Robbert Leusink

Why so many places feel wrong... You have walked through a beautiful building and felt something you could not name. Bought something that looked right and felt wrong at home. Stood in a room that was expensive, tasteful, and somehow empty. That feeling is not nostalgia. It is your instinct recognising that something was removed from the things we build and buy, and never replaced. 5 days to name it: why-places-feel-wrong.drr.ac

A man who never left his village built a hospital that still runs today. Padre Pio (born May 25, 1887) funded it through his confessional: penitents from across Europe left donations. A poor Capuchin friar with unexplained wounds built Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza: 1,200 beds Now among southern Italy’s leading research hospitals, outlasting every local government programme.

Johan Cruyff was born on April 25, 1947, in a working-class neighbourhood in Amsterdam He was not only Netherlands' most famous football player... Cruyff restructured how it football is thought about Total Football requires every player to understand every position But the Dutch teams did not dominate through physical superiority They produced the most intelligent generation of footballers in history Every possession-based system in modern football traces back to this guy from Amsterdam

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Jawel hoor, Rukker Koolhaas: 'Onze middeleeuwse steden zijn een uiting van superioriteitsgevoel. We moeten onze steden meer gelijkschakelen met elkaar en met Dubai om ze aantrekkelijker en minder superieur te maken voor immigranten.' Althans, ik kan hier niks ander van maken: quotenet.nl/zakelijk/a7139…

Your company has a mission statement. Your boss talks about purpose and vision. Your leadership coach sells inspiration. Peter Drucker invented all of it.... He was a practising Catholic who explicitly modelled the modern organisation on the Church: Mission, vision, the sending of people outward toward a goal: the structure is Pentecost. The Sender was edited out. The structure stayed.

On April 25, 1974, the Portuguese military overthrew the Estado Novo: the regime Salazar built Salazar had been an economics professor He balanced Portugal's budget in two years He kept the country out of World War II He ran it for 36 years on the principle that order precedes prosperity The soldiers who ended his legacy put carnations in their rifle barrels Portugal has run a deficit in almost every year since

@levelsio Imagine how great Amsterdam would be without tourists and non-European foreigners.

Leiden might be the best candidate if you want to visit a Dutch city and avoid the tourist shithole that Amsterdam is in 2026 (I am Dutch and from Amsterdam) Leiden is in some way might be more historically significant than Amsterdam (more on that in my reply) You'll find zero tourists and as a tourist you won't even be able to see the difference with Amsterdam (except that there's no annoying tourists!)

@rfkenmore Stockholm mogs most european cities in terms of menswear

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@levelsio @denisyurchak In Utrecht you pay €180 for an NH Hotel without breakfast

@denisyurchak I'd recommend instead going to other Dutch cities like Utrecht or Leiden which also have cute canals but aren't tourist shitholes As a Dutch

Planning an Amsterdam trip with gf Airbnbs are mostly banned so you get subpar and expensive hotels (min 200€ per night for 2 stars, and under 20 variants left for the whole city at this price) The Netherlands has an extremely high airport tax, so no low-costers as well Flight prices from other cities in Europe start at 300€ So a weekend trip now costs 500€ min Thanks to leftist policies, you need to be a millionaire in Europe to afford life here

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The Gospel of Mark is the shortest of the 4 It was almost cut from the canon entirely by the early Church fathers They considered it redundant because it overlaps heavily with Matthew But it survived because St. Peter vouched for it Mark wrote down Peter's eyewitness account of Christ The shortest gospel is the closest to the source

All the Church ceilingsgs in the Low Countries once looked like this The Reformation stripped them bare

St. Willibrord left Northumbria in 690 and walked into what is now the Netherlands with eleven monks and no plan The Franks gave him land in Echternach in 698 He built the first Anglo-Saxon monastery on the European continent He is still buried in the crypt beneath the basilica The abbey was dissolved by the French Republic in 1797, bombed by the Allies in 1944, and rebuilt St. Willibrord is the patron saint of the Netherlands and Luxembourg Pray for us 🙏

Every time someone says 'the Dark Ages,' they are repeating the lie of a Swiss historian. Jacob Burckhardt invented the periodisation in 1860. No medieval source calls the preceding centuries dark. No contemporary called the period after it a 'renaissance''. He needed the Church's millennium to be primitive so that secular modernity could be a liberation. It has always been propaganda.

The cathedral in Reims has been the coronation church of French kings since 816 Thirty-three kings were crowned here over a thousand years The legitimacy of the French crown depended on this building A king who was not crowned at Reims was not fully king

Samuel Morse sent ‘What hath God wrought’ (Numbers 23:23) on May 24, 1844. Not a test signal… not a greeting… but Scripture was transmitted electrically for the first time in human history. The information age opened with a prayer.

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Every date you have ever written runs on a system invented by a monk in 731. Bede calculated Anno Domini in a monastery in Northumbria: Every government, court, stock exchange, and birth certificate on earth still uses his framework. He died in his cell. You have never heard of him.

Few realise how bad the Reformation was Between 780 and 900 AD, Carolingian monks produced over 7,000 manuscripts They copied works of Virgil, Horace, Cicero, and Seneca Most classical knowledge exists because of them Then the Reformation arrived.... Worcester Cathedral held 600 books After the dissolution: 6 survived York's Augustinian Friars held 646 volumes After the dissolution: 3 remained They didn't reform the house, but burned it to the ground Protestantism created oikophobia

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The separation of church and state was not an Enlightenment idea. In 1077, the Holy Roman Emperor stood barefoot in the snow outside Canossa for three days, waiting for a pope to lift his excommunication.... Pope Gregory VII had just established that no secular ruler could appoint bishops: Kings ruled bodies, and the Church ruled souls, institutions, and the moral order above both. Every modern democracy inherited his boundary. But none of them know where it came from.