I know very low little about them, and I was interested in learning more. From what I understand:
>Pharisees: Very strict adherence to the laws of the Torah, and much more legalistic than spiritual about them. Modern-day Orthodox Rabbinic Judaism is descended from the Pharasaic sect.
>Saducees: Deniers of the general resurrection; I know basically nothing else about them, except for the fact that they together with the Pharisees formed the majority of the Sanhedrin at the time of Jesus. They appear to have been wiped out by the Romans after the great revolt.
>Samaritans: Jews who believed that Mt. Moriah was Mt. Gerizim, near Nablus, and not the Temple Mount as the Jews believe. From what I understand they were considered a separate religion from Judaism by Jesus's time. A small Samaritan community remains today in Nablus, however their numbers are increasingly dwindling to the point that they're encouraging intermarriage with Jews in order to escape inbreeding-induced birth defects
>Essenes: An Apocalyptic sect, who lived in cenobitic communities in the wilderness in preparation for the upcoming apocalypse. We know very little about them, and most of what we do comes from the excavations done at Qumran. It appears that they followed strict cenobitic rules of life in their communities, and some of the scrolls suggests that there were priests in the communities too. They appear to have been wiped out during the Great Revolt.
>Karaites: Basically the Protestants of the time, they denied Sacred Tradition and said that the written Torah should be the only rulebook they should follow. Back then they were mostly contained to Mesopotamia, they continue to the present day in small communities
Christians: People who believed that Jesus was the awaited Messiah and the incarnate Son of God. Formally separated from Judaism during the first century. Continue today as, well, Christians.
How accurate is this, /his/?
This is going to be a good thread
>>959480
Samaritans aren't Jews, and karaites didn't exist yet. Some believe sadduccess are the ancestors of karaim since they both deny the oral Torah.
Calling it tradition isn't quite correct, rabbinical Judaism teaches that on mt. Sinai God gave an oral instruction as well as a written one.
>Cogito, ergo sum
Dick memes aside, what did he mean by this? Is it coherent? Is it sound?
>>959473
He actually explains it very well and concisely in his work, why don't you just read it? It's literally just epistemology taken tot he extreme as a thought experiment.
>what did he mean by this?
Fuck off to /v/ you shit.
I exist because i was able to formulate this thought.
Was Overlord and the opening of 2nd front in France really that necessary to end the war?
The war was basically won in the East by 1943 purely by Soviet effort.
>>949153
>I have the luxury of hind sight
true
>>949160
Literally everyone who was not a delusional nazi fanatic knew that Germans were fucked since Stalingrad and even the most optimistic ones lost hope after Kursk.
>“He who innovates something in this matter of ours [i.e. Islam] that is not of it will have it rejected [by Allah]”
As a Muslims this causes confusion and conflict inside me. Does this mean Islam can never change and be reformed, and that we have no hope of modernizing
The entire middle east should convert to ibadi islam so they stop being faggots and killing everyone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibadi
>The spread of Ibadism in Oman essentially represents the triumph of theology over tribal feudalism and conflict
>Ibadis have been referred to as tolerant Puritans or as political quietists because of their preference to solve differences through dignity and reason rather than with confrontation,[3][10] as well as their tolerance for practising Christians and Jews sharing their communities
>>957151
The middle-east should go back to being Christian.
Islam is a satanic Baal-worshipping moon cult.
>>957151
Mm, nice, very nice
Right now, I'm Sunni but mainly just adhere to the Quran
Settle a debate please /his/. Which army would prove victorious, or even hold their own in an even engagement, as in an equal number of men and equally supplied. The army of Henry V in 1415, or the Anglo-Dutch Army under Lord Wellington in 1815.
>We aren't discussing meta topics like logistics or command structure at strategic level.
>A level battlefield, no trees, hills, bogs, nothing, just flat grassy terrain.
>Temperate weather conditions and no rain.
>5000 men, army composition at the discretion of the commander.
>>956386
shitty question
Wellington simply because he has the technological advantage.
>>956402
That's the whole point, pit them against each other and see what happens. It's not like Henry wouldn't get a few licks in. Plus Cav can get through guns or no.
>>956386
>or the Anglo-Dutch Army under Lord Wellington in 1815.
Germano-Dutch would be a more fitting term
Why does east Asia have so many totally unrelated language families while Europe and MENA are for the large part Indo-European and Afro-Asiatic?
>>956091
Also the huge American continent has only like 4 big languages who are all related to each other.
Why so?
>>956091
Asia is larger, in population and geography.
Also, different environments - radically different.
>>956099
Depends on where you go desu, but considering the lack of real countries of the time, it's amazing so many tribes came from one proto-language people.
I wish I could be harassed by a philosopher.
>walking to pick up a snack or something
>some well-spoken old dude just starts calling you out on your overpriced name brand clothes, or your shitty taste in food, or your reaction to some SJW protestors nearby
>get into a discussion with him as you try to defend your viewpoints and explore other viewpoints
>walk away a little ruffled, but thinking about what he said
>realize you now have an expanded worldview and will think a little more deeply about future choices you make
>that old guy just made you wiser
>start purposely stopping by his spot in the coming weeks to discuss and learn more about yourself and the world
>learn more in one month from this thought-wizard than you would from a year of schooling
>adopt his philosophies, consider and modify them how you see logical
>go on a trip to a city in a distant land
>walking to pick up a snack or something
>some well-spoken old dude starts calling you out again
>get into a discussion with him, bringing all your new philosophies to the table
>he cuts into them, introducing his own new philosophies
>merge both styles of philosophy, become even wiser with the best of both worlds
>continue your quest to become a wise man
>several decades alter
>sit on a bench in the market square, pondering existentialism while stroking your beard
>see some oblivious young fag strutting around
>call him out on his shit
Does philosophy have a place in the modern world, or is it simply more beneficial for an individual to live a life of utter functionality without ever asking why?
>>956009
thanks mr socrates
>>956009
>Does philosophy have a place in the modern world
Well... yeah
>or is it simply more beneficial for an individual to live a life of utter functionality without ever asking why?
Most people have been doing that since forever, or are otherwise satisfied by vague, crappy philosophy (see: the whole new age movement). Good philosophers are the exception.
Did people tip philosophers? Or would tossing a few coins cheapen their actions?
>you will never be a scientific thinker during the Islamic golden age
>>946816
Why would anyone want to be a mudslime.
/thread
Why do people overrate Cleopatra as some glamorous woman who could do no wrong and was waited on hand and foot when she was infact ugly as sin, the product and instigator of incest, a mathematician and philosopher, and ultimately a backstabbing murderer? She wasn't even Egyptian.
Pic related
>>955804
Egyptology
Literal worst branch of social sciences, also British (and consequently American) obsession with Egyptology in the 19th-20th centuries.
We wuz Queenz n shee
>>957196
>Literal worst branch of social sciences
Sorry that distinction belongs to cultural anthropology.
ITT: Name 2 of your favourite historic battles.
1.Battle of Ain Jalut
2.Battle of Agincourt
>>946506
Alesia
Cannae/Zama
I can't decide on Cannae or Zama
>>946506
The siege of Troy
The battle between Hippolyta's Amazons and Athens
marathon
Battle of Gaugamela
What would have been a realistic end date for slavery in a victorious CSA? It seems like farm mechanization would have made the institution obsolete fairly quickly after the 1860s.
Also, after British cotton production in India ended the world's sole reliance on the South for it international pressure and trade sanctions would have probably done the institution in before the 1890s or earlier as well.
Also, general Dixieboo thread too, I guess.
>>946308
Actually mechanization caused slavery to entrench itself, as the cotton gin was what made it so profitable.
>>946308
1880 or so, which is probably how long it would take the north to lick it's wounds and attack again.
>>946308
>>946322
>>946332
https://vine.co/v/ij2YmZQdYwn
https://vine.co/v/ijQEhV73Vvn
SOCIALIST REALISM
discuss
What if I want a ferrari when the government is giving away honda civics?
shitty forced 'art' that was comprehensively REKT by Bulgakov.
Next.
Everybody is a fucking asshole.
Wow...
Calm down...
>>944521
A very based man, that Mengzi
>Giving help to the destitute is both unwise and unfair because it takes from the industrious and frugal and rewards the lazy and prodigal
Why were the Legalists so redpilled?
Why exactly did this idea of strong pike walls get abandoned for hundreds and hundreds of years?
The Phalangite phalanx was an incredible formation, especially when it was in it's prime in Alexanders day, with lighter men which meant better mobility, helping nullify the phalanx's great weakness
They were also resistant to missile fire, forming a tight wall of pikes that would make missiles get tangled and fall harmlessly
Combined arms of heavy Phalangites to hold and more mobile Phalanx's to support backed by god tier cavalry was truly a great tactic
So why did everyone just stop using it?
It caused massive issues for Romans, and they only countered it with terrain and poor Macedon leadership
Didn't they see the use in it?
>>943790
Because Roman legions were superior and after the dumb germanic barbarians destroyed the roman military they just never really reinvented it
>>943790
Phalanx working only in perfectly flat terrain would be my guess.
>phalanxes
>resistant to missile fire
I see that western culture is jerking off on Sparta.
But looking at it realistically, Spartans were bunch of uptight barbarians, especially compare to Athens.
They were society of boyfuckers and cousinfuckers where small percentage of population brutally subjugated, enslaved and murdered majority.
What are their achievements of science, philosophy and art?
Even in warfare they werent something exceptional, getting btfo by Corinth.
But hey at least they defeated Athens in peloponnesian war, ensuring end of the golden age for most advanced civilization of the day, and even managed to fuck up hegemony at record speed.
Is there any redeeming quality that Sparta posssed besides muh brave 300 and why is it so glorified today
Spartans lived their philosophy, they didn't write anything because they didn't need to. Hence their "Laconic spirit".
If you understand that, you will get why virtually all of classical Greece from Plato, Thucydides,Xenophon, Aristotle to Plutarch admired them.
>>943124
>"After being invited to dine at a public table, the sophist Hecataeus was criticized for failing to utter a single word during the entire meal. Archidamidas answered in his defense, "He who knows how to speak, knows also when."
Sparta bringing the bants.
Still its shitty philosophy, so greatest spartan achievement were edgy one liners
