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Did King Arthur actually exist?
>>427721
prob some cornish bloke that beat up some saxons
>>427721
Only vaguely, as far as we can tell from the very sparse records.
Most likely he was a Brittano-Roman chieftan or petty king who at some point fought the Saxons.
Camelot, the round table and all that is just anachronistic suff made up half a millennia or so after. Glastonbury's connection to him was apparently made up by monks to get more backing for their monastary.
the lad prolly busted some scotts
Who's more powerful in christian mythology, Angels or Saints?
Could an angel beat a saint in a fight?
>>427567
According to my chinese cartoons, yes.
Every believer is a Saint you idol kissing fuck.
Angels don't exist, they're metaphors.
So do we all agree the unification of Germany is the worst thing to happen to European civilization since the black death?
>>427158
What ought to have happened then?
Stayed as small states? Unified as smaller nations?
>>427158
Cant we all agree that humanity is the worst thing for humanity since humanity?
>>427158
No the best
If you can convince me Protestantism is wrong, i'll convert.
>>425986
>Catholic
>1054
Fixed
>>426008
explain
>>426027
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_Schism
Discuss.
Also, weird history related obsession s general.
Im not as autistic but i like pretending im from frontier times when i hunt squirrel with my muzzleloader
>>422764
Pretend that I'm a general or royalty or leader or just normalfag from a different time period when I'm alone.
It's gotten progressively more and more intense, with physically moving around pretending to do things and talk to people that i imagine and fighting imaginary enemies.
also tied very closely with my sexual desires. almost always fap to a historical female, often medieval royalty. I pretend to be her spouse or a forbidden lover.
Basically, I live my life (which is relatively...
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>>422764
When I was in 3-4 grade, I used to be obsessed with the (American) civil war, I carried around some giant 1500 page volume on civil war battles and read it instead of paying attention in my classes, every time I got to choose what movie my family would take out from Blockbuster I would choose Gettysburg or Dances with Wolves (because of the opening scene), and I had a union rifleman's hat that I would wear around everywhere. My parents basically just ignored it and made me buy my own books and toys (but didn't...
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Who are the modern descendants of Scythians?
Also Scythia thread.
>>425078
Ossetians
Were Scythians the original Indo-Europeans nomads who didn't migrate from Russian Steppe and never settled down?
>>425098
Fugg, forgot about the Alans. But either way they are heavily mixed with the other North Caucasus people, they don't look much different if compared with Chechens or Dagestanis. Although linguistically I suppose they are the closest.
It's 1933, and you're the leader of Poland.
How do you ensure the long-term survival of Poland?
>>422998
For starters, I'd do whatever I could to replace the world's best cavalry with some fucking tanks. Beyond that, I don't know anything about Poland at the time. Any good sources?
Completely reform the army. Turn it into a Huge hezbollah style urban infantry group. Like, when the germans enter a city, they can expect to be shot at from 10 different areas. Also spend more money on anti aircraft I guess. Then I would create a seperate force good for forest insurgency. Lastly, I would create a force of 5k to 10k brave who would sneak inside the german borders and use insurgency tactics/backstab soldiers moving past towns. Also to recruit anti nazis in those areas.
>>423006
>cavalry
-1/10
Name one painting more based
>protip: don't even bother trying
>>420604
Romanticism was cancerous horseshit.
Rome II: Republic Boogaloo edition
>>420340
>Second Punic War play
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First, the library link:https://mega.nz/#F!AE5yjIqB!y7Vdxdb5pbNsi2O3zyq9KQ
Secret societies are a topic that gets a lot of discussion, most of it garbage filled with conspiratorial fantasy or outright falsehood. It's also hard to give a history of these things as a secret society only remains truly secret if we never know about it. I guess I'll start with something as a model for prehistoric shamanic modes of initiation.
Kamaina is a form of assault sorcery. It's predicated on learning how to murder. Initiates will be trained how...
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>>415657
That said, the mode of initiation should be familiar if you keep up on these things. Songs of power are recited as the aspirant takes near fatal doses of mind altering compounds and going on a spirit journey. In the case of these assault shaman it tends to be conquering demons and the like, coming to terms with their own grave, etc. They return with powers beyond the day-to-day spells of their tribefolk, it's reckoned some of these guys have a power that's similar to force choke – it can crush and rupture...
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>>415667
So, Greece. One of the most well known mystery cults/secret societies were the Eleusinian Rites. This thing was in operation for hundreds of years before Christ, you can read all about it on the wiki in overview; in short it was a comment on the changing of the seasons, via the myth of Persephone, Hades, Demeter, etc., and then later, tied to the winemaking process another initiation concerning Iaccus. These rites were equinoctial and had a goodly number of appendant rites along with them. The European folder in my library...
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>>415676
I should note that toward the end of this period we get the Mandean groups who likely are the origin point for most of what we understand as ritual magick these days. They'd recite spells for the intercession of various angels and spirits, up to and including passage through the world of the dead and afterlife.
Toward the end of the Gnostic suppression, we see Bon and Buddhism meld into Vajrayana. Within a couple hundred years, Abhinavagupta gives Buddha the finger and starts to synchretize Vajrayana with...
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What's up, /his/? I'm writing a paper on why refugees shouldn't be accepted into America, and I was comparing Islam to other religions, the main one being Christianity. I touched up on 2 violent verses from the Quran and now I feel to prevent myself from creating a logical fallacy my teacher will inevitably point out and mark me down for, I should also point out that Christianity has some violent verses in the bible, but the militancy rates of Christians are pretty low. Can anyone provide some statistics for the rates of militancy in Christians?
TL;DR I...
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>>396080
You've already failed by taking religion at face value
>>396080
Christian Militants have killed more people post 9/11 in america, but you know, higher population and all that.
http://securitydata.newamerica.net/extremists/deadly-attacks.html
has sources and is pretty balanced
Just check through this website in general.
Personal opinion, the refugee's aren't a big deal and are massively overblown in significance.
>>396089
Reiterate. My teacher is pretty fine with my arguments if I can back them up with credible facts.
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When somebody says they're a "Gnostic" today: Are they in a direct continuity from the Gnostics of early Christianity?
>>433693
It varies desu.
I consider myself gnostic but I do fuck-all research about christian gnosticism and the nag hammadi, my knowledge generally comes more from random readings of the kabbalah and the anthroposophical/rudolf steiner society
so yeah when you ask someone if they're gnostic as if they're Christian Gnostic.
>>433697
So for you Gnosticism = Occultism, in a sense?
>>433707
Gnosis, for me, means higher knowledge. A shaman doing hardcore drugs and inquiring the high spirits to grant him knowledge of "higher worlds" is a Gnostic as much as the buddhist who is meditating and trying to figure out the whole of reality is. Christian Gnosticism is less Gnosis for me and more like passing dogma and teachings down from ancient scripts.
So yeah, occultism would be gnosis in a certain way, but from what little I've read early christian Gnostics were actual Gnostics in their beginning.
Why does /his/ like military history so much?
Threads about history of warfare and strategy usually get dozens and hundreds of replies, while other historical topics rarely gain this kind of tract (exceptions exist of course).
You would think it was only WW2 and corresponding events that are popular, but also early modern, ancient and medieval warfare gets a lot of attention. Why is this the case in your opinion?
>>433457
grog shit
>>433457
War is the ultimate expression of humanity's soul
Loads of documentation and a love of violence?
