What are the best /his/ related documentaries on youtube?
>>679068
I prefer documentary series. Unless the topic is pretty specialized audio books are generally better.
Ken Burns makes good shit. American Civil War, WW2, The Dust Bowl.
The BBC 'Battlefield' series is great. WW2 and Vietnam.
www.europefromitsorigins.com
By far the most objective, non-revisionist documentary of European history spanning from 300AD to 1460AD.
Engineering an Empire
Based on a literal undertanding of the Old Testament / Hebrew Bible / Tanakh shouldn't we worship Lucifer rather than Yahweh?
Satan gave us our love of knowledge and never hurt anyone except based on Yahweh's explicit orders (Book of Job).
Meanwhile Yahweh killed and hurt millions just for fun.
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>>679050
Doesn't matter, because Yahweh has a greater capacity for fucking you up. It's about fear of God, more than love. That came later.
>>679066
Are you saying fear is greater than love?
>>679050
On a literal understanding of the OT, the serpent isn't Satan. And if he was, as you point out, he's God's errand boy anyway, so ultimately, his boons are from God.
>2016
>being a gnostic
rip the veil, pleb
>>678989
<2016
<not reading Thomas daily
>>679092
>muh demiurge
should society be more supportive of suicide?
>>678798
Supportive? No
Less judgemental and more forgiving? Yeah
>>678814
>forgiving
Who gives a flying fuck whether you forgive a dead person. He/she sure doesn't.
>>678843
Geez calm down mister
Please forgive me
Vespasian did Pompeii. Volcano lava can't melt concrete pillars.
>implying it wasn't the ghost of Nero
>>678793
When will the plebs learn that the Hebrews control our ampitheatres? I was at a reenactment of Cannae the other day and there was a Nubian playing Varro!
Sum Gallus
Ego bonum latinum dico
Ubi Romanae feminae
I've been practecing HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) since I was 11, nine years have past and I'm now a teacher in the group. (Which is the first and only state recognized HEMA instetution). I've used the translations of the manuscripts done by my teacher.
Do you guys have any other translated manuscripts? Since Preferably English, German isn't my strong point.
Also, what do you guys think about HEMA?
>>678786
>Also, what do you guys think about HEMA?
pretty neat, is it more sword based combat?
are there aspects of physical unarmed combat included?
>>678786
Why don't you go live in the black forests of Germany while worshiping the old gods of the forest and attack any unsuspecting Mediterranean scum that dare trespass into the dark sacred realm of Woden?
>>678786
There was a time befroe christianity when people worshiped old gods and goddesses but not anymore but why do they worship a middle eastern god but make him look white? why do people go to meachuurches designed ike theteres and wave their arms and blindly support the corporate elite?
What is the most autistic historical event/period?
>>678534
The third reich.
Probably the Victorian Era.
Middle ages could be justified as non autistic because "I like Knights n shiet" wich are pretty cool.
Victorian Era is just fully fledged autism
>>678536
Agreed. The Third Reich is literally what happens when autists are given unlimited power.
I'm trying to find more information about mandingo fighting in the antebellum South.
Was it like Roman gladiatorial combat? How many people would have participated and watched such a spectacle? Could the mandingos earn their freedom? Were they seen as heroes, much like sports stars are today? Were they seen as attractive to women?
I know that Roman gladiator sweat was sold as a beauty treatment, and that despite a prohibition on gladiator/citizen sexual relations, many rich women would have gladiator lovers, but what would the repercussions have been for a Southern society lady who had a mandingo lover?
It never happened outside of exploitation movies.
And a white woman who willingly fucked a black guy would commit social suicide, the black would be killed. Failing that she could cry rape and have him killed to save her status.
>>678527
Back then, her social status would be ruined - rape or no rape.
The idea of "cry rape" is a modern concept concocted by insecure males who need to justify to themselves why rape is more prevalent than they are willing to admit.
>>678541
>the idea of "cry rape" is a modern concept
lol retard
What are your justifications for belief in the metaphysical and/or the immaterial?
>>678032
If I don't believe in a higher metaphysical meaning to this universe and actively search for one by whatever means of devotion I choose, I might as well be dead. I see no difference between accepting nihilism and committing suicide.
>>678032
Ideas are non-physical.
Natural laws are ideas manifested in the physical.
It takes a mind to comprehend mind.
>>678114
By the metaphysical and immaterial, I mean that which doesn't originate in the mind
what is the best news site? i asked earlier for one that was unbiased,unopinionated and free of private interest, and was told thats not a thing. so are there any that are at least better than the rest or am i supposed to just keep reading 20 articles for each news story? because thats retarded. is there an aggregator or something that will just give me headlines with links to various articles? are rss feeds still a thing?
>>678039
i don't trust 4chan for my news. if you're suggesting i ask on there, i don't want too i want to know what other countries do for news. its /int/ related.
>>678031
the one with a relatively unbiased & uninfluenced reporter currently embedded in the region & situation you are trying to appraise youself of
so, depends?
christian science monitor used to be pretty good, I'm not sure they have the cash to stay where they need to be though.
probably twitter, but only if they stopped monetizing & promoting posts.
When did Christianity disappear from what's today Morocco, Tunisia and Libya?
>>678025
Disappear is such a strong word for a changing demographic that's still around.
>>678025
The "Majority" left it when they wanted to pay less taxes and hold more prestigious positions in an Islamic country.
>>678025
8th-11th centuries. There was still a few left by the time of the Norman invasion of Tunisia, speaking the African-Romance Latin tongue of their forefathers like St Augustine.
Islam is inherently fairly destructive though so most had been forcefully converted or encouraged through crushing jizya taxes by the end of the 8th century.
What's more important to studying and understanding history?
Fact or interpretation?
Empiricism, realism or relativism?
>>677994
Fact.
We can argue all day about who was right or who "wanted the best" for their people, but the only thing we can empirically test is historical fact. Interpretation comes afterwards.
Fact, in my opinion, but my friend flat out told me I was wrong and that history was all about interpretating things
>>678021
>Empirically test a historical fact
That's the one this we can't do at all.
What is history class like in your city/region/country?
Everything that's ever been bad to us is somehow connected to the Danish people and their lust for Swedish blood and maidens.
t. Swede
Ireland
>Neolithic mysteries
>Funky Celts
>Happy monks
>Those crazy vikings
>Normans not so bad
>Tudors pretty bad
>Fuck Cromwell
>Potatoes
>Everyone dies
>Oh Ah Up The RA
>De Valera's a cunt
Then there was European history which was basically; Rome, Medieval stuff, Colonialism, Industry, Bismarck was pretty cool, World Wars, etc.
We never did any non-Western stuff.
>>677980
this was some time ago,but in high school
>First third of curriculum was talking about Aboriginals and how great they were because sometimes two tribes could in theory be lead by a matriarchy
>Second was how Brit/Frog settlers mistreated/ fooled the natives, all other early events, including 1812 and even confederation are glossed over
>Extended period about Louis Riel- John A. MacDonald being an alcoholic (both which I actually liked)
>hardly talk about WW1 or 2, except for Women's Suffrage
then we talked about the 80's for the last week and that was it.
Questions that don't Deserve their Own Thread
A lot of other boards have these and not every question needs a thread.
I'll start:
Where did that nickname Augustulus for Romulus Augustus come from? He went by Romulus Augustus officially.
Was it fought over states rights
>>677930
Don't know the answer to yours, but I'll toss in mine.
Why have Christians historically had so much trouble converting Jews? Almost from day one, you have a lot more success when they went out and preached to the gentiles rather than staying in Iudea itself. And you have the Disputation of Barcelona, which sounds like something out of a Disney movie, but apparently actually happened. You've had Jews living within Christian communities for literally millenia, and while you have converts here and there, you have remarkably little headway at mass conversion and eliminating the minority religion. In contrast, things like the old Norse religions, or the Baltic paganism, or the various religions in Mesoamerica often disappeared almost entirely within decades of Christian political domination.
>>677945
I'm not an expert on the topic but I'd imagine that since historically Jewish people were taught not to trust gentiles and were somewhat xenophobic, converting them probably wouldn't be easy.
