Friday, June 14, 2024

"the father would renounce his religion and remain at home to raise the children while the mother went to the Solovetsky Islands."

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"However, the root destruction of religion in the country, which throughout the twenties and thirties was one of the most important goa...

"why did I keep silent?"

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     "Yes, resistance should have begun right there, at the moment of the arrest itself.      "But it did not begin.      "An...

Anti-classism

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"In his instructions on the use of Red Terror, the Chekist M. I. Latsis wrote:  'In the interrogation do not seek evidence and proo...
Saturday, June 8, 2024

"Is there any truth to this claim?"

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"In the course of time the Easter dance came [ for a period ] to be directed to and confined within the labyrinths that were set within...
Friday, June 7, 2024

"The house of the Lord (domus Dei) consumed the house of Daedalus (domus Daedali)"

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      "Although symmetry can be identified in mazes since the dawn of the Mediterranean world, not all mazes possess a beautifully repe...
Thursday, June 6, 2024

"California — with its peerless density of crackpots per capita"

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Meher Baba       Pratinav Anil, "Spiritual snake oil:  a century of pseudo-enlightenment," a review of The nirvana express:  how ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

"that, having done thy will with cheerfulness while it was day, we may, when the night cometh, rejoice to give thee thanks"

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"O GOD, the King eternal, who dividest the day from the night and turnest the shadow of death into the morning: Drive far from us all w...