Why did the leaders of the Japanese empire embark on a war with objectives that were almost completely unattainable?
What about them or their culture made them think it was a good idea?
>>1996522
America would have destroyed them for a certainty if they had waited any longer.
Pearl Harbor was their only chance, and they failed.
>>1996522
Why did the German empire embark on their almost-as-foolhardy enterprise?
The Japanese army was extremely ideological, had their heads up their asses, and the Emperor's ear. They had assassinated dissenters, Andhad a culture that rewarded slavish obedience and sycophants over reality.
The Navy was better, because the navy requires a certain level of education, training, and cosmopolitan travel. But boy howdy, you don't know the meaning of inter-service rivalry like they did. And the army had the Emperor's ear.
there needs to be a rule that you can only post ww2 threads for 1 day a month
Was German defeat inevitable after D-Day?
nah, when hitler opened easter front
German defeat was inevitable after Stalingrad.
German victory was impossible after the Battle for Moscow.
>>1996375
But but muh uppity untermenschen had to be defeated!
Was Leon Trotsky, before 1927, the most powerful Jewish person of the past 500 years?
Benjamin Disraeli was
>>1995916
Why are you so obsessed with jews
When and why did people start calling Europe a continent? It is clearly just a peninsula. It isn't even very big.
Because after about 1700, it matters more to history than the entire rest of the Eurasian land mass.
Wow, if you wanted to used a shitty fucked up retarded map projection, you could've just used this.
>>1992105
When the Greeks started talking about continets.
Are the Sinhalese people black? Why or why not? Honestly I just need to settle a debate.
>>1985417
In terms of colloquial usage of "black"? Yeah, why not.
In terms of being African? No.
They seem to have black hair but their skin seems to be a coppery burnt umber color.
The Sri Lankan kid and my school was deemed NOT BLACK by the black kids at the school. He fell in with the Brown Town crowd, the Indians, Pakistanis, and Bangladeshis.
I think that settles it.
Why are they so misunderstood?
Their ideas are complex and make people uncomfortable.
>>2001222
>have some ideas and followers
>followers decide to apply your ideas to reality
>it doesnt work because you cant just transpose thought into action
>>2001222
Because philosophers are usually drug addled psychotics who can only be understood by other drug addled psychotics.
Former Catholic turned atheist here.
I see many Catholics fail to understand when others say that that particular branch of Christianity is especially "excessive", "stifling", and "over-bearing", what with its many 'devotions' to a myriad things: the Holy Face of Jesus, the Wounds of Jesus, the Heart of Jesus, the Heart of Mary, the Name of Jesus, or the Acts of Reparation to Mary-Jesus, and so on and so on, but also its penchant for overwhelming displays of 'piety' (the relic trade and 'wars' and the obsession with pomp and royal garb come to mind)
And all these devotions sounding like the ravings of sexually-frustrated amd isolated individuals, who were constantly bombarded by exclusively Catholic imagery, with their only outlet involving these visions (eother actual delusions born from mental instability, or outright/pious fabrications for the sake of attentio , etc.)
It really is not that difficult to understand the many rebellions against the Roman establishment's practices throughout history, from the Cathars all the way to the Brethren of the Free Spirit and the Reformation and anti-clericals in the 18th - 20th century. Consider that most anti-clerical movements have always surfaced in Catholic or Orthodox nations, but only seldomly in Protestant ones. That is because Protestantism is - without trying to offend - quite barebones, and does not feel as "excessive", meaning that there is nothing to really rebel against.
>>2000194
bumpy bump
Nothing wrong with devotion to body parts. I specially pope Francis like the devotion to the feet of Abdul al Negro, patron saint of the jobless and those on welfare.
As a practicing Catholic, I don't really know what to make of your post. The faith requires us to live a life of simplicity, following the footsteps of Christ. The theological and philosophical opinions of countless scholars have been acquired during the 2,000 years that the earthly Church has existed.
>Protestantism is - without trying to offend - quite barebones, and does not feel as "excessive", meaning that there is nothing to really rebel against.
That's because Protestantism is a watered down version of Christianity. It was like this during its conception and is even more so today. Ironically, many Protestants today deny many of the dogmas that their early reformers accepted just to separate themselves from Catholics even further.
You have mastered robotics and plan to open an expensive theme park in which visitors get to dress up, follow storylines and mingle with the robot inhabitants of a historic setting of your choice. The board of the company lets you pick the setting, but it has to be something with mass appeal that people will actually pay money for.
What is the setting and name of your park?
>Glory of Rome
Explore the ancient city of Mediolanum and it's surrounding areas, fight invading barbarians, rescue a IX/X puella, etc.
Feudal japan cause normies love samurai and ninjas and geishas n sheeiiit
England, 1460. a weak king on the throne, with undercurrents of political unrest. the golden age of knightly chivalry, with all the pomp and splendour that entails, and an era most people are aware of, without knowing the reality at all.
that, or London, 1889. Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper, social change, and severe contradictions of morality and sexuality going on, which makes it both appealing for the uptight, and the hedonistic customer.
taoism vs confucinism
go:
>chinks vs japs
wow tough choice
What a dumb thread.
The two ideologies complete eachother you dumb twat.
Taosim has all the mysticism and confucianism the social norms.
They together make a complete religion,withouth eachother they are nothing.
>>1998966
>japs
what
also:
>comparing political philosophy to a religion
great job op
>naming something after yourself while you are still alive
Never ailing sign of a faggot. People from history who died choking on their own dicks:
>ALL pharoahs
>Julius Augustus
>stalin, lenin, ho chi mihn
>obamacare
Anything i am missing?
>>1998203
>Obamacare
He didn't chose that name though, it's the Affordable Care Act. Obamacare was a shortening used by the media. Get your facts right next time please.
>>1998203
Obamacare wasn't named by Obama but by the press, similar to how there was a "Hillarycare" bill in the 90s.
Where does the concept of the "Devil" as supreme enemy of G-d originate from?
In the Old Testament, the Devil is a relatively minor character. He is implied to be the serpent in Genesis, and he also has a minor role gambling with G-d in the book of Job.
For most of the OT, G-d is either at war with rival gods or with his own people. Messianic prophecy largely deals with the glorification of Israel over her enemies.
However, by the New Testament, the Devil is seen as some supreme enemy. Yesh'Uah and the Pharisees accuse each other of being representatives of the Devil, and most of the Epistles, as well as Revelation, treat the Devil as the supreme enemy.
When did the idea of the Devil as supreme evil become part of Jewish tradition? Is it in the Talmud?
>>1997911
You do know that God isn't God's name so using it isn't using the lords name in vain, right?
christian creation derived from the apocrypha
>>1997911
The idea of the devil being God's evil counterpart is older than Judaism. It was already a theme in the region when jews adopted it.
Why is Europe still so ancient looking, compared to Asia, where you're having cyberpunk countries everywhere?
What made them go full-on modernity and all its implications, while Euro's remained a bunch of snobs in old and dated shit to stay nostalgic in?
>>1997070
Those cities broke ground like 60 years ago. Of course they look cyberpunk.
>>1997070
Public infrastructure work expenditure follows high gdp growth.
Because prior to WW2, most of asia was just wooden houses, while Europe had complex artistic stone architecture
Easily understable why asians were fine with getting rid of it all while Euris werent
Can anyone give me guidance on where to read up and learn on the history of Korea and South Korea? I plan on spending some time there in the future and would like to be less ignorant about the countries history. Any books, links etc would be gnarly.
>>1996984
Not much happens.
>>1996984
Dae-Sook Suh's stuff on Korean history and the UNESCO Anthology of Korean Studies would be good places to begin. The anthology is a UN publication, so it's a bit filtered. Like all history and sociology books, take it with a grain of salt.
>>1996984
They're like Poland around WW1 except throughout the entirety of their history; irrelevant cucks for their neighbors to exploit
Everyone knows that Lavrenti Beria molested young girls and raped quite a few. Dead bodies were even found buried in his dacha garden.
Do you think he touched Stalin's daughter?
I think he'd have died a lot sooner if he did.
>>1996909
/thread
>>1996902
No. My grandma (I only met her a few times as a child) would have never allowed him to touch her.
Let's discuss the tragic history of our favorite Indo-Europeans.
What went wrong? Can Celtic languages survive?
Nah it's fucked, the government here in Ireland are doing fuck all to revive it and if that isn't done within this century it'll be as dead as Latin or Cornish to use another Celtic language as an example - only spoken by a few enthusiasts.
There's some desire here to learn the language but globalisation will probably put an end to that as well and there's nobody genuinely making an effort to tap into that desire and give people anything beyond an ethereal sort of feeling of Nationalism to prompt them to learn it.
The West of the country is being crippled by centralization in Dublin which is causing loads of the youth from the Gaelteacht regions and elsewhere to move there where they just become a part of the English speaking Pale mob.
The schools do a shite job of teaching people the language and normally leaves them hating it by the end, I did over a decade in this country's education system and can hardly put a sentence together as Gaeilge.
There's also the problem of English being the world's lingua franca and countries in the Anglosphere (yes Ireland is one of them no matter what people say) not really needing any great portion of their populations to be bilingual. So laziness factors in considerably.
>>1995897
>What went wrong?
collapse of Finnish Empire started a domino effect resulting in leprechaun rebellion of 20 BCE and massacre of Celts
>>1995897
>What went wrong
The Eternal Anglo.
And to a lesser extent frogs.
>Can Celtic languages survive?
Yes, keeping a language alive is as easy as learning it. It's just that very many people just do not care to do so, myself included.