Historic Quotes Thread?
“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.”-Winston Churchill
>>971229
"Be careful when thou gazeth into the darkness, lest the darkness gazeth into one's soul."
I'll start.
This comment is very profound.
"A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind. Ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind."
>>971151
What.
What kind of artifacts does /his/ have
>inb4 I don't have any just curious
>>971051
I have some less than legal indian pottery and arrow heads. That's about it.
>>971132
Cool any pics
>>971051
I have one ancient Greek Athenian silver coin.
Other than that, nothing, but I've had several chances to swipe some.
I used to house-sit for an old lady who had a couple bronzes recovered from Pompeii and a shoebox that had some old watches formerly owned by Louis XIV.
In university my archaeology professor gave me the keys to the s33krut lab so I could get some quiet study time. I was surrounded by wares picked up from various Mesoamerican civilizations and tribes. No figurines, more like shards and some modest clay vessels. And a lot of arrowheads.
I'm thinking of getting a metal detector and start some srs neolithic/bronze/iron age grave robbing though.
A survey for my fellow /his/tory buffs. Fill out as many as you feel like.
1) Are ideologies (Communism, Capitalism, for instance) destined to be different in theory than in practice?
2) When an ideology is different in theory than in practice, is someone/something to blame? If so, who or what?
3) Do proponents of ideology commonly attempt to sabotage the efforts of proponents of other ideologies?
3a) If so, is this a valid way for proponents of an ideology to establish the ideology's dominance? Why?
3b) If so, do the sabotaged proponents of the opposing ideology still constitute a good representative of that ideology, i.e. if a best effort is sabotaged, is that effort representative of the ideology?
4) Can a person be truly post-ideological, i.e. can a person somehow transcend and be above/beyond ideology?
5) Were humans ever pre-ideological, in your mind?
6) Do you subscribe to an ideology (or ideologies)?
6a) If so, which one(s)?
6b) Why?
6c) If more than one, do they conflict?
Does OP understand ideology in any academic sense
4) No
5) No
6a) Post-Marxism
b) Because it's fucking awesome
c) False dichotomy
t. Althusser
>>968882
I understand the dictionary definition of ideology. Which I believe qualifies me to ask others questions about it other than"What is ideology?"
>>968866
>1) Are ideologies (Communism, Capitalism, for instance) destined to be different in theory than in practice?
Theory is not practise by definition, read the Sophists.
>2) When an ideology is different in theory than in practice, is someone/something to blame? If so, who or what?
Above.
>3) Do proponents of ideology commonly attempt to sabotage the efforts of proponents of other ideologies?
Naturally, all ideology is in a give-take relation to other ideology. Do you not know reality is Will to Power?
>3a) If so, is this a valid way for proponents of an ideology to establish the ideology's dominance? Why?
Valid, yes. Sound? Some ideologies are better than others.
>3b) If so, do the sabotaged proponents of the opposing ideology still constitute a good representative of that ideology, i.e. if a best effort is sabotaged, is that effort representative of the ideology?
It's weaker by definition.
>4) Can a person be truly post-ideological, i.e. can a person somehow transcend and be above/beyond ideology?
If their brain gets damaged enough to no longer produce "ideas" then yes. In the romantic terms you use? No, fantastical remnants of Plato.
>5) Were humans ever pre-ideological, in your mind?
Depends how you define "idea" but I think humans are too late in the hominini chain to be pre-ideological.
>6) Do you subscribe to an ideology (or ideologies)?
Yes.
>6a) If so, which one(s)?
The ubermensch within the eternal recurrence of will to power.
>6b) Why?
They comprise the healthiest, most aesthetic and rational ideology to date.
>6c) If more than one, do they conflict?
No.
>>968882
Slave morality.
I'M LOOKING FOR AN HONEST MAN
Hold this for me
>>967352
hi
>holy
guys i need your help here, i need medieval illustrations of different kinds of medieval "soldiers" for a project i am working on(they can be professionals, levy or wathever) they can be from the 1100's to the 1400's, i need southern european ones, central european, northern european, eastern european, balcans, middle eastern and asian. Anything you can contribute with, even if it's not pics but information and useful links about this topic (composition and clothing of those regions in said era) will be extremely useful to me and i would be really grateful. Also i apologize if my english is kind of rubbish, i'm really out of practice
>>967102
bumping with some more knights
>>967112
and medieval kung fu or something
>>967102
These depictions were taken from the Codex Manesse. Given your tiny pictures, I assume you don't know that it has been fully digitalised. http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg848. Otherwise, I'd recommend looking into the illuminations on Froissart's chronicles, which usually fall into the late 14th to early 15th century. For something more 15th century-ish, there is the Hausbuch Wolfegg which shows a late medieval army group, or you could take a look at fencing manuals, e.g. Talhoffer's.
>study history of homo sapiens
me hope you not do this
they call homo sapiens for reason, gay
HA!
Whatever, homo neanderthalensis
>>966341
>Being this pleb
>Be homo neanderthalensis
>Be the niggest species
>>964560
Fucking normies, get off my reformation!
beard
THE POPE DOES
Lets start a thread of pictures/paintings you enjoy from history. I'll start(Pic very related)
>>961108
>then they got mighty rekt
Top zozzle
I need an art Classical art thread to bump
>Dyḗus Ptḗr
"The Shining Sky Father" is the most important deity of the Proto-Indo-Europeans. His very name is related to *déiwos – he is the god. It is recognizable in the Roman Jupiter, Oscan Dípatír, Umbrian Iupater ((((Weiss))), 2010, 211), Sabellian Dipoteres, Marrucinian Ioues patres, Greek Zeus Pater, Illyrian Dei-paturos (or Dei patyro: Winn, 1995, 22), Vedic Dyaus Pitar, Baltic Dievas, Luvian Tatis Tiwaiz, Palaic Tiyaz Pāpaz, and Germanic *Tiwaz (later Týr). (Some of these are from West, 2007, 166-7.) Among the Scyths he was just Papaeus, "Father" (Herodotus, 4.59). The Russian Svarog may be a calque, since it seems to derive from Iranian origins with a meaning of “Shining One” (Zaroff, 1999, 51); regardless of the Iranian form of the name, the deity is clearly Slavic. In other words, memories and versions of him survived in almost all the IE cultures, which shows how important he was.
http://www.ceisiwrserith.com/pier/deities.htm
>Dyḗus Ptḗr’s name has “father in it.” This is the most common title of Dyaus pitar in the Rig Veda.
http://www.ceisiwrserith.com/pier/deities.htm
>1. I PRAISE with sacrifices mighty Heaven (Dyaus) and Earth at festivals, the wise, the Strengtheners of Law.
Who, having Gods for progeny, conjoined with Gods, through wonder-working wisdom bring forth choicest boons.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv01159.htm
>implying that i need some kind of a statue in order to recognize and glorify the Logos
>the Strengtheners of Law.
>Dyḗus Ptḗr is the transcendent lord. He is the protector of the Xártus, the enforcer of natural law. At Sparta there was a temple to Zeus Cosmetas, “Zeus the Orderer” (Pausanias 3.17.4). Dyḗus Ptḗr may therefore be called Xártupotis, "Lord of the Xártus."
http://www.ceisiwrserith.com/pier/deities.htm
>[1] At libations to Zeus what else should rather be sung than the god himself, mighty for ever, king for evermore, router of the Pelagonians, dealer of justice to the sons of Heaven?
http://www.theoi.com/Text/CallimachusHymns1.html
What has been the most kind act in history? It could be done by a collective or an individual.
When the Janitor came to /his/ and gloriously deleted threads that interfered with Hitler threads
>>958669
kek
>>958669
epic
>Russia has never won a war that wasn't lopsided
>there are people who are actually Russian
>>958188
Do you play Mount and Blade Warband: Napoleonic Wars, Anon?
If so, what's your Steam.
>>958197
I have it pirated.
Is Brinkmann's reconstruction of how classic Greek statuary was painted accurate or do you image he's made them appear significantly more gaudy than they truly were?
Definitely more gaudy. No way someone spends the time learning to craft those statues then painted them like a child.
It's a reproduction of the first coat, not the final painted item. Given that color was inherently precious they were probably more gaudy than we normally imagine, but not as ugly as these reproductions.
>he's made them appear significantly more gaudy than they truly were?
probably this, he needed to sell the novelty, the more shocking the better. Besides, such lively colors on stone are achieved with modern synthetic paints.
>it's a Crispus didn't succeed Constantine episode
>It's a Germanicus is killed by some pouty little fatfuck episode
>It's a Marcus Aurelius never smothered his son episode
>It's a Belisarius gets cuckolded by his Wife episode
>It's a Julius Caesar gets a World-Star Hip Hop'd episode
>it's a Sebastian didn't sire a son episode
>>956678
>It's a Caligula episode
What do you think about lost civilizations /his/?
That's a vague question, OP.
>>955758
A cool topic, but kind of hard to post about