Any Mircea Eliade fans here? Just started reading him and his stuff is neat.
Hi.
Very underrated author in comparison with Jung and Campbell.
i have some books but havent read them yet
>>1056868
Yes! Eliade is a legend. I'm studying religion at UChicago and his work heavily heavily colors the curriculum here.
Why do people fawn over Rommel instead of appreciating the man who deserves it, Guderian?
>implying Manstein wasn't the god-emperor we needed, but didn't deserve
Because:
-Guderian was taken off the frontlines in late '41 due to withdrawals against orders to prevent frontal collapse so he doesn't have any cloud like Rommel or Manstein and others
-Guderian was never promoted to field marshal due to aforementioned move to reserves and promotion to FM depended entirely on Hitler
-He was assigned chief of staff in '44 where he couldn't really do anything against increasingly delirious Hitler though he did constantly engage in shouting matches with Hitler
-Guderian was old school Prussian officer and didn't get involved in any coup attempts or get killed like Patton or Rommel
And fucking Rommel recommended Guderian as the only possible replacement for him in Africa but it didn't happen because Hitler.
Guderian threads are the only reason I even visit this damn board
What is the meaning of life /his/?
hate and misery
>>1054187
To love God and one's neighbor.
A sub-par Monty Python movie.
This guy's story always makes me sad.
Sure, he was an unluckly and inept spoon-in-the-mouth rich boy who couldn't properly govern a nation. But neither him nor his family deserved what the gommies meted out.
>>1039340
Yes they did. And worse actually.
>Around midnight, Yakov Yurovsky, the commandant of The House of Special Purpose, ordered the Romanovs' physician, Dr. Eugene Botkin, to awaken the sleeping family and ask them to put on their clothes, under the pretext that the family would be moved to a safe location due to impending chaos in Yekaterinburg.The Romanovs were then ordered into a 6 m × 5 m (20 ft × 16 ft) semi-basement room. Nicholas asked if Yurovsky could bring two chairs, on which Tsarevich Alexei and Alexandra sat.
>The prisoners were told to wait in the cellar room while the truck that would transport them was being brought to the House. A few minutes later, an execution squad of secret police was brought in and Yurovsky read aloud the order given him by the Ural Executive Committee:
>"Nikolai Alexandrovich, in view of the fact that your relatives are continuing their attack on Soviet Russia, the Ural Executive Committee has decided to execute you."
>Nicholas, facing his family, turned and said "What? What?" Yurovsky quickly repeated the order and the weapons were raised. The Empress and Grand Duchess Olga, according to a guard's reminiscence, had tried to cross themselves, but failed amid the shooting. Yurovsky reportedly raised his gun at Nicholas's torso and fired; Nicholas fell dead. Yurovsky then shot Alexei. The other executioners then began shooting chaotically until all the intended victims had fallen.
>Several more shots were fired and the doors opened to scatter the smoke. There were some survivors, so Peter Ermakov stabbed them with bayonets because the shots could be heard outside. The last to die were Tatiana, Anastasia, and Maria, who were carrying a few pounds (over 1.3 kilograms) of diamonds sewn into their clothing, which had given them a degree of protection from the firing. However, they were speared with bayonets as well.
>Olga sustained a gunshot wound to the head. Maria and Anastasia were said to have crouched up against a wall covering their heads in terror until they were shot down. Yurovsky himself killed Tatiana and Alexei. Tatiana died from a single bullet through the back of her head. Alexei received two bullets to the head, right behind the ear after the executioners realized he had not been killed by the first shot. Anna Demidova, Alexandra's maid, survived the initial onslaught but was quickly stabbed to death against the back wall while trying to defend herself with a small pillow which she had carried that was filled with precious gems and jewels.
I post koan, you answer
This is case 38 from the gateless gate (book written by master wumen, a collection of koans and wumens comments on them)
The Case
Goso said, ”A buffalo passes by the window. His head, horns, and four legs all
go past. But why can’t the tail pass too?”
Wumen's comment
If you make a complete about-face, open your eye, and give a turning word on
this point, you will be able to repay the four kinds of love that have favored you
and help the sentient beings in the three realms who follow you.
If you are still unable to do this, return to this tail and reflect upon it, and
then for the first time you will realize something.
Wumen's verse
Passing by, it falls into a ditch;
Coming back, all the worse, it is lost.
This tiny little tail,
What a strange thing it is!
So /his/, what do you think? Why can't the tail pass through the window?
>>1061800
>Why can't the tail pass through the window?
pass BY the window, sorry
>>1061800
This is all done under the influence of opium, yes?
>>1061810
No mind altering substances involved
Lately I've been binge watching endless amounts of World War 2 documentaries. It's the most beautiful historical piece ever, it has everything a guy could want. Whenever I'm busy my friends joke around saying "Oh, he's probably watching another world war 2 video". I know the war in and out except for one very important aspect not one movie/clip has explained. Why did Hitler want war? Why not just purify Germany and rid the country of Jews in general? Why did he go on a conquest? I know the reason behind the battles but not the beginning of the war itself. I know he invaded Poland so he could share a common border with Russia to invade them later but why did he want to invade Russia anyway? Russia was his original goal, almost everything in the war was because he wanted to invade Russia, even declaring war on the biggest industrial power house (United States) just so the Japanese might attack Russia. Did he want to push communism out of Europe? Unite Europe? Unite the German people against a reasonable enemy? Sorry if this is complicated. Thanks in return
Lebensraum for pure Germanics of Aryan descent™. Even with all the German bullshitting and anschluss it was only a matter of time before he pushed the French and Brits over the edge, Hitler was still surprised they bothered to declare war for Poland though. At that point it was necessary to knock the French out since they had arguably the best continental European military, nobody expected such a short campaign though. WW2 docs are amazing, I still remember watching Apocalypse WW2 when it came out because that was the first time I ever saw colour footage of the conflict, dat theme song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQPVVr1MYk4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t6IKwHpdIQ
>>1059846
I'll have to look into that, some things in there I didn't quite understand but thanks mate and nice, I've watched episodes 3 and 4 several times just because the invasion of Russia is itself beautiful. I'm not a Nazi but the Germans were badass
what was the last successfull german offensive operation?
What are some /his/ approved films?
What historical film would you love to see created?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6ZteD0LaIc
Master and Faggot at the far side of the Gay more like it
>>1053598
/tv/ permanently ruined any discussion of this (pretty great) movie. I would love an updated version of Napoleon's Italian campaigns. It could have all the challenges of a young new general dealing with challenge after challenge. It would show flashes of some megalomania, but overall he'd act admirably.
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>>1049959
>>1049969
>>1049970
>these guys may speak, worship, and live like [X], but they're totally [Y] because of genetics that i can't really specify, and should only be regarded as [Y]
These Americans may speak, worship, and live like subhumans, but they're totally homo sapiens because of genetics and should only be regarded as homo sapiens.
>>1062351
>>1062337
>these normands may speak, worship, and live like frenchmen, but they're totally vikings because of genetics that i can't really specify, and should only be regarded as vikings
t. Butthurt anglo
National Anthems Lyrical summaries:
>UK: God save the current monarch (Love of Country)
>France: Our freedoms are being threatened, protect them. (Love of Country, Defense of Country)
>Spain: No lyrics.
>Italy: Our country must be united (Love of Country, Defense of Country)
>Poland:
>Germany: WE ARE SUPERIOR. PARTS OF FRANCE AND EASTERN EUROPE BELONG TO US. AGAIN, WE REPEAT, GERMANY IS SUPERIOR. (Placing country above all else in the world. Offensive suggestions versus other countries.)
Why?
Honestly, the Star-Spangled Banner fits the US disturbingly well, because it's basically "murica fuck yeah pew-pew-pew!!!"
>>1056931
>Ireland: FUCK YOU ENGLAND COME AND GET SOME YA WEE BASTARD I'LL FECKONG WRECK UR SHITE BOYO, IM FECKIN WAITING HERE LETS GO
What is the greatest army to have ever existed in the history of humanity?
American military in ww2.
>>1058950
The U.S. army.
>>1058950
"Greatest" relative to others?
Mongols
1. Construct an internal enemy, as both focus and diversion.
2. Isolate and demonize that enemy by unleashing and protecting the utterance of overt and coded name-calling and verbal abuse. Employ ad hominem attacks as legitimate charges against that enemy.
3. Enlist and create sources and distributors of information who are willing to reinforce demonizing process because it is profitable, because it grants power and because it works.
4. Palisade all art forms: monitor, discredit or expel those that challenge or destabilize processes of demonization and deification.
5. Subvert and malign all representatives of and sympathizers with this constructed enemy.
6. Solicit, from among the enemy, collaborators who agree with and can sanitize the dispossession process.
7. Pathologize the enemy in scholarly and popular mediums; recycle, for example, scientific racism and the myths of racial superiority in order to naturalize the pathology.
8. Criminalize the enemy. Then prepare, budget for and rationalize the building of holding arenas for the enemy-especially the males and absolutely its children.
9. Reward mindlessness and apathy with monumentalized entertainments and with little pleasures, tiny seductions: a few minutes on television, a few lines in the press; a little fun, a little style, a little consequence.
10. Maintain, at all costs, silence.
Thoughts, /his/?
>>1056490
sounds like the Liberals today
why just fascism?
Like >>1056500 sort of says, this can be used by all groups.
>>1056521
because Fascism means absolutely nothing anymore
this is more a list of steps toward tyranny
>Germany was the first to use air raids and chemical weapons in WW1
>>1039985
IIRC Hardcore History also said that the Germans were the first to use chem weapons
Can you refute Based Dan?
>>1039988
Yes. French were.
>based dan
>based
>liking a guy who literally reads wikipedia articles and "teaches" idiots about what he read
>The Romans were evil and they killed Jesus for being a Jew
Has capitalism every actually worked? Or is it's history a long stream of "innovations" that cover up it's bloody and oppressive structure?
>>1063991
Capitalism has been working for centuries.
>>1063991
>bloody and oppressive
But anon, this is communism. Capitalism is the economics of freedom.
>>1064006
T. Nathan Mayer Rothschild
Oh god.
I came to this board expecting autisticly intelligent threads about the industrial output of the Byzantine Empire during it's golden age peak not autisticly stupid ones like discussing if the holocaust really happened.
This is not what I wanted at all.
I bet you deny the Armenian genocide, though
Wouldn't want to offend those Turks, would we?
>>1059604
Mods gave up and it has been like this ever since
>having high expectations of anything on 4chan
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