LET US APPRECIATE THE DIVINE NATION THAT HAD ALL STUNNED BY ITS GLORY. Byzantium is the greatest nation in medieval and late antique history, and will always be! Post wonders, brilliant rulers, and achievements that this empire had. BARBARIAN HATERS LEAVE
>last a thousand years
>entire thousand years is a linear descent downward
"Ancient Rome" = "Troy" = "Byzantium"
>>787892
That's not even true. The byzantines were literally the most powerful naval super power in the Mediterranean until the last few centuries of their existence. They reconquered lost land dozens of times.
who are some good modern philosophers /his/? im talking like 1950s and onwards
>>787713
Quentin Meillassoux
Peter Sloterdijk
>>787713
The only one you ever really need to listen to. Take the Black Pill.
*sniff*
What were your favorite history books when you were younger? What books got you into history?
Stephen Biesty's cross-section books were the best.
Susan Wise Bauer's "Story of the World" books.
>>787620
A Chinese children's book which I forgot the name of about the history of ancient Greece.
There were ancient Greeks who used giant flying leather balloon weapons, gigantic mirror ray weapons and super catapults described in this book.
I thought ancient Greek inventors like Archimedes were basically evil geniuses and that's pretty awesome.
http://www.amazon.com/Castle-David-Macaulay/dp/0395329205
What point in history was the strongest future shock?
The late 1800s to the early 1900s
Neolithic agricultural revolution.
1900-1970
Has anyone else noticed that while Protestants maintain a Nestorian Christology, they seem to have an almost monophysite perspective on the authorship of Scripture? While the Orthodox (and the Roman Catholics afaik) see the authorship of Scripture as "100% man and 100% God", Protestants seem to think God just dictated it directly, as opposed to inspired it.
>>787418
>a Nestorian Christology
No
>almost monophysite perspective on the authorship of Scripture
I don't understand, monophysitism is about the nature of Christ
Most Protestants are not biblical literalists.
>>787418
>Nestorian
>Monophysite
Don't you have a stake you should be burning on, heretics?
>>787474
>No
Sure, any Protestant who says Mary is the Mother of the human Jesus but not the God Jesus.
>I don't understand, monophysitism is about the nature of Christ
It's the idea that Christ had no humanity, but was just divine. I think you understand what I mean when applying that conception to Scripture.
>Most Protestants are not biblical literalists.
Most that aren't super liberal are, yeah
Is it wrong to kill someone?
How much do ethics even matter?
Whats the point in life besides stimulating your immediate desires?
Raskolnikov pls
>>787407
>is it wrong to kill someone?
Yes. There are circumstances when it can be permissible, but I won't tell you what those circumstances are, because the best way to avoid an unjust killing is to be unsure of yourself and not go through with it at all. If you need to kill someone no matter what, you'll do it no matter what I tell you.
>How much do ethics even matter?
The whole discussion is really fucking important but don't...
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>>787407
>Is it wrong to kill someone?
In general, yes.
>How much do ethics even matter?
Quite a bit.
>Whats the point in life besides stimulating your immediate desires?
To worship God alone, and follow his commandments.
I need to know everything there is to know about the Kingdom of Poland - not just as a political entity but the culture and attitudes that dominated the region at the time.
I need a crash course on what made Poland, Poland.
>>787341
It was Mexicans anon.
Mexicans made Poland Poland.
>muh commonwealth
>muh intellectuals
>muh decentralization
>muh constitutions
>muh partitions
>muh christ of europe
GRUNWALD
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Anyone have any good reading on the formation and early years of the Eastern Bloc? Free and online preferably.
>>787326
This pic is fucking aesthetic
Yugoslavia wasn't part of the Warsaw pact dude
>>787782
True, and after the 50's Hoxha steered Albania toward friendship with China instead of the SU.
>renounced his evolutionist theories on his deathbed
>probably prayed like hell for forgiveness too
Is their anyone more pathetic?
You could look at a mirror
Yes, your life.
Proof?
>Story behind pic related?
WTF?
>>786934
Japan fucking over Russia
>>786934
Yaoi fangirl slashfics are a universal constant.
>>786934
Fucking with them nihon boys, you gon get fucked over
>Exodus
>Pharoh tells soldiers to kill every child
>Savior survives and comes back to free people from torment (Slavery)
>Jesus Christ
>King tells soldiers to kill every child
>Savior survives and comes back to free people from torment (Slavery)
Can you get any more poetry than this?
>King tells soldiers to kill every child
What king?
>>786743
King Harold
btw slavery should be "hell" in that last one
Isn't that the basic theme of the bible, that humans are slaves to sin?
>the arts are a waste of time
>mfw
Opinions? I hear this all the time from my friends in engineering, and all my rebuttals are faced with meme spewing such as "if it don't make 260k/yr it's in the trash xDDddDD".
>>786707
just tell them that plenty of artists have good careers in advertising, and hollywood.
>>786707
Stop associating with such people normie scum.
I'm using mine as a stepping stone. Currently studying medicine as a result of my BA
Do you believe that Beethoven was descended from the Moors or that said theory is just revisionist black-power propaganda?
SO YOU BE SAYIN
So now we was composers and shit too?
>>786351
You can find portraits of his mother and father if you look. They are white as snow.
don't mind me, I'm just posting the superior italian merchant city-state
Reminder:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Chioggia
>>786086
b-but muh banks
Don't mean to hijack the focus, but I think that the Genovese+Venetians did more for mainland Greece and its islands than the Byzantine Empire with its focus on Constantinople and Anatolia ever did.
So we all know the hostilities between turkey and Russia, not only with ISIS but with religious (russia is heavily orthodox and turkey owns Constantinople) so if Russia invaded turkey, would nato get involved? Would it spell a Third World War? Comment what you think would happen.
>/his/ - Future & Humanities
>>785519
Ignoring the fact you're a complete retard, how is this even /his/ related?