What if Ragnarok already happened and Yahweh was the only one who survived?
Tfw you realize this is literal Hell on Earth
What if Yahweh is Loki?
>>1424056
>Mind=Blown
What is an effective way to learn all of Western history?
Is Khan Academy worth the time or is there something else?
>>1423780
>What is an effective way to learn all of Western history?
A lifetime of patience
>>1423780
Learn about mnemonics to prepare your great consumption.
Remember the background of the historical character you're reading about
Who was the luckiest man ever to have lived?
Early suggestion: Timothy Dexter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Dexter
What an absolute madman
>>1424050
Someone should write a book on the absolute madmen of history.
Assuming something like that doesn't already exist.
>>1423677
>there is still no biopic about him
"The soul came into being simultaneously with the sky"
What did he mean by that?
>>1423209
The creation of life was synonymous with the creation of it's environment
>>1423258
It also might have some religious meaning. The sky being the throne from which god rules
>tfw I know exactly what he meant
>tfw it's more fun to see the people who haven't read him to try to guess what he meant
>tfw stirnerds will come and shit in the thread thus ruining it for everybody else anyway
Will his children de-FOO him?
>>1422979
He has kids?
We're they also born out of their mom's ass?
>>1422992
>We're they
Is sophistry allowed on /his/?
Tell me why Nietzsche wasn't the greatest philosopher of all time.
Protip: you can't.
>I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.
>>1422838
>philosopher
>greatest ever
Anybody can ask questions and come up with answers - no matter how stupid and un-understandable they are. Philosophy solves nothing, but I do believe teaches great lessons.
>>1422843
t. Neckbeard STEMlord
>>1422838
>There is no morality
>Philosophy searches for meaning of life
Kind of a cop out
Why is irony appreciated?
It's a window to their true selves without the vulnerability normally associated with self expression.
Not everyone does trust me, generally the more intelligent appreciate it
I always thought patterns were soothing. Makes us feel assured that were not in pure chaos. Irony is kind of a deviation in a pattern
When did Buddhism, Zoroastrianism and Hinduism disappear from Central Asia (modern "stans")? They certainly must have lingered for some time after the Muslim conquest. Was it Timur who finally destroyed them?
>>1421889
Timur lane litteraly genocided them
I remember reading somewhere that Iran was still majority Zoroastrian until the Safavid dynasty
>>1421956
Timur also killed more muslims than anyone else in history.
Robert Brasillach is a fascinating figure.
For those unaware, he was an intellectual who openly held Fascist sympathies in Vichy France expressed in the newspaper Je suis partout which he edited. Infamously, he was executed by the state for his role as editor, which included publishing the names and addresses of various Jews and members of La Resistance. He later spent his time promoting collaboration and German victory, and also called for the execution of political opponents in his paper. His execution is controversial because his crimes, rather than militaristic or...
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>>1421848
Who were the similar criminals?
I wouldn't have executed any of them, I would have put them in prisons, thrown away the keys and see what happens. Not because they're fascists, but because what they did resulted in innocent people being executed.
If they get killed in their for being traitors in the prisons, so be it, and the same goes for if they don't.
>>1421848
He did basically the job of an informator. I dont see intellectual work about those deeds. Maybe about the rest of what he did, but denuncing people is sure not an intellectual work.
It's not because someone is labelled, or an intellectual overall, that all he does is intellectual work.
>>1421848
Aiding genocide is a heinous crime and those other collaborators should have been given harsher sentences.
The handling of the Rwandan genocide was quite exemplary: People such as Kabuga, Ruggiu and Bemeriki who were involved with RTLM, the radio responsible for broadcasting calls for genocide and giving out the position of groups of Tutsi to massacre, were charged with complicity in genocide or public incitement to commit genocide and ended up in prison (except for those still on the run.)
Was he the worst emperor of all time? Or even the worst leader of all time?
>>1421775
No he wasn't worse Nicky was
I hate this meme.
Germany was a constitutional monarchy like Britain. The Kaiser did not make the laws. They had a parliament that did that. He was not the executive head of the government. That was the Chancellor. His power as Kaiser was essentially the same as the Queen's power in Britain. They formally approve of and dismiss the Chancellor/Prime Minister.
The worst that can be said of Wilhelm II is that he was a boob. He loved extravagance and regality and pomp and ceremony. He loved Germany and its martial values. He was effusive and impetuous which often...
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Indy Neidell
Sup /his/.
I've been researching my family tree and I've come across one of my ancestors in an old Canadian census (circa 1850s). He lived on the east coast and owned about 40 acres of land.
His trade/profession/occupation is pic related.
I'm wondering if this is difficult for me to read because it is a deprecated profession or an archaic word.
Can anyone provide some context of the time period or perhaps read this cursive? This is the highest resolution scan of the document.
Here are the rest of the professions listed on that page of the census.
These are all professions of house heads in the same township.
>>1421671
6th from the top is "distiller"
>>1421705
Looking for help on the first one, though.
Thanks.
Dear /his/, wouldn't it have been wonderful if Stadtholder William III of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Gelderland and Overijssel, King of England, Ireland and Scotland and his wife, Mary II, had had children? The world would have seen an Anglo-Dutch empire capable of ruling Europe and the world as a whole better than the English could on their own. With the combined fleets of the Netherlands and Britain and the colonial ventures of both these superpowers there would not have been anything to stop the Anglo-Dutch Empire from ruling the world until eternity. The USA would,...
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Cool story bro!
Yeah that would be neat.
Instead of Holland going into collapse during the 1700s (being pushed around by France, Prussia and Austria) they would have been like a Scotland or Wales but with a massive center of economic power.
tl;dr IRL Amsterdam lost money war to London
tl;dr ALT HIS Amsterdam becomes sister city and economic powerhouse along with London
>>1420276
Dutch people are faggots.
Shameless bump
Even on /his/ people don't want to talk about it.
we certainly need a his/ porn thread to fap on
post what you have
its not exacty porn but it's quite fappable. i just wish he had a proper dong and not a prepubescent boypeen. apparently little virgin boydicks were the norm in renaissance art, plus michelangelo was a boyfucker. such a shame in an otherwise godly sculpture
> not fapping to peruvian pottery
Favorite painting, /his/?
>>1415177
Architect's Dream (1840)
Thomas Cole(1801-1848)
Toledo Museum of Art.
>that jewel dragon & locket
>all those eyes and ears
fuck
What does /his/ think of Michel Foucault?
/his/ hasn't read Foucault
>>1424871
decent anti-liberal philosophy
>>1424985
>anti-liberal
Nigga what?