Is it true that he was only successful because he fought against weak nations?
He was successful because the French Republic managed to be worse than the monarchy
>>841418
Holy fuck, no. This best be bait. He took on all of Europe.
>Austrian Empire
>Russia
>Prussia
>the UK
>every other goddamn state in Europe
>weak
Is this a joke?
What stop European Powers from occupying this land and slaughtered all of its native inhabitants ? I mean fuck the moral and international law.
Can they ?
>>841093
Africa is fucking big
why waste time killing billions of people for little to no reason
>>841114
>for little to no reason
For living space, farming lands, resources, lot of reasons.
I dont know if this is the right category but here I Go, Can someone tell me about this? (Imagen with reference) I want to get in, I work in a medical civil association, im atheist, Im AN investigator into medicine, I feel free and i would like to meet with people like this. Im really identificated with Mason's philosophy, here is some mason who can help me please ? now I know what I must to do with myself while im alive
>>840968
Sorry bro. Can't be a Mason if you're an athiest. Nor would you really want to be, since it's mostly about your faith in God.
>>840968
masons are a fraternity (boy's club) with pseudo-religious themes mixed with some pagan ritual for spoopyness
ultimately it is another collection plate, though
>>840968
Why do you say that you're an atheist in a way that you seem to think that its one of the most important requirements to be admitted?
Yo what's the best philosophy
All of them at once, reasoned out over the course of eternity as it becomes temporal, of course.
>>840934
Stoicism.
Cynicism, people are inherently self interested faggots.
Why is spain so shitty now when at one point it was a european superpower?
>>840718
They were late to the party when it came to the industrial revolution. spent to much energy trying to hang onto colonies. but don't listen to me, I don't know what I'm talking about
>>840718
The years of fascism certainly didn't help.
Were any of them decent politicians in their own right, or were they just all generic Hitler clones?
>>840406
Who is the one on the right?
>>840406
You could actually call Hitler a Mussolini clone. While not strictly accurate, he was on the scene before Hitler was.
>>840406
The third one from the right looks like a pretty generic Hitler clone desu.
Can we have a discussion about Dante's inferno? How it related to Plato, Aristotle, Genesis, Exodus, Job, Augustine and Boethius?
>>840226
His biggest influence was obviously Diogenes
If it's cold that's tormenting Satan and the cold is generated by Satan's wings, why doesn't Satan just stop flapping his wings?
>Christian fanfiction
lol
the poems are nice tho
Why are the contributions of America to WWII so drastically over-stated in history textbooks?
It seems like there are a large contingent of the population who think Germany was on the verge of winning the war until America joined and pushed them back.
>>840082
Probably because you live in the United States.
>>840082
Because from the western front things actually looked grim and difficult for the Allies before D-Day. Of course the Soviet's, despite difficulties, had been mostly successful for at least a year.
U.S involvement in Europe is mainly important for balancing power against the Soviet Union. It's very likely the Soviets would have declared control over all Nazi occupied lands, which would have been most of Europe without U.S involvement.
I'm not saying that resistance groups combined with British support wouldn't have retaken parts of the continent before the fall of Germany but I think our post war world would look very different without strong U.S involvement.
In other words U.S involvement is considered important because it ensured the liberation of western European nations.
There's some truth to these claims. But remember that it's the winners who write history. Or at least, it's the winners who omit the historic information they don't like.
It happens in any system - from the most totalitarian to the most free and open democratic one. In democratic systems people can find some historic memories to be unpleasant and vote for their representatives who would omit these memories from history lessons.
If there was contact between the Old World and the New World before 1492 how come smallpox was never transmitted from these encounters, or if it was why didn't it create a pandemic like it did after the Spanish arrived?
because when the vikings and other europeans and asians came they didnt insist on fucking everything that walked
Smallpox is a post revision theory. They dont want to hurt their descendants' feelings. Those europeans were literal mass murderers. So instead they said they introduced a small disease, that is tthe blemish of their small shame for being so small.
>>840362
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Fuck Yes.
Are you a dog or God?
>>839476
I have social anxiety.
>>839476
Im just weird bro
Im not a barbarian
Im not omnipotent
I just really like being alone
The reason why Aristotle said this is because he defined man as a social being, right?
x-post from /k/
So what was the purpose of couched lances, exactly? It's like carrying a small tree under your arm, attached to the plate armor. I am getting the impression their purpose was not to pierce, but rather to break bones and formations.
To ride very fast, and hit something or someone with the pointy end...
Also to knock people off their horse. Aside from the injuries caused by the fall, it leaves them vulnerable and unable to rejoin their unit when it charges through or breaks off.
What was "degenerate" art? When the creator's ethnic group was obviously non-German it's self-explanatory, but what about the ethnic Germans whose art and music were banned? And why was Arno Breker in particular considered to be the opposite of it?
I guess since fascism relies on the absolute domination of the folk, the government disallows expression that doesn't support the agenda.
>>840192
I was hoping you had left.
>>839044
basically non traditional art
What is the black stone comprised of, what does it signify, and what is inside the kaaba
>>838962
>What is the black stone comprised of
there has never been any studies of it because it would require intentionally chipping off pieces of it and that would be considered sacrilege
>what does it signify
There's no single tradition on what it is supposed to be. The most common tradition though is that it dates back to the time of Adam, who included it in his first temple to God, which is believed to have been at the spot the Kaaba now stands. Other traditions say it used to be white but became darkened by the sins of man and other traditions say it fell from heaven. Others say Adam just found it and dedicated it to God.
>and what is inside the kaaba
You can literally go on youtube and see. It's not really a big secret.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Stone
>In 1674, according to Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, someone smeared the Black Stone with excrement so that "every one who kissed it retired with a sullied beard". The Shi'ite Persians were suspected of being responsible and were the target of curses from other Muslims for centuries afterwards, though explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton doubted that they were the culprits; he attributed the act to "some Jew or Greek, who risked his life to gratify a furious bigotry.
Literally smeared with shit
isn´t it a meteorite?
What mythology systems do you find most interesting? Extra points if its your favorite non norse/greco-roman myth system.
>>838734
Sort of loved the taoist monkey king legends.
>>838734
I always liked slavic mythology but i can not find too much about it and the stuff that i find is mixed with germanic paganism and there are nationalists saying shit like THEY BE TAKIN OUR MYTHOLOGY WE WUZ GERMANIC AN SHIEEER
>>839445
There aren't that many sources but recurring characters was kind of good I agree.
ITT we talk about the greatest man to walk the earth
>>838565
>greatest man
>wrong board
1/8 for bumping an actual topic out of existence
Bolsheviks not welcome
The only reason the soviets won is the lend lease arrangement. Without America they would have eventually lost. Plus some lucky breaks & the weather. None of the above shows Russian strength. Photo kind of related
