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>Gluttony - your mom

>>3252924
theodora is better for lust desu, but who deserves pride?

>>3252945
>>>/roasted/

>>3252879
>>3252879
You can believe what ever you want, but no group is obligated to open its doors to you, especially a religion.

>>3252879
Sikhs are actually open to converts though

>>3252886
>especially a religion

Why especially?

The Flavians were easily the most comfy dynasty. It's true Titus was a bit of a dick, but at least he knew how to deal with Judea.

>>3252620
did the flavians actually conquer anything?

>>3252650
Agricola took the borders all the way to Scotland, but other than that they didn't really make any big captures. Mostly just solidified their hold on what provinces they had with better administration and fortifications.

Also, fucked around Dacia but that didn't really work out.

>>3252513
It was a mix of actual knowledge and mysticism wrapped up in a pseudoscientific framework.

The closets analogy to something I could point to in modern life is certain forms of martial arts, the generally eastern ones which wrap up actual fighting techniques with stuff about how to control your body, or to achieve enlightenment through proper form.

>>3252520
what the lad here says

Alchemy was the study of chemical/medicinal applications of transformation and purification.
The true extent of the spiritual or theological dimension of the work is a bit up for debate as this feature wasn't really popularized
until the 1850's by Mary Anne Atwood and also Jung. Though, that said, alchemists (at least in the west) while not necessarily using it as a spiritual
practice did commonly subscribe to Aristotelian or Neoplatonist frameworks as the grounding where the science was rooted.
Most alchemical texts, while seemingly mystical in their methods of description, were practical in nature:
> Moreover, the inspection of private manuscript materials, for example the laboratory notebooks of George Starkey (1628-1665, alias Eirenaeus Philalethes, a favorite example for Jung), indicate clearly how he consciously encoded laboratory results in extravagant allegorical guise for public view while he maintained clear, precise expressions for private circulation, and even how he went about deciphering the metaphorical texts of his predecessors into chemical operations he could test practically in the laboratory.
Also, I recall having read that certain results described by alchemists have been replicated by modern chemists.
Alchemy, free from anachronisms, was a system of chemistry or transformation based upon metaphysical paradigms and was practical in nature,
and has a spiritual dimension such as any craft (i.e. masonry, martial arts, fine arts, etc.), but had been overstated by earlier researchers.

>>3252513

They were looking for God and how to reach him.

You don't think they were trying to literally turn lead into gold do you?

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>>3252335
torpedo
fuck ships

>>3252335
>implying bodkin arrows could pierce steel plate
>implying that the english defeated the french with their meme longbowmen piercing them

The longbowmen were only good at Crécy where they killed off the french knights' horses. At Poitiers there is little mention of them being decisive safe for one chronicle saying their raining shots forced the ennemy to change their positions when they advanced on fought. At Agincourt, the archers, though they fired arrows, mostly were useful because they joined the fray and fought the french with their axes and maces.

>>3252335
Tiger tank
Fuck 4 allied tanks

why is this even a question
Charlie

never underestimate Retard Strength

>>3252310
Can't underestimate tard strength

>>3252281

Daily reminder that England was BTFO by a 16 year old girl.

>>3252293
They got btfo by burning her alive, right? Cause if you kill your enemies, they win?

>>3252334
>muh final victory after multiples defeats

Why even bring up Agincourt the, since the French won that war?
The fact they burned her at the end doesnt change the fact she humiliated the English in many battles

It was pretty outdated by the time Shirer published it in the 1960's. I'd personally recommend Richard Evan's third reich trilogy.

>>3252140
Thanks.

>>3252131
the board game of this book is pretty good.

More then the ones who downplay it, less then the ones who overexagerate

>>3252060
There was no such thing. The "Failed communist revolution" happened after WW1 had ended.

> how severe was the communist threat?
Not very.

>did they catpure any cities?
They took over sections of Berlin for about a week, but they never had the whole city. They never got even that far outside of the capital.
>what was the death toll?
About 3,000 on all sides.

>>3252060
They did manage do capture some cities like Munich or the ruhr valley but were always very quickly defeated by the Freikorps. The death toll wasn't that high compared to other regions of Europe at the time but absolutely one sided. The commies had very high casulties because the Freikorps were better equipped, had more veterans, way better leadership and hellbent on executing anyone whom the thought of as a commie.

I AM NUUUUUCLEAAAAAAAR

>>3252058
>We never went wild

It actually seems like the logical conclusion to humanity.

>Dropping two atomic bombs on Japan was unnecessary
>No Aboriginal Australians ever attempted cultivating crops
>Indo Europeans totally weren't a traceable genetic group

>>3252023
>it was just a tactical retreat
*tactical relocation
>>3252066
>no aboriginal australians.....
Is this for American teachings? Because we never learned shit about australia

I was pretty lucky in that for Year 11 and 12 (I'm American, but I'm putting it in British terms for convenience), I had a good teacher who had a Master's Degree in history, so he was pretty knowledgeable. It's pretty funny looking back on the regular class I had with him before I took his AP US history class, because he would often say things which I later realized were casually dropping hints that some of the state standards for US history were either not true or only partially true. However, before then, I had some teachers who were less knowledgeable for history courses, and I will post some of my grievances with both their classes, as well as some of the state standards that were taught in the good teacher's class that were later rebuked in his other class:

>Nothing important happened between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Italian Renaissance, general Christian Dark Ages myth; only briefly mentioned feudalism in passing, not even the Crusades were mentioned
>The US intervened in WWI because of the sinking of the Lusitania
>The Biblical Exodus was literally true, up to and including potential routes the Israelites could have taken while stranded in the desert for 40 years
>year 6 world history teacher wouldn't teach the unit on the world's religions because it included Hinduism and the Hindus are dumb because they don't eat cows
>The Wehrmacht was a better disciplined, better trained army than the US Army during the Allied invasion of France; the evidence the book presented for this was a picture showing German troops formed in neat columns while the Americans were standing at ease
>Kennedy was a good president and was physically healthy
>Huey Long could have become America's Hitler
>a one paragraph summary of the Eastern Front of World War II that mentioned there was a big battle near Stalingrad
>The British Empire was a superpower in 1776
>Jews were the only victims of Nazi repression; there was literally no mention of non-Jewish victims(cont)

What the fuck is wrong with you, Leo

Pass dat shit, leo.

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>it's a Late Antique sculpture thread

25 years of all out war with Persia and Rome was still able able to field 150k against the Arab.

Truly, a remarkable recovery.

>romans

>>3252007
Whats more remarkable is how BTFO they were by the arabs even with superior numbers, arms and troops (they for example had horsearchers, the arabs didn't

>>3251958
>opponents of slavery
Nah

>>3251958

Sounds like an insufferable cunt desu

GUY LEARNS ONE WEIRD TRICK ON HOW TO BECOME A VEGAN AGRICULTURALIST

>>3251947
thats a good point mr psy op

>>3253269
"let them eat carrots"

- Bunnie Bugstonette