Reading about this 12 month period is insane.
I never realized how hot blooded America was at itself in the postwar era until I read a bit about this year
Riots, protests,pop culture transforming ,assassinations, wars,spree killings,presidents quitting, a third party getting electoral votes
Take about Americas most important year since WW2
>>1406610
God forbid we talk about anything other than Rome,Communism, or Stirner
Anyone that looks closely at the events of 1968 and still doesn't believe that the base shapes the superstructure is a god damn idiot.
Post-war and pre-68 America is fascinating.
Such an interesting time. It should be called the 'Second' Gilded Age, because that's exactly what it was: on the outside, apparent prosperity and harmony and conservatism. But a deeper look inside, and the revelation of all sorts of festering problems assailing the country: racial tensions, high unemployment, sexual frustration, paranoia and uncertainty, the growth of media and pop culture (which had never existed), the cultural gap between young and old...
Extremely fascinating.
What do you know about Moroccan history?
>>1406522
funny hats
>>1406522
Shithole, had 100 years of not being totally terrible, but fucked it up for themselves.
>>1406522
greatest ally
Idk if this is the right board, but it really is a huge philosophical question to me, so whatever:
What if NASA just announced a meteor will completely destroy the Earth in less than a month, what do you guys think it would happen? And what would you do?
I'd probably kill myself. My main concern isn't about dying, at all, but dying in panic or suffering. I don't wanna watch all the apocalypse and shit...
Laugh at everyone who was actually enjoying their life and then kill myself.
>>1406511
Ask NASA where meteor would hit for instant death
>>1406511
Jiujitsu. I got a month, that means a month of Jiujitsu. I got more, that means more Jiujistu. It's all good.
>Optimism is cowardice
What did he mean by this?
maybe because optimism is hoping rather than doing or forcing things to be the way you want? which i guess takes more balls and risk? maybe?
>>1406332
Facing reality for what it really is takes courage. Being optimistic about the worlds future is being a coward by denying the true face of reality.
>>1406334
>doing or forcing things to be the way you want?
Nah, things don't work that way in Spengler's worldview.
Is Marxism inherently anti-traditional culture? If so, why?
The history of every culture is the same, so it's irrelevant.
>>1406270
>Is Marxism inherently anti-traditional culture?
Yes.
>If so, why?
It's non-traditional and only people with daddy issues support it.
>>1406286
That is an extremely ignorant simplification
How historically accurate is this film and does this movie make you sympathize with witch hunts?
>man I used to think witch hunts were bad but now that I saw this fictional movie I realize they were justified all along.
I think witch hunts are one of the few things that have zero defenders left in the present day because they were so retarded. They don't have the excuse of 'it was a different time' either, because people actually didn't believe as strongly in evil spells and witches prior to the witch hunting craze.
There were some nice touches in the movie alluding to actually European witch 'mythology' as it were. The flight ointment made from the fat of a baby and the book in which people sign their souls over to the devil for example.
Thomasin was qt.
It was all bullshit. The Puritans were highly letigious and sued one another and accused each other of being witches all the time. Their society was communal so all disputes were settled in public in front of a court. There were feuds between neighbors and between the separate communities of Salem Town and Salem Village (over which side to build the church or some dumb shit like that) so they started flinging deadly accusations at each other. Hysteria, intimidation, and theatrics took over in what is now a well-documented psychological situation, resulting in complete chaos, panic, and mayhem.
One particularly rich family of Salem Town (the name escapes me atm) quarreled with everyone to try to get their way so often that over the course of 50 years or so they brought almost 200 accusations of witchcraft against others in the community, just to have them hauled into court and humbled. It was all bullshit and like 2% of the people accused ever were punished... because normally it wasn't done in a full-fledged hysteria.
People treat each other like shit, and we're so horrible that we laugh at how horrible the dumb people of the past were, with the same contempt that people in the future will have for us. There is absolutely no justification for the witch hunts of the past, and even then they fucking knew it.
What has this place produced in terms of history and culture?
>>1406172
Mercenaries from there started the first Punic war which was Rome's first step outside of the Italian peninsula which would eventually culminate in Mare Nostrum. I also think that Pyrrhus of Epirus split a guy in half who was from Calabria.
The 'Ndraghetta
>>1406200
is that like a 'za
>all of the things you know you could accomplish if you just shut the fuck up and did it
Am I afraid of of change? Am I lazy?
You could have made a /his/ related thread, if you just put your mind to it, OP.
Instead, you created this failure.
>>1406160
I think our fear inhibits us. We are afraid or nervous of what we don't know so we avoid it.
Whatever it is OP, do it. Just fuckin do it because you're gonna die so like why the fuck not? You'll live your life in regret and mystery. Do it.
>>1406164
This is totally related to philosophy. Shut the fuck up faggot.
OP, you need to just shut your brain off. Whatever it is you want to do, you just have to physically do it. You want to learn a language? Go to some language learning website and just fucking start. Get some pomodoro technique shit going, and just do it.
I fucking hate Nike, but "Just Do It" is the best fucking slogan I've ever seen because it's so fucking true. I learned this when i started working out in middle school. I would be so anxious to work out, but I just shut my brain off and physically made myself do it. I stopped thinking about why this or that and I just fucking did it because I knew it was better than just sitting around thinking about why or why not. Doing something is better than nothing.
>>1406169
This. OP, we're all going to fucking die, and we don't know when. If there is something you want to do but your head just keeps holding you back, just fucking do it and tell your anxiety to shut the fuck up. Shut it off. Ignore it. You want to become a physicist? Just do it. You want to ask that girl out? Just go fucking do it. You're going to fucking die OP. It could be next week, one year, ten years, etc but it's going to happen, I guarantee it. Looking back on your life and thinking about all of the fucking time you wasted thinking about why or why not, silly bullshit that just won't affect you on the grand scheme that is your life is just such a fucking jerk off.
Ask that girl out. Go learn a language. Get good grades in school. Go travel. Just do it motherfucker. You don't have enough time, trust me. You'll look back wishing you did more even if you did a whole shit load. Imagine how it will feel if you didn't do shit.
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Why did Native Americans get so thoroughly rekt by European diseases but not the other way around?
>>1406136
Population density was way higher in the old world and you had greater contact for communicable diseases.
>>1406136
Actually, they did.
Thousands of Europeans who went to the subtropical America's, died of hemorrhagic fevers.
>>1406136
Europeans had being living along side domesticated mammals (pigs specifically) for thousands of years prior to contact with the Native Americans...that contact led to the deaths of millions over time but also greater immunity.
Europeans did get some nasty STDs from the Indians though, some are still with us.
So, what are the actual moral, ethical, philosophical, theological, and practical implications of pantheism (the belief that the universe and everything within it is in fact part of the same divinity: IE is God)?
>>1406015
Big Bang, et al. Pretty much makes sense. Sorta of an AA Atheist Higher Power thing. There are no implications. It's the way it is. Everybody else can just "get over it".
>>1406103
stop posting that fucking image, shitposter
>>1406103
Well, I disagree with that. Marcus Aurelius for instance said that since we're all components of the same divinity, it is our duty to cooperate, as lower teeth cooperate with upper teeth. It's a clear implication that follows from the central premise.
There's also nothing atheistic about it.
Hey /his/, I got a question about armor. In the eras where plate armor was in use, either as cermonial, for duels, or large scale combat, what did the common soldier wear? Was it simple chainmail and a helmut? Did they just wear borderline normal clothes with indicators who they're fighting for? pic related could not have been common.
Most commonly they would wear either leather or chain mail.
At the bare minimum everyone would have a helmet or at least a padded coif. Even a glancing blow to the head might kill you so if you're going to invest in one piece of armor it should be a helmet.
Most poorer soldiers might have a gambeson, slightly less poor soldiers might have a brigandine or coat of plates. Mail hauberks actually started to become less popular, because they were a lot harder to make and didn't offer enough of an advantage to justify the price.
>>1405894
I doubt that sword was ever used with that armor. A one handed dueling sword wouldn't do much good against armored opponents.
The First Council of Ephesus laid out the doctrine of Hypostatic Union. Namely, Jesus had two distinct natures, one divine, one human, united in a single body.
This is very important, because it means the human nature of Jesus developed more or less as anyone else. He grew, had puberty, learned to speak and walk just like a normal human being. The human nature was wholly human, just as the divine nature was wholly divine.
And human nature begins at conception. Sperm and egg must unite to produce a zygote, which grows into a fetus. Now, I can almost hear someone screaming "IMMACULATE CONCEPTION" at this point, but I need to remind you all, that Immaculate Conception is a doctrine that not only is Catholic, but is also concerning Mary, mother of Christ. Rather, there was Virgin Birth, which is the divine part of the equation, the Logos becoming flesh, and the second nature in the same body.
But, speaking of Mary, it is well attested to by her mention of being perfectly favored that she was sinless. And to give in to vile lusts, even for conception, is sinful. Thus, it must be concluded that Jesus was born sans lust. And it would be impossible for a young, perhaps even teenaged girl, to see her lord and lawful husband, to feel him inside her vagina, without feeling the tremors of lust.
No, it can be pretty conclusively established that Jesus was born of Sodomy. Sodomy between man and wife, but Sodomy nonetheless. Probably a bit of ejaculate leaking out of the anus and into the vagina. And because Maria certainly did not want such sexual contact, due to her sinless nature, we must regretfully conclude that at least by modern notions (Ancient sexual notions, of course, being much different, and they were married.) that Jesus's human nature was born of rape.
Interesting, but that's very unlikely
>anal=rape
Ok
Oh shit.
Communists, democrats, fascists and islamists all got their fair chance to rule the society to try their best at what they see as solution to the all problems. Why doesn't Libertarians never got to the power?! Is there a deep historical reason for that?
Libertarian utopia sounds like a shitty place to live to vast majority of people
>>1405636
Because the principle behind libertatian government is to concede power. The majority of people who enter politics are seeking power.
>>1405666
this. it's a paradox that can't be rectified with human nature. it's like establishing a lottery system to benefit poor people. it might payout $10 billion a year but 99% of those poor people are getting scammed and getting poorer and poorer playing while
Best /his/ games for a romeaboo? And general /his/ vidya thread
>>1405625
Never actually played Ryse but someone asked if I was involved with making the game after I went full romeaboo mode one time. Something something about Roman resolve to win a war was unshakable because to Romans Rome represented civilization and for Rome to lose a war was for Romans to let the the light of civilization be stolen from all of humanity.
>>1405625
>"This board is dedicated to the discussion of history and the other humanities such as philosophy, religion, law, classical artwork, archeology, anthropology, ancient languages, etc."
>>1405625
So apperantly Activision was going to make a CoD game set in Ancient Rome. Call of Duty: Roman Wars. It was part of a contest of developers under Activision to make a unique CoD game. It was shown to the heads at Activision and they considered it but wouldn't attach it to the CoD name which the developers really wanted so they never made it.
Here's a blurry pic from the new CIV VI video, showing all the leaders. Can anyone clear it up and make out who they are?
so that leaked list going around was fake and gay
Bismarck, Saladin, Guy de Lusignan, Carol I, chinese emperor
roman empress, Catherine II, William the Silent, Charles II of Spain, some arab shit
scandinavian king, fucking Ghandi, mongol leader,
fuck it
I think I see Peter the Great (of Russia)
