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Are gender roles moral if they help society as a whole function or does the right of the individual to have no expectations morally justify there being no societal norms for gender roles?
the latter
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>>461420
Why does the right of the individual out weigh the greater good of society?
>>461420
/threading yourself
kill your're are self my man
How does the Kalam Cosmological Argument define "God"? What are all the properties of "God," if there are finitely many?
Craig's formulation of that argument is really easy to pick apart. He basically doesn't offer a rationale for his first premise, and his dismissal of actual infinity isn't very well-supported.
I'm actually in the process of trying to leave atheism and find "God", although not the superstitious God of organized religions.
I believe God is an emergent property of advanced civilizations. You know how ants can build great societies even though not a single one of them has the concept of society, it's just several small parts working together to produce something greater than the whole?
That's what God is. I think every society is aware of this God though but lacked the means to express it so they created various superstitious ideas....
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>>444891
Eventually you'll realize why organized religion is an integral part of your theory and convert to Catholicism or Orthodoxy.
Was the Han dynasty as advanced as ancient Rome? Economically and technologically
Yes, the territory was itself much more larger, which required a bureauctric class of citizens. Mandarins, master of laws and others, dedicated to the shaping of their society. on the other hand the roman bureaucraty was ''fill your pocket and run'' still. from all i've red and learned, it's the main flaw in my eyes.
Yes and yes.
Not even close, desu
Why was the American Revolution so successful? Why has almost every other revolution throughout history resulted in infighting, corruption and tyranny?
Decentralized government, wealth, and FREEEEEEDUMMMBB sure help. Can't revolt against what you can't see, don't need to revolt when you have food on the table, and revolting sounds like a shit idea when you realize despotism is the inevitable product of revolt in a republic.
>>451309
>Why was the American Revolution so successful?
Whiskey Rebellion
John Brown
Bloody Kansas
Machine Politics
Civil War
Radical Reconstruction
KKK
Pinkertons
Sounds like infighting, corruption and tyranny to me.
Learn your fucking history. Given how fucking dumb you are, start with Zinn, because recommending Dubofsky is a bridge too far for your ignorance.
>>451330
>Says American Revolution wasn't successful
>Lists events which happened years AFTER the revolution was successfully completed
Up until the mid-19th century, the Qing used a kind of 15th century tercio like formation with rattan shield soldiers (in place of rodeleros), pikemen and matchlock muskets (although known of, the flintlock was never adopted on a widescale).
Many of the Chinamen and Chinkaboos who infest /his/ will attempt to deny this.
>>469716
You must be very new :^)
>>469664
I don't even know why they would be expecting to deny it. Pike-and-shot formations were developed concurrently and largely-independently in Japan, Europe and China. And nobody is about to deny that the Qing military was criminally outdated by the nineteenth century.
>>469790
The Chinese never used pikes. To date, /his/ has not been able to produce good and reliable pictures of pike use in ancient China that is not a badly scanned painting or woodblock print.
How have standards of beauty changed over time?
Is it true that fat women used to be more desirable because it meant they were well fed? I'm curious about how are perception of beauty is instinctual as opposed to what we are taught.
>>461213
I remember a documentary about someplace in Africa where young women were put on hypercaloric diets to become more desirable brides. I guess when a fetish becomes widespread enough it stops being a fetish for those people.
>>461225
in cultures where there's not as much food, fatness became desirable as it signalled wealth or that the wife was well looked after
>Is it true that fat women used to be more desirable
No, all those claims are based on Rubens who was a fat fetishist, and prehistoric fertility goddesses.
The medieval female ideal was thin and graceful. Since the Renaissance it became a bit thicker, with bigger ass but small breasts. In the early 20th century it became skinny, then it changed a lot during the century.
>"I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilized nation of that complexion, nor even any individual, eminent either in action or speculation. No ingenious manufactures amongst them, no arts, no sciences. On the other hand, the most rude and barbarous of the Whites, such as the ancient Germans, the present Tartars, have still something eminent about them, in their valour, form of government, or some other particular. Such a uniform and constant difference could not happen, in so many countries...
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>>473872
>I
What did he mean by this?
based hume
>>473872
>The Negroes of Africa have not received any intelligence from Nature that rises above foolishness. Mr. Hume challenges anyone to suggest even one example of a negro who has displayed any talent. As he himself verifies, among the hundreds of thousands of blacks who have wandered far away from their homelands, even though many of them have been liberated, not one exists who has succeeded in anything great, either in the arts or the sciences or in any other noteworthy thing. On the contrary, among...
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what is best in life?
Whatever is keeping you alive
>>468438
its subjective
therefore it cant be answered
>>468498
That sounds like an answer Dingus.
When did war for territory stop and why?
It seems like pre 1900 almost all wars were fought were over territory and expansion. At what point did this change?
And did it change because the economy is so much more complex than it was back then?
Is conquering a land and absorbing its people not as prosperous as once was?
because U.N.
and because you dont need to take land to dominate countries anymore
>When did war for territory stop and why?
I didn't.
It stopped when nato said it would provide military support to nations and their clay if they denounced communism.
It assfucked the middle east, which ended up with yugoslavia tier borders.
Discuss Chinese characters.
Should Korea and Vietnam revive Chinese characters?
Should East Asia adopt simplified Chinese as the standard, or stick with traditional Chinese?
This doesn't belong here
>>>/int/
>>459173
If anything they should adopt latin like Vietnamese or some form of very simplified local alphabet like the Koreans
>>459173
>Should Korea and Vietnam revive Chinese characters?
Depends, what will they be losing?
Will their sense of identity be lost and a large part of their history be forgotten? If so, maybe, if not, it probably wasn't worth keeping in the first place.
Should East Asia adopt simplified Chinese as the standard?
Hell no
Keep with traditional, Especially if they have different grammar rules.
I don't know why they made simplified in the first place, and changing it would...
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Why were vikings such great fighters? Is it because of their pagan religion?
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>>467507
but their biggest weakness was an armed nun
You're now Pope Urban II before the First Crusade. What do you do? Do you stay on course and follow the same route he did or do you do something different instead?
>>466715
get the knights the byzantines wanted and make sure their good at what fighting Turkic nomads
Submit to being the patriarch of Rome, mend the schism and send resources and men to regain Anatolia.
>>466715
Relinquish power, submit to the church in Constantinople, condemn Latin, aggresively promote and enforce Greek.
Most highly developed countries go irreligious, the majority of the population is not interested in Religion anymore. The notable exception is the United states. How comes?
>>438272
how is merica developed
>>438272
>Most highly developed countries go irreligious, the majority of the population is not interested in Religion anymore. The notable exception is the United states. How comes?
Because the US is a nation of immigrants and every year they accept millions of religious immigrants with high birthrates (Arabs, Mexicans, Black Africans)
>>438272
Why isn't most of the Middle East dark blue?
If you were to travel back in time to the early Upper Paleolithic era, what Post-Neolithic invention would you bring and what would you do?
I'd want to bring a gun and conquer, but then again, they would probably take the gun off of me while I'm asleep.
>>470343
Metal working, specifically to eastern DRC then slowing go down stream spreading the technology before finally reaching the end of the Nile .
A mountain bicycle and I would ride around and impress the bitches.
What does /his/ think of modern day primitive people? What should be done with them
? Should their way of life be preserved? Should we study them to get a better idea of how our human ancestors lived?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLErPqqCC54
>>470334
>Uncontacted.
>Thumbnail shows a GRILL WITH A SHITTY MODERN MACHETE.
There is no such thing as a primitive human in current time
They should decide what they want to do
They should decide what they may or may not want to keep
Tribal people are not static and have the same dynamic culture as the rest of us, humans were not dumber or less than long ago, we are much the same then as now.
