ITT: Apples who fell about as far from the tree as is humanly possible/literally fucking destroyed dad's empire
inb4 KWII
he looked fly as fuck doing it tho
>>1121979
Caligula, Honorius and Agrippa Postumus come to mind, just to stay within the roman empire.
>>1121979
Piero the Unfortunate.
Were there real Assassins? I know the portrayal of Templars was utter horseshit, but what were the Assassins real life counterpart? Did they have one?
>>1121961
nice meme
>>1121961
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassins
>the name used to refer to the medieval Nizari Ismailis.
>the Nizari Ismailis were an Islamic sect that formed in the late 11th century from a split within Ismailism, itself a branch of Shia Islam.
> While "Assassins" typically refers to the entire medieval Nizari sect, in fact only a class of acolytes known as the fida'i actually engaged in assassination work.
>Lacking their own army, the Nizari relied on these trained warriors to carry out espionage and assassinations of key enemy figures, and over the course of 300 years successfully killed two caliphs, and many viziers, sultans and Crusader leaders
So there you go, the big Christian thing of AC is actually from a Muslim sect
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There were these guys, from which the word 'assassin' literally comes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassins
What are your toughts on the ideas of original national socialism?
I personally think that their main ideas were pretty straight forward, but they drifted it into something different
>>1121949
It's garbage that would collapse after 5 years of peace
>destroyed a whole country and major economy that had to be rebuilt from scratch afterwards
pretty shit-tier
Why is every response to existential crises a call to pile on shitloads of spooks? You know religion is used to take advantage of people, right? You know lit affects religious inclinations in order to portray a veneer of "patricianhood" based on "respect" for "culture" (i.e. pseudo intellectual masturbation), right?
You know that philosophy (ignoring mathematics or science) cannot lead to non trivial conclusions, right? You know that literature is pushed as "an insight in to the human condition" (or anything more pretentious than entertainment) by the publishing-media-academia industrial complex for financial gain, right? Also by pseudo intellectuals who try to look smart.
>just spook my shit up: the post
Existential crises may lead people to do crazy things. Or to act in their own interests.
I know personally I had an existential crisis which led me to Nietzsche, and after years of refinement built myself my own morals that I stand by. I had to reject society though and get metaphorically and literally beat up to learn who I am and what my purpose is.
Western society forgot this and passive-aggressively structures our lives to be all one way.
>>1121866
>You know that philosophy (ignoring mathematics or science) cannot lead to non trivial conclusions, right?
Is that a philosophy? You do a disservice to Stirner.
>You know that literature is pushed as "an insight in to the human condition" (or anything more pretentious than entertainment) by the publishing-media-academia industrial complex for financial gain, right?
What the fuck? There's no evidence of such a thing
Do you guys think that Christianity, or on a broader perspective religion in general, will ever die out? If so, how would it end, and what would be the main factors causing Christianity's downfall?
I don't see religion in general ever not being a thing, but I can see Christianity fading away as the years go on considering the current direction of society. In fact, at least in western culture, I definitely can see people moving away from religion in general.
Is this just a counter-cultural response to past history where civilizations and countries had deep roots in their organized religions, or is it because of the growth of technology, or some other factors?
>>1121739
OP is a faggot and a heretic.
>>1121739
Christianity does predict it's downfall desu
>>1121739
It depends what you mean.
Will it die out worldwide? Not in the forseeable future. Places like Africa will always be ripe for it.
Will it die out in the developed world (America, Europe, Canada, Japan)? Certainly. That's what the demographic shift is. The Christians that do remain are very moderate in their beliefs, save for the bible belt.
What events shaped Ukraine's relationship with Russia?
>>1121623
Early on probably the Crimean Tatars periodically raiding the Ukrainian steppe, I think the Russian response from Moscow was usually irregular because it didn't really affect them
>>1121675
Tatars came from the east you do know that right?
>>1121687
He meant Crimean Tatars who lived in, you guessed it, CRIMEA and were vassals of the Ottoman empire. They often raided the areas we now know as Ukraine for slaves and loot.
>Interested in Mesopotamia
>jack shit is written about it
>>1121487
Maybe you should try these things called 'books'. There are a lot of books about Mesopotamia and other early civilizations.
>>1121492
Comparatively, very little is written about it.
>>1121505
Comparatively? Compared to what, WWII historiography? Doesn't really matter when you're never going to learn everything that was written about Mesopotamia.
How is it possible that socialist countries like Nazi Germany and USSR were so efficient at manufacturing things? Yes, I know that Germany lost partly because they lost the arms race against Allies, but considering where they started from after WW1, I think it was still impressive. How do you do that without the insanity of a dictator? Would that kind of economy work if instead of tanks you make cars for example, or direct the power and effort with same efficiency to some entirely different field? How does this compare to capitalism?
Not a bait, Im just stupid.
>>1121391
>How is it possible that socialist countries like Nazi Germany
stopped reading right there
>socialist
>efficient
4Head
Nazi germany wasn't socialist it was Keynesian, which works really well. The government starts a lot of manufacturing projects and creates a lot of jobs that stimulate the economy. It's not rocket science.
Don't forget that Hitler also ignored the Versailles treaty which was a giant burden on Germany.
How can a populist movement be anti-democratic?
>>1121241
What if the majority of the people dispise democrazy?
Peisistratos was a tyrant in Athens, who had the popular support.
Really all you need is being popular, while traditions, customs, forms of government, voting and everything else that involves how you are legitimately supposed to obtain the position can go fuck themselves.
>>1121241
Because people are easily deceived and won over idiots.
are the writings of philosophers intentionally convoluted out of vanity ?
>>1121110
Kant was criticized in his time for being deliberately obfuscatory.
>>1121118
what do you think was his motive for that ? is it just easier write in such a style and not focus on clarity or was he just vain?
The Greeks and their dialogues are very readable
Kant was an illiterate man who should have hired a scribe
The Tractatus Logicus-Philosophicus and Wittgenstein in general avoid being convoluted
ITT: people who died just at the right time because they were going to fuck things up
>>1120978
Tamerlane was set to invade China actually. But he thankfully died.
Dunno if he'd be successful. Because if he did he'd be facing Yongle, who was a military genius in his own right and was actually wrecking the shit out of the Mongs.
>>1120995
To be fair Tamrlane fucked a lot of things up before dying.
post your emotions regarding this GIF.
>>1120886
Indifferent, is from Gallipoli campaign or something?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3577177/A-right-royal-mess-Man-s-selfie-126-year-old-statue-16th-century-Portuguese-king-ends-disaster-knocks-smashes-pieces.html
>The 24-year-old climbed the statue's pedestal in order to get a perfect selfie. But he toppled the revered 126-year-old statue off and it smashed into bits. He tried to flee from scene, but authorities caught up with him soon after.
normies ruin everything
Unemployment was a mistake
>>1120815
>Statue of Dom Sebastião
Nothing of value was lost.
Wasn't he that idiot that got himself killed by Moroccans?
Was William Shakespeare a real person?
He was a horse.
>>1120742
In the future this what will be taught in all schools around the world. Even posting it as a joke is bad.
>>1120731
Was tupac a real person?
Who's that one annoying slav philosopher?
Marx
>>1120684
Nah nah the one that's alive.
>>1120677
Plato
