A Christian woman converts to Judaism for personal reasons. If she gives birth post-conversion, are the children considered jewish since jewish-ness is passed matrilineally even though she's not a genetic jew?
>>1186223
Yes, but whether or not other communities or Israel would recognize their Jewishness is another matter altogether.
Jews allow people to convert?
>>1186232
Mary Doria Russell, author of The Sparrow, converted to Judaism
So I started dating this Egyptology student who's studying ancient hieroglyphics through a linguistic perspective. Please fill me with info on the subject so I could impress her.
>>1185582
Watch The Mummy. Everything you need to know right there.
Not OP, but what is the best book about ancient Egypt? Or best books?
>>1185582
You come here, to 4chan, looking for info to impress someone on Ancient Egyptian Linguistics? Is your search engine broken?
Is he the most intelligent person to have ever lived?
>>1184981
Probably actually
no this guy is
>>1184981
>christian
>intelligent
Pick one
Tell me about the ancient middle east /his/.
Who fucked it up, Christianity or Islam?
Neither. It isn't about religion at all. Get your loaded questions out of here.
>>1184514
>It isn't about religion at all
One of these agin. Do it, post results.
>morals are predicated on emotive statements, ergo bad don't real
>implying actions don't have objective effects
>implying there's no empirically observable difference between a greasy degenerate neckbeard and a self-actualized individual in peak physical and mental condition
>implying ethical and moral strictures do not nonetheless clumsily attempt to describe a real phenomenon regardless of their emotive nature
Morality is neither objective or subjective. Prove me wrong.
>>1183652
First, provide your definitions of "objective" and "subjective".
Your second and third lines make immediate sense to me.
The latter clause of your first line, and its rhetorical context, are unclear. Expound. Do you mean that in some sense "bad intentions don't exist", or "the individual is never wrong as far as they're concerned at the time" or something along those lines? It's unclear. I would instead suggest "normative", "ethical" for the former clause, but it's your thing and you wrote it the way you wanted to.
As for your fourth line, a religion, ethics etc will try to explain reality in a narrative fashion (you understand this), and will often try to do so in an authoritative fashion, which we presume is meant to either be or affect objectivity. You conflate emotion with subjectivity, but the thrust of exactly how you do this is not perfectly clear, given the brevity of your post. Furthermore it is unclear how you arrive at your conclusion, given the above information.
>>1183745
Good post
>>1183745
"Goodness" is the organisms beneficence to itself and the system it is beholden to. The greater love is always unconditional, not sentimental or possessive. An organism that is purely itself is the good.
But there's a lot that's meant by that. The point is, act one way, and you grow, act another, and you disintegrate, just because any given state of mind KS subjective doesn't mean we cannot correlate it to degrees of health and pathosychology.
Best reads on Urban Development/Geography?
Wikipedia
>>1183583
http://www.amazon.com/Architecture-Community-Leon-Krier/dp/1597265799
I read Life and Death of the Great American City.
All I got was mixed use zoning and lots of pedestrians.
his I need help writing an essay on the irish potato famine help please
There were potatoes and then there wasnt. The end
In the beginning, Ireland was bullshit.
Then, potatoes were brought back from the New World.
The Irish started growing them, but only grew one strain, because they are more suited to hunting and gathering and all around savages.
That strain got infected with a potato virus, the cause of which was unknown, but many historians believe it was likely created in a laboratory in the Byzantine Empire by Justinian, as an experiment to develop mega potatoes to use in war with Afghani leader Assad Durkalah.
This, would be the first time many Irish people had resorted to cannabalism, but it would not be the last (as they are savages).
This is where sources will diverge - some say that's a potato but it's just an old tomato.
>>1182505
One potato two potato three potato four
Five potato six potato seven potato
no more
Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
Lets talk about the Spanish Civil War.
Why was this war so bloody? Why did other nationalities want to join in?
Why were all these foreign fighters and various incompatible ideologies working together? Why did they care about Spain?
How do we frame this war? What was everyone fighting about? Was it really communism verses fascism, or was it just republicans verses nationalists?
Spain was aided by fascists, but they didn't help Hitler out in WWII. Why not? They could of used the opportunity to take back Gibraltar from the British.
>>1182373
>Spain was aided by fascists, but they didn't help Hitler out in WWII. Why not? They could of used the opportunity to take back Gibraltar from the British.
They were not in position to give but a token help (Division Azul), the country was in ruins.
If they got into the war the coast couldn't be defended, Gibraltar wouldn't have been taken but the allies (with help from republicans) would have easily established a beach head in western Andalucia and advance towards Madrid. It would have been like Italy, but even easier for the allies.
>>1182373
>Why was this war so bloody? Why did other nationalities want to join in?
Spanish Royalty had suppressed liberal reforms during the 19th century. This was their come-uppance. Their conservative class was too rigid to response to 19th century political ideas. Heavy political repression of liberal ideologies left 'violent revolution' as the only option for reforms.
Napoleon forced political instability into the government, creating a weak spain. Spain is in a strategic position along the straights of Gibralter. As the world became more globalized foreigners had a vested interest in puppeting Spain. Foreign powers had continued to promote weak political authority in Spain so they could bite away at her colonial possessions. The monarchists and liberals had been fighting back and forth for the good part of the 19th century.
It was a rural verses urban conflict too.
Monarchy had little support in the cosmopolitan city populations.
Long term repressions of liberal reforms with no appeasement gave rise to radical ideologies like communist. Fascism was reactionary. Spain had no room for a centrists political authority. Spain was confiscating lands from the aristocracy in 1933, something which pissed off traditionalists and monarchists.
>>1182373
>How do we frame this war? What was everyone fighting about? Was it really communism verses fascism, or was it just republicans verses nationalists?
After the Napoleonic invasion Spain was divided between liberals and conservatives. The whole XIX century is full of coup d'etats and civil wars between them (i.e. Carlists wars).
The civil war was, in essence, just another iteration of this. The foreign support isn't even something new (Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis)
Also, most people didn't even fight for what they believed. They fought for whoever had the power in their zone, only a few were lucky enough to be able to choose their side with full knowledge of the ideology they were supporting
Was indiscriminate street rape, murder and violence really that common during the Middle Ages and more ancient times?
During warfare, yes.
Otherwise, everyone would operate in fairly tight communities to avoid getting killed.
Things still happened, but I wouldn't really want to be a criminal in medieval Europe.
Seems like bad things are likely to happen.
No.
>>1182211
>I wouldn't really want to be a criminal in medieval Europe.
you could have a pretty good run as a bandit depending on the area
"He was so tall in stature that he overtopped the tallest by nearly one cubit, narrow in the waist and loins, with broad shoulders and a deep chest and powerful arms. And in the whole build of the body he was neither too slender nor overweighted with flesh, but perfectly proportioned and, one might say, built in conformity with the canon of Polycleitus...
His skin all over his body was very white, and in his face the white was tempered with red. His hair was yellowish, but did not hang down to his waist like that of the other barbarians; for the man was not inordinately vain of his hair, but had it cut short to the ears. Whether his beard was reddish, or any other colour I cannot say, for the razor had passed over it very closely and left a surface smoother than chalk.. His blue eyes indicated both a high spirit and dignity; and his nose and nostrils breathed in the air freely; his chest corresponded to his nostrils and by his nostrils... the breadth of his chest."
- Anna Komnenos, describing Bohemond of Taranto.
Thoughts?
>>1181539
Guess she liked tall blond guys.
>>1181539
A time when Scandinavians were actually powerful men.
>Billions of women in human history
>None of them would ever talk about you like this
/his/, tell me about the achievements of black, Hispanic, and Asian folks in the 20th Century US.
>>1181264
>Blacks
Peanut butter
>Hispanics
Taco Bell and ethnically cleansing blacks in L.A.
>Asians
Karaoke
>>1181264
The primary achievements of African Americans were throwing out the terrible laws that made them unlikely to be able to do much of relevance.
As such, there isn't much in way of relevance outside of it for them, as they have only have had 50+ years with legal equality, and the slow forces of economics haven't yet equalized the wealth of black and white families even now.
So yeah, if you want African American relevance, they are 9 times out of ten correlated to the civil rights movement somehow. Even Muhammed Ali had to make some political statement about it.
>Black
Soul food, blues, jazz, hip hop, literature.
>Hispanics
WE WUZ RIGHTFUL OWNERS OF CALIFORNIA N SHIET SENPAI
>Asians
Built the railroads and make weird versions of their food for white people to eat.
Why are languages so discrete? Shouldn't they be more of a gradual gradient?
But they're not discrete. They blend together, and a given language varies both in time and space.
>>1180453
there is a gradient when there are similar languages in a large area
see: Chinese languages, Scandinavian languages, German dialects, South Slavic dialects, Arabic dialects, West Slavic dialects, Italian languages, Spanish languages, etc.
but very different languages like Polish and German have a much harder time blending and mixing
>>1180453
There is, in a way. It's just a lot easier to classify languages by what ancestors they came from, much like it's a lot easier to classify your surname by who your parents were instead of by all the random experiences you've had throughout your life that have contributed to your identity.
Thoughts on the big three civilizations of the Pre-Columbian era: the Incas, the Mayans, and the Aztecs? Any good books to read or good documentaries to watch on any of them?
>>1174444
Nice quads
bumping, this is a nice topic
Why didn't they have geometry?
Tito was the best dictator of the 20th century and quite possibly the best leader the Balkans have had for centuries.
Didn't he BTFO Stalin at some point because of a failed assassination?
>>1186449
Yes
Stalin allegedly sent several failed assassins and Tito said "stop or I will only have to send one"
fuck off commie shit
