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There was no such thing as witches, anon.

So that throws out like 90% of the movie.

The filmmakers suggested ergot poisoning led to hallucinations that sparked the Salem Witch Trials, but that theory is no longer accepted as plausible by historians, and even then the film got things wrong about the basics of ergot.

What did the filmmakers get right? Well there are these English puritanical colonists in 17th century New England. That's about it. There are a number of problems with the little homestead they build, like the windows and the bear traps and the clothing, and of course the whole thing is just too big for a family of banished outcasts to have built by themselves in a single season.

>>1123032
Witches are definitely real, anon.

>>1122281
It did pretty good things for his career mostly but he was wrong. He did later rescind the idea that we lived in the last era of political development too which is a pretty big indictment anyway.

>>1122318
>It did pretty good things for his career mostly but he was wrong. He did later rescind the idea that we lived in the last era of political development too which is a pretty big indictment anyway.
As a Foucaultian i would tell you that the use of his work to justify the Iraq War makes him right, even if he rescinded his work. Power relations, etc. His work is grounded in neoconservative foreign policies now, it's too late to withdraw it.

>>1122325
I had no idea it was used to justify the Iraq War, pretty interesting. I thought he withdrew it on the basis of flaws inherent in Western liberal democracy.

Western liberal democracy isn't even a concrete term considering the huge array of different methods through the West. We weren't instilling Western values in Iraq it was geo-political and I don't see anything remotely approaching success in instilling Western liberal values in Iraq or anywhere else that foreign policy has led us to.

Ol' authoritarian China is having an unprecedented amount of growth in the 20th and 21st century despite having a centrally planned economy too.

That's not the Holocaust

ac wēa, þis is ān fullstandiġ holocēast

That's not the Sack of Baghdad and the fall of Islam

>>1122221
>unfalsifiable
You're on a history board. An entire subject which cannot be falsified, in fact most things can't at all. Including your the ideas in your own post or the very idea core of falsifiable while you are at.

>You can choose any axioms you fucking want and then make the logical
Whether something works on paper doesn't matter, what matters is it's application and it's results. For instance, Solipsism is perfectly justifiable but it's not going to have any influence

>>1122221
Except the Munchausen Trilemma is full of shit.

Proof doesn't need to be made infinitely because you would eventually get to the fundamental proof of every component of everything you're discussing if given enough time to express your knowledge of the truth.

It's just in the name of time and parsimony people don't bother explaining the fundaments of physics every time they're making a finer point about ethics. If you and whoever you're dialoguing with are autistic enough, you could start with the baselines of the sciences (energy, matter, math, etc.) and spend six months working your way to the original question about the nature of man.

>>1122380
>I was only born in 1999
Are you a least 18?

It's the same as the difference between a General and a Marshall in Central/Eastern europe.

or the difference between a 4 and 5 star general in the US.

Generals command single armies, a Generalissimo is the commander of the combined armies. a commander-in-chief who isn't a civilian.

to make it simpler, it's comparable to Zhukov's rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union, or Erich von Manstein's rank of Generalfeldmarschall.

General is with cream, Generalissimo is with milk

It should be added that, in the memory of today's Spain, the only generalísimo is Franco. I was fairly surprized to see the similar english term generalissimo being used in english historical books.

he looked fly as fuck doing it tho

>>1121979
Caligula, Honorius and Agrippa Postumus come to mind, just to stay within the roman empire.

>>1121979
Piero the Unfortunate.

>>1121961
nice meme

>>1121961
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassins
>the name used to refer to the medieval Nizari Ismailis.
>the Nizari Ismailis were an Islamic sect that formed in the late 11th century from a split within Ismailism, itself a branch of Shia Islam.
> While "Assassins" typically refers to the entire medieval Nizari sect, in fact only a class of acolytes known as the fida'i actually engaged in assassination work.
>Lacking their own army, the Nizari relied on these trained warriors to carry out espionage and assassinations of key enemy figures, and over the course of 300 years successfully killed two caliphs, and many viziers, sultans and Crusader leaders

So there you go, the big Christian thing of AC is actually from a Muslim sect

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There were these guys, from which the word 'assassin' literally comes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassins

I personally think that their main ideas were pretty straight forward, but they drifted it into something different

>>1121949
It's garbage that would collapse after 5 years of peace

>destroyed a whole country and major economy that had to be rebuilt from scratch afterwards
pretty shit-tier

>just spook my shit up: the post

Existential crises may lead people to do crazy things. Or to act in their own interests.

I know personally I had an existential crisis which led me to Nietzsche, and after years of refinement built myself my own morals that I stand by. I had to reject society though and get metaphorically and literally beat up to learn who I am and what my purpose is.

Western society forgot this and passive-aggressively structures our lives to be all one way.

>>1121866
>You know that philosophy (ignoring mathematics or science) cannot lead to non trivial conclusions, right?
Is that a philosophy? You do a disservice to Stirner.

>You know that literature is pushed as "an insight in to the human condition" (or anything more pretentious than entertainment) by the publishing-media-academia industrial complex for financial gain, right?
What the fuck? There's no evidence of such a thing

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>>1121739
OP is a faggot and a heretic.

>>1121739
Christianity does predict it's downfall desu

>>1121739
It depends what you mean.

Will it die out worldwide? Not in the forseeable future. Places like Africa will always be ripe for it.

Will it die out in the developed world (America, Europe, Canada, Japan)? Certainly. That's what the demographic shift is. The Christians that do remain are very moderate in their beliefs, save for the bible belt.

>>1121623
Early on probably the Crimean Tatars periodically raiding the Ukrainian steppe, I think the Russian response from Moscow was usually irregular because it didn't really affect them

>>1121675

Tatars came from the east you do know that right?

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>>1121687
He meant Crimean Tatars who lived in, you guessed it, CRIMEA and were vassals of the Ottoman empire. They often raided the areas we now know as Ukraine for slaves and loot.

>>1121487

Maybe you should try these things called 'books'. There are a lot of books about Mesopotamia and other early civilizations.

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>>1121492

Comparatively, very little is written about it.

>>1121505

Comparatively? Compared to what, WWII historiography? Doesn't really matter when you're never going to learn everything that was written about Mesopotamia.

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>>1121391
>How is it possible that socialist countries like Nazi Germany
stopped reading right there

>socialist
>efficient

4Head

Nazi germany wasn't socialist it was Keynesian, which works really well. The government starts a lot of manufacturing projects and creates a lot of jobs that stimulate the economy. It's not rocket science.
Don't forget that Hitler also ignored the Versailles treaty which was a giant burden on Germany.

>>1121241
What if the majority of the people dispise democrazy?

Peisistratos was a tyrant in Athens, who had the popular support.

Really all you need is being popular, while traditions, customs, forms of government, voting and everything else that involves how you are legitimately supposed to obtain the position can go fuck themselves.

>>1121241
Because people are easily deceived and won over idiots.

>>1121110
Kant was criticized in his time for being deliberately obfuscatory.

>>1121118
what do you think was his motive for that ? is it just easier write in such a style and not focus on clarity or was he just vain?

The Greeks and their dialogues are very readable

Kant was an illiterate man who should have hired a scribe

The Tractatus Logicus-Philosophicus and Wittgenstein in general avoid being convoluted