Tell me about ninjas
Are they a meme?
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They were farmers. They would kill samurai by sneaking up on them when they didn't expect it. They'd also be useful informants cause they could see troop movements and report them to their lords.
The whole all black clad master swordsmans shit is all Hollywood and Japs selling bullshit to the west to make them look cool.
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They sprang from some edgy buddhist sect and were hired for political assasinations
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>>439539
Afaik there were also samurais who were ninjas. It's not either or strictly speaking.
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Did Lincoln really want to ship black people back to Africa?
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>Local manlet ruins everything
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Yes.
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>>439392
Tbqh it was a good idea
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Who was the best Byzantine Emperor, and why was it Basil II?
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>>439191
A good emperor takes steps to make sure his empire will continue to flourish after his death, Basil only made sure it succeeded in his lifetime and left an heirless throne to his NEET brother and narcissistic nieces.
Alexios was a super emperor because he deliberately chose a superior heir in his son rather than leaving it to his elder daughter's husband. That son also took steps to make sure his wiser and less temperamental son took the throne.
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Was Basil's reign the last hurrah for the Byzantines?
Seems like shit went downhill really quickly after he died
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>His last recorded words were: "The city is fallen and I am still alive."[26] Then he tore off his imperial ornaments so as to let nothing distinguish him from any other soldier and led his remaining soldiers into a last charge where he was killed.
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Who are the darkest philosophers? Shit like the "we are God's way of killing himself" guy
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M8, Cioran is labeled a "pessimist" by the academics who by and large adhere to speculative idealism. In truth what Cioran would claim (if he had claimed anything of the sort) would be that he was a realist. Much like Schopenhauer before him. From my perspective Cioran would be labeled an existentialist and/or absurdist thinker. I say "thinker" and not a "philosopher", because he was staunchly anti-intellectualist and he opposed any gnoseological systems.
But to answer your question, from the "colloquial" perspective, this would be my list of """dark philosophers""":
>Emil Cioran
>Diogenes of Sinope
>Arthur Schopenhauer
>Michel Montaigne
>Friedrich Nietzsche
>Albert Camus
>Jean Paul Sartre
>Eugene Thacker
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Hegesias of Cyrene, Philipp Mainländer & Albert Caraco.
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What is randomness?
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Antigod
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Lack of knowledge to see the pattern
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Impossible, not real.
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Something I've always been curious about is everyday life for Romans. I don't know where to find much information on it. I know we're aware of how they lived, generally, but being an average dude in a Roman City-do we know what it was like? Did they really just sit around eating olives and shit all day? Were the cities near as clean as they are always portrayed?
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>On April 19th, I made bread
>Antiochus hung out here with his girlfriend Cithera.
>Would that you pay for all your tricks, innkeeper. You sell us water and keep the good wine for yourself
>Amplicatus, I know that Icarus is buggering you. Salvius wrote this.
>Secundus likes to screw boys.
>Hectice, baby, Mercator says hello to you
Pretty much like today, but instead of facebook and instagram they just wrote on the walls
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>>439117
>they just wrote on walls
That's really funny to me, for some reason. The idea that something would posses someone to just go fucking write something on a wall in the middle of the street is hilarious
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>>439130
Shitposting is the most essential aspect of the human condition
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What are some books that are a must-read for every history fanatic? No specific time period.
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The Bible
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Maybe not a must-read, but Peter Hopkirk's The Great Game is an interesting book about the rivalry between Russia and Britain in the 19th century, with a specific focus on Central and Southern Asia.
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Was there ever a more degenerate culture?
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>>438970
Just Western European culture, desu.
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>>438970
Define "degenerate"
Really hope you aren't applying your subjective political opinions to history because that would be bad historiography desu senpai
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>>438970
he looks so happy
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How was it that the Poruguese managed to keep something as large as Brazil as a colony without Spain or the others taking it from them? They had a tiny population and certaintly had no military to successfully defend it.
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>>438920
Weren't they a devout ally of England for years? Pretty sure it was one of the longest alliances in history.
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>>438941
Yes, the English loved Port Wine.
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>>438920
Treaty of Tordesillas
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Who here /habsburgboo/?
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I dare /his/ to name a more powerful family
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>>438847
Majority of US presidents are descended from British royalty.
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>>438847
Rothschilds
They kind of bankrolled almost every big war since the 1800's
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People who were unsuccessful early in life but were "born again" with a more polished mindset.
Pic arguably related.
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>>438710
Mozart.
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>>438711
Didn't Salieri set him up?
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Walt Disney
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Scientists have a very ill formed definition of philosophy. Philosophy is a quest for objectivity just like science, that's why science was derived from philosophy. The philosophical method is much broader than the scientific one, applicable to human affairs and even to worlds that aren't actual, that's the power of introspection. They conclude that philosophical discourses are nonsensical because of their preconceived notion of sense data as the only source of objectivity, a notion derived from the philosophical method, after all you can't empirically verify that statement. But that assumption is what give scientific discourse the objective status, a assumption that every scientist in a lab makes even though they're not even aware of, the epistemic framework of science has a philosophical foundation.
If you as a scientist want to criticize philosophers try to analyze their claims from a philosophical perspective, because if your definition of objectivity is sense data then of course you're gonna think they're bullshitting you. But they're not, they're trying to do the same thing a chemist does in a lab, the problem is that is a lot harder to have that objective ground in philosophical subjects, you can't really use the sense data assumption when dealing with mental states now can't you?
And just to be fair, there's a lot of philosophies out there that are actually bullshit, because you don't really have a rigorous definition of objectivity like science does, then people go wild and claim they're telling the truth. But a scientist to deny the importance of philosophy is simply madness, science is permeated with philosophical assumptions, and being ignorant of them and philosophy in general may get you in epistemological troubles.
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Is that Ray William Johnson? =3?
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>>438649
Science is philosophy but it is a highly specific and proven to show results. The issue with most philosophies is that they don't provide society with anything. Any philosophy worth anything should either better people or give them a broader perspective and Science does this consistently, more so than any other branch of philosophy. Therefore I would say it does have some just in snubbing other less effective philosophies.
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>>438649
That's nice. Philosophers can't make this happen, though.
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Best and Worst Names In History
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I'll start with one of the worst, or perhaps the best, depending on your perspective
>Heinz Assmann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Assmann
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>>438260
Not historical but wew.
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Galileo Galilei
Very nice sounding name.
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Praisegod Barebones - a member of the English Parliment during the Civil War.
Also, a character from historical fiction: Saved From Captivity Huff. He appears in serveral of Kenneth Roberts novels. In Arundel, he's described as a deliveryman and occasional thief, though his friend says "Never did he steal from me, except for small things I could easily spare."
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Was German National-Socialism basically a reaction to Soviet Bolshevism?
Was Hitler's racial and antisemitic ideology an attempt to reconstruct Marxism-Leninism in a way more appropriate to the German setting?
Was his segregationist and later genocidal policy a variation on the theme of the destruction of kulaks and Eastern-European ethnic purges?
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>>438019
>basically
Fuck off with this weasel word bullshit.
>Was Hitler's racial and antisemitic ideology an attempt to reconstruct Marxism-Leninism in a way more appropriate to the German setting?
Do you know who Liebnicht was? Korsh?
Learn the history of the SPD, Spartakists, AAUD, KAPD and KPD before you open your trap with this shit again.
>Was his segregationist and later genocidal policy a variation on the theme of the destruction of kulaks and Eastern-European ethnic purges?
>theme
Themes exist in literature and documents, they don't exist in historiographical narratives except as a device. Human relationships aren't "thematic" except through active subjectivities producing themes.
>Eastern-European ethnic purges
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Go wank to _Bloodlands_ and never post here again.
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>>438023
>Go wank to _Bloodlands_
>implying that's a bad thing
OP was obviously going for Ernst Nolte more than Snyder though.
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>>438023
>Liebknacht
>Korsch
Neither of those was Marxist-Leninist. Liebknecht died before the term was even coined.
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>The current year
>Caring more about a newborn human infant than an ape
>This speciesism
Why haven't you embraced my utilitarianism yet?
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>>437904
Clearly you are all blown away by my unassailable logic
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DUDE LOOK AT MY PHILOSOPHICAL BULLSHIT
Like, I sit on my ass hammered all day everyday just thinking about shit. Watch my complex logic loopty loops towards making my controversial claim LMAO
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>Unitarianism
>implying this is not just secular Christianity
>implying you don't just axiomatically assume that pain is bad because it's part of Christian culture