Can someone live his life fully ?
>>1494594
Only when his cup feels full to him.
>>1494594
If you escape hedonism,but you also have to escape rationality and materialism to truly live freely.
>>1494617
>escape rationality
What did he mean by this?
Everybody seems to know something (Valhalla, Thor) but nobody seems to know it all.
What was the pantheon, and what deities were truly important to them? I know there were more afterlives than Valhalla, but what were they and how did you qualify to enter? How much did the religion change depending on where you were, because it seems like what we know is from the Norse, but what about the West and East Germanics like Goths and Saxons? What practices were performed, and how common was sacrifice, if at all?
>>1494440
Germanic religion is as vague as saying Abrahamic religion or Dharmic religion
The utter lack of written records means all we have are christian fanfiction and folklore to work with
well we know some things, more than most of us know, so i think it would be great to discuss them. their world creation for instance. their major deities.
your post also lends to believe there was more than one Germanic religion, is their more than just the Wodanist version?
There's very little known about West Germanic paganism and almost nothing about East Germanic
Between West and North the basic pantheon seems to be mostly the same. The fertility god Freyr was called Ingwine in West Germanic, and possibly East Germanic, according to some interpretations of an inscription on a torc.
The Romans recorded an Earth goddess Nerthus, which would reflect Proto-Germanic *Nerþuz. The name is etymologically identical to the masculine Norse sea-god Njǫrðr.
The mythical races dwarves, giants, and elves are attested in both Anglo-Saxon and Norse, as well as some mythical heroes, like the Elven smith Wēland/Vǫlundr/Wiolant.
The worlds midgard, and hell are attested in Old English, Old Norse, and Old High German, and Muspell in both Norse and German. The Anglo-Saxon nine herb charm mentions seven worlds, so their cosmology wasn't exactly the same as Norse.
The world for temple in Proto-Germanic was *wīhą becoming weoh in Old English, and vé in Old Norse. The word was from an adjective *wīhaz, meaning 'holy', reflected in Gothic as 'weihs'. It is also related to the Latin word 'victima' (of a sacrifice)
A sacrifice was called *blōtą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlād-, which is also the first element in the name of the Latin flamen priests.
In the Hervarar saga there's a description of a horse sacrifice at the inauguration of a king where they slaughtered it and ate the meat and sprinkled its blood on a sacred tree. The word English word 'bless' is related to 'blood', and orginally meant to sprinkle with blood.
Europa Barbarorum II gets my vote.
>>1490469
That's a mod you drongo
>>1490732
A mod of a game is still a game.
>>1490751
I didn't say it wasn't you drongo
ITT: absolute madmen of history
>>1468457
Princip
King leonidas
Obligatory
Are there any Orthodox churches that don't hate gays and trans/are at least marginally socially progressive?
The Pope is a two faced bastard who praises LGBT one moment and pisses on them the next. I know there's some socially progressive Protestant churches, but there's way more that are just plain bat shit crazy.
Bart I and the Russians hate gays but what about the other Orthodox and Eastern churches?
>>1503388
Yup, they shit on them as well.
The orthodox churches are pretty hardcore, they don't mince words
>>1503388
>The Pope is a two faced bastard who praises LGBT one moment and pisses on them the next.
He said the Church accepts gays as long as they repent and abandon their sodomite ways. He said basically the same thing about atheists, it's your fault for jumping to conclusions.
>progressive Orthodox churches
lolno
also you don't really get to choose your church/bishop
Well there's a reason they're Orthodox. But they don't hate gays. Except maybe Russia, but church policy isn't to hate gays. Homosexuality is a sin, and all sin is hated, but gays themselves are loved like the children of God they are. It's like divorce: divorce is hated by God, but those who get divorces are still loved. I'm assuming this atleast, I'm Protestant, but I would imagine it's largely the same.
How come nazi fanboys are often thinking Nazi Germany strived to "purge degeneracy" when they appointed a literal CONVICTED PEDOPHILE as the commander of a Waffen SS division?
>>1501819
Because he did his job, same can be said for other members of the Waffen SS.
>>1501819
Don't forget
>Pedophiles.
>Art thieves.
>Druggies & various substance abusers.
>Occultists.
>Mass Murder is not a degeneracy.
They're like 4chan, really. Decrying about degeneracy and moral bankruptcy while, in a single breath, will talk about which hentai CP is the best fap.
>>1501819
Oh shit, that guy was soooo fucked up.
You know you are going too far when the fucking Waffen-SS tells you to calm down.
>Didn't do shit till the allies roll in, even after the did practically nothing
>Sabotage of the Nazi war machine by the Fench was minimal, far smaller than the effect tiny Yugoslavia had
>French who helped downed airmen often did so for the money, around $75,000 in today's money
>Albert Speer when asked about the French Resistance had this to say: "What French Resistance?"
> John Keegan, writes, "for most of the war, the 30-50 German occupation divisions took no part in anti-resistance activities … the number of actual anti-resistance security forces in France (the Feldsicherheitsdienst) probably did not exceed 6,500 at any stage of the war. That in a country of over 40 million!"
Is there a bigger meme than the French Resistance?
Well, if you want a bigger /meme/, it's the Holocaust. Not that it didn't happen, but that it has come to represent a very specific set of ideals and notions to the point that bringing the event up altogether can often solidify a stance in an argument.
French Resistance might be the biggest lie, though. You've probably all seen it from the Wikipedia page, but here's a staged photo shot during the liberation.
Look at what happened in countries with actually active resistance, and maybe you'd understand why most occupied countries only put forth minimal resistance until liberators were nearby to actually make use of the disruption a resistance can cause in the short term.
The worst part is that after the Americans liberated France, a bunch of commies that did nothing during the war, like Sartre and his bitch, began pretending to be avenging resistance fighters and condemned tens of thousands to death for the crime of being to the right of Lavrenty Beria.
Like the massacres of Catholics committed by the Italian communists in 1945, this is one of the ignored examples of communist mass murders, because there was so much more going on during this period.
What does /his/ think about RationalWiki? Is this one of the most reliable and objective sites to get philosophical and ideological information from?
>>1508049
>Objective
They're unapologetically left-leaning with communist sympathies. Compare the Pinochet and Castro articles.
It's storm of ideologically bent euphoric autism.
I can't tell if this is a troll post, but here's an actual response.
IIRC this website was made in response to Conservapedia as a sort of joke by leftists but then it turned into a serious wiki made to counter Conservapedia.
Like Conservapedia it is very much biased and propagates memes like "communism can actually work guys" and other such backwards nonsense.
If you want actual philosophical information go to IEP or SEP.
>>1508049
>RationalWiki
>objective
its just liberal propaganda version of wikipedia
Why did the Irish never engage in colonialism/imperialism?
Are they ashamed of being the only western European nation that never had colonial possessions?
>>1506563
The Irish were never a nation until the 20th century.
Colonial empires were memes and nothing to be proud of.
>"""""conquering""""" natives and niggers
>>1506565
This.
It wasn't a proper country until 1937.
What is your political orientation/ideology and what are the reasons for you choosing it, /his/?
>>1508144
That image doesn't look very historical or relevant to the subject of this board. Please post more
Marxism-DeLeonism
>Capitalism sucks
>General strike is the best way of achieving revolution
>A minimal state providing essential services alongside an economy organized by the trade unions is the best way to transition from socialism to communism
>>1508144
Wellsian international voluntarist utopianism, with an extra side of the telecommunications converging into a world brain. It's clearly what's been happening for the last century, and the sooner we acknowledge it and start doing it on purpose, the better.
I'm genuinely interested in Zoroastrianism.
How deeply did it inflect Judaism and Christianity?
Were Mazdakism, Manichaeism and Yazidism just later manifestations of this religion?
It was a warrior-militant religion and undoubtly influenced Islam more than judaism and christianity
Much of the theology found in ancient zoroastrianism was later used in ancient judaism. Judaism, like many religions in the region, combined aspects of pan-babylonian mythology with zoroastrianism. Christianity later picked up a few more that the jews missed, likely through the influence of Mithraism
Was he really a bad person?
How does his "kill count" compare to the millions of lives he saved, and millions of other lives he improved?
>>1504761
He did nothing wrong
>was he really a bad person
yes he most certainly was, an unapologetic sociopath who killed millions of imagined enemies
the only nice thing that can be said about him is that Trotsky would have been worse
Knights were fucking useless
>get Mongol'd
>get Saracen'd
>get Swiss pikemen'd
>>1501713
>get Mongol'd
The Mongols lost and retreated from Europe. Get over it Timur Khan. They even lost to Mamluks which are essentially Egyptian Knights.
>get Saracen'd
They lost to Mamluks who again were essentially Egyptian or Saracen Knights.
>get Swiss pikemen'd
Haha! Good one. No please leave this board.
>>1501713
also
>get longbow'd
Holy fuck knights sucked so much cock.
What are some of the worst modern views that we project onto history?
anything to do with modern 'democrat' and 'republican'
more broadly, anything to do with modern politics at all.
people were protesting at college about inequality and they ended up arguing over politics in the enlightenment age.
>>1500220
Modern morality. For example,
>Washington and co. were evil because slavery
>historical peoples and countries are equivalent to the modern countries that now occupy their borders
Daily reminder that there is NO moral justification for not pulling the lever, if you don't you are either actively evil or just a fucking retard
>>1498430
I'll pull it in that situation, do I have to justify why? It's just the more logical outcome, and humans would've died regardless of me interacting with the lever or not - my interaction is actually reducing the damage in that case.
Both choices are evil.
>>1498430
>if you don't you are either actively evil
You spooked me pretty badly there