How did the Romans view ancient Egypt ? did they view it as a superior civilization or as another barbarian one ?
>>1389874
is this seriously a question
>>1389876
why not ?
everyone in the Classical Age was a Egyptboo.
egyptian culture was so strong that the greek and roman conquerors adopted into it. Instead of making Egypt more greek or roman.
Was Stalin an intelligent man.
>>1389852
He wasn't a military genius, but he was smart enough to know how to keep power and to let his generals plan the war.
Though the purge was rather dumb, but according to HOI4 if you don't purge Trotsky comes back in power.
From what I've heard he was something of a genius.
He was a voracious reader with an amazingly capacious memory. He's been described as being like a human computer for his ability to memorize and recall minute details.
>>1389888
Maybe he was autistic
Anyone else feel like the Jesuits are one or two bad decisions away from getting culled like the Templars were?
I worry what's going to happen to them after Francis dies. Could be bad.
>>1389688
And who's gonna cull them? King of France?
The Cardinals love Francis
>In 2014, addressing a question raised on the family, he argued that church doctrine can change over time, and "doesn't depend on the spirit of time but can develop over time." "Saying that the doctrine will never change is a restrictive view of things," Marx later clarified at a Vatican press conference. "The core of the Catholic Church remains the Gospel, but have we discovered everything? This is what I doubt."[12]
>We have to respect the decisions of people. We have to respect also, as I said in the first synod on the family — some were shocked, but I think it’s normal — you cannot say that a relationship between a man and a man, and they are faithful, [that] that is nothing, that has no worth,
>He said it was up to the state “to make regulations for homosexuals so they have equal rights or nearly equal . . . but marriage is another point,” adding that the state “has to regulate these partnerships and to bring them into a just position, and we as church cannot be against it
>The history of homosexuals in our societies is very bad because we’ve done a lot to marginalize [them],” he said, adding that as a Church and as a society “we’ve also to say ‘sorry, sorry.’
>>1389724
Gotta love this guy too, the Pope's right-hand man, and a very close friend of Benedict
>In April 2012, the election of a young gay man who was living in a registered same-sex partnership to a pastoral council in Vienna was vetoed by the parish priest. After meeting with the couple, Schönborn reinstated him. He later advised in a homily that priests must apply a pastoral approach that is "neither rigorist nor lax" in counselling Catholics who "don't live according to [God's] master plan".[38]
https://youtu.be/9-4V3HR696k
In the video, the narrator attributes wealth and poverty to:
>culture: primarily religion, because he says that a focus on religion makes people unproductive and unfocused on the present
>institutions: corruption and nepotism are big factors
>geogragphy: tetse fly, climate, etcetcetc
He also goes on to attribute weights to them in terms of their effect on wealth:
>institutions: 50%
>culture: 20%
>geography: 10%
>other factors: 20%
Your thoughts?
>>1389261
Capitalism. Until the industrial revolution, we saw nowhere near the kind of international wealth disparity that we do now. Manorial economies in 16th century England, Lebanon, India, and Japan exhibited an almost identical class pyramid.
>>1389270
This.
Once industrialization showed up, you started to have vast sums of wealth that could only be attained with a good business environment, strong contract law, and a government that didn't steal anything that wasn't nailed down.
>>1389261
>religion makes people unproductive and unfocused on the present
You know, I'm pretty damned agnostic, and very anti-fundamentalist, and this level of bullshit still just boggles my mind.
There would be no wealth without the Church to kick off western civilization, hell they practically founded the entire western economy. Cultural unity is key to wealth and security, and the church also provided that. They founded nearly all the institutions of education to boot. Most importantly, they were one of the few (and often the only) institution thinking about the future. Some of those cathedrals and universities took over a hundred years to build - how often do you see someone investing in an institutional project that they'll never live to see finished in this day and age? (Hell, we'd be on Mars by now if today's people were so forward thinking.)
The primary differences between the have nations and the have not nations are:
- Sovereignty and unity
- Resources and Agriculture (without the sovereignty above, these don't count - they are someone else's)
- Adaptability (including tech)
- Stability
- A culture that creates institutions that focus on acquiring and maintaining all the above
- Geography (either their own or acquired - a bigger problem in the past than the present)
- Luck
...and "luck" is a big thing, as it took a hell of a lot of coincidences to bring together the perfect storm of technology and circumstances that lead to Europe having the Industrial Revolution before anyone else.
The primary difference among modern have and have not nations, is that the have nations OWN the have not nations. The advanced nations invest in the developing nations simply to squeeze more money out of them, and while, in theory, this eventually helps to develop the squeezed, they will never catch up with the wealthier nations, as they lack sovereignty. They don't have control over their own resources, and even their labor goes to the benefit of the higher powers.
>subjective idealism
Is there a surer sign of autism?
>>1389189
Yeah, this thread
>>1390181
#rekd
So why is the this third of God such a cunt?
Christians can't even agree on what that verse means.
>>1389048
He hates all of us.
t. Slayer
Pic probably unrelated
>>1389051
Why? That seems pretty literal
>Christians with their Trinity consider themselves monotheistic due to convoluted semantics, but consider Hinduism to be polytheistic, despite Hindu deities being considered to simply be a reflection of one Universal principle i.e. Brahman
>>1388957
I'd never thought of it like that. Thanks, Anon.
Good point Pajeet. Bump.
B-but our story book is true and the stories of other religions aren't.
B-BUT IDS DA WUN TRU FATHE :DDDDDDDD
ONE, NOTHING WRONG WITH ME
TWO, NOTHING WRONG WITH ME
>>1388925
Then why'd you build the fleet, willy?
>>1388925
Why does he wear the stache
can someone shoop this onto him?
or has it already been done?
ITT we share and discuss stuff about military saints. Bonus if he fought, resisted, was martyred by and/or helped defeat Muslims. Pic related Santiago Matamoros (Saint James the Moor-slayer).
>The military saints or warrior saints (also called soldier saints) of the Early Christian Church are prominent in the history of Christianity. The persecution of Christians under Diocletian or other Roman Emperors usually furnished the background for soldier-saint hagiography which has a common theme: a soldier of the Empire who has become a Christian finds that his devotion conflicts with traditional religious practices of the Roman military. Refusing to participate in rituals of loyalty to the Emperor (see Imperial cult), he is subjected to corporal punishment that escalates to torture—which miraculously may not affect him—but he does not deny his faith and is martyred. Such a saint was an "athlete of Christ" or "champion of Christ" (athleta Christi).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_saint
>Saint James the Moor-slayer (Spanish: Santiago Matamoros) is the name given to the representation (painting, sculpture, etc.) of the apostle Saint James the Elder as a legendary, miraculous appearance at the Battle of Clavijo, fighting on the Christian side against the Muslim Moors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_James_Matamoros
>The Order of Santiago (Galician: Orde de Santiago, Spanish: Orden de Santiago), also known as "The Order of St. James of the Sword," was founded in the 12th century, and owes its name to the national patron of Galicia and Spain, Santiago (St. James the Greater). Its initial objective was to protect the pilgrim of St. James' Way and to defend Christendom.[1]
Saint Michael.
The third reich is heavily documented, what is some stuff that /his/ can tell me about the OG reich? Specifically 1850-1918
>1850
>>1388881
>I didn't know wanting to know more about pre Empire events made me retarded baka
Seriously tho, it's my mistake for not clarifying I wanted to know some pre Empire stuff in adition. Seeing as this thread is dead though, it doesn't really matter
>>1389008
Did not type baka in what the shit.
Does it just add it in after you say retarded or am I just totally autistic
After 70 Years, can we finally put this fucking question to rest?
>Was the German army's use of machine guns as the base of fire better than the Anglo obsession with the Cult of the Rifle?
Which doctrine does the American army use today ( last major FM was written in 1980 so it won't break 20 year rule)
>>1388434
Who won?
>>1388447
The Germans did,Whenever it was an infantry vs infantry scenario.
>>1388462
Sauce
if it were the case that there is no objective ontological basis for atheistic morality - is that even a noteworthy problem at all ?
Yes. How can you decide what is right and what is wrong without magic book that tell you so? Its like impossible for a human to do.
>>1388370
Yes, clearly in the late bronze age and early iron age the tribal peoples had a much better understanding of ethics compared to modern times, as demonstrated by their moral teachings.
It triggers spergs that don't understand that morality is, was, and shall always be, based on the might of the majority.
Hey /his/,
I would like to know more about the military in Iceland. I'm not speaking about "vikings xd", but things more recent. Did they play big roles in the world wars? How about things since then?
All I can really find is things regarding the Icelandic coast guard and things.
Thank you for any contributions you may have!
>>1388278
no, they could have been nuked 400 years ago and nothing would have changed in the world
>>1388278
They didn't do much in WW2, I know that. They were occupied by Britain and later the U.S., with some protest, but non-violently. Used as a naval and air base, but again, it was British-American forces stationed there, not the Icelandics themselves.
Dunno about WW1. I assume they were still a Danish quasi-colony/protectorate at the time and thus stayed out of things, but I don't really know.
>>1388278
what military? they have a couple of lightly armed patrol boats and rescue helicopters. There´s a big NATO base there, Keflavik.
Any Poles frequent this board?
I'm heading to Warsaw, Łodz, Krakow and Gdansk and want to see the best of Poland's medieval history, where should I go?
I have a basic itinerary, I just want to know if there is any stuff I should know/you would recommend?
Go to military museum in Warsawa. I also recomend you to visit polish national museum(Warsawa) a lot of nice paintings. Łódź is shity city tbqh so maybe visit Poznan or Wroclaw
You should definitely go to Kraków, which was during middle ages Poland's capital. Some worthwhile places:
- Wawel Castle: royal residence contains expositions about it's medieval past. In adjacent cathedral church there are magnificent gothic tombs of polish monarchs.
- number of churches all around the city. In St. Mary's there is a great late gothic altar by Veit Stoss. Church on the Rock is historically significant. There are also St. Catherine's, Holy Trinity's, Corpus Christi, St. Andrew's, all gothic or romanesque.
- there is a new neat museum on the main square: http://www.podziemiarynku.com/
- there are remnants of medieval fortifications, most notably the barbican and St. Florian's gate.
- lots of jewish stuff, concentrated in Kazimierz district, with a gothic synagogue
- Collegium Maius - museum located in the medieval university building
- close to the city is located oldest benedictine abbey in the country : www.tyniec.benedyktyni.pl
- of course Wieliczka salt mine is a must
- inside the city limits lies cistercian abbey at Mogiła
Make sure to go to Malbork which is like 30 minutes drive from Gdansk. Gotta see that Teutonic Castle. It has tours in tons of languages so you'll definitely have a good time
>white male
>loner-personality, constant rejection by females
>overbearing father
>black jumpers
>psychological break-down in later stages of life and never recovering
>light OCD/autism (muh eccentricism, e.g. "i only drink my special brand coffee with exactly 2 tblsp of milk and 1.5 cubes of sugar")
I don't own a black jumper, and had a psychological breakdown earlier in life. Can I still be a philosopher?
ha ha thats totally not me
oh wow, phew
> overbearing father
That feel when raised without farther and cucked from academic philosophy forever because of it.
