Redpill me on the Voynich Manuscript, /his/.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/esp_ciencia_manuscrito07.htm
Scribe invented his own language in order to keep his texts private and secure. Was a common thing to do back then when there were no such things as encrypted computer files and passwords.
/threads
Its nonescence intentionally constructed to be mysterious.
>>818006
first world builder and con-langer
What would the Americas look like today if the Spanish Conquest never occurred?
Is this the most needless genocide of an empire in human history?
>>817483
What would the changes be?
A non-discovery of America?
The Spaniards failing with their attack?
THe Spaniards or any other European power allying with the Aztecs?
>>817483
All of the americas would be speaking english or/and french/dutch.
It would be a much better and developed place.
Why is Western culture considered the magnum opus of Homo sapiens?
It works
>>817260
You know the answer hurts the feelings of POC and liberals.
It inherited middle eastern and greek/roman ideas. who knows where the continuation will predominantly come from.
Some atheists here say atheism is mainly a lack of belief in God, therefore there is no worldview there for them to defend.
Okay, well the solipsist can do the exact same thing. The solipsist lacks belief in other minds. The solipsist humbly admits that they don't have absolute knowledge of anything existing outside of their own mind (check out the Egocentric Predicament for more info on that matter) so they disbelieve in other minds/an external reality in much the exact same way the atheist disbelieves in God in this situation. We don't know for sure if there is a God so I do not believe. We don't know for sure if there are other minds/an external reality so I do not believe. The form of the reasoning shared by the solipsist and the atheist here is virtually identical.
If an atheist is using this reasoning, I am wondering why they are not a solipsist... As the Cognitive Psychologist Justin L. Barret has said:
"no scientific evidence exists that proves people have minds."
[Source: Justin L. Barret. "Why Would Anyone Believe in God?". 2004. p. 95.]
I'm 99% sure Jesus was not the son of God in anyway. Nor was he held in a hypostasic trinity with his dad and spirit, violating basic Euclidean relation to show the glory of the godhead.
There could always be a "God", but the "revealed" religion of humanity can be proven false via history and their warped theologies.
Those rosaries you've been praying won't save you.
The sophist must act as though other minds exist in order to operate within the world. The atheist has no need to believe that a god does.
>>816929
Pascal's wager my friend
How do you fight your spooks?
>>816754
>Implying spooks aren't just another spook
>>816781
>Spooks are spooks
Blew my mind there, buddy.
>>816788
Spooks being spooks is just another spook
Spook spook spook spook spook spook.
Am I profound yet?
Can it be done? And I don't mean that watered down shit like Augustine, but something more in line with Philo and Origenes.
>The myths of the Old Testament and Jesus' parables are sensible supports for metaphysical doctrines, no different than Plato's myths or the way the Neoplatonists interpreted Homer;
>Yahweh is the demiurge and the instrumental cause of the universe;
>The One is above the demiurge and is the final cause of the universe;
>The waters in Genesis are uncreated prime mater described by Plato in the Timaeus and the material cause of the universe;
>The Logos is the formal cause of the universe; he is the sum total of ideas, the model the demiurge used to create the universe;
>The Logos incarnated as the man Jesus and died for our sins; however
>Souls are eternal and there is reincarnation/metempsychosis and possibility of falling back to the body
>Hell and purgatory are not eternal but temporary places for punishment of sins; etc.
>>816740
Well sure if you ignore the fact that two things contradict each other you can make anything "compatible".
I refuse to believe OT God is the same as NT God
OT "God" is a fucking monster
Schopenhauer general:
Questions, criticisms, and compliments welcome.
Did he hate sex
Was he just intrigued by the magic of the different and becomes basically a Buddha weaboo
He's right that Hegel was a bullshit artist, right?
Is it true these were used to smash through pike formations? Some even say you could use these to chop pikes in half or cut the legs off a horse. Is there any truth to this or is that just bullshit from zweiaboos?
>>816328
It's bullshit. They never had a purpose, they were just popular weapons for a specific kind of soldier who ended up in many different situations, some of which involved facing a pike formation.
It was the man holding the weapon that was special, and not because he chose to use that weapon but because that weapon was generally prized as a mark of someone who achieved a high level of personal skill among German martial arts students during the Renaissance.
For the same reason the Spanish sword and buckler were not used to smash pike formations, but just happened to be the favored weapon of a generation of Spanish soldiers who were veterans of the war with Granada where that style of fighting was popular, and had now moved on to battlefields in Italy.
>>816368
I'm having a hard time imagining how you would smash into a pike formation with a zweihander without instantly getting skewered by 10 pikes at once.
>>816416
They weren't that dense, it'd be more like 4 or 5 at most. The two handed sword was pretty good as an individual defensive weapon facing off against multiple attackers. The real issue is that the pike formation would just end up running them over, especially when they had their own swordsmen and other soldiers with short polearms in the mix.
It was heavy armor that let you smash into a pike formation, not the sword.
Post the most unique/memorable/funny koan you know (zen buddhist unsolvable riddle).
Tell me why.
The one I like: The most important thing is to find out what's the most important thing
I'm really sorry that I have nothing to contribute to this because it seems interesting. The only buddhist reading I've ever really studied was the Book of Five Rings. This board is dead when it comes to discussing eastern philosophy, too many Nordics/plebeians, but bump for interest.
Yeah I was looking for the right board, this was the only one with religious topics.. pity, its a very interesting culture.
Sozan, a Chinese Zen master, was asked by a student: "What is the most valuable thing in the world?"
The master replied: "The head of a dead cat."
"Why is the head of a dead cat the most valuable thing in the world?" inquired the student.
Sozan replied: "Because no one can name its price."
just think about it
What went wrong with Libya aftwr Gaddafi. I know there is the trubal devide but was there a way to stop it from escalating into another civil war. Could america or europe have done more to create a stable regime.know this is outside time limit but it is actual topic worth talking about.
>>>/pol/
25 year rule faggot
>>814437
There are so many worse threads than this and Pol doesn't know how to actually argue
Not really. Libya more or less needed a foreign-chosen dictator at that point in time, but they wouldn't have taken one having just ousted Gaddafi.
The best solution would have been to force a ceasefire between both rebels and Gaddafi very early on and then told him to give the rebels more freedoms, threatening to take his Swiss bank account if he didn't comply. But French had too much of a hate-on for him and wanted him ousted because of the Gold Dinar.
That said, I think my proposal was attempted in Syria to some extent and has met failure too.
Was Rhodesia actually an apartheid state? I've never seen a definite answer as some people will claim it was a extreme apartheid while others will claim that racial-equality was much better than other colonies and their mother-countries (or at least as good as you can get for the time period).
On top of this --a bit of a loaded question, I know, do you think that Rhodesia's downfall was one of the global community's biggest mishandlings?
>>814199
>Was Rhodesia actually an apartheid state?
No.
Ever since that nutty American kid shot up that church now every pseudo-intellectual is out to claim Rhodesia was racist and evil though.
It wasn't really. In fact it was probably less outright racist than the US during Jim Crow years.
>>814199
While minority rule is "wrong" is the modern politically correct sense, the fact is the Rhodesian leadership was trying to create an educated native African middle class to help run the country. Because the alternative, overnight home rule, is what gets you countries like Zimbabwe.
Honestly it's a shame the rest of the world was too stupid or short-sighted to acknowledge this.
Daily Orthobro thread. Get in here, fellow believers.
>>813903
Please leave
Whats the main differences between orthodox and catholic?
>>814455
>Come to the Dark Side
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum_of_the_First_Qin_Emperor
>The Chinese government is not ready to give the green light to open the tomb. The approval to excavate the tomb will not be given in the near future and probably not in the lifetime of today generation
Why can't the stupid chinks just open it already?
It's 2016, don't we already have all the necessary technology for something like this? And it's not like someone is going to die because they opened it, that guy's been dead for over 2200 years, plus he was a huge dick, so...
>>812438
I'm sure one day we'll have the technology to achieve this...
That or Chinese ISIS will destroy it before we get the chance.
>>812438
Wouldn't the shit inside only decay more?
>>812438
i refuse to believe that they all have different facial features and height, every single one of them
Why didn't the United States help out their French Republican brothers across the sea in their struggle against the European tyrants?
France alone was keeping the flames of liberty burning bright while besieged on all sides by despots, and the US just sort of sat back and watched (and even sided with the British over them once)
What the fuck?
What a bunch of useless assholes.
>>812395
Because the government helped them out, yet they were still sympathetic to the cause of the revolutionaries
It would have been a real piss in the face to Louis if the people whom he accumulated debts helping out went and overthrew them
Also, the American revolution is closer to a mass, foreign-backed tax evasion than a struggle against tyranny
Because the United States was fighting against Britain for independence on its own soil. It didn't want to overthrow king George in England--just kick him out of American land. France was choosing to antagonize other countries and invade them in order to overthrow their monarchies.
Also, pic related.
1. America was a tiny ass country that had just gotten started and joining a war against the major powers of the day wasn't conducive to it survival
2. Adams and his party were far more favorable to relations with Britain, due to the cultural and linguistic links between the countries
3.>>812399
4. The American Republic was basically aristocratic, and land owner of standing and wealth were the only ones with real power. So they didn't want to support a movement that might inspire you're average American pleb to start lopping off heads
5. The aforementioned head lopping. Once the Terror was in full swing, Americans could not justify supporting such a violent movement.
ITT: Post game ideas that revolve around your country/region's history
>American Civil War Action/Adventure game or RPG
>You start out as a young man in Sylvania in 1861
>Soon after the game starts, your impoverished family moves north to Atlanta to look for a better life, leaving you to take care of the farm
>The first months of the game (in-game time) are just first-person harvest moon with lighthearted sidequests to let the player get to know the town and people
>Come Spring 1862
>Mayor falls ill, gives you his horse to go to Savannah for medicine
>Arrive in Savannah in early April, just in time to watch the aftermath of the siege of Fort Pulaski
>Small segment of the game in which the player can free-roam around Savannah, Wilmington Island, Oatland Island, Skidaway Island, and Whitemarsh Island
(cont.)
>After procuring the medicine, the player heads back to Sylvania where the mayor lets the player keep his horse as thanks
>Alternatively, the player can sneak onto Tybee Island and join the Union military, where he is then stationed in Boston and advances the storyline by participating in battles in the Eastern American South (the first of which will be the capture of New Orleans) until 1864, roaming the entire New England Countryside for side quests
>Get to see the snowy hills of Northern Appalachia
>Occasionally have to defend territory fronts from invading Sioux
>Taverns play comfy music like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORsNiReoCsw
>If the player doesn't figure this out, there will be another chance to join the Union at a later date
>After saving the mayor, some Confederate soldiers come through town looking for conscripts
>Get on a train to Nawlins
>Lose battle, get captured
>Player can either escape with a Confederate soldier or stay with the Union and become a Union soldier, triggering the above Union storyline
>If Confederate, the player then gets to roam the western American South, with each state being at least 4 or 5 square km in-game, taking part in battles from Arizona to Louisiana
>Get to see the beautiful nature east of the Mississippi
>Taverns play comfy war songs for either side depending on location, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAfHigPsC_s
>Get to see the western deserts
>Locations of previous battles don't restore - all battle marks and corpses remain and slowly are carted out or rot over the course of the game
>If the player doesn't want to do the FPS gameplay, they can always get a sword and fight the Union charges with a sabre
>Mix gunplay with martial arts and cannons
>After the campaign has advanced to 1864, if in the Union, the player joins Sherman's army, and if Confederate, the player gets captured at Laredo Texas and is held at St. Louis PoW Camp
>If Union, player watches as his family's house is burnt by Sherman's troops, player can intervene and either save his family or get himself killed for treason
>If Confederate, player escapes just in time to return to the South and find Atlanta's smoking ruins
>Last third of the game takes place in Western American South (Kentucky down to Mississippi over to Virginia and Georgia) as the player takes on battles for whichever side of the war they chose, either watching their beloved country get destroyed or the fruits of their labor ripen, depending on whichever side they are.
>Player advances storyline by taking part in Civil War battles, but can just free-roam and sidequest too
>Get to see the beautiful nature of Appalachia
>Get to explore comfy cities like Savannah and Charleston
>Every time the player enters a tavern, comfy music like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSi6RyS4a0Q is playing
>Player can go explore the mountains, fight bears, or work on their old farmstead in their free time
>Game world in all areas is super densely packed with interesting things to see or do, with lore about the lives of people at the time scattered all over
>Campaign ends with the battle of Appatamox Courthouse
>Player can choose where they want to live
>Small epliogue to the game in which the player gets to roam New England, the American South, the Wild West, or the Northwestern front and settle their new life, adding maybe 15 or 20 hours into the endgame
>A few more sidequests and a small epilogue storyline depending on where player chose to stay, with a Clint Eastwood-like dramatic action-adventure gunslinging ending for choosing the West, a town building game-like gameplay scheme for the northwest (where the player has to either eradicate or reconcile with natives), a depressing, harvest moon-like ending for the South, or a business management-type epilogue for the northeast wherein the main character tries to start a business
>After successfully completing the game, the entire game world opens up for exploration, but, unless some of the late-game sidequests weren't completed (as some sidequests will become unavailable after certain dates in-game) or some of the world's hidden secrets weren't found, there won't be much to do other than boring and vapid Minecraft-tier stuff
Think of it like The Legend of Zelda meets Battlefield meets Harvest Moon meets Morrowind
Anyways, that's my idea.
What are your historical game ideas, /his/?
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