How many of them were shot by the Bolsheviks?
>>2434477
Why shot? Many of them were send to Siberia as well.
Few, I guess. The liberal intelligentsia were the first to run to the West when they realized what was happening. It was the reactionaries who stayed and fought and tried to save Russia who were shot.
Philosophers have always said that "You will be happy when you only live in the present. Don't focus on the past or the future".
I kind of agree, but doesn't this ultimately require a lifestyle where you are unemployed and homeless? I mean, there's no reason to pay the rent or go to work if you live like there was no tomorrow.
>>2434365
"LIVING IN THE PRESENT" DOES NOT ENTAIL "LIVING LIKE THERE IS NO TOMORROW"; "TO LIVE IN THE PRESENT" DOES NOT MEAN TO LIVE FATALISTICALLY, OR HEDONISTICALLY, WITHOUT REMEMBRANCE OF THE PAST, AND WITHOUT VISION FOR THE FUTURE, BUT TO BE SELFAWARE AND SELFCONSCIOUS AT ALL MOMENTS —TO BE MINDFUL OF ONE'S BEINGNESS, AND BECOMINGNESS.
>>2434365
Just as many, if not more, have said that the path to goodness and happiness is that of the man who sacrifices short term pleasure for long term gain.
Living in the moment is more of a post-modern and eastern religious concept, though I suppose it's not unusual for past philosophers to advise being completely aware in the moment, in addition to aiming for higher goals.
Is it a good book?
Do you have any recommendations for learning military tactis that were in the renaissance?
Yes.
>>2433884
Osprey Publishing has excellent monographs about military history.
Example: https://ospreypublishing.com/pike-and-shot-tactics-1590-1660
https://ospreypublishing.com/the-army-of-gustavus-adolphus-1-pb
I'm interested in learning more about the Habsburgs and their dominance within the HRE.
But it seems like the historiography at least in English is lacking for them prior to Charles V
What do you guys think? Is this point of study boring or just understated?
Is there any good books I should be reading on the subject.
Bumpo out of interest
>>2433656
ill get some stuff bumping for now
>all 15th-19th century historians claim you and your dynasty are just legends
>turns out they were wrong
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Ding
How often are historians this wrong about history?
>>2433600
/his/ only replies to bait and naziposting
This is the most broadest question ever. Who has an answer?
The answer is "sometimes" OP
I grew up in this church and I've got family who are pretty high up in the Church's administrative hierarchy, but I don't actually know what makes it different from any other sect of American Protestantism.
Some of the specific beliefs listed on the wikipedia article just seem asinine and unimportant, but I'm not particularly religious. Only ever went because I had to as a kid.
What makes the Church of the Nazerene, or any American Protestant movement, worthy of being considered "independent" from all the others?
>>2433303
Hey all protestant denominations are independent. The Nazarenes are especially strong at missionarying it seems to me. I grew up with a lot of them. I respect, too, their strong organization - it beats the random, independent protestant churches I grew up with (mostly variants of Baptist). It's nice to be part of something bigger. I hope the church is still doing well.
Dinosaurs! Oh wait that just make it the same with other American protestant churches.
If you want to leave Protestanism but not Christianity as a whole I would suggest going Catholic, Orthodox, or Anglican.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderweg
Reminder that Germans are inherently a slave race who desire order, discipline, and obedience over all other traits and this is reflected in their national history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ztOV2wrrkY
required viewing for /his/ tbqh
>>2433223
>race
Wut
Is it true that Ivan the Terrible hired stargazers and mystics to peer into the future adn they foresaw his death on March 18, 1584 (date in which he actually had a hearstroke and died)??
That's spooky as fuck.
>Believe people who say you will die at a certain date
>that day comes and you have a huge panic attack because you genuinely believed them and your heart cant handle it so you die
Yes. And that mystic's name? Einstein.
>>2433279
He died some minutes before midnight whilst playing chess.
Were the Phrygians the ancestors of the Kurds?
>>2432674
>Kurds claim to be related to the Hittites and the Phrygians who destroyed their empire
>>2432702
It was clearly a succession of state.
Similar to how the Sea Kurds of Atlantistan caused the Bronze Age collapse against their fellow land Kurds.
Oh for fuck's sake, Kurdposter. No-one will ever believe the bullshit you spout? Why do you keep wasting your time?
I know this may not be the most appropriate board for this question, but I am a fan of both actual WWII history and alternate "What If" WWII Fiction.
I'm a fan of Turtledoves work, and figured some of you guys might be able to suggest appropriate reading that would be similar to his style.
I am also looking for multiple biases on teh same events.
For instance, I was given this book by a Marine friend of mine called Infantry Aces by Franz Kurowski. Its accounts of various battle fought during WWII from the perspective of german soldiers, compiled mostly from what seems to be research done by several former Wehrmacht propaganda officers that were recording lots of the best accounts they had in order to make the germans seem like they were winning. I love seeing every possible side or bias in a situation, because I feel like the truth is somewhere between those sometimes conflicting accounts.
I need this mostly for research purposed for a tabletop game I'm helping develop.
>>2432543
>Harry Turtleshit
Only marginally better than Stirling who is the real awful one. Alt-his as a genre completely sucks dick.
>>2432567
Conceptually, or just because of the quality of the writers involved?
>>2432599
Probably the latter. I mean I guess a seriously devoted autistic academic probably COULD write decent alt-his, but nobody would read it. The established alt-his authors want their books to sell, so they have to cram them with aliens, tits, steampunk trash and outrageous anime-tier pulp bullshit so people would buy it.
I mean consider Stirling who wrote the Peshawar Lancers. It's supposed to portray a world where the northern hemisphere got shelled by meteors in the late 1800s, the British empire had to evacuate to the Raj and the world got stuck with Victorian level technology for 200 years. I mean, okay. But then the author introduces cannibal psychic Russians living in Samarkand who worship Chernobog, a Slavic pagan god, for absolutely no reason other than the author thinking it sounds cool.
Not to mention a ton of lazy writing and just outright refusal to butterfly effect the events thoroughly.
Does /his/ collect any historical memorabilia? My thing is political pins. Among other things I have: J. Edgar Hoover autograph, book signed by Nixon, etc.
Post what you have!
I buy communist party member booklets of various eastern block countries from time to time on eBay. I'm not even a communist. I just like it. Feels taboo.
I also wanted to buy Iraqi dinars on eBay right before Saddam got shock and awed in 2003 but my mother wouldn't let me use her credit card. Lol
>>2432406
>Iraqi dinars
Holy shit I actually have a couple of those with Saddam on them
>a religion which teaches the existence of gods, demons, various other spirits, other realms and superhuman ability through meditation and prayer
>no bro, you can be a Buddhist and atheist at the same time!
How did this meme start?
>>2432239
Degenerate western Buddhists who co-opt the religion to make themselves seem cultured to others
Atheism could theoretically mean–and I think it use to mean this but I could wrong–the refusal to worship or acknowledge God. Not the denial of God and spirits per say. Now most atheist from the 1800s to the present have been philosophical materialist to the point where the two have become ubiquitous with one another. This being said, if you subscribe that atheism is the mere refusal to worship God than the fact that Buddhist don't try to teach god but nirvana means it might be compatible. I know little of Buddhism though.
>>2432245
Agreed, its a virtue signal fest for the sake of selling boutique tranquility and quirky Buddhist paraphernalia
Were the ancient Elamites ancestors to the Kurds? Also, video with deep archeological and cultural data as evidence to back up the thesis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVcYeZyyx9o
Partially yeah
It's not like the Elamites all just dropped dead without having children
>>2431997
Elamites were pre-Iranian inhabtants- meaning that Persians, medians, and the ancestors of Kurds came later.
They were probably Semites like the Mesopotamians they neighbored
Why did they fuck up?
Did they?
>>2431626
For how late they got into the game, that's a shockingly comfy colonial empire.
Germany is the kid in the back of the class who draws anime in his notebook and mumbles when he talks
Today we are witnessing the city of Nineveh (ancient name for Mosul) being sacked by a combined army of Babylonians (Iraqi government based in Baghdad/southern Iraq where Babylon was) and Medians (Kurds/Iranians).
Is this a repeat of history or a fulfilment of the prophecy of the end times?
From tragedy to farce
>>2431623
>I could've visited Nineveh in 2013
>choose to spend time with parents instead, maybe I'll go next year
>fucking ISIS conquers it and destroys it
One of my biggest regrets, alongside telling her I wasn't ready to commit that way and preordering Duke Nukem Forever: Collectors Edition.
>>2434172
Where do I suscribe?