Would scientism and the 'science vs. religion' dichotomy be less widespread with a greater understanding of the history and philosophy of science?
no, thanks to Comte
I think the general public has a kind of intellectual "budget", they don't go out of their way to learn academics that they don't really need to know. Similarly people typically aren't ultra-religious without some external motivation.So the "Science vs. Religion" debate is almost always just uninformed psychobabble.
Left to their own devices people shift back into complacency.
>Scientism
What the hell is this, I've never heard this term before
I am creating a map for my Dungeons and Dragons game and I am trying to strongly base it on 1400-1600 Europe. I have been slightly tweaked names of real historical places, but also used creative liberties to mix things up (wizards and orcs and shit). I've used my history books plus a lot of Wikipedia to get the jist of it.
Anyway I need your help. If you can recommend any FICTIONAL NAMES OF CITIES that resemble real cities but don't sound too retarded in that native language, I'd be appreciative. Anything I could improve, change, or add. Or any other heraldry, ethnicities, geography, mountains, rivers, or general mockery is fine too, go nuts.
Thanks
>>593667
Why not just use an actual map of Europe and change names/cities/nations/labels etc.?
>>593671
I wanted to shift the geography around so include fantasy elements as well as not make it a exact 1:1.
>>593676
I guess, but unless your players are geographically retarded they'll be able to tell they're essentially playing in Europe anyway, so it seems odd to put in the effort but not just make something unrecognizable.
why did Poland fail in 1939?
Being polish
Also not bothering to update their military when the Germans were jerking off to bf109s
>>593460
Trying to be Switzerland without the Alps and with two growing military powers on either side.
France and UK promised them to attack Germany from the west, so Poland went ahead and refused to hand Dazing over.
France and UK didn't attack Germany from the west, said Poland misunderstood them.
Poland fall.
Daily reminder that if you haven't read The Bible, Koran, The Republic, and Dhammapadda, you can't call yourself spiritually educated.
>>593356
The bible and that's it's the others are for goat fuckers
>>593357
>reading The Holy Bible without reading the Koran
What is another four hundred, much smaller pages? A great recap of The Bible as well.
>>593356
Daily reminder if you haven't listened to Love, Angel, Music, Baby by Gwen Stefani you can't call yourself spiritually educated.
Without any of the usual bias, describe this man's contribution to the world.
>>592812
Fanta
New borders, further misery.
Suffering, death, sorrow and architecture
What are the coolest/best flags, banners, symbols, emblems, coats of arms, etc... in history?
Which do you like best? Which are the most unique/original? What nation or people tended to have the beat flags and arms?
>pic related, based Byzantine flags, banners and logos
>>592649
What did the Byzantine flag look like before the Paleologus dynasty?
Aw yis
Flag bread
>>592649
Lookit my coat of arms
Who's your favorite Nazi?
Pic related - (sorry for the meme answer - but holy shit did he lead a badass life. He ended up collaborating with the Israeli Mossad for fuck's sake - just look at that shiteating grin).
>>592584
Speer
He was just so sexy and really fucking boring
A good boy who actually dindu nuttin wrong, highest scoring U-boat captain despite being captured in 1941, helped reform the West Germany navy and reached the rank of admiral, gave interviews, and helped some guys developing a U-Boat game
>>592584
Master of propaganda coming through.
Give me the most breath taking, impacting photos you have. If you can provide them, stories preferred.
Jewish family defying the nazis
Crew member in a German sub, 1916
What does /his/ think of based Bishop Robert Barron?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zMf_8hkCdc
Bretty fun to listen to, though I don't always agree with him. Really it was him who introduced me to Christianity in a lot of ways tbch so I'm thankful.
>>592222
Quads confirm it
He's pretty good actually, I like him
What do you think of Fr. Mike Schmitz?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-9_rxXFu9I
Why did the Aramaic language overtake Hebrew? Was Hebrew in use at all in the last two thousand years (before being reintroduced in Israel)?
How did they go about bringing a dead and lost language to life?
Fun fact: Yiddish is not German-Hebrew, but German-Aramaic
>>591908
>Why did the Aramaic language overtake Hebrew?
Hebrew shifted from being an everyday language to a scholarly language sometime around 5-600 B.C., I'm not entirely sure why, but at a guess, I would say it had something to do with the Babylonian diaspora.
Aramaic, on the other hand, was a trade language and spoken relatively widely regionally, so it's not a huge logical leap to assume it became the common, everyday language.
>Was Hebrew in use at all in the last two thousand years (before being reintroduced in Israel)?
It wasn't widespread. I mean, you had religious texts and services written in Hebrew, and even the occasional odd Hebrew work in a non-religious setting, like this
http://www.worldcat.org/title/melech-artus-the-hebrew-arthurian-romance-a-judaization/oclc/47888471
A 13th century King Arthur story that appeared in Italy. But it wasn't a widespread tongue, and almost certainly more read and written in than spoken.
>How did they go about bringing a dead and lost language to life?
Immigrant culture; when you have a nation that's comprised of people moving in, it's easier to get them to learn a new language.
>>591937
Was it just the nobility who were taken to Babylon or was it the whole tribes?
>>591981
Very likely it was just the nobility and a lot of the clergy.
But picture it, if you will. The "intelligentsia" is taken away, and the new conquerors probably force everyone to at least learn Babylonian because the conquerors never learn the languages of their pleb victims. Things stay that way for the better part of a century, until a fraction of the descendents of that nobility are allowed back.
I can see that causing a decline in Hebrew day to day usage. And remember, it wasn't' like Hebrew vanished overnight; it was a slow decline/transition to Aramaic.
How accurate /his?
not at all
Germany stood more to lose in North Africa than Italy did.
Suez was a huge key to international shipping, and the Middle East had a bunch of oil that the German war machine desperately needed.
If anything, Hitler severely underestimated the importance of the African theater.
not at all
ITT: We discuss what could've been the best nation in all history, why it failed, and what could've changed if it actually succeded
>>591786
You can fuck off and go kill yourself, Narcolombia.
>>591801
>Narcolombia
>Not realizing this was Bolivar's dream, the greatest man from this continent
Jokes on you
>best nation in all history
>run by the most backwards people in Western Europe
No
What went wrong /his/?
>mindblowingly advanced maths (Archimedes almost invented Calculus)
>built machines and analog computers (Antikythera mechanism)
>most impressive realistic sculpting in history (pic related)
>society of many philosophical viewpoints
>religious freedom
>sexual freedom, full tolerance of homosexuality
>Olympic games
>refined naval and land warfare
>architecture, science, politics and so much more
And this is what happened to it:
>Invaded by innumerate Romans
>Converted by intolerant Christians
>>591357
Antikythera mechanism
There wasn't a full tolerance of homosexuality at all.
>>591365
A method for calculating pi by Archimedes.
Why was the eastern half so much richer than the west? Was it solely because of the silk road, or were there other factors?
>>591163
And Egypt.
East was always the richest area.
>>591163
Trade with middle east and africa. Middle east is also the proxy for India/China
>>591166
This, Constantinople's location also helped with trade and taxes from ships travelling through and since it was mostly ignored by the huns it retained much of its wealth after the fall of the western half
Dare to dream...
haha
no
Every German secretly dreams about this.
![Roger-Bacon[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/LJk1JYX.jpg "Roger-Bacon[1]")
