What sparked the migration period?
>>784950
Mexico's perennially defective economy sitting right next to the largest in the world, and a government that couldn't find its own ass with both hands and a map.
Glasgow Rangers fans, Ulster unionists and Germans.
>>784950
The Jews.
why
Unification of Italian peoples under one flag was a mistake, this is how Italy should look like.
Maybe you should know that the division of those states was one of the reason of the collapse of italian economy in the second part of 1600...
>No more Venetian Republic
This is probably a very retarded question, but please explain to me conquest of strongholds. I never understood it. Why would an attacker ever siege it? Why not ignore it and just take the land around it?
*the concept of. Not conquest.
What do you mean "the land around it"? Are you suggesting just creating another control point?
>>784718
That's an intelligent question actually.
First of all, castles and strongholds knew their peak during the great invasions of the middle ages. It was a simple strategy: riches, peoples and supplies (grains and animals) from a certain piece of land could be easily defended for weeks or even months behing wooden (later stone) walls. The raiders often sought loot, not conquests.
During "traditional" wars strongholds are often strategical: they can lead to the sea or along a trade route.
Does evil exist, or is it just the absence of good?
>>784621
neither exist
>kickflips out of the thread
Einstein, is that you?
A lack of good or evil would just be a neutral stance.
Is Existential Inertia or Divine Conservation true?
Are there any good arguments anywhere?
>>784303
>The “existential inertia” thesis holds that, once in existence, the natural world tends to remain in existence without need of a divine conserving cause.
The laws of physics as we understand them suggest that yes, once a universe starts to exist, it will continue to do so. Arguments for this are many, but are of a highly technical nature.
>>784309
In what sense do the laws of physics exist?
Im 47 minutes in and he still hasnt started talking about persians.
This board is obsessed with Persians and Romans.
I stopped listening about 1h 20 minutes in.
He still hasn't started talking about the persians...
Talk about going off on a tanget... And then tangents within tangents. What a snoozefest.
By far his worst podcast (of his 'modern' ones)
Talks a whole lot of shit about nothing for a for a few hours, without any coherent story.
![Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-04051A,_Reichsparteitag,_Rede_Adolf_Hitlers[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/9lvtzVX.jpg "Bundesarchiv Bild 102-04051A, Reichsparteitag, Rede Adolf Hitlers[1]")
I know claims of Nazi occultism are typically sensationalist and very /x/ related, but I've heard so much about Nazi occultism I thought I might as well ask better read (if at all) imageboard "historians"
Were there any true claims to Nazism, Hitler, and occultism? Was there something spiritual (for lack of a better word) about Nazism, or was it mainly a materialist political movement?
>>782007
It existed but wasn't taken nearly as seriously, the idea is more commonly used now thanks to Indiana Jones more than anything.
I don't think Hitler himself ever put much stock into Occultism (or religion of any sort). It was mostly a few other Nazis, but it never became a central part of the movement.
At least, I think so.
>>782007
Himmler was a nutjob who believed in all sorts of weird shit. Hitler loathed him for it and actively tried to undercut his projects. I can't seem to find it right now, but he mocks a lot of Himmler's Theosophy-based beliefs in an early speech.
/his/ was there ever a Greek God of not sleeping? I just had this really weird dream and around the end there was this thing about the God of not sleeping and I was just wondering if there actually was a God of not sleeping.
I would assume that the daemon personification of sleep (Hypnos) would determine whether or not people go to sleep at all.
Also, according to Greek myth, there was once a very brief period where nobody died at all, because Thanatos, the daemon of death, ended up getting the 50 Shades of Gray treatment
>>779098
Did Hypnos have any enemies in the myths? In my dream the god of not sleeping didn't get along with him.
>>778897
Did you try Googling "the oh God of not-sleeping"?
What does /his/ think about Serbian nationalism?
Is it justified? Has its effect on history been negative or positive overall?
Broke up Yugoslavia. Twice.
>>798434
>Is it justified? Has its effect on history been negative or positive overall?
well it's caused the deaths of millions of people
it's shame pan-slavbalkanism died out
About the same as any kind of nationalism. Useful for creating pointless conflict and butthurt but thats about it.
Considering how easily most countries transitioned to constitutional monarchies (or the royalty simply becoming figureheads), why did it take so long for democracy to catch on?
>>794830
Because absolute monarchs didn't want to give up their powers in the first place?
>>794830
Maybe it had something to do with, I dunno, the rise of the bourgeoisie and capitalism?
>>794830
Democracy supported by capitalism is essentially feudalism except that power is no longer linked to the ownership of land and divine noble bloodlines, but to money and merchant pleb bloodlines.
Wake me up.
Which should I choose? Catholic, Orthodox, or Rodnovery?
>Even considering a LARP religion
>Just joining a Church to LARP
Orthodox or the Neopagan one
Stay out of my Church, we have enough problems with RPG memesters joining for fun
>>791681
You should worship Priapus anon. You might even get laid.
Why does every relevant intellectual dismiss Nietzsche?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XkjI8IZNww
>>785882
Because he died a madman, having espoused some of the most vitriolic and poisonous works ever known to mankind.
Since when? Nietzsche was one of the most influential philosophers of the last several hundred years. Russell dismissed him because he dismissed all non-analytics.
Almost all spiritual worldviews are actually materialistic, only with the inclusion of materials that are not as yet discovered by science. Say a spiritualist says the soul is the root of consciousness and intellect. If you ask him what the soul is, chances are what he is actually describing is merely a body [that is, a substance possessing shape and form], only one composed of a matter more subtle than normal matter. This holds true for most religions. Only especially 'spiritual' persons go so far as to claim that spirit is pure mental phenomena, devoid of shape and form.
But even then, this 'soul' is still only mental phenomena, except one that is devoid of space and form as a basis for it. The phenomena of mind stays exactly the same.
Two conclusions can be drawn from this. First of all, the idea that materialism denies free will, is ridiculous. Or at least, if materialism does, so too does all 'spiritual' systems, which are in reality merely materialist systems with fictional materials. The mind is a system, subject to causality, just as all things are. If the mind is somehow exempt from causality, then whatever property allows pure mental phenomena to be exempt could theoretically also apply to mental phenomena contained in matter.
Secondly, the idea that materialism leads to the destruction of values is equally without merit. Because again, there must be some property that would be the reason why a materialistic universe is without value, but a different materialistic universe is not. The truth of the matter is, I think, that people who say things like this simply have an addiction to mystery, and emotional reification. If the soul most of these religions speak of was actually fully known to modern science, I think they would argue against it purely because it meant that boring scholarly academics could discuss it in dry scientific papers, instead of the mystical ramblings they are used to.
[Cont]
>>796835
What difference, really, does it make if consciousness is held in a soul composed of a ba, a ka, seven chakras, and the spiritual energy chi, as opposed to neurons and brain tissue? Wouldn't the same people who say "Who cares, its just chemicals?" be just as within their rights to say "Who cares, its just cosmic energy?" if the soul-as-subtle-body existed and was fully understood by science?
I end by restating my original premise. Almost all spiritual systems are actually materialistic systems featuring fictional materials, differing from normal materialism only to the degree that they feature such materials, and that scientific language is substituted for mystical language. I am convinced that if the soul was proven to exist, and natural science was able to give a full account of it, these same people would rebel, and make the same nihilistic remarks they currently do.
Discuss.
>>796839
You're asking what the difference is between a random, arbitrary universe and one where consciousness holds metaphysical value. The gulf is enormous.
I could just as easily say boring dry academics need to make everything boring and dry to grok it, if you're gonna accuse spiritualists of needing to wax poetic about everything
Interesting and thought-provoking argument regardless
>>796891
That is a point I didn't mention, but have considered. I will briefly commentate on it [because I want this thread to be mostly others discussing the idea, rather than me 'defending it' like its some doctrine of mine.
Many spiritual worldviews do have a slightly more 'anthropomorphic' cosmos than ours is [as some form of immortality is generally guaranteed, and some form of enforcement of law is done], but I would not say its sufficient to claim those universes grant consciousness metaphysical value. Value is dependent upon evaluation. To be valuable ultimately means 'to be valued by someone'.
The Abrahamic worldview is just as subjective in terms of defining values as any other proposed cosmos, the only difference is that an especially powerful Subject enforces his view on everyone else. The only way out of this is through making 'value' a feature of things that are valued [that is, objective value exists because value is a property of valuable things], a la natural law. But if that is the case, valuable could just as easily be a property of valuable things in an atheistic cosmos, or a polytheistic cosmos.
There is a reason most Christian theologians do not believe divine command theory.
"Philosophy is a worthwhile endeavor, says Bill Nye the Science Guy, though the answers it offers are frequently limited by human rationality. Science, on the other hand, surprises us!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROe28Ma_tYM
So apparently philosophy is pretty much obsolete now guys.. what do i do now?
>>795485
Science is literally a philosophy. For a man chooses to believe science. Positivists need to stop.
>>795485
Fucking science cucks
>>794934
Shit posting trolls. Fuck off Austrian scum.
>>794947
>Austrian scum
Am I missing something here?
http://www.federalreserve.gov/BOARDDOCS/SPEECHES/2002/20021108/default.htm
"Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve. I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again."
