I noticed that Lutherans hate way more Catholics than how much Catholic hate Lutherans
why?
(I'm atheist btw)
Success breeds jealousy
Lutherans are just one of the hundreds of irrelevant protestant sects.
I have noticed this too. I think it is because Protestant churches were born as a split of the Catholic church, so an attack against Catholicism is on their Genesis.
Some evangelical Protestant American wacky churches even go as far as to say the Pope is the Antichrist.
Was nationalism what filled the void with the decline of religion?
I think it was the rise of urbanization and growing industrial progress within countries 2bh
>>273326
No. Nationalism was the next step after feudalism and monarchism.
Land belongs to no one > land belongs to agricultural settlers > land belongs to city-states > land belongs to lords and kings > land belongs to a nation
Nationalism was the ride of identity politics.
How are you supposed to overcome nihilism? The more philosophy I read, the more clear it becomes that power is the only thing that matters - power is the only "right". That means that nothing that ever happens can be wrong, because it was powerful enough to occur. Everything morally justifies itself by having occurred. Any other kind of morals is just a lie, an arbitrary way to force emotional investment in the world, and I can't buy into it. I can't fight for any cause, or care for any ideology. I can only watch as others struggle for dominance. I don't even care if European culture is committing suicide or whatever. Whoever wins deserved to win.
>murder is just because it occurs
ok
Going through the nihilism phase I see
>>273316
The hormonal changes you'll experience when you turn 18 should help balance things out.
So, roughly speaking:
Shi'a = Catholic
Sunni = Protestant
Ibadi = Orthodox
?
Why did Islam fall into schism so early, anyway? There's like a ton of sects and each sect has sects on sects. Did Muslims not have an equivalent to Ecumenical Councils?
No.
>>273226
What the fuck are those equivalences even based on.
But well, it fell into schism because Islam was both a religion and a country. A country with an awful (to not say non-existent) succession rules. The schism was politic over who should have been the first caliph, the one supported by the shia was super butthurt because he should've been the first but had to see how three guys ruled before him. His name was Ali Ibadis are from a group that was pro-Ali but became super butthurt when Ali decided to negotiate with his detractors, and killed him. But Ibadis are a moderate current that pretty much did their own thing and the main violent group does not exist anymore.
>Did Muslims not have an equivalent to Ecumenical Councils?
Muslims do not have priests. The mullahs are just "experts". In shia islam there's a hierarchy and in sunni not even that. They're closer to rabbis or even academy doctors than priests in those regards. So they can discuss and shit and there's several schools in sunni islam but no central figure to say what's right and what's wrong.
>>273233
Why not? Who had authority to interpret the Quran and the Hadith? Anyone? Didn't Mohammed realize that could lead to extreme disparate interpretations?
Why did Japan have objectively superior steel and superior swords when compared to Europe?
They didn't.
>>273216
they forged them over hundreds of years over raging manga fires while chanting their war chant, it goes "CRAAAAAAAAAWLING IN MY SKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN...""
>>273219
gif-related proves otherwise kazoku, prepare to have your inferior iron sliced by superior nippon steel edge.
The only reason the Western culture has dominated for the last 200 years is that it's power has ascended greatly since the Industrial Revolution. Things are going to change in this century. Before the Industrial Revolution, Europe was basically a coping and adaptive culture. As you can see, the Greek civilization was not an ORIGINAL civilization like the Chinese civilization. The Greek civilization was heavily influenced by both Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations ( Greek myths and religion had their roots in various Mesopotamian beliefs).. The Greek architecture and medicine were adopted from Egypt and ancient Greeks extensively borrowed from Babylonians ( the ancestors of the present day Arabs) for it's astronomy and mathematics and even it's alphabet was based on the non- European semitic Phoenician alphabet. How about Christianity which was originated among non-European semitic people? As you can see, the Greeks were the biggest copycats in the ancient world. In this ancient time period, there were Confucius, Laozi, Mozi, Zhangzi, Mencius, Sun tsu, etc in China whose thoughts were at least as great as any Greek thinkers. Before you wrote this outdated Eurocentric trash, you should have read SCIENCE AND CIVILIZATION IN CHINA by Joseph Needham which was picked as one of the 100 best English language non-fictions of the 20th century by Random House. I'm going to list some of many Chinese inventions and ideas that backwards Europe copied from China before the Industrial Revolution. China invented compass, rudder, leeboard, centerboard, multi-mast, watertight compartments which Europe didn't use for their ships until the late 18th century. Without all these Chinese inventions, the European voyages of discovery wouldn't have been possible. Also China invented not only paper but also printing including the movable type about 400 years before Gutenberg who had been vey likely influenced by the movable type developments in China and Korea, developed one.
Without these Chinese inventions, the SPREAD of Renaissance would have been extremely difficult. China invented not only gunpowder but also gun, cannon, rocket including multi-stage ones, both land and sea mines, bomb, even hand grenade. All these Chinese military technologies were furiously copied by Europeans. Can you imagine the modern military without these Chinese inventions? Even the European Enlightenment was heavily influenced by many of Chinese thoughts. As a matter of fact, many Enlightenment thinkers such as Montaigne, Leibniz, Voltaire, Quesnay, etc. were enamored with the ancient Chinese idea of mandate of heaven that essentially declared that an UNFIT king should be overthrown. These European scholars thought the mandate of heaven idea was much more enlightening than the rigid and primitive European idea of the divine right of king to rule forever no matter what. This Chinese idea of mandate od heaven greatly influenced the French Revolution. Also these European thinkers had a high opinion of the Chinese bureaucratic system based on meritocracy through civil service examinations, while denouncing the privileges of the European hereditary aristocracy. Even the concept of laissez-faire was borne in the ancient China. Both Taoists and Confucian scholars believed in little or no state intervention in economic activities. From about 2nd century BC on, Chinese dynasties practiced free market economy while only intervening from time to time in iron and salt enterprises and also by and large they kept taxes low. The Chinese idea of laissez-faire greatly influenced the French economist Quesnay who in turn influenced Adam Smith. Also in the 18th century all things Chinese were a rage in Europe. Europeans copied Chinese architecture, interior decoration, tea-drinking, etc. As you can see it was the Europeans copying Chinese, not the other way around.
It's no accident China and India were the two biggest economies in the world from the 1st century to the end of the 18th century. Also China invented blast furnace, coking - coal, so called- Bessemer Steel Process, Siemens' Steel process, drilling techniques for oil and natural gas ( China drilled for natural gas and transferred it through pipelines for heating and lighting starting in the 4th century BC, on the other hand Europe didn't use natural gas until the late 19th century). Without all these Chinese inventions, the Industrial Revolution would have been impossible. These are just some of the ground- breaking Chinese inventions and ideas that backward Europe eagerly copied before the Industrial Revolution. Even science was born in the 11th century in the Islamic civilization with the birth of the EXPERIMENTAL SCIENTIFIC METHOD ( all ancient civilizations were pre-scientific) The backwards Europe again copied the experimental scientific method extensively thus bringing about the Scientific Revolution in Europe. The primitive Europeans copied not only science but also math, architecture, literature, etc from the Islamic civilization in the Middle Ages. As you can see Europe was basically a copying and adaptive culture before the Industrial Revolution. Even though Europe overtook China in science in the 17th century. China was still ahead of Europe in technology until the end of the 18th century because there was disconnect between nascent scientific theories and implementing them for technological developments. Before the Industrial Revolution, almost all the technological improvements were done by craftsmen or technicians not by scientists. Even Ancient China was far ahead of the Greco-Roman civilization in technology. According to Robert Temple, a well-respected scholar of the Oriental Studies, more than half of the inventions that laid foundations for the modern world before the Industrial Revolution came from China.
If China had not declined in the 19th century and had more powerful second industrial revolution ( China's first industrial revolution occurred in the 11th century under Sung dynasty), we might be speaking Mandarin now, instead of English also study Confucius, Laozi, Mozi, Mencius, instead of such overrated ancient Greeks as Socrates, Aristotle, Plato. What we are seeing now is the 200-- year Western domination is coming to an end and the world is going back to the original Asian predominance. The last 200 years of the Western domination was an aberration from the long-running Asian super- achievements.
I'm a freshman in college in the United States and my current goal/plan/ambition is to become a high school history teacher. Is this a terrible idea? Are there any teachers etc. who can give me any insight/advice?
>>272938
self bumping
unfortunately i have no relevant images so have this mediocre shit instead
HS kids are pieces of shit
With your sights aimed so low you'll be sure to succeed :^)
Where were you when Carthage apologists got BTFO?
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2014-01-23-ancient-carthaginians-really-did-sacrifice-their-children
Carthago delenda est
Cato was right
>Carthage sacrificed their children
>Greeks were gay as fuck
>Romans were Greekophile and practiced their own gay love
They were right in sacrificing children, they actually haven't sacrificed ENOUGH children. That's why they lost those fucking wars.
What does /his/ think about LessWrong?
Marginally sane cult of personality centered around the fedora-est fedora that ever tipped
>>272800
This. Also, I'm rather autistically mad at them for misappropriating the term rationalism.
They're willing to ask massive questions that no one else would even think of, but they're unwilling to follow those questions to any kind of logical conclusion. They lack imagination and perspective.
Can we get a general WW1-inter-war-WW2 thread going? Which period do you find most interesting?
And would /his/ recommend good memoirs and books that give you a good feel for the experiences and mentality of WW1 soldiers? Front/theatre is irrelevant but Canadian troops would be a pleasant but not necessary plus.
Picture related
>>272662
I always find WW1 depressing to read about.
WW2 at least has some kind of point - stopping genocidal nazis and japs from world domination and freeing Europe and Asia, but what did WW1 achieve other than millions of lives lost and being the prelude to WW2?
>>272679
??? what sort of reasoning is that?
Was it pointless for the Belgians and French who were defending themselves from aggression? For the British who stood alongside them as their treaty bound allies? For the Serbs who fought against an expansionist power?
Heck, was it pointless for the Germans and Austrians? No, it wasn't, because they believed the time to strike was now if they were to realize their ambitions. How can you possibly call the war pointless.
Of course it wasn't. What sort of post is that, like seriously.
>>272679
If you look at both wars as an attempt to change the status quo the British Empire had put in place since its initial rise to dominance the conflicts make much more sense.
>>272639
The worst meme on /his/
>>272641
>extent of ottomans in europe
>portugal and spain
wat
How were your history teachers back in school, /his/? Were they cool and helped in developing your interest in history or were they complete shit?
I remember mine, he had a wicked sense of humour. He'd always wave his arms around, going completely mental. Especially when someone answered with a stupid answer to his questions. Died from cancer in 2011
I had a few, they were very good, I owe a lot to them.
One of them just died last week :'(((
Mine was a bit weird. He was about 50 and spoke to us as we were 9 year olds. I love how he compared the relationship between France and Germany in the 19th century as two kids in the school yard.
>>272593
Pretty bad, by and large, to be honest.
I learned maybe 95% of my historical knowledge by getting into some wargame, then reading up about the period.
What books have had the greatest impact on the world?
>pic related
>Allying can't into war italian retards
>Allying ching chongs 9,000 km far.
What the fuck was wrong with him?
>>272448
Bad location
As it turns out, when you have insane foreign policy goals, it's difficult to find allies.
Global rule #3.
Is military history a waste of time if you aren't an actual officer or a vidya playing dweeb?
History as a whole is basically a waste of time
>Is history a waste of time if you aren't an actual historian or a high school history teacher?
Is history a waste of time if you have no real influence on anything?
Yet it its.
But then again, everything is a wast of time.
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