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From the time I've spent here I've come to understand that many anons don't seem to truly understand a single thing about the topic resulting in many uninformed posts. It is for this reason I have taken it upon myself to start a video series for the purpose of educating wayward anons.
I'm open to any criticism and simply want more quality discussion on this board.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpF5bZMB43E [Embed]
Philosophy = trolling + erudition
>>870958
Your pad is nice, and you seem like a decent guy, but you've got a Nu-male look about you. Grow your hair out or lose the beard, IMO.
Good job otherwise.
It's interesting that just about all of the questions you give as examples of philosophical questions would be considered as analytic, given that the philosophy discussed on this board (and /lit/) is almost always continental.
When did the Middle Ages end in your opinion?
Most people seem to agree on 1500 as an acceptable if arbitrary cut-off point.
But there are differing opinions.
One could argue that the Middle Ages ended with the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire in 1453
Or 1485 at Bosworth, the deciding battle of the War of the Roses, the last dynastic war on British soil
Or with the death of Andreas Palaiologos in 1502, the last pretender to the Byzantine throne
There are even some who would claim 1806, the year the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved, to be the real end of the Middle Ages. It was the end of the HRE, which had been a fixture of the Middle Ages, and it also marked the last time anyone would claim the title of Roman Emperor.
If you look at literature and the arts, it becomes even more complicated. From a British perspective, most British historians would consider the conclusion of the War of the Roses to mark the end of the Middle Ages, yet British society and culture only became more recognisably modern after the Civil War (1642–1651). A writer such as Milton has far more in common with the writers of the Middle Ages than, for example, Alexander Pope, born only a decade after Milton's death. Many argue that it was the act of legally executing a monarch that heralded the modern era of constitutional government and the rule of law in Britain.
Anyway, what are your thoughts? I'm aware that historical cut-off points are arbitrary and pointless in the scheme of things, as history is more complex than a series of distinct periods. But I'm still interested to find out where your personal cut-off point is, if you have one.
>>870829
I'd say 1492 is a good cutoff point.
The events following the discovery of the Americas represented a fundamental shift in European geopolitics.
There were no Middle Ages. It's a stupid term and needs to die.
Sometime in the early 17th century, after the Protestant, military, and mercantile revolutions had run their course.
"The Renaissance" was an Italian intellectual movement contained within the late Middle Ages. The age of exploration and colonialism was immediately post-medieval.
Switch the landmass of Germany and America in ww2 are arrange the surrounding countries to fit around them. America starts ww2 in Germanys place as a part of the axis alliance. Could America in Germanys place have won ww2?
>>870729
Like their history? Do they have the same officer corps as Germany?
>>870729
Wait, I just want to get my head wrapped around this concept: You want to basically cram the United States's industry and population in 1930s-40s Germany and have them lash out on a spree of attacks instead of what Germany actually had?
>>870764
I want the whole U.S Land mass to be where Germany is the the German land mass to be where America in and for all the other countries to form around them. America would still use American supplies and weapons and have their own military. They would just basically want to take over Europe like Hermany did and would have all the allies the Germans had. They would hate Jews as well.
So why exactly does Israel have the most righteous claim to its land?
>>870722
>Jews weren't even the original owners of the land
>Land was owned by Muslims for a much longer period of time than anybody else
muh stars
>>870722
God said they did
God Tier borders. I'll start. Glorious Lotharingia.
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>>870548
>Lotharingia
>good borders
I get the need to have Italy and Aachen in the eldest son's kingdom, but you really could not have chosen a worse way to do this.
>>870567
>dividing your empire amongst your sons
Why not just burn it?
When Europeans started invading the Americas they raped a lot of the natives.
But when India or Africa got colonized there arent as many mentions of rape. I have barely read about any, actually.
What made rape so prevalent in the case of America? Did the people back then find Africans and Indians as ugly as I do? Or were Native American girls too qt to resist?
I know that rape is common amoung all kinds of war. Im just mostly curious about mixed-race rapes between "blacks" and "whites", to put it simple.
>When Europeans started invading the Americas they raped a lot of the natives.
>But when India or Africa got colonized there arent as many mentions of rape.
not sure what the differences were, going to need some more factual sources on rape levels
They did
In west africa colonials had entire harems of local women
You haven't demonstrated that there was even a single rape during the North American colonization m8. Comparing the amount of supposed rapes to other regions being colonized is putting the cart before the horse.
How multicultural was the USSR? Was it disproportionately dominated by Russians, or could people from the provinces rise up the ranks of the Soviet Curia easily?
Obvious examples are Trotsky and Stalin, although both men worked very hard to ingratiate themselves into Russian culture and even changed their names to fit in.
>>870210
they are multicultural but not for multiculturalism
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>>870210
Poor Mio-chan ;_;
Actually, Russians and Russian nationalism were more "oppressed" than everyone else.
Why did the Chinese all get addicted to opium?
Payback for getting the British addicted to tea.
Ever smoked it? It's pretty addictive. Also muh opium wars.
>>869532
Seems like a nice, cheap escape from a life of eternal serfdom.
What would've been different if Leon Trotsky became the leader of the Soviet Union instead of Stalin?
>>869174
Soviets probably would have lost WW2
>>869188
>implying Trotsky wouldn't have conquered germany with a fraction of the losses
>>869187
Well, Trotsky had that Ancient Aliens guy's hair, so at least the monuments would be more comical in hindsight.
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Why National Socialism failed?
Socialism alsways fails.
Because they lost the war
Doesent this get answered every day? It feels like i know more about nazi germany at this point than my own country.
guess the board
>>868629
i don't want to, just tell me
>>868629
This is almost /phil/-tier retardation. /sci/.
>>868738
>almost
and no
>Disavowed all established gods of ancient Egypt
>Made up his own god
>Started a "high tech" monotheistic religion
>Moved the established capital from Thebes to Amarna, a desert shithole
>After his death, his name and likeness was stricken from all temples and monuments
>His son ends up changing his name to avoid association
Most based Pharaoh
Not the best early historical ruler though
He completely fucked everything up, neglected foreign diplomacy, allowed the empire to crumble, and undermined the 18th dynasty (which ended soon after him).
But I fucking love him anyway. He has to be the single most interesting person from the Bronze Age, and the Amarna period's art is top-notch shit.
What do you guys think about Randal Carson and Graham's theories on Ancient civilizations predating Sumeria and Mesopotamia existing and being forgotten due to then ending of the Ice Age and the sinking of the locations of these civilizations?
I think its incredibly naive to think that there arent civilisations that we have lost completely.
Evola believed that a race of "Nordic" people, anciently emanating from Golden Age Arctic Hyperborea, originally semi-immaterial and "soft-boned", had played a crucial founding role in Atlantis and the high cultures both of the East and West. In Evola's eyes, half-remembered, cryptic memories of a "more-than-human race" once existing in a "northern paradise" constitute the patrimony of the traditions of many diverse peoples. In this occult belief, Evola was additionally influenced by Arctic Home in the Vedas by Bal Gangadhar Tilak,...
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How about a single shred of evidence for that? Like, one artefact. We have millions of artefacts of Egyptian or Mesopotamian civilisations, but not a single one of any civilisation that supposedly came before.
Why didn't certain powers like the Ming/Quing Chinese or Ottomans ever attempt either colonization, exploration, proselytizing, or actual trade/exploitation of t he New World?
I've heard much concerning the Chinese and their relative incompetence for sailing, but the Ottomans? They controlled most of the eastern Mediterranean and were allied with the Berbers of North Africa: surely, they could have mounted a small enterprise to the New World once the knowledge of its existence and of the route to take there had been discovered by the Europeans?
Hell,...
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>>868195
Easy.
Why?
Remember that the Brits had to make the Chinese adicct to opium to have something to trade other than silver.
>>868204
That was much later, though. I'm talking about the 15th/16th century when European control of the Americas was barely being consolidated and parts of the place were still un-mapped and unexplored.
>>868195
>They lost all their marketing power. Who needs oriental spices when you have all the gold, silver, chocolate, exotic spices, and soon-to-be culinary delicacies like turkey and potatoes from the Americas
>Ottomans declined due to lack of turkey
How do you interpret mystical experiences? Can it be a source of trans-empirical knowledge?
Schizophrenia.
>>868041
>How do you interpret mystical experiences?
Culturally. Someone with a Christian upbringing will probably have a vision of Mary/Jesus rather than rather than Bhaktic devotion of Vishnu's presence.
>Can it be a source of trans-empirical knowledge?
I personally don't believe so because the nature of these experiences are always highly subjective and almost always tied to that certain religious cultural background in which one has...
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>>868041
Imaginative human brain, altered states, perceptions of senses.
> Can it be a source of trans-empirical knowledge?
It can be a creative inspiration but I don't think there is any truth to it, how could there be?
It's intellectual quicksand in a fog bank.
