News / Anti-atheisation institute in Poland emerging [110]


Did you know every leftist utopia was billed by its advocates as modern until it collpased. Stalin's wave of the future,
and Adolf's 1,000-year Reich as well as today' shop-till-you-drop consumerism and moral decay are being peddled as something o so trendy and modern. Have people forgotten about Sodom and Gomorrah? How many thousands of years ago was that?

News / Anti-atheisation institute in Poland emerging [110]


or 'homosexual paedophile' -- an absolute no-no in Correctland!.

News / Anti-atheisation institute in Poland emerging [110]


But you never hear anyone refer to them as 'a good atheist family', do you?
Again it's not a qwursiton that such a family cnanot be good, but 'good Catholic family' is an existing conceopt, these others are not.

News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]

Harry


If you are referring to our great leader Jarosław Kaczyński, he wil under the right cirucmstances. He is not a megalomaniac but someone to whom service to hisi beloved Polish, Catholic homeland is paramount.

I believe everythign should be done to make sure PO is a closed chapter. Na wieki wieków. Amen.

It took years for Tusk to recover form the 2005 defeat. Billboards were proclaiming a President from Gdańsk (Tusk)and a PM form Kraków (Rokita) but they lost. The PO reacted by pouring an unprecedneted amount of vile, vicious scorn on the winners. Not even the ex-commies, who deserved all the scorn anybody poured on them, were so brutally reviled. Have you forgotten those details already? That was not decent political rivalry, it was vulgar, gutter-level, no-holds-barred slander and character assassination by Gang of Tusk.

News / Anti-atheisation institute in Poland emerging [110]

The term 'good Catholic family' may trigger confusion, resentment and perhaps even some envy amongst the godless, but maybe they should ask themselves why no-one ever says 'good godless family', 'good atheist family', 'good agnostic family or 'good pagan family'. Sure, someone can say those things to prove a point or just to be funny. One can also say 'good peanutbutter family' or 'good ćwikła family' as a lopsided joke. But as a concept 'good Cahtolic family' does exist. It means a family whose shared Catholic faith is a bonding factor integrating its members round a common system of values. Others ałso have values -- someone will say. Sure they do, but still 'good atheist family' and the others are rarely if ever seen or heard. Ever wodner why?

Life / Polish way of life? [34]


You know the net is a mockers' paradise. Anonymous posters feel safe to mock, ridicule, slander, cut to pieces and take the p*ss out of everyone and everything.

They'd soon change their tune and their ranks would dwindle if a poster had to give his real full name and email address.

Life / Polish way of life? [34]


Only the non-Polish alien intrusions brought in by expats rtrying to contaminate the true Polish soul.
Hate and bitterness towards the soul of Poland, its relgious faith, its charismatci leaders such as JP2, Father Rydzek, the Kaczyńskis, etc. is what keeps many expats going.

News / Anti-atheisation institute in Poland emerging [110]

Polson: France used to be called 'najstarsza córa Kościoła' (the Church's eldest daughter). Now more approrptiate would be 'najstarsza córa Koryntu!'.(the eldest daughter of Corinth).

News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]

Possible scenarios for the 2015 elections:
1) Nothing changes; the PO-PSL coalition is repeated as the same groupings make it into the Sejm in roughly similar proportions;
2) A PiS-PSL coalition emerges after winning 45% of the vote.
3) A PO-SLD coalition emerges after winning 45% of the vote.
4) During the campaign, as a result of behind-the-scenes negotiations, the conservative wing of PO merges with PiS; they do not join PiS but form the PS (Partia Sprawiedliwości) which win 50% of the vote. Gowin is at its head and forms a non-coalition PS government; Kaczyński becomes honorary president for life;

5) A SLD-Palikot-PSL coalition emerges after winning 45% of the vote.
6) Impossible as it may seem, politicians belatedly come to their senses and realise too much time, effort and money has been spent on a futile Polish-Polish war and resurrect the original PO-PiS coalition planned in 2005.

7. Some other option?
Thoughts?

Life / Polish way of life? [34]


So you regard the mock-prayers adn chants in that video to be Polish reality, eh?

Life / Polish way of life? [34]

DominicB
Just shows that many expats are Pole-bashers. If they don't like Poland, who's keeping them here?

Life / Our Mothers, Our Fathers on Polish TV? [19]


Some of those things were indeed shown. The point is that the focus were this German fivesome and what they saw and experienced. And they couldn't have seen and experienced everything.

Life / Our Mothers, Our Fathers on Polish TV? [19]

The discussion afterwards was very interesting. The film's German consultant said the Polish episodes were secondary in importance, the focus being the five German friends and how they fared during the war. But a Polish prof, Szarota, objected saying that if the only Polish theme was that the AK was anti-Semitic, that would entrench that distorted stereotype amongst coming German generations.

Szewach Weiss, former Israeli ambassador to Poland, pointed out there indeed was anti-Semitism in prewar Poland but where didn't it exist? He noted that Poland had produced Żegota (to save Jews), but never spawned a Vichy, Tiso or Quisling regime.

News / PO-PiS again neck and neck [248]


So you're against giving young people a chance to develop and gain experience? Interesting!

Life / Polish way of life? [34]

sobieski
If they act that way you describe...

Life / Polish way of life? [34]

All crass materilialism, creature comforts, pure physiology, animal-like activities devoid of spriitual susbtance. Homo sapiens or homo ludens?

News / PO-PiS again neck and neck [248]

What do you have against sweeping out crooks, racheteers, connivers, parasites who have wormed their way into the administation and economy for their own selfish benefit and to the country's detriment. That's what PiS is all about: Law and Justice.

Life / Polish way of life? [34]


Was there another Jon-soetmhing (also some numners, if i 'I recall) I'm confusing you with. Anyway you seem to send out the same kind of expat vibes as our Fearsome Foursome. Also you use English colloquial expressions not typical of a Polish national.

Life / Polish way of life? [34]


There are many alternatives in every country, and yet, as my thumbnail sketch of America shows, there is something, a certain climate, consensus, ambience, call it what you will that covneys the flavour, and spirit of a given nation. Not every American likes baseball, some may be allergic to apples and Jehovah's Witnesses refuse to salute the flag, but there nevertheless exists that certain something indicative of the overall taste and texture of things. That's all I had in mind.

Life / Polish way of life? [34]

Traditionally it has meant life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as well as mother, the stars & Stripes, apple pie and baseball. Also the rags to riches theme -- a land where anything possible. Also New York'a biggest Pole, Stasiu* Liberty, welcoming Europe's huddled masses, the human refuse of your teeming shores...

*That's a little joke -- is should be the Statue of...


So you would be unable to present a synthetic encapsulation of the most typical Polish values and lifestyles. I reckon functioning in an alternative, counterculture world makes that rather difficulłt. As I said once before, many expats do not have a 'feel' of the country even after years of physical presence.

News / PO-PiS again neck and neck [248]


For now. Use a little imagination and think ahead. Are you truly unable to envisage various scenarios? Do you truly believe things never leave their rut? Merkel teaming up with lefties sounded like mixing petrol and strawberry jam, but somehow...

News / PO-PiS again neck and neck [248]

He replaced them wtih the Polish classics which had been yanked by the commies or their post-commie successors.
Now the Gang of Tusk has again re-pauperised the collection. Probably only the future PiS-PSL government can remedy the situaiton.
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News / PO-PiS again neck and neck [248]


Aren't there enough pre-programmed robotic earning machines who cannot see anything beyond their horse blinkers except their e-gizmos, equations and filthy lucre? Giertych represented Christian humanism that transcended the purely materialistic and pedestrian.

News / PO-PiS again neck and neck [248]


Admittedly he only had two years, but he did beef up the educational curruculum with more history and culture. values More importantly, he believed the school should not only teach facts, but should bring pupils up to be decent, patriotic Poles. Lefitst, gfloablisst and assorted one-worlders of course reject such ideas, so that makes Giertych the bad guy in their books.

News / PO-PiS again neck and neck [248]


Like a mantra your keep repeating the notion of other parties ganging up on poor PiS. At present PiS-PSL seems the most plausible to me. But if Tusk and Kaczyński somehow managed to rise above their petty ambitions, PiS-PO would be possible. Recall how that coaltion was to have been created but failed to materialise. PO came up with all kinds of weird proposal like holding coaltion talks on live TV -- something never done anywhere. PiS grudgingly consented but piolticians ended up smiling at the cameras, adjusting theri ties (the slob chic hadn't set in yet!) and nothing came of it. Although they lost, PO were offered the same number of cabinet posts as PiS but still kept bickering until the whole project fell through and Kaczyński was forced to seek outside help. Giertych was OK, but Lepper was a total flop..

News / The sack for 7,000 teachers in Poland? [8]


Are you suggesting that gay sex can help solve the demographic shortfall? For all your homophlic bias I can't really imagine even you proposing such a thing.

News / The sack for 7,000 teachers in Poland? [8]


Yes, a little moustachioed chap once thought the way you do. He called his project Lebensborn. This is not a fish hatchery or chicken farm -- the point is to replenish the demographic shortfall within the traditonal, sacramentalised family. The purpose is to actually bring children up, set an example and ensure they carry on the family tradition.

Informal, often fly-by-night liaisons frequently lack the stability and permanence to do a proper job of child-rearing.


Funny you did not latch onto the shackers-up, but onyl gay sex. Who is obsessed?

News / PO-PiS again neck and neck [248]

Only an uncoalitionable PiS woudl be poltically toxic. But with 37% (PiS) and 10% (PSL), they could form a govt. Theoretically PO (27) and SLD (14) could also come close to that, but that would spell the death knell for PO. As soon as Tusk floated the hint of a PO-SLD link-up, support for his party began falling. PO is not just liberal and conservative but also include a Solidarity-rooted, anti-communist contingent who would never stomach a red bedfellow.

The above figures are based in some of rthe recent opinion polls, and over the next 2 years, anything can happen. That is politics!