Dienekes Ghost

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[Dienekes Ghost @DienekesGhost]

@eMTBrides That’s what Homer did.

[⚡️🌞 Sol Brah 🌞🐬 @SolBrah]

EXPECT amazing things to happen to you!

Have the belief that everything will work out, that every day contains wonderful surprises and reasons to be happy!

Then, pursue your dreams with the utmost belief that you will achieve them, and never give up.

Simple yet powerful 🫡

[Keith Woods @KeithWoodsYT]

Odysseus was not morally canonised by the Greeks, but even his less attractive qualities belong to this excellence. His pride is the shadow of his greatness; his intelligence makes him an accomplished liar; and his ruthlessness enables him to defend what belongs to him. Homer does not ask us to admire each deed in isolation. Odysseus’ proper end is not to neuter his martial powers, but to return them to their proper object.

That object is Ithaca. For all his adaptability, Odysseus is among literature’s great figures of rootedness. He can assume innumerable identities and survive within radically different worlds, yet he never forgets the particular place to which he belongs. Calypso offers him immortality and eternal youth, but he chooses an ageing wife and a poor, rocky island. He prefers a finite life that is his own to an endless existence severed from his household, ancestry and name. In an age of globalism and a distrust of the rooted and familiar, an age of oikophobia, this is a powerful message, and one Hollywood has predictably deemed unfit for a modern audience. In fact, it is through examining this ancient relationship between a man and his home that we can best see the gulf that exists between us and the ancients.

This is best explored in Fustel de Coulanges’ The Ancient City. Coulanges presents an ancient world in which the household was not merely a private residence or source of emotional comfort. It was simultaneously a family, religious institution and political order. Its hearth was sacred, its land contained the ancestral dead, and its descendants maintained the rites joining past and future generations. Coulanges clarifies the true stakes of Odysseus’ homecoming. For the ancient man, “Whatever man held most dear was associated with the idea of country. In it he found his property, his security, his laws, his faith, his god. Losing it he lost everything.”

Odysseus does not merely miss Ithaca as a modern expatriate might miss familiar surroundings. Without Ithaca he possesses no settled identity at all: he is separated from the land of his ancestors and gods, and thus separated from his own authority and place within the divine order. This is why the suitors’ occupation of his palace is so grave. They consume his estate, solicit his wife, plot the murder of his heir and threaten to extinguish the continuity of his sacred household. In killing them, Odysseus does not merely take revenge. He restores the network of relationships through which he exists as Odysseus, and which served as the sacred foundation of the ancient world.

Nolan continually tells us that Odysseus wants to go home, but here there is nothing very profound about this homecoming. Ithaca is just the place where his wife and son happen to live. The dialogue reiterates the family’s desire for reunion without conveying any religious, ancestral and political significance of what has been lost. We understand that Odysseus misses his family, but not that exile has deprived him of his place within the order of existence. Even the 2004 Troy, a heavily modernised Hollywood adaptation, allowed its heroes to desire things modern audiences might find alien, like Achilles knowingly exchanging the promise of a long and happy domestic life for immortal glory. The Odyssey could have been an exploration of the opposite but equally ancient choice: Odysseus sacrificing eternity to recover the particular place in which his name has meaning. Nolan is not interested.

Eat, Pray Sail: Christopher Nolan's Therapeutic Odyssey

[Dienekes Ghost @DienekesGhost]

@KeithWoodsYT ευχαριστώ

[Keith Woods @KeithWoodsYT]

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is a post-Christian revision of a pre-Christian epic, sterilised for modern sensibilities.

Nolan's Odysseus is a war veteran "dad" who must process his trauma before enjoying retirement.

A hero for our therapeutic age:

https://t.co/BFTNHvOQIL

[Victoria Lavish @victoria_lavish]

If my Odyssey post got your attention ... wait until you meet my dead, Greek, homicidal, one-eyed boyfriend. Now THAT'S a story.
https://t.co/mF3pfjwyoq

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is a statue of the only man in Troy who saw the trap. He tried to warn everyone, and this is what the gods did to him because of it...

His name was Laocoön, a Trojan priest. When the Greek army vanished and left a giant wooden horse outside the city gates, all of Troy celebrated. Only Laocoön refused to believe it. He warned his people the horse was a trick and, to prove it was hollow, hurled his spear into its side.

In Virgil's telling, he spoke a line that has outlasted almost everything else about Troy: "I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts."

He was right. The horse was packed with soldiers, and Troy was hours from destruction.

This sculpture shows what he got for it. Two enormous sea serpents rise out of the sea and coil around him and his young sons, dragging all three down together. The father's whole body is knotted in the struggle, every muscle straining, his face locked in a scream. The gods wanted Troy to fall, and Laocoön was in the way.

The Trojans watched him die in agony and drew exactly the wrong conclusion: they decided the gods were punishing him for attacking a holy gift. So they pulled the horse inside their own walls, and that night, Troy burned...

The statue is called Laocoön and His Sons. It is the work of three Greek sculptors from the island of Rhodes, Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus, and dates to the Hellenistic period, making it well over two thousand years old.

Buried for more than a thousand years, it was dug out of a Roman vineyard in 1506, and Michelangelo rushed across Rome to see it the day it was found.

It has been called the single greatest depiction of human suffering in the history of art, but it endures because of what it is really about: the man who sees the truth, says it out loud, and is destroyed for being right while the crowd watches...

It is one of the oldest patterns there is, and it has never stopped repeating.

There is nothing new under the sun.

[Dienekes Ghost @DienekesGhost]

@Chrisxy24 Were you not entertained?

[Kevin MacLean (Fortress of Lugh) @FortressLugh]

Greeks both learn about their ancient history and myths and deeply care about them as a foundational part of their identity.

Every Greek studies the Odyssey in the first year of middle school. It is part of the national curriculum. They study the Iliad in the second year.

They also study the ancient Greek language in highschool.

The average Greek is educated in and cares about their history and identity.

[Edward Dutton @jollyheretic]

How Could This Possibly Have Happened to Ann Widdecombe? (w/ Dr Adam Perkins) https://t.co/YXibDaqLlH

[Dienekes Ghost @DienekesGhost]

@TheNotoriousMMA Amen

[Wolf 🐺 @PsyGuy007]

🕊️ 🇩🇪 Aujourd’hui, cela fait 11 mois jour pour jour que Liana, 16 ans, a été poussée sous un train par un Irakien sous mesure d’expulsion. Il a été déclaré irresponsable et interné aux frais du contribuable.

Cet Irakien a volontairement fait basculer Liana, une réfugiée ukrainienne de 16 ans, sous un train de marchandises à Friedland, en Allemagne. Elle est malheureusement morte sur le coup.

N’oublions jamais Liana ! 🖤

🗣️ Quelle peine mériterait ce criminel ?

[Dienekes Ghost @DienekesGhost]

@MichaelButtonX 🫡

[Dienekes Ghost @DienekesGhost]

@vinmast222 @BoLoudon @TheNotoriousMMA Are you a good person?

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

Meet Fahima Mahamud:
- Operated the largest government funded Learing Center in Minnesota, received over $4.6 million
- Also received $850,000 for the Feeding Our Future scam and bought real estate with the money
- Tried to escape to the UK before being caught by the FBI
- Just PLEAD GUILTY to daycare fraud and covid fraud

Leared and found out. Enjoy prison 😘

[Patriot Pledge @PatriotPledgeUS]

Mass migration, both "legal" and illegal, is destroying American labor and the American way of life.

We've built a map of every US business sponsoring H-1B visas.

Stop funding your replacement and take the Patriot Pledge today: Buy American, Hire American, and Love American!

[Dienekes Ghost @DienekesGhost]

@theblaze Who is the phaggit clapper?

[Dienekes Ghost @DienekesGhost]

@BreitbartNews Jon “Liquid” Zamo.

[Alexandra @Alexandr4Denman]

Let this be a lesson of what these people think of white people , in 2017 21 year old Hannah Cornelius was carjacked in Stellenbosch , South Africa .
Over several horrifying hours she was gang raped , stabbed repeatedly and had her head crushed with a rock after they had finished with her .
Her killers reportedly laughed in court as details were read out , her friend Cheslin who was with her was beaten nearly to death but survived .
Hannah's mother never recovered and walked into the sea and never returned .
This is the kind of evil that is happening even today in Britain as we have 1,000s of the same types of men allowed here . RIP Hannah

[Francesco 🇮🇹 @SaP011]

The story of Paolo Sarullo, a 24-year-old Italian boy.

One evening, Paolo was walking home with a friend, pushing his electric scooter by hand when they were suddenly surrounded by four North African attackers, a detail that most Italian media outlets chose to omit, with only a handful reporting it.

The group tried to steal his scooter.
Paolo refused.

One of the attackers responded with a brutal punch to the face. Paolo crashed to the ground, smashing his head on the pavement. He began bleeding heavily and convulsing as the attackers fled the scene. His friend immediately called for help.

The entire attack was captured on surveillance cameras.

After spending three months fighting for his life and enduring two extremely delicate 15-hour surgeries, Paolo finally opened his eyes.

He survived.
But the damage was irreversible.

Today, Paolo is permanently paralyzed and can communicate only through eye movements.

All four attackers were identified and brought to trial.

The man who threw the punch that changed Paolo’s life forever was sentenced to only six years in prison.

The other members of the group were also convicted, receiving sentences that included only three years and six months in prison, while another was sentenced to only eight months for failing to provide assistance after the attack.