Lazarus Symposium
Assad Syria was a government controlled by the kalbi alawite tribe a tribe of mainly dumb peasants which produced no scholars or sheikhs which persecuted other alawites out of resentment.
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Sources are these two books
Additional reading for those who know arabic (or just use google translate): https://www.mena-researchcenter.org/ar/%d8%b4%d9%8a%d9%88%d8%ae-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%88%d9%8a%d9%8a%d9%86-%d8%ae%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%84-%d9%85%d8%a6%d8%a9-%d8%b9%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%8c-%d9%88%d8%af%d9%88%d8%b1%d9%87%d9%85-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a3/
مركز أبحاث مينا - مركز دراسات مختص بالدراسات الاستراتيجية، العنفية والراديكالية، المرأة والطفولة، الاجتماعية، والتنوير الإسلامي في الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا
شيوخ العلويين خلال مئة عام، ودورهم في أحداث سوريا الأخيرة! - مركز أبحاث مينا
الملخص التنفيذي: يعدُّ التساؤل عن رجال الدين في الطائفة العلوية (المشايخ)، ودورهم اليوم، تساؤلاً مشروعاً، فقد كانوا لقرون طويلة الواجهة الأولى التي يلتقطها المراقب الخارجي لهذه الطائفة، لجهة قيادتهم أدواراً متنوعة الأشكال منذ تشكل الطائفة ككيان واضح الملامح…
Forwarded from Decameron
On June 27, 1953, romanian Greek Catholic bishop and martyr Ioan Suciu passed away in the Sighet prison in order to be with the Lord. His aides in the Legionary Movement tried to save him before his arrest in 1948 by getting him out of the country, but the bishop refused to leave. His books Youth and Heroism urged a heroic Christian life and were recommended to the young members of the Legionary Movement. He wrote to the faithful on October 5, 1948, when the communist authorities launched a campaign to dissolve the Greek Catholic Church and convert her clerics to Eastern Orthodoxy:
"Do not be deceived by committees, by words, by news, by lies, but stand strong, unwavering, steadfast in the faith for which our ancestors and forefathers shed blood. Do not put your name on any paper that requires you to forsake the law of your fathers. They will threaten you, they will beat you, they will take you to trials and before the judges. Do not be afraid, God is with each one of us, and will not let us be tempted and suffer more than we can bear. The world is looking at us, at the believers of the Uniate [Greek-Catholic] Church. We are a sight to the world. Oh, beloved faithful, let us not be a herd of fools, but confessors of the faith, be resolute members of the Church of Jesus in the Romanian Nation... Even if they take away our churches for a while, we will make a church at home, waiting full of hope for the deliverance, which will not be long."
He was beatified by Pope Francis in 2019.
"Do not be deceived by committees, by words, by news, by lies, but stand strong, unwavering, steadfast in the faith for which our ancestors and forefathers shed blood. Do not put your name on any paper that requires you to forsake the law of your fathers. They will threaten you, they will beat you, they will take you to trials and before the judges. Do not be afraid, God is with each one of us, and will not let us be tempted and suffer more than we can bear. The world is looking at us, at the believers of the Uniate [Greek-Catholic] Church. We are a sight to the world. Oh, beloved faithful, let us not be a herd of fools, but confessors of the faith, be resolute members of the Church of Jesus in the Romanian Nation... Even if they take away our churches for a while, we will make a church at home, waiting full of hope for the deliverance, which will not be long."
He was beatified by Pope Francis in 2019.
Forwarded from Decameron
If you would like to know if you are or have ever been young in this youth, ask yourself where your heart is: with those who are in the first rank, with those who fight and give themselves unselfishly, driven by a great and real dream; with those who believe, with those who hope, with those who love? And if your heart answers with a clear and unfeigned 'yes', then you are a worthy temple of the spirit of youth, and you belong to the only aristocracy that can still save the world.
I would like to turn all the constellation of stars into tongues of fire, all the silver sand of the sea into shouting mouths and all human wounds into lips that speak, for I want to shout with the roar of a mad bell, to sound the alarm in the depths of your soul, to strike nervously at the walls of carelessness, at the shroud of comfort in which you have wrapped the life of your youth: Come out of your diapers and manly align yourself to the call to live heroically!
— from the above mentioned books
I would like to turn all the constellation of stars into tongues of fire, all the silver sand of the sea into shouting mouths and all human wounds into lips that speak, for I want to shout with the roar of a mad bell, to sound the alarm in the depths of your soul, to strike nervously at the walls of carelessness, at the shroud of comfort in which you have wrapped the life of your youth: Come out of your diapers and manly align yourself to the call to live heroically!
— from the above mentioned books
Lazarus Symposium
On June 27, 1953, romanian Greek Catholic bishop and martyr Ioan Suciu passed away in the Sighet prison in order to be with the Lord. His aides in the Legionary Movement tried to save him before his arrest in 1948 by getting him out of the country, but the…
Martyr Ioan Suciu was a Lagrange appreciator
Forwarded from degrellian
"Health does not matter. We are not on earth to eat on time, to sleep on time, to live a hundred years or more. All this is vain and foolish.
Only one thing matters: having a useful life, sharpening your soul, improving it at all times, monitoring your weaknesses and exalting your impulses, serving others, throwing happiness and tenderness around you, giving your arm to your neighbor, to rise all by helping each other. Once these duties are accomplished, what does it mean to die at the age of thirty or a hundred years, to feel the fever throbbing at the hours when the human beast cries out, at the end of its power?
Let him get up again, despite everything!
The ideal appears to give its strength only at the breaking point.
Only the soul counts and must dominate everything else. Short or long, life is only redeemed if we have no cause for shame at the moment we have to give it back."
Only one thing matters: having a useful life, sharpening your soul, improving it at all times, monitoring your weaknesses and exalting your impulses, serving others, throwing happiness and tenderness around you, giving your arm to your neighbor, to rise all by helping each other. Once these duties are accomplished, what does it mean to die at the age of thirty or a hundred years, to feel the fever throbbing at the hours when the human beast cries out, at the end of its power?
Let him get up again, despite everything!
The ideal appears to give its strength only at the breaking point.
Only the soul counts and must dominate everything else. Short or long, life is only redeemed if we have no cause for shame at the moment we have to give it back."
Forwarded from degrellian
“Alain Delon comes to visit me; sometimes I receive him at home and other times he invites me to the set to watch the scenes that he is playing in. Does this mean that he is a rexist? Certainly not, but he is one of the characters who arouses the passions of those who have nothing to do with the battles of the Forum…”
Forwarded from degrellian
"His intellectual curiosity was limitless. He fairly lived on the writings of the most diverse authors, and nothing was too complex for his comprehension. He had a deep knowledge and understanding of Buddha, Confucius and Jesus Christ, as well as Luther, Calvin or Savonarola; of literary giants such as Dante, Schiller, Shakespeare, Goethe; and analytical writers such as Renan and Gobineau, Chamberlain and Sorel.
He had trained himself in philosophy by studying Aristotle and Plato. Although the latter did not fit into his system, Hitler was nevertheless able to extract what he deemed of value. He could quote entire paragraphs of Schopenhauer from memory, and for a long time carried a pocket edition of Schopenhauer with him. Nietzsche taught him much about willpower.
His thirst for knowledge was unquenchable. He spent hundreds of hoursstudying the works of Tacitus and Mommsen, military strategists like Clausewitz, or empire builders like Bismarck. Nothing escaped him: world history or the history of civilizations, the study of the Bible and the Talmud, Thomistic philosophy and all the masterpieces of Homer, Sophocles, Horace, Ovid, Titus Livius and Cicero. He knew Julian the Apostate as if he had been his contemporary.
His knowledge also extended to mechanics. He knew how engines worked; he understood the ballistics of various weapons; and he astonished the best medical scientists with his knowledge of medicine and biology. The universality of Hitler’s knowledge may surprise or displease those unaware of it, but it is nonetheless a historical fact: Hitler was one of the most cultivated men of the 20th century. A thousand times more so than Churchill, an intellectual mediocrity; or than Pierre Laval, with his mere cursory knowledge of history; or than Roosevelt; or Eisenhower, who never got beyond detective novels."
— Hitler Democrat
He had trained himself in philosophy by studying Aristotle and Plato. Although the latter did not fit into his system, Hitler was nevertheless able to extract what he deemed of value. He could quote entire paragraphs of Schopenhauer from memory, and for a long time carried a pocket edition of Schopenhauer with him. Nietzsche taught him much about willpower.
His thirst for knowledge was unquenchable. He spent hundreds of hoursstudying the works of Tacitus and Mommsen, military strategists like Clausewitz, or empire builders like Bismarck. Nothing escaped him: world history or the history of civilizations, the study of the Bible and the Talmud, Thomistic philosophy and all the masterpieces of Homer, Sophocles, Horace, Ovid, Titus Livius and Cicero. He knew Julian the Apostate as if he had been his contemporary.
His knowledge also extended to mechanics. He knew how engines worked; he understood the ballistics of various weapons; and he astonished the best medical scientists with his knowledge of medicine and biology. The universality of Hitler’s knowledge may surprise or displease those unaware of it, but it is nonetheless a historical fact: Hitler was one of the most cultivated men of the 20th century. A thousand times more so than Churchill, an intellectual mediocrity; or than Pierre Laval, with his mere cursory knowledge of history; or than Roosevelt; or Eisenhower, who never got beyond detective novels."
— Hitler Democrat
Forwarded from degrellian
"Impressed by the beauty of the church in a Benedictine monastery where he was part of the choir and served as an altar-boy, Hitler dreamt fleetingly of becoming a Benedictine monk. And it was at that time, too, interestingly enough, that whenever he attended Mass, he always had to pass beneath the first swastika he had ever seen: it was graven in the stone escutcheon of the abbey portal."
— Hitler Democrat, page 23
— Hitler Democrat, page 23
Forwarded from degrellian
Wedding of Suzanne Degrelle, the sister of Léon - May 18th 1937.