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>>510935
Basically because he was the figurehead of Britain while it won WWII. Had the war not occurred, he would have been reviled. Had he lost the war, the public would have hung him in the streets.

>>510935
Americans still like him though

>>510942
But how did he go from "drunk incompetent asshole with some redeeming qualities who was in the right place in the right time", to one of the people brought up in every list of greatest modern leaders?

Poor intelligence and an unwillingness to withdrawn once committed to an action.

They almost broke through despite that, the main thing they underestimated was the Ottoman resolve.

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>>510891
you underestimate the Turks, who, on their own turf are pretty exceptional fighters .
In the Balkans or deserts of Palestine- not so much .

>>510891
Churchill was an absolute madman that wanted to see how many he could get killed on a wild ride to the east for a laugh

>>510864
Why does Byzantine art and jewelry always look cruder than Roman stuff?

>>510887
Like what?

>>510864
It's Istanbul, not Constantinople

>>510789
Google Maps does have a bad case of Mercator Projection... or you're just bad at geography.

>>510789
You should look at maps more often

you're probably just American.

>>510627
Shark attacks are natural, lightning strikes are natural. There is no 'good & evil' in nature.

>muh naturalistic fallacy

>is a concept brought up only by humans
That's not entirely what rape is though.
It's a phenomena apparent in more species than humans.
We're not the only ones who rape.

There are two sides to rape: the physical act, which is in no way a social construct, and the reaction to it.

> isn't it technically a social construct
Yes.

>>510358
The Korean war and horrific dictatorial brutality towards the Japanese working class.

>>510358
Being a US military base, Korean War accelerating its economy, general ordnung, being open to western ideas on management and industry.

>>510358
Japan got a boner

Part of the inter-university competition for resources.

Each one has to argue that it's 'more useful' to humanity/society, in order to get the big bucks.

But, at the end of the day, we'll all agree that it's those b-school faggots we really dislike.

>>510331
Hey, I work in a business school. We're basically just an arts faculty hiding behind a corrupt curriculum forced upon us.

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>>510333
Perhaps. But the faculty is paid so much more than anything a lit/hum prof could hope to make

>ANOTHER "WHAT IF" THREAD.

COMMIT SUICIDE, OR ALTERNATIVELY, DO NOT MAKE TRITE AND FUTILE THREADS.

>>510183
French Mutinies. Russian Mutinies. British Mutinies. Austro-Hungarian Mutinies. Ottoman Mutinies.

>>510183

No.

There is no one "Germany Wins WW1" that you can start diverging alternate history from. Depending on how Germany wins; you can branch off into all sorts of different scenarios.

A world in which

>Schlieffen plan is supplemented with a suicide cruise like Lisle Rose recommended, BEF is severely delayed, and the Germans spill over at the Marne (or the Marne never develops like it does historically), war ends in the western front in 1914 but with most if not all of the High Seas Fleet sunk

Would be way different than

>America never enters the war, but Germany is quickly able to make use of territory gained in the treaty of Brest-Litovsk, and is barely, barely able to outlast the peace movements in France and Britain before collapsing herself into anarchy and revolution which sweeps most of the European continent.

Are two very, very different things.

>Germany

>>510164
Germans allied Turks in WWI. Hitler made overtures in WWII. Will Germany/Merkel fight alongside Islam and Sweden in WWIII?

>>510136
>Attempting to destroy Islam

Are you fucked up on something? Why Tf would you want to do that unless you are an AmeriDumb.
Carry on in that case, youve been envying them since 1779

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welcome to the future my friend

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>>510112
Oh that's easy.

Science believes that 20 billion years ago, nothing exploded, and became everything. And then 3.6 billion years ago, the Earth's surface cooled, and clouds formed from volcanic gasses and it caused rain. And then it rained on the rocks for billions of years and it formed a soup, and then the soup came alive, and formed the basis for all living things, including humans.

Science will teach you about how the eye, for instance, had to evolve slowly over billions of years, through trial and error, even though the Horseshoe crab has one of the most complex and sophisticated eyes in the animal kingdom, yet it's one of the earliest vertebrates to ever evolve. But the point is, things get better over time, things are evolving to be bigger, faster, stronger . . .

That why you can do an image search for any prehistoric version of a modern animal, be it a turtle, a dragonfly, a bear, any prehistoric version of a modern animal, and you can see that the prehistoric animals are much less evolved, so they're . . . a lot bigger . . . and stronger . . . and faster . . .

Now, nevermind all that, because you see, SCIENCE teaches that The continents were once all connected? even though technically they're still all connected, when you look underneath the oceans . . . but anyway, they were once all connected, and one time Africa and South America were connected, and that's why they look like matching puzzle pieces. Even though the size of Africa is shrunk down 40% to achieve that parity of size, look up true projections of Africa in maps . . .

But anyway, we know the continents were all connected because we see matching fossils at all the coastlines where they used to connect before they drifted apart. Even though you find the same matching fossils everywhere else on Earth as well. There's even fossils of clams and sea-life found on Mount Everest and throughout all the other mountain ranges of the world. Almost as if there was once a big flood.

Let's start with bettering our English.

>>510064
Hu hu ho! A blog of angsty white people hating western civilization, what a surprise.

Why should I take these people seriously?

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This is quite an old idea found in some classic works like E.R. Dodd's 'The Greeks and The Irrational'

You really see Greek philosophy in a new light when you read it alongside Indian works from the same period.

>While scholars have sensed a philosophical kinship between Eastern and Western cultures for many decades, THE SHAPE OF ANCIENT THOUGHT is the first study to provide the empirical evidence. Covering a period ranging from 600 B.C. until the era of Neoplatonism and a geographical expanse reaching across the ancient world, McEvilley explores the key philosophical paradigms of these cultures, such as Monism, the doctrine of reincarnation in India and Egypt, and early Pluralism in Greece and India, to reveal striking similarities between the two metaphysical systems.

pretty cool find

>>509959
>Any advice/tips to help get a better edge over my classmates?

Read the seminal works of the discipline and major works of theory about reading. EP Thompson. Hayden White. Chris Hill. Harry Braverman. Engels. Marx.

>Any tips for going towards a masters?
Why would you do a course work masters in a research driven field?

If you want a professional masters:
Archivism
Librarianship
Curatorial studies.

>>510009
What if I want to be a history professor?

>>509959
Start reading articles in academic journals. You'll find things you don't know about, have to research them for yourself, and likely have to do some further looking-up whilst doing that. Bibliography is key.

You need to know the scholarship if you're going to have anything interesting to say, even if it's only marginally original.

>>509905
Rousseau, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche think so, it's just that happiness is only a measure of chemical response in the brain and we can control that easily with drugs, as we can with the Will, so both Will and Happiness seem like insignificant things to base the worth of life on now that we know that.

There's no way to know.

>>509927
There are fmri's. We can measure dopamine levels in animal brains in response to stimuli.

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>>509900
If you're looking for salvation, you just don't.
If God is truly benevolent, then it would understand your skepticism and as long as you are a good person, you will rewarded.
If it is not benevolent, it probably isn't worth worshiping in the first place.

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The answer is subjective, there is no objective true religion so as long and you live for god, being to help fellow man that seems to be the most objective thing followed in most religions. If anything is the correct way to do things that's it.

>>509980
Hello Marcus

>>509839

Considering that the Passover offering has nothing to do with remission of sin and is most structurally close to a thanksgiving offering rather than a sin offering, I would guess no.

>>509839
Samaritans and Karaite Judaism are more conservative and closer to classical Judaism.

Orthodox Judaism was formulated after Islam.

>>509860
> they're wrong because they didn't change!