Did you see the movie Woodstock? Free love was a surreal cultural phenomenon. This was long before herpes, aids, etc. what’s a little NSU between friends you’ll never see again. I didn’t say it was “great sex” but it seemed like the thing to do at the time.
But he was making LUNCH for his family!!! Would you have his multiple children starve? lol I later met and became acquainted with a few of those Laotian Montainyards. Jungle headhunters extraordinaire. Good in a deer blind too. Their problem vis a vis military action was refusal to differentiate NVA, VC, or ARVN. They hated all the Viets. They’d have been utterly genocided without Air America getting them out. Not stupid by any means. If you got to know them they spoke multiple languages and some were in tech school with me.
This used to be a fun country. Very very messed up of course, but between JBJ Carter and Nixon a whole lot of good jokes were born. You could buy Hustler Magazine in the 7-11. The cartoons alone would get you permanently canceled today. Then some nut shot Larry Flynt…. Oh well. Afraid I can’t provide corroborating evidence. Lost touch with all former associates, but I was there and not always hallucinating…. lol
I lived in Mpls until 1983. I was a dipshit pot addled hippy dippy who shopped at co-op grocery stores ate organic granola, visited friends on communes in rural Wisconsin, read the “Whole Earth Catalog” joined a yoga guru cult and got a whole lot of hippie chick tail. Cedar Riverside neighborhood was a pseudo hipster doofus paradise. It couldn’t last. I remember when the “Stalinists” suddenly occupied the co-op grocery warehouses and forced them to sell Hamburger Helper and Cool Whip, etc. The commies hated hippies. Look what they’ve done to the West Bank! It’s Mogadishu now. I also remember when the Hmong came in the late 70s early 80s and were shooting robins out of the trees and squatting around fires roasting them alongside the walking trails in Lake of the Isles park. One day cops came screaming into the parking lot of my apartment building at 30th and Park and drew down on an old Hmong man who was smashing a hammer into a burlap sack of howling yelping puppies. He told them he was just making lunch! Yeah, I got out of there. Sobered up just a bit, and had a decent family life. Glory days.
I’ve become convinced that the Democrat Party is immune to consequences because of their figurehead hood ornament our “first black president”. Criticizing anything he ever did is a third rail which is perfect cover for the fifth column justifying any measures necessary to have him installed. It’s why Sessions, Barr, Rosenstein, Durham et al wouldn’t touch his obviously treasonous rewrite of the “Russian Election Interference to Benefit Trump” intelligence assessment when they had them dead to rights. He’s immune and all his henchmen (leaky Shiff, etc.) are under his umbrella. Those guys all have wives and lives and they’d never eat lunch in DC again if they dared touch theGolden Boy.
God Bless Trump for using the machine he built to destroy the nexus of the enemy within. Go get ‘em.
I love the smell of burning drug boats in the morning.
It’s cutting off their money!
When you say “sacrificed” you’re more right than you may know. The incidence of “friendly fire” against those trying to flee getting mowed down by German machine guns was alarming to say the least. Sovietism was not good. Putin is de-communizing Russia as best he can, yet some still long for the glory days of the “worker’s paradise”.
He’s not wrong. I also firmly believe he’s a sincere Orthodox Christian. Our media portray him badly since Hilary’s failed reset. He must have Schlonged her in some crooked deal, Uranium 1? Or probably involving his ban on adopting Russian children, and his refusal to make special accommodations for LGBTQXYZ at Sochi Olympics. Not a coincidence. Who was staffing USAID?
First Carter’s Cubans, then the Hmongs, now the Clinton Somalis. Lutheran social services?Politicians? Somebody consciously chooses this agenda. For federal funds? Spite? Sorry for my former home state, but the weirdo Stalinist hippies won, and this is the result.
England has always had anti American bias. We’ve won two wars against them.They fully backed the confederacy, knowing they’d lose. They ran confederate spies out of Canada. They still use spies against us, even our own. They crashed their country after 1945 and insist we follow them off the cliff. No. Just no.
Pascha is “Easter”. 1054 was the year of the “great schism” between East and West. Of the 5 Christian Churches: Antioch Jerusalem Alexandria Constantinople and Rome which had established the dogmas of Christianity through seven ecumenical councils in 1054 Rome insisted on being “first among equals” and also had erred theologically and philosophically from prior mutual agreements. Rome sent a legate to Constantinople and he pointedly placed the excommunication order on the altar during the Divine Liturgy on Paschal Sunday. Bold!
The dogmatic disagreements concerned “original sin” in which Rome believed and whether Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father or from the Father AND the Son (the so called “filioque”) and the “immaculate conception” by Joachim and Anna of Mary herself. These errors are ascribed to Augustine of Hippo’s poor translation of Greek. Nevertheless since then Western Christianity has been more legalistic while Eastern Christianity has been more therapeutic. As in “I’m not bad, I’m afflicted”. Sin isn’t the same as crime it’s more like the inevitable result of our fallen human nature. Chris came to heal us, and liberate us, not accuse and punish us. (That’s Satan’s job.) It’s a different approach. Thus, according to the East Rome through its errors has spawned thousands of illegitimate offspring, now known as “denominations”. Presbyterians, Lutherans, Calvinists, Seventh Day Adventists, Methodists, Pentecostalists, Jehovas Witnesses, etc. etc. etc. there are thousands of these communities calling themselves churches. There’s only one Church. The body of Christ. (Or so the story goes.)
My worthless opinion is more generous as I’m a more universalist type who believes God has plans we cant possibly anticipate which required all this to occur for the fulfillment of universal salvation. Also known as the fulfillment of the gentiles, (nations, all of them). The Parousia (second coming) will imho be facilitated by a worldwide communications network which without western technological innovation would be practically impossible. So, maybe it was all meant to be and we’re getting close. I guess we’ll see.
“I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.” — Nicene Creed.
You asked. Here’s your answer. Please don’t be offended. It’s not the intent.
Forgiving the unforgivable, as long as it’s genuinely repented is a consistent theme of the whole Christianity thing. It’s what they do.
No other religion I’m aware of does that. The church at Rome, however is currently (since Pascha of 1054) out of communion with the actual legitimate Church but if they sincerely repent of their multitudinous heresies they can return to the unity of Truth. There’s always a chance…. lol
The Varangian Guard of the Emperor at Constantinople were largely Norse, and Rus until 1066 when Saxons from England flooded the ranks.
So, not unusual, but still pretty cool to find such an artifact.