>only began being referred to as the "Byzantine" Empire over a humdred years after it fell
Remind me again why we accept this ancient revisionism and don't simply return to referring to it as the Eastern Roman Empire
>Eastern
>>872378
In my high-school history classes, we referred to it both ways.
byzaboo please leave my board
Is there a bigger winner in Greek Mythology besides Diomedes?
BROTHER I AM PINNED HERE
>>872281
yes , Hestia
I don't know dick about greek mythology. What are some of the better places/books to start?
What are the lasting achievements of this man? Why did so many writers during and after his time paint him to be so great?
>What are the lasting achievements of this man?
his army conquered europe
>Why did so many writers during and after his time paint him to be so great?
cause his army conquered europe
Name of an ice cream flavor
He had a French copy of 'the art of war' so clearly sun tzu was a genius
Why didn't Luther just convert to Orthodoxy?
Because Orthodox "Christians" have less to do with the Bible than Catholics.
They're also even more morally bankrupt.
>>871757
The Church came before the Bible senpai.
Idolatry + evem more saint worship than Catholicks.
Say you woke up one day and everyone tells you you're insane.
The more you try to explain the more you feel you get misunderstood.They have their minds fixed: you're just insane. It says so in your journal: every new person reads it and see you got a diagnosis once and they have to trust it.
What do you do? The more you explain, the worse you seem. You stay quiet? The more they see you as uncooperative. This is your identity now, they tell you that's the TRUTH. But YOU know your own mind...
If you play along you're forced medication which dulls your mind, TURNS you insane.
What should you do?
>>871717
Teach by example.
>>871719
Which means?
>>871717
the point is that nobody has ever been happy in taking seriously what they feel and what they think. Once you drop all these, you enter a meditative state and there you pursue your quest to throw away what you are conscious of.
the conclusion is that what you thin and feel and what others think and feel does not matter.
How did Portugal justify its alliance with Protestant England to the pope
There was never a Portuguese-British alliance. What you're thinking about was the Anglo-Portuguese alliance confirmed in 1373.
>>871917
Yeah that, how did They justify it in 1700 or so when the British are full Protestants
>>872343
English *
>tfw I'll never be born in the steppes of eurasia during the medieval ages
>tfw I didn't spend my early childhood learning how to ride and shoot
>tfw I'll never ride the steppes with my blood brother
>tfw i'll never unite the warring tribes under one banner
>tfw I'll never ride and conquer the world and btfo mooslimes and christfags
anyone else know this feel?
>>871232
riding around on steppes seems dangerous anyway
i mean you could tumble down and really hurt yourself
>>871249
Don't forget the risk of being raped by a horse.
>>871232
>be mongols
>attempt to invade fucking nips of all people
>get LITERALLY BLOWN the fuck out
>try again
>it happens a second time
>just fuck my shit up: the empire
>cant conquer poland
>cant conquer hungary
>despite winning massive battles
>lose all roots to your heritage and get cucked by foreign cultures
>Classical empires had a lack of money and fought wars for gold and other capital.
>Rome won by turning human beings into money
>Western civilization had a lack of energy and fought wars for energy
>Britian won by turning rocks into energy
>Mesopotamian Civilization had a lack of land and fought wars for land
>Persia won by turning desert into land.
Find a flaw in my logic.
>>871086
>Wealthy empires had a lot of money
No shit Sherlock.
Learn to spell first.
Does anyone else feel that Mussolini was a man of great political vision?
He was an abject failure in military expeditions, and I disagree with Fascism on a few counts,
however, he saw politics as an art, and he was a master.
For example, look at the goal of the EUR district. While it was never "used" as intended, the principle is genius.
>>871048
Ambitions bigger then means or ability.
>>871048
Not really. Look at his internal situation compared to other facist leaders. He was actually dismissed by his king, a notion that would be absurd to apply to someone like Hitler, or even Franco.
>>871048
He had vision but he was so insane and pathetically inept that it doesn't count for anything.
The guy built a fucking supervillain headquarters.
The universe is painted with constants and limits to the laws of which it is governed. Positive attract is negative, and positive cannot attract another positive. Yet man can imagine a world where like charges attract, and alternate repel. Man can comprehend the impossible, and form ideas that can never exist. Man is not limited in the extent of is cognitive creation. We form new ideas and thoughts that the universe can't. We can form ideas and realities that can never even hope to exist. Therefore could this imply that our minds are not governed by the same laws of the universe. Does our very ability to think and be wrong denote our incoherency of universal laws. Under this logic, chaos theory is not possible, for the human mind is not entirely of this universe
I hate you
>>870082
>Man is not limited in the extent of is cognitive creation.
Concepts like 'a world where positive attracts positive,' 'a being that is half man and half horse,' and 'a world where everyone is nice to each other' are still pretty firmly inspired by reality, they just take one aspect of reality and either negate it or combine it with another aspect of reality to make a hybrid. This doesn't really prove that man can imagine anything, just that he can combine and flip around concepts inspired by reality.
>"Already more than one high-caste Hindu, aware of the real nature of the European conflict—not Germany versus England, but National Socialism versus all forms of democracy; the true Aryan outlook versus the Jewish—already more than one, I say, had acclaimed in the promoter of the western resurrection, Adolf Hitler, a “devata,” i.e., a “shining one,” a being above mankind, and the modern incarnation of the ever-recurring Saviour. I have heard them say so, some of them in public". Savitri Devi, Gold in the Furnace.
http://www.savitridevi.org/gold_chapter_1.html
>>869710
>killing, enslaving, and torturing innocent people
Yeah, totally compatible with Dharma!
Let's ignore the fact that caste isn't the same thing as race or ethnicity
VALMIKI was a shudra, dumbfuck
>savitridevi.org
Is this your first time you encounter this author?
As Hinduism has great freedom of dogma, there's no big important Catholic Church to excommunicate you for being a Nazi.
Evola and Himmler were influenced by Hinduism, even if they were not Hinduist themselves as with Savitri Devi.
Here are a pair of posts I made on German-Hindu relations - which in fact predate Hitler and also involve pre-Communist leftist Germans, but eventually continued with nationalists in both Countries:
https://desustorage.org/his/thread/782007/#788911
https://desustorage.org/his/thread/782007/#789027
And here are two posts I wrote on Nazi occultism:
https://desustorage.org/his/thread/782007/#785173
https://desustorage.org/his/thread/782007/#785191
>>869757
Very interesting.
I've known Savitri Devi for some time as the lady who converted to Hinduism and thought that Hitler was an incarnation of Vishnu, but never took the time to read any of her books until now.
Why is he considered an evil genius? Seems pretty dumb to me.
>Why is he considered an evil genius?
Because he isn't considered an evil genius.
>>869436
He is, by normies
>>869444
No, he isn't. What a waste of trips.
"Suppose that, instead of five people tied to the track, the trolley is filled with powerful explosives and heading toward a village where it will detonate, killing five hundred people. Now it seems that pushing the person into the tracks and causing the trolley to derail would be morally commendable. We shift from being deontologists to consequentialists. This switch is an embarrassment for philosophers who think that deontological theories and consequentialism are in competition."
What did he mean by this?
"What to do, when a ship carrying a hundred passengers suddenly capsizes and there is only one lifeboat? When the lifeboat is full, those who hate life will try to load it with more people and sink the lot. Those who love and respect life will take the ship's axe and sever the extra hands that cling to the sides."
What did he mean by this?
>>869004
To be good, you must not only cuckold yourselves, but others, too.
>>869004
that people are selfish, and don't act in accordance with that which is best for the community, i guess
Hi! It's me again!
If Keynesian economics are so good, then why don't they work?
Oops! Looks like this is a checkmate!
Stefan, what's wrong with socialism?
Would you like a dollar?
>>868879
>keynsian macro doesn't work
The US economy during and post WW2 is proof that you're wrong. B8/10 post.
>>868879
Not an argument.
This is what some friends and I came up with for the English language. Bonus points for explaining why we (english speaker here) have 2 different cases of every letter. Pic related
>middle case letters
why
>>868172
Cause today we mostly use the Humanistic script developped during the Reinassance using mostly Caroligian script as referencee (they thought that there were Roman originals), but the different medieval scripts, usually called Gothics did not fully dissapear.
it has to do with typography when there was no rules for dividing sentences with spaces or symbols the "capital" was used as the divider
the idea of the case was literal the printer had 2 sets of letters, capitals on top (upper) and the rest (lower) on the bottom