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What's the point in waves of attacks? Why not just send all you're soldiers at once?
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>>1554064
ask /k/
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>>1554064
Same reason boxers don't go in throwing haymakers. It telegraphs your strategic intent and it is a total commitment that leaves you open a single stroke of misfortune.
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>>1554064
>hey look hans! the british are sending all their army in at once!
>Hans: thats a nice big army they have there! all in one spot! hey Gunther! call artillery! tell them they can win this war in volley!
>Gunther: sure thing Hans! hello artillery?
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Why do people use "revisionism" with negative connotation? Obviously any retelling of events within a temporal locality will be biased towards the subjective social and cultural perspectives of the time and drastically amended to suit the future implications of any such recollections of history. It seems fairly obvious that the further away time gets from any historical event, the more objective the view of that history will become up until the limit of any evidence of that history become a folktale or legend due to temporal fuzziness.
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I don't get the Golden Ratio
It's just like... how objects are spaced?
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>>1554076
we're on a humanities board precisely because we don't understand math
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Is he overrated ?
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>>1553893
Nah he was pretty cool, a modern alexander in that he conquered a bunch of shit but it didnt last very long
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>>1553893
No, but his nephew is underrated.
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>tfw we'll never see another great conquerer
how was such a shady character awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?
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Reminder they once wanted to give the peace price to Stalin.
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Arafat and Begin were literally terrorists and also got one
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The Nobel Peace Prize is a literal meme.
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Is America real, /his/?
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>>1553857
Well since we can't no nuffin I suppose we'll never know for sure
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>>1553857
America is a spook
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>>1553857
Define "real".
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Was he, dare I say it, right?
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Yes, no if you're willfully ignorant of your surroundings.
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He's the one who made me start to understand how much of a social construct race and ethnicity is.
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How can somebody who studies history be religious?
If you learn about how judaism developped, how it started as a normal polytheistic religion with Yahweh just one god among many.
And then judaism copied the duality of good and evil from Zoroastrianism and Yahweh became the single God.
Then finally, Jesus of Nazareth appears, a jewish preachers wo teaches about the end of the world and anti-materialism.
After his death, the Church forgets his message almost immediately, and instead they teach how Jesus died for our sins.
For somebody who knows all of this, where is the room for divine intervention?
Isn't it perfectly clear that religion is a story that was made up by men and that changed over time?
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>>1553755
The role of religion is far beyond that conception, one is religius when adopt a certain religion for its moral values etc and not for the creationist part, which is clearly made up
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>>1553804
You can come up with your own morality through an ideology without attaching a mythology to it
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>>1553844
Not everyone is a ubermensch unfortunately
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>its a "europeans starts talking about american history" episode
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>>1553707
>Its an "Americans start talking about history" episode.
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>it's an "Americans start talking about history in general" episode.
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>it's an "anon suggest American history isn't merely an extension of European history" episode
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Why did Britain limit herself to war in the Falklands and exclusion zone?
Why not air and ballistic missile strikes on Argentina proper? Surely a night of attacks on Buenos Aires would have ended the war instantly?
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>>1553692
As someone who knows nothing about this conflict I would assume they were perhaps worried about the international condemnation that would come from launching missiles strikes on defenseless civilians in a relatively minor conflict.
Isn't it better to moderate force appropriately and use only enough as needed?
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>>1553714
Better that foreign lives are lost than 14 ships and 900 of your own soldiers.
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Britain did actually send covert SAS troops onto the continent IIRC.
But I think the ostensible limiting of the battlefield to the Falklands was to prevent the whole thing spiralling out of control, to give the war a definite goal (retake the Falklands and walk away), and to prevent any potential Argie terrorist attacks on Britain itself. The agreement worked to safeguard the homelands of both countries, not just Argentina.
If Argentina had somehow managed to attack England (remember they were being secretly armed by the French!), there would've been hell to pay. Declaring total war from the start might've provoked attacks on the UK as Argentina would have nothing to lose.
I will add the disclaimer that I don't really know much about that conflict so take all this with a pinch of salt.
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Concerning Martin Luther: Scapegoat for Laymen and the Credulous
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I am not a Christian: however, Catholics bashing on Luther is an instant give-away to the fact that these Catholics know only the most basic and cursory history of the Reformation or of the Medieval Church, and that they themselves have not bothered to actually investigate, relying solely on surface-level knowledge.
First of all, Luther was not particularly 'responsible' for the Reformation: his ideas were not unique (many would-be reformers with similar ideas had independently of each other risen only to be quashed since the 13th century - from the Cathars to Waldensians to the Bogomils/Paulicians and the Hussites and the Lollards). As such, Luther was merely riding on a current, simply articulating sentiments that were already extant and prevalent. He was not even the only reformer at the time.
Second: why bash Luther so much, but not Calvin or Zwingli or Oekolampad or Servetus, or, going back, people like Wyfcliffe or Jan Huss, who were infinitely much more 'radical'? Luther was comparatively conservative - he established an institutionalized church body with a clergy (in contrast to many movements that saw a call to return to a style of popular but unofficial preaching), explicitly avoided extreme change, based his Lutheran liturgy on the Catholic service he had known and retained various elements from it; he stuck with the Catholic doctrine of the real presence, and for most of his life was attacked by other Reformers for being too "Catholic" and not revolutionary enough.
It's just plain lack of historical knowledge or the context of his life.
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>>1553676
The funny thing is that Luther didn't even intend to "break away", he just wanted to reform the Catholic Church from within and then got kicked out.
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>>1553710
>tfw you trigger the mods so hard they ban you
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>>1553710
>intentions matter, not the end results
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Was Gustav badin still considered a slave?
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Did he have a master?
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>The social position of Badin was not quite clear; he was given several titles, such as chamberlain, court secretary, ballet master and official; he never used the title "official", which King Gustav gave him, and told him; "Have you ever seen a black official?", but preferred to call himself farmer, as he owned two farms. He was also elected to the orders of Par Bricole, Svea Orden, Timmermansorden and the Freemasons.[4]
Doesn't look like it
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>>1553675
Louisa Ulrika bought him but treated him as one of her kids does she still counts as his master?
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Can someone post the Romans were black copy pasta please
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>>1553541
Bump
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Bump :(
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>>1553541
bump
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Who /nasty-brutish-and-short/ here?
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Hobbes is literally the best political thinker in any capacity of all time.
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>>1553459
I know this is from the Leviathan, but what was he describing?
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>>1553494
State of nature.
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Looking for free science book resources.
Couldn't find what I was looking for on libgen, bookzz or scihub.
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What kind of science?
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>>1553393
If you couldn't find it there, it probably never got scanned/uploaded to a knowledge-friendly community. Your best bet is to check such communities to see if someone there is giving out access to university libraries that have the book.
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Come on guys! How could you not like him?
He even has that lost dog look on his face
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Because he, instead of letting himself get burned like a heretic like his predecessors, chose to escape and continue writing his work elsewhere.
Which shows that his true intendion was to destroy Europe, unlike the Catholic Church which was busy saving and keeping it united by declaring Antiopes all the time and letting people pay for the forgiveness of sins.
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>>1553452
This
Him being german is already enough proof for his inevitable obsession to destroy europe. /his/ already settled this long ago and it shouldn't be debated because it's so fucking obvious. Who in his right mind would say something else?
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>>1553483
I mean, it's not like the Catholics had been going on crusades against other (often Christian) Europeans and the French allied with the Ottoman Turks of all people.
No, it's all Luther.
Also, the Holy Roman Empire falling into disunity was totally Luther's fault, not the Catholic Church fucking it's unity over like a bitch some centuries earlier.