Post your Historical Idols and other people you look up to.
This cutie.
>role models
warts and all.
>Spanish Influenza killed 50,000,000+ people
>Literally no one talks about it or cares about it today.
Why is this?
Because it happened right after the first world war.
Thins tend to be overshadowed if something even more important happens right before it.
Ignorance: admonishing others for not knowing what you just learned of.
>>1278155
I've known about it forever, thank you, but the fact it killed literally twice the number that died in WWI you'd think that would warrant more than the footnote it normally gets in works on this period.
Ok, so if they made a movie about adam and eve and their descendents, would it literally just be a bunch of incest? According to the bible incest is inherent and natural. Cain and seth were grown men before any of their sisters and possible wives were born. Which means the only woman they could lust after was their mother. And even afterwards they could only fuck their sisters.
So, genetic degeneration from inbreeding... Am i supposed to suspend my disbelief because adam and eve were made from pure god blood? Are we technically retarded compared to them? Is all that sister loving the reason humans don't live 100+ years anymore?
>>1278080
Any religion that lets me fuck my family is one I can get behind.
>>1278080
Yeah they loved incest. Yes eve is a gamer girl. So FUCKING what?
>>1278080
Cane settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden, and found spouses there. Maybe God placed humans in all the corners of the Earth, maybe there was an Adam and Eve for each race, and ten thousand+ years of translation errors made us think Adam and Eve were the only proto-humans.
>You will never be a Jacobin and proceed to storm cathedrals and destroy the lifeless icons and statues of saints while forcing nuns and monks to actually make themselves useful
>You will never be an anarchist/revolutionary in Civil War-era Rossiya and storm monasteries and expose the fraudulent 'relics' while burning the useless prayer books and Bibles and melting the gold and metal for secular and more useful services while re-purposing the churches - constructed from that taken from the people - into buildings for public use
>You will never live 1930s Spain and occupy a Falangist area and subject its religious buildings to the torch and dig up the bodies of supposed 'saints' and beatii from their gold-encrused reliquiaries and expose their rotten or skeletal remains to the peasants that once used to venerate them while shattering religious statues to show their lack of power.
>>1278084
>says the Christcuck who in all probability thinks "the Cathars/Bogomils/Waldensians/[insert any other "heretical" sects here] deserved to be killed!"
Talk shit, get hit
Sure thing, mate.
/his/, I graduated from university last year and I'm living with my parents and working part time at a warehouse job. For many months I have been telling my much older and working class co-workers about Marxism and economics etc. But then one of them saidd (as best as I can remember):
>"Aye, Anon ya speccy cunt, stop wi' this preachin' aboot Newliberalism an' all 'at shite. No one forces anyone 'a do any'in, go'ernments are voted in by people who all ken about 'eir votes. Newlibralism is just what 'appens naturally like.
How should I respond the next time I see him? And should I ask our manager (I haven't been telling him my views) if we can join a trade union?
Come up with your own damn rebuttals.
Seriously kill yourself and do what >>1277795 said.
>>1277785
>Talking history and politics with people with 85 IQs.
Just stop, you fucking autist. Put the inventory on the shelves and keep your fucking mouth shut. Dumbass.
When Baruch Goldstein shot up the Cave of the Patriarchs, killing 29 arabs and wounding a hundred+ more, were people saying stuff like 'he isn't a real Jew" or was it more along the lines of "see, Jews can be terrorists too!"?
Serious question, no memeing here.
>>1277719
>"see, Jews can be terrorists too!"
Why would they say that? jews have been committing terrorism since before israel even existed. Some of the founding organizations that comprise israel were literal terrorist groups, and in fact jewish terrorism goes back to the roman times where judean assassins known as sicarii terrorised their occupiers. One recent jewish terrorist even assassinated an israeli PM.
>>1277739
I'm aware of Yitzhak Rabin dying and the daggermen and all that but I was talking explicitly in the context of modern terrorism where most people's idea of a terrorist was a Muslim.
Also, baruchs shooting happened before Rabin no?
>>1277739
Actually they've been terrorists since ancient times.
>see Sicari
I remember reading about a story of 5-8ish men in full plate armor walking into a small kingdom, killing hundreds of soldiers and destroying everything. It was supposed to be in a time when plate armor was very new and the solderers didn't have any legitimate means of killing the "knights". Does anyone know the name of the battle or the name of the kingdom I am talking about?
>>1277589
Wow. They must have been tired by the end of that.
>>1277589
That sounds...
I think that you read/remember it poorly, or that you read some fanfiction.
it is completely plausible that this is the most retarded thing i've ever read
Tell me about the coup that threw this guy into exile.
He was universally liked and admired, even though he resented being emperor but it seems like no one really cares enough to do anything when the military took over. Why?
>>1277341
Well the fact that coup happened pretty quick was a big factor, the people didn't have a leader at the time who they could rally behind to protect the emperor and his family.
And there was also the factor that the Emperor was tired he had reigned for 49 years and he didn't had high hopes that his daughter princess Isabel was up to the task of being empress.
>>1277375
It actually seems somewhat irresponsible on his part to just leave considering the coup plunged Brazil into a long period of shittiness that it still hasn't recovered from.
But I can't say I really blame him, either. Pedro I leaving while he was kid and then the situation he took over from the regency as a young adult probably made him extremely bitter
>>1277404
>It actually seems somewhat irresponsible on his part to just leave considering the coup plunged Brazil into a long period of shittiness that it still hasn't recovered from.
But we can't apply our knowledge of the consequences to someone who didn't live them, afterall he died 2 years later after the military coup.
guys my family has this old coin. I live in Tunisia (land of Carthage, but we were also occupied by the romans)
I wanted to know more about the coin, but found nothing on the internet. and obviously I can't ask historians in here because it's illegal to own such thing.
so any help guys?
more pics below
>>1277030
the other face
>>1277030
Why is it illegal?
Why was Muhammad Ali given a Roman name (Cassius Marcellus) at birth? Were his parents huge classicists or something? Evidently the given name of Ali's father was also Cassius Marcellus Clay, but I can't find much more about it than that.
They probably just liked the name m8 what more thought do you really expect regular people to put into it?
>>1276812
In the south some slave owners would ironically name their enslaved victims roman names like Cesar or Nero or what ever. Kind of ducked up but like black Americans being stripped on their language and traditional names they adapted and sometimes continued the practice.
>>1276816
Idk dude, it just seems really unusual. In America, interest in the classical world has historically been the realm of white aristocracy & the upper class, but Ali was the son of a black sign painter from Louisville.
What happens when we die?
Biological functions cease, lose consciousness. Then other people have to do something with your remains generally and hold a funeral to help them cope with the grief. I don't know what specifically do you want to know it's a broad question?
Same thing before you were born.
out of all the jobs, which jobs is the most people of all the rest of them
>>1275968
What the fuck did you just write
>>1275968
Is Steve Jobs a job?
>>1275968
????
So when someone makes the Matrix real and you can jack in to anything you want, where are you going to go first?
For me, I think I'd like to live like a reasonably wealthy Roman socialite, going to excessively decadent parties every day and fucking slaves sounds like a trip, and I wouldn't be rich enough that anyone bothers me to fund a shipbuilding or something like that.
>>1275465
>you will never be a Victorian Age British gentleman/explorer/industrialist who spends his youth travelling into unknown parts of the world and philandering with locals/mapping ancient wonders and making scientific discoveries who then strikes it rich in the diamond fields of Africa, only to then retire to your estate in the British countryside entertaining guests in your parlor as you all sit in beautiful darkwood mahogany furniture and discuss politics and your adventures and hunting trips in the serengeti, passing your days in wonderful company and good drink, helping up-and-coming youngsters get started in the world through sage advice and funding until finally dying at a ripe old age, honored by your country and your community for your works and by the rest of the world for your great generosity in bequeathing your fortune to further education around the world and help make the world a more civilized place
Basically a better version of Cecil Rhodes.
Finally, a quality on topic thread on /his/. Fuck this gay /pol/ shitposting and religion faggotry.
Have a free bump.
I want to shoot a load in the back of Lincolns head
Would a society that forced empathy for one another be a utopia or a dystopia? Would forcing people to care for one another, robbing them of the freedom to not be nice, be a bad thing even if it's for the greater good?
Yes.
Wouldn't be that worse than ours.
i think your answer to this depends on how much you value freedom of choice.
personally, i don't value it enough to not desire a world in which people are kind to one another at all times. how would that change how we conduct ourselves? i'm intrigued in what the results would be, intrigued enough to not care about not having the choice to be rude.
What were the purpose of auxilia infantry in the Roman army? What did they use the spears for? What was their tactical employment?
"What did they use the spears for?" You have got to be kidding.
They were usually frontier guardsmen.
Which is retarded when you think about it, because most aux were originally from the frontier
>>1275335
>Which is retarded when you think about it, because most aux were originally from the frontier
How is that retarded?
Person on the frontier guards the frontier. Why would you bother with the logistics of moving someone from Italy to guard a border when you've got a guy living on the border?
