What is your favourite artwork that portrays a part of history?
Mine is probably Scotland Forever!
>>935706
For me it would probably be the Course of Empire.
>>935768
I have a really old projector slide of the 4th painting somewhere.
>>935768
>that fucking hill in every painting
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Post images and text depicting the horror of war
>German 6th army troop marching to Stalingrad
I'll wager none of the faces in this photo survived the battle.
Why didn't civilian militias clean up New York?
>>929307
>like you would have
Right, anon. Back then if you wanted to live in a nice clean place you lived in the suburbs outside the city. If you lived in the city you were to poor for other options or you didn't care/ it was just part of every day life.
>>929307
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_Angels
On a side note, how did NYC went from a crime-ridden dirty shithole to were it is today?
what are some worthwhile /his/ related video games?
CK, EU, Victoria, HOI series
>>928794
>not civ 4
consider suicide
Rome Total War with mods.
Why country has the most depressing history?
Vatican city.
Ireland
Inb4 Russia
probably somewhere in the caucases
ITT: we talk about some of Hitler's good ideas.
No JIDF and/or stormfront pls.
Discrediting fascism and far-right politics in Europe.
>>922100
Nationalism was important for people/nations who want to protect their differences.
>>922100
His suicide was the best thing to happen to Germany
It allowed some of them to surrender
>shit-tier fedora philosopher
>no important contributions to mathematics
>gödel had him btfo
>degenerate smoker
>a fucking commie
why is this hack so famous now again?
You forgot
>cuck
But he was a good logician.
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>>940896
Because not one of those greentexts is correct. Not even the smoking one (He did smoke, but smoking is only degenerate after 1975 or so.)
Name 5 of Rome's most underrated emperors, ERE included.
Caracalla was pretty crazy but he was a good military commander and there were many emperors much worst than him
Romulus Augustus
He didn't fuck anything up.
>>938124
He got caught.
Have there ever been any countries which voluntarily converted to Islam?
>>936718
sweden
Britain, Sweden
Do you grieve the death of the classical world and the beginnings of Christianity? I'm reading about it in philosophy and history and it's hard to be impartial.
No, because all that was good was retained, except a few things in the West, which were recovered in the Renaissance.
I do.
Yes, although the classical world was already over as soon as Socrates started his bullshit about ignorance being the source of all evil. Christianity closing off the entire cultural world from anything other than divine justice just wrapped up the inevitable end of the classical world
The history of this place always fascinated me. Located in the centre of the Mediterranean, influenced by centuries of rule under the Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, Ottomans etc. What does /his/ have to say about it?
>>930133
Its been shit since 1700.
>>930164
Better than the rest of the Arab world.
>>930133
As someone who has ancestors from there I would really love to know more since I know shamefully little.
>>930169
From the way they manage to mix modernity and tradition Lebanon and Syria are better, sans the political instabilty of course. Lebanon maybe takes it a step too far with westernisation with plastic surgery everywhere. Syria is now messed up beyond belief and going to have to deal with a whole lost generation, and this can fuck up a country more than destroyed infrastructure. From the time I have visited Tunisia I can tell is in this really weird position where they have hypereducated young people but almost nothing to do with them. But the younger generation is cool and the different ethnicities are kinda visible, with typically tanned arabs, now-adult blond colony love children and pale-skinned turkish looking people with straight black hair. There are even a few red heads around. I have no idea where those come from historically.
>Be reading Bible
>"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's"
>Wow, that's pretty neat
>Get to Acts
>Peter kills a man and his wife for not giving him all their gold
Can someone explain to me how this is justified?
>>941067
Peter didn't kill Ananias and Sapphira, God did.
The reason they were killed is not because they didn't give all their gold but because they lied and said they donated all their money from the land sale but in reality had kept some for themselves; they were punished for deceitfully trying to appear more righteous than they were.
>>941099
Nicely put.
Lying to the Holy Spirit is death. The early church found that out quick.
>>941099
the moral of the story is that most christians treat christianity as just another religion. "i do good things, good things happen / i gotta look like a good person"
however christianity is more like a cult in that you are a slave to christ and you act out of gratitude as opposed to self-interest
Is there such a thing as a "soul"?
>>940477
Nein.
Yes, another name for the whole that is greater than the sum of its parts (neurons)
Depends who u ask. I say yea
I was reading concerning the Cold War (i.e. nuclear scenario) contingency plans of the NATO countries recently; naturally, the U.S. had the most comprehensive one, with the President and high-ranking bureaucrats being airlifted to a high-tech secret facility like Cheyenne where he'd easily survive (funnily enough, it seems Congress wasn't particularly given preferential treatment).
But what struck me was that as I was reading the contingency plans, that the (immediate) British Royal Family was included in these contingency plans. Not only included, but the plans were very thorough: the family would - upon alert of missiles entering NATO airspace - be taken to the shore where a military submarine would wait out the nuclear bombardment in the depths of the North Sea. Afterwards, the monarch and her immediate family would be transferred to a high-tech 'floating bunker' and cling to the fjords and lochs of the British coast. constantly on the move.
Why even bother spending all this money (surely, it was expensive) and drawing up contingency plans in the face of something such as a nuclear attack all for the sake of a ceremonial figure? The monarch would be completely useless; they'd have no real reason to be kept alive besides some cheap sentimentality
>(funnily enough, it seems Congress wasn't particularly given preferential treatment)
good fuck them
>Why even bother spending all this money (surely, it was expensive) and drawing up contingency plans in the face of something such as a nuclear attack all for the sake of a ceremonial figure? The monarch would be completely useless; they'd have no real reason to be kept alive besides some cheap sentimentality
I am an American, but I would say if you're not British you wouldn't get it. They really are into that monarch shit, even if it's just for show.
Also, there were many war plans in the US for events such as the invasion of Canada, Mexico, whatever.
The reason for making these plans isn't to use them, but to prepare up and coming trainees and military commanders a chance to get used to planning campaigns and what it entails
Plus, if the situation ever happens, no matter how unlikely, at least someone has put some thought into it at some point, even if just as practice.
>>936488
If you're going to be creating a continuity government after a catastrophic event like a heavy nuclear exchange, you want someone to head it who is separate from the political divisions of the time. Someone with legitimacy to give a government in an extremely difficult a chance of re-exerting control over the country.
Despite there always being British republicans, they've never been a particularly large amount of the population here, in times of crisis people would be much more likely to rally behind the monarch than party political leaders.
>>936502
After a nuclear strike, I doubt there would be anyone left alive to care about the "legitimacy'" of the government: even if there were survivors, the government would be legitimized (in their eyes) were they to restore some semblance of order, infrastructure, law, and aid - with or without a monarch.
Why is this charade still going on?
Archeology made it a joke.
>>938688
Mormons are scary
>>938688
Same goes for pretty much any religion. Believers are great in ingoring facts.
I ask the same about Marxism.
Actually scratch that, Marxism is pretty much dead except for a handful of low IQ academics.
