What artefacts do you find the most fascinating?
pic related, bones of Jesus's brother
This thing fell out of another dimension or something.
>>1039725
Why can't people accept this as the scribbling's of a retard
>>1039725
>it spells fudd
Voynich manuscript confirmed for hating casual gun owners
What barbarian tribe gave the Romans biggest trouble?
Jews
The Huns.
Batavians
Hero or Villain?
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>>1037219
Anelbasterd
So can someone explain the Second Boer War, and just why Britain felt the need for concentration camps?
Britain wanted to conquer the Boer states to gain the gold mines
Britain used concentration camps because the Boers were excellent guerilla fighters that knew the terrain, so Herbert Kitchener decided to round up all the civilians and burn their farms to force the Boers to surrender.
>>1046791
>Britain wanted to conquer the Boer states to gain the gold mines
This. Prior to the abolition of the gold standard this was pretty much the goal of British foreign policy everywhere, if I'm not mistaken.
>>1047018
The entire British empire was based on getting gold, since in the coal age gold lined up with the power of the state.
The most powerful states were those who could dig more rocks out of the ground, since that allowed the state to access more energy which would fuel industrialism.
Do you think excessive pride and nationalism over one's country is stupid? I mean, don't get me wrong, if some dipshit other country invaded mine I'd volunteer for the military immediately and defend my home. But for someone to say I am proud to be American, British, Canadian, whatever just feels really stupid to me. To get upset if someone criticizes my country seems stupid to me. The fact that a lot of people find the burning of their country flag one of the most offensive things ever seems stupid to me.
Maybe I'm autistic. In today's modern world, does nationalism have a place?
>>1045077
>Execesive to the point of fanaticism
Yes, absolutely.
>Having pride in your naionality
No, not at all, it's just tribal mentality that manifests itself in different forms, it's completely natural.
>>1045085
>Unironically using black and white fallacy
>>1045085
>Nationalism has never caused rape
>>1045077
nationalism is inherently stupid and reserved only for feeble minds.
nationalism had its place in history. some of the greatest people to ever be born were incredibly passionate about their country, their ethnicity, their traditions, their culture et cetera.
but in this world we live in, in the second decade of the 21st century, all borders are completely arbitrary, all cultures are more linked and intertwined when they have ever been and being born somewhere does necessarily not mean you'll spend the majority of your life there.
though in my personal opinion nationalism has always been stupid. I could never take pride in something that was not at least done by someone very close to me. even then, I have a hard time being proud of others, pride is really something reserved for one's own achievements.
What were drugs that soldiers and warriors used in the past to help them fight or deal with combat? I know modern soldiers use amphetamines but what about in the eras before that?
>>1042107
Only physically, and/or mentally unstable persons with weak spirit need to consume drugs to "cope with warfare".
If you need drugs to cope with warfare, you are not a warrior and shouldn't be fighting.
>>1042107
Likely something used by Germanic Berserkers for their Berserkergang
Hashish was used by Arabic Assassins, name hints this beiong obvious. It was said it was used during "banzai" missions, legend said they were shown Paradise pleasures by the Grandmaster tho as part of recruitation
I heard Ayahuasca could have been used by Mesoamerican Chilvalry (Jaguar/Eagle, etc), or at least to see those "Golden Cities" like El Dorado.
Hope I have helped. I am genuinely curious aswell.
>>1042133
Lots of soldiers were conscripted. And constant warfare is stressful for anyone. And drugs always give you an improvement, why do you think top athletes do steroids. Even
>mfw a french knight comes within 400 yards of me
mud defeated the french, not english peasant with bows
>>1025240
The retarded commander who order his knights to cross a mile in heavy mud as fast as they could defeated the French.
>>1025222
And then Patay...
Modernist and contemporary architecture is based on something Adolf Loos proclaimed in 1910. The Bauhaus movement started in 1919. International Style was first showed in 1932.
Is it time for a change from all that modern-simple-minimalist-deconstructivist style?
Is there a way to make new buildings with the same level of decoration and perfection as the ones from the neoclassical, jugendstil, etc. and still maintain a modern style and technology, instead of just making a recreation of classic architecture?
How should architecture evolve from now?
Evelyn Nesbit, 1901
Ethel Barrymore, 1901
Genevieve Lantelme
>The word about Marx’ drinking skills first got around in his days as a student. In 1835 he had a promising start at the University of Bonn, but soon got slightly distracted from his studies, as he was the co-president of his tavern club. Marx even got imprisoned for a day for “disturbing the peace with drunken noise”. His period of “wild rampaging”, as his father Heinrich Marx called it, in Bonn lasted only a year. After which his father transfered Karl Marx to the University of Berlin, where he actually took his Philosophy studies serious. Still this didn’t stop him from consuming large amounts of beer and taking drunken donkey rides through the villages nearby.
>[Karl Marx's wife] stayed with Marx even after he fathered a child with the woman who helped care for their children and lived with them for many years.
Marx was essentially a fratboy who fucked tons of women, total alpha stud who had a family who loved him and never spoke ill. Friedrich Engels literally cucked a proto-fascist and humiliated him.
Then, you have:
>Hitler created a public image as a celibate man without a domestic life
So is the history of leftism and rightism mostly just cuckolded right wingers being outraged at the sexual exploits and kickass lives leftists lived?
>>1043693
>it's another "racism" is a right-wing phenomenon episode
>>1043712
>revisionism
>>1043715
>National Socialism
>not almost as left-wing as goymmunism
If Romans and Vikings ever fought how fucked would Romans be?
>>1039609
Not fucked at all. What advantages would even the proper danish army of the late viking period have over a roman army? Nevermind a fucking raiders band.
>>1039609
Which Romans? Which Vikings?
Rome would have an advantage.
really fucked. they would literally be shopped into pieces.
Romanians claim they are native to the carpathian-danubian-basin, and that absolutely all present day romanian territories belong to them, because they are NATIVE to them
Little do people know, that the first ever historical mention of the romanians was recorded in the 11th century... in present day Greece, deep in the balkans by the byzantines
>>1044344
Nationalism is a spook anyway. They're there now, what are you going to fucking do about it?
The fun fact is that nobody gives a flying fuck about Romania or Moldova and you're a shitty namefag who keeps spamming is nationalist propaganda all over the board for months.
>>1044344
>moldovanon
>is actually Russian
How much is 30 rubles in Chisinau lad?
What was the abrahamic God doing before he created earth?
>>1044326
tending to the heavens
or pontificating on the endless nothing set before him.
>before
An omnipresent God isn't limited by time.
Sitting in heaven and weaving a whip to lash people who ask such idiotic questions
Are there any philosophers who take him seriously?
>>1043218
Yes, if they are looking into evolutionary theory, not for the god delusion if that's what you're asking.
He's a meme scientist.
He published 12 or so papers about bumble bee digging patters in the 70s then moved into selling controversial anti-christian books to make money,
He presented his agruments at a philosophy conference and completely embarrassed himself. They tried to explain basic modal logic to h im and he just gave up and said 'philosphy is dumb and we don't need it anymore'.
The dude is a complete joke at everything but capitalism which he is good at because he realized his pretentious title and controversy can make a lot cash peddling bullshit to retarded white males who desperatly need something to make them feel worth while in today's world.
So no his arguments are complete bullshit from a philosophical point of view.
>>1043245
>then moved into selling controversial anti-christian books to make money.
These were when he was employed as the professor of public understanding of science by Oxford, and aren't exclusively attacking Christianity.
And selfish gene is a very influential book on evolution.
You sound quit mad.
Is there a more infuriating religious meme than "Paul ruined Christianity"?
>>1036737
>when you see that meme on /lit/, open up /his/, and see this thread at the top of the catalog
You can't ruin what was already shit, I guess.
Assblasted paulite