Serious question:
Is there anything wrong with this country that can't be directly tied to government meddling and mistakes?
Crime? Government
Poverty? Government
Unemployment? Government
Obesity? Government
Stupidity? Government
Terrorism? Government
National debt? Government
Inflation? Take a wild guess
No. Government intervention is a wildly destructive force.
Is there anything good in this country that can't be directly tied to government meddling?
>>1126059
Name one good thing government has done pham
tell me what exactly is wrong with the ontological argument for the existence of god /his/
It's a pointless word game
>>1125625
It appeals to the head, and the heart is the problem. Unbelief is in the heart, not in the head.
Some would argue that Existence is not necessarily superior to Non-Existence, but they do not do so from the perspective of God.
>>1125641
No it points to God.
Were the Soviets the good guys?
>>1124634
They did a lot of wrongs.
>>1124634
Thats a sweet ad, for sure.
>>1124634
>Revisionists
>Good guys
What historic events give you feels?
The fall of the Byzantine empire desu
>>1085879
> It's a Mexican-American War episode
>>1085879
Crusades
The industrial revolution destroyed beauty and kindness
We had a nice thread before with >>1074490
Just wondering if anyone has anymore stuff to share? Also forgive my doodle I just needed something to start the thread with
>>1104383
I don't have anything to share, but that is breddy good
>>1104455
Thanks, I'm not very good at drawing but I'm practicing. I'd love to try out making some small-time comics or something in the future.
>>1104383
Nice pic! (I can never say no to anything from the high middle ages.)
Also I am still working on requested image from last thread.
ITT: We conclusively decide what is and is not a spook.
Religion
>>1117889
I still haven't gotten myself around to reading chapter 2.
What motivation do you have
>>1117889
Are spooks spooks?
What made Europeans so successful? What caused the shift in importance from the east to the west? Since the 14th century there has been an unprecedented value the West has accumulated that was never matched.
What made others lag so far behind when many thousands of years ago the middle east and Asia were the birthplace of civilization as well as constant innovators in their time? Even then their achievements simply couldn't match what Europeans have done.
Even better, you can argue that this has been happening since the Ancient Romans and Greeks. How was it that the Greeks who were influence by their near east neighbors couldn't do the same back? Is it in the European spirit?
Sorry for the many questions I'm just genuinely wondering why.
they used their racism to exploit and murder the rest of the world, that's why they hold so much white privilege today.
>>1123436
>>1123438
As a forewarning, I want to avoid /pol/ stuff and stormfaggotry. Keep things civil.
Colonialism is to wealth accumulation what methamphetamine is to drugs.
Remember, Europe mattered just about zero between the Roman Empire and the Renaissance. It wasn't until the New World was discovered that old trade routes shifted and Yuros were well situated to become mercantile and later on industrial.
Who was objectively the best US president and why was it Andrew Jackson?
>>1121625
-Lincoln Tier-
Lincoln
-GOD TIER-
Jackson
Roosevelt (I Fight Bears)
Roosevelt (Horny Cripple)
Jefferson
Washington
POWER GAP
-Meh Tier-
Everyone else
-A monkey throwing shit tier-
Carter
The Dubya
Harrison (B.)
-Zimbabwe trier-
Regan
Nixon
Bush junior
ETERNAL GOAT, TRUST BUSTER, CONSERVATIONALIST, INTERVENTIONIST: TR
>POWER GAP
2. Jefferson
3. Jackson
4. Lincoln
5. FDR
6. Washington
7. Polk
8. Adams
9. Truman
10. Wilson
> POWER GAP
11. Kennedy
12. Monroe
13. Madison
14. Lyndon "Big" Johnson
15. John Quincy Adams
16a. Bill "Surplus" Clinton
16b. Bill "Stroke Shaft, Presidential Nutsack" Clinton
16c. Bill "Bomb em" Clinton
17. Van Buren
18. H to the Dub
19. Hoover
20. Coolidge
21. Carter
> POWER GAP
22 - onwards: irrelevant
>POWER GAP
9040. James "I accidentally the union" Buchanan
9041. Andrew "JUST" Johnson
9042. Ronald "we promise, the wealth will trickle down" Reagan
9043. Richard "Edgelord" Nixon
9044. George Dubya Bush
> POWER GAP
9000000044. George "I accidentally the economy" Bush
>POWER GAP
900000000000000000044. George "I accidentally the entire nation" Bush
I am familiar with almost all European countries, I know where their languages come from, cultures, what sorts of people settled there and when. The only country I will never understand is Albania.
Who exactly are the Albanians, where does their language come from, when did they settle these areas?
Now, the official version is that they are the descendants of ancient Illyrians, but this theory just doesn't make any sense to me.
Firstly, 90% of ancient Illyria isn't even in Albania. Albanians are totally different in culture from their neighbors: The only people to fully embrace Islam on the Balkans, which is very odd. Secondly, their language is classed as Indo-European but completely unrelated to every other IE language, it even has similarities with Chechen. And thirdly, the genetics don't match at all, more on that in the next post.
>>1117199
So, this is the map of the Illyrian tribes, it only partially overlaps modern Albania, but it looks more like former Yugoslavia.
>>1117214
And this is the map of the Haplogroup I2, belonging the original Cro Magnon settler of Europe 13,000 - 15,000 years ago. So this Haplogroup predates even IE migration, and must therefore belong to the Illyrians.
However, in Albania it's almost absent. It Kosovo, also an Albanian country, it's even below 1%.
Would satan advocate for atheism?
Would he be that lazy?
>>1109055
Wow, I haven't seen that picture since like 2007
Also I think canonically yes he does
Isn't satan a supernatural entity himself?
Hinduism is practiced by a lot of people, but they are all primarily of South Asian descent. Why didn't Hinduism manage to touch the world the way Buddhism, Islam and Christianity have?
but it did in SE Asia.
>>1105859
Because it was a caste system who forbid you over cows from having a relatively decent nutrition and forced you to bathe in a corpse-ridden river?
>>1105859
It's a cultural religion, not a theological on like the Abrahamic faith.
Would Hitler be seen in a better light by the general public if the Holocaust never happened? Would Fascism be more accepted if the xenophobia was less murderous?
>>1117776
It would be the same.
Yes indeed he would. Because they invaded Poland starting the war first. Also Peral Harbour and other propaganda to make Germany look evil.
Also facism would still seen as bad as the government has too much power leading to people feeling like they have no freedom of choice.
>unironically defending creationism
is this websites defense of religion purely a backlash against fedora posting?
>>1116945
You mean that one fundamentalist that thinks the Roman Catholic Church is pagan?
>>1116958
not really, im talking about the trend that 4chan as a whole has been leaning towards in the last couple years.
its interesting to watch really, the desire for counter culture attitudes is so strong here that it actually warps back around to having a lot of normie values in order to be a counter to its own culture
>>1116965
I'll rather be a religious man than whatever the fuck is going on in the world right now.
What do Atheists and Nihilists have to look forward to? I mean other then worldly goals.
And what keeps you from doing something evil or bad when tempted?(dont go all goody two shoes we all break the law and sin).what is the meaning of life if there is nothing other than what we see?
Not baiting I'm genuinely curious
>>1119270
>Look forward to.
Worldly goals.
>And what keeps you from doing something evil or bad when tempted?
The eternal rule of "Don't be a dick." Which religions simply hijacked.
You don't need to have something to look forward to and life doesn't need to have a meaning.
Evil is relative and there's no universal agreement to what it is.
This thread is a meme. This post is also a meme. Have a day.
you're pretty sad if you can't find these answers yourself
Considering the progression of science, math and technology are arguably the most important things in history how come it is rarely focused on in history classes? How come most history is about politics first and then possibly a bit on philosophy.
Also general history of science thread.
>the most important thing ever is muh science
Oh god just give it a rest you fedoralord
>>1116383
>Doesn't know that political and social change almost always comes after a change in science to allow it
But dank hat meme man.
Presumably because kings and high priests have the resources to get shit written about them.
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