Why isn't there a movie about the life of Basil?
>>1309008
He ain't no Julius Ceaser [spoiler]who film corporations and producers can completely misrepresent and dumb down the population by doing so[/spoiler]
>>1309008
Now imagine you're a film director, guionist or whatever and you want to make this movie.
How do you sell the idea to the producer? How do you find someone who finances it?
>>1309354
Autistic shut-in kid becomes emperor and kills everyone in his path
“The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father; but coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.”
“Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. [...] Then it was as if One voice sounded. One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing; now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.”
So tell me /his/, what have you done in order to go back to your true home ?
>>1308901
I proselytize on a daily basis in a Mongolian tapestry weaving forum.
I took the bus, easy trip to get home, really.
>>1308901
Cast not pearls before swine, Anon. We (Neo)platonist should migrate someplace else. Or perhaps Thomas Taylor wa right, the life of the platonist (or simply philosopher as he identified Platonism with philosophy as such) is a lone journey.
Did he really go to China?
>>1308761
Why does he look like a turk here.
>>1308881
Looks like a slav to me.
Yes my /x/ friend
I want to see legioneries slaying barbarians and besieging cities
What movies should i watch ?
>>1308337
Imperialism is bad and you should feel bad.
#Gaulsarepeopletoo
#IceniNotIRapeChildreni
>>1308347
ofc #germanlifesmatter but im just seeking for art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmF3VBA_RcM
What are some /his/ approved historical movies that take place before the 20th century? Small scale or large, era doesn't matter, as long as it's a decent movie by itself and mostly accurate.
>>1307403
I really really liked this movie. It's said to be very accurate depiction of Jesse James, probably the most accurate movie of him
>>1307470
Best soundtrack too
Is Elizabeth (1998) any good?
Why were the books of Sirach, Tobit, Wisdom, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, and Baruch, which are in the Catholic and Orthodox bibles, taken out of the Protestant Old Testament?
Why also did the Jews leave out some of these books during the compilation of the current Hebrew Bible in the first centuries AD?
>>1307304
>Why were the books of Sirach, Tobit, Wisdom, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, and Baruch, which are in the Catholic and Orthodox bibles, taken out of the Protestant Old Testament?
Because the Bible is not infallible, Luther is.
>Why also did the Jews leave out some of these books during the compilation of the current Hebrew Bible in the first centuries AD?
From the Jewish Study Bible:
Despite such major uncertainties in our un
derstanding of the process of canonization,
however, several points seem fairly certain.
First, it is likely that the fin al stages of canon
ization were a reaction to the destruction of
the Second Temple in 70 CE and its aftermath.
This crisis intensifi ed a development which
had begun over half a millennium earlier,
with the destruction of the First Temple (586
BCE). Through this development Israel gradu
ally became the People of the Book (a term
first found in the Quran in reference to Jews
and Christians). Second, it is unlikely that
canonization represents a purely top-down
process, through which a small group of lead
ers (Rabbis) determined the canon; instead,
the designation of certain works as canonical
was more like the official recognition of the
works that a large segment of the community
had already held to be central, holy, or author
itative. Finally, the act of canonization was re
markably inclusive, creating a body of works
richly textured by a wide variety of genres,
ideologies, and theologies. This is, fundamen
tally, a typical ancient Near Eastern process:
Instead of creating a small, highly consistent
text, as we perhaps would now do, those
responsible for the process made efforts to in
clude many of the viewpoints in ancient
Israel, in corporating differing and even con
tradictory traditions into this single, and sin
gular, book.
>>1307347
, some
evidence suggests that by the 2nd century CE
the text had largely stabilized-this is re
flected in the (few) manuscripts we have from
this period, as well as the development of
early rabbinic midrash, much of which pre
supposes a stable text. The destruction of the
Second Temple and the Hadrianic persecution
of the early 2nd century CE may have also
caused a type of conservatism which was re
sponsible for establishin g "the" biblical text.
These were gradual processes. It is important
to remember that other groups, too, had their
ideas about the canon; for instance, it is un
likely that the Qumran community, most of
whose texts date from a century or so imme
diately before and immediately after the
Common Era, viewed Esther as canonical,
since no manuscript of that biblical book has
been found among the thousands of frag
ments discovered. In contrast, many manu
scripts of Jubilees, a work similar to Genesis
and Exodus, have survived, and given this
work's affinities with the practices of the
Dead Sea community, it was probably a
canonical text for them. Within rabbinic litera
ture, the Wisdom of Jesus ben Sirach (Sirach
or Ecclesiasticus) is sometimes cited with the
same formula used for biblical texts and was
thus, in some sense, canonical for some Rab
bis. Therefore, although we may speak of
"the" canon forming in the 1st century CE,
there was a certain amount of flexibility or
variability around the fringes.
>>1307349
This flexibility may also be seen in the ex
tensive divergence with respect to the word
ing of the biblical text as shown in manu
scripts from Qumran, in translations of the
Bible in the Septuagint and elsewhere, and
to a lesser extent in early rabbinic citations
(see "Textual Criticism of the Bible," pp. 2067-
72). These differences are not just small, such
as a variant spelling here or there, but are
often major, and affect the meaning of the text.
There are cases where the text is found in two
or more different recensions-identifiably dif
ferent versions, revisions, or critical texts, not
merely two different copies of the same original with minor variants-which may simply
vary the order of materials or may exhibit
fundamentally different text-types (for exam
ple, short types versus expansive types, as
with the text of Jeremiah; see the introduction
to Jeremiah). This evidence suggests that, at
least in the early stages of the canonization
process, it was quite acceptable for a book to
circulate in different versions and that differ
ent communities may have canonized differ
ent versions of the same book.
What was the significance of Aisha's rebellion against Ali after Uthman was assassinated?
Do you think Muhammad would have agreed with his wife's uprising?
>>1307282
Woman are a bit dumb.
Aisha cucked mohammed
Ali wanted to punish aisha for it
Because of this aisha held a grunge for ali
>Ali going super-saiyan on the right
I TRIED SO HARD
AND GOT SO FAR
>>1307638
BUT IN THE END IT DOESNT EVEN MATTER
Yes, yes, well done, Hannibal. Well done, Hannibal
HOWEVER
>>1307253
what is this meme
>>1307263
Harry Potter
>>1307253
should have used a pic of scipio or nero (the general) desu
Post your face whenever someone calls fascism "aesthetic"
Its an abstract king of artistic supremacy.
Futurism is 50% aesthetic and 50% ugly edgy shit
Y'all motherfuckers need Walter Benjamin
What are some good books to read covering the Crusades? I've heard about God's War and Through Arab Eyes but not sure whether they are biased or not. Any recommendations?
The Crusades by Zoe Oldenbourg
>>1306843
Robert de Clari's 'the Conquest of Constantinople' on the Fourth Crusade is a good read. I had to use it for a uni project. He was a lowly knight who participated in the crusade and gives a nice perspective of the events.
How about these, they any good?
The Crusades: A History - Jonathan Riley-Smith
History of the Crusades - Setton
So... How people like Stalin and Mao was able to kill like millions of other people? Surely, possible victims can realize that they are fucked by tyrant and try to rebel or something. Elites can see how crazy the guy is and overthrow him. People could just leave the country or something. Why citizens doesn't even tried to oppose only one crazy guy?
>>1306579
in-group psychology, those involved believed they were safe
>>1306579
it's not like Mao and Stalin directly went out into the country with a shotgun and started shooting people. Many of the people who died under their regimes died due to starvation from mismanagement (collectivization or in Mao's case also failed attempts at increasing production). They also had powerful people working under them who due to sycophancy, incompetence or both were a large part of the problem as well. There were individuals within the party that opposed Stalin or Mao respectively but they either were proscribed or purged by the loyal faction.
>>1306579
>Surely, possible victims can realize that they are fucked by tyrant and try to rebel or something
Can't say anything about Mao but Russians have a bad case of "Kind Czar surrounded by evil boyars".
>Comrade Stalin is eliminating all those enemies of the people! How great that is!
>What do you mean, I'm the enemy of the people? It's just a mistake!
>Stalin just wasn't informed well! Surely it's a misunderstanding! He doesn't know!
Doesn't help that despotism is essentially their natural habitat.
The far right is a big problem here but so are most 'extreme' parties whether they be religious or other wise. Globally the issues we should be tackling are the root causes.
If you look at the concentrated distribution of wealth throughout the west and the rest of the world - you'll see that there is a positive correlation between how poor a nation / region is and how extreme its members of the community are prepared to act.
Evidence points to more access to higher educational materials , not just schooling but open - source leads to people being able to make better rational decisions and to live their lives independently from a doctrine spelt out by the 'masters of mankind' (the masters being powerful people who create doctrines that do not benefit the entire human populous and only a small group of themselves: ISIS, Labour, Conservative, Republican etc) So if people are choosing not to follow extreme ideas because of better wealth distribution - that should be the focus point.
The UK is about to decide whether or not it should leave the EU. If it does leave, this would be a massive regressive step on a chess board to big to comprehend.
>>1306460
> 2000
Bring a better chart, I bet Venezuela is lighter now, maybe Russia too
The chart is neither here nor there. The chart represents a snap shot of time. It is constantly changing. The point is that by treating countries as monoliths we are never going to create an equal society and we will always have a maxim per country that is trying to out do the rest of the world.
The far right is a big problem here but so are most 'extreme' parties whether they be religious or other wise. Globally the issues we should be tackling are the root causes.
Sweden, Finland, UK (if not for fptp), Austria and France all have groups that you would label as "FAR RIGHT EXTREMISTS" leading polls and making up the governments.
Tell me about him after the anglo-zulu war
>>1306218
wuz ACTUALLY a king n shiet
That is the weirdest afro.
Was Nero really that bad or is it just a meme? If it just a meme what other rules was represented by being much worse than they are in reality?
Is this an accurate depiction of Nero?
>>1303107
No. Now fuck back off to /a/
>>1303047
A meme is just an idea that can be transmitted from person to person. All human knowledge is composed of memes.
