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Is this the most unlikable empire in history?
Ignoramus here, why would the Austro-Hungarian empire be hated?
If numerous Europa Universalis sessions suggest anything, yes. REMOVE HABSBURGS.
>>1216811
Butthurt Slavs.
I should know, I'm one of them
Why are there no more great philosophers? Is philosophy dead?
>>1227401
mathematics and science have made philosophy obsolete.
do you think a philosopher could have determined for humanity the empirical data that confirmed that time does not flow, but exists in a 4 dimensional block?
>>1227504
>mathematics and science have made philosophy obsolete.
No.
>do you think a philosopher could have determined for humanity the empirical data that confirmed that time does not flow, but exists in a 4 dimensional block?
Yes
>>1227401
Because 'great philosophies' are philosophers who have stood the test of time. No present philosophers can do that, since they're in the present, obviously.
itt: Traitors
>>1227158
>>1227158
>>1227162
Did nothing wrong
Could the Mongols at their peak at 1279 defeat the Roman Empire at their peak for every category (Territory, Army, Technology, etc).
Shit thread.
>>1223378
Also, Byzantine and Western Roman Empire both count as Rome.
>Could the French under Napoleon defeat the Abbasid caliphate?
Other than it appearing in the bible (kind of) and being declared a dogma, do Christians have any reason to believe God is a trinity?
>>1230267
It doesn't appear in the Bible.
>>1230267
No.
>>1230277
1 John 5:7 For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.
I remember that we had a thread about how "realistic" Game of Thrones was, but what about The Witcher? If we look past monsters and shit, I think it's basically just like our medieval times, with the same problems as back then, but you also have nekkers, drowners and other monsters to deal with.
What are your thoughts on this though?
It's way more "realistic" than GoT, even though it got a shitload more fantasy elements.
Cities makes great sense in The Witcher universe.
Also, it's dynasties aren't fucking 8000 years old like in GoT which is already a huge fucking improvement over GoT.
>>1231266
The witcher (the games, the books are above average genre fiction) is high literature in video game form, game of thrones is genre fiction. Comparing them is misguided.
It's hard to say how accurate either show is as they don't take place in history. The Witcher has more clear historical inspiration though. GoT has a ton of wars as inspiration, the witcher is more focused on Polish folklore and history ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHsmiFJqJc this analysis gives some examples). The costumes are generally...
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>>1231295
I think the really old family dynasties is more of a myth (in the got universe of course).
It seems like some sort of really ancient history, where it's mainly fairytale. The time could have been exaggerated to make the houses seem more powerful.
Time is a social construct.
Discuss.
I guess if space is.
the present is the only real thing. past and future are merely ideas.
>>1227818
no basic physics
light distance and shit anon
50 miles from here the future has already begun
If Christianity never took hold and Jesus converted to Buddhism would Medieval Europe still try to eredicate pagan culture!?
>>1226830
No.
>>1226837
Explain please. Do you think that buddhism couldn't be dogmatic and used by Medieval rulers to force their culture on other people? I think perhaps it could.
No, we would have pagan Buddhism, with all the hilarious contradictions of Shinto Buddhism, but it somehow works and people don't sweat it to much
Thor reached enlightenment by punching oxen
>Synthetic a priori
Does it exist? Reason I ask is that I recently reflected over the case of this child:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_%28feral_child%29
And I have been thinking a lot about what kind of knowledge actually is innate to our being, or whether there is any at all.
We usually talk about animalistic instincts as being innate, but are they really? If a child who had never been fed when hungry, felt the feeling of hunger, would they know innately what causes it?
What is cultural knowledge?
>>1218900
Obviously a posteriori knowledge, not a priori.
You have to learn it from someone either by direct speech, or by observing how humans behave.
>>1218910
Kant argues that mathematics is made up of synthetic a priori propositions, yet we have to learn math from others.
So /his, who was in the right?
>>1233282
Matilda obviously, Henry I literally proclaimed her his heir. Stevo was a smelly usurper.
>>1233282
Matilda of course, but history doesn't care about who's in the right. Bigger army decides what's right.
>>1233282
Empress Matilda was in the right, Stephen was a rotten King and all should be grateful that Matilda's son came in and restored the law.
What's /his/ opinion on mongol yoke revisionism?
http://www.rusjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/The-Horde.pdf
>>1233185
> Much of the Russian language has Mongol roots and ultimately, these are
both Slavic peoples.
> The idea of the “Tartar” was a catch-all term for Eurasian fighters
WE
WUZ
>>1233218
Is tartar related to greek tartarus (hell/underworld)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartarus
>>1233185
Mongol yoke and Tatar influence have always been subjects for discussion within Russian historical community. Kostomarov, for example, had already outright stated that Mongol conquest was the factor that ultimately contributed to Russian unity in general and Moscow's leadership in particular. Most modern revisionists are pushing Gumilev's Eurasian point of view, however, and Eurasianism is a fucking retarded concept.
>>1233218
>Millions...
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Back when I was a Marxist I remember reading something about why "the liberation of the proletariat is impossible without the liberation of the woman". I forgot what exactly it was about and who wrote it. I assumed Lenin, but can't find anything right now.
Can someone fill me in?
>>1232800
Is this the quote?
Thomas Sankara said something similar as well, as had basically every communist ever.
>>1232819
Ah yes, that's exactly what I was looking for, Thanks!
Thomas Sankara on women's issue:
>The revolution and women’s liberation go together. We do not talk of women’s emancipation as an act of charity or because of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the triumph of the revolution. Women hold up the other half of the sky.
>>1232800
>"Out of the corruption of women proceeds the corruption of races; out of the corruption of races, the loss of memory; out of the loss of memory, the loss of understanding, and out of this all evil." Bhagavad Gita
The judeo-Masonic banking, corporate, mediatic and academic elites know, and their Marxist and SJW useful-idiotic puppets enforce, what the ancients already knew thousands of years ago. Out of the corruption of women comes the corruption of societies.
Who /Wargame, Red dragon/ here?
Legit the most realistic modern wargame. Infantry is the queen of battle desu.
>Not spamming Motorskis and wiping out capitalist pigs with napalm strikes
Please
>>1232598
Is there one focused on ww2?
>>1232607
99% of the war games are ww2 simulators.
Hey /his/, this is a question that's been on my mind a long time. I do MMA and lift weights and I get hurt all the fucking time. Just earlier this year, I had to train around a knee problem that I got from running too much, and I think now I've got a borked shoulder from lifting. I've also had tendinitis in both wrists which has thankfully subsided, along with my knee issues, and tore my ACL.
I have a physical job and I'm pretty active otherwise, but I'm nowhere near as active as a legionary or your average Grecian athlete might be, what with...
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>>1232557
that statue looks like he has gyno
>>1232557
>did they just bite the bullet and train through all the problems?
No, they died.
Your genes are weak.
>>1232557
Addendum: I know it could just in fact be my shitty genes causing all my problems, but I still think the question is worth asking
also
>>1232564
tendon problems aren't really fatal, I doubt a legionary in training would die of shock if he had a sudden attack of patellar tendinitis. Maybe booted from the army if he couldn't run.
Did the holocaust seriously impact the Axis's chances of winning WWII? It looks like a serious waste of time and resources compared to the war effort. Was it executed because WWII was a distraction? Was it just for seizing jewish assets to fund the war effort? Why do this during the war at all?
>>1232367
>Did the holocaust seriously impact the Axis's chances of winning WWII?
No because they would never have won
>>1232367
It's impossible to know for sure, but the Holocaust and the persecution of the jews certainly cemented:
>that signing a separate peace with the western powers remained a pipe dream
>that a lot of resources and infrastructure was spent on executing the final solution
>that incessant partisan activity bloomed and thrived in all corners of the third reich
Even Alfred Rosenberg, the CREME DÉ LA...
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>>1232367
it is interesting to think about, none of the belligerents got into the war to save the Jews, and they did provide a prisoner force of slave labor for awhile, but it probably strained resources
