25 - Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision Makers

This book, by a political scientist and a historian, is not a work of history but a guidebook for decision makers about how to use history. The authors employ a number of historical case studies that highlight both how a lack of knowledge affected those making decisions and how those individuals might have employed historical thinking to better effect. The authors do not shy from practical suggestions and offer tips and techniques for incorporating history into decision making. This work should be considered mandatory reading for strategists and policymakers and their staffs.

“Hasn't the time come to say of morality what Master Eckhart said: "I ask God to rid me of God." ”

— Nietzsche, The Gay Science

One Step Over the Line (Album: Tapping the Vein, 1992)

#music #metal
#thrash #sodom

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Album: Call to Arms, 2011

#saxon #heavymetal
#music #metal

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♟ How Did War Become a Game

In this video we continue to take a look at the history of ′Kriegsspiel′ and explore the early days of Wargaming that eventually gave rise to modern table top games such as Warhammer and Dungeons & Dragons.

#war #wargaming
#game #tabletop
#boardgame #chess

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The Troops of Doom (2022 - Antichrist Reborn)
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Art by: Designer/Guitarist Marcelo Vasco
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At first this album cover caught my eye. I like it.

Then I gave it's first three songs a listen and that was one of be best Thrash Metal I've heard in recent memory.

They play in the vein of Slayer, old Sepultura, Altars of Madness-era Morbid Angel, ... While also trying to create their own identity.

#thrashmetal #thrash
#music #deathmetal
#metal

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#thrashmetal #thrash
#music #deathmetal
#metal #thetroopsofdoom

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#thrashmetal #thrash
#music #deathmetal
#metal #thetroopsofdoom

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#thrashmetal #thrash
#music #deathmetal
#metal #thetroopsofdoom

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The Troops of Doom 🇧🇷
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Album: 2024 - A Mass to the Grotesque
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Song: Chapels of the Unholy (Official Video)

"Make metal evil again". This was The Troops of Doom’s “motto” for the promotion of their sophomore album, “A Mass to the Grotesque”. Being plastered on merch, posts and everything else possible.

Ever since having released “The Confessional” all the way back in September 2020, it was clear that Jairo Guedz, Alex Kaffer, Marcelo Vasco and Alexandre Oliveira wanted to bring back the beloved, tried and true formula of old school death metal. 4 years later, they remain as hectic (and heretic) as always, providing stellar content once again in their grotesque mass.

-Chaoszine

#thetroopsofdoom
#music #metal
#thrashmetal
#deathmetal

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Toyota Celsior

One of the better luxury sedans of the past. Still looks good and works reliably after 3 decades. Had a Lexus LS version too.

#combustion #car
#toyota #philcollins

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Yeah it's extremely depressing sometimes realizing I'm fucking 40.

"It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense. As long as I can remember, every incident and every impulse of my existence has served only to perpetrate one episode after another of conspicuous nonsense, each completely outrageous in its nonsensicality. Considered from whatever point of view – intimately close, infinitely remote, or any position in between – the whole thing has always seemed to be nothing more than some freak accident occurring at a painfully slow rate of speed."

The Clown Puppet by Thomas Ligotti

#zachwilliams
#rock #country
#music

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‘At this place lived formerly an invisible Smith, and if a traveller's Horse had lost a Shoe upon the road, he had no more to do than to bring the Horse to this place with a piece of money, and leaving both there for some little time, he might come again and find the money gone, but the Horse new shod.' - Letter to Dr Mead concerning Antiquities in Berkshire, Oxford, 1738

art - Wayland the Smith by Sacredpathart