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What's the Kekiest thing to have happened in the history of war?
I think the Palestinians win the prize for this one. They built two car bombs but they detonated early, killing only the drivers, because they forgot to set the timers on the bombs for daylight savings time. They won a Darwin Award for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_world_wonders
>While decrypting and transcribing the message, Halsey's radio officer properly removed the leading phrase, but the trailing phrase looked appropriate and he seems to have thought it was intended and so left it in before passing it on to Halsey,[1] who read it as
>Where is, repeat, where is Task Force Thirty Four? The world wonders.
>"I was stunned as if I had been struck in the face", Halsey later recalled. "The...
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That battle where the Austrians killed like 10k of their own dudes was pretty kekky
>>1365563
The Emu War?
Was he really a bad guy?
>>1363789
The Chinese were bad people for allowing him to be a bad guy.
>>1363789
I doubt he had bad and ridiculous intentions in his aspiration for power and until 1956, when his newfound power over the worlds most populous nation really sunk into him and drew out paranoia and megalomania
>>1363789
Well if you like China, Chinese culture and Chinese people, then he is a villain to China's future.
But if you hate China, Chinese culture or Chinese people, then he's your ideal hero.
How did it come to pass that the Slavs were split like this by the Germans, Hungarians, and Romanians? What is the history of Slavic geography?
This isn't based on real knowledge, but for the Romanians I suppose it is because the terrain is rocky and the Romanians and others were strong enough to hold out. Ergo, they had to go through Flat Hungary. The reasons they were pushed out by the Hungarians was that those guys used to be a really strong people, who when they migrated pushed out the local Slavs.
For Austria, they used to be a part of a powerful kingdom already during the influx of Slavs, so they were safe.
About German, Poland and Czechoslovakia. It's because Hitler lost the war.
>>1362810
>Hungarians, and Romanians
Horseniggers and latin shepard fags(with help from various horseniggers, including the former) obtained cultural and linguistic dominance in the carpato-danubian-dnistrain-panonic area and made local slavs(which are a LARGE genetic contribution in those 2 countries genetic background) speak their weird languages.
The Slavs split themselves. Pan-slavism is idiotic because there was never a pan-slavic culture in the first place. Sharing the same language family is meaningless when the cultural differences have always been profoundly vast.
A Bohemian can find maybe some commonalities with a Slovak, although they are very different. A Russian may have significant commonalities with a Ukrainian or a Belorussian, though recent events have demonstrated significant differences there as well. But there is almost nothing in common between a Bohemian and a Russian.
>there are no lost continents
>there are no lost races
>annunaki are a meme
>we are more wise, fit and peaceful now than any point in history
>god is a human creation
>alexander the great would have traded his empire for modern ice-cream
>people will become wealthier and more prosperous by material conditions and end up like BNW
Understanding the...
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>>1370576
What I'm asking is, is it wrong to hunger for the numinous even in the bounty of modern luxuries? Has this sentiment occurred at other major epochs in the past?
>>1370576
A little. If you want real mystery just understand that the recorded history is still skewed to the point that what we know is interpretive.
Just as people write banal or sensational bullshit now, so too did people back then. Views can be optimistic, pessimistic or worse, omitted information. The further back you go the more mystery their is.
We are no more fit and wise than we have ever been. We're healthier for sure but I mean, there are feats of strength and fitness that only adversity can create that...
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>>1370649
Is hope for continuous technical achievement, particularly the "singularity", so much different from the faith in a Day of Judgement, Rapture, return to the Monad or so on characteristic of religious eschatology? All I can imagine is a gaggle of IT geeks in silicon valley praying to Kurzweil and Sagan for tech-gnosis as they wither away behind cubicles and in traffic.
26th of June, 2016
On immigration
>Such an important aspect of modern life like mass migration is not left unattended. Unlike the Catholic approach that unduly favors migrants, particularly in Europe, the Orthodox notices the negative nature of the process, as well as the fact that it leads to confrontation of different identities and value systems. In addition, the Orthodox Church propose to look at the roots of this phenomenon. The reason for the migration is the liberal, hedonistic ideology bleeding the peoples of Europe and the interests of the capitalist elite, who need a cheap and disenfranchised workforce:
>Attempts by indigenous people of the rich countries to stop the migration flow are futile, because come in conflict with greed of their own elites who are interested in the low-wage workforce.
On usury
> The only alternative to the global fictitious liberal economy can only be a real Christian economy.
>Business expectations in lending, often ghostly becomes more profitable than the production of tangible goods. In this regard, it must be remembered about the moral ambiguity of the situation, when money is "make" new money without the application of human labor. Declaring credit sphere to be the main engine of the economy, its predominance over the real economic sector comes into conflict with the moral principles, reveled by God condemning usury.
Let's throw off the globalist shackles, lads!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNKAb75Cj_k
>>1373226
When they say 'liberals' do they mean United states liberals, or libertarians/classical liberals?
Oh boy, that's unexpected. An Orthodox church arguing against the enlightenment.
>>1373239
They mean "not Orthodox."
>>1373239
>When they say 'liberals' do they mean United states liberals, or libertarians/classical liberals?
They mean both, since both are in favor of usury and globalism.
Why aren't you an atheist?
>>1369509
because i really, really, REALLY like candles.
>>1369509
"I don't have enough faith to be an atheist.
>>1369513
elaborate pls
Tell me something interestin about the history of Estonia
They invented the toothbrush... posting
>>1365115
In WW2 they were the only large region conquered by the Nazis to be declared "judenfrei"
In 1561 they gave themselves up to be ruled by swedish monarchy because there was some war they needed protection from.
