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Is mythology dead? Have we already seen the end of legends?
>>501773
>>501773
this is but the beginning
>>501773
Mythology is pretty much religious stories. So no.
Not to mention a lot of polytheistic religions survive today like Chinese Folk, Shintoism, and Hinduism.
Getting a bit tired of "greatest battles" or "greatest generals" threads.
Let's have a Greatest Individual Warriors (pre-gunpowder, of course).
It can be from any time or era as long as we don't include the aforementioned gunpowder and it can be from any continent.
My vote goes for Harald Hardrada.
>Rough childhood, had to fight since his teens
>Exiled, has to pick up mercenary work to survive even though he has royal blood
>Wants to marry a qt Slav princess but can't until he proves himself a great warrior to her father
>Is such a great fighter he ends up being the leader of the Varangian guard and leads them to victory after victory only suffering a debatable defeat
>Gets rich off the Byzantines' vaults, comes back home
>Gets his throne back
>At age 50 something goes raiding to England where he suffers a fatal defeat at the hands of the sneaky King Harold who surprised the unarmoured and nearly unarmed, divided raiding party
>Still manages to take 40 men down in his final effort before he's put down with an arrow to the neck
Not to mention he was tall as fuck (King Harold promised him a 7ft deep grave, as he was "larger than most men").
What's your pick?
Marcus Cassius Scaeva
>>483369
Funnily enough, he was on my top 5 and for years he occupied the top spot.
His actions against Pompey's legions still leave me in awe every time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Terrail,_seigneur_de_Bayard
>At the Battle of Garigliano he single-handedly defended the bridge of the Garigliano against 200 Spaniards, an exploit that brought him such renown that Pope Julius II tried unsuccessfully to entice him into his service
It's time for another /Islam. Pepper your angus because this thread will be full of autism, shitposting, and additions to the NSA watchlist.
Let's try to focus mainly on early Islam following the death of the Prophet up through the fall of Baghdad (So 632ad to 1258ad). I mostly know about stuff through the end of the Umayyads.
Ask, learn, and post good reads for those interested.
>>473587
Here's good read number one. Blankenship goes into how Jihad and dhimmitude was one of main things driving the Ummayad economy. By making it hard for non-muslims to convert (thereby ensuring they had a steady revenue from the dhimmi tax) they unwittingly set the stage for their own demise.
>>473630
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpLF4pO3QgQ
Many of Professor Blankenship's lectures are also available on youtube like this one about whether or not the Quran was edited.
I'm kind of drunk so I'm gonna confess, even as someone who hates muslim apologists and thinks islamophobia is a word only used by faggots and pussies, I really fuck with the best Islam has to offer and I wish more muslims were badass muslim philosophers like Al-kindi or mystics like the sufis.
there's something about a noble, dignified, god-fearing arabian/desert civilization that's always tickled my fancy. fucking get it together already you mooks
Why are they so dickrided? They were complete failures and even behaved more like bandits than knights. Was there any non shit knight order anyway?
>>511974
Teuton wankery is a Germanophiliac meme.
>Was there any non shit knight order anyway?
Hospitaller?
>>511974
The paladins of the order of St. george
They were failures, but the Pollack / Lithuanian / Russian view of them as pure evil is the same magnitude of idiocy.
Philosophy has progressed dreadfully slow compared to its lovechild science. Most philosophers think this is due to the lack of an equivalent to the scientific method.
So what would a scientific method for philosophy look like? The socratic method, and then some? Some sort of programming language that can have logic used instead of loops, and data structures? What do you all think?
>>510521
Philosophy is an artform for those who don't do any actually productive work in the ivory tower
>>510560
you are an idiot.
Most people don't know what philosophy actually is. Thanks Dawkins and other new atheists who simply dismiss it so they don't have to have actual arguments.
>>510569
>you are an idiot.
Were gnostics right or not ?
lol no
Some of their theories are interesting to look at from a catholic perspective (old and new testament gods are different beings) but a lot of it is horseshit
Most of it seems to be a case of inventing history and applying later philosophy to Christ.
Do we have any historical data that supports the gnostic version of events?
Ignoring for moment the fact that it may have been unavoidable/unstoppable in a Darwinian sense: Was the Industrial revolution a good or a bad thing for humanity?
Well, average life expectancy is about twice what it was beforehand, the proportion of society that can read has gone up by at least 5 times, and I can shitpost on 4chan instead of subsistence farming.
You tell me.
>>514265
/thread
>fuedalism
>cant vote
>be serf
>punished like slave
>industrial
>can vote
>be citizen
>enslaved with money
What is the purpose of government?
Protect people from other people's coercion
The way I've always seen it is that the purpose of a democracy is to prevent an autocracy, and the purpose of an autocracy is the glory of the king.
>>513833
Extract wealth from the people.
Why do Americans consistently frame their enemies as unthinking, single minded fanatics with no common sense or instinct of self-preservation?
This stretches all the way from the Nazis through the Soviets, Korea, Vietnam, Soviets and up to the War on Terror today.
Since deliberately misunderstanding your enemy like this surely leads to strategic errors and missed opportunities, what is the advantage of framing you enemy in this way?
>>512562
>Why do Americans consistently frame their enemies as unthinking, single minded fanatics with no common sense or instinct of self-preservation?
>Frames Americans as unthinking and single minded
How we portray our enemies is different than how we actually fight them. That's why we'll call them retarded goat fuckers but sit down with different small tribes to try to understand what they want out of a ruling government and how we can help them achieve their goals and ours.
>>512575
Treating Islamic radicals as rational actors pursuing coherent geopolitical aims will get you denounced as a terrorist sympathizer in American public discourse.
Could someone disprove solipsism please?
I would, but there would be no point since you're not real anyway.
Pretty sure God disproves solipsism, and I experience him as intimately as I experience I.
>>511648
That doesn't prove you exist.
![thomas_paine-common_sense[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/VVc77qI.jpg "thomas_paine-common_sense[1].jpg")
>In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology there were no kings; the consequence of which was, there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion. Holland, without a king hath enjoyed more peace for this last century than any of the monarchical governments in Europe. Antiquity favours the same remark; for the quiet and rural lives of the first Patriarchs have a snappy something in them, which vanishes when we come to the history of Jewish royalty.
>Government...
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No.
>>507349
>no wars in the early ages of the world
shiggydiggy
There's too much generalized history and historic related subjects on /his/. How about we go into detail about specific countries.
This thread is meant for anon from various countries to ask one another about their own histories.
For example, i'm from Moldova, anyone interested can ask about it's history, and so on.
GO!
What is Moldova?
And how are you not just special snowflake romanians?
Swedanon reporting in.
>>507107
Moldova's an eastern european country founded in 1359. It's etymology comes from the germanic people who named the current river of Moldova "Mulde" from which the name of the country comes from.
>And how are you not just special snowflake romanians?
Why should we? All contributions to present romanian literature and philology were done by moldovans, who identified as part of the moldovan nation. We also have no common language or history.
Where are you...
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"A History of Europe" by Ferdinand Schevill
Used book shelf
$5
Wadded up in the back was a history final from 1935 and the student's cursive notes
Can't type properly right now
Finals...
So...
Much...
Harder...
That prescience...
Can't upload properly right now, either. Will transcribe.
>History 4b BASIS FOR FINAL REVIEW
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>Text: 405-845
>Maps to be Memorized. You will be asked to draw one or more of these:
>Europe in 1789, 1810, 1815, 1830, 1848, 1871, 1914, 1922
>Africa 1871, 1914, 1922
>II. Have clearly in mind the significance of these dates: 1789, 1772-95, Sept....
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>III. There will be a number of important items for identification.
>IV. Be able to write a 500 word summary of the Article "Arms and the Man"
>V. Know very definitely the causes of the world war.
>VI. Know definitely the main features of the peace of Versailles, and in what parts of it lay the seeds of future wars.
>VII. Have clearly in mind a definition of Fascism and Communism as it exist in Russia.
>VIII. Be able to describe the Imperialism which followed 1870, showing the forces behind it, the regions affected, and the rise of colonial empires, the effect of imperialism upon the relation of nations toward each other.
>IX. Be able to give an account of the Industrial Revolution, showing why it started when it did and where it did, and its effects upon the economic, social and political life of the world; what great benefits it has conferred upon mankind, and what great evils it has created.
X. Describe the...
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Why do right wing dictatorships usually have such lower death tolls than left wing dictatorships?
>>505336
They generally support existing power structures, including the elite. Thus there is little need for massive institutional revolution, which is often what leads to many deaths in left wing dictatorships.
>>505336
>Pinochet did nothing wrong.jpg
ebin, simply ebin
>>505336
They're both immoral. Pinochet was every bit the bloodthirsty murderer as Stalin or Mao.
Stop making these threads.
>Gondorian heavy cavalry charges with drawn swords onto a fortified position
>they all die from arrows
am I the only one who gets annoyed by absolut idiotic depiction of battles in movies?
Yeah, it's like they don't know shit about the real History of Middle earth
>>500270
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cr%C3%A9cy
>french cavalry charges with couched lances uphill through english arrowstorm
>they all die from arrows
b...but muh charge
>>500270
to be honest, I'm more annoyed by the fact that they all have plate armor, which is displayed nowhere in Middle-Earth, it's mail all around.
