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"/his/ - History & Humanities" is 4chan's board for discussing and debating history.

Welcome to /his/ - History & Humanities
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This board is dedicated to the discussion of history and the other humanities such as philosophy, religion, law, classical artwork, archeology, anthropology, ancient languages, etc. Please use /lit/ for discussions of literature. Threads should be about specific topics, and the creation of "general" threads is discouraged.

For the purpose of determining what is history, please do not start threads about events taking place less than 25 years ago. Historical discussions should be focused on past events, and not their contemporary consequences. Discussion of modern politics, current events, popular culture, or other non-historical topics should be posted elsewhere. General discussions about international culture should go on /int/.

/his/ is not /pol/, and Global Rule #3 is in effect. Do not try to treat this board as /pol/ with dates. Blatant racism and trolling will not be tolerated, and a high level of discourse is expected. History can be examined from many different conflicting viewpoints; please treat other posters with respect and address the content of their post instead of attacking their character.

When discussing history, please reference credible source material, and provide as much supporting information as possible in your posts.
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The "your ancestors were peasants and slaves" narrative is as retarded and historically illiterate as "the average ancient/medieval person died in their 30's". At least in Europe, basically everyone can trace their ancestry to nobility and royalty, nearly all Europeans alive today are a descendant of Charlemagne. Everyone trying to push the "slave ancestor" narrative is either acting in completely bad faith or is totally disingenuous faggot
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Was he right?
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How can anyone still defending creationism unironically?
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/his/torical humiliations
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Margaret Thatcher exiting the Great Hall of the People after Deng Xiaoping forced her to surrender all of Hong Kong
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The Mongol Empire during the reign of Möngke
RETVRN TO MÖNGKE
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We still don't know how Bronze Age Civilizations got the tin they needed to make bronze.
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When you read about the 60s 70s etc young people were really mobile, they could drive to another city and have a job and place in a week or so. Why dont we see this anymore?
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America's birthday is in two days
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A few quick facts you ought to know.

>the American colonies did not have "taxation without representation", they were offered seats in Parliament and refused
>George III was the furthest thing from the Hitler-esque figure he was made out to be, just a harmless bloke who liked shagging his potato-faced German wife
>the Boston Massacre happened when a rioting mob threw rocks at soldiers and John Adams actually defended some of the latter in court and got them exonerated
>none of the taxes in question were unreasonable and all were necessary to recoup the costs of the world war that George Washington started
>It was entirely justified to retain armed soldiers on the Canadian border after 1783 in the event of American invasion
>Impressment of sailors was also yellow journalism, they were trying to catch Royal Navy deserters and no Americans were intentionally kidnapped
>the US lost most major engagements in the War of 1812, there were a few naval "victories" won by cheating when you used ships-of-the-line you passed off as frigates to pulverise sloops half their size that were manned by totally green sailors
>the burning of Washington was justified for your having burned York, Canada
>the Battle of New Orleans was meaningless and affected nothing as the war had already been ended about three weeks earlier, but it took a while for news to cross the Atlantic
>the entire war was just a minor distraction anyway because we had a real apocalpytic war to the death going on in Europe
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Why does the US treat its founding fathers like they were gods? I dont think even the best of monarchs in European history aside from antiquity got this treatment
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Why did some cultures select for big asses while others did not?
Does environment play a role? Discuss
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood."

Why didn't some people believe this? Why don't people still believe this to this day?
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Cultural appropriation
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Is it a real phenomenon, or a nothingburger? What is the line between appreciation and appropriation? Are all forms of cultural appropriation inevitable? I notice that it's mainly whites and Koreans (mainly K-pop stars) who get scrutiny for "cultural appropriation" of black American culture, whereas the Japanese get praise. Is it cultural appropriation when black Americans larp as black Africans, or is it okay when they do it? What are some historical instances of cultural appropriation vs appreciation? Is it okay to admire some aspects of a culture while disregarding other aspects of the same culture/society?
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does ur country have cowboys?
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To what extent can the political divide in Australia be mapped onto conflict between the Anglo-Anglican magistrates, Scottish Presbyterians working the land, and Irish Catholics fulfilling the duty of industrial labor? United Australia Party representing the first, Country party representing the second, and Labor representing the third?
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The Treaty of Versailles wasn't any worse than the terms Germany planned to impose on France, and what they actually did impose on Russia.
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1950s China wasn't bad
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>land reforms were decently successful
>intellectuals, artists, scientists were valued
>fashion was still diverse and western/traditional mixed
>industrial output increased by 133% during the first 5 year plan
>crime, drug addition, and foreign exploitation were completely wiped out within a couple years

So what went wrong starting in 1958 onwards? Should Mao have died in 1957?
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Is he the GOAT? ... in my opintion.... YES!
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Saul the Pharisee
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Here lies Paul the Apostle in his tomb, still waiting for Jesus to return with a trumpet call and resurrect him after 2,000 years. Sad.
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Just a few more miles and they could’ve ended communism for good.
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Albanians can be modelled as mostly Illyrian. Albanians have majority native Balkan y-chromosomes (only gegs though). Why aren’t more people here interested in this?
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If you look at it seriously Greek/Roman mythology is literally the most boring and retarded religion ever even fucking Islam is cooler. Not a Trad btw but any one of Christianity's goofy sects is also way more interesting than this shit which is why they replaced the Greek/Roman gods. There's no substance there's nothing interesting unlike say Zoroastrianism or Buddhism it's just pure 80 IQ slop with naked marble statues that sure look pretty. I also don't have ethnonationalist reasons to do Greek/Roman apologia since my ancestors are from Northern Europe and I'm not into wewuzzery.
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Was this wording really necessary?
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You see “stereotypical Jewish features” (big nose, curly hair, strong profile, etc.) all the time. But is that actually ancient Israelite DNA shining through, or just a weird Ashkenazi founder effect from being stuck in shtetls for centuries?

Mizrahi Jews often just look like regular Middle Easterners. Sephardim can be all over the place. Ashkenazis seem to have the strongest “recognizable” features but are also the most inbred historically.

So did ancient Israelites actually have that look, or would they just have been generic Levantines indistinguishable from Phoenicians or Syrians?

Also, modern Jewish women with those features can be ridiculously hot in a biblical matriarch kinda way. Anyone got reconstructions, articles, or even modern pics that make a good case for what ancient Judeans really looked like?
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One is YHWH of Samaria and the other YHWH of Teman. Samaria, a Syrian-Canaanite city, traded metals with Teman, an Arab city of Edom. YHWH is an Arab god of Edom, the Bible itself says that he came from Mount Seir.
It is likely that Samaria adopted YHWH from Edom as a secondary god

The goddess in the back is Ashera

El and YHWH were represented as oxen

Canaa was an Egyptian domain from the XVIII dinasty until the 9th century BC, when Sheshonk invaded Israel. Of course there would be cultural influences.

The first time the name YHW appears is on an Egyptian stele from the XVIII dinasty (1350bC) speaking of the Shasu nomads. Shasu means bandits, nomads, thieves. Probably Arab bandits who worshipped this god YHW.

There was a Jewish community on the island of Elephantine in the Nile River
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I am conducting a brief, informal study. You can help by answering two very simple questions:

1. Do you believe humans evolved from fish? Yes or no.
2. Do you watch tranny porn? Yes or no.

Do please note that if you are too retarded to answer with simple "yes" and "no" type answers, both answers will be counted as a yes. Thanks!
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Are you Machiavellian? Statistically, you're not. But let's pretend.

Most people are too emotional to play the game, too mentally handicapped to see the board, or both. This server has been made for the exception. Are you one of us?

discord
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who were the most capable soldiers American troops have faced other than Germans in WW2?
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How did it become glorious for commanders to kill themselves in private, in the face of certain defeat? If they were ready to die, would it not be even more honorable to die in combat at the hands of the enemy?
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Why are they the permanent members of the UN Security Council?
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Nanking Incident Discussion Thread
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Thread dedicated to the discussion of the civil unrest and disease in Nanking that led to the deaths of 50,000 civilians.
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Were the Japanese really zealous suicidal soldiers?
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I feel like this is something that people who both do and don't like the Japanese would choose to believe. Americans would want to uphold this image as a way of glazing the japs and making them feel like they are a respected former enemy. Butthurt changs might choose to believe it because they want to dehumanize their enemies.

But I find it hard to believe that some young guy plucked off of some rice field in rural Japan would be so ready to die violently. Especially when most Japanese probably didn't even know what the emperor looked like outside of grainy photographs. So am I wrong to assume that these guys were probably scared shitless and terrorized by their commanders into following reckless orders?
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learn the difference
Why does G25 does this? It more than doubles the amount of Natufian in populations. The Saudi results are completely different in qpAdm. I wish I was autistic enough to learn how qpAdm works.
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Why did one succeed while the other failed?
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Why were white slavers so much nicer compared to other slavers around the world? Why does nobody bring up how awful the Arabs were to blacks people? Or black slavers that enslaved their own?
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How did the concept of Hell evolve throughout history?
Because the Bible doesn't mention Hell that much, hardly at all. It mentions Sheol sometimes, but it's not associated with eternal hellfire. It mentions the Lake of Fire in Revelation, but it doesn't explain anything about it being a place of everlasting torment.
So was Hell just a concept invented by the Catholic church?
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How was this even possible?
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communism would be a success story today if only they lead it
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What is the deepest statement that you’ve ever read? For me:
e^(pi*i)+1=0 - I have no idea what it means, and I’m pretty sure no one else does, either, but it is the most profound thing that I have ever seen in my life.
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>singlehandedly turns monarchism into such a pathetic farce that he kills it forever
What the fuck was his problem?
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I'm not convinced the zodiac killer was one person. I think it was a fictitious construction by the SFPD
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Lebanon is as Arabic as Ireland is English.
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What have Jews actually done so wrong to make Europeans seethe about them for centuries?
Pls no meme answers like blood libel or "banking".
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why do people think the 80s was some kind of neon vaporwave purple and pink cyberpunk world when in reality everything was very brown and beige?
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Christian antisemites never made any sense to me. Even beyond just the “Jesus was Jewish” thing. It just comes off as blatant cognitive dissonance.

Often times they’ll quote some edgy verses from the Talmud which imply that goyim are subhuman cattle who deserve to be exploited. And sure, that’s bad and all. But you can find similar sentiments in the Old Testament. The entire book of Joshua is just the Israelites committing one giant ethnic cleansing campaign. God literally gives them the green light to just indiscriminately slaughter whole cities, including women and children.

But Christian antisemites (and theologically conservative Christians in general) have to contort themselves and employ their own brand of Talmudry by saying it was “based” because the Canaanites worshipped demons and or something. This is a pretty weak cope, all it amounts to is “but our God is the correct one. We’re special.” How is this any different from the ethno/religious narcissism they see in Jews?

When some Rabbi says that Arabs are subhuman cattle that should be expelled before Israel annexes the West Bank, that’s evil. But when God tells Jews to slaughter an entire city because it’s full of degenerate goyim, that’s based for some reason? How does that make sense?

Where do these people think Jews get all these bizarre theological ideas? They didn’t just appear out of nowhere. The Old Testament plays a part in it, because it directly fuels their ethnonarcissism.

This is why Christianity makes more sense when you view it as a branch of Judaism (albeit more racially/ethnically inclusive and with evangelization). Because it basically says “Actually, we’re the real Israel”. In which case I guess you have to view Ancient Israel as your spiritual predecessor, and see the conquest of Canaan not as a Jewish war, but a Christian one. But then how can you say Jews are evil if you basically believe the same dehumanizing things that they do?
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What was history's greatest mistake?
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I believe in god, as a spirit who sees and hears and knows everything. And I believe there is a spiritual illumination of the mind and heart which comes with extreme amounts of deep inner bliss and serenity. I have become steadily happier through meditation, and have been immensely happy when I used to be able to achieve trance states during meditation. I lost the ability to enter trance, but once I regain it, I will again feel that deep tranquility together with the possibility of achieving awakening from the dream of physical existence. The people who say only the physical exists are insane. The people who do not, have some sense. I believe god is ever present although he is beyond time and space. He is not here or there but within the heart shines through. I used to contemplate the idea that everyone is god. I do not believe this is true. I have contemplated it, and I have then rejected it. It is false. God can be known with the heart, but never seen, or heard, or comprehended by the intellect or the mind, for he is hidden from the senses and the mind. Silence is the language of god. When we are silent, we speak his language. When we speak, our words move through the mind but do not grasp the ultimate. Only through silence can he be known. Everyone who tries to grasp him through intellectual or reasoning abilities ultimately fails. Not even meditation can uncover him, however deep it may be. Only when we feel a deepest longing for him can we truly discover him. When we do, he smiles at us, and showers us with his divine mercy and peace. True peace comes from god. Other things may give some bliss, but ultimate bliss has only god as it's source. Worship, veneration, and the like, is appropriate to god only.
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Post historical figures/ historian / philosophers you hate that did this
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Is there any phenotype which is more associated with whiteness historically than blue eyes?
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Did Carthage really need to be destroyed?
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Battle of Gettysburg Isekai
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>your favorite anime
>the lead characters have been teleported to a field just outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the early morning hours of July 1, 1863

What changes?
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If he did despised Hitler so much why did Hindenburg in his final years sanctioned all of Hitler's controversial orders, including suppressing elected state governments and imprisoning those deemed "subversive" in Germany? Was he just tired? Did he just hate Weimar Germany more?
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Whats wrong with incest as long as family members use condoms?
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I Don’t Want Free Will
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>God can’t force you to accept him
>He wants you to have free will
Fuck that! I don’t want free will. When the potential consequence of free will is an eternity of burning and suffering with no escape, then I’d just play it safe and be a flesh robot. What good is free will when that’s the alternative? No thanks.

The current result of our “gift” of free will is that 90%+ of humans to ever walk the planet are suffering eternally in a pit of magic lava. No thanks, I’ll pass on free will. Make me an angelic flesh robot with no soul.
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As long as it is optional and no one is coerced, is the pleasure cube really immoral? If someone decides they're not interested in real life and just want to live in pleasure up until death is that really wrong? Particularly for people who may be otherwise useless (which is more relevant now that automation is going to get rid of a lot of jobs).
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Does the bible speak of relative poverty or absolute poverty?
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There are zero world religions that admonish sex with teens.
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& Humanities
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The completely historically unprecedented collapse in fertility rates are going to lead to completely new political ideologies and systems. Capitalism, Communism, Fascism, at their core all of these are ideologies of growth and expansion. None of them fit for a world with a declining population.

What sort of ideologies do you think come next?
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Has there ever been another example of a ruler reverting their nation back to paganism once it's already been Christianised?
Imagine if he didn't die... imagine if rome retvred to paganism
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Did the Germans really have any chance of winning World War II?
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How did the most conservative kingdom fall for communism?
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Curse Vishnu.
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Which philosopher has the best physiognomy?
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Historically speaking, when did yellow fever begin and why amongst whites?
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>Some here will not perish before they witness the coming of the lord
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Japan’s Jōmon = WHG?
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It's well established that the modern Japs have around 12-18% of Jōmon admixture. But who really were they, genetically wise?

Whenever this tpic comes up, the first pictures posted are the ones showing those primitive-looking dravidian/austronesian people. But it makes no sense for them to comprise a fifth of the Japanese genepool. Let’s egzamine why:

A few facts about the modern Japanese:
>they have much more facial hair than other asians
>many of them have brown eyes with much weaker epicanthic folds
> Jōmon skulls look very similar as the WHG/Yamnaya skulls
>they have comparable (maybe even higher) average IQ than the Koreans
This alone hints a European-like affinity.

The first three facts point to an European-type admixture, and the fourth basically disqualifies any austronesian/dravidian possibility (if those primitive people contributed more than 15% of the Japanese genepool, their average IQ would be in the 90s, while in reality it reaches 105).

Source:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264163184_Facial_characteristics_of_the_prehistoric_and_early-modern_inhabitants_of_the_Okinawa_Islands_in_comparison_to_the_contemporary_people_of_Honshu

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WW2 as a war of the white man against the Jews is just revisionist history from both the mainstream as well as stupid or dishonest Nazi sympathizers themselves.

The entire purpose of National Socialism and WW2 was to annex Eastern Europe to kill everyone living there and create a Pan-German Imperium full of Nordic looking colonists where Germanic people would be selectively bred over time to have more Nordic features, grow the population of these Nordic looking people until they could do the same to East Asians, and then eventually conquer the entire planet and kill everyone else to rinse and repeat the same process until nothing was left but Germanics that looked Scandinavian. The Jews were just a sidequest. Germany was still being appeased after Kristallnacht so Jewish power was clearly not the reason behind WW2.

The very first Nazi party members other than Hitler's street thugs who actually had any real money or influence were ethnic German aristocrats from the Russian Empire like Alfred Rosenberg who wanted their Slav and Balt slaves back. The Nazis also grew out of the Freikorps who fought border skirmishes with Poland and tried to hold onto German land in the east and Hitler's Mein Kampf is full of anti Slavism. You can thank Hitler starting an unwinnable war over this psychopathic ideology for the current timeline of Jewish power, Bolshevism taking over half of Europe, and decolonization.

>But one day the Russian will be bled dry, one day this pig will be stabbed; one day he will also lose his humanity, and then as always, the Slav will collapse- one only needs to keep ones nerve over the Subhuman.

- Heinrich Himmler
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Sunyata is a Buddhist philosophy that highlights the non existence of the elements of things and of the se...itivementalhealth #therapyisdopewhenyouhaveadopetherapist #positiveaffirmations #affirmations #positivepsychology #sunyata
Can Buddhist emptiness (śūnyatā) offer a way to overcome Western nihilism?
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Which mosque/islamic style would you choose if you had to pick one to integrate into a church?
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>Afraid of the Bible?
>YOU SHOULD BE
>let my cult tell you what it AKSHUALLY says and means
Why does anyone take this Alexandrian priest cult seriously?
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Is reiligion supposed to make sense?
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Is it actually true that the Visigoths were hated by most of the Iberian population, and there were even some local Christians who fought alongside the Muslims against the Visigoths?
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swami tadatmananda
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Swami T makes good videos about advaita vedanta. He has short one off lessons as well as long running lecture series that enable a deeper dive into the various concepts associated with the religion.

I haven't been able to find a buddhist equivalent. They all seem to be pretty narrow in scope and tend to offer simple dharma talks with no wider connection between each other.

Are there any buddhist youtube channels with a more scholarly, lecture series based approach? It does not matter which school or vehicle.
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I’m going to post this every day until you remember it
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The Soviet Union Killed Russia
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Not just literally like in the Red Revolution (worse than the alleged holocaust) but in spirit. Russophobes claim Russians aren't Europeans, but anyone looking at nineteenth century Russia and saying that is a fool. When they once at Orthodoxy and monarchy they now have alchoholism and gas exports. When they once colonised Alaska, they now barely have Crimea. The internation jewish bankers got their vengeance after all. It's why I've always considered Russians the greatest victims of jewry. Hitler should've known better that Russians were fellow victims, not the enemy.
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What if the steppe hypothesis was false and that R1B came from the basques and then spread eastward ?
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If you know someone is a socialist, then one question will clarify any remaining doubts you have about their particular ideology:
>When did the USSR go wrong?
Their answer tells more about them than any self-identifying descriptor. From Left SR uprising to Gorbachev, every strain of leftist has a fierce opinion on this question.
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How did Canada go from a reactionary creation for British loyalists and French Catholics to more progressive than America?
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The Middle East has been genetically homogeneous since -50,000s
Genetics and ethnicity don't mean shit compared to what people *think* they mean.
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>I will never colonise rural North America will my bros

It hurts... it's the closest humanity has ever gotten to true exploration of the unknown. We won't ever make it to the stars, so the Americas is all we had.
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What 40k faction would napoleon like the most?
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Shia or Sunni? Who is right?
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Religion and theology aside, how better or worse were peasants in the Middle East viewed and treated compared to Western Europe?
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Why did they fail to replace Byzantium? It seems like they did pretty decently and then just rolled over and died
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Mansoor Hekmat
What would he think of the current Iran?
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>Destroys Greco-Roman civilisation
>Is called "the Great"
Explain.
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Why, in spite of their sheer material superiority, did the Americans lose the Battle of Kasserine Pass?
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“The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses…” – (Letter to Eric Gutkind, 1954)
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Indo-slavic
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From a linguistic point of view, Indo-Slavic refers to the hypothesis of a linguistic relationship between the Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic branches of the Indo-European language family.
The idea is that the Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic languages did not separate directly from Proto-Indo-European, but rather from an intermediate stage called Proto-Indo-Slavic. *presumably Fatyanovo.
The hypothesis is based on lexical (vocabulary) similarities between the two branches. So, is Indo-Slavic legitimate?
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why did denisovans look way more like australian aboriginals than black africans or asian negritos?
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Is it true that Judaism came after Christianity?
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The absolute state of these christcucks claiming they built Western civilization when they literally caused the dark ages - imagine being so delusional you think your desert death cult "civilized" Europe while spending centuries destroying classical knowledge and shitting in the ruins of Roman buildings.

These historical revisionists are actually bragging about inheriting the greatest civilization on Earth and turning it into an illiterate shithole where people thought bathing was heresy. Fucking parasites spent generations burning books, murdering philosophers, and destroying art while claiming divine right to rule over peasants who couldn't read. Then their modern slaves on /pol/ try to take credit for civilization while coping about how great it was when their cult turned Europe into a disease-ridden wasteland of superstition and shit.

>destroyed the greatest empire in history
>turned classical knowledge into toilet paper
>caused centuries of civilizational collapse
>murdered anyone who could read Greek
>proudly maintained illiteracy as policy
>"We built Western civilization!"
Pure narcissistic historical revision from brainwashed slaves who think civilization is when you burn scientists for saying the Earth moves. These parasites still crying about their "contribution" to Europe while their ancestors turned Roman baths into torture chambers because cleanliness was "pagan."
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Does God exist?
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Soviet_empire_1960
Stalin the Great, ruled over the most amount of land at any single point in human history.
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Why should someone think that properties like shape, size, and motion are objective given that other properties like color, smell, taste, etc are not?
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How would history change if Jews and Judaism never existed?
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Why did not Hitler or anyone else in the NSDAP party elite ever do anything to separate the increasingly suicidal and erratic Goebbels from his children? Why would Hitler allow Goebbels to fly six aryan children, the future of the germanic race, into berlin when the red army was closing in?
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Sahara-world-most-part-Africa
Do you think any major civilizations or cities are hidden under the sand?
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GFhKPM6XUAAe-DU
Let’s hear about Judaism from Jews:

- “You used a word for non-Jews, what was it?”

- “Animal.”

“All non-Jews exist to serve the Jews.”

“When the Messiah comes, we will all have 2800 slaves.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M60FUPVtq9k
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E1H_jNBXMAoupg-
>18th century Virginians were largely illiterate, save the gentry class, and gambled excessively because they thought it was part of their mystical "fortune"
>New Englanders were overwhelmingly literate
>Virginia was populated primarily by negroes, high class English Cavaliers, and the bottom filth of England's poor who were pressed (or sold) into indentured servitude
>New Englanders came from the middle class of East Anglia
>Virginia's population didn't grow until the second half of the 18th century
>New Englands 'great migration' was over by the 1640's and solidly of yeoman, craftsmen, etc.
>Virginia's ruling class, per William Berkeley, was an inter-married cousinage of Royalists
>New Englanders built an anti-aristocracy clause into the very foundation of their colonies
Yankees have been the superior White race from the beginning. Prove me wrong
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great_depression
Why do capitalist economies fail all the time?
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Is it possible that due to thousands of years of evolutionary adaptation to a high starch-carb agricultural diet, modern humans would fare better than early farmers in the early farmers circumstances?
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Columbus
Who is praised as a good person in human history but was actually evil?
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Is Western Rite Orthodoxy legitimate Orthodoxy?
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Can someone explain "Nordicism" to me?
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Good morning I suppose
People argue over the hard problem of consciousness, but few mention it's odd locality. Why am I conscious of this specific body and not any other creature in the universe? What mechanism limits qualia to a single entity instead experiencing of all of them at the same time?
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What if Japan looked like this today?
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Persian booba
>In 540, the Persian Emperor Khosrow I managed to capture the ancient city of Antioch from the Byzantine Empire, taking the cities population as well as captured garrison soldiers prisoner.

>Rather than enslaving them, he had the cities design copied exactly before it was destroyed and the citizen population forcibly transferred to modern Iraq where he had an exact copy of Antioch built to house the Antiochans and did everything possible to meet their desires to compel them to remain.

>This city he named Wēh Antīōk Khosrow, "Khosrow's Better Antioch", or more literally, "better than Antioch, Khosrow built this"
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I asked ChatGPT to generate a historically-accurate depiction of naval warfare between the ancient Egyptians and Sea Peoples circa thirteenth century BC.

I feel that something is off but I can’t quite put my finger on it.
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Disprove Fomenko without using mainstream history
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God doesn’t hate cripples because they’re crippled. Cripples are crippled because god hates them.
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Jessie Dean Hoffman ended up in Louisiana's death chamber for the 1996 murder of an advertising agency employee. He was the 29th person the Pelican State executed since 1976. Hoffman was African-American and a Louisiana native born September 1, 1978 although his exact place of birth is unclear. He had four siblings; one brother, Charlie, was murdered in New Orleans in 1998. Hoffman fathered one child with a girlfriend. Another brother, Marvin, said that the Hoffmans spent some time during his childhood in a public housing unit in Florida. Their mother beat them with a belt and burned their fingers on a hot stove for displeasing her. Jessie still did well in school and played quarterback on his high school's football team. He graduated on time in 1996 and was already working several jobs. Following graduation, he got hired as a carpark valet in New Orleans barely three weeks before the crime that put him away for good.
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What was the most peaceful time in human history?
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Well, /his/? Can you guess what happened?
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le demiurge
What the fuck is his problem?
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How did the USSR get away with blatantly annexing sovereign nations on its borders?
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texas-1-page-map
Nooooo, fuck you Mexico, we want to be in America
*10 years later*
Yeah, we'll join you in declaring seccession from America
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Thoughts on the nation of Islam?
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What would have happened if Bayezid didn't provoke Timur and just gave him Qara Yusuf?
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>half of the catalog is christianity threads
Holy shit, might as well just rename the board to /rel/ at this point
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They tell you about the Commando Order
Cobar
But they don't tell you why it was instituted:

>On 19 August 1942, during a raid on Dieppe, a Canadian brigadier, William Southam, took a copy of the operational order ashore against explicit orders. The order was subsequently discovered on the beach by the Germans and found its way to Adolf Hitler. Among the dozens of pages of orders was an instruction to "bind prisoners". The orders were for Canadian forces participating in the raid, and not the commandos. Bodies of shot German prisoners with their hands tied were found by German forces after the battle.


Legality aside, it's common sense to me that if you fight like an irregular, you get dealt with like one. If you can't fight in uniform and in a proper line formation like everyone else, you don't get treated like they do.
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How did Indians become the best and most fiercest warriors in history?
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his catalog
If the bible is the infallible word of god why are there so many christian schisms and heresies? You can't even bring up the trinity without encountering 10 different conflicting ideas about something that's supposed to be a basic tenet of christian belief.
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According to the blackpill community
Females are attracted to violent and evil men who abuse them, even if they are ugly, they are like sado-masochists
Does this mean english girls who got kidnapped and raped by paki grooming gang where somehow aroused by their agressors ?
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Virgin Mary probably suffered a lot
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Why are Catholics like this?
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>tfw you reject the cosmic simp life
>tfw you become the eternal rebel
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Prostration
>No, Cornelius, don't prostrate before me... prostrate to this icon of me instead (Acts 10:25-26)
How does this make any sense?
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20th century London
Lee Kuan Yew
London used to be a high trust community with low crime, however by the early 00s it was no longer and crime had skyrocketed.

What brought about this change?
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How did they think this was going to work in 1947?
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Julius Caesar was Jesus Christ!
AsanderofBosphorus
Much of what we know about history from antiquity is fabricated. The Ptolemaic Greco-Egyptian-Persian-Roman elite were Scythian warlords. Egypt, Persia, Greece, Rome, India, etc., were under the suzerainty of Iranian-Scythian elites since at least the 17th century BC with the Hyksos (Heka-Khasut means "Rulers of Foreign Lands" and Khasut is a cognate of Scythian/Saka, Scyth, Scoloti).

At some point the Ptolemaic pharaohs, who were a bloodline of this tribe, created the Serapis cult (sarp- is a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "serpent" as seen in Sanskrit sarpa, "snake". "Sar-Ap" translates to "Serpent-Lord" in Scythian) to subvert this people they ruled.

Juilus Caesar's real identity was Ptolemy XI Alexander II, Cleopatra's uncle-husband. He also used the regional aliases of Asander, King of Bosphorus. Cleopatra took on the Bosphoran identity of Dynamis, queen of Bosphorus.

The "As" in Asander comes from the Egyptian name "Asar" which was another name for Osiris, from which the name "Asar-Hapi" (Osiris-Apis), another name for the Graeco-Egyptian god Serapis (Osiris + Apis = Osorapis) derives. The Etruscan word "Aesar" (also spelled Aesus which was pronounced eh-soos/Eh-Zeus/Iesus), meaning god or divine, derives from Asar. The Greek language adds a "K" to foreign words, so Aesar -> Greek Kaesar -> Latin Caesar.

Sarapis + Asander/Julius Caesars cult = Christianity.
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The obsessive focus on Palestine by certain leftist groups reveals less about humanitarian concern and more about ideological self-narration. For them, the conflict serves as a perfect allegory for a world divided into eternal oppressors and oppressed — with capitalism, colonialism, Zionism, and the West always cast as the villains. More complex or morally ambiguous atrocities — like those in Congo, Sudan, Xinjiang, or Yemen — are sidelined, not because they’re less severe, but because they don’t fit the script. The real goal isn’t justice for Palestinians — it’s to claim victimhood by ideological proxy, and demand moral and political power as the self-designated voice of the oppressed. It’s a deeply cynical and manipulative use of real human suffering.
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>IBERIA IS WHITE RRREEEE
your response?
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What kind of man was this tragic king who ended up plunging England into a civil war? Before the storm had darkened him, he was a reasonably good man, a loving son, a surprisingly faithful husband, a loyal friend, a father loved by his children. In early childhood he was plagued by a congential condition that made him unable to walk until age 7. He trained his body to be strong and athletic and by maturity could ride and hunt with the best. He also had a speech impediment and could hardly talk coherently until age 10; his father thought about getting a surgical procedure on his tongue. Charles's speech improved but he was forever plagued by a stammer and had to learn to talk slowly so he could be understood.

He was not originally slated to be king; that would have been his popular older brother Henry, who was to become Henry IX had he not died at age 18, leaving Charles heir to the throne and unjustly suspected of poisoning him, which no doubt darkened his mood. Unlike his jovial father, Charles preferred a somber court and solitude. He was skilled in math, music, and theology, could speak six languages with varying skill levels, loved art and expanded his brother's collection, became a discriminating collector, and a dutiful artistic patron. He invited the Italian painter Orazio Gentileshi to his court, then Rubens, Vandyck, and Frans Hals, who declined and Rubens came chiefly as ambassador but Vandyck became official court painter and produced numerous portraits of the king with his trademark Vandyck goatee.
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>read picrel
>realize the colonial US circa 1787 was literally the forced consolidation of at least five different cultures into one
>only survived because each group knew they would get blown the fuck out by the Brits to the North, the Spanish to the South and Washington's dick not working preventing a fight over successorship
>France meanwhile was imploding
Who writes this shit?
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lasso_chick
Why didn't they use lassos against armored knights back then?
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>forces the bongs into a light jog
>causes an 86% casualty rate and the eventual defeat of the bong army
why are yuros so unathletic and bad at war? fucking 86% casualty rate
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William Penn
>was the glue that made it possible for North and South to come together
America's Greatest Founding Father
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Reminder you are a heretic in the eyes of The Church if you reject the notion that you and Muslims worship the same God.
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