What was being a criminal, gangster, thug, or general bad guy llike before the 18th century?
Were they as flashy as criminals now?
Were gangs all about the loyalty and respect like today?
What was a prison sentence like?
Did criminals tattoo themselves like the Russian mob or Aryan Brotherhood?
Did they form gangs in prison ?
Where? The world is a big fucking place with a lot of different views of crime.
>>1345706
just for starters ancient Rome just to keep it simple.
>>1345715
Have you ever heard of the circus factions in the late Roman/ Byzantine empire?
Basically the circus factions were the different factions who fought in the horse races, named simply by colors. The two big ones were the greens and the blues, but there were other smaller ones (like the yellows). While they started as simple chariot racing teams, they quickly grew to become essentially gangs. People from the blues would specifically cause violence against the greens, and vice versa. Both recruited from the younger male population, and were thought to have used most of the same methods that gangs today use (being part of something, having a brotherhood, etc). The greens and the blues basically ended up becoming incredibly widespread in most major cities, and were the cause of a ton of civil disturbances in the Roman/ Byzantine empire. They quickly took on political stances of their own, and basically evolved into ultra violent gang political parties. As such, they were responsible for quite a few overthrows of emperors, including Maurice, but they are probably most well known for the Nika riots in Byzantium under Justinian where half the city was burned down.
So anyways, theres my input. Its pretty interesting stuff, and if youre looking into the history of gangs, I would start here.
Translation error or anubis cult?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynocephaly#Saint_Christopher
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What is Kosovo and why does NATO care so much about it? Why were Serbs chimping out at Bosnians and Albanians?
>>1344108
>Yugoslavia exists
>Tito dies
>Nationalist circles, especially Serbian, start rising
>Kosovo is considered a symbolic part of Serbia as battle of Kosovo (which Serbs lost) is a very significant event for them
>Except it's full of Albanians now and it's a special autonomous part of Serbia
>Serbs manage to lose almost every single piece of ex-Yugoslavia, some relatively peacefully like FYROM or Slovenia, some with a fucking retarded agreement which fucked Bosnia and Herzegovina up forever and some swiftly by force like Croatia
>Slobodan Milosevic decides that the best course of action would be diverting attention at something else like kicking Albanians out of Kosovo for muh Greater Serbia
That's when NATO came into play
>Americans generally don't care about Yugoslavian wars as they consider EC/EU to be able to solve everything by itself
>Surprise, they can't do shit
>Finally Americans decide to do something, first diplomatically
>Dayton Agreement happens, Bosnia and Herzegovina is fucked up forever
>Croats kick Serbs out on their own
>Finally when Serbs clearly prove they learned nothing and want to genocide Albanians too, NATO bombs the shit out of them
Mind you, all sides in Yugoslavian wars happened to commit war crimes and Albanians are disgusting, but it just so happens that Serbs were the absolute worst of them all.
That's about it, inb4 some asshurt Serb shows up.
>What is Kosovo
Kosovo is Serbia. I say this as someone with Ustase blood. Kebab pls go.
>>1344213
Oh no. Not this meme again.
Anyone read this book yet ? your thought ?
>inclusive institution
>extractive institution.
>>1343417
Kamasutra is better desu.
>>1343417
It's a fun read but like any book that tries to cover such a broad sphere it be nit picked here and there but over all it was enjoyable
Right about many things but kind of naive, no institution is inclusive, just limited by outside forces.
Are we advancing as a society or are we just degrading?
>>1342816
Reject the idea that there is a monolithic society, and that it rests somewhere on a linear scale. If you do this, it will be much harder for people to tell you what to do and how to think. If you are, then you are much freer to actually contribute to your community in a meaningful, productive way.
>>1342824
>then you are much freer to actually contribute to your community in a meaningful, productive way.
What a load of crap.
>>1342828
care to explain?
What are the best books about the Romanovs?
the communist manifesto tells you everything you need to know about them (the ruling class)
>>1343095
Such as?
>>1343093
Implying she's not the best Romanov.
Thinks economies derive from ethics, rather than the reverse. Untenable. Backward. Useless. An apocalyse cult and nothing less.
>anarcho capitalism
feudalism
>anarcho primitivism
stone age
>anarcho syndicalism
hell on earth
Moronic luddite garbage
How do we solve the problem of consiousness /his/?
Also, is it possible that the suggested proximity to a solution is illusory?
Is it possible we, like scientists/philosophers in newton's time, think its all practically done and we just need to fill the gaps while in actuality, there are still many paradigm shifts to come?
Define this "problem of consciousness".
>>1353551
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
>>1353369
>Is it possible we, like scientists/philosophers in newton's time, think its all practically done and we just need to fill the gaps while in actuality, there are still many paradigm shifts to come?
yes
I wonder if they're gonna show Nat Turner kill women and children in this movie.
I'm already seeing posts from black people and others hyping his movie up and calling Nat Turner a hero and a symbol of freedom.
This board used to be good. Nice post. I hope you can articulate and contribute more in your next ones.
Can we be sure he actually did that personally though? Afterall he was a man of God. They will probably show some of the slaves he riled up killing women and children and him trying to stop them.
>>1336500
What?
Was women's suffrage a good idea?
First for no.
One vote for household now!
Archaeologist here. Ask me anything except will I examine your bone.
>>1345480
Have you planted anything fake in the ground for future archaeologist's to find?
How much do you know about ceremonial/decorative flint tools? Would this be something that arose after the specialization of labor?
T. Mayan collection from US library of Congress
>>1345480
Will you examine my penis?
How can Christians be so ignorant as to actually believe that their Christian religion is actually a fulfillment of Judaism?
The New Testament's theology is completely different from the Old Testament of the Hebrews. By reading the NT, one sees the introduction of certain themes that simply aren't found in Judaism, but that are very obviously influenced from Greek mystery rites. The entire concept of a suffering deity, of a deity whose suffering and death 'redeems' the world; the idea of followers mystically sharing in this deity's suffering, the strong emphasis on forgiveness of sins and salvation through belief, and of reaching a pleasant/'good' afterlife by performing proper rites and/or subscribing to a certain deity - these are all undeniably elements borrowed from Greek mystery religions and neo-Platonism! The Orphic rites, the Eleusinian rites, the Attic rites, the cults of Serapis and Dyonisus and Isis. These thematic elements are completely alien to Jewish theology, hence why the Jews themselves rejected (and still do) Christianity; there is no 'continuity' between the New or Old, save whatever convoluted excuses Christians use to attempt to reconcile the two.
Does Yahweh the war god ever give the impression of being a 'suffering deity'? Isn't it odd that the New Testament places undue emphasis on an afterlife, yet the Old Testament made no mention of it, such that the concept of an afterlife did not even develop until well into the Second Temple period? Isn't it strange that Jesus bore none of the attributes or signs that Yahweh himself promised the Jews the Messiah would have?
In essence, to put it in simplest terms - the New Testament is a Greek fanfiction to the Old Testament: it is not 'canon', and attempts to reconcile the two are just too problematic and self-defeating.
>>1344406
All of the prophecies about the coming messiah are about Jesus.
>>1344406
Job was suffering before Greece was founded.
So were millions of other people.
>>1344406
>Isn't it strange that Jesus bore none of the attributes or signs that Yahweh himself promised the Jews the Messiah would have
All of them.
Isaiah 53 is all about Jesus. So is Psalms 22.
Why don't you know any of this, when you clearly have a contrary opinion to the facts?
>In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. [Genesis]
This is pretty logical and reasonable if you really think about it.
God is abstract, and science can't go to the very beginning, because there are events that happened before their idea of "the beggining"
The idea here is that God, created the heavens and earth and the earth is one of many objects in the heavens / cosmos.
God is the origin, whatever originally created everything that is God. That first thing, the first cause.
So even here too.
It would make no difference what religion you are or are not.
The fact is that we are alive and we are real and that our lives were caused by something.
The fact is that there was a creation because everything is created via cause and effect.
Something caused the heavens and the earth and itself, and the heavens and their orbits, the planet we live on and our lives are the effect of SOMETHING.
>>1349540
But who created God?
>>1349692
Whatever did, something created whatever created before that and that before that and something before that
You guys know the drill. Continue where you left off.
Anyone who thinks evolution is real outta be burned at the stake
They are dangerous and could start another mass shooting at any moment
>>1342407
Columbine: never forget.
What are the ten most significant events in the history of mankind?
List them in order of importance.
why are there no replies in my thread?
please respond
>>1342520
I start, you finish
1 According to DNA studies, modern humans left Africa in a single migration, spreading across the planet after just one tribe crossed into today’s Arabia 70,000 years ago
it’s reckoned that every human alive now who is not sub-Saharan African ultimately derives from a single woman.
2 11,000 years ago the planting and selection of cereals, alongside the tethering of some animals. It meant that people stopped being nomadic hunters, and human populations grew, trapping farmers with more mouths to feed.But without it there would have been no villages, towns – no empires.
3 1532AD Pizarro ambushes the Inca emperor Atahualpa,overwhelmed first by Spanish gunpowder and then by microbes. Some 95% of the native population disappeared after Europeans arrived in the Americas.
Francisco Pizarro’s obsession with gold and silver meant he melted down priceless artworks and sent them home as dreary blocks of bullion. The Spanish blew the wealth on church decorations and unsuccessful wars. Meanwhile, Pizarro’s men missed the really valuable object of all – the potato
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