If the
>Holy
>Roman
>Empire
would be restored within the borders of 1500, which city would be more appropriate as its capital, Vienna or Prague?
>Wanting to get thrown out of a window again
Vienna all the way, baby.
>>585320
Vienna
>english speakers use the italian name of wien
Why?
Three people named Alex, Blair, and Casey were questioned about the theft of a rare manuscript. One of them committed the theft, one was an accomplice, and the other was innocent. Each of these statements was made by one of the three people:
(1) Alex is not the accomplice
(2) Blair is not the thief
(3) Casey is not innocent
The following facts ware known about statements (1-3):
-Each statement refers to a person other than the speak
-The innocent person made at least one of the three statements
-The innocent person told the truth
-Statements made by the thief or the accomplice are false.
>>583814
*Speaker*
1 c
2 b
3 a
1 c
2 a
3 b
Is it fair to say that nobody in western history has been so important and yet so forgotten by the public at large as Diocletian
>>583779
diocletian is shit dawg. all he did was split a dying empire. byzantines are not rome.
>>583812
you literally know nothing besides what the textbooks say.
>>583779
That's a blanket statement, so no you're wrong and dull.
Could the good guys have won the Cold War?
>>582687
They shouldn't have "fought" it at all. The mistake was getting into a arms race with the capitalist pigs.
>>582698
But the USA had nukes.
>>582716
Nukes are relatively cheap, it wasn't nukes specifically I was referring to. There's nothing wrong with a nuclear stockpile to deter imperialist aggression.
It's rightful Yugo soil, so I'd say yes.
>>582064
Croatia is rightful Venetian clay.
>reminder that this chick right here, the wet dream of many an American GI, left her film career to marry into the lineage of Fatima bint Muhammad (also the spawn of the Assassins), joined her husband (the son of an imam) in helping his horse racing enterprise, almost converted to Islam for him, then divorced him
Not hating at all, just musing on the surreal nature of the imamate.
Anyone here know anything beyond Wikipedia about these guys? Betwen film-star wives and the Assassins, they seem to have a pretty bad-ass history to tell you the truth.
>>582024
I think I read somewhere she was of gipsy heritage
>>582073
I know she has Spanish descent.
I have a fetish for Latinas (me being half Puerto Rican probably factors in), and I always wondered why she looked so exceptionally sultry and sensual to me out of all the old pin-ups until I looked her up one day for kicks... there have been several times when I was particularly attracted to someone over others that should have been hotter than them and I later found out their parents or grandparents were of Spanish descent, so I think the fetish is inborn in by genes lol
>>582024
>they seem to have a pretty bad-ass history to tell you the truth
Thats nothing compared to their predecessors whom ended up doing more damage to islam with their rampage across the ME than the crusaders and christfags ever wished they could have.
Holy shit
Just finished this book. Makes me want to vomit at the thought of the British Empire as some kind of civilizatory force.
How legit is this work?
>>581197
The idea of "especial" genocides is pretty dodgy.
>>581197
And I guess this book doesn't even mention the peculiar question of their food.
>>581231
>I guess
This is how history works OH WAIT NO WE NEED TO FUCKING READ THINGS FIRST
ITT: People and institutions who did nothing wrong
>Urban II
>Pinochet
>The Spanish Inquisition
>Alexander the Great
>FDR
>Napoleon Bonaparte
>Hegel
FDR did, though.
>inb4 /pol/ fags justifying the Third Reich
>>580008
Literally never did a morally wrong thing.
I'm looking for philosophical works on the origin of logic.
There seem to be a lot of works on the application of logic in philosophy, rationalism vs empiricism etc. But I'm unable to find anything on the origin of logic or anyone who questions logic or the ratio as a system. The closest to what I think I'm trying to get at seems to be Hume. Carnap and others like him turn up when I try to look for this stuff but they seem to be content with logic as a system and just want to prove it's importance.
Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, I'm not the most knowledgeable, I guess that's why I'm asking. I'm just not completely content with accepting logic as an infallible system, it seems to work, but fucking why.
It works because the implications are already inside the meaning of the axioms.
>>582948
That's exactly my problem with it. So, are there any works exploring this?
Why did saddam gas kurds and invade kuwait?
Because the USA gave him secret messages saying it would be okay
Because genociding kurds was the fashion back then (and still is around that area) and Kuwait had oil.
t. i just made that up
>>577963
What did he meme by this?
Is this a result of all the social constructs that we live in shaping our world?
Or is this more of a case of people saying things and presenting them as fact I;e The jews caused 9/11 and I can't understand the science behind it therefore it must be true.
Or is it something else all together
>>584803
Fantasies in lacan protect the subject from the other, they're defence mechanisms of an incomplete action. Ideology is what protects the proletariat from having to enact communism.
>>584858
Could you explain that last part, please?
Is Julius Caesar overrated?
the man or the play
completely underrated desu
>seiging a city
>build a wall
>relief force is coming
>build another wall
fucking madman.
>film set in ancient Rome or Greece
>everyone is northern european
>It's the 1450s, England
>War of the Roses is beginning
>You must choose a side
>You have no knowledge of how it will end
>Yorkist or Lancastrian?
>Why?
Yorkist. Henry VI was a good man, but horribly incompetent
>>579612
York. Because Richard III was the best.
>>579617
And he was a good friend.
Judas comes to mind (if Gospels were real to begin with)
So does Brutus.
Post traitors.
Nixon and Kissinger for ruining the '68 peace-talks through promising South Vietnam they'd get a better treaty once the Republicans had the white house
War drags on for 5 more years, eventually US and SV have to settle for a worse peace treaty than they would've got in '68
Sulla.
Chances are, none of the other traitors in this thread would have been even born if this fucking fuckface hadn't turned that page in roman history.
Cromwell
How useful were swords in warfare?
Were they side arms which were used only in case of emergency, or were there any situations were swords were more useful than other weapons?
>>576106
You hold one end, you either chop with the other end or poke it in someone.
They're really useful in pursuit, but not really for the charge or grind.
Outdated by rapid fire muskets in modern drill ("Prussian" drill) armies.
>>576106
>How useful were swords in warfare?
Depends on the era. Spears and Bows always trumped the Sword. Then again, some empires and cultures used it more effectively than others. It wasn't always just a side arm.
>>576106
>or were there any situations were swords were more useful than other weapons?
Yes. When the general press is locked in and anything longer is suddenly way too close for use.