How do I into Victoriana? What are some good overall texts?
V2 etc
>>316180
Already done that part
>>316180
Best Paradox game.
When is V3 coming?
What if Sulla actually decided to kill Julius Caesar during the proscription?
>>314759
Pompey'd probably pull off a similar stunt, but due to lack of a legacy, have the Republic come back for a little while longer before some other opportunist rose up. Antony maybes.
>Emperors are now called Antonions
>>314759
The republic probably would have lasted a few more decades.
It was inevitably on a course towards despotism. Sulla proved that more than anyone.
>>314771
Without Caesar I have my doubts Antony would even be remembered these days,
Hi /his/, HS Senior here. I've always loved history and have decided to major in it at college. Now, because of this I am being bombarded by questions from others like, "What job can you get with your degree?" or, "What marketable skills will you get?" I know that there is more to university than preping for a job and learning "valuable skill", but I want to have a way to answer these questions. So, history majors, how do/did you respond to them?
Eh, the job market is being oversaturated with degree holders; sooner or later, they'll all be as worthless as a history degree.
>>314723
Nigger just learn a trade and get history textbooks
There a whole college education
Do you really think a professor lecturing at you all day is gonna help you advance along your interest?
The only other thing I'd add is making yourself write papers since that actually is useful
>>314754
>the old "get a trade" meme
Hope you enjoy being tied-down to a single blue collar industry because you have no transferable skills.
Even in today's degree-saturated world a degree is a bare minimum for advancement in the corporate sector.
ITT: Historical keks.
>Roger Palmer, 1st Earl of Castlemaine
>In 1660 Barbara Villiers, his wife of one year, became mistress to King Charles II. The king created Palmer Baron Limerick and Earl of Castlemaine in 1661, but the title was limited to his children by Barbara, which made it clear to the whole court that the honour was for her services in the King's bedchamber rather than for his in the King's court. This made it more of a humiliation than an honour.
The three sons of Phillip 4.
Their wives were caught sleeping with knights.
There was also Claudius.
>On 14 April 1659 he marriedBarbara Villiersagainst his family's wishes; his father predicting at the time of the wedding that she would make him one of the most miserable men in the world. Roger was a quiet, studious, bookish man and a devout Roman Catholic while his wife was an accomplished sexual athlete
He asked for it. Who would think it would be a good idea to marry a slut?
>>314694
Hey, one of the wives were just covering up for the other two. Don't drag the Burgundian sisters THAT hard.
>>314704
You never know. Her husband just didn't divorce her because he wanted her inheritance.
So enables a society or civilization to breed philosophers and philosophies, /his/?
Why did nations like Egypt, Persia, Greece, the Mongols, France, and America breed philosophers whereas others like Zulus, Aztecs, Carthage, and (independent) Scotland did not?
>>314611
they probably did breed philosophers. Then they were forgotten due to the lack of writing or loss/destruction of said writing.
Other than that, probably luck.
Only Greece had great Philosophers. Maybe China before the Emperor of Qin decided to destroy philosophy schools,
>>314611
>Egypt
>Mongols
>philosophers
Do you have down syndrome?
Was Christianity a revolt against Roman values? Did Christian values undermine The Roman Empire? (Nietzschean slave morality vs. master morality)
>Nietzschean
>>314519
I don't know
Christian Ethics are similar to Stoic Ethics.
A stoic sage and a saint would behave similarly.
Okay so let me get this straight, the Soviet Union adopted state capitalist policies and they still collapsed and suffered economically?
>>314457
It didn't fix the tension with ethnreligious minorities, the repressions of freedoms, and the already-established discontent with the regime. Gorbachev's reforms with failures because it was too little, too late. It only made them want and demand more changes.
>>314475
That's not what happened. A poll was taken throughout the USSR, right before Yeltsin's illegal seizure of power and repression of protesters, and the vast majority of people said the USSR should stay as is.
>>314535
>Yeltsin's illegal seizure of power
>yfw you realized God exists.
mfw he doesnt
>tfw he doesn't but he should
I was ecstatic when I had my first vision of God. I was high as shit on mushrooms and I forgot most of it when I came down.
Then I had a vision while sober, and that turned my life around.
Jesus is risen, /pol/. Bow a knee to your Lord.
So, who exactly were the Hyksos? Hurrians? Semites? Indo-Europeans?
>>314361
Jews.
Or for a non-meme answer, proto-Greeks.
>proto-Greeks
Dude what
>>314361
Huns
"Nietzsche was interesting in a lot of ways. He was really the first thinker who forced us to deeply question religion and society. I don't think his story has ever been told like it should be."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_uDlBhjvzQ
>>314325
Gentle reminder that Jimmy Franco is more educated, accomplished, and intelligent than you are
>>314338
>dumb fuck wants to a Blood Meridian film adaptation
>educated
Nah
>>314325
I mean a Nietzsche film would be neat but uh damn that faggot is ignorant
I don't want to come off as a troll but all of philosophy apart from Hume and Stirner and Socrates seems like unremitting bullshit or just opinions repackaged as authoritative because they come from the academic classes.
Whenever i look at Reddit Philosophy (I'm sorry), I see nothing but a stream of spooks. e.g. "What is the good life? Well I have figured it out, assuming you instantly believe all my axioms!" I don't mean a reddit user claimed it, it's usually a link to an Ivy League / oxford professor who talks this shit!
And this Rawls / Nozick debate (which I skimmed over on wikipedia and heard second hand): Rawls makes up some axioms, says it leads to the perfect society, and then Nozick picks a hole in it and we all pretend he's smart? Are you fucking kidding me? Why is ethics even a thing? It all fucking depends on the axioms ffs, that's it!
Also I hate to say it but the Greeks and Romans get their balls licked so hard it's not even funny. It's laughable but I'm going to say it: People who do "American Studies" (if universities even offer it, which they don't, which says a lot) should get as much respect as people who do Classics. But no, the middle / upper classes need greek / latin to be fashionable. When Aristoculus says "Being good is good but being good is not good, it is bad" then that's supposedly a sign of insane wisdom that you'd have to be a barbarian not to love above everything else. Give me a break. Appeal to authority up the wazoo. Though I do appreciate that plato etc were obviously very smart, and so on.
Also history (the academic profession) is just (and I'm not an SJW so this pains me to say) Old Big Authoritative White Men Praising And Hyping Old Big Authoritative Dead White Men With Grand And Barely Falsifiable Statements And A Boatload Of Stamp Collecting. Yeah there's the SJW variant as well, but that's what history departments are as a whole. Stop this bullshit pls.
Also the standard answer from lit: "Unfalsifiablity as a criterion for worth is an unfalsifiable conjecture!!!!" Ok then, but why does Ayn Rand get so much crap thrown at her while X philosopher gets their balls licked while being twice as outlandish? Nothing to do with political fashions... (I've read nothing of Rand, substitute anyone else if you want).
good post, but I have nothing to add
bump
>>314245
>Also history (the academic profession) is just (and I'm not an SJW so this pains me to say) Old Big Authoritative White Men Praising And Hyping Old Big Authoritative Dead White Men With Grand And Barely Falsifiable Statements And A Boatload Of Stamp Collecting. Yeah there's the SJW variant as well, but that's what history departments are as a whole. Stop this bullshit pls.
If you aren't an SJW you definitely don't have any understanding of history as an academic study.
Does anyone on /his/ do historical reenactment? I've been doing WWI for a while now and just about to start a German WWII impression. I really enjoy the hobby, especially the aspects where you aren't shooting blanks at fat rednecks 50 feet away from you.
Anyway, what kind of impressions does /his/ do?
Pic related, my WWI unit a few seconds after the gas alarm was called.
Looks pretty cool, feel free to post more pics if you want to
there's no culture for these sorts of things in my country.
>>314225
You got it. Pic related is a vignette we did of a grave detail to greet the Commonwealth soldiers marching into their trenches. Freaked a good bit of them out.
Why was Korea divided in two?
>>314142
>i cant read history books
Mosley couldn't save it
>>314142
Well there was no reason for it to be divided into three or four.
You have 5 seconds to declare Domitian most based emperor or you will be purged.
>he likes Roman empire
Most casual interest after WW2 t.b.h.
Doesn't compare to Mosley though
>best Roman ruler
>not Cincinatus
Absolutely treasonous.
What vices are muslims allowed? I'm writing a story featuring a character that I want to make as hedonistic of a muslim as possible, while still adhering to the Qu'ran. I'm finding lots of lists of what isn't allowed (gambling, alcohol, dice, etc.), but some of these go against what I've already know, like how hashish and hookah are both originally from islamic countries, and used somewhat frequently. Are those considered smaller sins, like lying or casting adulterous looks, or more of an unforgivable sin?
>>314099
Strictly speaking everything smokeable is allowed, including weed, opium and tobacco. As well as everything that wasn't invented in Muhammad's time like intravenous heroin and cocaine.
They're not sins in the very literal sense they aren't included in the Qur'an, but at the same time it's reasonably certain allah wouldn't like it.
>>314111
From what I read any "intoxicants" are haram, which would probably include those. But I'm more looking at the distinction between unforgivable sin and what can be slid under the rug.
>>314099
>>314111
man of muslim background here, anything that would cloud your judgement is considered haram. haram basically equals to "sin" because it is forbidden and can be punishable according to shariah law.
but since there is no one muslim religious head some things that would be haram in a culture wouldn't be considered one. for example qat is a plant with metamphetamine like effect when you chew on it and it is legal in yemen and yemen is a country where people kill eachother in the name of islam a lot.
if you want to have an idea about hedonistic muslim lifestyle read about how saudi arabians live, those people are greasy as fuck.
