other than russia, what other places have never been successfully invaded via conventional means?
Are you suggesting russia has never been invaded successfully?
>>385135
The Norsemen were pretty successful.
America
You know, feminism, via Beauvoir, originally grew out of existentialism. And it is true that she advocated free love, but the thing is that today, feminism is almost exclusively about money and sex. How did feminism fall from "existentialism from women" to the capitalist level of defining freedom solely in terms of money and sex?
>>385043
>You know, feminism
FUCKING DROPPED
SORRY PAL, BUT THIS THREAD WAS RUINED FROM THE START.
You want real discussion? Well I'd look elsewhere, but for now, nice bait.
Originally Aryan supremacy was about being the smarter master race than the Jews. But then the Jews control everything and are smarter than white people. How did Aryan supremacy go from hating Jews because they were worse to hating Jews because they are better?
Was Ancient Mali ruled by Arabs? They seemed to have major influence.
>>384926
No /pol/ it wasn't
>Was Ancient Mali ruled by Arabs?
No. It was ruled by a native dynasty founded by Sundjata Keita, and no Islamic writer calls them Arabs. They adopted a small amount of Islamic culture under Mansa Musa which was mostly limited to a few towns while the vast majority of the population was pagan. The Arabs/Berbers in Mali were basically just merchants and maybe a few scholars or artisans brought in by the rulers.
>They seemed to have major influence.
They were rich but not very impressive.
>>384971
It was not found by them it was founded by Tebu people.
Has Germany, in it's history as a unified state, ever won a war?
>>384857
Technically they beat the Ruskis in World War 1.
Sacked Rome in 410
>N-nuh uh, everybody from that era was just mongol aliens that got on their spaceships and left and everybody now is just albino africans!
Is Mao Zedong one of the most underrated commanders of all time?
>>384406
No. He is vastly overrated due to lionising by the party.
>>384406
>underrated
Couldn't fight the nationalists on even ground.
His greatest achievement is not dying in the 30s.
>>384997
>His greatest achievement is not dying
>sun yat sen decimated
Can someone explain solipsism to me because I don't get it?
Do they mean that people are pretending? Say when someone breaks their leg and screams in pain turns white starts shaking wincing and limping etc, are they saying that he is pretending?
Since in solipsism only you exist, you cannot prove the existence of other people's subjective experiences.
>>384315
maybe *I* can't, but other people can
like why would you even doubt that, it makes no sense. as if people are like automatons or some shit
when somebody smiles, how is that not proof that they have that feeling when you smile?
or when somebody breaks their finger and screams, how is that not proof that they're in pain?
are they saying all that could happen without the feeling of pain?
>>384337
Well you do not, by definition, have direct access to the subjective experiences of others. All you see are outward expressions. Humans do have the instinct that other beings have feelings, but there is not any way to confirm this directly. I know Wittgenstein had something to say about language and private experience, but I'm not an expert on him.
What caused the Byzantine Empire to collapse?
Ottoman cannons.
>>384227
Fourth crusade next question?
What interests did the British Empire had in africa to colonize them? (especially in todays Ghana, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone?
>>384213
Slaves and precious stones.
Also, colonization was impractical in those areas. Your "colonies" were mostly just fortified port-areas. White settlement would not venture inland until the 20th century.
>>384213
BIG
Why are there so many great creative people in the past that we do not have in the current day?
What causes of creativity have been present in history? In art?
>>384184
Hard to be creative, and express your thoughts/art while also working to buy and maintain a house, car, food, water, and sustain your family. Creative people are out there but the way modern society has formed allots no time for the expression of that creativity.
There's a thing called magic. It's the shrooms everyone was smoking
>>384204
Gentleman scholars of the past were wealthy in that they could afford leisure. Today, even someone who could survive with such a lifestyle is looked down upon.
The downfall of the glorification of leisure coincided with its replacement by consumption. Consumption must be fed by production.
I don't tell anyone I'm a writer in real life, because it's the same as telling them I'm a deadbeat. I can't look even look my parents in the eye. I suppose a man in my position in the earlier ages might have joined the priesthood.
The Romans came to power because they were unmatched by anyone in their area. Is there any unit of fighters that could beat a well organized Roman unit? They should both be from the time of Augustus, around 0 CE.
A troop of Apaches, assuming they had similar tech and tactics back then as they did when whitey turned up in murca
Otherwise, the romans had a real hard time with the armenians and parthians due to their horse archer tactics, which were difficult to defend against with heavy infantry
>>384173
The Han dynasty over in China had a corps of professional soldiers, mostly armed with crossbows at 0 CE. At the very least, they'd be able to give the Romans a serious run for their money.
Plus, the Romans historically had trouble with the horse archers out of Parthia. It was very "win a battle, lose a battle" over there, but the light cavalry did secure wins..
>>384265
Not only are Apaches not within the time period specified in the OP, but the Romans would have raped them so hard that they'd wish they took the smallpox blankets.
Aristotle > Socrates > Plato > Shit > All other philosophers > Your favorite philosopher
>>7443315
Plato > Plotinus > Burke > Pseudo-Dionysus > Lao Tzu >>>>>>>> OP
>>384070
>Who is this retard quoting?
> - Epictetus
>>384056
But what if Aristotle is my favorite philosopher?
his, brownpill me on the rise of Christianity in the roman empire.
>>384021
Christianity, as with all religions, started in one tiny place, when the rest of the earth was populated by a wildly marvelous diversity of religious beliefs—and yet, curiously enough, the concept of warfare over religious differences was virtually nonexistent. Most people in ancient times believed it was proper to respect the gods of other peoples. This changed on a global scale when Christianity was spread, quite literally, by the sword. Those who attempted to assert their religious differences were harassed, tortured, robbed of their land and belongings, even killed. Before it achieved political power, Christianity was a small sect, a heresy against the Jewish faith, that had to accept equality among all the other religions of the Roman Empire. Yet it was the first religion to openly attack the religions of other people as false (the Jews, at least, were a little more tactful). Needless to say, Christianity only truly flourished when it had the ability to eliminate the competition—when it had the full support of Rome’s Emperors after 313 A.D., and when, in 395 A.D., every religion other than Christianity was actually outlawed. Through force and decree Christianity was immersed in the cultural surroundings of lands near and far, and in an environment where it was widely accepted, if not the only thing accepted, it spread and planted itself among subjugated peoples. As kids grew up taking Christian ideas for granted, they often did not realize that only a few generations ago those ideas were entirely alien.
>>384041
>Christianity, as with all religions, started in one tiny place, when the rest of the earth was populated by a wildly marvelous diversity of religious beliefs—and yet, curiously enough, the concept of warfare over religious differences was virtually nonexistent.
Spotted the retard. One only has to look at Caesar's Gallic wars to know this is shit.
Most people, in the ancient times, drew little distinction between a people and their religion; religion was far more ethnic and "cultural". You made war on them, you made war on their gods. Why do you think the Chinese stamped hard on the indigenous southern peoples religions? Why do you think there was so much religious overwriting in Egypt every time a new cult came to power? Why did you have so many Babylonian kings casting down the temples of their rivals?
Honoring the gods of a defeated enemy was a relatively rare phenomenon.
>>384041
hello Vladimir Lenin
I think that the problem of evil is, in itself, a perfectly good reason not to worship a monotheistic god.
Any counter-arguments?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-suvkwNYSQo [Embed]
The only tenable theodicies:
1. Evil as the absence of good
2. Gnostic cosmogony
3. Plotinus' metaphysics (only airtight theodicy I've ever encountered)
>>383584
What's the deal with neo paganism and right wing ultra nationalists? Is it the aesthetics or the actual beliefs? Seems like more of the former especially among the edgy people. The heavy metal, the imagery that inspired the Nazis - it all is something inspiring for the young white man that feels disenfranchised and wants to be apart of something bigger than himself, but rejects mainstream religion.
Though not gonna lie, there is some cool music that I'd listen to if I was about to go into battle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hcatw4aTGo
I think you are basically right yeah. So much of the folk culture of Europeans has been lost, especially in America. I think it's a desire to feel connected to history.
>>383447
>What's the deal with neo paganism and right wing ultra nationalists? Is it the aesthetics or the actual beliefs? Seems like more of the former especially among the edgy people. The heavy metal, the imagery that inspired the Nazis - it all is something inspiring for the young white man that feels disenfranchised and wants to be apart of something bigger than himself, but rejects mainstream religion.
Ten to fifteen years ago, that question would rarely if ever be typed outside of very isolated Asatru circles.
Judging from the conversations I hear around the new right, it seems mostly to be aesthetic. Nobody I know from that column of paganism is really going through Galdrabok or any given Svartkonstböcker.
>>383469
Paganism in America definitely seems more connected to the aesthetic than the actual ideology. You have the right wing white males going for the nordic paganism, while the quirky hipster girls become wiccans. It is a lot cooler imo than mainstream Christianity. The idea of Odin, and some of the Nordic ruins looks more appealing than Jesus and the cross. Then you Eastern Europeans and paganism. That seems a bit more serious, but just a way to legitimize neo nazi beliefs.
>The Japanese win the battle of midway, how does the pacific theatre unfold?
>Theodosius doesn't die in the battle of Frigidus and Alaric still defects. Is Rome still sacked?
>The French send 3,000 riflemen to reinforce the shogunate at the battle of edo in 1868
>Iraq decides to not chlorine bomb kurds or invade kuwait and fabricates claims to persain clay
What happens in each war?
>>383335
>>The Japanese win the battle of midway, how does the pacific theatre unfold?
the industrial output of the united states remains unchanged, meaning they churn out planes and boats at a rate that cannot be countered by japan by any means, and japan is defeated a few months later
>>383337
>plague bomb california
>bomb the guada canal
>diplomacy with south america
gg
>>383342
You mean japanese diplomacy with South America?