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Des Essientes   
5 Apr 2010
Life / Polish Film World and Poland Movie Reviews [30]

Many great film directors cite a Polish movie as the best film of all time. It is based on Jan Potacki's French novel, and it is called the "Saragossa Manuscript". It is quite surreal and full of topless Polish beauties.
Des Essientes   
19 Jun 2010
Life / Sci-fi / Fantasy books in Polish? [12]

Not all of Stanisław Lem's book's are so called "hard" science fiction. His book entitled 'His Master's Voice' is quite challenging, but he also has more accessible novels such as 'The Cyberiad', and my personal favorite 'Return From the Stars'. I recommend you purchase the latter for your son. Besides which at 16 he is too old to be reading the childish Harry Potter series. Harry Potter is an exercise in Anglo wimpiness. As a Pole I'm sure you want your son to be better than that. The 'Futurological Congress' is also a great read, and although it concerns drug induced hallucinations, I know as a Polish-American that our people's ability to thrive on strong inebriants is much greater than most others. Your son should read Stanisław Lem!
Des Essientes   
26 Aug 2010
USA, Canada / PolAms -- do you regard yourselves only as 'white Americans'? [187]

Less than a century ago people of Polish descent were considered non-caucasians by the U.S. census and classified as members of the "Slavic Race". Italians, Irishmen, and Jews are other groups that have now become "white".
Des Essientes   
1 Oct 2010
Life / Poles - what other nationality would you say you are most like? [125]

Czesłąw Miłosz wrote in he 1980's that the Hungarians and the Serbs are the only two nationalities that Poles have unbounded friendship for. The Hungarians and the Poles were the two nations in Europe with the highest percentage of nobility amongst their populace, around 10%. But of course linguistically and culturally, despite a certain amount of Germanization, the Hungarians are not Indo-Europeans at all but rather but Finno-Ugrians whose ancestors hail from Central Asia.

Despite the popularity of French-bashing amongst the troglodytic types in this forum we must admit that, given the Polish love of freedom, art, high culture and stylishness, the Poles are as Nietzsche said: The French among the Slavs.
Des Essientes   
1 Oct 2010
Life / Poles - what other nationality would you say you are most like? [125]

What makes you think that? Explain please.

Because Polish like Vodka as the equivalent to Pastis?

If you'd read my post more closely you'd see I explained that the Polish/French affinity rests upon a love of political freedom, art, and stylishness in general. Trying to understand cultures solely in terms of alcoholic beverages is very superficial. Since literary comparisons would be wasted upon the likes of you let me point to a more popular medium, the cinema. Polish movies like Ashes And Diamonds and The Saragossa Manuscript stand up well next to the best French New Wave films, and imagining that any of the less sophisticated European peoples could make such films is laughable.

Ach...Nietzsche doesn't count...he was a Pole himself with serious identity problems!

There was a family tradition amongst the Nietzsche's which claimed Polish ancestry. Friedrich's father actually had the family registered as non-German with the Prussian authorities. However Nietzsche is not a Polish name but a German one which is somewhat common in the Eastern part of Germany, despite this we can say that Nietzsche's philosophy is a thundering affirmation of Sarmatism, and he was indeed Polish in spirit.
Des Essientes   
14 Oct 2010
Life / Poland's population predictions [59]

the way they go around with the 3rd world scum that travels to Poland

You know who are the real scum? racist morons such as Filios
Des Essientes   
18 Oct 2010
Love / What is this feeling? <Filipino guy / Polish girl> [50]

Poles and Filipinos have a strange attraction to one another that is difficult to explain. Perhaps it is a physical disparity that the genius of the species wishes to transcend in offspring. In any event it has led to violence. Leon Czolgosz shot President McKinley out of love for Filipinos.
Des Essientes   
18 Nov 2010
Life / The best of Polish stories, drama and art [7]

The memoirs of Jan Pasek contain some of the weirdest stories i have ever read. Their opening pages recount the gutting of live Swedish soldiers in a search for swallowed coinage and the stories continue to perplex and amaze the reader from then on. Truly Pan Pasek was a raconteur of the highest order. The incredible tale of his otter and her tragic fate alone warrants making these memoirs famous outside of Poland.

Jan Chryzostom. Pasek, Catherine S. Leach (editor), Memoirs of the Polish Baroque: The Writings of Jan Chryzostom Pasek, a Squire of the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania, University of California Press, 1980
Des Essientes   
19 Nov 2010
Travel / Vegetarian places to eat in Krakow [30]

Vegetarianism is the healthiest diet for one's body and for the Earth. We vegetarians are the future.
Des Essientes   
9 Dec 2010
News / Poles don't have a heart for math... says The New York Times [84]

Far from showing the NY Times to be a Socialist newspaper this article reveals just how petty bourgeois it is. Studying the humanities ennobles people. This article suggests that an emphasis on high culture rather than math and science is bad for business. Well so what? Should educated Poles be as boring as the techno-nerds that muck up America? Listen to the bitterness of Pan Turski from the article: “I am not qualified to be considered intelligentsia in this country,” Professor Turski said, shouting with the enthusiasm of a man on a mission. “It is more important to sit and discuss Plato than to know how the chip in the computer works.” Yes Professor Turski the ontological is more important than the ontic and it appears that Poland is a country that still understands that.
Des Essientes   
13 Dec 2010
Genealogy / Do you think all Slavs are white? [178]

If white means Aryan then only Germanics are true whites.

Aryans were an ancient group of tribes who settled in Iran, hence its name, and India. Germanics are not Aryans. The Nazi definition of "Aryan" is plainly wrong.
Des Essientes   
23 Dec 2010
History / The Way Back ( Długi Marsz movie) Colin Farrell, Ed Harris [27]

Hopefully this film will receive critical acclaim, and be successful at the box office, thereby leading to the cinematizing of Ferdinand Ossendowski's amazing journey through Siberia and Mongolia so vividly recounted in his book Beasts, Men And Gods. It would be very interesting to see Tushegoun Lama on the silver screen. What would the world make of an intrepid Buddhist Kalmuk superman? And what about the Baron Ungern Von Sternberg?
Des Essientes   
31 Dec 2010
News / Composer Henryk Gorecki has died. [28]

A genius by definition has influence. An unnoticed and unknown genius would have had to have influenced people subliminally somehow.
Des Essientes   
2 Jan 2011
News / Pole-basher Gross up to old tricks [284]

The most pernicious influence that Jan Gross's new book is likely to have is not in Poland at all but rather in Palestine. Portrayals of Poland, which was the homelandland of the majority of world jewery before WW2, as an unsafe anti-semitic place are used by Zionists to justify the denial of Palestinian human rights such as the right of the refugee to return to his home.

The Zionists' horrible calculation is as follows: Jews were hated in Poland and so they must have their own sovereign state with a Jewish majority in Palestine. This Jewish majority was achieved by expelling around one million Gentiles from Palestine in 1947-1948. These non-Jewish refugees if granted their right to return would make Jews a minority in Palestine and thus they cannot return because Jews are more important than them. Zionism in short is racist and this book, and others like it, are used to claim Zionism is warranted by Polish racism. Of course two wrongs do not make a right, but never mind that. The Zionist argument is obviously unsound, but irrationality is part and parcel of racist colonial enterprises.
Des Essientes   
4 Jan 2011
News / Pole-basher Gross up to old tricks [284]

the anti-semites' favourite political scientist

Haha what a cheap ruse trying to smear the principled Norman Finklestein with the anti-Semitic label. Norman Finklestein criticized the racist colonial abomination that is Zionism. It is ironic that this book about starving Polish peasants who looked for valuables in Jewish mass graves at the end of World War 2 will be used by the holocaust industry to justify the existence of the Zionist entity in Palestine which is now building a "museum of tolerance" upon a Muslim graveyard in Jerusalem!
Des Essientes   
6 Jan 2011
News / 10,000 ISRAELIS READY TO CLAIM FOR POLISH CITIZENSHIP AND POLISH LAND! [628]

Btw, Xenophobia is totally out of style. This is a global village!

It is out of style amongst civilized people but not with Zionists. The Zionist entity in Palestine won't let the Arabs it expelled in 1947-1948 return to their homes. Making the indigenous populace into foreigners and then denying them their rights is a particularly pernicious form of xenophobia. If citizens of the Zionist entity in Palestine can prove their claims for land in the Polish courts and they wish to acquire Polish citizenship then let them, but they must be required to renounce their Israeli citizenship, and they should be educated regarding the fact that Poland is a multicultural nation where their Jewishness will not grant them anymore rights than the rest of the citizens have.
Des Essientes   
6 Jan 2011
Life / Favourite Polish movies? [107]

The Polish movie, The Saragossa Manuscript, which is based upon Jan Potocki's brilliant book of intertwined tales, The Manuscript Found At Saragossa, has been cited by many of the world's greatest film directors as their favorite movie. Luis Brunel wanted to watch it again right after viewing it and until that time he'd never wished to watch any movie twice. It is truly a masterpiece.
Des Essientes   
6 Jan 2011
News / Poland's atheist loonies have had their 5 minutes [239]

Did you know there were actually four kings? And that they were not kings at all?

They were Magi which means they were Zoroastrians. It seems that the newer moralistic faith needed its messianic claims confirmed by the representatives of an older one.
Des Essientes   
12 Jan 2011
USA, Canada / Things that Polish-American should know about Poland. [168]

Polish-Americans should learn some Polish history and find out what a truly interesting country Poland was in the past. Learn about Sarmatism and The Golden Freedom. Read the memoirs of Jan Pasek. Read The Knights Of The Cross and The Trilogy by Henryk Sienkiewicz.
Des Essientes   
15 Jan 2011
Genealogy / Looking for information on the name BUCZYNSKI / Todorowski / Trocki [16]

1. Do you know whether Charles Bronson was a Muslim?
2. His first language (supposedly not English)
3. Was his mother a Pole, a Lipka Tatar or a Lithuanian?
4. Was she a Roman Catholic or a Muslim?
I am just curious...

Charles Bronson's father was a Lithuanian Tartar and a Sunni Muslim. His mother was a Lithuanian and a Roman Catholic. I don't know which, if any, religion Charles practiced. When asked about his ethnicity by Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show Charles claimed to be Mongolian.
Des Essientes   
17 Jan 2011
History / Climate, weather event and Polish history [23]

Globally in the past decade a full nine years have been recorded as the the hottest on record. Climate change is real and the scientists who point this out are far from poor demented fools. However people who'd deny this because its cold where they are at the moment truly do deserve to be called fools.
Des Essientes   
18 Jan 2011
History / If i could write European history i would unite Europe under Polish language [67]

let's all learn Cornish then. I think it's much more closer to original language of first European inhabitans...

Cornish is part of the Celtic branch of the Indo-European Language family and as such is no closer to the original language of the first European inhabitants than Polish. The only spoken language in Europe which would qualify as being nearer to the language of the original European inhabitants is Euzkadi (Basque).
Des Essientes   
25 Jan 2011
Off-Topic / Some Kurdish and Polish Similarities [53]

Here is a Polish-Kurdish couple, or rather a Polish-Kurdish cognate. The Kurds celebrate New Year's Day on the anniversary of a successful uprising against their Assyrian overlords led by one named "Kawa" which is Kurdish for "smith". The Polish cognate is of course "kowal".
Des Essientes   
25 Jan 2011
History / Poland obliged to make war reparations to Austria and Germany after WWI. Why? [119]

And which part of Britain does the name Zamoyski come from, it's definitely not English and it doesn't sound very Welsh or Scots either. he may have been born in Britain and have a British passport, but I doubt he's neutral on the subject

Adam Zamoyski is descended from the Polish magnates who ruled Zamost.