What does /his/ think of this guy?
DUDE
Has anyone here read Food of the Gods? Is it worth reading and are the arguments backed by solid evidence?
>>1375854
He sure spins a good yarn
Is there a historical precedent for transgender individuals?
yes, in some asian and native american cultures
In old places like Rome, you would see emperors rip some guys dick out and use them as a sex slave.
>>1375626
Asian Obsession with Girly young Boys and Transexuality are different though
Why does Eugene Debs get no respect from the modern American left? Is it because he was a white male?
>>1375580
Socialists love him, Bernie mentions him pretty often.
But because he died 90 years ago, and because most history classes don't mention him for some strange reason, he's not that relevant to American politics.
>>1375616
Yeah, he's still an idol to the old left people focused on economic inequalities, like Bernie Sanders or Noam Chomsky, but to modern American leftists (i.e. liberals/Democrats) starting in the 1960s who focus on identity politics, he's basically a nonentity. Empowering the working class is no longer a major goal; they're sometimes outright disdained.
>>1375658
Well the "new left" is a joke. Mainline Democrats aren't really leftists, and even their dedication to immaterial social progressivism is pretty half-hearted.
Verdun or Somme?
>>1374612
Neither of them, if you're asking for the most decisive battle for the Western Front.
That would probably go either to the Marne, which stopped that initial German rush, or the Spring offensive, stopping the other real chance Germany had to knock out France (even if it was a desperate one).
If you're asking which of the two was more decisive than the other, then I'd probably go with the Somme, it was bigger overall, and it showed that conscript forces could and did fight on a more or less even basis with regular, pre-war formations.
Somme, Falkenhayn, resigned and was replaced by Ludendorff.
Verdun was more of a shock since it was the first attrition-based battle which the Somme later turned into after the British general staff realized there would be no giant breakthrough.
To me, the Somme is more heartbreaking in a way since it was the baptism of the British Army by hellfire. All those cheery bank clerks, farmers, husbands, sons, uncles, mailmen, factory workers, just gunned down en masse like their lives were worth nothing at all. What a fucking horrible time to have been alive in.
Oh dear, oh dear. Either you clicked 'Agree' to too many questions that did not really apply to you, or you appear to have multiple, equally prominent personality styles. It is quite possible that you have several personality styles that are all strongly expressed and which co-exist in you. Whether you really have these multiple personality styles, or you just clicked 'Agree' too leniently, we are unable to say, and we are therefore also incapable of giving you a more personalized description. But you can consult the charts below in order to see which of the styles you score the strongest on.
Any psychoanalysis here? What kind of personality type am I?
>>1374524
Gullible type (subtype: takes bullshit internet tests seriously-oid)
>>1374524
You're a looney, anon
>He thinks tests he found on the internet are capable of diagnosing psychiatric disorders
What's the most historically influencial crop?
One of rice/potatoes/wheat would be my guess.
>>1374171
tea
>>1374171
Corn
Germany's population in 1919:
>60,898,584
WW2 casualties:
>Over 60 million people, not including war-related disease and famine. 80 million if the latter are included.
So from an utilitarian perspective it would have been morally right to genocide the entirety of Germany's population to prevent ww2.
Let that sink in.
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P.S.: That is assuming you have knowledge that Germany will cause a world war with 60+ million casualties, and that ww2 wouldn't have happened without Germany.
>>1370783
That's a pretty stupid assumption, given that Japan started the second Sino-Japanese war without any prompting whatsoever from Germany, and that's responsible for a good 35 million or so deaths right there. More if you start taking out the Pacific war in its entirety which isn't likely to develop without a Sino-Japanese war.
>>1370783
Genociding the entirety of Germany's population would have been right regardless of anything.
>>1370783
Thats why most people arent utilitarian, its a retarded ideology.
But i still say genocide all germans
What do you think about Antinatalism, /his/?
Particularly the sorts that value the (albeit peaceful and voluntary) eradication of the human race?
Coming from a secular perspective that cares little for marriage, cultural dominance, faith, etc. I think they bring up good points but like all ideologists are so overwhelmed by the notion that they can actually somehow enforce their ideas. To this sort of Antinatalist I have three main refutations:
1) The only surefire way to enforce antintalism is militarily, through mass sterilization, and that in and of itself poses ethical problems, and people will doubtless slip through the cracks and have as many kids as they damn well please, anyway.
2) If properly enforced, humankind would be destined to a century-long, slow, painful decline in which we sit inside a crumbled infrastructure we can no longer maintain, fighting over remaining resources, going mad with impending doom. If the goal of antinatalism is to prevent suffering, why this?
3) Antinatalists are usually a little smarter than the average population, if a bit depressed and/or crazed. I like to think of it as the negative correlation between intelligence and happiness. One goes up while the other goes down. But shouldn't people who want to prevent suffering and care about brainy ideas be the ones reproducing? As it stands we have so many careless people reproducing. Shouldn't there be more stuck-up intellectuals who don't want kids having kids? That is, if antinatalists want more people who think like them and can enforce their ideology, the surest path is to out-reproduce one's opponents?
>>1378189
/r9k/-tier "ideology" that seems to believe that one meme about being better off never having been alive.
Not really the answer to the population problem.
>>1378193
>/r9k/-tier "ideology
Now gents I want a clean thread that actually analyzes this idea for what it is and doesn't just assign it to a board on this site.
Antinatalism has been around since ancient Greece, and it warrants more consideration than what you're giving it.
By all means, have scorn, though.
PS: They're not trying to solve the population problem, they're trying to solve something a bit grander in scope than that.
Also I forgot my fourth point:
4) Assuming one believes in evolution, life will inevitably arise somewhere else in the universe. What good is the suicide of a species if others will arise? If the process of life is automatic and cumulative, what good can come of destroying it? It makes one think of a man trying to kill a forest of Khudzu with a pair of scissors alone.
Bill Hicks is on that list? Man, I need to rewatch his vÃdeos, I had the impression that he was joking
What are some other examples of WE WUZ KANGZ that have been seriously proposed in academia?
>>1377370
forgot link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solutrean_hypothesis
>>1377370
>Everyone in Europe wuz Aryans n shiet.
You are about to land on Omaha. What are your last thoughts?
Probably something like "I hope I don't get blown up or shot"
I land after the beach is taken instead of getting slaughtered
>>1372167
>"I'm just going to stay over here for a bit"
What were some of the biggest war blunders of in all of history?
>>1378552
Omaha Beach was a fuck up. Americans were saved only by a massive disparity in force.
>>1378552
Anything involving the italians.
>>1378556
>come to the history board on 4chan
>people don't know Jack shit about history
Color me surprise
See this people here? They're known as the burakumin, the "hamlet people", in Japan. They are (still) considered impure workers because their work consisted of butchers, undertakers, tanners, executioners - basically stuff that has to do with death and they were outcast groups.
But the question is; why? Isn't it a contradiciton? What would japane do without burakumin? There'd be no undertakers if people died? No source for meat? No executioneers? No leather? I really don't get it.
Apparently japan had/has a very pescatarian-friendly diet, and somehow they consider killing animals wrong because some buddhist belief or something, I'm not really sure, while still being okay with killing fish because they're coldblooded. Please correct me here.
What a weird country. And to this day, butchers/workers in slaughterhouses are reluctant to tell people what their profession is because they don't want to be mistaken as burakumin because they still face a lot of discrimination by employers and people randomly sending hate-letters.
>>1378089
People who do tasks as "base" as that are often looked down upon, although it's funny because without these people society would probably crumble.
Japs are just dicks, like everyone else.
>>1378092
True, but these people are considered lower than the peasant and fisherman. That's what's so weird about it. It's like, you have the lower classes under the samurai, nobility and emperor and stuff, but then you have the burakumin even under the peasantry
>>1378094
Though they don't make up the majority by any means, like a pyramid structure
Is Buddhism one of the most based and practical systems for overall well-being there is ?
A quick read of it makes me think it looks similar to Epicureanism.
But usually, Buddhists are goddamn hippies who don't really think about how to control their desires.
>>1331276
the more I think about nibanna, the more I see it has dump a poo.
at first, you do not know that you have poo in you
then you notice it
you understand that you just need to let it go
then you clearly feel it ready to leave
once it left, you know that it left and you feel light and serene.
>>1331283
In the west mayb
Why aren't you Mormon, /his/?
>>1367235
1. I'm not White
2. It's an obvious sham
3. They're not allowed to drink coffee, tea, or alcohol
4. They gossip, which is a sin
5. They're just lame
>>1367235
Because i started to read the Book of Mormon and found it the most stupid thing ever. Never finished it tho, i picked that up at my city library
>>1367270
The Book of Mormon reads like it was written by a child. At least the books of the Christian canon had to go through some sort of review process before the church councils decided they were good enough. Joseph Smith just wrote his own crappy book and told people it was on par with the Bible. But the difference is pretty clear. You'd have to be some sort of rube to read that book and think 'wow, what an inspired piece of literature!'
Why would you even hang an elephant?
>>1378034
For murder.
>>1378035
this
beasts must learn lol :D
Animals who kill a humans within their communities tend not to last too long
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