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Could there have been a historical basis for the myth of Heracles?
>>926052
Actually the character of Hercules was adapted from Old testament Christianity specifically Samson. The indeed the earliest manuscript mentioning him only appears in 900AD prior to that Hercules was just a regular but attractive Man however as Christianity spread suddenly out of the need to compete pagans began to copy Samson's exploits and attribute them to Hercules like slaying a lion before outright embellishing them.
Yes.
>>927823
sounds like bullshit
if 1932 Germany and modern day Germany went to war who would win?
>>925912
us
>>925912
Are you retarded by any chance?
Well?
/His/ I have a thought experiment for you.
Consider the experience machine.
It is a simulated reality in which you can expect yourself the have the most fulfilling life conceptually possible. Any dream you could ever have could be realised once you step inside the machine. Your accomplishments inside the machine will still feel real, climbing Mount Everest would be difficult but ultimately you would get to the top.
The machine is self-sufficient and has been constructed so well that it cannot malfunction. Do not consider the pragmatics.
You are offered a place in the experience machine, do you choose to enter?
You will not know that you have entered the machine. It will be impossible for you to tell that what you are experiencing is ultimately a simulation.
Do not worry about friends and family, if you worry about leaving them behind imagine they too will enter the machine. They will not experience your loss.
So, do you take the offer? And why?
Lastly, I'd like you to consider the implications this thought experiment has for ethical theories such as utilitarianism which only consider the ends in their evaluations.
No.
Because when I enjoy things I feel bad.
ye, because anything would be better then what i have now
>>925720
Perhaps the experience machine could simulate you having an the most unenjoyable life?
Well, is there?
4chan is dedicated to being contrarian about everything so probably not.
ancient egypt was black
that he did no wrong
Why did it take so long for the US to abolish Slavery in relation other countries?
>>925144
Because unlike Europe, the U.S didn't industrialize and when it did, only the North did.
>>925144
US was way more reliant on it I think
>>925144
Because other Europeans only used slaves in their colonies, so it wasn't that economically detrimental to outlaw it.
On the other hand a large part of the home American economy relied on slave labor.
Name something more romanticized than the First Crusade
The crucifixion of Jesus?
>>925027
USA independance war
>>925061
This.
This is a question I don't really know where else to put.
But I was wondering, how is it possible to get more counts of murder than people you kill? For example James Holmes killed 12 people but was charged with 24 murders. How did that happen? Also he only injured 70 people but got 140 counts of attempted.
>>924787
"Each death carried two separate murder charges, one for showing premeditation and one for showing extreme indifference to life. Both of the charges carry the death penalty as a possible sentence."
>>924809
why isn't that double jeopardy?
>>924814
Do you even know what double jeaporady is?
you can't unsuma the satsuma. the bullets of the gatling guns gotta be littered with the blood of the shogunate's ashigaru. tokugawa yoshinobu aka "the last of the bakufu" is not the emperor. he's an outdated traditonalist and a samurai puppet. westernization is the only way to kanpofu. TOKYO not KYOTO, ok??
A tozama daimyo and imperialist was teaching a class on Meiji, known Emperor.
”Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Meiji and accept that he is your absolute king chosen by god, even greater and more powerful than the unifiers of Japan!”
At this moment, a brave, loyalist, pro-isolation fudai daimyo who had served several campaigns of submission against the enemies of Japan and understood the necessity of intrigue politics and fully supported all decisions made by the bakufu stood up and held up an ukiyo-e woodblock print of Edo.
”What is this scenery, baka?
The arrogant tozama smirked quite Chinesely and smugly replied
“An immoral cesspool of a city, beset and held ransom by foreign devils, you stupid aho.”
”Wrong. It's been 260 years since it became the capital, and if it were, as you say, beset by foreigners...then it would no longer be the capital of Japanese culture anymore.”
>>924892
The tozama was visibly shaken, and dropped his fan and contraband copy of some faggot-ass Dutch book. He stormed out of the room crying those tozama crocodile tears. The same tears tozama cry for the “Emperor” (who today lives in such luxury that he need not even bother with anything resembling power) when they jealously try to undermine the stability of the Tokugawa bakufu. There is no doubt that at this point our tozama, Shimazu Tadayoshi, wished he had pulled himself up by his topknot and become more than an Imperial yes-man. He wished so much that he had a katana to behead himself from embarrassment, but he himself had traded them for Dutch firearms!
The students applauded and all turned fudai that day and accepted the shogun as their lord and savior. A wolf named “Amaterasu Ookami” flew into the room and perched atop the Tokugawa family crest and shed a tear on the chalk. "Sakura" was sung several times, and Tokugawa Ieyasu himself returned from the dead and brought unity and authority throughout the country.
The tozama lost his tenure and fief and was exiled the next day. He shamefully commited sudoku and was reincarnated as a Korean for all eternity.
What's going on here?
>>924712
Because they massively oversimplify events and don't provide any knowledge that would make an individual capable of debating a topic.
do historians hate wikipedias?
>>924834
doubly so
To what degree do Russian (nationalists) associate their pride in their country with the USSR, especially the communist system of economic organization?
Russia is fucking weird because an international movement that explicitly denounced nationalism and cared only for Russia as much as it cared for every other country on earth has become a point of pride for conservative Russian nationalists.
>>924704
pardon my retardation; what do you mean?
What is the objectively worst ethnic group in the Balkans?
I vote for the Serbs.
>implying they're not all the same
Half will say Serbs, the other half will say Albanians. Since we're on 4chan actually, most will say Albanians.
Awful thread.
>>924587
shiptars
[spoiler]>implying there is any difference[/spoiler]
Did the Ottomans only succeeded in taking Constantinople because of cannons?
no, they just sped up the process
>>924408
No they transported fucking ships on land holy shit impressive
>>924552
No it's not
People other than the ottomans have done it too
If the Nazis didn't go ethnic cleansing mode do you think they could have won WW2?
>if the Nazis weren't Nazis could the Nazis have won
dude like what if lol
no if the nazis didn't go full retard and didn't attack russia they would of won
Im interested in Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, Orphism ect.
Just "mysticism" in general
people say its "satanic"
I guess it has elements of worshiping "lucifer"
In this thread, we commemorate the suffering of those who endured oppressive dictatorships by naming such regimes.
As they say, people who don't remember their history are doomed to repeat it.
I'll start with one brutal regime that's not as known as other dictatorships, Anarchist Catalonia.
great fucking thread
>>924054
Soviet Russia
>>924054
Imperial Britain.
