🇻🇦 🇧🇷 🇭🇺 SilentGhost

Velho reacionário Católico. Eremita leigo.

Reactionary Catholic old man. Lay hermit. Conspiracy Theorist.

Let's go back to the XIII Century.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Cats genuinely believe their kittens are human babies 😍

[superficial @frogposter1]

@QuintusCurtius It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad -GKC

[QuintusCurtius @QuintusCurtius]

Those who claim Homer "never existed" might pause to remember that for centuries before Heinrich Schliemann, the scholarly consensus was that the Trojan War was entirely mythical. And then a manic, half-crazy German businessman dug up the real Troy as an avocation.

[Ash ✝️ @fakeandgay_]

When someone says that God told them to kill a person, we call them a sociopath. When a nation says that God told them to kill millions of people, we call them Israel.

[🇻🇦 🇧🇷 🇭🇺 SilentGhost @SilentGhostMe]

@RussNRoses Good News! 🙏😇

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

BREAKING: A same-sex couple is suing their surrogate for $600K after she refused to abort their baby at 22 weeks in Canada.

Scans indicated the child had a cleft lip and a possible heart defect.

The little boy was born healthy.

That child is alive today not because of the men who purchased his life, but because the woman who carried him in her womb protected him.

Children are not commodities. Ban surrogacy now.

[🇻🇦 🇧🇷 🇭🇺 SilentGhost @SilentGhostMe]

@caitoz 🎯🎯🎯

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Have you noticed how the liberal establishment hasn't been nearly as emotional and outraged about Trump's second term as they were about his first? Now that he's the president who bombed Iran, the entire western political/media class is cool with him.

The term "Trump Derangement Syndrome" has always been used by the MAGA crowd as a blanket pejorative to protect the president from criticism, but during Trump's first term it wasn't entirely unfair. You'd see Democrats shrieking their lungs out over Trump doing things that other US presidents did all the time like cozying up with dictators and tyrants. They'd lose their minds over relatively sane things like Trump talking about moving troops out of Syria. The whole Russiagate thing was liberals going bat shit over a crazy conspiracy theory that caused them to push for the escalations against Russia which ultimately gave rise to the war in Ukraine.

We're not seeing any of that in Trump's second term. That extra layer of screeching emotionality simply isn't there. There are no Russiagates or emotional support Maddows this time around. Democrats hate Trump, but they hate him about as much as they'd hate any Republican president. The emotional response to his second presidency is wildly, wildly different from the first.

Which is nuts, because he's quantifiably far worse this time around. His domestic policies are much more tyrannical. He's as evil a warmonger as the White House has ever seen. He's so corrupt that he's just openly admitting to being bought and owned by Zionist oligarchs while making his family a fortune using the power of his office. Now that he doesn't have to worry about re-election, he's being completely nakedly monstrous.

And what's creepy is that's WHY the liberal establishment is so much more mellow about him. They're no longer worried that he's going to promote "isolationist" foreign policy and roll back the US war machine. He went to war with Iran, so they like him now. Because they know he's fully compliant.

[🇻🇦 🇧🇷 🇭🇺 SilentGhost @SilentGhostMe]

@Rothmus This explains a lot... 😁

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

That's not the "harshest reality truth". This is:

[Classical Theist ✠ @ClassicalTheis]

whether or not you call it “nominalism” or even trace it back to a particular medieval theory at all for that matter, the fact does remain that many modern errors do in fact stem from a rejection of received common natures imbued in things which themselves have real moral import

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

1898: Bayer trademarks a new cough medicine for children. They call it Heroin.

1899: they also trademark aspirin. Enjoy that one. It is the last unambiguously good thing on this list.

1900: Heroin is Bayer's best-selling product, marketed to mothers as non-addictive.

1915: they supply the German army over 170 tons of chlorine gas for the trenches.

1925: Bayer folds into a chemical giant called IG Farben.

1940s: IG Farben runs a slave-labour plant at Auschwitz and part-owns the maker of the Zyklon B.

1956: a director convicted of war crimes at Nuremberg is quietly made chairman of Bayer's board.

1980s: Bayer discovers its haemophilia blood product is riddled with HIV.

Rather than destroy the stock, it keeps selling the untreated batches to Asia and Latin America to recoup the money.

Thousands of haemophiliacs are infected. Many die.

2003: the New York Times exposes it. Bayer helps settle for around 600 million dollars.

2018: Bayer buys Monsanto, inheriting Roundup, Agent Orange and PCBs in a single afternoon.

2026: the US Supreme Court throws out the Roundup cancer lawsuits. Bayer wins.

Heroin, chlorine gas, Auschwitz, tainted blood, and a weedkiller in the dock, all from one firm.

Every one of them was legal, marketed with total confidence, and blessed by the experts of its day, and the company behind them is bigger now than it has ever been.

The heroin got recalled. The company never did.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Tucker Carlson admits he sincerely believed he could stop the war with Iran, and what being wrong taught him.

This is the rare moment Tucker turns the lens on himself:

CARLSON: "It's good to be reminded of how absurd you are, and how powerless you are.

"I've gone through periods where I'm like, I'm going to make a big difference. I'm going to stop the war with Iran, which I sincerely believed. I thought that I could do that. I don't know why I thought that. It's embarrassing in retrospect, but I really did think that.

"I'm glad I have been shorn of that illusion because it's an illusion, it's absurd. I am one guy. And even if I were a million guys, it's still a lie to tell ourselves that we're in charge of history."

"The theme I took away from reading them [the Old and New Testaments], in the Hebrew text and the Christian text, is: you are not God. Just remember that. It's really hard to remember that. It sounds easy, but it's been the thing I forget most often.

"You really think you're in charge, but you're not."

[Darwin to Jesus @darwintojesus]

Everyone used to understand this

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

Today I learned that in Nolan’s movie "Odyssey," there is a line: "Sinon was the greatest warrior among the Greeks." Sinon is not mentioned in Homer at all, and in the film he is played by a woman. Now look at what’s happening. We Greeks are forced to listen to barbarians telling us that the movie is amazing, while watching our Greek civilization being mocked on screen, and being told that the greatest warrior of the Greeks is Sinon, played by a woman.

In other words, we Greeks are forced to watch a film based on our own history and our ancestors, and if we disagree with what we see or get angry about it, then we are called racists and puppets of Elon Musk. That’s what they tell us.

So from now on, the purpose of my life will be to turn as many people as possible against all those academics and classicists who supported this abomination, this thing that mocks Greek culture, takes the greatest and most important Greek epic poem, and turns it into a "fairy tale."

No, it is not a fairy tale. It is our Greek history. They are our Greek ancestors. And we have every right to express our opinion, to demand proper representation in the casting, and to demand that Greek academics and historians oversee the script and the historical authenticity of films that exploit Greek civilization to make money in our name.

Enough with the exploitation, the propaganda, and the distortion.

[Tolkien Universe @tolkienzone]

Éowyn didn't defeat the Witch-king alone

The dagger Merry carried was forged in the North-kingdom when the Dúnedain were young, made for one enemy: Angmar and its sorcerer king. Tom Bombadil pulled it out of a barrow and handed it to a hobbit who'd never heard of any of that

Centuries later the same blade found the same enemy. Nothing else would have done it. Merry's stroke broke the spell holding the Witch-king's unseen body to his will, and only then could Éowyn's sword finish him

Now the cold part. The grave that held the blade lay open because the Witch-king himself had sent an evil spirit to haunt those downs. He armed the hand that helped kill him

No living man could stop him. The smith who forged his undoing had been dead a thousand years

Call it the last revenge of Arnor

[🇻🇦 🇧🇷 🇭🇺 SilentGhost @SilentGhostMe]

@RussNRoses 🙏🙏🙏

[Catholic Frequency @CatholicFQ]

I love this quote from Cardinal Robert Sarah......

Our world no longer hears God because it is constantly speaking, at a devastating speed and volume, in order to say nothing. Modern civilization does not know how to be quiet. It holds forth in an unending monologue. Postmodern society rejects the past and looks at the present as a cheap consumer object; it pictures the future in terms of an almost obsessive progress.

Its dream, which has become a sad reality, will have been to lock silence away in a damp, dark dungeon. Thus there is a dictatorship of speech, a dictatorship of verbal emphasis. In this theater of shadows, nothing is left but a purulent wound of mechanical words, without perspective, without truth, and without foundation. Quite often “truth” is nothing more than the pure and misleading creation of the media, corroborated by fabricated images and testimonies. When that happens, the word of God fades away, inaccessible and inaudible.

Postmodernity is an ongoing offense and aggression against the divine silence. From morning to evening, from evening to morning, silence no longer has any place at all; the noise tries to prevent God himself from speaking. In this hell of noise, man disintegrates and is lost; he is broken up into countless worries, fantasies, and fears. In order to get out of these depressing tunnels, he desperately awaits noise so that it will bring him a few consolations.

Noise is a deceptive, addictive, and false tranquilizer. The tragedy of our world is never better summed up than in the fury of senseless noise that stubbornly hates silence. This age detests the things that silence brings us to: encounter, wonder, and kneeling before God.

Even in the schools, silence has disappeared. And yet how can anyone study in the midst of noise? How can you read in noise? How can you train your intellect in noise? How can you structure your thought and the contours of your interior being in noise?

How can you be open to the mystery of God, to spiritual values, and to our human greatness in continual turmoil? Contemplative silence is a fragile little flame in the middle of a raging ocean.

The fire of silence is weak because it is bothersome to a busy world.”

—Cardinal Robert Sarah

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

The ICC was intended by the West to facilitate a hegemonic system of sovereign inequality by putting other leaders on trial. Between 2002 and 2015, almost 100% of ICC indictments were against Africans. The arrest warrant against Putin to legitimise the proxy war and undermine diplomacy fit the same objective. But the arrest warrant on Netanyahu could be a death sentence for the ICC, as it was not designed to target allies of the US and the Political West.