Imagine being the Pope right now and not calling a crusade or declaring AI demonic or something. Muslims are taking over Europe. The machines are talking. You've been dealt the most interesting hand in 1000 years and you're just wasting it.
I truly, from the bottom of my heart, cannot in anyway comprehend how someone could research Christianity, it's history, etc and come to the conclusion the protestantism is legitimate
In the 1683 Siege of Vienna, 10,000 Hungarian Calvinist troops marched with the Ottomans
By the 16-17th century, Protestants in Hungary and Central Europe had begun to desire Turkish rule over Hapsburg rule. Many Ottoman authorities capitalized on shared rejection of Catholic “idolatry” to bring Calvinists to their side.
Despite their best efforts, Catholic Polish Winged Hussars lifted the siege and pushed the ottomans back at the end of 1683, never for them to return.
>be me
>enter mass with shame for my sins
>plan to do confession
>see the priest walk by
>"Father, may I please do confession after mass today?"
>"Why not do it now so you can take communion?"
>he sits down next to me
>go through the process
>absolution given
>mood instantly uplifted
"There is no sin that can provide more joy than being forgiven for that very sin."
- Sinanist
All these communists say “you just haven’t tried our version of communism”
Nah.
“YOU haven’t tried our version of capitalism”
1. Dollar on the gold standard
2. No property taxes
3. Abolish the Federal Reserve
4. Flat 6 percent Federal tax paid at the point of sale only when you put your money into the economy.
5. No gun laws. Constitutional 2A amendment.
6. Reduce the size of the federal government by 90 percent
7. End all foreign aid effective immediately
8. Nuremberg style trials for all the turn coats and traitors who sold us out.
9. No more HB1s
10. No federal manipulation of the monetary supply via reckless printing of currency
11. Complete ban on insider trading with severe criminal consequences if caught
Funny how Irish in Ireland dismiss the Irish diaspora to the US (you can't be Irish after living in America for 7 generations) but you can be Irish if you're a Nigerian who arrived in Ireland 5 minutes ago.
What I love about New York City bodegas is they take the experience of going to a grocery store in real America, except they make it really tiny, filthy, filled with rats, surrounded by homeless fentanyl folding chairs, twice as expensive, and staffed by a foreigner who speaks six words of English.
Oh and when you’re done, you get to carry all of your groceries home through a four-block fog of weed smoke and trash that’s been sitting out in the sun for days.
While the Spanish were baffled by Andean khipus (knot-based writing and accounting), the Incas were likewise baffled by writing.
Apparently some Incas saw the Spaniards learning things from merely staring at papers or "white cloths" and word began to spread that the Spanish had magic talking cloth.
A couple stories I read about today:
An Inca man came across a Spaniard reading a book and asked to read it. The Inca man held the book, flipped through the pages, and asked in confusion why it wasn't saying anything to him.
Another time, some Spanish hired a few Inca peasants to haul a wagon full of melons to a nearby town. They explained that they were not allowed to eat any of the melons, and that a paper receipt carried in the wagon would alert the recipient if any had gone missing. The Inca men decided to solve this problem by placing the receipt on the other side of a wall so that it would not see them eating any melons, and thus could not snitch on them.
I aint never told noone but when we evacced from afghanistan I put all the gym machines in the base at the max so if they came through theyd be like damn these niggas strong as hell I served my country man
Been reading about whaling lately and im surprised it doesnt occupy a greater place in the american mythos. For most of the 19th century like 90% of the world market in whale products was harvested by US flagged whalers out of New England. We had guys literally circling the globe for years at a time, doing battle with real life sea monsters, exploring barely charted waters, getting eaten by cannibal tribes, getting cast adrift thousands of miles from land and surviving. Many true stories from that time that are ripe for movies etc. With the notable exception of Moby Dick (which was inspired by the true story of the whaleship Essex being sunk by a sperm whale) you dont hear much about it in popular culture. Whaling is to US maritime history what the Napoleonic era Royal Navy is to Britain or the treasure galleons and conquistadors are to Spain
"The word 'hysteria' comes from a time when doctors thought women's hormones would act up and make them crazy and violent. Can you believe how sexist they were back then? Anyway, here's my TikTok video explaining how postpartum depression made Lindsay Clancy kill her own kids."