Hey /his/, should I become francophile?
Did anyone read and enjoy Tess of the D'Urbervilles? The fact that I enjoyed it was quite out of left field for me.
>>353877
Would the world would be better today if France had a large, competent colonial empire like the Brits?
French here : it's okay if you idealize us, forget our actual mediocrity, and then try to emulate that ideal.
Liking france and french culture as a whole and as it is is a proof of bad taste, though.
What does /his/ think about the Nuremberg Trials? Farce or appropriate application of justice?
>>353867
Not enough executions tbqh.
Complete and hypocritical farce
>>353867
If they had been run by an actual neutral party in a fair and equitable manner Churchill, Truman, (FDR if he had lived), and a large number of Allied generals would have swung from a gibbet.
What was the life like in Umayyad controlled Spain?
Let me make it clear that this is not a bait post, I am geniunely curious.
>>353791
Everyone was super happy and enlightened and tolerant all the time.
>>353791
It was ok. It wasn't a theocratic hellhole like /pol/ thinks it is nor was it a utopia like idealists and Muslim nationalists like to think.
Basically you'd be ruled by decent-ish Muslims and live as a sort-of second class citizen if you were a Christian/Jew, but you'd have a pretty decent and stable life compared to most religious minorities in medieval europe.
>>353806
This. Also, it's the last time Iberians were clean and smelled nice.
>Christianity destroyed for us the whole harvest of ancient civilization, and later it also destroyed for us the whole harvest of Mohammedan civilization. The wonderful culture of the Moors in Spain, which was fundamentally nearer to us and appealed more to our senses and tastes than that of Rome and Greece, was trampled down ( I do not say by what sort of feet ) Why? Because it had to thank noble and manly instincts for its origin because it said yes to life, even to the rare and refined luxuriousness of Moorish life!
what did he mean by this?
>Caring about what a german "philospher" thinks
>>353773
He projected his fantasies on some unknown "moorish life" that he really knew nothing about.
>>353778
> Nietzsche
> German
This is how I knew you baited
Is he right?
>>353590
>Anonymous 12/04/15(Fri)02:52:22 No.35
yes
Is he even capable of formulating a coherent sentence?
>>353605
Do you seriously not understand what he's saying there? Also, that's his manner of speaking, he doesn't use all those fillers in his wriing.
Australian history general?
What's a good history of Australia?
>>353546
bunch of convicts get dropped off on a island, wage war against the emu overlords, need abos to help, win war, tell abos to fuck off..and here we are
>>353574
/thread
Any of you lads read Manning Clarke?
Picrelated happens and they tell you that you're being conscripted in to the army.
Luckily, you have so many philosophy books in your house that you can easily pass as a pacifist / conscientious objector.
Do you do it?
>>353456
What can they do other than jail me?
No Viet.Cong ever called me a nigger
Yes, because if I philosophically believed in the war I would have enlisted.
I have a better chance of obtaining weed and alcohol in a combat zone than in jail
shit even pizza
Post philosophy keks
I'll start with a classic.
Someone has been real asshurt about Stirner lately.
>being cuked by Avicenna
>christcuks still seriously believe this work is fully christian and a synthesis of pagan and muslim philosophy
>not only was Aquinas cuked, he cuked the whole of Christianity with him
>>354884
*not a synthesis
How come the Basque language is a complete isolate? They're not even indoeuropean.
Nobody gives a shit about the area and mountains are famous for preserving archaic forms of language
There used to be a lot more pre-indo-european languages in Europe but over time they got wiped out, Basque survived, probably due to location. If not for the revival of the language though it would die out soon too.
And it probably will one day, so it's good that we have it all documented.
they are ancient aliens
but more seriously I guess large parts of france and spain spoke languages related to basque before the celtic culture came (and then the roman/latin one)
Was the Achaemenid Empire the best place to live in the world during its peak?
sure if you like being a slave
that's a little difficult to answer.
i think the regions it conquered were certainly better off under its rulership.
the benefits would have been security of a large military.
infrastructure projects like roads and canals.
greater impetus for disparate parts of the empire to adopt standardized weights, measures, currency and language (written and spoken).
postal system.
cosmopolitanism that lead to more rapid spread of ideas.
insurance against famine because food could be more quickly sourced from other parts of the empire.
a centralized government to organize resources to the provinces they were needed most.
the downsides would have been the same for many empires.
subject peoples loose a share of their sovereign rights.
the facilitated mixing of many peoples would have meant some cultures were gradually extinguished and supplanted with more dominant ones.
there were some unique benefits to Persian rule as well. Partly the reason folks didn't mind living in their empire over anyone else's was because that had some decent ideas to share, like requiring that wages for public works project be paid according to one's contributions, maternity leave, reducing slave ownership (although chattel slavery was mostly not practiced in the ancient world as is, at least not officially).
Certain tribes of Persians were able to assimilate lots of folks initially because they came up with some decent ideas on constructing quanats (means to transport water underground so it wouldn't dry in an arid climate, essentially a small underground aqueduct).
>>353346
Obviously. It's model of tolerance and respect of other cultures made it stand out compared to other civilizations before and after.
If there were 2 entities that were conceived at the exact same time who are essentially copies of each other and behave the exact same, like whenever one moves the other does the exact same movement and suffer from the exact same the other does like if it takes a punch they both fall at the exact same time and both bodies have the exact same reaction or if it received an stab the other one would be cut in the exact same place and all that
Could it be considered one single entity existing in two places at the exact same time?
Video kinda related
https://youtu.be/1nHKVOmpnew?t=126
Be honest OP, how high are you right now?
>>353342
>entity
Yeah, there's your metaphysical problem. Sounds like you've imported enlightenment bourgeois ideology as your ontology.
they're not the same entity unless they have a shared common part directly linking both
what you are talking about is not a part. They are connected by an indirect common part instead
however as your condition is hypothetical and thereby potentially erroneous, I'd speculate that if such a condition were so there almost certainly would be a shared connection validating them as an entity
Will the Antichrist impersonate Jesus?
>>353320
THE "ANTICHRIST" IS NOT SUPPOSED TO IMPERSONATE "JESUS", BUT TO CLAIM TO BE "THE MESSIAH", OR SOME KIND OF "SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD".
>>353330
Christ IS the Messiah in Christianity, Christ is just the Greek word for Messiah. That is why I'm asking.
There is no Antichrist.
Youre taking this shit from a fanfiction written in a part of the world where people needed to be told to stop fucking goats and they still do,
What would happen if the British won the Revolutionary war?
>>353046
-Slavery ends 34 years earlier
-America likely divided into smaller dominions
-Mexican Empire still exists
-Russia has more expansion into North America
-Possible independent Native American states
for Americans though, very little, we'd have the exact same freedoms we got.
I don't see any circumstance in which they would have won.
Eventually they were going to lose the colonies even if they destroyed Washington's army and hanged him as a traitor. Someone else would have led the charge a few years later.
>>353076
Not really, If the British destroyed the continental army and the Continental congress, there woudl be no leadership for the Americans and more importantly, no one paying soldiers to fight.
Napoleon was 5'6
Hitler 5'8"
Mussolini was 5'7"
Putin is 5'6"
Lenin and Stalin were 5'5".
Why are manlets such shit throughout history?
>>353045
Napoleon was 5'10
>>353045
Uncle Joe was 5'4"
>>353045
I'm 5'9
Was the inquisition as barbaric as we think it was? Is the reality of the inquisition blown out of proportion?
Not a /pol/ tier thread, if you come here to deny persecution in general, please fuck off.
>>353028
>Is the reality of the inquisition blown out of proportion
Bingo. It's not like anybody cares about or wants any dirty protestants to laud around and shit up the place
>Iron Maiden
>flaying
>babies cut out of mothers
Did this all really happen?
>>353028
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)
Giordano Bruno was a scientist, mathematician, philosopher, ex-Dominican Monk and an astronomer who, like Galileo, did his best to show that, the earth did in fact revolve around the sun and not vice versa, as the Church had erroneously taught its flocks for centuries. Unlike Galileo, he would not recant and was thus burnt at the stake by the Church in 1600.
Giordano Bruno is often considered to be the first martyr for science and free-thought.
