Am I the only one stunned that some person in this fucking world in history sacrificed every ounce of dignity to make fucking dick armour for Henry VIII?
That leaves the question: How did this blacksmith know how big the King's crotch area was?
>>1854677
He probably didn't. No doubt he made it intentionally oversized. Just for practicality more than anything.
I've seen that armour and Henry was a surprisingly big guy. Not just his member.
I remember watching some documentary about how the crotch area was the weak point when it came to plate armor and that it was always the first place that was attacked when the opportunity arose. So I dunno, armoring the penis might b gud.
>>1854677
Dude, fears of losing benis aside, the crotch area is a meeting point for major arteries. That gets fucked, it's over for you man.
If hard determinism is true, does it mean that people can't be hold responsible for their actions?
>>1854587
Just seems like some philisophical mumbo jumbo.
>>1854587
Depends on way too many other philosophical factors.
>>1854587
"held responsible"
Like punished in a court of law?
Like being morally obligated to have taken some other action?
Philosophical puzzle for you:
What must be the ultimate goal of the pure nihilist, and why?
To suck massive cock
>>1852915
Being a nihilist means not having to waste your time wondering empty riddles such as "what is best in life?"
>>1852915
To maintain the illusion that there is no purpose in a world where people can choose whatever purpose they want and accepting nihilistic philosophy is now absolutely a purpose for him
Why were the Nazis so much more aesthetic than the Soviets or Americans?
>>1851227
They put all points into Charisma and lost in real battle, where it hardly matters.
Had very little else going for them.
Because fascism is aesthethics translated into politics.
You dont create a gargantuan government apparatus with great struggle to create an enviroment centered around a religion, or around an economic system or about making people as happy as possible.
No, the 20s-tier facist does it because you have that romanesque cool af althis scenario in your head which is dank as fuck and should totally exist!
>"We did it, we won the First World War!"
Really?
ouais tabarnak
>"This is not a peace. It is an Interbellum for twenty years"
Fucking seriously, Foch?
>"Finally, after all these years, I have become the National Socialist German Worker's Party!
Wow real subtle Adolf
ITT: aesthetic historical clothing
Am i doing it right?
A thread on monasticism, for those who have interest or even drawing to the monastic life. A very difficult life in Orthodoxy, one that tests you against all sorts of demons and struggle, but which will purify you with fire.
>A monk, then, as a soldier of Christ ever ready for battle, ought always to walk with his loins girded.
- Saint John Cassian
>A monk is a mourning soul that both asleep and awake is unceasingly occupied with the remembrance of death.
-Saint John of the Ladder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTs4wPYKcEM
All other questions relating to Orthodoxy also welcome.
>>1849445
Every demon a monk faces a normie already faces, actually a normie faces more because he doesn't have the luxury of living in a cloistered, quiet hermitage, but has to live among the people in the busy world, like Jesus and the apostles did.
I think monasticism is fine in short periods, a month here, a couple months there....a year at the most. But it should never be a long term life style for any Christian.
>>1849474
Christ faced much more direct temptation in the desert than among other people.
Monasticism is a hard life, because you have to devote everything to God. There is no "you" time.
>>1849515
>There is no "you" time
that applies to living among people. time should be spent wisely, but it's more difficult since there are so many distractions and problems.
Christ and his apostles lived among people far more than in the desert.
What are some examples of historical memes?
>>1849419
spuks
>>1849419
Morocco Crisis
>>1849419
Roman Graffiti and margin text from Medieval Monks.
What the fuck it this?
>blend of Chinese and Indian culture, with Arabic and European thrown in later
>Has all the major world religions in scattered locations
> full of scattered colonies
>Singapore
Lets talk about this cluster fuck
There's a lot of jungle keeping the Chinese or something from showing up any unifying everything.
And then there's all those islands.
But yeah, it's an interesting place.
>>1830755
Very hilly terrain, too much foliage, too hot and humid for any outside culture to properly conquer, not centralized enough and just generally not worth it.
These SEA kingdoms would trade with outsiders getting new ideas and cultural influences.
Why didn't the Far-East make good boats so they could go to the Americas and shit?
It's much farther from Asia to the Americas than from Europe.
Also the Chinese had everything they needed at home so they didnt't really bother besides sending Zheng He out to collect tributes. The rest of Asia (Japan, Korea, etc.) were content to be left alone and not explore across a seemingly endless ocean.
Aren't Native Americans technically asian?
>>1861231
No not really. It's because they migrated away from their coal deposits and never developed.
Why do people buy into the BS that modern art is intelligent?
>>1860729
Maybe you are just too stupid to get it?
>modern art was trying to be "intelligent"
>art in general is about "intelligence"
>>1860733
May I interest you in a can of my own shit?
are white people descended from Neanderthals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=W_oX6zZonRw
>>1857974
We wuz cavemen and shiet
>>1857987
actually its a black woman claiming that white people are neanderthals
According to my genetic testing, I'm like 18% Neanderthal or so. Feels based.
Why does Judaism depart from other abrahamic faiths in being matrilineal instead of descending by patriarchy? Did oppression of Jews mean they had to by policy appropriate even rape babbies?
What do you mean anon? You can be a jew if your father is a jew or if your mother is a jew, it's not a racial category.
>>1857534
Tu eres muy frijolero
>>1857534
That's isn't how Halacha operates.
>Be Hitler
>Annex Sudetenland because I have to unite the Germans under a single flag
>Decide to not invade Czechoslovakia so people still trust me
>Acquire for Memelland from Lithuania
>Wait for Stalin to invade Poland
>Tell Poland I'll help them out if they agree to hold reunification referendums in the German parts of Poland after the war
>Declare war on Russia so I can prop up my shitty economy
>Don't chimp out on the slavs
>Promise independence and self-determination for the slavs so they'll fight for me
>Defeat the soviet union
>Annex the Danzig corridor and western Poland
>Retire and ride off into the sunset
>Spend the rest of my days painting and fucking Eva Braun
>Die
>Become known as Hitler the Great
>Have numerous monuments dedicated to me
>Become a leader in the Civ games
Are there any flaws with my plan?
>>1862654
THE JOOOOWS!
>>1862654
Depends, do you still try to exterminate the Jews or do you spare them and then use them to invent more Jewish Technology?
>>1862654
Hitler was a very complex false flag attack by both the Russians and the Austrians who have always been trying to destroy Prussia, the fact Kaliningrad still exists is a testament to this truth
>You see, Germans have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them, until they reached their limit and surrendered. Dimitri, show them the medals I won.
Guderian > Zhukov
>BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD COMMISSAR
>SKULLS FOR THE SKULLBURO
- Grigory Zhukov at the battle of Khalkhin Gol, 1939
"Every time a Russian soldier dies a general gets his wings."
-Zhukov