Why was the soviet union so cultureless?
>>1621535
Why would you think so?
>>1621537
what culture and customs do you associate with the soviet union?
>>1621541
Physical culture, parades, monuments, that square-geometric architecture, army choirs, stamps, train tourism, depressed novelists, chess, rhythmic gymnastics, etc.
Even just the easily recognizable communist party propaganda is culture, and pretty much every person on the planet is aware of it and can tell what it is and what it means.
You are just asking a stupid question, and I imagine your next post will be comparing a federation that existed just over half a century to a long chain of successor states that come from thousands of years ago.
Were Spanish conquistadores fellon criminals or real soldiers?
>That would explain the massive rapes
Yeah, they were mostly scum
>>1620586
Contrary to what you believe or have been told Rape is something that was common place even back then, just as it is now in war.
They taught me in school Spanish conquerors in America were like an ancient "SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger" made of criminals who wanted to clear their criminal record
In this thread, let's post the more reasonable explanations for supposed "miracles" and supposedly paranormal activity that the Christian claims is evidence in favor of his religion (as though other religions didn't have their own miraculous claims).
When one reads hagiographies dating from the rise of Christianity and until the 15th century, one sees the most outlandish of claims that Christians actually believed in and - in most cases - still believe in. Claims of levitation, bi-location, materialization/multiplication of matter, prophesy, contact with supernatural beings... claims that, surprisingly, became scarcer and scarcer until they dwindled into non-existence with the coming of the Enlightenment and increased secularization and with the advent of both the camera and faster communication methods.
>>1624928
*tips fedora*
>>1624928
"Miracles" in the bible are metaphors. There you go, saved you all 90 worthless posts.
>muh evidence
Was he a war criminal?
>>1624878
Technically I think he was. We have to be objective when considering things such as this.
>>1624878
Retaliating for war crimes is not a war crime.
>>1624878
Killing Germans is an obligation not a crime.
>people use the term "immoral" when they mean "gross" or "unsettling", i.e. degeneracy
>most people's idea of "morality" relates to things like not having too much sex, not doing drugs or alcohol, etc., leaving one to question what moral system takes such personal matters into account
is the modern conception of morality really about creating a greater good, or is it simply a method of decreasing the amount of personally unsettling things in the world? certainly we can at least come to the conclusion that most people who talk about morality haven't read very much moral philosophy.
>>1624820
Authoritarianism strongly correlates with disgust response. Not all moral systems exist to eliminate discomfort, but that is usually an important factor for the most vocal individuals.
> modern conception of morality
Morality was correlated with feel of disgust from the beginning of times, anon.
>>1624820
How much restraint you exercise when it comes to things like sex, drugs and alcohol seems like it has more to do with how virtuous you are rather than how moral you are to me.
I don't know if that matches up with any proper definitions of virtue or morality that people use, I guess what I mean is it just seems like it relates more to how disciplined and responsible a person is, whereas I've always thought of morality as just being about not harming others primarily. Obviously those qualities would allow you to better fulfill any obligations you have to others and avoid harming them, but not having them doesn't really directly hurt anyone.
Did you guys know monastic warfare was a thing in Ireland? There even where instances of abbots themselves taking up arms to fuck up another monastery so vikings plundering monasteries weren't that shocking in fact there were cases when Irish teamed up with them or killed a norse raiding party just to claim their booty as their own. Why people ignore the fact that christians attacked the monasteries too?
> Why people ignore the fact that christians attacked the monasteries too?
Rarely useful in propaganda.
>>1624769
That's pretty badass, desu. Also, nobody complains about Vikings pillaging Ireland. Just everywhere else.
>>1624769
>killed a norse raiding party just to claim their booty as their own
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Was the French Revolution a mistake?
The American Revolution was avoidable and justified, whereas the French Revolution was unavoidable and unjustified.
The revolution wasn't a "mistake", the tragedy was that the revolution didn't occur a century earlier.
>>1624682
>American Revolution was justified
>colonies governed by the crown don't pay taxes for wars fought by the crown just like everyone else
>lmao we free now
>France pls help
Some of the results were good, but it wasn't justified at all.
>>1624663
The french aristocracy really were dicks.
The whole reign of terror thing that happened afterward kinda ruined it though.
Why is it called "Balkanization" when "Iberization" would be a much better word?
>>1624357
Because people only have short term memory.
Taification.
Iberization is shitty to say though.
Balkanization rolls off the tongue much more easily.
Hi /his/ I need your help with something.
I am a German-American (not muh heritage, my parents moved here in the 1990's.)
We recently moved homes, and I decided to kill some time by going through some of the old stuff we had lying around. My grandpa was a member of the army during WW2.
I kept seeing this symbol on his head, but I don't know what it means. Sorry but I can't get a pic. It looks like two shovels crossed, like he was an engineer. I myself am one too and it goes far back in the family, but I am not certain.
What is this symbol?
>>1623808
Is it bait?
36th Waffen Grenadier Division Dirlewanger. If that's serious thread, then I have some bad news for you.
You see the thread is funny because he thinks the grenades are shovels and doesn't realize his beloved grandfather was a war criminal. He will most assuredly be shocked to discover this.
>>1623808
That symbol...
Mass casualties...
Anyone saw it? Is it a good movie?
>>1623626
It's shit, anti-german propaganda.
>>1623641
find one ww2 movie that isnt anit-german propaganda
>>1623656
Dresden.
Why didn't the Japanese use shields at all throughout history? I can understand why the samurai didn't, since it took two hands to wield a katana, but what about the ashigaru? Didn't every other culture use shields of some kind?
>>1623487
Because they are genetically inferior and their imagination is bankrupt.
They used deployable shields, mainly as a cover for archers. And don't forget that the spears ashigaru mainly used were still quite long, so it wasn't exactly handy to carry a shield. Still a fucking mystery, since they had a bunch of shorter swords that could be one-handed.
>majority of casualties from arrows
>don't use shields
This is some weeaboo fighting magic shit.
hey guys lets discuss the problem of evil
as an atheist myself i do not believe that it is a good argument against the existence of the christian god
here are some points to consider
it is not gods goal to make everyone as happy as possible but he wants as many people as possible to initiate a relationship with him
it is totally possible that in a world of free agents many people come to know god through intense suffering
also you cannot possibly know whether god might have a sufficient reason to allow some suffering because it might bring about a greater good in the future
also there is a difference between logically possible and feasible worlds even for an omnipotent god
the classic example is that god could not make a prime number into a prime minister
so it might not be feasible for god to create a world with less or no suffering in which the same amount of people freely come to know god
>isnt heaven a logically possible world in which everyone freely comes to know god without suffering ?
no heaven might not be feasible without the previous life in the earthly world
just go read schelling.
>>1623208
People in real life who experience real evil know that God exists. Instantly.
>>1623222
could you elaborate on that ?
Why the soviets didn't develop a antitank rocket launcher during ww2 and kept using those POS AT rifles?
>>1623019
They used a copied version of the German small anti-tank thing (not bothered to look up the name, forgot) and ones they captured. Not the panzershrek but the other one.
I think they also had some lendlease stuff but I don't think it was used as much.
But really you should be able to find this with a Google search easily. Not going to do that for you, just search "Soviet anti-tank weapons ww2"
>>1623043
Panzerfaust
no need when they captured so many panzerfausts
>he pronounces Celts as "Kelts"
As did the Byzantines.
>>1622918
You mean the way it was pronounced by the Greeks, the Romans, and by all living Celtic groups?
>>1622918
Are you mentally ill?
I'm not sure if off topic, please delete if so:
I am Australian, my question is a legal one/
My dad was a Vietnam veteran, he had a cancer removed from his body, this later developed into an abscess.
For some reason after having the abscess drained, he died a few minutes after being operated on due to blood loss.
There is an investigation into his death, however my mum is not eligible for war widows payments as he was recently switched to low blood pressure medication, and was recognized as having hypertension due to service, so bleeding out is not counted as related to service due to his recent med change. The coroner has confirmed it will not be due to blood pressure, but we are waiting for the full investigations report.
Our family is very poor, so I want to consider the financial implications of perusing a case against the health department, soley due to my mothers ineligibility to the widow pension.
If the case is unsuccessful we will only be further in the red and my mu is not able to perform most labor.
What would you anons do? Is it worth chasing up? My dad was 67, average life span would have given him +10 years.
It is clear he wasn't a priority and the proper staff were not monitoring his conditions after the operation.
Cheers
Tl;Dr
Is it reasonable/viable to peruse legal action if there was a negligent death in state care?
You need to talk to a lawyer that knows Aussie law
>>1622758
Only if a Dingo ate your baby