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[Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 @d_foubert]

France has always been a multicultural country of immigrants.

In fact, France 🇫🇷 has never really been French at all. The Franks came from beyond the Rhine. The Romans came from Italy. The Greeks settled Marseille. The Vikings founded Normandy. Every generation merely replaced the previous one and called it civilization. French history is therefore nothing more than a long queue of newcomers arriving and informing the previous newcomers that they no longer belong.

If diversity created France, then France can only become more French by becoming less French. Every additional migration wave is not a challenge to national identity but an enhancement of it. If ten million immigrants improved the country, then twenty million should improve it twice as much. By this logic, the ideal French citizen would eventually be someone who has never heard of France, speaks no French, and arrived only yesterday.

The concept of integration itself is deeply suspicious. Why should newcomers adapt to France when France's greatest historical achievement was allegedly adapting to newcomers? Asking immigrants to become French would contradict the very principle that France is a permanent construction site of identities. The truly enlightened position is therefore that France must constantly reinvent itself around each new arrival.

The final stage of this philosophy is simple. The more France changes, the more authentic it becomes. The less continuity remains between past and present, the stronger the national identity grows. And when nothing recognizable from old France survives, immigrationists will finally be able to declare victory: France has become perfectly French by ceasing to exist altogether.

[Richard Amador @acuriocabinet]

Beauty lives in the soul that aspires to something greater than itself.

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@acuriocabinet Baklava.... 🤤🤤

[Richard Amador @acuriocabinet]

“The pen is mightier than the sword” was famously said by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839.

What you might be less aware of is that this was the final punctuation mark in a debate that had lasted for centuries since the Roman Republic with Cicero.

The “arms and letters” humanist debate made the case that either warriors or thinkers best embodied virtue.

Yet, we remember the pithy line more than the mass graves of our enemies. A handful of letters mean more than a legion of arms.

[Richard Amador @acuriocabinet]

@marclou You did the statistically correct decision and learned the wrong lesson. We just happen to be in an everything bubble because of QE.

[Richard Amador @acuriocabinet]

People still think we live in a feudal hierarchy with kings at the top and everyone else kneeling to them.

However, ever since the Renaissance, there’s been a bifurcation. There’s the establishment (the “Epstein class” nowadays) and their aspirants vs people who rise in spite of what the establishment planned for people outside of their influence.

The counter elite either integrates with the establishment or eventually replaces them.

[$sle3py0wl 🍮 @Sle3pyO]

@acuriocabinet True. Christianity has largely been a city dweller religion after the passion.

[$sle3py0wl 🍮 @Sle3pyO]

@acuriocabinet Wow... didn't know that... been learning about theology and his name popped up a few times.

[$sle3py0wl 🍮 @Sle3pyO]

@acuriocabinet Seems like the case with the 737s... 😅

[$sle3py0wl 🍮 @Sle3pyO]

@pureMetatron As an ethnic chinese... this is disgusting. Also... Westerners don't see the utter contempt overseas chinese have, at times, for those from the mainland. The video shown is an example why we do. Its a product of communism and the cultural rot that Mao introduced into China.

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@thealepalombo This isnt winning. It will be like the worst thing to ever happen. Choosing between the lakes, tuscany and Rome ?!?! Wtf... and we haven't even went south yet....

[Memory Medieval @MemoryMedieval]

If you read one thing this weekend, read Richard's wild history of the beginning of the Reconquista!

Wilder than you'd imagine! 👇

[St. Sinner☦️ @Orthocoma25]

I'll give it to you that there's a lot of "Orthodox" on X that have hearts of stone and have a lot to learn. I won't defend them... But you're a pastor! You see yourself on the same level as our clergy! Have you spoken to a single clergyman that treated you the way you claim all of us to treat you? Are you judging all of the Orthodox Christians based off your interactions with Orthobros on the internet? If so, you're the one who has some soul searching to do. You're the one who needs to pluck the log from your eye before pointing at our specks. I'd expect more from a man that claims to speak for God.

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@DSWcab @Abunajohn Grow up.

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@IAMthWHEATofGOD @MethodMinistry Nope. I still cant deal with your marian dogmas and the idea that scripture is of the same authority as tradition.

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@AL_J82 Yeah... no... Definitely not modern american protestants and theology...

[Richard Amador @acuriocabinet]

LLMs are to a civilisation what a photograph is to a person.

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If you study enough of the Fathers, know enough of actual history, have a good sense of human nature and if you are honest... you'd most likely come to this conclusion. Online apologetics cant seem to accept nuance or imperfections.

[Alton T. Johnson @AL_J82]

The church fathers were not protestant.
The church fathers were not Orthodox.
The church fathers were not Romain
Roman Catholic.

They were men who were imperfect that God used to preserve His church, like he's doing with us today. Let them be who they were. We all have things we both agree and disagree with in their writings.

I guarantee we all would be considered heretics to them by some degree.