ITT: Shit that makes you angry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_of_rhodes
>In 653, an Arab force under Muslim caliphMuawiyah Icaptured Rhodes, and according to The Chronicle ofTheophanes the Confessor,[11]the statue was cast down and sold to a Jewish merchant ofEdessawho loaded the bronze on 900 camels.
Shit, my paste option fucked up
In 653, an Arab force under Muslim caliph Muawiyah Icaptured Rhodes, and according to The Chronicle ofTheophanes the Confessor, the statue was cast down and sold to a Jewish merchant ofEdessa who loaded the bronze on 900 camels.
>>503936
>In 653, an Arab force under Muslim caliph Muawiyah I captured Rhodes...
>CONFLICT BETWEEN "MUSLIMS", AND "CHRISTIANS", IN THE YEAR "653".
>"THE BATTLE OF VIENNA", YEAR "1683"; A CONFLICT BETWEEN "MUSLIMS", AND "CHRISTIANS".
>BOTH EVENTS INDICATE A GENERAL PERIOD OF CONFLICT BETWEEN THE TWO FACTIONS.
>SUBTRACT ONETHOUSAND TO "1683", AND THERE REMAINS "683", A YEAR VIRTUALLY CONTEMPORANEOUS WITH "653".
> ... and according to The Chronicle of Theophanes the Confessor...
>THE EARLIEST EXTANT EDITION OF THEOPHANES' "CHRONICLE" DATES TO THE YEAR "1655".
>SUBTRACT ONETHOUSAND TO "1655", AND THERE REMAINS "655"; TWO YEARS AFTER THE EVENT RECORDED IN THE "CHRONICLE".
CONCLUSION:
— BOTH EVENTS ARE CONTEMPORANEOUS.
— THEOPHANES' "CHRONICLE" IS A FORGERY.
— THIS VERSION OF THIS EVENT IS NOTHING BUT A MALICIOUS PERVERSION OF HISTORY, ONE OF THE PURPOSES OF WHICH IS TO VILIFY THOSE REFERRED TO AS "MUSLIM ARABS".
>>504001
What the actual fuck?
name one real life problem that philosophy solved
>pro tip: you cant
Whether you should believe in God or not.
>>503893
>be philosopher
>why even live?
As oppose to what, pretend life problems?
Was thinking about giving it a read, I'm sure it was inspired, not canon, but what does /his/ know about it?
read the 1971 edition
>>503867
Its got some 2spooky angelololology in it.
>>503911
I heard it really expounds on the sons of God thing, what's your guys' opinion on that? Are they angels or are they Seth's kin.
If there was ever nothing in the Universe, there would always be nothing in the Universe but we know that this isn't true as we exist, therefore there must have always been something in the Universe, therefore the Infinite-past theory is true. Am I wrong /his/?
>>503811
If time is infinite, then could it be true that in however many gorillian years, there will one day be a planet which is exactly the same as earth, has been through exactly the same events, with someone genetically identical to you who has had the exact same life and posts this exact same thread on a website called 4chan?
Spatial and temporal metaphors got you fucked up, dawg
You are starting from the assumption of infinite time--'if there was nothing in the universe, then there was ALWAYS nothing'--and then drawing the (valid) conclusion that an 'infinite past' follows. But you're begging the question, so who cares?
Your first conditional statement is also wonky, which is made clearer by changing out the terms:
>If there was nothing in this cereal bowl, then there would always be nothing in this cereal bowl
Why would that be the case?
>>503914
So basically, everything that's happening right now has already happened, will happen again and we will not be aware of it?
We don't know when it started or when it will end?
Was throwing spears never a thing in Japanese fighting techniques?
A lot of other societies seemed to have implemented throwing pole arms but I haven't seen it in any Japanese styles.
>>503804
As a total guess:
The main reason someone uses a javelin as opposed to a bow on the battlefield is they want to keep a shield in the off hand for greater protection, something which the bow precludes.
For reasons I'm not entirely sure of, shields were never a big thing in Japan, so a form of missile combat that works well in tandem with a shield is something that's not likely to arise.
>>503804
I meant throwing pole arms* btw
>>503804
>A lot of other societies seemed to have implemented throwing pole arms but I haven't seen it in any Japanese styles.
> shields were never a big thing in Japan
They had and did throw spears. Back in the Yamato Period.
Come the Medieval Ages, Javelins weren't quite popular across the world anymore save for a few places.
Holy Roman Empire Thread.
No voltaire.
>>503651
>banned for posting shit outside of /b/
>>503651
Is it true that the Holy Roman Empire is holy, roman, and most important of all an empire?
>>503750
Yes.
Was Mao the monster that China needed?
>>503507
He was one that worked, for better or worse
>>503507
China has a tendency to shatter and break into a hundred little warring states.
Mao, for better or for worse, welded the country together with terror.
Do not make the mistake of thinking they're NOT going to explode into republic of ching, republic of chong and kingdom of nip nong when their economy tanks, though.
>>503507
Mao had the mandate of Heaven :^)
Had Christianity never existed, do you think it would have given place to another major religion? Would pagan cultures have remained pagan? Would the non-existence of Christianism prevent the existence of anything similar to Islam?
>>503439
Had it never existed we could've been either jewish or buddhist I think....
>>503476
I don't see Judaism getting wide spread since it's genereally something you don't convert into.
I think it's more likely we would just continue having paganism, much like shinto in Japan.
>>503476
Buddhism would be very sucessful in the mysticism-loving Hellenistic world. A Buddhist Medieval Greece would be even more 'oriental' to Westerners than it actually was.
How Arab/Muslim did Sicily became in the middle ages?
>>503379
What do you mean by "how Arab/Muslim"?
Cause this kind of threads usually are just baitthreads about someone not being white enough.
>>503386
I mean how much of the Population came to be Muslim/Arab under the rule of the Caliphs during the middle ages
>>503379
not very much, the normans rekted the muslim before they completed conquering
Instead of constructing artificial languages to serve as international lingua franca, such as Esperanto, why don't like-minded linguists undertake to streamline English into something more intuitive and expressive? I mean, if it's true that we now understand the evolution of languages, shouldn't we in principle be able to design superior language patterns by scientific artifice, much in the way that biotech firms engineer more useful organisms for a specific purpose (i.e. crop yield, herbicide resistance, &c.)? Could not some language engineered in this manner attempt to surpass the limits of conventional semantics and semiotics as anticipated and evinced by thinkers like Wittgenstein?
>>503366
Does white privilege mean "having the ability to think"?
>>503366
I don't think English needs to be simplified. It's well on its way to become lingua franca.
No, everyone should learn German. Fickt euch!
Post the most perverted people in the history of history
muh horse
>>503188
American detected
What would sex with Aphrodite feel like?
Like bags of sand
>>502977
Having sex with every supermodel at once times a billion
How is this his & hum
>mfw reading Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite
>Zeus wants to watch his daughter get fucked so makes Aphrodite fall in love with a Trojan prince
>she sees Anchises tending a flock of sheep in the hills
>disguises herself as a 14 year old girl
>goes down to him and asks him to fuck her
>Anchises is suspicious since she's so incredibly beautiful
>says he does not want to sleep with a goddess since it is dangerous
>Aphrodite convinces him she isn't a goddess
>gets impregnated by him in amazing sex in the farmhouse
>reveals her divinity to Anchises
>shits himself
Did people in the darg ages just forget how to craft great art and buildings?
Like wtf happened?
>>502947
No, there were still some highly skilled masons. There was just a a smaller market for masonry.
Yes.
Yes, they did.
>>502947
Replying only because "dark ages" is a horribly defunct term; please use "middle ages"
let's talk about based Alexios
he had an awesome monobrow
and he removed turks
>>502712
Eh, Basil II was better.
>>502753
>byzantines
>not history's greatest turk enablers
>wake up
>Europe is now this
What do?
>>502629
Laugh
Turn off EUIV and go back to sleep.
Question why Livonia's flag is upside down Bulgaria.