Just your daily reminder that the Roman empire ended in 1923
>implying
>>359571
>>359492
>>359571
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What has Korea ever done for history other than K-Pop, the worst disastrous Communist dictatorship ever and the Vengeance trilogy?
>>359470
worst Communist dictatorship*
>>359470
>not using an Oxford Comma
Degenerates.
That scene in Oldboy where he fights all those dudes with a hammer in the hallway
Was the War in the Vendee genocide /his/?
Was the true goal of the French Revolution to destroy the Catholic Church in France?
It started as a reformation of the centuries old privileges of the few, and became a revolution when the radicals took charge.
Other than during the Cuban Missile Crisis, what times in history was there a serious threat of nuclear war?
One time in like the 80's I think NATO was doing a preemptive strike exercise and didn't tell Moscow. Long story short, humanity all most died for no fucking reason.
>>359474
>Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov (Russian: Cтaниcлáв Eвгpáфoвич Пeтpóв; born 1939 in Odessa, Ukraine[1]) is a retired lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces. On September 26, 1983, just three weeks after the Soviet military had shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, Petrov was the duty officer at the command center for the Oko nuclear early-warning system when the system reported that a missile, followed by another one and then up to five more, were being launched from the United States. Petrov judged the report to be a false alarm,[2] and his decision is credited with having prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its NATO allies that could have resulted in large-scale nuclear war. Investigation later confirmed that the satellite warning system had indeed malfunctioned.[3]
The Norwegian rocket incident, also known as the Black Brant scare, occurred on January 25, 1995, when a team of Norwegian and American scientists launched a Black Brant XII four-stage sounding rocket from the Andoya Rocket Range off the northwestern coast of Norway. The rocket, which carried scientific equipment to study the aurora borealis over Svalbard, flew on a high northbound trajectory, which included an air corridor that stretches from Minuteman III nuclear missile silos in North Dakota, all the way to the Russian capital city of Moscow.[1]
>During its flight, the rocket eventually reached an altitude of 1,453 kilometers (903 mi), resembling a U.S. Navy submarine-launched Trident missile. As a result, fearing a high altitude nuclear attack that could blind Russian radar, Russian nuclear forces were put on high alert, and the nuclear weapons command suitcase was brought to Russian president Boris Yeltsin,[1][2] who then had to decide whether or not to launch a retaliatory nuclear strike against the United States.[1][2][3]
What does /his/ think of Kemalism?
>>359334
gay jew proxy
>>359334
Unfortunately did not manage to modernise Islam.
Good ideology, good initial execution, fell apart due to how zealous MENA Muslims are.
>>359334
It's like Fascism, but with more elections.
Could you have seriously been this patrician while surrounded by plebs, being filmed by cameras, and under pressure to recite from memory?
Admit it, no matter what you think of P Hitch, he did us proud in this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHoAQW_DBI4
>>359136
His major belief is, and always has been, his own self-importance.
>>359136
He's not wrong, and consciousness of one's national cultural heritage beyond knowing when we last won the world cup is important, but the fact remains that children from working class family have had no respect or curiosity for these things imbued in them.
It is easier said than done.
Morality man is one of the few worthwhile commentators we have left. I don't agree with him on everything but watching him stacked up against the smirking toddlers who've taken over is heartbreaking.
Why did they lose, again?
Weren't they the biggest, baddest guys around?
Because they were a bunch of pussies, unlike us Americans who single-handedly defeated the British Empire at its height while we were just peasants
>>359090
holy shit it's the guy who single-handedly defeated the British Empire at its height when he was just a peasant
how did you do it, man?
>>359090
5/10 someone will bite
What did she mean by this?
She meant to say
>I have autism
It's not tha complicated
>the notion that there is some sort of fundamental self or ego is such a masculinized, objectivist position
As always, feminists are gravitating towards collectivism and away from individual freedom and autonomy.
>There is no fixed, or fundamental self/identity. I think that's just resistance to change via fear of the "other", that is which is not status quo
Completely in line with Sweden's "feminist foreign policy" (doing nothing) and feminism's limp "acceptance" of terrorists into their country, because having any opinions or sense of self preservation at all is masculine and therefore evil.
>>358945
>>359262
The first part threw me off a bit. I'm not sure why she felt the need to throw in the random feminist statement. But the latter part makes a lot of sense. It seems to me she's saying that as people gain new experiences, that our horizons expand and views can change. So we're potentially in a constant state of change and therefore may not always be the same "person" depending on how you define self.
Vikings:
>never won a worthy battle (danelaw is called danelaw for a fucking reason, they were fucking Danes not Vikings.)
>got cukked by finns
>attacked Catholics
>had so called skill in trade but were never as rich as bill Gates or crassus
>>358852
Why the spam faggot?
>>358852
What crept up your arse this morning? Is this an attempt to troll Danes by claiming that they weren't Vikings?
Viking was something you did, not something you were.
Why do people like vikings? They fucking suck.
>muh epicness
fuck off to reddit you kek, they are part of the reason why catholicism was weakened
>>358830
>they are part of the reason why catholicism was weakened
Good.
I've seen dozens of threads like this, but they're always just circlejerks about how shitty the Vikings were, and nobody is ever interested in the actual answer to the question "why do people like Vikings".
>>358872
because they're bluepillers who think attacking the church is cool? It's fucking obvious.
In Christianity, is Earth considered a punishment or a gift?
>>358798
A gift.
>>358799
Please elaborate.
>>358798
A gift, along with dominion over all living things
Why is it acceptable and the expected behaviour to wank over Greek legends but spit on American legends?
>>358792
Because when Patroclus died, he stayed dead.
He didn't come back 40 years later to reveal he fucked Gwen Stacy.
>>358796
When you think about it, we keep adding and addng to these "myths", but every x amount of time we compile the parts we like the most into a shortened version (e.g. movie versions) that more easily fits into our collective memory.
Didn't ancient peoples do the same? Add lots and lots of bullshit and then people just cut it away when it became too much?
Did Romans invent the retcon?
>>358792
Are you seriously stating, that superheroes are American mythology?
>most continental philosphers were literally /r9k/-tier autists
ayy lmao, says a lot about continental philosphy
Dumb frogposter
Stfu you probably like Russell
Meanwhile, we've analytical philosophers who are so autistic they write papers arguing for their waifus being real.
http://philpapers.org/archive/SINPG
Hey /his/, regular from /sci/ here. Having made it through Uni and into the workforce, i have subsequently decided to round out my education with humanities. I was wondering if anyone here had some suggestions for good books in philosophy? I am almost entirely new to the subject, am dimly aware of Renaissance thinkers like Descartes and Kant, but am generally philosophically uneducated. Ideally, I would like to learn the subject in historical order, starting with the ancient Greeks, through the Romans and the early Christians, Avicenna and other Islamic thinkers, then Renaissance European philosophy up to the present day. However, I'm open to all suggestions, as long as it's a good read and available on kindle.
>>358753
Kant was not a renaissance thinker, family.
I'd actual recommend this:
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-ideas-of-philosophy-2nd-edition.html
Get it and listen to it while commuting to and from work.
>Renaissance thinkers like Descartes and Kant
>Renaissance European philosophy
>Renaissance
Oh boy...
How does a mensch become über?
Defiant bump.
by transcending his bestial nature
Stoic bump.