Tell me something about Ukrainian history anon.
Is it a real nation? Who is the true son of the Kievan Rus? Cossacks were Ukrainians? What about Ukrainian People's Republic and Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic?
Russian history is ukrainian history.
>>312520
I think you're Russian. I'm not sure if Poles and Russians can be fair enough in this question.
>>312512
Is it comparable to the Scotland England thing? I have great grandparents from Lvov who spoke Ukranian as a 1st language
Is there any way the Arab peoples might have been united under one state in the modern era?
>>312404
>Southern Persia
they can't even unite in their own countries, or their own religion, ffs
>>312422
Saddam started the Iran-Iraq war to 'free' the Arabs there.
What's /his/'s thoughts on this show?
Have they been able to achieve a balance of historical accuracy and entertainment?
Or do you think they have just shat on such an important era of medieval Britannia?
>>312333
Bad show.
>>312333
Complete garbage
Absolute dogshit.
What can you tell me about Kuk, /his/?
From the wiki:
>Kuk (also spelled as Kek and Keku) is the deification of the primordial concept of darkness in ancient Egyptian religion. In the Ogdoad cosmogony, his name meant darkness. As a concept, Kuk was viewed as androgynous, his female form being known as Kauket (also spelled as Keket), which is simply the female form of the word Kuk
>Like all four dualistic concepts in the Ogdoad, Kuk's male form was depicted as a frog, or as a frog-headed man, and the female form as a snake, or a snake-headed woman. As a symbol of darkness, Kuk also represented obscurity and the unknown, and thus chaos. Also, Kuk was seen as that which occurred before light, thus was known as the bringer-in of light. The other members of the Ogdoad are Nu and Naunet, Amun and Amaunet, Huh and Hauhet.
>>312310
So a meme is 5000 years old.
Life is cyclical and humanity never forgets.
>>312310
>is the deification of the primordial concept of darkness
More like dankness.
>>312310
>Kuk's male form was depicted as a frog
Should advanced AI have the same rights as humans? Would it be against the law to create sentient intelligent life with the sole purpose of being obedient servants and what if someone upgrades your servbot to human level intelligence, should that be crime if its outlawed to "own" high intelligent life and thus lost property
>implying strong AI is possible
>implying even weak AI is possible until we've essentially "finished" cognitive neuroscience
>>312187
Is it against the law to have sex with a doll that almost identically resembles a child? No, it's just really fucking weird. Machines will never achieve independent sentience, they will only ever achieve an extremely close resemblance to human sentience, meaning that other than being property, they can receive no independent protection from the law, just like the child-doll.
>>312187
Hypothetically it's best not to invent "sentient" robotics, even if we could. Otherwise, they'll become ambitious and develop group identity. When humans do that shit, we get wars, so...
>tfw you will never be a robot samurai lady
Are any of the former Bloc/Yugoslav country's (aside from Belrus) still pro Russia? Do most of the Slavic countries resent Russia because of the Cold War?
Most of the Slavic countries resent Russia since the 15th century.
>>312137
As far as opinion polls go, I think majority of the population dislikes Russia except for Slovakia and Serbia. As far as politicians go, it's more complicated since a lot of them love Russian money.
>fall of Berlin Wall
>dissolution of USSR
>beginning of fall of Yugoslavia
>Bulgaria abolishes communism
>Czechoslovakia abolishes communism
>Hungary abolishes communism
>Romania abolishes communism and executes their leader
>Tinamen Square protests in China to abolish communism
>end of Showa period in Japan and the culmination of Japan's economic growth, leading to the start of the Lost Decade
I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories but why did all these events happen in a single year?
aldous huxley, C S Lewis, and JFK all died on the same day.
>dissolution of USSR
>1991
Well all these events were directly related to USSR's collapse, they are part of the same process
>>312082
Taylor Swift was born in 1989
Which do you like better - the Roman Republic or the Roman Empire?
Personally, I prefer the Republic. The history, wars, societal developments, and cast of characters are all superior to the Empire.
>hurr durr it all went downhill after they crossed the rubicon
go home plebs.
>>311993
Shut the fuck up
>>311980
Personally, I think both eras have interesting events, people, and conflicts.
Both also had political corruption up the ass so it's hard to denounce one underneath the other.
Kingdom best
Has anyone ever honestly called him/herself evil?
Are there any historical figures who thought they're evil?
I mean there are plenty who were called evil by others, but that's not what I'm asking.
Also it doesn't matter how they thought they're evil (from a religious, philosophical or simply political point of view) or other people's opinion about them.
Pic kinda related, he called himself 666, but I'm not a Crowley fan, so I have no idea how he meant it (also this thread is not a Crowley thread).
>>311884
About the closest I can think of is that Machiavelli had a chapter in the Prince devoted to effective use of cruelty and oppression. Although he prefaces the chapter with a statement saying that he knows people are going to misinterpret this chapter, how they're going to use it as an endorsement of such methods, when he's not, he's merely analyzing causes and effects.
reminder that the actual number of the beast is 616 and not 666
King Diamond
what's your favorite alt-history timeline?
This.
>>311660
An independent southern Italy would be sucha gigantic shithole
>>311740
It already is a gigantic shithole, how much worse could it get?
Dr. Pavel, I'm Tang Dynasty.
UHH, YOU DON'T GET TO BRING EUNUCHS
>>311598
these aren't my eunuchs
They work for the mercenary.
The western barbarian.
Does /his/ agree with this notion? If there is nothing to remember you by, be it someone's memory or a book that you wrote and signed off as your work, then how can any other sentient being prove your existence?
>>311494
Shameful self bump
If you have children you leave physical evidence of your existence. You won't be remembered by name or anything unless you're on a family tree, but atleast your genetic material lives on
>>311494
>then how can any other sentient being prove your existence?
By looking up the tax registries? In fact such government registries are all that matter, since you can even start the world biggest religion and people will still doubt your existence.
What do people on this board mean exactly when they say someone is a leftist?
>>311423
You're a redditor/You are an atheist that mock religion/You support gay marriage/You think the crusades or inquisition were truly horrible things/You like historical revisionism/You think fascism is evil, etc.
>>311427
Yeah but what does that have to do with having left political views?
>>311456
>what does that have to do with having left political views?
How old are you?
What did he want?
>>311255
To not to disappoint his mother.
>>311255
He and his factions wanted for proletarian class consciousness.
>>311308
Difficult for them to develop class consciousness when they're dead though.
anyone speaking german?
i just finished cleaning my attic and i have a bunch of ww2 papers here
i don't speak german at all, so i have no idea what it is
anything worth saving?
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one more, it looks like hand writing but it is actually printed - about a dozen exact copies there
it starts with "liebe mutter liebe vater" but i can't recognize anything beyond that
>>310987
why would they remove juice?
