monolith94

In America’s eternal desire to emulate the Roman Empire, we seem to be entering the “waste blood & treasure in war against the Persians” phase

@WeirdMedieval April fools was three days ago though?

he should have done more

@AJD20201 @TenreiroDaniel On the one hand, condemn fascism. On the other hand demonize an entire ethnicity. Masterfully done ❤️

@TenreiroDaniel Perverted artists who think aesthetics are a substitute for morality should not be allowed to express themselves. His turn to fascism is the logical conclusion of his lifetime of meaningless self-gratification. The Spanish are animals.

Average senate staffer

@AcademicAgent_X Sadism is a word literally named after a European. Same with masochism

I was listening to this lecture earlier; this passage on "savages" reminded me of the behaviour I've seen from some American recently. Sadism is alien to the European. Not all Americans are like this obviously, but the worst of them are. Evola wrote of this.

@sharghzadeh Clinton bombed Serbia. If you think liberals are too high minded to bomb things you’re naive

Call me cringe, but some of the most decent Americans are aging liberals like Rick Steeves. I miss the era when our culture was in their hands. They may be out of touch, but they believe in humanity and would not bomb Iran back to the Stone Age.

@akarlin He’s supposed to be playing tall, not wide

When you have ticked off everything else on the bucket list the urge to play Hearts of Iron IRL becomes insatiable. In this respect I do get Trump at a deep level. TBH I'd probably do the same but at least I'd also try to give you life extension.

@evanmgoodrich Dude. Not salo though

Children being exposed to disturbing movies they are entirely too young for and have no business watching is an important rite of passage, a time-honored tradition

@silexsc I can’t promise you that you’ll like it but it is different and unique

@ReReadingWolfe I read it once. That was enough

Can we talk about the elephant in the room? Gene Wolfe can’t write female characters and I don’t think that gets talked about enough. Idk maybe it’s his misogyny.

@memizon Sell the books, buy a canoe, go on a nice trip down the Danube

I have decided to quit collecting books. From now on it will be stamps.

@BrianMcDonaldIE Paging @SimoneHCollins

Mash reports that Eduard Chirko, a municipal head in Russia’s Leningrad region, has fathered 33 children (19 sons, 14 daughters) with different partners, runs several businesses, and has been awarded the title “Father-Hero.” He says he only started having children in his 40s: “Life was complicated… but once the first child was born, it just took off.” “God forbid you have just one child,” he added, arguing large families provide stability. Chriko admits it's hard to manage it all: “There are about seven birthdays a month… you have to keep everything in your head, and I mix up names occasionally, when we play football, I might call Lidia ‘Lilia’…”

@fitzfromdublin When pink moon started getting used in ads was a big shift in this

There was a large part of the culture that regarded overt commercialism as cringe and low status. Not letting your music be used in ads etc

@NickHintonn Source?

Even the monks on Mount Athos thought radios were demonic when they first came out. But of course the saintly elders were just like bro be normal it’s fine

@graveair Is it a competition? How do you quantify something like that?

Bresson is a more spiritual and religious Filmmaker than Tarkovsky.

@pureMetatron Easy narnia

Hyrule is my choice, but Camelot is a close second. What about you? Which world would you enter?

@feelsdesperate Sorry buddy I was too busy reading graphic novels and playing magic the gathering

Millennials really left no mark. If they never existed the world would be no different.

@curtis_yarvin Feeling like Diogenes with his lamp, Mr yarvin?

There are no “Republicans” as you understand the term. There is a loose alliance between various people who have ways to profit from the inevitable resentment against an unaccountable permanent regime. These people also serve the regime—by pretending to hold it to account

@JDVance And if a few hundred thousand die because your boss decides to go to war on a whim that’s part of the journey huh?

I’ve been writing this book for a long time, and I’m honored to finally be able to share the full story with you all. Communion is about my personal journey and how I found my way back to faith. It will be available in June, but you can pre-order today: a.co/d/0cTpceI7

@Generally_aware @EveKeneinan Christ’s life does not have to comply to customs of the time. An angel came to Mary. That wasn’t exactly customary. None of this is evidence that the tradition of the church is wrong.

@monolith94 @EveKeneinan Quite a bit if you do a bit of research, but I can point you to a couple examples. Here's a review of a book that gets into the details. Also, the Mishnah recommends marriage for men at 18. Actual practice seems to be as young as 14 and certainly by 30 muse.jhu.edu/article/217015

St. Joseph was an elderly and righteous Jew chosen by God to become the protector of the young woman who was to become the mother of the Lord. At no point did St. Joseph's role in God's plan for human salvation required him to have carnal relations with Mary. It is, in fact, possible for an elderly man to marry a young girl with motives other than sexual lust. "Non-monastic" indeed! Monks become monks to practice ascetics, but they do so because asceticism belongs to the cultivation of holiness. There is nothing at all surprising that St. Joseph, a pious, righteous, and holy man, would practice such things. Not long after the birth of Christ, the devil attempted to tempt St. Joseph into despair, likely using such ammunition as the claim his lovely young bride was not as holy and pure as she seemed, but was pregnant from another man. St. Joseph resisted such temptations as well as whatever temptations of the flesh he may have felt toward Mary, although given his age and righteousness, I doubt he had any. It was not be right in the circumstances. The devil's temptations failed so hard that St. Joseph carries the title "The Terror of Demons", and his assistance is a great thing against them. Here is some art that depicts the devil whispering into the ear of a seemingly upset Joseph:

@Deezus_Walks Fantasia is more than just three episodes of tv

I have finished watching ALL 90+ theatrically released Disney+Pixar movies and this is the ordered tier list

@DCinvestor Completele and universal lack of character

what’s the best, grand unified theory on why Republicans seem totally OK with losing the House and possibly the Senate in the 2026 midterms, getting their POTUS impeached, and probably losing the next presidential election in 2028?