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In b4 hitler

>ayy I just need a few more reinforcements

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WE HAD A CHANCE.

>>866143
Why don't you give us a link to the story faggot.

>>866143
Sir Horatio Cary sounds like the patron saint of /his/.

>>866143
>a demon shitting out the king
>"Come out you cuckold"

English banter is an ancient tradition

>>865052
>So my question is why?

It wasn't worth the cost.

>>865052
Because conquering Scotland is one thing, but keeping it entirely subjugated is another much more expensive matter.

In addition there isn't much there in the ways of easily accessible ressources, making the investment in an occupation not profitable even in the longer term.

Much easier to crush them a couple of times and deal with isolated raids over the wall.

>>865065
Can you elaborate further and in detail?

>>864967
>Obama
>Not in the bottom 10

Shit, biased rankings by liberals trying stroke their communist cocks. Obama has brought more shame and embarrassment to America than anyone since LBJ.

>>865020
Le upvote friend xdddd

>>865020
He's still president. You gotta wait for the Hindsight Bias to kick in.

Horatio Nelson was a counterrevolutionary fuck and I'm glad he died.

>>864957
Frenchaboos are revolutionary fucks and I'm glad you'll die someday

>>864957
Explain

>>864455
>considering that the Nazis didn't systematically persecute the Slavic population
But they did

>>864455
*extremely high

>>864464

How do you define systematic persecution? I think the term applies to the persecution of Jews were they really tried to track down every individual. There was the Hunger plan which targeted the whole population, but it was soon replaced by meager rationing.

No idea why I put "Pic unrelated."

Force of habit I guess.

The Armenians.
THey have had a though life...

>>>/int/

We may make the green ones infertile ;^)
http://www.learner.org/interactives/collapse/mesopotamia.html

>Along with factors such as war and changes in the environment, scientists now believe irrigation techniques played an important role in Mashkan-shapir's collapse. The same process that allowed farming in this region also eventually made it impossible to farm. Irrigation has a Catch-22: if irrigation water is allowed to sit on the fields and evaporate, it leaves behind mineral salts; if attempts are made to drain off irrigation water and it flows through the soil too quickly, erosion becomes a problem. Scientists believe that Mashkan-shapir's collapse was caused in part by destruction of the fields by mineral salts. When mineral salts concentrate in the upper levels of the soil, it becomes poisonous for plants.

>In Mesopotamia, irrigation was essential for crop production. The rivers were higher than the surrounding plain because of built-up silt in the river beds, so water for irrigation flowed into the fields by gravity. Once the water was on the fields, it could not readily drain away because the fields were lower than the river. As the water evaporated, it not only left its dissolved mineral salts behind, but also drew salts upward from lower levels of the soil. Over time, the soil became toxic and would no longer support crops. By about 2300 B.C., agricultural production in Mesopotamia was reduced to a tiny fraction of what it had been. Many fields were abandoned as essentially useless. Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets tell of crop damage due to salts.

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I think so, as well as it not really being proven that they really went over to America until rather late.

>>864182

Yup, you answered your own question.

>>864182
Ahem, Lief Ericson?

Georges Dumézil - Gods of the Ancient Northmen

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>>863438
WE

The Poetic Edda
The Prose Edda

>>863038
Yes, but you'll have to let the more theoretical works take a backseat to works that are more suggestive about policy. If you're going to read one work, make it the Laws (and then maybe follow it with the Republic). If you're looking for something with a set of particular rules to follow, Plato won't provide that to you, and that's by intention--his suggestion is that if there were such knowledge, it's entirely elusive.

>>863055
I've actually read The Republic, but I'm a complete amateur to philosophy, so I haven't got much to compare it with. I think most of the ideas in it went over my head, though I enjoyed it nevertheless. Mostly, I felt like it didn't "apply" to me and my age, as a lot of his [and Socrates', or him-through-Socrates'] philosophy is about democracy in their time and other perceptions of the world/society that are relevant to their time.

Society basically ran on philosophy derived from Plato up until Nietzsche showed up: neoplatoism, Aristotle, Christianity, Kant, even Hegel. It's still too early to say but our era of post-war USA cultural domination and globalism might have broken this pattern.

"Applicable nowadays" and "rooted to much in his time" are such plebeian and hypocritical demands, and not realistic if you're going to be doing literal interpretation.

>Is he really the most important philosopher in history in your opinion?
Well he is almost universally considered the best candidate amongst philosophers, academics and laymen.

>>862799
Nietzsche believed the sophists were more legit philosophers than Socrates and his ilk.

He saw Socrates, but not Plato, as being a force of ressentment against the society of his time, that is why he walked around and tried to discredit everyone: in the trial against Socrates there are representatives from the artists, the statesmen, and the philosophers. Socrate's philosophy basically consisted of saying 2 things.

1. Nothing is subjetive
2. Nobody actually knows what the truth of anything is and his society is built on a series of falsities. All the supposed experts are dummies and everything discovered so far has been meaningless.

Plato was influenced by Socrates and tried to resolve these with his Form metaphysics. The reason no one knows anything yet truth isn't subjective is because truth exists outside of our realm. Nietzsche believed Plato was corrupted by the mad man Socrates. You can sort of see the result of Socrates corruption more so in Diogenes who's philosophy is basically "fuck the world"

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>>862799
He writes obsessively, most of what we know of the sophists and Socrates come through him. Most of the sophists did not write much more than was necessary, the spoken word was considered the higher art form at the time.

Dude, the sophists wrote a shit ton of manuals and treatises on rhetoric, truth, etymology, and lots else, besides writing plenty of speeches for others to recite. The way they made money was to write for others. What's your evidence for any of this?

>>862799
Damn straight. I always used to think like that. Plato's works always seemed cringeworthy to me. In particular the obvious straw man dialogues. The sophists on the other hand make sense and actually said some worthwhile things instead of making up bullshit. In my opinion Plato fundamentally ruined the development of western philosophy.

It's incredibly shitty, but I find the ideas that they badly attempt to explore interesting.

>the connections between various religions
>technocracy
>post-scarcity economics
etc.

>>862466
This basically, it sows the seeds of interest in these topics but little else.
I have a 25 year old friend who still mentions Zeitgeist, I would have thought he would have found better material by now.

>>862449
incredibly shit.

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>Europe = Kings
>Asian South Africa = Emperors
>Africa, Australia, North America = Chiefs
>Ireland, Scotland, Wales = Chieftains

>greentext """threads"""
>"""high level""" """discourse"""

>>862248
A shame what Stalin did to him after the war. He obviously was intimidated by his greatness.

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>>862248

Whoever had the best logistical apparatus.