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Is this actually good? I see it recommended on reddit a lot so I just assumed it was a meme.

>>1248360
It's actually pretty good. Dan is really enthusiastic, and hes fun to listen to, even if he does fall into some repeated patterns of speech.

>>1248324
I thought listening to Hardcore History was a prerequisite browse /his/

Nobody is born knowing the way out of Plato's cave.

>>1248077
Doesn't matter desu.

I chose pantheism since it was the closest, though not a perfect fit.

Atheism doesn't actually make sense. We can acknowledge the existence of gods — gods exist like good and evil do. It is relative, but relativity does not disprove its existence, rather it proves the complexity of its existence. God is a symbol of our language that has a powerful meaning — it means that which you deem to have unbeatable power.

>Were you born into your religion

I don't have a religion, just a philosophy. I don't need tenets to dictate my spirituality. My mother is Protestant and my father closest resembles an atheist Luciferian, for whatever that's worth. I was never told to believe anything. I was barely given a basic discipline to follow while growing up. I formed my own based on what life needed from me and from what I wanted.

because incest is a staple of nobility.

Royals would only marry other royals, both for social (can't marry below your status) and diplomatic (marriages historically made alliances) reasons

>we could have had a Russian-German-British alliance of cousin-emperors in the Great War

>>1256615
Who would they fighting in this war?

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>>1256405
Also composed some death poems.

>Unable to complete this heavy task for our country

>Arrows and bullets all spent, so sad we fall.

>But unless I smite the enemy,

>My body cannot rot in the field. Yea, I shall be born again seven times And grasp the sword in my hand.

>When ugly weeds cover this island,

>My sole thought shall be the Imperial Land.

He knew he was fighting a futile battle but he never surrendered and he died fighting with his men. He was poorly equipped against a far superior force but never gave up.

>The exact circumstances of Kuribayashi's death remain mysterious. He was most likely killed in action on the early morning of 26 March 1945, while leading his surviving soldiers in a three-pronged assault against sleeping Marines and Air Force ground crews. Kuribayashi and his men silently slashed tents, bayoneted sleeping men, and lobbed hand grenades. According to the official United States Marine Corps History, "The Japanese attack on the early morning of March 26th was not a banzai charge, but an excellent plan aiming to cause maximum confusion and destruction."[23] The assault climaxed in a hand-to-hand battle to the death between the men of both armies. The General's body could not be identified afterwards for he had removed all officer's insignia in order to fight as a regular soldier.

>>1256405

Because when you're fighting on a bunch of islands against an enemy with total naval supremacy, there's nowhere to go.

They sure as fuck ran away and surrendered in places like Manchuria, and against the odd successful Chinese offensive.

Everybody knew that nobody was taking prisoners alive at that point. What few prisoners the u.s. took in the pacific were usually just shot because they didnt treat the beitish well and they were afraid of tricks.

Paying soldiers who captured enemies with ice cream increased survival rates of japanese soldiers from 1/100 to 1/7

>>1256270
take your values of individualism and put them away, get ready for autocracy as an ideal.

>>1256270
>How do I into /russian history/?
And then, things got worse.

>>1256270
Start with the Kievan Rus

wow, just wow!!

>a single Carthaginian has European genetics
>CARTHAGE WAS WHITE GUYS

>>1256215
Some were Europeans because they mixed with the locals, for instance in Sardinia most cities began as native coastal settlements.

>>1255852
Didn't handle their south american steel trade properly, plus the War of Spanish Succession

>>1255852
A culture of laziness.

>Siesta
Give me a break. No wonder North America surpassed Europe economically, militarily, and culturely. Lazy fucks.

>>1255852
when they blew all their money infighting

>>1255628
As in striking terror?
Yes.
As in being a bad leader?
No.

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>>1255628
He committed many horrible acts but was actually a great ruler. He expanded Russia by conquering several steppe khanates and transitioned Russia from a kingdom to an empire as the first tsar. He probably deserves the moniker for incidents like the Massacre of Novgorod, killing his son, and his policy of purging nobles, but he set Russia on a path for greater power.

Terrible used to mean glorious and powerfull, not bad.

>>1255379
worshipping idols in 2016. Just get the fuck out of the sun.
sincerely yours, the dawg.

the word hero has gotten so abused that in my country girls who got bullied for being fat or some shit like that now are automatically hailed as heroes by the press and all the other weak-minded people that they'd probably think we deserved to be driven into the sea

>why do only your children believe in your gods?
>why do they wear such silly clothes?
>why aren't they raping everybody?

Would you rather crack open a new soda or drink a soda that someone else stuck his penis into?

The more men a woman has fucked the likelier it is she is promiscuous and she will go fuck someone else outside your partnership, leading to you risking having too raise someone else's offspring.
I think.

>>1255416
This also means women should avoid promiscuous men. A promiscuous man is more likely to father children outside of the relationship which could drain attention and resources away from your children.

>>1255073
>history
>talks about the present

>>1255073
nuclear yields haven't changed since the 70's.
hell, I'm pretty sure most of our missiles are from the 70's, which is why we've started a nuclear missile replacement program.
there's also the B61 tactical nuclear bomb, also quite old by now, that baby can be dropped from F-16's, and soon the F-35.

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>>1255073
Interesting topic, but /his/ is for events +25 years old. Ask for Oppenheimer on >>>/k/ or search their archives.

>>1254126
If Christians bothered to follow the Bible the Western World would look like IS.

>>1254126
Because muslims tend to blow up and kill other people.

Health

>>1254016
Drugs directly harm your property (your body) while making you lose money, which is also your property.

A woman that sleeps around has a low marriage value because people perceive she cannot settle into the role of motherhood. This means no children. Children are the best shot at preserving a part of your ego and someone to give your propety to when you die.

Start thinking about things egoistically and it actually starts making a lot of sense that you wouldn't destroy your life for a few cheap thrills.

>>1254016
Drugs fuck you up and getting fucked increases your risk for STDs or getting jewed by your sexual partner.

Yes, basically. By the later middle ages there's specific rules in place governing when and where to loot and who gets a share.

People really have way too romantic view of warfare. Arms and armor were expensive more and more the further back in time you go. And the Trojan war was during the bronze age and bronze was expensive as hell since you had to trade to make it.

>>1253803
Looting was called "finally getting paid for all this terrible shit" for most of history.

>>1251921
scream because i just appeared in Manhattan 83 years ago

>>1251921
walk the streets knowing I wouldn't be mugged

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