Why?
>>423530
orientalist adventurer par excelence, embodyment of his contemporary image for a civilized western man. And a fag
>>423545
He was gay?
What's with the influx of Religious discussion?
I'm not against it or anything but did something trigger this?
>>423425
/pol/
Lots and lots of /pol/
Its quarantined from everywhere and now we get to deal with it.
I like it actually. If I witness this board dying because of it I can go back to 8ch /his/ and tell them how nothing has changed.
>>423428
pretty much this
that and the question on how dark the dark ages were (My answer is pretty dark but not as dark as some people think)
Who were the warring nations of the Seven Years War?
>>423001
Prussia vs Austria, France, Russia and Sweden in Europe
Plus Britain cowardly outnumbering the French in North America to steal their colonies while they were busy in Europe instead of helping its ally Prussia
Ally Britain, feel the pain
>>423120
Frederick
Can someone on /his/ enlighten me on the history of anti-Jewish sentiments and why they've historically existed? It seems like me a ethno-linguistic minority like Jews have always been blamed as a scapegoat for Western problems.
Why?
The Bible says you shouldnt loan money with interest, so Im pretty sure thats why Jews were the moneylenders in Europe
>>422788
they were bankers
plus they stabbed jesus in the back
>>422788
"They (the Jews) work more effectively against us than the enemy's armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great cause we are engaged in. It is much to be lamented that each state, long ago, has not hunted them down as pests to society and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America."
Source: Maxims of George Washington by A.A. Appleton & Co.
As the American colonies rose in revolt against political oppression occasioned by the attempt of Jewish banking houses in Europe to consolidate their economic foothold in the New World, no man among the Founding Fathers was more alert to the designs of international Jewry than that shrewd elder statesman of the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin. Perhaps Ben Franklin's most damning indictment of Jewry was contained in his famous prophecy at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia. In one of the most anti-Jewish utterances of all time, he declared:
"I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. That menace, gentlemen, is the Jews. In whatever country Jews have settled in any great number, they have lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated themselves and have not been assimilated; have sneered at and tried to undermine the Christian religion upon which that nation was founded by objecting to its restrictions; have built up a state within a state; and when opposed have tried to strangle that country to death financially, as in the case of Spain and Portugal.
Do you think where you're from should dictate the potential intelligence behind your opinions?
Take pic related for example. We are on fucking 4chan. Do we still have the right to be taken seriously?
>>422721
Analysing a source for quality depends on the purpose for which you're going to use the source.
>>422721
Opinions should be judged by the opinion itself, not where the person is from. The intelligence of a person usually draws them to certain places. That's why you generally get more intelligent posts from certain boards over other ones.
>>422721
>do you think the argument from authority is valid
uh no
Start with the obvious.
>>422597
Hume, Russell, Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend.
>>422597
Richard Feynman was pretty based.
Leibniz
is ancient Sparta the best example of a meme state?
Athens is more of a meme. Democracy LMAO
>>422551
Athens is best remebered for some of the brightest philospophers and the creation of a new political system
what's sparta best remembered for? a battle they didn't even win and killing babies
>>422564
/thread
I'm a new-ish Catholic.
Can someone explain why so many Catholics on the internet hate Vatican II?
>>422234
Hating on Vatican II is an easy way to prove you're "more catholic" without actually trying to live the life Jesus wants for you, which is hard.
>>422234
The Catholic Church has been infiltrated by multiculturalists
They're LARPers who dig catholicism because it reminds them of their gothic fantasy collectibles
Why do societies value humor? Why is humor considered a good thing?
Humor can be used to feel out how some members of the society felt about how things were without having to read long critical essays or criticisms of the government or some other institution. It can also be used to as a form of escapism or in some cases a defense mechanism from highly stressful environments.
>>422152
Do societies value humour?
What is a society?
What is humour?
>>422222
CZECHED
What made the great depression so much worse than any other economic downturn?
It wasn't. The Crash of 2008 was way worse. What prolonged was FDR's retarded policies.
>>422143
An economy way more dependent an credit and international trade that moved faster than policy makers knew had to deal with. Bank runs and panics were no longer local but national and increasing tariffs did nothing to stimulate domestic business but shut down global trade. Governments really had no idea what policies could effectively mitigate these things
I may be wrong, but it seems to be the first major crash, so there was an element of expectation in the 2008 crash that there wasn't in the Great Depression. Without the element of expectation, it's harder to rally together solutions, assure the public, and fix the problem.
You gotta help me /his/
I started reading some philosophy (loving it desu) but I keep going back to vidya and shit
How is one supposed to stopped wasting time with vidya and devote one's time to learning and studying?
>>422027
Stop being trash
Start being not trash
Shit someone post the /lit/ copypasta
>claims to love it
>can't be bothered to do it
Yeah, you're just pretending to like it because it makes you seem smarter/better to yourself. You're actually just lying to yourself and don't really want to do it, afterall. If you loved it, you'd be doing it.
Fraud.
What should he have done?
Also if he succeded, what would his little Empire be called today?
Romania?
Princedom of Rome?
>>>/theprince/
>>422315
thanks for the bumperino
In the end he probably would have gotten rekt by any major european power with enough interest in a divided Italy or by a large coalition of italian states. He pretty much made enemies everywhere, and many people were also pissed off by the ways of his "uncle", the Pope. What you ask, is like asking what would have happened if Napoleon succeded or Hitler won WWII; it is an Uchrony. From this point on, everything could have happened.
There isn't a general language thread, so I made one.
Which ancient languages have you studied/are you studying now?
I have a pretty decent grasp of Old Norse and am getting ready to start Sanskrit. Any resources you can recommend for the latter would be much appreciated.
>>421790
no you don't. please stop lying on the internet
>>421790
>Any resources you can recommend for the latter would be much appreciated
http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/
If your native language is english, then I can't really help you much with what book would be good for learning. Monier-Williams seems to be the go-to dictionary. William Dwight Whitneys "Roots" is a must-have if you are serious about learning and translating. "Sanskrit Syntax" by Speijer should also be useful, my professor said, but haven't used it much myself.
Good luck, it will not be easy.
How do I into declensing languages?
I have a hard time keeping in mind the rules of ablative, dative, etc nouns.
There's been a lot of talk about which European discovered America first, but how come the native Americans never found their way to Eurasia, or Africa for that matter?
>>421697
Perhaps because the trade routes to India being cut off by Ottomans did not incentivize them to search for alternate routes?
>>421730
Well the Vikings had nothing to do with the Ottomans for example and they discovered the New World on their own.
>>421746
That is true, however, they were
1) An maritime power with an established presence on Iceland and Greenland before they made the relatively short jump to the continental portion of North America.
2) They didn't stay & didn't venture further south then their initial landing sites.
But to your original question once again:
What possible reason would civilizations in the Americas have for sending ships out into a seemingly limitless body of water?
Christians, how do you reconcile that there is only one god, but your god was originally part of a pantheon of gods? Why was your god ok with worshipping other gods for so long?
Orthodoxy teaches that the OT was revealed incrementally to pave the way for Christ. Serving the whole thing up on one plate would have been unpalatable to the early Jews, who were probably polytheists as you say.
>>421531
So God lies to make his message more palatable? How can an immutable morality from such a source be trustworthy?
CHRISTIANITY IS NOT JUDAISM
Seriously why do you people have so much trouble understanding that?
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