Could Germany and Austria ever unite into one state?
>>467545
As of today, not legally.
>>467561
Why not?
>>467566
Anschlussverbot
where were you when the humanities departments have hunted falsifiability into extinction?
>>467199
What?
Where were you when Karl Popper's opinions still weren't an objective standard for evaluating all human pursuits?
>>467199
>where were you when the humanities departments have hunted falsifiability into extinction?
When did Kuhn publish "structure of scientific revolutions" and highlight the problem of incommensurability again?
What if Carthage won the Punic wars? How would the world be today?
ITT : please write more than 2000 years of alternate history in a few sentences.
EZ PZ
>>467165
You know how blacks are trying to rewrite history by making Egyptians black? Like that, only much much worse.
Cute girl, pity she had to ruin herself with a nosering.
Significantly more human sacrifice.
Post flags of countries before they Westernized.
Thats a good flag, should have kept it.
Pre Commie Vietnam
More interesting than a souless commie flag
Specifically, the ideas of Sartre, Camus, etc.
Thoughts?
>>466894
>Existentialism & Absurdism
what is the difference exactly?
Everything is pointless. I don't want to talk about it.
>>466894
I find there is no meaning in what we do day to day. But there is the answer of why we exist,what happens after death and many other questions about life that still keep me interested.
When is Monarchy better than Democracy?
It has been proven to work through pretty much all of human history, both systems have their own Downs and Ups, what could make Monarchy a better suited system in contemporary world?
>>466707
Monarchy/autocracy may work better in the short term if you have a great leader but in the long run it becomes shit
>>466767
Democracy also can fail if incompetent leaders are selected
The UK gets some sweet tourist dollars from their monarchy.
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What does everyone think of the 1970s in America? Was it a decade of new possibilities for increased class and racial solidarity? Or was it the beginning of the end for American democracy?
I feel like the 1970s were the last hopeful decade America had and since then everything has only gotten worse, in terms of race relations, class division and wealth inequality, dysfunctional political systems, the death of unions and the working-class, erosion of the middle class, etc.
Also, some of the greatest films and music of all time came out during the 1970s.
Bump with some classic '70s Marvin Gaye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iDj1D2OimM
Beginning of the time of decadence
>>466321
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_izvAbhExY
Where did the surviving Knights Templar go after their order was disbanded?
I've heard about a theory which suggests they went to Switzerland and created and laid he foundation for Switzerland's banking culture.
>>466292
I've heard about a theory which suggests they went to Switzerland and laid the foundation for Switzerland's banking culture.
Mostly to heaven.
>>466292
They remained in the countries in which they were "deployed" and were absorved by other Orders.
ITT we talk about unsolved mystories.
Who's the young man with Raphael ?
Is there any art of those coward vikings getting BTFO
![pb-120805-viking-cannonphotoblog900_zps9dd52988[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/gsMwA31.jpg "pb-120805-viking-cannonphotoblog900 zps9dd52988[1]")
here's a better unsolved mystery: why were the vikings literally unstoppable?
Who's the girl in the middle ?
Hey /his/torians
ITT we post interesting /his/-related things in your town. They can be graves, museums, locations, plaques, etc.
I'll start with a couple of locations from my own home city. Pic related: Old Calton Burial Ground, Edinburgh. The round building is David Hume's tomb, and the statue of Lincoln is a memorial to Scottish soldiers who fought for the Union in the Civil War. It was the first statue of a US president outside the USA.
>>465931
Waverly Station, Edinburgh's rail hub. It is the only railway station in Britain, and possibly the world, to be named for a fictional character, Sir Walter Scott's 'Waverly'.
>>465931
A wee bit outside Edinburgh, but Scotland is so small we might as well not care - the house on Kirkcaldy where Adam Smith wrote 'The Wealth of Nations'.
The causeway out to Cramond Island. The island formed part of Edinburgh's naval defences in the WW2. You can visit the island by walking across the causeway at low tide, but you need to get back before high tide or you'll be stranded. The large concrete spikes to the right were built during the war to stop submarines or shallow-draft vessels infiltrating past the island at high-tide.
>National Socialism and any other form of conservative revolution was a false revolution, or at least a completely inauthentic political movement, because it wasn't Communist
Why do so many people parrot this garbage, as if the only way a movement can be 'authentic' is if it abides by a set of principles nobody outside the Ivory Tower cares about? Zizek always says this.
What's worse is when they call the rise of fascism "capitalist triumph" or some other retarded shit.
I laugh every time people try to use the dictionary strawman of Fascism, as it is a one size fits everything.
When in reality, Peroism, National Socialism, Francoism, and Fascism are all very different things.
I would define fascism as "for the health and well being of the people".
As in capability, not equality, not liberty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_anti-Sikh_riots
>Sikh bodyguards kill Hindu prime minister
>Hindus start a pogrom of Sikhs, government turns a blind eye
>Only 3000 die
How is it that something this inflammatory and religiously charged occuring in a non-1st world country could only result in 3000 deaths?
Is something like this really not enough to trigger a full-blown genocide?
Sikhs are brotier
Sikhs are bro
Just a guess but Sikhs likely would have defended themselves.
Which Diadochi was the best?
>>464796
Antigonos was the best
Selekuos did the best
Ptolemy was the most based
>>464796
Chandragupta Maurya
>you will never fuck your sister
;_;
What exactly is a psychopath? And is it true that a lot of leaders, high ranking, and influential people throughout history were psychopaths?
>>458314
a psychopath is anyone who suffers from a mental illness therefore, yes, many people throughout history were psychopaths
>>458322
I thought that psychopathy was more of just a personality type. Since they aren't necessarily psychotic or delusional.
>>458314
>>458322
Psychopaths suffer from Anti Social Personality Disorder.
They often are unable to feel empathy, and have trouble processing many other normal emotions.
They learn to mimic emotions, or manipulate others in order to succeed in their goal at the moment.
Psychopathy is related to a physiological defect that results in the underdevelopment of the part of the brain responsible for impulse control and emotions.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wicked-deeds/201401/how-tell-sociopath-psychopath
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/antisocial-personality-disorder/basics/definition/con-20027920
Now the dust has finally settled....
who won? IRA or Britain?
>>472144
Britain
>>472144
>who won?
The eternal anglo.
Is Ireland united and separate from the UK? No. Are British soldiers still stationed in Northern Ireland? Yes.
