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>t-this guy was just a butthurt heretic, he destroyed Christian unity forever! If it wasn't for him, Europe w-would be way more united and wouldn't have to experience centuries of religious wars! XD
Why do you retards keep repeating this? Do you guys not realise that he had no intentions of breaking off from the Church, and was instead just trying to reform and eradicate what he (mostly rightfully) saw as extreme Church corruption?
I mean fuck, I'm not even some protetard, I'm Orthodox, so I have more reason than anyone to take issue with the movement his ideas spawned. But to say that he was actually TRYING to break away from the Church and cause all these new heresies to pop up is factually wrong. If you want to look at people who were actually trying to do that, point your attentions to Zwingli and Calvin, not Luther.
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>>871227
Dude literally rewrote the bible. What does that have to do with corruption.
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>>871235
Ok, fair enough, and he was wrong in that. But if the Church hadn't been so uncompromisingly butthurt, they might have been able to engage with him properly and and take on board his actual legitimate suggestions, rather than dismiss everything he said outright because of "muh heresy."
Honestly, the Catholics have no one to blame for the fractured state of Western Christianity but themselves.
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>>871254
>But if the Church hadn't been so uncompromisingly butthurt, they might have been able to engage with him properly and and take on board his actual legitimate suggestions, rather than dismiss everything he said outright because of "muh heresy."
but they did, only a few of his theses were actually condemned, not all of them.
Had he not been so emotionally invested in his "new theology" he wouldve been highly regarded in the Church. Fuck, he may have even upheld his teaching as a intellectual pursuit, against the Ockhamism of his day, but he let his emotions and huge ego take hold of him, going as far as to hold Church teaching as another fallible opinion.
That's the thing with heretics anon, they are extremes of what would be perfectly orthodox points of view.
also
>I'm Orthodox
you're pretty much the first Luthers, it's just that most people dont really care about your history, seeing you just as the weird church who is friends with Putin.
/his/
What went wrong with the second KKK?
>1926: 6,000,000 members. A lot of them were politicians and educated people
>2016: 5,000 members. Most of them uneducated rednecks
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racism is no longer trendy. unfortunate.
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>>871226
everyone got fed up with prohibition and started to accept catholics
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>>871226
Corruption, then racism wasn't cool anymore
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Was invading Russia as big of a military blunder as some people like to paint it to be?
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>>871202
inb4 Mongols
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>>871210
>faggot OP knew the answer already and had to inb4
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>>871214
t. John Greene
How does one "study" history?
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Fantasize about how cool it would be to be a badass warrior from that culture that you like but have no actually link to.
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>>871113
Read literature and other materials from certain points in history and examine the events and culture from said points.You try to examine and understand these things from multiple perspectives and learn what other people's perspectives are and re-examine.
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>>871113
By playing EU4. Duh? How else?
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As an agronomist, you cannot convince me that this isn't the authoritative source on human history.
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it's a pretty good book m8.
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>>870984
It's actually a pretty decent book. It ain't perfect but it ain't bad either
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>authority
Top kek m8
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From the time I've spent here I've come to understand that many anons don't seem to truly understand a single thing about the topic resulting in many uninformed posts. It is for this reason I have taken it upon myself to start a video series for the purpose of educating wayward anons.
I'm open to any criticism and simply want more quality discussion on this board.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpF5bZMB43E [Embed]
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Philosophy = trolling + erudition
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>>870958
Your pad is nice, and you seem like a decent guy, but you've got a Nu-male look about you. Grow your hair out or lose the beard, IMO.
Good job otherwise.
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It's interesting that just about all of the questions you give as examples of philosophical questions would be considered as analytic, given that the philosophy discussed on this board (and /lit/) is almost always continental.
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When did the Middle Ages end?
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When did the Middle Ages end in your opinion?
Most people seem to agree on 1500 as an acceptable if arbitrary cut-off point.
But there are differing opinions.
One could argue that the Middle Ages ended with the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire in 1453
Or 1485 at Bosworth, the deciding battle of the War of the Roses, the last dynastic war on British soil
Or with the death of Andreas Palaiologos in 1502, the last pretender to the Byzantine throne
There are even some who would claim 1806, the year the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved, to be the real end of the Middle Ages. It was the end of the HRE, which had been a fixture of the Middle Ages, and it also marked the last time anyone would claim the title of Roman Emperor.
If you look at literature and the arts, it becomes even more complicated. From a British perspective, most British historians would consider the conclusion of the War of the Roses to mark the end of the Middle Ages, yet British society and culture only became more recognisably modern after the Civil War (1642–1651). A writer such as Milton has far more in common with the writers of the Middle Ages than, for example, Alexander Pope, born only a decade after Milton's death. Many argue that it was the act of legally executing a monarch that heralded the modern era of constitutional government and the rule of law in Britain.
Anyway, what are your thoughts? I'm aware that historical cut-off points are arbitrary and pointless in the scheme of things, as history is more complex than a series of distinct periods. But I'm still interested to find out where your personal cut-off point is, if you have one.
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>>870829
I'd say 1492 is a good cutoff point.
The events following the discovery of the Americas represented a fundamental shift in European geopolitics.
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There were no Middle Ages. It's a stupid term and needs to die.
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Sometime in the early 17th century, after the Protestant, military, and mercantile revolutions had run their course.
"The Renaissance" was an Italian intellectual movement contained within the late Middle Ages. The age of exploration and colonialism was immediately post-medieval.
Switch the landmass of Germany and America in ww2 are arrange the surrounding countries to fit around them. America starts ww2 in Germanys place as a part of the axis alliance. Could America in Germanys place have won ww2?
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>>870729
Like their history? Do they have the same officer corps as Germany?
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>>870729
Wait, I just want to get my head wrapped around this concept: You want to basically cram the United States's industry and population in 1930s-40s Germany and have them lash out on a spree of attacks instead of what Germany actually had?
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>>870764
I want the whole U.S Land mass to be where Germany is the the German land mass to be where America in and for all the other countries to form around them. America would still use American supplies and weapons and have their own military. They would just basically want to take over Europe like Hermany did and would have all the allies the Germans had. They would hate Jews as well.
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So why exactly does Israel have the most righteous claim to its land?
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>>870722
>Jews weren't even the original owners of the land
>Land was owned by Muslims for a much longer period of time than anybody else
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muh stars
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>>870722
God said they did
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God Tier borders. I'll start. Glorious Lotharingia.
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>>870548
>Lotharingia
>good borders
I get the need to have Italy and Aachen in the eldest son's kingdom, but you really could not have chosen a worse way to do this.
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>>870567
>dividing your empire amongst your sons
Why not just burn it?
When Europeans started invading the Americas they raped a lot of the natives.
But when India or Africa got colonized there arent as many mentions of rape. I have barely read about any, actually.
What made rape so prevalent in the case of America? Did the people back then find Africans and Indians as ugly as I do? Or were Native American girls too qt to resist?
I know that rape is common amoung all kinds of war. Im just mostly curious about mixed-race rapes between "blacks" and "whites", to put it simple.
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>When Europeans started invading the Americas they raped a lot of the natives.
>But when India or Africa got colonized there arent as many mentions of rape.
not sure what the differences were, going to need some more factual sources on rape levels
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They did
In west africa colonials had entire harems of local women
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You haven't demonstrated that there was even a single rape during the North American colonization m8. Comparing the amount of supposed rapes to other regions being colonized is putting the cart before the horse.
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How multicultural was the USSR? Was it disproportionately dominated by Russians, or could people from the provinces rise up the ranks of the Soviet Curia easily?
Obvious examples are Trotsky and Stalin, although both men worked very hard to ingratiate themselves into Russian culture and even changed their names to fit in.
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>>870210
they are multicultural but not for multiculturalism
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>>870210
Poor Mio-chan ;_;
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Actually, Russians and Russian nationalism were more "oppressed" than everyone else.
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Why did the Chinese all get addicted to opium?
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Payback for getting the British addicted to tea.
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Ever smoked it? It's pretty addictive. Also muh opium wars.
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>>869532
Seems like a nice, cheap escape from a life of eternal serfdom.
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What would've been different if Leon Trotsky became the leader of the Soviet Union instead of Stalin?
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>>869174
Soviets probably would have lost WW2
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>>869188
>implying Trotsky wouldn't have conquered germany with a fraction of the losses
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>>869187
Well, Trotsky had that Ancient Aliens guy's hair, so at least the monuments would be more comical in hindsight.
/his/
Why National Socialism failed?
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Socialism alsways fails.
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Because they lost the war
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Doesent this get answered every day? It feels like i know more about nazi germany at this point than my own country.