>"i'm really into history"
>"i only speak english and maybe one other europoor language"
Come back when you actually learn a difficult language like Chinese or Arabic, I don't even consider you people to be bilingual. Learning everything through the lens of English is embarrassingly stupid.
I don't know Chinese doesn't seem all that difficult (at least compared to Japanese).
being an ancient language the word usage isn't all that complicated desu
I see how Chinese is useful for understanding history, but Arabic?
Literally what else can you read about besides the Quran and a few, very questionable texts on the early caliphates?
>>1299298
English language speakers don't need to learn another language. Anyone that can't speak English is an uneducated pleb anyway.
>Pranks that went terribly wrong
>>1299269
Too soon, OP. Too. Soon.
tfw I finally understand what he means by this
He's just being ironic.
what did he mean by that
I always thought he was referring to the fact that no one really knows why do we exist
Was anyone using warhammer as his main weapon? Why bother with swords if warhammers were easier to fuck up an armored opponent with? Why are they so underrated?
Why use a mace over them?
>>1298877
>Use mace
>Blunt force fucking everyone
>No worries about it getting stuck
>Use warhammer
>Smaller area to blunt force fuck someone
>Use spike get stuck
People have been bashing skulls since the beginning, Maces rule
>>1298894
That spike was very useful in penetrating armor besides warhammer still has the blunt part for bashing dumb fucking nigger loving homo.
>>1298894
>mfw this mace meme wont die
Face it spears were the kings of melee weapons until halberds came
>b-but muh 1v1 combat that never happened :(
by that logic revolvers are the shit because maybe sometimes two soldiers want to recreate western showdowns at noon
Swords were dog shit
axes were dog shit
spears were god mode
agreed. the greek hoplite was undefeated in battle and only lost against other hoplites
>>1298796
Or romans
>>1298813
What kind of weapons did Romans use?
What long standing and popular ideas or practices have at some point became copletely absolete and were not practices or thought of again in all of human society?
Can something like the belief in a deity be completely forsakened at some point?
>>1298621
No, there's a part in our brain that makes us believe in a higher being... Why do you think you have "atheist" churches in the US or all those cults still growing like mushrooms
>>1298621
Also, what valeuable things were taken away from the abrahamic religions by science and what important things remained?
>>1298624
Atheist chruches are not about belief in a higher being per se but can be seen as a result of people being used to congregating in churches.
Pictures taken in ww1 and 2, preferably in high resolution, let's help each other to create archives anons!
What is philosophical and theological basis of neo-pagan religions? Do you think they are as legit as traditional ones?
The ones that have as such typically borrow extensively from Greek pagan philosophers.
The works of historians, mythographers, poets, priests, ancient philosophers, etc. for the reconstructionists, combined with artifacts, calendars, statues, temples, and other iconography.
In the case of the NEO-pagans, you frequently deal with the works written by Carl Jung on the collective unconscious, in which the gods and mythological figures are reinterpreted as archetypes.
They are religions that are compatible with a physicalist understanding of the world, as opposed to those the apologists of which debate atheists and agnostics over cosmology.
Why wouldn't they be?
Also, pagan religions kinda are the traditional ones, if you catch my drift.
Were the Soviets right in mistrusting the Volga Germans?
>>1297947
Yes.
Germans are scum.
>>1297947
Only if Japanese internment was also right
Were the germans right in mistrusting the jews?
>>1297972
Kys bolsheboo germanophobe
What is fascism?
It seems that the word has been misused to describe any authoritarian regime people don't like, and vastly different philosophies from Mussolini's to Evola's.
Ideologically and philosophically, what does fascism really stand for? What basic principles and ideas does it defend?
>>1297875
Mussolini wrote a book that concisely outlines all your questions called 'The Doctrine of Fascism'.
>>1297881
Can Mussolini be considered the "true" proponent of fascism? My confusion came from the fact that there are other authors who wrote about it, and whose ideas weren't necessarily compatible with Mussolini's.
Seems to be an ideology that has become extremely varied and loose, so to say.
>"""World""" War 1
>"""World""" War 2
>Majority of the battles took place in Europe
>>1297730
I dont get it
>>1297730
In World War 1 you're right.
In World War 2, there was plenty of fighting in Asia and North Africa though.
>>1297730
>>"""World""" War 1
>what are all the invasions of German colonies
>>"""World""" War 2
>what is Pacific Theater
>what is CBI Theater
Picture this: an authoritarian head of state or a near absolute monarchy. The ruler is forced to give freedom of speech, private property, freedom of religion, freedom of market and others to the population. The ruler has a senate/parliament conformed by 2 representatives of each province/state. The next ruler is elected from the senators that present their candidatures. The senators are elected by meritocracy, not anything else. Both the senate and the people have the power to cease the ruler, and even incarcelate him if needed. He, only himself and the ministers he chooses can manage where the money from taxes goes. If any money goes missing it will be his fault only, thus avoiding many cases of corruption. Senators and rulers get a basic salary not much above from that of a teacher or a policeman, which can't be changed, except adjusting for inflation, for example. Being a senator would be a position earned, not bought. Also, it wouldn't have a great pay and virtually no access to money.
Now my questions:
>Is this viable?
>How exactly does Meritocracy works? Who chooses who deserves power and based on what?
>What do you think about it?
Feel free to post criticism, opinions or to make alterations to what I just wrote.
Pic kinda related: an authoritarian ruler like Pedro II of Brazil.
Depends how you define "meritocracy," the closest system is actually Australia which is highly dependent on commissions formed from industry professionals and actual experts in the field they're legislating. That being said, the people these commissions present to are still elected and still have the option to ignore everything they say.
A better system would be to give commissions more power or influence over parliament, open up the decision making to a wider community of experts (who may be polled, but not present evidence, for simplicity) and perhaps include digital technologies into the decision making, like internet forums.
>Now my questions:
>>Is this viable?
Australia is actually a fantastic democracy that should be studied and perhaps used as a framework for newer democracies or simply nations that wish to be more democratic.
Before you think I'm an Australian shill, Australia is benefiting from being a relatively young country itself. It's benefiting from hindsight and using America, Britain, Germany and France as guinea pigs.
>>How exactly does Meritocracy works? Who chooses who deserves power and based on what?
That's the issue and that's where corruption of meritocracy usually creeps in, especially when there's assumed biases (which may or may not exist) or when completely subjective factors, like social skills, are considered.
This is more difficult in the commission style of meritocracy since they can literally be semi-famous industry experts, but it's almost expected if usually democratically appointed positions are chosen "meritocratically."
>>What do you think about it?
Well.. aforementioned.
How is meritocracy defined? That's the biggest question.
>>1297446
What's in it for these senators? I've always thought plato's idea fora city seems good and this isn't too different. The problem is that if there's nothing in it for the participants, no one would waste their time with it. Anyone smart enough to score a position in a meritocracy could see the fact that their their own citizens slave. Without the availability of corruption and big money kickbacks, government positions are silly. Your problem isn't democracy, it's capitalism that holds us back.
>>1297548
Please dont even mention any kind of communism/socialism.. It's objectively retarded.
>you will never be a Spanish princess
>you will never be married away to a rival count to serve as a deterrent against war
>you will never get kidnapped by moors and convert to Islam, only to flip back to Catholicism when your brothers and cousins storm the city and put all Muslims to the sword
>you will never call accuse a converso sephardic merchant of being a crypto-jew in order to confiscate his money
>You will never be the Grand Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
>you will never fuck a different wife or concubine every day of the year
>you will never laugh as your grand vizier burns another letter from the Pope begging you to convert to Catholicism
>you will never order your head gardener to be killed for eating your favorite cucumber, then re-grow it from the seeds cut out from his belly
>you will never enslave entire villages of Greek peasants
Why live?
>You will never be a Roman centurion
>You will never put Gaulic barbarians to the sword
>You will never get to bang the hot wife of the barbarian you just killed
>You will never take part in a civil war for your general to make Rome great again
>You will never get a comfy piece of land as rewards for your service to the Republic
Why even live?
>you will never take Jerusalem from the Ottomans with opium cigarettes
>you will never push the Gerries back during the Hundred Days Offensive
>you will never witness the Huns ragequitting and destroying their own fleet at Scapa Flow
>The city was then besieged by Franz von Waldeck, its expelled bishop. In April 1534 on Easter Sunday, Matthys, who had prophesied God's judgment to come on the wicked on that day, made a sally with only thirty followers, believing that he was a second Gideon, and was cut off with his entire band. He was killed, his head severed and placed on a pole for all in the city to see, and his genitals nailed to the city gate. The 25-year old John of Leiden was subsequently recognized as Matthys' religious and political successor, justifying his authority and actions by the receipt of visions from heaven. His authority grew, eventually proclaiming himself to be the successor of David and adopting royal regalia, honors and absolute power in the new "Zion". There were at least three times as many women of marriageable age as men now in the town and he legalized polygamy and himself took sixteen wives. (John is said to have beheaded one woman in the marketplace for refusing to marry him; this act might have been falsely attributed to him after his death.) Meanwhile, most of the residents of Münster were starving as a result of the year-long siege.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnster_Rebellion
Fucking judeo-christianity fucked up europe for centuries to come. We would be literally flying in pagan space zeppelins right now if it had not been for the christian dark ages
>>1297361
Abrahamic religions fucked everything up, some moreso than others like Islam, to be quite honest my fellow /his/torical scholar.
>>1297361
>Fucking judeo-christianity fucked up europe for centuries to come.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion
The Taiping Rebellion or Taiping Civil War (simplified Chinese: 太平天国运动; traditional Chinese: 太平天國運動; pinyin: Taìpíng Tīanguó Yùndòng, literally "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement") was a massive rebellion or civil war in China that lasted from 1850 to 1864, which was fought between the established Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Christian millenarian movement of the Heavenly Kingdom of Peace. The Taiping Rebellion began in the southwestern province of Guangxi when local officials launched a campaign of persecution against a Christian sect known as the God Worshipping Society led by Hong Xiuquan, who believed himself to be the younger brother of Jesus Christ. The war was mostly fought in the provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, and Hubei, but over 14 years of war, the Taiping Army had marched through every regularized province of China proper except Gansu. The war was the largest in China since the Qing conquest in 1644, and ranks as one of the bloodiest wars in human history, the bloodiest civil war, and the largest conflict of the nineteenth century with estimates of war dead ranging from 20 to 70 million dead, as well as millions more displaced.[4]
> a Christian sect known as the God Worshipping Society led by Hong Xiuquan, who believed himself to be the younger brother of Jesus Christ.
>ranks as one of the bloodiest wars in human history, the bloodiest civil war, and the largest conflict of the nineteenth century with estimates of war dead ranging from 20 to 70 million dead, as well as millions more displaced
Opinions on this dude and his work?
Why was he a nazi? was he?
>died before WW1
>was he a member of the German National Socialist party?
>>1297261
>>died before WW1
DUDE
>>1297267
>he doesn't know
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