How come Hungarians and Romanians aren't slavic?
>>1294208
Romanians are Latin and Hungarians Finno-Ugric.
Romanian language evolved from the Latin carried by the Romans and the Hungarian language came with the Hungarian invasions around the X Century.
How come Balts aren't slavic?
>>1294221
Teutonic order genocided the Slavs that resided there.
Pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-Germanic already baring its fangs at the world and alerting us of their sociopathic syndrome. Though nothing morally wrong with massacring Slavs.
What made him so succesful as a peaceful leader?
Maybe it's my cynicism, but i still have a hard time believing he became such a big and respected figure without using violence.
Or so they say, anyway, i haven't read as much about him as i should have.
>>1290779
It was his vehement hate of niggers and his denial of temptation by laying with under 18 girls naked.
Can we talk about Gandhi's life in South Africa?
What happened there that changed him so much?
>>1290971
>cultural Marxist education
Is joining the Freemasons worth it?
My uncle and brother are high-ranking members of my local body and when I asked they all but assured me that they'd get me in.
What can I expect as far as personal/religious fulfillment?
Inb4 illuminati conspiracy bullshit
I mean its just a fraternal order full of old people with nothing better to do so don't expect much
>>1287233
Cool.
>>1287233
Secular (French) Freemasons? Can't hurt, and some are quite intellectual, but it's mostly a waste of your time desu. It's mostly for lawyers or important civil servants who'll never get into a club because they are not distinguished enough.
Anglo-saxon religious Freemasons? If you want to see clowns, just go to the circus.
Has an epidemic similar to the mass shooting epidemic we are seeing in the U.S. ever happened in history before? Maybe not guns, maybe not so often, but anything we can relate this to?
>>1289938
Yea the middle east has a bombing epidemic that claims about 400x as many lives a year
What epidemic? It doesn't happen often at all.
>>1289964
300 long gun deaths a year in america is not an epidemic.
Ban blacks from owning handguns.
ITT: based quotes.
Why was Christianity the only Western religion to develop monasticism?
If you look at the religions of the East, monks are fairly common. There are Jainist monks and Hindu monks and Buddhist monks. I think there are even Shinto monks; forgive my ignorance if that's not the case. But it seems there were monks everywhere.
This isn't the case in the west. The Zoroastrians didn't have monks. The Roman mystery cults were strange and secretive, but they weren't monastic orders. Jews don't have monks. Muslims don't have monks.
The only religion in the West and Near East that developed monasticism, as far as I can tell, was Christianity. Why?
Potentially the nature of the religions?
This is a really good question, I read an article about Islam not needed intermediaries like priests or monks because all are in the same submission to God, but that was just from one Muslims perspective but still.
https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Islam-not-have-a-monastic-order
Maybe Christ was the first type of monastic order after Judaism, but if you go back to people like Moses that group of Israelites could be considered monastic in the sense they had total faith in their submission to God. Someone like Ellijah would be considered monastic even though they were not secluded to a community of monks.
why do you think Buddhist monks living in temples away from the world and devoting themselves to spiritual things isn't monsasticism?
>>1288593
I can't really answer for other religions, but at least in modern Judaism, you don't get a monsaticism because you don't really have a monastic ideal.
From my (superficial) understanding of Christianity, there's a view that there's an almost irreconcilable tension between materialism and spirituality, and that in order to be a more spiritual person, one must necessarily withdraw from material pursuits. Hence, monasticism, you gather together a group of like-minded folks who turn away from the material world in order to develop spiritually.
Judaism's conception of spirituality is a bit different, and is usually centered around turning the material pleasure into a spiritual one through moderation, thought, focus on God, etc. You're not really supposed to retreat away from the world, you're supposed to stand tall and impervious from fleshly pleasures, while going through them. Things like celibacy or voluntary poverty don't make you more spiritual, they just at best remove you from temptations. But the ideal is to overcome, not hide away.
That being said, you get quasi monastic groups from individuals who took Nazirite oaths, to the Essenes of the second temple period, to (arguably) the Haredi today, so even then, I wouldn't say Judaism is devoid of monstic traditions.
No idea about Islam, desu.
Right wingers always fail
South
Nazis
Rhodesians
Italy
Etc..
Always get rekt in wars because it has retarded ideologies
No wonder modern "nazis" pol retards are edgy teens and autists mamchildren/uneducated white trash (like tha main follower base of trumpie)
Rage all you want history shows that im right
What about Spain and Chile? Right wing governments took control there after a period of conflict. Also didn't Italy experience a sort of Fascist revival after WW2 when groups with Fascist ties were supported by the U.S. government to deal with commies there.
>>1279659
Fuck anybody who somehow has a skull thick enough to insulate the idea that policy across the spectrum is not conditionally effective.
Explain how america is number 1 then?
I don't know whether it will be surprising to you, but the majority of non americans think that america is the most right wing country in the world and have so for at least a half a decade.
What do you think of "The White Death"?
>>1277520
It was a lot quicker than "The Black Death".
fucking hacker
Well that's not him, that's a Swedish Volunteer.
Who built the Ghana ruins?
kings
>>1292628
you dont build ruins dumbass
The people who are now known as the Mande.
I think we can all agree that for the best material standard of living, technology, and access to information, our era and place (Western world, roughly), is the best so far.
But what time and place had the greatest *culture* of all time?
Ancient Greece
>>1292262
By ancient, do you mean classical, or just ancient in general? Also, any state in particular?
France in the 19th century
Tell me about eunuchs, /his/. They were a mainstay of pretty much every oriental royal court from the ERE to China, from the depths of antiquity to the end of Imperial China and the Ottoman Empire. Every time I read about something in that very broad range, I see that the primary sources complain about the influence of the perfidious and manipulative eunuchs on the king, and implying or stating that the general populace/nobility agrees that that's terrible and needs to be stopped.
If this was such a popular cultural view, why did it go on for so long everywhere? Sometimes a new ruler would banish the eunuchs from palace service, but they would always be brought back later on. Very rarely do contemporaries have anything positive to say about eunuchs, I can only guess that in fact hatred of eunuchs wasn't the general view, and a shitload of historians were just butthurt and jealous that they themselves weren't in those high positions, or that many, many, many kings were just deathly afraid of cuckolding.
>>1292194
Some are born eunuchs, some are made eunuchs and some become eunuchs for the glory of Heaven.
Also I would look up Constantine the eunuch's story. He was a big player on the Byzantine side during the Fourth Crusade. He help depose quite a few emperors. I would also look up the castrati who were castrated male singers and the last one that lived actually made some recordings. They were a big thing in Italy back in the day. Origen is also interesting.
Typically they could continue to be popular because they didn't have their own family loyalties and could serve as bureaucrats. This is kind of like priests (see first semi-quotation I posted) who ideally didn't have children to advance. Nobility disliked them because they wanted to influence the ruler instead of these people without connections or even families.
>>1292194
The point of a eunuch, and really most slave/foreign courtier positions, was to have a political faction theoretically loyal to the ruler and not a local aristocracy or interest. Thus they were set up from the very beginning as antagonists to native elites and commoners since they, as lifelong bureaucrats with no personal relationships outside of the court, would mostly care about and promote the bureaucracy that empowers and enriches them.
They kept getting used because as untrustworthy as they seemed to the locals, the ruler usually thought the same thing about local power bases and desired a way to counter balance their influence at court (or even his own household if he took noblewomen for wives and concubines instead of slaves).
>>1292234
Also they don't fuck ur wife
Best Chinese Warlord?
No pleb tier choices like Shiki, Chiang, or even Mao
>>1292183
Only correct answer
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Xueliang
Literally the best
The absolutely mad fat fuck Feng Yuxiang, literally had what are translated as 'Big Sword' units armed with large swords, and managed briefly to establish himself as Vice Premier.
Honourable mention to Wu Peifu, and also Zhang Xun too; for being an absolute idiot
Why did they have to fight? Couldn't they have let bygones be bygones or compromised in some way, or was it doomed to happen?
inb4 frustrated theists
thread over
>>1292116
Humans have to be right. So humans argue and fight over who's "right"
>>1292124
Fair enough. It's just weird that it's going on today.
who won, vikings or saxons?
>>1291656
Saxons, clearly.
>>1291660
what about york?
Normans (vikings)
Will eugenics ever make a comeback or have Nazis tainted it forever?
I am very scared that the combination of the new CRISPR-Cas9 and the incoming population waves will make it worse than it was before. We are going forth into the darkest chapter of human history soon
China will lurch it along and it will have to be invoked westernly due to the arms race
How did the NSDAP tainted it?
>>1291432
By being the NSDAP
