Did the Manchus ruin China?
Yes.
lol fuck no
make the Qing Dynasty great again
鞏金甌,
承天幬,
民物欣鳧藻,
喜同袍,
清時幸遭。
真熙皞,
帝國蒼穹保。
天高高,
海滔滔。
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PpvxMoMeTQ
How historically accurate is this TV show?
>>1235926
Historically accurate to what YOU FUCKING FAG ITS A FANTASY TV SHOW
GRRM claims to have written scientifically accurate dragons, and says one of his triggers is seeing scientifically inaccurate dragons
>>1235926
lel
Have memes replaced god as the opium of a declining people?
god is a meme
Yo that lion is smug as hell
>>1235882
'Opium of a declining people' is a meme mixed with meme.
>YWN conquer all the land under the eternal blue sky with your steppe lads
why live
>will never die gloriously
why live
>will never discover new lands and then kill them all
why live
>will never subjugate Mesopotamia and behead everyone
why live
Why do I love Him?
Because he was right
Because he gave every human life worth under the mantle of the eternal proliferation of meaning. Read Spinoza, merge the two. Be happy.
>>1235659
>spinoza
>meaningful or insightful
I am researching the Eastern bloc/Warsaw pact countries,starting with Czechoslovakia,so if you either lived there or have info of what life was like there,tell me
>>1235592
I like it
>>1235592
Well, where to start? i was raised through the aftermath, and my parents told me everything.
There has been a lots of problems in the beginning 1948 when KSČ (communist party of czechoslovakia) became domminant. Many people were gotten rid of, primarily veterans since they were symbols of the first republic, and thus were problematic. Some of them assimilated some were already socialits. But basically it was the initial cleansing. things got somewhat calm and then began Nationalization. even middle class felt it and quite severely at that.some who did not give out voluntarily were imprisoned or used in mineworks (e.g. Uranium mine in Jachymov, grandfather was sent to one like that). after that there was a great crisis of finances due to poorly calculated move made by president Antonin Zapotocky, which deeply affected everyone since most people saved money now lost it. His succesor Antonín Novotný started being liberal and started to see first republic as a good thing, see he was deposed off during the occupation of 1968.
Now for the life itself.
Father told me of strict nature of the life during communism. When he was young there was a lot of work where he grew up, undeveloped periphery type house. In school they had to have short haircut no makeup and had to do annual preparation in case of nuclear war. Every semester atleast one they had to put gas masks on, raincoats on, and simple igelit/polyethylen bags on their hands and feet (In case of nuclear attack, without jokes those easy to tear bags, with nearly no protection). everytime they had to prepare for parades known as Spartakiada. Teachers didn't care for students and had their own rules, you could have been hyperactive and automatically they would make you "special" (sending you to school of lower difficulty, mentally challenged ones). Most teachers acted like real communists, removing specific historical dates form teaching and so on.
thank you, this helps a lot. Btw were you around when they were the "Czech and Slovak republic"
Why didn't people explore more before the "Age of Discovery?"
It was known since ancient times that the Earth is a ball and its approximate size, so they must have known they only knew a small portion of the world. Didn't they wonder what was beyond the edges of the their maps? Did it just not occur to ancient kings or whatever to send a group of guys out to find out "what's over that way?" Is that really such a modern idea? Or did that actually happen, and they just couldn't get very far?
pic very related
>>1235551
No sufficient navy technology.
Prior to the Age Of Discovery there was no ship capable of making trans-oceanic travel. The Portuguese in the 15th century did, it's called the caraval. Also, there wasn't a motive to travel because everyone was contfortable with what they had. The reason why Europeans went out beyond the sea was because the Ottomans controlled the med and had the Indian ocean, forcing Euros to look elsewhere.
>>1235551
Didn't really have the funds. Also, centralization of power was kinda essential for exploration, which happened (not a coincidence) around the same time as the age of exp. Just remember that Columbus's voyage was funded by Ferdinand and Isabella who had just united spain.
Also, complacency as >>1235571 said
>>1235551
People knew the circumference of the earth and weren't aware of the Americas so were completely justified in thinking the oceanic distance between Europe and East Asia was too much to sail without running out of supplies
>According to the report, Columbus once punished a man found guilty of stealing corn by having his ears and nose cut off and then selling him into slavery. Testimony recorded in the report claims that Columbus congratulated his brother Bartolomé on "defending the family" when the latter ordered a woman paraded naked through the streets and then had her tongue cut out for suggesting that Columbus was of lowly birth.
>The document also describes how Columbus put down native unrest and revolt; he first ordered a brutal crackdown in which many natives were killed and then paraded their dismembered bodies through the streets in an attempt to discourage further rebellion.
>>1235407
Yea sounds like a royal cunt, even for those times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr_eZSKTEQA
>Columbus's treatment of the Hispaniola native was brutal, his soldiers killed and enslaved with impunity at every landing. When Columbus fell ill in 1495, "what little restraint he had maintained over his men disappeared as he went through a lengthy period of recuperation. The troops went wild, stealing, killing, raping, and torturing natives, trying to force them to divulge the whereabouts of the imagined treasure-houses of gold." According to de Las Casas, 50,000 natives perished during this period. Upon his recovery, Columbus organized his troops' efforts, forming a squadron of several hundred heavily armed men and more than twenty attack dogs. The men tore across the land, killing thousands of sick and unarmed natives. Soldiers would use their captives for sword practice, attempting to decapitate them or cut them in half with a single blow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYTXRDtYzYc
>free will doesn't exist
>god doesn't exist
>objective morality doesn't exist
>life has no objective meaning
Knowing these facts, how am I supposed to be not depressed? Philosophy, please solve my existential crisis.
God does exist and you can have a relationship with Him
>>1235415
Jesus isn't a qt though so I'll pass
>>1235399
Play vidya or something, I dunno
who would win in a 1v1
Spartacus v Miyamoto Musashi
>>1235109
Oh my God what is this jrpg tier armor?
>>1235109
Well, since you didn't specify weapons we can just posit two naked men going at it.
Spartacus, easily.
Thraiken warrior culture was far more intensive and experience oriented than the Japanese Samurai culture.
Don't get me wrong, Japan produces the best Samurai around, but Thrace doesn't waste time on poetry or other cultivating factors.
"the best warrior isn't a warrior" that's a meme promulgated by weebs justifying their lack of training.
Musashi would become Mu-sushi
miyamoto had more experience fighting with few rules and had access to weapons made using 17th century steel in contrast to the gladius which had to be thick due to the poorer quality iron, he was most likely to win
History truly is bunk.
Nobody has any goddamn clue as to what is happening.
History, economics, sociology... for every expert who has dedicated his life to promote one point of view within these fields, there is another with equally convincing evidence that has a contradictory one.
Either there is no rational trend in history and you should use your intuition for all political decisions, or you need to have the resilience to keep trying to find the one objective truth behind everything humanity related.
So I have a question for you, how convinced are you at your own interpretations of how the world functions, and how many years did it take to come to that interpretation?
>>1234738
I agree with most of what you said.
>>1234738
If what you are saying is correct, that historians have no knowledge, then you are also saying that a person would gain no insight into the Pelopennesian war if he read Thucydides, for example.
Do you believe this is the case?
>>1234738
I'm not convinced at all. My interpretations have changed a lot since I started studying history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmROnN9Gj7s
Hmm, what do you think, /his/?
Historically, everyone was "dangerous". Whites were just better at it.
>>1234721
That's basically what fags like Evola argued.
They were all about how their ancestors were manly warriors and shit.
>>1234721
WE WUZ KANGZ
Why/when did blonde hair become the european beauty standard?
>>1234689
Germanics spastic nationalists.
Also true black hair was also sought after.
Hair color tends to become darker with age, hence bright hair color implies youth. Also explains why bright hair color is particularly favored on women, not so much on men.
>>1234703
>Also explains why bright hair color is particularly favored on women, not so much on men.
source?
sounds untrue, I've known women who sought out men with blonde hair
>me
>20
>student
>cutie girlfriend I met in high school
>we used to binge on amphetamines and fuck and study.
>one day she misses her period
>few days later
>were having a baby
>for the sake of the baby she stops doing Addy and gives it to her friend
>2 days later her friend dies because she took the pills and had a heart condition she didn't know about apparently.
>girlfriend gets arrested , charged with manslaughter drug distribution the whole 9
>bond her out
>while she's out on bond she miscarries. I guess the stress got to her.
>she pleads guilty, gets sentenced to three years
>recently she got transferred to minimal security.
>big selection of books to read.
>before she was transferred here she was hopeful.
>now all she writes and talks about is the pointlessness of life, the fact that this is all just a big nothing, that there's no point to her being free for her mind was truly never free.she's even stopped praying (not that I'm a believer but that girl prayed every day even after she was arrested) A lot of bullshit.
>I ask her what's she's reading and she doesn't wanna tell me.
>I know its philosophy
>need to know what it is, so I can talk to her about it, and try to snap her out of this steep depression she found herself in.
Who do you think my gf is reading?
>>1234650
those digits tho
>>1234657
Yea they fuckdd up toward the end.
>>1234650
Not Nietzsche.
These were the iq's of those on trial at the Nuremberg trials. All way above average. What do you think Hitler's was? Also, do you think the allies' commanders had as high iq's as the Nazis?
>>1234570
Around 110-120 probably.
Above average but not much more.
Hitler would definitely be above average but definitely on the lower end of that picture (120 at the most, 115 would be perfect I think).
Just my guess. He seemed very charismatic and pretty bright, but not overly so.
![spartacus[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/jBw539A.jpg "spartacus[1]")
