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How many of you know this feel?
Buying books? Reading about Africa? I don't get it.
>Against the Mau Mau
>Mau Mau
>>1237100
Look at the price.
Is there a similar list on the topic of christian meditation/contemplation? What would be good ways to start?
Great!
God is supremely good. Of all creation that is capable of rational thought and free will, some are friends to God, some are His true servants, some are estranged, and there are others who, despite their weakness, take their stand against Him. We might imagine that God's friends are those angelic beings which surround him (Seraphim, Cherubim etc...). His true servants are those who sincerely attempt to do His will to the best of their ability. The estranged are those who have not yet met Christ. His opponents are those who go out of their way to attack Him and those who...
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Greatest military commanders of all time and their deeds.
>>1236922
This Nigga and Fredrick The "Great"
>>1236943
>Fredrick The "Great"
Too much luck, I would say he is definitely in Top Ten, but not the "greatest"
>>1236963
More like Frederick the Pathetic, am I right?
I was taught that people were never racist until just a few hundred years ago.
Is that true? Please provide evidence if possible.
Racism is power plus prejudice.
Because mere serfs and burghers had practically no power before the Enlightenment, there was no one capable of being racist, only prejudiced.
Depends on how you define "race". If you define it along the lines of what developed in the last few hundred years, they obviously couldn't be racist because they didn't conceive of races that way.
If, however, you include all demarcations of peoples, racism has certainly always existed. Greeks did not identify with other "whites" as a superior race, but they did identify Greeks specifically as a superior race, for instance.
>>1236759
The idea that a race can be sub-human and biologically inferior is a 19th century invention.
Xenophobia, however had always existed. It's a natural, yet unfortunate reaction.
Can someone please sum up his Decline of the West for me?
>>1236631
Do your homework, faggot.
>>1236631
>le Christianity was part of the magian(arab) civilization
>slavs had yet to florish since they were in magian pseudomorfosis
Jesus Christ Marie, They're minerals
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." - Marcus Aurelius
So is he like saying the laws of gravity are also opinions? Help me follow this.
>>1236555
Can you "see" the law of gravity?
What color is it?
Sure.
Science is just a method of creating predictive models, nothing more.
>The War of Northern Aggression
>>1236522
Where do you live, OP? I live in Texas and I have heard people say this unironically only a few times
>implying the Civil War wasn't a war of agression against the South
>Have online friend
>He's a big history buff and just as autistic as me
>Finally have someone to talk about one of my favorite topics
>One day when talking about WW2 he says "yeah during the great patriotic war"
>Laugh at the term and make some jokes about the soviet army
>He gets mad, like REAL mad
>mfw he wasn't joking and actually referred...
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Are humans inherently good or evil?
Good, according to Genesis. God saw that all creation was good, including man.
>>1236459
Wouldn't original sin negate that?
>>1236461
Inherently pertains to what is nature (innate), not accidental properties.
Embarrassed military defeats
how did the pansexuals and the Portuguese do that?
How?
How good of a leader was he really?
Good enough to justify him being a Civ V leader
which is a really low bar because they put Maria of Portugal there
>>1236177
He is easily the best example of an enlightened monarch.
>>1236177
Dom Pedro was someone who for better or worse wasn't particularly fan of being a King.
So he defended republican ideals, he liked to travel across the world in scientific travels and liked to send letters to scientists to discuss whatever new is happening. So if anything else Pedro II brought a lot of new scientific developments to the country
The emperor himself liked to give teach astronomy, a subject he dearly loved, to students in his personal observatory.
Who kicked the most ass; Templars, Hospitallers, or Teutonic Knights?
Hospitallers
>>1235886
Teutonics definitely seen the most action
>Templars
Bankers with swords
>Teutonics
Killed more Europoors and christfags than kebabs or mudslimes
>Hospitalliers
Actually did shit and BTFO mudslimes repeatedly.
I'm half Vietnamese and know almost nothing about the Vietnam War so can we have a Vietnam war thread please?
It's not something my family talks about other than to talk shit about Ho Chi Minh/Commies
>>1235779
Americans and South Vietnamese were bad.
Commies were worse.
>>1235835
>he thinks communism is its post-revolutionary sublation as stalinism in the role of capitalist industrialization in the 20th century
>>1235835
This is pretty accurate.
Can anyone tell me more about the Scythians?
In particular, the Indo-Scythians?
Apparently those from north-west India are descended from them.
>>1235775
adopted indo-european languages from greek and spread it to eastern europe
>>1235775
Northwest Indian here.
Why do some people claim we're descended from Scythians? I haven't seen any compelling evidence.
>>1236056
retard
Why did Native american Populations, in both the north and in south, not build cities, kingdoms, or even empires similar to that of Europe or even Asia?
No domesticable animals
Also, what would you call Tenochitlan or however it's spelled, and the Aztec and Inca? Those seemed like empires to me.
Seemingly simple ideas can be hard to come up with I guess and I guess they had no real need to because the size of that land is monolithic so people can just spread out. At least, that's what I assume.
>>1235633
Let just say.
They were fooled.
By randomness.
The Aztecs and Incas showed it was possible, no? I wanted to say that a lack of cultural exchange was another factor but I am not that sure.
Name one wrong thing he did. It's all made up by Turkroaches.
>>1235527
He wasn't effective enough.
>>1235527
he lost and his kingdom become kebab slave for centuries
He became so buttblasted by the Turks (like everyone who lives in a certain radius around them, hilariously) that he sperged out, lost and became Dracula.
