My grandmother used to tell me that if you want to understand the true history of the Basque people in the Pyrenees, you have to look at the massive stone blocks and perfect circles scattered across the high mountain ridges. When I asked her who could have possibly hauled those boulders up to the highest peaks, she’d just laugh at the official textbook explanations. She told me those stones weren't moved by normal men, and they weren't just random monuments either. They were built by the Jentilak, an ancient race of giants who ruled the mountains before the world reset.
According to her, these giants possessed a type of strength and ancient engineering knowledge that we can't even fathom today. But they weren't just big, they were brilliant astronomers. When the great waters rushed over the earth and the old world drowned, the giants were the ones who moved the massive stones onto the highest ridges to create perfect circles. Why? Because the sky had completely changed after the cataclysm. The stars had shifted, the old markers were gone, and the cosmic clock had been completely scrambled. The giants built these circles as a desperate grid to re-map the heavens, tracking the new sky so humanity would never be caught off guard by a cyclical reset again.
It makes you look at those mountain peaks a little differently. Look at a picture of a harrespil circle like the ones at Lou Couraus, sitting right on a sheer ridge looking out over the valley. It wasn't just cavemen playing with rocks. It was a massive, highly organized effort by the giants of the old world to pass down a celestial warning system to the survivors. And every time I see those stones, I realize she wasn't spinning bedtime stories, she was passing down the eyewitness oral history of a lost epoch.
Maël Le Lagadec, an 18-year-old from France, has made global headlines after accomplishing an impressive feat in the Pyrenees. On May 9, he carried a 35 kg wooden cross (1.10 m high, 70 cm wide, and 11 cm thick) on his back, along with a 15 kg backpack, for approximately 14 hours to Pic d’Aneto. At 3,404 meters in altitude, it is the highest point in the Pyrenees, located in Spanish territory (Aragon).
The action was motivated by the vandalism of the original metal cross, which had stood at the summit since 1951. In mid-April 2026, the cross was sawn off with a grinder and stolen. Maël decided to build a new cross with his own hands, using black walnut wood.
In a statement, he explained: "A few weeks ago, we discovered that the Aneto cross had disappeared. With a friend, we launched this somewhat crazy project to rebuild it."
Accompanied by his friend, the young man completed the grueling ascent and, upon reaching the top, knelt down in emotion. "I arrive, I kneel, and I cry!" he recounted. The new cross now marks the summit of Aneto once again.
🇪🇸 Someone climbed 3,400 meters to cut down the Pyrenees' summit cross with an angle grinder and throw it off the mountain.
An 18-year-old Frenchman carved a 35kg replacement and carried it back up himself.
There is nothing I hate more than this individualist culture, this only living for self crap
Constantly my children’s grandparents will say they want to be close to them, see them grow, live right next door, be a help and blessing to us
My husband is leaving for six months, guess who told me to just suck it up and figure out how to manage it all alone?
Yup you guessed it. The grandparents.
And you know what pisses me off even more? Someone will accuse me of being entitled, when until 30 years ago family sacrificing and helping each other was just the normal thing to do.
My grandmother every single day of her life would have lunch ready for us when we came to eat from school break, after school we would come and stay at her house until my mom picked us up, and guess what my mother took home with her also? Dinner. Yup.
They had all this help and support, and yet refuse to now give what they once had.
This is why people can’t stand boomers.
This is the most detailed MRI scan of an unborn baby.
At just 20 weeks, she is moving, turning her head, kicking—even standing. Her beating heart is also visible.
Human life is a miracle.
OBGYN just told my wife to go on SSRIs during pregnancy
I asked if there’s studies she can show to make us comfortable
She said she doesn’t sit around reading medical literature but 70% of her patients are on them while pregnant
We have a health crisis in America
A UK government counter-terror program flagged these books as possible signs of far-right extremism.
The list includes Hobbes' Leviathan, Milton's Paradise Lost, The Lord of the Rings — even works by C.S. Lewis.
How many have you read??
Want to read the Greeks but not sure where
to start?
Start here:
1. Homer — The Iliad
What does anger do to a man, and
what does it cost?
The great Greek epic. The best place
to begin.
2. Sophocles — Antigone
What do we owe the dead, the gods,
and the city?
Brief, powerful, and one of the best entry
points into Greek tragedy.
3. Plato — Apology
What is worth defending, even at the
cost of your life?
The most accessible place to begin
with Socrates.
4. Herodotus — Histories
What happens when power, custom,
and pride collide?
The most readable Greek historian. Full
of story, travel, wonder, and inquiry.
5. Aristotle — Nicomachean Ethics
How is character formed, and what
does it mean to live well?
A foundational Greek book on virtue,
habit, and how to live well.
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If the schools and universities refuse to teach the great books, we will do it ourselves.
We are about to start our 12th book together at Athenaeum — our first Dostoevsky novel.
Crime and Punishment begins tomorrow. Join us!!
As women we can change the atmosphere of our homes by changing the way we see our life, and it is not by pretending motherhood is easy, but instead it is by refusing to approach it with constant dread, by having enough perspective to realize that these years are not a punishment, that these are our very own children, this is our life, and there should be joy in it.
Babies wait 9 months to meet the person they think is the center of the universe … 9 months to feel her touch, see her face, embrace her kiss.
When we take babies away from their mothers and sell them to sodomites, this is what we take them away from.
Want to read the Romans but not sure where to start?
Start here:
1. Virgil — The Aeneid
What does duty require, and what does it cost?
Rome’s great founding epic. The best place to begin.
2. Cicero — On Duties
What do we owe each other?
The clearest Roman voice on duty, obligation, and public life.
3. Plutarch — Parallel Lives
What makes a life worth remembering?
Statesmen, generals, founders. Best read as a study of Roman character.
4. Marcus Aurelius — Meditations
How should a person govern himself under pressure?
Brief reflections on duty, mortality, and governing the self.
5. Tacitus — Annals
What happens to virtue under empire?
A hard look at power, fear, corruption, and what remains of Roman character under bad rulers.
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