructed color ones make them out to be? Are we sure that we aren't just finding a single pigment out of a really complex palette, like using the fill bucket to recolor a black and white photo?
Given the level of artistry the statues possessed, its doubtful that they were given simplistic color palettes applied plainly.
post painted ancient statues
terracotta warrior
>>379573
>Are we sure that we aren't just finding a single pigment out of a really complex palette, like using the fill bucket to recolor a black and white photo?
I thought that was basically the idea, but maybe they were cartoonish. Who knows.
Some look good.
Am I a rare flag?
http://www.16personalities.com/
>>379416
MBTI is unscientific bullshit and only the E - I part has proven to have any relevance to psychology.
I took the test and I usually get ENTP but often get ESTP, INTP or INTJ. Doesn't mean anything.
>>379416
If you take these tests seriously you belong on reddit. This is to psychology as astrology is to astronomy.
I'm not sure why i was expecting anything more from this board lol
Is nationalism fundamentally unchristian? Considering it grew out of very secular ideology?
Also, is communism (as we generally understand the term today, that is, as what grew out of secular ideology) fundamentally unchristian for the same reason? As opposed to communitarianism, for instance, which has a precedence in the NT.
>>379252
Christianity is inherently universalist, so there will be substantial tension with nationalism.
Communism has been cjaracterized by Marx as a final form of chmristianity that has stripped off faith and become fully practical.
>There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:28
>>379317
Not sure how that relates to communism.
Was ancient Egypt really all that powerful, or just technologically advanced? I mean, it seems that whenever they faced an actually powerful empire, they always lost or the status quo remained.
I mean, they were conquered by the Canaanites, Nubians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, etc. And it is not like the Canaanites or the Nubians were great powers, they were were just tribes or city-states.
Did they ever actually successfully conquer another ancient civilization of considerable power?
Even modern Egypt lost to a bunch of Jews four times over the course of 25 years.
It wasn't as technologically advanced as the nations in the Fertile Crescent or the Hittites, but it was much more stable and had a larger and more organized labor pool and the greatest ancient highway (the Nile). They didn't contribute as much to humanity as the Sumerians, but I'd certainly rather live in Memphis than Babylon or Nineveh.
They weren't technologically or militarily very advanced compared to their neighbors. Egypt was a fairly small isolationist kingdom, while Mesopotamian civilization sprawled all over the Middle East and consisted of various interacting regions and peoples. Naturally, Mesopotamian (and later Mediterranean) civilization were far more dynamic. The Egyptians usually lagged behind the rest of the middle east in technology, which often only changed when technology was forced on them by their neighbors.
Egypt was more of a cultural superpower than anything else. Their architecture and art were the best on Earth for most of the bronze age, and other cultures tended to copy them. Greek sculpture was derived from Egypt, as are all modern writing systems outside of East Asia.
You gotta remember early cradle civilizations weren't at each other's borders. They were centered on fertile land.
After reading endless nights about how polynesia and the pacific islands were inhabited, one question still remains completely unanswered:
How did they know where to sail? I mean they made it to very remote places like the Easter islands and Hawaii, places without a constant ribbon of small midway islands.
So, how did they know where to sail? Or was it just dumb luck, one succesful voyage in a line of hundred that perished?
>>379114
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian_languages
I'll add to OPs question asking how the flying fuck this language family got so far and wide, and so long ago. Madagascar to Hawaii? Fucking ridiculous.
>>379131
They really were the most advanced non-advanced culture. Whats amazing is that it took humans 100 000 years and more than 10 000 miles of migrations to get to an island thats just a thousand miles away from the possible cradle of humanity.
Most people dont even know about Madagascar being first inhabited by Austronesians.
>>379114
IIRC some hints of where to sail were the presence of certain bird species, and slight colour change on the horizon indicating the presence of an island
Also I find it amazing that the ancestors of Australian Aboriginals were able to cross at least 90km of ocean ~50,000 years ago
If the Franks were Germanics, does that mean that modern French and Germans are related?
they are brothers in denial
I think there latinized to a point were the Germanic element of their language and culture is gone.
>>379091
>gauls
>germanic tribes
the same
Is history important?
>>379045
/thread
>>379074
Because it's cool
What exactly was the aristocracy? Who was it made of and what was its function in society? Was it important or was it just generations of nepotism?
I just think of a group of fancy fucks when I hear the word, so I'd like to know more about the reality of the aristocracy.
>>378957
Aristocracy is basically greek for "Rule of Best People." Technically the upper class of any sort. Nobles are asitos but not all aristos are nobles.
ITT we post historys greatest leaders
Pic related, historys greatest leader.
As long as we are lying about shit.
Sulla
>>378909
Wow, you've learned something yesterday. Are you going to improve these shitty OPs as we point out the obvious mistakes, you fucking kid?
Hey /his/, is there a difference between doing something and failing to prevent something?
>pic unrelated to philosophy or Nagel
Nagel says the difference is the aim. For instance, if you twist a child's arm, the aim is pain. Failing to prevent is "less evil". You don't seek the pain in twisting the child's arm.
>>378849
You arguably fail to prevent a lot more things than you do. I think the question should be wether or not you can be held responsible for an event, either by action or by inaction.
>>378879
If you intentionally allow something to happen, are you more responsible for its happening that if you failed to prevent it?
If there were not schism over the dual nature of Christ, and Islam never happened but rather Christianity maintained dominance in the Middle East, would Europe and the Middle East have wound up with a common identity? Perhaps even racially? I know it took a while for Catholics and Orthodox to be accepted as white by Protestants, but perhaps if they were, then the Middle East would have been too provided the conditions mentioned at the beginning of this post were in effect?
it looks like he's chowing down on her hair pie
i have nothing else to contribute.
Stop applying an American perspective on world history.
If Islam never happened some other cult with similar beliefs would have replaced it. Religions are a result of their environment.
The early Christians, Gnostics, and Mithrists all had similar ideas. If the Christian cult failed than the Mithra cult would have taken it's place or the Gnostic one. The same would be true in the middle east, Muhammad was the strongest warlord so his religion won, if he died the second strongest warlord would take over and have a similar religion.
Historical "what if's are kind of retarded anyway"
ITT:Epic Bible quotes
>From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. “Get out of here, baldy!” they said. “Get out of here, baldy!” He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.
2 kings 23-24
God orders people to be stoned to death for picking up sticks on Saturday (Numbers 15:32-36), and commands that those who follow other religions be slaughtered (Deuteronomy 13:6-16). Indeed, genocide (Deuteronomy 2:31-34, 7:1-2, 20:10-15, and Joshua, e.g. 10:33) and fascism (Deuteronomy 22:23-24, Leviticus 20:13, 24:13-16, Numbers 15:32-6) were the very law and standard practice of God, right next to the Ten Commandments. Instead of condemning slavery, God condones it (Leviticus 25:44, cf. Deuteronomy 5:13-14, 21:10-13). And so on.
And the New Testament was only marginally better, though it too had its inexcusable features, from commands to hate (Luke 14:26) to arrogantly sexist teachings about women (1 Timothy 2:12), from Jesus saying he “came not to bring peace, but the sword,” setting even families against each other (Matthew 10:34-36) and approving the murder of disobedient children (Mark 7:6-13), to making blasphemy the worst possible crime (Matthew 12:31-32), even worse than murder or molesting a child. It, too, supported slavery rather than condemning it (Luke 12:47, 1 Timothy 6:1-2).
Worse, its entire message is not “be good and go to heaven,” itself a naive and childish concern (the good are good because they care, not because they want a reward), but “believe or be damned” (Mark 16:16, Matthew 10:33, Luke 12:9, John 3:18), a fundamentally wicked doctrine. The good judge others by their character, not their beliefs, and punish deeds, not thoughts, and punish only to teach, not to torture. But none of this moral truth was in the Bible, but instead drones on about subjection to kings and acceptance of slavery, while having no knowledge of the needs of a democratic society, the benefits of science, or the proper uses of technology. It even promotes superstition over science, with all its talk about demonic possession and faith healing and speaking in tongues, and assertions that believers will be immune to poison (Mark 16:17-18).
So I just read the first volume of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and what caught my attention was Trajans wanting to emulate Alexander the Great. Cool, but I know nothing about him and would like to dig around on him. Got any papers or books I could read on him?
>>378815
>Got any papers or books I could read on him?
He was an overrated military leader who did his friend up the butt so much that he barely bothered to sire an heir. This would cause the fall of his empire.
>>378824
>overrated
>>378815
a bibliographic article with tons of books and articles on him
http://pastebin.com/mQyZed6u
