Why and how was music invited or discovered.
Howcome music is so pleasing to listen to?
What purpose does music have, why do we enjoy listening to music, what advantage does it give us?
I would love to hear your opinion on this.
Thanks :)
>>1412062
it's probably just an extension of the thing every animal does when they're hurt. they move their body repetitively because that does some calming brain chemical shit. pretty similar to getting the same effect from external signals.
>>1412062
Might as well extend that question to art and math while you are at it
>>1412254
Or life
Why do retarded spaghetti atheists and neo pagans believe that Christianity was a Jewish conspiracy to infiltrate Europe, while in reality the Jews tried to suppress Christianity from day 1 and were even gravely offended when the goyim started to adopt "their" God?
>>1411969
because atheists are the real pawns of the jews.
Christianity built the west as God created the Earth.
Jews trying to outplay each other all of the time. It means nothing if one group tried to outjew other, if second one perfectly succeeded.
>>1411969
>>/x/
Are we really sure that Hitler is dead?
Yes. He was alive until a couple of years though. He died of old age somewhere in South America.
>>1411927
are we sure he was ever really alive?
>>1411936
this is the one that separates the true geniuses from the casuals
What are some post-WW2 military blunders?
>>1411794
>one anatov an-2 shot down
>>1411794
Rumsfeld doctrine.
I honestly defy you to give me a war in the last 50 years that destroyed more potential hope than this.
>causes Russia's new democracy to fail completely
>Chechnya ends up as a petty fiefdom where Argentina style disappearances were and are common
>insurgency will never, ever end
>resistance goes from being nationalist to being snackbars, so peace is impossible now
>Chechen snackbars travel around the globe spreading jihad to other countries
>Russia's new police state begins exporting their success to countries like Georgia and Ukraine
Why did the Umayyad Caliphate fall apart?
>>1411783
Overreaching.
Succession issues.
The usual empire crumbling crap
>le imperial overextension meme
It wasn't overextension. The Umayyads just had too many delegates which eventually led to mistrusting them. Delegates from ruling governors to generals, who basically did all the heavy lifting. It was bureaucratic enough to function, but not enough to actually maintain a uniformity of rule (see: different major cities in the empire). Also the family since Muawiyah was led by a lot of lust for power (ironically). By the time of the third fitna, the rulers were obsessed with earthy pleasures and mixed with other factors, let the Abbasids revolt and claim the throne.
Fun fact:
How would medieval street fights go down? Would one knock the other down and keep stomping until a dude died or was there a sense of honour? Did the law get involved at all?
>>1410863
Have you played Assassins Creed II?
Saw the first scene with Ezio?
Yes, like that.
>>1410888
I haven't. Did niggas get stomped out like dayum bitch ain't no cops coming ya'll getting seizures bitch?
bamp
>prayer to Saints is idolatry
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oSaayx70zT0
>heaven
>real
No, the problem is that Protestants think that venerating is innately deifying something and prayer is innately deifying something, because they didn't grow up in ancient or Medieval times when you did these things with *all* your social superiors.
>>1410844
Only GOD makes people saints, by faith in Jesus Christ. No man can make you a saint.
Does anyone else get a strong kitsch vibe when you walk into a Catholic parish? I'm Orthodox, so I'm probably biased, but I was wondering if anyone else feels this way?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjCQFufFSOU
>>1410264
a modern catholic parish or an older style one?
>>1410288
Well obviously not in one that's like a thousand years old
>>1410366
I mean ones build in the 1800's or before tend to be very nice, after that they started caring about costs and modern aesthetics and alot of those churches are ugly
Why did monotheism, the most boring of all paradigms of divinity, have to become dominant? Pagan stories and myths are still appealing to us today, whereas the tales of some hairy-assed hebrew getting chastised by a voice from the sky bore us to tears. Even the Christians brought back the equivalent of local gods in the form of saints, starved as they were the spice of life in their conception of the divine. Why the hell did anyone make the switch in the first place?
Just worship money and power 2bh, more practical, fun, and everyone will admire and respect you.
>>1409601
Monotheism is better at creating a unified, coherent community, and thus at dehumanizing disgusting nonbelievers allowing them to be slaughtered and dominated. Polytheism tends to be more tolerant, and thus does not provide the same urge to conquest
>>1409603
Chaim is that you?
Hello /his/ what books can you recommend me to get into ancient roman history?
pls /his/ im going to a uni library in another city tomorrow so i need to know asap :3
>>1409274
overview
europe by norman davies
he gives a fresh, brief perspective on it
Polybius' Histories and Ab Urbe Condita Libri by Livy
Was the north largely anti-slavery because of moral reasons or because of the uselessness of slaves when compared to factories (That brings up another question, why didn't the north use slaves in their factories)
>>1406989
Read Eric Foner's "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men," since it covers pretty well the ideology of the non-abolitionist majority of northerners who made up the Republican Party. Most of them were mainly interested in preventing the expansion of slavery into the western terrorities because they feared that would undermine their ability to settle in the region themselves and establish family farms and small town communities of the type they were used to in the Midwest and East. They were also concerned with the degradation of labor that they associated with slavery, but the morality and feelings of black slaves themselves were never really taken into consideration. So yes, the political and economic factors associated with slavery and its expansion were bigger concerns for most northerners than moral issues. Which is why most northerners (including Lincoln) were less interested in ending slavery than preventing its spread west. Radical abolitionists were never more than a vocal minority in the North prior to the start of the war.
>>1406989
>why didn't the north use slaves in their factories
They did, the Irish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery
A lot of politicians actually argued wage slavery was worse than the southern variety. In the south slaves were provided with food, clothing, medical care and what we'd now call job security. A wage slave may get paid for his work but if all of his money is spent those necessities, is it all that different?
That argument ignores self-determination, of course.
>>1406989
Also, northern capitalists didn't use slave labor in the factories because 1. they were operating in a non-slave society in the north and 2. hiring free wage labor was cheaper than owning or even leasing slaves for factory work. Less obligation to provide for wage workers and their needs once they leave the factory if you don't own them but instead have a labor contract with "free" individuals. Which is not to say that industrial societies and slavery are incompatible (the south's industries and railroads relied extensively on slave labor, and for construction projects).
George Fitzhugh wrote extensively of the north's "wage slavery" and contrasted it negatively with the chattel slavery systems of the South. A lot of poor workers in the North were sympathetic to this line of argument and hence the working class, particularly the Irish had little sympathy for black slaves, since they viewed slaves as having a better lot in life than they did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fitzhugh#Cannibals_All.21
How do Christians reconcile God's perfection and omnipotence/omniscient with the (supposed) fact that he created both the Universe and humans?
They blame Adam and Eve for sinning and thus cursing the perfect world into being painful and full of death.
>>1414121
I am talking about the Creation.
For what reason could a supposedly perfect, self-contained, almighty and all-knowing being have decided to create the world? It's paradoxical, since a perfect being would want for nothing.
>>1414121
Seems like a mighty big cop-out.
Why make humans with the capacity for sin? Why make the tree of knowledge of good and evil? Why not just make humans be born into heaven in the first place if God loves us so much, why the Rube Goldberb-esq "get into heaven" scheme? Why create Satan if God is omniscient and knew he would fall?
And don't give me the "muh free will" BS, if our choices are eternal suffering or doing gods will, that's not a choice.
Was Allah a god from the pre-Islamic Arabian pantheon?
No, he was the primary deity of the Hebrew pantheon.
Allah is literally the arabic word for god
So unless the pre-islamic arabs had a god called "God" in their pagan pantheon, I doubt it
>>1409887
>So unless the pre-islamic arabs had a god called "God" in their pagan pantheon, I doubt it
Greeks had so - Zeus is actually etymological cognate od Theos. Same with Germanics and Tyr (derived from Tiwaz - god). Or Slavs with Dazbog (literally god-giver).
Happy Bastille Day, /his/. Was the French Revolution a mistake?
>>1412890
yup
>>1412890
It brought Napoléon in the end, so it was all worth it.
t. Frenchman.
short time mistake but we got some enlightenment ideas out of it
Teach me about the Nuristani people /his/. Are they descendants of Alexander's army or are they the descendants of Proto-Indo Europeans who decided to settle in a secluded area in the mountains?
>muh stupid unsubstantiated myth
First of all, they look fucking nothing like Greeks to begin with, neither them nor Kalash.
Second of all, Greeks weren't all that light to begin with compared to middle eastern populations.
Third of all, genetic studies prove they're more or less like their neighbours, albeit with peculiarities that come from isolation for thousands of years. They're local selections for the same traits as in Europe.
Finally, pre-proto-IEan genomes were sequenced and they were all without exception dark haired and dark eyed,and the light pigmentation in northern Europe is a recent post neolithic development. So cut the 'muh blond eyed untermensch aryan' meme shit or go back to pol.
>>1410808
All of the white-ish people of central Asia (Nuristanis, Kalash, Pamiris, etc) are descended partially from the Tocharians, the Indo-European people who inhabited the Tarim basin until they were conquered by the Uyghurs. There is also lesser contribution from Indo-Iranian steppe tribes and Greco-Bactrians.
>>1410817
Bullshit. Large-scale Mutations have happened in many instances. Aussie Abos can be blonde, uncontacted African tribes can have green eyes, and certain Native American tribes had blue eyes when they were first discovered.
