Why?
>>2357624
He was a great king
>>2357648
For Spain
>>2357624
Did he die a virgin?
Why are there so many medieval paintings about fighting giant snails?
>>2357261
INDEED, TRULY A MYSTERY; IF ONLY THERE WERE MULTIPLE CLEAR DEPICTIONS AVAILABLE FOR US TO SEE... IT IS AS IF AT SOME POINT IN THE PAST HUMANS BATTLED GIANT SNAILS.
>>2357261
Mollusks
Ye Olde Memes
Does the Catholic church still commission new, opulent things, or have modern standards made this untenable for them?
they have tried brutalism and other isms as well
>>2356327
It does I guess, it's just that
1. the Catholic Church no longer has the money or influence that it used to
2. Catholic aesthetics generally went to shit in the 60s and 70s and even today it can have a problem with ugly-ass kitschy modern art
Pic related is a postmodern cathedral that was completed in 2004, so don't get me wrong the Catholic Church still produces a lot of beauty, but you probably aren't going to see Michelangelo-level stuff any time soon.
>>2356341
>1. the Catholic Church no longer has the money or influence that it used to
Ending the sale of indulgences was a mistake. There's no good theological argument against it, and Luther is a fucker who was wrong.
>The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellowmen. The man who is endowed with important personal qualities will be only too ready to see clearly in what respects his own nation falls short, since their failings will be constantly before his eyes. But every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.
I think the same about people who take pride in their ethnicity without having accomplished fuck all in their life.
Have you noticed some people from some fucked up slavic countries who think they're shit simply because they're white? It's embarrassing.
Accomplish something in your life and then be proud of it.
>>2353683
>slavs
>white
that was your first mistake anon
>>2353683
It's like that with any ascribed trait. Race, sex, sexuality, etc. You didn't choose it and it's nothing to be proud of.
>>2353712
Imagine if the population of earth were 100% white. People would laugh at you if you said "I'm superior because some other man accomplished this"
It's Valentine season anon. What is your favorite courtship tradition from any culture?
>>2352483
Yobai
Also apparently in old Japanese culture (pre-meiji) the milfs of the village took the virginity of the boys, while the dilfs of the village took the virginity of the girls, each teaching sex to the other.
I dunno these are claims made by a doujinshi whose name I forgot but it explains the popularity of /ss/ and dilf/loli doujins desu.
>>2352483
central asian.
Isn't valentines day based on lupercalia?
Did women in Japan historically face the same level of exclusion and oppression they faced in Western Europe?
lol give me a break.
Japan still treats women like garbage. Anecdote from a morning teachers meeting:
>Kocho-sensei, I am very busy preparing the students for the Culture Festival today. Why can't you give this task to Sally-chan instead?
>Because she is a woman.
probably much more.
>women were oppressed in the west
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
6.5/10 someone will bite.
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/06/18/415205524/dna-confirms-kennewick-mans-genetic-ties-to-native-americans
Mormons will not accept this
>>2349733
Looks Caucasian.
B-but I thought physical anthropologists can't determine racial features through skulls! Reddit lied to me!
>>2349738
>looks caucasian
Are you a mexican?
This diamond shaped face is not caucasian at all.
Are there any great historical matriarchal civilizations or cultures?
If not, since females are roughly half the species, why have more nations and cultures *not* been matriarchal?
Would some great past civilizations being matriarchal have made them superior? Perhaps even prevented their collapse or destruction?
How can there be a matriarchal civilization when male teenagers fresh out of puberty can automatically smack around 95% of the female population with ease?
>>2349326
LOOK AT THOSE BOOBS
>random Instagram whores with 9 - 5 jobs regularly btfo professional models
What's the world coming to?
And how many Legions would you need to conquer: the Aztecs, the Incas or all of the East Coast
>>2341099
5 to conquer all of them. Pre or post Smallpox?
Yes you mongoloid. The native Americans didn't have metal weapons or horses.
>>2341128
pre
/his/ memes thread!
/r/ing the one with 'that guy in every history 101 class
>>2330156
Is theology a science?
as much as math is, yeap.
>>2358314
Yes
No.
What happened to southern Italy? We know that now it's a shithole but historically what went wrong? Was Aragon the problem? Or was it the bourbon that never developed the country. It's strange to me that such a big country has been static for most of his time and never accomplished anything.
>>2357792
Mountains. Mountains usually produce a more conservative, traditional populous. It's italy's equivalent of Appalachia.
>>2357798
This, this, thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis.
>>2357798
But (for example) the people of Napoli did not come from mountains and they lived a more "costal" life with fishing and shit but yet they didn't develop. Why?
"Optimism is Cowardice"
*tips*
>>2355821
Wha did he mean by this?
Seriously what did he mean
>>2355991
>"LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME AREN'T I WIERD AND EDGY PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO ME LOOK AT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
>>2355821
everyone who is considered a cuck today, Liberals in all senses, Atheists, Materialists, Bourgeois, Marxists, (((Conservatives))), anyone non-Germanic is a coward.
The 2 greatest philosophers of the 21st century!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcEJr8h_yGM
>>2355141
>anarcho capitalist
>great philosopher
The 21st century is really fucking shit.
Nope.
Why were the fascists so good at fighting in the Spanish civil war?
Because their adversaries were mostly teenagers with Molotovs.
muslims>catholics
>Why were professionally trained, experienced soldiers better at fighting than workers and artists?
Gee I don't know