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Just fuck my history up 2016-11-15 21:46:51 Post No.1961826
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What is the most JUST even in the history of mankind ?
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>>1961826
event*
fuck
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>>1961826
dunkirk
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Franco-Prussian War
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How do you get the energy or motivation to do anything?
If you work hard then you'll miss the big picture and never be well rounded. If you become well rounded then you'll never become great at anything.
The only intellectually respectable jobs are mathematics, physics, or theoretical compute scientists and even then you have to sacrifice many aspects of your life to achieve anything worthwhile in them. Everything else is cuckworthy. Academics who study practical shit like distributed systems or fiber optic cables simply help Stacey get quicker chad matches on Tinder (and this academic is far ABOVE wageslaves. All jobs outside academia are intellectually worthless). And in all academic areas you are ultimately playing the lottery in terms of success.
All of art has become a mechanism for social signalling by the consumers and blatant money grabbing and self indulgence by the producers. The exception is video games, which has its own unique problems but is the most technically advanced art form.
All Philosophy consists of flailing about in the infinitely large space of unfalsifiable thoughts. That's fucking it. Mountains of "public intellectuals" have nothing non-trivial to say.
I simply don't respect almost all jobs on either the intellectual level or on importance. Even a millionaire CEO of some to-do list company talks about changing the world. They have nothing better to do!
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>All jobs outside academia are intellectually worthless
But they get paid, which is what matters
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What is your calling?
That is all that matters.
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We get it. You're smart.
Now pay your fucking rent.
>"History repeats itself!"
It clearly doesn't
Why do the peasants still believe this?
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Explain
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history sometimes repeats itself
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>>1961765
maybe the problem that your take things to literally because of your autism.
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So I'm watching the Young Pope, and in this scene where the Pope is addressing the college of cardinals for the first time, there's this awfully Orthodox looking guy among them.
If this is an Orthodox priest, why is he there? Is he a representative? Why is an Eastern representative allowed access into this gathering of the highest Catholic churchmen? Is there a Catholic representative who works in the high echelons of the Orthodox church?
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Fucking educate yourself you stupid cuck. The Catholics Church incorporates the Eastern Catholic Churches with orthodox practices.
I can't believe I share this board with people as filthy and ignorant as you.
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>>1961697
they shouldn't desu
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Are there instances of war where one side spiked the water supply of the other with alcohol? I'm wondering for a story I'm writing
inb4 Simpsons did it
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Well there has been plenty of times where one side would get the other drunk and then slaughter them.
>learning that the Massagetae were unfamiliar with wine and its intoxicating effects, he set up and then left camp with plenty of it behind, taking his best soldiers with him and leaving the least capable ones. The general of Tomyris's army, Spargapises, who was also her son, and a third of the Massagetian troops, killed the group Cyrus had left there and, finding the camp well stocked with food and the wine, unwittingly drank themselves into inebriation, diminishing their capability to defend themselves when they were then overtaken by a surprise attack.
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>>1961288
Nice thank you very interesting. Any instances of something more modern? Hoping for a character to be told of it through his father/grandfather/great grandfather
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>>1961288
>leaving a group of soldiers just for them to be killed
But why tho? Couldn't they have just left the camp and made them think they found some supplies that were left behind?
Was it literally just them getting rid of men they didn't need?
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How we can decolonise science? 2016-11-15 19:10:18 Post No.1961196
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How we can decolonise science?
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http://m.news24.com/news24/Opinions/Voices/how-we-can-decolonise-science-20161021
Is /his/ doing its part to purge science of its White Supremacist roots?
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>>1961196
Science is for stemcucks, we have no use for that here.
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>>1961200
Historians have a job to expose STEM as the White supremacist ideology it is.
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it is already decolonised, stuart theobald just wants to insert his own particular spooky brand of liberalism into it and point his finger and accuse everyone of being racist for not kowtowing to him
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>called Plato a poison mixer and praised the Pre-Socratics for being so distinct from one another
>despised Christianity as anti-life since it placed value in God, i.e. the one
>praised pagan religion over Abrahamic religion for being more complex and "pure"
>was against German nationalism and antisemitism
>lamented the abolishment of slavery on the mere basis that we lost a set of strong values from the transition
>referred to people who spoke of equality as tarantulas spinning webs to catch others in
>maintained a love for hierarchy and a caste system
>but ultimately was skeptical of systematizers and saw a lack of integrity in them
>called truth an elusive woman that no philosopher had experience with
>"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
>"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
So was he a radical liberal or what?
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>stirner fanfiction
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>>1961061
He seems interesting might start reading his books.
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>>1961061
>maintained a love for hierarchy and a caste system
This is really arguable.
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Why did the Germans, the Russians, the Poles, the Swedes - pretty much everyone who invaded them - fail to absord them the way other micro-nations/cultures were in those lands/countries?
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While I am very skeptical about these kinds of maps, it is interesting how all three stand out.
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>fail to absord them the way other micro-nations/cultures were in those lands/countries?
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>According to Kubizek, Hitler never spoke to Stefanie, always saying he would do so "tomorrow".He loathed those who flirted with her, especially the military officers, whom he called "conceited blockheads"; he came to feel an "uncompromising enmity towards the officer class as a whole, and everything military in general. It annoyed him that Stefanie mixed with such idlers who, he insisted, wore corsets and used scent". Hitler insisted that KubizekstalkStefanie and delivered daily reports on her activity while he was away visiting his mother or family.In one report, Kubizek wrote that Stefanie loved to dance and had taken lessons. Hitler disliked dancing and reportedly replied, "Stefanie only dances because she is forced to by society on which she unfortunately depends on. Once Stefanie is my wife, she won't have the slightest desire to dance!"In June 1906, Stefanie gave Hitler a smile and a flower from her bouquet as she was passing him
in her carriage.
>Kubizek later described the scene:
“Never again did I see Adolf as happy as he was at that moment. When the carriage had passed he dragged me aside and with emotion he gazed at the flower, this visible pledge of her love. I can still hear his voice, trembling with excitement, 'She loves me!'
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>>1960936
>We could've stopped the rise of Nazi Germany by kidnapping a 14 year old Anne Frank and convincing her to seduce a young Hitler for the sake of the Jewish people.
Truly, a modern day Esther.
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>>1960936
Gotta watch out for the spergs.
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Anne Frank always looked like she smelled bad.
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>pic related.
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Zhukov quote thread?
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"Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Put a man in the gulag and you'll make Communism Great Again"
-Georgy Zhukov
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Hey, fagget
How's that DIY armour coming along?
You didn't give up, right? You are riveting that mail aren't you?
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>>1960481
that dog has seen some shit, also why are you embroiding a patttern on and not just getting your mum to sew you a nice tabard.
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>>1960481
>implying I don't pay a specialist to do that shit, just like actual medieval people did
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Are they're any people involved in historical reenactment on /his/ I've always wondered whats the best way to go about getting armour reproductions.
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Can someone give me some unbiased insight on what he did? I hear right wingers saying that he saved the Chilean economy but from left wingers I hear the opposite, what did he actually do?
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>>1960289
he saved the country by killing the most retarderd president we've ever had
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His regime was not spectacular.
He seized power on the pretext of purging commies, which he did, though Allende was finished by that point anyway. As the cold war came to a close he held a referendum and power was returned to civilian authorities peacefully to his credit.
Copper remained nationalized. The economic policies of the "chicago boys" helped Chile diversify the economy and made Chile more appealing to international finance, however they backtracked on these policies by later pegging the peso to the dollar resulting in a bubble and a financial crisis a few years later which interrupted otherwise decent growth from 1976 to 1988.
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He revealed that monetarism is a meme.
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Modern Languages for Ancient/Medieval Historians 2016-11-15 11:27:04 Post No.1960020
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Modern Languages for Ancient/Medieval Historians
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Hi /his/torians,
I wanted to see if I could get some advice, or at least a bit of a discussion going about the need (with a few exceptions) for historians to possess at least one modern language for research. I study Late Antiquity/the early Middle Ages. I have Latin (Classical and Medieval) and Greek (Classical Attic/Medieval) but do not have a modern language to my name.
I have reached the point in my research where German/French are pretty much a necessity, with Italian following as a desirable third.
I have about 6 weeks off for the Christmas vac which I would like to use to make an attempt to get to grips with at least German and French. Does anybody have an recommendations for getting an academic reading grasp of these languages quickly?
I will admit it, I made it to a good university for my undergraduate degree entirely ignorant of how useful modern languages would be for a historian. I am now a postgraduate and my lack is becoming a problem - I see that I am not alone however. The vast majority of my fellow postgraduates (and this is at Oxbridge) - ASIDE from international students - lack a reading ability in these languages, although the majority of us have the ancient languages for the primary material.
Is this a problem specific to the Anglophone historical sphere? To this generation? Simply to Britain - after all, it seems that the way an arts degree works in America practically ensures that the serious student will arrive at postgraduate study with at least one of these desirable research languages under their belt.
So, tl;dr share modern language learning tips, reading strategies, discuss the monolingual Anglophone millenial scholar problem - a result of English's position as the new lingua franca resulting in too few taking up modern languages at school, or something else entirely?
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If your latin is good enough just read the french texts, For german can you read old english? Just look up in what different directions the languages went.
A general question from my side didn't you have to learn any modern language in school ? I always find that hard to believe that, to start my undergrade studies in history here in Germany I had to know atleast german, english, latin and a 2nd modern language of my choice
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This is the thing. I can bumble my way through French and Italian off of my Latin, but I am a bit fed up with bumbling.
I think what you have said demonstrates the difference very well - we do not have to demonstrate any facility with languages to embark upon undergraduate study. Even at a postgraduate level in Britain, you don't have to prove any facility with languages - although at that level you will be expected to pick up Latin/Greek/Coptic/Sanskrit/Old Church Slavonic etc. etc. depending upon your research. But you can make it to a DPhil without having ever studied Latin/Greek/Coptic etc. much less a modern language.
It always seems to me that something has gone wrong along the way - it seems that as late as the 70s most undergraduates at good universities would arrive with at least, say, French and Latin. The majority of undergraduate classicists will have been ready to hit the ground running upon arrival. Now Oxbridge have to run remedial classes - the TOP graded students of Latin and Greek from schools are no longer capable of meaningful engagement with real texts in Latin or Greek when they arrive and so have to be intensively prepped by the university before term starts.
I don't know what the hell has happened, but the state of modern language knowledge is abysmal in this country - and the knowledge of Latin and Greek is even poorer. And no, I did not have to study a modern language at A-Level (highest 'high school' qualifications pre-university). At A-Level no subjects are compulsory.
If I had had even an inkling about how useful French and German would have been to me as an historian I would have made sure to take one of them!
Do you have any tips for German? Like I say I have Latin and Greek and found neither a problem - but I just can't get my head around German, it seems so alien. And the way adjectives and nouns are compounded!
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bump for other peoples' takes.
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Is this TV show mocking Islam? Swear Negan reminds me of Prophet Muhammad.
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Negan is based. Glen and all those other faggots deserved it.
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Ho Lee crap, you are creepy as shit
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>>1960013
I love Negan, but I don't think he has anything to do with Muhammad.
Tell me about the Habsburgs. What was their end-goal?
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>>1959319
Destroy Europe like the krauts they are
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Unite Europa under a holy roman empire
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>>1959631
Not only but also unite all catholic christendom(the whole world) under the emperor