Auxiliary Pics V BRUTALISM 𝔸 𝔼 𝕊 𝕋 ℍ 𝔼 𝕋 𝕀 ℂ - General

Here's a good one. [video=youtube;nRkReKGFqHY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRkReKGFqHY[/video]

Blocked in my country on copyright grounds

[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;52277719]Blocked in my country on copyright grounds[/QUOTE] I think this is the same thing, but on vimeo instead. [url]https://vimeo.com/70473922[/url]

[quote=Plutarch]when the enemy endeavored to cut off his communication by sea, he was forced to divert that danger by setting fire to his own ships, which, after burning the docks, thence spread on and destroyed the great library[/quote] Damn that ancient christian, Julius Caesar. [quote=Marcellinus]Besides this there are many lofty temples, and especially one to Serapis, which, although no words can adequately describe it, we may yet say, from its splendid halls supported by pillars, and its beautiful statues and other embellishments, is so superbly decorated, that next to the Capitol, of which the ever-venerable Rome boasts, the whole world has nothing worthier of admiration. In it were libraries of inestimable value; and the concurrent testimony of ancient records affirm that 70,000 volumes, which had been collected by the anxious care of the Ptolemies, were burnt in the Alexandrian war when the city was sacked in the time of Caesar the Dictator.[/quote] Damn that ancient christian, Aurelian [editline]26th May 2017[/editline] Like dude, actually research shit.

So let me rephrase then you dogpiling gangbangers. We can thank the ancient christians for destroying the library of for good. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Shitposting - "dogpiling gangbangers", maybe think before you post" - Reagy))[/highlight]

[QUOTE=Sprockethead;52277449]one of you busybodies[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Sprockethead;52277819]you dogpiling gangbangers[/QUOTE] Yeah, you're really doing a good job of making people care about your point

[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;52277917]Yeah, you're really doing a good job of making people care about your point[/QUOTE] Yeah i'll just go fuck myself. I didn't need all that self-confidence anyway, and you can just go on disliking me and finding fault in every fucking thing i say for some reason.

[QUOTE=Sprockethead;52277163]Well you can thank the ancient christians for burning the Library of Alexandria and flaying the scholars alive, delaying the rediscovery of classical reasoning by a thousand years. Otherwise you and me would probably be out there by now. Then again maybe it was a lesson we needed to learn.[/QUOTE] If Hitler had just tripped over a rock as a kid and hit his head he would of received a scar on his face making him too ugly to run for public office in Nazi Germany. The V2 rocket program would never of started, as a result the US would never of acquired German rocket scientists to kick start NASA. WW2 wouldn't of occurred meaning computers would never have been invented to crack the enigma code, the lack of computers would mean the internet wouldn't be invented and coincidentally no one would get cancer from that dumb post

[QUOTE=Sprockethead;52277449] I'm not that smart, and i'm probably going to get the details wrong. Though you cant fucking argue that the christians didn't smother secular intellectualism following their rise to prominence. [/QUOTE] Out of the three Abrahamic religions, Christianity is most compatible with a civil, secular government instead of a religious one. The truth of the matter is that Catholic monasteries didn't just recopy the bible over and over. They kept the copying classical texts as well, especially the Eastern Orthodox Church as part of the Byzantine Empire. Western thought was preserved by Christians, not destroyed.

[QUOTE=Sprockethead;52277932]Yeah i'll just go fuck myself. I didn't need all that self-confidence anyway, and you can just go on disliking me and finding fault in every fucking thing i say for some reason.[/QUOTE] Have you ever considered doing some research and making sure your points are actually valid the first time? That'd kinda help quite a bit. As would admitting when you're wrong and not moving the goalposts or acting condescendingly to the people who correct you.

[QUOTE=Sprockethead;52277932]Yeah i'll just go fuck myself.[/QUOTE] Go for it

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;52278091]Out of the three Abrahamic religions, Christianity is most compatible with a civil, secular government instead of a religious one. The truth of the matter is that Catholic monasteries didn't just recopy the bible over and over. They kept the copying classical texts as well, especially the Eastern Orthodox Church as part of the Byzantine Empire. Western thought was preserved by Christians, not destroyed.[/QUOTE] Fascinating - I thought it was the opposite! Although I recall that if you wanted to do anything close to proper 'science' in the Medieval period, a monastery was the only place with the resources to do it. Would you say that it's more toward recent times that we've seen a more clear break between science and Christianity, with Galileo and creationism and whatnot?

[QUOTE=Sprockethead;52277932]Yeah i'll just go fuck myself. I didn't need all that self-confidence anyway, and you can just go on disliking me and finding fault in every fucking thing i say for some reason.[/QUOTE] is this performance art

This page is a bizarre mix of schaffensfreude and arrogance (from a particular member).

[QUOTE=Maloof?;52278293]Fascinating - I thought it was the opposite! Although I recall that if you wanted to do anything close to proper 'science' in the Medieval period, a monastery was the only place with the resources to do it. Would you say that it's more toward recent times that we've seen a more clear break between science and Christianity, with Galileo and creationism and whatnot?[/QUOTE] Let's put it this way: A Catholic priest developed the theory of genetics by playing with peas, and another Catholic priest developed the theory of the Big Bang - both of which in the modern age (past 200 years). The idea that Christianity is against science is just plain false. [editline]26th May 2017[/editline] Creationism is really just a small belief in all of Christianity. It's only followed by a handful of Protestant denominations in the US as far as I know. Christianity across the globe in general does not follow it.

[QUOTE=Sprockethead;52277819]So let me rephrase then you dogpiling gangbangers. We can thank the ancient christians for destroying the library of for good.[/QUOTE] If it was destroyed for good, how come the Arabs were able to destroy it? :thinking:

[QUOTE=Maloof?;52278293]Fascinating - I thought it was the opposite! Although I recall that if you wanted to do anything close to proper 'science' in the Medieval period, a monastery was the only place with the resources to do it. Would you say that it's more toward recent times that we've seen a more clear break between science and Christianity, with Galileo and creationism and whatnot?[/QUOTE] Tycho Brahe discovered the earth's orbit was an ellipse because the math for a circular orbit was inconsistent. Tycho knew that God would never create an imperfect universe, so he kept trying different shapes until he found the ellipse and the math worked out.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;52278091]Out of the three Abrahamic religions, Christianity is most compatible with a civil, secular government instead of a religious one.[/QUOTE] I'll go one step further and argue that Christianity's highest virtue of truth and suspicion of any institutional power is actually what [I]enabled[/I] the scientific revolution and the enlightenment, forget inhibiting. Likewise, Islam's core virtue of submission to god (Islam directly translating to submission) enabled one dude to single handedly end the Islamic golden age by basically saying "science doesn't real because things happen because god wills it". You wanna say "oh X religion set us back XXX years, if only it never existed!", Go rail at Islam for letting Al-Ghazali single handedly dig a hole that sucked up the intellectual center of the world at the time, that contemporary islamic society is still stuck in today.

i expected a bunch of cool pictures when i saw there were 24 new posts damn it

[QUOTE=Scot;52280702]i expected a bunch of cool pictures when i saw there were 24 new posts damn it[/QUOTE] I got you my nigga. [t]http://museum.classics.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/casts/377.JPG[/t] This is [I]The Dying Gaul[/I] (more accurately The Dying Galatian) this marble statue is a Roman copy of the original which would have been solid bronze. The statue came from Pergamum, a greek city in what is now western Turkey that has been sadly forgotten in the popular consciousness. Pergamum was known as a centre of learning, commerce, and thanks to this statue; a powerful state. Attalus I commissioned this statue after his victory over the Galatians (a group of celtic peoples who lived in what is now Ankara, Turkey. I mean how bloody cool is that?)some time between 230 and 220 BC. Much to everyone's surprise, the piece he commissioned was not one of Pergamese triumph, it was not a piece showing Attalus' status as a god or anything like that. It was a statue of a young man of fighting age, bleeding from a stab wound in the abdomen, too weak to stand, slowly dying on his own shield. It served as a tragic reminder of the human cost on both sides in war. While Pergamum celebrated its victory over its enemies, there were people languishing in defeat. [t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Dying_GaulDSCF6738.jpg/800px-Dying_GaulDSCF6738.jpg[/t] Here's a detail of the distinctly Celtic face, the moustache with no beard, the torc around his neck, and the wild hair. When painted I'm sure the face would be one of profound despair.

The first photograph of Earth from outer space: [t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/First_satellite_photo_-_Explorer_VI.jpg/800px-First_satellite_photo_-_Explorer_VI.jpg[/t] [QUOTE]The first image taken by Explorer 6 shows a sunlit area of the Central Pacific Ocean and its cloud cover. The photo was taken when the satellite was about 17,000 mi (27,000 km) above the surface of the earth on August 14, 1959. At the time, the satellite was crossing Mexico.[/QUOTE]

Finally some real proof that the earth is flat

[QUOTE][IMG]https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2011/04/hogfish.jpg[/IMG] This is the first color photograph ever taken underwater. It’s a hogfish captured off the Florida Keys in 1926 by National Geographic photographer Charles Martin and Dr. William Longley. In addition to some special waterproof camera housing, the duo used pounds of highly explosive magnesium flash powder to illuminate the scene. The powder was actually in a raft on the surface of the water. When they pressed the camera shutter, it tripped a battery on the raft, which triggered a powerful explosion that illuminated the underwater scene up to 15 feet deep. [IMG]https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2011/04/magnesium.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Sprockethead;52277163]Well you can thank the ancient christians for burning the Library of Alexandria and flaying the scholars alive, delaying the rediscovery of classical reasoning by a thousand years. Otherwise you and me would probably be out there by now. Then again maybe it was a lesson we needed to learn.[/QUOTE] my man, i know Spaceship Earth is a great ride but the history there is tenuous at best [editline]27th May 2017[/editline] speaking of epcot, i just found out about this thing called Westcot that almost was going to be the park where California Adventure sits currently. Unfortunately it died because EuroDisney killed their park budget because it was so unpopular. The main centerpiece was Space Station Earth, an epcot ball that was twice the size, at 300 ft, of the one in Florida. [t]https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NMtKXbXGx0I/WFcCwIdA6lI/AAAAAAAAQuE/MS_13W7vFDs8Q_jUvf1QIaOtOqWKydQPgCLcB/s1600/westcot%2Bglobe.jpg[/t] [t]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3M8UCeWEAAhO0V.jpg[/t] further info in this vid, it's crazy how close this got to groundbreaking before it was cancelled [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TCmGba7sb8[/media]

The dome reminds me how much I like structures like Science World. [img]https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5465/29846962103_d253f0b268_b.jpg[/img] [img]https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2024/2848099534_01ef638f06_b.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=Broguts;52281158]I got you my nigga. [t]http://museum.classics.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/casts/377.JPG[/t] This is [I]The Dying Gaul[/I] (more accurately The Dying Galatian) this marble statue is a Roman copy of the original which would have been solid bronze. The statue came from Pergamum, a greek city in what is now western Turkey that has been sadly forgotten in the popular consciousness. Pergamum was known as a centre of learning, commerce, and thanks to this statue; a powerful state. Attalus I commissioned this statue after his victory over the Galatians (a group of celtic peoples who lived in what is now Ankara, Turkey. I mean how bloody cool is that?)some time between 230 and 220 BC. Much to everyone's surprise, the piece he commissioned was not one of Pergamese triumph, it was not a piece showing Attalus' status as a god or anything like that. It was a statue of a young man of fighting age, bleeding from a stab wound in the abdomen, too weak to stand, slowly dying on his own shield. It served as a tragic reminder of the human cost on both sides in war. While Pergamum celebrated its victory over its enemies, there were people languishing in defeat. [t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Dying_GaulDSCF6738.jpg/800px-Dying_GaulDSCF6738.jpg[/t] Here's a detail of the distinctly Celtic face, the moustache with no beard, the torc around his neck, and the wild hair. When painted I'm sure the face would be one of profound despair.[/QUOTE] If you hadn't told me the statue was 2000 years old I would have guessed he was a 70s porn star.

[QUOTE=download;52282914]If you hadn't told me the statue was 2000 years old I would have guessed he was a 70s porn star.[/QUOTE] The moustache was a symbol of "barbarism" for thousands of years. It was so prominent amongst Celtic and Germanic warriors and nobles that the Romans would eventually shave their moustaches in defiance. Some Romans thought that any hair around the mouth was barbaric and well they kinda invented the neckbeard. Nero famously wore a neckbeard. [t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Nero_1.JPG/800px-Nero_1.JPG[/t] Look at this gross cunt, this is emperor #5. Rome was a mistake. [editline]28th May 2017[/editline] Kill all Romans, take a bath of dead Roman 665 AUC best year of my life, Pontus greatest country.

The Dying Gaul is no doubt one of the most poignant historical statues. I'd rank it up there with the Lion of Lucerne, often simply known as the Lion Monument. Mark Twain referred to it as "the most mournful and moving piece of stone in the world." [img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/6308_-_Luzern_-_L%C3%B6wendenkmal.JPG/450px-6308_-_Luzern_-_L%C3%B6wendenkmal.JPG[/img] It commemorates the Swiss Guards who dutifully stood their ground when the Tuileries Palace was stormed during the French Revolution. The guards were massively outnumbered, ran out of ammunition, and most were either killed outright, massacred upon their ordered surrender, or were killed later due to untreated wounds while imprisoned. [img]http://benschwindt.weebly.com/uploads/2/9/4/9/29492259/875213_orig.jpg[/img] I'm sure many of you already know of it, but it deserves the recognition. Again, Mark Twain puts it better than I: "The Lion lies in his lair in the perpendicular face of a low cliff — for he is carved from the living rock of the cliff. His size is colossal, his attitude is noble. His head is bowed, the broken spear is sticking in his shoulder, his protecting paw rests upon the lilies of France. Vines hang down the cliff and wave in the wind, and a clear stream trickles from above and empties into a pond at the base, and in the smooth surface of the pond the lion is mirrored, among the water-lilies." "Around about are green trees and grass. The place is a sheltered, reposeful woodland nook, remote from noise and stir and confusion — and all this is fitting, for lions do die in such places, and not on granite pedestals in public squares fenced with fancy iron railings. The Lion of Lucerne would be impressive anywhere, but nowhere so impressive as where he is."

I went on a trip recently and took some photos! [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/vG3qQU2.png[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/8NQH5GY.png[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/pnv0Ys1.png[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/iJ6zPAK.png[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/TFWAAaf.jpg[/img_thumb]

Rome really fell apart once it became an empire. The Julio-Claudian dynasty was a bunch of self absorbed, inbred morons who couldn't see past their own deformed noses. Rome's emperors were so fucking bad that the Praetorian guard killed more emperors than anyone else, in 20 years the guards killed 40 emperors. Imagine sucking so bad your own sworn protectors murder you. The only real thing the five "good" emperors had going for them was they weren't gibbering fucking idiots and they actually thought logically like real human beings. Oh and Trajan, #2 of the "five good emperors" and the so called [I]optimus princeps[/I] (best ruler) was renowned for ruling Rome at its greatest extent and allegedly removing the Dacian people from existence. [t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Statue-Augustus.jpg/800px-Statue-Augustus.jpg[/t] Look at this pompous waste of space, this primordial sludge in the shape of a vaguely-human looking animate foreskin. This complete fucking Narcissus given flesh, this kinslayer and rapist of liberty. For a state whose defining moment of glory was overthrowing the shackles of a foreign monarch they sure didn't have any qualms about subjecting other states to that tyranny. The only sad thing about Rome's downfall is that it didn't happen sooner. Rome should have been destroyed when Rome dared to provoke Mithridates VI into war. Overall 10/10 rome was a pretty good state