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he looks like such a badass
is there anybody in history who looks more rad?
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>>1137379
>Unironically committed war crimes
There's no way the south would be on with a Sherman presidency

How come the south never reverted towards guerilla warfare when it became obvious they were gonna lose?
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>>1137507
There's no such thing as war crimes

Turk here
Educate me on the proud Empire of my people.
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The empire that didn't conquer any nation of relevance.
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*click* *click* *hissssss*
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>Look at all the ...nothing... that we conquered!

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Sartre:
>[common sense every modern living person had already considered]
>just like... do whatever feels meaningful to you, lol

Camus:
>yeah what he said, but also life's like so absurd you guys, just gotta face the absurd erry day lmao

Foucault:
>things were different in the past, you know... doesn't me pointing that out make me deep and intellectual?

Aristotle:
>my pants are on fire
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>>1134376
>Aristotle:
>>my pants are on fire

what did he mean by this?
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Ionians
>everything is just this one material thing

Eleatics
>everything is just this one immaterial thing

Pythagoras
>everything is number

Socrates
>what is everything?

>Plato
>everything sensible is unreal and modeled after the intellectual

Aristotle
>everything is made of form and matter; except abstract objects and pure forms
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>>1134376
Harris/Dawkins:
>if a thing is unreal and u cant touch it its not fuckin real and pointless lmao

Nick Land:
>what if tech is kinda like how biology like u know natural selection and get a cosnciousness lol

Nietzsche:
>alpha af m8 gotta do what u like, enjoy the suffering gainz thru pain m8

ITT: 10/10 Anthems/ Military Marches.
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>>1123142
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQhnaMubBWA
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>>1123142
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t53R7L0W4wY
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZDJUTYDiq8

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Give me historical events in which incredibly difficult decisions had to be made, wherein all options sucked ass
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>>1148209
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>>1148209
Napoleon III having to decide between declaring war against Prussia and getting probably his shit pushed in as his army wasn't ready, or at best loosing thousands of men , or letting the Prussian gain hegemony within Germany and Europe as a whole. Both options end up with you being played by Bismarck.

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Why did the late Roman empire have such trouble raising armies when they could raise them seemingly at will during the middle Republican period, when the empire was essentially just Italy?
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Increasing reliance on mercenaries and barbarians.

Aswell as instability, corruption, etc.
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>>1147493
>Catalaunian Fields.jpg
Did they really used this huge Aspis-like shields at the time?
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>>1147518
Yes.

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can this armour be usable in real life ?
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>>1147284
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I think it's too small to fit a real person
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Armor for ants? Maybe in ant warfare.

What are cases of people just suddenly getting it and pretty much blowing everything we knew out of the water.

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>Not only did he make a model to explain diversity in organisms but even correctly predicted that humans and other apes have a close common ancestor
>Correctly predicted the existence of animals alive from looking at surrounding flora
>Even correctly predicted the upwards movement of Sponges
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Now you've done it. There's this one guy who will soon (give it few minutes) post a huge list of youtube links which according to him proves he is right and everyone else is wrong.
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>>1146729

>suddenly getting it

No one really suddenly gets anything, but they definitely do get all the credit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace
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Before anyone start lashing out at OP about Evolution being a fairy tale, please watch this and asnwer some of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63LRfLyR-JU

When I was a kid, I went to private schooling (not the most prestigious one but still a rather good one where some kids had parents with Porsches, but not my family) and my parents were raking in around 200,000 USD before taxes, and not accounting benefits too. I'm not American but we'll just estimate using US currency.

My mother made me learn violin (hated it), I did sports, went on my first plane ride vacation for two weeks when I was about 14, and I live in one of the richest areas of my country, but nowadays my parents only make about 150,000 annually.

I'm in university, as is my older brother, and I'm thinking about becoming a lawyer. I also just spent the last school year abroad as an international exchange student in Europe.

I've always wondered for historical perspective how wealthy my family would've been 210 years back - in the Napoleonic times. Could anyone guesstimate where I'd be in such a society?

I made this thread yesterday and hoped it would continue into today, but I was busy and it timed out.

Also, post your favourite Napoleonic era uniforms.
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>>1146144
Are you autistic
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How do I learn history?

I want to become more knowledgeable of European, middle eastern, American and African history so I have a better understanding of current events and why things are happening now.

Are documentaries and youtube videos enough?
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>>1145700
John Green's Crash Course videos are all you need
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If you want to be "more knowledgeable" then yes, documentaries are enough.

I would not recommend most youtube videos as they will be of wildly varying quality (moreso than documentaries).

Alternatively, try schoolbooks or history books.
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>>1145722
this is good for an overview of world history, it gets a lot of shit on /his/ but it's very accessible and entertaining. He has 10-15 minute videos on a range of topics, starting with the beggining of human history and going up to the present day. If any particular topic he covers catches your imagination you should dig deep in it - read books etc. Bear in mind that Crash Course videos are very short and skim over large time periods of time, but it sounds like you sort of want an overview up to the present to better understand current events today. so CC is good for that. Here is the playlist for crash course world history playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9

Hey, /his/ so I'm finishing up my high school senior paper/final for my humanities class and I'd like to hear some ideas and thoughts from you guys. The topic of my paper is "The Importance of Free Speech & Expression." The last thing I need to write is the counter-argument section. So what are some reasons why some people may oppose free speech today?

tl;dr Why is Free Speech bad?
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>>1145656
Do you seriously expect us to do your homework?
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You have to listen to the stupid shit others think and say
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>>1145656
Free speech is hate speech, holocaust deniers are allowed to brainwash people etc. Go get that A+.

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What is the biggest ruse in history?

I'll start
>Trojan Horse
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The Holocaust.
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Reichstag Fire

>>1145270
>>>/pol/
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>>1145301
>not being able to handle bantz
Pathetic.

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Checkmate, Pascal
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But the Hindus dont even have a concept of the after life.
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>>1145272
>What is reincarnation
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>>1145289
reincarnation is to get purified and unite with..umm...the big omnipresent God behind everything. If you are a good little christian you get karmic brownie point. So, it\s not checkmate.

If it is possible, is it ethical to create an artificial consciousness?
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Only if it is constitutionally incapable of feeling negative emotions. Or maybe if it has a high positive/negative emotion balance.
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No.
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>>1144875
>>1144917
>>1144922

Let me counter - is it ethical to give birth to any consciousness? What distinguishes an AI that mimics a baby and an actual baby?

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Educate me about Hassassins. I know that they existed and that they killed people, but I have no idea how or why.
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>>1144830
Split off from mainstream Shia Islam in order to set up their own little independent state, realised they'd be destroyed by the powerful Islamic empires next to them so turned to assassination of political leaders in order to make themselves seem less viable for conquering.

Eventually killed a bunch of crusaders as well and slipped into Western cultural consciousness. They show up regularly in Renaissance era work, but kinda fell out of style until some writer at Ubisoft, glad he got a job with his useless BA in History, managed to drag them into the light again.
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>>1144844
That explains their existence but why did they stoped existing?
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OP be careful, you might wake up with a dagger under your pillow.

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