>Exodus
>Pharoh tells soldiers to kill every child
>Savior survives and comes back to free people from torment (Slavery)
>Jesus Christ
>King tells soldiers to kill every child
>Savior survives and comes back to free people from torment (Slavery)
Can you get any more poetry than this?
>King tells soldiers to kill every child
What king?
>>786743
King Harold
btw slavery should be "hell" in that last one
Isn't that the basic theme of the bible, that humans are slaves to sin?
>the arts are a waste of time
>mfw
Opinions? I hear this all the time from my friends in engineering, and all my rebuttals are faced with meme spewing such as "if it don't make 260k/yr it's in the trash xDDddDD".
>>786707
just tell them that plenty of artists have good careers in advertising, and hollywood.
>>786707
Stop associating with such people normie scum.
I'm using mine as a stepping stone. Currently studying medicine as a result of my BA
Do you believe that Beethoven was descended from the Moors or that said theory is just revisionist black-power propaganda?
SO YOU BE SAYIN
So now we was composers and shit too?
>>786351
You can find portraits of his mother and father if you look. They are white as snow.
don't mind me, I'm just posting the superior italian merchant city-state
Reminder:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Chioggia
>>786086
b-but muh banks
Don't mean to hijack the focus, but I think that the Genovese+Venetians did more for mainland Greece and its islands than the Byzantine Empire with its focus on Constantinople and Anatolia ever did.
So we all know the hostilities between turkey and Russia, not only with ISIS but with religious (russia is heavily orthodox and turkey owns Constantinople) so if Russia invaded turkey, would nato get involved? Would it spell a Third World War? Comment what you think would happen.
>/his/ - Future & Humanities
>>785519
Ignoring the fact you're a complete retard, how is this even /his/ related?
What sparked the migration period?
>>784950
Mexico's perennially defective economy sitting right next to the largest in the world, and a government that couldn't find its own ass with both hands and a map.
Glasgow Rangers fans, Ulster unionists and Germans.
>>784950
The Jews.
why
Unification of Italian peoples under one flag was a mistake, this is how Italy should look like.
Maybe you should know that the division of those states was one of the reason of the collapse of italian economy in the second part of 1600...
>No more Venetian Republic
This is probably a very retarded question, but please explain to me conquest of strongholds. I never understood it. Why would an attacker ever siege it? Why not ignore it and just take the land around it?
*the concept of. Not conquest.
What do you mean "the land around it"? Are you suggesting just creating another control point?
>>784718
That's an intelligent question actually.
First of all, castles and strongholds knew their peak during the great invasions of the middle ages. It was a simple strategy: riches, peoples and supplies (grains and animals) from a certain piece of land could be easily defended for weeks or even months behing wooden (later stone) walls. The raiders often sought loot, not conquests.
During "traditional" wars strongholds are often strategical: they can lead to the sea or along a trade route.
Does evil exist, or is it just the absence of good?
>>784621
neither exist
>kickflips out of the thread
Einstein, is that you?
A lack of good or evil would just be a neutral stance.
Is Existential Inertia or Divine Conservation true?
Are there any good arguments anywhere?
>>784303
>The “existential inertia” thesis holds that, once in existence, the natural world tends to remain in existence without need of a divine conserving cause.
The laws of physics as we understand them suggest that yes, once a universe starts to exist, it will continue to do so. Arguments for this are many, but are of a highly technical nature.
>>784309
In what sense do the laws of physics exist?
Im 47 minutes in and he still hasnt started talking about persians.
This board is obsessed with Persians and Romans.
I stopped listening about 1h 20 minutes in.
He still hasn't started talking about the persians...
Talk about going off on a tanget... And then tangents within tangents. What a snoozefest.
By far his worst podcast (of his 'modern' ones)
Talks a whole lot of shit about nothing for a for a few hours, without any coherent story.
I know claims of Nazi occultism are typically sensationalist and very /x/ related, but I've heard so much about Nazi occultism I thought I might as well ask better read (if at all) imageboard "historians"
Were there any true claims to Nazism, Hitler, and occultism? Was there something spiritual (for lack of a better word) about Nazism, or was it mainly a materialist political movement?
>>782007
It existed but wasn't taken nearly as seriously, the idea is more commonly used now thanks to Indiana Jones more than anything.
I don't think Hitler himself ever put much stock into Occultism (or religion of any sort). It was mostly a few other Nazis, but it never became a central part of the movement.
At least, I think so.
>>782007
Himmler was a nutjob who believed in all sorts of weird shit. Hitler loathed him for it and actively tried to undercut his projects. I can't seem to find it right now, but he mocks a lot of Himmler's Theosophy-based beliefs in an early speech.
/his/ was there ever a Greek God of not sleeping? I just had this really weird dream and around the end there was this thing about the God of not sleeping and I was just wondering if there actually was a God of not sleeping.
I would assume that the daemon personification of sleep (Hypnos) would determine whether or not people go to sleep at all.
Also, according to Greek myth, there was once a very brief period where nobody died at all, because Thanatos, the daemon of death, ended up getting the 50 Shades of Gray treatment
>>779098
Did Hypnos have any enemies in the myths? In my dream the god of not sleeping didn't get along with him.
>>778897
Did you try Googling "the oh God of not-sleeping"?
What does /his/ think about Serbian nationalism?
Is it justified? Has its effect on history been negative or positive overall?
Broke up Yugoslavia. Twice.
>>798434
>Is it justified? Has its effect on history been negative or positive overall?
well it's caused the deaths of millions of people
it's shame pan-slavbalkanism died out
About the same as any kind of nationalism. Useful for creating pointless conflict and butthurt but thats about it.
Considering how easily most countries transitioned to constitutional monarchies (or the royalty simply becoming figureheads), why did it take so long for democracy to catch on?
>>794830
Because absolute monarchs didn't want to give up their powers in the first place?
>>794830
Maybe it had something to do with, I dunno, the rise of the bourgeoisie and capitalism?
>>794830
Democracy supported by capitalism is essentially feudalism except that power is no longer linked to the ownership of land and divine noble bloodlines, but to money and merchant pleb bloodlines.
Wake me up.