Otto Maddox ₿ 🏄♂️🍸
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The anti-Muslim sentiment sweeping across the UK and Europe is "basically racism" says Rory Stewart
>be horse, 10,000 BC >thunder across the Eurasian steppes in massive herds >humans approach with spears >heart pounding >be cornered >they don't eat you >they offer grain and salt >be domesticated horse, 4000 BC >humans tie a cart to you and your friend >pull the cart around >every human that witnesses your work is amazed >your kind spreads across the world side by side with man >be warhorse, 2000 BC >you pull the chariots that decide empires >without your speed and power, no conquest, no trade routes >the Hittites, the Egyptians, the Mycenaeans >their glory rides on your legs >civilization is literally pulled forward under your power >be warhorse, 300BC >bigger and stronger than ever before >humans now ride on your back >be called Bucephalus >carry your master across the world >kingdoms fall under your hooves and your master's sword >hailed as the greatest of your kind to ever live >sire a legendary lineage that becomes the envy of the kingdoms of men >be warhorse, 44BC >so widespread and diverse that armies are made up of men and horses from thousands of miles apart >turn the tide of world-changing battles and maneuvers >roads your trod down will be used for millennia >history is carried forward on your back >be warhorse, 900 AD >armored head to hoof >steel in the field, genteel in the pasture >just like the master >you carry the men that bring news, help, honor, and leadership >you are the symbol and source of their status >civilization depends on you >be warhorse, 1683 AD >Islam lays siege to Vienna with all of Europe prostrate beyond >the city is desperate for relief >supplies are short and the underminers threaten the walls >3,000 men in winged armor ride on your back to the salvation of Christendom >Europe is literally saved by your turn of the tide >be standard horse, 1778 AD >15 years old >pretty unremarkable but notice loud noises don't bother you >be given away as a gift >owner already has another horse, but alright >he ends up liking you more because you don't care about noise >he starts riding you through a bunch of crowds making a ton of noise >become a famous symbol of the era and watch the British Empire surrender to your boss >America is literally born on your back >be workhorse, 1915 AD >drafted along with your master to fight for the king >pull ammunition carts from rail depots to guns >the machine-horses on tracks make your job easier because you don't have carry as much as far >eight million of your kind are killed to fight the war to end all wars >the war doesn't end war >the war ends your relationship with mankind >be horse, 1955 AD >nobody has use for you anymore >they've made smaller machine horses >they're cheaper to feed >they're easier to learn >they carry more weight >they take all of your jobs >be horse, 2026 AD >nobody cares about you anymore >you survive as a pet to young rich girls >sometimes she shows you off to an audience but you feel something is missing >your cousin runs races for gambling addicts >your brother sometimes pulls tourists around in New York >you heard of some horses that carry cops around but it sounds like folklore >there are more toys of your kind than actual horses
In the 1970s Ben Stein interviewed major TV producers/writers to ask why their portrayal of US culture was so distorted. Businessmen were evil. Real life crime was always depicted inaccurately, favoring instead the Marxist narratives on race, class, and culture of the new left.
JUST IN: French President Macron calls on medium-sized powers to “join forces and stand up” to the U.S. & China.
I love seeing the multiple news stories in recent months (this latest one below behind a paywall, mea culpa) about all the 20/30-somethings flocking to Catholicism in NYC, almost all focused specifically on the Dominicans' Greenwich Village parish. But, at some point I'd love for the journalists out there to discover that many other Catholic churches in and beyond Manhattan -- many of them NOT run by the (great, effective) Order of Preachers, and not all of them easily characterized by phrases like "anti-woke", or socially-mobile-professional, or whatever -- are increasingly packed to the rafters, standing room only, every Sunday. And they might also see that that many women and men of a variety of ages -- not just "hot", clubbable, Gen Z kids -- are among those returning or coming for the first time to the Faith and increasingly filling the pews these days. AND, above all, whatever journalists, editors, & producers deem to be good copy or not in this cultural/political moment, I would LOVE it it the pastors of these growing numbers of crowded churches would start scheduling in an additional Mass or two at this point on Sundays -- so that more people (including the moms with kids, the construction worker who has been working hard, not at a keyboard, all week, and the elderly folks using canes or walkers...) can more easily find a seat and recollect themselves. washingtonpost.com/style/trends/2…
Amen to this. The Catholic revival is taking root all over, including rural, humble parishes in out-of-the-way parts of the country. The fruits, though, are similar wherever the Church is growing: standing room only Masses, large families with small children, young people, chapel veils, more parishioners kneeling to receive the Eucharist, and a general embrace of ancient, once-neglected Catholic traditions. In my own humble parish, St. Michael’s in Palmer, Alaska, last night we held the second-ever Tenebrae service in an Alaskan parish (the first one was last year). The women’s schola sang polyphonic Latin hymns and chant, the teenagers blacked out all the windows beforehand, and the church, unlike last year, was totally full. The Catholic Church in America is rising—not just in the cities, but all over. In time it will transform this country.
Why are there so many Indians in the new HBO Harry Potter tv show?
