Are Kurds the descendants of the Numenorians?
>>2436199
Are Native Americans descendants of the Kurds?
>>2436199
More like the Avari desu
Daily reminder that the United Kingdom of Gondor is Kurdish.
Japanese
>Its better to die for your country than to surrender!
Westerners
>naw man, I'd surrender rather than die. I mean, I'm important and stuff.
explain
Westerners aren't spooked
It's why we invented everything
>>2436140
shut up whit boi you didnt invent peanut butter
do me a favor and google "American Inventors"
>Be the leaf
>Use the leaf
West and East are just two different worlds, man.
Zhukov obviously.
Actually good tier
>Rundstedt
>Harold Alexander
>Eisenhower
Meme Tier
>Rommel & Guderian
>Montgomery
>Patton
Manstein.
>masterminded the Manstein Plan that led to the Fall of France
>disagreed with most of the German High Command in doing so and had his plans rejected 14 times before taking them directly to Hitler
>annihilated multiple enemy armies in Barbarossa
>almost singlehandedly stabilized the Eastern Front at Kharkov, where his 1 Corps repelled and mauled three pursuing enemy armies with his famous "backhand blow"
Does anyone have any examples of long-standing Christian saint veneration that might as well be non-Christian paganism?
I don't mean HURR DAGON FISH HAT DURR I mean actual documentation of, say, a small village in France that has developed an elaborate ritual scheme based around four saints and animal sacrifice to them.
I'm interested in the most pagan aspects of Christianity, and the remnants of Roman polytheism found in it (And the resurgence of these elements). Are there any existing (or historically recorded) examples of groups, cults, or denominations that dropped Jesus, Joseph, and Mary in favor of what might as well be polytheism?
Again, I'm interested in specific incidents of this, not just "Catholicism as a whole". That's too broad.
>>2435814
bump
>>2435814
What you describe is mainstream for most Christians.
>>2435814
Sweden incorporated the idea of preordained death where the dead was granted rewards and glory in the afterlife in the same style as in northern mythology during their Empire era,.
Looking for podcasts on history that are fairly entertaining. If the narration is too flat I end up inadvertently tuning it out so the "entertaining" bit is actually fairly important.
I've been through all of Hardcore History at this point, so no need to recommend that. Or argue about the accuracy of Dan's recounting...
Thanks guys for reading and all recommendations.
More sociological than historical, but Revisionist History with Malcolm Gladwell is super interesting.
It's got kind of a left-slant, but it's not overt and in your face.
Does anyone have links to Dan Carlin's podcasts that I can use on mobile?
Would the Soviet Union have eventually attacked Germany if Hitler didn't strike first with Operation Barbarossa?
If the Soviet Union never got involved in WWII, would the Axis Powers have eventually achieved victory?
>>2435512
>Would the Soviet Union have eventually attacked Germany if Hitler didn't strike first with Operation Barbarossa?
Most likely not.
>If the Soviet Union never got involved in WWII, would the Axis Powers have eventually achieved victory?
They alredy did achieved it before Barbarossa. Britain would not survive in a war of attrition. That's speaking about Germany, Nippon never had any chance against the US.
>>2435512
Read the wages of destruction by Adam tooze. The nazis had no choice but to declare war on the union, because they had doubled down on their overheating economy after the loot infusion from France and Poland, and they thus needed another loot source to continue the overheat or to lessen the blow of economic rationalization
>>2435536
The Germans had won, but only by overheating their economy to an absurd point, which then forced their hand later.
>>2435512
>Would the Soviet Union have eventually attacked Germany if Hitler didn't strike first with Operation Barbarossa?
Probably not.
>If the Soviet Union never got involved in WWII, would the Axis Powers have eventually achieved victory?
Almost certainly not. They have no real means of bringing the war to a close, and sooner or later, the American involvement will escalate to open war. Even if they can't make a landing in the Continent, they can say, drop a bunch of nukes on Germany.
>>2435536
> Britain would not survive in a war of attrition.
Why not? They were outproducing the Germans in almost all relevant metrics, and were outside of the reach off Germany to strike decisively anyway.
ITT: Historiographical trends you would like to see in your life time
For me, it would be the rehabilitation of Richard Nixon
>>2434966
A dramatic shift to aggressive American Imperialism which leads to a final showdown between China and the United States.
>>2434979
Are you Steve Bannon?
>>2434966
No further rehabilitation needed; you must have missed the national outpouring of love at his funeral.
why did the dorians invade?
Why not?
>>2434741
WHY DID THEY INVADE WHERE?
>>2434765
Peloponnesus
What type of food did the pre-Roman Celts eat and drink? Are there any Greek or Roman writers who spoke of it?
For some reason I can find out from Pliny that the Germanic tribes ate oat porridge but I can't find any evidence for the Celts cuisine.
Mainland Celts or British Celts?
Pliny wrote that the Gauls made cheese, and the Irish were described as eaters of porridge and milk before they got potatoes.
According to Columella, cows were rare North of rome and "barbarians" ate and drank sheep products instead. Strabo agrees that the Gauls had large flocks of sheep.
Cows did not replace goats and sheep as primary dairy-producers in Britain until the Saxons.
>>2434755
This is really interesting. I thought the barbarian Germanic tribes lived off cows and the meat and dairy they produce. Totally changes my perspective of the Germanics to think they were sheep herders.
>tfw no idea how to live day to day and moment to moment or in the longer term
>tfw completely adrift in a sea of heuristics, self-help, wisdom, psychology, pop-psychology, evolutionary biology, conventional wisdom, folk wisdom, historical examples, philosophies, religions, canons, schools of thought, anecdotes, and ideologies
>tfw if I simply follow my own way then people will abuse me ("Read that book / learn that subject or you're dumb!") and maybe I'll be cucked by advertising
>>2434583
>>2435350
kek, no
>>2435350
wrong one
I am new to Philosophy. I don't know where I should start first. Give me some recommendations. (Pic unrelated)
nick land fanged noumena
Alan Watts if you want to know more about (((the game)))
Nietzsche if ur gey and want to get more gey
>the sun king didn't even fuck her
christ what a cuck
>>2434383
only betas and women care about sex
>>2434397
>only betas and women care about sex
(you)
France was his true bride.
>I am a citizen of the world.
What did he mean by this?
>>2434331
Due to his social and mental circumstances he did not feel a connection to the group of people around him and thus declared himself to simply be a part of the world, instead of a smaller ingroup.
>>2434331
Fuck the concept of nations lol
>>2434331
it means fuck greece and fuck alexander the great
Welcome to the Economics Thread. No Marxists allowed.
Thoughts on endogenous money? I don't usually let the work of cranks be the subject of my time but this one seems interesting.
>>>/eco/
Economics is gay and has nothing to do with the real world
If economics is humanities then so is ecology
We don't like numbers here boy.
Hey /his/. For as long I can remember my grandfather has had a sword lying around. I recently proposed to try to get some more information on it so I figured I give this board a shot because I've seen weapon discussions here before.
Here's some background:
My great-grandparents moved into an old house/villa in the Southern Netherlands circa 1935. It used to belong to a rich and stuck up family that went bankrupt and kind of disappeared 10+ years before that. My grandfather found the sword somewhere in the attic of the house. After my he found it it was passed on to the local mayor and pastor, who's maid obsessively cleaned it making the engraving hard to see. At some point my grandfather got it back, I don't exactly know how.
It's a little bit less than a meter long and as mentioned it isn't in the best state possible. It does seem to be well made, at least the decorations. Now I don't know a whole lot about swords but I guess it's between 150-100 years old and purely ceremonial. My grandfather suggested that it might have been used for fencing.
Does anyone here have the knowledge/time to tell me some more about this item? If not I'll try /k/
>>2433977
Damn I should have proofread that shit. Anyway if you want additional information or pictures I could deliver those tonight
Is it sharp?
>>2433993
That's hard to tell, it might have been sharpened at one point (only the front side). Also it might be worth noting that the tip is rounded. That's kind of hard to tell on my shitty collage