What do you think about Depok Chopra?
>>460015
I haven't liked what I've heard. Generally feels like a walking self help manual which is bad imo.
I do like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42wNvrNHBcc
He promotes pseudoscience.
He's shit.
>The human nervous system belongs to the mechanics of observations. Perception compliments great reality, and greatness itself explains species-specific timelessness. Our evolution is the continuity of total positivity, as matter self-interacts with the progressive expansion of sensations. From this, wwareness corresponds to exponential bliss - nature is inherent in the doorway to potentiality.
Which mythology has the most/best/weirdest sex?
My vote goes to Hinduism.
The Mahabharata goes from weird fuck to weird fuck.
>>459725
Holy shit mate, they need to go full kink.
Did you see their women?
>>459738
not sure bro
>>459779
Hahaha, sure you not.
Anyone else here get any cool /his/-related gifts for Christmas?
This thread might be early but meh.
I got "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" last year but couldn't make it through the whole book.
>>459585
I realize now that William Bradford and his Puritan pals wouldn't even condone my celebrating Christmas.
>>459684
my dad used to be married to a descendant of governor bradford, she was a massive raging drunk
Red pill me on Ho Chi Minh
Was he a hero or did he ruin Vietnam?
>was he a hero or did he ruin vietnam?
well history's written by the victors, so as the textbooks stand he's a hero. but in more neutral terms, he was a nationalist who wanted to oust foreign influence over vietnam by any means necessary, and Communism with a mix of nationalist fervor was his chosen method to do it.
You can't really measure what he did for North Vietnam to improve the lives of the people, seeing as he was at war from the day it was established until well after his death. if you want to say the lives of Vietnamese under him were shit, you'd be right because of the non-stop bombings.
so that question will be debated forever and is relative to your worldview. in the eyes of nationalists who see him as a man who removed Western domination over the country, he's a damn hero. To western powers who sought to keep foreign influence over the nation to enforce Containment, he's a rag-tag rebel leader who dragged his country into a 30 year long war that killed a good 1/6 of the population.
>>459557
>red pill me
Back to /pol/ with you
>>459589
It's just an expression.
What kind of tactics allowed for such rapid expansion, and why couldn't they hold onto it all?
>>459496
>fought two sides that had weakened each other after centuries of war (Byzantines and Persians)
>Persians were attacked around the time they had over 30 rulers attempt to seize the throne
>Arabs killed their best general... because the caliph was paranoid about his image
>over-expansion in Europe and South Asia
>forces became too greedy with raiding... was one of their major downfalls at Poiters-Tours, and the Indian subcontinent
every day I thank God the franks held back the muslim hordes.
>>459574
So basically like most other empires. Rise through large forces and luck (right people at the right place at the right time), then bogged down with corruption and over-extension.
Why were there less Roman scientists and astronomers that made huge discoveries than Greeks before the Roman conquest? Even though there were a fuckton more Romans at the height of the Empire than Greeks it seems like the speed of scientific progress and discovery slowed under Roman rule.
Romans built roads on the ground, Greeks built roads in your mind.
>>459258
That's deep, bro. Real deep.
Large empires promote stagnation
Historical figures that would have been 4chan anons
Starting with muh nigga Ben Franklin
Voltaire would shitpost here. Candide is basically one long shitpost about Leibniz.
>>458937
ben franklin would be too busy inventing shit and being brilliant to spend time on 4chan
People can't even figure out which celebrities in the current era use 4chan (except for rumbling T Swift), nevermind historical figures.
A chair is red.
Is the chair red because it is of the color red, or is it of the color red because it is red?
>>458795
bush did 9/11
is it because steel beams can't be melted by jet fuel or is it because jet fuel can't melt steel beams
This is going to explode into thread arguing about qualia.
The chair is 'red' by virtue of being red.
Has anyone ever presented a decent argument against this?
No, hes right. People should work 24/7, spending time to reflect on your life and appreciate your existence is meaningless
>>458589
This. I could be earning money in that time, fuck worshipping some made up shit.
>>458583
Sleeping is an even bigger waste of time.
Let's have a festive thread about the history of Santa Claus and Christmas,
All contributions on the subjects are welcome but a couple of provocative questions to get us going.
Is Christmas really a pagan festival rather than a Christian one?
Did the Coca-Cola company really invent the modern depiction of Santa?
>>458396
>Did the Coca-Cola company really invent the modern depiction of Santa?
I would be interested to see if this was true. The color coordination sure would make sense
>>458512
According to Coca-Cola themselves the colours aren't their doing but their advertising played a significant part in the creation of the jolly, fat Santa we see today.
http://www.coca-cola.co.uk/faq/rumours/is-it-true-santa-is-red-because-of-coca-cola/
>>458396
>Is Christmas really a pagan festival rather than a Christian one?
How Christmas is celebrated is pagan, obviously Santa/Odin and shit isn't Christian
Was Diogenes of Sinope the first shitposter?
>>458310
Yes.
I just realized how much of a cynic I am.
>Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "'Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."
Yes, yes he was.
Why was HBO's 'Rome' so based?
>>458216
Rome is the best show I watched in my entire life of 22 years
>>458232
It has one BIG fucking flaw, lad.
>>458234
Which is?
How did a few bands of uncivilized, stone-wielding hunter-gatherers develop into a multi-continental conglomerate of nation-states with highly advanced cultures, economies, and technologies?
slowly
>>458203
It's our destiny, anon
>>458203
Religion in the form of colonizing Cults.
Who's your favorite historical character?
Mine is Charlie the Really Big Guy.
not gonna happen
Alberto barbossa
Mine is Dick Kitty Tummy
Could they have ever won?
>>457799
Maybe if Italy never invaded Greece and then had to call Germany to intervene
>>457799
>double quads
If the French/Poles were not an obstacle, but an ally, and the British at least economically helped them out.
Yes.
Unfortunately, faggots are the victors of recent history.
From the little I understand, the German military didn't put enough importance on supply lines and logistics.
Even if they had...that's a lot of land.
