So can we all agree on Henry VIII as summarizing the archetypical douchebag? I mean, look at the guy:
>Has GF
>Mad at gf cause he won't give her a son (seriously who the fuck wants a son)
>Asks God for more GF
>God tells him he can only have one GF
>Tells God to go fuck himself and declares himself Pope of England in return
>Gets second GF
>Still no son
>Seriously who wants a son REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>Beheads second GF who has become a serious goth faggot in the Tower by then
>Gets third GF
>She dies at birth
>But he got his fucking son
>#YOLOs it and goes for three more GFs
>Also had a mistress and a bastard child going on
>God still hasn't forgiven the Church of England all these years later
What a fucking asshole.
>(seriously who the fuck wants a son)
Bait.
>>1400429
no it isn't
>>1400403
As the king, your top priority is to have a son. Even ruling is less prioritary, others can do that for you.
What is it about these strange ideas that interest us? The need to rebel from authority? The implications and possibilities it brings to light?
>>1400393
>What is it about these strange ideas that interest us?
they're just easy ways to explain complex issues.
>>1400492
This, also being (or perceiving oneself to be) a part of an enlightened minority always boosts people's ego.
Same reason people believe in God tbqh.
Did Stalin care about his Georgian roots?
I didnt know Stalin was from America
>>1400347
Yeah, he chewed tobacco and kept black slaves at his homestead
>>1400347
He liked to pretend he didn't (Stalinism was all about Moscow-led Moscow-centred world commie domination) but he did. He liked his Georgian foods, and he showed some prefernce to Georgians. He was also an extremely paranoid person though, so he wouldn't hesitate to kill anyone gaining too much influence outside his control...
How much power does the Catholic Church have?
>>1400326
Less than the jews. They have the upper hand in the Religious Pod race
If the pope openly called for another crusade how many troops would he be able to put together?
Not very many.
Little explicit political power, plenty of economic power and the ability to influence beliefs and attitudes of the weak and powerful.
What else could Lee have done at Gettysburg? If he maintained a defensive position, all the Union army had to do was wait and starve him out. Vicksburg was also about to fall to Grant's forces, so the South needed a major victory that would've made the Union's victory in the West meaningless. If Lee simply moved his forces back behind the lines in Virginia, the public probably would've viewed it as a Southern defeat. From my point of view, the man had little choice but to attack.
>>1400279
Lee could've pulled his troops out of Gettysburg in the dead of night and moved them up towards Philadelphia or Washington and forced the Union to chase after them as Longstreet repeatedly suggested.
>Alternatively, he could've moved his army to retake some of the Virginian ports like Norfolk or forgone an offensive altogether and sent part of his Army to deal with Grant at Vicksburg (he did just that at Chickamunga).
>>1400279
Probably nothing that /his/ armchair generals could figure out
literally nothing
The first wave of Muslim fundamentalism occurred in the aftermath of the Mongol holocaust which pretty much wiped out Islamic civilization at it's height.
The current (Wahhabi) wave of Muslim fundamentalism began in the 18th century with the ministry of the fiery preacher Muhammad abd al Wahhab.
Was there an equivalent traumatic experience that caused this second wave to take hold?
Israel
>>1400252
>Israel
>1703 - 1790
Yes, colonialism.
The Deobandi movement also rose in response to mostly British colonialism
Why didnt Bolivar's revolution produced a United States of Latin America or similar unifed entity?
>>1400132
Geography.
>>1400132
It sort of did, but the state failed miserably.
>>1400132
Why did glorified administrative regions develop strong national identities?
Hitler lost while being outnumbered by American soldiers who were mostly German descendants. So could his race theory still be true?
>>1400078
>Hitler lost
>by American soldiers
>race theory
>implying Hitler didn't lose to Russian Asians after the the European Russians were slaughtered during the Blitzkrieg
He himself acknowledged that the Asians will rule the world. Dear with it.
>>1400078
>the Americans won the western theater of WW2
Why is my country's education system so bad? Is it because we don't force the south to spend tax dollars on schools instead of defending blatantly unconstitutional laws in federal courts?
Is this a meme or did the madman actually do shit like this ?
>>1399893
If it was written by Tacitus it's probably fake
No. When it comes to people like Nero and Caligula most of their accounts of being cartoonishly evil were written by butthurt detractors. It's literally "Hitler was a small dicked pedophile satanist scat fetishisht" tier.
>Best Roman emperor
I am placing my votes on this guy.
Is this worth reading? It's about how classical civilization came from African, and that the idea white Greeks invented it is a myth.
>inb4 WE WUZ
It's not a pop work, it's a four-volume academic work that is highly respected and meticulously researched
>>1399641
My personal philosophy when reading books is to read different perspectives.
WE
>>1399641
>white
>greeks
Is the universe rational?
>>1399635
Explain: rational in what way?
>>1399657
It can be explained through reason or logic.
>>1399635
yes
How much power do these rothchild jews have?
Why don't people fucking stand against their cultural marxism and world wide zionism?
Kill yourself.
>>1399458
JIDF pls go.
They're just court Jews, acting as proxies on behalf of the four Houses that secretly rule the world.
Did he intend the final solution? was it pre determined?
>>1399197
Delete the Thread and read Mein Kampf yourself.
>>1399257
Delete that Pic and read The Quran yourself.
>>1399197
No, the final solution was hastily put together in 1942. Had Britain and France chosen to to punish Hitler for his occupation of the Danzig corridor there would've been no holocaust.
Is the hard problem an autism filter?
The hard problem of consciousness? I'd rather say it's a p-zombie filter. We should take all the p-zombies who fail to understand it, and should study their brains using all neuroscientific methodology available. Then we should compare their brains to real human brains. Perhaps we'd find something interesting.
>>1399817
I don't think I'll ever get just what makes the hard problem so difficult to understand
>>1399817
>being able to detect p-zombies
The whole fucking point is you can't.
Before British colonization, did India exist?
Would a Muslim Balochi feel part of the same broad culture as a Hindu from Ceylon?
Were the Burmese ever considered Indian before the British lumped them together?
>>1398614
An Indian nation still doesn't exist, just an Indian state. India is a huge landmass full of completely different peoples, cultures and languagues that were forced together for the sake of (mostly) convinience.
Modern India is like if all of the countries of Europe were united into a big United States of Europe. It just wouldn't work at all, and it doesn't work for India.
>>1398614
India is as made up as all nation states, except moreso and not even recognised by a large portion of indians. A lot of people weren't even aware they had been colonised until brits announced their withdrawal.
>>1398614
The answer is no and they would most likely not unite.