Reminder that protescucks never fought any crusade or won any war against muslims.
Even worse. They consistently allied with the Muslims against other European powers.
>>2851819
Luther never wanted this, he just wanted the Church to be reformed. And it was, so there's no need for Protestantism anymore.
>>2851825
>implying Protestantism wasn't just a power play by petty Germanic princes
Could it have worked? Given WW2 didn't happen could it and other newly created eastern european countries have succeeded.
I mean.....yes? No country last forever. If you're asking could have lasted centuries I doubt it with those borders.
>>2851757
why the Danzig corridor?
why not give the Poles, Konigsberg or Klaipeda?
So that Germany is continuous.
>>2851865
>why the Danzig corridor?
Pecause some poles were living their. No poles were really living in Konigsberg or Klaipeda. I think the whole "sea access" thing is a meme anyway though. You have plenty of countries without sea access who do fine. Hell, several of them were created by the same allies who drew up the modern borders of Poland.
Does God have to be a physical being? can he be cosmos itself for example, something which has no form.
I always see personifications of God, but is it possible that he simply does not exist in such a form, only as something fleeting and not seeable?
>>2851560
I've always felt that more ancient interpretations of "God" alluded to that, only their languages we're simpler and had no such words for cosmos or matter, I mean it seems silly to think that an omnipotent being capable of forging infinity as we know it would be sentient as we are, or even give a shit for that matter. Can any anons, who are well versed in ancient theology, give any examples of people(s) or civilisations of whom believed this about their respective diety? That it encompasses all things and isn't necessarily a living and thinking being as we are?
agnostic naturalistic deism
>>2851615
I too would like to know
What was the reasoning for the African American conversions to Islam in the 20th Century? I know that the Nation of Islam and notable members like Malcolm X led the charge for the widespread conversion, but why? At maximum, only 30% of the African American slaves brought to the Americas would have been Muslim. If the movement and conversion was about getting in touch with the culture's African roots, wouldn't it have made more sense to adhere to traditional African religious practices (or even Santeria, a mix of Catholicism and traditional African religions) rather than Islam?
I'm trying to activate the almonds on this one /his/, but I can't figure it out.
They wanted to set themselves apart from the white oppressor, but still believed in Jesus and didn't want to be pagans
>>2851581
this, a reaction to white hegemony
>>2851542
WE WUZ SCIENTISTS
ITT: civilizations that are past their prime
>>2850981
The United States
Western Europe
Japan
Russia
>>2850981
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/05/22/europe-birthplace-mankind-not-africa-scientists-find/
Turns out that Greece was the birthplace of Mankind and Western Civilization.
Feel like scoring a hattrick Hellenes?
>>2850600
It is the birthplace of Western civilization but not because some irrelevant hominid lived around there 7 million years ago, glorified apes don't have civilizations.
I know that you're not as dumb as you pretend to be by typing such a retarded title, but you never know
>>2850600
can you /pol/tards please fuck off with your low-effort posts
There have been literally thousands of groups of hominids that have existed in the past 7 million years. literally no way to tell which one we're a direct descendant of.
Homo-sapiens however did not begin to exist until around 200,000 years ago.
This chart's bullshit, yes, but what would a more accurate chart(s?) look like?
>>2850108
The funny thing about the chart:
If christianity held us back so much, how comes the non-christian parts of the world weren't ahead of us?
Was it coincidence that the christian Europe was the one to give birth to Enlightenment and industrial revolution?
>>2850108
Well "science" didn't really exist before the 1700s. Technology advanced mostly by people just trying out random shit and going with what worked, there was no scientific method or organized research.
And until the mid 19th century science was the domain of rich guys with too much free time dicking around for the sake of prestige. Sometimes a ruler would patronize them, sometimes they financed themselves. It was in the 19th century that science became a field actively pursued by various states, because it was only then that it began actually contributing towards technology rather than discovering interesting but practically useless facts.
So I would say a basically flat line up until 1850, and large growth after. Of course if you're talking about TECHNOLOGICAL advancement it'd look very different.
>>2850131
>Europe in dark ages for a thousand years
>finally revive our old culture
>arrive in other parts of the world
>still in stone age
Why do we have to do everything?
>>2850070
He was Albanian, that a mayor problem in its own right.
communism
More like Bunker Hoxha lol
I'm interested in Italy's performance and strategy in North Africa during WW2, can anyone here recommend me some books or sources?
>>2850026
>Italian military performance in one of the world wars
You should already have the answer
>>2850026
https://www.amazon.com/Path-Victory-Mediterranean-Theater-World/dp/0374529760
It doesn't exclusively focus on the Italian performance, but it's a good book on the Mediterranean theater.
>>2850026
>Italy's performance and strategy in North Africa
bad
>colonies on all continents
>own's 20% of the worlds landmass
>responsible for countless of genocides
>mass starvation in India
>were the ones starting the war
yet somehow Germany is the evil empire wanting to take over the world, Really makes you think.
>>2848337
It's where the 'history is written by the victors' meme is truest.
>nazis complaining about war crimes and saying the allies started the war
>>2848358
Well if count USSR as part of the same group as western allies then both sides were equal as both Germany and USSR started WWII.
But I don't do that. The Soviets had their own plans separate from Great Britain/US and never fought a battle together and joined sides with liberal democracies because they had the common enemy.
Name a better Aircraft Designer/Aeronautical Engineer that expanded aircraft technology/warfare, you can't.
There's room for two at the top.
>>2848080
Goddard
If it wasn't for this guy (and Denys Overholser and Pyotr Ufimtsev), the Americans might not have had the upper hand in aerial supremacy for the past 30 years.
>Nice (conquered by France in 1860)
>South Tirol (conquered by Italy in 1918)
>Alsace-Lorraine (conquered by France in 1945)
and others
How is it possible that even though modern nations are supposed to be ethnic, they are still based on political conquest? How is it possible that none of these territories had a referendum post-1950 about joining their ethnic motherland?
>>2847600
France doesn't (officially) base its nationalism on being ethnically French; in fact it doesn't even include ethnicity in its own censuses.
Of course this isn't completely the case in reality, but to the French government, officially, Nice or Alsace-Lorraine "re-joining" their ethnic brothers across the border would be like Mexico claiming the American Southwest because the climate is like Mexico; it isn't something that enters into the American view of what constitutes sovereignty and legitimacy of the state.
Corsica is Italian
Nizza is Italian.
Istria is Italian.
Ticino is Italian.
That is all.
t. Luigi
bumb
To an extent. We do love having group identity but it can manifest in a group of like minded individualist. Not just libertarians are like that, even anarchist like Stirner are similar to that
>>2847247
collectivists? No. Communitarian? Yes.
Humans are inherently social; Without a social group (complete isolation), our brains actually don't develop essential functions (learning through reproduction/mimicry, language, communication, etc) and you wouldn't even survive childhood.
>>2847247
Yes and no. Humans compete to cooperate and cooperate to compete.
Let's settle this once and for all /his/. Is Britain Northern Europe or Western Europe?
>>2847141
its in both
>>2847143
Agreed.
>>2847143
Pick one.
Physical appearance of the people, geographical location, and language family suggests Northern Europe, but heavy cultural, linguistic, and historical ties to France suggests Western Europe.
>The physician who performed his autopsy stated that his body "did not contain a single drop of blood; his heart was the size of a peppercorn; his lungs corroded; his intestines rotten and gangrenous; he had a single testicle, black as coal, and his head was full of water."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_Spain#Death
I recall reading that the autopsy was performed something along the lines of several weeks or a couple of months after his death, although I haven't been able to find the source since.
>>2846346
Sounds like a suicide to me.
>>2846352
>the autopsy was performed something along the lines of several weeks or a couple of months after his deat
The would explain it. Or Charles was a literal mutant .