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Let's talk about gnosticism, is still a heresy? I want to know more about it, I think is a very interesting thing to talk about.
>>1183296
>Let's talk about gnosticism, is still a heresy?
Yes. Don't get into that heresy shit anon, I don't want your soul to be damned.
>>1183348
ignore this dude, he will be the one that will depend an eternity with the demiurge, never stop seeking the true lord
>>1183296
Improve your grammar.
Why didn't the Romans ever try to conquer anything south of the Carthaginian Empire? Wouldn't it be really fucking easy?
No one can be this geographically inept, right?
because south of the Carthaginian empire is useless desert
>>1183219
yeah with nobody there so it would have been easy pickings for the romans
I'm in art college and am writing a visual analysis on The Building of the Tower of Babel from the Morgan Crusader Bible. Can anyone tell me what I should call this device on her back? I can't find anything on the internet.
tl;dr what is on her back
>>1182912
Who is this semen demon?
>>1182912
It's a construction site and the person is carrying mortar in the "backpack"
>>1182912
>her
Why is the "reconquista" of the iberian peninsula not really treated as a proper series of crusades in the modern imaginary?
All the discussion seems to divert towards the middle eastern crusades and to a lesser extent towards the baltic crusades, when in Iberia there was even a pilgrimage point, Santiago de Compostela, that was considered second only to the Holy Land in the christian imaginary.
>>1182791
Pretty sure the church has to approve it officially or it's not a crusade.
The Reconquista wasn't a single conflict, but a series of conected conflicts. Some of those conflicts were and are considered crusades. Crusaders travelled to Iberia and cavalry orders from outside and from the land were established to fight the moors. Never seen anybody denying it.
>>1182791
Depends on your sources, from the Iberian perspective it was a mission from God, while also functioning as a way to prove that the Iberians belonged in European affairs as an equal.
The church didn't technically start reconquista, but they did advocate it and so I think that might be why the Spanish identify reconquista as a Spanish duty to Christendom as opposed to all Christians needing to serve reconquista.
>>1182791
>Why is the "reconquista" of the iberian peninsula not really treated as a proper series of crusades in the modern imaginary?
because it isnt
its the ''reconquista''
not a series of crusades
If archers were expected to engage in melee, what did they do with their bows? Surely they must have been personal and also somewhat delicate?
Not as valuable as your life. it would probably be collected when the battle is over
>>1182698
Not that delicate, you just put in on the ground in a big pile.
Go full legolas up in that bitch and blaze through enemy lines, chopping and slicing down enemies left and right untill the bow falls out of your hand because it's so slippery due to the blood of yoir enemies?
Tell/redpill me on Ruthenia.
I got almost 0 knowledge of it at all.
>>1182548
>be ruthenian
>get KHAN'D
>>1182690
>know nothing about them
>wishes I understand the memes instead of answers inc
>>1182703
KHAN'D
>Listening to Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
>he talks about temperance and not letting your passions take control of you
>Dad walks in
>Hey anon I need help can you turn that off?
>Get super pissed
>NO I CANT BUT I CAN MUTE IT
>O-ok Anon I just need some help
>Dad leaves
I have failed you Marcus.
>Complete lack of filial piety
I'm going to go download photoshop and make a collage of disappointed Hellenes, Chinese and all the other respectable ancient cultures that would be indignent at this bullshit.
You've failed yourself. Don't even pretend that you actually feel any kind of loyalty to that dead Emperor who pretended to be a philosopher.
>>1182355
Look. Everyone fails. You pick yourself up, dust yourself off, apologize to your dad, and carry on.
I'm not sure if his is the place to put this, but how would you people feel If say Italy did something like Cornwall and revived and officially recognized Classical Latin, would it be plausible, would it be dumb? Pic kinda related
But why?
>>1181917
Why did Cornwall do it
>>1181903
Yes, it should be the official language of the EU and the Pope should support it. But then again the EU should be dissolved and this Pope hanged.
Was the Cultural Revolution the greatest adolescent fantasy of all time?
The leader of a country literally just told all the youth to drop out of school and go beat up old people for being counter revolutionaries instead.
19 yr old me would have been ecstatic to be put in that situation.
>>1181733
>Government sponsored edgelordism.
Thanks for the chuckles and a new way to view Cultural Revolution.
![Enver_Hoxha_in_1983[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/jT7N54q.jpg "Enver_Hoxha_in_1983[1].jpg")
>>1181733
>Great
>Proletarian
>Cultural
>Revolution
>>1181782
It was definitively great in scale
What do you think about solipcism? Is there any way to disprove it?
Pic unrelated
>>1181649
>Is there any way to disprove it?
Take it to its natural conclusion. Nondual Shiva Tantra.
>>1181649
No
>>1181649
Disprove, no, but you can empirically test it. Walk in the middle of a busy highway with your eyes closed while listening to loud music. if you're only the real person nothing should happen to you.
How come Spain barely colonized Africa?
Africa was colonising them.
Spain was weak when the massive colonization of Africa happened.
>>1181581
Okay but why didn't they try chipping away at the Ottoman's African possessions, or more of Morocco at the least when they weren't so weak?
>"Whoever claims to be noble must conduct himself nobly."
What does /his/ think about this concept? How real do you think it was in the past times? Basically it comes down to "try not to be a cunt to those below you". It included various things from helping the poor, acting in a civilized manner whatever the cause and generally not abusing your power and wealth, and instead using them to improve the community you rule over.
Today people mostly view lord-peasant relations as outright abuse and mistreatment. I'm...
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Come on you fags this is interesting
http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2013/12/whatever-happened-noblesse-oblige.html
interesting read, it shows from a surviving example how noblesse oblige would've actually worked
That's part of chivalry and courtesy. It's quite specifically a code of conduct that appeared in France in the Middle Ages, and was most prominent from the 12th to the 14th century.
It was very real as an ideal, and more real in practice than one might think.
part of the trouble is that for everyone noble or royal who did act with noblesse oblige, there were 5 more who did not
What does /his/ think about this
I think it's stupid to use a well known liar for your mod on history's greatest empire.
>>1180839
What empire are you talking about Anon?
>>1180832
It's pretty fun.
>>1180839
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What makes gold a very valuable commodity throughout history?
It looks pretty.
It's shiny and rare
>got a ban warning for making a thread about the Crimean war
Could we get mods who actually know about history?
Was the fact that the communist managed to survive the long march the biggest tragedy of Chinas history?
>>1179968
The biggest tragedy in China's history is that Sun Yat Sen died prematurely and the KMT was left in the hands of Chiang "Gay" Shek
>>1179972
>Impying Sun Yat Sen would have done a better job at keeping the commies at bay.
>>1179978
Probably, we know how things ended with Chiang in charge.
