😱 Translated from a TRON memo: "我查了你地址,知道你还是有上线,早点找你朋友志拿我的联系方式,不然我找你朋友要你信息曝光你,2000u早点给我。" — a stranger threatens exposure and demands 2000 USDT. #TronMemo#TRX
“My ease, my health, my property, my life I can give to the cause of my country. The heroism which could lay my wife and children on any sacrificial altar is not mine.” - #JeffersonDavis, #ShelbyFoote
“Does Job fear God for nothing? [...] You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.” - Satan
“You may conquer us and parcel out our lands among your soldiers, but you must remember that one incident of history: to wit, that of all the Russians who settled in Poland not one died a natural death.”
- Lieutenant Generals Theophilus Holmes, csa.
The pattern is hidden, formless and void. There are no signs for the seasons, no lights for the pagan mind. All is chaos and disorder, and the face of God obscured from man.
Science is dead. Science remains dead. And we have killed it.
"Americans grew pale in prison cells without knowing the charges under which they had been snatched from their homes or places of employment, there were guilty men among the innocent, and a dungeon was as good a place as any for a patriot to serve his country"
- Shelby Foote
"In an army boasting the country’s ablest cursers, [Grant's] strongest expletives were “doggone it” and “by lightning,” and even these were sparingly employed."
- The Civil War, a Narrative, Shelby Foote.
One of my biggest doubts concerning the historicity of slow, linear, evolutionary process concerns information, it's organization, and the current ability of mankind. It's unclear what evolutionary pressure results in man's mind being exponentially superior to all other animals.