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How did humans discover morality and be able to separate things as good and evil?
Was it religion that made it or was an innate understanding as we evolved?
>>1202293
all morality is based in fear
>>1202293
The latter, how does a bird instinctively know how to build a nest? how come people don't just go full murder suicide all the time?
>>1202293
animals have the instincts it's based on. it's likely very old.
>A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more.
>you have to exist right now and you have no authority or consideration when you "come into existence".
>>1202193
Am I lucky or what?
>It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer.
>>1202193
>In a world where all is unstable, and nought can endure, but is swept onwards at once in the hurrying whirlpool of change; where a man, if he is to keep erect at all, must always be advancing and moving, like an acrobat on a rope — in such a world, happiness in inconceivable. How can it dwell where, as Plato says, continual Becoming and never Being is the sole form of existence?
Atleast I have high res pics of pretty girls and entertainment that lets time take its toll on me unknowingly.
Why was he such a massive faggot?
>>1202082
He wanted to be a woman and there's nothing wrong with that.
>>1202093
/thread
>>1202082
You mean xe
Did the German Government have a cabinet? I've been looking online and I know about the Bundesrat, the Reichstag, and the chancellor, and how they related to the Emperor, but I can't find anything about a cabinet or something like that.
However, I remember a Monty Python sketch where the German government fell off of a Zeppelin into someone's house and he and his wife were attempting to organize the bodies, and had an argument as to wether the minister of colonies was an internal or external minister.
I need answers but not for a few months.
Also, if anyone knew the positions/titles they held, or knows of a list online, that'd be great.
>>1201897
Yes, the German government had a cabinet appointed by the chancellor with the consent of the emperor. They mostly performed their functions like ministers in most countries and followed the orders of the chancellor.
>>1201913
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden_cabinet
Is the final cabinet in its final form. The titles and positions are like you'd expect from most any country.
>>1201930
Thanks man. Do you know what cabinet directly preceded this one?
>rich ass country
>small army
>surrounded by huge powers like britain, france, denmark and power hungry HRE german states
>spawned as a result of a rebellion against the spanish
how the fuck did they survive to this day? if i was any country i'd have tried to annex those faggots. how did the netherlands manage to remain intact trough time? did they ally anyone important? were the countries arround it just too retarded to consider annexing...
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Are you the kind of person who also wonders why Switzerland is independent? Life isn't just about "DUDE LMAO ANNEX ALL STATES UNTIL THERE ARE JUST BIG BLOBS EVERYFUCKINGWHERE DUUUDE"
>>1201880
>le buffer state maymay
Oh look you are retarded.
>>1201871
Other nations would come to their defense, and the Dutch were masters of guerilla war and blowing dykes.
The French tried to but got fucked because everyone else wanted to maintain the balance of power and stop them. Louis XIV was king when they tried.
What the fuck was his problem?
>>1201808
His body is round, but his clothes are pointy. Would you be comfortable in that?
>>1201808
these oriental portraits are so exploitable.
>>1201918
I'm not sure why you think this picture especially deserves the reddit treatment.
Why we did not domesticate bears, apes or big cats? I know lizards are too dumb for it but bears/apes/cats are at least as smart as dogs. We managed to domesticate elephants, but were apes/bears/cats too much for humans to handle? Have been there cases of people trying to do it? in old or modern times
>>1201707
>Implying animals have to be smart to be domesticated
Probably because the social nature of canids can be hijacked to produce friendliness to humans.
>>1201710
>dumb frogposter
What motivated Mussolini after the landings in Italy? Surely, he must have known that everything was going to shit and he wouldn't survive it
>>1201329
Hitler basically forcing him back to Italy.
>>1201329
He was depressed as fuck and only stayed because Germans threatened to murder lots of dagos if he didn't cooperate.
>>1201329
hot Italian bitches
Discuss.
I'm brazilian so i'm biased, but yes, i do believe that he's the father of flight.
No.
No. You'd have to be an idiot to think he was. His first powered heavier than air flight took place several years after the Wright brothers did it at Kittyhawk.
Argentina and Brazil were predicted to become major world powers in the early 20th century, just like Japan and China.
What happened? Why is Brazil unstable and Argentina so poor?
>>1201061
What happened is those kinds of projections prove just how asinine economics is and how it's disgrace to academics.
>>1201061
I see people "predicting" Brazil to become a major power today, kek.
Anyway, retarded economies based on exporting raw material, incompetent rulers and brits and americans meddling is what happened in pretty much all south america.
>>1201077
Most economists don't exactly like the policies that led Argentina and Brazil to their current problems.
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How would the Irish War for Independence have gone differently if the Easter Rising had gone as planned? If the shipment of German guns hadn't been intercepted, if Eoin MacNeill had not told the Irish Volunteers to stand down, if the British hadn't intercepted the radio communications letting them know it was planned...
I guess I'm trying to figure out if the IRB/IV/ICA actually had a plan for what would happen next, or if they intentionally went ahead with a suicidal course of action..
>>1201010
Ireland would probably be in a civil war between the the U.K. backed Ulsters and Ireland.
>>1201560
That seems unlikely. Even if the fledgling Irish republic could hold Dublin, even if they could cause enough trouble in the countryside to draw off British forces, how long could they possibly endure? Once WWI was over they'd have the full force of the British army direct their way, not just mercenaries and token forces sent to quell a restless backwater.
Plus, the rising had almost no widespread public support in the beginning. That only came as the British started cracking down and executing the rising's...
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Easter?
Weekly reminder that they were right
Who? The Anabaptists?
>>1200875
>>1200879
I just listened to Dan Carlin's four hour episode on that.
They took over a city implemented a primitive form of communism, used God as an excuse to bang everyone's wife, and then were horribly tortured and executed.
In terms of "might is right" looks like they were wrong.
In terms of philosophy, well I think they're wrong about that, too, but let's hear your case, OP.
>>1200875
They were literally Jim Jones tier shitheads
Lets talk about the daily life of the burakumin and other sorry fuckers.
Implying they would be anything but niggers if the caste system was not in place. The caste system exists for a reason. In India, for example, the purpose was to separate the Aryan stock from the aboriginals. It must have worked, hundreds of years, but Inidia is very old...
>>1200816
Did mentioning Japans societal issues trigger the weeaboo?
>>1200736
Every society has an underclass. If it isn't defined by race, it will be defined by something else, it's inevitable.
How do we deal with the issue of other minds? What are others? How do others exist? In what way? If they are outside myself, how are we communicating? If I am this body and the world is independent from me, where is my experience of my body and others located? Doesn't it constitute the world, and is not say an object within it? How do I know there's anything other than what I'm presently sensing/perceiving/feeling?
I think I've finally come to an understanding of others and I'm going to present my ideas here. My writing style is kind of questioning,...
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Subject: Solipsism and conceptual schemes
Is the existence of anything outside your direct experience a semantic dispute? Is the existence of other minds a semantic dispute?
To be honest I don't know the answer. To say other minds don't exist, what am I actually referring to? Isn't it just this idea in my own mind I have of 'other minds' and so I'm denying the existence of something which doesn't even really exist in the way I think it does?
Can I even deny the existence of something transcendent from myself? How am I even...
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>>1200627
And if they aren't then what of others? The people you know and interact with, known about through (or constituted by?) your sensory experience. If those people aren't external then they can't somehow 'posses' internal experience of their own - that's the crazy thing about the direct realists position, or really any non-solipsistic position; it's absurd. Perhaps more than absurd solipsism itself. As if the people you see walking around have this undetectable amorphous 'mind experience' that sort of hovers around (?), or within (?) their body. When others walk does their 'internal experience' get carried along for the ride? Where are other people's experiences located? If we say it's within the brain you're left in the absurd position of understanding your own experience of others is actually entirely located within a brain, you and the world around you and the others in it, is an experience and so must be already be located within a brain. Your experience of feeling a head and thinking there's a brain in it, must itself already be located within a (real?) brain.
If I scrap that and accept that the people I interact with are private to me, I could say yes but they indicate the existence of something which truly transcends my experience. That two transcendentally existing minds somehow communicate to each other because their experiences correlate (somehow). I wave my hand at a person over there, with that person being entirely made up of my visual experience, with this all in my mind, but then transcendent to my mind exists another mind which contains the visual experience of a person waving. And because the experiences the two transcendentally existing minds undergo correlate with each other in this way, one is not lost to solipsism entirely.
>>1200628
Or, I could simply accept that the consciousness of things in the world is nothing more than a quality of my own experience. And I understand that things being conscious or not always was nothing more than whether I experience the thing as being conscious. It's a qualitative difference between my experience of a brick wall, and of a human being. A difference in the quality of my experience. And this quality is not something which is part of my visual field or some sensory modality. It's a sort of pre-reflective...
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When you read about the Roman conquests, do you tend to sympathize with the Romans themselves or the peoples who they conquered?
I always feel bad for the Gauls and Carthaginians, but I always find myself rooting for the Romans against the Germans
>>1200485
Neither. X conquered Y. Period.
They did a fuckton of damage to people they conquered. But in a longtime view they pretty much fixed and build things up.
Always the Romans. Pre-Constantine, I mean. After that they can get fucked.
