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>>930847The Russian Empire could've easily become an economic powerhouse by rapid industrialisationAlso the purpose of the picture is to demonstrate how it destroyed any form of culture
Jesus the Russian Empire sure was something
>>930858>The Russian Empire could've easily become an economic powerhouse by rapid industrialisationReminder that 1920's Russia had less than 8% urbanized populationReminder that 1940's Russia had close to 40% urbanized population
>>930864Ah yes, shoving everyone into commieblocks is a great solution. But hey, more of the population is urbanised right?
>>930876>thinking you can have industrial power without urban population centers
Having both been a Catholic formerly and having spoken to a great number of actually devout Christcucks on IBs, I can say that without a doubt, Christians are the most cowardly and pathetic individuals that ever sullied the name of the human race.To make it short: most - all, actually - have told me that everything God does must be 'good', even if it were bad by any kind of human standard. A kind of doublethink, with one on Cripplechan actually proceeding to tell that even if God decided to brutally kill newborns and infants on a whim, it would be morally 'good'. When they say that God can do no wrong, they mean God can do all wrongs, but the mere fact that he is a deity would mean these wrongs would actually be 'good'.And this implicitly tells that Christians don't care if God is - outside of their doublethink - evil or wrong or at fault. In fact, many actually know it, but still worship because they want to be saved after death. How pathetic is that?
>>9306881st issue. Unless you can find some dogma that says otherwise- people who have never been introduced to Christianity and don't believe don't go to hell. That is what a Catholic priest told me once.2nd. Maybe you can explain what you mean by "net loss" and how it has anything to do with God's omnibenovlence? God is said to be omnibenevolent insofar as A. all his actions are by definition good, and B. because being eternal/immutable/etc nothing he does can have any effect on him- everything he does has to be for the sake of something else- since he cannot be effected. He just has his one act in eternity. I don't see how God allowing any amount of people being damned has anything to do with it.
>>930688>creation is all about humanslol
>>930789I know, but I believe the message would still go along nicely with the post.By the way, your autism showed. Might want to make it less obvious next time.
>>930804Sorry this is /his/Autism should be expected
>>930540Why would you worship omnipotent being? It can't help God because he already omnipotent. Just by definition you can't help him. By the same logic if there exist at least one possibility for God to help you then Omnipotent Being would do as much as it wants to help you already. Only limit for God to help you is his desire to help you. Basically there is God who got first move to decide how much he want to mess up with your life and you can't even stop him and change his decision because being mortal you are powerless against divine and none of your action could even matter to Absolute God.
When looking at the current state of Africa, how much of its problems can be reasonably blamed on the aftermath of Colonialism or current exploitation, such as land-grabbing?In turn, what can African leaders be held accountable for?
>>930774That's the thing. They did not create a civilization with their bare hands. They could work with the sum total knowledge of all of Eurasia at their disposal while sub Saharan Africans were much more isolated and even then they didn't fall nearly as behind as /pol/fags like to think, pic related.
>>930855You sound mad.
>>930861>the native Americans developed civilizations on part with the Middle East and MediterraneanNo
>>930855>You are just in denial faggot stupid fucking fag.
>>930866No you stupid fag the natives had no contact with Eurasia and made civilizations from scratch.>>930862They didnt make civilizations because they are stupid thats why blacks fail in society today because they cant ever be fully civilized at all as a whole.
>EasternCardinal direction is subjective.>RomanLatin was not spoken. Rome had no influence.>Empire Only for the first few hundred years. Afterwards it was just a shitshow.Despite all of this, /his/ will say the Byzantine Empire was a legitimate successor to the Roman Empire. Meanwhile, /his/ says the Mongol Empire died only a generation or two after Genghis Khan and left no successor states. /his/ must be hypocritical, in that the Mongol Empire left numerous successor states (Ilkhanate, Yuan Dynasty, Mughal Empire, the Hordes, etc.) which were much more comparable to the Mongol Empire than Byzantium was to the Roman Empire.So /his/, why do you continue to hold an anti-Mongol bias? Isn't history supposed to be neutral?
History is anti-Mongol leaning :^)
>>930859>Cardinal direction is subjective.it's relative tho
Fuck off, Voltaire
What are some lesser known "bad people" from history? I am talking comic book villain tier of bad, someone whose ideas and actions were so batshit insande that his biography reads like a script for a saturday morning cartoon episode.Do not just give me all the Hitlers or Stalins or Calligulas, give me more obscure ones, like, Emperor Bocassa, or General Butt-Naked, or, I don't know, the spanish guys who fucked up South America.Pic unrelated.
>>929061>Joan was executed by people she was at war with>Giles was executed by his own country, despite being hugely powerful>same thingautism
Francisco Macias Nguema https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Mac%C3%ADas_Nguema>The president's paranoid actions included killing all who wore spectacles, banning use of the word "intellectual" and destroying boats to stop his people fleeing from his rule (fishing was banned). The only road out of the country on the mainland was also mined.>In 1978, he changed the national motto to "There is no other God than Macías Nguema".>During Macías Nguema's regime, the country had neither a development plan nor an accounting system for government funds. After killing the governor of the Central Bank, he carried everything that remained in the national treasury to his house in a rural village.>During Christmas 1975 he ordered about 150 of his opponents killed. Soldiers dressed up in Santa Claus costumes murdered them by shooting at the football stadium in Malabo, while amplifiers were playing Mary Hopkin's "Those Were the Days".
>>927068Some of these are not lesser known at all. Others are downright memes right now, but I don't see them mentioned so I'll throw them out.Although infamous, it really doesn't get any more comic-book tier bad than Sade. He intellectually and rhetorically defends evil in his works, an adolescent rhetorical extreme to which most other thinkers don't resort.Crowley was also rather comic-book in the sense that he pretty much did whatever the hell he wanted for his entire life and totally got away with it.Less famously, the Countess of Bathory is thought to have murdered dozens, and was herself immured later in life. Something there is in the tropes about keeping supervillains locked up in hypermax prisons.Apart from those, just thumb through whatever true crime sources you might wish to investigate.
>>930092>he thinks the Borgia did anything wrong
>>930165Absolute madman.
Show me the horrors of war, /his/
>>926654I read that book when I was in 6th grade, my father gave it to me. I should reread it.
>>926767The Finns would prop up the dead Soviet soldiers to scare the other Soviets
>>928885rest in power badassed comrade
>>925529Somebody has a hard on for Dan Carlin's hardcock history
>>925654Did they die in those locations are those bodies the soviets collected from the area to burn or bury?
Why do so many people in the west fawn over Gorbachev? He was an idiot who practically put the final nails in the USSR's coffin.>Reduce alcoholism? Lol, just destroy grape vineyards in the south
>>929711>practically put the final nails in the USSR's coffin>implying thats a bad thing
>>929711>He was an idiot who practically put the final nails in the USSR's coffin.You just answered your own question, OP.
>>929711He was a judeomasonic agent who infiltrated the KPSS as part of the Dulles Plan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgm14D1jHUwCan you even think what could have happened if this man wanted anything else other than eating pizza?
>>930340>muh jews>>>/pol/
Who the fuck succeeds him?
some dude named muhammad
what are some worthwhile /his/ related video games?
I'd say Red Orchestra is good, but's really more of a /k/ game.
There's bound to be mods that make Mount and Blade: Warband /his/ appropriate
>>930790Too arcadey for /k/. It's /pol/ and /his/ incarnate. /pol/ for RO and /his/ for RS.
>>930790my niggaI loved RO1 back in the day. RO2 got a bad wrap for a buggy release but I have a blast with it anyway.If you've never tried it and you've got a decent rig google a mod for making the bodies permanent. You just need to change like two numbers in a file and you've got a charnel house.
>>930805Incompetent kings fucking up is pretty /his/ related
>I'm a Protestant
>>930743Fuck off, Christcuck
>>930784cuck cuck cuck you're so original
>>930823Please state that you're sarcastic at the end of your postshave respect for autism
>>930663>NEET>productiveProductive at shitposting, I guess.
>>930784And proving it correct more and more. Good job, half-wit.
What do you think about postmodern humor, /his/?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r8ZozF-3Jw
In relation to the Cold War during the eighties, how could one connect the Chernobyl Disaster with the Nuclear Arms Race, if there even is a way?
Chernobyl was an experimental reactor whose primary purpose was to generate weapons grade plutonium.
Library link as usual-Temple of Solomon the King (occultism, esotericism, anthropology and religion resources): https://mega.nz/#F!AE5yjIqB!y7Vdxdb5pbNsi2O3zyq9KQWe have 22 books added this time; not too much but did expand my Gnostic Mandaean resources, which I should have sooner. As per usual texts are given alphabetized by folder rather than by text.>A.'.A.'.>ThelemaTarot: Mirror of the Soul (yet another Thoth deck text, no idea if it's worthwhile yet)>A.'.A.'.>PhilosophyMind in Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity>BabylonianNew Ritual Practice at Ayanis Fortress (not really Babylonian but it's the only folder I can think of for Urartian religion)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I hope nobody in this thread actually believes in magic. Studying them is okay I guess but that last thing /his/ needs is /x/ coming in here and shitting up the board with irrational conspiracy bullshit.
>>930634>Do you have anything that goes in depth on the scythians?Defining "scythians" might be a start.
>>930687Define magic and then we can talk, mostly about you and you're subjective conceptions as well as whatever hope is and why it belongs back in the jar. Study is a thing I have done and the fruit of it requires study, none of which you have done. You can have an opinion when you have ast least seen the mountain Foucalt and Chomsky were arguing about for hash and ego.
>>930695Those steppe nomads who fucked with the persians and romans a bunch. They extended all the way to India for their buds and hemp seed. And tell me about the best book you have on those ancient druids
>>929938>It was on a dare.Exactly how does that context help justify it?>Yeah, he ate shit, but somebody dared him to so it's cool!Just how far gone are you?
>haha the dark ages didn't happen man>everything was fine after the fall of Rome>that's just a renaissance myth broWhen will this meme end?
>>929381It's called the dark ages because of lack of knowledge about it, and because Renaissance writers were faggots
>>930128>Hence the Franks pwning stupid Turks and taking Antioch and Jerusalem for a century. >TurksU wot m8?
>>930216He's just a /pol/tard with a lacking grasp of actual crusade history. Ignore him.
>>930216>>930224Seljuks not Ottomans. They called them Turks in all the primary sources, but way to out yourselves as retards.
>>929226>there wasn't a dark age>except all this stuff that indicates a dark age, ignore that