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Would Western civilization exist on the level it does today without the influence of Charlemagne?
Probably.
He was a particularly good emperor, but he was only one in a line of competent rulers, in a good position.
>>1274834
Impossible to say for sure. There may have been any number of other great kings who would have sprung up to unite Europe and check the advance of the Mohammedans, but that's pure speculation.
>>1274834
>Charlemagne
>Picture of Brenus
Atlantis is mentioned only once in all the ancient world, in one of Plato's dialogues. Plato constantly wrote about allegories and imagined scenarios. Even when he wrote about real events such as the trial&death of Socrates he added fictional elements to them in order to make it into an allegory. I repeat, there was no other source other than Plato, a guy who loved to make up stories.
Yet somehow this got turned into a "lost city" and than a "lost continent" and all sorts of miraculous concepts were attributed to it.
How could something...
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it's a cool idea nigga
I'm fairly certain that Atlantis was sort of conflated with other legendary lost/sunken cities. Atlantis is the most memorable of those stories, so the Atlantis name gets slapped onto all of them.
I'd be interested in a history of the story of sunken cities and lost continents, if anyone has something like that. I'd love to know where the idea for places like Mu, Lemuria, etc. came from.
>>1275476
Could be real events, like Cleopatra’s Palace I believe it's called which was thrown into the sea by an Earthquake, which then gets built on over the years and it just builds up and up.
Is there any civilization at any era in history where people were just content? Because it seems like since the dawn of time we have the same complaints: the rich are too rich, the poor are too poor, adults hate teenagers, things were better in the good old days, we don't have good people / heroes anymore, etc etc. Was there ever just a time at any point where people someplace were just fucking satisfied?
>>1274508
Eden.
"People" is a pretty big category.
I'd say there were periods when things were stable and everyone was more or less chill.
Egypt was famous for this.
To give you an idea of how stable ancient Egypt was, they used to use mud blocks to build things, so they'd have to include a slight sloping on their vertical angles to account for the material creeping.
When they switched to limestone blocks, they kept the angling.
1,500 years after the switch, people who had no idea about the history of mud brick construction were still including a slight slope in limestone blocks, because that was the way it was done.
>>1274508
Indus Valley.
Where can I find scholarship on Celtic Iconography/Mysticism? All I can find is Buzzfeed/Tublr tier shit. Gimme the monographs Familla
>>1274473
It's so irrelevant and obscure that not a lot of people have bothered writing on it.
bump?
Archaeology student at Edinburgh uni here.
There aren't any good books on Celtic mysticism. We don't know shit.
What was his problem ? Why did this guy hate Voltaire so much ?
>>1274371
It's the other way around. Rousseau admired him but Voltaire was triggered by his ideas. He started a smear campaign against him and ruined his life.
Rousseau, who was hypersensitive, became slowly mentally ill. Hell, his paranoia even destroyed his friendly relationship with Hume.
>>1274371
i figure he kept having blank wanks and this led to his demise
>>1274397
interesting theory.
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Now, I know that there's Interlingua, which is basically a simplified form of Latin, or perhaps a sort of aggregate Romance language, designed to be more or less understandable immediately to anyone who speaks either a Romance language or a language with a sizable quantity of Latin loanwords. I also know about Folkspraak, which is intended to be something similar for the Germanic languages (although, really, don't most of the Germanic languages already have enough of the 'international' Latin vocabulary borrowed that Interlingua would require fairly little...
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Most of this board probably doesn't have an answer, but bumping anyways for interesting idea
>>1273106
>Now, I know that there's Interlingua, which is basically a simplified form of Latin, or perhaps a sort of aggregate Romance language, designed to be more or less understandable immediately to anyone who speaks either a Romance language or a language with a sizable quantity of Latin loanwords
Why not just use Latin?
>>1275021
Lingua Latina Retarded Est
Was it doomed from the beginning?
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>>1272223
Every empire eventually falls. Considering the HRE stood for a couple of centuries (desregarding in what state), they could've done worse.
Of course not. Federalization would have saved it.
Has he ever been defeated or lost a debate? He keeps kicking the shit out of atheists left and right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1c_GlAjvy4
>>1271517
>cherry-picked video by some beta nu-male feminist faggot
If you watched the full debate, WLC won.
>>1271503
He "wins" because he comes out with philosophy and his opponents come with science, a different freaking ball park, he might as well speak Japanese and the other Russian because none of their arguments are going to hold any merit to the other.
Secondly it's hard for a guy to lose when he already came to a conclusion at 16, after his alleged encounter with the holy ghost, before even studying the field, in other words debating him is useless since he'll never change his mind and so always "win".
Beware Internet!
the meaning of life.:
What's its only output? What does like presupposes? What is it to achieve? What is its finality? What is its object ive, if it's not the death?
That's not any pessimistic point of view over existence. No!
It's hard to be dead. Even knowing and invented thousand of methods, we are still able to stay alive a be here.
It's easy to be dead. We will surely be anyway. Even for those that believes in resurrection, there must be death before it. To believe in a Highlander however, might be a rhetoric approach to a reality that anyone can attest: that the best bet (in terms of risk) in the world is in someone's death.
So, why are we still alive?
Well, that's not quite simple.
How much was necessary to get to this conclusion? Does the abstract idea of death belongs to other species? Can any species transcend from the feelings of fear to a perception of the incontestable end of their own existence?
The creation of the universe and world has established the situation for the development of the thing we call life, and thus the life spawned and here we are.
Under those improbabilities we mostly love to diverge and ask ourselves the whys, but we never ever decided to embrace the certainty of the end.
Under those probabilities we have developed sufficient knowledge to acknowledge the end. So why aren't we doing so?
Because every machine is imperfect: the idea of life, death, end and humankind are all tolls created by us in order to understand phenomenons that surround us in order to serve us.
There's nothing in the void: no explanation, no life, no humans, no death. In the human existence, however, we filled this void by being humans.
And every specie that existed, exists and will exist fulfilled, is filling or will fulfill it. The dimension of the void, however, shrinks when we're closer to end. Every new way to explain things is a new bet on when it will happen, how will happen, why will happen.
So I propose an answer that will generate for us a bet that can't be challenge. We live to die.
However, we don't need to live to be humans.
We might chose to end our existence to be nothing left - nothing to come after us - or shape ourselves to become something that never existed.
Here you are: a metaphysics for systemics.
Intrresting.
metaphysics has come to an end long ago
So on the latest episode of the DP podcast TJ went on tirade against someone responding his criticisms of the REDPILL comics, at one point the subject of objective morality came into play, TJ said that such a thing doesn't exist while the guy was trying to prove the contrary.
So /his/ as someone who is trying to find the answer to the same question could we have a discussion about this topic?
>>1277297
He puts bananas in his butt.
>>1277297
Let's say for example I was to be transported to tenochtitlan during the 15 century, I know that sacrificing people so the Sun doesn't go away is bullshit, does knowing thismakes me more moral than a average citizen of the city?
>>1277297
>actually taking anything said on DP seriously
What's it like being 15?
So let me get this straight.
A bunch of Nazis were executed for planning wars of aggression, and committing war crimes.
That's fine.
But why were there no Russians in the dock? The Soviet Union invaded Poland in 1939, making a secret agreement with the Nazis beforehand. Isn't that waging a war of aggression?
What about the massacre of 20,000 Poles in Katyn?
How about the annexation of the Baltic States, and the Winter War?
How can anyone not consider the Nuremberg trials a breach of justice? The fact that the Soviet judge...
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>>1276998
Cause you touch yourself at night.
Because noone wanted another war you dimwit.
they lost
This guy has only one source: his ass.
Why is he allowed on youtube?
>>1276286
Because Youtube allows anyone.
He is generally correct in what he says but he needs to plan his points better.
>>1276289
>he is generally correct
>claims fire arrows were never used in history
>>1276294
He said in battles not history
I was going to ask this on /tg/ since it's research for a homebrew setting, but I realized it's a better question for /his/, I understand how the Manorial model works for villages, there is a lord, the property is divided up, there are commons and people pay rents.
How did cities and large towns operate under Feudal rule in Europe?
Although I'd like being spoon fed, condescendingly pointing to sources is also good.
some were independent and powerful like the italian city states, others existed separate from the feudal structure with burghers being allowed to follow their own traditional laws separate from the rest of the kingdom
for most of the middle ages cities in western europe were still small compared to what they had been during the pax romana and it wasn't until the high middle ages that they really began to expand
>>1276104
Thank you, from the little I have read on the subject, I gathered a trend if semi-autonomy.
Specifically in Feudal Western Europe, how were cities (small as they were) ran? Where they part of the king's demense?
That would seem to explain the non-noble nature of mayors.
>>1276060
Cities were usually chartered.
The charter regulated the law and lives of the townspeople, who were considered citizens, which rights did they have, whose their relations with the various other powers are...
Nobles did found their own cities too.
>The then lord of Biscay, Diego López V of Haro, founded Bilbao through a municipal charter dated in Valladolid on 15 June 1300 and confirmed by King Fernando IV of Castile in Burgos, on 4 January 1301. Diego López established the...
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What's up /his/
So I got some new AKM magazines for my rifle, and being black and steel, I thought they would be perfect to stencil some stuff on. I have a couple set aside for a couple knight crosses, but thought I'd ask your for some more famous stencil friendly symbols of history.
I'll bump with some I had in mind
>>1275797
Put the prancing Colt horse on it
>>1275826
I literally can't even anon, you know I can't do that
pretty sure this is the knights of malta
who /anarcho-syndicalism/ here?
National Syndicalism is better dirt farmer
>>1275672
how would you define anarcho-syndicalist?
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