Here comes the collapse of life as we know it guys.
King Christian II has placed a ban on open carry of claymores throughout the land.
No more showing off your newest forge to your friends; no more duelling with scrubs that art calling you a faggot.
This sucks. I have a wide variety of claymores from all over Europe and now they're all just wall hanger junk. I spent so long collecting and sharpening them on the grindstone, during those long days, instead of visiting the Tavern I saved my money for these.
It doesn't even make any sense. Doesn't the kingdom know that 87% of claymore deaths in Denmark are suicides, and that the vast majority of homicides are due to zweihanders and not claymores?
This is it, friends. I'm moving to Norway. At least we can still fire crossbows there. I've been thinking of doing so ever since they put that "no more than 2 metres long" ban on polearms.
PC culture gone mad I say. Thou hast to be shitting me. Well, if the guards come to take my claymores they're getting their heads royally cut off! They can all go to hell, the damn ottoman-empire sympathisers.
How am I supposed to feel safe on the streets knowing that corrupt assholes can come along and kill me when I am defenceless?
Probably those feminists and that damned rapier culture.
>>436465
Top kek.
>>436486
I'm telling you, it's those damned reformists and Cathars. They're supporting some sort of realm-wide conspiracy with those fucking traders from the North.
Let's discuss martial arts. What's the oldest known form? Which one is probably the most dangerous?
>>435972
Some include poisons. I'd say those are the most dangerous, by merit of being so devious.
>>435972
>Which one is probably the most dangerous?
The one practiced by the better person.
>>435991
Well played.
Who was the best Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt?
Ramses the Great
>>435776
Not much is known about the Pharaoh's in all honesty so it's kinda hard to state but I would say Khufu and Ramses II based off our knowledge.
>>435776
Ramses II
Is Greek fire just an ancient meme or do you believe it actually existed even though it has never been able to be recreated?
It sounds a lot like napalm, tbqh.
That's some dank meme considering it won battles.
>>435748
It actually existed dumbass
At the time the Spaniards arrived in Manila in 1570, it was an Islamic Raj. But when westerners visited New Guinea, Australia, etc. there was no trace of Islam. Why did Islam stop spreading south and east sometime around 900-1200AD?
>>435715
Because there was not a fucking trace of civilization in those areas at that time, except cannibals and aboriginals
>>435715
Because obviously there was noone worth converting to the true religion living in australia or new guinea
>>435715
Aborigines probably said "Fuck off, we're full" to them.
In a battles with tens of thousands troops, what made the soldiers in the first rank charge forward to certain death?
>I'm in front of everytime else, there's 20 000 enemies in in front of me. I'll probably make it.
>>435622
>what made the soldiers in the first rank charge forward to certain death?
The 20,000 or so guys right behind him that would kill him if he ran away. Basically you have a small chance of living if you fight the enemy because you'll have back up. But if one guy runs he'll be killed for sure. If your going to desert you don't do it when you charging in. At that point you're already committed. Also training, drills, camaraderie, group mentality.
>>435622
SUBLIMATED FEAR.
>>435622
Alcohool. Religious zeal. Duty toward the nation or the King. Money. Bpnds with your fellow soldiers.
Why did the Barbarians sack Rome? What was the actual intention behind it? What purpose did they sack Rome for overall?
Money and tail, like everything.
>>435563
loot
>>435563
Visigoths sacked Rome after failing attemps to get a satisfactory deal with the Romans.
Note that Roman capital was already in Ravenna.
What if the British defeated the American Colonists?
>>435039
>American colonies get representation in the House of Commons
>Liberals take power, William Pitt never become Prime Minister
>The French revolution is favored instead of fought
>Napoleon and the King make the Treaty of Amiens, but this time, it is respected
>Napoleon starts his conquest of Europe against the coalitions of Europe backed by powerful british bankers, but without the politicial support of the Crown
>France takes control of all continental Europe, while the United Kingdom spends their time colonizing foreign lands
>World War One starts between the French Empire and the British Kingdom
Jk
I never liked alternate history threads.
>>435075
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ7zQbMxm28
>>435039
Either there would have been another war at the start of the 19th century after the Slave Trade Act 1807 and Slavery Abolition Act 1833 were passed.
Or they would have been given independence under the British North America Act.
Shroud of Turin thread: What do you believe?
Saw it on the History Channel today and did some research. For me I'm really torn. Thought it was fake from the carbon dating saying it was from the 1300's, then was refuted by the fact there was dirt matching the same geological properties as were found in Jerusalem tombs of the time. And then in those tombs the style does not match other fabrics yet paintings as early as the 7th century depict the shroud with its pattern.
What's your two cents?
>>434909
Hey, I'm watching that right now too.
>>434920
Haha its not bad, I think they're doing a good job removing bias from religion and science
There's something I'd like to know about you cucks arguing for the existence of god, but never find any arguments that can defend your theological position. To any of those that don't, this thread isn't for you to reply to.
>>434867
Oh yeah, what I wanted to know is why do you use whatever god-given logic and reasoning powers you were given to arrive at some semblance of evidence/proof for God, but make the jump and pick a religion that has all a bunch of dogma and other shit surrounding it that is completely indefensible in the same way.
http://www.compellingtruth.org/truth_God.html
/thread
Because Our Lord Steven Christ said so
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLs30cF1d7E
What can you tell me about the Celtic religion?
>>434616
Animist/Pagan with druid wizardry
>>434725
Also Cernunnos isn't important at all, unless you're a Wiccan
It wasn't really much of a religion. Every bumfuck hamlet had a completely different pantheon and there was no codified list of deities or method of worship. It was just kind of a theistic animism.
Which are just some of the reasons why Celtic Neopaganism and Wicca are baloney.
Okay, okay. So let me get this straight. Atheists believe god doesn't exist despite there not being any evidence for his none existence? and people eat this shit up?
>not being
>any evidence
>for his none existence
Now read these three again, and think really hard about how much sense they make
>>434518
Atheists are like global warming deniers, they will deny anything that doesn't confirm their biases.
>>434525
They deny the existence of god, but bring nothing that confirms this world-view to the table. It's literally a leap of faith.
The Nazi were not something alien or foreign other. What they were was the worst qualities of contemporary western civilization inflated and focused inwards instead of outwards. They showed Europe and America the faults of western civilization (racism, bigotry, eugenics, scapegoating, nationalism, belief in "survival of the fittest") and that for all it's machinery and industrial power they were still capable of horrible evils.
If you respond by saying "Western Civilization is/was perfect!" then congratulations, you're the exactly the sort of collective narcissist that drives civilizations into the ground.
>>434286
Don't you have doors to knock on for the Bernie Sanders campaign?
>>434286
>Nazis
>very worst of humanity
>implying they were different from the Soviets/Japs/Americans
your liberal arts degree is showing
If you're interested in contemplating what the great wars meant in the larger context of occidental tradition as a whole, you should really read this book, OP.
I will attempt to make a thread about a major historic issue, consciously knowing that we are in 4chan, hoping to start a discussion in an international level, since we are in an international forum.
Has the western human abolished all of the values that made revolutions, such as those in Russia, Spain and even under the grip of the 2nd world regimes in Czechoslovakia and Hungary, possible? Values like solidarity, sense of duty to the next generation and decensy to fight against fear and oppression?
Is it a legitimate question to ask whether the process of a brewing uprising is positive and should be understood as preparation for a social transition or just the incarnation of the masters pitting us against one another? How can we differentiate, if so? By asking qui bono?
Should we question opinions that place a christian-inspired role of self-sacrifice to the revolutionary subject or blame the lack of action to defeatism?
No, but these revolutions are part of what abolished any trace of value in the western man.
>>434136
I am turning the question, I suppose, towards the "subjective conditions" of history, as marxists-leninists would say.
Is the matter in the present really all about whether the proletariat wants to move on? Do you think we have reached that point?
Should we be discussing how to proceed or should we use use the tool of theory to figure out how developments will unfold? Do you even think this is a valid dillema?
Remember, one should always first seek to pose the correct questions before attempting to give answers or present views and opinions.
And that is really the point of this thread.
why the need for revolution or change when everyone is comfortable with the conditions. no one cares anymore. Those who see the problems don't organize.
What was his endgame?
Security for his state.
Stalin believed that if Communism were to spread worldwide, he had to ensure that Russia was to be strong enough to sponsor communist revolutions across the world, seeing as every revolution in the 1920's failed except Russia and Mongolia.
He instituted a policy called "Socialism in One State" to hyperfocus on improving the Soviet Union to become one of the world's greatest military and economic powers, and once that was accomplished, use it to be in a position to orchestrate successful revolutions across the world.
You could say it worked. His rapid industrialization and massive overhaul of the Red Army to be able to take on and defeat Nazi Germany in time, as well as be able to establish the Warsaw Pact and sponsor the Communists effectively in the Chinese Civil war during their takeover.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_in_One_Country
>>433990
his endgame was satisfying his pathological need to dominate absolutely and relieve his constant paranoia by making sure every single even remotely potential opposition is literaly killed, so he can sleep at night without constantly imagining someone bursting in with a machinegun and a stick of dinamite
dude was raised by a tirant mother, educated in a monastery, ran away and finished growing up as a practicaly homeles migrant worker, then he turned a communist and started robbing banks, dealing with the worst kind of people you can imagine in tzarist fucking russia, spent time in tzarist gulags or hiding out in caves and forests, almost lost the use of one arm, prolly killed more people and been in mortal dangers more times than hitler fired bullets in the whole WW1
dude was hardcore, but life made him insane, practicaly a paranoid sociopath with somekind of cezar sindrome, holding on to power and killing people by decree was like a nervous tick he couldnt control, it was opsessive
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