Extremely powerful scene in movie Alatriste (2006) which shows how the Spanish viewed the Eighty Years' War (1568-1648) in Flanders. One of the most prolonged and brutal conflicts in European history.

Get scammed using a debit card: tough shit your money is gone, good luck getting it back. Get scammed using a credit card: report the fraud, charge taken off the bill immediately, credit card company goes after the scammer, no longer your problem, you lose nothing.

Many don’t want to hear this but the best way to punish the GOP is to turnout and vote. All of the worst elements within it want a loss so they can then use that to enact purges and say “the solution is to appeal more to women and minorities and not these young white men.”

I would likely vote for a conservative pro-life Muslim instead of a pro-abortion Catholic, but that is not the choice before voters this election.

A plea to our next generation: don’t let this insanity or threats like these keep you from standing up for freedom or the country we all love!

One of my pet theories is that political leaders are more willing to kill their own populations in wars if they’re foreigners without real affinity to the people dying. Napoleon was Corsican who spoke French with an accent. Hitler was an Austrian who knew multiracial Vienna better than Prussian Berlin. Stalin was from Georgia, and sent millions of Russians to death. It is not a good idea to let anyone who isn’t rooted at least 3 generations deep anywhere near political power.

THREAD: HOW I RECTIFY BEING TRANS AND CATHOLIC Sometimes I get DMs or comments asking about this. I wanted to make my argument without the mere weak appeals to God being le hecking wholesome, but a real argument. This has had many iterations but here is a thorough summary.

La mairie de Limoges s’effondre… 🥹 Classé monument historique, le bâtiment existait depuis 150 ans (1876)

Tucker Carlson on watching b*stiality p*rnography: "If you look at p*rnography enough or b*stiality videos all day: after a while, like, it's kind of an attractive horse, I get it. I'm not into it personally, but it's not crazy."

Religious people all over replies acting like it's totally normal to completely 180 on your life and destroy much of what you've worked on for years suddenly because "Jesus" and it's not an episode.

Without post-70 AD, rabbinic Judaism, the Protestant church does not have a Bible. First, the manuscript tradition that all of our modern translations are based on is the Masoretic text. The Masoretes were the rabbis that followed after the Tannaim and the Amoraim. They worked from the 7th to the 10thcentury AD and their main focus was the preserving of the Hebrew text of the Old Testament and developing the vowel and accent system that we use today when we read the Hebrew text. Delete the work of the Masoretes and you delete the text that we use for our Old Testament. No rabbis, no Bible. Second, the Protestant recovery of the ability to read the Old Testament in the original Hebrew language was made possible by relying on the work of late medieval rabbis, primarily the grammarians, along with the assistance of 16thcentury Jews who either were willing to teach Hebrew to their Christian neighbors or who actually converted to the Christian faith themselves and brought their rabbinic knowledge of the Hebrew text with them. For instance, in the early thirteenth century, David Kimhi composed the Miklohl, a basic grammar of the Hebrew language, and the Hashorashim, a Hebrew dictionary. When sixteenth century Christians began returning to the Hebrew language, these texts provided their entrance into Hebrew fluency. Additionally, the grammarians produced a series of commentaries on the text of the Old Testament, commentaries which developed something very similar to what we now refer to as the historical-grammatical method. These commentaries served as tutors to early protestant exegetes, trying to make their way through the Hebrew text for the first time. For instance, from 1517-1519, the Christian publisher Daniel Bomberg, working in Venice, published what we now refer to as the Bomberg Rabbinic Bible. It contained the Masoretic text of the Old Testament, surrounded by the corresponding Targum (Aramaic translation/interpretation of the Hebrew text), and commentaries by grammarians such as Rashi, Kimhi, Ibn Ezra, etc. Bomberg’s Rabbinic Bible became an essential tool in the libraries of Reformed exegetes. If you have spent any time in Bucer’s commentary on the Psalms, you know how heavily he relied on Bomberg’s sources for his own understanding of the text. What is harder to notice, but which is equally true, is how much weight Calvin himself gave to these sources. At one point Calvin singles out Kimhi as the best of the Jewish exegetes. This reliance on the assistance of the grammarians permeates the works of sixteenth and seventeenth century, Protestant exegesis. Delete the Rabbis, and you delete the Protestant ability to read and translate the Hebrew text. This reliance on Jewish sources was not without its pitfalls. The anti-trinitarian controversies that plagued the Reformed church in the 16th century were largely a result of Protestant reliance on Jewish commentaries. For instance, Kimhi’s commentary on the Psalms included critiques of the Christian reading of the messianic Psalms. Some young exegetes were not ready to go up against Kimhi’s work and found themselves succumbing to heterodox views on the deity of Christ, etc. Nevertheless, the vast majority of the Reformed church figured out how to make good use of Jewish sources without losing their minds. For instance, it is not a coincidence that many of the contributors to the formation of the Reformed political tradition, men like Franciscus Junius and John Selden, were also great Hebraists, steeped deeply in the works of medieval rabbis. They drew from that tradition for much of their work. There were movements to burn all the Jewish sources that rose up at various moments, but these movements were primarily driven by the Papists, not the Reformed, who generally opposed this mania. To repeat my opening claim - without post-70 AD, rabbinic Judaism, the Protestant church does not have a Bible. The Jews were still wrong about Jesus. But without them, you don’t have Bible.

Unpopular opinion; No one - literally not a soul - actually enjoys the taste of beer. Not a single human. Those who claim to enjoy beer, don’t actually. It’s really just a social ritual, a form of self deception… the impact of decades of stacked marketing to convince you that beer is anything but an alcohol delivery mechanism. You can enjoy getting sloshed. You can enjoy the social liberation that alcohol offers. You can enjoy the party. But don’t act like you actually like the taste of beer. You don’t. You might think you do. But you don’t. Because it tastes like it looks: bitter dehydrated piss, with bubbles. In the case of Guinness, like diarrhea, with bubbles. And you know it.

Jesuit son or non denom daughter

I’m looking for a ridiculously old name for a boy. Think grandfather type of name. Very old and rare.

sedevacantism is when you get blacked

Hey @grok Is this traditional Catholic teaching?

Franco comes never, eurotrash.

Cool. So you advocate sending millions of seniors into poverty and homeless canps Cool. Social media never goes away

Tradition also says that a man in a red suit flies around on Christmas eve and delivers presents to boys and girls across the world. I'll just stick to the Word.