Archived threads in /his/ - History & Humanities - 3566. page

File: 6a0147e0fd1b4a970b0154320d3218970c-800wi.jpg (237KB, 691x465px) Image search: [Google]

237KB, 691x465px

so if the Angles, Saxons and Jewts are Germanics that migrated to England who the hell were the Vikings? Leftofers of the above?

File: British_Empire_1921.png (32KB, 1425x625px) Image search: [Google]

32KB, 1425x625px

How and why did Britain lose its Empire?

File: O-cruel-trabalho-de-testador-de-comida-de-Adolf-Hitler.jpg (163KB, 1280x720px) Image search: [Google]

163KB, 1280x720px

What's his name again??

File: France Islam.png (18KB, 800x533px) Image search: [Google]

18KB, 800x533px

Did the French ever make much of an attempt to convert the Muslims in their colonial clay to Christianity?

File: 1.jpg (36KB, 468x594px) Image search: [Google]

36KB, 468x594px

Is George Frost Kennan the greatest diplomat in recorded history?

File: youtube.png (17KB, 1200x1200px) Image search: [Google]

17KB, 1200x1200px

What are some good /his/ approved Youtube channels?

File: 8365234245.jpg (14KB, 287x175px) Image search: [Google]

14KB, 287x175px

Is PIE and the standard theory of european languages really needed to explain why most european languages are related to one another?

They're all related to latin and greek and we have no record of other indo-european languages from europe until well after the romans had extensive contact with and influence on all the people who speak them. The further you trace back those languages the more they start to sound like latin and greek.

Conversely, PIE is a completely hypothetical, constructed language and there's no evidence of its existence. Doesn't it make more sense to just conclude that germanic, celtic and slavic languages are all based on the interpretation and adoption of latin by the people in those different areas of europe with the influence of their own native languages? That seems like the obvious, straight forward and common sense conclusion to draw. Why is any other explanation necessary, let alone one that's so speculative, hypothetical and fanciful, and without any physical evidence? It seems to have come about circumstantially and under the influence of political motivations and romanticism.

A lot of european nationalities had fanciful narratives of their origins in the orient that were formulated in medieval times or the renaissance, like the Scoti tribe being ruled by an egyptian queen who migrated to ireland or the British being descended from the Israelites. The Germans had their own origin narrative of being descend from persians.

File: 192px-Ktreewnames.png (62KB, 192x358px) Image search: [Google]

62KB, 192x358px

Sefer Yetzirah (Book of Creation)
- How did the Jewish Kabbalah Tree of Life become the Hermetic or Christian Kabbalah Tree of Life which Tarot users are so familiar? This post is not a forum on the eschatological soundness of either system, but rather an inquiry into the development of both systems with emphasis on the transition between the two systems and the Hermetic System’s subsequent use of Tarot.
>Sefer Yetzirah [is] the earliest extant Hebrew text of systematic, speculative thought. (Scholem, Kabbalah, 1966, p23).
- That is the place to start. It is the first discussion of the 32 “secret paths of wisdom”. Scholem believes the Sefer Yetzirah was written between the 3rd and 6th centuries in Palestine. It is attributed to a Rabbi Akiva, but this is speculation. At this early stage, there was no Tree of Life.
- While this is where I personally wish to start, if any wish to comment, you can jump in anywhere; pre Zohar, post Zohar, Reuchlin, Agrippa, Mathers, Levi et al. The floor is open. How did we as a species start with an obscure 2000 word document and end up with the New Age movement of today?
- (I am especially interested to the initially transition from the Jewish paths on the Tree to the Hermetic paths. Not all sources from that period are available in English and some have only recently been translated.)
- I am barely a novice in the study of the material. If only there were young females who would like to participate in a more personal study of this subject.

For the moment, I leave this to you /his/ ANONs. I’ll check back on your progress later.

File: RC20111127SlavoyZizek01-768x1024.jpg (146KB, 768x1024px) Image search: [Google]

146KB, 768x1024px

Thoughts on this man?

Some of his YouTube videos are enlightening.

File: eETK5hS.jpg (22KB, 424x317px) Image search: [Google]

22KB, 424x317px

I'm reading about how Soviet Union constantly neglected agriculture in favor of heavy industry and i just don't get it. They were literally cutting on producing vital element such as food in order to build more steel factories, which were pretty much all profitless and didn't achieve shit except for dick waving and some minor export.

The country that included such grain-rich and fertile lands as Ukraine lived on from famine to famine and had to import grain instead of exporting it because no one actually bothered to invest in what was surely the most important resource. Instead they were desperately trying to turn 100% agrarian society into an all-out industrial utopia their whole existence.

And then you had Khrushchev who actually recognized the agricultural problem but fucked up as well by trying to plant corn in the Arctic.

What the fuck were those people thinking. Why would you even have planned economy if you don't know how to plan it properly.

File: nietzsche.jpg (165KB, 773x1024px) Image search: [Google]

165KB, 773x1024px

One thing every bad reader of Nietzsche seems to get wrong is they think he advocated selfishness.

Nietzsche did not advocate selfishness. He basically looked down on base egoism as being what literally everyone in the herd does. Your average family is filled with people satisfying base urges and not contemplating morality.

Nietzsche actually liked people who could be irrationally moral, he even liked Christians like Dostoevsky above your average herd person.

Can we discuss other common misconceptions of Nietzsche?

File: Cross.png (820B, 190x265px) Image search: [Google]

820B, 190x265px

The following isn't a sarcastic request: Please introduce me to Christianity, /his/.

If that's too broad, I have a few questions I'd like to have an answer from those who are generally more well-read in terms of history instead of Wikipedia. Also, I heard that religion threads don't go well, so I'm very well prepared for a shitstorm.

Question #1: What are the connections between Christianity and Judaism?
Question #2: Is Jesus really the "Pacifist Hippie" that everyone portrays him as?
Question #3: In a rough percentage, how much of the Bible (excluding Genesis and Revelations) are historically accurate?
Question #4: Why did Christianity gain popularity and not just stay a Jewish mystery cult?
Question #5: On a scale of "no man's land" to "landmine field", approximately how many interpolations are possibly still left in the Bible?
Question #6: In your own opinion, how good (in terms of morality) is Christianity compared to other religions?

Feel free to add anything more, any additional knowledge is always appreciated.

Also, to the guy who always ruins every Christianity thread: Please, I beg of you, do not shit this thread up.

File: image.jpg (52KB, 509x576px) Image search: [Google]

52KB, 509x576px

/his/ related tattoos?

I've been thinking about getting a tattoo for awhile with some historical context behind it and have come across some interesting tattoos to look at.

Does /his/ want a tattoo similar to this or have one?

File: mjolnir.jpg (32KB, 300x472px) Image search: [Google]

32KB, 300x472px

Is it acceptable for someone with no Norse heritage to identify as a nose pagan?

File: image.jpg (106KB, 970x1213px) Image search: [Google]

106KB, 970x1213px

Was he the greatest?