I know Sun worship has a prominent, long and storied history, but what about Moon worship?
Has it always occupied a subordinate position?
>>1287917
I think Islam considers moon worship to be superior.
>>1287945
How?
The Arab calendar is based on the phases, but all forms of paganism and idolatry are the ultimate sin
>>1287951
>idolatry
sure, that's why they bow to a rock five times a day.
>inb4 dirty protestants
What are some good documentaries about art and history of art?
Roger Scrutons beauty documentary is pretty good
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bHw4MMEnmpc forgot the link
Power of art.
Can be found on Youtube
As can A History of Art in Three Colors. I recommend the blue episode especially.
Hey-a 4chan, It's me, your good buddy Kramer. I haven't been here in years, and I haven't been on this board yet. I think I will get into this board if you can answer me this one little /his/torical curiosity I have: What is the inherently most based medieval, classical or ancient civilization? I simply don't know.
-Cosmo
>>1287532
ah yes, the ol' comedy chevrons
Keep walking Cosmo, this place is full of ceMtJc suʙHumᴀɴ sHJt
Carthage nyugga
What are the essential readings on stoic philosophy?
>>1287374
Letters from a Stoic - Seneca
Enchiridion - Epictetus
Meditations - Marky Marc
>>1287378
Thanks. I'm currently reading Meditations and enjoying it greatly.
While doing some research on stoicism on Wikipedia I happened upon an article on stoic physics which, as a physics student, I found very enthralling. Does anyone know if there are any compiled readings that expound on stoic physics or is it all pretty much scattered through the works of various philosophers?
The article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoic_physics
>Fatalism
Into the trash.
Is there any real chance of Stirner's philosophies making some kind of resurgence culturally?
>>1287362
They, and thoughts like them, will always pervade society whenever a person has doubts if something is real; or contrived.
No.
Literally nobody outside of 4chan talks about Stirner at all. He is by definition a meme.
>>1287371
Do you know what meme status is, anon?
Are Rosicrucians heretics? They believe in Christ and all of their philosophy is built around Christianity and they say they are Christians. How far down does the rabbit hole go?
Bump for interest. Obviously fundamentalist evangelicals say that everything that is not in the bible is satanic, but let's hear. Any other closet Christian esotericists on /his/?
>>1287275
Who are the Rosicrucians?
The Rosicrucians are a community of mystics who study and practice the metaphysical laws governing the universe.
Our studies include:
The Mysteries of Birth and Death
The Illusory Nature of Time and Space
Awakening of the Psychic Consciousness
Human Consciousness and Cosmic Consciousness
Mystical Power of Vowel Sounds and Mantras
The Creative Power of Visualization
Influence of Thoughts on Health
Development of the Intuition
Psychology and Mysticism
Metaphysical Healing
Sacred Architecture
Spiritual Alchemy
I don't see Jesus in there anywhere.
>>1287912
>Our studies
So you claim to be a Rosicrucian. Do you belong to any particular organization such as AMORC?
>The Gothic tribes converted to Christianity sometime between 376 and 390 AD.
>After their sack of Rome, the Visigoths moved on to occupy Spain and southern France. The Spanish Goths formally embraced Catholicism at the Third Council of Toledo in 589.
>>1287237
No. The Germanic peoples were predominantly Arian, while the Roman orthodoxy was Catholic.
So they regarded each other as heretics.
To gain what exactly?
>>1287284
>To gain what exactly?
Signaling virtue.
/his/, tell me about the Black Panthers. I'm having a really hard time finding unbiased sources on them. Were they good for communities and unfairly hassled by the government, or were they crazy ideologues? Also, please no /pol/ or /leftypol/ tier answers.
>>1286879
Bit of both desu
armed propaganda group
At least their violence had a purpose.
Isnt everyone a philosopher at this point?
anything can be a philosopher lad
Nah, most people really just don't want to think about anything. Basic 90-110IQ mongs that is. You can also call them normies
>>1286872
Yep. Philosopher is what an autist calls themselves when they have no other remarkable talents.
There's no point in actual philosophers even publishing anymore since everybody is too self-absorbed for a decent philosophical work to gain traction across a broad readership. This is why Zizek is a famous intellectual today whereas in the 2000s you had Goedel and Quine and so on.
Despite this being one of the most important events to ever happen in human history, why is this blatant misinformation being spread. Everyone knows that the Jedi were Finnish yet this picture labelling them as Hwan is spread everywhere. Also these casualty counts are far too low and a lot of stuff is omitted. Utterly shameful.
Hyperwar never happened, it's a hoax driven by the Finnish Jews to makes us think they wuz kangs.
Only whites have ever been kangz.
>>1287725
DELETE THIS!
What are the worst historical memes, in your opinion?
>muh blacks were 3/5 of a person
No, it was about representation in the House, not keeping the black man down.
> real communism was never tried
>>1287202
real democracies never been practiced either but the ones we have were still good enough
that tells the commies something
>Yasuke, (v弥助) was a black (African, or of African origin) retainer who was in the duke of the Japanese hegemon and warlord Oda Nobunaga between 1581 and 1582.
>>1286363
Might make an interesting biopic.
Who would play him?
>>1286379
Jaden Smith
>look into university history curriculums
>60% courses are about national history of my irrelevant Balkan state
>the rest is minor courses on european history
Why are national programs so terrible? This is why Europe needs to be violently integrated and cured of its national myths.
Any State sponsored university has a unstated interest in keeping the State happy. Be too controversial and they pull funding.
That last panel would work better as a pompei graffiti. Real reason why I posted.
I don't want to live in the same country as Slavs and Swedes, go away.
What are some critiques of Plato's Theory of Forms?
Aristotle's metaphysics.
I like the the theory of forms when it comes to mathematics but the idea that there is a such thing as 'computerness' or 'phoneness' or 'beerness' floating around in the ether does strike me as a bit ridiculous.
>>1286257
if you construe the "ether" as each individual's brain matter then plato was pretty close to the mark, though only for how each individual brain works. for example we have a form of "chair" in our mind that is informed by all past chairs we have interacted with and each new chair is mapped onto. but I don't see how there could possibly be the form of "chair" outside a human cognitive frame of reference
>implying it wasn't holy, Roman, or an empire
>It was holy because it was endorsed by the Pope
>Roman just because it was similar to the Roman empire
>Empire because it had Spanish, German, Italians, etc
Voltaire BTFO
>>1286201
>The unholiest man on earth calling something "holy".
kek
Perhaps it was to be honest.
Charlemange was the first to gain the title of Holy Roman Emperor, because he kicked the muslims out of France and went on a crusade to convert/kill the Saxon's till they accepted Christianity.
For all purposes, the Carolingian Renaissance did seem to be a revival of many Roman traditions after antiquity and he largely did restore Imperial rule in the West.
If you can consider the Roman Catholic Church to be the spiritual and in ways cultural dictate of the Roman Empire, Charlemagne as the dude who reunified the West into a coherent Empire and who did try and revive Roman tradition (ie Carolingian Renaissance) + added legitimacy at having kicked muslims and pagans out,
plus the notion that Catholics were Romans, and him being the new protector and Emperor of these Roman-Catholics (Church being the biggest attempt at Roman continuity)
Holy Roman Emperor seems like a pretty fitting title
>>1286201
Why is that two headed eagle not some kind of monster in DnD?
Why didn't it find its way into mythology, like existing in a fable?
Too cool of a thing to just remain as some old timey symbol for dead empires 2bh
