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>>792967
Your friend is right.

One way that Timur seems to have done was light animals on fire and send them running into the elephants.

If they are fairly close, artillery could also be an option.

The best way to deal with armored elephants is to coat some livestock in burning pitch and let them loose into the enemy ranks. The elephants will be spooked and they will break.

>>792967


I'm pretty sure the traditional method of dealing with armored elephants was to use fire if you were trying to take them out or frigthen them off.

Well-disciplined armies could actually just maneuver around them. Elephants aren't particularly aggressive animals, and at battles like Zama, the Romans opened up gaps in their line, and the elephants charged to there, not eager to fight a bunch of strangers. They're not easy to turn around once they start running, so once they're through your lines, you stand a decent chance of winning the battle before they can be turned around and sent back at you again.

>>792964
We don't know much about them. They seem to have been a various group of raiders, consisted with Sumerians, Philistines, Mycenaeans, Sardinian and other Greek-like populations
>hyksos remnants/habiru/shasu/canaanites?
Hyksos existed only around a thousand years before the raiders showed up, and the sea peoples attacked Canaanites. So, no.

>>792964

>were the philistines greek?

Just going by the Bible, (and I realize the flaws in this methodology) they were probably an Indo-European group of some sort. The few Philistine words that the Bible records are a mix of IE stuff (Goliath) and Semetic stuff (Dagon), and given that by this time they were living right smack dab in the middle of a bunch of semites, it makes more sense for them to originally be of Indo-European stock who picked up a bit of the local languages rather than Semites who would have gotten Indo-European words from somewhere.

That's about all I know offhand though.

>>793006
i thought some of the sea peoples may have been semites though, like the weshesh = tribe of asher? or is that just a bunch of gobbledygook made up by looking at words and saying "that looks right"

Post WWII indentarian politics. Bourgeois is obsessed with ideology and subscribing to one.

>>792937
Because he seemed like the only viable option. Imagine you're a socialist during the Cold War; do you throw your support behind the largest state that claims to be advancing socialism or some exile who got icepicked in Mexico? It's the same opportunism that makes would-be socialists vote for the Democrats/Labour.

Fuck off, Based Joe helped his country fight off the counterrevolutionary fascists who were attempting to dismember the socialist Soviet Union and exterminate the Slavs.

That's a shit-tier translation.

It meant that it is itself having become itself; It is because it selfmade into what it essentially is.

>>792782
How would you translate it?

>>792724
>I take everything I know about nuclear warfare from movies and videogames

>>792728
It's only an example anon. I can come up with another one if this one bothers you so much.

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Yes.
MAD isn't worth anything if one side decides to just roll over and die.

had a lot of germanic refugees

>>792008
Like Yurop today

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>>792008
Harsh taxes on the poor, widening gap between rich and poor, settled foreigners in your local town, Christianity going from just being that of the urban poor to even people out in the countryside, walls being built around all the towns again, soldiers being stationed on the walls with heavy artillery, peasants being tied to the land in a form of proto-serfdom.

>>791980
>journalists in charge of understanding quantum mechanics

This is fucking babby tier. No, reality doesn't depend on human consciousness. Boltzmann brains have nothing to do with that.

>>791980
>the guardian
why don't you post a reputable news organization?

>>791986
>Bernard d'Espagnat
>journalist

>>791948
Quelle partie? Wallonie ou tous Belgium?

>>792686
L'entierete de la Belgique.

C'est un etat artificiel ayant a sa creation pour seul but d'empecher les Francais de tapper les Allemands et les Hollandais, et vice-versa.

C'est une relique d'un temps passe, il est grand temps qu'elle rejoigne la France.

>>791948
t. butthurt dutchman

been reading Enneads after some light exposure to his philosophy. reading his work with a solid background in mysticism/religion has been fucking awesome.

he's probably one of the smartest individuals I've ever, ever read, the guy is a treasure. he really was on to something. i don't think i have a single problem with any of his philosophy anywhere

Nice blog. Subscribed.

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What stuck out to me while reading his Enneads:

>the soul is only evil "when it thinks the body's thoughts"

>the soul understood almost as a shaft of light that falls on matter, as an impersonal, "natural" process, and less some vague force with aims and aspirations of its own (except for the Good)

>Happiness as being not a life of pleasure, but living life through and in "the faculty competent enough to announce pleasure's value [in the first place]", in other words, unconditional happiness stems from being grateful for even being alive in the first place, and being able to apprehend this life's transcendent Source

>on evil being more like Murphy's Law than the devil

>chronic pain in the virtuous man: "And so in all his pain he asks not pity: there is always the radiance in the inner soul of man, untroubled like the light in a lantern when fierce gusts beat about it in a wild turmoil of wind and tempest."

>Absolute evil being "utter dearth", the "ever-needy", compared to the Good, which is totally "self-sufficing, self-possessed"

>"There is no power that can wrest anything of its distinct nature."

How are they failing? They've effectively established Pax Americana without the need of forcing their ideology of others. That's soft power projection at its finest. On top of their apex military, what's left to secure their seat at the top? They're doing everything advantageously.

>>791435
It never tried to spread freedom and democracy, just its own hegemony

>>791435
>America tries to spread freedom and democracy

You don't actually believe that do you?

The Turks also called themselves "Romans," lol.

really good thread

>>791290
>Christian caliphate
The Caliphate was an Islamic copy of the Empire, so kind of?

The distinction between the Roman "Republic" and the Roman "Empire" is meant to differentiate between their forms of government. It's pretty significant, seeing as how in the Roman Republic, there was no permanent autocrat in charge of the government (hence Republic) and in the Roman Empire, an emperor stood as the head of the government (hence Empire). It really isn't hard to understand.

>>791035
>If the emperor calls himself princeps he isn't an emperor
Anon he was called imperator anyway. The word just means "leader"

Is there any chance the Roman empire would have done better if Julius Caesar had just cleared out the corruption from the Republic instead of declaring himself dictator?

>>791013
It's just a perspective.

Science has yet to prove the nature of reality and mind to be reducible to natural processes -- although it certainly seems to hint toward that. Even if it were true, moreover, the language of cognitive science is young and the brain is a very complex organ and it might be more useful and expedient to talk about minds using older more time-tested conceptual terminology from other schools of philosophy.

Platonic forms.

>>790762

British forces in North Africa faced a perennial struggle to keep sand out of vital equipment. After almost a year and a half of testing various solutions, they came to the conclusion in late 1941 that condoms worked best to keep machinery free of sand.

Mozart was black

>hitler started his own culture/church
>christians and jews btfo
>christians and jews use the new jer u.s.a. lem to kill hitlers church
>europe btfo
>better make all reports and facts surrounding the war as trivial, hazy, revisionist as possible.
>goyim_can_never_know.jpg
>???
>profit

Peanut farmer.

Not the president we needed but the one we deserved. Fantastic human being.

Good guy, smart guy, bad president.

Best move: DoE.