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>Jesus spent 40 days in some desert wanking off
>Zoroaster spent 10 years in a cave thinking
>Jesus only left the dead cave by the hands of his disciples
>Zoroaster left the cave alive in the style of Plato's allegory
When did you realize that Zoroaster is the objectively superior religious figure?
>>675367
Christianity is human, all too human.
>>675367
This was pretty common. The council of Nicea was testament to this; Constantine sitting Christians down to decide what form of Christianity was best for the empire, not which was true.
>FPS as conquistador in the mesoamerica
>go to tenochtitlan with Cotez
>hurr durr we iz aztecs n sheittt
>blow their shit up (eventually)
>>675320
>FPS
into the >>>/trash/ can it goes
>>675324
Agreed.
I would enjoy a game where you actually had to face the impossible odds against you as Cortes, and build up enough strength to finally collapse the empire.
Would be fun.
>>675324
first person view of human sacrifice and shit would be cool
So, i have a hypothetical question for you.
Who would be the better sucsessor for lenin, trotsky or stalin?
How would trotsky have handled industrialization? The Nazis? The invaison of Poland? Not to meantion Trotsky's global views of communism. Would he have blead the USSR dry with foreign pursuits unlike stalin? Would Trotsky negotiate with the Nazis into neutrality or join them against the capatalist pigs?
I mean, it's hard to deny that Stalin was a monster, but it's also hard to deny that he industrialized Russia into a superpower in very...
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Trotsky.
Stalin was a reactionary son of a bitch.
>>675270
Neither.
There were a bunch of young bright talented members who weren't complete assholes like those two.
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Hey, so I don't know if this is the right board to post this on to be honest but what the hell.
I'm an American (like the USA kind) and like many of my fellow Americans I'm a mutt ethnically. Of course we all are to some extent throughout the course of history. I'm split between Lithuanian, Irish, Czechoslovakian, Native American, and of course more many more I'm sure that I'm not aware of.
Is there a benefit to being able to claim one main heritage? It seems like it would be comforting to participate in traditions that have been handed down for generations. The only culture I have is none at all. Just streamlining other cultures into cookie cutter profitable items and holidays.
Do cultural traditions play an important part in society?
Do you guys have one main ethnicity or culture you identify with?
What do you guys think?
In my anger and jealousy over being a mongrel, I've joined with the Jewish international conspiracy to destroy all unique races and blend mankind into one homogenous people devoid of differences.
>>675254
What else can you do right?
Not really, Mexicans define themselves as one race even though there are varying degrees of mixes, and I think the best thing to do is to define yourself as an American instead of an Irish-American or a German-American like half the fucking country does, you have a great country, be a part of it, do not isolate yourself by assigning yourself a title. You are great no matter your past.
Why were there no Waffen SS units deployed in Stalingrad?
>>675226
Hitler VASTLY underestimated the power and cunning of the red army.
The seige of leningrad was relatively easy for the Nazis, so i supposed that they assumed that things would be as easy further East. At the time, the Nazis were still fighting on the western front and locking down their position in the west. The 6th army was joined with the italians and the hungarians (kek) after the russian counter offensive,
The soviet counter offensive saw over a million men and almost twice the ammount of tanks as...
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The only way Hitler could have won was if he very quickly knocked out the USSR in an Alexander the Great type way. As soon as he failed, even by Autumn 1941, it was over.
They were too busy commiting war crimes elsewhere
>I will not betray my dream. That is all. I told you once I will get my own kingdom. Nothing has changed. Nothing has ended. Rickert, if you learn the truth and come to hate me, so be it. But if even then you say you can still chase the dream I'll have no cause to refuse you.
What did he mean by this?
Napoleon fucked over the revolution tho
>>675241
>implying that's a bad thing
>>675557
Thermidor was a mistake
ITT: Historical figures who started from the bottom.
>Born into a society that was sometimes so poor, their cloaks were made from the skins of field mice
>Father was killed by rival tribe
>Had two horses to his name
>Made allies, crushed his opponents and became the greatest conqueror in history.
>>675134
>poor
>had two horses
>>675144
Steppe tribes measured wealth in the number of their horses. A typical Mongol horseman would have at least 6 horses. Genghis, his mother and two brothers had 2.
>>675134
Zhu Yuanzhang went from being a peasant to founding the Ming dynasty and driving the Mongols from China.
I wasn't really sure if this was the correct board to post this specific topic on, but it said history. I'm going for it. Basically, I'm trying to collect as many historical pictures as I can. Planes are much appreciated. First picture are Fw-190's of Jagdgeschwader 54 "Grunherz". They are 190's of the A-5 variant.
>>675107
These photos make me want to join the military instead of go for finance career
This one is my personal favorite. The soviets are taking a break to watch an acrobatic show on top of a KV-1.
This one hits hard, German soldiers watching footage from concentration camps.
Ireland thread: Wishing we were relevant edition
100 Year Anniversary of the Easter Rising is coming up fast, and the question I have for you fellas is:
If Ireland had managed to Unite and stay united, whether through Brian Boru's based antics or some other means, what possibility or capacity would they have had for outward expansion?
Were Irish warriors actually famed for being bretty gud? Is there a scenario in which part of the world not on the island of Ireland could have been under Irish control?
Were we relevant?
>>674830
Ireland is very relevant to American history.
>William of Malmesbury's humorous anecdote illustrates both the character of John Scotus Eriugena and the position he occupied at the French court. The king having asked, "Quid distat inter sottum et Scottum?" (what separates a sot (drunkard) from an Irishman?) and Eriugena having replied, "Tabula tantum" (Only a table), the implication being that King Charles himself was a drunkard.
Based Eriugena bringing the bantz
>>674850
>bantz have always been in the irish
It's a good feeling m8
Salvete, autistae.
Qui ex vobis hoc libro utimini? Quid putatis de hoc methodo? Censetis eum bonum esse ad linguam latinam discendum?
Etiam:
Eratisne tristes cum legistis Quintum mortuum esse, necatum a medico stulto?
je ne parle pas francis
>>674798
Dii te perdant, Galle barbare.
Liber difficilis aliquando est, autem librum optimum ad linguam latinam discendum puto. Dictionarium habere necesse est quod significatio latina nonnullarum verbarum satis non est.
Partem Duam "Roma Aeterna" nunc lego. Pars Dua certe difficilior quam "Familia Romana." Ignosce mihi latinitati mea mala. Adhuc disco.
I just found out that I'm 1/256th Portuguese. Inform me of my people please.
they were horny guys and totally into racemixing
>>674784
>>674784
t.alberto barbosa
This board is in such a deplorable state that we have to do something about it. I've been holding off from posting meta-discussion up until now, but i've decided it is time to say something, as i'm of the opinion that even this thread that you are reading in right now is of higher quality than 90% of the threads currently up on the catalogue of this board.
This board is supposed to contain "a high level of discourse". It's made for "discussion of history and the other humanities such as philosophy, religion, law, classical artwork, archeology,...
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>One-line-question -threads.
These are a few examples from the catalogue:
>"We're the Nazis Übermensch?"
>"Was there ever a perfectly secular country?"
>"Did the Holocaust have any benefits for the Third Reich"
The problem with these threadstarts is that they don't even come near deep and meaningful discussion. The only suggestion i can give here, is to WRITE A DECENT FIRST POST! Explain your thoughts...
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Now this all being said, i suggest that posters need to ask themselves the 3 following questions before they start a thread:
1. Could i answer this question with a quick google search?
2. Have i supplied enough initial information to spark intellectual discourse?
3. Is there already an active thread in the catalogue for this subject?
These three different questions correspond to 3 hypothetical general threads that i would like to see occurring in the catalogue here on /his/, these being:
1. Reading / Watching Recommendation Thread.
2. Alternate History...
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>>674678
I strongly agree OP, but I there is an issue with you suggesting generals when the sticky warns against making generals.
I'm fascinated by occultists, though I don't believe in anything they say. What does /his/ think of Crowley, Gardner, and their ilk? Egotists building up cults of personality around themselves or quacks who genuinely believe what they teach?
>>674590
Not knowing alot about Crowley, one can be both. Deguchi Onisaburo would be a good example. He most certainly delved into some very legitimate shamanistic practices, Yet he definatly built up quite a cult and was even charged with Lèse-majesté
>>674590
I've always found the arcane sciences of Evola and his cultists more interesting than Crowley's work. More plausible.
https://juliusevola.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/3-julius-evola-introduction-to-magic.pdf
I've heard Crowley based most his work off of etteilla
Does Communism make any allowances for the fact that some jobs are harder than others?
I'm not a scholar on the subject, but i'm curious to see if (Ideal, full workers paradise, no stalinism) communism recognises that it's harder to be a doctor or a scientist than a factory worker
>>674346
Communism is a society in which there is no longer a need for the state so it slowly withers away, you're thinking of socialism. Socialism simply means democratic control of the means of production by the workers and workers receive the value that they create rather than a significantly reduced wage to benefit their boss (obviously the worker does not receive ALL of the value they create as some goes towards production expansion and the government, but wages are still much closer to the value they represent). What...
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>>675865
tldr version of this: yes
communism is just you can take whatever you want while doing what you can
some jobs might be harder than others, but of course there's no way to measure how hard a certain job is, the point is that we don't do any more work than we actually need to
i'm starting to realize if you look at any really powerful people throughout history through the lens of conventional everyday morality, they're basically all evil as shit, but you always need someone or some group at the top to make decisions or everything goes to hell
what really makes a ruler benevolent or evil?
>what really makes a ruler benevolent or evil?
Start here OP...
What about Marcus Aurelius, Hadrian, William the Conqueror (good leadership for the Eternal Anglo) and so on?
a benevolent ruler is an ignorant ruler
an evil ruler is a wise ruler
>implying good and evil really exists
