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Is Khalid bin walid the greatest military leader ever? His victories against the Romans and Persians almost makes me believe he actually had allah behind him.
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Tengri is stronger
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>>1449824
>Is Khalid bin walid the greatest military leader ever?
He was damn good, but I wouldn't put him quite there. I'd probably rate Subotai and Napoleon clear ahead, and possibly Alexander and guys like Guo Ziyi ahead of him as well, but I honestly don't know enough about all the campaigns involved to make definitive pronouncements there.
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Battle of Yarmouk was pretty impressive. He's in my top 5.
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Sup /his/,
Can anyone identify what the fuck this guy is dragging? It doesn't look like an amphora or anything, but not an animal or anything either. Archaic period vase, if that makes any difference.
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>>1458657
He's riding a penis
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>>1458657
It looks like he's humping the thing tbqh fampai, regardless I need context to identify what he's humping
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>>1458691
There's a satyr on the vase as well (which has stolen a drinking horn and is running off with it), and also just some other dude walking upright. Nothing other than geometric decoration beyond that.
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Find me a ruler that fits the philosopher-king concept more than Pedro II of Brazil. Protip, you can't.
>"I was born to devote myself to culture and sciences", the Emperor remarked in his private journal during 1862. He had always been eager to learn and found in books a refuge from the demands of his position. Subjects which interested Pedro II were wide-ranging, including anthropology, history, geography, geology, medicine, law, religious studies, philosophy, painting, sculpture, theater, music, chemistry, physics, astronomy, poetry and technology, among others. By the end of his reign, there were three libraries in São Cristóvão palace containing more than 60,000 books. A passion for linguistics prompted him throughout his life to study new languages, and he was able to speak and write not only Portuguese but also Latin, French, German, English, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Chinese, Occitan and Tupi.
>Pedro II's erudition amazed Friedrich Nietzsche when both met. Victor Hugo told the Emperor: "Sire, you are a great citizen, you are the grandson of Marcus Aurelius", and Alexandre Herculano called him: "A Prince whom the general opinion holds as the foremost of his era because of his gifted mind, and due to the constant application of that gift to the sciences and culture." He became a member of the Royal Society, the Russian Academy of Sciences, The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium and the American Geographical Society.
This man is a proof that the perfect rulers are those who were trained and prepared for the throne their entire lives, and not sociopathic fucks which modern democracy shits out.
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bump, i love that dude
brazilians must be so fucking sorry he was overthrown
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Was he a good ruler though?
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>>1458960
He was
The only time Brazil was ever relevant on the world scene was during his reign
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Phil. Of Quantum Mechanics 2016-07-25 03:49:31 Post No.1458591
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I recently read a brief essay on the subject that,
for the most part, many see contemporary philosophy as having stumbled behind the progress of science
(which I think is fair in the case of scientists and the layman).
Thereafter I took to learning more about current Quantum Mechanics,
which created a mix of horror and intense interest in relation to the Microcosm-Macrocosm-esque implications.
While I am not quite as up to date as some (I don't have subscriptions to journals, or have access to paywall-protected essays),
it does seem apparent that there isn't much corpus attempting to reconcile this conception, or at least that it remains obscure.
This all said, and while I understand people have been saying to avoid the philosophical questions/implications until after the theory has been more polished,
I imagine there must be at least a handful of articles.
Would anyone know some good sources on the topic?
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>>1458591
>Microcosm-Macrocosm-esque implications
Such as?
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>>1458591
>I recently read a brief essay...
>Would anyone know some good sources on the topic?
You obviously started with what you think is a good source. Cite your source please, so that we may have the benefits of its wisdom
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy should be your first stop for any philosophical topic. They prevent an overview of different opinions, main thinkers and essays/books on the topic, and a historical sketch of its development.
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ITT: How people would describe bits of history had they never become prominent 2016-07-25 03:05:55 Post No.1458442
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ITT: How people would describe bits of history had they never become prominent
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>Have you heard of Christians? They were this cult during the early Roman Empire that worshipped a corpse on a cross and ate human flesh and drank blood at their meetings. That's so cool, I wish their religion had survived instead of this boring shit we have today.
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Remember that time those colonists didn't want to pay taxes?
They had some good ideas, but they didn't stand a chance against the British Army.
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This is kind of a lame premise for a thread, clearly a thinly veiled method for slinging insulting generalizations of certain aspects of history, entirely just in the attempt to provoke opposition
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>>1458459
>clearly a thinly veiled method for slinging insulting generalizations of certain aspects of history
That's not my intention at all.
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existentialism thread when
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When you start posting some good existentialists
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>>1458423
When having an existentialism thread actually matters
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Ella Hattan (La Jaguarina) 2016-07-25 02:53:58 Post No.1458413
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Ella Hattan (La Jaguarina)
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So I've been looking around for badass people for shits and giggles. One of them is a fencing prodigy by the name of Ella Hattan (1859-????). The information I've come across paints her as unbeatable who retired because there was no one else to fight.
However, I've also noticed that all resources talking about this woman are very recent, 2009 at the earliest. In addition, I've found no real reliable source that wouldn't give me an "F" on a high school essay if I used it. There isn't even a Wikipedia page, from what I've seen. My autism flares at this.
Since you guys are completely reliable, I've come here to ask for assistance.
Did Ella Hattan actually exist?
Is there some older resources (before 2000) that you guys can point out for me?
I'd truly appreciate anything useful you can tell me.
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>>1458413
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>>1458413
sounds made up as fuck. like you said, no reliable source and she is allegedly an actor
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/tg/er here and I've noticed a trend.
Was the Holy Roman Empire basically the grimdark shit-stack of the Middle Ages and early modern period whereas the Kingdom of France was by comparison the land of knights in shining armour? Basically "grimdark" medieval fantasy tries to base things off Germany and relatively lighter medieval fantasy is based off France. Why is this? Does it has something to do with the contrast with the decentralised HRE and the increasingly centralised France?
I just see this depiction in !notFrance and !notGermany games a lot.
Where does England fit in this /tg/ depiction scheme?
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>Why is this?
It might have something to do with the centralization of the French monarchy as opposed to the proto-federalism that characterized the HRE. But I don't know. What you think you've noticed probably isn't even the case.
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>>1458388
In terms of the middle ages, France had a lot of leftovers from the Roman Empire in terms of infrastructure, while Germany was still much more savage.
As for the early modern period, Germany was ground zero for the Protestant Reformation, leading to generations of warfare and social unrest.
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What? France wasn't centralized until 15th century, it was basically feudalism extravaganza because the king had no real power over most of his vassals and they ruled their fiefs almost like independent lords. Ironically the HRE was more centralized than France in early and high middle ages.
Also France is where the whole courtly love and chivalry thingy originated so there you have it.
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Troglodytes - fantasy or fact?? 2016-07-25 02:33:21 Post No.1458351
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Saw a movie called Bone Tomahawk. In the movie, a group of Cowboys must go after a group of "trogolydytes" or barbaric cannibals living in a cave. In the cave, they had wives who were blinded and crippled by the cavemen themselves. Pretty brutal scene to see. is there any historical equivalent or is this just Hollywood lore?
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Forgot to mention the wives were pregnant. Could we take a moment to fathom the reality of all pregnant, blind cripples out there? Thank you
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>>1458355
Most likely comes from several different cultures and our own twisted imaginations.
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>>1458351
Deliberately crippling a large portion of your manpower is a pretty retarded idea for a tribal society
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Does human life have inherent value? Why or why not?
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Value is a relative term, you're literally asking nothing.
Value for what?
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Why should it? We're just evolved animals, where do we put the threshold?
What has intrinsic value is happiness which can be experienced by any consciousness, not only humans.
>>1458308
Value is impossible to define, it's a base concept like true/false
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>inherent value
>inherent
>value
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Would it be possible to have a discussion about the practical steps you've taken to learn and study history? How do you go about doing your research?
Do you actually have access to vast libraries to borrow from? Do you buy a lot of books? Where do you get your articles? Where do you find primary sources?
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>books are expensive
>libraries over here are garbage
>internet is fucking shit for any real learning
Suffering
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>>1458294
> Study history at university
> Profit from up to 5 academic libraries near my school
> Vast amount of online sources shared among these libraries (and other among the world)
> My teachers constantly send me authors and books to check out
My situation would be perfect if only I could get a job afterwards.
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>>1458331
Being a hobo has never been so worth it
Is this the best philosophical work of this century yet?
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Not Zizek and cho on and cho on
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what is it
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>>1458311
an ebin meme
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Why do a huge number of stories follow the standard "heroes journey" structure?
The oldest story humans have recorded is a standard Heroes Journey.
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Ask Gilgamesh.
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>>1458271
He's not answering.
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>>1458276
Go fight him or some shit.
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Alright, let's get this settled.
Was he a generally negative or generally positive influence on the USSR?
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He won the war
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>>1458125
He basically abandoned the idea that the Party's primary goal was to establish Communism. Hell, he basically stamped out the remaining members of government actually interested in establishing socialism in favor of expanding state capitalsim. That was definitely a net loss in the long term, especially when he took a policy of exporting his flavor of "socialism" abroad at the expense of other movements (Marxist or otherwise).
Really the only thing he did well is win the war, which is not to say someone else in his position wouldn't have also been capable.