Message from @ThatRightWingFish

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2018-08-22 19:16:36 UTC  

I hope to be really well read on the western works at the end

2018-08-22 19:22:20 UTC  

Yeah I should probably read some more into antiquity myself

2018-08-22 19:53:54 UTC  

Are Muslims a race ?

2018-08-22 19:59:29 UTC  

lol no wtf

2018-08-22 20:20:55 UTC  

@GermanEastAfrica I plan on getting some books on Alexander the Great, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome

2018-08-22 20:21:14 UTC  

Even though Philosophy is interesting, I don't really have an interest in it

2018-08-22 20:21:47 UTC  

I am mainly into War History and Civilization History. But I will look into the Republic by Plato

2018-08-22 20:26:17 UTC  

Plato and Socrates are the Philosophers I might look into

2018-08-22 20:26:53 UTC  

Yeah metaphysics and all of that is definitely an interesting concept

2018-08-22 20:27:32 UTC  

I really want to look into their minds on government

2018-08-22 20:27:41 UTC  

I haven't looked too close into Socrates but Plato I think was definitely great, also Aristotle is pretty good

2018-08-22 20:27:56 UTC  

Aristotle sounds good also

2018-08-22 20:28:06 UTC  

Looking into Greek Gods is also kinda interesting

2018-08-22 20:28:31 UTC  

Yeah the myths are a bit intruiging

2018-08-22 20:29:15 UTC  

What was the one book about the guy who cames back from Troy and gets lost

2018-08-22 20:29:17 UTC  

Where I sort of drift from all of it is with the whole pederasty issue, which Plato absolutely condemned but people like Socrates I think practiced

2018-08-22 20:29:29 UTC  

Not sure.

2018-08-22 20:29:37 UTC  

Oh the Odyssey

2018-08-22 20:30:49 UTC  

I really dislike reading about WW2

2018-08-22 20:30:59 UTC  

Yeah it's completely overdone

2018-08-22 20:31:19 UTC  

Especially when it comes to NatSoc Germany

2018-08-22 20:31:25 UTC  

Courses really don't go in depth to the classical and middle age period enough

2018-08-22 20:31:57 UTC  

Nearly my entire Euro history course was from the Renaissance and forward

2018-08-22 20:32:01 UTC  

I have read one good German WW2 book and it was about the Germans on the East Front

2018-08-22 20:32:26 UTC  

I love reading about Greek and Roman history man

2018-08-22 20:32:50 UTC  

Vikings are kinda good

2018-08-22 20:33:08 UTC  

"The Dark Age" is one of the biggest lies to be perpetuated by academia really

2018-08-22 20:34:52 UTC  

Yep

2018-08-22 20:39:09 UTC  

I remember my fucking APUSH teacher back in the day said some nonsense about "the Europeans were just as savage as the Indians were a century before the renaissance", just idiocy.

2018-08-22 20:39:41 UTC  

well Britain was hurt pretty badly by the post-Roman invasions

2018-08-22 20:39:45 UTC  

other regions less so

2018-08-22 20:39:59 UTC  

those hurt the least badly were under Byzantine, and, later, Caliphate rule

2018-08-22 20:40:50 UTC  

@FLanon nowadays they're making AP World after 1400 AD only

2018-08-22 20:40:52 UTC  

very sad

2018-08-22 20:41:15 UTC  

Yes but it they exaggerate it so much and don't even bother to look at anything before the Renaissance period in any real depth

2018-08-22 20:41:22 UTC  

ah

2018-08-22 20:41:24 UTC  

" nowadays they're making AP World after 1400 AD only"

wtf

2018-08-22 20:41:30 UTC  

that doesn't make sense

2018-08-22 20:41:32 UTC  

That is a new development

2018-08-22 20:41:40 UTC  

I haven't heard about that damn