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9 Reasons Why Reading Books Should Be Part of Your Life: 1. Knowledge Highway: Books offer a vast reservoir of knowledge on virtually any topic imaginable. Dive deep into history, science, philosophy, or explore new hobbies and interests. 2. Enhanced Vocabulary: Regular reading exposes you to a wider range of vocabulary, improving your communication skills and comprehension. 3. Memory Boost: Studies suggest that reading can help sharpen your memory and cognitive function, keeping your mind active and engaged. 4. Stress Reduction: Curling up with a good book can be a form of mental escape, offering a temporary reprieve from daily anxieties and a chance to unwind. 5. Improved Focus and Concentration: In today's fast-paced world filled with distractions, reading strengthens your ability to focus and concentrate for extended periods. 6. Empathy and Perspective: Stepping into the shoes of fictional characters allows you to develop empathy and gain a deeper understanding of different per...

During the early 19th century, scores of utopian societies, settlements, and communes were formed in the United States as part of the Second Great Awakening and other movements, in part as a response to the rationalism of the Enlightenment. One of the longest-lasting experiments was the Harmony Society. “I am a prophet and am called to be one.” George Rapp (1757-1847) began preaching in Germany in the 1780s and his followers split from the Lutheran Church in 1785 and left for the United States in 1803. Some 800 people joined the “Harmonie” community in Butler County, Pennsylvania. In 1814, the Society moved west to Indiana, before moving back to Pennsylvania to the town of Economy. The Indiana settlement was then purchased by Robert Owen, who renamed it as New Harmony, and built a Utopian society. Meanwhile Rapp’s Christian communal experiment continued, outlasting Rapp himself, until the early 20th century, one of the few 19th century utopian societies to have endured for so long—desp...

What a great memory! 40 years ago, on October 16th 1978 Karol Wojtyła was chosen to be Pope and took the name Pope John Paul II (Jan Paweł II). "He appeared on the balcony and spoke to the crowd, saying that he had been called from a faraway land." He will be remembered as a pope who resisted pressures to “modernise” the church's values—and a man who changed history by precipitating the fall of Soviet communism. Always in our hearts! British Poles post    October 16    The Legacy of a pope who changed history John Paul II, spiritual leader to the world's one billion or so Catholics, has died. He will be remembered as a pope who resisted pressure to "modernise" the churche's values and a man that changed history by precipitating the fall of Soviet Communism. WHATEVER future generations may say about Pope John Paul II, who died on Saturday April 2nd, aged 84, they will look back with amazement on the moment when, for the first time in 500 years, a Christia...

“Incel” is a portmanteau of “involuntary celibate.” This fuckless—I mean feckless—group is comprised almost exclusively of young men, usually white, who lament their inability to get laid. It’s a toxic online subculture that despises women while also wanting to use them for sex. But it’s not really about the sex. Rather, incels are a hate group that cannot abide having their sense of entitlement thwarted. They want to conquer the bodies of beautiful women to gain status in the male hierarchy, or some dumbfuck bullshit idea like that. --On This Day in History Shit Went Down: May 23, 2014— The Isla Vista, California, massacre on May 23, 2014, brought the word “incel” into the common vernacular. The term was actually coined by a woman in the ’90s as a way to help people. But like many things it was co-opted and warped by men like Elliot Rodger. Rodger, a 22-year-old virgin, couldn’t find a girlfriend, and to him that was enough to justify mass murder. But not before writing a 107,000-word...

As a WOMAN, once you PLACE your VALUE on MONEY, there are THOUSANDS of MEN who are willing and ready to PAY the HIGH PRICE just to make you USELESS and WORTHLESS, by so doing, your VALUE/INTEGRITY is TARNISHED and VALUELESS.. Many MEN will come just for what you have as an ENJOYMENT and they will give you whatever you want just to have it. A lot of DESTINIES have been DESTROYED as a result of this. Many WOMBS have been DESTROYED.. Many GREAT STARS have been taken away.. Listen, if as a WOMAN, you SLEEP with any MAN you want, it's not because you are of HIGH VALUE, it's because you are EASY.. A WOMAN'S VALUE LIES in her BODY. If you think by SLEEPING with a lot of UNWORTHY MEN, your VALUE will INCREASE, TIME will prove you WRONG.  DEAR SISTERS please RESPECT yourselves. Truth is most THINGS you OPEN your LEGS for are very CHEAP and AFFORDABLE if you have a JOB, a SKILL or a TRADE.  In addendum: These WOMEN are not SLEEPING with themselves. I see no difference between a WOMA...

BE A ROMANTIC MAN WITHOUT SEX!!!! Carry your woman to the bed when she sleeps off in the sitting room, make her feel like a baby at times.The truth is, every woman wants to be treated like a 2-year-old girl at times, that's why women behave childish or silly at times. (Its a fact, its not an abuse please)👌 You may have an argument with your woman and the next thing is that you will see her putting her bags outside the house, it doesn't mean she is asking for a divorce, she is just being childish, she simply wants you to hold her, look her in the eyes and say “I am sorry for the argument".😇 My Brother, when your woman steps on your feet intentionally or mistakenly, don't let your eyes turn red, just smile at her, if she did it intentionally, she is just playing with you, if she did it mistakenly, its not her fault.🙃 why shout at her over every small mistake? As a man learn to ignore some things, don't be petty. Some men are feminist;😔 Do "hide and seek...

St Edward the Confessor, King of England. 10 Facts you may or may not known about our English Regal Saint who's feast day we celebrate today. (October 13th)  1. He died in 1066 just before the bit in British history we are all rather familiar with. His funeral is depicted on the Bayeux tapestry (photo 1)  2. He was one of Britain's national saints until George came along. (Photo 2 from the Wilton Triptych) 3. His Feast day today is also celebrated in the Church of England 4. He was crowned at Winchester Cathedral 5. He was called Edward the Confessor to distingiush him from a former King Edward the Martyr 6.  The Major building project of his reign was Westminster Abbey (not the same one now standing) but his relics are still housed at the current Abbey. (photo 3)  7.  Only king of England to be canonised  8. He was quite an unlikely saint and there was a question whether the prior of Westminster campaigned for his sainthood to boost the  fortune of We...

About ENERGY AND SEX For those who take sex very lightly, I leave this information here. Chakras regenerate every 7 years, so if you've been with a person even once, their energy will stay with you for 7 years.  That is if you don't clean there properly. When you have sex with someone, a whole energetic process begins. Mainly the root chakras (Muladhara) of both, come together and from this intimacy the auras merge, merge to create a great auric energy around the two. Through separation, it leaves an energetic and karmic imprint. The more relationships you have with a person, the deeper the connection. That's why sometimes you remember so much about your ex or who you became intimate with and you change your vibration and create energetic links that bring them together where they then continue to transmit energy on a subtle level.    In every relationship, some of the other person's energy is acquired.  If you have relationships with people who are mainly dense, unco...

From MUSEUM HACK: "The World's First Witch Mathematician, philosopher, and all-around-badass Hypatia of Alexandria is best remembered for two things... Her renowned philosophical, mathematical, and astronomical teachings and her grisly murder at the hands of a mob of angry monks. Keep reading for a quick look into this incredible woman's story! Though records of Hypatia’s early life are sketchy at best, we know she was born sometime between 350 and 370 A.D. to Theon of Alexandria, a mathematician and scholar who was the last known member of the world-renowned Library of Alexandria. Theon took a great interest in his daughter’s education and taught her himself from a young age. Eventually, Hypatia surpassed her father and became the leader of the Neoplatonic school in Alexandria, a first for a woman of her time. Despite the advances of many suitors, Hypatia was celibate and remained one of the rarest types of people of that time: a woman completely in control of her own lif...

𝗔 𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗨𝗦 𝗕𝗬 𝗕𝗜𝗥𝗧𝗛 The most learned woman of the 17th century was undoubtedly Anna van Schurman, a polymath who spent her life arguing that women should receive an education as long as it did not interfere with their domestic duties. Other scholars called her the 'Star of Utrecht', the 'Dutch Minerva', the 'Tenth Muse', 'a miracle of the gentler sex', the 'Incomparable Virgin', the 'Oracle of Utrecht' and the 'Jewel of Learned Women', all of which sounds pretty outstanding for a time when the vast majority of women were thought to be intellectually inferior to men.  But then she was different, a prodigy whose brain could not be contained. A Dutch Calvinist, she was born in Cologne in 1607. Her family was wealthy, pious, educated, well-connected and modern, as her father broke the conventions of the time by teaching her along with his sons. He may have had no choice, for Anna was so curious and clever that she could re...

As I was digging up memories of my time living in Strasbourg France for my book this evening, I remembered meeting the last known gay “triangle rose” or Pink Triangle holocaust survivor, Rudolf Brazda. The impact on me is part of the general reasons I identify as gay subsidiarily with my identity as a celibate Christian. The plight and oppression of gay people is real and we must remember that very history that Jesus on the Cross identified with and overcame. As a 21 year old who had just come to Christ only recently before from a life of gay activism, little did I know that when I met Brazda, he would die only months later in 2011. The providence of it is striking. Attending his book launch in the Librarie Kléber in the heart of Strasbourg was precious and ineffably impacting as I listened to his deportation and concentration camp stories. All 30 people gathered in the upstairs of the book store were in tears. There was something of Christ’s love with this man. I look forward to recou...

EXCERPT from the SUNDAY JOINT Seventeen-year-old Pam Burridge lost the 1983 world title to Debbie Beacham by a mere 40 points, and I’m not totally sure, but that may be the closest finish in pro tour history, male or female. A year after that, near the end, just as Pam pulled down a big win at Cronulla, the final two women’s events of the year were suddenly dropped from the schedule—leaving Pam stuck at #3 for the year, without a major sponsor, and just pretty much sick of the whole thing. Which brings us to 1984. Burridge does not mince words when talking about how burned out she was. “I was very anti-surfing at that stage of my life,” she recalled. “I didn’t want to be called a surfer.” In another interview, Pam said she “hated everything about surfing except surfing.” This was the beginning of her short but intense King’s Cross nightclub period, which may not have been as hard rocking and alcohol-soaked as legend would have it, but was nonetheless—and very much intentionally—well re...

Look at US! Being CELIBATE, BEAUTIFUL AND JOYFUL! While others are busy researching, arguing about the History of Jesus and what not....  Some of us are busy marinating ourselves daily in his power that has become a living testimony to our transformed lives❤️ Some of us are daily submitting every layer of ourselves that is a thorn or a dysfunction, and He is just there purging through every weakness, healing and restoring us!

Unless you are impotent, you cannot be celibate. And the strangest thing is: not a single impotent person has become enlightened in the whole history of man. That means that all these people -- Gautam Buddha, Krishna -- all these people were more sexual than ordinary people. 

The Dahomey Amazons were a all-front female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey,Benin Republic 🇧🇯 West Africa. They were know for their fèarless attributes, amazing sword and spear skills. Wakanda got their inspiration from these fearless women. Fearlessly beautiful. The Dahomey Amazon warrior  trained intensely, often in hand-to-hand combat amongst themselves. Discipline was very much emphasized as they learnt survival skills. The Dahomey Amazons were not allowed to have children or partake in any form of family life, as they were formally married to the King. As he didn’t have s.exual relations with them, as a result, they remained celibate, although very few were given off in marriage to respected dignitaries of the kingdom. The Woman King is the remarkable story of the Agojie (Dahomey Amazon). Inspired by true events, The Woman King follows the emotionally epic journey of General Nanisca (Oscar -winner Viola Davis) as she inspires the King to take on the enemies dete...

In Uganda their way of life is different and their ethics of marriage is not comparable as to other culture. In Uganda if you want to marry a lady after everyone is seated they will ask your elder sister to go and have a test of the person who wants to get married to her younger sister to see how the man does in bed and to still confirm it the person manhood is working perfectly before he will be allowed to do the marital right. My culture has started another thing which am yet to define.  I witness a tradition marriage ceremony were everyone is seated all the items bought by the mother in-law was brought out including bed and they supposed husband and wife was ask to go and sleep on it together in public 🙄. I was not there and i didn't hear any story of our parents getting married this way back then in 70s, 80s not to talk of my age now to have witness it, else just for this late 20s where are we going to? Such life is portray publicly even in the presence of parents. No wonder b...

Millions of women across the world visit and touch the genitals of this grave statue in France. This is the statue of Victor Noir, a famous journalist who lived in the 1800’s. Every year, many women and men from all over the world come to the Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, to kiss the lips, touch the feet, and rub the genitals of Victor’s statue. They don’t do it just for fun. They strangely expect fertility benefits and a blissful sex life from these strange behaviors. 😮😅

GIRL GETS A JOB AS A MAID & FINDS A PHOTO OF HER YOUNG MOM IN HER BOSS'S ROOM "I'm going to do a great job," Caroline psyched herself up ahead of her first assignment. She and her friend, Melissa, moved to New York a few days ago to make their dreams of being Broadway stars come true. But they needed to find jobs first to rent an apartment together. Luckily, Melissa got hired at a clothing store, and Caroline got a job at an agency for domestic cleaners. When Caroline finally walked inside the house she needed to clean, using the key under the mat as instructed, she wasted no time getting started — first, the kitchen, then the living room, and moving towards the bedroom. Caroline tidied as quickly and thoroughly as she could but stopped short at the mantelpiece. There were several pictures on top, but one caught her attention. A picture with her mother's face. She was at least 18 years younger, but it was her. "Why is my mother in this man's pictures?...

Cornrows were used during slavery to help slaves escape . Slaves used cornrows to transport and create maps to flee plantations. It is most documented in Colombia where Benkos Bioho, a king captured from Africa by the Portuguese who escaped slavery, built San Basillio de Palenque, a village in Northern Colombia around the 17th century.Bioho created his own language as well as an intelligence network and also came up with the idea to have women create maps and deliver messages through their cornrows.

415 years ago today in 1606, rather than suffer the brutal execution of being hanged, drawn, and quartered in London. Guy Fawkes jumps off the platform breaking his neck and successfully committing suicide.   Guy Fawkes was discovered in the cellar of the parliament building with barrels of gunpowder in a plot to destroy the existing English government.  The plot was organized by a group of Roman Catholics who wanted to replace the Protestant political leadership. All of the conspirators were tortured and executed by being hanged, drawn, and quartered. A method that entails being hanged by the neck almost to the point of death, emasculated, disemboweled, beheaded, and chopped into four pieces. Which makes it clear why Fawkes killed himself to escape this fate.  The failure of the plot was commemorated in Britain and celebrated each year on its anniversary. Guy Fawkes has also become a bit of a rebellious folk hero for trying to abolish an existing government.

Was the rack the most brutal punishment in medieval Europe? Though the simple wooden frame with a roller on each end may have appeared innocuous at first, it was used as a torture device during interrogations. It was also used as a slow and painful execution method that literally stretched people to death. Designed to gradually pull a victim's limbs until their arms and legs were dislocated, the rack was known for the loud and nauseating popping sounds made by snapping cartilage, ligaments, and bones. If the unlucky victim managed to survive the harrowing ordeal, they were nonetheless left paralyzed and in excruciating pain — making death perhaps the better option.

One of the most agonizing execution methods in human history , flaying was likely first practiced by the ancient Assyrians of Mesopotamia. Not only did they skin their prisoners of war alive, but they also took strides to make their victims' deaths as painful as possible. Assyrian executioners often started with the victim's buttocks or thighs, using sharp blades to pull the skin off in clean strips so that they could later hang them on the city walls.  This practice later continued on a massive scale during the Ming Dynasty in China between 1368 and 1644 C.E. The cruel Emperor Taizu reportedly slaughtered some 40,000 people just for criticizing him. Then, he followed the Assyrian model of flaying them and hanging their skins from the wall. And unfortunately, this was far from the last time this brutal execution method would be used.

Medieval Torture for the unfaithful, here is but just seven of them which if you were unfaithful or a criminal or even just a wroungun you may have received a very sore end on some of these devices  1. Flaying is a method of slow and painful torture and/or execution in which skin is removed from the body. Generally, an attempt is made to keep the removed portion of skin intact 2.The Heretic's fork was a small metal device with two opposed bi-pronged forks attached to a belt. One sharp end was placed against the victim’s throat and the other against their sternum. The victim was forced to hold their head up; if they dropped it, the prongs would pierce their neck and chest. 3. Rat torture was a method used in medieval times. It involved putting a pot of hungry rats into a cage that was strapped to the victim's stomach. The cage was then slowly heated, causing the distressed rats to chew and claw through the victim, trying to escape 4.Crucifixion was once a brutal form of humilia...

Flaying or skinning is an ancient execution method that is considered to be one of the most painful forms of punishment. The process involves tying up the victim's hands and feet to prevent any movement and then slowly peeling off their skin using a sharp blade. The head was often the starting point, causing immense suffering as the victim remained conscious throughout the ordeal. In some cases, boiling was used to soften the skin for easier removal. Death could occur from shock, loss of blood or fluids, hypothermia, or infection, and could take anywhere from a few hours to several days. This brutal punishment was practiced by different societies throughout history, including the Assyrians, Aztecs, Chinese, and some Medieval European people. It was used as a means of sending a message to others and demonstrating the power of the ruling authority. While rare, flayed bodies were often displayed publicly as a warning to those who might dare to disobey or challenge the ruling power. D...

The Height of the Cross The crucifixion, a method of capital punishment in which the victim was tied or nailed to a large wooden beam and left to hang until eventual death, was a practice that the Romans had perfected as a form of torture and public humiliation. Contrary to the common depiction of towering crosses, historical evidence suggests that the actual crucifixion crosses were not as tall as often portrayed. The height of the crosses used by the Romans for crucifixion was such that the condemned were raised only slightly above the ground. This was a deliberate choice, designed to prolong the suffering of the victim and to allow the onlookers to gaze directly into the eyes of the condemned. The crosses were low enough that the feet of the crucified could be reached by the vermin and wild animals that roamed the execution grounds, adding a gruesome aspect to an already torturous death. The average height of individuals at the time was between 5’2” and 5’7”, and when placed upon th...

"Records in the Philippine Archives show that Don Mariano Marcos, the grandfather of BBM, was a traitor, a Japanese collaborator.  Filipinos tried and executed him using a brutal execution method. The Marcos family is trying to revise history, instead that the Japanese did it." In 3 generations the Marcoses: 1) Marcos' grandfather was a traitor to the Philippines 2) Marcos' father was a dictator that stole from the Philippines. 3) Marcos Jr. now may have corrupted and stolen the presidency. Damn. This family's sins run deep.

Women’s Executions In European history, witches were often executed by burning at the stake, sparking my interest in delving deeper into the history of women’s executions. Through my studies, I uncovered a troubling pattern: women were subjected to different and often more brutal forms of execution compared to men. For example, in Islamic regions, stoning was a common method of execution for women, and it still persists in some countries today. Conversely, in parts of Africa and Europe, burning at the stake was prevalent. My conclusion is not that I don’t feel like chanting slogans against or in favor of these types of executions. Rather, I simply understand that the weaker you are physically, the more cruelly they treat you.

THE HISTORY OF BOLSHEVIK SAVAGERY- Part IV -Lenin's Policy of Deliberate Starvation- Nearly all Communist regimes of the 20th century have subjected their peoples to starvation. In Lenin's time, famine brought death to five million. From 1932 to 1933, in Stalin's time, the same disaster happened again but with a much wider scope; more than 6 million people died as a result of it. As we will see in the following pages, millions died as a result of famine in Mao's Red China and Pol Pot's Cambodia. Today, with supermarkets, bakeries, pastry shops, and restaurants all around us; famine seems an alien concept. When we do hear about famine, most often we think of it as a period of temporary hunger. But the famines in Russia, China and Cambodia was a prolonged condition that lasted for months, even years. Apart from grain and rice that villagers could grow to feed themselves, all produce was snatched from their hands, leaving them nothing else to eat. People ate all the ve...