completely serious question here.
how did men hide erections in 18/17th century trousers/pants? or, for that matter, stockings?
>in4 no need to hide
i'd prefer if my baron/king didn't see that i fancied his baroness/queen and lob off my knob.
they didn't
>>505579
not going to lie, looks like he stuffed it
>>505555
By ejaculating and thus triggering their refractory period where no erection is possible.
Good thing rape was socially acceptable back then.
When neurologists have proven the nature of consciousness to be a behavioral process in the brain how long will it take philosophers to abandon the intellectual poison that is dualism?
I don't think very many philosopher still hold the position, even the religious thinkers seem to be dropping it.
wtf, name one philosopher who is a serious dualist in 2015.
>>505554
A person who wants to believe in dualism will still believe in dualism.
Homeopathy has not been completely dropped yet either.
I fear death a lot more than I used to recently.
The thought of nonexistence and my life being inconsequential is starting to irk me.
I know I wont care, because I wont exist. But the thought of not existing is pretty spooky.
How do you deal with the inevitability of death?
>>505396
Faith, believing in a God, that my life has purpose and that my creator send me to this world for a special cause. If I believe in him, his greatness and obey his laws, he will grant me eternal peace and life after death.
>>505396
I wish for death often but I'm too cowardly to kill myself. I'm comfy too, so it can wait. For as long as I've felt this way I've had a weird sort of romantic ideal of death and it's gotten to the point where I don't understand people who fear death in and of itself. My fear is not doing something worthwhile before death, and I kind of have a fear of dying too soon in that sense, but that's kind of assuaged by the fact that if I commit suicide I'd be dying on my own terms so I wouldn't feel like a failure. "Take up arms against a sea of troubles" kind of job.
>>505396
Once you're dead, you too will be /his/tory
Suppose the Crisis of the Third century never happened, Christianity never became the state religion of the Empire, and Rome (including the West) never fell up to the year 2016. Is it really probable that we'd have advanced further technologically by now? Or did conditions in the empire create stagnation and we actually needed the conditions of the Early Modern Period to advance like we did?
>>505158
>Suppose the Crisis of the Third century never happened, Christianity never became the state religion of the Empire, and Rome (including the West) never fell up to the year 2016. Is it really probable that we'd have advanced further technologically by now?
No. Modernity and the search for "new shit every week" wasn't invented until the 16th century. Your question is retarded anyway.
>>505158
The existence or eventual lack-there-of of the Roman state had very little weight on the pace of technological progress through the centuries (not that it would be quantifiable anyways). Rather, the empire simply allowed for the scale and application of certain existing technologies to flourish due to their civil or military applications, while others technologies become footnotes.
I suppose the only real advantage that a united empire might have brought was better diffusion of ideas from east to west and vice versa.
>>505158
>Or did conditions in the empire create stagnation
yep. employment, not innovation, was the order of the day, so technological advancement was not a priority
Why did the Byzantines neglect statues? It's really bad for their image through contemporary eyes because mosaics and icons look quite comical and primitive in comparison to statues. It encourages the "art went to shit during the dark ages" narrative when art was always quite shitty before the Renaissance if you ignore statues and architecture.
>>504785
> It's really bad for their image through contemporary eyes
They really didn't care
>>504785
Good relief sculptures are far, far harder to do than free standing ones. You've just been culturally conditioned to see one as a symbol of the glorious Roman Empire and the other as that of a degenerate Byzantine Empire superseded by glorious western European civilisation.
>>504800
Anyhow, statues were always a major motif in the ancient world so it's weird how they stopped doing it between the Renaissance. Is it really because of muh Idols?
Were the Indo-Europeans practically mongols? Apparently, horses were particularly important to them. What caused their migration? Were they extraordinarily warlike?
>>504588
This isn't historically answerable as they didn't leave documentary records.
Linguistics is unable to answer your question.
Archaeology is unable to answer your question.
Your question is unanswerable.
It is highly likely the first Indo-Europeans were steppe nomads from the Russian steppe. We know that they invaded various locations throughout Eurasia, bringing their language and culture with them. The commonality of horse-related rituals, the wheel, animal husbandry, lactose tolerance, and bronze working suggests that these advantages were spread by Indo-Europeans, a warlike nomadic people.
>>504588
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-Europeans#Culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_society
So I heard that germans never won a war.
Realistically, how many wars did germans win anyway?
>what is the Franco-Prussian War
is this some autismal as fuck 'hurrr prussia isn't germany' thread?
>>504481
"Prussia" had Old Prussians speaking prussian.
So, yes, we can call it a "Prussia isn't Germany" since it had other nationalities besides filthy krauts.
>anno domini 2016
>he doesn't main mongols
explain yourself
Their imperial age economy is awful and they can't train halberdiers
>>504268
I'm not finnish
Came from /tv/ who was biggest guy in history?
Bump for justice
muhammed
>>504257
So tell us why doesn't he like his pictures taken ?
Post tragic images from history.
Pic related, its the rover the Soviets had hoped to explore the moon with being used to shovel the radioactive debris from the Chernobyl explosion back into the wrecked reactor hall.
A bomb-disposal expert walks towards a device in Belfast.
>>504033
Unfortunately, even hardened vehicles like the STR-1 eventually failed. So the USSR was forced to use men instead. With grim humor, these men called themselves the 'bio-robots'.
>>504033
Usually do image dumps on /k/, give a go here on /his/.
Residents of West Berlin show children to their grandparents who reside on the Eastern side, 1961
Post only based explorers and conquistadors.
>based
>owning slaves
Back to /b/
>>503994
Technically they weren't slaves, but close enough.
The most based explorator of all
>>>503994
shoo shoo
ITT: Shit that makes you angry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_of_rhodes
>In 653, an Arab force under Muslim caliphMuawiyah Icaptured Rhodes, and according to The Chronicle ofTheophanes the Confessor,[11]the statue was cast down and sold to a Jewish merchant ofEdessawho loaded the bronze on 900 camels.
Shit, my paste option fucked up
In 653, an Arab force under Muslim caliph Muawiyah Icaptured Rhodes, and according to The Chronicle ofTheophanes the Confessor, the statue was cast down and sold to a Jewish merchant ofEdessa who loaded the bronze on 900 camels.
>>503936
>In 653, an Arab force under Muslim caliph Muawiyah I captured Rhodes...
>CONFLICT BETWEEN "MUSLIMS", AND "CHRISTIANS", IN THE YEAR "653".
>"THE BATTLE OF VIENNA", YEAR "1683"; A CONFLICT BETWEEN "MUSLIMS", AND "CHRISTIANS".
>BOTH EVENTS INDICATE A GENERAL PERIOD OF CONFLICT BETWEEN THE TWO FACTIONS.
>SUBTRACT ONETHOUSAND TO "1683", AND THERE REMAINS "683", A YEAR VIRTUALLY CONTEMPORANEOUS WITH "653".
> ... and according to The Chronicle of Theophanes the Confessor...
>THE EARLIEST EXTANT EDITION OF THEOPHANES' "CHRONICLE" DATES TO THE YEAR "1655".
>SUBTRACT ONETHOUSAND TO "1655", AND THERE REMAINS "655"; TWO YEARS AFTER THE EVENT RECORDED IN THE "CHRONICLE".
CONCLUSION:
— BOTH EVENTS ARE CONTEMPORANEOUS.
— THEOPHANES' "CHRONICLE" IS A FORGERY.
— THIS VERSION OF THIS EVENT IS NOTHING BUT A MALICIOUS PERVERSION OF HISTORY, ONE OF THE PURPOSES OF WHICH IS TO VILIFY THOSE REFERRED TO AS "MUSLIM ARABS".
>>504001
What the actual fuck?
name one real life problem that philosophy solved
>pro tip: you cant
Whether you should believe in God or not.
>>503893
>be philosopher
>why even live?
As oppose to what, pretend life problems?
Was thinking about giving it a read, I'm sure it was inspired, not canon, but what does /his/ know about it?
read the 1971 edition
>>503867
Its got some 2spooky angelololology in it.
>>503911
I heard it really expounds on the sons of God thing, what's your guys' opinion on that? Are they angels or are they Seth's kin.
If there was ever nothing in the Universe, there would always be nothing in the Universe but we know that this isn't true as we exist, therefore there must have always been something in the Universe, therefore the Infinite-past theory is true. Am I wrong /his/?
>>503811
If time is infinite, then could it be true that in however many gorillian years, there will one day be a planet which is exactly the same as earth, has been through exactly the same events, with someone genetically identical to you who has had the exact same life and posts this exact same thread on a website called 4chan?
Spatial and temporal metaphors got you fucked up, dawg
You are starting from the assumption of infinite time--'if there was nothing in the universe, then there was ALWAYS nothing'--and then drawing the (valid) conclusion that an 'infinite past' follows. But you're begging the question, so who cares?
Your first conditional statement is also wonky, which is made clearer by changing out the terms:
>If there was nothing in this cereal bowl, then there would always be nothing in this cereal bowl
Why would that be the case?
>>503914
So basically, everything that's happening right now has already happened, will happen again and we will not be aware of it?
We don't know when it started or when it will end?
