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>>1316175
Give wun wun shield, armor and sword

>>1316175

He already had a great plan, he just shouldn't have bothered trying to save Rickon.

Fuck off redditor your fucktards have already taken over /tv/

>>1328789
What a horrible color combination.

>>1328789
Probably not. Why go to all the expense of making the statue out of marble if you are just going to paint over it?

>>1328789
Yes it is. They were worked in bronze, and painted. We're just used to seeing them as more, solemn and defined without color. The Romans did worse by utterly decimating Greek sculpt by having it all reworked in Marble, destroying much of all Greek art.

>>1328321
>Leaving the castle so the people in it can fuck with your supply lines and raid your troops, having a fortress to return to when they need

Yeah, those simpletons

>>1328321
castle's weren't just placed on random areas of land, they usually were placed on vital roads or choke points to prevent an enemy army from advancing, or are protecting key economic areas such as your typical city walls or inner-city citadels.

but generally castles were placed defensively so that in order to advance in a direction, the enemy had to assault the castle in order to continue.

>>1328321
And what do you do next when you go around it smartass, roam around the countryside and continue dodging castles forever?

>>1327809
Really makes you think.

Empire was a mistake.

>>1327810

REALLY

>>1325578
Eh, sometimes I just hope as soon as soon as all these liberals go in to the real world and see no one gives a Fuck about them or their liberal arts and social science degree, why communism doesn't work.

>Humans don't like to work together, the left is a great example, they won't even listen/tolerate anyone on the right or anyone with diffrent ideas.
>But you know, the right has as many of not more crazy people, there is no right political party just pretty okay interpretation.

>>1325578
That picture is fucking retarded. Anyone who tries to shill revolutionary """""socialism"""" has no understanding of how the mind works. People won't suddenly accept total economic equality in one generation via revolution. I'm not going to sugarcoat this: effective socialism requires brainwashing. All members in society must be taught from birth to accept communal thought and economic equality. This of course is a gradual process that would take a couple hundred years, but it could be done.

Are you conflating communism and socialism again?

Let's say it again for the Americans in the back.
Communism = socialism.
Socialism =/= communism.

It's another form of comfortable nihilism to keep the working class from revolting against their oppressors

>>1323173
No. Humanity was fine without Industrial pollution and atomic threat.

Now that we've made this choice, though, to build some Icarus wings, let's not get so high our first few jumps, and see what we can productively do.

>>1323197
Not sure what you're trying to say.
Dentistry good, nuclear weapons bad etc etc

European civilisation prospered for centuries, them Christianity came along and we plunged into the dark ages.
Then the reformation showed everyone that the church was talking shit and and we had the Enlightenment.

>>1312635
They weren't really better fighters than regular militiaries, they were just incredibly mobile. They could turn up on any shore, any time; their seaworthy vessels were just as good for sailing up the river, and since most settlements aren't very far from water, that meant everywhere that had something worth taking was under constant threat of Vikings.

You can't stop them from showing up, as naval combat wasn't really practiced in the dark ages besides what remained of Roman naval tradition (Muslims in Spain and The Byzantines). You can't really mobilize a force to intercept Vikings either, as standing armies were prohibitively expensive, and most troops were just peasant levies. Vikings could show up on shore and sack a town/village in a day or so; no way in he'll could people effectively respond to that. The solution? Castles.

Castles as we know them first came into being as defense against Vikings. The Norse weren't really known for their siege tactics, and they would much rather get 20 gold pieces and lose nobody than lose half their men and get 100. Attacking castles weren't worth it, so people built tons of them in places Vikings were likely to show up. Eventually after kingdoms started to fortify and Scandinavia was Christianized, the raids slowed to a halt.

The legend that Vikings were peerless warriors mostly came from the fact that they had little to no fear of death in combat (Valhalla awaits), meaning they were incredibly ballsy in battle. Once their inferior arms and armor (and numbers) succumbed to the development of standing professional armies, they ceased to be a raiding threat.

>>1312698
Are there any actual records describing their behaviour in battle?

General attitude toward vikings seems to be that they were pretty big guys and were a hardy bunch of fuckers but generally very useless in terms of any conflict that wasn't raiding.
They relied on being able to show up and surprise a lesser equipped enemy, fuck their shit up and then leave near immediately.

They weren't incredibly skilled soldiers, nor could they into tactics.

Irishboos always post a battle where thousands of norse soldiers fell against a few hundred irish shitters on a hill.
Vikings really aren't that great, lad. There's a reason they were stomped out of existence on /his/ very quickly, because anyone who knows anything about anything knows that they're really just not that good if they aren't showing up to memeraid farmers or shitty guards whilst relying on better equipment, numbers and the element of surprise, lad.

Occam's razor says he existed and was one messianic cult leader among many of the era, who was eventually put to death for being a nuisance. I'm not sure how it's supposed to work if he didn't exist at all?

>>1328281
Yep. The apostles all made it up and were martyred for literally no reason at all.

Listen, if you can't understand the fact Jesus is God, that He is the divine Logos and that His existence is a miracle, then there's no reason why you should reckon his existence, otherwise you will become a muslim and you don't even need to assume it.

that's corporate capitalism for you

Just because they don't agree with you doesn't mean they are stupid.

>>1327857
>power to the people!!
>someone votes in something they dislike
>omg why should we let these people vote????
Really makes you think.

>>1326832
Tuesday

>>1326832

The World War: July 28, 1914 - September 2, 1945

when germany invaded poland tbqh

or when pearl harbor was bombed

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>>1324623
[citation needed]

>I read this on the internet so it must be true!

Did you know that OP would have to suck over 1000 cocks a day to be this gay? I read it in an image macro!

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>>1324623
I'm not entirely sure why but i find this funny every time. Something about the way it's written, I always read it in his voice.

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>>1324617
I am fascinated with that aspect of the christian dualist heresy called bogomili, cathars, albigenses, paulikiani and related, that flourished during the high middle ages.

The Roman Church still claims today that their literal eradication of the concurrent dualist Church, culminating in the Albigensian Crusade and the foundation of the Inquisition, was necessary partly, but most importantly, because of this creed of theirs.

Apparently they promoted or sexual abstinence, or sex through "unnatural" means as a way to avoid procreation. Their idea was that the earth and all things material were inventions of Satan, who locks our souls (which are divine beings who belong to God) into this word of his creation, and that every baby born is another soul re-incarnated in this earthly prison.

The Roman Catholic Church claims that without their efforts, dualist catharism might have prevailed and caused basically the suicide of the human race.

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>>1324617
>Procreation is an inherently selfish act
It is what we are designed to do. Because we know that we are designed for that purpose does not mean it is selfish to do so. Withholding our seed would be the selfish act.

>>1324617
>The continuation of life is a false purpose

Why? Because it's not that awesome purpose you wanted it to be? Fucking hell

>>1321678
>In what places and periods of time women looked like sluts?

Every place and time except modern day Saudi Arabia.

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>>1321688
Wos such sluttery

fuck off I'm looking for time periods when women looked like hooker whores you know kinda like your mom.

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>>1321678
Only when a civilization had degenerated to the point of near collapse. I hope the aliens who study us aren't left with so little archaeological evidence that they assume we always lived in a feminist society.

I am skeptical to any chart that just shows pictures of different skulls rather than a few medium stats of many with clear cut definitions.

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>>1321404
There's this.

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>>1321413
Was more thinking of something like this.

>>1319498
He was also a shitty autist because he came up with nothing useful

I think Claudius hiding behind a curtain from the Praetorian guard so he does not have to become emperor qualifies.

>>1319498
That's good because Saint Louis of France was also a gigantic autist. His wedding night, his wife was all over him and started to get down to fuck, when he fled from the day because according to an old tradition that only he followed, the couple had to stay chaste for 3 nights.