What revenge in history was the best and why was it of that of Ivan The Terrible towards the boyars?
The Julius Caesar pirates story is pretty great.
>>1394317
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> Greatest revenge
Remember this one time when governor seized it and killed the traders from Genghis Khan.
What were some of the inspirations for the many "boogeymen" whose stories are told to children? Is it just something the parents made up, or could it have been passed down through the generations?
> Popobawa most feared nocturnal sexual assault is sodomizing of adult men.
> Victims are often urged to tell others that they have been assaulted, and are threatened with repeat visits by Popobawa if they do not.
Basically one guy raped another and tell victim to spread the word.
>>1394216
One proud muthafucka right there.
Anyone else?
Post only classic and classic revival architecture. No kitsch or modern constructions here.
>>1394141
>classic and classic revival architecture
learn a bit about architecture and then come back
>>1394159
What are you implying?
How the fuck did the Jews manage to never have a land of their own before modern day Israel?
>>1393836
What is the ancient Israel then
>>1393840
this
They murdered the people god told them to, got some land, then they lost it.
>>1393836
>what is Judee
Why should I care about others? I don't feel their pain or experience their emotions. For all I know they're merely automatons, or just creations of my own delusional mind!
>>1393697
once you understand that men are not meant to be as good hedonist as women, you first acknowledge the superiority of women at the hedonistic life (which is just called life by men and women) and you see the misery of hedonism, either the direct hedonism of the woman, or the nihilistic fantasy of the delayed hedonism [hedonism of the will] of the man [the one that men advocate for, the one about engaging yourself into challenges after challenges, seeking merit, pursuing your passions, in one word still clinging to entertainment (typically to attract women sooner or later) to better turn away from their impotency at the hedonistic life..] created by men once they get beat by women.
Once you see the game as well as the noneffective masculine life, you lose faith in hedonism. At this point, you either see the solution or not {Nietzsche did not see it, or rather he did not claim explicitly that he saw it]: you strive to do the exact opposite of hedonism (either the masculine one or the feminine one): first you stop being nihilistic, in accepting what you are (it is crucial to be sincere about the starting point], meaning a worm, and in stopping to analyze the past to get a better future (= the strategy of men, which remains inside hedonism (even though they claim that it is not, and in practice is is clearly not), but even more nihilistic than the feminine hedonism, once they are beaten by women] and in stopping to take what you desire, feel and think seriously [=the hedonism of the woman, and the fueling of this hedonism by men].
>>1393698
Women are wrong for having faith in what they desire, in thinking that this is relevant to ones life
they are a bit wrong to let men spend their life trying to serve women.
Men are wrong to try to play with women, which is just serving women
men are wrong, after being defeated, to be resentful towards women
men are wrong to think, after being defeated, that the solution is to be even more nihilistic than women in dwelling in hedonism of the will
The lack of efficacy of the masculine life leads to a narcissism (contrary to men), but without egotism (contrary to women), a more equanimous and benevolent stance towards what is desired, felt and thought. At this point, you stop looking at hedonism of the body [=the feminine hedonism], turn towards hedonism of the soul [what religious call it], spirit, consciousness [what buddhists call it] [=the hedonism of the mild ascetic, the hedonism that most men fail to see and the one that women love to think that they embody (women love to think that they are not as egotistic as they are, that they embody a humanist stance)] and then you understand that even this is doomed to be disappointing, so you refuse it until you stop caring about this one too.
Was there ever a more silly prediction than pic related?
>>1393695
>Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.“
Communism
>>1393695
No matter your political alignment, the idea of there being an 'end of history' is one of the more retarded to have been recently postulated.
What is Zen?
>>1393190
The lack of disturbance.
>>1393190
the bastard synthesis of daoism and shintoism
The sound of a fart when you're sleeping.
why is half this board just thinly-veiled /pol/ teenagers asking the same tedious questions about Byzantium and The Crusades over and over and over
i think we just need a sticky at this point. have a section for that stuff, and then a section for the nazis, maybe a section for the american civil war. it'll cut down on the repeat threads.
>>1392596
Because none of you fucktards ask anything that isnt European history.
We definitely should put together a reading list for common topics
>>1392604
It's not worth it. The people making those threads are doing so because they want to hear particular answers. When we bore them with how complex and nuanced history tends to be, they tend to get combative. If we have a sticky or reading list or whatever, the current repeated threads will just be replaced with kids sperging out over our choices of what to put in there.
It's just no use. This is a website full of neckbeards, teens, a lot of people currently swept up in ethnic nationalism and kneejerk anti-atheism, etc. If you don't like it, go somewhere else to discuss history or whatever other topic you wanted. It's a lot less trouble than trying to change the culture of this place.
Would there have been anything more terrifying than living in a kingdom or empire that this guy decided to invade?
Reading about him is honestly pretty chilling
Probably being jailed in a Colombian prison with torturous criminals after you
Fucking plastic man, ouch
>tfw eastern Iran basically vanished from the earth because of Timur
It's like reading about some beautiful animal species going extinct
>all things in existence were created by God
>God did not create sin
If God did not create sin, that means sin is uncreated and therefore, eternal, just like him.
St. Augustine shat on this in the 5th century
Read Descarte's Third Meditation.
>>1392404
Evil is just the absence of God. Sin is acting according to the absence instead of the fullness of God's goodness.
How do we save the history channel?
>>1392291
Stop watching it
Just watch the BBC.
I saw one History Channel show where they said that people often go missing in isolated areas and then implied it's because of aliens.
I always thought people were exaggerating but jesus christ.
Why DID Constantinople get the works?
>>1392104
It was at the crossroads of Europe and Asia so all the goods flowing between the two continents passed by Constantinople. It was the World Trade Center of its day.
>>1392104
It's nobody's business but the Turks.
How did contemporary European Kingdoms think of the Byzantine empire? Did they consider it "Rome"? Did they have any special reverence for it or look up to it?
>it's another "edgy /his/ reactionary thinks he would thrive under an extremely conservative theocratic regime" thread
>theocratic
Absolutely nobody is advocating this.
>its another "its another x" thread"
>>1392054
>Absolutely nobody is advocating this.
Every single Christcuck thread is nothing but idiots whining about how secular modern governments are terrible and how they wish a new government would come along that would enforce the Christian religion and kill/exile people who do not assimilate to their religion or its expectations.
I just ordered The Epic Of Gilgamesh and The Prose Edda.
What are some other ancient books to read?
>>1392022
Iliad
Aeneid
Odyssey
Posthomerica
Táin Bó Cúailnge
Cogad Gáedel re Gallaib
The Mabinogion
The Illiad
The Odyssey
The Aeneid
The Alexiad (medieval but whatever)
What has been the typical treatment of those born with mental and/or physical disabilities? The Spartans cast disabled babies off cliffs, for example. What have other cultures done, and have there been societies like today's that aimed to actually improve the quality of life of the handicapped rather than just kill them or put them down?
Pic definitely not related
There are some examples of particularly deformed individuals in pre-modern Europe being taken for the results of trysts with the devil, which naturally didn't turn out well for them or their mothers.
I remember reading one account (no idea where) about a so-called 'sheep boy' assumed to be the result of bestiality killed and nailed to a church.
>>1391923
Reminds me of this thing. From what I can gather, it was a heavily deformed baby mistaken for a human-chicken hybrid.
>>1391904
they werent treated
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