who is this man? What were his ideas? I have only heard about him because of /his/.
That's Maximilian Stern, the angriest man in the West
something something spooks
Mock Shturnuh
(Translators note: Shturnuh means spook)
what's the most amazing military maneuver in history?
the most impressive campaign?
>>378656
I'm still a sucker for the storm of steel
>Strategy?
>PFFFT
>FUCK THAT, BUM RUSH, GO
I also find it amazing that they kept doing that for years
Alexander in Mid East, Hannibal in Italy, Subotai in Europe, Lettow Vorbeck in Africa springs to mind.
Cannae
what went wrong
it existed
>>378507
why are 'strategy' maps like that so fucking annoying
I can't put a finger on it but something about them is just wrong
i heard somebody say "strategy maps" in this thread?
ITT: philosophers people blow off because their philosophy is uncomfortable
Muh black swan
In what sense do people blow off Hume? He's kind of a big deal.
>>378490
Hume is opposed by those who subscribe to moral objectivity and scientific positivism.
Of course, critical thinkers realize that a healthy measure of skepticism is a bonus to both philosophy and science.
Has there ever been a fuck up in history as bad as when the Japanese attacked pearl harbor?
When your dad said "don't worry if i pull out you won't get knocked up" and your mom believed him.
>>378429
Croesus's attack on Persia comes to mind.
>>378434
>If you attack Persia a great empire will fall
>Oracle's face when
Why are there so many goofy Christian denominations in America?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oqcG1Ws5FE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHb4gs1hwck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tp4ENcSvFc
>>378420
america has more freedoms (or less traditions because most are descended from uprooted potmelted immigrants)
Because we have crazy religious black people and white Protestants in the south are absolutely indistinguishable from the crazy blacks in every way
>tfw mother is a mathematician, sends me to a good Episcopal school, allows my sister and I to watch and read LotR and Harry Potter growing up and shit
>Fast forward 10 or so years and she's joined a megachurch
>tfw had to convince her just a few months ago that role playing games didn't involve actual magic
American Christianity not ever once
Protestants a shit tbqh
Who made it? Was it Arab slave traders who stopped in the area?
Arabs weren't active in that area at the time it was made. I think one theory was that it was actually Jews who migrated beyond Ethiopia and intermarried and blended into the native population.
>>378590
Meme
>>378590
racism > scholarship
welcome to /his/!
Which is better to live under? Vote and discuss.
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>>378375
None of them.
Why is this a thread.
>>378384
Yeah but if you had to live under one what would it be?
>>378386
Depends.
Would I be living in my parents homeland or here in Canada?
A real man, real in all the ways we recognize as real, finds himself suddenly abstracted from the world and deposited in a physical situation which could not possibly exist: sounds have aroma, smells have color and depth, sights have texture, touches have pitch and timbre. There he is informed by a disembodied voice that he has been brought to that place as a champion for his world. He must fight to the death in single combat against a champion from another world. If he is defeated, he will die, and his world, the real world, will be destroyed because it lacks the inner strength to survive.
The man refuses to believe what he is told is true. He asserts that he is either dreaming or hallucinating, and declines to be put in the false position of fighting to the death where no "real" danger exists. He is implacable in his determination to disbelieve his apparent situation, and does not defend himself when he is attacked by the champion of the other world.
Is the man's behavior courageous or cowardly?
Feel free to ask your own questions if you so desire.
>>377855
>sounds have aroma, smells have color and depth, sights have texture, touches have pitch and timbre
So, synesthesia?
>>377883
Since the comprehension
of sweet sound is our most indefinite conception, music, when combined
with a pleasurable idea, is poetry. Music without the idea is simply music.
Without music or an intriguing idea, colour becomes pallor, man becomes
carcass, home becomes catacomb, and the dead are but for a moment
motionless.
>>377855
Considering the way the world works the vast majority of the time, he is justified in believing it's a hallucination. Although he could just play along to be safe, he's being a bit silly.
Post historic people who inspire you
>>377758
You inspire me, OP.
You are truly one who fight the system and the establishment, breaking the 4chan rules by being 5 years underaged to go on here.
>>377758
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC6oJURg6Pk
>>377758
Why don't you start?
This question comes after a discussion about censorship with a friend. If a certain person speaks out in favor of censorship towards someone or something without invoking any legal entity, is it hypocritical to condemn that person? Posted here because philosophy I guess
>>377754
I have no idea what you mean but I post because this dog is cute
>>377754
What do you mean "is it hypocritical?" You haven't talked about the person in question, only the one in favor of censorship.
>>377754
What would censorship without legal entities look like? And what's hypocritical about condemnation?
Could the Byzantine Empire have survived? What would the state look like if it still existed today in some form? Would the Greeks still call themselves Romans?
>Could the Byzantine Empire have survived?
No.
>What would the state look like if it still existed today in some form?
Greece
>Would the Greeks still call themselves Romans?
Maybe if nationalism doesn't kick off
>>377745
>No.
Any reason for this? I don't see the Turks winning Manzikert and settling in Anatolia as inevitable, and the Komnenos restoration was almost successful in destroying the Sultanate of Rum. Almost.
>>377876
I think even if it survived past the Turkic invasions it would have fallen in a similar way to the Ottomans. Becoming the sick man of Europe, throughout much if not most of it's history, the Byzantine Empire was the sick man of Europe.
What happened /his/?
Paper tiger
The ambitions of a big nation but the population of a small one.
>>377717
only reason it had it's 5 minutes in the first place is that they grasped gunpowder warfare quickly
Is multiculturalism beneficial in the long run? Was multi culture beneficial in USA?
Or is diversity useless?
I'm talking about culturally, socially, economically and genetically, also long-term and short-term.
>>377604
>multiculturalism
is shit
you can learn from other cultures without losing your identity
but since this isn't /int/ i wonder how long will take until some euro shitposter replies "America has no culture KEK"
There's no cultural diversity in the US, does the term melting pot ring a bell? Even the blackest ghetto nigs speak English and are Christians, and new immigrants are pressured pretty hard into assimilating into Americans, the muh heritagers you see on the internet are just indulging in a roleplaying hobby.
Multiracial =/= multicultural, by the way.
Why are Asians so good at committing to war?
What makes you think they are?
Overcompensation.
>>377504
they're culturally very strict, rigorous and disciplined in everything they do - specially the japs, hence bushido (prior to the bombings, now they're just lost people with no cultural identity at all - just like the chinks after the communist brainwash)
and that's why they nuked japan - if they didn't the us army would be viciously destroyed if they decided to do a land invasion; even with worse hardware, not very advanced tactics or competent generals they would be dugged in like a tick and probably have deployed an unbreakable steel defense.
so yeah, they very commited to following orders (specially the lowest ranks/common people) too bad the rulling elite usually doesn't deserve them.
