Reinhard is a mix of Megas Alexandros, Friedrich der Große and Napoopan.
Question is, was Kircheis based on some historical figure?
Hephaestion or Patroclus.
He was just Reinhardt's trustworthy fuck toy of sorts
>>1615839
He was also a great general and even statesman material though.
>>1615839
Jesus so even >muh Kircheis is a mix of that guy and the fag that got BTFO for being friends with Friedrich.
But more importantly, was he so important that his death made everyone go >if only (name) was here for every single porblem?
Did pre-modern (ie Medieval & Classical Era) people get depressed?
How did they try to cure it?
>>1615797
>Did pre-modern (ie Medieval & Classical Era) people get depressed?
Probably.
>How did they try to cure it?
War and rape.
>>1615797
most likely
Either killing themselves or keeping it hidden from everyone else.
>>1615797
Alcohol fixed things.
What are some interesting things you know about this place and its history? Outside of landing Brazil and more recently, dudeweedlmao, it doesn't get much mainstream attention.
>>1615745
Owned a large part of Africa
>>1615758
True. Was there anything interesting about their colonies? How they treated them, how well they did post-colonization compared to others, etc.?
Portugal in one pic
we also had a nice socialist revolution in 1974
rennaisance or baroque art, /his/?
i gotta take a class in one or the other
i love rubens caravaggio rembradnt and vermeer, but da vinci and michelangelo are the legends for a reason, aren't they?
>>1615648
Bugger, that's a fucking tough one. Could you not do both?
Renaissance is for normies, Anon. People who buy fucking prints of Da vinci's The Vitruvian Man at IKEA and put it up at home to show others how """cultured""" they are.
Patricians get down and dirty with the Baroque.
Of course, the highest of Patricians are exclusively into 20th century polish art, but babby steps, my friend!
>>1615648
baroque has THICC
>This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
>Holy
>Roman
>Empire
Surely no nation in the world could claim to having all three adjectives at once.
>>1615623
>Western
Cardinal direction is relative
>Roman
Couldn't defend Rome; most of the military force was Germanic and even an emperor was Germanic
>Empire
Only in name. A true empire would have been able to control the Germanics
>>1615623
>Most
This is subjective
>Serene
Bad stuff happened, it wasn't serene
>Republic
The doge was just a puppet of the oligarchy
>French
Derives from Frank which was a Germanic tribe not Gallic
>Empire
Can't even defend colonies
Protestantism is a practical joke that has gone on far too long.
Why is Catholicism just so great /his/?
Mormons aren't Protestants though.
Catholics don't even exist anymore
>>1615336
Protestants ruined nice English churches. All this puritanical nonsense stripped away priceless artwork which we will never get back. They were basically ISIS.
How true are the historical facts in this video? Was Christianity really that destructive?
https://youtu.be/JuUaSpcfrpA
>>1615263
>Varg
>>1615263
>that pic
lol
He paints history with very broad strokes due to his obvious dog in the fight. His archeology work, if you wanna call it that, is amateur and unsubstantiated and his ideas regarding human origins are pure lunacy. I think varg is a really interesting figure and I even like his shitty new ambient albums but don't trust a word out of his mouth with regards to history or science. When it comes to politics or modern events he's a European Alex Jones.
I'm new to philosophy and very interested in Nietzsche after research on about 2 dozen philosophers. What is some good prerequisite reading if I'm mainly interested in Nietzsche?
>>1615234
Start with the greeks.
I think you can read twilight of the idols without much trouble. The Greeks are the most important though for the rest of his works. Especially birth of tragedy. Reading some Schopenhauer also wouldn't hurt.
The First Council of Ephesus laid out the doctrine of Hypostatic Union. Namely, Jesus had two distinct natures, one divine, one human, united in a single body.
This is very important, because it means the human nature of Jesus developed more or less as anyone else. He grew, had puberty, learned to speak and walk just like a normal human being. The human nature was wholly human, just as the divine nature was wholly divine.
And human nature begins at conception. Sperm and egg must unite to produce a zygote, which grows into a fetus. Now, I can almost hear someone screaming "IMMACULATE CONCEPTION" at this point, but I need to remind you all, that Immaculate Conception is a doctrine that not only is Catholic, but is also concerning Mary, mother of Christ. Rather, there was Virgin Birth, which is the divine part of the equation, the Logos becoming flesh, and the second nature in the same body.
But, speaking of Mary, it is well attested to by her mention of being perfectly favored that she was sinless. And to give in to vile lusts, even for conception, is sinful. Thus, it must be concluded that Jesus was born sans lust. And it would be impossible for a young, perhaps even teenaged girl, to see her lord and lawful husband, to feel him inside her vagina, without feeling the tremors of lust.
No, it can be pretty conclusively established that Jesus was born of Sodomy. Sodomy between man and wife, but Sodomy nonetheless. Probably a bit of ejaculate leaking out of the anus and into the vagina. And because Maria certainly did not want such sexual contact, due to her sinless nature, we must regretfully conclude that at least by modern notions (Ancient sexual notions, of course, being much different, and they were married.) that Jesus's human nature was born of rape.
Did Jesus own the clothes on his back, or merely borrow hand-me-downs from his older cousin?
Don't respond to this defamation thread. Sage in all fields.
>>1615248
t. constantine
What is the most blown the fuck out a country has ever been.
>cold war going on
>500 people executed everyday to keep enemy intel down in ussr
>turns out that the kgb general was a cia agent
This was also probably the funniest moment in all of history too. Can anything top it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Cohen
>be Jew
>make friends with most of the senior military and political figures in Syria
>feed intelligence back constantly
>end up as one of the most powerful people in the entire Syrian defense establishment
>go to Syrian positions in the Golan Heights and tell the commanders to put trees over fortifications so that the soldiers have shade
>tell the Israelis about this so that they can use the trees as target markers for enemy positions
>>1615156
They had the last laugh. Tortured him mercilessly and refused to return his bones to his widow.
>>1615173
>do what you must, I have already won
Why is it that revisionism is now taken to mean the deliberate misrepresentation of history? Surely the evolution of historical interpretations can only be a good thing, since it offers more viewpoints for those wishing to understand an historical even to bounce off one another?
Pic unrelated.
>>1615087
Because the holocaust happened no matter how many mental gymnastics you try to perform and 6 million Jews were killed in death camps at the order of the Nazi government.
Because the normie opinion of history is that it's factual and objective, and they don't consider historiography.
So "revising history" is taken as twisting the established facts to fit an agenda, rather than merely reconsidering the accepted historiographical opinion.
Let's discuss the different denominations amongst modern Judaism: Ultra-Orthodox, Modern Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, [spoiler]Reconstructionist[/spoiler]
Which are most interesting to you and which seems to be the most "correct" in that it's the closest to how ancient Israelites practiced it?
I think it's fascinating that the Haredi, some of which live in my city (London), hold regular protests burning the Israeli flag, holding banners referring to the country as 'Israel' and will tell anyone who listens that the country is a totally illegitimate and unworthy of Jewish support. They reject Zionism, sort of saying that the country Israel is a forced meme and a distraction for jews - who should be living a more religious lifestyle than trying to fiddle about with G-d's plan for the messiah's return.
>>1615006
The Haredi that live in Israel also berate the government for trying to enlist their men into the government, a lot of them get away with "religious studies" to avoid mandatory military service.
https://youtu.be/me4FqdrmVBs
The Ultra Orthodox also have huge communites in Brooklyn in NYC, as well as a massive village upstate called Kiryas Joel that includes the highest amount of welfare-receivers than any other US town.
That town's current chief rabbi had this to say: "In April 2013, Teitelbaum denounced the proposed draft of Haredi men by the Israel Defense Forces as 'a decree worse than the annihilation of the Jewish people.'"
>>1615006
>>1615046
To add to it, in my (admittedly anecdotal) dealings with them, most of them don't actually know Torah all that well. It's all focus on their own past rabbis and what they said.
>>1614981
OP, you're missing the Hasidim! How can you have a discussion of contemporary Judaic sectarian divide without the Hasidim? I once got punched by a Lubovicher, if anyone wants to hear the story.
How come nobody wears hats anymore? Unless you're in uniform the only hats people wear are baseball caps or toques during cold weather. What changed?
Kennedy actually killed the style in the 60s by getting elected president and refusing to wear a hat with his suit.
I can see why, it just would have fallen out of the open top limo.
>>1614840
Just like the contents of his skull.
>>1614833
Fashioned hair became more popular
Chernobyl was a hoax. Did not happen.
Is he getting sodomised?
Care to explain to this anon who grew up on a farm in North Wales what the actual cause of the spike in livestock birth defects we saw at that time was then?
>>1614799
he stepped into an anomaly
I believe the Tao is a missing component to many theological systems. The Tao is a guiding principle that allows there to be form and structure to our universe; it's not a creating god, but instead what allowed God to be (whether it be Spinoza's god or Yahweh).
When a Christian talks about the rock so heavy god could not lift it, and how making something contradictory would be against his nature, I think it is ultimately the Tao they are referencing here; a guiding principle greater than God himself.
>>1614650
>what allowed God to be
Wew lad, I didn't think it was possible to fuck up Taoism AND Abrahamic religion so badly, but here it is
>>1614663
The Tao enables all things to be, while doing nothing. That's kind of its central point.
>>1614663
Also, the Tao is not exclusive to Taoism. It appears in several Chinese philosophies.