He was obviously a sincere Christian. So why did he go to such lengths to protect pedophiles? And why did Pope Ben get the wrap for it, when Ben was the one telling him to plz stahp protecting pedophiles?
>>520563
Because he knew he could get away with it.
>>520564
That doesn't explain it. He was a very religious Christian, so religious he even whipped himself. It's no doubt that no one is perfect, but did he even consider what he was doing to be sinful?
Because he was a pedophile himself.
more about this man? any fun tid bits?
>>520539
>implying the last true King of England wasn't Edward the Confessor
HOUSE OF WESSEX TRUE KINGS
>>520906
According to Snorri Sturluson, before the battle a man bravely rode up to Harald Hardrada and Tostig and offered Tostig his earldom if he would but turn on Harald Hardrada. When Tostig asked what his brother Harold would be willing to give Harald Hardrada for his trouble, the rider replied that he would be given seven feet of ground as he was taller than other men. Harald Hardrada was impressed with the rider and asked Tostig his name. Tostig replied that the rider was none other than Harold Godwinson
So what's the difference between psychopathy and sociopathy? Is there a difference? Is it possible to 'teach' empathy to a psychopath/sociopath?
>>520481
Interesting thing about those two, they simply don't have the capacity to feel those sentiments.
They can be "taught" in the sense where they will display the behavior, but it would only be a superficial reaction, the apperance of a response is there, but no eternal sensation. Though, sociopaths can form some form of emotional attachment, unlike psychopaths.
Big differences between the two, sociopaths do feel emotions, albeit negative ones mostly, while psychopaths feel nothing whatsoever.
Also, a little fun fact is that it is easier to spot a sociopath versus a psychopath because the former tend to be more volatile.
>>520505
Are sociopaths more volatile because they can feel negative emotions or is it independent?
Jesus Christ or King Arthur, which has more basis in history? Which has more evidence?
>>520082
Both were featured by the pythons in equal ways
From a purely secular perspective, supposing most are fictional, the stories about Christ were written shortly after his life, whereas many of the times of King Arthur were written far later.
>>520082
Jesus, because we have far better records of him as he was living under the more settled area of the roman empire
the figure Arthur on the other hand was a composite of a number of historical kings IIRC, I have a book on it, but damned if I can find it
Why haven't Spain successfully annexed Portugal? Not through lineage like Phillip II but through actual military action.
>>519888
Anglo-Portuguese alliance.
>>519888
They tried multiple times
The failed multiple times
Portugal also dealt with the Moors far before the Spanish did
>>519888
because they failed everytiem
never conquered, etc, etc...
Hey /his/, I have some broad questions regarding the sleeping patterns of people in the past.
1. Did people wake up at sunrise and sleep at sunset or did they sleep a solid 8 hours a day? Did this continue even when days were especially short around Winter?
2. How did people in the past wake up, alarm clocks were not invented. Dogs? Other animals? (Roosters I can imagine would be plausible).
3. Did the invention of artificial light for mass use such as the light-bulb drastically change human sleeping patterns since its creation?
Thanks for reading, I hope for some interesting answers.
it probably varied, during different eras, different classes, different cultures. i know the french aristocracy slept from about 2am to 11am
>>519834
>dat pic
Fuck, now I have a boner
>>519850
People watched them having sex? How bizarre.
Rommel's Africa Korps did nothing wrong
>Treated prisoners with respect
>Didn't do dirty military trucks like the British or the Americans.
>>519831
*tricks.
>>519831
They lost, deal with it.
Educate me on Andrew Jackson
He is commonly known as Andrew Jackson.
>>519832
listen here you fuck, either get your facts straight or get the fuck out of this thread
>>519529
King of Banter battles
acted like a king in office
I want to read up on a particularly gruesome historical event, but i can't recall enough details to find what i am looking for.
here's what i remember, it was an army/mercenaries can't recall, that hadn't been paid, or their pay was delayed
I don't know what country they were from, maybe spanish can't remember, but they went into a German? city, and for several weeks/days raped, burnt, looted and murdered several hundreds of civilians.
i think it was called party or the party of "x" city, but i can't find anything in my searches with that so could be wrong, there were some paintings about the event also.
pic unrelated.
Only thing I can think of is the 4th crusade but I doubt its be that
>Ventitans arrange to transport crusaders to the Holy land
>Crusaders can't pay all their fees so agree to intimidate Byzantine merchants during the journey due to the Ventitan merchants being expelled from Constantinople earlier
>on the way end up allying with a Byzantine prince to despise the Emperor, restore his father and they'd support the crusaders and let them travel t the Holyland with their support
>Ventitans and Crsusders change course and attack Cosmtantonopel and the Byzantine Empire
>Emperor flees, and the deposed Emperor and his son are crowned co-emeperor
>find out they're too poor to pay the Crusaders what the promised
>Crusaders turn on them and so does a court official who crowns himself Emperor
>Crusaders sack Constantinople and invade much of the Greek parts of the Empire
>Crusaders declare a new Latin Emperor under the same dynasty as the Kingdom of Jerusalem
>Byzantine Epire fractures into a series of successor "Empires" claiming to he the true successors while other kingdoms like Bulgaria break away too
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>>519517
This?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_(1527)
>The army of the Holy Roman Emperor defeated the French army in Italy, but funds were not available to pay the soldiers. The 34,000 Imperial troops mutinied and forced their commander, Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, to lead them towards Rome. The Sack of Rome in 1527 was executed by some 6,000 Spaniards under the Duke, 14,000 Landsknechts under Georg von Frundsberg, some Italian infantry and some cavalry.
Is Richard Dawkins bashing religion basically talking over his own head? I've read theologians who've launched such arguments against their religions that make his best arguments sound like dimwitted brainfarts. It makes me think he deliberately cashes on pseudo-intellectual fedoratheists.
>>519338
His goal was to reach the masses. He is very smart, and he succeeded in his goal.
>>519338
He made a lot of money, so yes.
New Atheists are pretty much the fundamentalists of atheism.
Religious belief does not have to do with intelligence, it has to do with much deeper psychological factors.
Who was the smuggest person in history?
The Professor who smirked quite Jewishly
Luther
Any of the new atheists
Betrand Russell
Voltaire is definitely up there
Thomas Paine, definitely smug
Aristophanes
>>519044
Diogenes of Synope, also known as the philosopher that mocked Plato's definition of man (a featherless biped) by plucking out a chicken and making it parade to the cry of "behold Plato's man", lived in a barrel, masturbated in public, and famously told Alexander the Great "move aside, you are blocking out the sun".
He was living the smug lyfe way before frogposters became a thing.
What does /his/ think of this man and his philosophy of non aggression and peaceful parenting?
>>518976
Fable was shit, getting into philosophy is just another edgy crap he is trying to pull
>>518983
He'll deliver this time.
idgaf about "natural rights" so i don't know what i'm supposed to get out of him.
Was he crazy?
>>518575
Define crazy.
>>518638
Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.
>>518673
That's just dumb as hell
Is this a historically accurate fact?
>>>/v/322894924
>Fact is, for most enlisted men, WW1 was fun as fuck. The reason liberals are so hellbent on having it portrayed as a literal killing field is because it was a war that was fought purely for nationalism - every man, fighting for the honour and glory of his respective Empire. That's why they hate it so much.
No, but neither is the hellish 24/7 bombardment eat shit live in shit breathe shit drown in shit & run into machineguns and die all day erryday portrayal.
However it is true that "popular" history and art and media and the like have done a number on WW1. It's quite probably the worst victim in terms of combining the sheer importance and scope of the event - and its awfully twisted and incorrect popular perception.
Any sentence that starts with "The fact is" most likely isn't fact. It's like searching porn which has the tag "REAL INCEST" or "REAL TEENS" you can be sure it is 2 famous pornstarts moaning in their usual voice and 30+ washed up pornstars with pigtails to make them look young.
Wars aren't fun, at least not for the soldiers.
>>517379
>The concentration of so much fighting in such a small area devastated the land, resulting in miserable conditions for troops on both sides. Rain combined with the constant tearing up of the ground turned the clay of the area to a wasteland of mud full of human remains. Shell craters became filled with a liquid ooze, becoming so slippery that troops who fell into them or took cover in them could drown. Forests were reduced to tangled piles of wood by constant artillery-fire and eventually obliterated.[89] The effect on soldiers in the battle was devastating, many broke down with shell-shock.
>A French lieutenant at Verdun who was later killed by a shell, wrote in his diary on 23 May 1916, "Humanity is mad. It must be mad to do what it is doing. What a massacre! What scenes of horror and carnage! I cannot find words to translate my impressions. Hell cannot be so terrible. Men are mad!"[112
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Verdun
Very fun indeed
Tell me about the HRE. Were they the most powerful European state? How did they collapse?
>>517063
Okay
No
Napoleon
The HRE is a perfect example as to why centralized power is a good thing
>>517067
The topic of this thread is medieval. I was asking in terms of the medieval HRE
