Merely the First Citizen

Larper Nationalism

[mostly-history]

Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar (Xinjiang), the largest mosque in China.

[princeps-vergilius]

Not for long lol

[microcosme11]

Have you ever noticed the bees flying around? 

[girlschasinggirls]

not sorry but i would rather every porn actress and prostitute that enjoys what they do have to get a new job than one single person be trafficked or raped again and i will never change my mind

[livingandactive]

[rtrixie]

Purgatory is indeed an error of the western church, but it’s funny to see this coming from the inventor of the most cruel and outright anti-Christian teaching of the elect, where a large portion of humanity has been created solely to suffer God’s wrath with no hope of salvation.

[cutekittynyaa]

Elaborate please.

[rtrixie]

Calvin taught that salvation will only be attained by those whom God predestined to attain it - meaning that when you are born, God has already decided whether you are going to heaven or hell, and there’s nothing you can do to change it.

This would necessitate that God creates people solely to punish them for eternity because he wills it, which makes the god of Calvin’s teachings a cruel tyrant far removed from the merciful God who desires our salvation as taught to us by Christ.

It also totally negates the value of our free human will and agency when it comes to the faith. The thief on the cross decided to confess that Christ is the messiah and thus he was saved, and there are countless other examples of saints that were at one point wretched sinners until they repented and changed their ways to live according to God’s will. In Calvin’s teachings, them being elect was already set in stone and their repentance actually changed nothing.

Hope this gives you an idea.

[rtrixie]

Lost Patristic work of St. Cyril of Alexandria discovered and published in Armenia

The work was previously known only in fragments of the Greek original and the Syriac translation. The more complete Medieval Armenian transl

There’s something incredible about the rediscovery of a book that we only knew about but no one has actually read because it was considered lost for centuries.

Even moreso when it’s the work of a church father from the fifth century. Great news!

[microcosme11]

Eylau, Napoleon’s command post. This is from Pinterest. I can’t find the artist.

[wearegonnamakeit-bros]

[birdmemorandum]

チョウゲンボウ。 Common kestrel.

[awesome-picz]

Cats That Fell Asleep In The Weirdest Places

[barbucomedie]

Uniform and Sword of General Jacques-Zacharie Destaing of the French Army dated between 1801-1802 on display at the Musée de l'Armée in Paris

Destaing spent his early army career fighting in Europe first in the National Guard in Aurillac, Auvergne (1789) and then going on to fight in Spain and Italy (1793-96). But it was when he joined the Army of the Orient in 1798 led by the Consul Napoleon Bonaparte to fight the Mamluks in Egypt. 

It was during this campaign he led soldiers in the Battle of the Pyramids where the the French Republic destroyed the Mamluk and the Ottoman armies. On the battlefield he was promoted to General of Brigade by the First Consul Napoleon himself.

[microcosme11]

Destaing killed in a duel 1802. From frenchempire.net:

“After the French finally surrendered in Egypt to the English, Destaing returned to France and Paris. In the meantime Reynier had published a work denouncing Menou’s leadership in Egypt. As Destaing read the book, he came across the section covering the Battle of Canope and found that Reynier alleged Destaing had left the battlefield early due to a slight wound. Furious, Destaing challenged Reynier to a duel, which Reynier accepted. On May 5th, 1802, the two generals met and Reynier killed Destaing with a single pistol shot, ending the life of the promising general. Napoleon banished Reynier from Paris as punishment.” 

[clungedestroyer3-deactivated202]

[petmemorialgifts]

Do a lot of housework and reward yourself.

[hungwy]

my grandpa was a giant shrimp that scurried along an ancient ocean floor ❤

[omghotmemes]

Sometimes it really should be like that

[r---jm]

This is meant to be a pro-vaccination meme but it’s showing the nurse as a woman forcing a mother into vaccinating her kids under threat of violence lmao I swear pro-vaxxers have no self-awareness

[great-and-small]

Got some more alligator ASMR for y’all- crank up the volume for prehistoric chills

[identifythefash]

very interesting that this haha funny blog reblogs from fascists gee i wonder why 🤔

[me-grug]

Grug made it, tribe members rejoice

[fluentisonus]

where can I meet this guy’s wife

[yekkes]

How do these loser redit men get these incredibly talented and fascinating women lmao