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Was racism a thing back in Roman times or is it a relatively new concept? I mean sure they called everyone barbarians but that's because they weren't Romans not because of their nationality.
They were right about germaniggers though.
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>>359228
barbarbar muffuga
wer da latin womenz at
There was no 'race' back then. It was more about cultures.
How come after SEVEN coalitions Europe didn't just say fuck it and balkanize france forever?
They showed way more restraint than I'd expect, is it due to war being much smaller and 'professional' in scale then?
>>359019
After all that shit, the rest of Europe just wanted the French to calm down
Enraging the French people once again wasnt seen as very clever given what they pulled during the Revolution
Also, French royal family was still very powerful in Europe
Not to mention that putting back monarchy was meant to send a message to the pleb of all Europe: "Don't try to rebel, in the end you'll lose anyway".
>>359035
>belligerents
>united states
What?
>>359035
>Not to mention that putting back monarchy was meant to send a message to the pleb of all Europe: "Don't try to rebel, in the end you'll lose anyway".
Does this take the cake for the most hilarious backfire of all time?
did samurai even fought against any non japanese and won? What's the reason behind them being so dickrided?
>>358929
19th century romanticism. Some faggot wrote a book on them and made them seem all super mystical and shit. That book has skewed the popular idea of Samurai for over a century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasions_of_Japan
Not really samurai just yet, but close enough. I feel the main reason why samurai are adored is an appreciation of the warrior-monk spirit. Mastery of both pen and sword and such. Plus interesting aesthetics mixed with a fair bunch of Japanophilia which arose in the mid 19th century.
>>358929
Burmese, Thai, Chinese, Korean
itt: /his/ related paintings
Is Social Democracy a sustainable system?
No, the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
>>355295
Economically, yes. See: Scandinavia
Politically, no. See: Scandinavia.
>>355304
>this meme
Hello, /his/.
First the link:
https://mega.nz/#F!AE5yjIqB!y7Vdxdb5pbNsi2O3zyq9KQ
Enochian is an interesting though incredibly complex system of angel magic developed through the late 1500's by John Dee and Edward Kelley. To make matters worse it appears we're missing key documents, and some of what we have was used as a wrap to bake a meatpie. The subject is so unwieldy that it would probably take the entire thread for an introduction, so I'll just touch on some main points and source references:
True and Faith Relation, key source narrative:
https://archive.org/stream/truefaithfulrela00deej#page/n7/mode/2up
The Great Table, an online resource for navigating the central cipher of the system:
http://keepsilence.org/greattable/
There are a goodly number of texts in the library which break down the actual system of magic, transmitted to Dee and Kelley through complex ciphers, and backwards at that. There's circumstantial evidence that Kelley was introducing material from Lurianic Kabbalah. The material was used to spy on other nations for the British crown on the approval of Elizabeth herself. They were also alchemical explorers and contributed to the development of the failed attempt at an alchemical kingdom of Frederick V the Elector Palatine. The following McKenna documentary covers much of this period in terms of alchemy, though it's a McKenna doc. so be prepared to take aspects with a grain of salt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjCjwZfyyBM
Others have used this material, including the Golden Dawn and later Crowley. We know that Dee was standardizing his notes via Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy, which segues into the other topic for the thread: Asterism.
>>354547
Agrippa relied heavily on planetary and stellar magic. Some of my favorite material from this is Agrippa's elaborations on the Behenian Fixed Stars. Budge (who first translated Coming Forth by Day for a wide audience) asserts these have a Sumerian origin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behenian_fixed_star
A new list of important stars appears with some ominous implications in Crowley's working of the Enochian material in Algeria:
>And the tablet blazeth ever brighter till it filleth the whole Aire. And behold! there is is one God therein, and the letters of the stars in his crown, Orion, and the Pleiades, and Aldebaran, and Alpha Centauri, and Cor Leonis, and Cor Scorpionis, and Spica, and the pole-star, and Hercules, and Regulus, and Aquila, and the Ram's Eye.
>And upon a map of the stars shalt thou draw the sigil of that name; and because also some of the letters are alike, thou shalt know that the stars also have tribes and nations
Cultus Sabbati is a modern synchretic system working out of Draco, which the Arabs reckoned as hyenas attacking a family of camels.
There are tons of great star myths of incredible importance through India. One of my favorites is that of the Matrika, or the star goddesses of the Pleiades, sometimes reckoned to be the wives of the Seven Saptarishi, or wise saints which appear to function as living vessels of stellar transition and are associated with Ursa Major. The Matrika on the other hand round out a list of entities in some tantrik traditions which may be invoked into a properly trained aspirant. Matrikabheda Tantra touches on some of this material and may be accessed via the library. There's a huge amount of material on these subjects, my paragraph is just a springboard.
>>354571
Anyway, what interesting, obscure, or wild stellar myths do YOU know? Or have info about. I'd love to know more about traditional Chinese astrology and/or what the Norse were doing with the stars. Any info, particularly with [citations] is appreciated, though the traditions and systems mentioned above aren't set in stone.
Honest question: why practice magic?
What is the finest military tactic used throughout history?
My vote goes for the blitzkrieg, its just unstoppable
>blitzkrieg
>tactic
>unstoppable
>>354041
Plenty of examples in here better than the blitz
flanking
Who were the most based Germanic peoples, and why was it the Saxons?
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>>352523
Good breeding stock.
>>352530
Poetic
>>352523
Goths were most based
Post the most evil human beings throughout history and existence, explain why their so bad/evil.
>>352230
No man is truly evil for himself and his people see him as a hero.
Constantine, who massacred millions of people to attempt to create a unified christian state within the Roman Empire.
What do you think is the saddest historical event?
>>352110
Fire bombing of Dresden
>>352110
>Those fucking eyes
Hitler not getting accepted to that prestigious art school
Why did Islamic civilization fall so far behind just about everyone else (save Africa)? They used to be pretty competitive
Even now they are so resistant to any sort of renaissance or change in behavior. It's stifling them, and for what purpose?
>>351488
>They used to be pretty competitive
No
>>351488
I hate to play fedora's advocate but may I hypothesize Islam itself?
Because of Yakub
Were peasants in medieval Europe really as dirty and stupid as most fiction depicts them?
>>351124
No.
>>351124
Yes
>>351124
Actually dumber than that.
Explain Anarchism?
Its and ideology Created by edgy neck beards in the 1800s, Now followed by even edgier teenagers
"Edgy" as an attempt to form a political ideology.
>>350768
"Get off my lawn"
Does god command the good because it is good, or is it good because it is commanded by god?
>>350497
A lot of bit of both
>>350497
The good can be derived from nature.
Nature that God dictated.
So it is good because God dictates.
>>350545
A bit of both isn't really an answer to the question.
I should phrase it better.
Is there an absolute morality that god enforces because he is moral, or is something moral because it is commanded by god?
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-09-09/news/chi-skokie-murder-insanity-claim-20130909_1_jeiloni-miguel-renteria-cynthia-renteria
Why were blacks made the slave race?
Could some other race have been enslaved en masse? Like native Americans, Asians, Arabs? And how would American society turn out different if that was the case?
Bartolome de Las Casas
Look him up
Although Europeans were enslaved en masse as well
>>350443
>Although Europeans were enslaved en masse as well
By Europeans?
Forced to work on plantations?
Put into breeding programs?
>>350434
Native Americans were enslaved, but because they knew the land so well they took peoples shit and ran off
