Will his dream ever come true?
Who is fighting for what he believed in?
>>533477
No. He was a self-righteous turd with little appreciation of European geo-political structure.
>>533477
Modern American foreign policy still uses Wilsonian rhetoric to justify interventionism around the world, so not sure what your point is.
Wilson was probably sincere in his beliefs that the United States should be the main role model and teacher for the rest of the world, and that America had a divine right and obligation to improve the world along American ideals and values, but only bad things have resulted from this.
The man who destroyed Europe, or helped destroying it.
What's a good introductory book on gnosticism?
>>528144
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
Rethinking Gnosticism: An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category by Michael Allen Williams
Lost Christianities by Bart Ehrman
Nag Hammadi Library in English (with introductions to each text)
>>528144
my diary, desu
Can we share religious art and pictures ?
>>536936
1440x900
Anyone interested in a thread about WW2 weapons? I mostly like artillery pieces and tanks, but small arms are welcome too.
My favorite tank is probably the Panzer V Panther. I'm not well-versed in the "Ausf." classifications. I know one type of Panther used the goofy-looking mantlet in my related picture. Possibly the Panzer V Ausf. J.
Also pictured on the bottom right is a 75 mm gun, classified as KwK. I know this is different from the 75 mm Pak. Is Kampfwagenkanone (KwK) the designation for any gun on a tank? I only see the term used when it's this short, stubby anti-infantry gun that's pictured.
Feel free to share cool information about your favorite WW2 tank or any cool things about other weapons from that period.
The Stug III was the most produced German armored fighting vehicle during the war. The Panzer IV was the second most produced.
>>548035
The Stug was an infantry assault gun. It was supposed to be a type of self-propelled artillery. The Germans intended to assign it to the panzer divisions, but they didn't want to administer any more units of Stugs. Simialr bureaucratic balking kept the Stugs from being assigned to infantry units. Thus, the Stug units were administered by the artillery corps.
>>548034
>Anyone interested in a thread about WW2 weapons?
yes!
>Is Kampfwagenkanone (KwK) the designation for any gun on a tank?
yes! it literally means 'tank gun' (or, well, 'fighting vehicle cannon')
even the panthers gun was "KwK", the 7,5 cm KwK 42
why does philosophy (mainly continental) so often ignore or seem uninterested towards findings in the sciences or mathematics? Is it just because they sometimes refute what was historically considered accurate?
>>547979
Science is modern superstition. It may happen to coincide with physical phenomena more often than the superstitions of our ancestors, but that doesn't make it interesting to philosophers.
Mathematics and other formal disciplines are fine but philosophers are sick of playing with symbols already, it's hard to imagine that humans can squeeze any more insight from mathematics.
>>548046
Try biology then.
>>547979
They get pissy about the fact science has superseded philosophy.
Much as a cocoon gives birth to a butterfly, philosophy gave birth to science in the 1600s, and now has no further valid contributions to make.
Philosophers are bitter that this is the case, so often they simply ignore this fact.
I will primitively describe some general's/country's strategy and you should guess who is he or what country is it.
>retreat
>don't give general battle
>retreat
>retreat
>now when enemy is our heartland and on the steps of one of the two largest cities of our country we should finally give general battle.
>get wrecked, retreat from battlefield, abandon your wounded on the battlefield
>enemy now can take city
>not so fast my friend - city's governor burning it to the ground, wounded and sick get roasted.
>enemy takes the city, it is worthless now
>enemy must retreat form this pile of ashes because winter is coming and other side will not surrender.
>use scorched earth tactics
>use rat tactics - raid supply train and separated weak units.
>reports of cannibalism
The American general John Johnston in the extremely secret Battle of Sydney
>>542249
Russia
>>542267
name general
What are my fellow scholars and /his/torians opinions on "Natural Law?"
Is it (Natural Law Theory) a sound bases for creating laws for humanity, or is there something better?
How does it compare to other forms of law? (Examples are Positive Law or Common Law)
>>540841
It still exists in modern jurisprudence, in issues such as family law and even international law.
If you're looking for a good jusnaturalist legal thinker check John Finnis. Most jusnaturlist scholars today come from a religious angle, particularly catholicism, but exceptions do exist (Martha Nussbaum for example).
>>540841
>Law: existing condition which is binding and immutable
I think you need to take a look at case law
No. It's not. In fact, the idea of trying to codify natural law in politics is horrifying. "Natural Law" (in Orthodox Christianity) is the law written on your heart, your conscience (Romans 2:15), and is specifically defined in *contrast* to written law. The moment you externalize it and hold it over people, it ceases to be natural law, and becomes written law.
You can certainly write down natural law, but it can never, ever be a state law, except incidentally.
Does anyone else feels Martin went a bit to far there?
I mean, sure, antisemitism was very common in church culture, but what he says there is just completely radical; "burn the synagogues", "expel them all" and so such, it's basically /pol/ tier. This is far cry from the medieval/late renaissance status quo that was achieved in the treatment of the Jews, wherein they get to do their money stuff as long as they stay on the margins of society.
What was the point of ML's text on the Jews? Was it part of his attempt to reform the church? Did he attribute Rome "selling out" to some Jewish plot, or perhaps vice versa?
>>540662
Do you know much about the history of the jewish people?
>>540683
>>540662
It was these kinds of texts that Luther encountered when he decided on confirming his collected research on comparing details and issues transitioning from the Torah to the Talmud.
>>540687
All of these are fake. Literally each and every one. Even some of the book titles.
But thanks for the bump I guess.
Ok guys i want to find out more about Slavs. Where do they come from?
Are there any groups of Slavs other than East, West and Southern Slavs?
Tell me anything you know about them.
Slav is a linguistic group. They don't share a history or something like that. The Czech tried to endorse some sort of "pan-slavic" identity. Then Russia took it and turned it into shit.
>>539307
Well if they are a linguistic group they must have some kind of common ancestry.
the orange glow of the setting sun, covered my armor in a vibrant reddish hue, the waves lapped and tugged against the wooden vessel, as I watched carefully for any glimpse of that familiar shore. For untold months we had wandered the desolate emptiness of the vast ocean in search of loot and fame, finding none and returning a few men less then when we had set forth.
"A blasted thing war does to men", my first mate grunted as he rowed, his back sweat glistened off the purple and red backdrop.
"A fine thing it gives back in character", I retorted simply, "a bloody but fine thing it does to all mens souls it touches."
Suddenly, I caught a glimpse of pirate vessel, emerging from the horizon. I grasped my axe and yelled, "quickly, head towards them... lets show them that we may have been defeated, but we are not at on deaths door."
They've been following for weeks, and if its a fight they want its a fight they'll get, i thought.
What's your favorite ancient wonder?
>>539014
Colossus of Rhodes IF you could sail under his chiseled balls.
If not, the Pyramids for obvious reasons.
>>539014
Tower of Babel of course.
>>539031
The colossus stood presumably inland
ITT: your favourite/weirdest/funniest/most debasing battles in history.
>French cavalry capture Dutch ships
>fucking Dutch I swear
>>536051
The perfect kebab removal battle
The perfect gavur removal battle
How would history have turned out if there were no native americans?
fewer casinos
>>535742
Besides the micro details
>>535740
Faster colonisation, no resistance to it at all.
Just competition between the europeans.
Is there any viable secular sexual morality except for consent (which really isn't *sexual* morality, just a general morality that the sexual sphere falls under)?
>don't have children that you can't afford
>don't cheat on significant others
>don't use sex to get power or advance in the workplace
Common sense covers a lot of this.
>>543114
>Is there any viable secular sexual morality except for consent
yes, but people dont like to hear about it.
>>543114
>that picture
O i am laffin
What, according to the Catholic Church, is the 'point' of Catholicism?
I.e., what is the end goal of practicing it?
It is just a tradition carried out for it's own sake (i.e. worshipping God because thats what we should do), or is there a more specific goal in mind, in the style of St. John of the Cross?
How is this actually defined in the Catechism?
So you can go live forever in Heaven and not go live forever in Hell.
>>542697
Salvation.
If I'm not mistaken, the Orthodox believe the goal of earthly life is theosis, or union with God's energies (but not his essence).
What caused the death of intellectualism?
>>542652
Pseudointellectuals.
>>542652
Pseudointellectuals.
Namely OP.
Diploma inflation, disdain for the less educated people.