>reincarnation is real
>you'll have to live as some no name peasant in ancient China and have your entire family slaughtered
>you'll have to go through hell as some front line soldier in WW1 as they test the first poison gas attacks
>you'll have to live as one of the last of the Aztecs as your entire world is destroyed by invaders
>you will have to live a meaningless existence as a slave
>you will have to experience fear as a soldier making a last stand
>you will have to suffer as Junko Furuta
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I want out
Reincarnation doesnt work like that buddy. You dont travel back in time, as it flows in a linear manner, the things you described could've been your past lives, you might or might not have experienced those things.
Besides, for example, a branch of christianism, spiritism, don't deny that there could be life in another planets whose souls could incarnate to, and it's a step by step reincarnation process where you start as a simple life form and work your way to the top, so if you're a sentient being now, you'll not reincarnate as a germ on some godforsaken planet in andromeda, unless it's a being much mord advanced than us human.
If reincarnation is real, the endgame is something similar to the cosmic side of marvel comics and movies, to pick up a stupid example.
But 'you' won't have to, really. The only thing persistent between lives is the atman, all else changes and is changed. One could question if that even if reincarnation exists, if it really even is you being born again at all.
>>2786556
>reincarnation is real
>you will never be an anime girl
Truly we live in the worst of all possible universes
How did the French fuck up so badly in this war? What could they have done better against the Prussians?
>>2786545
Not be massively outnumbered?
Prussians had much superior artillery and had developed rifles which could be fired from prone easier.
>>2786572
Also not wearing a red and blue clown uniform helped them
>sword
>useless weapon that can't even slice through leather armour and is completely worthless against mounted opponents
>spear
>can easily pierce even the strongest of armours and brings down horsemen with ease
spears are patrician and swords are for plebs
Swords seem more versatile, you can slash and stab.
don't know shit about weapons so prove me wrong
>>2786529
>pistol
>useless weapon that isn't even accurate past 50 meters
>rifle
>can easily hit targets 300 m away
This is how retarded you sound.
>>2786547
>implying pistols are ever actually used in combat
No, it is you who is the retard
How did Augustus maintain his public image to the people of Rome? Why didn't he get march of ides'd like his great-uncle?
>>2786503
Because Caesar was still popular with the people. It was the elite that hated him. And Augustus had Agrippa.
Two bros with complimentary strengths covering each others weaknesses > solitary individual.
no one wanted to sneak up behind his smelly ass
Extensive propaganda, and ruthlessness. Caesar made the mistake of showing clemency; Octavian/Augustus murderized the shit out of anybody who he had reason to believe was plotting against him, which is not considered a significant part of his reign due to said propaganda
>you will never know how or why the Indo European invasions happened
>you will never read the stories because no one wrote them down
>you will never read about the collapse of the matriarchal old europeans by the migration and subsequent invasion from the Aryan peoples
>you will never read about how they stormed India on horseback and chariots
>all because no one wrote it down
there's also the possibility that it never happened
>>2786482
Why is board so obsessed with the IE's? They've been dead for millennia and are as relevant to you as the neanderthal genes in your blood.
>library of Alexandria
I'm really wondering, what prompted the USSR to change the name of the "Red Army" to "Soviet Army" in 1946?
There seems to be nothing on it. Is it propaganda related?
Probably, maybe to differentiate the current military with the heroic men who kicked the Nazis in the balls? It could also be to match the other countries, like how the Army of the United States is the US Army so too is the Army of the Soviet Union the Soviet Army. This is a great question, hope other Anons with actual knowledge jump on this.
The name was loosely linked to trotsky.
>>2786651
This
Anyone know any good historical tv shows? Just finished The Last Kingdom and looking for something good to watch.
>>2786390
Boardwalk Empire
>>2786390
TV shows? Are you gay or a woman?
Read history books, man.
>>2786444
digits confirm OP is, in fact, a homosexual.
General HRE thread
But also i am writing a proper dark low fantasy novel that is going to be to a degree historically accurate.
Technologically it is going to be set in 1625, however, with gunpowder being much rarer and the whole story being generally more aesthetic and horrific than reality.
I need to know how a nation such as The Holy Roman Empire works so tell me if what i say is accurate will you?
Alright so as far as i understand it:
>The Kaiser is elected upon the death of the previous Kaiser.
>A fief grants one a vote. One may have control of many votes.
>The obligation of the vassals are almost strictly military and monetary.
Now what i really do not know is:
>Does it have a center of government where the electors have any say in any other matters?
>Where do these lords vote?
>What would make someone electable?
>What would make said person popular enough to win the election for example?
>What are the rules when it comes to foreign powers occupying imperial land? Is the whole Empire going to be pushed to war for such a thing?
>Are there Kings within the Empire?
>Is the emperor commanding of a larger army or is he just another elected great lord with no real advantage?
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>>2786142
1)Kinda, sometimes
2)Depends
3)Be an elector count
4)If people like them/block off others/marriage deals
5)Define 'imperial lands'
6)Sometimes
7)Depends
>>2786263
Imperial lands being the Spanish owned provinces in northwestern HRE for example.
King Arthur was actually Cerdic of Wessex. Prove me wrong.
>>2786123
op here
disregard that, i suck cocks
>>2786225
>>2786123
I believe Cerdic was a Briton, but I doubt he was who Arthur was based on.
http://www.effectivelanguagelearning.com/language-guide/language-difficulty
I want to learn a new language jusy for the heck of it.
These are the top four I want to learn (1 the most, 4 the least). Please help me order them most practical/useful to least as well.
1- Persian (Dari, family speaks it and I never bothered with it until recently)
2- Polish- latin alphabet/slavic sounding language seems super badass
3- Russian- sounds cool, learning Cyrillic would help with other languages
4- Swedish- literally just for Sabaton songs
I know Swedish will be the easiest. Will Polish or Russian be harder? Yes the former uses a Latin alphabet versus Russian's Cyrillic, but that shouldn't be such a problem as it only takes a few hours to learn a new alphabet from what I've heard.
Background: native English speaker with three years of high school French experience.
>>2786106
Improve your French instead, this is a French mercantilist board
>>2786122
No. I''m still salty about meme lady losing to millennial dude and I want nothing to do with that wretched caliphate.
French does sound nice though, I'll give it that.
>>2786106
I'd learn whatever language my family speaks. It seems much easier than doing it alone, depending on how much you interact with your family.
What thoughts lie behind these tortured eyes /his/?
>How many licks does it take to get to the centre of a tootsie roll
He's remembering that thing he did in high school when he thought that girl liked him
>>2786088
the canvas that repin painted on
>Historians will defend a fucking lunatic because he was a progressive
nice lack of sources friend
>it's another thread in which """""""""""""conservatives""""""""""""" autistically yell about 'liberals', who, in America, are little more than right wing centrists out of fear that some conservative somewhere will have a gigantic tardfit over some ill perceived instance of 'persecution'
>>2786002
>I can't google keywords
Hi Charles II, what're you doing on /his/? You should stay off the internet, keyboards can sometimes be sharp objects! You might hurt yourself.
>ww1
>France is an unstoppable mega power and Russia is a pussy pushover
>ww2
>France is a pussy pushover and Russia is a unstoppable mega power
Please explain?
>>2785843
bump for interest
>>2785843
>France is a pussy push over
i hate this meme
>russia is an unstoppable mega power
i hate this meme even more
>>2785843
Competence.
Why is Old Testament even a part of Christian canon?
There are so many inconsistencies between it and NT, and even between different books of OT.
Quran isn't far from OT in its message
The Old Testament is there to foreshadow the coming of Christ the Messiah. It also tells us the stories of the lineage Christ descended from.
>>2785628
The OT is there to warn us about the Jews.
>>2786319
really made me think
>there are based Muslims like Saddam, Assad, Nasser, Gaddafi
>there are shitshow freaks like saud, Baghdadi, bin laden, khomeini
What's wrong with them? Why do sons go right while some go so fucked up? Is it possible for Islam to adapt and modernise and reform itself or will it always be held back by these barbaric freaks until it's eventually abolished all together?
>>2785621
>Why are some people nice and some dicks
Islam IS the problem to a degree, it never went trough the modernization phase most Christian denominations did because for the most part there wasn't any specific central institution to rebel against. Also most of the batshit cunts with influence were propped up by short-sighted westen interests. See: Afghanistan
>>2785621
I hope you know the people you called based killed way more people then the "fucked" up ones
>>2785621
Look at that FUCKING nose!