Chris Wickham has passed away. Enormous loss for medieval studies.Let's honor him by discussing his body of work.
>>18732520There have been some medievalists with inferiority complex who object to the term "dark ages" and insist that it was akshully a super duper enlightened era.Wickham pops up in recommendation lists but I have been sort of postponing reading him because I have the vague impression that he is that type of person. I could be wrong though.
>>18732589So the main Wikipedia page about them is also seething revisionism?>As the accomplishments of the era came to be better understood in the 19th and the 20th centuries, scholars began restricting the 'Dark Ages' appellation to the Early Middle Ages>The majority of modern scholars avoid the term altogether because of its negative connotations, finding it misleading and inaccurate
>>18732598yeah, wikipedia is generally woke
>>18732599How is it woke? The "Dark Ages" are often treated as the antithesis to enlightenment and egalitarianism.
>>18732589He is not. He is very matter of fact and sober in understanding the era.
My bloodline directs entirely back to John Adams and my father, my father's father, and my father's father's father were all 5'7 white bald men. I have long red hair circling my bald crown. Does this mean that I need to acquire wealth before I slay hot, white pussy?
>>18732102The reason why every straight, white man is ignoring my thread is because if they engaged with it, they would realize that many straight, white men are dysgenic.
>>18732102>Direct descendant of bluest of the blue blood Yankee elite>"Lol how do I get a girlfriend?"Also, how do you have red hair? It sounds like you got a big injection of mick blood at some point.
>>18732102John Quincy Adams was a gigabrained prodigy and to date the only US President who could speak Russian and like 5 other languages aside from English Also John Adams lived a long ass life for 1700s standards
>>18732102Appearance is unimportant in Eugenics. But if what you are asking is if it is over you, then yes. You are a sub-eight male and will suffer.But none of that has anything to do with Eugenics.
>>18732805If it bothers you so much you should became a looksmaxxer or something. Whatever it is you believe is closer to run of the mill lookism than to Eugenics.
Guys did you know that le jews hated Jesus!?like why would they do that?Have you guys never heard of intra-religious conflict? How many Protestants did the Catholics kill, how many Catholics did Protestants kill?There is huge animosity towards people who are supposedly the same religion, not just in Christan countries but also in Muslim countries, and im sure even pagan nationsSimply Jesus was a radical new sect of Judaism that the old folks disliked much like how tradlarpers here hate on pop music prots
>>18732784Jesus' "teachings" were all copied from other Jews like Rabbi Hillel the Elder. The persecution narrative is a fabrication of christians.
I know this sounds like a provocation, but it's a genuine question. What was their actual color and appearance? I saw some reconstructions in a museum at my university, and some of them were very, very dark. Does that make sense, considering their habitat? I always assumed they looked more like modern global populations individuals who lived further north tended to have lighter skin. Unfortunately, I remember the controversy involving the Western Hunter-gatherers Group (WHG), with those strange reconstructions that now many say portrayed Mesolithic Europeans as "blue-eyed black people" or something similar. But their skin was tan or olive.
>>18732249It varied by region, but I suspect even Neanderthals in more Northern altitudes had somewhat darker skins than modern Europeans. Simply because light skin evolved to help humans synthetize vitamin D, but you can a fair amount of vitamin D if you eat a lot of meat, which we now Neanderthals did. Really light skin evolved with agriculture, when people's diets begun to include less meat.We also know from genetics that some Neanderthals had red hair, so imagine tan, short redheads with weird faces.
>>18732249Neanderthals would have been covered with hair, it's the only way they could have survived in an ice age climate without needles and thus the ability to make clothes, beyond draping an animal skin over their shoulders, which wouldn't be anywhere close to enough insulation/protection.
>>18732418Now you're just making stuff up.
>>18732249We don't know their skin color.Dna doesn't survive for that long so its impossible to know what they actually looked like so we just guess what they looked liked based on their enviroment.
>>18732271>>18732722we have dozens of neanderthal genomes and have had for over a decade, one of the first ancient genomes was a neanderthal. how the fuck do you not know that while you try to lecture people on this shit>>18732249as far as i know they didnt have any of the major genes known to cause light skin in modern people. some of them were reported to have MC1R gene causing red hair and pale skin, also there was this but dont know if its reliablehttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5630192/
Today we’re looking at Gamal Abdel NasserGamal Abdel Nasser (1/15/1918 – 9/28/1970) was president of Egypt from 1954 to '70.Some notable feats or facts include:>born to a working class family in Alexandria who were staunch believers in Arab nationalism>lost his mother at age 8 when she died in childbirth>became involved in political activism as a youth and developed a strong class animosity towards his country's ruling elite>Nasser considered an army career but his political activism caused his application at the Royal Military Academy to be rejected, so he studied law instead>after a second attempt, he got into the Military Academy, graduated at age 20, and became a junior lieutenant in the Egyptian army>was offended when the British compelled King Farouk to appoint a pro-Allied PM during World War II for being an insult to Egyptian sovereignty>Nasser saw combat action in the Arab-Israeli War in 1948 and complained about the army's poor state of readiness, additionally he was offended at the cease fire terms offered to Tel Aviv>the government tossed the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty in 1951 and the coup of January 25, 1952 saw the monarchy overthrown and the British expelled from Egypt>an attempt by the Muslim Brotherhood to assassinate Nasser in 1954 led to his becoming Egypt's unquestioned leader
>>18732786But the arabs lost 1517 and got btfo by the turks
>>18732786The NVA mostly didn't engage the US military directly.
>>18732787Precisely my point, they never recovered
>>18732727it's easier to win a defensive war than an offensive one
Sadat said he was basically a dead man walking since the Six Day War. He was never the same again and quietly wished he was dead.
Why is the 19th century so masculine?
>>18732655All the coke in the baby medicine.
>>18732655>masculine>average height is 5'6 for menLol, lmao
>>18732655Men and women alike both just tended to look more masculine in the past; there's so many old stories of how women easily disguised themselves as soldiers.
>>18732655To compensate the centuries where they (europeans) were a bunch of flamboyant faggots.
>called the "doctrines of grace">its defining feature is God withholding grace from most people
>>18732686You're more prideful because you assume things about people. You still have time to accept it.
I wish I could kill anyone discussing morals about god. It always ends up with the christcuck having to juggle with the fact that at the same time god is good, and yet he has done horrible things (by the metrics of our morals). so they have to cope by saying that humans cannot understand god's morals and as such god can commit atrocities that actually are very moral in the divine scheme of things. but then the same can be said for the devil. the devil clearly is superhuman so how do you know he isn't doing "bad" stuff that in the end results in good? then let'a not even get started in the fact that the bible doesn't cover nearly all decisions a person might have to take in their lifetime, leaving a shit ton of things to, guess what, personal interpretation. so even if I believe that every single word in the bible is the word of god, I still have to inteeprets his commandments because they are intentionally vague. so where the fuck is this objective morality?
>>18732040Not if he takes the payment that the justice demands
>>18732765yes but in christcucks' defense, that's only a valid critique of Protestants. Catholics and Orthodox claim you need the church and priests to explain the more subtle details in a coherent manner. Obviously they fail, but it's 1% less retarded than Sola Scriptura,
>>18732773But still, the cathechism and the priest will not cover all the decisions you take on a daily basis. And even then, you'd have to memorize hundreds and hundreds of laws and commandments and recall them perfectly. Who does that? Nobody
You great city of Babylon, look, what have you become? Soon your wealth will be taken away from you, and your land will be turned into piles of rubble, because you ask: "What do I want?" instead of seeking the One from whom your life comes and doing what is right and true in His eyes.You beast, the land that makes laws and governs the people of the earth, because you know that the world you have built for yourselves will not last, you ask: "What benefits me?" instead of seeking the One who told you to do what is right and true in His eyes, even when it does not benefit you.You false prophet, you who claim to uphold His ways, yet do everything in your power to drive people away from Him and make them worship governments and laws through your traditions and religions, you are detestable. You ask: "How should it be?" instead of seeking the One who told you how it should be and doing what is right and true in His eyes.Therefore this is what the Lord says:"There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court and detest the one who tells the truth.You levy a straw tax on the poor and impose a tax on their grain. Therefore, though you have built stone mansions, you will not live in them; though you have planted lush vineyards, you will not drink their wine.For I know how many are your offenses and how great your sins.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
"They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?” Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters, were killed just as they had been."Put on the white robe and turn to Him sincerely.
Yahweh/Yaldabaoth/Samael whatever you want to call him is a deranged deity that does not deserve worship. If you applied the personality traits of the Jewish God to a human you would get an absolutely reprehensible psychopath and his behaviour would not be tolerated, so why is it okay because he created this world? It's like a psychopath created his own personal torture chamber and put sentient beings in there to be tortured for his own delusional amusment. At worst this deity is a completely deranged evil psychopath, or at best a completely incompetent failure.
>>18731408Charles manson ordered the murder of 40 people. But hey aren't you aware of hitler? Hitler ordered the killing of millions therefore Charles manson is ok
>>18731575So you acknowledge God is evil?
>>18731575Gnostic ideas of an evil/incompetant demiurge are older in christians tradition than the idea of eternal counscious tourment.
>>18731575>"God is a bloodthirsty psychopath who enjoys torturing people.">"HOW DARE YOU SAY GOD LOVES TORTURING PEOPLE?! HAHAHA, GOD'S GOING TO ENJOY TORTURING YOU IN THE MOST HORRIFYING WAYS IMAGINABLE FOR THE REST OF ETERNITY! ENJOY HELL AHAHAHA-"You're either a retard proving his point unwittingly or a troll doing that intentionally.
>>18731718yes, it stimulates the amygdala unga bunga part of the brain, simple as
Was jesus raped?
>>18732772Can we Ip ban India, please.
>>18732774>senoooooor
>>18732772Given the Romans were gay as fuck? almost certainly
Discuss archaeogenetics, archaeology, linguistics, comparative mythology etc as they relate to prehistory
>>18732672>Discuss comparative mythologyEverything is Jesus, meaning the universe is made up of little Jesus particles.So every time you touch yourself, Jesus thanks you for the reach-around.
>The Romance words for “war” — Italian guerra, Spanish guerra, Portuguese guerra, and French guerre — derive from the Germanic word, werra, which replaced the Latin bellum.
Conflicto BĂ©lico = GuerraBellum = BĂ©lico
>>18728311romanian shows a few other signs of latin terms changing meanings. 'city' became 'fortress', 'wooden fort' became 'village', 'enemy' became 'army'.
>>18732209Funy that some people in Spain 1500 years ago were named like in a vikings movie: Torismundo:þauris-: an element that has been associated with Thor, the Germanic god of thunder.-mund: “hand,” “protection,” or “safeguard,” depending on the historical development of the Germanic element.Hence the interpretation “protected by Thor” or “Thor’s protection.”
>>18729363Because the dutch do not make war, they commit orlog, as the elves taught them.
>>18732478The first two examples kind of make sense but the last one kind of boggles the mind.
Why was jeetlandia never converted to christianity or islam?They followed a religion that turns 90% of the population into a permanent underclass.Seems like it'd be a prime target for proselytization.
>>18732356>Christians end up supporting the secular socdem party (Congress) or the Communist partyA good chunk of them vote for the BJP.
The truth is that even missionaries were repulsed by the br*wns. Letting Indians into Christendom was a step too far for them, even for their delusional suicidally altruistic selves.
>>1873221499% of missionaries die of some disease within a month in that smelly land.
>>18732452don't the bjp mercilessly genocide them? seen rumblings on this recently, and they have noone to help
>>18732214Indian warriors died of AIDS after stretching to much SEAmonkey bussy. Now descendants of the boys act superior online.
You'll see some Anglo who'd say "if the Spanish Empire was so humane o algo, then why are British colonies richer than Spanish," then only cherry picks the four settler colonies where they wiped out all the indigenous.But they do not acknowledge that the IMF data for 2025 shows a striking pattern: none of the world’s 50 poorest countries today were former Spanish provinces. By contrast, the vast majority were once under British, French, Belgian, or Portuguese rule.
>>18731971https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parias
>>18731570>Espana has two US military bases>>18731888>You will always be a brown, balding, nigger admixed subhuman moor rapebaby with negative fertility, juanito>>18731906>You are a nigger.>spicniards are quite literally niggers under the one drop rule>>18731918>spicniards are balding manlets with jeet facial features>>18731934>You're a brown moor rapebaby with negroid blood
>>18729335>Unironically using wages as a measure of economic progress.>19th Century Philippines.The vast majority of the laboring force in the Philippines were fucking peasants. They were sharecroppers who were not paid wages, they paid rents to their landlords. The only motherfuckers who were paid wages in the colony were factory workers in Manila (who form a scant minority of the labor force). And they were horrendously poor to the point that the 19th century saw more revolts in the Philippines than previous centuries of Spanish rule.
>>18732378Lol no. Asides from Manila there werr also 4 other royal cities with Fueros and Charters: Nueva Cacares (Naga), Cebu, Nueva Segovia, and Iloilo.And lol at claiming the wage earners were horrendously poor when the book that anon cited said the opossite. That they were the richest in Asia.
>>18728816the main problem is that viceroyal and viceroyalty are very different things, as in, they are in different categories and you do not seem to understand this, as your title shows.
Christianity is false.
>>18731698>transmutation of iron into gold>ironwhat heresy is this? lead, dude, it's lead!
>>18731965Incorrect. Biblical literalism is a relatively modern phenomenon started by protestants.
>>18731303>Evolution is real, therefore Christianity is false.
>>18731965That's precisely the anachronism. You're seeing interpretations that today would be classified as literalist and you backwards-project literalism onto a hermeneutic that has very little to do with it. Which is why theologians were free to not take it literally, most famously Augustine who was explicit about Genesis 1.>>18731579>>>Be precise>>I won't>You can just admit you dont know you enormous pussy.Know what? Symbols don't have precise meanings. There is nothing precise to know.>It absolutely does matter.>[doesn't show how or address a single example of it not mattering]Sure.>What event or act is it symbolizing? Be specific.I won't. Because, again, symbols aren't specific. It's a modernist distortion to confuse narrowness of meaning (precision) with understanding when actual understanding is in multiplicity of meaning coming into one, as is the case with symbols. Here, eating the forbidden fruit and having to abandon the garden stands for losing innocence, gaining awareness that ruins harmony, self-transformation contrary to nature, jumping the gun, and due to the details of the story also arrogance, unrepentance and loss of spiritual contact with reality (compensated by bodily contact).
>>18731579>>18732760 is not an exahaustive list, I hope that much is clear. I would like to direct your attention to the bit in >>18731481 that you skipped, because it directly challenges your need for precision:>>>how will it inform your understanding of sin you learn that the snake was real and the second tree was real but everything else were symbols? Or that everything Eve said was said literally by someone else?
