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Are there any history games you like?
In the absence of a time machine this is the best thing we have.
Post the /his/ approved vidya.
>>842274
Age of Empires 2 (and more recently the HD version)
>Assacuck Creed
>/his/ approved
Only the maps/locations. With the characters and the story all accuracy goes out the window.
>>842274
I enjoy CK2 and Vicky 2 greatly desu.
Can morality exist without religion?
>>842109
Christianity pretends to be a religion. In reality it is a political ideology.
>>842109
Yes. Morality is the subsequent suspension of society's virtues acting as a quintessential reminder of value.
A moral society can exist without religion.
>>842109
No shit Sherlock
How common was close quarters fighting in WWI?
Are there any accounts weapons like clubs and pic related actually being used often?
How did men survive the sprint across no man's land?
Enlighten me /his/
>>841977
trench clearing operations were a big part of the western front.
if I recall, the germans made a big fuss about the Winchester 1897 as it was too effective at sweeping up trenches.
>>842010
how did they get across no mans land?
>>842030
By walking, dashing, running, taking cover, shooting their guns to cover others, advancing behind barrages, advancing with armor support, advancing with field gun support, advancing with mortar support, advancing behind smoke, advancing against lightly defended lines and so on and so forth.
Literally the same way people have conducted assaults for about a hundred years now.
Are there any non-pleb tier answers to the Problem of Evil?
>Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent
That's not how it works.
>>841455
Errr. Okay. I guess you solved it by saying "that's not how it works".
Congratulations for outfoxing all the great philosophers and theologians of all time.
>>841446
The problem is that Epicurus and a great many understandings of God assume he still operates in the binary of good and evil.
God is totally beyond both good and evil. The destroyer is also a creator, where there is gain there is also lose.
Is capitalism really that bad? Yeah inequality and exploitation are problems that should be addressed, but the average person today lives a life of material wealth that's vastly superior to the average lives of past generations, and every society that's brought into the global capitalist fold experiences the same boon when they enter. The technological and productive achievements of capitalism have been enormous, and peoples' lives are almost universally better for it. Even with its problems, I just can't look at all that and come to the conclusion that it's...
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>>841107
No, capitalism isn't as bad as the communists make it seem.
t. capital pro
>implying capitalism wasn't a necessary step forward that we must now move beyond
>>841107
>the average person today lives a life of material wealth that's vastly superior to the average lives of past generations, and every society that's brought into the global capitalist fold experiences the same boom when they enter
Capitalism is certainly an improvement on feudalism, yes. That doesn't mean there isn't a system that's better still.
>tfw you remember the Romanovs were brutally murdered
Was it even necessary, /his/?
>>840634
Who cares about the Romanovs? They were all terrible average.
Now, the fact that the qt in black got killed by a communist assassin, now that's a tragedy.
>>840634
>Killing innocent kids
>Necessary
Choose 1.
>open Wikipedia article "Bolsheviks"
>ctrl+f "Romanov"
>0 results
wew
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The only reason the Western culture has dominated for the last 200 years is that it's power has ascended greatly since the Industrial Revolution. Things are going to change in this century. Before the Industrial Revolution, Europe was basically a coping and adaptive culture. As you can see, the Greek civilization was not an ORIGINAL civilization like the Chinese civilization. The Greek civilization was heavily influenced by both Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations ( Greek myths and religion had their roots in various Mesopotamian beliefs).. The Greek architecture and...
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Without these Chinese inventions, the SPREAD of Renaissance would have been extremely difficult. China invented not only gunpowder but also gun, cannon, rocket including multi-stage ones, both land and sea mines, bomb, even hand grenade. All these Chinese military technologies were furiously copied by Europeans. Can you imagine the modern military without these Chinese inventions? Even the European Enlightenment was heavily influenced by many of Chinese thoughts. As a matter of fact, many Enlightenment thinkers such as Montaigne, Leibniz, Voltaire, Quesnay, etc. were enamored...
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It's no accident China and India were the two biggest economies in the world from the 1st century to the end of the 18th century. Also China invented blast furnace, coking - coal, so called- Bessemer Steel Process, Siemens' Steel process, drilling techniques for oil and natural gas ( China drilled for natural gas and transferred it through pipelines for heating and lighting starting in the 4th century BC, on the other hand Europe didn't use natural gas until the late 19th century). Without all these Chinese inventions, the Industrial Revolution would have been...
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If China had not declined in the 19th century and had more powerful second industrial revolution ( China's first industrial revolution occurred in the 11th century under Sung dynasty), we might be speaking Mandarin now, instead of English also study Confucius, Laozi, Mozi, Mencius, instead of such overrated ancient Greeks as Socrates, Aristotle, Plato. What we are seeing now is the 200-- year Western domination is coming to an end and the world is going back to the original Asian predominance. The last 200 years of the Western domination was an aberration from the long-running...
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If you could go back to time, just as an observer, to one and only one period in history, what would it be?
I'd honestly love to see China during the First Emperor's reign, 246-210 BCE. That Ancient Egypt stuff seems too boring to me, and we already know everything about it.
>>839722
I don't know a thing about Egypt, but it seems to have a rich history that I would like to experience personally.
I'm more interested in China's Warring States era to the founding of the Han. It would be nice to see the transition from utter chaos to the making of the world's largest homogenous civilization.
>>839722
>the First Emperor's reign
that guy was just another generic tyrant
he isn't unique, there's plenty of people like him throughout the history, even today, you could say that the present day incarnations of him are the north korean leaders
WW1 just to watch the whole mess unfold
ITT: Figures that remind you of yourself
For me it's Markus Aurelius - intelligent, stoic and with a wicked sense of humor.
>>838799
I'd go with Pyrrhus of Epirus
Smart, cynical, with some mean jokes.
Hannibal
Clever
Reckless
Doomed
Lasalle
A drunk, wicked, angry cunt who died too early
How can a logical and reasonable man prove that any God of any kind cannot exist without having faith they don't exist? Is Atheism a christian construction to bully agnostics into conversion by making Atheism as indefensible as christianity?
Proof and God never go together. Its a metaphysical concept of the highest magnitude that often is beyond even human comprehension. The idea of God is so extraordinary it can not even be fully understood or explained.
Atheism though has existed long before Christianity was even an idea. Hardly a "christian construction" as the idea of God and the lack of belief in God exist outside even a Christian framework.
>>838785
What makes you think God's existence is vulnerable to mankind's logic and reason?
>>838854
God is another name for Yahweh the sky "thing" that messed with jews centuries ago.
Was agincourt the result of military genius on behalf of the English or autism/bad leadership on the French side?
>>838729
autism, certainly
>>838729
Both?
>>838747
>I will put my powerful longbow men in a good position so they will be hard to reach
Surely this cant be considered as genius
Out there somewhere right now is a whole village full of people who are genetically close to you, look like you and are "your people". But you aren't with them, you're hunched over a cold computer screen looking for meaning where you can find none. In 10,000BC these people were your closest friends, family and so forth, you and them made up a separate race, you fought side by side to protect your people and they for you.
What do you do to distract yourself from this sad fact?
I have friends.
I also regularly visit my extended family in Peru. There are over 40 of us so we are like a clan.
No idea what you're talking about faggot I'm a Jew in Israel, I'm among my people
>>838339
You are blessed, I hope you are content.
>Brits were perfectly willing to go to war over this ...
>>838270
... but not this
There is small difference between war against some third world negro county and legit super-power with nuclear weapons.
What are some some decent works on this matter?
I wish to understand the difference between paranoid conspiracy and truth.
From what Ive gathered so far they are just a fraternity based on enlightenment thinking and as a result are taken by established churches as seeking their destruction. However this becomes blurred as some Masons seem to have used their organisation to attack state churches (as happened in Brazil and France to some degree) whilst others used it protect these groups - as done by Frederik in Prussia.
Still it does seem hard to differentiate...
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It's a high school club for old and bored rich men. If they have any influence its because they're rich, not because they're masons
>>837765
/thread
>>837746
>What are some some decent works on this matter?
Ho-boy. That's a LONG list. I'll say start with Neville Barker-Cryer's York Mysteries Revealed, and then Freemasonry for Dummies by Chris Hodepp, and finally Gould's History of Freemasonry. Read the rituals too (unless you're intending to join, in which case don't spoil it).
>Still it does seem hard to differentiate between masons acting acting on their own motivation and acting as...
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Some say Germany could have won ww2 but it just seems hopeless. How exactly could they have won?
>>837214
By not starting it.
>>837218
That's no fun...
>>837226
Sure wasn't fun for the Germans.
