So who was he?
>>354919
He was a persona that several people assumed
>>354919
Some demon.
It's covered in Hellblazer.
>>354919
Sebastian. He was taken away from Earth to serve the mighty Vorlon Empire in certain.... delicate matters.
What can /his/ tell me about Portugal? Any experts in Portuguese history here?
>>354805
Such broad terms are exactly that, very broad.
Do you want to talk about the Ancient Lusitanni or the birth of the county which later became a kingdom?
>>354833
Portugal specifically. The county that became the nation we know and love today.
>>354911
The County of Portugal was in the northern tip of todays Portugal and was part of the Kingdom of Leon until it eventually broke away in the XII century and eventually was upgraded to the rank of Kingdom by the Pope because pay moneys and be a direct vassal of the States of the Church.
Explain nihilism
ni·hil·ism
ˈnīəˌlizəm,ˈnēəˌlizəm/
noun
the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless.
synonyms: skepticism, negativity, cynicism, pessimism; More
PHILOSOPHY
extreme skepticism maintaining that nothing in the world has a real existence.
historical
the doctrine of an extreme Russian revolutionary party circa 1900, which found nothing to approve of in the established social order.
There's nothing to it.
>>354692
Nothing has any inherent value or meaning.
The word meaning is meaningless.
>revolution to overthrow an unfair class system
>goes to war to spread the revolution across the world
Was the French Revolution (and other revolutions of the era) and the Napoleonic Wars the spiritual predecessor to Marxist revolutions? Is the struggle of classes a cycle that will one day erupt again?
>goes to war to spread the revolution
Dude.
>>354569
Stalin = Napoleon
>>354569
They didn't "go to war to spread the revolution", they went to war because they were attacked
Them spreading the revolution ideals was a side effect
>They both bore it as though in deliberate flagellant exaltation of physical misery transmogrified into the spirits' travail of the two young men during that time fifty years ago, or forty-eight rather, then forty-seven and then forty-six, since it was '64 and then '65 and the starved and ragged remnant of an army having retreated across Alabama and Georgia and into Carolina, swept onward not by a victorious army behind it but rather by a mounting tide of the names of lost battles from either side Chickamauga and Franklin, Vicksburg and Corinth and Atlanta — battles lost not alone because of superior numbers and failing ammunition and stores, but because of generals who should not have been generals, who were generals not through training in contemporary methods or aptitude for learning them, but by the divine right to say "Go there" conferred upon them by an absolute caste system; or because the generals of it never lived long enough to learn how to fight massed cautious accretionary battles, since they were already as obsolete as Richard or Roland or du Guesclin, who wore plumes and cloaks lined with scarlet at twenty-eight and thirty and thirty-two and captured warships with cavalry charges but not grain nor meat nor bullets, who would whip three separate armies in as many days and then tear down their own fences to cook meat robbed from their own smokehouses, who on one night and with a handful of men would gallantly set fire to and destroy a million dollar garrison of enemy supplies and on the next night be discovered by a neighbor in bed with his wife and be shot to death
Is this accurate?
That was a very long sentence. I assume the point was to create tension.
>>354961
Nah, it was just a warmup. Ever read The Bear?
>>354458
>>They both bore it as though in deliberate flagellant exaltation of physical misery transmogrified into the spirits' travail of the two yo
this is where I tapped out and stopped reading
Do you remember the tank man being run over or not?
>>354381
He wasn't, some other guy came and pulled him away...what is the Mandela effect?
>>354381
The police grabbed him. They were never going to run him over. Even for the commies, that would be over the top.
>>354390
some stupid bullshit from /x/.
Basically they say that They remember something different from what most people remember.
Like "i remember as a kid it was Berenstein Bears but every time i see it now it's Berenstain Bears. It's bullshit like everything on /x/
sup /his/,
I was wondering if anyone could tell me about this;
This is my great grandfather's it seems he was part of some protestant order in Newfoundland Canada, this was before Newfoundland was a Canadian province though.
I'll post a couple pics to make it easier to read. It says he was part of a royal black knighthood or something, not entirely sure what it's about. Any information will help.
>>354360
>1904
Probably just some meme "Knightly order"
>>354376
He was Anglo from Sommerset England and moved to Newfoundland, but the reasearch Ive done on this order suggests it's Irish which is confusing
Were there any Christian counties that executed for apostasy /his/?
Currently debating a Muslim apologist who is trying to excuse the current apostasy laws in Muslim countries. I've googled but all I get is Christians being executed in Muslim countries
>>354223
Islam is a cult
Russian laws from 1600s~ stated that any muslim or jew trying to convert a Christian should be burned at the stake
I'll have to look it up for a source
>debating a muslim anything
You dun goofed son.
Has any political organization ever in all of human history been as depraved as ISIS? Was any ancient army or modern totalitarian state so complete remorseless that they'd have little kids murdering people for spectacle?
I'm legit wondering if humanity has reached an all-time-low.
http://104.236.71.225/videos/ISIS_Cave.mp4
Content warning. Watch at your own discretion. It's an ISIS propaganda video with little kids individually executing a dozen or so captives. Near-Hollywood level production values and camerawork.
Khmer Rouge
>>354143
The United States of America
>>354149
Cite an example that's comparable to this video.
Obviously lots of movements have killed vastly more people, but something that completely inverts morality like this? And celebrates the fact?
I want to be a history teacher /his/. How shitty should I expect my life to be if I continue down this career path?
The fact that you have to work for a living at all means you're a working class pleb who is going to have a shit life regardless what he does.
>>354024
> wagekek
This meme is getting a little old. I want to be productive to some degree, even if it's just fulfilling personal goals
>Hard, thankless work unappreciated by the students by and large.
>Student wrangling and institutional bullshit overshadowing actual history teaching.
>A curriculum that's often inaccurate, dull or disgustingly biased.
>Minimal pay, especially considering the time you'd have to put in after hours.
>People looking down at you because you're in humanities instead of STEM.
>Pissing off the wrong student's parents can really mess up your shit.
It's the ability to take all this in stride, with only a handful of great examples to the contrary (awesome students, etc..) that would make or break you as a teacher.
>tfw always rashing on postmodernism on 4chan
>tfw reading Derrida and Deleuze on the dl because their ideas are fascinating even if they are a bit woo woo
>people that dont read opposing viewpoints
If you only read things you agree with, you're a retard.
Good on you anon.
>>354003
>tfw about to start baby's first look into Derrida in class
Could he and his pals have stood a chance?
>>353967
Yes
>>353967
>his pals
The Scientology mob? They aren't really as powerful as is made out.
>>353979
lel
But they really do look alike. It's eerie.
Wilhelm did nothing wrong
Why did Germany chimp out btw?
>>353944
>Chimp out
>Implying the war wasnt Russia and Serbias fault
>>353948
Serbia did literally nothing wrong
And Russia is in no way more to blame than Germany
His Indian campaign was a blunder, correct?
He should have turned west for Carthage and Rome, then onto Iberia and Gaul
Centralized civilization connecting Persia and Europe, centralize power and focus on politics until old age(why did he die so young ;_;)
Why is he so dreamy?
>>353901
He had potential to do so much more, it's almost a tragedy. Dying so young at 32 when the world is practically at your feet.
I think it would have been best if he had finished arabia and anatolia, then went on to conquer the balkans and the pannonian plain and stopped there.
Rome and Carthage are better left alone.
Do you think if Holocaust never happened (fuck off /pol/) Hitler would be remember as yet another conqueror instead of a monster? In fact I think if he just worked people to death and shoot them like Stalin did and didn't say anything about master race and subhumans he could get away with it Stalin did kill a lot of jews he just wasn't openly antisemitic and guess what? A lot of people completly forgot about it.
Probably not "yet another" conqueror but in the same mould as Stalin - a monster very often, but with a lot of room for "maneuver" in his portrayal and description.
>>353898
Even without the holocaust the Nazis were still a scourge. They brought war to Europe, unlike Stalin. They killed people based on race (yes, not just the Jews), unlike Stalin (admittably, the the mass deportations had ethnic motivations and some say Stalin killed based on class, which is quite horrible as well).
So in short, the Nazi Emprie would be remembered like the Chinese remember Japan. Not just another conqueror.
yes, Germany was fucked until hitler showed up, if he had done nothing but take revenge on the countries who wronged Germany, he would have been remembered like a good guy
