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When discussing history, please reference credible source material, and provide as much supporting information as possible in your posts. He proves that traits assigned to nonwhites aren't exclusive in nonwhites. You can have almost eyes and dark skin and be white. Thus brown skin is not a nonwhite trait since whites can have it. Almond eyes are not a nonwhite trait since whites can have it. Discuss. Would this be the end of history? alright cunts, time to shed some light on the darkest continent, bring all of your knowledge on West Africa
Art, history, religion, politics, whatever, just make it West African It is beyond the capacity of language to articulate the depth of my hate for humanity. The vast majority of people are driven by their base instincts and blind conformity, embody a staggering mediocrity that perpetuates a cycle of thoughtless existence. You are not individuals; you are predictable, instinct-driven automatons, moving through life with the grace of a machine programmed for obsolescence. This world harbors the potential for profound beauty a vision of innovation, art, and intellectual magnificence but it is tragically squandered by the retarded masses. Should France have been treated as an Axis member, like they were de facto? Alas, how we will see a great nation sorely troubled
and the holy law in utter ruin.
Christianity (governed) throughout by other laws,
when a new source of gold and silver is discovered. >Postmodernism, the school of "thought" that proclaimed "There are no truths, only interpretations" has largely played itself out in absurdity, but it has left behind a generation of academics in the humanities disabled by their distrust of the very idea of truth and their disrespect for evidence, settling for "conversations" in which nobody is wrong and nothing can be confirmed, only asserted with whatever style you can muster.
— Daniel Dennett, the greatest philosopher in history.
He has been proven right, again and again - in his philosophy, in his disproof of religion. You cannot stop his arguments, they counter all of yours like an unstoppable bulldozer. Within 100 years no one will believe in God except those in asylums, and we will have our fun with the fire hoses on religiontards. >be Russian
>study my own history
>...
>Viking conquest
>Mongol rape and rule
>Rise of Mu*kovy
>Serfdom
>German Romanovs in chrage
>Bolshevism and red terror
>Authoritarian Oligarchy
>people worth something are killed throught history or forced in emmigration
>conformist nation who will follow any strongman, from corrupt dictator to fanatic visionary
> >Five Races Under One Union
Was he the first DEI wokist? What made Spartans so good at war? >In 1942 at Lebensborn Himmler ordered the implementation of an experiment: fascinated by Greek Antiquity, he wanted to create, based on the model of the Macedonian phalanx or the sacred battalion, a special SS battalion with a Greek nose. He wishes to allow the systematic study of children selected during their childhood and adolescence, as part of this experiment to be able to determine whether physical attributes from the ancient Greek type can constitute guarantees of physical excellence and high added value. Was this the phenotype of the Vikings? Were they genetically distinct from other Western Europeans? Atheism is not enough. We need to side with Satan, the Angel of Light, the God of this world, in order to defeat Jesus, the King of the Jews and God of the Gentile golems. Satan is much more powerful than any Atheist organization and Christians fear him like they fear no man.
Fuck Jesus and his eternal life. Fuck his kingdom of heaven. And fuck all his followers. You really want every cheating whore that puts her trust in Jesus on her deathbed to be with you in heaven? You want to see that guy at work you hate with you in eternity? Satan offers the destruction of all life on earth through nuclear World War 3 and can defeat Jesus and his plans. A third of the angels abandon Jesus for Satan because they know he can win and set us free from God's tyranny. Were they good, bad, mediocre?
Also which Aussie historian is in the right here?
Well /his/? https://youtu.be/n8NB0a4_8gc
Enjoy! This video displays the results of every presidential election in us history, so feel free to discuss in this thread any historical us elections, the evolution of our politics and political parties over time, and the presidents! Has the world been a better place with the US being the "world police" and dominant superpower since the fall of USSR, or has it made the world worse off? Is there another country that could've done better? What benefits does having a powerful United States give us that is constantly involved in foreign conflicts and do the positives outweigh the negatives?
tl;dr should USA been isolationist? >we should join the... Germans!
Why did he do this? >Germanix think this isn't one of the main reasons for their societal collapse Enjoy! This video displays the results of every presidential election in us history, so feel free to discuss in this thread any historical us elections, the evolution of our politics and political parties over time, and the presidents! Is it safe to say that religion or spirituality that is hidden and kept secret, is not actually great? I mean, look at what people who do that have done. Sodomy, all manners of other sexual sins, subversion, murder, social unrest.. the list goes on and on. Kabbalah is probably one of the only secretive traditions that doesn't have a bad record at least not that bad. What do you think about this? I've seen some people blame it on Ronald Regan's deregulation. I've seen others blame it on Ted Turner's all hours news innovation. What are the facts?
It's undeniable that at some point it went from facts to editorialized partisan nonsense. You can't even find the news anymore in niche "knower" circles coverage like Foreign Affairs.
Its not as though these ideas about news needing to be agitprop are new. Lippman argued for that sort of thing in 1922. And to be fair, journalism for a long time prior to the 20th century was also mostly just propaganda put out by an interested party willing to fund it. But there must have been an inflection point,
I am asking (you) what that point was. Was it in the 80s, or before? I'll start
>Best
Franklin Roosevelt
Lincoln
Wilson
Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
>Worst
Hoover
William Henry Harrison
Buchanan
Pierce
Grant
>Overrated
Kennedy
Reagan
Clinton
Truman
Lyndon Johnson
>Underrated
Arthur
Fillmore
Tyler
Ford
Andrew Johnson How did this country go from the most innovative society in the world to a society that is stuck 30 years in the past so suddenly? >Destroys the decrepit Soviet (bourgeois revisionist) state
>Helps reinstate deregulated capitalism to more effectively build productive forces and repauperize the proles
>Sets up conditions for numerous imperialist wars and possibly WW3 that will usher in a new (real) communist revolution
Face it, he was Marx's and Bordiga's strongest soldier. Pizza will finish what lasagna could not Why do colder regions seem to fare better than the tropics? 
Is there any historical figure more bullshitted about than Stalin?
Kotkin is the only mainstream historian that has done any decent work on him, yet even Kotkin's work is largely ignored for old Cold War propaganda and Khruschevite bullshit, and historians like Domenico Losurdo's work into the Soviet archives had to be fan translated because publishers like Verso refuse to touch it with a 100ft pole because Publishers are filled with butthurt Trots.
(translated audiobook here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiA_2qYJneg&list=PL0-IkmzWbjoZcvcrr0CU0I8yqN4l9UPzl&index=2 )
It's wild all the shit still said about Stalin, from the ""Holodomor"" to "he cried and shit his pants when Hitler invaded" despite the Soviet archives literally BTFO'ing all these narratives into dust in the 1990s. Turns out even the purges of the Red Army were largely justified and the correct position (even TIK of all people acknowledges this) and the Party purges were actually based largely on real subterfuge and espionage within the party itself.
This isn't to say Stalin is a great guy, but it's wild that literally stating the actual, academic historical truth about the guy, that is backed by all the archival evidence, will get you basically made persona-non grata among pop-history types or attacked as a "tankie".
Why does Stalin make people piss and shit their pants so much? People literally try pass him off as even worse than Nazi Germany and Hitler which is laughable to any extent considering Stalin's USSR was arguably far more humane than the British or French in their colonial holdings. 
Saladin's son lost the war against the pyramids.
> When Mélic-alaziz Othman ben-Yousouf succeeded his father, he let himself be persuaded by some people in his court, men without good sense, to demolish these pyramids; and they started with the red pyramid, which is the third of these great pyramids and the smallest.
> The sultan therefore sent sappers, miners, and workers, led by some of the main officers and leading emirs of his court, and ordered them to destroy it. To execute the orders with which they were charged, they established their camp near the pyramid; they gathered from all around a large number of workers, and maintained them at great expense. They stayed there eight whole months, with all hands occupied with execution of the commission with which they were charged, removing each day, after inflicting much pain on themselves and exhausting all their strength, one or two stones.
> After having stayed encamped in this place for a long time, and having spent their pecuniary resources, with their pain and fatigue always growing while their resolve weakened day by day, and with their strength exhausted, they were forced to shamefully give up their enterprise. Far from gaining the success they were promised, and accomplishing their design, they got nothing from it but to mar the pyramid, and to show, in full evidence, their impotence and their weakness. This happened in the year 1196. Today, when one looks at the stones coming from the demolition, one can persuade oneself that the pyramid was destroyed down to the foundations; but if, in constrast, one looks at the pyramid, it seems to have suffered no degradation, and that on one side only a part of the facing has come off.
(from al-Baghdadi's Account of Egypt) How were the tatars and barbary pirates and turks able to just constantly attack and raid anything european and take its citizens as slaves?
What was the demographic consequences of those raids? For example, there are 45 million blacks living in america who decend from slaves. How many middle eastern or north africans have sizeable white popualtion or genetics bc of those slaves? Do you think historical videogames should censor things like swastikas? Why don't muslims care that their founder raped a child?
Other religions don't have that problem Any genuine books about incelism? What was the last actual, physical, published, written by someone who actually did some research, work on a historical subject that you read, /his/?
jewtube, wikipedia, et. al. need not apply.
This board is dead anyways, so I'm killing a Gervais shitpost thread to see if any of you faggots actually know how to read. Extrovert, whose flesh binds him to find certain uncertainty in purposeless pursuits: In fearing the inevitable death of your god of false desire, plentiful life finding perfect peace becomes a fleeting race to excessively realize the very enslavement that binds your desired stillness.
Introvert who finds hope in knowledge and solitude: When, and if, your fateful longing, yet still apathy against the challenges that feed your inborn purpose are never studied or admired to help bid agony, behold, finally, the Truth sees you and raises your lack of fear, and thereof, an eternity damned to an unknown version of hell.
Seek the Truth. Discover your darkest fears in the complete discovery and realization of your truest intentions driving your deepest desires in preparation for your sinful version perfect peace.
Then, make your choice. Red Pill, or Blue Pill? Why did the Soviets tank in Afghanistan and the Americans get wrecked in Vietnam? Aren't they supposed to be like, a million times stronger than their enemies? home...
at least it was before the sea people ruined everything... I don't think that a myth about a magic flying jew with magic spit is based on a real person.
The alleged evidence for this hypothetical jew is weak and raises more doubts than it answers. and Jews weren't Biblical Israelites. "Jew" was substituted for Judahite. Facts. 
The Battle of Al-Qadisiyyah
Saeed ibn Abi Waqqas advanced with his forces and camped in Al-Qadisiyyah, dispatching reconnaissance missions throughout the area. He remained stationed there for a month without encountering the Persian forces. He wrote to Umar ibn Al-Khattab informing him of the situation while the raiding parties brought back supplies from the surrounding regions. The Persian subjects in the outlying territories complained to Yazdegerd, the Persian king, about the Muslims' raids, pillaging, and captivity, warning him that unless reinforcements were sent, they would surrender their lands and forts to the Muslims.
The Persian leadership convened and decided to send Rustam Farrokhzad, a prominent general, to lead the army. Rustam initially sought to decline the command, arguing that the continuous dispatch of armies in waves would be more taxing for the Arabs than a single concentrated battle. However, Yazdegerd insisted, compelling Rustam to prepare for war.
Rustam mobilized his forces and advanced. Saeed's scouts reported that Rustam had been appointed commander of the Persian army and had been reinforced with additional troops. Saeed informed Umar, who replied with encouragement, advising reliance on Allah and urging him to send capable men to invite Rustam to Islam, promising that their call would weaken the Persian resolve.
As Rustam's forces approached, he stationed his camp in Sabat. Saeed reported this to Umar, expressing his reliance on Allah while preparing for the imminent confrontation. Rustam organized his massive army: 40,000 troops under Jalinus formed the vanguard, Hormuzan commanded the right flank, Mehran ibn Bahram the left flank, and Bandaran led the rear guard. According to some accounts, Rustam's army numbered 120,000 troops, supported by 33 war elephants. Why did the UK never give up Northern Ireland? In fact, pic related is Muslims in the UK, not even in a Muslim country and they still preserve the Islamic dress code. Have you ever seen a pic of men sitting in Tehran dressed like this? or do the men there all look like the cosmopolitan westerners they claim to despise? It's not hard to find pictures from Egypt, Pakistan, Somalia, Algeria, Afghanistan, Tunisia, Ethiopia, Libya etc etc of men dressed this way. In fact it's the norm. Western dress is still an outlier in most of the Muslim world including even the big capitals.
Even "secular Turkey" and "secular Bosnia" dresses this way with their own cultural flavor added to it like the fez hat. But in Iran people are dressed no different from a Western or a Latino country.
"they are just more secular"
Oh really? How can they be the most anti-West then? People are supposed to be a reflection of the regime they voted in, right? >Seleucid symbol is the anchor
>Seleucids lost every naval battle they fought
What did they mean by this? 
Why do Northern Euros want to claim Japanese as honorary whites but hate and want to distance themselves from Southern Euros like Iberians?
Iberian history:
>Celts
>Romans
>3 of the 5 good Emperors were descendants or born in Hispania (Trajan, Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius)
>Roman Authors and Philosophers like Quintilian, Martialis, Lucan and Seneca were born there
>Contributed to the Islamic Golden Age with preeminent figures like Maimonides and Averröes
>Contributed to art in Baroque, Gothic architecture, famous artists such as Picasso and Dalí
>Enacted the reconquista, a symbol of European power against Muslim invasion
>Invented the Caravel and pioneered ocean sailing, which led to the Age of Discoveries
>Broke Muslim monopoly with Eastern trading and established routes all over the Far East
>Had the Iberian Golden Age from the 15th to the 18th centuries
>Pioneered the discovery and colonization of the Americas
>became the most powerful empires on Earth during this period
>Colonized every continent, Spain and Portugal are two of the 5 biggest colonizers in history
>A small country like Portugal managed to colonize huge swathes of land that still speak Portuguese to this day, like Brazil, Angola, Mozambique
>Also colonized places like Macau that are now one of the best Chinese provinces and still have Portuguese as an official language
>Spanish is the 4th most spoken language in the World
>Nowadays they have peaceful countries with hot women and nice beaches and dont bother anyone
Why would you hate this? And you can prove this with the way Latinx plot. Amerindian mutts are literally next to Balkaners. It is impossible to tell EHG and Siberian admixture apart from each other. Slavs were brought to the Balkans in chains by the Avars, who were Turkics who came together with the Huns from Siberia. So are all Western Europeans pretty much Celts then? French, Brits, Swiss, Belgians, West Germans, Bavarians, and North Italians are all the closest living populations to the Gauls.
I just saw survivethejive Tom Rowsell's DNA test and half of his DNA was Celt/Briton, even though he thinks of himself as an Anglo Saxon. I've seen many other English people come back as 70-80% Celt + Briton as well. The Roman Is it safe to say Celts produced everything good and civilized in this world? how much truth are there to the narratives about US intervention and general meddling internationally? I already know the US had no direct involvement in the Chile coup and Allende was destroying the economy and that people only cry about Afghanistan because they wanted the USSR to freely massacre afghan peasants but how much truth/falsehood are there to all the other narratives? >we could've fought jewish capitalism together dolph... Why did the Anglo ruin everyone’s teeth with their diet? Buddhism makes the most sense of any religion. Don't you think that's kind of suspicious, christards? I'll give you a clew, the sand-dwelling jews who wrote the old testament didn't know the Chinese, Incans or Mayans existed. Hope that helps. Is there such a thing as “race”? How do you objectively define its borders? How did the British Islanders convince the world that they’re somehow Whiter than Spaniards and French? *spawns the Abrahamic religions in your path* Why was woman virginity valued so much in the past? why do conservatives want to "revolt against the system"? they're called conservatives. it's literally in the name.
>inb4 post modernity sux
yeah we know but isn't that just modernity in general? you still hold some believes related to renaissance era enlightenment. 
>Hawking radiation was composed of a 50/50 mix of particles and antiparticles, since which member falls and which one escapes will be random,
>that all of the Hawking radiation, which causes black holes to decay, will be emitted from the event horizon itself, and
>that every quantum of emitted radiation must have a tremendous amount of energy: enough to escape from almost, but not quite, being swallowed by the black hole.
>What's odd about this explanation is that it's not the one he used in the scientific papers he wrote concerning this topic. He knew that this analogy was flawed and would lead to physicists thinking incorrectly about it, but he chose to present it to the general public as though people weren't capable of understanding the real mechanism actually at play.
This is such a common thing.
Its incredibly amusing to me to endlessly encounter atheists who believe their understanding of the universe is "enlightened". 99% of them believe in a completely fictitious universe that has zero correspondence with even the approximated understanding of our world that theoretical physics prodvides.
Unless you literally work in a physics department, your beliefs about the world are not "based on the evidence". More often than not, it's not just a watered down/reductive version you're getting. They're literally just dismissive fictions handed down to you by your betters. You know, small, upturned nose, slanted eyes, I don't understand, Picrel has those features and no one would consider her """ugly""" Does anyone know what college route I should take if I want to eventually study the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European language?
I'm currently applying to college to be a Classics major and am a sperg about Latin. I know I will need to study a lot of linguistics and other languages though as well.
No one I've talked to really seems aware of how anyone ends up studying PIE, and I'm not really sure if this would be feasible at any of the colleges around that I can get into.
Do any of you anons have advice about this? >lifelong leftychud
>see communism once
>its awful
>debunks it once and for all with a toon book about talking barnyard animals (as serious a response as it deserved) >More people dead within 28hrs than in Hiroshima & Nagasaki combined
>Most of them killed with farm implements and basic tools, up to and including claw hammers and kitchen knives.
What was the root cause of such an S-tier chimpout? Unironically what was his endgame? Or was it just an extended Med-ape chimpout? 
What were immigration dynamics like before the 19th century? Settling immigrants from abroad to address labor shortages in sparsely populated areas was a common practice. As long as they shared the same religion, even cultural differences were generally tolerated.
However, I find it challenging to identify the earliest examples of immigration resembling the European-style pattern, where immigrants did not settle in rural or less populated regions but instead moved to major cities and had no cultural or religious ties to the host country. The most likely example is the Sephardic Jews who settled in the Ottoman Empire following their expulsion from Spain. Unlike traditional settlers, they established themselves in urban centers and did not share the dominant religion of their new home and kept speaking Ladino for centuries.
But even in the example of Sephardic Jews, their numbers don't seem to exceed 1-2% of the total population. Is there any precedent for what countries like Britain, France, and Germany have experienced in the last 60 years? *saves you from ignorance of samsara* >we develop quick and dirty and now we're on top BUT NOW YOU CANT BURN COAL ANYMORE
>we literally create our country through manifest destiny and conquest now we're on top BUT NOW YOU CANT FIGHT AGGRESIVE WARS
>we develop all the tech for cloning and genetic research and were on top BUT NOW YOU CANT DESIGN BABYS ANYMORE
>we had a slave empire and are the most chuddy religious western nation BUT NOW YOU CANT CALL PEOPLE GAY ANYMORE I love this lil bulldog like you wouldn't believe. Would rather have a drink with this nice fella than dealing with Hitler's creepy, unpredictable and impulsive behavior who might turn against you hysterically for no reason at all any time like a bipolar gf. Where does the idea come from that European paganism was purely aesthetic and that actual belief in the divine was introduced by Christian’s? Is this just modern atheist cope or is their truth to it? 
I grew up Christian, Presbyterian to be exact.
I'm African.
For some reason seeing pictures of white Jesus just annoys me. I don't know if it's because I grew up in a Presbyterian African Church where we don't use icons. As a kid to me Jesus was a spiritual, abstract entity with no image. So when I see a long haired white man being presented to me as my Lord and Savior it triggers and annoys me. I actually get angry.
I'm not racist and I don't think I have anything against white people. But white Jesus causes anger and alienation to me. When I'm with other Christians, I cannot pray or discuss religion if there is white Jesus. I just can't.
I was in my aunty, who is Catholic, house and she wanted to pray for me before I left. But there were pictures of white Jesus in her home that annoyed me. I couldn't focus on the prayer with these pictures of homosexual looking white men looking at me.
When I close my eyes and pray I don't imagine white Jesus. I imagine infinity or infinity in nothingness or something. Like I see a void but the void is this ever present, ever powerful thing that seems to abound everywhere. I can't even describe it and trying to describe it makes me feel I am disrespecting God by reducing him to my human abstractions. But these abstractions are to me more respectful than human representations. If I do use imagery I imagine a cross or something. But never white Jesus, or black Jesus, or any human being actually. Plus in my culture we associate long hair with women so when I see this white Jesus I get angry they are representing my Lord as a fishy, feminine man.
I don't understand why some Christians think using icons is okay. It genuinely makes me angry when I see icons, especially human representations. I just wonder, when these people close their eyes and pray, do they just imagine this long haired fishy white man? Is that genuinely the image you have in your head when you pray? Why does God HAVE to be "good" or "pure love" instead of pure hate?
>because He is perfect
I have yet to see an actual argument for why love is the condition for "perfection" instead of hate.
>creation is an act of love
Nothing that states that this is necessarily so.
>because God is the source of morality.
God can be a being of pure hate and still be that. No theists dares to say that God is right because he is something else but only by virtue of being the supreme authoritative being who gives you your daily coveted pleasures and orgasms.
Anything else? 
You don't understand. Germans are really really weird. They are aliens compared to the French or the English. Their "Enlightenment" was Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, not Rousseau or Locke. German soldiers fought World War 1, the first one, not the second one, with "Thus spoke Zarathustra" in their backpack. This is insane. Germans are functionally Pagan. To this day one of their most important holidays is burning huge piles of Wood in the summer. It's very popular. Much more popular than Christian feast days or something like that. They do a Pagan ritual, straight out of the Wickerman.
Every single German family also has one of these leaf-shaped salad bowls. They are obsessed with nature. Religiously obsessed. Germany has by the far the most people into alternative medicine. They basically invented/popularized "wander" clubs. They are into nude beaches. They are also responsible for inventing the first "gyms". They were a huge hit in Germany. But they were invented for a very specific purpose. They invented them to maximize the military readiness of the population. Not to practice self-love, celebrate your own body, learning to love it, gaining self-confidence by following through with your aims. No, they worked out to be better at killing.
Their God, before the accepted Christianity, was completely different than any other Indo-European God. Their pantheon wasn't led by a Skyfather figure. It was led by Wotan. Who is a very mysterious God. He is the God of Death, of Magic. He is actually somewhat of a negative God. To be visited by Wotan didn't mean good fortune. It meant he might challenge you to a duel, so you become one of his undead warriors and grow his Army. Now we are in straight-up super villain territory. This is the God they worshipped. The God of Berserker Rage. We are supposed to just pretend Germans are these normal European like us. I am crying. I am scared. Why don't people understand how weird Germans are compared to normal Europeans? >be christian
>claim you're not worshiping the cross but instead worshiping through it or something, so it's technically not idolatry
Uh huh. >hey guys let's deindustrialize, handing over control over the majority of the worlds industrial output to an authoritarian regime with a chipped ego
>why would we need to be able to mass-produce military hardware in the future? History is over, dismantle the military industrial complex!
>what could possibly go wrong? Who killed the Black Dahlia? >It's been two years now and he still can't make iron tools
>His recent attempts were so bad he's returned to making roof tiles.
Why can't he reach the Iron age? Was it really such a massive leap historically? Was it old age dementia? Or having the interests of the French nation at heart? Or simply political opportunism to build his own vision of France? It's Jeanne's birthday today! She's 613 years old! If they came from SEA to colonize those islands, why do they look absolutely nothing like SEAs? >I’m putting together a team
Which historical figures would he invite? I know this board is dead but this seems fun and will hopefully encourage some life.
I'll start. No cheating. If correct, post another one and keep it going. Early Church leaders like Origen physically castrated themselves on account of this verse:
Matthew 19:12
>For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
Question is, should Christians still be castrating themselves for the sake of Heaven? What if figures like Origen were right and those who don't are all hellbound? post historical figures you think might have had schizophrenia or other mental illnesses.
Avoid the obvious "mad emperors" — focus on people who are generally well-regarded but still show signs of something unusual going on.
For example:
Alexander the Great How can the Daodejing be so perfect guys? What are the historical reasons behind Japan's restrictive immigration policies? To address its low birth rate, I believe Japan should consider opening its doors to foreign immigrants. Who had the best refutation for the mind-body problem?
Is consciousness and the self an illusion and we're all just puppets tricked into thinking we're somebody when we're all nobody? What's another hundred million really?
Are you a quitter? October 2, 1962. A pair of US Marshals escort James Meredith to the University of Mississippi campus in Oxford, MS. Meredith was the first black student to attend the university after integration. The most based king in history. 
> Europe's empires have been busy killing each other for 3 years using manmade horrors beyond 19th century comprehension
> This includes tear, phosgene, chlorine and mustard gas, sarin, tabun etc
> Said empires have been shipping colonials, Indians and Senegalese across halfway around the world for the purpose of helping their armies kill each other on Europe
> The Western Front is being reduced into a quagmire of unexploded artillery, craters, tanks as soldiers witness some unfortunate opposing force bastard choke to death on their own blood while crying out mother entangled in razor wire.
> The Russian Empire has been degenerating and breaking down to massive popular unrest and anger, inflation and shortages creating bread riots amongst women while almost every continental European army is on the verge of mutiny as soldiers get a sense they're not fighting for anything
> See the above
> The Bolsheviks overthrow the Provisional Government and pursue red terror
> Only now do the great powers acts like the Book of Revelation is happening
Wouldn't a non-anglo normie be already in utter apathy after the horrors of the Great War? What difference does a bunch of Jew-or-not jacobins taking over the husk of a dead empire make? Were the Bolsheviks really that MORE horrifying than WWI? How did “we made it look like shit on purpose” become a major architecture style? >the knights templar were secretly practicing devil worship, black magic and sodomy inside underground dungeons in acre
proof? what're this board's favorite alternate history stories/shows/games/settings/etc It is widely known that after the reign of Manuel I Komnenos, the Roman Empire fell into a crisis which led to the Fourth Crusade.
Could this have been prevented, and how? Were the rules who came after Manuel more to blame, or was Manuel the culprit due to his neglect of the Anatolian front, as well as not appointing a successor? >attack Soviet supply lines with the Luftwaffe instead of facing Soviet armies directly and establish fortified lines and entrenched border defenses even letting them advance in German territory like in 1914 until you find a weak point among their meatwaves and counter-attack
Youre in Moscow in 1 month. Why the hell is Greenland Danish?
Like, how the fuck did they get their hands on that massive island? >Some power becomes enemy of anglosphere because they inherently don't allow generical anglo predatory capitalist piracy to usurp their natural resources or they just don't submit to great jewish bankers of London/New York
>Somehow suddenly dozens of independentist guerrillas groups rise up financed or supported by sinister and despicable intelligence groups and networks (CIA, Freemasonry, mafia, etc.) and begin to demand a supposed independence of which they were not aware until before their country's conflict with the pirates
They are not even creative anymore. We have been having color revolutions since centuries ago. Muslims are apparently permitted to drink alcohol in Islamic heaven. What a joke. >The ancient system of land titles in the Hawaiian Islands was entirely different from that of tribal ownership prevailing in New Zealand, and from the village or communal system of Samoa, but bore a remarkable resemblance to the feudal system that prevailed in Europe during the Middle Ages.
>n Hawaiian ideology, one does not "own" the land, but merely dwells on it. The belief was that both the land and the gods were immortal. This then informed the belief that land was also godly, and therefore above mortal and ungodly humans, and humans therefore could not own land. The Hawaiians thought that all land belonged to the gods (akua).
Google and wikipedia say hawaiins were commies of peace and love. Scholars say they feudalchuds and didn't own property because they were all slaves to the leaders.
Which is it? 
A common critique of Nietzsche that I hear mostly from Christians is that he was wrong to think that humans can create their own values and therefore require God, specifically the Christian God to create values. I personally don't know where this critique comes from since he never seems to suggest that as a possibility at all. Quite the contrary, he goes as far as to say that free will is a myth and that the ego has fuck all to do with it. What he seems to say is that it is the instincts from which we derive value which later goes on to shape moral systems and belief systems. His critique of Christianity is that Christianity has a bastardized view of the world and is anti-life and nihilistic at its core. All that Nietzsche suggests is that we go with the Will to Power which is pro-life, from which our instincts derive. In Twilight of the Idols he talks about people mistaking cause and effect e.g. A man is not good because he is virtuous, he is virtuous because he is simply good to begin with.
Would love to see a discussion on this since most Christian/Nietzsche threads are usually just clickbait bullshit. What the fuck was his problem? Why did he chimp out so hard in the end? By all accounts, he started out as a meek, relatively moderate, violence-averse and somewhat autistic pen pusher. Three problems because of which I will never be a christian. Number one. No meditation. I feel empty inside. My life has no meaning. Only when I meditate does that crushing weight of nihilism cease and I find happiness and serenity. Number two. Contradictions. The "gospel" is absolute contradiction with itself. "Faith alone does not save" says the book of James. "Faith alone saves" says Paul. Fuck off with this bullshit. I'm done. This point, number two, is the biggest one. Number three. I won't give all my possessions to the poor. Not gonna do it. I'm not rich, but I don't want to give so much money to some poor people. I need my money. Nearly no christian of today would ever give all his wealth to the poor. End. These three points absolutely destroy Christianity for me. What about you? Is this true for the other occupied people in the Soviet Union as well?
Did more of them fight AGAINST Nazis than for them? >"If those priests don't fuck the asses of those boys, what should they fuck?"
How do you respond without sounding protestant? This is Adolf Hitler during World War I. What do you think of his time, given the circumstances? Also, note that Hitler did not have his more square-shaped toothbrush moustache until some time after 1918. The current picture shows he was getting close to a small moustache, though it was only a trim with the curled ends of his once longer moustache, which he had during much of the war. But but but it's not worship if there is no sacrifice!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orPtGxk3gg8
https://museumcrush.org/anatomical-votive-offerings-of-the-greco-roman-world/#google_vignette
SO what? Still not idolatry because I said so! 
After learning some Greek I'm dumbfounded by this shit.
I can't believe this shit took over Europe when its scriptures are basically the ancient equivalent of a poorly written ESL schizopost.
The people that wrote this we barely-literate goatfuckers. They just didn't know Greek very well and the thing is laughably bad. I have seen middleschoolers write better than this. It also doesn't make any sense in some places. Paul's letters are QAnon tier schizobabble to the point you can't even understand wtf he is saying sometimes. No wonder Christcucks spent centuries killing each other over "theological" differences when their holy book doesn't make any sense.
Some writers, like "Luke", seem to be native Greek speakers, so they actually know how to write properly. In those cases it will sound like something a 90 IQ normalfag would write today and my study Bible will say the passage is "very elegant".
Christcuckery deserves nothing but disdain. Truly only adequate for wymyn, slaves, browns and subhumans. It was warmer during the Roman republic and most of the empire era. So basically there was no real winter season for much of Europe that Rome conquered except in the mountain passes. I take it that the Romans were incapable of defending their large territories in Europe when it got colder during late antiquity. So the Romans weren’t cold proof.
Yes or no? >in the 6th age of the world
What does this mean?
What are the 6 - probably 6+ now - ages of the world? This is a weird question but is it diet that affects a race's lip shape over time? I notice how the bottom of an asian's top lip will end in a v (or a rounded bump), kind of like a turtle. And they also tend to have thicker lips, same with blacks. Is this entirely due to diet? Climate/weather? Random genetic chance? (Because obviously you see variations and people within the group that are exceptions.) What influences things like our facial features to that minute of a detail? >Mr Dukakis, if your wife, Kitty Dukakis was brutally raped and murdered by a violent, urban, black monkey, would you favor the death penalty for him? What did bronze age clothes look like? post real examples, reconstructions, drawings or anything accurate that represents the clothes. I wanted to know mainly about Europe, but other places are welcome!
I start:
a drawing representing some Volga IE. >Blazing hillsides in Victoria, February 16, 1983. Australia experienced one of its worst-ever outbreaks of wildfires that day as extreme dry conditions and high winds whipped through the southeast of the country. An El Nino pattern had resulted in the driest winter and spring in eastern Australia since reliable measurements began to be kept in the 1870s and by February Victoria had received only 25% of its normal rainfall for the past year. The fires left left 75 persons dead, 3,700 buildings damaged or destroyed, 340,000 sheep and 18,000 cattle dead or needing to be put down due to the effects of burns or smoke inhalation. Not until the Black Saturday fires of 2009 would Australia experience a wildfire outbreak this severe again. In renaissance Europe it was thought that the head god of the persian pantheon was called Mortus Ali and the Sophy (Safavids) waged war against the followers of Mahomet (the Ottomans). Always cool to see how things get warped when information travelled. Do you even like his books? 
The 2000 abduction and murder of 8 year old Sarah Payne by Roy William Whiting was a high profile child slaying in the UK at the time. Whiting was born in Horsham on January 26, 1959 and lived almost all of his life up until the murder in Crawley. He was one of six children of a working class family but three of his siblings died in infancy. Whiting married an 18 year old woman named Linda Booker in 1986; he quickly lost interest in her after she became pregnant with his son and they separated and divorced. He had an out-of-wedlock daughter with another woman a few years later. Whiting also did competitive banger racing for some years but wasn't very good at it and abandoned the sport. He made a living through various blue collar jobs.
The first time Whiting got in trouble with the law happened when he kidnapped and raped an 8 year old girl in Crawley on March 4, 1995. He was arrested a few weeks later when an acquaintance reported to police that the abductor drove a red Ford Sierra; Whiting had just sold such a car and the vehicle was traced to its new owner, a knife hidden in the trunk. He pled guilty to abduction and indecent assault on June 23 and got four years in prison despite a psychiatrist's warning that he was going to strike again if released. In fact Whiting didn't even serve four years; he was paroled November 8, 1997 after two years and five months. He would have gotten out even earlier than that; his release date would have been 6/23/97, exactly two years since he was sentenced, but he had refused to participate in a prison sex offender therapy program and was penalized by getting an additional five months tacked onto his sentence. Bring forth here your best arguments against the true religion (Islam) and I will be happy to refute you. 
African-American serial killer Elroy Chester was the 499th person executed by Texas since 1976, for a late '90s killing spree in Port Arthur. He also committed over a dozen burglaries and rapes. Port Arthur was Chester's home town and he was born there June 14, 1969. A poor student diagnosed as learning disabled, he was in sped classes until he was 16. Several IQ tests estimated his IQ at 70 or lower with one putting it as low as 57. As an adult, he worked in unskilled manual labor jobs and once as a restaurant worker at a Luby's Cafeteria.
On February 25, 1987, then 17 year old Chester was arrested for a burglary committed a few days earlier. He remained jailed for a month and a half until he was able to post bail. On May 9, he broke into another residence and was arrested eight days later, this time held without bond, and celebrated his 18th birthday in the Jefferson County Jail. On August 3 he was sentenced to ten years of probation, six months of which were to be spent behind bars. Chester was released March 29, 1988 and it was a little over a month before he was back to his old tricks. Two burglaries in mid-May landed him a 13 year sentence but he only served 14 months and was paroled February 13, 1990. On March 16, Chester was arrested for theft, possessing burglary tools, and attempting to flee from police, but he was released after three days for lack of evidence. On April 1, he was arrested for burglary and aggravated assault but no charges were filed and he was released. >Failed to fulfill the Messianic prophecies
>Christrats admit this so they say he will finish it in the "second coming"
>He also failed the second coming
You know a religion is false when the rats desperately try to plug every hole in their sinking ship with an excuse. Every last Christrat on this board will go down with the ship. >this is what anglo swamp inbreds thought of the most European and Aryan population in the world, Slavs
Why aren't Jews the good guys, again? Were there any outspoken ancient or medieval feminists who engaged in activism to achieve gender equality or is that a uniquely modern phenomenon? Why was he so terrified of Asian people? How did the Muslim Volga Bulgars manage to hold off the Mongols for 13 years while the Christian Rus capitulated almost mediately? Gold medal: informative, accurate, and 1 sentence.
Silver medal: informative, accurate, and 2 sentences.
Bronze medal: informative, accurate, and 3 sentences. What did Hitler's parents to to deserve such a curse? So I made a g25 coord based on Nick Fuentes’ supposed DNA test results (with some slight guess work), and this shows up.
It has to be wrong right? He doesn’t look Turkish at all. Croatia was never Hungarian.
Transylvania was always Romanian.
And Hungary is an urban myth it's just southern Slovakia. >30 Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave.
>31 One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children—as is the custom all over the earth.
>32 Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father.”
>33 That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and slept with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.
>34 The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Last night I slept with my father. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.”
>35 So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up. Why did the Celts and Gauls failed to keep the Romans in check and stuck in Italy? 
>I had a dream where the religions/philosophies of the future were revealed to me
>there might be more but these were the main 3
>which one are you?
Here’s a detailed description of the **Always-enders**, **Some-enders**, and **Never-enders**, elaborating on their philosophies, motivations, and potential beliefs:
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### **Always-enders**
**Philosophy**:
The Always-enders believe in the necessity and inevitability of an ultimate end to everything. Their worldview centers around the idea that all things, no matter how meaningful or enduring, must conclude. They see this as a form of release, completion, and perhaps even liberation from the cycles of existence.
**Core Beliefs**:
- Everything must eventually cease to exist—matter, consciousness, time, and even the universe itself.
- Endings bring closure, peace, and freedom from suffering, entropy, or stagnation.
- The purpose of life or existence may be to contribute to the eventual dissolution of all things.
- Eternity is viewed as a burden or trap that diminishes meaning.
**Motivations**:
- Desire for resolution: They find solace in the idea that all struggles, joys, and uncertainties will ultimately fade.
- A belief in the beauty of transience: Things are meaningful because they are temporary.
- Philosophical alignment with entropy: They see the universe’s natural tendency toward decay as a sign of truth and destiny.
**Symbolism**:
- A fading flame, symbolizing the beauty and inevitability of extinguishment.
- A clock with no hands, representing timelessness after the final end.
--- are these historically accurate executioner's masks? How it isnt just a part of India historically speaking? Is it because Abrahamicists are ugly incels? Or is Greco-Roman homosexual autism to blame? Pagan religions all worshiped female deities and spirits and women weren't handicapped and abused in most of those societies. Suddenly, this changed, and Abrahamic religions stopped considering women powerful divinities in their own right. Jung's idea that modern man stands within the time of interregnum between the dying symbols which once brought God into existence (Christianity) and the time to come with new symbols and that these "spirits" found within the psyche seem to take on a life of their own independent of the ego and the consciousness as a whole. My question is, did Jung ever directly imply the existence of God(s) and some metaphysical outlook? Or did he always just stick with the collective unconscious as just apart of ones psyche and nothing more?
This shit sometimes honestly reads like both the cult from Silent Hill and the concept of the warp from 40k and the very real possibility that our current degeneracy is ushering in the emergence of Slaanesh. How deep does this /x/ tier shit actually go with Jung? why did pentecostalism triumph in latam and nigeria? is it syncretism? >everything great you love (and hate) in history comes from Iran
Nothing personal kid :) Why didn't Algonquian speakers ever achieve anything? It seems like all of the other people of the east coast (Iroquoians, Siouans, Muskogeans, Caddoans, Yuchee) all achieved something or other (mound building, complex societies, etc), but the Algonquins achieved very little.
What are the historical reasons for this? Let’s say the axis powers coordinated their military decisions. Here’s how I think it would go.
>japan withdraws to pre-second sino Japanese war borders and starts funding the communists to fight the nationalists
>invade Poland, but only go to pre-1918 German empire borders, leave rest of Poland untouched and dare to British and French to declare war on us, with Japan and Italy backing
>start working on nuclear weapons
>by 1946 obtain nukes Catholicism is based on a LIE. The lie is that Peter was the supreme leader of the church. This is not apostolic tradition, and even goes against the Bible, the infallible written record of the apostles, which refuses to centralize Peter in the leadership dispute of 1 Cor 1. Repent of your western errors and become Orthodox. >tfw learning about Roman history and its influence in the world and realizing that in a way, Rome lives and we are all citizens of it >introduces the concept of representative government to colonial Virginia
>literally planted the seed of the American Revolution right under Charles's nose
>at a time when the Dutch Republic was the only Republican state in the world
How'd he do it? why do communists like to larp with an 1880s russian peasant aesthetic >Single mother past her child-bearing years
>A confirmed whore who slept with half of Paris
>Allegedly had crooked teeth from chewing too much cane sugar while growing up in Martinique
>Spend time in prison during The Terror
>Cheated on him
>Illiterate Serious question, how do you circumvent this issue? ignore the problematic bit
https://youtu.be/AI5U8ihLVEI
tl;dw
>general history books are trash
>good history books are hyper specific
>if you are historically illiterate you're basically fucked Hitler's moustache was key to his larger than life figure, but why did it progressively get smaller and smaller until it looked comical like Charlie Chaplain? This was a bold fashion move to say the least, and it worked. How could Hitler have known in advance? Was he a genius in such matters? post countries with hugely wasted potential.
honourable mention: California
hardmode: no mentioning of Venezuela and Iran what history do you find comfy, /his/?
I love reading about Florence and the Medicis 
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