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Does anyone else feel like they'd genuinely enjoy being part of a mass movement?
The pageantry and spectacle,the sense of purpose and being part of something greater than yourself, the community, the feeling of invincibility. You look back at these rallys in Germany and Russia and understand why it was so seductive.
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>>2560157
I like the military shit but I hate ceremonies in general
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>>2560157
Why nationalism developed, especially near the end of the medieval ages.
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who needs that
I haven't any personal crisis requiring me to act out
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What made the Duke of Marlborough a particularly great commander?
People talk about him like he is on the level of Napoleon or Caesar or something.
Is it just Britibongs obsessing over their only semi relevant commander?
Or was he really that good?
And if so, why?
As far as I can see he had one great battle (Blenheim), that was won pretty much entirely because of the bravery of Eugene and the resolve of his men
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He won some battles, but failed miserably at the battle of Malplaquet. But when the french retire themselves to better defensive positions, the englishs said they won. English lost 20-25 000 men while french lost 5 000.
The marechal of Villars said to king louis XIV: with 4 or 5 defeats like that we will destroy our enemies
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>>2560038
>What made the Duke of Marlborough a particularly great commander?
The fact the coalition he fought for gave him Dutch and German troops so he wouldnt have to put up with shitty British redcoats
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>>2560619
Were British redcoats considered particularly bad soldiers at the time?
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>Being Gilgamesh, minding my own business with my special bro Enkidu. The goddes Ishtar comes along. She wants my D.
>I say: Chill out. You screwed over all your previous lovers. Not sticking my dick in crazy.
>Bitch goes crying to his father. At first he's like "but he's right, you know".
>But he can't stand the crying and caves in. Sends on Earth a werebull to make a big mess and to kill me and my bro.
>The werebull makes a big mess killing hundreds with one hove powerattack. Enkidu tryes to stop him. Werebull waves his tail and covers bro with shit.
>Damn it, Enkidu, keep it together. We use tactics (two against one) and get the better of it. We kill werebull, brofist!
>Bitch Ishtar starts yelling at us, that it was completely uncool to kill her demon.
>Enkidu, my man, rips off the werebull's dick and throws it into her face.
How can Epic of Gilgamesh be so epic? Existentialism, humour, humanism. Them YHWH worshipping scribes were primitive barbarians and plagiarists.
I used to think culture and philosophy needed time to develop and Old Testament was a step forward.
But the Jews were just savage sheepfuckers. No sense of humour, no distance to themselves. They shouldn't have learned to write.
Fall of Babylon was dark ages before middle ages.
Gilgamesh thread.
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Indeed the broest of tiers
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>When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. As for you, Gilgamesh,
>fill your belly with good things; day and night, night and day, dance and be merry, feast and rejoice. Let your clothes be
>fresh, bathe yourself in water, cherish the little child that holds your hand, and make your wife happy in your embrace;
>for this is the task of mankind.
Carpe diem before it was a thing.
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>not building giant-ass walls around your city
If you haven't done this, you've wasted your life.
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Why is the Chinese-Japanese aspect of WW2 so overlooked in media?
It was the second bloodiest theater, but some people I've spoken with didn't even know China was in ww2. What gives? And why is there such little data about it in comparison to other theaters?
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Cuz China got eternally BTFO so nothing interesting really happened
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Because America didn't very much there, and it lacked the exciting battles of the Eastern Front.
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>>2559984
The Rape of Nanking is common knowledge. It even has a catchy name.
Hey /his/! I recently discovered philosophy and i want to know more about it. Which books should a newcomer like me read?
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>>2559949
Go outside and stare at the trees, hills, creeks, rivers, etc. Then form your own conclusions the meaning of life and why we're here.
>????
>now you are philosopher-san
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Start with the Sumerians
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Posted this in a different thread, but it still applies I think:
Just for sheer ease of readability:
Enchiridion by Epictetus
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Letter to Menoeceus and Vatican Sayings by Epicurus
Apology, Crito, and Phaedo by Plato
Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Confessions by St. Augustine
Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, and Job in the Bible.
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How culturally, genetically, historically, and linguistically distinct were Sardinians from the rest of the lands that now make up Italy?
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exact same
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>>2559858
They were kings
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Sardinia is CUTE
CUUUUUUTE
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You are teleported back in time into the body of Mao Zedong in 1943. Your mission is to accomplish industrialization and agrarian reform without the disastrous effects of The Great Leap but at the same time consistently following Maoist thought and having the nation still decidedly resemble a communist one.
What do you do differently?
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Kill myself and have Deng Xiaoping succeed me.
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>>2559772
Call a meeting with the most important members of the CPC, lock the doors and burn everyone inside, including myself
All the while I send a letter submitting All the territory and personnel to Chiang
Done
China becomes a superpower by 1980
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>>2559772
>Your mission is to accomplish industrialization
>without the disastrous effects
You're already screwed
Humans aren't meant to be factory cogs, things will inevitable become terrible
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What were crime and murder rates like at any given point in Medieval Europe?
I read somewhere that they were roughly Detroit-ish when it comes to homicide, give or take 10/100k
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>>2559703
http://www.vrc.crim.cam.ac.uk/vrcresearch/paperdownload/manuel-eisner-historical-trends-in-violence.pdf
Looks like the study for the earlier data if anybody else wanted to read through it.
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>>2559696
It's not strictly murders but
I recall during the Hundred Years War that displaced soldiers resorted to brigandage and ran amok in the countryside looting anything they coould.
Apparently that plus the plague meant that entire villages were abandoned and harvests were not maintained due to manpower shortages.
On the flip side such a decimation of the population meant that metal coinage was more valuable because there were more fortunes to be split among less human beings.
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*Blocks your persona*
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I often hear that Jung is a joke, and that he introduced all sorts of mysticism and other bullcrap into psychology
Can anyone expand on that?
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>>2559746
PSYCHOLOGY IS THE STUDY OF THE PSYKHE; STUDY OF THE PSYKHE NECESSARILY ENTAILS MYSTICISM; PSYCHOLOGY WITHOUT MYSTICISM IS NOT PSYCHOLOGY, BUT PSYCHIATRY.
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>>2559755
Psychology is Psychiatry for people who got shitty grades in college
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>whites are indigenous to Europe
>Indo-European expansion
Pick one.
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indo-europeans were white. it took a long time
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>embracing the Indo-European I, R1b, R1a blue pill
It's like you're openly admitting to being an immigrant with no archaeological connection to your land.
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>>2559522
Do you see that pink IE urheimat on the pic? That's in Europe.
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how did a place (Singapore) with no natural resources go from becoming a complete shithole to a rich and developed nation ESPECIALLY with their forced multiculturalism program?
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>>2559502
>How does trading work.
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>>2559502
Most ijportant port in Asia.
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>>2559502
it's a trading hub
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unibrow#Ancient_Greece_and_Rome
>In both Ancient Greek and Roman cultures, unibrows were prized as beautiful, desirable features worn by the most intelligent and lusted-after women.[3] In Ancient Greece, women used powdered minerals or soot to paint their brows black. The Greeks valued purity, so women often left their unibrows untouched or darkened slightly with black powder. Eyebrows were also part of the Romans' elaborate beauty rituals, and like the Greeks, they favored a unibrow. Both cultures' poets and writers described women donning false unibrows to enhance their looks. These were made of dyed goat's hair and attached with tree resin.
How much did this change your perception of these civilizations?
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None at all as I don't expect ancient civilizations to share the same concept of beauty as America circa 2017.
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ew
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>>2559436
Greeks also thought small dicks were superior, so what?
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The freer the society, the more brothels there are. 2017-03-24 11:13:33 Post No.2559435
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The freer the society, the more brothels there are.
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Prove me wrong.
Protip; you can't.
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and the more you can murder.
we don't want a free society though.
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>>2559435
In a truly free society I can rape whoever I want, so there's absolutely no need for brothels
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>>2559441
>we don't want a free society though.
muh subjective moral code
Fuck off, cuck. The best countries in the world have brothels.
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More like the Kool Kuks Klub lmoa
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>>2559334
Grand wizard lv.80
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Laugh all you want but the Ku Klux Klan prevented the black vote for 100 long years.
The slaves were freed in 1865. About 45 lived to be 100 years old in 1965 when blacks were given the right to vote.
Make fun of them all you want.
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>they actually have a rank called "grand cyclops"
Throughout all of history, who most effectively used their prisoners of war?
>inb4 ransom pieces
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>>2559292
Nazis, without competion.
>Vlasovci
>Experiments on humans
>Slave labour
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Mongols.
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>>2559292
But ransom was the best shit ever you fuck. Imagine getting rich after capturing a king and some nobles