Is this the modern Candide? A story about a simple man's meaningless misfortunes and journey through life with many lessons to be taught to the audience.
>>1244344
Nah. Jews milking the last few dollars out of a successful show. At least they didn't ruin the main plot line by adding to it.
>>1244344
>A story about a simple man's meaningless misfortunes and journey through life with many lessons to be taught to the audience.
Is it Anon's biography?
>>1244364
This.
I thought BrBa was a genuinely well-written show with interesting characters.
Better Call Saul is a cash-in.
Whatsisname isn't even that good an actor, and ever time I see him as himself, i.e. in interviews and shit, he just looks awkward and uncomfortable.
Suppose one immortal human from before the Neolithic Revolution was placed in the world alone in the year 5,000,000 B.C., and humans never evolve so he is alone forever. Would he develop all the technologies we have by himself over the millions of years he lives on Earth or would he never even invent farming?
>>1244342
False dichotomy bro. It is perfectly plausible for him to invent agriculture but not say, all of modern technology.
However, given that he's alone and immortal, he's unlikely to invent a lot of modern technology, simply because he has no need for it. What good is the internet to someone who never will meet another intelligence he can communicate with? What point are the larger scales of agriculture to someone who will never need to feed another person? What point is medicine to someone who presumably can't get sick or die?
>>1244346
But with literally all the time in the universe on his hands he'd probably accomplish some incredible things. I'd imagine that he would map out the entire Earth accurately, discover heliocentrism and invent telescopes and determine his place in the universe and know how large the universe really is. I'd also imagine that by the time the Sun grows too large and scorches the Earth he'd already have developed an advanced spacecraft and left. But who knows
>>1244342
What kind of consciousness would an immortal have?
How did he become immortal?
etc.
Why did Germany lose the Battle of Jutland and why was Admiral Jellicoe vilified by the British public despite him winning the battle for them?
>>1244278
Germany "lost" because their fleet was blockaded for the rest of the war... which was the goal of GB. Germany wanted to engage and defeat the British fleet. That didn't happen. Plus they retreated back to base rather than pushing forward.
Jellicoe was the scapegoat because he decided to break off the engagement (not knowing the Germans were retreating) and sail back home. He'd lost more ships and men and England was embarrassed by that fact.
>>1244278
Germany got knocked down and couldn't get back up. Jellicoe was just a convenient scapegoat for failure or anything that is not total success.
What constitutes an argument?
A collection of sentences in which at least one is derived from the others, that one we call conclusion, the rest are premises.
>>1244107
>best ruler
>gets killed by his own men
Which of this man's books are real history and which of them are revisionist bullshit?
I've heard conflicting things about him and his historiography. He's a lone voice of sanity in a field of people trying to demonize Hitler. He's a neo-nazi who tries to hide it behind a mask of scholarliness. He's the first to have figured out about ULTRA cracking the Enigma code, before it was declassified, his books are full of unsubstantiated stuff he just made up to make the allies look bad, etc.
the word "revisionism" doesn't necessarily imply that something is false
>>1244046
his arguments are shit, his bias is entirely out there but he wont admit it, his politics show his leans and his leanings are jacking off on Hitlers grave. there was no 'scholarly' attempts at putting hitler in a different light and there really didn't need to be. he was also a huge dick to the person that called him out on all his shit. 0/10 would not bang.
the JIDF is strong in this thread.
35 when died, already became one of the greats along with Beethoven and Bach. If he lived longer, could he possibly surpass the two?
>>1243868
There's a chance that he could have made Beethoven redundant, i.e. become a Beethoven with an actual gift for melody. Probably not though, but I think he would be equally revered as Bach and Beethoven, were as now I think he tends to be rated slightly less highly as them.
>>1243868
Bach was better in basically every possible way desu.
>>1243914
Robotic uninspired scale patterns are still just robotic uninspired scale patterns even if you pile them on one another.
How should this movie be seen? It goes without saying that it's riddled with historical inaccuracies, but perhaps that's not such a bad thing?
Maybe the story should be seen as more of a representation of the stories that the likes of Herodotus propagated, and less of a representation of what actually happened.
>>1243808
It should be seen as what it is, a cheesy action flick derived from a cheesy action comic that is more concerned with cool kill scenes than anything approaching reality, let alone historicity.
>>1243808
It's based off a comic book
It was never meant to be historically accurate
It's embarrassing. The action is pretty lame upon re-watching and the politics are as shitty as you would expect from Frank Miller. just terrible really.
>>1243832
"The director of 300, Zack Snyder, stated in an MTV interview that "the events are 90 percent accurate. It's just in the visualization that it's crazy.... I've shown this movie to world-class historians who have said it's amazing. They can't believe it's as accurate as it is"
Why the life of a gorilla from a endangered species is more important than of a little kid? What makes our lives have intrisic more value than of a animal?
>>1243803
The kid was black so white people dgaf.
Two opposed views are competing.
First, a gorilla that dies is proportionally a bigger loss than a human, and it might make the complete extinction of the species closer, while there's no such danger for humans.
Second, we have an instinct to keep bad about the death of members of our species, that was strongly reinforced by millennia of anthropocentric morals that says that human lives matter.
Today I visited an exhibition of ancient art in a museum and they had some pictures of Palmyra with a text presenting its history. It said some things about the loss of these ruins (without mentioning how or why they were lost) and ended with a few lines about how much more important were the senseless killings that took place ("especially" the local museum's director's).
In my opinion, it is right for the people who suffer to care about that, and it is right for the people who don't to care about the things that are lost.
>>1243803
Our rationality makes us better than animals
Who invented ladders?
>>1243426
Knowledge of the one true ladder residing in the heavens with God which was passed down to the world of matter through the Demiurge
>>1243426
Nobody. It is very ancient tech,
In the settlement in Catal Huyuk, the town didn't have ANY STREETS at all. Instead, the townsfolk built their houses adjacent to each other which is accessible only via ladder.
There were no streets, they basically walked around everybody's roof. At night, they probably protected the town by everyone stowing away their ladders.
>>1243455
Apparently they hated elderly people.
Lets have a shocking interview thread, post any interesting and shocking interviews.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb13ynu3Iac
Bumping with shit for interest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0BFZiKe4i0
If extended to WWII trials etc., there are a lot of great things to read.
I like what this thread is going for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo0d1zTAFKA
Why is Tibetan Buddhism so cool?
are you a white female college student?
>>1243342
Because you don't know about the schism it stems from or the shaivist foundation of it. Or all the boy rape.
>>1243401
Don't forget destroying the Tibetan state thanks to monastic wars.
>Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law
Do you think the Categorical Imperative can be used as an argument against homosexuality?
Bumperischer threadorativ
The maxim which straight people have sex is the same one fags have sex.
The difference is what they're attracted to.
No, it actually requires homosexuality. If the maxim of "not letting men put their penises inside you" was a universal law, then women wouldn't get pregnant and humanity would be extinct.
>Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?
>Father, father, why have you forsaken me?
What did he mean by this?
>>1243165
>God having a son
Pagan as fuck t.b.h m80
>>1243165
Jesus did not want to die.
>>1243165
He wanted somebody to give Him a beat.
He was starting a sick psalm, number 22.
Hello, /his/. So, I stumbled upon an article written by Zaidan Jassem linking Indo-European languages to Arabic. And the content of his article kind of bothers me because he goes against everything we know of linguistics and the history of languages.
He takes words from English and looks at their etymology. In his abstract, the author explains that, according to him, there's a link between Arabic, French, English, German, Greek and Latin to such an extend that we could say that those are dialects of the same language.
Example:
Braid: via Old English bregdan 'weave, knit, join together; move quickly; vary', Old High German brettan, from Arabic rabaT 'to tie, fold' via reordering and passing /T/ into /d/.
Source Article: https://www.academia.edu/25589342/_2016c_The_Arabic_Origins_of_English_and_Indo-European_Fashion_and_Modeling_Terms_A_Radical_Linguistic_Theory_Approach
Is it just me or is his theory just retarded? I checked his resume, he's been to Cambridge between 1989 and 1991 and Durham, where he got a PhD in Linguistics. The rest of his resume comes from the Arab World (mainly Syria and Saudi Arabia).
What are your thoughts on that?
In my opinion, this is ridiculous. In his article, he looks at 130 words which are, generally, relatively new, and he often uses "reordering" to explain why the words look completely different. Reordering seems to be the perfect way out when things don't go the way he expects them to go...
But, more importantly, there seems to be a problem in methodology. To establish that link, shouldn't he be looking at ancient languages from Europe and compare them with ancient forms of Semitic languages like Arabic and Hebrew?
>>1243032
I saw a post on Whisper, this anonymous phone app that lets you post things to people in your community, and it was talking about how "Malaysian, Arabic, German, and French are all varieties of English".
I'm pretty sure that particular guy was actually somebody trying to make a point on how everyone isn't all that different or some bullshit, but after reading the article I like to imagine that is was actually Jassem soapboxing his theory on a confessional turned hook up app for college students.
>>1243061
Wouldn't surprise me.
This is the kind of pseudo-science that would allow Islam to seem like a good option. I think it's another attempt at tricking people into thinking Arabic is the ultimate language, which it isn't. But I've seen Muslims push that very far. That comes from the claim that the Qur'an is supposedly the eternal and perfect word of God.
>>1243061
Another example of how retarded it can get:
Cat Walk Show consists of (i) Old English
catt , German Katze, from Latin cattus, catta, Byzantine Greek katta, direct from Arabic qiTT(at) 'cat', changing /q & T/ into /k & t/ (Jassem 2013g); (ii) Old English wealcan 'to toss, roll, move round', from Arabic walaq 'walk' where /q/ became /k/ (Jassem 2013n); and (iii) Old English scewaian 'to look at, see', Old Saxon skauwon, Old High German scouwon , from Proto-Germanic root *skau- 'look at', from PIE *skou-, skeue- 'to perceive', from Arabic qasha3 (spoken sha33a) 'to see' via /q & sh/-merger and /3/-loss; or shaaf 'see', turning /f/ into /w/ (Jassem 2012o).
