Life / Do young Polish people believe in their religion and God? [150]


That is not the job of science..... it's the job of philosophy (of which traditional religions are one kind).

The question is: "Can human beings create a system of ethics without a supernatural element?"

I say.... yes.

Life / What to do if the neighbors is too loud? [40]


"The world don't move to the beat of just one drum", as a man wiser than you or I once said...
"What might be right for you, may not be right for some," he continued.
"It takes Diff'rent Strokes", he mused
"It takes Diff'rent Strokes to move the world."

Genealogy / What am I? (Percentage) [17]


Doesn't sound very likely given how many German names show up in Poland... unless it's a very PiS heavy area (which is not Warsaw).

Genealogy / What am I? (Percentage) [17]


"german" and "polish" are not discrete biological categories... like most large ethnic labels there's a fair amount of admixture from other groups.

biological reductionists might come up with dumb answers like 75% Polish and 25% German, but that's not how genetics work.

more important questions:

where and how did you grow up?

what language(s) did you naturally acquire while growing up?

where feels like 'home'?

where feels like 'hmmm nice, but not home'....

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]

Big volcano eruption in kamczatka in the russian far east....

twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1645663113084125184

If previous natural disasters are anything to go by.... there will be no help whatsoever for citizens affected by the eruption....

What... you think superyachts just somehow appear in Cyprus???

Life / In need of good Polish jokes about Polish culture, people, etc [239]


Tolerance of russia is the most perverse deadly sin of all....

twitter.com/JJam28227/status/1641946203058319361

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


meaningless fool's dichotomy....

at present Ukraine is a sovereign country under military attack by a country that doesn't think Ukrainians should exist. Look at what's happened everywhere that fell under russian control (starting with Bucha and Mariupol) and it's clear what russian aims are.

Live in the past or look to the future.... that's what's important at this moment.

News / Unfulfilled promises by PiS [559]

Welcome to PiS!

News / Unfulfilled promises by PiS [559]


anything.... they're a bunch of prl-style bunglers....

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]

cope cope cope-a-hope for the lope-a-dope....

putain's fains are not happy.... tooooo baddddd

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


The presumed next PM is also pro-NATO and ant-russia..... so seethe and cope more, montenegrin....

biggest pro-russia party in finland averaged 0.20 percent in the pollss

hahahahahahaha!!!! Finns want no part of the worthless, loser 'russian world'!

News / Unfulfilled promises by PiS [559]


I'm not sure how yet.... but I'm sure that Tusk is to blame....

News / Unfulfilled promises by PiS [559]


I wonder if the countryside is wising up that they can't trust the neo-PRLites in PiS to run anything.....

And if Ukrainian grain doesn't make it to where it's most needed (Africa and the Middle East) there will be economic problems followed by increased migration from those places to Europe....

PiS---- rolling disaster after disaster.... buffoons who need to be kicked out by the voters....

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


vengeance for what? your own failures?

maybe russia is a sh}thole because that's all russians are capable of

look inside and fix what's wrong rather than externalizing your self-hatred like you do now....

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


amazing at how quickly russian thinking (even in jest???) turns to violence....

truly prosperous countries no longer want to attack their neighbors... a stage of socio-political evolution that russians have not caught up with (thanks mongols for setting them back so far....)

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


A country will Poland's cultural profile will always poll in favor of restrictions and a network of hard-to-navigate rules. So polling data on this issue is kind of... not the most relevant.

And.... people in a country with Poland's cultural profile.... will not pay attention to rules that they find inconvenient and/or burdensome.

A better poll. Go to outdoor markets when/where they sell military 'collectibles' and discretely ask around how difficult it would be to get a handgun and ask how much it would cost....

The guys selling this stuff could probably hook you up if you asked nice and don't mind paying...

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History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_Iraq_War

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_protests_against_the_Vietnam_War

wrong again.... making protests illegal is not a sign of strength but a sign of weakness.... russians are weak and pathetic and the fact that they accept restrictions of speech is yet another manifestation of that

get out of Ukraine!

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


Cause you keep sh[tting the bed in other countries. Ukraine is not russia and no amount of russian tantrums will change that. Stay in your own country and try to act like half-way civilized people and maybe people wouldn't look down on you so much....


they hate America far more than they hate Ukraine.... it reminds them of everything they're not.... especially powerful and influential... they can't stand that no one wants the loser russian culture.

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


talk about saying the quiet part out loud.....

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


Just shut up! Everyone in the world is sick and tired of hearing about russian bellyaches.... what a bunch of insufferable whiners you all are... no one cares!

All russians go home and stay there and stop stinking up other countries with your pathetic complaints and grumbles.....

russia was not humiliated in 1991 (massive efforts went into trying to prevent that) and it was clearly a mistake.... when a dog messes the floor rub his nose in it... russia is messing the floor...

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


Oh, that's okay, according to russians he wasn't arrested because of his daughter's picture but because he had written things that disagree with the russian government...

No really, that was the explanation of bobko, who certain doesn't have the pair needed to express his own opinion when it's not what he's been told it is.

Life / Relation in Poland to Orthodox Christians? [117]


I'm not a Christian, so I don't care what it says in the Bible.


A bunch of people speculating about their motivations is crack cocaine for a narcissist. It's hard to understand for more normal people, but he's not giving a name precisely to keep people guess and talking about him. He's an addict, stop supplying him with his drug.

Life / Relation in Poland to Orthodox Christians? [117]


Cause it's something weird and tiny.... maybe he handles snakes....

Anyhoo, he's obviously Baptist (sensu largo)

He prioritizes the Bible over church (so... protestant)

Within that he seems to have a 'low church' attitude that prioritizes a 'relationship' with JC rather than church authority and/or good works (low church almost disdains good works*).

There are so many different denominations within the Baptist-like that the name wouldn't really tell you much...

*this is why the deep south is hard Baptist - a denomination that would allow people to feel godly and have no urge to right wrongs all around them in society.... the segregated south and Baptistism more or less made each other in the US...

Life / Relation in Poland to Orthodox Christians? [117]


None. I'm agnostic. If believe that if there is some kind of divine.... entity.... then human perception cannot come close to perceiving more than a tiny part of it. Different religions are like the blind men examining the elephant.

That's not to say I'm against religions. A large majority of people clearly need some kind of symbolic communication with something beyond their experience. And something like a religious drive is pretty clearly part of the human makeup.

I can go on but at this point most people beg me to stop...

Life / Relation in Poland to Orthodox Christians? [117]


Cause he's not a real christian, just an opportunist who likes to club people over the head with religion...

Life / Relation in Poland to Orthodox Christians? [117]


An adjective I made up (or... did I?) meaning 'likely to shun'

When a JW is 'disfellowshipped' then all JW's are supposed to ignore them and pretend they don't exist... very cruel. It happened to the youtuber I mentioned above when he was still a minor and so his parents stopped speaking to him or acknowledging his existence even at home.... hideous and inhuman....

JWs are also extremely anti-gay....

youtube.com/watch?v=bEO425Vuxqo

Life / Relation in Poland to Orthodox Christians? [117]


Are you saying jon is a JW?

Here's an anti-JW channel...

youtube.com/@OwenMorganTelltale

the owner grew up in JW-dom then was disfellowshipped by parents when still a minor (sucky situation for sure)

JWs in Poland are a lot less rigid and shunny than in other countries IME at least.

Life / Relation in Poland to Orthodox Christians? [117]


Without watching the video probably about tradition.... lots of modern hard trads end up with orthodoxy because it's the most concerned with tradition.

Life / Relation in Poland to Orthodox Christians? [117]


Orthodox know how to do spectacle and I always like visiting the churches.... though their ultimate explanation of the faith (we don't really know how any of this sh|t works) seems a bit... anti-climactic....

Life / Relation in Poland to Orthodox Christians? [117]


Baptist! (sensu largo)

Other denominations don't prioritize that.

Handy guide to how types of Christianity are similar (core beliefs as set out in the Nicene Creed) and dissimilar (structure of church, relative importance of different aspects of the Bible, view of Christ etc)

youtube.com/watch?v=tzLS4O7YaUg


Back in the PRL the Białystok województwo was the only one with a non-RC majority... (there are also muslims there [Tatars] but tradiitonally very easy going and known for their Polish patriotism).