Is the Judeochristian God really just an old desert tribe War god that was incorporated into the Jewish theology?
>>913521
Christians don't have the same God as Jews.
>>913521
There is speculation the Jewish religion was Henotheistic before it became monotheistic. The fact that Phoenician lore still makes its way into the Torah also points to that.
>>913549
Mental gymnastics my YHWHist friend
Did Japan deserve it?
>muh unit 731
No, They deserve 10 nuclear bombs like that
大日本帝国は間違って何もしませんでした。
>>913298
No. But seeing as the war was fucking disgusting anyway it's just another thing to add on to the list.
So the best way to secure a victorious war is having Brits as your ally ?
>>911988
>picture
the fuck's going on with germany
>>911991
Looks like a Napoleonic era map
>>911991
>Not seeing the french occupation of Savoy and The Netherlands
>Austria-Hungary owns half of Italy, but not Naples
This is clearly during Napoleonic Wars, you plebeian
>Eastern Orthodoxy lost Constantinople
<Roman Catholicism has never lost Rome
So /his/ , why does the Patriarch of Istanbul still calls himself the Patriarch of Constantinople?
>>911921
I suppose it's in the hope that some day Constantinople will be regained from the Turks.
Maybe that day will come. It would be nice.
>Eastern Orthodoxy
>can't figure out how to proselytize
>can't stand up to the Tsar
>can't convert the Mongols
>can't convert the Poles
>can't convert the Lithuanians
>have done nothing of relevance for centuries
>refuse to call out Tsarist abuses
>refuse to call out Soviet abuses
>supposed to at least be an opiate of the masses, but can't even manage that since Russia's suicide rate is sky-high
>churches are ugly
It's pretty funny how contrarians look to Orthodoxy as if it's better than Catholicism, much less better than something like Episcopalianism.
Are there any fictional films/books that /his/ approves of?
Pic may or may not be related, that's why I'm asking you
waterloo
>>911631
Despite being made into parodies on youtube, its rather well done.
>This triggers the Catholic
You bet it does. Quit declaring war on me you cunt. I'm already bordered with Attila.
Best swedish king.
Was he a proto-American?
>We're doing this to protect our Protestant brothers from Imperial tyranny
>30 % of Germany's population dies as a result
>be Greek
>almost get shitstomped to stone age by a bunch of literally who pirates
>be Egyptian
>get shitstomped by a bunch of literally who pirates
can't make this up
what the fuck was their problem anyway? Usually people raid for profit but they seemed to have some kind of hate boner.
>>912603
>Egyptians.
>Shitstomped by Seaniggers.
They defeated them in the great battle of the nile delta.
Well they were entire tribes on the move. I think the best explanation for the collapse is social unrest. The great Bronze age kingdoms had enormous populations for the time period. Mycenae, Pylos, and Tyrins dwarfed any of the classical Greek city-states. You had a godlike king ruling from his palace and his noble charioteers that the king ate with and probably knew each of them by name. Then you had masses of lightly armed infantrymen who were only needed during times of war. What happens when there is a long peace between the great kingdoms and highly mobile tribes disrupt the fragile trade networks that are the heart's blood of these gigantic cities?
John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough
Born to an impoverished family, died one of the most richest, most powerful men in England
Never defeated in battle
Worked his way through the ranks of the British Army from Ensign to Captain General
Ancestor of the glorious lard ball we call Winston Churchill
I see the fat Churchill inherited his puffy eyes from this guy.
>>911513
>disdain for noobs.jpg
Why did the Allies think it's a good idea to punish Germany after World War I with the Treaty?
Victors can be vindictive
>>912558
It would've been a pretty terrible idea to not punish Germany.
Can I get a reasonable explanation as to why Italy did so poorly in WWII? The meme that Italians are just naturally cowardly and lazy can't be true, look at other battles and wars they are involved with and it just doesn't hold up. Where they just not interested in fighting another country's war? Inadequate supplies and weapons? What caused this?
>>911424
Italy suffers from unifying late compared to other powers and having a largely rural south which drags down the entire country.
The simple, but inadequate reason is that Italy lacked the industrial base of any of the other major European powers.
>>911438
But why were they victorious in WW1? You just don't see the mass amount of surrendering in that war that you do in the 2nd.
>>911424
Both those were serious factors. Another was the internal politics of the army.
See, the Italian state formed out of the kingdom Piedmont acquiring all of Italy, in the same way that Prussia acquired all of Germany. But there were significant differences.
Prussia was significantly more invested in the German project, represented a much larger share of Germany, and was much more willing to share control over the Army.
The Italian Army, by contrast remained the refuge of Piedmontese nobility, and officers who kissed up to Piedmontese nobility, and above all the King. Now, obviously this is likely to prevent meritocracy and therefor actually good officers in command.
But it also meant that the officer corp, and control of the army, was a last bastion of an elite group that was otherwise politically negligible. The result is that the officer corp regarded their troops as worse enemies then the other armies.
Remember, this is a conscript army: a decent chunk of your enlisted men are communists, and in the eyes of these officers, all of them might as well be. You don't trust them with initiative, with independent expertise in weaponry, etc. That shit is dangerous. Your job as an officer is to treat them like beasts of burden, and make sure they fulfill exactly what you tell them obediently.
AKA babby's first philosophy. It's astounding how many people at my school (especially my philosophy class) take eastern religions seriously.
"omg, I love Zen! I'm totally going to try to make time for it in my life (but I'm so busy lol)!"
"omg, there's nothing you can criticize about Taoism!"
I can't stand it, why are eastern religions so pretentious? They're frankly illogical. Thought isn't inherently bad like they tend to proselytize , it's a piece of human consciousness - it makes us what we are. I understand their plea to live in the present and whatnot, but your past is who you are and many people like to reflect and think about the past. Your experiences are framed through your previous experiences, and I'm a firm believer it's impossible to detach yourself from that. Impossible to be completely objective as they claim.
To me, they seem frankly illogical. If life is suffering, why not kill yourself? (lol edgy!) Why waste it chasing for a enlightenment that may never come? Why waste time being a Taoist in a world that is irrefutably in-congruent with it? It's simply more snake oil to make you waste time to chase happiness, when happiness is in the eye of the beholder. Or, you could be of the camp that happiness (or contentedness) is a myth, but I'm not quite there yet.
I understand I came off like a fedora and I don't mean to, I enjoy philosophy for the most part but I can't stand eastern religions (inb4 western state of mind)
>>911215
You don't like them because you don't get them. Truth hurts
>>911215
I agree
>muh happiness
gay
>>911215
Well remember that they were developed in ancient India, which was a pretty miserable place to be alive, so the natural sentiment is to dull your mind against nonstop suffering.
But if you are a pampered modern person you probably don't suffer at all and have no use for it.
Was he French or German?
The fact that Germans can't even pronounce his name should answer that question for you.
>>911295
He was Germanic so neither. Learn your history.
>>911295
African
Did the french resistance do anything besides shave the heads of women after the war?
Why?
>>911200
misogyny.
>>911200
They fugged Germans
How were people tattooing themselves before tattoo machines were invented?
>>910644
needles and dye, you can get them done like that today if it's your fantasy
The famous poke and stick method. It's still done today. You need a needle and some ink or dye.
>>910644
I imagine it caused some bad infections since sterilizing equipment would be minimal and not much thought of
I wish I could be as great as Cortez, a conquer, explorer, and entrepreneur.
What is /his/ opinion of this man?
Great man.
>>911059
A sadistic,maniac,ambitious motherfucker, just like almost every man with power in that savage era. Conquer or be conquered.
He is probably still looking for that black gold somewhere in Argentina begging for a coin to a numismatic's collectionist
>>911082
>A sadistic,maniac,ambitious motherfucker
Montezuma was little different. His capture by Cortez did expore a sort of naive innocence in him, though.
As for Cortez, his story is one of the most amazing in all of history, which he accomplished singlehandedly by his wits.
