Well /his/? What's the answer?
>>351448
The fact that the Vikings did hit and run attacks on comparatively soft targets is a well-known fact.
>>351459
I wish. Plenty of people believe they were good fighters and when confronted with facts result to throwing insults or ''but they were cool'' and I saw the fucking ''cool'' argument so many times it's pretty much scandishits and stormfags equivalent of ''glorious nippon steel''
also
>losing all the time
>cool
>scandifags unironically believe this
>>351448
>Pirate gangs lose to real armies
>People are surprised
Good Chrisitan morrow my fellow men at arms!
I hath come to thee with certain queries, What dost thou thinketh of local churches and noblemen pushing for a papal ban on all crossbows being unchristian?
Parchment related, tis my Venetian crafted crossbow, chambered for both bodkin and broad-tipped bolts
>>351228
Oh look, it's this meme again.
>We prohibit under anathema that murderous art of crossbowmen and archers, which is hateful to God, to be employed against Christians and Catholics from now on.
>>351228
Dost thou refrain from treading on me?
>>351228
Isn't there a subreddit for stuff like this?
You can go back in time and give three technologies to the civilization of your choice.
What are they?
For me: Byzantines
>percussion cap rifles
>telegraph lines
>railroad
>>351203
Aztecs:
>armored tanks
>gas chambers
>the internet
Celts
Give
> guns
> information on Rome and Germans
> steel
>>351230
Welshman detected
ITT: History and excerpts that give you chills
As related by Peter Hart in The Great War:
We automatically mounted the machine gun for action. Then like animals we burrowed into the earth as if trying to find protection deep in its bosom. Something struck my back where I carried my gas mask, but I did not pay attention to it. A steel splinter broke the handle of my spade and another knocked the remains out of my hand. I kept digging with my bare hands, ducking my head every time a shell exploded nearby. A boy to my side was hit in the arm and cried out for help. I crawled over to him, ripped the sleeves of his coat and shirt open and started to bind the bleeding part. The gas was so thick now I could hardly discern what I was doing. My eyes began to water and I felt as if I would choke. I reached for my gas mask, pulled it out of its container – then noticed to my horror that a splinter had gone through it leaving a large hole. I had seen death thousands of times, stared it in the face, but never experienced the fear I felt then. Immediately I reverted to the primitive. I felt like an animal cornered by hunters. With the instinct of self-preservations uppermost, my eyes fell on the boy whose arm I had bandaged. Somehow he had managed to put the gas mask on his face with his one good arm. I leapt at him and in the next moment had ripped the gas mask from his face. With a feeble gesture he tried to wrench it from my grasp; then fell back exhausted. The last thing I saw before putting on the mask were his pleading eyes.
>Corporal Frederick Meisel, 371 Infantry Regiment, 43rd Ersatz Brigade, 10th Ersatz Division, German Army
Lord Jesus
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNfBdzpG6L4
I cri evertim ;_;
The War has some fucking bone-chilling stuff too
>>351175
>>351262
Imagine living with that for the rest of your life.
I want to be Catholic, but I also don't want to believe in free will. Is it possible to reconcile these two things, or do I have to be a Calvinist?
>year of our Lord 2015
>being a Papist
Shiggy
>>351101
As long as you love Jesus and know God in Spirit and devote time to being His friend and serving Him and other pepple by being selfless and kind, it shouldn't matter what type of Christian you want to label yourself as.
>>351101
>I also don't want to believe in free will
Are you muslim? You gotta get killed if you changed religion.
https://youtu.be/un4SAUCy4bY
Hey /his/
I'm starting to make videos on lesser-known wars in my spare-time. This is the first one and I wanted to know what you guys thought about it.
I'd also like to know if any experts or people willing to narrate would like to hop on board and help with this side project of mine
Also - Let's discuss Prussia and the Wars of German Unification
>>351023
good
>>351023
Could do with a bit better choice of opening music, but you've got a nice voice, and get to the point well. It also ends fairly abruptly, perhaps have a longer fade to black once you finish speaking? Other than that, I'd love to see more videos on Prussia from you.
Discounting the USA, which New World countries have the most interesting histories?
Texas
chile and texas
Mexico.
Tell me about cowboys
Yehaw
>>350927
Not wanna go full was kangz, but a lot of them were non-white. They were also probably less cool than in movies.
>>350927
What do you want to know?
The Bible portrays God as both loving and a father figure. But, as a loving parent, I would think it a horrible failure on my part if I didn’t educate my children well, and supervise them kindly, teaching them how to live safe and well and warning them of unknown or unexpected dangers. If they asked me to butt out I would. But if they didn’t, it would be unconscionable to ignore them, to offer them no comfort or protection or advice. Indeed, society would deem me fit for prison if I did. It would be felony criminal neglect. Yet that is God. An absentee mom, who lets kids get kidnapped and murdered or run over by cars, who does nothing to teach them what they need to know, who never sits down like a loving parent to have an honest chat with them, who would let them starve if someone else didn’t intervene.
>god is either an cosmic absentee dad or he doesn't exist, checkmate
please leave
>>350806
> it a horrible failure on my part if I didn’t educate my children well, and supervise them kindly, teaching them how to live safe and well and warning them of unknown or unexpected dangers.
God does that though
> it would be unconscionable to ignore them, to offer them no comfort or protection or advice.
good thing he does then.
>>350815
Not what I said at all. Just that almost any idea of a god that fits the actual evidence of the world is unconscionable.
Who are some figures in history that were barely noticed or even reviled during their own time, but are now recognized as great in some capacity?
Pic mostly unrelated
>>350771
>hey pope could you send me a couple of men? I need some guards on the borders with the moahmettans.
Why are the Americas so fucking linguistically diverse? Even Papuan and Australian languages, despite gap of thousands of years, were similar in respect to grammar.
They never went past the stone age
The incredibly diverse climate and density of the rainforests meant that communities that were even a few miles apart grew to become very insular and the abundance of natural resources meant that little trade had to be conducted between tribes other than your basic mating rituals. The noises, rainfall, density of the jungle means that each tribe had to develop a highly sophisticated form of communication to be heard over all the background noises, and since the communities were insular they were left to develop their own language with only a few similarities to their neighbor, i.e. more vowels and higher pitched words instead of consonants and deeper pitch like is found in more temperate locations. It's very similar to SE Asian and their linguistic diversity.
>>350537
:^)
Explain the situation in Australia and Papua then.
Also explain how Mesoamerica (and probably Andes before the Incas kek'd everyone's shit up) were equally diverse.
Why so many japanese went to Brazil?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924
The U.S. banned Japanese immigration, naturally they started to migrate to what used to be the 2nd option in the new world, which is Brazil.
I'm glad they did
>>350421
Is it really this high? I thought Peru was higher.
Is omnipotence logically sound?
What does /his/ think about the problems with omnipotence? i.e. Could God commit suicide, could God build a wall that he couldn't break, things like that
Could God redeem humanity without a sacrifice ?
When you ask 'can God commit suicide' and shit like that you imply he is confined to our humanly perception of space and time, all that good jazz.
God can't kill himself because he's not mortal nor is he immortal, the true God is beyond comprehensions and cannot be defined by earthly concepts.
>>350487
This. God doesn't need to be "logically" sound or make sense, we can't make any sense of Him because he exists beyond a comprehensible level. It's all a matter of faith.
>Only Shi'i Muslims practice taqiya
>In 1504, Ubayd Allah al-Wahrani, a Maliki mufti in Oran, issued a fatwā allowing Muslims to make extensive use of taqiyya in order to maintain their faith.[37][38][39][40] This is seen as an exceptional case, since Islamic law prohibits conversion except in cases of mortal danger, and even then requires recantation as quickly as possible,[41] and al-Wahrani's reasoning diverged from that of the majority of earlier Maliki Faqīhs.[40]
>Recently, ISIS has published training manuals that encourage taqiya be used in order to hide prospective terrorists' religion from the authorities.[42]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taqiya#Sunni_Islam_view
Jump up ^ Stewart, Devin (ed.). "Primary Documents on Islam and the Reconquista". Teaching Materials. The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
Jump up ^ Kamen, Henry (1998). The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 219–220. ISBN 978-0-300-07522-9. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
^ Jump up to: a b Miller, Kathryn A. (2008). Guardians of Islam: Religious Authority and Muslim Communities of Late Medieval Spain. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 114. ISBN 978-0-231-13612-9. Retrieved 27 May 2011. Unlike the majority of Maliki scholars before him, he openly embraced the idea of a Mudejar jihad that was bound to the notion of inner steadfastness under persecution...
Jump up ^ Kraemer, Joel L. (2010). Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds. New York: Doubleday. pp. 100–101. ISBN 978-0-385-51200-8. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
Jump up ^ http://news.yahoo.com/joints-beer-little-religion-lives-paris-attack-brothers-133559865.html
It's pretty insane to assume that ISIS is trying to hide anything that would make them look inhumane.
>>350201
>full peer reviewed citations
>refuting a point made over and over on this board
>says go back to /pol/
Good lord. No wonder academia is going to shit.
Does race exist?
Pic related, explain this if you think it does.
Race is a construct, it still exists. Read Parmenides.
This is a biology, not humanities or philosophy question.
Race is real but our understanding of it is a construct
