I was always curious about this.
Education:
http://www.strawpoll.me/10409705
Religious Belief:
http://www.strawpoll.me/10409657
bamp
>>1245828
>Graduate, finished: 2
What did you study? Was it worth the stay?
>>1245828
I don't understand how anglo education works. I know highschool is secondary education. But not what this under, post and graduate mean. And where's the doctorate?
How different would Japan be had Mitsunari Ishida won the Battle Of Sekigahara instead of Tokugawa Ieyasu leading to unification of Japan?
maybe no sakoku, so very very very different
>>1245876
If Hideyoshi was pro-isolation, I think Mitsunari would be as well considering that he was a retainer for Hideyoshi.
>>1245939
I didn't know that Hideyoshi was pro-sakoku
Was he based?
No, he was just retarded.
No he was literally (using the word correctly) retarded and ran his country even further into the ground
There's this awful trend in post-colonial political science trying to present him as some sort of evil machiavellian mastermind, but he wasn't, he was just a retard who never stopped making bad decisions
No, but he may have been retarded
Imagine you are born. You get to live life for 30 minutes, then you die. Basically nothing has been processed in your head, nothing has been experinced, and now it's all over for the rest of time, with no chance of coming back. You will have contibuted nothing but sadness for your parents, which will have rectified their depression by having another baby anyways.
Just a thought.
I'm not too bothered by that
>>1245571
>Basically nothing has been processed in your head
That wouldn't be "me".
>>1245571
Is this about abortion?
I actually can't tell.
Is it true that settling colonization leads to a developed country, whilst exploitative colonization leads to shithole countries?
>>1245488
There seems to be a correlation
>>1245488
Australia refutes the argument
>>1245488
You got the Brazilian flag. Portuguese did settle quite a bit. They even made Brazil a kingdom at one time, the capital of the empire being there when the royal family moved there.
There were also many Portuguese residents in the African colonies, which were forced to return to great damage of the Portuguese economy which just couldn't provide labor for so many people. Portugal remained a country of emigrants.
Do you guys like game theory?
It's worth knowing.
>>1245482
Yep. Want to see stuff involving games, evolutionary algorithms and neural networks together.
Yep
What would be the ethical thing to do in this version of the trolley dilemma?
>>1245026
I guess, you steer towards the building which you know only has 1 dude inside?????
>>1245051
it's not revealed which one has the one person, just that one does.. which goes without saying, which is why no ethicist is impressed with it.
>>1245076
When you picked a building at random, you had a 1/3 chance of choosing the one with 5 persons in it, and 2/3 of choosing one with 1 person in it.
The revelations means you don't know if the building you're running into has 5 people, but you do know at least one of the other buildings has 1 people in it.
Since it's the opposite of the classic Monty Hall problem (you're trying to AVOID the 1/3 outcome, instead of trying to find it) you shouldn't switch tracks, lest you increase your chances of crashing into 5 people.
Why doesnt this board have a wiki with some basic recs?
It would be quite helpful
Seconded.
>>1245015
/lit/ already did that.
>>1245023
Dont ever reply to my with that board in your post again
Let's discuss the concept of hell according to various religions like Buddhism and Islam and Christianity and whoever else.
I'll start with mine, other faiths feel free to put up theirs and discuss.
In Orthodox Christianity, There is Hades (a Greek translation of Sheol) and Gehenna, both are concepts from Judaism. Hades is where everyone generally went before Christ, it's not torment, but it's not paradise. When Christ died, he went to Hades, and freed the righteous. Gehenna, the "lake of fire", is not "separation from God", rather it is the same thing as heaven, which is becoming fully aware of God's grace sustaining you, feeling it very acutely, the strongest feeling you can imagine. If you hate God (imagine relying on someone you hate to support you) or if you are ashamed in his presence, this extremely unpleasant. God is described in these terms in the Bible (Hebrews 12:29--remember, God's grace in Orthodox is God himself, his "energies", which are immanent, as opposed to his essence which is transcendent and beyond all experience and knowledge of any being saved God). This experience, for those who love God and are no longer in shame, is wonderful, they delight in it, this is heaven, and here God's grace is described as light; heaven intersects with the physical, only we can't see it, but for those who have attained it, the light radiates out of them (Moses had to wear a veil because of this), and that is what halos represent.
I don't have any knowledge on this topic. But I always appreciate your posts and insights into theology. Have a bump friendo
>the concept of hell
No, let's discuss the reality of hell. The real pain and the flames burning your skin for eternity after your death.
No one wants it, isn't it? I can even imagine why...
it doesn't exist.
Reading the ego and its own atm... feeling patrician...
>>1244872
I read the first chapter and realized I couldn't make neither heads or tails out of it.
>>1244872
Cool, I'm going to bump your threads with Stirner memes you can post at Christians while calling everything they hold dear a spook.
>>1244901
Sorry anon, not all of us can be free.
How did European explorers communicate with the natives of the various places when they couldn't speak each other's language in the first contacts?
Interpreters, gestures, patience
It must have been terrible to try to explain the political structure of China or Japan as a daimyo or mandarin to those dumb Portuguese moors.
>>1244866
How do you communicate with people who can't understand you?
Now just add a bit about not wanting to murder them, or replace the interaction with murder
Is having children selfish?
>>1244807
yes. and any other answer is just blatantly incorrect by the most basic assumptions of what constitutes selfish.
>>1245057
"My opinion is truth. Any opposition is wrong because I say so."
Regardless of what is correct, people with opinions like yours come off as desperate. Most people will view you as a loser that can't find somebody to reproduce with and thus takes their hate out on others who can.
There is literally nothing wrong with having a child. There are many different reasons people have them.
No, it requires a lot of sacrifice, that's the major reason people don't want kids, because it requires them to put themselves second.
>slavery in Central & South America
"These delicious brown girls are hot as fuck. I'm going to free one of my slaves and marry her."
>slavery in the United States
"These delicious brown girls are hot as fuck. I'm going to cuck my white, devout Christian wife by forcefully raping my slaves."
Why was slavery in the United States more fucked up than other regions of the world?
>>1244782
>Protestants
>Anglos
What do you expect?
>>1244782
Except rapes happened in Central-South america too. How do you think Mestizos were made?
>These delicious brown girls are hot as fuck. I'm going to cuck my white, devout Christian wife by forcefully raping my slaves."
It's about power and strength. They're the slave and he is the master.
>Why was slavery in the United States more fucked up than other regions of the world?
looks like someone never heard of the Arab slave trade.
>These delicious brown girls are hot as fuck. I'm going to free one of my slaves and marry her.
Wouldn't this be rape as well? I mean if the girl refused to have intercourse, then what, did they just leave her be? Really?
And even if they had the choice to remain a slave, you must admit it's kind of coercive to convince someone to have sex with you by offering to give them their freedom if, and only if, they fuck you.
Not saying it wouldn't have been a life that most slave women would've found pretty comfortable and agreeable anyway, of course.
I want to look at the current ongoing discussion over Muslim immigration in Europe on the lenses of history.
Can you think of civilizations where a group of people came in and adapted to that civilization?
Can you think of civilizations where a group of people came in and took over the civilization that adopted them?
I guess what I'm asking is, when a culture adopts another culture, how do things tend to shift? Does the adopted culture slowly transform into a possibly different looking but identical part of the overall culture? Do they coexist while clashing with one another? Does the adopted culture overtake the culture that took it in the first place? Any historical examples of any of these would be of interest to me.
And please don't tell me to go to /pol/, I want actual arguments and discussion, not shouting matches.
Muslim conquests.
/thread
You're treading on murky waters here
>>1244419
Would be nice if you provided more information than that. Even if it was just a wikipedia link to a specific example.
During a debate, how does one respond when an opponent accuses you of looking like this man? Whenever I am accused of being the man in the photograph to the left of this text post, I feel completely disarmed and can't help but concede any argument I may have had.
>>1244367
You cant. Fedora posting is the perfect way of dismateling pseudointelectual bullshit.
you should probably stop being such a giant fucking fedora tipper then
>>1244367
Stop being a faggot.
