Orthodox Christian, wife & mother. Classical teacher & dean. Former lawyer from Romania. Faith, poetry, great books, education, and the things that last.
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If you have shoes on your feet, you're rich enough to be afraid of socialism.
If you have a conscience, you're rich enough to be afraid of socialism.
If you have a church to go to, you're rich enough to be afraid of socialism.
Tell everyone who'd listen to you what to do, then call yourself a prophet when they do what you told them to do, while pointing the finger at a hypothetical cause for their actions rather than towards your own words.
Disenfranchised people will follow you as if you were, indeed, a prophet.
Dear ones, read about Vilfredo Pareto’s theory regarding the circulation of elites. Class practice: who are the foxes, and who are the lions?
🤖 Made with AI
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The testimony of the martyrs of the Church: for those who do not know of this, in Aiud, Romania, there's a common grave of the victims of the Communist regime who, in 1950-1960, have died in one of the worst and most notorious Communist political prisons and reeducation camps.
At this tomb, known as The Slaves' Ravine, the holy bones of the martyrs are standing in testimony that there is life in Christ, and there is life in unimaginable abundance.
These bones shall live.☦️ (The article is in Romanian, but, of course, you should hit "translate" and read about the miracles happening there).
Glory be to God for everything!
gazetademaramures.ro/inchiso…
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November 7th is the actual Victims of Communism Day in Florida. Here's another look at what's ahead. If you are not fond of a society where mediocrity rules the capable and the hard worker, pray for our country and do not abandon the fight against the evil of communism.
teapawt.org/SafirBlueHawk/status/2…
Today, Florida schools are observing In Lieu of Victims of Communism Day. I think it would be appropriate that, today and tomorrow, I reshare some of the articles I have written about communism.
As you can see, these are the only words I have ever muted on my timeline. With a careful approach, the timeline is not very difficult to build according to my interests. I am not easily triggered, and I find it very easy to ignore things I don't care for. I don't like living in a bubble, so I have been resisting muting words that would bring me posts I didn't like.
This is, I guess, where I finally draw the line. I'm thinking if more people do the same, maybe this retarded habit will wane eventually.
Or maybe not. I will not know, and I'm fine with that.
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I am grateful for @RonDeSantis for all the good he has accomplished in our state. With unbelievable grit, he has demonstrated leadership skills for which it would be difficult to find match in this century.
I love political philosophy, and I believe DeSantis makes for one fascinating exemplary of a proper archon of the greatest American state, Florida.
I will continue to pray for him, as I have throughout these years, as we ought to always uphold our leaders in daily prayer. If the Lord wills it, I pray the entire country will get to benefit of his talent, hard work, and determination. I believe we will need someone with such a vast expertise as his, (not only the one gained as a governor), if we are to see ourselves out of the communist black hole we have entered.
Monstrous seas ahead.
Goodness begets goodness.
In a world of doom and gloom regarding America's literacy decline (the existence of which I do not deny), my high-school students still show that, once they encounter beauty and are taught to love the things that ought to be loved, they are still more than capable of displaying virtue in their writing. Here are a few samples of their unannounced Les Miserables tests.
We do not use textbooks in literature; instead, the students read their assigned novels over the summer, begin annotating them (and continue doing so while we study them in class), and then take thorough notes in class. We start with a detailed examination of literary currents, the author's biography, as well as the historical, philosophical, and political context. We then continue with Socratic and mimetic discussions on different elements of literary analysis and, of course, Great Ideas. For this year, all our literature books are centered on ethics, morality, and metaphysics. Very important to know: every class period begins with oral examinations where everything I ever taught them can be a topic of conversation.
For this particular test, the students have not written any prior essay (at home or in school), but everything they would need to write was discussed in class. They have taken notes from what I write on the board, what I teach, and what we discuss in class. In general, they are expected to integrate knowledge gained in other subjects (e.g. history, philosophy, Patristics, etc). During the test, they can use their novels, provided that they do not have extensive notes in them.
Take a look to see what students can still produce, and keep in mind their abilities are uneven when we start. Some of these students write three or four pages in one hour; all write at least two. I never tell them how much they should write but rather require that they should always make sure they write enough (quantity and quality) to prove their point well.
Broward has been run by communists for a good while now; great proof for "once in power, they make sure they do not lose another election."
Given the disastrous weather we've had since Sunday, this can only go one way. Lord, have mercy!
🚨 JUST NOW: BROWARD COUNTY is TOTALLY DOWN, NOT reporting ballots during the GOP's Election Day surge — people ARE still voting
No other county has this problem.
Broward is basically the ONLY COUNTY that does not use the same system as the 66 other counties are right now.
This needs to be mandated at the state level!
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Yes, that's my question as well: what failed? This is the second time in less than one decade when the weather services fail absolutely miserably. No advance notice of this kind of flooding was given. Schools were open, people went to work or to events (like the Panthers game), houses were destroyed, and cars were totaled. This was worse—rain wise—than many hurricane or tropical storm events.
What failed? Never saw any rainfall models showing what actually fell on the Florida east coast. Most showed 4/5" on the high end. 20" plus actually fell in spots. Flood risk was never above yellow level 2/4 leading up to Monday. Here were some maps on Halloween (Saturday). Just unbelievable what I saw in the Palm Bay area southward.
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May the Lord keep everyone in Florida safe. If you and your livelihood are safe, you may want to check your voting location, if you haven't had a chance to vote early.
This is a terrible situation. Please increase your prayers for our Floridian people.
🚨 NOW: Predominantly RED-LEANING FLORIDA COUNTIES are facing FLOODING and Election Day voting locations have CHANGED for Brevard, Highlands, Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, St. Lucie and Palm Beach (locations below)
SPREAD THE WORD. We can NOT let flooding deter anyone from voting tomorrow!
If you know anyone in these counties, send them this!
dos.fl.gov/elections/for-vot…
All the forgotten, older gaming laptops and computers in most American households:
Zero current DRAM usage, and it'll stay that way.
Yes, we are withholding it, Sam Altman. Yes, we are.
You and your socialist ilk will get none of it.
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It will be disastrous. Whoever thinks this can be some kind of four years of mild disturbance has either not really read much history or is not capable of recognizing patterns.
This is a great graphic. One thing I'd add is that both Marx and the progressive left need a new person with a blank slate to accomplish their agenda.
Marx made a wager that absent oppression, outcomes would be roughly equal. His bet was that class relations made the person, so abolishing private property and the class order would produce a new human being. That assumption needs a blank slate.
Modern progressives are doing the exact same thing with identity. People are treated as almost entirely shaped by socialization and power.
Both Marxism and Critical Social Justice (the academic form of the progressive agenda) gamble with civilization. Marxism brought us the USSR and the cultural revolution. Unless we do something, we're on the precipice of seeing CSJ's wager being cashed in. And I guarantee it won't be pretty.
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My top five favorite hymns in no particular order:
Christ is Risen (especially the Appalachian melody)
Hymn of Kassiani
Rejoice O Bethany
Agni Parthene
Today Is Hung Upon the Cross
My top five favorite hymns in no particular order:
Christ is Risen
Agni Parthene
The Trisagion
Bless the Lord, O My Soul
The Cherubikon
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Don't waste your right; don't forsake your duty.
I voted in the primaries and I will be voting in November this year. I will not be telling anyone with whom I am not personally close what to do regarding this November vote.
What I will be doing is pointing to one personal experience and trying to find a conclusion from it. Please take a look at the voter turnout in Romania after 1989 (the year when Ceausescu, the communist dictator, was arrested and executed). Overtly, these numbers speak of disillusion. Covertly, they speak of lack of mature political thought, manipulation of a fragile, barely recovering from the terrors of a totalitarian regime, country, and, to a degree, of national angst.
By the time you begin seeing the rebound in attendance, the ghost of communism, which had continued to lurk in the recesses of society all these years, has put on the new clothes of globalism . . . and "won" again.
Almost four decades have passed, and Romania has not seen one generation of principled politicians or proper economic guidance. The country has not had one chance to gain a modicum of sovereignty in this world which has made anathema of any tendency to mind national interests only, and to negotiate relationships with neighbors in good faith, but only inasmuch as there is benefit for one's country.
I was still there when the decline of trust and hope was most acute. I know what it is like to feel that it is all futile and to abandon the vote.
I see it all now as one of the most painful manifestations of a diseased world, one infested by corrupted femininity—one in which few men remain who understand that abandoning the responsibility to lead the polis is not at all a manly trait.
So I, a mere woman who wishes a return to a world where men are godly men, and women are God-fearing women, will be voting this November, as I have been doing for a while, as a most grateful American citizen, because, if our men were to remain silent, the very stones would cry out.
