How does this make you feel?
>>1196594
He is an okay writer. What bothers me is that he calls others biased and illogical and seems to imply he is none of that. We're all biased and also illogical at times, it is our psychology.
That's all.
>>1196594
bemused. He's wrong about nearly everything and I don't know what possessed him to post that on facebook of all places. It's way up reddit's alley.
>>1196594
>Nuclear power
>Unsafe
Top wew.
Did Christians and Jews fight in Saladin's army?
>>1196558
Probably.
>>1197225
this t b h
>>1196558
Highly likely.
It may boggle your mind to discover Christians fought in Muslims armies and Muslims fought in Chirstian armies during the Reconquista.
What was the intent behind the Dieppe raid? Everything I read on it pretty much talks about what a disaster it was and all those Canadians that got killed or captured.
I presume that wasn't the goal. What were the British trying to accomplish at Dieppe?
>>1196512
Why would you presume that?
The Eternal Anglo is always looking to kill white people.
just a jolly feint
Wasn't is a feint and distraction so the commandos could knick the enigma machine or whatever?
>tfw you will never sail across the world, compete with the rest of Europe for the hegemony of the rest of the world
>tfw never going to spread language and Christian values
Hold me, /his/, this cultural shift that we've been suffering has eroded the foundations of our civilization.
>compete with the rest of Europe for the hegemony of the rest of the world
Only Britain, as the Chosen People, has the divine mandate to civilise and Christianise the globe.
I WIN PENDEJO
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>>1196398
But you're not even christian anymore, oldest ally.
Why are there so few pictures of medieval travellers/soldiers carrying around luggage? I understand that part of pilgrimmage was to live on charity and soldiers having a whole lot less kit but still.
If I'm a soldier on campaign I'd atleast want a basic hygiene kit, sewing kit, rations, a canteen, a bedroll, extra clothes, tools, cookware and eating utensils, camping equipment, personal items and some form of entertainment. Some of these soldiers were on campaign for decades, obviously they would accumulate more stuff than the clothes on their backs and surely not everyone would have a pack animal. Did medieval artists just not feel it important to show that kind of equipment? I have a hard time believing they'd just carry these little purses that we see in artwork.
Pic related and even then its the only illustrations I've seen of a bag with shoulder straps.
Very few people remember or consider to draw that stuff.
They're artists who draw it, after its happened and without having seen it themselves usually.
Go look up drawings of modern soldiers on deviantart today, it will be generally correct but they'll probably not include the giant equipment packs.
Baggage train and camp fallowers, bruh
>that D&D shopping list
>"canteen"
>"extra clothes"
>>1196349
Because manuscript illustrations tend to show the glorious bits, knights in armour charging at each other or troops scaling the walls, not servants putting up tents or digging latrines.
There's a few pictures showing military logistics though.
Pic is from the Morgan Bible.
Was this guy right about anything?
>>1196045
maybe
>>1196045
I don't know.
http://www.sigmalive.com/en/news/greece/145338/official-announcements-expected-on-the-tomb-of-aristotle
Discuss.
I'd rather that they found his lost works.
>>1195483
maybe they can do a forensic reconstruction
supposedly Alexander is buried in Venice as St. Marc
>>1195509
>maybe they can do a forensic reconstruction
By working on what?
They cremated their dead.
Why were the Italians such bad soldiers during WW2 ?
-poor equipment/worse than Japs
-poor leadership/worse than Sowejts
-terrible moral, population really wanted no war
>>1195455
>during WW2
>>1195455
It's all Anglo and German propaganda!
Is there any basis to the claims he was a plagiarist?
No. Notice how these claims never come from people who actually understand the "plagiarized" material (physicists), and the people he supposedly plagiarized from were perfectly willing to give him credit. It's just a /pol/ meme because he's the only Jewish scientist they know.
>>1195371
What is he supposed to have stolen? Lorentz Transformation?
>>1195774
Poincare's ideas as well as Lobatchevski's
>inb4 on giant's shoulders
Would western and central Europe be as developed as sub-Saharan Africa if it weren't for the Romans? Particularly the Germanic peoples, since they failed to invent anything of note prior to Roman conquest. According to Tacitus, they even lacked agriculture, which puts them on the same level as the least developed Africans.
>>1195286
Yes.
Because the Celticucks were coming home from fighting in Greece/Diadochoi/Rome that they were beginning to have ideas. Population centers were already popping up and Celtic tribes in the continent were gathering in huge confederacies.
Problem was, Rome's power was also growing.
>they even lacked agriculture
no they didn't. even roman propaganda never claimed that.
>>1195286
So you be sayin that path dependence doesn't exist? We could discuss how much cultural influence Romans had, but it is impossible to know what the removal of Romans lead to.
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Let's talk about piggybacking on famous ancient people with little to no historical evidence. In other words, who WUZ your countrymen, /his/?
Scythianz n shiet here.
>>1195206
We wuz Sapa Incas and the Sons of the Sun n' shiet.
Like that?
>>1195206
Let me guess..Hungarian? Turkish?
>>1195206
My history teacher unironically believed that Odoacer was Slavic, and therefore Russian.
In my experience, people who have studied English, creative writing, or journalism usually make the worst writers. They take forever to make their point; there's 10 pages of fluff for every page of worthwhile content.
Any thoughts on this?
>>1195132
it's common to all aspiring writers, regardless of whether or not they took writing classes
the key is realizing that the background fluff isn't on the page for the reader's benefit, but for your own. you yourself are kind of making it up as you go along, and you end up inserting pages of fluff about stuff nobody else cares about into the book in an attempt to get your own ideas straight in your head.
like imagine how much LOTR would suck if Tolkien had thrown the entire silnarillion into it as background fluff. there's a reason he wrote all that shit in a seperate manuscript that he only released later for dedicated fans of his works who actually WANTED to read the fluff
>>1195132
/lit/
>>1195140
*silmarillion
survey time
1. What is your understanding of God?
2. Have you had a personal religious experience to verify it?
3. What happens when you die?
>He doesnt exist
>no lol
>ate by worms
>>1195036
1. I always subscribed to the absurdist point of view when it comes to an understanding of God
2. No
3. I don't know
I hope this helped OP
>God belongs in the black swan category, which basically means that nothing meaningful can be said about him
>no, because what we're trying to discuss is by definition outside of anyone's frame of reference
>the material and information you're made off and you've produced gets reused. Whatever is necessary is recycled, whatever isn't is discarded. I can't really complain about this, because I'm the product of this recycling
1. I'm not sure I rightly have one. I think he's likely just a psychological abstraction meant to encompass everything we don't understand while serving as a baseline for our understanding of truth and goodness. Alternatively, he could be something along the lines of Plotinus' one.
2. I've had a religious experience, but it didn't relate to that.
3. I don't know. I assume we just cease to exist.
If the monarchies of this three countries had remained in place throughout the 20th Century, would things have been better, or worse?
>>1194992
More Chinese and Russians would've died, so it's subjective desu senpai :^)
>>1194996
More?
I'm not too knowledgeable about Nazi Germany but China and Russia both basically owe their current power to the rapid modernizations put in place by their communist regimes. Maybe less people would have died and they would have had more personal liberties but they would probably be living in poorer conditions.
How accurate is this?
>>1194756
accurate. the germans used men from conquered lands as conscripts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrmacht_foreign_volunteers_and_conscripts
>>1194756
sure, its pretty cool
>>1194756
>forced
