The transitive property states that
>if X is Y
>and Y is Z
It therefore follows that
>X is Z
The why is it that
>Peter Parker is Spiderman
>Spiderman is famous
However
>Peter Parker is not famous
Can anyone explain this?
>>489989
Spiderman = Peter Parker + public image
They aren't equal.
/his/ threads keep getting more ridiculous, what the fuck
>>489989
non-substitutability of different descriptions of the object
You can't blame all Muslims for the artocities that Isis commits in the Middle East
Just as much as you can't blame all crusaders for Venetians ransacking Constantinople.
I can blame Islam for never producing anything of worth, and I can say that its evil culture needs to be replaced with Western Modernity.
>>489813
>Just as much as you can't blame all crusaders for Venetians ransacking Constantinople.
Dude, go read Nicetas Choniates, the venetians were the least damaging party in the 4th crusade. It's the fucking franks who totally nigged out.
>>489813
>implying the byzantines weren't heretics and traitors anyway
raping, pillaging, murdering
how were the vikings any different from ISIS?
I mean at least ISIS kills sandniggers - vikings were doing this to fellow white men
HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BE PROUD OF MY NORWEGIAN HERITAGE
>>489611
>HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BE PROUD OF MY NORWEGIAN HERITAGE
There's more to Northern history than Vikings...
>>489611
>I mean at least ISIS kills sandniggers - vikings were doing this to fellow white men
>fellow white men
they weren't white, too much mongol heritage. you can see it in their actions and lack of high culture. having blonde hair and blue eyes doesn't make you white.
>>489628
my heritage is also from the Orkney Islands, Scotland. A region that was entirely settled by vikings exclusively . There's no doubt that I have blood from men who kidnapped, raped, pillaged, and murdered
Will philosophy ultimately only lead back to the ordinary, making it pointless really? I mean when all deep questions were to be answered, what would be left besides the ordinary?
Deep questions will never be answered though
>>489518
If you knew the thing about philosophy you would know that those questions cannot be universally answered. You can only answer them for yourself.
Nothing will happen to you if you do
>>489528
I think if the deep questions can't be answered or not doesn't really matter. What seems to matter is what we'd if we imagine for a second we could and then presume we did. What would we do with it?
Assuming the Ostrogothic Kingdom survived into the Middle Ages. Would it be very different from "canon" Italy (With genoa, venice etc) ?
>>489506
There would not be Lombardic Italy to begin with.
And you should take in account that would not only change Italy, but the whole Europe, do they keep a strong state?
Then they wouldnt be the easy prey for the Franks liek the Lombards were.
Do they keep close relations with teh Visigoths?
A strong Gothic Alliance could have emerged.
Probably not because the rise of things like the Papal States led to the fragmentation of Italy and with the rise of Papal States people were like fuck this shit I'm out.
>>489506
Roman Empire 2.0
How large could "Europe" have been?
In other words, would it have been possible, had things gone differently, for parts of North Africa or the Middle East to be considered European, culturally?
How do you know it won't enlarge in the future?
>>489466
Well considering how those regions were all owned by Europe at one point and still retained their own unique cultures and languages, no, European culture has spread as far as it ever will. However, Europe will continue to influence non European nations in ways that allow non European countries to retain their traditions.
>Implying there isn't a continuity between Europe and Asia
>Falling for imperialist memes this hard
TIL Socrates' wife was kind of an hysterical bitch. Like most women, according to Plato.
> After a short time he came and told us to go in. We found Socrates
> recently released from his chains, and Xanthippe—you know her—sitting
> by him, holding their baby. When she saw us, she cried out and said the
> sort of thing that women usually say: “Socrates, this is the last time your
> friends will talk to you and you to them.” Socrates looked at Crito. “Crito,”
> he said, “let someone take her home.” And some of Crito’s people led her
> away lamenting and beating her breast.
> she cried out and said the sort of thing that women usually say
I always forgot people thousands of years ago were people too, it's interesting to see these traits that all cultures seem to share because of our innate humanity. I love these sort of things, does anyone have similar stuff?
>>489198
You seem like a retard.
T. Socrate´s wife.
Yea I've read this dialogue and it was not hysterics. Her fucking husband was hours away from being executed and she was crying and experiencing emotions, which they viewed as a womanly thing. Later when the men present tear up, Socrates basically told them they were acting like women and this is why I sent away the others.
ITT: Stuff that breaks our 25 year rule today, but won't tomorrow.
>>489122
slovenian terrorism is never forgotten
>>489122
PURE IDEOLOGY
I must unite the Roman peoples under one flag
>>489090
I must unite the roman provinces under one flag
>>489112
I must unite the Romanian provinces under one flag.
Silly boys.
I've been wondering something.
If a western nation like say, Germany, was given the task to erase every other single non-western nation of the world, could they achieve it? or would they be massively stumped by China and Japan? I mean that the USA and other european nations wouldn't intervene and let Germany go through with a world-wide holocaust.
Boom
China and Russia would kick Germany's ass, if there is no NATO support
Fairly sure Germany doesn't stand a chance against China.
![Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R93434,_Albert_Kesselring[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/AnwTHoS.jpg "Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R93434, Albert Kesselring[1]")
Why wasn't he hung with the rest of them?
>>488840
Smiling Kesselring did nothing wrong. Hanging partisans was not a crime until after WW2, Italifag
>>488879
Wait hanging terrorists is a crime after ww2?
>>488885
How can partisans qualify as terrorists? They strike military, not civilians-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Subpluvial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara_pump_theory
How different would the world be if the Sahara stayed green? Ever couple of thousand of years, the Sahara suddenly goes back to being a fairly wet savanna, and the most recent of these event ended about 5,000 years ago. Would Eurasia be even more connected with Africa?
>>488798
>Would Eurasia be even more connected with Africa
of course.
the greatest civilizations arose from fertile regions like Mesopotamia, or the Nile.
If, for the sake of argument, the Sahara region were as green as your pic, it would have been Mesopotamia x 50. That's a huge fucking area there, i mean, the size of that empire would be even unrealistic. Just look at the shit that Italy or Spain is.
I mean, I cannot get over how fucking green the Arabian peninsula is, how does that get irrigated?
I don't think you realize just how big Africa is.
But, if for whatever reason this did happen, then civilization would have probably seen more North African civilizations/states arise due to the increased capacity for agriculture. Rome (If it ever comes about because we're talking about a massive change at 7,000BC) would certainly focus on North Africa and the African interior far more than Europe proper. Carthage (Again, if it even comes about) might also have been more than just covetous Semites and instead been a vast expanding agricultural power. The Bantu migration might head north instead of South, and Sub-Saharan Africans may have been contacted by Eurasians before the 8th century.
And then when any sufficiently advanced polity finds this shit out it's basically gg no re for Africa. Not only would African populations be more spread out (making colonization easier) but there would be far more untouched land. Imagine what the Ottomans (Or worse, the Chinese) would do to get their hands on this territory. It would make whatever the Europeans did and would do look like sunshine and rainbows.
>>488830
>how does that get irrigated?
It doesn't. Arabia used to naturally look like that.
>
And then when any sufficiently advanced polity finds this shit out it's basically gg no re for Africa. Not only would African populations be more spread out (making colonization easier) but there would be far more untouched land. Imagine what the Ottomans (Or worse, the Chinese) would do to get their hands on this territory. It would make whatever the Europeans did and would do look like sunshine and rainbows.
What makes you think, if Africa had these advantages, they'd be worried about this shit. If the map really looked like this, it would be more likely gg no re for Europe.
Everyone agrees that our experiences and environment play a role in our cognitive development, but that's where the ageeement stops.
Do you think that genetics aren't as important as experiences in defining personality and behavior, or do they rule us?
I think, also, there is some disparity between HOW each plays its role. Do genetics implement the specific personality style, or do they develop certain abilities and properties through which a personality style forms?
pic non-related
This is /sci/
Polite sage
>>488782
It can be debated philosophically
I think it is exceptionally hard to prove which genes modulate which behavior.
I find it hard to believe that science could ever pin-point which gene makes someone want to be a lawyer, if there even is such a thing.
Post first-person accounts of historically significant events. Leave sources if you can.
At 10:00 p.m., a salty army corporal led his four-man tank-killer team made up of Ōmagari and two sailors. They kept to the shallow trenches as they moved slowly towards the ambush zone. Ōmagari admired the NCO's ability to keep them together in the darkness. Around 4:00 a.m., they arrived at the ambush site to the smell of decay. Dead bodies, in various stages of decay and dismemberment, carpeted the ground. The moonlit area was a killing field. Some of the dead were felled by flamethrowers that burnt off their flesh to expose glistening bones. The corporal whispered for the men to lie down amidst them. Ōmagari was numb inside, so had little trouble dragging bloated corpses by the feet. He sat down and leaned back into the pile of shattered men.
>>488500
Before getting into his own position, the NCO crawled over piles of the dead to check on each man. He squirmed up next to Ōmagari and whispered, "You stand out like a sore thumb, sir. You don't look dead." Ōmagari wasn't selling it as a corpse. If the flamethrower tanks spotted him they would torch the whole group. The corporal instructed Ōmagari to smear blood on his face, and cover himself with intestines and organs. Ōmagari balked at coating his body in the guts of his countrymen. The NCO spoke through clenched teeth that if Ōmagari didn't convince the Marines he was dead, the flamethrower tanks would burn him and the others alive.
The NCO pulled his bayonet from its metal sheath and brought it down hard against a dead man's torso, splitting the belly open. He pulled out a slippery mass of viscera. He handed the bayonet to Ōmagari and pointed to another corpse. With the fate of the mission at stake, Ōmagari accepted the glistening bayonet. Ōmagari tried to open the buttons of a dead man's jacket, but the corpse was too bloated so he sat up on his knees and swung the bayonet down into the dead man's abdomen, hacking through the uniform and exposing the dead man's organs. Ōmagari used the tip of the bayonet to fish out a long string of intestines. Ōmagari unbuttoned his own jacket and stuffed the entrails inside. He hacked off a large section and inserted it into a tear in his pant leg. Seeing this, the NCO was satisfied and crawled away. "The dead were no longer seen as human beings, but as objects. Even the dead were called to fight," Ōmagari said.
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I was going to link some archive.org translation but they appear to mostly suck.
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>>488279
The land of the thunder dragon emperor
Why is it that kingdoms like Bhutan, Liechtenstein, and Luxembourg never got absorbed into their larger neighboring empires?
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