What is it about this shithole has made empires want it? Has anyone (outside of local warlords and Islamic militants) been successful in actually taking this country?
>>1584795
It's literally in the most central possible position in Asia. It itself is completely unremarkable shithole but it sits on one version of the Silk road, on route from Central Asia to South Asia (very important during the Great Game) and from East or South Asia into Iran and the Middle East.
Besides that it's a little bit fascinating for being categorically impossible to categorize. It's equally Southern, Western and Central Asian states that has ties to all those but that doesn't really belong in any of them.
>>1584795
>What is it about this shithole has made empires want it?
opium
It wasn't a shithole until the Mongols took it.
Afterwards, it was located in between Russian colonial possessions and British colonial possessions, and the great game kicked in from there.
Is this true? Is it useful to say?
Another chart for my chart grimoire!
You'll love this one.
Herman Kahn, on whom Dr. Strangelove may have been based, wrote the book On Thermonuclear War.
In it, he produced a detailed 44-rung escalation ladder to describe how fucked we are in any given conflict. Nuclear war begins at rung 21.
>>1585010
It's weird how quickly these trends change- this is from 1960 and it feels like it's totally out of order.
>Nuclear ultimatums BEFORE conventional strategic counterforce attacks
> 20. Embargo / 21. """local nuclear war""""
I blame this guy for the failure at the Galipoli, the Dodecanese Islands and the UK losing Norway to the Germans in world war 2.
His speeches don't seem to have been as important for the war morale as earlier thought.
>>1584470
>His speeches don't seem to have been as important for the war morale as earlier thought.
Literally what. That's the reason he was so popular, my grandad loved listening to him, but he would not be shy on telling everyone how shit he was.
>>1584470
churchill will burn in hell for being a lying anglo rat
>>1584470
Read shit m8.
Churchill wasn't to blame for Galipoli. Naval attack he endorsed was a hair-split away from succeeding, which would knock out Turkey out of war.
It was a good gamble. He was never really behind land invasion.
How would history have been different if Italy had won Adwa?
We would literally be wearing underwear outside of our pants
the anglo would rearm another bunch of levied ethiopians and send them against the italians again
How would history have been different if Athens had won over Sicily?
>DUDE MORE GERMANS DIED FIGHTING THE SOVIETS THAN ANYONE ELSE!
>DUDE THE SOVIETS BASICALLY WON WW2 ON THEIR OWN!
>DUDE LENDE-LESSE DINDU NUFFIN!
>DUDE AMERICA LITERALLY DIDNT ENTER THE WAR UNTIL THE LAST SECOND AND DID NOTHING TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE ALLIES WINNING!
When will these memes end?
Presumably as soon as Russia and Britain are no longer butthurt at the success of the United States.
In other words, never.
Enjoy your shitposting thread, OP.
stop fucking shitposting you virgin
>t. Butthurt Naziboo
Is Protestantism today's pagans?
>Many different forms of Protestantism where there are many different beliefs.
>Believes biblical interpretation is up to anyone just like pagans and their books
>Gets mad at other religions (Protestantism vs Christianity, vs Islam)
>Believes that a God can just be born into any woman, regardless of her status of sin. Meaning some slut could give birth to Jesus.
>Televangelist. Do I need to say more?
>Not a real form of worship, just sing crap and misinterpret stuff from the bible.
>>1584111
>Meaning some slut could give birth to Jesus.
Well it's impossible for a woman to not be a slut so they might have a point there.
>>1584111
But the catholic countries are much more homophobic than the protestant ones. (picture)
And no real form of worship? what's that supposed to mean? What would be "proper worship"?
and to be honest the Bible doesn't matter that much. There are some general ideas that you can find there that are basic, like Jesus dying for us and such, but it's really just a book. The real important part is God. You can read the Bible and interpret it as you wish because it doesn't really matter that much, it's only a minor part of the religion.
>>1584111
Reminder that in the original Hebrew, the word that so many took to mean "virgin" as regards the virgin mary was actually just the contemporary term for a young girl. Immaculate conception is a mistranslation.
Ten differences between Orthodox and Catholicism.
1. Orthodox reject inheritability of sin. Death and suffering are human nature, we only don't suffer them when partaking in perfect synergism with God's energies, which we haven't since the fall.
2. The Orthodox reject the "satisfaction theory of atonement". The Orthodox subscribe to "Christus Victor" (the idea of atonement illustrated in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe).
3. Hell in Orthodoxy is not separation from God. Hell, like heaven, is experiencing the full radiance of God's light and presence, but with a negative relationship so that it is like fire.
4. The Orthodox reject the idea that our understanding of dogma develops. The idea is to keep the exact same understanding the Apostles have, invented terminology is not meant to develop the understanding, but to PROTECT it from being "developed".
5. Catholics define usury as excessive interest, Orthodox define usury as any interest.
6. The Orthodox reject the Catholic idea of supererogation.
7. The Orthodox reject Purgatory. The Orthodox do, however, distinguish Sheol (called "Hades" in Greek) from Gehenna.
8. Orthodoxy places enormous emphasis on fasting, in fact more than half the days of the year involve some sort of fast. And there are even some days which are total fasts, no intake, period. Two consistent fast days (almost every Wednesday and Friday, no meat, dairy, eggs, fish, oils or wine) trace back at least to the Didache.
9. Orthodox draw most of their priests from the married laity, but most of their bishops from monks.
10. Infants can and do receive Holy Communion.
Where is my sweet orthofu Sakurahime?
>>1583994
11. Christ's physical form was born from anal sex.
It was your best point ever Constantine, don't back away from it now.
>works are required to be saved
how can you possibly justify this position?
>>1583989
By saying James>Paul the Imposter.
Justify theologically or philosophically? Because salvation by works definitely makes more sense than salvation by faith alone and you can take the current state of christian societies for proof of that.
>>1584043
Paul never said works as in helping the poor wasn't required, he just said works of the law, like circumcision and eating kosher. He makes it clear several times this is what he means by "works".
Post "Go fast Ivan" to help Ivan hunt down Ceausescu's secret police
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>>1583741
dead man walking
Do any of you know of any books about laconism and how to learn it? For those who don't know laconism is the art of speaking briefly but concisely and with grace, performed by the ancient Greeks.
>>1583729
>book about laconism
>it is
>fin
>>1583729
>Do any of you know of any books about laconism
Shouldve ended there.
found this and thought it was pretty interesting. Its a bunch of germans talking about how much they liked Americans in the years after the First World War. There are a few that bitch about americans, but for the most part they say how Americans were crazy cowboys on the battlefield, but really nice to civilians. They attribute this to Americans having no real problem with Germans as opposed to French or British Troops who would be more pissed at Germans
http://mentalfloss.com/article/57121/42-quotes-germans-about-american-troops-after-world-war-i
>>1583527
>ywn relive the time when America was the good guy
How we have fallen
>>1583527
>The accuracy of American artillery fire…could have been considerably improved upon.
I choked on my tea
>>1583551
It all went downhill after the Korean War
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_therapy_(economics)
Why did it work in some states (Chile/Czechoslovakia) and fail in others (Russia/Ukraine/Belarus)?
What does the gradual liberalization approach of 10%+ China/Poland mean for this?
>>1583453
Well
>>1583453
Well
>>1583453
>A
>FUCKING
>GASOLINE
>STATION
Is this idolatry?
>cross being a holy symbol for christians
Why were Bogomils afaik the only major movement that rejected this and said it's borderline blasphemous
You'd think more early christians would have objected to sanctifying the method of Christ's execution
I just wanna eat his body and drink his blood.
>>1583242
Bogomils also rejected the entire church and all of the sacraments so they're not really one to talk when it comes to "blasphemy."
Umayyad lmao
>>1583211
>Marquisat de Gothie
Not a part of the ummayad, wasn't even a part of the Caliphate of Córdoba.
U mad Muslim cucks?
>>1583255
>took 4 centuries to destroy a superior culture
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Are monks the only true christians?
>>1583195
Jesus said to them : My true disciples are the monks.
-Gospel of /his/
>>1583195
Protestants are the only true Christians
Don't be silly.
There is no true scotsman