>A.D. 2xx
>Be Roman citizen
>Hard but ultimately rewarding life as a farmer
>Traditional values based on the worship of Ceres
>Direct line of cultural inheritance to Ancient Greece
>Life in Rome is pretty comfy
>Only threat is from outside
>Dirty smelly Christians invading from the East
>Population is tired from battling these Jesus-types for over a hundred years
>Too much blood and treasure wasted
>Your own degenerate emperor is sympathetic to their backward desert religion
>You fear that Rome may fall to these sheep-herding savages
>You worry that in 2000 years, people will claim the civilisation your noble people built will be claimed as a "Christian" invention
>>1446043
what emperor in the 200s was sympathetic to christianity? also you seem to be suggesting that christians were barbarian invaders. the germanic tribes did convert to arianism, but not in this time period. there were cases of christians attacking pagan temples to try to become martyrs, but otherwise they were normal roman citizens who faced various levels of persecution depending on the place and time. change it to 3xx, edit a few details and it's 10/10
>>1446057
>there were cases of christians attacking pagan temples to try to become martyrs
Absolutely disgusting. Imagine if people did that sort of thing today...
>Only threat is from outside
Is history-based guilt a zero-sum game?
For example, should young German women of today pay for the sins of their ancestors?
German sins are of course numerous. Do you think Angela Merkel knows this and purposely invites rapists to her country as a form of redemption?
Do you think German women being raped by Muslims makes u pfor German sins through history?
>>1445982
So I told /pol/ to break the rules.
They actually did it the absolute madmen
Angela Merkel is merely a DDR deep cover agent who is trying to bring down the dirty wessies.
Does the whole "Roman Catholicism being a pagan religion" have any historical merit, or is this just a Protestant meme?
The Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible complied by the Catholic hegemony most certainly brought about significant theological alterations to Biblical scripture compared to the Hebrew and Greek translations of the Bible, and it's also clear that Catholicism was created in order to consolidate European paganism with the Christian Tradition by incorporating certain aspects of it into it's cultural expression. Catholicism was trying to unify a shifting population.
What's the definition of paganism anyway? As I understand it's an umbrella term of Christians for non-christians, or non-Abrahamics at least
How would it make sense for the inventors of the term that basically means "not-us" to be it
Sounds like memes to me
>>1445949
Paganism could most accurately be defined as the profane polytheistic beliefs outside of Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism.
Why are his followers so dumb since ever??
>>1445768
The icepick to the head treatment he got was transmitted to his followers via telepathic link.
true shit
Since he didn't actually rule and so has """""clean hands""""" (yes yes I know), the Trots like to live in an alternate reality where he *did* rule Russia and it was a true communist Utopia. Middle Class students can call themselves "Trotskyists" without any fierce repercussions (imagine calling yourself a Stalinist -- lol). He is a proxy for "not real communism". "If only Trotsky had ruled", they say, "communism would've worked". People that think like this are deluded and live in a fantasy world, so "Trotskyism" is a proxy for "delusion".
They are also the most rustled of all the communists.
A stalinist, Trotskyite and an anarchist comes home and find their partner with another person.
The Stalinist shoots them both,
The Trotskyite tries to give them a newspaper
And the Anarchist jumps in bed with them both!
Was Napoleon a shrewd opportunist or an intellectual visionary?
He took many risks and benefited from his gambles - often institutionalizing modern reforms we take for granted; the EU, establishment of slavery, educational reforms, central banking... etc.
*abolishment of slavery, damn autocorrect!
Visionary who got a bit too ambitious
>>1445734
>Was Napoleon a shrewd opportunist or an intellectual visionary?
Both
post absolute mad men/women
>>1445715
dude fascism and drug fueled sex orgies lmao
>>1445715
hot cunts get away with anything
>>1445799
Explain yourself
how do you feel about mass/genocidal rapes in history, /his/?
I try not to read things about rape or murder because for some fucking reason starting January that shit started to make me horny.
>>1445608
1/2
Serb forces set up camps where rapes occurred, such as those at Keraterm,[37][c] Vilina Vlas, Manjača,[39] Omarska, Trnopolje, Uzamnica and Vojno.[40] In May 1992, Serb villagers from Snagovo, Zvornik, surrounded and captured the village of Liplje and turned it into a concentration camp. Four-hundred people were imprisoned in a few houses and those held there were subject to rape, torture and murder.[41]
Over a five-month period between the spring and summer of 1992, between 5,000 and 7,000 Bosniaks and Croats were held in inhumane conditions at Omarska.[42] At the concentration camp, rape, sexual assaults and torture of men and women were commonplace. One newspaper described the events there as "the location of an orgy of killing, mutilation, beating and rape".[43][44] rape murder and physical abuse were commonplace.[45] At the Trnopolje camp an unknown number of women and girls were raped by Bosnian Serb soldiers, police officers and the camp guards.[46] At the Uzamnica camp, one witness in the trial of Oliver Krsmanovic, charged with crimes relating to the Višegrad massacres, claimed that the male detainees were at one time forced to rape women.[47]
>>1445608
>>1445613
2/3
Detention camps were set up across the Serb-controlled town of Foča. While kept at one of the town's most notable rape locations, "Karaman's house", Bosniak females, including minors as young as 12, were repeatedly raped.[48] During the trial of Dragoljub Kunarac et al., the conditions of these camps were described as being "intolerably unhygienic", and the head of the police in Foča, Dragan Gagović, was identified as being one of the men who would visit these camps, where he would select women, take them outside, and then rape them.[d]
Women and girls selected by Kunarac, or by his men, were taken to the soldiers' base and raped. At other times, girls were removed from detention centers and kept in various locations for prolonged periods of time under sexual slavery.[50] Radomir Kovač, who was also convicted by the ICTY, personally kept four girls in his apartment, abusing and raping three of them many times, while also allowing acquaintances to rape one of the girls. Prior to selling three of the girls, Kovač appointed two of them to other Serb soldiers who abused them for more than three weeks.[51]
>leave that chap Rommel to me!
>>1445435
>let me know if you need any help
>>1445435
In addition to having a larger force, he really did outmaneuver Rommel pretty badly at El Alamein.
>>1445435
>>1445451
>No worries, I got this.
What Ancient Asian culture is this nog talking about?
Why do religions try to demonize pokemon?
>>1445417
She's probably talking about warrior shaman/monks that summon/channel demons.
>>1445417
None, She lives in a badly informed fantasy world, where demons are real and east Asian religions are a direct method of communing with them.
These are the same people that think the point of Harry Potter is to convert people to witchcraft
>>1445481
Nothing in the screencap seems to suggest she believes in those things, she just says that "it was believed". Not "those beliefs were correct".
I'm pretty sure she's pulled the "background" of Pokemon completely out of her arse though, when asked the creator of Pokemon cited his childhood bug catching hobby as the inspiration IIRC. None of this ancient Asian demon shit.
>be monk
>write books about nature, medicine and god
>protect old books about pagans
>write about pagans and their lives to preserve them
>see fire in the town
>muslim attack
>villagers are dead
>try to protect the church
>protect books at any price
>die
>heaven.jpg
>"lets see what is happening down there"
>see idiotic millenials complaining about me
>"muh dark ages"
>"muh poor muslims in Holy Land"
>"muh dead alchemist"
>"muh inquisition"
>mfw
>>1445413
who are you?
>>1445413
Wait, how are you a monk and also living in a town?
>>1445413
Nice ripoff of that other greentext
Looking for backgrounds related to buddhism and the teachings of Buddha. As an example of what is being looked for the picture that is with this post depicts Buddha and the Mara aswell as an elephant with a name I'm unable to recollect, all comes from a story of Gautama Buddhas life.
Mara did literally nothing wrong.
>>1445392
This has not been claimed and is therefore as describe correct. The Mara merely lived the life of a Mara.
>>1445392
Well, Mara's job is to be Mara. We can't really blame Mara for doing his job per se; we just don't have to listen to him and hope he'll also find enlightenment someday too.
#prayformara
How did the Turkic and central Asian tribes go from being the greatest conquerors of Asia/Eurasia to being under the hegemony of Russia?
Guns, mostly.
>>1445291
Political infighting, disputes of succession, civil war, and the fragmentation of the empire. This led to the areas of Mongol influence to gradually shrink while other powers grew. Eventually they were weak enough to the point where China under the Qing Dynasty conquered Mongolia, and the PRC still holds Inner Mongolia.
Large population growth and technological advancement by non-nomadic peoples.
Post rare maps
>>1445156
What is it
>>1445166
paris
How do I find my purpose in life?
>>1445142
Well, what do you want right now, for starters?
>>1445142
You dont find purpose, you create it.
you dont find it, you build it.
Or was it just a fantasy?
There were a lot of 'coulds' involved. But probably not.
The man was insane.
>>1445094
He was totally nuts. Even if he could get Britain to agree to peace, Hitler's pride would have prevented it from happening.
>>1445094
maybe just maybe if they captured the Suez and the United States stay out of the war.
so it was a fantasy.