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>Raising his wife's children
>Alpha
Washington was a cuck
>>1182128
IRRC, he was rendered infertile after he got tuberculosis, so he was unable to have kids of his own.
>cuck
>valid historical discussion
>>1182169
Surely the American people are his children?
I always get the thoughts that maybe its has way more to it and that even thought it might not look completely logic right now it just sounds like it can't be fabricated and the more I read the it makes me think that it might be true.And no being Christian doesn't make me feel better becaues I know that I will end in hell while with Atheism I couldn't give a flying fuck about anything.
Were you raised religious?
>>1182152
he was raised bait
>>1182152
Well in a way yes but it was not really that religious and it doesn't matter to me.
Obviously one can't just take over the world via military strength like in the old days. But in today's times, could one still aspire to bid for world domination? Is this dream still possible to achieve?
I think building a civil service and administrative structure on that scale is like trying to build a million story skyscraper.
Eventually, things are just going to buckle, because no material works on that scale.
Now, if you just wanted to hurt a bunch of people, fuck bitches, and look cool, there are plenty of opportunities.
>Obviously one can't just take over the world via military strength like in the old days
of course you can
why could you not
anon pls
Let's have a thread about the Greatest Empire known to Man, /his/.
>>1181453
I think you made a mistake with your map. You meant to post the Roman Empire but instead you posted the Russian Empire.
What exactly would make the Russian Empire qualify as "Greatest" in your mind, OP?
>>1181462
>Roman Empire
I think you mispelled Britain
Is it realistic to believe it might ever come back? Some believe Yeltsin nearly restored the Romanovs.
>>1181449
>Yeltsin nearly restored the Romanovs
That would have worked just fine, to put some stiff necked english noble in charge of Russia
English? How exactly are the current Romanovs english?
>>1181476
> On April 30, 2008, Russian forensic scientists announced that DNA testing proves that the remains belong to the Tsarevich Alexei and his sister Anastasia. DNA information, made public in July 2008, that has been obtained from Yekaterinburg and repeatedly subject to independent testing by laboratories such as the University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA, and reveals that the final two missing Romanov remains are indeed authentic and that the entire Romanov family housed in the...
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Which religions were the most widely believed throughout history?
>>1181440
Christianity and Islam.
What sort of question is that
>>1181457
Maybe he's asking about before those, so big dead religions
>>1181467
Define dead and we can give you an answer.
I can't for the life of me understand the difference between Calvinist beliefs and Lutheran beliefs. I get Martin Luther's worldly issues and most of his theological disagreements with Catholics. But I simply can't understand what Calvin was all about.
What I am saying is that I've read the words and I simply cannot grasp what they are conveying. Can someone give me an apples-and-oranges explanation of what Calvinism is?
everyone is born into mortal sin and depravity and only calvinists are predestined for salvation
>>1181379
predestination. also if I remember correctly Luther took communion as the literal body of christ while Calvin did not
>>1181379
Double predestination is the big one, also subordination of the sacraments to the Word on the part of Calvin. Also their methods were as different as could be: Calvin was systematic to the core while Luther is more difficult to pin down on some things.
>>1181435
Luther did believe in the Real Presence, he just didn't accept transubstantiation.
What was the cause of the roaring 20s?
jews
folks wanted to have fun after a terrible war I guess
It came after 1919
What does his/ think of pic related
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I think I quoted from it earlier today in a thread about evolving English language.
>>1181226
literal spook
>>1181226
I got kind of bored with the knight's tale, but when I decided to skip it I was delighted to find that the other tales were a lot shorter and actually funny. Good read.
To anyone who's planning on reading it for the first time in the original middle English, I recommend using the comic book version as a companion text.
Are there any other historical incidents where several small countries peacefull fused into one big country?
>>1181110
Are you implying that's what EU is? it's closer to the hanseatic league.
>>1181110
The North American colonies, in a way.
>>1181110
That's not what the EU is or will be about (for at least a very long time)
Were Augustine's Confessions truly without precedent? Everything I read has a boner for how original and unusual this 'autobiography' was, as if he was the first to write one.
But pagans like Libanius had written autobiographies before, often about spiritual conversion. I just don't understand what is meant to make them a watershed. Do you need to be a Christian?
Yes.
Roman classical education + early Christian thought are the perfect combo.
>>1180746
But does that mean you can call the Confessions 'unprecedented'? It seems to me that in combining Neoplatonist thought (very candidly) with Christian scripture, Augustine is merely mashing two precedents together, rather than inventing something new.
Everything good about Christianity is not new; and what is new is not good. Alain de Benoist
/his/ Do you admire war? Do you think there is meaning in the glory and valor attributed to war and warriors.
Listening to the Dan Carlin podcast on WWI he made a point showing how initially both sides of the war imagined the war would be a glorious heroic romantic thing and and it turned out to be one of the worst disasters in history.
You'd think after the supposed horrors of the Napoleonic war people would know how unglorious war truly is.
If you just talk about war on a rational level, the stats, the cost of life, the destruction of cultures,...
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>>1180699
>Do you admire war.
It's only natural humans admire war. It shows the best parts of them.
>Do you think there is meaning in the glory and valor attribute to war and warriors.
Valor, yes. Glory, that depends on what the end result is. Was it for the best of all, or the best of few?
>Is war to be admired
You already asked that in the beginning, faggot.
It is hilarious how people who warmongering for the World War I was a shit at the actual battle.
>>1180699
> Do you admire war?
I believe that there is nothing to admire in modern war because it decided by who can throw more of cash into an enemy or choose most dirty fighting methods. War without viable close combat is the dead and soulless war.
Why is this sadistic scumbag so revered by historians?
He was badass
He drank so much poison he was immune to it
>>1180633
Yeah but he was a total douchebag. He got buttmad that the Romans tried to put a lid on his tyrannical ruling.
>>1180633
I liked the part in Masters of Rome where his sister-wife tries to poison him and reks her.
Why is the idea of long lost technology by previous civilizations so controversial in modern historiography?
I'm not one of those "hurr durr ancient Atlanteans made it" retards, but mention that the Ancient Egyptians and the Ancient Greeks were more technologically advanced and had more scientific ingenuity than the populations of Imperial Rome and the Middle-Ages, and you see a modern historian frothing in the mouth.
We do have examples of things like the Giza pyramid, the Antikythera mechanism,Greek fire, and Archimedes’ Death Ray (ib4 myth busters,...
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I see your point, in a way, and there are better examples, like pottery Baghdad "batteries", but I don't think any are beyond reasonable explanation. It's like people want to say innovation is some kind of miracle, but it's not. It's exceptional, not unreasonable.
Know-how gaffes when it isn't used, which often coincides with civilizations in decline. I don't think any historian would dispute that, so I don't really know what you're talking about. What are "we unable to explain?"
>>1180579
>the Giza pyramid
much, much simpler than Roman architecture and same goes for all Greek and Egyptian buildings
>Archimedes’ Death Ray
a simple concept
>the Antikythera mechanism
an inaccurate toy
>mention that the Ancient Egyptians and the Ancient Greeks were more technologically advanced and had more scientific ingenuity than the populations of Imperial Rome and the Middle-Ages,...
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How and when did Israel become a country/his/
>>1180421
Fuck off, and learn to use search engines.
1948; After the holocaust the jewish people wanted a 'defined homeland' in the holy land and the allies wanted a friend in the middle east. Arabs waged a bunch of wars against it but got BTFO because of western support to Israel and lmao arab militaries
When brits gave the land they conquered to them after ww1
