What are the best books/essays that critique the Enlightenment (e.g. that argue that it 'ruined' western civilisation)? Always seemed like a point of view worth exploring.
True conservatives would love for us to go back to the middle ages.
bumpyoli bumpyoli give me the replyuonis
>>1419809
Bigoted people take something or someone they don't like and blame it for societies misfortunes
What was his fucking problem?
>>1419690
Slavs
>tfw all the anti-nuclear propaganda
>tfw anti-nuclear, pro oil shills everywhere
>>1419713
People will be using poorly run nuclear power plants and weaponized nuclear power as spooks against nuclear power forever.
Just let it happen.
I was talking to a feminist yesterday and I wrote this in response to their messages. They were messaging me because I made a post saying I have sympathy for brock turner. There was a lot of discussion leading up to this, but this is what concluded the conversation basically, nothing has come after this and idk if I'll get a response.
That post makes you look like a depressed teenage nihilist m8.
social media was a mistake
>>1419594
>blogposting this hard
This isn't /pol/, nobody cares or is gonna suck your dick for your online activites
But looking through some old family things my grandmother has, I found this old multi tool. So I really don't know what it is, I've been told Swedish but when I look up old Swedish multi tool no pointers. Can you guys lead me in the right direction even a market value of this piece. I would really like to know how old it is and solve where it came from.
More pics plz. The other side? Top, bottom? Any notable markings?
>>1419586
>So I really don't know what it is,
You've never seen a swiss army knife before?
Swede here. Those three crowns are a national symbol of Sweden so no doubt it's from here. In Sweden a tool like that is called fickkniv.
I have little knowledge about antiques but it looks like something quite common here, so I wouldn't estimate it to be worth anything significant at all I'm afraid.
Blythe Intaglios in the desert of colorado
Nan Madol site
Nan Madol is in a tiny island in the middle of nowhere
>>1419522
The Nuraghi.
There are 8000 on the island and have no apparent purpose, many of them also must have took a really huge effort to be built, given their size and height.
Going through various lectures and works I stumbled upon Kenneth Harl. Eventually I learned he's a pretty great historian skillful at both explaining things well and talking about interesting topics.
Share thoughts on historian Kenneth Harl and his works.
>>1419472
I have many of his lecture series and I love his work. One of his more interesting claims is that he thinks that Constantine's conversion to Christianity was genuine and he bases it off numismatic evidence.
>>1419783
My favorite theory from him, which he himself claims has no evidence and is just an idea, was his theory about the Vikings in Vinland and the Native Americans.
After an initial friendly exchange the Native Americans attacked the Vikings suddenly and became hostile. There's no known reason why but he speculated amusingly that the initial friendly meeting involved trade of milk and dairy goods Vikings had which then the lactose intolerant Natives got sick from and thought had been tricked or poisoned.
He's done some interesting work on Steppe people, Asia Minor, Byzantium, Crusades, Early Christianity, Late Rome and Vikings.
It seems that most leaders will be new.Some weird picks are Isabel,the wife of Charles the V,which may lead Spain or maybe if they go full retard Portugal and Catherine Medici,which is a pretty dumb pick in my opinion.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=570683&page=1
>>1419372
>Scythians, a loose union of different tribes, as a civilization
>Fredrick "How do I swam river?" I
Really now
>>1419509
>>Scythians, a loose union of different tribes, as a civilization
You could say the same thing about the Huns and Mongols yet they were included in the last game
>>1419744
Huns were a pretty shitty choice too. Mongols are kind of an exception, since they started out as barbarians but ended up building a fairly 'civilized' empire with literacy, administration, urbanism, advanced technology, etc, even if it didn't last that long. Plus their impact on history is just too huge to overlook. Scythians and Huns didn't really do any of that.
Scythians had nice art though.
So why didn't an arabian civilisation colonize sub-saharan africa before the europeans? They seemed to have easy access via the red sea.
>why didn't a bunch of tribals living under the heels of Turks and Persians try to conquer a sweltering, disease infested, unknown land a world away for no reason?
They traded and raided for slaves right down the east coast. They had forts and trading posts at places like Zanzibar.
As for why they did not "colonize" like the Europeans.
As they did not have an industrialized society they could not justify the vast investment required to create European style colonial states as they did not require the resources they produced. What they wanted; gold. ivory, slaves etc could be gained by trading.
>>1419367
Zanzibar wasn't Arab, originally Kilwa was founded by a Black Persian prince.
What makes a man?
Does a man live under a roof that he himself did not build?
Does a man eat food that he himself did not hunt?
>>1418862
A Y chromosome.
>>1418862
>What makes a man?
X and Y chromosome
>Does a man live under a roof that he himself did not build?
Some people build their own houses
>Does a man eat food that he himself did not hunt?
That's a stupid question
To be a man one must have honor. Honor and a penis.
Question: Is a military coup ever ethical? Is it even possible to be? As an action, it seems to violate almost every major doctrine of ethics. Under what conditions, assuming if any, is a military coup justified?
Note:
>this post is concerned with the morality of a "military coup", purely as an abstract concept and is not referring to any specific instance of a military coup
>any posters discussing or likening this thread to current events should be redirected to /pol/
>any posts claiming this topic doesn't belong on /his/ should be reported and hidden as they are blatant attempts to derail the thread
>>1418674
When the government is not upholding constitutional responsibilities it is the military's duty to overthrow it.
What were Cesar's last words again?
>>1418747
"Yolo, senpai."
Who are the current peoples residing in Italy, are they the descendants of roman tribes, or are they mainly descended from a mixture of Germanic tribes like the Ostrogoths and Visigoths.
Native populations with some germanic mixed in more in the north I'd imagine with added greek and saracen and norman elements in the south I guess
But despite the language and culture changing over time, I'd say they're still genetically mostly the same people they were since before Roman unification of the peninsula
The funny thing aout the people who ask if Italians are the same people who lived in Italy during the Roman Empire, is that the Roman Empire was the time period in which Italy received the most people from all over the world.
>>1418522
The core is Roman/Italic with some sprinkling of Germanic, Arabic and maybe Celtic blood depending on where you go.
Why are coups in Turkish history so common?
Pic related, 1960 coup
Because maintaining the Kemalist ideal of a secular republic in a country inhabited mainly by illiterates from the Anatolian steppe is very difficult to do otherwise.
Think of the military as a shock collar that activates whenever the dog leaves the lawn.
>>1418468
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state
It's interesting stuff.
>>1418474
May some religion non-specific creator being or force bless the Turkish military.
How come Chinese dynasties never invaded Khmer, Siam, etc? I only know of the Sino-Burmese War. How come the Chinese dynasties only picked on the Vietnamese?
Also, how come the Chinese dynasties never invaded Japan?
>>1418429
There are mountains in the way.
There's water in the way.
But really, they just didn't care. China was rarely interested in expanding (except under the Yuan) and when they were they were usually just dealing with their immediate neighbors like Korea and Vietnam or securing trade routes. They were interested primarily in their own civilization, and when they did get involved in far away places it was generally related to trade in the Silk Road and the Indian Ocean, not in the irrelevant islands of Japan or the Indochinese kingdoms. Japan and Indochina were both great civilizations, but they weren't of any real economic or political importance to the Chinese.
>>1418429
The women of those regions are ugly.
>>1418583
Interesting points. I didn't realize just how mountainous Southeast Asia actually is till looking at a map just now. Looks like there's a mountain range that divides Vietnam from Siam/Cambo to the West, and Laos provides a mountainous border that separates China from Thailand. Holy shit Laos is freaking mountainous
what does /his/ think about the evil god challenge ?
if we are argueing about the existence of a god in general thats not associated with a particular religion one could argue that all the common arguments ( the cosmological argument the fine tuning argument the moral argument etc ) can be equally explained by a totally evil god
the good things in the world could be explained away by stating that good is necessary for some of the worst evils like injustice inequality and jelousy
so if the theist would dismiss this notion of an all evil god would, according to the argument , also have to dismiss the allegedly equal claim of the existence of an all-good god
also general thread about arguments for atheism
>an all-powerful entity of absolute evil created beauty and joy
Nah.
>>1418426
Beauty only exists to contextualize omnipresent ugliness. Joy only exists to make despair feel worse.
>>1418412
If you are an Augustinian then evil is just a privation and lack of good. And goodness= being. Evil is simply the falling short of something from its full potential. An "evil" God makes no sense, because God lacks nothing.
Tell me about the Second Triumvirate. Why did it form, and why Lepidus, Mark Anthony, and Octavian? How did Octavian seize control?
bumporoni bumporoni give me those replyoni's
>>1418288
Read Goldsworthy's bios of Augustus for full details.
Lepidus was pushed aside , and the struggle between the western oriented Octavianus, and the Eastern oriented Marcus Antonius, devolved into another Roman Civil War.
Octavianus and Marcus Agrppa won a decisive victory at Active.
Marcus Antonius and Cleopatra committed suicide.
Octavianus was Master of the World.
watch rome to know
