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>>"There exists another history, more absurd [ridicule] than the history of Rome since the time of Tacitus: it is the history of Byzantium. This worthless collection contains nothing but declamations and miracles. It is a disgrace to the human mind."
he can't keep getting away with this
>>1204384
Fucking hell Voltaire. Say about the Heretical Germanic Confederation what you will but don't touch the true Romans.
>>1204973
Justinian, for all the praise he gets for conquering shit, basically destroyed what made the Roman Empire great. The Roman Empire allowed the philosophies of the Greeks to spread across Europe and influence it. The Byzantines maintained the old Greek philosophy, until this guy decided to shut down the big revival movement for the philosophy by ending the Neoplatonic Academy. The philosophical ideas of the time period only returned to Europe when Islamic texts were translated, and a lot of those texts were made in Persia...
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Of that Byzantine empire, the universal verdict of history is that it constitutes, without a single exception, the most thoroughly base and despicable form that civilization has yet assumed. There has been no other enduring civilization so absolutely destitute of all forms and elements of greatness, and none to which the epithet "mean" may be so emphatically applied...The history of the empire is a monotonous story of the intrigues of priests, eunuchs, and women, of poisonings, of conspiracies, of uniform ingratitude.
Is there a biblical precedent to blessing weapons of mass destruction?
What does blessing even do? Is it supposed to be like magic, is the priest enchanting the missiles?
Orthodox bless pretty much everything. If you're an astronaut, they bless your shuttle, if you're a doctor they bless your medical equipment, if you're a soldier they bless your weapons, etc.
Blessing something is marking it to receive God's benefit.
>>1204189
Isn't blessing an arm of the state a bit too close to caesaropapism for comfort?
>>1204200
>if you work for the state, we can't bless your equipment because it's not privately owned and Stephen Moneyloo would pitch a fit
>even though we've anointed kings into their ascension since the old testament
Was ancient warriors a strong masculine types of men like this one? Or is it just in fiction, and they was just like average humans today.
>>1204083
Your concept of masculinity is inherently modern, post-1950s, therefore your concept of masculinity has nothing to do with ancient warriors concepts of masculinity.
They were average humans like today, they were manly as fuck, and you are a little sissy wuss boy.
>>1204083
They probably weren't as ripped. Functional strength doesn't always lead to definition and mass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAmCxXDkcdI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLWBTAlxLGg
This is an argument I know a lot of theologians and philosophers have addressed but I wanted to see if /his/ has a good response:
>If God is perfect, then God cannot change, since any change would render him less than perfect
>All descriptions of God require a verb (usually "is" but also verbs like "loves" "creates" "reveals" etc.)
>All verbs carry with them a spatio-temporal component (Ex: God loves man)
>Therefore...
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>>1203831
> God cannot be described by men
This is a logical conclusion. You can't really define something absolute. You can describe it, but all of such descriptions wouldn't be accurate. Words are pointing nature of God but doesn't reflect him at all.
>>1203831
Sounds post-quasi-neo-Spinozian.
What response are you looking for? This is standard /his/ bait. Don't you have some input, OR are you simply SHITPOSTING and waiting for the fireworks? Seriously OP. Are you even able to formulate an opinion on this?
>>1203831
Easy counter argument.
1: Posit there exists a "god" (we shall ignore how you derived this but we'll use it as an axiom)
2: Give this god the property "Perfect" to indicate by some metric the maximal state of all parameters
A) Any change in "god" would render said object less than perfect
B) All descriptions of "god" involve some spatio-temporal change in god
Ergo; either god does not have the property perfect, or the descriptions are wrong.
If...
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We all know who sad the best general in history, but what are best known examples of the retards leading all their soldiers to certain death?
everyone who invaded russia except the mongols
>>1203756
Shitposting hour is over, John
WW1 generals get a terrible reputation which is 99% of the time absolutely undeserved and only an indictment of the ignorance of the people shittalking them.
Except for this guy, he's not as bad as people make him out to be... he's worse.
Military genius or Israeli meme general? I feel like it's somewhere in between
>Leave the arabians to me
kek
>>1203652
He didn't win in 1967 alone, and he failed in 1973. So yeah, about a 50-50.
>>1203652
Punished Dayan is somewhere in the midsle, especially after the Yom Kippur War
Did the ancient muslims drink alcohol ? I read somewhere that the Moors were heavy drinkers and that middle east were a very big wine producer in the middle ages.
Also the local populations were already used to drink alcohol so banning would sure have been hard, and the health aspect is also to be taken into account, as water was always a big disease catalyst
I tried some research but I only find shitty muslim websites treating the religion aspect, not the historical persective
>>1203663
Yeah we all know the theory, but if theory was always applied catholics wouldn't eat pigs or shave either so...
Yeah a they did and they certainly do now
>>1203663
>MOHAMMEDANISM BLAH BLAH BLAH
you're such a try hard rei
Proto-guts
What did this guy do?
Jan Ziszka
I found this on wikipedia while looking at the holy roman empire page. I scrolled down and i see the following paragraph at the end of the first section:
In a famous assessment of the name, the French Enlightenment writer Voltaire remarked sardonically: "This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was in no way holy, nor Roman, nor an empire."[29]
Which one of you fuckers did it?
Are you fucking retarded?
>>1203542
Wait, Voltaire actually existed?
>>1203557
Was Dunkirk considered a victory or a defeat for the Brits?
This question came up in a /tv/ thread because of the upcoming Nolan movie.
>retreat
>lose ground
>victory
What do you think?
>>1203325
To be fair, it was a nice propaganda victory for the Eternal Anglo, but over all it was only 300,000 men.
Soviets lost 500,000 at Smolensk pocket for example and they still won.
>>1203325
Dunkirk was a massive defeat and retreat. It was only glorified for propaganda as the British 'cut their losses'.
Who is the greatest crime boss in history?
>>1203262
The one that never got caught.
>>1203268
>>1203273
damn.... makes you think #StayWoke
Vladimir Lenin
He created the biggest crime organization of 20th century, possible all time.
Where did the Dravidians come from? Why don't they look like East/Southeast Asians?
No angry "Indo-Aryans" in this thread please.
>>1203252
India
>>1203252
Lemuria
Their closest relatives are the australoid aboriginals
>>1203252
Some racial anthropologist call them veddoid race.
>when you're playing Napoleon Total War and you can't liberate/protectorate Finland, even though it became an Autonomous Duchy of Russia in the Napoleonic Wars
>when some sperglord from /v/ tries to make a thread on vidya gaems while greentexting
>>1203147
To be fair, when Hearts of Iron 4 comes out, we will have a lot of posts here in /h/ about it.
That game is too high brow for /v/
Post your top ten generals and discuss
1. Napoleon
2. Caesar
3. Alexandros
4. Scipio
5. Hannibal
6. Subutai
7. Timur
8. Frederick The Great
9. Eugene of Savoy
10. Gustavus Aldophus
>>1203019
>Hannibal below scipio
>>1203065
Is there a problem ?
>>1203019
1. Alexander the Great
2. Napoleon
3. Subutai
4. Von Manstein
5. Charles Martel
6. Scipio
7. Hannibal
8. Zhukov
9. Philip II of Macedon
10. Genghis Khan
What's a good general book on the ancient near east?
the bible
>>1202783
Europe's Spur: How the Levant was white before the arabs invaded
>>1202783
Ramses II
