I'm sorry everyone; I went and got my account locked for a whole week lol. Normally I wouldn't even bother making an alt like this, but it's not even letting me respond to dms, so I don't want anyone to think I'm dead.
"If you don't fully commit yourself to one thing, you'll never be anything" is the lesson God has been beating me over the head with for years, so *why* have I not been listening?
I think I have a soft spot for small nations that are still participating in the world despite their story being effectively over. That is a far better fate than being one of the protagonists of this boring story.
@Mikepopularpro Eva is not something you are supposed to understand on the first watch; key parts of the story like the FAR aren't even mentioned in the show.
@persiandollies It's so comforting that in this rotten world there are still beautiful places where you can be in the presence of Saints like Joan and God Himself -- I'll never stop being grateful.
I think the men who slept under the night sky and in small, drafty castles were more likely to be great rulers than the ones who were raised in opulent Baroque palaces and great cities.
@bionic_ooze Pretty much no one in America is purely one European ethnicity anymore, and thank God for that. Eulogizing the "nation of immigrants" lie is nuts; the old hyphenated "Americans" were just as subversive and morally suspect as nonwhite immigrants are today.
Every day the sun rises and proclaims to men "be like me," and then the moon rises and says the same to women. It's the perfect lesson, right up in the sky, where it's impossible to miss, and we still neglect it. If we listened, we could be as constant in radiance and beauty.
@JDBtabouret28 My main point was that past extolled what it was doing *now;* like upholding the King's Peace or some such. Now it's just a stepping stone to a supposed future.
Every era had its promise, but not ours. This age only promises fantasies of the future; it claims no glory of its own. No different at all from communists promising endless luxury that never arrived.