How does one leave mount stupid?
>>1257205
>Civil war wasn't about slavery
I cannot believe that some people actually believe this when it was in their constitution.
>>1257205
People who post entirely in greentext, and have prepared infography usually have an agenda, and therefore have no desire to leave mt stupid
>tfw stutter and blush when talking about things I'm not an expert on
How does one discuses topics which they aren't very familiar with without being called out for talking shit? Is it normal to feel this way?
>it's long
>it's cheap
>it can stab
>it can cleave
>it can hook
name a better pre gunpowder era weapon
YOU CAN'T
>>1264623
Id rather have a crossbow and a sword
>>1264662
>crossbow
good choice my fri-
>sword
fucking faggot kill yourself cunt
Why does it exist?
Fix a particularly bad enclave/exclave problem. Also, multicultural experiment, it's like drugs but for nation states.
A prank that got way out of hand.
>>1271103
It is a British attempt to divide Europe and further its own global presence.
We can all agree that there's no such thing as randomness, only inquantifiable fluctuations that follow logical processes that can cause drastically different outcomes under even slightly different conditions (the butterfly effect/chaos theory)
So if there's no such thing as true randomness and only psuedo-randomness, then how would you explain being born as a particular person at a particular time? In other words, why are you you? Why are you here in the 21st century as a (probably) first-worlder with internet access and not some 2nd century peasant? Or even within the same century, why aren't you some poor African child infected with AIDS doomed to die at a young ge without ever seeing the world? If it's the result of a perfect particular brain composition that results in "you" then theoretically reincarnatiom should be possible by having someone at a different point in time have the same exact brain composition as you.
However, this itself creates another question of why "you" are a particular consciousness. Furthermore, this would mean that "you" could be two different people at once, if there was hypothetically a perfect clone of you.
If there is nothing random in the world then there has to be a reason, intentional or not (but nonetheless only psuedorandom) as to why you are who you are, and why I am who I am.
So what could that reason be if not chance, which does not exist? There seems to be no logical explanation for it as far I'm aware.
>>1270456
>So what could that reason be if not chance, which does not exist? There seems to be no logical explanation for it as far I'm aware.
Quite simply put, you are an idiot. You are applying human semantics to the universal order, doesn't work like that. For instance there is literally no chance in this carnation that I be born elsewhere as I was born here. It's more a form of 'destiny' than 'chance'. I mean you said it yourself (Chaos Theory), if you give a universe the exact same 'event's as this universe then I will be born at the exact same relative time and do all the exact same things I did in this life.
They do exist within human perception, which is quantifiable
Without competition, what would be the major spur for innovation?
Suppose you have communism, and you make a car. What's the incentive to ever improve on it and not just keep doing things the same way over and over again? I'm not saying there would be no advancement, there obviously would be because it would interest people, but the incentive would be drastically reduced. The incentive for advancement in the USSR was competing with Western capitalism, after all.
>>1270437
Improving the quality of life for the working class. If the vehicle can be manufactured in a superior manner while still being produced in a manner in accordance with worker's control of the means of production and equitable distribution of said car among the population then you should do it.
>>1270437
A safer and easier to use product. Who wants to kill their customers?
Personal wish to succeed. The existence of personal competition instead of economic competition.
Are we real, /his/?
>>1270424
Define "real."
>>1270431
define define faggot
protip: you can't
>>1270431
As in existing
Why was the Italian military in the years during and preceding WW2 so shit tier?
>>1270421
Ineffective officers and perhaps Italy's industrial capabilities as well.
Are we gonna have this thread everyday
>>1270421
Why have we had this thread like eight times in the past two days?
What intellectualsl and thinkers of the 20th and 21st century will be present in history books centuries from now?
Pic related is my guess
>>1270287
*intellectuals
*sniff*
Me.
>Diogenes was asked why he thought it was that people gave charity to cripples and beggars but not readily to him. “Was it an indication, perhaps, that he should get an honest job?” “No,” said Diogenes, “All men fear that they might become blind, crippled or poor some day, so they give in hopes that others will give. Yet no one ever worries that some day he’ll wake up and find he’s a philosopher.”
Who here is a philosophy major?
Joint in phil and linguistics. Diogenes is more of a character than a historical philosopher. Socrates as well. Not as if that matters or anything, I just find idolatry of him similar to that of a comic book hero.
>>1270088
>>Diogenes was asked why he thought it was that people gave charity to cripples and beggars but not readily to him. “Was it an indication, perhaps, that he should get an honest job?” “No,” said Diogenes,
lol
>>1270111
So you're saying you don't worry that some day you'll wake up and find you're a philosopher because Diogenes is made up?
Post everything you know about the Hercynian Forest and other forests or wildlands from the ancient world. Links, videos, articles, anything is welcome.
Here's one good video about the subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVPUFMwm73Y
I read that once upon a time a squirrel could run from Brittany to Russia without touching the ground, so many trees
>>1269985
Treebeard told me something similar after I escaped from the uruk hai.
>>1269977
what is this forest you speak of?
Yesterday, I took a large dose of LSD with my SO.
After some hours, we took a walk to the nearby park (containing a large ravine, meandering trails, and a lot of foliage--including tall trees and shrubs).
We sat on a slope together, gazing out at the forest...as I began to roll a blunt. I became disinterested in the weed, as the obscene beauty of existence pulled me into it. At this moment I had no thoughts, no sense of self...I learned what 'being' meant. I felt as though the five main senses (hearing, sight, smell, etc) became less important, and that I was able to sense everything together with innumerable 'sense-receptors' not previously tapped into. Rays of sun fell down on me, and I knew peace...to be.
Shortly after, my SO and I sat close to one-another on the slope, and pulled one-another in. We sat and gazed for moments, until an inexplainable moment happened. Not sure how to explain this, but reality seemed to shift...as though the universe had been shaken. He and I looked at one-another, asking (in sync), "Did you feel that?"
ctd...
>>1269828
We began to panic, unsure what was going on. We kept asking aloud, though not really /to/ one-another, "What is happening???!? What is this!?!?!" "...is this it!???? No way..." "Are we...are we dead?" (this one in sync, again).
We ran up the slope to get out of the park and back to 'reality'/life (to our home), but stopped, panic-stricken. We held one-another and said, "I don't know what to do...I can't believe we died at the same time...I can't believe...wait, is the world ours now?!?! THis is what we've always wanted!"
We thought everyone else in the world had disappeared, and that we were free to do anything our minds could think of. This is when things got really weird.
I kept thinking I had to let him go, and that our bodies and the physical world otherwise would soon diminish into...the next lair of existence? Didn't really know...really wanted to find out.
He was in awe at all of the possibilities running through his mind, and eventually he got to thinking he could fly. He refused to answer my questions in anything but jibberish, while laughing at my panicked attitude. Then he decided to jump down the slope.
ctd...
>>1269865
I couldn't believe wtf was happening...I thought at that point he (and everything around me) was just a figment of my imagination...my old 'self' trying to hang onto the memory of what I knew to be existence.
I ran after him, to see if he was hurt, and to figure out if he was real or not.
He said he was 'just fine' when I reached him, and that he didn't expect it to go that way--he was confused that he didn't fly, so he tried it again.
He looked like a rag doll...and I was so fucking scared.
He ended up with a few bumps on his head, and his whole self covered in dusty dirt.
I tried to pull him back home to get him showered, though he was being difficult. He kept refusing to answer my questions, and I was still unsure whether or not he was real.
When we got back home, we were both unsure whether or not we were dead--and we both assumed we probably were.
Things got really awkward between us, as we wanted things to go back to the way they had been, but found difficulty in believing they could. It felt as though we had to say goodbye, but neither of us wanted to. We were freaking out.
He kept pulling me into him, and along with him (into the shower, and into bed), but I was unsure still whether he was real or not. He was still refusing to answer my questions, and nothing he was saying was making sense.
>>1269894
I ended up getting dressed and leaving the house, to interact with other people and check to see whether I was really dead.
I went down to the store to buy something (the only way I thought I could get to interacting with others), and along the way I acted a fool...
There was a man standing at a bus stop, staring at his smartphone. (So you know, I hate smartphones, and mindless existence, and have considered doing just what I did many times before.) I thought to myself, "Here's the perfect opportunity to test whether or not I'm dead. I want to smack that phone right out of his hand." So as I walked by him, I attempted to grab his phone. He refused it, and got angry with me (understandably so), to which I responded with, "What?? Smartphones are so stupid! What are you doing with your life?!" Then laughed and kept walking. A couple blocks later, I thought to try eating to see if I could.
I saw a man in a car, attempting to make a left-turn onto a busy street. He was chowing down on a burger he had just picked up from McDonald's drive thru. I thought to myself, "I want to take a bite of that guy's burger, just to see if I can." So I knocked on his window to get his attention, then attempted to open the door. He looked angry and confused (again, understandable), so I motioned to him what my aim was there (I pointed at his burger, then my mouth, then down at the handle, and attempted to open the door once more), to which he responded, "No..." --his jaw dropped, and burger resting on its ledge.
Why does every white American claim to be part Cherokee? Were the Cherokee total sluts or was it fashionable at some point to be part Indian? And why does the meme continue?
>>1269787
Because they're mixed white mongrels with no specific heritage (though they love to point out how they're 1/4 german 1/8th french etc etc, as if it means anything genetically), so they need to find something unique to cling onto. Most white Americans aren't part native, but when they do a test to find out, and if they are, whats even funnier is the test comes back saying they're part Asian, as thats how it shows up on the more accessible dna testing sites, since natives are an extension of Asians. Then they get pissed at being part asian. Very funny. I used to hang around on DNA forums a lot and saw it happen.
Also occasionally one comes along spouting that the earth is 6000 years old so their dna results make no sense.
>>1269787
At least where I live used to be part of or near Cherokee territory, so it makes sense that it's part of my lineage. It's not always a meme, my great grandmother was full blooded Cherokee, which is relatively recent compared to others who claim it.
>>1269787
They were a relatively large, organized and developed tribe that had a much softer transition to European rule than most others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Civilized_Tribes
At least until gold was discovered on their land...
Why do people say that Africans did not progress because they were isolated? The Japanese were isolated but still developed.
>>1269686
>The Japanese were isolated but still developed.
>being right next to china is isolated.
Japan was within spitting distance of one of the oldest civilizations on earth.
Subsaharan Africa was effectively as isolated from the rest of the world as Australia.
>a literal backwater of iron age animist savages who owe their ENTIRE semi-civilized way of life to the Chinese
>developed
They were in a perfect zone just far away from Asia to keep away invaders but close enough to leech off their culture
Is there an afterlife?
>>1269403
Yes.
Are there mods?
>>1269410
Proofs?
>>1269410
Why would there be life after our physical bodies died? If "souls" were capable of producing any affect on us at all then we would be able to detect them. And we havent. On the other hand, if souls indeed don't affect our bodies or actions in any way then they aren't even "me" to begin with.
Is Rome the most meme empire in history?
no, reminder that Brazil and Mexico were empires
>>1269022
Pretty sure Latin Empire is.
>>1269022
No
