Comments by "Archangel" (@SirAntoniousBlock) on "Dan Carlin" channel.

  1. @Christian Ormond Conspiracy theorists revisionists neo Nazi's nuts etc
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  2. Dan (Carlin) asked an interesting question about why medieval imagery depicted classical and biblical scenes in contemporary dress and settings and I felt Dan (Jones) answer that it was allegorical was unsatisfactory, he missed a good chance to explain the medieval mindset formed by their worldview and pre Copernican cosmology. The medieval world was an extremely static one, their view of time was Aristotelian (the official church view) the earth literally did not move and was just a stage to play out gods divine plan, before banking and finance there was little social mobility or chance for betterment- If you were the son of a ploughman that is what you would be like your father and his father before him, and before printing and indeed mass literacy knowledge was jealously guarded and interpreted by the church. The idea of progress is an enlightenment or at most Renaissance concept so they literally believed that the world had changed little since classical times and would change little till the day of judgement,for them the biblical stories were literally true and may as well have been yesterday and so were very real. Yes they were creatures just like us with the same needs and desires but some of their motivations may seem incomprehensible because of their world view, he acknowledges that Churchill was "old fashioned" so how much more were the people of the middle ages?
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  3. Being in the trenches in 1917-18 wasn't a barrel of laughs either, in a line from Blueprint for Armaggedon Dan says: "Think of the worse place in the world to be, and then it starts to rain."
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  4. Otsi the Iceman!
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  5. Boring, get back to traditional history Topics Dan.
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  6. '1816 the last time there was mass famine in Europe' Takes an English "historian" to make a breataking falsehood like this, oh and you can add Ukraine in the 1930's. Unless he meant the last natural mass famine.
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  7.  @laddbenson4211  Like John Lennon when he started the bolshevik revolution with the Vietcong.
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  8. What's the deaths of 27,000 called?
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  9. I bet he last time you were so early the Kaiser was still a thing.
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  10. Yeah its certainly a worry when a lunatic conspiracy theorist is in charge of a major power. 😑
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  11. Individualism and competition is fine in the good times but unity of purpose and co-operation will always be better in times of war or crisis.
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  12. Is that safe or legal???
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  13. Dan asking questions I didn't even think of!
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  14. "New Guinea the second largest island on the planet" Antarctic and Greenland: Are we a joke to you?
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  15. Samurai bureaucratic bosses! So thats where karoshi comes from.
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  16. The rest of your life will seem like an anti climax now......
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  17. Come on mate, its like choosing between your children.
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  18. SPOILER ALERT 186 Nazi's dislike this video. 😂
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  19. Thucydides.
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  20.  @henriknielsen2517  It's not difficult to spellcheck.
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  21.  @gertrudlehmann4869  Yes mistype, thank you for the correction. Edited.
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  22.  Ingested Media  It was part of the campaign for collectivisation and destruction of the Kulak class by Stalin, the other major famine which wasn't "natural" was of course the Irish one.
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  23. Yes finally!
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