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Originally Posted By BibFortunaBrah
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Originally Posted By Caeculus
I think life would be better as a peasant 500-1500 years ago

- get your own farm to live on and grow your food and build your own little cob style house as long as you give the nobleman some of your food you grow
- have a defined role in society and when you see your family eating the food you grew/hunted yourself, you know your place in society and it brings you a certain type of satisfaction we don't have now
- virgin bride that loves you and raises your children. Accepts your role as the man in the family without resentment
- feasts every couple months where your family/community gets together and eats, drink wine, dance and have a good time
- religion still exists and you know 100% that when you die you will be spending eternity in paradise with god and those that you love
- cowards and degeneracy was not tolerated. If you steal you get your hand chopped off etc
- men were allowed to be men. If someone causes harm to your honor you are expected to beat/kill them
Here's a more unromantic telling of life as a peasant 500-1500 years ago:

-Born on Tuesday to parents suffering through famine.
-Dead on Saturday
-The end! Hooray!
Take it easy Christian
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Originally Posted By TheBrentmeister
lol this is perfect too. You could probably already guess how they think, what they've done in life, how'd they react to nearly anything all just from a photo. This is nothing but weakness.

Too longer times of peace and no hardship has it's negative effects too. Add on top technology is reducing crucial development in humans + destabilization of roles through progressive moments and we're getting mutant forms of devolving, soft humans. Humans are become way more sedentary, being exposed less to real competition, being exposed less to real face-to-face communication and even when they develop a disorder they then have society telling them they are fine and nothing is wrong with them. Just a breeding pot for a circus show. You'd have hoped we could have removed the brutality of the past such as dying if someone sneezes near you, while also keeping the positivities, but this hasn't happened.

I don't think the human body and mind can evolve to what we need now, I mean it's getting clearer every year. I think the only path from here on in is to fully integrate with technology because our biology on it's own can't balance the modern age properly.
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Originally Posted By TheBrentmeister
Trump gets offended whenever the media gets a little harsh with him. He cries about it in Twitter (aka. his safe space)

Trump deserves all the criticism he gets, plus more. The last picture is a picture of Trump crying when CNN quotes him.
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Originally Posted By Caeculus
I think life would be better as a peasant 500-1500 years ago

- get your own farm to live on and grow your food and build your own little cob style house as long as you give the nobleman some of your food you grow
- have a defined role in society and when you see your family eating the food you grew/hunted yourself, you know your place in society and it brings you a certain type of satisfaction we don't have now
- virgin bride that loves you and raises your children. Accepts your role as the man in the family without resentment
- feasts every couple months where your family/community gets together and eats, drink wine, dance and have a good time
- religion still exists and you know 100% that when you die you will be spending eternity in paradise with god and those that you love
- cowards and degeneracy was not tolerated. If you steal you get your hand chopped off etc
- men were allowed to be men. If someone causes harm to your honor you are expected to beat/kill them
- they take the majority and leave you starving or get killed for not working
- your defined role is almost literally slavery
- you choose to get married nobles have first dibs on your wifes virginity
- feasts? no
- pray to god to cure your starving sons cold but he dies regardless
- absolutely no system of innocence until proven guilty. brb getting hands chopped of for eating 2 extra grains of wheat
- as a peasant you arent doing anything but starving and working yourself to death.
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Originally Posted By Caeculus
I think life would be better as a peasant 500-1500 years ago

- get your own farm to live on and grow your food and build your own little cob style house as long as you give the nobleman some of your food you grow
- have a defined role in society and when you see your family eating the food you grew/hunted yourself, you know your place in society and it brings you a certain type of satisfaction we don't have now
- virgin bride that loves you and raises your children. Accepts your role as the man in the family without resentment
- feasts every couple months where your family/community gets together and eats, drink wine, dance and have a good time
- religion still exists and you know 100% that when you die you will be spending eternity in paradise with god and those that you love
- cowards and degeneracy was not tolerated. If you steal you get your hand chopped off etc
- men were allowed to be men. If someone causes harm to your honor you are expected to beat/kill them
Yeah and I'd be the nobleman your peasant ass is tithing his food too. At least you know your station.
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Originally Posted By Caeculus
I think life would be better as a peasant 500-1500 years ago

- get your own farm to live on and grow your food and build your own little cob style house as long as you give the nobleman some of your food you grow
- have a defined role in society and when you see your family eating the food you grew/hunted yourself, you know your place in society and it brings you a certain type of satisfaction we don't have now
- virgin bride that loves you and raises your children. Accepts your role as the man in the family without resentment
- feasts every couple months where your family/community gets together and eats, drink wine, dance and have a good time
- religion still exists and you know 100% that when you die you will be spending eternity in paradise with god and those that you love
- cowards and degeneracy was not tolerated. If you steal you get your hand chopped off etc
- men were allowed to be men. If someone causes harm to your honor you are expected to beat/kill them
Aren't you that guy that posted about having to drive his neighbor to go buy liquor because you're too afraid to say no to an old man.
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Originally Posted By Caeculus
I think life would be better as a peasant 500-1500 years ago

- get your own farm to live on and grow your food and build your own little cob style house as long as you give the nobleman some of your food you grow
- have a defined role in society and when you see your family eating the food you grew/hunted yourself, you know your place in society and it brings you a certain type of satisfaction we don't have now
- virgin bride that loves you and raises your children. Accepts your role as the man in the family without resentment
- feasts every couple months where your family/community gets together and eats, drink wine, dance and have a good time
- religion still exists and you know 100% that when you die you will be spending eternity in paradise with god and those that you love
- cowards and degeneracy was not tolerated. If you steal you get your hand chopped off etc
- men were allowed to be men. If someone causes harm to your honor you are expected to beat/kill them
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Originally Posted By 2RDEYE


mind is ****ed from this pic
Refugees will leave if they see that.
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Originally Posted By Caeculus
I think life would be better as a peasant 500-1500 years ago

- get your own farm to live on and grow your food and build your own little cob style house as long as you give the nobleman some of your food you grow
- have a defined role in society and when you see your family eating the food you grew/hunted yourself, you know your place in society and it brings you a certain type of satisfaction we don't have now
- virgin bride that loves you and raises your children. Accepts your role as the man in the family without resentment
- feasts every couple months where your family/community gets together and eats, drink wine, dance and have a good time
- religion still exists and you know 100% that when you die you will be spending eternity in paradise with god and those that you love
- cowards and degeneracy was not tolerated. If you steal you get your hand chopped off etc
- men were allowed to be men. If someone causes harm to your honor you are expected to beat/kill them
Age: 29.

Sorry boyo you died of dysentery 2 years ago.
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Originally Posted By BibFortunaBrah
Historians say that medieval laborers actually worked far fewer hours per day then we do now.

LOL, just LOL at cubecel cucks working 2x as hard as medieval peasants, who had basically no rights.
That would only be if you're averaging farming hours over the year - during the growing season they will work all day and then when winter comes there isn't **** to do cept cut wood and cull livestock
A million miles away - I don't.. feel.... anything.
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Originally Posted By 2RDEYE


mind is ****ed from this pic
That's one ugly woman. Bet that he can't get laid by either gender. Just lmao
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Originally Posted By Muztek
You are fkin retarded boyo.
We've never lived in better times, please go to some third world country and say that to them.

Also strong last point considering you cowered in the corner like the little bitch you are.
Stay cucked bro.

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Originally Posted By Jms89
That's one ugly woman. Bet that he can't get laid by either gender. Just lmao
That's a he, get it right!!
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Originally Posted By Maylie
And then you die at 17 of black plague, your wife is sold to you like cattle, LOL at love...

Are you actually this retarded?
Fuk off your frauding whore. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.
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Originally Posted By Maylie
Regardless of the issues we have today you would have to be a retard to think being a medieval peasant would be more fun.
Strong logic. You answer every question like an entitled, holier-than-thou pissant, unable to detect sarcasm, genuine difference of viewpoint, or even the most basic concept of your own social ineptitude.
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Originally Posted By TitusVI
You know what was the best feeling in the world. 2000 years ago when you stand in a row with 4000 other soldiers facing the enemy horde. You have a sowrd in your hand and a shield. You scream like a mother****er when your general rides his horse in front of you and then you hear the trumpets and you just start running torwards the enemy. You want glory and you want to smash brains and at the end of the day you want to take everying valuable from the enemy including taking some slaves to take home. If you were a soldier in the army of the gloryfull Ceasar you had the opportunity to become a made man. And veterans back then had it way better then today. A roman soldier had the right to get his own land after duty.
Except for the dying painfully & horribly part.
Simple minds need simple answers.
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Originally Posted By Peter
Fuk off your frauding whore. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.
Eat a snickers. You're not you when you're hungry.
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Originally Posted By BibFortunaBrah
Strong logic. You answer every question like an entitled, holier-than-thou pissant, unable to detect sarcasm, genuine difference of viewpoint, or even the most basic concept of your own social ineptitude.
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Originally Posted By Caeculus
I think life would be better as a peasant 500-1500 years ago

- get your own farm to live on and grow your food and build your own little cob style house as long as you give the nobleman some of your food you grow
- have a defined role in society and when you see your family eating the food you grew/hunted yourself, you know your place in society and it brings you a certain type of satisfaction we don't have now
- virgin bride that loves you and raises your children. Accepts your role as the man in the family without resentment
- feasts every couple months where your family/community gets together and eats, drink wine, dance and have a good time
- religion still exists and you know 100% that when you die you will be spending eternity in paradise with god and those that you love
- cowards and degeneracy was not tolerated. If you steal you get your hand chopped off etc
- men were allowed to be men. If someone causes harm to your honor you are expected to beat/kill them
Originally Posted By teodorkanev1
Strong knowledge

Medieval Europe:
brb diet is porridge, carrots and cabbage(no potato, tomato, other imported stuff)
brb Carnival comes from the latin word carne(meaning meat) cus you only get that chit on the kings' brithday
brb call to arms, get killed from arrows before the battle even began
brb live to the old age of 30 before deaded by a cough
brb wife hates you cus marriage was arranged. She secretly loves Roland the smithy, the village Chad
brb your feodal Lord wants to buy a fancy carpet and a chandelier like that other baron, taxes are raised
brb Huns raid your farm and rape your daughters
Ehhh, history buff brah checking in. Both of you guys have some fair points, but some big stuff wrong too.

For one, the food back then seems kind of **** - but you've got to remember, sugar was pretty much unheard of in Europe until they got those New World sugar plantations going. For sweetening food, the only option you had was a bit of honey. Salt was expensive too and pretty much just used for preserving meat, rather than just throwing gallons of it on everything like we do today. So these guys had never ate anything like a Big Mac or Slurpee or Loaded Jalapeno Doritos or any of that salt and sugar laden crap that we eat daily. Laborers in the field in England would often just bite into a whole ****ing onion for lunch - and that sounds pretty terrible, but if you lived in a world where you had never tasted sugar before, I bet that a straight-up onion wouldn't be too bad.

Likewise, battles were way more ghey than you would think back then, and casualties were way lower than you think. It wasn't just arrows blotting out the sun like 300 or horses jumping into walls of men like LOTR or something - it was often closer to a tug-of-war with 15ft pikes. Likewise, casualties in most medieval battles were 5-10% of the army. Psychologically, armies/mobs of men tend to break and run once they hit about 5% casualties (see John Keegan'sThe Face of Battlefor an excellent breakdown on this), and then you'd lose about that many again in the mop-up. For example, Crecy was the like the stereotypical "archers blot out the sun" battle, and casualties there were about 10% of the losing French force. Some battles got really ugly when the losing side was cut off from retreat and got slaughtered (eg Agincourt and Stirling Bridge, Cannae is probably the most original example from way back), but if they could get away, 9 out of 10 troops from most battles were coming home.

Peasants wouldn't arrange marriages, no one gave a **** cause there wasn't much property to inherit. Teenagers generally ****ed around like rabbits, with the understanding that they'd be marrying any peasant HBB they knocked up. The arranged marriages between toddlers and stuff was strictly in the nobility/aristocracy. For the peasantry, the most they'd have to gain by arranging a marriage was probably an extra pasture - that was their version of marrying rich.

Blood feuds were real though - the Germans especially loved that ****.

And while you can't really quantify this, I bet that peasant brahs did derive a lot more meaning/satisfaction from their work than we do today. For those guys, working the fields sunup to sundown or hammering away on some smithing work was the difference between their families eating and everyone starving to death. How's that for reasons to get out of bed in the morning? Some cubecels today have similar motivations today in providing for their families, but it's not as urgent as it was for those guys back then, and the FA / MGTOW crew doesn't even have that. I would definitely venture that those guys had more of a purpose than we do now.

I could go on and on. The past is hard to romanticize, cause those guys lived some tough lives, but it wasn't this ****sack world full of benighted semi-savages like it's often painted out to be. Just like today, people worked hard and got by. I think a clearer way to visualize it is what would happen if there was some kind of dystopia nuclear war type thing that knocked out all our electricity, running water, oil, imported goods, etc and we returned to working the land for food. What would we do for work, land, food, protection, or sexors? I don't think our motives are that different from our ancestors back then.
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Originally Posted By Maylie
Regardless of the issues we have today you would have to be a retard to think being a medieval peasant would be more fun.
You obviously don't LARP! I always love being the peasant who was locked up in town center having tomatoes thrown at me!

I do agree with him that it was a more simple time. But simple isn't necessarily better, at least not in my terms. I can definitely see his position though. You got your farm, your work, you know your place. The world seemed larger and more magical. Some would like that.

However, not my cup of tea. I'll take comforts of today with the bad. This whole victims mentally identity politics pisses me the fuk off though.
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Played poker with a 93 year old WWII vet this past weekend. He was pretty chill.
post 1559254671 08-20-2018, 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted By FA*******
Ehhh, history buff brah checking in. Both of you guys have some fair points, but some big stuff wrong too.

For one, the food back then seems kind of **** - but you've got to remember, sugar was pretty much unheard of in Europe until they got those New World sugar plantations going. For sweetening food, the only option you had was a bit of honey. Salt was expensive too and pretty much just used for preserving meat, rather than just throwing gallons of it on everything like we do today. So these guys had never ate anything like a Big Mac or Slurpee or Loaded Jalapeno Doritos or any of that salt and sugar laden crap that we eat daily. Laborers in the field in England would often just bite into a whole ****ing onion for lunch - and that sounds pretty terrible, but if you lived in a world where you had never tasted sugar before, I bet that a straight-up onion wouldn't be too bad.

Likewise, battles were way more ghey than you would think back then, and casualties were way lower than you think. It wasn't just arrows blotting out the sun like 300 or horses jumping into walls of men like LOTR or something - it was often closer to a tug-of-war with 15ft pikes. Likewise, casualties in most medieval battles were 5-10% of the army. Psychologically, armies/mobs of men tend to break and run once they hit about 5% casualties (see John Keegan'sThe Face of Battlefor an excellent breakdown on this), and then you'd lose about that many again in the mop-up. For example, Crecy was the like the stereotypical "archers blot out the sun" battle, and casualties there were about 10% of the losing French force. Some battles got really ugly when the losing side was cut off from retreat and got slaughtered (eg Agincourt and Stirling Bridge, Cannae is probably the most original example from way back), but if they could get away, 9 out of 10 troops from most battles were coming home.

Peasants wouldn't arrange marriages, no one gave a **** cause there wasn't much property to inherit. Teenagers generally ****ed around like rabbits, with the understanding that they'd be marrying any peasant HBB they knocked up. The arranged marriages between toddlers and stuff was strictly in the nobility/aristocracy. For the peasantry, the most they'd have to gain by arranging a marriage was probably an extra pasture - that was their version of marrying rich.

Blood feuds were real though - the Germans especially loved that ****.

And while you can't really quantify this, I bet that peasant brahs did derive a lot more meaning/satisfaction from their work than we do today. For those guys, working the fields sunup to sundown or hammering away on some smithing work was the difference between their families eating and everyone starving to death. How's that for reasons to get out of bed in the morning? Some cubecels today have similar motivations today in providing for their families, but it's not as urgent as it was for those guys back then, and the FA / MGTOW crew doesn't even have that. I would definitely venture that those guys had more of a purpose than we do now.

I could go on and on. The past is hard to romanticize, cause those guys lived some tough lives, but it wasn't this ****sack world full of benighted semi-savages like it's often painted out to be. Just like today, people worked hard and got by. I think a clearer way to visualize it is what would happen if there was some kind of dystopia nuclear war type thing that knocked out all our electricity, running water, oil, imported goods, etc and we returned to working the land for food. What would we do for work, land, food, protection, or sexors? I don't think our motives are that different from our ancestors back then.
Best post ITT. The past was neither romantic nor a complete cesspool. It had complexities of its own.

Look at medieval art. These weren't savage people. They created beautiful things in addition to being less advanced than us.
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