I have a gun
>>2519033
>I have +4 attack because my firearms trait is over 6 and this Coat of Britannia lends me bonus defense when facing multiple attackers to a maximum of 12
>>2519033
Suicide by savage
Is "Everyone is equal" meme true?
How could a drunkard, homeless man from Kenya equal with a nuclear scientist from America?
>>2519007
It means their inherent worth is equal. If there was no society how would you judge the worth of a man?
everybody would be the same
>>2519007
We all die the same. We will become ashes and dust, survived by descendants who will forget our names. All of this, love, fear, friends, enemies, family, nation, none of it matters.
If you stripped naked a poor man and a king you can't tell which is which
Redpill me on the based Phoenicians, /his/. Did they ever actually reach Brazil? How did they interact with the Celts in Britain?
>>2518872
>Did they actually Reach Brazil
Is that an actual theory? sounds like nonsense.
>>2518881
There were scripts they found there, as well as some tribes that spoke languages oddly similar to Phonecian, etc. I'm not super informed on it, the main reason I asked, I suppose.
Damn, surprised at how little interest the Phonecians have garnered.
How should I get educated on history? I've always known a ton about 20th century wars, and I have an autistic amount of knowledge about antiques, but I want to learn more. Where should I start, what're some good books?
Is there any specific periods you'd like to know about or are you more interested in the general practice of historiography?
Here's what I recommend:
Open wikipedia, read whatever interests you. Wikipedia gets shit on a lot but it tends to provide a very accessible summary to most things, and it's so easy to zero in or zoom out at will (IE "I wanna read about the Holy Roman Empire. Oh, Emperor Ferdinand II sounds interesting. Oh, what's this about the Thirty Years War? Protestant Reformation?" etc.
Once you've found a thing you really like, look for a credible book on the period/subject. More recent ones are good because they usually have pretty good bibliographies that can send you further.
Once you've read a good secondary source and its bibliography, see what sort of primary sources they listed and whether they're translated into English. Then read the primary sources. Lots of history, especially as you go further back, is extrapolated from a relatively finite number of primary sources, and you can generally find good bibliographies and sourcebooks floating about for those too.
Also you can find some free university level lectures online, lectures can be nice if the prof is good.
>protestants
>christians
>>2518742
Turkish, or papist.
Turkish, or papist.
Holy shit, that is a tough choice.
>>2518763
It seems all of Europe took the Turkpill.
>>2518763
I choose turk, because muslims are less likely to murder Christians than Catholics are
So, I was listening to a book about stoicism and the author pointed out that after Socrates' death, philosophy sort of fractured into two branches, with Plato and his forebearers focusing more on logic and more abstract questions and Zeno and other philosophers like Epicurus focusing on more practical advice like how 'to be happy,' ethical codes, and rules for living a good life (I understand this is a vast oversimplification, but it was still an interesting point.)
My question is, why the hell did the former branch of philosophy end up being the one that survived. If you go to an analytic philosopher and ask him 'how do I live a good life?' he will probably ask you to define your terms, point out that 'good' is a social construct with different cultural interpretations and no objective existence, and so on. Great, I'm not saying there's no place for that kind of philosophy, but why is it that the other kind ended up dying out? It's such a bummer that when people take philosophy classes in college, they're not approching it as a way of life like a Stoic or Cynic might approach it, but basically as just a cool way to expand your mind (which is fine, but not as powerful.) Even professional philosophers are often just milquetoast yuppies who for the most part adhere to the cultural norms of their times and class.
Because of this, most people never develop a coherent philosopher of life beyond enlightened hedonism: trying to maximize long-term comfort. This works out OK for most people but if people had a coherent philosophy of life they would probably live more fulfilled lives because they wouldn't get sidetracked as much by superficial baubles. How do we bring practical philosophy back?
because it's already been done
Do it yourself really.
>>2518707
I don't understand? Are you saying that there's nothing to do because, for example, stoic philosophers eventually created a fairly exhaustive list of tips, so later writers such as Marcus Aurelius were just repeating the same principles? Yeah, well obviously if you just focus on life tips and principles, you have more limited territory than the whole rest of philosophy, but why is it that writing books on philosophies of life isn't more popular? Why aren't people as serious about following life philosophies? In the days of Greek philosophical schools, the cynics would become homeless and dress in rags because they were so dedicated to their philosophy, and people from different schools would get into heated debates and cultivate long-standing feuds over which philosophy of life was the best. Nowadays, people only focus on politics and religion, but while those things have a strong moral component, adherents mostly neglect the finer details of how to think properly, how to spend your time on Earth, which things are important and which things are less important, like money or sex, and other such details. Why is that?
>convert to Christianity
>go to Muslim hell
>convert to Islam
>go to Christian hell
I can't win
>>2518686
Even if you converted to Islam, there's nothing in the quran that says you're going to Islamic paradise (unless you're a suicide bomber, of course).
Does that sound like a good, positive thing to you?
>>2518689
Same problem if you convert to the "wrong" Christianity.
>>2518686
same god and same hell hell dumb dumb
Was this proto-globalism?
>>2518655
International trade, is not globalism.
>>2518661
It most certainly is.
>>2518759
No.
To have countries being interdependant is globalism.
If you went back in time and killed Hitler prior to Barbarossa, and assuming that he was replaced with a competent leader, would Germany have "won" the war?
No, by that point they were already fucked. They just didn't know it yet.
>>2518553
No but they would have done better and maybe had a proper capitulation at the end
>>2519051
Unlikely. Macropolitical events, most especially trying to stop the resurgence of a revanchist party on the basis of "We weren't really defeated" a la the end of WW1 made any non-total defeat of Germany extremely unlikely. Doubly so since any likely replacement in OP's situation would almost certainly arise from the Nazi party and continue on a lot of the more objectionable policies.
How can protestants claim that catholic/orthodox teachings are wrong if Jesus said that "the gates of hell shall not prevail againts it" (Matt 16:18)? Wouldn't it mean that the gates of hell prevailed?
>>2518548
Because Protestants are wrong
>>2518548
No, because of the invisible church with universal priesthood persisted and the Protestant reformation happened. If that sounds like silly reasoning to you, keep in mind that the Catholic/Orthodox position that Jesus' brothers were actually cousins because Mary must be perpetually virginal looks equally silly.
Because that whole part about Jesus giving Peter absolute moral authority (what you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, etc.) was probably squeezed in there so the church in Rome could press the claim to sole legitimacy.
Why did the french army failed to modernize in world war 1 AND world war 2?
They were always a war behind, in terms of organization and tactics (i'm not talking about technology).
>>2518415
Or at least at the beginning of world war 1, they adapted with the years. Why did germans knew this war would be different than the others and not the french?
>>2518415
Incompetence. Institutional systemic incompetence.
>>2518423
>Why did germans knew this war would be different than the others
They didn't know. A minority of people in every participant knew the war would be different. The war began on all sides as if it wasn't going to be.
Napoleon
Hannibal
Pyrrhus
Scipio Africanus
Gustavus Adolphus
Julius Caesar
Alexander the Great
Sun Tzu
Oda Nobunaga
Ewin Rommell
Vasily Chuikov
Georgy Zhukov
Heinz Guderian
Charles Martel
Gaius Marius
Aurelian
William the Conqueror
Subutai
Duke of Wellington
too much work and vulnerable to bias
>>2518397
>Missing the Sherminator
Its not like the march to the sea invented Modern war or anything. This list is bias to the old timey shit.
Also
>William the conqueror.
>>2518397
Sun Tzu is number 1. Not up for debate, revolutionized ancient thought and warfare, his book is STILL being taught to the US military and others, the vietcong were known to extensively study this book (that is the only reason America studies it).
I mean, there are many number of things which you know today, which seems simply logical (attacking ones weakness instead of strength, how to identify weakness, etc, etc.), schools of thought which were actualy invented by Sun Tzu, which became so prevalent they don't even seem to have a starting point.
Seriously, read the Art of War if you haven't, it will only take a couple of hours for your first time. The lessons are timeless.
Continued from >>2468809
go.
>>2518362
>>2518362
Always was fond of this one.
Bonus points for keeping to the theme of satanism, witches or magic.
What are dictators like when they're in a good mood?
Stalin would spare a person or two.
>>2518359
According to Zhukov, Stalin was a strong and secretive person, but he was also hot-tempered and skeptical. Zhukov was able to gauge Stalin's mood; for example, when Stalin drew deeply on his tobacco pipe, it was a sign of a good mood. Conversely, if Stalin failed to light his pipe once it was out of tobacco, it was a sign of an imminent rage
Stalin was a manlet who died soaked in his own piss. Lol
>try to make a serious thread about apes/humans/hominoid evolution
>almost immediately regarded as racist tripe, despite the fact I was being genuine
>thread gets deleted
What is wrong with you people?
why not try again on the correct board?
>>2518285
tends to happen when you flood your argument with pseudoscience
>>2518285
Are you the missing link poster? Because the missing link is not missing at all, it's the abos.