What are some unique details about Manifest Destiny? Any juicy details about the native genocide that I didn't get in public school?
>>1256836
It was just a concept used to justify expansion. Every major power ever in history had it in some form, this was Americas version.
>>1256865
I explain it as American version of Spanish Colonialism, but that's good too
I heard on the last episode of Genealogy Roadshow that the Indians took their African slaves on the trail of tears
How much genetic impact did the Anglo Saxon invasion have on Britain compared to the Roman invasion?
>>1254943
>Roman invasion
Non existent genetic impact
>Anglo-Saxon invasion
It was more of a mass-migration so it had notable genetic impact.
>>1254971
This.
Roman influence came and left with the Romans. To my knowledge, they can be hardly identified, if at all, in the modern Englishman's genes. When the Normans came (a bastard mix of Danes, Gallo-Romans, and vastly Franks [both Gallic and Germanic]), Latin linguistic influence appeared in English since the language of French was so heavily influenced by the Romans.
I read that roughly 30% of English DNA is from Germany, and 11% or so is from Denmark. Tbqh since the Jutes were from today's Denmark, as were the Angles in part, that 11% is probably not from the Viking Age but from the Anglo-Saxon era.
Hengist and Horsa did nothing wrong
Can we have a recommendation thread? Even a sharethread, if anybody has anything. Books and documentaries, any subject you want.
I'm currently reading pic related and it's pretty great.
> Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives, transforming France and Europe in the space of just twenty years from 1795 to 1815. After seizing power in a coup d'état he ended the corruption and incompetence into which the Revolution had descended. In a series of dazzling battles he reinvented the art of warfare; in peace, he completely remade the laws of France and modernised her systems of education and administration. The impossibility of defeating his most persistent enemy, Great Britain, led him to make draining and ultimately fatal expeditions into Spain and Russia, where half a million Frenchmen died and his Empire began to unravel.
Can be found here on libgen
>http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=FCBA94176FC184CC5E84253080CEFD61
And I have the three-part documentary to share as torrent as well, if anybody wants it.
>>1213607
Any good books on the Italian Wars?
>>1213607
Anything by E. Michael Jones
bump, no one else?
>party of the workers
>the only people who are part of it are elitest fart smellers who never worked a day of their lives and thumb their noses at those who do
Can someone please explain this to me.
Marxism died with Marx
>can you explain to me my sweeping generalization bait
I guess I could but how bout I don't instead?
Are you implying there were no working-class men who were communists, ever?
Where were you when Chris Langan solved the Great Mystery?
>UBT - a primordial realm of infocognitive potential free of informational constraint. In CTMU cosmogony, "nothingness" is informationally defined as zero constraint or pure freedom (unbound telesis or UBT), and the apparent construction of the universe is explained as a self-restriction of this potential.
Jung:
>Harken: I begin with nothingness. Nothingness is the same as fullness. In infinity full is no better than empty. Nothingness is both empty and full.
Kabbalah:
>Ein-sof is both the fullness of being and absolute nothingness, but is not complete in its essence until He is made real through the spiritualizing and redemptive activity of mankind. Ein-sof is mirrored in the heart and soul of man, but, more importantly, He is actualized in man's deeds.
>>1260197
There is not, has not been, and never will be, "nothing".
>>1260197
>listening to some kook because of some IQ score
Plotinus:
>This Universe is good not when the individual is a stone, but when everyone throws in his own voice towards a total harmony, singing out a life- thin, harsh, imperfect, though it be. The Syrinx does not utter merely one pure note; there is a thin obscure sound which blends in to make the harmony of Syrinx music: the harmony is made up from tones of various grades, all the tones differing, but the resultant of all forming one sound.
Langan, again:
> The "purpose" of their lives, and the "meaning" of their existences, is therefore to self-actualize in a way consistent with global Self-actualization or teleology...i.e., in a way that maximizes global utility, including the utility of their fellow subsystems. Their existential justification is to help the universe, AKA God, express its nature in a positive and Self-beneficial way.
Hegel:
>Reality is:
>1. Process: its a system in motion
>2. Contradiction (the dialectic) is the motor
>3. Reality is constructed by the mind; only the mind doesn't know this at first (understanding). Mind thinks reality is "out there." Mind is therefore alienated from itself. Recognizing that reality is its own creatin reconciles mind with itself.
Post and discuss interesting/weird/strange/spooky criminals/cases of crime from the past
Albert Fish - serial killer in the early 1900s
>Jammed needles into his pelvis
>Liked to be spanked with a nail studded paddle and made his children do it to him
>Set fire to wool doused in lighter fluid which he stuck up his anus
>Raped, mutilated, and ate children
>Sent obscene letters to some's parents describing what he did to them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish
Why was he never found?
>>1251448
That guy sounds like a real jerk.
Thugs - gangs of professional robbers and murderers in South Asia up until the late 1800s - preferred silent strangulation, after which victims would be robbed and disposed of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuggee
Just picked up this little number, what should I expect?
>>1255442
>Just picked up this little number, what should I expect?
A pop history book full of conjecture.
The truth about history
Why does Nietzsche see self-denial as undesirable? Is not self-denial the root of love? Unless "love" is just used in the sense of "I sure love coffee!" à la Stirner?
>>1263584
> Is not self-denial the root of love?
No, rather it is precisely the opposite.
Love is very much a selfish and sensual feeling. To deny love is to deny yourself and vice versa.
>>1263613
So if you jump on a grenade out of love for your fellow soldiers, you are sacrificing the great majority of your life for nothing but an instant of sensual gratification?
>>1263623
Yes, basically.
>for nothing but an instant of sensual gratification?
Do not underestimate the all-encompassing power of fleeting sensual gratification.
Is Revelations a bunch of complicated metaphors, some madman's predictions or John's self-insert fanfic?
>Literally posts a pic with the book's title
>Calls it "RevelationS"
>>1263150
The Revelation of Jesus Christ is the most awesome book ever written.
psychedelic
>God is dead, so everything is permitted.
What did he mean by this?
>>1259607
#yolo
>>1259607
never said that
>>1259619
Not only did he not say that but the quote is attributed to Dosteveksy...who also never said it!
ITT: Shit-tier philosophers
I can't decide between Stirner or Hume.
t.assblasted Christcuck
Sam Harris
Who are the top 10 most intelligent people of all time.
Pic related, Von Neumann, definitely makes the list.
1. Albert Einstein
2. Nikola Tesla
3. Leonardo Da Vinci
4. Isaac Newton
5. Jesus Christ
6. Stephen Hawking
7. Galileo Galilei
8. Adolf Hitler
9. Charles Darwin
10. Benjamin Franklin
>>1254582
>8. Adolf Hitler
Back to /pol/
I'd bet that there were at least a couple geniuses who were born into hunter-gatherer or illiterate agricultural societies and had no chance of making an impact on history, because the tools simply weren't there.
Out of the people we know of, I'd have to include most of the really good physicists and mathematicians.
Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, Fermi, Bohr, that sort of thing.
Can we have a thread about weird things that happend in history that nobody can explain?
Starting this thread with
>The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was established on Roanoke Island in late 16th-century
>The colonists disappeared during the Anglo-Spanish War, three years after the last shipment of supplies from England. Their disappearance gave rise to the nickname "The Lost Colony." To this day, there has been no conclusive evidence as to what happened to the colonists.
Huge Network of Mysterious, Man-Made Caves in China
>In 1992, a man in the Chinese village of Longyou pooled his money with his neighbors to buy a water pump and began siphoning out the pond in his village, only to eventually discover that it wasn't really a pond at all, but the flooded entrance to an ancient, man-made cave. Upon investigation, it turned out that, rather than the entrance to Chinese Batman's secret lair, this cave was one in a network of 36 hidden chambers in the area, all dating back to the early Han dynasty, about 2,000 years ago.
>There are no documents whatsoever, at least none that have been discovered, that record the construction or purpose of the Longyou Caves, although the excavation would have been an immense, government-contracted project involving the movement of 900,000 cubic meters of rock. This is especially odd considering the ancient Chinese were meticulous record-keepers.
>>1242121
It's likely there was a massacre by Indians who dumped the bodies into the river.
My biggest unanswered question: what caused the Maya to decline?
>>1242121
The medieval snail meme, which remains unexplained.
>if god exists why is there evil in the world?
>evil
>implying that's not totally made up bullshit society wants you to believe
There is no self-improvement without suffering, nor any context to appreciate the good things in life,
Achieving mastery and self-discipline via the wilful subjugation of the self is a central point of Christianity, and indeed many other religions.
The ways of our Lord are mysterious.
> The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.
How billions of people throughout history can claim to believe such tripe with a straight face is both astounding and a telling indictment of the inherent idiocy of the average human animal.
>>1257288
I agree.
>>1257296
It's fedoraish but it's still true.
(You)
