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Are there any records/books that detail the average day in the life of an ancient noble/well off dude?
Whether Roman/Greek/Egyptian, what did they do with their time? Fuck about in their bitching palace/castles?
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Hunting, gaming (board games, war games with miniatures, etc.), dueling, the arts, and fighting wars
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That's about 80% of surviving literature from those times. Read Cicero, Sidonius Apollonaris, Petronius, Juvenal, Martial, Plato etc. There are literally hundreds more.
Most works from antiquity were written by "well off dudes" since they didn't have to do back breaking labour to avoid starvation. It turns out that most noblemen don't enjoy writing about grubby peasants.
More specifically Letters (epistulae) by Sidonius, Pliny and Cicero might be what you're looking for. They're more mundane and typical than some of the other stuff.
/his/
Tell me about the Ustacha
Were they based?
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Tell me about Duje, why does he hold that head?
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>>1540992
Looks like they were barbaric ISIS-tier trash.
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Removed Serbian scum
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East-West Religious divide 2016-08-12 21:16:22 Post No.1540967
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How come most Western religions involve an eternal afterlife where as Eastern ones centre around reincarnation and rebirth?
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It had to do with the way each ones theology developed, keeping in mind the East was isolated from the west, hence to totally separate trains of theological thought.
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>>1540967
I love this meme best thing to come out of those /pol/ MSpaint memes and YOURE A FUCKING WHITE MALE guy
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>>1542294
Yeah it's pretty good.
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Who lived in Israel/Palestine before the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire because I see a lot of Joos and Arabs dispute over this
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There has been a continuous presence of Jews and their ancestors in Israel since Biblical times.
During the Ottoman period they were a minority, with a fairly large community in Jerusalem.
Also stop looking for spoon feeding you lazy faggot. Go to the fucking library.
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>>1540923
Lotta Joos moved in from Russia before the collapse.
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>>1541327
>Go to library
>Pick up book by David Irving
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Thoughts on Nietzsche’s doctrine of eternal recurrence and how to live life? 2016-08-12 20:59:31 Post No.1540890
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Thoughts on Nietzsche’s doctrine of eternal recurrence and how to live life?
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The idea that everything you’re experiencing, you experience over and over again. You live this life an infinite number of times, and in a multiverse, maybe in fact that’s true in some weird way. Let’s just say it’s a claim about you as a single subject really living for an eternity in this condition. Every choice you make, you have to live it again and again and again and again. So is it ever reasonable to entertain that idea? If you entertain it in whatever way you can without claiming to know if it’s true, you can say well if I’m going to use that as a filter with which to look at all of my choices. If I knew that I had to have any given conversation an infinite number of times, this will be part of the indelible record of my lifeline in the cosmos, and it’s going to happen again and again, would I choose to do this exactly as I’m doing it now. Would I want to be petty, in the way that I just was petty, again and again and again? And it has a kind of ethically clarifying result when you think in those terms. Why not use your time as productively and as beautifully as possible given that it’s going to repeat again and again and again.
I guess you could have this same effect if you take the atheist consideration that you get one shot at this, this is the only way you are going to live this Monday because this Monday is never coming back, use it wisely. That’s probably something that you could claim to believe and it might have the same effect but I’m just saying there are filters you can put on your cognitive and emotional life which you could hold in a kind of instrumental way.
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One of his weaker ideas, imo.
It's one of those "what if" ideas that doesn't really have any impact on what we do, because its scale is way too large, way beyond any practicality.
Kinda like determinism vs free will. I think determinism is science's default position nowadays, but that doesn't change anything. That's especially true in the case of determinism (the fact you believe in it or not is predetermined). It is already determined which persons will take determinism as an excuse to ruin their lives or the lives of others, and it is already determined which persons will ignore it and continue with whatever their mind/body compels them to do/think (most people will fall in that latter category, since our response to survival/confort is stronger than to truth/lucidity)
Or kinda like the illusion of self. It's more and more likely that consciousness is a property of the brain. That consciousness is to the brain what the rustling noise is to a tree in the wind.
If there is an eternal return, do you really have a control over it all? If you ruin your life this time around, isn't that what you did last time, and what you'll do the next too?
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>>1540890
Tragicomic
If everything is fated to repeat again, so are the decision making circuits and environmental cybernetics which will giver arise to your behavior and value which are often disjunct from explicit self-moral valorization...
Not to mention that he forgot to realize that a universe that endlessly reconfigures doesn't necessarily reconfigure in infinite ways for infinity. One can easily imagine a universe that goes through some cycles and then just repeats the same series of states over and over again.
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>>1541018
and yet day after day you find yourself here on a powhattan lampmaking forum
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Favorite alternate history story 2016-08-12 20:39:55 Post No.1540811
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Favorite alternate history story
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What is your favorite alternate history story?
What alternate history would you like to live in?
My answer for both is Guns of the South.
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>counterfactual history
>history
RREEEEEE
But being serious, Lest Darkness Fall is great.
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Alternative history is one of the highest levels of autism.
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>>1540934
funnest*
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>25 years rule
Oh boy, we can finally talk about the August 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt!
What do you think would have happened had the coup leaders won?
Civil war?
Independence revolts throughout the Warsaw Pact?
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>>1540502
Russia would have probably kept all it's clay. Revolutions would most likely happen in Eastern Europe and Germany would still end up reuniting.
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Coup guys were autists of a high caliber so looks like situation would be even more fucked up.
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>>1540502
Perestroika without glasnost could have spared the Soviet Union/ Russia a decade of misery
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What killed the importance of family, /his/?
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The 60s
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Jews subvert and destroy their host societies. It is a group evolutionary strategy.
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What area on this planet has seen the most war?
I was thinking somewhere around egypt?
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>>1540356
most numerical wars is probably somewhere in the Levant/Egypt.
most intense hell-on-earth wars would definitely be found in Western Russia, with nearly every major conflict occurring there inflicting millions of deaths.
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By deaths?
Probably Stalingrad, Verdun, Ypres, Berlin, the Somme, or Kursk
By number of battles?
Probably somewhere in the middle east, it would be hard to say.
Overall I think that Ypres is the best contender in terms of both casualties and number of battles fought.
Antiquity
>raided by the romans
Middle Ages
>Battle of the Golden spurs
>battle of Cassel
>Battle at Mons-en-Pévèle
Early Modern Era
>Seige of Ypres
World War 1
>1st to 5th battles of Ypres
Over a million men have died over thousands of years in this area, it makes it a pretty good contender for the bloodiest place on earth.
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>>1540356
China maybe? By numbers of people dying I mean
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Heat/sun worship in Western Europe? 2016-08-12 18:50:32 Post No.1540348
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Heat/sun worship in Western Europe?
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Why do so many Western Europeans literally worship the sun?
>malignant obsession with exposing oneself to sunlight
>prolonged sunlight exposure seems to cause mildly altered states of consciousness
>malaise in autumn and winter
>general preference for heat over cold, i.e. the difference between indoor and outdoor temperatures are far greater in the winter than in the summer
I can't be the only one who finds this more than a little spooky.
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Worshipping the sun is as old as humanity.
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>>1540348
I'm a pretty nerdy and antisocial guy but normies never looked at me with such disgust and contempt as that time I told them I don't go to the beach. Felt like I was just outed as a child molester or something.
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>>1540364
No, it's pretty much a white people thing.
Asians worshipped the ancestors, Arabs worshipped water, Africans to the extent that they think at all muh dick
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What are some major inventions that came out of war? Inventions which improved our daily lives, in particular, medicine and technologies. I know that canned foods and canning came out of the Napoleonic wars. Give me examples similar to that.
This topic is for more "positive" inventions. The nuclear bomb is an invention of war as well, and while it may be argued that the nuclear bomb helps prevent conflicts due to MAD, I still wouldn't call it a positive invention since things like the Cuban Missile Crisis shows that nuclear bombs don't improve our daily lives, but puts everyone on the edge of their seat.
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Radar, rockets, jets, antibiotics, tampons
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>>1540325
You can't really separate the nuclear bomb from the nuclear reactor, and nuclear power DOES improve our lives in many ways.
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World War II produced notable marvels such as radar, the modern computer (the enigma code cracker), Synthetic oil and rubber, and made great strikes in rocketry on both sides, with the German V2 and the Soviet Katyusha rocket.
Another cool one is that penicillin came from World War I battlefield hospitals, but wouldn't be put to full patented use until 1928.
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Daily reminder that USSR was Austria Hungary of its time, comrade Stalin was deep in denial about that, but he was BTFO by actual, fucking, history.
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That's all undemocratic societies though.
The German empire was mono-ethnic and they didn't last any better.
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>>1540337
> The German empire was mono-ethnic
Not monoethic enough, he small minority of Jews committed treason and because of them Germans lost the war, you know rest of the story.
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>>1540352
>the Kriegsmarine is now a Jewish conspiracy
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Define "treason"
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trea|son
[ˈtriːz(ə)n]
NOUN
the crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill or overthrow the sovereign or government:
"they were convicted of treason"
synonyms: treachery
Oxford Dictionary
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going against the interests of the ruling powers
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It's tree son then
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Would He approve of the Crusades?
Would His Son approve of the Crusades?
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>>1540072
Yes
and
Yes
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>>1540072
I can't say what He would approve. That would be blasphemy but what I can say He never said anything about rolling over and die.
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>>1540072
He didn't have a son, and I don't think He would approve of bands of heretics killing His chosen people
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Any arguments for slave morality? Can they even exist?
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>>1540027
Does it even need arguments for it?
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>>1540027
its arguably worse than Master morality, but you can argue its significantly "safer" and more "Equal" if those are things you value.
the end game is basically complete triviality of all decisions and total lack of any risk/danger/responsibility. the goals of the grazer