Let's talk about piggybacking on famous ancient people with little to no historical evidence. In other words, who WUZ your countrymen, /his/?
Scythianz n shiet here.
>>1195206
We wuz Sapa Incas and the Sons of the Sun n' shiet.
Like that?
>>1195206
Let me guess..Hungarian? Turkish?
>>1195206
My history teacher unironically believed that Odoacer was Slavic, and therefore Russian.
In my experience, people who have studied English, creative writing, or journalism usually make the worst writers. They take forever to make their point; there's 10 pages of fluff for every page of worthwhile content.
Any thoughts on this?
>>1195132
it's common to all aspiring writers, regardless of whether or not they took writing classes
the key is realizing that the background fluff isn't on the page for the reader's benefit, but for your own. you yourself are kind of making it up as you go along, and you end up inserting pages of fluff about stuff nobody else cares about into the book in an attempt to get your own ideas straight in your head.
like imagine how much LOTR would suck if Tolkien had thrown the entire silnarillion into it as background fluff. there's a reason he wrote all that shit in a seperate manuscript that he only released later for dedicated fans of his works who actually WANTED to read the fluff
>>1195132
/lit/
>>1195140
*silmarillion
survey time
1. What is your understanding of God?
2. Have you had a personal religious experience to verify it?
3. What happens when you die?
>He doesnt exist
>no lol
>ate by worms
>>1195036
1. I always subscribed to the absurdist point of view when it comes to an understanding of God
2. No
3. I don't know
I hope this helped OP
>God belongs in the black swan category, which basically means that nothing meaningful can be said about him
>no, because what we're trying to discuss is by definition outside of anyone's frame of reference
>the material and information you're made off and you've produced gets reused. Whatever is necessary is recycled, whatever isn't is discarded. I can't really complain about this, because I'm the product of this recycling
1. I'm not sure I rightly have one. I think he's likely just a psychological abstraction meant to encompass everything we don't understand while serving as a baseline for our understanding of truth and goodness. Alternatively, he could be something along the lines of Plotinus' one.
2. I've had a religious experience, but it didn't relate to that.
3. I don't know. I assume we just cease to exist.
If the monarchies of this three countries had remained in place throughout the 20th Century, would things have been better, or worse?
>>1194992
More Chinese and Russians would've died, so it's subjective desu senpai :^)
>>1194996
More?
I'm not too knowledgeable about Nazi Germany but China and Russia both basically owe their current power to the rapid modernizations put in place by their communist regimes. Maybe less people would have died and they would have had more personal liberties but they would probably be living in poorer conditions.
How accurate is this?
>>1194756
accurate. the germans used men from conquered lands as conscripts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrmacht_foreign_volunteers_and_conscripts
>>1194756
sure, its pretty cool
>>1194756
>forced
Why was this a thing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudity_in_combat
>>1194102
To fuck with the enemy.
>>1194102
>armor
Learn to backstab, scrub. Only plebs can't doge.
>>1194102
How physically strong was the average pre-industrial man?
>not showing legs
About 2 plate bench and 1 plate squat
Stronkr thn yr mim lol
>>1194048
muscular skinnyfat imo
What do you think the the RAF and its history?
>>1193836
Foquismo is stupidity.
Really interesting period in European history. Although I haven't done too much on the Baader-Meinhof Group, I've done extensive research on Italy's Anni di Piombo and the terrorism of both Radical Left and Neo-Fascist terror groups during the 70's and 80's.
RAF did nothing wrong
Are these evangelists a product of the American Enlightenment or has this kind of zealotry always been a part of Christianity?
>>1193502
Those people are scam artists.
>>1193589
Only half true. The rest are actual zealots. It's a lot like socjus in that regard.
>>1193589
I don't see anything monetary in it for them though. From what I can tell, all they do is travel around making scenes in public forums.
I have heard that the main mission of Freemasonry is to rebuild Solomon's temple and declare the Demiurge as the king of the world or something like that.
Is that true? So, when will they start to build this temple?
Someone explain.
No, it's not true. Hope that helps.
t. Mason
>>1193139
>t. Mason
What is your degree?
>No, it's not true
If not, what else is your job?
Prove that you are not just zionists in disguise with esoteric tendencies.
>>1193125
Specifically no. Freemasonry isn't about building any actual temple, and we have nothing to do with Gnostic fanfic stories.
It's Rosicrucianism/The Royal Society for lay peeps (from which you can then join the Rosicrucians, of course).
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What the fuck did you just say to me you smug little atheist? I’ll have you know I trained at arms from boyhood, and I’ve been involved in numerous wars and occupations in the name of my king the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, and I have over 5,000 confirmed executions. I am trained in siege warfare and I’m the top general in the entire HRE armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another iconoclast. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me in writing? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across Europe and your publisher is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, kid. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my many loyal soldiers. Not only am I beloved by my troops, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the Holy Roman Empire and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable smirk off the face of your face, you little shit. If only you could have known what holy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.
Did you guys know about the guy in the OP and his views on the Holy Roman Empire? There's a quote about it, I forgot how it goes.
>Horrible
>Repulsive
>Error
>Reading the kojiki, 8th century japanese semi-historical chronicle.
>About a third of it is a legend about the creation of the universe, the diverse gods and the japanese imperial line
>Rest is believed to be fairly historically accurate though
>Currently in the legends part
>God is being chased through hell by an army of 1500 hellish evil gods
>God sees 3 peaches lying by the road and throws them at the evil army
>Evil army disbands and flees
>God picks up the 3 peaches and confers upon them the status of deity, then commands them to protect all living beings from harm.
>The great augustnesses great-divine-fruit (srs translation) are never ever mentioned again
What were these people on?
Can you find me some equally hilarious legends from elsewhere in the world?
Pic related, probably
Pretty much everything in this
>>1192614
>Be me
>city I live in is pretty shitty but everyone likes anal
>just trying to live with my family
>some fucker knocks on my door
>holy shit hes hot as fuck
>crowd gathers around this guy, they wanna fuck him in the ass
>i tell them they can have my daughters
>fuckthat
>dude tells me shit is gonna go down
>ok
>start leaving
>look back at city
>HOLY FUCKING SHIT
>meteors out of nowhere
>wife turns into rocks or some shit i dunno i was trying to haul ass
>find a cave
>4/10 daughter gives me wine
>ok i guess i had a rough day
>fall asleep
>next night other daughter gives me wine
>why the fuck did they only bring wine
>fall asleep
>a couple months later both daughters are pregnant
Wat
>>1192596
Reminded me of Dwarf Fortress
How come I almost never hear anyone give credit to the Arabs for their help in creating the scientific method and bringing it to the west?
It's probably the most important thing they had ever done.
>>1192041
Legitimate historians often do. Top of my head, Barbara Rosenwein asserts that intellectual development on both sides of the Mediterranean was made possible through constant interreligious discourse, particularly concerning different interpretations of Greek texts.
/his/ discussions of Islamic societies are always shit due to ideology and the application of modern politics to a medieval context.
did they though? ive never actually researched into it yet aside from what is pushed in schools.
Find a flaw
Protip: You can't
Too much ambition, that's no good
>>1191842
Made in China
>>1191918
>connecting Communist China to pre-Imperial Ancient China
Why do people do this?
What's the spookiest mythological creature or deity?
deviant art OC
>>1191270
They can get pretty fucked up worldwide.
As an American, the inidian Wendigo is our scariest beastie imo.
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