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>>1847068

Basically proto-Christianity/Islam where you had Zoroaster as the prophet, Ahura Mazda as god and Angra Mainyu as the devil.

>>1847269
Compare angra mainyu to the devil is pretty incorrect. In Christian theology, the devil was created by God and he's powerful but not omnipotent.

In Zoroastrian theology, Ahriman is uncreated and is just as powerful as Madza, reason for why the latter can't just make everything just and good.

>>1847293
It wasn't because of that, its because life is a struggle but the overarching theme in Zoroastranism is that the dualistic nature of mankind is a struggle between good and evil but man is inherently good.

Ahriman was also not the devil really either.

>>1841529
Byzantium
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Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

>>1841534

He said AFTER Rome. Constantinople was far more important.

Guess I'd say Mediolanum or Ravenna.

>>1848321
I blame Islam

>>1848326
I wonder how many of them can comprehend that the crusaders mostly failed at what they set out to do.

Like, at least vikings were kinda mystified in pop culture? We know exactly what happened with the crusaders and it wasn't impressive. They didn't get along with the Byzantines either, but a fuckton of crusaderposters practically conflate the two.

>>1848328
>stopped Islam advancing
>reclaimed Iberia
>Christianised Baltic
Seems like a win to me.

It seems kind of pretentious but yeah I guess it does seem like no one on here is really looking for any knowledge, at least religious posts.

>>1847732
Just very surprised at the awful content. Its like people forsake good learning for something temporal like insulting someone or posting some nonsense that everyone seems to eat up.

I know its the internet, but you would think the person is more in charge than the computer...

>>1847752
Hmm maybe 4chan has employees who spit out shit memes all day so people will be discouraged by learning anything religious or spiritual or it could just be people who don't care for this stuff because 4chan has porn and all this nasty shit so when they see anything about God they freak out.

Even Christians on here will freak out over information about Gnosis because everyone on here is convinced Gnosis means Lucifer but they never actually really look into anything besides memes. They think Paul did something bad and it's kind of a shit assumption because Paul knew way more than the letters he wrote

>>1842704
He didn't like men either, or people in general.

He just said things how they are and some people get upset about that.

>>1842708
I think it's petty to tell yourself to be one of those great men because some girl 26 years younger said no.

>>1842717
Schopenhauer was a great man. However, Schopenhauer is best read for his analysis rather than his interpretations. Between the bits of self-pity and self-aggrandisement is a lot of truth.

>>1841114
He united the two Francic kingdoms (until his death at least), got the crown of Lombardy and was the first actual ruler since the fall of Rome to be named emperor. Also because his empire was the predecessor of the Karling kingdoms (West and East Francia, Bavaria) that were created after the Treaty of Verdun and would go on to become France and the Holy Roman Empire.

>>1841114
He fucking held Rome and was the first Holy Roman Emperor, blessed by the Pope. Anyone not listening to stupid /his/ memes would know that the title doesnt mean "This guy is Roman Emperor." But "This guy takes over the job of Latter Roman Emperors who were defenders of Christfaggotry." Hence the holy part. In addition, his house gave birth to many Euronigger dynastic houses.

In addition he oversaw the centralization of his empire, the knights traced their origin in Carolingian cavalry. His realm became wealthy and he used it to either rebuild Roman cities, build new ones, and patronized the Church and other entities for their projects. He also managed to make peace with shitloads of former enemies like the Muslims in Spain and the Byzantines.

>>1841114
Also, the Carolingian Renaissance.

Germany here

Best: Teutoburg Forest
Worst: Jena–Auerstedt

Also American, and a War of 1812 aficionado.

Bladensburg (Aug 24, 1814) was a shameful display, although the Marines at least put up a good fight.

New Orleans (Jan. 8, 1815), on the other hand, was a hilarious spanking of the British.

>>1839774

And what, pray tell, could MacArthur have done about it? It's not like it's his fault that WPO-3 was utter crap? And as you pointed out, it was a long way from re-supply and right in the middle of the Japanese sphere of influence.

>dilemmas

>moral

Where is dilema here? Is guy on the upper your wife's son or something?

>>1844390
>Land Empires turn out to be easier kept than overseas ones.
Whoopdeefuckingdo.

>>1844390
India isn't a westphalian nation state though.

>>1844390
>russia
>territory intact
Uh.

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>>1842743
They really didn't. The French 75's portability and value in the war of maneuver were self-evident following the Marne and the hundred day's offensive while larger-caliber howitzers lagged behind such that they were exported all over the world. In terms of small arms they were unexceptional but hardly terrible, with the exception of the Chauchat.

In the air the SPADs and the Nieuport 17 were excellent fighters, and while the French had some terrible tank designs (pic related), they did end the war with the first recognizably modern tank, the FT-17.

>>1842777
OK if not shitty then why did everyone else have small arms that were ahead of the French?

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>>1842777
Why would a rifle need to hold more than 3 rounds at a time?

IMO there really isn't such a gulf between stupid and intelligent; most people are just preoccupied, harried by everyday problems, concentrating on pursuits not considered intellectual, don't overthink things, or otherwise behave in a simple but effective manner.

The decision to commit some petty crime was probably sound in that particular situation, since they needed immediate relief from some other problem like boredom or poverty. Thinking of consequences would just get in the way.

Conspiracy theorists need something to keep mentally busy with, so they come up with something. Again, not necessarily stupid - just on a different track.

Which is not to say that I recommend either of those options. It's just that I think classic intelligent behaviour is also a matter of being lucky enough to be in a mental and physical situation that promotes it.

I consistently score 90 on IQ tests, let me green text what my life is like with my intellectual faculties:

>can't appreciate literature on any meaningful level
>philosophy of any kind is impossible to understand, even with companion books
>can read an entire page without remembering anything you've read
>constantly have to re-read sentences to full comprehend them
>never retain what little that you remember for longer than a month
>can't appreciate music on any meaningful level; it's just nice sounds with no preference for one genre or another
>can barely string together a sentence without pausing or ummming for significant periods of time
>can't understand compound interest and don't care to
>literally have no in depth knowledge about any thing; a moderately intelligent person can probably outperform me in all tasks I've considered to have mastered after a few days of preparation

Take a subject you don't know much about - there must be one. Bonus points if there's a board about it on 4chan.

Lurk the board / research it for a day, then take all the knowledge you obtained and parrot it like you're an expert. You'll be saying shit you picked up with no deeper understanding of why you're saying it, some of it might be outright false, but dig your heels in.

That's basically what its like. Of course, there are also stupid people who realize they're stupid, but they're leagues smarter than the stupid people who don't.

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It's the most whiny emo shit I've ever seen. No wonder /pol/, the eternal victim complex, loves it.

& Jews

>>1844307

Hitler went from some street kid to the leader of the third reich and is arguably the most prolific man of the 20th century. He wasnt stupid

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>>1841574
Aztec or Maya mythology. It's wholly untapped in the entertainment industry. You have trickster, world creations and destructions 4 or 5 times, love affairs, bizzare impregnations, little rain helpers, ballgames in the underworld with death, human eating giants, river spirits (mermaid), aluxes (elves), bats with a death dealing penis, palaces of fire and darkness, half werejaguar half bat vampires, incest, drunken rabbits, and bizzare deities to name a few.

>>1841574
More or less every civilization has a big mythology its just that we don't know shit about them.

>>1841601
What's the deal with the world cycles?
It's it anything like the Ragnarok/Yggdrasil dynamic?

English longbow, it could shoot cleanly through solid steel plate.

>>1839016
Why doesn't the middle guy get a tabard?

>>1839032
Because him is irish.

meme-tier answer but Hannibal

Scipio Africanus was way better

>>1835423
if Hannibal had half the resources available to Scipio you'd be writing in phonetician

>>1835630
>mobile phone-tician
You mean Phoenetian