I was wondering, or have often wondered, about the appropriate approach to prayer. As usual, the Greeks had it down.
It is told that when Herakles went out to hunt the unhuntable lion, he encountered an old man who offered to execute a ritual sacrifice to Zeus for a good hunt. Herakles told him nah, lemme go see about this lion and if I come back and killed it, then we offer to Zeus.
Or, to paraphrase Gabriel García Marquez, luck strikes, but it has to find you working.
Oh hell no. I ain’t bout to get shot up trying to save some random zeros i dont even know in some social studies class somewhere. My life is infinitely more important than everyone in that classroom combined. In fact, I’d probably grab the nearest fat kid for a shield.
Though its not he was looking for luck from Zeus, but simply to please Zeus. That is what a real religious man does, he doesn’t want favours from the gods, he wants to favour the gods, as he is favoured by these gods being his heritage. For the greater glory of Zeus.
If you don’t mind my pointing it out, this attitude is the blueprint of all military dictatorship.
It is probably why you are a Socialist.
Why you people always OBVIOUS argh.
Castillo shows that courage and other manly virtue is found where you might not look first, thus also where the exterminators might overlook it. Nature likes to hide…
To me, this completely trashes the whole show that was going on before. I see no right or left here. Only something I never saw before in Europe, something that didn’t exist after the first World War; seriousness, honesty, accountability, sanity. This is Trumps doing.
The World is Great.
And greater than the night had shown.
Rap is when the downtrodden take power and claim victory. Only this can both make up for the unimaginable crimes so far committed while preserving and furthering human Pride, human Decency, anything worth a shit.
US isolationists, Anti Trump republicans, Mr Rogers sweater-wearing motherfuckers, are happy with the crime. Socialists want to tear the world to pieces out of guilt, and real socialists want to use those socialists to establish one of the longest running dreams ever: the dream of absolute, global, imperial tyranny.
We cannot, by fuck, let them vanquish. We cannot.
Frodo’s got the ring. Run interference now motherfuckers.
It’s gonna be a shit show. Walking trees and giant flying eagles and devastation by the millions of hectares. Keep motherfucking sharp.
There is jockeying for global dominance in different areas, mostly direct political influence, but adversarial qualities that could be called war-like are not constitutive.
There is one with China. this is glaringly obvious. Russia wants influence, mostly to secure its own survival as a super power state. China wants absolute global dominance of every living person. This is obvious.
Which is what is so goddamned eery about this democrat talking point of the cold war with Russia, and how important it is to focus on Russia. It is not new, we all (at least should) remember how high the tensions got right before Trump was elected. Global war actually became possible for some months there.
Socialists are just fucking crazy man. They just fucking crazy. No two ways about it.
But also, what’s the game here?
My most common assumption is that there is simply a very vast amount of money to be made for government people by dealing with China. truly obscene, gargantuan amounts. China is very good at doing business with governments and government people, both above board and under the table. That is their main method of conquest. I think Democrats know this, they see what Biden and many hundreds more must also have done did with his son, and it is just too obvious how much more money is there.
Michael Mahon Hastings (January 28, 1980 – June 18, 2013) was an American journalist, author, contributing editor to Rolling Stone and reporter for BuzzFeed.[3] He was raised in New York, Canada, and Vermont, and attended New York University. Hastings rose to prominence with his coverage of the Iraq War for Newsweek in the 2000s. After his fiancée Andrea Parhamovich was killed in an ambush, Hastings wrote his first book, I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story (2008), a memoir about his relationship with Parhamovich and the insurgency that took her life.[citation needed]
He received the George Polk Award for “The Runaway General” (2010), a Rolling Stone profile of General Stanley McChrystal, commander of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force in the Afghanistan war. The article documented the widespread contempt for civilian government officials exhibited by the general and his staff and ultimately resulted in McChrystal’s resignation. Hastings followed up with The Operators (2012), a detailed account of his monthlong stay with McChrystal in Europe and Afghanistan.[citation needed]
Hastings became a vocal critic of the Obama administration, Democratic Party, and surveillance state during the 2013 Department of Justice investigations of reporters, referring to restrictions of freedom of the press as a “war” on journalism.[4] His last story, “Why Democrats Love to Spy On Americans”, was published by BuzzFeed on June 7, 2013.[5][6]
Hastings died in an automobile crash on June 18, 2013, in Los Angeles, California.[7] Blue Rider Press published his only novel, The Last Magazine (2014), a year after his death.[8]