Life / Can a 17 year old, buy beer and cigarettes in Poland? [30]


and no, Poland used to have some of the best small coffee houses and "Mom&Pop Shops" as economists say before the corporatists came in....

Life / what is with the blasphemy laws in Poland? [9]


That doesn't mean a republic is secular though....


Since when are all Christian's (the majority of Poland) loonies? Albeit maybe be the overtly ones who are bible thumpers. But are most Poles if any like this?

Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [94]

!!!!!!!!!!!! TOMASZ ROZYCKI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The famous Polish poet Tomasz Rozycki has recently published an Epic Poem called Twelve Stations which any of you should be able to find in Poland. If you can find me an english version (bilingual or not) you will be paid $50 to $100. It can either be online or in paper for which I would ask you to ship it to me and I would pay all charges for postage.

Love / Korean guy wondering about girls and life in Poland [50]


Personally I think you don't deserve a Polish girl. You speak of them like trading cards, comparing their religion, genetic features, and labelled stereotyped personalities. If anything, some romanticism is needed, which by the sounds of your thread sounds like you lack.

Anyway, there aren't many asians in Poland, but that doesn't mean your discriminated. There aren't many foreigners in general. 98.4% of Poland is Polish.... the rest are mostly ukrainians and Germans....

Love / Polish girls hard in relationships [156]


So they're Gold Diggers is what you're saying? In my experience here in the US, the Polish girls in general have been much less materialistic than your average American girl. But note that the Polish girls I have met were your study-hard, read-alot, large goal girls who were obviously more intelligent than your others. I'm sure the same would apply to other ethnicities, and not just Polish. So mind you, is it rather IQ and not ethnicity that causes such trends in gold-diggers? After all if an individual possesses a high IQ and overall intelligence, aren't they more likely to be the reason to become the "riche" as opposed from having to shadow/suck on others?

Love / What are the best love poems in Polish to receive? [77]


Adam Mickiewicz of course!

Love / Polish girls hard in relationships [156]


lol why the sad face then? I prefer original and genuine ones as opposed to americanized ones. There's a reason why Polish girls are esteemed as attractive, and much more than American girls are....

Whether it's genes, communism, or plain respect (as I see it), I like the unmaterialization of most Polish girls. Who wants to be in love with a bunch of labelled corporate logos anyway?

UK, Ireland / Poles - go home make your country better [40]


What kind if you don't mind me asking?

Love / Are Polish men dominating, controlling and emotional? [36]


Shouldn't you know since you were with one? Stop generalizing. I have met men in those ethnicities who were as cold as ice....

History / Poland - Scotland, the untold story... [75]


Yes I know, exactly how significant is it? Not much...

UK, Ireland / Why English do not like Polish? [417]


Explain?


How inaccurate is that map?

Poland shares little to no haplogroups with Western Europe, if anything they have much more in common with Scandinavia...

eupedia.com/europe/origins_haplogroups_europe.shtml

Please read that...and all of it.

Also how did genetics come up as a topic? You people honestly don't think that good relations amongst people has something to do with the genes? How fascist...

USA, Canada / PolAms -- do you regard yourselves only as 'white Americans'? [187]


Seems to me like idiotic nationalism... then why not Irish-American, Italian-American, German-American, French-American, etc? How dull must one be to think they are asking for ethnicity/ancestry and not racial category?; if they wanted that information then they'd be bold enough to include an ethnic question/option....

as for what I'd do? Well I'd laugh at any fool being zealous enough to write that, what's the point? They're not even going to look at it or care, they're taking a census in race not ethnicity....

USA, Canada / PolAms -- do you regard yourselves only as 'white Americans'? [187]


You know, your confusing genetic ancestry with culture. One does not need to be culturally Polish in order to be ethnically Polish.

Genealogy / Polish looks? [1462]

Poor KateLouise never even came back, you creeps probably scared her off or terribly offended here.

But to be honest she did look Irish....she also sorta has a big forehead...

Travel / Mushroom picking with guides in the Poznań area? [4]

Here are the ones that make you high:

erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/mushrooms.shtml

Here are the ones that kill you:

naturallist.com/fungipoi.htm

Have fun! :-D

USA, Canada / American with a Polish girlfriend... what challenges lie ahead? [8]



The only challenges that lie ahead is your brittle-mindedness here. If your girlfriend that you truly "love" simply an ethnicity and label to you then you might want to reconsider your love for her, especially if you believe her individuality, interests, and love revolve around these cheap labels and generalizations you assume "challenges" with....

USA, Canada / Taste of Polonia - Chicago, IL [40]

I'll be there. Does anyone want to meet up?

btw, what are the prices? I know admission is $8, but how much is beer & food?

Also I'm 20 years old, do they ID for beer?

Thanks.

USA, Canada / Taste of Polonia - Chicago, IL [40]


lol yea, I saw that they seel new Chopin wodka, I wanted to buy a bottle...

Love / Do African or Afro- American women find Polish men attractive? [179]

How many times is this particular question going to be asked?

Travel / My visit to Poland - Likes & Dislikes. [137]


I'm a Greco-Pole and I prefer Poland over Greece. Mainly because I like central europe and it's climate better and I seem to get a long with the people there better. I mean Greece is great for me for your cliche' hot-beaches, drunk and wild parties, historical attraction vacations like in Italy or France.


Bad food :-( It gives me diarrhea...pierogies on the other hand ;-)

Life / Polish are some of the best educated in the world [35]

Look here: iqcomparisonsite.com/NationalIQs.aspx

Feedback / Polishforums on Facebook [60]

It's up again! Sorry guys, I'm the admin and my facebook account was deactivated and reactivated. It's up again!

Feedback / Polishforums on Facebook [60]

plk123, maregaea, and pgtx go on the facebook page and post some sort of notice in the discussion board so I can make you guys admins on there as well, since I'm not on facebook all the time.

USA, Canada / Poles and Americans, what do you think, are we friends or enemies? [187]


How about neutral/neither?

I mean there was that one missile defense base with 3 US soldiers on Polish sould which was forgotten about....

USA, Canada / Poles and Americans, what do you think, are we friends or enemies? [187]

On the philosophical/ religious context, Kochanowski finds himself in a period where the stark traditions of religion and it's vast secularism with philosophy are diminishing. Not quite in terms of the soon to come Enlightenment or Scientific Revolution, however in terms of the Renaissance reaching back into antiquity to enthrall the arts and culture from a prior Medieval period that was quite ignorant of these ideals to the masses. That isn't to say that it was worthless. It was medieval philosophers and their platonic influences along with antiquity influences that gave head to the religious contexts and philosophy that influenced the Renaissance. The divinity in particular as seen in this Lament is very much the child perspective of St. Augustine and somewhat of Alebard whom from strong tradition of religion infused Platonic and Aristotelean thought along with much other antiquity. We see in the poem divinity being pantheistic or metaphysic with nature. However in this Lament it is more in perspective of the natural references and metaphors which are still of great importance to renaissance thinking. "Looms like a cliff above some wild and rough Shore"/"Who never came to full bloom in the light Before her eyes closed underneath your night?" are just some examples. Yet it is important to note this nature for not only does it present the nature of divinity (as opposed to Kochanowski simply referencing Hell or Satan) it also greatly liberates divinity. We see Kochanowski give possibilities of how he could have changed his past to prevent such a death and the sadness brought upon him, yet still maintains "natural sin" and the progression of his daughter to a higher-life. All these key pioneering from Augustine and his abolishing of pre-destiny and precise fate which Kochanowski could have easily been swarmed into simply saying 'it was meant to be this way', he actually questions reality and questions the ultimate end his most loved encountered.

To address literary influences, Kochanowski's education was in Italy and focuses extremely on the classics and learning of Greco-Roman philosophy and literature. He mastered Latin and Greek which allowed him to read works by many poets of the antiquity such as Homer, Theocritus, Virgil, Pindar and his most favorite Horace. It is little known but slight evidence suggests that Kochanowski's first poems ever written were in Greco-Latin. His first practices forms which he used predominately as a poet thereafter were of Plutarh's sonnets and their form. It thus can be said, that Kochanowski's main literary influences are that of the antiquity.

Life / Do Polish People steal a lot? [330]


lmao..... hahahahaha

I steal music, movies, and software from the internet, or that's what those greedy media corporatists call it, us commoners just call it sharing. :-)

News / POLAND IS 4TH BEST PLACE TO LIVE IN EUROPE [60]

Wth is uSwitch???? I would much rather trust World Bank, and UN indicators. But honestly I don't care, I love Poland and living there for it's intrinsic culture, people, architecture, nature, etc. Things that vary by individual, and keep countries intrinsically. I honestly don't know why people rank countries, by cliche's like france, or economic interest, etc.

Love / Categories of Polish girls [37]


Shove it. Stop labeling and stereotyping women, they are individuals too and especially the Polish girls I have met. Women aren't material products to be labeled and treated like cards.

Life / Why Polish people should be proud of being Polish? [370]

Why? What a bland question, can't that be asked of any ethnicity and culture? Because of the general nationalism, history, culture, language, and group heritage that is represented by these people like with all other ethnicity.