>The Way of the Samurai is found in death. When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be determined and advance. To say that dying without reaching one's aim is to die a dog's death is the frivolous way of sophisticates. When pressed with the choice of life or death, it is not necessary to gain one's aim.
Is that from the Hagakure?
>>595343
Many scholars do not take the Hagakure very seriously. Though it does draw somewhat on earlier thoughts, It was written after all the fighting had stopped.
Samurai who actually had enemies to fight and kill tended not to throw their lives away lightly. Even in the Edo period the 47 ronin laid low until their enemy dropped his guard. the Hagakure criticized them for not attacking immediately and throwing their lives away.
So while the Hagakure does capture a certain strain of Samurai philosophy it shouldn't be looked at as a guide to how samurai actually behaved.
>>596147
Wasn't it written by some bureaucrat who never faced death in battle?
>Lee launches an attack that gets a lot of his men killed for little gain
>"Ablooobloobloo it wasn't his fault he was ill and he didn't have Stonewall with him"
>Grant does the same
>"OMG What a BUTCHER"
Why is this allowed
>>592813
Why do you have a picture of Sherman? Also I imagine due to the fact that Lee had been leading the southern forces for a while and had some respect for winning some battles while grant was the newest replacement for the union forces and everyone was wanting to talk shit about him
>>592813
The union won the war, so the confederacy needs something to complain about.
>>592813
Does anyone say this anymore?
Did remorse (as opposed to mere regret) as a feeling, come from Christianity? I Think Judas is the most poignant example of remorse from ancient literature. Orestes is the closest example to remorse in pre-Christian pagan literature, but his quest is not for forgiveness, but for acquittal, so it's fundamentally different for, say, someone like Raskolnikov.
Here's the Orthodox FAQ and reading list again, btw: http://pastebin.com/bN1ujq2x I've made some updates, and particularly revised the FAQ for liberals.
Yes, no one felt that particular feeling until the very moment that particular sect was formed
>>592682
Not entirely unlikely, at least from a Christian perspective, since the new covenant is written on hearts instead of tablets.
>>592593
>Did remorse
Medea
Any philosophies or schools of thought that can help me enjoy stuff again?
Better find out why you're not enjoying stuff. Work out, get an active sex life and pursue a career in something you're passionate about.
>>591664
Pretty much this. Who knew playing vidya and fapping all day is empty and unfulfilling?
Can anyone summarize this and give some suggestions on what to read? Obviously, there's Gutierrez's A Theology Of Liberation, but other than that?
>>591287
I would say Communism plus Christianity, but I repeat myself
>>591287
you still here OP? i'm not writing a bunch for someone not here, let me know.
It's completely untenenable from a Catholic or Protestant position.
See:
Rerum Novarum or Jacques Ellul's Jesus and Marx: From Gospel to Ideology
Ancient Greeks considered almost every other civilization to be barbarian and inferior but loved the Egyptians. Why?
BBC
>>590051
unlike the Perisa they did not waged wars against Egypt (pre-Alexander) thus they did not developed propaganda diminishing the egyptian civilization as they did with the various other empires they used to wage war against
So you'z sayin...
You are allowed one session in the animus. What ancestor of yours do you relive the memories of?
>>580814
A cute peasant girl.
Iolar, my Irish assassin ancestor and last of the cult of Taranis - worshipping lightning and beating people to death with a wagon wheel in his name. He was best friends with Cu Roi, had an affair with Derbforgaill, and was playful rivals with Cú Chulainn.
>>580853
Knowing your luck you'd the tanist and not even piv the goddess.
So, it's pretty much accepted as fact that the 'dark age' after the fall of Rome was made up during the Enlightenment to fit their world-view.
So I have a new theory.
What if,
What if the Greek Dark Ages after the fall of Troy were also a myth made up by the Greeks to fit some other narrative?
What if the Greek Dark Ages were actually really bitchin'?
They certainly were dark ages in the historiographical sense but that doesn't preclude them from being bitchin', no
>>595536
no the dark ages after the fall of the romans actually happend. maybe read some history books instead of getting your information from 4chan
>>595575
OK, whatever. My question still stands. What if the Greek Dark Ages were actually cool? Doesn't Xena take place in the Greek Dark Ages?
What was happening here before Christianity?
Did they use the roman or celtic pantheon?
Something else?
It was actually an organised from of Hellenic Neoplatonism. It had a library with their theological texts, and a history of Hispania, but it got burnt down.
>>595537
Interesting, please tell me more
Depends on the geographical area. Most of the peninsula was populated by Celts, Iberians and Celtiberians who were a cultural and to some degree genetic milieu.
The Celts and Celtiberians inhabited most of the Iberian peninsula with a heavy focus on the west and the Atlantic and the Iberians on the easternmost part of it. The Celtiberians had a pantheon akin to that of the Celts and the Iberians had something of a native pantheon of unknown origin sometimes associated with the Phoenicians and other peoples of the Mediterranean.
There were some Greek and Phoenician enclaves on the Mediterranean coast as well, but these were residual (Gadir, Emporeon, Sexi, etc.).
What are some reasonably reliable recipes from antiquity?
Tikka Masala
Some Vedic sources even verify that even Krishna enjoyed the dish
>>594818
That's a dish, not a recipe.
Curry is probably ancient, but most dishes are new
>>594818
WE WUZ BRITZ
Ok /his/, I have to teach a high school class about the start of the cold war.
I have to prepare the class and everything.
I'm deep in shit with other work that I have to do so I could use your help with inspiration.
What is obligatory to mention, what can I leave out, some suggestions would be great. What approach should I have towards the subject?
If you're still underage b&, you can tell me what you would love to hear about in your class.
Also, I'm in Yurop, just so you know.
Yalta, Potsdam, Marshall Plan and all that comes from those three main events.
>>594805
Yeah, I won't miss those of course.
Talk about the no reason wars fought or the dictatorships installed to maintain influence, this is what the young like to hear
What does Jews think about this man?
>In 1332, King Casimir III the Great (1303–1370) amplified and expanded Bolesław's old charter with the Wiślicki Statute. Under his reign, streams of Jewish immigrants headed east to Poland and Jewish settlements are first mentioned as existing in Lvov (1356), Sandomierz (1367), and Kazimierz near Kraków (1386). Casimir, who according to a legend had a Jewish lover named Esterka from Opoczno was especially friendly to the Jews, and his reign is regarded as an era of great prosperity for Polish Jewry, and was nicknamed by his contemporaries "King of the serfs and Jews." Under penalty of death, he prohibited the kidnapping of Jewish children for the purpose of enforced Christian baptism. He inflicted heavy punishment for the desecration of Jewish cemeteries.
best goy
too bad his nation turned into an antisemitic mob
Poland allowing Jews to form into the middle class was a real economic boost to the nation, particularly after the merger with Lithuania. Jews of the era were typically much more literate than people from the same backgrounds due to their religious requirements of needing to be able to read the Torah. Thus they made pretty good tax collectors, accounts, bankers etc etc. Probably didn't do the perception of them much good among the serfs, but for the actual nation and the economy, big time help.
Given the time period, there wasn't exact a middle class, but in Poland and then Poland-Lithuania, the Jews got to be it.
And then the Russians, Prussians and Austria ganged up on Poland-Lithuania, divided the damn thing up and that was it for the Jews. The Golden era was over. It got pretty damn miserable in Eastern Europe for them after that.
He gets a free Policy every era and has badass cavalry.
So my fucking history teacher just said there was a dark age after the fall of Rome. How do I fucking BTFO him and prove him wrong, he says that until the Caroline Resistance there was a dark age and people on his say it's not true. What can I say to fucking BTFO him and prove him wrong?
Bump
He's an atheist btw guys so can someone (like Constantine who is fucking epic) post some Christian refutations
>>594435
>He's an atheist btw guys so can someone (like Constantine who is fucking epic) post some Christian refutations
Was he a bad man?
Can a roman expert explain the civil war to me please?
>>594402
He was definitely a great man, maybe the greatest(except Caesar of course, blessings be upon him). It's hard to say if he was bad, that comes down to sensibilities, he was certainly pro-senate/patricians
>>594419
He butchered so many people though. Great men don't kill educated aristocrats, do they?
>>594430
Sure they do. Ethics and greatness are not related.
Why did Japan, the most racist culture in the world, send thousands of japanese men to Brazil, a country that is basically black and brown people, so that they could work in a slave-like system in coffee plantations?
racism is just a meme
also even though japan was industrialized it was still very poor, about as poor as Latin America in 1900 apparently
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita#1.E2.80.932003_.28Maddison.29
>>594354
>Japan, the most racist culture in the world
YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT "RACISM" MEANS; DO NOT USE WORDS THE MEANING OF WHICH YOU IGNORE.
>>594354
Japan wasn't racist, it was xenophobic
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