Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Today is the 100th anniversary of his birth.
"What is more, the events of the Russian Revolution can only be understood now, at the end of the century, against the background of what has since occurred in the rest of the world. What emerges here is a process of universal significance. And if I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century, here too, I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: “Men have forgotten God.” The failings of human consciousness, deprived of its divine dimension, have been a determining factor in all the major crimes of this century"
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-men-have-f...
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Spam.
Spam.
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"One time I had an original
"One time I had an original thought and I shared it with people, from my very own mind."
- Not Thom
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If god existed, would he
If god existed, would he believe in a Thom?
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surprisingly, he did
surprisingly, he did interject an original thought and comment in the g.bush thread.
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Haahhahah, I must have missed
Haahhahah, I must have missed that one, but yeah, I feel like I remember him actually saying one thing without quotes in there...
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Apparently I'm living in your
Apparently I'm living in your heads free of rent.
Get a life already.
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More spam.
More spam.
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"We shall be told: What can
"We shall be told: What can literature do in the face of a remorseless assault of open violence? But let us not forget that violence does not and cannot exist by itself. It is invariably intertwined with the lie. They are linked in the most intimate, most organic and profound fashion. Violence cannot conceal itself behind anything except lies, and lies have nothing to maintain them save violence. Anyone who has once proclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose the lie as his principle… Violence [does not] always and necessarily lunge straight for your throat; more often than not it demands of its subjects only that they pledge allegiance to lies, that they participate in falsehood.
The simple act of an ordinary brave man is not to participate in lies, not to support false actions! His rule: Let that come into the world, let it even reign supreme—only not through me. But it is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie! For in the struggle with lies art has always triumphed and shall always triumph! Visibly, irrefutably for all! Lies can prevail against much in this world, but never against art."
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One time Vermonter.
Once lived in Vermont.
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"For us in Russia, communism
"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
Many of those people hang out in the Zone.
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A few gems of wisdom to
A few gems of wisdom to counteract the banality that is populating my thread.
"Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man."
"The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble."
"It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven."
"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."
"Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God."
"Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside."
"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones."
"I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either."
"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him."
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Sweet spam thread.
Sweet spam thread.
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I've been warned by Admin
I've been warned by Admin that I may not make comments towards Thom. Poor fella, I guess some folks just need others to stand up for them. So you know, I'll use quotes to speak, since that is the modus operandi of said fellow:
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
― Soren Kierkegaard
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Lol warned by Admin not to
Lol warned by Admin not to make comments on a message board? Sounds like Admin is pretty pathetic.
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God is Dead.
"God is Dead".
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i do not understand the
i do not understand the emailing of zoners by the administration unless something was illegal or severe.
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The Fragile Generation -
The Fragile Generation - Reason.com
https://reason.com/archives/2017/10/26/the-fragile-generation
Oct 26, 2017 - This has left them more fragile, more easily offended, and more reliant on others. They have been taught to seek authority figures to solve their ...
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"Many silly and even
"Many silly and even pernicious things have been written about Solzhenitsyn by those who confuse love of truth with dogmatism, and the “active struggle with evil,” as Solzhenitsyn once described it, with moral fanaticism. And among these tendentious critics are those who mock patriotism, repentance, self-limitation, and liberty under God—that is, all of Solzhenitsyn’s enduring themes and commitments."
https://www.city-journal.org/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn
Now who could he be talking about?
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Putin?
Putin?
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"But several reliable, well
"But several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler's anti-semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-semitic propaganda as a bait to catch masses of followers and keep them aroused, enthusiastic and in line for the time when his organization is perfected and sufficiently powerful to be employed effectively for political purposes"
New York Times, 1922
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yeah, because religion hasn't
yeah, because religion hasn't had any negative impacts on humanity....
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"A nationalist is, by
"A nationalist is, by definition, an ignorant. Nationalism is therefore a stage of spiritual laziness and conformity."
Danilo Kis
Performing Arts Journal
The MIT Press
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“Loyalty to country ALWAYS.
“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain
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“There is no flag large
“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
Howard Zinn
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“Patriotism means to stand by
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
Theodore Roosevelt
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"The strength or weakness of
"The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market economy nor even general abundance constitutes the crowning achievement of human life. If a nation’s spiritual energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse …by the most perfect government structure or by any industrial development. A tree with a rotten core cannot stand."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Gosh, this is fun...
Gosh, this is fun...
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when did it go from "birthday
when did it go from "birthday" to "Anniversary of birth"