Find a flaw
>>3169666
>tfw actually like Lindybeige
He's really entertaining, but his stuff especially on modern military history is full of errors. His videos are nonetheless interesting.
>>3169666
Balding and manchildlike. What's not to love??
Napoleon was actually a Great Man
> kept France afloat while it was a war with multiples enemies
>ended the Terror, brought back stability
>ended last traces of feudalism and spread civil code
Can we analize Tantra from a historical perspective and its possible relation with other cults?
According to White in the Kiss of the Yogini and others it seems that what we know today as Tantra came from native pre IE cults around "witches" who did rituals in cemeteries and caves involving the consumption of menstrual blood and semen to get powers and that eventually some hindus and buddhists were admited on them developing latter a "lite" version of Tantra where explicit sexual practices were turned into metaphors and the "magic" as a way to achieve liberation (this not being the original purpose).
The language and practices of Tantras are similar to voodoo and european witchery (the latter also asociated to women, midnight and cemeteries and also persecuted by the church like the yoginis were persecuted by Brahmins). There's even mention that the dakinis/yoginis fly on sticks, which reminds of the medieval witch and the broom (possibly a stick used for sexual stimulation to reach mental states)
Are those similarities proof of a very ancient common cult that was latter replaced in different parts of the world?
Or the similarities are due to the shock factor, used as a means to "hack" the brain and break social restrictions in any case?
What do you think?
>>3162324
>(possibly a stick used for sexual stimulation to reach mental states)
actually, the stick/broom in europe was most likely used to vaginally apply an ointment with psychoactive ingredients. It is absorbed fast and efficient and sends the consumer "go flying"
Wouldn’t surprise me that they were doing something similar in a early tantra cult.
>>3162392
That was what I was aiming at, forgot about the psychodelic stuff, makes even more sense.
Some practices by yogis even today use the consumption of cannabis and othet hallucinogenous stuff to reach "deeper states". Probably also to power up the visualizations
>>3162324
why is it presumed to be pre-ie? Also, hindu tantr doesn't interpret sexual practices as metaphors, or magic as only a way to liberation
Cold War should have gone hot because that would root out the human degeneracy and only the strongest would survive and we would rise again stronger and more powerful instead of the weak betas that we are now
I think what you meant to title this thread was "ITT: autistic opinions"
>>3182522
t. weak beta
Mutually assured destruction would've killed everybody, you dumb shit. Go to fucking school before you post here.
Why was Israel so successful in this war?
>>3182366
Arabs a shit. A shit.
>>3182366
Arabs had inferior training, stupid generals. they had the perfect chance to destroy the jews and convert them to islam but they failed.
>preemptive strike
>better trained
>better equipped
>better planning
And if the Arabs are to be believed
>Arabs weren't actually ready or willing to fight as it was just a show of force
But the most important factor is water. The Israelis gave their troops ample supply of water whilst the Arabs did not witch translated into a much more effective fighting force.
What the fuck were they thinking?
>>3182211
oil
>>3182220
This. The oilfields at Baku, specifically.
Fun fact: The allies were preparing to bomb those oilfields, but had to abandon this plan when Hitler invaded France.
>>3182211
>The defenses up around Moscow are too tough to easily overcome, maybe even to overcome at all.
>We would like to chew up the Soviet armies, and that would be easier where they're thinner and where the terrain is less woody.
>Also, we're seriously short on oil, especially given how much it costs to transport stuff from Romania (where we do most of our drilling and refining) to the front.
>We need a new source.
>Well, we're not *that* far from the Caucasus, and taking that would both solve our own oil problems, and severely fuck up the Soviets if we can get to Baku and seize it.
>Of course, we're going to have to do something about the threatened counterattack across the Volga, so we'll need to hamper them, shorten our lines as much as possible.
That was the general idea, in any event.
>Hollywood film about historical Africa
>main characters are played by Odubele Kabubo, Babatunde Kanuwate and Olawale Ikande
>everyone speaks with a subtitled local African language
>carefully researched and consulted with a team of African history experts in order to maintain accuracy
>Hollywood film about historical Russia
>main characters played by Tom Hanks, Gary Oldman, Donald Sutherland and Salma Hayek
>everyone speaks English with a faux thick potato accent
>random references to vodka, ushankas and bears on unicycles every 5 minutes
Which films are these?
>white people are oppressed by movies :(
>>3182254
>russians
>white
Um, sweetie..
>"Philosophy is just opinions and food for thought, that's why all philosophers don't agree with each other and often express different viewpoints."
How old were you when you grew out of philosophy?
That quotation is philosophy itself.
>>3182022
no, its just thinking. there is a reason why not all thoughts are philosophical.
>>3182022
/thread
Isnt it funny a lot of saints are just representations of pagan gods and demigods?
For example St.George is build upon the image of Medaur, illyrian and Thracian god
Pic rel is an artifact before 30 AD
>>3181909
Isn't it funny that the Mesoamerican civilization was started by Africans?
For example one of the Olmec heads is looks to me like an African and therefore is.
>>3181909
Isn't it funny that the Ancient Egyptians were actually black Africans?
For example one of the pharaohs looks kind of like an African if we take a picture with certain shading.
>>3181927
He's right tho
The posture, the spear, even the celebration day is the same
Your comparison is retarded
how can society survive to declining aging population?
serious question.
I'm afraid we'll see the collapse of all countries economies this century.
Chattel: either synthetic or organic.
Just like every other time in history.
>boo hoo the world is overpopulated and we're all gonna run out of water and die
>boo hoo everyone is too old and birth rates are dropping we're all gonna shrivel up and die
a religion that allows euthanasia
Realistically speaking, how many westerners are being illegally detained in North Korea?
>>3181592
>Illegally.
That word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
less than in Thailand or Malasia for sure
>>3181606
Well, there is the occasional kidnapping, mostly from Japan and South Korea. So maybe a few. But those are mostly targeted at Japs.
Is it true before the 1800s no one viewed blacks as a different species?
Just saying, if I was a religious invader in 900AD, or whatever, and I encountered blacks for the first time, I would probably not consider them to be in the image of God. I always wonder how those dudes reacted to them at the time.
>>3181689
According to Democrats the ancients had no reaction to seeing black people. They viewed black skin as just another random physical trait like eye color. They were supposedly more concerned with "culture" than physical traits. Yeah. People actually believe that.
>>3181569
Nah, Egyptian and Greek missionaries definitely considered subsaharan Nubians and Ethiopians to be fully human and converted them. And the Portuguese did too.
>Wake up tmrw
>Its 326 BC
>You're Alexander the Great
What do you do?
succ Hephaestion dicc
>>3181518
Get some bug spray
Have mindblowing sex with my best bro Hephaestion
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>phoneposting THIS blatantly
repulsive
>>3181470
There were minor fortifications further north, but building the Maginot across the Belgium border would have been seen as just abandoning Belgium for one thing, and quite rightly so- and building it inside of Belgium would essentially just confirm to the Nazis that you were expecting/wanted a scrap.
One major purpose for the Maginot besides was simply just to protect Alsace Lorraine, which despite being on the border contained much of France's heavy industry and resources.
>>3181470
Belgium didnt allow France to continue the line on their shared border
Where did he go wrong?
July 29, 1883
>captcha: clear dresden
Leaving the Socialists to become a F*scist.
>>3181446
Letting the Anchluss happen. It would've probably have been better if Italy declared war on Germany over Austria at that point in history. There's a good chance other countries like France and Poland would've joined in against Germany and the Italian military isn't as meager compared to the Wehrmacht at this point.
hi frens
Hi Charlie. Did you eat your vegetables today
>>3181203
He isn't a cannibal.
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