History / What are Poland's pagan roots? [62]

Unfortunately as the Poles had no writing while pagan, and thus we know very little about the peculiarities of their faith. We do know the names of several gods and goddesses but, as Georges Dumezil wrote on this topic, a list of names is not a mythology. The so called "Book of Veles" has been exposed as a fraud.

That being said the familial resemblance of the various Indo-European cultures is apparent in their mythologies as well. By examining less obscured branches of paganism one can make assumptions about Poland's. Dumezil inferred that the Slavs resembled the Germans having a mercurial god head their pantheon. This would be Svarog who thus corresponds to the Nordic Odin, and the Aryan Varuna. Etymology shows clearly that the name Svarog is of Iranian origin, and so the Sarmatian ancestory that Poles claim may be in fact be the case.

Poland's former partner Lithuania being the last country in Europe to abandon paganism has much more known about its indigenous faith, snake worship and all!

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.

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!

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

Polonius3 assumes erroneously that the "nationhoods" of Poles and Jews are similar enough for the former to benefit from emulating the latter. Poles have been a multi-ethnic multi-denominational nation since the pagan Polanie tribe began incorporating surrounding peoples. Judaism is a religion which has adherents amongst many nations and to which the members of any nation may convert.

Polonius3 is not advocating the conversion of Polish Gentiles to Judaism (presumably no one would be caddish enough to come onto a Polish discussion forum and tell the male Gentiles of Poland to mutilate their genitals) but he is advocating that the Poles emulate the Jews in developing their intellect. However developing one's intellect was never the exclusive purview of the Jews. In the context of the intellectual development of Poland we see that Polish Jews founded yeshivas and honed their intellect on the interpretation and disputation of their bronze age Torah and its various commentaries, but it was Non-Jewish Poles who founded the venerable Universities at Krakow and elsewhere in the Poland, and these were places devoted to universal learning rather than the merely theological variety, thus when it comes to truly valuable intellectual development Polish Gentiles have their own models to emulate and they don't need Jewish ones.

Emulating Jewish nepotism and usury are plainly horrible suggestions, as is taking Poland down the racist ethno-centric path that the "Jewish State" in Palestine is on, and as for that entity's soldiers they are indeed pussies. They wear so much gear that they look like scared clowns when they go about enforcing their Jewish supremacy upon the Non-Jewish natives. Poles shouldn't emulate Jews, but the Arabs of Palestine should follow the Polish trajectory which will lead to their liberation in a multi-ethnic state where people of all religions have citizenship and equal rights.

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

The "Jewish" state is placed upon a land that was christian, muslim and jewish. Hundreds of thousands of Christians and Muslims were forced out to make the place majority Jewish. Those people are going to come back. The "Jewish" state needs to follow the example of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and accept the multi-denominational character of the area.

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

This argument-- that multi-denominational equality would be ideal for Palestine, but the Semites are too quarrelsome and bloodthirsty to cooperate with each-other-- is essentially the same as the one used by Germans, and others, to argue against the viability of the Rezpublica during the time of partition.

Food / PIZZA & KETCHUP served only in Poland? [159]

In Brazil they also eat their pizza with catsup.

Life / Tribute to Stanisław Lem - recommended books to read? [13]

I heartily recommend Lem's book "Return From The Stars". It presents an incredibly interesting vision of a pharmacologically emasculated world, and it has a good plot.

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".

USA, Canada / Poles in America: How do you pronounce your Polish surname? [128]

In America only large intimidating people with Polish surnames, like Larry Csonka, get them pronounced properly.

USA, Canada / Any Poles in Orange County, CA? [40]

There are Polish-Americans in Orange County such as myself, and there is some Polish History here as well. Our Saddleback Mountains contain a Modjeska Canyon so named for the famous Polish actress who lived there and was visited by many Polish notables including the illustrious author of the Trilogy, Henryk Sienkiewicz. Several paintings of Panna Modjeska are hanging in the lobby of the courthouse at our county's seat, the city of Santa Ana.

Orange County is indeed named for its once numerous orange groves. At the time the name was chosen the county was initially going to be named for what was then its largest settlement, but upon reflection "Anaheim County" was rejected for sounding "too German."

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.

Life / Poles - what other nationality would you say you are most like? [125]


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.


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.

Life / Poland's population predictions [59]


You know who are the real scum? racist morons such as Filios

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.

History / Poles in the Crusades to the Holy Land [75]

Regarding the crusades the historian Adam Zamoyski (scion of the former masters of Zamost) quotes a letter from a Polish noble to the Pope which says that Poles weren't interested in going to the holy land because they'd heard there was nothing to drink there. Ah but i see now other posters have already cited this letter.

History / Poles in the Crusades to the Holy Land [75]

The failure of the crusades in Palestine did in fact lead to the redirection of Christian military zeal against the heathens in the Baltic lands, which in turn led to the militarization of Lithuania and its subsequent expansion all the way to the Black Sea. When the Lithuanians did finally convert late in the 14th century they did so in a political union with Poland rather than in submission to the hated Knights of the Cross. Thus the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth is arguably a far flung result of the crusades, and perhaps the Commonwealth's relative religious tolerance was reaction to the fanaticism of the crusader enemy.

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

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.

Genealogy / Americans of Polish descent. How many of us are on Polish forums? [216]

All of my great-grandparents came from Poland. My mother's side emigrated legally from the Prussian part of the partition near the end of the 19th century. My father's side emigrated illegally shortly before the First World War, via a ship that docked in Baltimore, from the Austrian and the Russian parts of the partition.

History / Roman Dmowski-Patriot, Nationalist, Anti-Semite? [237]

Surely Roman Dmowski wanted to be a Polish patriot, but he should be judged not merely by his aspirations but by his acts as well. During the Russo-Japanese War when Piłsudski had gone to Japan to tell the Japanese to let their Polish P.O.W.s join them in fighting the Russians, and to garner aid for an uprising in Poland itself, Dmowski also went to Japan to oppose this. Moreover during the 1905 Polish insurrection his forces aided the Russians in putting it down.

Dmowski had his reasons and we can only speculate about what would've happened had the Second Polish Republic gotten an earlier start, but it must be pointed out that Dmowski's pro-Russian actions put him in accord with the Polish Jews who also opposed violent attempts to throw off the Russian yoke. (These Jews felt it was better for them to be in a state where both they and the Polish Gentiles were minorities rather than a state with an emboldened Polish Gentile majority.) In retrospect one must admit that Dmowski's pre-1914 belief that Polish independence could be attained gradually under Imperial Russian tutelage is made highly suspect by the decades of Soviet Russian domination that followed the Second World War.

If Polish Nationalism is defined as a belief that an independent Poland should favor ethnic Poles above all others then Dmowski was undeniably Nationalist, but such a stance is also unpatriotic in a multinational place like Poland. Piłsudski's vision of a Poland for all its citizens be they ethnically Polish, or Jewish, or Tartar, or Lithuanian, or Ruthenian, etc. is the truly patriotic one.

History / Roman Dmowski-Patriot, Nationalist, Anti-Semite? [237]

If Dmowski was an "Antisemite" it is rather ironic that his advocation of ethnic nationalism in a multi-ethnic place can be seen as a model for Zionism in Palestine.

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

Of course Lem and Gombrowicz are among the best Polish writers of the last century but if one goes back even farther one meets Jan Pasek who's fantastic stories never fail to amaze. His sucessful scheme which used a small obnoxious wedding guest as a weapon to knock out a large obnoxious wedding guest is not only entertaining but instructive.

News / Sikorski doctrine - Eastern Europe under threat. Poland's foreign policy. [164]


South Ossetia declared independence in 1990. The Ossets were attacked by the Georgians. It is shameful on a Polish discussion forum for people to side with the Georgians rather than the Ossets when the Ossets are the direct descendants of the Sarmatians.

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.

News / Sikorski doctrine - Eastern Europe under threat. Poland's foreign policy. [164]


No the South Ossetian people are not Georgians. They are an Indo-European people not a Turkic one like the Georgians. They declared independence but the Georgians wanted to continue to dominate them. So what if South Ossetia was part of Georgia during the time of the Soviet Union? The borders of Soviet republics are sacrosanct? No I think not. The South Ossetians were discriminated against in the newly independent Georgia and they had every right to declare independence. It is truly a boon that an unadulterated remnant of the great Sarmatian nation survived in those mountains, and if they want to be free they should be, and it is well and fitting that another nation with Sarmatian roots helped them.

News / Sikorski doctrine - Eastern Europe under threat. Poland's foreign policy. [164]


The South Ossetians awarded themselves independence by declaring it in 1990 and fighting for it since that time including weathering a massive attack by the Georgians in 2006. Perhaps you should ask the wounded Ossets how easily awarded their independence has been. Indeed Russia should let the South Ossetians unite with their Northern brethren, and yes Russian behavior elsewhere in the Caucasuses has been despicable, but their coming to the aid of the Ossets was not. Georgia should be condemned for its brutality towards Ossetia just as Russia should be condemned for its brutality towards Chechyna. This is called being consistent. Those of you who condemn Russia when it brutalizes a legitimate independence movement, but defend Georgia when it brutalizes a legitimate independence movement are being inconsistent. I suspect it is a reflexively anti-Russian attitude that accounts for your lack of consistency.

Life / Jarmark in Wroclaw - Christmas display get negative attention [5]

I think its a depiction of the Hansel and Gretel fairytale.

Genealogy / Do you think all Slavs are white? [178]


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.

History / Tuchola in Poland - roots of Katyn? [220]


Witold Gombrowicz was a Gentile and an atheist. Calling this great Polish writer a Jew is very stupid.