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Who was the best American intellectual of the 20th century?
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mah azz
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>American intellectuals
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Albert Einstein
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I'm reading about the life of Emperor Constantine I, and I am surprised as to why he is hailed as a great Emperor when his entire life story sounds like that of the typical upstart and rebel warlord, of the same type that plagued the late Roman Empire and caused the Tetrarchy to be implemented in the first place.
He is indistinguishable from Maxentius or Licinius: he was just another power-hungry man who wanted to obtain more power than the other Caesars or Augustii, intriguing against his co-rulers and disregarding orders because he thought he had a better claim to rulership than others and going to war because - like everyone else - he thought he should be on the thone.
The only reason he's called ""Great"" is because he won the war of the Tetrarchy: we could have easily had a Maxentius the Great, or a Licinus the Great, and nothing would have changed.
Petty little warlord, only glorified because of the Edict of Milan and the Church's rise to power in later centuries. It's because of people like Constantine that the Crisis of the Third Century even occurred!
>"I should rule because I say so."
>"Fuck the Augustus, I can be Emperor if I want."
>"I'm plunging the Empire into civil war if you don't give me what I want, i.e. the title of Agustus [even though I'm already a wealthy and educated noble who could retire to his private villa and live in luxury)."
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>>1393091
You are entirely correct. It should have been Diocletian the Great, or Aurelian the Great, but instead the Romans get saddled with Constantine. It's why Julian is labelled the Apostate, not because o f who he was or his exemplary qualities, but because christians couldn't handle Julian the Martyr, or Julian the Scholar.
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I dislike Constantine merely for his part in helping Christianity develop into such a strong force.
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>>1393931
Constantine was a questionable christian at best though. Even his deathbed conversion was done under a heretic.
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Why are most philosophers unmarried and childless?
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Marriage and children waste your time and waste your life.
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>>1392628
they were beta virgins
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Women are subhuman cunts and it's cruel to create children
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What is the most overrated weapon in history?
>Pic related
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>>1392572
>a weapon used for literally thousands of years by all kinds of cultures around the entire world
>"overrated"
full retard
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>>1392572
t. Pierre
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>"Dude, stop being such a fedora tipper! Galileo never faced any opposition from religion! Nobody has ever used formal religion to take advantage of others!"
>The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, which concluded that heliocentrism was "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture."[8][9][10] Galileo later defended his views in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, which appeared to attack Pope Urban VIII and thus alienated him and the Jesuits, who had both supported Galileo up until this point.[8] He was tried by the Inquisition, found "vehemently suspect of heresy", and forced to recant. He spent the rest of his life under house arrest.[11][12]
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Standard Christian damage control, fight facts for centuries, then change your mind and pretend you always thought that.
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>>1390737
That qoute has the ordering of events backwards. Galileo had support by the establishment until he attacked the Pope, then they started branding him with "heresy". It was a clear example of misuse of institutional power, but what it was not was a case of Religion vs Science, since Galileo lacked sufficient evidence in the first place, and that was the reason why he got into conflict with the church in the first place.
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>>1392678
>was the reason why he got into conflict with the church in the first place.
he got into conflict because he wanted the Church to support his heliocentric interpretation of several Bible verses, when heliocentrism was pretty much a fringe theory slowly getting serious attention. Had he actually focused on getting evidence and not trying to impose his Biblical interpretations on the Church the transition to heliocentrism wouldve been much earlier and Galileo would be overshadowed by Kepler, who pretty much got it right
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People who died too soon
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In a similar vein
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Definitely this fellow.
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Oh, Star of England!
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historical photographies thread 2016-07-08 03:35:24 Post No.1385403
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historical photographies thread
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Historical photos
anything goes
If you post the story behind the picture you gain +1 memepoints
starting with a classic, HMS Barham.
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>>1385403
ww2
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more ww2
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even more ww2
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Popoganda qtie's
Historical waifus
Post'em all
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>>1394339
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>>1394339
Not historical but great movie of everyone's favourite cheerleader
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What is the saddest fall of a dynasty/royal family in history?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1CTxa-FuKc
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>>1385700
I'm not sure, but I favor the romanovs.
Another possibility is the Sassanids.
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>>1385700
What's so sad about Qing. It's not like they were saints.
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what are the biggest lessons modern warfare has learnt from the Wehrmacht?
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>>1396056
Dont bother with specialised tanks.
Infantry structured around a machine gun isn't needed.
Fanatical indoctrination can't replace good tactics and training.
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Remember to concentrate force and act quickly so you can break through enemy lines.
Don't let people who hate you build up their military.
Select fire rifles in intermediate cartridges are pretty cool.
Belt fed, man portable machine guns are pretty cool.
Intercontinental ballistic missiles are extremely cool. So are jet fighters.
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>>1396056
fixed fortifications are shit
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>Why would you use this garbage over let's say a spear or bow and arrow?
Skall about swords
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Expensive, difficult to master and maintain.
If you aren't a noble or a professional soldier then there really isn't any reason to use a sword over an axe and spear.
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>>1394737
There is no reason to use an axe either.
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What is the big difference between jewish sephardis, mizrahis and askenazis in both cultural and physical terms?
We only know about the askenazi stereotype because they are more well known but waht about the others?
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Geographically, the Sephardi and Ashkenazi were displaced out of the middle east.
The Sephardi got displaced to the Iberian Peninsula.
The Ashkenazi were displaced to central/eastern Europe.
While the Mizrahi were around the middle east and Northern Africa.
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>>1382909
I would like to know more about their cultural differences.
I heard that sephardis were able to have lands and were less inbred than the askenazis.
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>>1382925
Ashkenazi Jews mostly bred with other Jews (up until recently).
There were also many Ashkenazi villages that were separated from other ethnic or religious groups.
There could be a chance that some might have inbred, however Judaism has quite a few commandments (laws) that strictly prohibit inbreeding.
I am not too informed about Sephardi Jews however.
I do now however that because of things like the inquisition and such many of them practiced secretly around that time.
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Why was she such a controversial figure to Brits? Because she divorced the prince? Because she liked Brown guys? She seems just as boring as the rest of the Royals.
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>>1388544
She was just a mentally crazy party girl who got involved in the royal family far more than she should have.
Her obvious arab fetish was weird too.
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>>1388544
She's only controversial to edgy contrarian /pol/tards. Litterally 99% of the country adored her.
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Was she controversial? I get the impression she was almost universally loved (unlike the prince).
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Can we agree that all criticism of Nietzsche is simply a misunderstanding of him?
Can we also agree no one has ever rebutted Nietzsche's glorious praise of Islam?
>Christianity destroyed for us the whole harvest of ancient civilization, and later it also destroyed for us the whole harvest of Mohammedan civilization. The wonderful culture of the Moors in Spain, which was fundamentally nearer to us and appealed more to our senses and tastes than that of Rome and Greece, was trampled down (—I do not say by what sort of feet—) Why? Because it had to thank noble and manly instincts for its origin—because it said yes to life, even to the rare and refined luxuriousness of Moorish life!… The crusaders later made war on something before which it would have been more fitting for them to have grovelled in the dust—a civilization beside which even that of our nineteenth century seems very poor and very “senile.”—What they wanted, of course, was booty: the orient was rich…. Let us put aside our prejudices! The crusades were a higher form of piracy, nothing more! The German nobility, which is fundamentally a Viking nobility, was in its element there: the church knew only too well how the German nobility was to be won…. The German noble, always the “Swiss guard” of the church, always in the service of every bad instinct of the church—but well paid…. Consider the fact that it is precisely the aid of German swords and German blood and valour that has enabled the church to carry through its war to the death upon everything noble on earth! At this point a host of painful questions suggest themselves. The German nobility stands outside the history of the higher civilization: the reason is obvious…. Christianity, alcohol—the two great means of corruption
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>>1392853
None of the popular atheists know Scripture well enouh to settle debates; neither do I follow the popular nor do your deluded retarded memes apply to me. My post was antitheist. I somewhat doubt your kind can learn new proper words.
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>>1392886
Is this some kind of new meme?
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>>1392853
>"German" """people""
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Why are African apologists so insincere and dishonest that they can call pic related an empire?
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benin :DDDD
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benin :DDDD
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Benin :DDDDD
But really, African apologists suck. But since when do they call Benin and empire?
Usually west Africa is Mali/Songhai.