I'll start.
>Ardent opponent of crown
>Become a power hungry cunt/think of self as a god
>Be against public executions,
>Start calling for more "necessary" public executions
>get executed
>be amazing orator
>shoot self in jaw, can't utter a single word before getting decapitated
My personal favorite irony in history:...
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Robespierre saved France.
>>832463
And yet, still ironic as fuck.
>>832463
That's debatable.
Tell me about the 30 Years' War /his/
It was longer than 29 years but shorter than 31.
>>832293
It was bad ok?
Most destructive war in Europe until World War 2 came around
So that should tell you something
ITT embarassing historical facts
>>832219
why didnt the soviets simply use horse archers to invade Afghanistan
In all seriousness, was there any society more ridiculously decadent than the Roman Empire?
>>831789
Modern American Society.
t. an american
>>831804
Nah honestly we've not quite reached public orgy levels yet
>>831808
>What is pornography.
Besides tales of Roman decadence are hyped up by Medieval Christendom or Roman Historians shit-smearing Emperors. You're talking of a culture that the fucking Greeks considered uptight.
>one
>holy
>catholic
>apostolic
>church
The implication being that Luther rejects the Nicene Creed? He just reinterprets what apostolic means.
>>831652
Why is /his/ so obsessed with him?
>>831725
Butthurt Mexicans need to reply to every thread to show they aren't wasting their faith by praying to a picture of Mary.
What did the Celts and Germanics think of southern europeans?
What did the southerners think of the northerners?
>>831321
Back when the Romans were rolling, Germanics thought southerners were big bullies, Romans though Germanics were absolute savages. Celts were barbarians but would be assimilated easily enough.
After Rome started to falter, Germanics were the big bullies and they set up protection rackets across Europe. They would come to consider themselves of a superior breed, more noble, than the workers they'd lord over.
>>831354
Why are people who live in Germany cursed with a persecution and superiority complex?
>>831354
Germanics always.
Is this book actually any good, or is it Guns Germs and Steel tier?
I´ve read August 1914 by the same author. It was quite good.
>implying Guns, Germs, and Steel is bad
>>831260
oh fuck I´ve just realized it´s the same book. Sorry I read it in spanish.
>Nationalism is responsible for the creation and maintenance of literally every country on the planet with the exception of a few eternal empires
>Nationalism is agreed to be the deciding factor in the final fall of Feudalism and the introduction of Europe to the initial stages of the industrial revolution
>Nationalism has proven itself without failure to be the only thing besides religion that can unite, rally, and inspire a group of people to cooperate with each other for the common good...
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>>Nationalism has proven itself without failure to be the only thing besides religion that can unite, rally, and inspire a group of people to cooperate with each other for the common good - and therefor the only thing capable of doing so in a secular system
No, it hasn't.
>>831101
Even the Soviet Union had a resurgence of nationalism during WW2 m8
No Russian is going to throw himself into the meat-grinder for a book about vague economic ideals
>>831090
>the only thing besides religion that can unite, rally, and inspire a group of people to cooperate with each other
Common needs and obstacles work fine too.
Sola Scriptura or Prima Scriptura?
Who cares only Jesus matters.
Neither
t. Orthodox
>>830517
This, plebs shouldn't be interpreting the bible, that's the magisteriums job.
Hypothetically:
If God is real and Christianity is right, does Nietzsche have any value?
>>830254
A man that ends up in the looney bin has no value regardless.
>>830282
If Jesus was alive today he would be in the looney bin.
Sure, since his philosophy heavily intersect's with Dostoevsky's, who was extremely religious.
Is this guy a dictator or a king?
Why?
>>830055
He is practically a king.
His grandfather ruled, his father ruled, he rule and his son will most likely rule.
In all but name.
>>830055
By definition atheists can't be kings, so he is a docator.
>>830069
king
noun: king; plural noun: kings
1.
the male ruler of an independent state, especially one who inherits the position by right of birth.
"King Henry VIII"
synonyms: ruler, sovereign, monarch, crowned head, Crown, emperor, prince, potentate, lord
"the king of France"
Not one old philosopher is on record condemning slavery, until the modern age, when anti-slavery sentiment became popular. What does that say about philosophy?
>>829734
>What does that say about philosophy?
Older philosophers were smarter.
>>829734
That philosophy is based on rigorous argument and not the sentiments of the masses.
>>829734
It says that they were sensible and the effete moderns can only hold such silly superstitions because they are living off the surplus capital that was built up by their forebearers through little virtue of their own.
>from early 1969 to mid-1970, a total of 53 Mexican "revolutionaries" traveled in three groups to train at North Korean camps.
This is some Korean hyper war tier shit.
What's so shocking about that?
IRA members who somehow managed to syncretize Marxism with nationalism and Catholicism were training in Libya alongside PLO muslim Arab insurgents, that's way more WTF.
let me try again
>that time in the 1860s when a Chinese guy became convinced he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ and started the bloodiest civil war in the history of the world, leaving 20-70 MILLION people dead and you never learned about it in western history books
Does it get more WTF than that?
Post people who could should have won
A middle ground between reactionary and communist insanity. Too bad he was an awful politician.
>>829622
>implying his shit government's overthrow in the October Revolution wasn't glorious
>>829631
It was a disaster for Russia and mankind
Is there a philosophy or practice that is known to focus in "action" itself as a way of life? Much like James Bond or Batman and the like. Sorry for the silly question.
>>829439
There is one that focuses on nonaction as a way of life
>>829454
Epicureanism?
>>829439
Bucky Fuller was nuts but tried to develop something of the sort