what is art /his/
baby dont hurt me
A concept impossible to define to satisfy all conditions. Our language isn't advanced enough - just like we can explain color to blind person, we can't explain art to a person who resists to understand it.
The Deep Dark Fantasy by Van DarkHolme
Les rois maudits
Pillars of the earth
I claudius
Julian
Quo vadis
>>527827
My name is red is a pretty good book on the Osmanli empire
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Historical fiction thread? May have to to /thread/ it in the bud.
>>527827
Anyone know of historical fiction on (any of) the persian empire?
I just finished The Long War by Christian Cameron and loved showing them as actual people and not the evil baddies so often shown from the european perspective.
I know little to no history and I want to correct that, what are the books that will teach me about this subject?
>>527506
Cartoon History of the Universe 1-3
Cartoon History of the Modern World 1-2
Cartoon History of the United States
Then read Zinn
Then read EP Thompson's Making of the English Working Class
>>527517
>universe
>modern world
>united states
>this is murrican summary of history
>>527524
In all fairness I think he was stating that since he assumed that OP was American.
My professor said this was a groundbreaking development in moral studies. Should i read it?
>>527436
Going to guess it wasn't a philosophy or history professor
Sage Harris
>>527436
mind=blown
>>527436
It's just Unitarianism.
Was it autism?
If you don't know then you have it.
Imagine being one of the early pharaohs who fucked up the pyramids
You just gotta live with that fucking thing staring you in the face every time you go out for a piss, and knowing that's your legacy
All the court mathematicians laughing behind your back
None of your laborers think it was worth it
>>527442
>All the court mathematicians laughing behind your back
Yeah, before they're sacrificed to Amun Re
Were gnostics just scientologists of their time or was there more to it?
Which Gnostics are you talking about?
>>527259
>Were a extremely vague group of people with radically different views on Christ, salvation and God just a monolithic cult that is obsessed with gaining money and power or was there more to it?
Even to this day, christfags are still spreading lies and slander about gnostics
>>527259
no but hubbard ripped off a lot of gnostic mythology and just turned it into bad sci-fi/occult texts
>2016
>not realising that orthodoxy, catholicism and protestantism are like father, son and the holy spirit, respectively
top keke
>>526942
>The Father is God
>God is the Son
>Therefore the Father is not the Son
Toppei kekku senpai
And I thought Branch Theory was an extreme position.
What is depression? What causes it? What is the best way to resolve depression? Can Depression be prevented and if so how?
>>526925
>What is depression?
A mental disorder
What causes it?
The Modern (aka Western) Way of Life
What is the best way to resolve depression?
Suicide
Can Depression be prevented and if so how?
Yes, Infanticide. Alternatively, the breakdown of Modern Civilisation
Depression is caused by living in the matrix.
>>526960
>The Modern (aka Western) Way of Life
So do the pills given by the doctors actually erase the western way of life?
ITT: great moments in christian history
>After hearing of Roman Catholic Maya who continued to practice idol worship, he ordered an Inquisition in Mani ending with a ceremony called auto de fé. During the ceremony on July 12, 1562, a disputed number of Maya codices (according to Landa, 27 books) and approximately 5,000 Maya cult images were burned.
>"We found a large number of books in these characters and, as they contained nothing in which were not to be seen as superstition and lies of the devil, we burned them all, which they (the Maya) regretted to an amazing degree, and which caused them much affliction."
>Only three pre-Columbian books of Maya hieroglyphics (also known as a codex) and, perhaps, fragments of a fourth are known to have survived.
>Scores of Maya nobles were jailed pending interrogation, and large numbers of Maya nobles and commoners were subjected to examination under "hoisting". During hoisting, a victim's hands were bound and looped over an extended line that was then raised until the victim's entire body was suspended in the air. Often, stone weights were added to the ankles or lashes applied to the back during interrogation.
catholics aren't christian though
>>526861
> meme
General WW1 thread. Feel free to ask anything in relation to this war. I'm going to begin the thread with my own question. I brought this up in a previous topic, but the topic was pruned.
What was the relationship between Franz Ferdinand and Franz Conrad von Hotzendorf like?
I'd like it if you guys could fact check my research. From my findings, it seems to be:
Franz Ferdinand actually requested Franz Conrad von Hotzendorf to be Chief of the General Staff. However, throughout Hotzendorf's political career, he constantly demanded war with a bunch of nearby nations, among those being: Italy, Russia, and Serbia. Franz Ferdinand, despite giving Hotzendorf his position, was constantly countering Hotzendorf's demands, making sure that Franz Joseph I of Austria would not go to war with any of these nations and would not listen to any of Hotzendorf's demands.
Were they friends? It seems like Hotzendorf was almost happy that Ferdinand was assassinated as it means that it would be easier for Austria to go to war with Serbia.
Is it true that the internal conflicts in Germany (sailors disobeying the orders of their superiors, socialist and social democrats protesting, Rosa Luxemburg's mini-revolution ect...) weakened those that actually fought on the forntlines?
Also, is this where the Dolchstoßlegende originated?
>>526702
How accurate is dan carlins series?
I'd like to know how much Franz supported the slavs within Austia-Hungary, and was there any chance of federalization if he wasn't killed?
What is a good introductory history book to the World Wars? I'm most interested in the second
>>526561
"The Good War": An Oral History of World War II (1984) is a telling of the oral history of World War II written by Studs Terkel.
Everyone loves Studs
>>526561
Hastings "Inferno".
Also, the "A Short History" series of books is pretty good based on what I've read.
The Storm of War by Andrew Roberts is a good book that describes the entire WWII but mainly focuses on what the Nazis did wrong rather than what the Allies did right.
so why did the PLC fall?
>>526386
Noblemen having the "Golden liberty", they literally had as much power as the king, so they obviously abused this to benefit them as much as possible.
Being fucked by Russia, Sweden, then later on Prussia, Austria & Russia hurts.
Too much shit to fight (Crimean Khanate, then Ottomen, then Sweden, then Russia,Austria,Prussia)
>>526386
democracy
>>526386
The should had built a wall to keep their neighbours out
The following animals of history will become extinct in your lifetime:
>Sumatran elephant
>Southern blue whale
>Rhinoceros
>Red wolf
>Arabian leopard
>Every species of Asian leopard
>Most species of cheetah
>Tiger
>Balkan lynx
>Every species of gorilla but one
>One of the two extant species of orangutan
>The vast majority of monkey species (both old world and new world)
>Numerous other species
The fuck is an "animal of history"?
>>526296
Fucking REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Seriously though this shit is tragic, literally no backtracking possible.
>>526302
Also it fucks up the ecosystem due to the evolutionary equilibrium established between species at different trophic levels within an ecosystem, which leads to unpredictable alterations to the biosphere.
I'm interested in philosophy as something I love. I'd like to publish my work on online, but I'm not an academician. Is academia.edu a good site for that purpose?
>>526172
No. academia.edu is a facebook for academics.
You publish in a peer reviewed journal
>>526182
Would you like to try again in standard English?
Why do people think happiness can only be bought and seek many material possessions? Why is consumerism like a religion nowadays? Why do people put such great stock in earthly possessions? Why do people want big houses, expensive cars, and even more stuff that is hollow and unnecessary?
>>525750
>Why do people think happiness can only be bought and seek many material possessions
No one actually articulates this as their position, this is you claiming that other people hold this position. So you need to answer your own question.
>Why is consumerism like a religion nowadays
If you mean why is it a thing, it's because capitilism. If you mean why do people care about it wait till your parents are not taking care of you and realize how expensive everything is. People are not working for 'fast cars' they are working to afford the monthly payments on normal cars.
>Why do people put such great stock in earthly possessions
If you don't believe in souls than everything in the world is 'earthly'. So you are either asking why people care about anything what so ever (since everything is earthly) or you are asking why people do not completely ignore physical things and focus entirely on mystism.
>Why do people want big houses, expensive cars, and even more stuff that is hollow and unnecessary
What is necessary? Again you seem to have your own concept of what 'nessary' means. So you need to answer your own question.
>>525750
What else am I supposed to do with my money? Give it all away?
>>525928
Why would you do that? You'd only be encouraging the people you gave it to, to become materialistilistic. You should burn your money and work for free.
