Where can I read the Non-Canon Gospels.
Books, links, whatevers. Post em.
>>1403206
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/index.html
>>1403206
1. You could have searchengined that, you lazy moron.
2. Questions should have an interrogation sign at the end, not a period.
3. >Lore Thread
What does "lore" have to do with your request? Do you even know what the word "lore" means?
>>1403229
Are you christian!
Any examples from history in which there was a shortage of a certain resource? I can only think of wood and maybe during wars. But am looking for a kind of resource depletion.
Anasazi, Mayans, Norse in Greenland, Khmer empire, Rwanda etc.
>>1403036
Are you Jared Diamond? I cannot remember what kind of resources run out in those examples. Am not so much talking of collapse.
>>1403042
Food production potential is a resource.
How were Romanians so powerful?
Well, they had a fucking vampire prince.
>>1402986
Were they, though?
>>1402986
I guess not. Ottomans were far more powerful, at the end of the day Vlad was killed, Mihai failed and they were Ottomans bitch until late 19th century, only to be saved by Russians.
Can religion be reintegrated into modern democratic societies? What i mean is the end to separation of state and church.
Instead of trying to integrate religion into democracy or have it excluded do it the other way around. Democratize religion and integrate its ideas and cutoms on a national level.
So inspect and filter all ideas through a much more open fluid and less authoritative religious structures. Have religion pervade society and social thought and be considered when questions are asked and answers are proposed.
Can Christianity with certain changes fit such a role in a way that would allow it to easy shrug off dogmatic oppressive ideas?
With the death of positivism and a more open look at science and also language and interpretation is the time right to make religion a major part of life again in a beneficial way?
I mean if we assume for a moment it is possible how would we do it?
>>1402912
>So inspect and filter all ideas through a much more open fluid and less authoritative religious structures
Not in the United States of America. We are protected from that kind of thought by our wonderful Constitution. (Thank God)
>>1402912
>dogmatic oppressive ideas
Such as? There isn't exactly a Christian sharia.
>Inb4 muh laws of Moses
>>1402912
Wouldn't that just be to call the religion itself untrue? I mean if the authority and "truth" of the religion doesn't come from God then you're basically just writing fiction by comity.
Why aren't you a part oft he largest and most popular philosophical conversation in the world?
>>1402867
>Why aren't you a part oft he largest and most popular philosophical conversation in the world?
WE ARE.
We spend our time on /his/, and >>>/int/ , and >>>/pol/
>>1403638
>literally joining a cult
shiggy
>>1403638
That guy looks a lot like my old Arab classmate.
The black death that ravaged through Europe and Asia in the 1300s is estimated to have killed up to 200 million, completely altering the course of history. My question is, what would the world look like if it had never occured?
Idk
Wasn't it proposed that the decline of feudality started with the decline of the general population of plague-stricken Europe?
I guess the result would be no/later age of enlightenment, a stunted scientific revolution, and a postponed industrial revolution.
Oh, and Poland would've been f*cked much earlier/differently than it was in our history.
It's difficult.
Europe had been going through something of an early renaissance. The Medieval warm period had happened, states had sort of figured out their "natural" borders and boundaries, trade was flourishing along with guilds and universities.
And then bam, the plague kills 50% of Europe.
And yet, the change in demographics resulted in much less peasantry which created a huge social upheaval resulting in much more freedom and rights for the peasantry and was the beginning of the end for it, at least in terms of a legal class with little rights, the majority of the population would still remain farmers for centuries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequences_of_the_Black_Death#Social.2C_environmental.2C_and_economic_effects
Humans are odd, out of every disaster we make something good. If there had never been any catastrophes since the dawn of man we'd still be little Africans living in trees.
What went wrong with Slavoj Žižek?
Was there anything we could have done?
>>1402681
>sniff
He lost control over his eating habits, that's for sure.
>>1402681
Ideaology.
How involved was Egypt's empire in the New Kingdom?
Would somebody in Nubia and somebody in Canaan follow any of the same law? Was there any settlement of Egyptians into conquered territories?
Would court politics (ascension of a new Pharaoh, Akhenaten's monotheistic revolution) bleed thorough into the provinces at all?
They were a great influence on the Abrahamic faiths. Read their prayers for yourself, they're real similar to ones found in the Talmud and Bible. But this is a meme everyone knows about.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hymn_to_the_Aten
Bump for OP. Also interested.
>>1402640
Egypt was an extremely entrenched and powerful state, it imposed endless taxes and managed huge public works, employing a sizeable part of the total population.
It had a single unified legal system so yes in theory you would be tried by the same laws across the empire, tho in practice their control often wavered over peripheral regions.
Dynastic instability was a problem for Egypt as it was for all ancient states, however the existence of well-established bureaucratic and priestly hierarchies tended to mitigate disruption by ensuring continuity of local government. This broke down under Akhenaton, who tried to destroy the powerful priestly class, but in general Egypt was remarkably stable, peaceful, and prosperous.
Egyptians were extremely tightly connected to the Nile and didn't really think Egyptians could live outside Egypt.
I dun goofed /his
Need to write an undergrad thesis. History major. Told my mentor I am gonna write it on Fatimid Caliph Al Hakim Bi Amr Allah.
Know enough about him to bullshit but can't come up with any major questions to ask about him
pls help.
more deets on what I have so far l8r.
Try to find an aspect of his character that hasn't really been written about in scholarship before
>>1402551
His character has been written on a lot. To a point where any addition will have to come from new sources completely.
What I have done so far is look at the Vizier, Jawhar Al Siqilli and I noticed that the Fatimid rulers had not adopted the title of caliph or amir al mu'minin until the 4th Fatimid Caliph, Al Muizz. Essentially until the conquest of Egypt and the establishment of Al Azhar in 988 and Dar al Hikma slightly earlier.
Under al Hakim (6th fatimid ruler) however you see a strong shift towards da'wa, spreading Shi'ism, in China and India so he transitions from being the protector of Islam to the authority on the spread of what he saw as true Islam.
I thought this was interesting. And it's all well and good. But I don't know what to do with any of this info
Why him out of all people. I find great generals far more interesting but then again Im not a history major and I just like history as a hobby.
To what degree was Marx's philosophy influenced by his Lutheran faith?
Not at all. Marx's family nominally converted because Germany wouldn't let Jewish scum take their jorbs.
>>1402466
Man, he was racially ambiguous wasn't he? He doesn't even look Jewish.
>>1402473
The fro is the giveaway.
/his/, what are the best castles aesthetically? What about those with the best defensive record? Do pretty castles tend to not be as defensible as the ones that are just big slabs of brick?
Pic is Narikala in Tbilisi.
>>1402368
>What about those with the best defensive record? Do pretty castles tend to not be as defensible as the ones that are just big slabs of brick?
YOU ARE MUTUALLY CONFLATING CASTLES, AND FORTRESSES.
CASTLES ARE BIG PALACES; FORTRESSES ARE BIG FORTS SURROUNDING A CITADEL.
>>1402401
Is your schtick just some long term character troll to try and piss people off by tapping out half truths or complete bullshit in the most obnoxious, arrogant manner that you could think of?
Neuschwanstein.
>>1402401
You're the one who is confused. Very often they are both. See Prague Castle.
Looks like most of the entire continent of Europe was under Communism after World War 2. How did the Soviets get a free pass at this massive swath of land? Why couldn't Eastern Europe have fallen under the Anglo/American/French umbrella instead?
almost all of that was under either german or Italian occupation.
>>1402324
>How did the Soviets get a free pass at this massive swath of land?
Because Roosevelt believed Stalin and Churchill had less and less to say as the war progressed.
> Why couldn't Eastern Europe have fallen under the Anglo/American/French umbrella instead?
Patton and Churchill wanted to liberate those countries but retard Roosevelt already promised them to Stalin before he died.
Why do humans do all of that useless shit? Why not simply accept death? Since I was born I never understood why anyone does anything. It seems like distraction from the inevitable.
Why do humans have such an irrational fear of dying? Are you really that fucking arrogant that you think you are important enough to stay forever? And do hedonistic shit? And then what?
Because we feel like it?
I enjoy stuff that I do and therefore don't want to die yet.
>>1402308
I try to not do anything. but then my tummy hurts and starts growling and I have to get some food. Then I remember I need money to buy food. The I remember I need a job to get money. In short, that I live in the real world you raging faggot!
>>1402308
>Since I was born I never understood why anyone does anything
Isn't that just wonderful. See >>1402331/this.
>Are you really that fucking arrogant...
You could start of by not being rude and improving your vocabulary.
Have a blessed day
When did the United States surpasse the Latin American states. Specifically I am interested in military affairs, I would be curious how an 1830s Mexico would up in a war with the US.
In the 1830s, the US and Mexico barely shared a frontier.
>>1402141
In terms of populated area no but in terms of actual size it was quite large.
Considering 1830's Mexico couldn't even manage to hold onto Texas, I'm going to wager that the US was always militarily superior.
What's some essential reading on the Finno-Korean War?
Most forced, circle-jerky meme on /his/.
I bet you love spurdo and ending your posts with "t." don't you, you annoying Finnish faggot
>>1402100
t. Butthurt subhuman
>>1402100
t. Korean