I don't know if this question is best suited for here, /jp/, or /a/, but who is "Kami-sama?" When I hear it mentioned in a Chinese cartoon (Please, Kami-sama, help me; maybe Kami-sama told me to do that; I think Kami-sama is watching over us), is it an anachronism referring to the Christian God or a more complicated idiom that's always been part of Japanese rhetoric?
>>1299222
You know. There is soul in everything yada yada eastern shamanism
>>1299222
it refers to a Namekian living in the sky that watches over the earth and gives power to the dragon balls
It's the Christian God
I'm going to post some Swedish Nazi stuff from 1920-1950, with a little bit of backstory.
Starting with the Swedish version of the arm swastikas the German Nazi's wore.
>>1299069
Here's a pin with the same badge.
>>1299071
Membership badge of the NSAP (Basically Swedish NSDAP)
>>1299071
Very aesthetically attractive
Hello,
Have all dictatorships been kleptocracies?
Every form of government is a kleptocracy
>>1298968
Interesting theory
All governments except monarchies are kleptocracies.
I just finished this and my god, it was absolutely brilliant. Probably in the top 10 dramas I've ever watched in my life.
Any other recommendations?
>>1298857
Well even though it's less than 25 years ago, the Iraq War, or at least the invasion of Iraq in 2003 is technically history, so I'm reccing Generation Kill.
>>1298857
I saw an interview with Derrick Jacobi several years ago, When the interviewer asked him about his role in I Claudius, he began to stutter. Also, Patrick Stewart appears as Sejanius, but nobody today realizes its him because he has hair! I agree, its one of the top TV dramas.
>>1298857
How does this compare to the book? I've only read the book and it's sequel......
http://pastebin.com/pk3AAG04
Reminder that The Last Samurai is one of the most historically inaccurate films ever made
Literally who fucking cares if it's good from a cinematic standpoint
>>1298703
Let me stop you right there a that title already belongs to The Patriot.
Axes confirmed for pieces of shit!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LM-kBOw920
haha get fucked /his/ your precious axes are dog shit
>>1298559
Just because swords are superior weapons doesn't mean the axe didn't have its uses in combat.
Also, doesn't /his/ hate swords and agree that axes are generally shit at fucking shit up?
>>1298568
No one hates swords because unlike axes they had some actual uses.
>>1298568
No one has ever said that on here.
Axes are shit, live with it
How long will this meme continue?
Why don't you make your own meme religion then. All you need is the power of mementum to make it happen
>>1297903
Probably as long as both of these
It'll be the dominant religion in America in a few centuries
How would the american civil war have turned out if General Lee had won at Gettysburg?
Would the siege of Washington have been next after a lengthy pursuit of yankees by the confederate army through the countryside?
I imagine that even with a victory; Lee would still suffer significant casualties and still make way back to confederate lines but victorious with spirits high and the Union again suffering another defeat and reminded that the Confedeacy can invade successfully.
>>1297728
Depending on how decisive the victory is, a Confederate army freely marching around as far north as Pennsylvania would undoubtedly have incited riots in the large cities of the North. A siege of Washington could have had a very real possibility of causing enough unrest within the Union to convince the federal government of pursuing conditional peace terms with the Confederacy.
It was a political war, the south only had to defeat morale
>Boston Massacre
>Only 5 people died
WTF???
Not only that but the people who were 'massacred' were pelting the redcoats with rocks and daring them to shoot them.
>>1297487
The American tradition of false-flagging to start wars goes back a long ways.
>>1297487
US census says the pop was 2,148,076 in 1770
Current US population is 341,442,019
5 people dead in 1770 is .00023% of the population
50 dead today is .000014%
it was a big deal
Does anyone know a non-cuck version (aka not crash course) of an overview of world history.
>>1296685
>people built
>people explored
>people hunted
>the end
Fuck off.
>>1296689
nice meme
Ranke
Well?
he isn't real
There is no god.
Because God doesn't exist. At least, not the God of any Abrahamic religion.
Let's discuss art films: high quality cinema. Not Iron Man 3 but rather Bergman or Haneke (what is more /his/ than /tv/).
What are the best films out there, what is actually worth watching?
I've seen most Bergman movies and they don't speak to me at all. What then?
>>1296083
Ozu is cinema.
Bergman is filmed theatre.
Haneke just makes movies about how Germans and French are rude/psychopathic.
>Every 10 years, the ancient and venerable British film magazine, Sight & Sound, polls the world's directors, movie critics, and assorted producers, cinematheque operators and festival directors, etc., to determine the Greatest Films of All Time.
>Sight & Sound has been conducting its poll every 10 years since 1952. Because it is world-wide and reaches out to voters who are presumably experts, it is by far the most respected of the countless polls of great movies--the only one most serious movie people take seriously.
http://letterboxd.com/alexfung/list/sight-sound-2012-critics-poll/
>>1296090
How is Persona "filmed theatre"?
>>1296083
back to /tv/
If the prosecution lied about Manson's height being only 5'2 then what else might they have lied about? This case and the circumstances surrounding it are one of the most mindboggling and fascinating bits of modern American history.
http://biggerluke.wikidot.com/bigger-luke
>>1295071
oh come on, this is serious :^(
They seem to be white trash hillbillies on drugs
http://www.mansonblog.com/
what exactly is to be gained by making your empire larger? ie what is the main motivation in ruling large chunks of land? Money? influence? why do states go to war over tiny tiny land areas?
More people to tax, more corpses for the army and resources to fuel the rest of your empire.
>>1294488
How can germans even pretend that the Versailles treaty was bordering on cruel when this is what they exerted on Russia. God knows the conditions they'd have wanted to subjugate France and England to.
Also don't know about your question OP. Sorry :c.
>>1294509
i dont think that map is accurate in any way. austria didnt even want territory because it was collapsing and germany for the most part wanted to set up independent and puppet states.
>three stripes of color made in 34 seconds
>92 million dollars
Have you ever noticed how none of the people who complain about modern art ever seem to know anything about pre-modern art either?
>>1281438
Is this supposed to be what passes for a defense of Mark Rothko?
LOL
>>1281438
Yeah, I have.
>art must conform to what I think art is or art should be
Every thread.
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