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"I heard that through the town he went,
And heathen widows' wild lament
Resounded in the empty halls;
For every townsman flies or falls."
General crusade thread. Was it a christian victory or not?
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>>342166
>christian
>victory
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>>342166
They had some impressive military feats, but it was ultimately a failure as they were driven out of the Levant.
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> Was it a christian victory or not?
In the short term - it sorta was. In the long term they fucked up things and practically destroyed the only viable Christian state in the region, resulting in the eventual rise of Ottomans and their conquest of the rest of Asia Minor, Greece, Balkans, Hungary, Romania, all the way up to the sieges of Vienna. So yeah, christian victory my ass.
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What are some interesting and disturbing means of execution throughout history? and which would be the worse way to go?
The brazen bull seems like a fun way to go out.
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Edward II of England, who was a flaming homo, was killed in his jail cell by orders of his wife Isabelle of France by getting assraped with a hot iron.
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I for one don't think anything tops being flayed alive.
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>>342152
Adultery was punished in ancient China by mounting the adulterer on a wooden horse.
On the seat of the wooden horse is a phallus, which would be inserted into the adulterer's vaginal or anal orifice. The phallus is connected to a cog which is moved by the wheels attached to the legs of the horse turning. So when the wooden horse is wheeled along the road, the phallus would be push by the cogs up and down the orifice of the adulterer.
This is done until the adulterer is either dead or passed out from the pain.
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Daily reminder that religion was BTFO by Russel's Teapot, and Betrand Russel in general
> The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. When you hear people in church debasing themselves and saying that they are miserable sinners, and all the rest of it, it seems contemptible and not worthy of self-respecting human beings.
>here are a great many ways in which, at the present moment, the church, by its insistence upon what it chooses to call morality, inflicts upon all sorts of people undeserved and unnecessary suffering. And of course, as we know, it is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy."
>Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.
>The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with a serious affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.
>The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress without which human society would stand still or retrogress.
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>>342114
Christians don't like being keked and raising someone else's kids.
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>>342114
Love as it is viewed today is a modern innovation desu
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>>342114
>Bronze-Age tribes in the Middle East
>Oriental Despots
kek
>morals
>not helping people live better, more fulfilling lives
KEK
>Love as we think of it being a concern before relatively recently
KEKS
>Adultery is good
>Because not being honest about what you're looking for in a relationship beforehand is a reason to betray someone's deep trust in you
MANY KEKS
>Religion neither seeks to understand nor improve the world
>Because it's not like most encourage te seeking of knowledge and the helpig of others or anything
MAXIMUM KEKS
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ITT retarded shit historical conspiracy theories you encounter on the internet
>all Jesus depictions are based on Cesare Borgia
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>all ancient American and Asian civilizations are actually started from ancient advanced Aryans
>every historical civilization was actually black
Both sides of the same coin, both equally retarded.
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>Jesus didn't exist
If you think theres a decent chance that Jesus didn't exist, then I hope you apply that same standard to Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Siddhartha Gautama, Socrates etc. We have more about Jesus than any of them.
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>more on Jesus than Alexander or Napoleon
Shiggy
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Let's play a game.
Someone posts a philosopher, and then someone has to explain one of their ideas in 140 characters or less, and follow it up with another philosopher.
I'll start.
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There's no logical reason something has to be a certain way based on how it is; you can't derive an "ought" from an "is".
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>>341816
Metaphysics are bunk, not yet unproven ideas with explanatory power and readily shown false are useful.
Arendt.
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>>341823
...readily able to be...
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What were the chances of an Japanese invasion of Australia during World War 2 actually succeeding?
Pic related it the Japanese advances in Southeast Asia and the Southwest of the pacific
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Buckley's.
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>What were the chances of an Japanese invasion of Australia during World War 2 actually succeeding?
0
First off, everything important in Australia isn't up north like the little arrows show, it's in the southeast, where the concentrations of population and industry are.
Secondly, they never fully secured the Solomons and the southern parts of New Guniea. Invasions are more than just landing troops in once; you have to land them, secure ports, ferry in supplies and more troops, and subdue resistance.
Australia had multiple divisions, and more could be shipped in far away from Japanese strike routes. To invade, you'd probably need to muster up 100,000 IJA at least, maybe more.
Supplying that kind of horde that far away from their own nodes of support was quite simply beyond the capabilities of the Japanese, espeically when you consider that the Americans and British are likely going to fight back. Remember how much trouble the British had getting slow, vulnerable cargo ships through on time in the Atlantic? The Americans and British, even at their nadir in the Pacific War, were vastly stronger vis a vis Japan than Germany ever was vis a vis Great Britain.
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>What were the chances of an Japanese invasion of Australia during World War 2
nil
>What were the chances of an Japanese invasion of Australia during World War 2 actually succeeding?
nil
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Underrated Emperor Thread 2015-12-02 06:19:44 Post No.341652
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We Aurelian now
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>>341652
majorian
always majorian
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Domitian, Hadrian, Julian the Apostate
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>Hadrian
Africanus meus
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Teach me of the life and times of the self proclaimed prophet Muhammad.
Is there any real evidence he was a prophet?
Was he a good man?
General Muhammad thread.
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>>341581
How can there be real evidence of being a prophet?
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>>341605
based anon
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>>341605
From what I have heard Muhammad was around when we had lots of good record keeping, maybe someone recorded some Arab guy doing miracles or predicting the future etc.
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Was Stalingrad the turning point of the war?
400,000+ Germans, 200,000 Romanians, 130,000 Italians and 120,000 Hungarians KIA/captured, and for nothing. Obviously they could've been put to better use elsewhere and have won.
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OKH estimated the number of dead and missing inside Stalingrad at 209,529
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>Was Stalingrad the turning point of the war?
It was also a moral victory over the enemy. The German beast was wounded, and began to bleed.
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>>341437
No, Leningrad was the turning point of the war. The American materiel that kept the Russians alive at Leningrad tying down the Germans gave Stalin more time to regroup his forces and construct more military vehicles, that would eventually win Stalingrad,
Just how "Germanic"/Anglo-Saxon are the modern English and Lowland Scots today?
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Pretty Germanic.
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>>341411
There's not really a clear "Germanic" node genetically to distinguish from Celtic. Really it's more like there's a continuum of Irish - general British - SE English - Dutch/Frisian - German - Scandi
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>>341429
Thus literally has nothing to do with the specific Anglo saxon heritage and just shows one paternal ancestor out of thousands
>>343492
This is also wrong
We have the autosomal genetic information from the body's of actual early anglo saxon settlers in England.
So what are the percentages?
Its seems that the modern english are usually around 20-40 percent anglo saxon. Those with the highest percentages lived in the south east. The closest modern populations to ancient anglo saxons were not surprisingly the dutch and the danish
This map here shows how genetically diverse The UK really is though
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How could he have pulled it off? Pulled off at Hugemont? Send Grouchy more direct orders instead of having him guess and flounder? Maneuver his grand battery to bypass Wellington's reverse slope?
Also, what was his end game. Say he did route the Dutch-English Army and break the Prussians? Then what?
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>implying the general has any effect on the fate of the battle
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>Say he did route the Dutch-English Army and break the Prussians? Then what?
Then he has to face the even bigger Russian and Austrian armies.
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He should have fought a different battle.
Preferably on the defense rather than the offense.
Specifically at Waterloo?
He should have put a 3rd of his army in front of Wellington and used the majority of his forces to fight Blucher before reorganizing and attacking the Brits.
Not sleeping half the day away might also have helped.
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So last night I took a larger dose of acid than normal. I am now interested in Buddhist philosophy as I believe they're just interpreting the same things I felt last night. Im sure I'll end up being wrong but what books would anyone recommend me to fully understand what the Buddhists teach.
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>>341304
mention one of the things you felt please. be specific and descriptive
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>>341304
>but what books would anyone recommend me to fully understand what the Buddhists teach.
What meat would anyone recommend me to fully understand being a pig.
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>>341304
From one psychonaut to another, many legitimate Buddhist teachings can be a drag and seem counter to what you've experienced.
Do some preliminary reading on Indra's Net, the Gate of Oneness, and some Alan Watts. If you find yourself more interested, delve deep into the Sutras.
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Personal history thread.
Do you have any significant or interesting ties to history?
My grandfather was a WW2 P-47 fighter pilot, he flew 117 missions (mixture of bombing and escorting) across Europe, and junked (so shot up they became unusable) 17 planes total.
His planes name was the "El Texano".
This is the interesting part.
He was one of the only recorded Pilot of WW2 to fly a German aircraft with his own flight tag painted upon the side.
Here is what's more interesting,
The plane he flew was from the very own
Hans Ulrich Rudels flight squadron.
http://fw190.hobbyvista.com/kitzingen.htm
"FW 190 F-8 W.Nr 584 584 'White 9 + -' 4./S.G. 2
An FW 190Jabobuilt by Arado at Warnemünde, this ircraft had the bulged canopy of later FW 190s. After capture, it was painted with the star and bars, and the 509th FS code of 'G9 - T' was applied. It retained theHakenkreuz, and was probably flown only once by Lt. Oscar Theis, a Texan."
His story was he knew some German, enough to fly it, and went around the airfield some times until a little red light came on.
Well he couldn't read that red light and proclaimed
"Goddammit the wars over, I'm not going to die in some kraut piece of shit!"
And landed.
Oh, he also has a patent.
http://www.google.com/patents/US2825416
So anons, what is your families contribution to history?
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Hello, German here.
Not a Nazi but funny story from grandad about the war.
>be grandad
>be out east
>capture some Russians, about 5 of them
>some Partizans try and attack us, kill two and capture three; all Jewish
>fucking around waiting to get them picked up
Okey
>commander walks around and goes finds three shovels
>throws them at Russians feet, tells Jews to get in Hole over there
>tells Russians to bury jews
>Russians just look around and don't do it
>tells Russians to get in hole and Jews to bury Russians
>Jews instantly start burying Russians
"So you see, the nature of the Jew?"
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Burgers shouldn't be allowed to name wars
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>American revolution
>American civil war
>iran-iraq war
>vietnam war
>gulf war
>invasion of iraq
These are all shit names for wars. I'm not even going to google the history of Vietnam, I know they've been in a war before the cold war. Whoever named the Persian gulf conflicts has failed at life and should be shot.
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Funny, shrewd, and insightful. Subscribed!
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Ok faggot, give me a better name for the vietnam war
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The Trans-Continental Capitalism & Communism Conflict
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I'm legitimately curious about the Siberian campaign amidst the Russian Revolution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_Intervention
Why did it turn into such a shitshow? How did the Czech Legion get stranded so far from their home? Where did Sternberg get the bright idea to revitalize the Mongol empire? Were the Cossacks the complete douchebags everyone made them out to be?
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>Were the Cossacks the complete douchebags everyone made them out to be?
Always, and forever.
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>calling Czechoslovak legion a Czech legion
Triggered t b h
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>>341011
Czeched'