So I have this co worker who's heavily into Northern and Western European history. He made a claim that, according to research, the Picts were actually a Germanic culture and related or even interchangeable with Saxons.
However, he has a dubious background as a neo-nazi and he couldn't (or wouldn't) name his sources so I became suspicious. On the other hand, I am still curious, because it could very well be that I had missed out on some groundbreaking new discovery since I don't really keep up with the latest history newsletter.
Can anybody on this board here deliver sources or confirm this claim? Or was he just full of shit because of Völkische Propaganda?
The celts were black, and i'm seriously not joking.
>>1066457
Damn i fucking love /his/
>>1066457
Were? They still are.
Isn't nihilism the most simple yet obvious and "true" philosophy?
>meaning is just our way to reason ourselves into remaining alive
>the universe has no sense of "why" or "meaning", it's just one big complicated system
>no one can escape death
>hence nothing has "meaning" or "counts" because those are mere ideas that the universe couldn't give less of a shit
inb4 "but we are part of the universe"
our sentient experience of the world is very limited in lenght while the greater universe doesn't stop existing
as long as the electrical reactions in our brain have a chance to stop someday, this excuse can't be used
i'm not saying I know it all, nihilism is one of the first philosophies everyone reaches
i'm asking, what is the point of looking farther or thinking more?
>>1066363
>i'm asking, what is the point of looking farther or thinking more?
Because nihilism is harmful to society and individuals alike
t. Nietsche
Because saying "there is no objective meaning to existence/universe" has limited usefulness.
You as an embodied creature act AS IF life has purpose and meaning, so it's better to start from there.
>>1066363
Is a perspective thing really. I used to struggle with nihilism, always trying to go further in the reach of meaning. If you go to the begining there is no meaning in that, you go to the end and thers no meaning in that. But in the middle there is a lot of things happening. Maybe love can't save you, maybe trying to save the world is ussles or trying to build a legacy is futile, but thats becouse you are looking at the very end of things. Of course in the end nothing matters. But is the way anon, the way is the objective. You may do good or bad, that dosen't matters, what matters is that you try. Acepting the whole way is the first step to overcome nihilsm, stop looking at the very end, it always looks the same.
Has nationalism actually ever caused wars? I hear this very often, but it seems kinda trivial to me.
Negative BUF flag pic for no reason.
Franco-Prussian war, WW1 (at least partially), WW2, the entire clusterfuck in the Balkans.
>>1066323
Yes, of course. Wars of national liberation are a perfect example.
However, most wars and skirmishes that are associated with nationalism are actually due to imperialism and colonialism, two phenomena that long predate modern nationalism and on some level are even at odds with it.
>>1066339
Not too sure about the Balkans. Most of it was just countries deciding to leave the federal republic and Yugoslavia not accepting the secession. Srpska wanted to secede as well. To be clear, I don't think separatism is the same as nationalism.
What do y'all think about this book and its sequels? (first time I post here, do not bully please)
Hobsbawm is great all around but i didnt read this book
>>1066132
what have you read by him?
I'm liking this one very much so I will probably buy more of his work soon
>>1066092
Since this is your first time posting here, let me reveal this to you: no one here reads actual books.
Why is it that traditional naval uniforms pretty much all look exactly the same?
If it ain't broke, don't fix it
>>1065955
>""traditional""
It dates back to, what, the 19th century?
Also you say that like all the uniforms of modern Europe didn't copy each others.
>>1065955
Practicality.
Can someone rec me good movies about french revolution/ reign of terror that came afterwards?
>pic unrelated
>>1065845
Check out "La Révolution Française" (1989) for 1789-1794.
Mostly /his/ approved, though it doesnt mention much the vendean. It stops at the end of the Terror.
>>1065995
thanks kind anon
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_R%C3%A9volution_fran%C3%A7aise_%28film%29
Its a two parter and covers the whole period from the beginning to Robespierres death. Its awesome, not really biased for any side and has great scenes.
I'm pretty good at history, especially military history, history is my favourite, so I'm putting most of my educational effort on history.
How hard is it to become an historian? Or any job that has to do with history?
>military history is my favorite
Why the fuck do you think you should teach people?
>>1065824
My professor says it depends on how you want to teach, but either way you'll have to be prepared to move.
Specialize in a specific area of history, find the teaching authority in that area, study/make friends with him, produce some original research that taps an area of modern interest to the world/scholarship/public in pursuit of your PhD, get hired by a college who wants to snatch up a hot commodity
>>1065857
Oh I don't want to teach.
Show us your historical dioramas/models /his/
>>1065706
>>/toy/
>>1065712
Models = toys
Okay then.
Are all modern academic philosophers just sophists?
>>1065384
Probably. how you say something has always been more important than what you say.
Sounds to me like you think sophism is a bad thing.
Ides become popular because they are presented through ascribing them to methodologies of truth.
This is this way and this way cause current methodolgy(scientific method these days) is what is truth.
The universe expanded 13 billion years ago cause our current method of truth finding says so..
Sophists, even back then, knew there was no truth. What is is one's ability to present a reality by latching onto the day's authoritative people, methodologies, techniques..
>>1065880
As a stepping stone to convince people to invest time and thinking into your ideas, thus understanding them, interpreting them and making them their own.
>mfw the best Byzantine dynasty was Syrian
How do Greeks deal with this fact?
>>1065378
Greeks are WE WUZ tier desu
Neo-Ottoman Empire when?
Greeks are Slavic rape babies anyways
>>1065624
>Occupied near 800 years by turks
>Yeah we serbs and greeks are slavs
okay islamovich
>I must united the Mexican people under one flag
and he actually did it, the absolute madman
>I must united the Mexican people under one flag
and he actually did it, the absolute madman
>I must united the Jewish people under one layer of dirt
and he actually tried to do it, the absolute madman
>thinkgen about spirits n stuff
Thoughts on this guy?
>>1065292
hack
>>1065292
Read his Rothschild book, Sigmund Warburg book, read the ascent of money and the Cash nexus.
He is a very good Historian. He does a lot of great archival work and his book on Warburg and from what i have heard of the Kissinger, books are fantastic. The cash nexus is also very good though quite academic and is really just a collection of essays but it as a corpus of his thinking it is absolutely brilliant.
I do have a lot of respect for the guy but while I do admire his boldness he fancies himself a bit of political player and mass thought leader and he doesn't seem to be succeeding.
Though he is a good debater.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9slquoIuPC8
>>1065292
total hunk
Why didn't the Kingdoms that existed in the territories of Britain, France, Germany, Poland, all form an expedition, invade Norway/Sweden, exterminate everyone there and put an end to the Viking menace?
Most of the world is shit tier at working together. Same as with the Mongols, everyone would have rather taken care of their own then stand together.
>>1065195
They didn't have to work together, they could each have done it by themselves.
>>1065187
But they did just that, except they sent missionaries instead.
Problem solved, far less bloodshed.
I'm new to 4chan and I was looking through my attic and I found this I don't know what it is and I am trying to get answers so if you can help please do
Thank you
>>1064945
Looks like a soviet ammo box, go ask on /k/.
>>1064945
For a start, it's upside down.
it's a box for russian maxim gun's belt
>'Then, is it the government of the kingdom which alone can be carried on along with the practice of husbandry? Great men have their proper business, and little men have their proper business. Moreover, in the case of any single individual, whatever articles he can require are ready to his hand, being produced by the various handicraftsmen:-- if he must first make them for his own use, this way of doing would keep all the people running about upon the roads. Hence, there is the saying, "Some labour with their minds, and some labour with their strength. Those who labour with their minds govern others; those who labour with their strength are governed by others. Those who are governed by others support them; those who govern others are supported by them." This is a principle universally recognised.
>Ch'an Hsiang said, 'If Hsü's doctrines were followed, then there would not be two prices in the market, nor any deceit in the kingdom. If a boy of five cubits were sent to the market, no one would impose on him; linen and silk of the same length would be of the same price. So it would be with bundles of hemp and silk, being of the same weight; with the different kinds of grain, being the same in quantity; and with shoes which were of the same size.'
>Mencius replied, 'It is the nature of things to be of unequal quality. Some are twice, some five times, some ten times, some a hundred times, some a thousand times, some ten thousand times as valuable as others. If you reduce them all to the same standard, that must throw the kingdom into confusion. If large shoes and small shoes were of the same price, who would make them? For people to follow the doctrines of Hsü, would be for them to lead one another on to practise deceit. How can they avail for the government of a State?'
Did Mencius refute Marx before Marx?
Common sense refutes Marx.
>Hurrr global class warfare will lead us to Utopia
>Everyone will be equal :D Just like in my dreams.
>>1064878
Confucianism is inherently superior compared to Marx.
>Confucianism: classes working together.
>Marx: HURR DA WORKING CLASS SHOULD BE LIKE IN CHARGE SINCE THEY BE LIKE, DO THE WORK.
>>1064921
>China is now communist.
Lel.
