Monster

Manners maketh man.🕴

[Monster @attree_md]

Where I come from people love to tell stories. Here's one I'll narrate, its a story of a man let call him John. He was traveling from a port in Britain to America for greener pastures. He had managed to get cash for the journey but had nothing extra for the way there. He got in..

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

I feel like I have free will but then I scroll past this and have literally no option but to waste four minutes on it

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

10 paradoxical truths from 10 brilliant men

1. C.S. Lewis: Originality is best attained via copying.

2. Nietzsche: Compassion is a psyop designed by the weak to redirect resources from the most deserving to the least.

3. Chesterton: You need to hate the world enough to change it, but love it enough to consider it worth changing. Action is the offspring of dark pessimism and frenzied optimism...working in tandem.

4. Napoleon: Logic will lose you wars because sometimes the moment demands imaginative maneuvers that work because they are irrational.

5. Camille Paglia: Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother. Society must be so tyrannical that you should be protected from mean tweets but also so permissive that you should be able to change your gender (and back!)

6. Chateaubriand: Beauty is useless if you care for efficiency, but shockingly useful if you care for lovability. Yes, beauty is a wasteful luxury but ultimately the only thing people will protect, and make pilgrimages to.

7. John Morley: Great writing dances at the border of mysterious and obvious. Too mysterious and you're inaccessible, too obvious and you're boring.

8. La Rochefoucauld: Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. Time will kill everything shallow, and deepen everything real.

9. Julius Evola: Democracy has hurt the demos (people) the most by disempowering their natural superiors. It is not the superior who has need of the inferior, but the inferior who has need of the superior; it is not the master that has need of the minion, it is the minion that has need of a master.

10. John Fowles: High IQ is a terrifying gift. The ability to predict the consequences of any action means your will gets lost in a labyrinth of hypotheses. Rule 1: Do not lose the will.

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

Thanks to everyone who complained about this trailer and made #Armageddon the most watched special in the world ❤️

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Jesse Owens of USA winning gold for the long jump in the summer Olympics in Germany, 1936.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ The man saluting behind Owens is Lutz Long, a German who shared training tips with Owens and was the first to openly congratulate him after his final jump in full view of Hitler.

After the Olympics, the two kept in touch via mail. Below is Long's last letter to Owens while he was stationed with the German Army in North Africa during World War 2. Long was later killed in action during the allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

"I am here, Jesse, where it seems there is only the dry sand and the wet blood. I do not fear so much for myself, my friend Jesse, I fear for my woman who is home, and my young son Karl, who has never really known his father.⁣⁣

My heart tells me, if I be honest with you, that this is the last letter I shall ever write. If it is so, I ask you something. It is a something so very important to me.

It is you go to Germany when this war done, someday find my Karl, and tell him about his father. Tell him, Jesse, what times were like when we not separated by war. I am saying—tell him how things can be between men on this earth.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

If you do this something for me, this thing that I need the most to know will be done, I do something for you, now. I tell you something I know you want to hear. And it is true.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

That hour in Berlin when I first spoke to you, when you had your knee upon the ground, I knew that you were in prayer.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Then I not know how I know. Now I do. I know it is never by chance that we come together. I come to you that hour in 1936 for purpose more than der Berliner Olympiade.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

And you, I believe, will read this letter, while it should not be possible to reach you ever, for purpose more even than our friendship.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ I believe this shall come about because I think now that God will make it come about. This is what I have to tell you, Jesse.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

I think I might believe in God.⁣⁣ And I pray to him that, even while it should not be possible for this to reach you ever, these words I write will still be read by you.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

Your brother,⁣⁣ Luz"⁣⁣

[ThinkingWest @thinkingwest]

"Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage."

C.S. Lewis

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

This wonderful dad creates memories ...

https://t.co/5TJl7C8gj8

[Monster @attree_md]

The contrast. Love the song.

[Mike Posner @MikePosner]

on my 26th birthday, i wrote I Took A Pill in Ibiza…10 years ago. The song became popular several years after i wrote it. Yesterday i celebrated my 36th birthday. i feel proud to look at the song lyrics and know that NONE of them are true anymore. I’ve grown into a completely new man…one that i’m proud of. check this out… 🧵

[Cabinet Office @cabinetofficeuk]

In response, to the statement put out by the US Embassy in the UK:

We appreciate our Special Relationship, however, we must disagree wholeheartedly...

Tea can only be made using a kettle.

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Kansas City Chiefs’ devout Catholic player Harrison Butker while visiting the White House with his team members in June last year on the invitation of pro-abortion President Joe Biden expressed his opposition against abortion by wearing a tie that reads “protect the most vulnerable,” in Latin.

[LilHumansBigImpact @BigImpactHumans]

The greatest video humanity has ever produced

[Charles Bukowski Legacy @Bukowskiquot]

Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Gov officials are asked about their own statistics showing a gender pay gap in Australia.

They end up being forced to admit that the entire gap could be explained with the fact that women work less hours than men.

Absolutely brutal takedown.

[Alan Watts 📖 | Philosophy & Timeless Wisdom ✍️ @AlanWattsQuot]

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves

[The Chivalry Guild @ChivalryGuild]

Total civilizational decline was guaranteed when we dispensed with horses.

[Søren Kierkegaard Club @Kierkegaarddd]

“To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or eternity.”

[Monster @attree_md]

For the new year...

[★ @thematrixwizard]

"Forgive them; for they know not what they do." has got to be the hardest bar in human history.