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Memes that need to die 2016-05-27 15:50:19 Post No.1200438
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>anything outside of the Hellenic or Latin classical period Europe was stone age apes
>2cool4school pseudo-linguists saying things like Proto Indo-European not existing, or English not being a Germanic language
>people taking cultural terms like Celtic/Germanic/Slavic/Latin to be genetic rather than ethno-linguistic
What grinds your gears, /his/?
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>1050 Europe was as culturally diverse as 2016 America
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>Napoleon and Hitler were manlets
>All Germanics are blonde
>All mediterraneans are dark haired shitskins
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>>1200438
>most people on this board actually believe they evolved from rocks
>Christians will defend this
Also: I just love how you supposed to "love your enemies", but you're always offensive, shitposting and telling others how they'll go to Hell.
Are you like pic related?
Are you a "good person"?
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>>1208240
Very few Christians will defend this actually.
Being repulsed by sinners is nothing wrong with it, same as there is nothing wrong with being concerned for the eternal souls of sinners.
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>>1208252
You don't sound like a good person to me.
Do your love your enemies?
Also: I didn't say I'm not a Christian, by the way.
Why do you think I wrote "Christians" and not "Christcucks" in OP, hm?
What I'm trying to say is, Christians on 4chan are very agressive.
God is love.
Many of you / us sound hypocrite.
Maybe many of these so-called Christians are just "memeing"...
True believers would never act like this (or like in OP's pic).
>Being repulsed by sinners is nothing wrong with it, same as there is nothing wrong with being concerned for the eternal souls of sinners.
Pic related.
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>>1208240
>First and second panel
Anyone who's read the Bible knows that Jesus and Paul pretty much worship the poor
>Third panel
Once again, Bible says not to gossip
>Fourth panel
WILL SOMEONE THINK OF THE GAYS?!?
>fifth
Pretty sure it says to treat animals nicely
You're an idiot if you made this
Former Christian here. I can't really go with this faith anymore. I've narrowed down my option to two choices: Judaism or Islam. Which one should I go with?
Which one is better at backing up it's theological claims?
What are the pros and cons of each?
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>>1207747
Atheism.
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>>1207747
Islam is the best faith but religion really isn't subjective. It's far better than Judaism though.
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>>1207747
>Be Muslim
>Get put on a CIA watchlist
>Be Jewish
>Get mad professional connections
The choice is obvious.
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Why were the Ancient Greeks so based? Everything about them is awesome. They're like the most wonderfully autistic people of all time. I mean, Socrates pretty much invented shitposting.
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>>1207717
Imagine the different city states like the different people in a cliche highschool romcom drama.
I find it an affront of the highest degree to people who have studied Greek to reduce them to such a level, but it's the only way to explain them to someone who has never studied them.
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>>1207729
Spartans are definitely Chads.
Athenians would be the Nerds/Dorks.
What to make of the Thebans?
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>>1207765
Normies.
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How does it make you feel that future generations from now will view media such as pic related as being accurate portrayals of history, or, at least, how people in our time viewed the past?
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>>1205002
People are stupid as fuck now, what makes you think it'll get any better?
Was a great flick by the way.
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>>1205009
A lot of people on this board are progressives and think modern times are the most enlightened and peaceful age in all of history and life will only get better in future.
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>>1205002
My big
Black
Dingus
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What were the factors that came together to make life hell on earth for Medieval peasants?
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>>1204317
It wasn't hell on earth, that's an exaggeration.
It wasn't exactly a great life either but it was alright, Church sunday, farm all summer, chill all winter, parties and festivals quite a few times a year.
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>>1204321
this
the life of medieval peasants was pretty similar to just about every other agricultural lifestyle throughout history except they had slightly more advanced farming techniques.
The only reason why the life of medieval peasants is seen as so bad is because of revolutionary and enlightenment thinkers trying to distance themselves from their agrarian roots and so presented them as backwards, dirty, brutalized idiots.
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>>1204332
well said
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What went wrong?
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>>1201964
islam
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>>1201964
Oppression of women. without the smartest subsection of the population with free reign to pursue what they wish, population obviously crumbles.
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>>1201964
three part clusterfuck.
1- France and Britain being completely retarded with borders come decolonization following WW2.
2- Soviet-US tug of war in the region, including the whole Israel situation. The defeat of pan-arab nationalism, and the Iran revolutions.
3- Saudi Arabia-US-American alliance because of oil. Wahabbism.
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How could the British have won the American revolutionary war? And what would have happened? 2016-05-29 23:18:31 Post No.1211797
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How could the British have won the American revolutionary war? And what would have happened?
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>>1211797
>how
by allocating more resources to the war
>what would have happened
more revolutionary wars, non-beneficial maintenance by britain.
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Fuck i want to watch Zulu now, anyone know where to find it online?
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>>1211797
>more revolutionary wars
Where? Why?
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Adultery in the ancient world 2016-05-29 23:17:00 Post No.1211792
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Adultery in the ancient world
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I was watching the Vikings episode where the Christians cut the ear off of a woman adulteress. On the other hand, Viking society is portrayed as being much more "tolerant" of adultery and even cuckoldry. I can't help but be on he side of Christians on this one. Adultery and sexual degeneracy must be punished in order to create a stable society. Of all arguments for Christianity, this seems to be the strongest. Whereas when pagans speak of a "healthier" approach to sexuality, I can't help but remember those cuckold scenes from the Vikings series.
Now how accurate is this? Were adultery and promiscuity tolerated in pagan societies? We're women given more "freedom" (we all know what that means)?
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>>1211792
You are conflating open relationships and adultery. One can be in an open relationship and still cheat on a partner.
In North Africa and the Sahel open relationships outside of marriage were a non issue, husbands and wives were ambivalent about it but now of course things have changed.
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>nords were cucks
Nothing has changed.
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>>1211792
>History channel's Vikings
>Actual history
pick one.
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Ancient Languages General 2016-05-29 23:07:44 Post No.1211751
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Who here studies ancient languages? I'm a Latinist myself, but I'm mildly interested in Akkadian and Ancient Greek too.
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>>1211751
Hebrew mostly. Proto-Austronesian and Proto-Mande and Bantu interest me too.
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>>1211776
That's cool. Do you study modern Hebrew too or just scholarly Hebrew?
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Latin, Ancient Greek, Classical Arabic, Sanskrit, and Anglo-Saxon here. My Sanskrit is rusty.
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>Latium, Campania, Sardinia, Sicily, Spain, Northern Africa, as Roman granaries, were successively reduced to exhaustion. Abandoned land in Latium and Campania turned into swamps, in Northern Africa into desert. The forest-clad hills were denuded. 'The decline of the Roman Empire is a story of deforestation, soil exhaustion and erosion,' wrote Mr. G. V. Jacks in The Rape of the Earth. 'From Spain to Palestine there are no forests left on the Mediterranean littoral, the region is pronouncedly arid instead of having the mild humid character of forest-clad land, and most of its former bounteously rich top-soil is lying at the bottom of the sea.'
—G. T. Wrench, Reconstruction by Way of the Soil
Why does nobody talk about the environmental factors that led to the destabilization of the Roman Empire?
It seems like a way more important factor than
>muh degenarcy
>muh christianity
>muh germanics
All the above were just symptoms of an already crumbling civilization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_during_the_Roman_period
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That whole wikipedia article reads like slow decent into the apocalypse
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A bigger factor imo was the abandonment of large crop producing areas. When you have gaul peasants revolting in Gaul, and angry Franks in your doorstep how do you expect to get food for your provinces.
I think it was the unstable political structure that allowed Alaric into the empire and later the goths into Spain.
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>>1211733
>Why does nobody talk about the environmental factors that led to the destabilization of the Roman Empire?
You can't project alt right memes through them.
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Is Neo-Confucianism the god tierest of all ethical/philosophical systems?
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> normalfag: the philosophy
Probably the one of the lowest tiered of them all.
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Yes, it's not like the jewish materialistic system that dominates the world and destroys the Earth.
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>>1211419
Honestly, it's probably the most organic and in tune with nature of all beliefs. We wouldn't have GMOs if everyone lied by it.
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Would Central Powers won if Italy supports them from the beginning instead of being? Paris would fall in month with the help of mighty Italian army, Russia being alone wouldn't be a much problem. Imagine the world without fascism because zero grudges from Germans. If only Italy helped them as it supposed to instead of being back-stabber.
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Mook plz delete this board.
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>italy
>being of help to anyone
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Italy helped Anglos and got nothing. It should help Germans and got half of the France.
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A while ago there was a thread asking what laws you would have if you were ruler of the world. I got a little carried away. Any suggestions?
1. Convince U.N. to stop pussyfooting around ISIS and the whole shit situation in the middle east, deploy troops there with instructions to kill insurgents, protect cultural landmarks.
1a. give all soldiers cameras so there's significantly less chance of war crimes.
1b. When ISIS is dead, the U.N. takes control of human rights laws in middle eastern and African countries where all the shit is fucked up. All other laws are up to them, but seriously enough with the fucking genocides.
Once that's all over, on to step 2.
2. Convert every industrialized country to a capitalist society with minimal trade restrictions, will be gone into further later.
2a. Universal Healthcare. Absolutely universal.
2b. Mandatory vaccinations. We know it doesn't cause autism, I think we're all sick of smallpox by now.
2c. Disabled and mentally ill given government pensions.
2d. This next part sounds awful, but I think it’s necessary: those with a genetic predisposition towards debilitating birth defects cannot have kids. If a cure for a certain defect is found, you can have kids again.
3. For Industrialized countries, there is a food tax. 20%(rough number, maybe more, maybe less) of food made goes to underdeveloped countries, where companies have factories with strict human rights rules.
4. All countries have school for free, as well as university and trade schools. Teachers are well paid by the government, so that after a few generations, underdeveloped countries will be able to make their own industries. Around this time, the U.N. will step out of the country, and the country will join and follow the rules the other countries have to follow.
4a. Schools are entirely secular. I don’t care what religions people follow on their own time, but schools should be taught with only the firmest of facts.
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5. All religions allowed, it is only not allowed to follow the parts of a religion that encourage violence, terror, or self-harm.
6. Finally, at this point, sale and production of automatic firearms, WMDs, and military grade weapons are limited to planetary defense.
7. TRADE LAWS: All things legal to sell, buy and trade, with the exceptions of: the aforementioned weapons, environmentally unsafe plastics (more on that soon).
7a. Sale of all drugs is legal, but not advised. There is a high tax on all drugs that are more than simple intoxicants, and you must sign a waiver before buying drugs. Rehab facilities are included with universal healthcare, so drug abuse hopefully won’t be a huge problem.
7aa. No public intoxication. If you’re about to drop some acid, lock the doors. Nobody’s should get hurt because you’re high.
8. No more fossil fuels or harmful plastics. Most plastics are replaced with hemp plastics, and world scientific effort is put towards finding environmentally friendly alternatives to fossil fuels.
8a. Homes, building and whatnot are powered by solar power, air or water turbines (or whatever other safe option is found.)
9. Poaching is cracked down on HARD. As in, killed. Enough of that shit.
10. NO death penalty (trust me, I think some people deserve to be killed, but there’s too much of a risk of a wrongful imprisonment).
10a. Those who go to doctors reporting that they feel sexually attracted to children, want to murder, rape, etc. are taken to a secure facility where they can get the help they need.
11. Every year after we find a good alternate resource, we launch our landfills into the sun.
12. Focus more on space colonization, both for more resources and for places to live.
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>it's a teenage utopian power fantasy episode
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>>1210856
pretty much this
My friend found this coin in rome was hoping to find out if it is of value
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A real ancient coin would be in way worse condition.
So no.
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>>1210677
>A real ancient coin would be in way worse condition.
Not really, theyre made of metals which preserve well and are usually stored somewhere safe when discovered
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Looks fake tbqh