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>visits Egypt on way to Hajj
>leaves behind nothing but hyper-inflation, mass unemployment, and decades of economic stagnation in his wake
It's like poetry.

>>1501346
Did that really happen?

WE

>>1501285
>what was the best general purpose shield design
Plate armor.

>>1501285
>best organized warfare shield (tight formation)
Scutum
>best skirmishing shield (looser fighting)
Viking shield w/iron boss
>cavalry shield (passive protection when charging).
Heater

>>1501304
>Viking shield
I'm unaware of any differences between viking round shields and any other european round shields from the iron age onward (other than what's painted on them).
Pls enlighten me.

>>1501271
Tell me about it.

>>1501277
I can be the leader of the free world. Because that dumbass whose the leader of america right now? He realized he could get more people to listen to him by taking money from big corporations and buying advertising. All the american people want is a voice of reason that is unbiased. Its easy to like something unbiased. It doesn't make me hate anything I'm not ready to hate. It just makes me think, and that thinking helps me do more than just nothing. Because nothing is boring when people think. You don't have to ask me why. You could ask yourself why. Asking me why is just a way to get me to think about it with you~

You don't need acid to go woah that's trippy
well maybe you do if you don't think just that thought and the reasoning process was interesting. I play a lot of music and write a lot of lyrics and write a lot of comedy for no other reason than I want to do that. I was worried about inspiration but I realized I could just say I was infinitely inspired and try and write. I only had to say I was infinitely inspired to satisfy my reasoning. Now man am I crazy, my ego wants me to worry that I'm crazy (Trust me bro, I am), but I realize just because my ego wants something doesn't mean its true. You're ego is going to try and convince you that my reasoning isn't true. You could just ignore your ego and reason with me and realize reasoning things at a simple level and thinking about them a lot is how we solve all that really hard shit we don't want to think about.

>>1501313
When I said trust me bro I know, I meant I know I'm not crazy. I was worried you thought that just now, you know that you saw me think it...(woah my ego just wanted my reasoning to be okay)

>>1501246
Do you remember being inside your mother womb? Do you remember borning?
That's death.

>>1501246
Plenty of things, but not for you to experience, because you'll be dead.

>>1500929
Caltec
Brigham young

Oral Roberts
Vassar

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A: What a massive waste of time anything philosophy is in 2016. Everything is corrupted besides corners of the internet. This coming from someone who majored in philosophy their first year of uni.

B: universities are leftist indoctrination centers, therefore the antithesis to true philosophy.

>>1500853

Look up ingressive plosives

>>1500853
Chinese. Especially the Wu dialect, it makes some very interesting sounds I've never heard in any other language.

t. native Wu Chinese speaker.

>>1500871

Isn't that a distinct language rather than a dialect as such?

I have no idea if it's accurate due to being a pleb but I found Pillars of the Earth very enjoyable

I also liked Clan of the Cave Bear but that's mostly speculation about prehistory padded out by increasingly mediocre heteronormative non-kinky sex scenes as the series progresses

>>1500737
Any of rutherfords books, but Paris.
>>1500751
After 4 is shit

>>1500737

Christian Camerons series are all great. I thought the Tyrant (diadochi wars) series was the weakest but still enjoyable. William Gold (medieval) was probably my favourite. I really enjoyed the Alexander stand alone too.

Robert Fabbri's Vespianus (early empire) series was great but i thought character growth was a bit weak.

Sam Barrones, Eskkar Saga (dawn of the bronze age) was decent too. I nearly didnt start this series because he starts every book with a shout out to Bill O'reilly. Only read the first 3 books.

No idea how accurate any of these books are.

>>1500716
>how people could believe in god
They were raised that way.
In many instances, it is that simple.
For millennia...

>>1500716
Difference in presentation. God used to be presented as an absolute, now he's just a big yellow guy on a cloud.

>>1500716
To make it clear, do you mean in a modern, Western context where there are scientific, measurable explanations for the world around us, or a historic context, where there quite often was no other explanation than "God did it"?

>>1500188
Because they became legitimate extortion rackets after being overtaken by the mob in the 40's and 50's. They also began actively working against the average worker in favor of personal political kickbacks (See: NAFTA and CAFTA). True unionization died decades ago in America and they aren't coming back anytime soon.

Public employees unions are the ones that the white middle class is against. And rightly so. Private sector unions are not under attack.

>>1500188
>Prior to about the 1960s they were
I'm looking at my calendar right now, and for some reason it doesn't say "1960" on it.

>>1500027
Hitler being Jewish? That is clearly nonsense. No reputable historian would conclude Hitler having anything other than Germanic ancestry. Hitler being an avatar of Vishnu? Absolute fact.

>>1500027
A famous Nazi - Hans Frank.

>>1500027
>Aryan
>taking an ancient ethnic group of people and implying they existed unchanged and without intermixing to contemporary times.
>/pol/ alert
>and him being Jewish was a meme but regarding his physical appearance alone; him and hypocrites like Himmler didn't even physically fit the "ideal Aryana".
0/10 made me reply

No, because the evil guy has self interest and fear as a reason for repenting. Not for the pure love of God

Neither deserves heaven. Salvation is the free gift of God based on the righteousness of Christ.

>>1499741
You think God can be fooled by false repentance?

>>1499737
The other guy still gets Heaven but is placed in 1,000,000 years behavior counseling.

Assuming so, I would say so.

But that's assuming much.

43.2% of statistics are made up on the spot.

I would say your assumption is true though.

>>1499736
>moral realism
Most retarded thing I have ever heard.

>>1499680
>taking the bait

>be viking
>HURR I KILLED A MONK I'M SUCH LE BERSERKIR
>OH FUG OLAF THE ARMY IS COMING BETTER RUN AWAY :DD

in 2100 they will romanticize niggers too mark my words

>>1499680
Friendly reminder that the vikings were just a small subset of the scandinavian tribes, and were traders first, raiders second.

baptists

The Amish

Hasidic Jews

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It seems that way
>Jeffrey Dahmer
>John Wayne Gacy Jr.
>Ted Bundy
>David Berkowitz
>Edmund Kemper
>Larry Bittaker and Roy Norris
>Richard Ramirez
etc.

Of course, sensationalism played a part in making people aware, but there are other factors (stealing from someone's answer on Quora):

The completion of most of the Interstate highway system - This allowed killers to travel the country far more easily than in the past and assisted in their avoiding driving through smaller towns where they might have been stopped and questioned by local authorities.

Police officers were poorly trained and poorly disciplined in that time period - This likely lead to a number of “runaways" and "missing person" cases (which were actually serial murders) being allowed to grow cold due to incompetent or lax investigation.

More women were living alone and working outside the home. - This gave killers greater access to victims.

The “stigmas” associated with homosexuality were lessened , meaning that far more gay men cruised and engaged in anonymous liaisons. - This made it easier for killers to isolate and kill them.

Drug use/abuse became somewhat more acceptable socially. - Killers were able to use drugs (or the promise of drugs) to lure addicts and casual drug use was frequent and almost “legitimized."

As for the reason why there aren't serial killers today like there were then is because of forensic science getting much more advanced, especially with DNA profiling being available. (first used in 1985) Also I guess a better understanding of criminals and their motives helped as well

So yes I believe there was a boom in that time period

Modern society does not have "serial killers" anymore, our sociopaths kill in open daylight, either through political motives (Breivik) or religious (Jihadists) etc.

I personally am much more afraid of 21st century sociopaths than the boogeymen in shadowy alleys.

These days you can get practically shot/blown up anywhere, anytime.

>>1496589
Yeah in a way with serial killers even though what they did to their victims was disgusting, in a way you feel like are able to avoid it, while shooters just kill indiscriminately most of the time and with them you never know if you'll be in the wrong place at the wrong time