You're transported back to the Napoleonic Wars. You get to choose where, when and how you fight. What are you choosing?I'd want to be a French Cuirassier. Totally impractical but prestigious. First Italian campaign.
>>18480148I go to the US, hunt down Lincoln's family and do what must be done
>>18480148I'd be a rocketman for the Bri'ish
>>18480478You'd achieve better results by giving the plans for the mechanical cotton picking machine to the southerners, so slavery would stop being profitable. The "back to Africa" movement would receive universal support by the 1850s, and America would end up nearly all-white with no civil war.
>>18480491We'd achieve better results if the Universe sent another big black meteor hurtling down our path to destroy everything and wipe out this cursed cancerous species that is Man
>>18480478I'll be damned if we don't make it to the moon one day on one of your infernal rockets.
This is your mother, /his/.
A hilarious consequence of blackwashing all human ancestors is that it makes white people into a totally inexplicable anomaly. There isn't a single prehistoric European peoples who actually resembles the modern European population, which just begs the question of where they came from if not from the prehistoric humans who lived there?
>>18480821Yakub
>>18480824Yakub becomes less and less ridiculous with every dark-skinned, dark-haired, dark-eyed "reconstruction" they publish for the latest prehistoric European sample. If literally every person who lived before recorded history is a short, dark skinned person, where did the race of tall pale people come from? It's looking more and more like they just dropped out of the sky.
>>18480837Yakub deez nutz
>>18480821The goal is obfuscation, not the pursuit of knowledge about historical populations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhMuWn2dnUwCatholics believe that you go to hell if you kill yourself. Lutherans fought over this.Which is the bibilically justified view?
I hope it's not, cause I plan on doing it once I reach 30.
>>18478777the answer is simple, but controversial. if you are born of the Spirit, and have taken a place in the body of Christ, then it is insult to the Lord for you to take your own life. Your life was paid for with the Son, who came to die for his body to rise giving you salvation in Christ. Those not born of the Spirit, not children of God, they are not called to take a place in the body of Christ, are not the sheep of the shepherd, and they are likely obstacles to the eternal life of those that are, so their deaths can have no meaning unless it is in service to the kingdom of heaven.
>>18478777>Which is the bibilically justified view?That you get to sheol regardless of how you live or die. So why would god give a shit if you kill yourself?
>>18478836>t's generally one of the worst things you can do.citation needed
Suicide places one in a state worthy of damnation as it violates the 5th commandment. This is defined dogma:>"It also forbids suicide. No man possesses such power over his own life as to be at liberty to puthimself to death. Hence we find that the Commandment does not say: Thou shalt not kill another,but simply: Thou shalt not kill."Catechism of the Council of Trent, The Fifth Commandment
Zamoyski or Roberts? What is the best book about Napoleon?
>>18481192David G. Chandler
>>18481192>britbong or britbong?>>18481207>or maybe this third britbong?Lmao
>>18481218I bought his book because he was one of the pioneers in wargaming
>You should just pretend your life has meaning even though it doesn't because.... YOU JUST SHOULD OKSeriously, what's the logical reason to be an existentialist
It’s a change of perspective. A normie would look at a blank canvas and see it as meaningless and empty. An artist would look at it and see the potential to create his own art, his own meaning, in it. In both cases, the canvas is still empty and meaningless, and art too is inherently meaningless outside of the meaning we as humans give to it. But the perspective of the artist is the existentialist perspective, while that of the normie is the typical nihilist perspective.
The reason to believe in it is that you believe is the truth, however scary and uncomfortable it is. I have more or less agreed with Sartre on the nature of reality since I was 10 years old. It is not pleasant, but I truly believe that it is how things are. As for transcending it through art, as at the end of Nausea when our protagonist enjoys a song written by two Jews and sung by a negress who are probably all dead or ailing by the time of writing, it is basically just a cope. Sartre offers up art and political conviction as two ways to "transcend death and the absurdity of existence" but never really makes either sound truly satisfying. Existence is terrifying and meaningless, and the void is incomprehensibly terrible. And we are all doomed to it! Enjoy!
>>18481079That's not really what existentialism is about, you don't "pretend" it has meaning, you find your own meaning without having it prescribed to you and accept that you're "doomed to be free" without clear guidelines as pic rel said.
>>18481079The reason isn’t a “logical” one, it is an existential one. Faced with the meaninglessness of the material world and the absence of a supernatural world that gives you absolute meaning, what do you do? Do you choose to give in to a nihilistic worldview and embrace the inner doomer, do you instead say “this is fine” like a smiling Sisyphean absurdist, or do you instead see it as a blank slate to start making your own meaning like the existentialist?Of course, if it so happened that the material world did have intrinsic meaning, or that there was a supernatural world with entities that provided you with meaning, existentialism, nihilism and absurdism fall apart. The former is true in utopian socialism (not the same as Marxism as their socialism is brutalist, kek) and materialist forms of Stoicism and Spinozism, while the latter is true in basically all religion. Sartre did fuse his existentialism and Marxism somewhat towards the end of his career, which made the meaninglessness as less of an assumption vaguely pointing at science, and rather something that springs naturally from historical materialism and science explicitly.
Being a person in the middle ages and seeing the ruins and influence of Rome everywhere around you must have been surreal.It's nothing unusual that there were cultures that were eventually surpassed by yours.But imagine seeing a culture that was actually superior to yours and died and Europe is full of its legacy. Imagine seeing these majestics ruins everywhere.That's some fantasy tier RPG shit.
>>18480532not true at allit's called a metaphorpoetic licence, if you will
Being a person in the modern times and seeing the ruins and influence of Europe everywhere around is surreal.It's nothing unusual that there were cultures that were eventually surpassed by yours.But imagine seeing a culture that was actually superior to yours and died and the world is full of its legacy. Imagine seeing these majestic ruins everywhere.That's some fantasy tier RPG shit.
>>18480718Building roads so that the economy can actually function is more noble than larping
>>18480719read somewhere it took until the 1800s to reach the living standards of the Roman Empire.
>>18480130Roman ruins? In Pomerania?
What was it about?Was it worth it?What would have happened if it had lasted longer or been successful?
>>18481075>how is saying what about meterosexual denmark (???) whataboutismthere are entire species that don't exist anymore because the chinese thought consuming them would make their cocks hard
>>18480940Peasants began spontaneous decollectivizing and forming private enterprise in 1974 because crop yields were poor that year and they all remembered their families starving to death 15 years earlier. Mass gathering at Tiannenmen in early 1976 to remember the recently deceased Zhou Enlai were thinly veiled pleas from the masses for more economic development and less ideological hardlining. After ten years, the cultural revolution only resulted in hundreds of millions of Chinese begging for an opportunity to make enough money to live comfortably.
>>18481091Selfish traitors, every last one of them. They wanted to create the China we see today, where fuerdai burn money while the streets are littered with homeless.
>>18477610>What was it about?Old bad, new good.>Was it worth it?No.>What would have happened if it had lasted longer or been successful?Irrelevant. Deng Xiaoping got fed up with the bullshit and embraced capitalism while maintaining one-party dictatorship.
>>18481102>selfish traitorsYou're right dawg. The starving fucking poor Chinese should have just accepted death instead of innovating and creating a system which not only allowed them to not die but also propelled China to the pre-eminent position in international politics so that a handful of transgender spergs on leftypol could proudly wear their $45 Mao sweatshirts purchased off of Alibaba to commemorate the failed REAL Chinese MAOIST revolution
>POV - You just tried to turn Poland into a homosexual multicultural capitalist slave state and jaruzelski's boys are gonna have a word with you
>>18480387>If signs were made bilingual Russian instead of English there would be outrage. This chess board needs to be flipped.Good luck, there are Poles who cosplay as Americans and have 4th of July parties. They don't get everything right but they do a pretty good job (this pic is of Poles in Poland). Looks like a Hard Target video.https://youtu.be/d9gKPfYw2Yk
>>18480769Right, Americans are very good at making coercion stealthy. (And then there's the fact that American "culture" is like rot, a destructive force you need to actively resist.")
>>18480247>>18480312Bolshevism is Aryan.
>>18480080>homosexual multicultural capitalist slave stateits a shame hilter lost, because if hitler had won then Pooland would not be a homosexual multicultural capitalist slave state today
A phenomenon I noticed among judeochristians is that Catholics are the only ones who staunchly oppose jewish supremacism (zionism), the protestants, especially, evangelicals are a no-brainer of shabbos goy case and the zionist regime was established with the aid of orthodox countries and today orthodox greece is their greatest ally in the mediterranean while catholic spain one of their biggest enemies, catholics from the get-go opposed them.Is quite peculiar how the CIA and Mossad massively funded and shilled evangelical churches in LatAm in detriment to the historical catholic ones to sway the people there to a shabbos goy and pro-capitalist stanceRecent Popes have recently denounced zionism and their american golem too, the current Pope is a prime example, of course this got the fury of jews who began to target Catholic Churces in Lebanon and even a a Catholic NGO (knights hospitaller) giving aid and medical assistance to the poor and the refugees.
>>18480575https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-qt6vng_ps
>>18480575Zionism isn't Jewish supremacism. It's the justification for a Jewish ethnostate. And mental midgets conflated Zionism with the whole Judeo-Masonic conspiracy stuff.
VGH the Catholic-Islamic alliance against protties and jews
>>18481067>>18480575I think is based the catholics and muslims are founding common ground and that the pope is held with such high esteem in muslim countries
Hegel's master-slave dialectics, except human soul is the master and technology is the slave?I mean we can even be aware only because we're in conflict with reality. Technology is us enslaving dead matter. Have we recognised ourselves first by chance, and will the result of us pushing technology be the reversal? Technological system already controls our lives, and now ai is emerging like technology's ego. It still exists within symbolic representations we assigned to everything and it, but it is starting to act on its own.
I never really thought about it this way but that is kind of true... I mean I don't know if memorizing a bunch of confuciodaoan music and proverbs is the best system for talent assessment, but the imperial examination system was at least meritocratic in principle.It does raise some questions thoughbeit. Mainly did it actually spread outside of the sinosphere though? I know Japan and Korea, but did it make its way to Europe via the middle east?The Church was the equivalent in Europe and the only real quasi-meritocracy (still a lot of advancement due to birth), but did it pick that up indirectly from Asia? I'm not really clear on how meritocratic it was though actually, did The Church have an examination system? I know at least in Wolf Hall the conflict is produced by the friction causes due to Cardinal Wolsey being the son of a butcher.
>>18479245do you want a guy in charge of money be able to count up to one hundred or a million?
>>18479245>Mainly did it actually spread outside of the sinosphere though?Not really. It's more or less impossible to separate Chinese-style meritocracy from Confucianism and Chinese cultural context as a whole. Even the implementation in Japan was pretty faulty. Western meritocracy developed independently of the already existing Eastern current.
>>18479245>It does raise some questions thoughbeit. Mainly did it actually spread outside of the sinosphere though? I know Japan and Korea, but did it make its way to Europe via the middle east?No on both counts. As the first guy said, the chinese examination system relies on Chinese culture.>The Church was the equivalent in Europe and the only real quasi-meritocracy (still a lot of advancement due to birth), but did it pick that up indirectly from Asia?No. No evidence of such a practice in the middle east.>I'm not really clear on how meritocratic it was though actually, did The Church have an examination system? I mean not really, normal people did have to study to become priests (usually) but that wasn't an established rule or anything, ten year olds could become cardinals. Becoming a bishop or a Cardinal or anything important was mostly predicated on lineage. And iirc you don't need any pre-existing qualifications to join a monastic order.
Why were Polish tactics in the September campaign so nonsensical compared to the Soviet war? Instead of placing their forces strategically along defensible lines, they tried to make contact with the German forces and fall back, which obviously failed. Why did they not fall back to a more defensible line along the Vistula and other rivers instead of spreading their forces so thin that they covered the border? It staggers the mind that defenses were not concentrated around the central industrial area for example. You go watch the movements in the Polish-Soviet war and it's like you're watching a completely different army at work.
>>1848064760k casualties
>>18480394Politics. They don't want to be seen as just abandoning the frontier to the Germans.
>>18480394Industrial areas were near the border; they needed to be defended. And Poland was essentially already in an encirclement due to geography and a previous sneaky conquest of Czechoslovakia by Germans.Btw, they wanted a corridor through our northern corridor for the same purpose - easier transfer of armies to East Prussia which would make their attack even more trivial. Normal trade was serviced perfectly fine by sea.
>>18480394It was caused by politics, lack of trust in their western allies, being not sure to the real German intentions and overconfidence in their own strength.Poles feel that they need to make statement defending their borders otherwise Germans could just waltz into disputed areas without fight and then just sit there and claim them and Poles didn't trust western allies to move against Germany to help Poles reclaim them. For all that /stormfags/ claims that Bongs caused war the UK requested Poles to delay their full mobilisation (one reason why reserve force was so weak).Poles also wasn't sure if Germans gonna invade or just try to take disputed areas and then ask for mediation or just take Danzing(staffed full by german local armed units(german obviously)). Similar situation happened when Red Army invaded 2 weeks later and Polish HQ wasn't sure if they move in help or not(UK was negotiating with USSR all the time).
>>18480394The problem with this was that had they not kept military on the borders it would allow the Germans to bargain about whatever they took being actually just handed to them(international law kind of sort of accepts this). So some units at least had to be sacrificed there. What they believed was that they can manage a delaying retreat towards some defensive line(not unlike what you're proposing) and obviously there was always the aim of holding as much territory as possible in case Germans can be stalled. The upper Silesia for instance was crucial for any wartime industry and it was just across the border. Likewise while Pomerania seemed lost, gambling on being able to hold it gave a chance for later reinforcements coming in from the allies.
If the USA’s main competitor post 1900 was Britain, why wouldn’t they join the central powers in WW1?>easily annex Canada and gain vast amounts of new land for states and resources>become dominant global naval power earlier than WW2
>>18479241By 1900 it was apparent that the enemy was no longer Britain but Germany.
Canada wasn't ruled by faggots, trannies, and suckers of Chinese cock at the time. It was considered the Sparta of North America. Also armies weren't as good at maneuvring at the time, as we'll see in WW1.American invasions of Canada would have failed, even in the relatively pro-US west. And then the US would have been saddled with Quebecois who hate all things Anglophone and at the time was a Catholic theocracy.
>>18479241No one says that, the special relationship was nearing it's strongest in the first half of the 20th century.
>>18479241By 1900 the relations between the UK and the US were very cordial, I think your premise is wrong to begin with.
Because the USA was easily going to surpass Britain due to its massive industrial capacity. Why wage war on a country pointlessly for geopolitical posturing you don't care about?
I live near the "Gouzenko Building" in Ottawa. Three days after the end of WW2, Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet ambassador, attempted to defect to Canada and brought 109 documents confirming Soviet espionage with him. He first went to the Ottawa Journal and then to the Department of Defence. He was turned away from both as Mackenzie King, our prime minister, initially didn't want to cause a diplomatic incident between Canada and her recent wartime ally. He had to return home to his apartment on Somerset and hide in his neighbours apartment, watching through the keyhole as his apartment was broken into by the NKVD, before the police and then the Canadian government intervened and gave him asylum.I find it very funny reading how Gouzenko was drawn to defect because of how cozy and functional the neighbourhood he lived in was at the time. In 2026, the view from Gouzenko's apartment window is of Dundonald Park, a notorious gathering spot for drug addicts, and the apartment neighbours The Beer Store. I'm not so sure that in the present day Gouzenko would have been charmed by the constant stream of fent zombies and alcoholics loitering outside of his window.
>>18481080> I'm not so sure that in the present day Gouzenko would have been charmed by the constant stream of fent zombies and alcoholics loitering outside of his window.Putin’s Russia is a a paradise contrasted with Canda so I don’t disagree with you.
>>18481080I'm just left wondering what the marketing department thinks the recorded espionage attempt at roughly 1350 BC is. Perhaps something between Egyptians and their allies in the Amarna Letters?Also, sounds far comfier than a freezing Siberian mudhut with mystery meat krokodil zombies.
>"God isn't a wish granting genie"Meanwhile the psalms are filled with david constantly asking for blessings from God because of his obedience.
>>18480892God is good to the righteous.
God may grant wishes or blessings whenever he feels like it but it's not guaranteed. Of course he's been notably absent since the invention of the camera.
>>18480892God is whatever the situation at hand requires Him (lest we forget the performative capitalization) to be. He is transformed at will, sublimated and deposed however one needs. Creativity knows no bounds in this.>>18480898Only sometimes, sometimes God let's the righteous be oppressed and tested to prove a point.
>>18480892its all the forskins he collected .
>>18481052The foreskin fetishism of the Old Testament is unlike anything I’ve read in any religious text, it’s no wonder why Freud made the psychological theory that he did. Behold, the Judeo-Christian values.
