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Mythological Matchups: Achilles vs Samson 2016-03-27 13:42:41 Post No.894989
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Mythological Matchups: Achilles vs Samson
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2016-03-27 13:42:41
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Who would win in a fight; Achilles or Samson?
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Achilles without a doubt. However Hercules vs Achilles, I'd go for Hercules.
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But Samson is a historical fact.
*tips fedora* and here's your reply.
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>>894989
unless samson figures out achilles' weak spot, he's toast. achilles is literally invulnerable everywhere but his heel.
samson vs hercules would be interesting.
>tfw no bronze age WWE with fighters becoming legendary heroes sung about in song and prose
>...or was there?
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ITT we talk about hitler and stalin 2016-03-27 13:33:29 Post No.894948
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ITT we talk about hitler and stalin
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was there a possibility that USSR wouldn't join the allies in WW2?
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Yeh. It had horrible relations with the entente because they fought in ww1.
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I often see threads on /k/ and /pol/ stating how USSR would've collapsed without amercian industrial support, which is, to the extent of my knowledge a little far fetched, seeing how flexible and seemingly unstoppable were ussr industrial facilities.
So to which extent is any of this true?
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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/hitler-and-the-socialist-dream-1186455.html
I think Goebbels or Hitler remarked that capitalism would be even worse than Bolshevism.
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>unstressed syllable has a long vowel
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>getting upset over linguistics
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>english """"""""""spelling""""""""""
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>>895300
language defines your mindset anon
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What are peoples general thoughts on Universals in a metaphysical sense? Would other alien species share common traits or universals (e.g. in culture, belief, history, etc) aligned with that of humans own "universal" existence?
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>>894576
>culture, belief
I doubt an alien species would be THAT similar to humans
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I don't understand the question. Could you state it more clearly?
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I have lying around here somewhere a text about Giambattista Vico's thoughts on universals. Might post part of tit later.
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Did Napoleon's health problems have an effect on the outcome of the Hundred Days?
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Yes.
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No.
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Maybe.
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Was he right /his/?
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>>893831
Somewhat.
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>>893831
about what?
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>>893831
Who???????????????????????????????????????
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What was the coolest thing in the Dark Ages? Can be person, event, culture, buildings, peoples/armies, etc.
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The fact that it didn't exist is pretty cool
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>>893812
it did after rome and before charlemagne
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>>893812
Upvoted
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How does /his/ feel about Socialist Humanism? It was a fantastic intellectual revolt against the parasite of Stalinism that had infected the international political left in the 1950s.
> Socialist humanism asserts that human needs (bearing in mind all the difficulties of this term) are the only valid criterion by which to assess institutions and economic and social arrangements: these must be made to measure people, rather than people being chopped about or stretched on a Procrustean bed in order to measure “circumstances” or “historical necessity.” In line with this assertion, a long derided trend within the socialist movement appears to be reviving Utopian (or “socratic”) socialism, that is, the vindication of the right of the moral imagination to project an ideal to which it is legitimate to aspire; and the right of the reason to enquire into the aims and ends of social arrangements, irrespective of questions of immediate feasibility: in brief, to ask questions of the order of “Why?” and not only of “How?” It must be stressed that this is a trend not in the abstract, but within the socialist and communist movements; that is, accepting that the transition to socialism in one of its many forms is a necessary precondition for building a desirable and rational society, nevertheless it asserts that choices can and must be made along the way – indeed, unless such choices are consciously made the road to socialism may end in confusion or disaster, and, at the least, we will fail to enlist to the full the creative faculties of those who build it.
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Sign me up.
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>>893686
>Socialist _____
Into the trash it goes.
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>>893686
Read QR, Outlook, Imre Nagy
What was he right about?
What was he wrong about?
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>What was he right about?
His approach to life
>What was he wrong about?
Everything else
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>>893625
>What was he right about?
Last Man and Individual-Tribe relationship
>What was he wrong about?
Everything else
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>>893625
>What was he right about?
Facial hair
>What was he wrong about?
Everything else
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Was Operation Barbarossa a preemptive attack to avoid a Soviet invasion of Germany? 2016-03-27 04:33:13 Post No.893605
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Was Operation Barbarossa a preemptive attack to avoid a Soviet invasion of Germany?
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>>893605
No. Suvarov is an idiot. If you honestly believe him, you have either not gone over the material very thoroughly, or you are also an idiot.
By the way, "Oh yeah, he might attack me at some point in the indeterminate future, but also might not, depending on how things going, so I'll attack him now" does not make a pre-emptive attack. At best it's a preventative attack, and more likely it's just a flimsy rationalization.
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>>893611
Tbh, I haven't even read him, I just know that there are people who hold this theory, and I thought starting a discussion between those who believe such theory and those who disregard might would make an interesting thread and a way to understand the reasoning behind such theory and see whether it's faulty or not.
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>>893623
>disregard might would
I meant "disregard it would".
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Post speeches, interviews, etc from the early days of audio recording when it was still a novelty.
To start something that gets posted often; Civil war vets doing the rebel yell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6jSqt39vFM
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a /k/ classic
'Infantry Columns' (Boots, boots, boots) WW1 poem by Rudyard Kipling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGkyhaMdpto
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Thomas Edison talking dolls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bgXH7U2Ja0
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>>893607
dear god
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Most irrelevant US president?
Hard mode: Post-Coolidge presidents only. Though, if you really want to, you can pick those 1880-1900 presidents too.
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They're all controlled by Zionist Jews.
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>>893532
Some relied on them less though.
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Gerald Ford
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Why does everyone hate this book? Why is it bad? Seems to have a good message to me.
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>>893433
No
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No like I'm serious guys, I want an answer.
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>>893417
>ABC for baby perfidies
For anyone who wants to read it, go to this link
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00086056/00001/2j
Highly recommended.
As long as I believe in Christ am I allowed to believe in aliens and demons and angels and djinn and deities from other religions? When Jesus overturned the Old Covenant did he do away with the Mosaic "Thou shalt have no other gods before me"? I ask because I was raised Catholic but feel uncomfortable with the faith after deep psychedelic and occult and mystical and meditative experiences involving seemingly supernatural or paranormal events not easily explained in a Christian/Catholic context.
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Christians will tell you that stuff mentioned by jesus and the new testement authors still apply. that would imply worshipping only Yahweh is included, but you can eat food that was an offering in a pagan temple as long as you don't think of it as woshipping that god. paul is silly
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you can't accidentally worship something, don't worry so hard about it
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also i want to add that OP is a faggot for asking such a question
How effective would Marian-era Roman arms, armor, and tactics have been during the High Middle Ages in Europe? Assuming that we're using Catholic Mediterraneans as a reference.
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probably pretty well
High middle ages were characterized by spearmen and heavy armored cav, which is nothing that the Romans haven't seen before.
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>>893441
Wait, wasn't steel far more abundant in the middle ages than in Roman times?
Also, afaik medieval cav tactics were copied from Cataphracts, didn't the Romans often have difficulties dealing with those even?
Also, afaik not every legionary had a lorica hamata. IMHO, the romans would get raped pretty hard by longbowmen and heavy cav charges.
I think historians use the phrase "a roman legion would sort things out in area XYZ" to refer to the unorganized armies of the time, rivaling lords, and the miserable condition society was in as opposed to the roman empire. But in battlefield tactics alone, I don't think (Marian) Romans would stand a chance.
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>>893408
Poorly.
We're talking about a literal thousand year tactics and weapons difference, here. Despite what the memes say, there was a bunch of advancements made during the middle ages, and the Roman Legionaries would be outclassed, especially in terms of metallurgy, armour, and weapons.
If Roman Legions could be beaten by its contemporaries: Germanic tribes, what makes you think they'd do better against there much more advanced, numerous, descendants?