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Bobko   
25 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [143]

Guys, could you take your discussion about monastaries and such to the Random Thread?

Yes, sorry for that.

Great idea for a thread, here.

I hope you keep coming with stuff like this. It's a breath of fresh air.
Bobko   
25 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [143]

that holiness then has a mystical effect on the world because we are inter-connected on some level.

Then that monk is doing overtime work.

I think in Russia there is one of the biggest populations of monks in the entire world, but still just several thousands.

In most of the West Christianity is dead, and I have never heard of anyone joining a monastery.

Maybe the crazy baptists and others would rapidly fill up all the monasteries, but unfortunately they are not allowed.

So a few thousand monks are pulling the weight of 8 billion people's sins.

but the barrier is to provide an environment for one to pursue a life of prayer, contemplation, and pursuit of holiness.

What makes you such a gentle cupcake, that your brother has to get a second job, and your mom has to plan making a once weekly delivery of a "care package" to the monastery?

Your brother works a responsible job, for which he gets paid a salary - from which he shares with you. What exactly do you do?

"Ohhh, our Bob - you know how he is... We all need to focus our energies on him building a solid barrier from our world of sin - so that he can truly start flexing his Christian muscles!"

This pisses me off.

Why should everyone work to make your monastery experience a success? How is this different from the parasites that saddle everyone with their rehab bills?
Bobko   
25 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [143]

In the Western monastic tradition it is more about seeking communion with God

Please... this is also true in the Eastern/Orthodox tradition.

I think Hindu priests and Buddhist monks have similar ambitions.

The main attraction, for most clueless "Joe Blows" out there - is precisely the idea of a "fortress".

Monasteries are maybe not "fortresses" (although many in Russia acted in that capacity, especially during the Polish invasion), but spiritual strongholds. A place of refuge, where one can shield himself from the sin and chaos of the secular world.

The dedication to prayer, contemplation, and the pursuit of holiness - it's all about forming a spiritual barrier against the forces of moral decay outside.

This is what irritated me then, and even now.

You cannot save the world by running away from it.
Bobko   
25 Sep 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Ladies and gentlemen, we have an expert on all things Poznań here.

Damn, I'm impressed!
Bobko   
25 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [143]

is never over what one seeks in a monastery...

Back then I was religious, and I thought the point of going to a monastery is to pay lifelong penance for my own and the world's sins. Also a way of escaping temptation, and finding true brotherhood in a circle of men of the same mind as mine.

Now I think it is retarded for a young man to consider he has any sins to atone for, let alone that he should do it for the world. Also, I like the brotherhood I found within my firm. Quite a bit more comfortable of a brotherhood, than within a monastery or within an army regiment.

Escaping temptation... I think a monastery feeds it more than it protects from it.
Bobko   
25 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [143]

So you wouldn't be shocked to know that I actually considered becoming a monk

No, not at all.

I don't know if I told you, but I did too.

When I really didn't know what was up and what was down, I thought I had only two real directions before me - the army or a monastery. The third option, less considered, was likely prison.

I suspect most young men within a certain IQ range go through this period.

I'm over that now.
Bobko   
25 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [143]

I thought that people who aren't very much into art like/appreciate realistic/photorealistic art the most

Maybe you are right, but instead me and AntV are "somewhat" into art.

The type of art you shared, I think I would classify as "interior decorating" art. I'm sure no such category exists, but you know what I mean...

I would expect to see that type of art in my plumber's apartment, or in a 3-star hotel. Maybe somebody is moving into a new rental apartment, and they went and bought some prints from IKEA or Zara Home.

OK, so what art does speak to you?

I like lots of things. I like the sculptures of antiquity, I like medieval stuff, I like baroque era stuff (more the Dutch things, because I had enough of religious themes and like to look at common scenes),
I like modern stuff, I like post-modern stuff of most varieties - I like everything.

It's easier for me to say what I don't like.

I don't like almost anything that the Cubists produced, or Suprematists, or Constructivists (all largely Russian in origin - yes I know).

Goya speaks to me, but maybe less so Dali or Miro - if we discuss Spaniards. At the same time, Picasso does as well - even though I was talking sh*t about Cubism/Surrealism. His Guernica is one of the paintings which produced the greatest impression on me. The way he addressed war, industry, and the dehumanization of modern life - was much more effective for me than Dali or Miro, and much more like Goya who preceded them by a century.

Basically, I like everything, but not the photorealistic stuff you shared.
Bobko   
25 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [143]

AntV, so what kind of art you do like? Do you have any favourite artists/paintings?

I bet he likes Rubens, like "The Madonna and the Child, with infant Saint John and Elizabeth".

Maybe Botticelli's "Birth of Venus".

AntV and Ironside always struck me as the type of guys that would be quite happy within a medieval monastery - brewing beer, and eating fat legs of ham.

However, I must agree with him - these photorealistic things really do not speak to me. What's the point?
Bobko   
25 Sep 2024
Life / Poland research for my world cultures class [3]

@noodle0101

Ask ChatGPT to do your homework for you, and spend the time outside kicking a ball, instead.

This will be better for your physical health, plus you will not have polluted your brain with useless knowledge.
Bobko   
25 Sep 2024
News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [544]

How many cars are not checked on the Polish-Russian border?

How would I know - orcs are not allowed in Europe?

We all go to vacation in North Korea and Afghanistan now - no visas required for Russian citizens.
Bobko   
25 Sep 2024
News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [544]

Because that's where Europe ends....

Europe ends at Polish border with Kaliningrad?

Does that mean that Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia are not in Europe?

Ukraine is also not in Europe?

How about Belarus?

Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus?

Georgia will be especially upset to learn its not in Europe, since they are a little bit more obsessed with Europe than the Ukrainians.

Israel competes in the Eurovision Song Contest - what does that mean? Kazakhstan plays football in the UEFA Cup, and not the AFC - also very strange.

From your words, I get the understanding that Russia warps the fabric of time and space near its borders, forming a sort of black hole.
Bobko   
25 Sep 2024
News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [544]

a Europe without borders. It really works.

But there are borders between Poland and Russia? Also, there are borders between Russia and Finland, and Russia and Estonia...

How does that work? Should we also complain to Scholz that his behavior we find very distressing?

Currently, if we want to help Poland with flooding Germany with illegal immigrants - we need to use quite lengthy logistical routes originating in Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, or the Kola Peninsula.

I drew a map below, for how Russia can send more illegal immigrants to Germany, after the shorter route through Belarus was unfortunately blocked.

My concern with these routes are several. First and foremost, I worry for the health of the migrants, while traveling through the Arctic Circle. Also, the distance is quite a bit more than going from Libya to Sicily, or from Syria to Greece.

Does Poland have any kind of naval fleet capable of assisting?


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Bobko   
25 Sep 2024
News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]

He's only 54. A kid.

Older people and young children have much in common.

There are pubes stuck in the plughole of my shower

This is no good.

There's a tool for this, attaching image below.

If you remove the pubes - the water will drain faster.


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Bobko   
25 Sep 2024
News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [544]

Poland criticizes new German anti-immigration controls. Berlin's passport checks will only worsen relations with Warsaw, Foreign Ministry has said

Why doesn't Poland also enforce passport control on the border with Germany? Then the problem is solved through reciprocal action.

This may prompt Germany to rethink its very selfish position, and reopen the border.

The hundreds of thousands of East Germans who will no longer be able to easily purchase cheap Polish cigarettes, will force the Scholz government to change course!

If the Germans are still not convinced, just copy Lukashenko and help the migrants by equipping them with some bolt cutters and ladders. Since many of them are big city boys, from places like Mosul and Basra - you may also need to also provide a forest ranger to guide them safely to the German border.

It would be very funny to then watch Germany build a wall on its border with Poland.


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Bobko   
19 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / What was the point when Europe stopped being all-White? [66]

and now we left the thread topic for good again)

Why, no? We are waxing nostalgic about a white Europe. What is more emblematic of proper Europe, than a proper Deutschmark?

The last S-Klass you could by with a Deutschmark, was also the last S-Klass that looked good!

You could say about that car that it had all the necessary qualities of a good German car - quadratische, praktisch, gut. Not looking like some Korean transvestite!


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Bobko   
19 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / What was the point when Europe stopped being all-White? [66]

I have only fond memories...

If the Deutschmark still existed, Greece would be bankrupt, and a Mercedes S-Klass would cost $250,000 instead of $150,000.

The Euro helped make everything everywhere else in Europe more expensive, but cheaper in Germany.

It was such a ridiculously strong currency, that it would make the Swiss Franc blush.

Even now, Germany is the only thing that makes people take European debt seriously, or have any confidence in the Euro.

A reintroduction of the Deutschmark would kill German exports, while making imports very attractive to Germans. It would also have the effect of an atom bomb explosion under the whole idea of the EU.

So these AfD guys are quite a bit more dangerous than Marine Le Pen, and her dreams of Frexit.

You should be happy that the rest of Europe diluted your ridiculously strong currency - and spread their butt cheeks wide for your exports.
Bobko   
19 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / What was the point when Europe stopped being all-White? [66]

maybe there truly is a limit to welcomed immigration in Europe!

All that is necessary is to take Germany and the Netherlands out of the Schengen Area.

When migrants understand that they have to permanently remain in Poland, or in Italy - instead of being able to carry on directly to the Germans or the Dutch - they will stop coming.

Put a big huge fence up on your borders with Poland and Austria, and enjoy life.

Oh also, don't forget borders with France.

Under EU law, specifically the Dublin III Regulation, the rule is that the country where the asylum seeker first entered the EU is responsible for handling their asylum claim. You must simply enforce the law!

Alternatively, you can do what the French do and provide little boats and snack packages so that your migrants can safely make the journey to Great Britain. If that is too far, you can at least help them arrive in Norway and Sweden.

The problem with Norway and Sweden is that they are part of the Schengen Area unlike Britain. So this means you will have to close your border with Denmark as well.

It is my understanding you have already been closing the border sporadically, but that this makes you unpopular with Brussels. I say make the border closure permanent.

After that, reintroduce the Deutschmark and move the capital back to Bonn.
Bobko   
19 Sep 2024
News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]

Ukrainians are watching and learning all the time how to be reluctant with apologies or admitting crimes!

You are a teacher, yes? What kind of a lesson are you hoping to teach the Ukrainian primates with your Mahatma Gandhi shtick?

They do not understand such things... and will only consider you weak! Do you understand me - they will have no respect for you as a pedagogue and will behind your back despise you.

With Ukrainian swinehounds the conversation must always be short and to the point.

For example, you ask: "Who was Stepan Bandera?!" and when the Khokhol begins with "A victim of Bolshevik repression..." you immediately punch him in his elephant trunk - two times.

Then when you say, "Who is Roman Shukhevych" they may now be more reluctant to give you a straight answer. Two kicks in their peasant gut for prophylaxis, and question can be repeated. If the answer starts incorrectly - again two rapid jabs to the proboscis.

In this way, and only in this way, can there be a hope to make out of a Ukrainian ein echter Europäer. Verstehen?


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Bobko   
18 Sep 2024
News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]

to use the upcoming Polish presidency in the European Union to put pressure on the elites in Kiev.

Ah, so this was not a scandal fabricated entirely by "Imperialist Russian trolls"?

Not enough Poles are enlightened enough to fully embrace your theory of "Apology First".

Too many Poles are still like Kania and Ironside, and unfortunately the PO government cannot ignore the political dimension of it all.
Bobko   
18 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / Serbia etc. thread 3 [437]

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Bobko   
16 Sep 2024
News / Flood in Lower Silesia in Poland - looks catastrophic [94]

That's an excellent idea.

Thanks!

I am popular here on this forum, for having many great ideas about how to improve life in Poland.

Do not hesitate to reach out to me for more advice in the future.

Faithfully yours,

Bobko
Bobko   
16 Sep 2024
History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]

It's as simple as 1 ... 2 ... 3.

This is a good approach. Perhaps enough to make them start laying bricks in their underwear.

However... time has shown that there are only two groups the Ukrainians truly fear - the Americans and the Chinese. Everybody else, for them, are small peanuts. Trust me - I read their news enough. They think they can even bully Germans and French, through their retarded ambassadors or if necessary by employing Zelensky himself.

Naming, shaming, and humiliating is their diplomatic method of choice - except when Americans or Chinese are involved. With the Chinese it is especially humorous, because China is a nominal Russian ally (but also Ukraine's largest trade partner).

If the Poles alone begin twisting their arm, they'll get on a pedestal and start screaming:

"We are the Shield of Europe. The Beacon of Democracy. We suffer like the Christ on the cross, for the sins of Scholz and Kaczynski! BEHOLD - Poland is trying to extort us through railway embargoes! SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!"

What you really need to do, is to go talk to Grandpa Biden, and explain your position. Then allow Grandpa to talk to Zelensky. Then, suddenly, Zelensky will become smooth as silk, and remarkably capable of listening to your complaints.

After all, the Ukrainians are our brothers, and just like us orcs - they only understand brute force and intimidation.
Bobko   
16 Sep 2024
News / Flood in Lower Silesia in Poland - looks catastrophic [94]

an artificial lake which stored excess water and it's been working very well

Climatologists say that large parts of the world will have major issues sourcing drinking water in the next decades.

You Europeans should use this flooding as an opportunity to replenish your underground aquifers and create some new lakes.

Later you can use it for yourself, or sell to the Arabs at great profit.

Thank me later!
Bobko   
16 Sep 2024
History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]

Ukrainians will not allow the exhumations for a very simple reason

I'm not sure that that is the actual reason.

Personally, I think there are no bodies left there - I've said this in the past. Volyn and Galicia have been electing ultranationalist public officials since the early 90s. I wouldn't be surprised if they already "recycled" the dead bodies at some construction site.

However, that's just my personal conspiracist take.

In their public discourse amongst themselves, where they have less fear of being watched, still nobody ever mentions "fear of being embarrassed". Perhaps they should, but they don't.

Instead, the accent is always on "what will we get, if we allow them to come and exhume?".

It's what I wrote before, in regards to Ukrainians showing their true face by trying to engage in a "trade" over corpses.

They think, in their lumpen brain: "We let the Lyakhs take their bodies - they promise to help us get into the EU. Quid pro quo."

They don't understand how this makes them be in the same club as Hamas or Boko Haram. You know, as Pawian says - they need some more decades to mature as a state.

They see that Hezbollah can trade the corpse of a dead IDF soldier for 1,000 jihadists sitting in Israeli jails - and they think, "The Poles are also bleeding heart suckers, it would be foolish to forego asking for dividends from this trade."

Maybe they are even right... You saw what Sikorsky said - "These people have descendants... and they vote in elections. So the question is political."

That is, if it was a PO government which finally "bent" the Ukrainians to agree to the exhumations that would be a win for PO. If PO cannot achieve this, but PiS can - then it is a win for PiS. The Polish government could quietly promise the Ukrainians help in other departments, if the Ukrainians quietly agree to allow the exhumations.

So maybe their terrorist tactics are not so myopic as they seem.
Bobko   
16 Sep 2024
History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]

My favorite part of this discussion, is when Sikorsky says "The bodies must be exhumed and properly buried. Do you agree, yes or no?"...

... and the Ukrainian journalist answers along the lines of "I certainly cannot agree that Bandera and Shukhevych are not heroes!".

Hehehehe, and then Pawian tries to sell me some sh*t about Russian imperial propaganda!

This is a journalist for "Ukrainska Pravda"! The most well respected newspaper in Ukraine! With a very liberal and pro-Western bias!

I did not find you a quote from some Banderite living in a cave under Lvov, but from one of the most "European" of "European" Ukrainians.

Know who you are dealing with - baboon...