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Oh, I love post-cultural displays like this! The West owns and runs the world so completely it's not even worth announcing our own triumph. Entire continents remodel themselves in our image and those that don't get driven mad by our smiling schizophrenia. Separate mosque from state, property from worker, idealogy from belief. We're the dominant cultural-social worldview on the planet and it's going to be that way until the end of time.
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Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
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Two cheers for Russians taking dicktation for all those years
Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – LessingComment
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March on, brave comrades, towards the final battle for the revolution!Comment
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tassOriginally posted by Kuciwalker
March on, brave comrades, towards the final battle for the revolution!
I miss heTo us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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Boobery."Wait a minute..this isn''t FAUX dive, it's just a DIVE!"
"...Mangy dog staggering about, looking vainly for a place to die."
"sauna stories? There are no 'sauna stories'.. I mean.. sauna is sauna. You do by the laws of sauna." -P.Comment
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Since it was the tzar who started this, I can't see how Bolsheviks can be blamed. And btw, it's a pretty stupid idea to draft ethnic Germans to fight Germans. Whenever your advanced Western societies get involved in a war vs. Germans/Japanese/anyone else, you throw the people who has a drop of your enemy's blood in their veins into detention camps.Originally posted by Brachy-Pride
The volga germans started to come to south america if I recall correctly, during the last years of the monarchy, because before that time they could not be drafted, they had freedom of religion and many other excemptions, but the tzar cancelled the exemptions,
True, there was an anti-religious campaign. Is that somehow worse than your Western inquisition?and when commies rose to power it became worse, they would kill the priests for example.
Sure it was a mystake from my modern point of view. Sh!t happens. EVERYWHERE. Time after time.
He was lucky being among 5 or 10% who had wealth, while other 90% slowly died in inhuman conditions.My great grandfather (russian, not volga german) just came because he was extremely wealthy and was afraid of getting killed or losing his fortune.
That's irrelevant.He bought lots of lands here, but now (at least my side of the family) we dont have any, he had many sons, and he divided the lands equally for all the sons, so they are all just middle class now, my family moved to the city, we are not farmers.Last edited by Serb; November 7, 2005, 14:33.Comment
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why is the October Revolution celebrated in November?To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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Different calenders.Originally posted by Sava
why is the October Revolution celebrated in November?“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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In Soviet Russia, Fake borises YOU.Comment
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Google Julian calendar -- it's quite fascinating, really. Explains many cultural differences when you know the differences between Gregorian and Julian calendars.why is the October Revolution celebrated in November?Comment
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They still have the Julian calender? Why did they keep that piece of crap? Even the Protestants adopted the new calender eventually, even though it was a "Roman Catholic" innovation.
Last edited by Nostromo; November 7, 2005, 14:37.Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – LessingComment
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They had -- communists scrapped it. Russia was one of the last countries in the world which had it. The reason for keeping it for so long were part religious, part bizarro-nationalistic.Comment
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We don't, but we keep the name of this event in the same way it was called in 1917, despite it's Nov. 7 today in Russia, because it did happened at October 25/26 when it happened in 1917.Originally posted by nostromo
They still have the Julian calender? Why did they keep that piece of crap? Even the Protestants adopted the new calender eventually, even though it was a "Roman Catholic" innovation.
Do you get it now?Last edited by Serb; November 7, 2005, 14:42.Comment
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...you didn't scrap the Julian calendar after 1917? Are you drunk again?Silly boy, we didn't
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What do you mean - "again?
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