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Thoughts?
in the same camp of extreme wishfulness as Marxism
Humans are not extreme beings
>>399899
Wishful thinking at best to assume or even hope that anyone but a small percentage of autistic robots could operate and exist in the world with an objective mindset.
>>399909
>Humans are not extreme beings
Can you look at the quality of posting here on 4chan, even just on /his/ alone, and really believe that?
If anyone was gonna find the point to existence it definitely wasn't this guy lmao
>>397941
does someone look a certain way to be smart?
You are a dumb cunt.
>>398042
OP wasn't making fun of his looks, I thought the same thing before I ever saw a picture of Albert "Poo in the Absurd Loo" Camus
Wow sure is /lit/ in here
Why did Rome adopt Christianity as the state religion when just a century prior they were discriminating against Christians?
>>409305
>Why does Germany have jewish politicans when just a few centuries prior they were discriminating against jews?
>Why does America have a black President
>Why did the western world allow gay marriage
Because the Emperor decided that it was spreading real fast so he'd get less revolts I guess.
>>409305
>Why did Europe adopt Islam as the state religion when just a century prior they were discriminating against Muslims?
I like to think that I'm Assyrian because I am a Syriac-Aramaic speaking Christian from Northern Iraq. Does anyone have any insight into what my real history is? Where might I actually be from considering what history and DNA tells us?
>>409270
How does it feel to not use cuneiform, you shifty babylonian fucker? Do you fuck many virgins at the temple? How much do they charge?
>>409270
Assyrians still exist as an ethnic group.
However they went into massive population decline because of all the wars and shit fucking them up.
Their busy fucking goats, blowing up places for alloha and invading Europe.
Why caste system was so efficient in India but not in the other places?
How was it efficient? 4000 years of caste system and they still haven't learned to poo in loo.
caste system is efficient in primitive or very traditionals homogeneous cultural nations
old asia or africa is a good choise
>>409035
>india
>homogeneous culture
What factors go into deciding who is the GOAT? Are some achievements worth more than others when qualifying someone?
For example, who is the greatest Pole in history?
>Jan III Sobieski, whose military leadership ended the Ottomon Conquest of Europe?
>Frederik Chopin, arguably the greatest composer of the Romantic era?
>Karol Józef Wojtyła, aka Pope John Paul II?
>Marie Curie?
>Copernicus?
Curie was a walking meme who's mostly known for having a cunt. Copernicus was German.
>>408879
what about King Casimir from Civ 5
Two of those are French and one is German.
Underrated histories desu
I have always wondered what its like to be completely irrelevant.
Australia has interesting stories and historical figures, so does New Zealand
Canada however is completely irredeemable
>>408697
>Canada however is completely irredeemable
Canadian here
Wouldn't say COMPLETELY irredeemable but the history is very, very boring
>muh railroads
>muh beaver pelts
>muh Quebec complaining
>muh Natives (didn't even wage war, just got them to sign off their land with treaties)
Our involvement in World War I was the high point
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How did a nation and military that was deeply rooted in honor commit so much despicable atrocities? Japanese WW2 army is such a contradiction
>>408674
Find a middle ground between Chinese storytales of nip rape, pillage and genocide and Japanese stories of brave soldiers who dindu nuffin. Other than unit 731 the japanese weren't that much ahead of other armies in terms of war crimes.
>>408674
>Find a middle ground between Chinese storytales of nip rape, pillage and genocide
there's no middle ground. they actually did shit like mass rapes, beheading and literally marching people to death.
>>408674
>How did a nation and military that was deeply rooted in honor commit so much despicable atrocities?
Bushido as a cultural norm was a meme used to promote nationalism among the plebs in Showa era Japan. It acted as a recruiting tool for the Army.
The reality was that if you weren't nobility or Samurai, you were entirely vulnerable to being treated like shit and taken advantage of.
And that was if you were Japanese, towards non-Japanese they held little to no regard...
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I've been watching some footage from WW2 and I've noticed a large number of skinny soldiers most notably in the German forces (Wehrmacht and SS) but also in Soviet and British units. Does anyone know the minimal weight and height requirements for any group? Was it because of the speed the Germans were doing? How did it effect their operational skills?
You can do long distance conditioning without being big.
Only modern forces can afford to be large via shit like whey protein. Back than you give them enough food to run for ~15 miles with heavy equipment and call it good.
Looking at photographs from WWII to Vietnam, most soldiers weren't particularly buff at all. They were usually average looking in physique to skinny. I recall the term 'combat weight' being applied to this.
>>408518
What you don't know, OP, is that people were a lot skinnier back in the day. With the rise of obesity and such, people have forgotten that ths average person was actually pretty for today's standard
"No man knows the day or the hour."
Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 A.D.
Nation of Israel since 1948.
"This generation will not pass away until all these things take place."
A generation = Human lifespan.
70, 80, and 90 years old.
1948 + 70 = 2018.
1948 + 80 = 2028.
1948 + 90 = 2038.
I'm not date setting. because I do not know when or I could be wrong. Only God knows when.
It's been 6000 years since creation.
1000 years of Christ's reign on Earth known as Millennial Kingdom. Millennial Kingdom will happen after...
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I liked /his/ better when it was just history
>>408481
Why does Jesus have the white tree of Gondor on his chest?
I'm slowing allowing the Holy Spirit to enter my life.
Little by little I'm starting to feel His presence. It's a weird "everything will be alright" feeling.
Does anyone have any cool facts or perspectives on the free state of Fiume?(you fellas always find something)
Basic info for the uninitiated: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_of_Fiume
My biggest question is what you guys think about the politics of the whole situation and what you thought of D'Annunzio himself?
>>408219
Rijeka is rightfully Slovenian as is Trst.
>>409066
>Rijeka
It's called Reka.
>>409658
>rightful
>Hungarian
>clay
You're a General/king in command od a successor kingdom army. The Romans are coming, What reforms to troop type and formation do you make without alienating your proud Hellenic troops?
>>408028
Beg Persian and other Iranian nobles to create an elite heavy cavalry and missile troops for my army assuming if Seleucid.
>Make the longest phalanx the world has ever seen
>Literally unable to be flanked
Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds
>>408263
>maintaining formation during a turn when you're commanding a 2-mile-wide phalanx
ughhhhhhh
It's often understood that in most cultures and civilizations, even very socially repressive ones, hereditary elites and administrative classes could historically get away with being at least semi-openly /lgbt/
Does anyone want to discuss how /lgbt/ people among non-elite classes fared? Surely not all of them suffered legal punishments even if social ostracization was likely.
>>408010
The concept of /lgbt/ didn't exist
>>408021
However, the idea of homosexuality has been known to everyone for centuries. Social attitudes have varied though.
Historically speaking is acceptance of gay behavior a good thing for society?
Okay can we talk about how amazing Nazi/Fascist architecture was without devolving into stormfront?
Pic related, the cathedral of light was incredible. I would give anything to just be there, to witness the energy of the Nuremberg rallies under the powerful, radiant glow of the searchlights.
Seriously, who wouldn't be moved walking up to this? Seeing that giant swastika defiantly scraping the sky?
What did he mean by this, /his/ ?
>>407865
That Germans fuck horses
>>407865
God is a beaner.
>>407865
Charlie V was a cheeky cunt
I thought he was Flemish?
