This is really bothering me, /his/. How are you all so knowledgable about historical events? I love history but I feel as though I have only a basic understanding of it, whereas you all (seemingly) can go in depth and cite primary sources I didn't even know existed. For example, when taking even college level history classes in high school, textbooks would just mention events/people/terms and I would be left to do my own research to gain even a basic context.
So my question is t/his/: how do you all do it? How are you all so knowledgable? Where do you get your sources? Do I just lack the attention span to go in depth when studying?
This is really bugging me.
>pic related
>>1478722
autism, neethood, constant internet research
read
>>1478722
I get all my opinions on 4chin
>the English won at Waterloo
>it was actually the Prussians
>Columbus discovered America
>everything about the egyptians
>everything about the romans
>everything about the chinese
>world war 2 was won on the western front
>America won 1812
>America won world war 1
>America won world war 2
>America won vietnam
>America won gulf war
Why did greeks associated poseidon/the sea with horses? I don't see the connection.
associate*
Horses can swim.
>>1483961
a lot of animals can swim as well and boats aren't usually pulled by horses
**********English Historians**************
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og1HEjW34rM
This lady is legit hilarious.
>Romans were evil invaders!
>They perpetuated crimes and massacres against the Celtic peoples and other native inhabitants of Britain!
>Rome only wanted to exploit and abuse the British people!
I think the funniest thing to me is that she somehow believes these were isolated events in antiquity and that these sort of events didn't happen in other lands with other cultures invading their neighbors or foreign lands.
Legitimately annoyed by her crap.
>>1478583
>we shouldn't have stood a chance
>implying she's celtic
Hohoho
>>1478583
>lady
that's where everything fails: they cannot spare sentimentalism
>>1478596
Well native Brits pretty much are still Celts even with the Saxon blood
Whats their identity?
Good thread
Subscribed
>>1487182
Finland is cool and mysterious
Sweden is a bore
Over time /his/ will come to accept the truth
> Talking shit about eastern Sweden
I'll make a smörgåsbord out of you
Reminder that Radical Reconstruction was the best opportunity to solve the racial divide in the U.S.
>b-b-but /pol/ told me that lincoln was going to forcibly deport the niggers """"back"""" to africa!
>the best opportunity to solve the racial divide in the U.S.
Too bad it didn't work out huh?
>>1485691
There can be no racial devide between races if there is only one race
>>1485695
The South got off too easily.
Eastern Roman appreciation/discussion thread
This meme needs to die.
>>1484741
you are a meme
>>1484690
>Eastern
>Roman
>Empire
>you will never live the lavish lifestyle of a Roman Emperor
How do you deal with this feel?
>>1483741
By the fact that I have ice-cream, sneakers, portable music-players and air conditioning.
>>1483741
I've read that Mao and Napoleon had a harem as well.
>>1483741
Not getting lead poisoning, not getting stabbed to death by the Praetorian Guard, and riding in airplanes and cars.
Was Voltaire an actually genius writer, or simply a genius shitposter?
You can't be the one without being the other.
Memes aside he is very important in the story of why western civilisation came out on top.
>>1482695
How? He just wrote some books that nobody here even read, did memeing about HRE really got him such impact on history?
We discuss the most interesting religious acts
Sokushinbutsu -Buddhism
It's from Japan and is the act of waiting until you die by starving. They would then die in the state of meditation mummified by themselves.
How the fuck is this /sci/ related?
>>1477863
This is /his/
I went to Dewa Sanzan. It was creepy.
Wanted to see these badasses but was bicycle touring and it was inclement weather. Something about god? Pretty sick IMO, and I'm Roman Catholic af desu.
Why is this board so butthurt about Christianity?
Christianity destroyed for us the whole harvest of ancient civilization
>>1485295
Oh, so it's because your knowledge of history is Reddit-tier?
Too many religion threads
So why do people give France shit for surrendering in the twentieth century?
I keep thinking it's because they have a long history of fucking up other people's shit in wars and revolutions (the 91,000,000 they had in the 1800s alone), that for once when they surrendered to an opponent they had no means of winning against at the time, it just seemed like more of a drop in the bucket than these things normally would.
But, alas, I feel as if my assumptions here could not be any further from the truth.
>>1481103
Since most anglo-saxon kids and manchildren are passionate about WWII and "Germany iz kool" they don't really care about France from 1700.
Up until 1871 France was the most aggressive European country and all other had to work hard to contain it.
Because World War II was the only war that mattered and they fucked up royally.
>>1481103
One moment in history and you are tarred for God knows how long.
Would a crusade be viable in todays day and age?
>>1477139
Yes.
Not with this cuck of a pope though.
I don't think Christians hold Jerusalem as a holy city anymore, it's jew rat land now.
A Christian defensive-centered war to kick ISIS in the dick and give Christians in the middle east some breathing space? Bring it.
No. The Church has only a fraction of the influence it had before nation states.
>>1477139
Yes, if there is a political will, all would be over in couple of weeks. But it would be bloody af, so no medias and qt reporting from the front line.
Why would i follow stirner's idea of everything being a spook if this idea is a spook itself?
>>1466738
Your post is pure ideology.
>>1466748
Yeah maybe now please answer my question
Exactly. It's the loser at philosophy throwing their toys out the pram.
>He is no better than everyone he denounces before him considering that his intellectual endeavour amounts to nothing more than a seduction. In its own little way it is a sort of immature petulant and infantile seduction as well, one that does not have the sincere conviction behind it of past ideologies but on the other hand it has the gall to disrupt the game of rhetoric that ideologues gleefully take part in, sort of like a child who disregards the rules of a game because he is tired of losing at it or some such poor behaviour.
>Stirner knows his own doctrine does not have a leg to stand on, that the whole exercise he engages in is contradictory. His whole project is a failure simply because it's a contradiction. The only way you could consider it a success is if you think the overall outcome is that you have the ability to question or attack ideology. But that is hardly a quality specific to Stirner's writings, it's simply the ability to think critically, and it's what most philosophers with a system of thought have done throughout history. Except Stirner appears to be inferior to most of them because where every other philosopher attacks the previous prevailing ideology and replaces its center in its own coherent if not infallible manner, Stirner simply attacks these ideologies with no center to prevail in replacement, the attack itself is contradictory, and there is no real insight gained into the lack of the center because Stirner himself has no answer or interest in attempting to solve this contradiction of negation. So where every other philosopher has been out with the old and in with the new, Stirner is simply out with the old, and not even in a logical manner, with no new. You're getting short-changed and fucked in the ass. And on the other hand there are numerous more in-depth attempts to address the contradictory logic of negation Stirner is using, from Zen to Deconstruction.
Is it reasonable to say that Saint Maximus the Confessor's system of metaphysics is the opposite of Heraclitus'?
I can't really post it all here, since it is too much to grasp in one post, but to give a basic idea, Saint Maximus sees the stages of perfection as going from genesis to kenesis to stasis, and all things come "From [God], by him, and toward him." There is the Logos, and there are the logoi (the words/laws/reasons behind each being); in the Logos of God is no flux, but stasis; God is impassible, impassive, imperturbable (hence why hesychasm is such a big part of imitation of the divine). Therefore with Maximus, flux is not the source of all and the purpose of all, rather it is just the transition stage between genesis and stasis.
John Meyendorf in "Christ in Eastern Christian Thought" credits Maximus the Confessor with creating the first truly Christian system of metaphysics (that is, prior to him, Christians had used Plato's system, and Christians in the West would end up using Aristotle).
>>1485448
Damn i want to fuck a Somalian/Sudanese girl....
>>1485474
She's Ethiopian you derp
>>1485479
Tbh they all look pretty similar in East Africa, not trying to say the distinction is unimportant though.