It is by Faith that man moves mountains: while he has Faith, his limbs might be wearied with toiling, his back galled with bearing; but his heart within him is peaceable and resolved. In the thickest gloom there burns a lamp to guide him.
-Thomas Carlyle
@JonathanMcPike My grandfather took a dugout canoe from the Amazon headwaters (near Quito) to the Atlantic, then sailed it to Miami. He named the canoe “Sea Fever”.
@resisfertile Giving money to drug addicts or fraudsters is a worse than giving nothing.
But that does not mean becoming an entrepreneur to create jobs is the ultimate form of generosity by definition...
@AccentsSouthern I’m going 4 generations deep on my stack, I have books my great great grandmother bought and never read lol. Which is the way it should be
“The smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven has ordained.” GW
A Nation’s happiness depends entirely on the virtue and piety of its people
@kp_overeast@EricFarenheit@DomenickDoran@daniel_dsj2110 lol insane cope
All modern chord progressions, scales, melodic structure, even music annotation, it is all European, we have it all in writing, we have the receipts, it’s not debatable
Maybe there’s some early influence from Mideast and N Africa, but it’s minor
@EricFarenheit@kp_overeast@DomenickDoran@daniel_dsj2110 The chord progressions, scales, melody, are exclusively European, originally. The rhythms - syncopation and etc - are American. And the amalgamation of the whole into modern music is distinctly American, although certainly England was also very influential
@Pat_Stedman My priest once told me “I wish I could perform the marriage without the legal contract, because the contract bears no relationship to the sacrament and makes everything worse”