How do the fascist Northerners justify their oppression of the south?
>>886300
What do you consider racist oppression
>>886322
>try to leave the union in peace
>The North attacks you and devastates your country
>>886326
If they let them go the us would have fallen apart both the south and the north
Also it was the southern aristocracy that wanted to break away
That's it. I'm sick of all this "muh longbow" bullshit that's going around this board right now. Crossbows are much better than longbows. Much, much better than that.
I should know what I'm talking about. I myself commissioned a genuine crossbow in Italy for 4,500 Euro (that's about £2000) and have been practicing with it for almost 2 years now. I can even pierce slabs of solid steel with my crossbow.
European smiths spend days working on a single crossbow and test it up to two dozen times to produce the finest peasant weapon known to mankind.
Crossbows are thrice as easy to train as an English Longbow and thrice as deadly for that matter too. Anything a bodkin arrow can punch through, a crossbow bolt can punch through better, and more accurately too. I'm pretty sure a crossbow could easily pierce the lung of a Gendarme wearing full plate with a simple trigger pull.
Ever wonder why medieval England never managed to conquer medieval France? That's right, they were destroyed by disciplined Crossbowmen of doom and their 16 year old girl saint. Even in the Fifteenth Century, the Vatican banned the use of crossbows against Christians because their killing power was feared and respected.
So what am I saying? Crossbows are simply the best ranged weapon that the world has ever seen.
>>885857
>but longbows look cooler than crossbow
Longbows can be more powerful and require less skill, but those tiny bolts have less range and crossbows can't be fired as quickly
But yeah,
>"we can't make good composite bows because we are shit, so let's make a tonne of really really BIG bows instead using all this yew wood we are improting"!
>win a battle on account of mud
>"LONGBOW IS GREATEST MILITARY TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENT IN HUMAN HISTORY"!
>>885872
>i dont know anything about the hundred years war: the movie: the videogame: the post
>he thinks neurons solve the hard problem of consciousness
>>885805
>the hard problem of consciousness
he thinks that the hard problem of consciousness is a real problem
>>885835
>muh neurons
>neurons are responsible for qualia
>Stalin transformed Bolshevism into a form of Slavic Fascism
How true is this?
It was always there in Bolshevism and it started in Marxism, the idea that the ends justify the means.
>>884550
What? No? I'm not good enough in English to articulate my thoughts here but that's not true. Some radical means were taken to overthrow Nikolay II but then Bolshevism under Lenin wasn't close to Facism at all. Lots of factions (soviets) with lots of different ''écoles de pensées'' (lines of thoughts?). That's what Stalin did. He exterminated the divergences. So yes OP Stalin transformed Bolchevism into Facism (but no need to add ''slavic'' in front, or if you do so you must add a regional prefix to any form of government - American democracy, Canadian democracy, Spanish facism, etc.)
>>884578
Did Lenin and his Bolsheviks crush the autonomy of the soviets fairly quickly?
Why did the arquebus and later firearms become so widespread? They had lower rate of fire, less range and were horribly inaccurate compare to bows.
Also why didn't they re-introduce the bow during later eras when most armor had been dropped by infantry?
>>884517
Because they had a lot more penetrating power. Especially by the early to mid 15th century, armor existed that was basically impervious even to point blank fire from longbows, and if you had a 1000ish pound draw crossbow, you could maybe kill someone at close range, maybe not.
Guns became prevalent because when they hit people, they could actually kill them. And even "accurate" bows had relatively shitty ranges and lethalities. The overwhelming bulk of casualties in pretty much every medieval battle were done hand to hand (usually while chasing down fleeing people)
>Also why didn't they re-introduce the bow during later eras when most armor had been dropped by infantry?
Because by then guns had advanced still further, and were definitely ahead in things like accuracy and range. Not to mention the pool of people with skillsets of bow use had pretty much dried up.
>>884517
STOPPING POWER
What's interesting about this is that in Asia fire arms weren't used as much as in europe due to early fire arms being much less effective than mounted archers
what are some good /his/ approved games?
Most of the Total War Games are legit, personal favourites are Empire: Total War and Shogun 2.
Also EUIV, or any Europa Universalis.
>tfw Anglo-Franco Union and nothing can stop you
>>883760
Anon's modded 1257 AD.
>>883796
>Empire: Total War
such an awful game in such a fun time period
i never thought i would actually wish for another TW sequel but we desperately need an E2TW
Where did the "french revolution caused all the world's problems" meme come from?
>>883027
reactionaries who somehow think things are worse than they were under the ancient regime
>>883034
Nice bait.
Prior to the "enlightenment" mass-murder did not take place under a single Catholic monarch in the French Kingdom. The High-Medieval Period was by far the most peaceful era of France's history before the modern day.
But for morality as skewed as yours, killing millions of people for your definition of a "better world" is cool I guess...
>>883065
>Prior to the "enlightenment" mass-murder did not take place under a single Catholic monarch in the French Kingdom
Religious Wars, Huguenot massacres (notably, St. Bartholomew's Day)
What is the worst attack (terrorism, genocide, murder etc.) you have ever heard of in recorded /his/tory?
>>882192
9/11
Nver4get ;_;7
The 13th amendment
>>882293
this
>inb4 buttflustered american
it was the single deadliest terrorist attack in history, and had a huge impact on the world, whether you like it or not
>Be successfulish child singer
>Voiced a number of singing toys, like teddy bears and the like
>Voice got all rough and scratchy when hit puberty
>Know that if I had lived back in the day, I would have had an "accident" to my testicles to keep my soprano voice.
>Fairly high life expectancy
>Life is comfy, don't need to struggle every day to survive
>Can dedicate myself to activities such as shitposting in a hysteria & manatees board
But there's also Islam and Tumblr, I guess there has to be something every generation.
>>881712
>Better Medical Care
>No worry of your town city getting attacked by barbarian invaders
>No Smallpox or Black Plague
>Not being burned at the stake for having different religious views
>video games
>all the sugar you can imagine
>travel is not a life hazard
>Wake up tomorrow
>You're Philip II
What do?
Fuck Queen Mary until she got pregnant.
>>880159
deus vult!
What does /his/ do for work? Did you ever realize your dream of studying history, or did you sell out?
want to be a foreign service officer when i graduate, but i'm going to need some sort of job/intern experience to make me relevant beyond language skills and global studies degree, pls recommend things if you have experience
I work in a genetics lab doing cell culture work.
I work in GIS for the local natural resources department. I want to write a biography of Aurelian and an analysis of the German-Roman racial dichotomy in the fifth century through a series of biographies about the generals that guided both the East and West. Maybe something about the roles Galla Placidia and Eudocia played in paving the way for a stronger role of women in the Byzantine era. But all this stuff has been done a million times over and I doubt I have the mental capacity to pull it off
Main Library link:
>Temple of Solomon the King (occultism, esotericism, anthropology and religion resources):
https://mega.nz/#F!AE5yjIqB!y7Vdxdb5pbNsi2O3zyq9KQ
Hey guys. It's been a long minute since I posted here. I'd like to pass along my library again, as it's got about 5200 academic texts or religious source scriptures. I'm posting today because I've revised my --Eastern folder-- to fit with recent expansions.
There are two reasons for the expansion: One, is that with the help of some Buddhistfriends, I've managed to assemble a rather large amount of both pre-Tibetan and Tibetan Vajrayana materials, up to and including uncensored documents revealing aspects of the higher initiations into their systems: Things like Hevajra Tantra similar. That said, I'm not a Buddhist and can only offer sparse commentaries on like the historical trajectories of the systems and my own comparative religion insights. Direct links:
Vajrayana in general: https://mega.nz/#F!QdgBDYJY!WsfyXE-j4KTtyeHlE6PWtw
Uniquely Tibetan Material: https://mega.nz/#F!lNpE2LYJ!dW3xwFeRzqZ2zgtanebv0A
What I'm rather more eager to share is my Kashmiri Saivism material, specifically things related to the Uttara Kaula Trika ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaula ) and Abhinavagupta. In the last two years it seems scans of Abhinavagupta's scriptures have exploded. I've gone from almost none to a large collection of his writings, to commentary on Bhagavad Gita and to extracts from Tantraloka, the so-called “Bible of Kashmiri Saivism”. Included are some individual chapters from Tantraloka, the only complete English edition of which costs between 400-900$.
The new folder contains Abhinavagupta's commentaries on aesthetics, mantra, rituals, and some of his foundational philosophical doctrines. What follows is an explanation of how I've divided up my Eastern folder for those who remember the old structure, and a direct link to the specific section of the library:
>>877606
I've taken Aghori's cache of files, and split them up: His Saivism general material went into my folder structures, as did the untranslated material, and the shakti stuff. I cleaned out all the 'misc' stuff from the Eastern folder itself into a 'beginners & basics' folder that covers some introductory historical and academic material into the subjects most represented in the folders. There is a new folder under the heading: >Eastern>Saivism>Abhinavagupta (Uttara Kaula Trika) -
The -NEW- Abhinavagupta material in that folder is as follows: (direct link: https://mega.nz/#F!9EZwWIJA!xtMSg_xVNs8-PjN9jrkZUA )
>Trident of Wisdom (Paratrisika Vivarana)
>Paramarthasara of Abhinavagupta with commentary
>Gitartha Samgraha – Abhinavagupta's Comment on the Bhagavad Gita
>Santarasa and Abhinavagupta's Philosophy of Aesthetics
>Tantraloka, Chapters 1, 2, 3, & 4
>The Dhvanyaloka of Anandavardhana w/ the Locana of Abhinavagupta.
This supplements what I already have:
>Malini Vijayvartik
>Tantrasara (very short version of Tantraloka)
>Svatantrya: The Idea of Freedom in the Pratyabhijna Thought of Abhinvagagupta
>Tantraloka Ch. 29, Para Puja, “The Kula Ritual” by John Dupuche
As well as a few core Kaula materials alongside for reference (Kaulajnananirnaya, Kularnava Tantra ((shitty ed. At that)).
I feel like this modest collection is significant as it's exceedingly difficult to find most of these materials irl, let alone via scans. You can learn a bit about Abhinava the polymath at his wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhinavagupta
>>877621
Remember I've got much more than just Eastern material, I've got Crowley's Yorke Microfilms of the Warburg Collection, a huge collection of historical grimoires, my Babylonian folder's gotten rather larger, extensive materials on Freemasonry from Weishaupt's original Perfectibilist papers in German to the SRIA rituals. I've got material from Zoroastrianism, any my Gnostic folders are stuffed with Brill editions (Brill's a fairly well respected academic press with editions that are madly overpriced: http://www.brill.com/). There's enough material from Crowley to the Golden Dawn to reconstruct your own arcane Orders, if you don't want to pay dues to join - there's everything from Amazonian assault shamanism to various flavors of Voodoo, so have fun.
I encourage you to look around and see if there's anything you like in the library, if you've not looked through it before, and challenge you to find a better repository outside of MAYBE TO.bz.
>>877645
>>877621
Bump for in depth academic analyses of, and translations filtered by, obscure Hindi esoteric traditions!
C'mon guys, gotta be more than just me that's sick of crusader general and Jack Chick's Babylonian revisionism.
How did the mongols go from some bumfuck nomad group that occasionally harasses China to steamrolling most of Asia that just fucked whatever state was in the way? And why were they able to gain such momentum?
Mongol was Chinese
>tfw Mamluks prevented Mongols from eventually entering Africa
>there never will be an African Khanate
>>876970
WE
Do animals have natural rights? Does humanity have a duty to protect animal welfare?
Are some animals more deserving of rights than others?
Would a humanzee be entitled to human rights?
>natural rights
Spooky
Do plants have natural rights? Does humanity have a duty to protect plant welfare?
Are some plants more deserving of rights than others?
Would a humantree be entitled to human rights?
>>876752
no
for life to thrive, other life must be destroyed
ergo: kill everything
Shitty uni thread/
Here I'll start
>professors have horrible accencts
>student body is literally only international students.
>grades are handed out like candy
>employers laugh at my degree
>professor insisted that Africa and middle east are the same
>once said Chinese and Japanese are the same
>told us pyramids were built by slaves
>spent 3 weeks on Judaism in a development of civ course, completely ignored the americas and Europe.
>told us a dynasty in China lasted from 1000 BC to 2000 BC
>power points are rife with typos and inaccuracies
>kcl
>shit
Try again.
I think my high school (American) had an exchange program with this school.
