Bobko
15 Apr 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2043]
Interesting
In Poland Benedictine monks in Tyniec specialise in the research on Desert Fathers.
Interesting
Bobko
15 Apr 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2043]
No, sorry.
The only "Orthodox" thing I might do, is do a serious study for the modern reader of the Desert Fathers, or just give up on that, and tend to orange trees in a Greek monastery.
I like the lifestyle of Orthodox monks, even while I consider them the worst form of parasite.
The Desert Fathers, is a different subject - I think there's a lot for a modern reader to learn from these guys that went out into the desert and never returned.
Give up the marxist talk and embrace your Lord and Saviour, Bobi! :)
No, sorry.
The only "Orthodox" thing I might do, is do a serious study for the modern reader of the Desert Fathers, or just give up on that, and tend to orange trees in a Greek monastery.
I like the lifestyle of Orthodox monks, even while I consider them the worst form of parasite.
The Desert Fathers, is a different subject - I think there's a lot for a modern reader to learn from these guys that went out into the desert and never returned.
Bobko
15 Apr 2024
Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 2 [363]
Of course there's truth in this, and the best proof is probably your behavior - our cousins - who are Catholic.
You are Catholic, we are Orthodox - and yet so many of the same pathologies are apparent.
But religion definitely has a huge role to play in Russian genetic fatalism.
I'm not quite sure if it's the religion that is to blame for Russian passivity.
Of course there's truth in this, and the best proof is probably your behavior - our cousins - who are Catholic.
You are Catholic, we are Orthodox - and yet so many of the same pathologies are apparent.
But religion definitely has a huge role to play in Russian genetic fatalism.
Bobko
15 Apr 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2043]
Once, I had this. It was a feeling better than heroin, cocaine, and sex combined.
But at the same time that is what scared me.
A truly powerful opium for the people.
In the end, it was my own father, that pointed out my secret doubt of a fanatic, which I had hidden deep within my heart.
about trusting the Word and promise of God.
Once, I had this. It was a feeling better than heroin, cocaine, and sex combined.
But at the same time that is what scared me.
A truly powerful opium for the people.
In the end, it was my own father, that pointed out my secret doubt of a fanatic, which I had hidden deep within my heart.
Bobko
15 Apr 2024
Off-Topic / Random Chat Thread [318]
That's good :)
Stay fresh, Alien.
I live in a very real world and I still feel young.
That's good :)
Stay fresh, Alien.
Bobko
15 Apr 2024
Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 2 [363]
There are nice things, about it, for sure. Just the general anti-scientific bent of Orthodoxy stresses me out. The willingness to believe in cheap tricks and shows. The total surrender to the will of the hierarchs. The effective social caste system. And so on, and so forth.
It's truly a religion coming from the 1100s and 1200s.
It saps the creative energies of the Russian people, and makes them into mute beasts.
Look what we did when we were free of religion (I don't mean Katyn and the GULAG).
beautiful ancient liturgy untouched by modern "reformers" (unlike the Catholic liturgy).
There are nice things, about it, for sure. Just the general anti-scientific bent of Orthodoxy stresses me out. The willingness to believe in cheap tricks and shows. The total surrender to the will of the hierarchs. The effective social caste system. And so on, and so forth.
It's truly a religion coming from the 1100s and 1200s.
It saps the creative energies of the Russian people, and makes them into mute beasts.
Look what we did when we were free of religion (I don't mean Katyn and the GULAG).
Bobko
15 Apr 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2043]
Have you ever been in the Hagia Sophia? Even though Jihadist banners have hung on the walls for 5 centuries, and the frescas have been painted over - you can still feel the power of the place.
I don't feel that in St. Peter's Basilica.
Yes, you guys were always suckers for pomp.
Have you ever been in the Hagia Sophia? Even though Jihadist banners have hung on the walls for 5 centuries, and the frescas have been painted over - you can still feel the power of the place.
I don't feel that in St. Peter's Basilica.
Bobko
15 Apr 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2043]
I do not consider myself a poor man.
When I enter a Protestant church - I cannot help but feel that God is absent. Such a simple, and pathetic sinner I am.
When I enter a Church belonging to the Holy See, then... something begins to wiggle in my heart.
When I enter an Orthodox cathedral - then, and only then, do I feel as though I am in God's presence.
I'm a wh*re, weak for gold, for myrrh, and the color purple.
England Catholicism was for a very long time considered an aristocratic religion.
I do not consider myself a poor man.
When I enter a Protestant church - I cannot help but feel that God is absent. Such a simple, and pathetic sinner I am.
When I enter a Church belonging to the Holy See, then... something begins to wiggle in my heart.
When I enter an Orthodox cathedral - then, and only then, do I feel as though I am in God's presence.
I'm a wh*re, weak for gold, for myrrh, and the color purple.
Bobko
15 Apr 2024
Bobko
15 Apr 2024
Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 2 [363]
Reminds me of another reason I hate Orthodoxy. Chrism of mysterious origin, a holy flame which descends with the power of a Zippo, and belief in some kind of escalator towards Heaven.
You have been annointed with the holy, scented oil with cassia and myrrh
Reminds me of another reason I hate Orthodoxy. Chrism of mysterious origin, a holy flame which descends with the power of a Zippo, and belief in some kind of escalator towards Heaven.
Bobko
15 Apr 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2043]
Modern historians treat this as somewhat apocryphal stories. During certain, especially anti-Christian emperors - the persecution was over the top - but for most of the period before Constantine's mother embraced Christianity - the believers had a relatively peaceful existence.
But back to Constantine's mother... how did the Roman Empire become Christian again? Because of the proselytizations of a "pure" individual, or because the family member of the most powerful person within the system started to look favorably upon it?
Religion starts with rich snobs - if we talk about its massive expansion towards the people.
No need to discuss Christianity and Islam, we can even discuss the Ancient Egyptian religion.
Christians were murdered and tortured to death and still they refused to renounce their faith
Modern historians treat this as somewhat apocryphal stories. During certain, especially anti-Christian emperors - the persecution was over the top - but for most of the period before Constantine's mother embraced Christianity - the believers had a relatively peaceful existence.
But back to Constantine's mother... how did the Roman Empire become Christian again? Because of the proselytizations of a "pure" individual, or because the family member of the most powerful person within the system started to look favorably upon it?
Religion starts with rich snobs - if we talk about its massive expansion towards the people.
No need to discuss Christianity and Islam, we can even discuss the Ancient Egyptian religion.
Bobko
15 Apr 2024
Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 2 [363]
It's ok.
I don't want to remind people who is the Third Rome, and who bears the legacy of the Byzantine protectors of Orthodoxy.
I know better, than to argue with a Pole, regarding which nation has been anointed by the Almighty.
Say something humble, quickly!
It's ok.
I don't want to remind people who is the Third Rome, and who bears the legacy of the Byzantine protectors of Orthodoxy.
I know better, than to argue with a Pole, regarding which nation has been anointed by the Almighty.
Bobko
15 Apr 2024
Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 2 [363]
Yes, our place is by the door, and yours is by the Lord's fireplace.
Yes, our place is by the door, and yours is by the Lord's fireplace.
Bobko
15 Apr 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2043]
You laugh, but I'm convinced that that's how Christianity and Islam first spread.
That is, top down, and not from the bottom up.
It's only today when they are the "religions of the downtrodden".
In the past, I think it was the most forward way of somebody showing that "I am this", and that man over there "is not this".
If you look at the history of Islam's encroachment into West Africa, or the spread of Christianity in the Baltic - you will see this pattern.
"Oh, you eat pork?" - "We don't do that in my family".
"Can you read this book?" - "Then you will never share in the glory of God. Haha - good luck!"
People are jealous and competitive as*holes.
:D
You laugh, but I'm convinced that that's how Christianity and Islam first spread.
That is, top down, and not from the bottom up.
It's only today when they are the "religions of the downtrodden".
In the past, I think it was the most forward way of somebody showing that "I am this", and that man over there "is not this".
If you look at the history of Islam's encroachment into West Africa, or the spread of Christianity in the Baltic - you will see this pattern.
"Oh, you eat pork?" - "We don't do that in my family".
"Can you read this book?" - "Then you will never share in the glory of God. Haha - good luck!"
People are jealous and competitive as*holes.
Bobko
15 Apr 2024
Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 2 [363]
God forbid, we should lay claim to your blessed history!
They aren't Sarmatians.
God forbid, we should lay claim to your blessed history!
Bobko
15 Apr 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2043]
Paradoxically, some of our neighbors were so wild - still folllowing Tengriism - that many policymakers felt that encouraging their Islamization was in line with the interests of the Russian state. Making them Orthodox seemed out of reach, and unnecessary.
Islam had a civilizing impact on the nomads of the Steppe. The Tatars, as the guys that moved in the avant-garde, showed the other nomads that there was nothing shameful in embracing the religion of the Arab. With it came a script, fancy dietary restrictions which could be used to flaunt your social class, trips to Mecca, and just the opportunity to throw in an "inshallah" or "bismillah" here and there and make your fellow Kyrgyz feel like utter peasants.
The Mullahs and Muftis could also be controlled, unlike the shamans.
Even Maf will have to agree with that.
Paradoxically, some of our neighbors were so wild - still folllowing Tengriism - that many policymakers felt that encouraging their Islamization was in line with the interests of the Russian state. Making them Orthodox seemed out of reach, and unnecessary.
Islam had a civilizing impact on the nomads of the Steppe. The Tatars, as the guys that moved in the avant-garde, showed the other nomads that there was nothing shameful in embracing the religion of the Arab. With it came a script, fancy dietary restrictions which could be used to flaunt your social class, trips to Mecca, and just the opportunity to throw in an "inshallah" or "bismillah" here and there and make your fellow Kyrgyz feel like utter peasants.
The Mullahs and Muftis could also be controlled, unlike the shamans.
Bobko
15 Apr 2024
History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [934]
At this moment - Israel should focus on how to survive. Profit, should be left for another day.
At this moment - Israel should focus on how to survive. Profit, should be left for another day.
Bobko
15 Apr 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [574]
Станислав Выспяньский - in the Orthodox tongue.
Not a very popular guy in Russian literary circles, suffice it to say.
A big fan of the painting of Ivan the Terrible's ambassadors begging at Stepan Bathory's feet :)
Stanisław Wyspiański
Станислав Выспяньский - in the Orthodox tongue.
Not a very popular guy in Russian literary circles, suffice it to say.
A big fan of the painting of Ivan the Terrible's ambassadors begging at Stepan Bathory's feet :)
Bobko
15 Apr 2024
Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 2 [363]
Jews, no.
Persians, yes. They are the original Sarmatians.
Iranians and Jews probably do not belong to them.
Jews, no.
Persians, yes. They are the original Sarmatians.
Bobko
15 Apr 2024
History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [934]
When one Shahed drone costs $70K, and one Patriot missile costs $1M... it is a question who needs luck.
Israel is not the only one who needs surface to air missiles, there's also Zelensky who is complaining loudly. The problem... America can only make 550 Patriot missiles a year.
Iran, meanwhile, has shown it is able to saturate Israeli air defenses.
It has learned valuable lessons on how Jordan and Iraq may behave in the scenario of a Perso-Israeli war.
It had a chance to study British and American capabilities and protocols.
I think this was a very profitable exercise, for very little investment.
out of 300 drones and missiles they launch, they will reach target 3. I wish them luck.
When one Shahed drone costs $70K, and one Patriot missile costs $1M... it is a question who needs luck.
Israel is not the only one who needs surface to air missiles, there's also Zelensky who is complaining loudly. The problem... America can only make 550 Patriot missiles a year.
Iran, meanwhile, has shown it is able to saturate Israeli air defenses.
It has learned valuable lessons on how Jordan and Iraq may behave in the scenario of a Perso-Israeli war.
It had a chance to study British and American capabilities and protocols.
I think this was a very profitable exercise, for very little investment.
Bobko
15 Apr 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2043]
Russia really did the best job of all the Europeans, when it comes to Muslims.
We have our German empress, Catherine, to thank for this to some extent.
But its roots go even deeper, to the Russian conquest of the large Tatar khanate of Kazan. That was the first time that several million Muslims joined Russia. The Tatars eventually became our ambassadors to the Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Turkmens, and so on. In fact, we basically outsourced our Muslim policy wholesale to the Tatars.
The Tatars became merchants, missionaries, and diplomats of the Russian tsar - showing the other Muslims peoples we came into contact with, that Orthodox and Muslims can peacefully coexist.
Russia had Muslims forever. Their Muslims learned the limits and how to behave.
Russia really did the best job of all the Europeans, when it comes to Muslims.
We have our German empress, Catherine, to thank for this to some extent.
But its roots go even deeper, to the Russian conquest of the large Tatar khanate of Kazan. That was the first time that several million Muslims joined Russia. The Tatars eventually became our ambassadors to the Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Turkmens, and so on. In fact, we basically outsourced our Muslim policy wholesale to the Tatars.
The Tatars became merchants, missionaries, and diplomats of the Russian tsar - showing the other Muslims peoples we came into contact with, that Orthodox and Muslims can peacefully coexist.
Bobko
15 Apr 2024
Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 2 [363]
@Torq
The Sarmatians will once again unite!
@Torq
The Sarmatians will once again unite!
Bobko
15 Apr 2024
History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [934]
Thank you, Kania - for differentiating between different flavors of Russians.
retarded individual called Sergey Mikheyev
Thank you, Kania - for differentiating between different flavors of Russians.
Bobko
15 Apr 2024
Off-Topic / Random Chat Thread [318]
Nice!
I come to PF after a few days of rest, and am greeted with the first message - "Don't forget butt plugs" - written by our resident senior citizen.
This is why this is the best forum. Nothing else comes close.
Don't forget butt plugs
Nice!
I come to PF after a few days of rest, and am greeted with the first message - "Don't forget butt plugs" - written by our resident senior citizen.
This is why this is the best forum. Nothing else comes close.
Bobko
12 Apr 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2043]
Yes, and we will own your children and they'll betray you in our name.
Because you're losers and cowards.
You're violent savages.....
Yes, and we will own your children and they'll betray you in our name.
Because you're losers and cowards.
Bobko
12 Apr 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2043]
@ALL
Glory to Russia.
We're starting to fire on all 12 cylinders. Hope you champions of Ukraine have something to think about now.
Like... not putting all your money on the 45 KG girl vs the 110 KG heavyweight jujitsu star.
@ALL
Glory to Russia.
We're starting to fire on all 12 cylinders. Hope you champions of Ukraine have something to think about now.
Like... not putting all your money on the 45 KG girl vs the 110 KG heavyweight jujitsu star.
Bobko
11 Apr 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2043]
I like this new Maf. Less BS, more substance.
I am a genius and you worship a little spy dwarf.
I like this new Maf. Less BS, more substance.
Bobko
11 Apr 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2043]
Pray tell - by what possible criteria - has it "worked well so far"?
That you didn't get invaded? Getting all hot and bothered about a hypothetical scenario - sounds like a "you problem". Then feeling so happy that it hasn't happened to date, is the continuation of this logical fallacy.
A more realist perspective is if your chosen recipient of aid is doing better or not. They clearly are not. Just this morning, they lost the largest power plant in the vicinity of the capital, Kiev. This comes on the heels of Kharkov being left without power generation last week. Ukrainian society is at the boiling point, following the passing of the mobilization law. People in the US Congress are openly discussing the very real perspective of Ukraine collapsing.
To me - this means your policy has been an utter failure.
the policy of European countries in relation to r*SSia has worked well so far.
Pray tell - by what possible criteria - has it "worked well so far"?
That you didn't get invaded? Getting all hot and bothered about a hypothetical scenario - sounds like a "you problem". Then feeling so happy that it hasn't happened to date, is the continuation of this logical fallacy.
A more realist perspective is if your chosen recipient of aid is doing better or not. They clearly are not. Just this morning, they lost the largest power plant in the vicinity of the capital, Kiev. This comes on the heels of Kharkov being left without power generation last week. Ukrainian society is at the boiling point, following the passing of the mobilization law. People in the US Congress are openly discussing the very real perspective of Ukraine collapsing.
To me - this means your policy has been an utter failure.
Bobko
11 Apr 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2043]
Never gonna happen.
If I was president of Russia, the next place I would invade is Azerbaijan - to teach them a lesson for bullying Armenia while we were busy in Ukraine.
The Baltic as*holes don't deserve an invasion, despite their all out support for Ukraine. Too much hassle, for too little benefit.
Now a lot of countries in Europe will pay the price as russia starts invading other countries
Never gonna happen.
If I was president of Russia, the next place I would invade is Azerbaijan - to teach them a lesson for bullying Armenia while we were busy in Ukraine.
The Baltic as*holes don't deserve an invasion, despite their all out support for Ukraine. Too much hassle, for too little benefit.
Bobko
11 Apr 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2043]
@mafketis
All I wanted to say is that Russia is already stronger than when it invaded, according to one of America's top generals.
Perhaps he is trying to scare the good Republican representatives into providing more aid. Maybe he thinks a message like this would heighten their sense of urgency. It's possible, that Russia's "reconstitution" has a more quantitative rather than qualitative bent.
However it may be, this demolishes one of your crowd's main argument points that keeping Russia busy in Ukraine will bleed it to a point that it stops representing a threat.
Russia now has a half a million of battle hardened troops. Can you collect even ten thousand men across the entire West, that have "combat experience"?
The threat has grown despite/thanks to your effort.
@mafketis
All I wanted to say is that Russia is already stronger than when it invaded, according to one of America's top generals.
Perhaps he is trying to scare the good Republican representatives into providing more aid. Maybe he thinks a message like this would heighten their sense of urgency. It's possible, that Russia's "reconstitution" has a more quantitative rather than qualitative bent.
However it may be, this demolishes one of your crowd's main argument points that keeping Russia busy in Ukraine will bleed it to a point that it stops representing a threat.
Russia now has a half a million of battle hardened troops. Can you collect even ten thousand men across the entire West, that have "combat experience"?
The threat has grown despite/thanks to your effort.