Anyone have any recommended books on the Yugoslav Wars?
The Balkans: Nationalism, War & the Great Powers, 1804-1999
and
The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War
Both by Misha Glenny
Amanda Brook Celar's Of a not so civil war
To understand why and how the violent breakup happened you must first know about the entire history of Yugoslavia, from it's creation at the end of WW1, interwar tensions, WW2 debacle and communist power balancing acts that set it up to fail for the 2nd time.
>>1760235
Are you implying that there was no external meddling whatsoever?
>>1760717
Not him, but for the most part there was no external meddling. It was entirely within Serbia's power to avoid the war.
>At what point does history become Science/mythology?
Sumeria? Neanderthals? Where in history do you think the line is drawn?
>>1759004
Pre-history. It's in the name.
>>1759004
History begins with writing.
>>1759011
This. Although protohistory and pre-history have a lot to teach us as well.
If this were intended as a message, regardless of meaning, why was it only one word? If they intended to leave a message for the Europeans, wouldn't they have tried to articulate it better?
>>1758829
We do know what happened. They joined a group of native americans.
>>1758933
Source?
>>1758829
they were croatian and did not know much english so they wrote "croatoan" [sic] to ask if anyone else knew the language
it's like brazilians in online games and how they just type "BR?" to try and find other brazilians
So Freemasons are the Protestant equivalent of the Jesuits, right?
not even a little
>>1758756
Why not? Both are politically active in ways that other parts of their respective religions aren't. Everyone knows the French Revolution and American Revolution involved Masons at high levels of power.
"Protestant" is not a religion.
Freemasonry is not part of any religion.
Freemasonry is not a political organization, either.
Tell me about Axum /his/, and the heir called Ethiopia.
>>1758666
It was the one hope subsaharan Africa had for a great civilization. I mourn its loss
>>1758676
Ethiopia isn't really sub-saharan
Culturally and historically it's tied to the Middle-East and North Africa
You're thinking of Mali
>>1759394
Or Kongo
Why did he come back to the cave /his/?
>>1758453
Neanderthal monkeys love caves. He was probably fucking his sister in there like they do in trailers today.
For deliver other people ..
>>1758463
People don't want to be delivered. They want to believe in their sweet lies. Hence why they killed him.
This triggers biblical denialist!
"The size of the gate is consistent with the historical and archaeological knowledge we possess," Sa'ar Ganor, an excavation director with the Israel Antiquities Authority, said in a statement. According to biblical narrative, "everything took place" at the gates of the ancient city of Tel Lachish, where the gate-shrine was originally built, the IAA said.
http://www.livescience.com/56300-gate-shrine-excavated-in-israel.html
I'm sorry, but if it's mentioned in the Bible, it doesn't exist. Every word of the Bible is automatically discredited simply because it's in the Bible.
>>1758412
That's an evil place.
>>1758434
Alas poor Rome, we hardly knew ye.
Why are the French so bitter to Americans and British?
Since WW2, despite Britain losing its empire and falling in power, its remained on good terms and has a close, brotherly friendship with America, so much so they're near culturally identical.
This didn't happen in France. France had de gaulle, who had nothing but contempt for his former allies and brought France out of nato and sort of tried to form a third world power on the world stage. He loved to take credit for France's liberation too.
Was it France's humiliation in ww2 that caused this sense of resentment towards the allies?
When the allies took paris, they wanted the yanks out asap so they could celebrate alone.
And finally, do you feel this sense of bitterness is lost today, or does it linger in relations?
>>1758308
They don't like not being relevant.
>And finally, do you feel this sense of bitterness is lost today, or does it linger in relations?
Considering how modern France look like I'd say they got other stuff to worry about than the yanks and the eternal anglo not salting their snails enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju79YT_lBVI
They're still salty over Freedom Fries
>religious threads on /his/ will never have good, objective discussion because of all the shilling for/shitting on currently practiced religions
God DAMN you people
cry harder faggot
>>1758302
>objective discussion about religion
xD
Are you being retarded on purpose? Can you actually take a second and tell me what you mean by that? Maybe the discussion on /his/ is of such a low level because of people such as yourself?
>>1758375
Literally what the fuck is wrong about objectivity discussing religion.
Maybe you take more from it than I mean by it. Just that any discussion about the origins of Yahweh as a deity in Caananite religions will never take off because someone will start screaming about that being impossible because their holy book says so.
Can we have a thread on ancient traditions still being practiced today?
>>Baby jumping (El Colacho) is a traditional Spanish holiday dating back to 1620 that takes place annually to celebrate the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi in Burgos.[1][2] During the act, known as El Salto del Colacho (the devil's jump) or simply El Colacho, men dressed as the Devil (known as the Colacho) in red and yellow jump suits jump over babies born during the previous twelve months of the year who lie on mattresses in the street. The "devils" hold whips and oversized castanets as they jump bravely over the unaware infants.
>>The Brotherhood of SantÃsimo Sacramento de Minerva organizes the week-long festivities which culminate on Sunday when the Colacho jumps over the babies on the mattresses placed on the procession route traversing the town.[3] The origins of the tradition are unknown but it is said to cleanse the babies of original sin, ensure them safe passage through life and guard against illness and evil spirits.[4][5][6] In recent years, Pope Benedict has asked Spanish priests to distance themselves from El Colacho, and to downplay the tradition’s connection with Catholicism. The Church still teaches that it is baptism by water, not a giant leap by an airborne devil, which cleanses the soul of original sin.[7]
Seriously though Spain, wtf
Has anyone accidentally stepped on a baby doing this before?
>>1758306
>Itsa me mario
Seeing how Evola loved the Romanian Iron Guard for being religiously inclined, mystical, fanatical and ruthless killers, is it safe to assume that if he was alive today he would really love ISIS?
ISIS are just dunecoons who commit violence mostly against civilians. AFAIK the iron guard only killed politicians they deemed corrupt which is probably a huge difference.
>>1758287
Yes.
These nerds usually pick whichever current military junta to masturbate to, they're not very smart.
>>1758303
They killed quite a lot of civilians too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_rebellion_and_Bucharest_pogrom
And I doubt that Evola adhared to such liberal ideas as the differentiation between combatants and civilians.
If there were actually a creator of the universe who cared about his creation, would the Gospel really be so outlandish?
>caring means emotionally cuddling them instead of making them walk their own journey towards Oghuz enlightenment
>>1757976
>veterans
Heh
>>1757976
>if there were
Nigga
Does neo-paganism have any worth or sprituality to it beyond self-improvement?
I've been thinking about converting to a religion, but neo-paganism which is hip and trendy seems hollow, and some denominations seem to outright reject people who aren't part of the original race (I'm white but I don't like a religion that's based on basic caveman tribalism to where somebody who has a different eye color is not allowed in).
I've come to dislike neo-paganism but I'm wondering why it has gotten a bunch of traction.
>>1757904
Cause it's "cool" people ages 16-25 are kinda rebeling against "society" and whatnot and paganism is this cool nature shit
> spirituality
> beyond self-improvement
What does it even mean? Saving your soul? Who the fuck knows. Being able to cast magic spells? Aren't going to work.
>>1757922
Nothing bad for being in religion because it is cool instead of because you *fear* tales about hell. The emotional reason is still emotional reason.
What are some arguments against capitalism? I'm especially interested in hearing ones that look at the cultural consequences of capitalism.
Capitalism is an emergent phenomenon. You can't argue "against" it any more than you can argue against heat or OP sucking dicks.
Infinite growth isn't sustainable, but in capitalistic system everybody motivated by it.
how does an infinite growth market work in a finite resource reality
What are Iraqis?
Are they arabized sumerians/babylonions? It's where those civilizations were, after all.
Are they arabized persians? The area spent a lot of time under Persian control and the Sassanid capitol was pretty close to modern Baghdad.
Are they just the descendants of northern arab migrations? They were the first stop when islam started to spread out of the peninsula, after all.
They are part of the victorious Arab tribes that conquered Mesopotamia/Levant that would mix with the local semites/persians and later become it's brightest Arab tinkers as they settled in the Islamic capital of the World.
Unlike the shitty ones currently making up the Arabian penninsula and Gulf states.
>>1757772
I've heard it said that the Egyptians of today are basically the same people as the ancient Egyptians. So this does not also apply to Mesopotamia? Did all those ancient semitic people die out?
>>1758913
Of course not, their genetic heirtage lives on, mixed or not.
But their entire identity is long gone and whats left are arabs.
To call them anything else would be insulting towards them cause there are no "WE WUZ URUK N SHEIT" arabs like modern white people cling to Romans or modern greeks to ancient greeks, whom were Turkic.