Better or worse than the average middleclass man of the western world today?
>>3014759
Emperor of which country? If we're talking about British empire then they probably ate some literal manure that even my dog wouldn't eat.
>>3014759
Imperial kitchen, Imperial recipe, etc. some secret stuff reserved only for royalty, don't most countries have this kind of stuff?
Fun fact: Peking duck used to be a royal cuisine before brought to masses, now it became average streetfood
>>3014759
Ancient times: nicer bread but still shit to us with a ton of fruit and olive oil on top
Middle ages: Similar except even more olive oil
Food was generally shit until trade between the east for dem spices got started
After arguing with an Afroautist about how brain damaged you have to be to believe the shit that Afrocentrists spill, the spastic said that the Renaissance was started and facilitated by Africans -- supposedly due to the fact Africans preserved Ancient European literature.
Is there any evidence that this claim is even remotely correct?
Afrocentrism is the biggest cancer to plague this world. Their memes surrounding historical European figures being black are fucking laughable.
AYO white boi didu kno dat Celts were blak niggaz?
>>3014494
He probably thinks Persians and Arabs were niggers so even more wewuzing than usual. At this rate they're gonna claim that everyone but I guess the Eskimos were niggers, and probably even the Eskimos.
>>3014500
There are no limits to the WUZ
What did they mean by this?
>>3014488
There isn't a country called 'corridor' wtf
>>3014508
Yes, there is.
Corridor (formally The African Kingdom of Corridor) was an African kingdom between Germany and East Prussia from 1921-1939. It is the birthplace of civilisation.
>>3014508
There shouldn't be a country called Poland either.
Without appealing to intrinsic morality, tell me why killing another human being is considered "wrong."
>>3014386
Define "wrong".
>>3014389
An outcome that is not desirable.
Define "human being".
What is "Odinism"? Is this just a special snowflake-y neonazi?
>>3014192
Odanism is an offshoot of asatru in general.
Odalism is Varg's religion-philosophy. It's basically a rationalistic/secular version of the ancient norse religion compiled from his own speculation combined with anarcho primitivism and a strong adherence to GAIA theory
>>3014192
He looks very cute. I'd fuck him.
>>3014313
he was prime bottom material in his youth, but 25 years later...
I had three ideas this evening for brilliant discussions but for each and every one, there were absolutely no boards where my ideas fit nor was there any interest or responses other that a few who were grandstanding.
My point is this. Philosophers. Humanities fans. Nobody is seeking to learn, in my opinion...just to advocate a particular idea or serve some other agenda or psychological need in their posts. People want a show...usually a shit show. And, most importantly, I'm not upset and only want to ask this. What does this imply about where we're at as a species? What does it imply about this site if anything? Is there really such a thing as an open forum for real critical and original thinking with zero to minimum sophmoricism..term coined...but is there? I seriously doubt it. And where are the truly great thinkers of our time? I don't mean Elon Musk or any of that type. I mean the philosophers and critical thinkers who think new thoughts and advance the ball for humanity in our time? Or is that not going to be a thing anymore? Ever.
>>3014090
Calm down alot people enjoy learning and change positions based on new information. The issue is that loud annoying people are much better at provoking a response. Also, smarter threads can be more intimidating because most rightfully feel like they have little to contribute. And honestly i dont the proportion of thinkers in the world is less now than before considering all the free time people have.
>>3014090
There is a question of how do you create an open forum which promotes interesting and thoughtful conversation. The major issue that most forums face is the methods through which discussions are brought to the front page. They all tend to favor echo chanmbers or obvious provocation. Moderation is dificult because it is easy to from no moderation at all to killing whole conversation topics.
Of course this thread will have zero views since I chose not to deliver the hook in 132 characters or less. I just randomly dropped it from 160 on behalf of mankind as a symbolic homage to the trajectory of mankind as a species. My focus is on truth and not about having some kind of social support group for one particular flavor of ism we all want to revisit again and again. Don't worry about it anons. Just laugh it off and proceed as you were. I'm just some crazy guy and you won't ever find yourself reflecting back on any of the several indictments made in these two comments. I'm done here. You're on your own.
Was Yugoslavia under Tito almost heaven on earth?
>average person 25-30y could build it's own house
>everyone had a job
>Companies send you on paid vacations
>>3013964
No, and it was only upheld by foreign support.
My dad talked about eating at the finest restaurants and buying a car just from going fishing during the summer and being a NEET for the rest of the year. His alternative was moving to Sarajevo to work in a kiosk with a complimentary free commie bloc apartment.
I guess they did some things right.
>>3013964
Does money as a unit of exchange arise naturally from barter economies or does it require state backing and taxation?
>>3013956
It requires state backing.
I'm sorry, libertarians.
something like it does but it takes requires some management to become actually stable and reliable
This is a really autistic question but. Does anyone know any good youtube channels where iyou can learn how to handle a sword correctly? And i mean european swords like a longswords and not a katana or scymitar like that
these kind of swords
>>3013861
>handle a sword correctly
It depends on the type of sword. A rapier is handled differently than an arming sword, and both are held differently than a longsword.
As for youtube channels I really don't know. I'd just look up how to handle a _____ sword.
Scholagladiatoria
Academy of Historical Fencing
English Martial Arts
LondonLongsword
Best history books that helped you see things in a new way
>>3013712
tell me how it did so OP, im interested to hear
>>3013712
Not too dissimilar to OP's book I imagine, though maybe more of a focus on early Islam.
>>3013755
A lot of people see the silk road as a trade route to bring cool stuff to the west from china but really is was a complex network that spread ideas and brought the rise and the downfall if almost every power in the middle east and china
Why is this such a taboo subject?
>>3013622
its not. Its got interesting history, especially post-colonial
>>3013622
Why is this such a taboo subject?
>>3013641
It's not.
Well-meaning figurehead exploited by militarist regime, or war criminal who got away with it?
both
>>3013454
This. He didn't want to the generals to do it but let them anyway. In many ways he had no choice
Japan from 1930-1945 is a very tragic story
>>3013451
He was kind of a yes man, he signed of really anything presented to him. He was more interested in fish, travel, having fun and even Disney seemingly.
>some jew literally wrote an entire holy book with elaborate abstract mystical themes so he could have a fake claim on land in Palestine
>>3013445
AND IT WORKED !
>>3013445
*several jews
>>3013445
Judaism is a religion, buddy. Pic related is a Native American Jewess reclaiming Judea & Samaria for the Jewish people. Quite ironic isn't it? Israel has Native American Jewish Kahanist women who want to throw out all the Arabs. Quite inspiring.
I was told I look Celtic.
What are the physical characteristics of the Celts?
An attraction for Mediterranean cock
The physical charachterestics of celts were in fact the physical charachterestics of aquitanians, the pre-celtic inhabitants of British islanbds and western europe that were celtified by celtic settlers.Those charachterestics were: tall, dolichocephalics or mesocephalics, usually had long convex nose, most of them had medium brown hair, however a big part of them had light hair (30%-35% of them had light brown, blond and red hair) and black hair, although a little rare, they were not unknown.
proto-celts are not important since they were racially assimilated by aquitanians very early (and culturally aquitanians were assimilated by proto-celts), however, since on the one hand they were IE, on the other hand belonged to southern IE subgroup,I suppose they were possibly a darker version of baltic racial type (since today many scientists claim that the phenotype of proto-IE was baltic.
I'm considering buying a historically accurate, battle ready European sword. Preferably heavier, two handed, and with a threaded pommel if possible. Any ideas on which sword to decide on?
Get the Tetsaiga. It's a classic cosplay sword
>>3013421
>sword
Not really interested in cosplay as much as I am into hanging it on my wall.
I'm more into European style swords. Especially ones from the first crusade.
Why would you want a shitty european sword, just get a katana senpai