Do religious people unironically believe that persons with different beliefs with whome they interact on daily basis are gonna be tortured in hellfire for all eternity?
Or is hell some sort of metaphor?
>>859095
Protestants do so.
One of their more cancerous qualities.
>>859095
It's real to them until you explain how retarded it is, at which point they'll happily exclaim how it was all just a metaphor all along and you're the dumb one for taking it seriously, just like they do with all the other stupid shit in religion.
>>859111
Thank you for your profound theological analysis.
Are older generations too harsh on millennials? The common trope is that millennials are entitled and have unrealistic expectations for their own success, even when they grew up in a very different, and much less smooth sailing socioeconomic world than that of Baby Boomers.
Furthermore, millennials are facing a planet that is literally dying, with mass extinction, habitat loss and climate change threatening the survival of most life on the planet. On top of that, the status quo is arguably in a period of interregnum--defined as the phase in civilizational development when the old paradigms have lost credibility and have yet to be replaced by new ones.
Has there been an unspoken generational class war against millennials, who could, if adequetly empowered, transform the world that has been completely crashed by baby boomers?
So, in short, is the shit-talking about millennial substantiated, or should they be given a break?
I doubt any generation is satisfied with the succeeding generation simply because it's acting different than they used to. Millennials did nothing wrong
>>858662
This. Every generation hacks the following. Millennials will do the same with whatever the next one gets labelled, complaining about their riding pennyfarthings around and walking their pet chinchillas on leashes, etc.
How insanely bloodthirsty Vikings turned into tolerant social democratic Sweden? What was the reason behind such change of character?
About 1000 years of history.
Scandis are animals, and they got domesticated.
>>857627
Because of where they live. You can't easily sustain a large population when half your country is mountains or frozen.
So they used to go out and raid and shit to get stuff whenever they got hungry or w/e. When that stopped being possible they went socialist to try to make the best use of their resources for the most people. Well after a few centuries of sucking and starving that is.
What happened to Mongolia after the fall of the Mongol Empire? It appears completely unmentioned by anybody after it's fall and from looking up video's of modern day Mongolia it seems to have just avoided all the bullshit that fucked up the rest of east Asia.
China got commie fucked, Japan went all Imperial and then went kawai, Vietnam keked the USA. But Mongolia is just kinda steppe bros with a biggish capital city who idolize Genghis Khan to an insane degree.
They got fucked hard by the USSR, they're basically Mexican Asians now.
>>857106
I want that video to have English lyrics, damnit.
>>857121
Don't know if trustworthy
Rommel is the greatest general ever
Stalin was a morally neutral guy, as far as I can reasonably say; in fact, even that is probably going too far, methodologically.
Hitler did nothing wrong.
>The boy who cried 'Positivism!'
Why is the American pop-sci scene riddle with pseudo-intellectuals? Is it he fault of the american education system?
>>855904
Because you're the true intellectual, right
>>855904
Celebrity culture
>>855932
I'm by no means a pseudo-intellectual. My novel is nearing completion and the three chapters I sent out to prospective agents were received with great enthusiasm. After a brief contest between three competing agents I signed with one who immediately found a large publishers to sign my book, despite my informing him that I still have a few chapters to go. As you can imagine this has made my mommy very proud indeed, and any anxiety she might have otherwise experienced for allowing her little cherub to live with her for so long as been relieved and her decision vindicated. It's very entertaining indeed to see so many people on this board discussing their literary ambitions while simultaneously defending the demands made on us all by a corrupt and callous economic system. Having chosen to opt out of such a dystopian existence, my work has benefited from the amount of time I have been able to spend researching, writing and editing what will no-doubt be among next year's most recommended literary achievements. And what's more I have achieved this all at (what will be described as) the "tender age" of 24. I see no reason to sacrifice my existence for the sake of those who see only monetary value and the opportunity for personal gain in this world.
Have we made any progress on the hard problem of /his/ memes?
>>854386
A board full of facebook normalfags can only make facebook normalfag memes.
Go to the weeb or the edgelord-tumbr boards(v/co/mu/r9k/pol/) if you want dankness.
>>854417
actually he should go to [s4s]
>holy
>roman
>empire
Anyone ever been to Egypt?
Are you allowed to climb the pyramids and if not then why?
What about stealing a ~5000 year old piece of stone?
Just pick up any damn rock
>>854346
No, you are not allowed. Because they are world heritage sites, dumbass.
Having said that, there is something called Baksheesh which you may find useful. If you do climb one, be respectful.
Was not impressed. The valley of kings is much more supreme.
Has anyone properly overcome Nietzsche yet? Can he even be overcome? Can the labyrinth he set forth for the world be escaped?
So far it doesn't seem like it. Academics, analytics, and other unphilosophical people have tried, but don't seem to come close to even understanding him. And he himself foresaw the end of philosophy with his own; he knew that what he was bringing to the table was going to end in tragedy for philosophy.
>>854173
Sanity overcame Nietzsche.
Why has Nietzsche replaced Stirner as meme supreme?
>>854173
100% guarantee you Nietzsche now believes there very much is a God.
100% guarantee.
ITT: Shit-tier 'intellectuals'
>>854031
pic unrelated
>>854031
You accidentally posted Christopher Hitchens. Even if you're some butthurt Christfag annoyed by the anti-religion stuff he is widely recognised as top journalist.
>>854031
Kaku
Dawkins
Tyson
Who contributed the most to the fall of the Axis: the USA or the USSR?
Does you get any minus points contribute to the rise of them?
>>853573
>Who contributed the most to the fall of the Axis: the USA or the USSR?
Italy.
>>853575
OP here.
Good point.
But no.
Define fascism /his/
It always seemed a little wishy washy to me
>>853451
Google it faggot
>>853459
fas·cism
ˈfaSHˌizəm/Submit
noun
noun: fascism; noun: Fascism; plural noun: Fascisms
an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
synonyms: authoritarianism, totalitarianism, dictatorship, despotism, autocracy; More
(in general use) extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practice.
Wow, that's not vague or anything.
Today I encountered the "Hard Problem" of consciousness. The logical conclusion that our subjective experience of sensation cannot be explained by the simple properties of matter. As Sir Isaac Newton put it
"to determine by what modes or actions light produceth in our minds the phantasm of colour is not so easie."
Yes Sir Newton. It is not so easy.
Before you post, be aware that the current understanding of evolution and physics does not need to be altered in an attempt to explain the hard problem of consciousness.
Jesus, Pixie dust, and time travelling sentient amoebas from the nth dimension need not apply.
Consciousness arose at some point
>nothing to do with evolution
>>853414
>time travelling sentient amoebas from the nth dimension
well if you're going to be like that i guess no enlightenment for you
>>853423
Well duh.
Great strides youve taken there. As I said in the OP evolution and physics are considered to be true and definetly have a hand in consciousness. The question is why do you experience "blue"? Why is subjective experience a thing that occurs? Why does the inner life behind your eyes happen?
This isnt a new age apologetics. Its an earnest quesion. Im a staunch naturalist and firmly believe there is a good explanation for it in science.
Protestards on suicide watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KV6PXSODgE
holy bump
>>853264
Don't you mean "justify", I mean you can always go to Rome to find "proof" of the Vatican
Benin City, originally known as Edo, was once the capital of a pre-colonial African empire located in what is now southern Nigeria.
According to estimates by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, Benin City’s walls were “four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops”.
Beyond the city walls, numerous further walls were erected that separated the surroundings of the capital into around 500 distinct villages. Pearce writes that these walls “extended for some 16,000 km in all, in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries.
Benin City was also one of the first cities to have a semblance of street lighting. Huge metal lamps, many feet high, were built and placed around the city, especially near the king’s palace. Fuelled by palm oil, their burning wicks were lit at night to provide illumination for traffic to and from the palace.
When the Portuguese first “discovered” the city in 1485, they classified Benin City as one of the most beautiful and best planned cities in the world.
In 1691, the Portuguese ship captain Lourenco Pinto observed: “Great Benin, where the king resides, is larger than Lisbon. The city is wealthy and industrious. It is so well governed that theft is unknown and the people live in such security that they have no doors to their houses.”
Benin City’s planning and design was done according to careful rules of symmetry, proportionality and repetition now known as fractal design.
The main streets had underground drainage made of a sunken impluvium with an outlet to carry away storm water. Many narrower side and intersecting streets extended off them. In the middle of the streets were turf on which animals fed.
“Houses are built alongside the streets in good order, the one close to the other,” writes the 17th-century Dutch visitor Olfert Dapper. “Adorned with gables and steps … they are usually broad with long galleries inside. Moreover, every house is provided with a well for the supply of fresh water”.
The city was split into 11 divisions, comprising a sprawling series of compounds containing accommodation, workshops and public buildings.
The exterior walls of the courts and compounds were decorated with horizontal ridge designs (agben) and clay carvings portraying animals, warriors and other symbols of power.
At the height of its greatness in the 12th century, the kings and nobles of Benin City patronised craftsmen and lavished them with gifts and wealth, in return for their depiction of the kings’ and dignitaries’ great exploits in intricate bronze sculptures.
“These works from Benin are equal to the very finest examples of European casting technique,” wrote Professor Felix von Luschan, formerly of the Berlin Ethnological Museum.
What impressed the first visiting Europeans most was the wealth, artistic beauty and magnificence of the city. Immediately European nations saw the opportunity to develop trade with the wealthy kingdom, importing ivory, palm oil and pepper – and exporting guns.
Now, however, the great Benin City is lost to history. Its decline began in the 15th century, sparked by internal conflicts linked to the increasing European intrusion and slavery trade at the borders of the Benin empire.
Then in 1897, the city was destroyed by British soldiers – looted, blown up and burnt to the ground.
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace
Benin's cool, but its walls are a meme. I have no idea why people act like a bunch of earth banks and ditches were something special. Those claims about the walls being longer than the great wall of China are only true if you count every tiny little ditch and bank anywhere within miles of the city. You could probably make the same claims if you took all the stone field walls in Ireland and called them 'the Great Walls of Ireland'. It's stupid.
>Fractals
Never heard of this. Doesn't look like one to me (pic related).
>The main streets had underground drainage made of a sunken impluvium with an outlet to carry away storm water.
Is there a source for this? I've never heard anything about this.
>At the height of its greatness in the 12th century, the kings and nobles of Benin City patronised craftsmen and lavished them with gifts and wealth, in return for their depiction of the kings’ and dignitaries’ great exploits in intricate bronze sculptures.
>Now, however, the great Benin City is lost to history. Its decline began in the 15th century, sparked by internal conflicts linked to the increasing European intrusion and slavery trade at the borders of the Benin empire.
This chronology is garbage. Benin's height was the 15th-17th century, and its decline was the 18th and 19th. It didn't even exist in the 12th. Also Benin generally had very little to do with the slave trade, though I suppose the effects of the slave trade in the wider region might have contributed to its decline.
It's Constantinople all over again.
But just to be precise, Beninglings started chimping out bevause of Euro economic takeover and because the wealthier niggers were selling slaves?
Damn, maybe those Wewuzes really did have superpowers and built the pyramids with their minds until whitey came and took their powers.
