How many people do you think have dyed by someone running headfirst into them with one of these?
Where would you keep the dye?
>>1205740
Obviously at the tip. It would work like a pen.
>>1205712
If I took the picklehaub off, would you dye?
What was the worst odour to have ever been released in the history of man?
Please no fart jokes this is a place of serious academic discourse.
>>1205625
Whoever discovered how to make Jenkem.
>>1205625
I've the great Stink in London in head, but there's probably worst
Probably piles of dead people that were being gathered in cities during summertime that died to the Black Death.
I imagine the smell must have been awful. Cities lacked proper hygiene except for a few rare cases. The summer caused bodies to rot faster and there were simply a lot of dead bodies to gather and bury.
>be the most proliferous writer in the Spanish language
>write over 1500 plays
>rekt traditional theatre with new formula which is still currently used
>be the best writer of all time
>be nation-regarded soldier
>live in the most powerful capital of the most powerful empire during it's historical peak
>make Cervantes your bitch time and TIME again to the point that he avoided public live
>have Góngora and Quevedo, the biggest dicks in Spanish history, respect you
>be absolute womanizer that has several noblemen after your head
>being prayed together with God by everybody
>become cleric for God's sake, still continues being the absolute womanizer
>repeat
Name just one person in history that lived life to such extent as Lope de Fucking Vega.
>>1205464
The Siglo de Oro Absolute Madman.
Creo en Dios en el cielo y en Lope de Vega en la tierra.
>>1205464
Anyone who's not a spic.
what do you think about the singerian stance on abortion ?
i specifically mean the notion that birth is a arbitrary ponit to grant a baby human rights and that we should consider the possibility of "aborting " children even shortly after their birth
If that isn't degeneracy, literal infanticide, then nothing is.
>academic creates edgy version of an existing moral position
>people who are against existing moral position more generally publicize the academic heavily in an effort to conflate a position that nobody believes with a more moderate position that people do believe in
>academic thrives on the publicity and gets dat tenure and dat publicity
>moral guardians get to feel smug
>>1205199
While abortion does make human life worthless and arbitrary to women and the State, I'd argue that once a child is born the State has a vested interest to keep a potential healthy and law abiding citizen alive even if the cunt mother doesn't want it.
>“... the old mechanisms had gone and the old habits of obedience and respect (for the British) had also gone because people had seen them run away (from the Japanese) ... they packed up.
Was seeing the Japanese drive the White man out of Asia the thing that ended colonialism? I guess seeing the white man get BTFO by the Japanese must have hurt colonial prestige really bad.
>>1205194
>it's a /pol/ with dates thread
you said this wouldn't happen, Hiro You've forsaken us!
>>1205194
No. More like Euronigs infrastructure in keeping these colonies bottled held them in Check.
Only a few people liked the Japanese back then. Particularly in Southeast Asia where they are memed as pirates & soulless Human-God-worshipping cunts by Muslims. I think only Indonesia and Vietnam was ever happy because the Dutch and French were truly dicks but they didn't come to like the Japs later on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPLNmuDW7lE
Is he right?
>I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself - we are creatures that should not exist by natural law... We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, that accretion of sensory experience and feelings, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody's nobody... I think the honorable thing for our species to do is to deny our programming. Stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction - one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.
Only if you believe in evolution without a God.
>Stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction
Wouldn't that be pursuing self-awareness to its logical extremity ?
If self-awareness is an illusion that we should deny, shouldn't we go back to our animal programming, fighting and fucking and fleeing death ?
If we are nobody, and do not exist in the past and future, isn't suicide pointless ?
>>1205106
Did you even watch the final scene of the show ?
>Once there was only dark. Now if you ask me... The light's winning.
What caused the Enlightening?
>>1205040
The massive influx of wealth, goods and knowledge into Europe from the rest of the world.
>>1205043
How did money and stuff cause it? And what knowledge are you referring to?
>>1205040
Development of a large french middle class
History of the World
Here is a brief history of the world I wrote down. The idea was to keep it short and only count the main events. I didn't edit this so it's pretty raw. Post your ideas on what should be added or taken out and why.
In 6000 BC or so the first complex civilizations started like the Sumerians and Egyptians. Later the Israelites took over Canaan and made their own country. Later the Chinese started making empires. Then Israel was destroyed by Babylon in about 500 BC. Greek city states became successful in around 400 BC and brought with them a lot of philosophy and history and higher thinking. Socrates was the first famous philosopher. in 300BC. The Buddha was born and taught in India in 400BC. Then Rome came to power in Italy in about 200BC. In 1AD Jesus Christ was born, taught, and died on the cross, and Christianity was started. In 70AD the Temple at Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans. In 400AD Constantine came to power in Rome and made Christianity the state religion of Rome. Then in 431AD Alaric sacked Rome, which marked the end of the western Roman empire. There was still the eastern Roman empire of Byzantium until 1400 when it was destroyed. In the year 500AD Muhammad the Muslim prophet started Islam. From the years 700- 1400 are called the Middle Ages or Dark ages. Europe was ruled by Kings and Nobles. Islamic countries flourished during this time. Then in 1500 the Renaissance started and science became more popular. The printing press was invented. The Protestant Reformation happened. Columbus sailed to the Americas and Spain began conquering the central American civilizations like the Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas. Britain made a huge overseas empire, including in America. Africa was colonized and claimed by Europeans. In the 1600s the Glorious Revolution happened in England, and the political and economic system there became more inclusive. This was the catalyst for the Industrial Revolution of the 1700s and 1800s.
In 1776 the United States of America was started. In 1865 the American Civil War ended and the slaves were freed. Then electricity became widespread before 1900. World War 1 happened, then the Great Depression, then World War 2 in 1945. Israel as a state was created in the middle east. The Bolshevik revolution happened in Russia and it became the communist USSR. The Television became popular in the 1950s. In the 1960s contraception became widespread and the Sexual Revolution started. Rock and Roll rose to widespread popularity in the 60s also. In the 90s the Internet became popular, and in the 2000s it became ubiquitous. In 2001 the Twin Towers were destroyed. In 2008 the market crashed. In 2007 the iPhone was released and smartphones became ubiquitous over the next few years. In 2009 internet memes got mainstream popularity.
Include a bit more asiatic stuff like that confucius happened and islam taking over persia and beyond.
Also ghengis, napoleon and alexander may need a mention.
>>1204978
>From the years 700- 1400 are called the Middle Ages or Dark ages
>In 2009 internet memes got mainstream popularity.
also needs less europe / more ROTW if you want a history of the world
Guys, intellectually I'm all spooked out. I can't stand philosophy because of all the unfalsifiable garbage. Many fields like economics etc are just applied common sense and stamp collecting. I see novels as nothing but entertainment despite pretentious people claiming life / philosophical insights and tonnes of people will consider you a disgusting plebeian if you don't initially read shitloads of boring as fuck canon novels.
I think I am painfully adapting to the idea of the Internet age / information overload by abandoning any pretension that I can be an all rounder or even dilettante in everything. There are ten trillion books called "Introduction to [broad and important field]", even if you only have one of each field.
History is similar to novels. Shitloads of reading along with a shitload pretension thrown on top telling you that you truly cannot no nuthin unless you have an in depth understanding of the Greeks / Romans / Christianity / USA / WW1 / WW2 / financial systems / or shitloads of other topics I can't stand it. And then there's current events. I don't care about climate change, outer space, inequality, China, the EU, applied psychology, the education system, diversity, Russia, South America, refugees, nutrition, mental health, and more. Admitting just one of these would make me an iredeemable idiot, no doubt.
Has anyone else had similar thoughts? The spooks are powerful and must be removed but their removal leaves your mind in a promordial state that is more susceptible to spooks than before.
I think I get what you mean.
My solution is to always be open minded and ready to learn more. It is true that with a good base of sciences, history, life experiences you can extrapolate a lot. I think the key is to never be so convinced you are right about anything that you are closed to new information.
The only way to survive the information age is to be a sea sponge. Let it flow in and out and try to piece things together.
Mate, what are you doing to be happy?
Why is this pasta?
is religion a practical necessity to regulate the apish desires of mankind ?
i mean for example to prevent people from cheating on their partner
Jesus is Lord
>>1204835
I'm Lord
>>1204837
You're satan
Hey /his/ could you help me choose a flag to buy? I've narrowed it down to five flags but I'm not sure which one to get.
>>1204818
The Easton one. The others look ridiculous, especially the Guilford one.
>>1204818
Why the eight stars?
It can be said that Western Culture as a term started with Renaissance. Therefore the center of it was Italy, then Germany became the centre of Western Culture in many aspects, followed by France and England.
But at what point USA took the lead? Europe lost it is dominance definetely with the World War II, but where was the center of Western Culture in early 20th century?
I also would like to dedicate this thread to sub divisions of Western Culture in today. As one part of it became absolute faggotry as it can be seen in pic related, while the other one remained rather more linked with the values of the past.
>>1204770
Western culture started with Athens
>>1204775
Yes. Meanwhile rest of Europe wasn't even referred as Europe as they were seen as vile barbarians. The Western Culture as can be understood as today started with Renaissance. Which had an influence on landmass from Iberia to Scandinavia and Russia.
>>1204770
>But at what point USA took the lead?
After ww2 with the mass propaganda effort against the soviets and the sheer gap in pop culture production caused by language and population advantages. Mass media + largest media market meant that the US could simply outproduce culturally Europe, and we all know that in the culture war quantity >>>>> quality.
Can someone explain to me Nietzsche's idea of eternal recurrence? It sounds metaphysical and even quasi-mystical, but I'm sure Nietzsche had something else in mind besides the literal meaning.
It means if you had to live your life exactly the same way all over again (and again and against and again), would you be happy, or depressed? If you would be happy, then you are affirming your life. If you would be depressed, then you're a wienie.
>>1204729
So it's something like a thought experiment? If so, why bother with recurrence? Why not emphasize the singularity of life since it leads to the same moral result?
>>1204732
Because Nietzsche is concerned with those who would be terrified of living the same life over...forever...more than they are of oblivion.
Often i find that almost all of our behaviour and reasoning has an built in axiom that we inherited or adopted.
Now for a better tomorrow, what axioms should we identify and discard that we still cling to?
What axioms have historically been discarded and let to progress and prosperity??
It's less about discarding axioms and more about social cohesion around those axioms.
An axiom won't work if only half of people agree to implement it while the other half resort to sabotage.
An ideology isn't justified purely by theory or practice alone, it needs the right environment to flourish before it can be adequately evaluated.
I vote to discard the axiom that the universe is deterministic.
So basically, any notion that we are the product of our inheritance or adopted values more than our own free will in the here and now.
This frees us from the subterfuge that our destiny is predetermined by an alignment out of our control (which is akin to astrology), and allows us free expression; fueling our desires to create and innovate, hindered only by the physical restrictions that outline our life; not any presupposition of belief, altheistic or religious (although this is predominantly the former).
"Is there not a certain satisfaction that there are set before us certain limitations in life, so that its conclusion it may appear as a work of art?" - Albert Einstein
>>1205844
*physical limitations
I meant. I misquoted.
If I want to seriously study ancient history and history in general, should I learn any other languages?
>>1204408
Nah
