Love your enemies
>>293272
Will do, bro.
Get that eye checked out.
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
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a time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
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a time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
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a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
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a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
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a time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
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a time to tear, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
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a time to love, and a time to hate;
a time for war, and a time for peace.
>>293272
Unless those neighbors believe in more than one God. Then you have free reign to murder and torture them till they give up their beliefs for yours.
/his/ related wallpaper thread
>>293263
I don't get why Daniel Dennet is evil here if that's the quote that's being used to represent him.
>>293263
>>294012
I'l dump a couple
Which nation has your favorite history and why isn't it Russia?
>>293224
Slavs are a violent people and they live in violent nations
>>293236
>Russians
>Slavs
Czech republic, Slovenia or Poland are not violent countries at all.
>soviet union is gone
>you will never live in a glorious socialist state
>no communism
;_;
Is this man responsible for the third Reich?
>>293206
Nah, a myriad of other possible pathways could have been followed.
>>293206
HEGEL?
>>293391
WAS MAKING AN EMPIRE PART OF YOUR MEME?
Who had the greatest speaking voices in history?
>>293204
Is this a thinly disguised Hitler thread?
>>293204
Definitely not him. We will never know
>Boston accent
>Best anything voice
w-why?
>>293203
It's an easy way to build large monumental architecture with hand tools.
>>293203
Pyramids look neat. They're also relatively symmetrical and easy to understand building wise.
Take one level, build it, then take a smaller sized level and put it on top of it.
>>293203
It's a very simple geometric structure
Tell me about the 30 Years War.
Why did 8 million people die just because three faggots got thrown out a window?
>>293179
1. Some princes wanted to stay Catholic, some wanted to be Protestant. Whichever would let them hold onto their titles
2. People were in fear that their after life was at stake
3. It evolved into a civil war
And into a dung heap. That's an important part.
It's complicated.
Girls and Gentlemen, get your tin foil hats, fadoras and neck beards to prepare for some truth! ITT we discus why the Dark Ages never existed.
menes
>>293127
But they did, as you can see from this chart.
>>293150
>its a graph, so it must be true!
1: There are a bunch of tribes living in an area, each one governing itself that squabble for power
2: One of these tribes (for simplicity sake your tribe) gains a slight advantage in administration, war fighting ability, a good alliance, the misfortune of others or some combination there of manages to conquer one of it's rivals and make them vassals
3: Now that you have a vassal you can use them to fund the creation of larger, better armies and so the conquest of a third tribe gets easier and so on for a bit, putting your loyal supporters and exceptional warriors in charge of new provinces to rule them as their little sub-dynasties, thus a kingdom is born.
4: Eventually your kingdoms hit a wall due to complications in regards to communication, rebellious vassal lords who want to make their provinces into either independent kingdoms or take over, costs of maintaining garrisons, run into or simply run out of land to conquer and expansion stops.
5: Time goes by, technology advances and language becomes more uniform across your kingdom.
cont...
>>293049
6: Eventually your kingdom becomes unstable due to the population becoming more politically involved and ideologies based on ideas of the equality of all human beings comes up threatening your precious feudal oligarchy.
7: Have a bunch of hack writer declare that the people of your specific land are not "the subjects of your throne" but "the People of your country" and that they have with them a distinct history (leaving aside that most of it was being illiterate peasants bossed around by thuggish warriors and nobles) and many proud accomplishments (even if up until 200 years ago you were considered the most ass backwards collections of morons on the continent) along with how they posses a "inherent spirit of nobility" and other such meaningless pap which needs to be defended against the foreign hordes and their 'corrupting influences'.
8: Reap the benefits of this contrived nonsense as it keeps the proles in line
Pictured in OP: Something which is of no concern in constructing your ethnic national identity.
>>293054
>>293049
All ethnicities are invented. 60% of France could not speak French in 1796, and 80% of Italy did not speak Italian.
Amerifats see the product but not the process
Were bucklers used on the medieval battlefield? How?
>>292990
to push aside or deflect a pike so the swordsman can close with his blade
>>292990
Not really. They were more of a duelling or a self-defense piece of equipment. In most pitched field battles, you wanted some kind of two handed polearm as your primary melee weapon. Swords of any stripe tended to be more of a backup/sidearm sort of thing.
>>293005
Wouldn't you want a larger shield, then? So you can protect yourself easier or defend from arrows?
Why have the Slavs had such a hard time consolidating democracy? Non-slavic post soviet states like the baltics have become true democracies, but russia, Ukraine, Belarus et al all are corrupt to the teeth
>>292976
This video offers a pretty good explanation of Russia's failure to utilize democracy, although it doesn't mention other slavs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE6rSljTwdU
>Russia, Ukraine and Belarus are the only Slavic countries
Well memed.
And what about Albania, Hungary, Romania, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan etc? The "non-Slavic post Soviet states".
>>292995
Three Islamic shitholes, Hungary is fairly consolidated and Romanians are wannabe slavs
In 15 years, he dragged his country forward by over 300
How did he do it?
>>292770
He removed religion and promoted education.
/thread
He was white
>>292781
I've gotcha covered mane
/thread.
Tell me something interesting about the Philippines pre-colonization.
Want to actually cherish my culture instead of use it as a excuse to justify my weebness.
The first people are little black folks unrelated to even Papuans and aboriginals which shows their antiquity.
strongest race on earth
>>292706
Thank you for making my coffee
So I saw the recordings of graffiti at Pompeii a while back and the really down-to-earth, relatable, understandable nature of it struck me as pretty interesting.
Does anyone know of any other "normal" historical text or writings? Like, stuff from the ancient past that captures day-to-day life and so forth? Records of mundane events, commentaries, graffiti, that sort of thing?
I'm not really sure if there's a term for what I'm looking for but I'll willing to check out anything neat you can think of. Thanks.
>>292649
There's loads of this stuff, actually.
I remember reading that one of the oldest surviving written documents records a goat transaction or something, but I can't seem to find it right now.
>>292649
Florilegium Urbanum has lots of great primary sources on this stuff. Lots of it pertains to buisness contractions in the Middle Ages that details otherwise simple, mundane transactions.
Check them here: http://users.trytel.com/~tristan/towns/florilegium/flor01.html
>>292704
>On holy days, the schoolmasters assemble their students at the churches associated with the particular festival, for purposes of a training exercise. There the students debate, some using demonstrative rhetoric, others using dialectical logic. Yet others "hurtle enthymemes", while those who are more advanced employ syllogisms. Some undergo the debating exercise just to be put through their paces, it being like a wrestling match of the intellect; for others it is to help perfect their skills in determining the truth. The contrivances of sophists receive credit for the torrent and flow of their arguments. Others apply false logic. Occasionally some speakers strive to persuade by delivering rhetorical orations, taking care to observe the rules of their art and not to leave out anything related to them. Boys from different schools fling versified arguments against each other, disputing matters of grammatical principles or rules governing the use of the future or past tenses. There are those who make use of epigrams, rhymes, and metrical verse – types of sarcasm traditionally heard at street-corners; with "Fescennine License", they freely ridicule their associates, without naming names. They hurl "abuse and jibes"; with Socratic wit they take digs at the character flaws of their fellows, or even their elders, and "bite more keenly even than Theon's tooth" with their "bold dithyrambs". The audience being "ready to laugh their fill", "with wrinkling nose repeat the loud guffaw".
This is pretty cool, thanks!
>>292690
Yeah, that'd be something I'm interested in. I like history's big events but the little things I think help me more in visualizing the world the events happened in, giving them more context and depth.
Did Adam and Eve live in modern day Iraq? Where do you think they lived?
>>292633
>Where do you think they lived?
they didn't
In the imagination of whatever Jew cooked it up. I doubt he had a explicit place in mind.
Joseph Smith thinks it was Independence, Missouri though. If you're willing to believe him.
>>292667
I came here to shitpost Missouri. Damn.
