Pros and cons of the Gold Standard?
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>>1000063
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvBCDS-y8vc
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>>1000063
>Pro
It's shiny
>Con
It's heavy
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>>1000063
Gold is a very valuable commodity.
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Nietzsche was right.
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>>999998
wrong
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Hexes get
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>>999998
Right about what?
His historical analysis of morality sure isn't.
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"We two dear men, friends forever, were here. If you want to know our names, they are Pullo and Vorenus."
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Bros for the ages.
Pax
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They're both in hell
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Hey /his/, whats a good and enjoyable read about the life of Frederick II (Frederick Barbarossa)? Bonus points if its easily downloadable.
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The Wiki- article.
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Wicked
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Hunnic
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Creating a /his/ Curriculum 2016-04-18 00:24:10 Post No.999724
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Creating a /his/ Curriculum
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So, /his/, I am trying to create a private study plan/curriculum for different areas of history and humanities I'm trying to learn more about. The problem is I have this bad habit of creating a list of too many books to read within a small period of time. There is also the added problem of knowing what is essential before moving to the next level.
Right now, I am thinking only in terms of a year. While I can read quite a bit when I am in the mood to do so, there is no way I could finish all the two hundred or so books I have listed into that time-frame and even if I could, I have other things I need to fit into my schedule. Plus, if there are several fields I am studying, I need to divide my time between them wisely.
Put simply, what I require is a method to a suitable process of elimination when it comes to determining what I should read and in what order.
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>>999724
idk but miriel is fucking hot
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>>1000749
she's a qt pi, I agree, but let's stick to the subject.
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>>999724
start with the greeks
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A man's cat is running around the house without being watched. Another man leaves his drink on the edge of a table. The cat knocks it off. Using this information alone, who is liable to clean up the spill?
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The cat. Get licking.
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>>999683
Can't say.
Help me out: did the second man know of the cat?
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>>999683
Nobody just leave it there
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/his book suggestions thread 2016-04-17 23:29:43 Post No.999432
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/his book suggestions thread
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let's suggest some /his related books here.
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http://www.amazon.com/Ottoman-Empire-Classical-Age-1300-1600/dp/1842124420/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1460935667&sr=8-1&keywords=Halil+%C4%B0nalc%C4%B1k
A classical masterpiece on the Ottoman Empire. Recommended 9/10
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Caesar : Life of a Colossus.
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Will Durant's The Story of Civilization
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Why was Ethiopia the only country that escaped colonization?
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>>999246
No one wanted to steal their shitty art
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They have a +20% combat bonus when fighting units from a country with more cities than Ethiopia
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Ethiopia was a country that practiced Colonialism and shared religion with the colonial powers. It's alliances with Portugal and Russia helped a lot when it came to getting modern arms.
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help me in my hw
What if you could travel in time
1. Where would you go?
2. Which year or period of time would you travel to?
3. Who would you want to meet or what event would you want to witness? Why?
4. How might you change history? (what things would you like to change?)
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>>999242
Dude make up whatever you want but I will take bait
> murder Muhammad
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>>999343
FPBP
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>>999242
Go to garden of Eden and kill the snek
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Bloody foreigners, they come here and take our land and pollute our language. Why kick we not them all out?
I walked near some bairns in the morning and they said things in that 'imperfect' tense they use, and they used not case!
What think you would have happened to English if the Normans had lost?
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It would've stayed autistic gibberish similar to modern Nordic languages
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England would stay an irrelevant shithole in the backwater of Europe, instead of becoming a superpower thanks to the superior Norman and Angevin leadership.
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>>998935
That would be better than having Sharia zones, surely?
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How can a person be a good devout Christian while acknowledging scientific fact that seems to contradict the Bible?
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>>998790
It just werks.
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>>998790
It was just a metaphor bro.
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they may "acknowledge" it doesnt mean they actually believe it
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What does /his/ think about Tito?
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>>998676
According to my great-uncle, he was a really shitty locksmith. Got some keys from the guy in the 30s and they snapped after a few months of use.
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>>998682
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>>998682
>Makes keys that snaps a few months once he leaves them
>Creates a country that snaps after a few years once he leaves it
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What's your favorite quote and from whom is it ?
>Author, Date, Related Topic required
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>Watch the backblast you idiot
- Tsun Zu, Art of War
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I find that people interested in history are the most reasonable. So, i've got a question for you: do you think that humans will be able to make a utopia in future, learning from their past mistakes? I think not, because humans always make groups sooner or later, and would need to be brainwashed in order to make an utopia like place. Also, the population would need to drastically decline in order for people to gather around in one group and try not to fight. Not to mention that we are advancing mostly thanks to war research, so war is good, people die, fuck it.
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>>998444
>I find that people interested in history are the most reasonable.
You haven't spent enough time on this board then
Anyway to answer your question, utopia is a pretty broad term, basically everyone has their own little definition of it. And learning from past mistakes just paves the road for new mistakes
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>>998444
I want to fuck all three of those cute boys
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>>998444
Well I think that people interested in history are so much more reasonable because of their capacity for empathy.
History is a science dealing almost exclusively with people, a humanity, it makes sense that people inclinated to that would need a strong sense of empathy.
As for the idea of a utopia, I think if history was marching towards a utopia, we would already be seeing a trend to one. So if you think the present is better than the past, then the future should be better than that.
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>tfw from the point of view of people who lived a thousand years ago, we're living in a bizarre, absurdist dreamscape
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and?
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Yeah compared to 1000 years ago we live in a relative utopia. It's hard to imagine how things will be 1000 years from now.
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>>998121
And I find it weird, so I just thought you'd like to know