Name them.
UK
>>80340
Serious posts only please.
Literally all of them
Was Manifest Destany justified?
I'm so used to seeing people complain about "muh Indians" and shit, but honestly I think it was good in the long run.
Why does anything need justification?
Historically, people have fabricated excuses to do what they want, and generally people want more land.
Manifest Destiny was as justified as literally any other colonial or imperial action.
>>80222
>justified
nope
>good in the long run
yep
It was a good thing for the US but morally it wasn't justifiable just like any other colonial expansion.
This reality consists of physical reality (space, matter, energy, and the laws of physics) and consciousness. It is clear that there is a link between the two. By simply willing it to happen, we can make our bodies move, interacting with and changing physical reality. If you pick up an object, you are using consciousness to manipulate physical reality. It is also clear that physical reality can affect consciousness. If your body is injured, you consciously experience pain. If you stand near a flame, you consciously experience the sensation of heat. This suggests that one is subjective to the other and therefore its existence arises from the other. Mainstream, contemporary science would have us believe that consciousness arises from physical reality. However, scientists have no evidence for this. All they know is that there is a link between a brain and consciousness. That only proves that there is a link; it provides no indiciation as to which arises from which.
The closest thing to a physical explanation for consciousness we have is neurons. However, neurons control our entire central nervous system, not just our brain, and they are still there when we are unconscious while sleeping. Our brains make our bodies breathe even when we are not thinking about it and even while we sleep. Our brains turn information from photons into visual images. They do a lot of things that we are not consciously responsible for. Neurons are the basis of a body's central nervous system, not of consciousness. The only evidence that a brain or neurons are responsible for consciousness is that there is a link between the two and there is no other physical explanation for consciousness. However, there does not have to be a physical explanation for consciousness if consciousness is not subjective to physical reality.
We already know that consciousness can affect physical reality. We also know that we dream and essentially create our own realities within our minds. There is no reason to doubt that this can be taken to a further level. There is no evidence, philosophical or empirical, that physical reality can create something as complex and perfect as consciousness, but we already know that consciousness can create anything it wants within its own thoughts. This suggests that this physical reality is subjective to consciousness and is essentially a collective dream of all consciousness experiencing it. Consider also how perfect, how complex yet simple, consciousness is. If it was simply neurons, we would be artificial intelligence no different than an advanced computer, not truly conscious. Consider how perfect physical reality is. It cannot have occured by chance. Everything fits together far too well. It has to originate from consciousness. This leads to only one conclusion: Conscious creates physical reality. We do not exist within the Universe; rather, the Universe exists within us.
That realization answers what, to many people, are the biggest and most important two questions that can be asked: What is the purpose of the Universe? What is the purpose of life? The Universe is what consciousness creates for itself as an environment for experience. Life is what consciousness creates for itself as a means for experience.
This realization, however, leaves another, arguably more important question unanswered: What happens when we die? This question relies in large part on whether or not we, as conscious beings, exist forever. To answer these questions, one must consider what reality really is. Of course reality conists of physical reality and consciousness, but physical reality is subjective to consciousness. Objective reality, then, is essentially two things: Consciousness and time. However, time is not really a thing, so it might be more correct to say that objective reality is only consciousness. Time is simply something that passes. It is objective. That leaves consciousness. Each conscious entity is objective and can be seen as a quantum of consciousness.
Time is infinite. Your life is finite. It is only approximately one century out of eternity. One century out of eternity is a finite number out of infinity, or one out of infinity. One out of infinity is infinitesimally small--so small that most mathematicians would say that it is exactly equal to zero. Although that is not technically correct, the difference between a finite number out of infinity and zero is infinitely small. If your existence is finite, if you die when your body dies, then the chance that this moment in time happens to occur during your finite existence out of infinite time is one out of infinity. That is, if your existence is temporary, then the chance that you currently exist is zero. Yet you exist.
It could, of course, be argued that the above argument is invalid because there will always be someone who exists, and out of infinite possibilities, some extremely unlikely or even infinitely unlikely possibility will always exist. This is true. The current state of the Universe, down to every detail, is one out of an incomprehensibly large number of possibilities, yet here the Universe is, in its current state, despite the unliklihood. This moment in time is one out of infinite. However, it is guaranteed that the Universe exists in some state. It is guaranteed that we are currently in a finite moment in infinite time. Although the chance that the Universe exists in its current state is extremely low, and although the chance that we are currently in this exact moment out of infinite time is infinitely small, the current moment and the current state of the Universe were not chosen at random for this thought experiment; rather, they were chosen because we currently exist in this moment in time and the Universe currently exists in its current state.
Why are people constantly hiding the facts that there were alot of black kings in Europe & neglecting the fact that black people ruled Africa succesfully back in the ages?
I wanna believe that this thread was made with good intentions and that it won't get bogged down in /pol/ shit.
Bump for potential.
dis gonna be good
>>80168
lol
Let's talk about the history of SE Asia. It's a topic that is HEAVILY glossed over in most history courses, yet there are centuries of history in the area before the modern era.
Please contribute with interesting information of the region if you're familiar with it, as I'm interested in learning more.
What's there to say other than Hindu/Buddhist kingdoms and Chinese vassalge
>>80078
How did Islam end up spreading there?
>>80117
Indian ocean trade
Pictures of famous people while they were young.
>No modern celebrities. The person must be currently dead.
>Yes, paintings count, too. In fact I encourage it.
Feel free to delete this as a meta thread or whatever, but what are some /his/ approved vidya?
Assassins Creed 1 thru 9
>>79872
Pardox GSG's
M&B
Some Total War games
Does philosophy has any value insofar as it doesn't involve the betterment of the human condition? Would you take any thinker seriously whose work does not at any point tackle the problem of economic misdistribution?
>implying there is economic misdistribution
>>79841
Have you ever sat down and tried epistemology?
>>79856
That would imply that I have a a house, a table, electricity, warmth and food to sustain my bodily functions while I read le Philosophy.
We once were on /tg/. We once were on /k/. Now we have this, to discuss the glorious art of Cold Steel and dickstabing.
recommend me nihilist philosophers please
Nihilist was better than Entombed
>>79737
nitzche was one
>>79840
Wrong. Nietzsche viewed nihilism as an inevitable plague on society that must be fought.
Well?
>>79546
No
No. That's not how justice works. I don't think anyone would blame you if you wanted to, but you aren't obliged to.
>>79546
nope.
Why?
>>79431
Not near a major trading coastline.
The rats traveled faster by boat.
Jews lived there and jews actually washed themselves and didn't throw their shit in the street.
jews tbqh
no seriously poles and jews tend to be more tightly knit communities
What are the best arguments for moral realism?
What are the best arguments for moral relativism?
We're not here to do your homework for you
>>79543
this is the philosophy board you fucking mong
Analytic or continental philosophy?
>>79364
>Analytic
http://www.philpapers.org/archive/sinPG
>>79364
Both. A lot of analytic stuff is autistic though.
>>79515
And all continental stuff is pseudo-intellectual sophistry.
Post ITT if you Stoic.
ayy
>>79297
I'm getting there. What is the key?
I think it's acceptance...
>>79297
What you are reading here is a display of solidarity for my fellow students of virtue. May all who read this message find peace and understanding.
>>79329
Depends on what you're accepting.
