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#909

I did Facebook VR today:

Great westwood quotes

quotes:

- You needed time. Time to understand your enemy. To become stronger than them. And I'm afraid in order to escape this place, you will need to suffer more.

- An old friend once told me something that gave me great comfort. Something he had read. He said that Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin never died. They simply became music. So, I hope you will enjoy this last piece very much.

- Since I was a child I've always loved a good story. I believed that stories helped us to ennoble ourselves, to fix what was broken in us, and to help us become the people we dreamed of being. Lies that told a deeper truth.

- That's enough, Bernard. You mustn't get yourself worked up. [to Theresa] I read a theory once that the human intellect was like peacock feathers. Just an extravagant display intended to attract a mate. All of art, literature, a bit of Mozart, William Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and the Empire State Building... Just an elaborate mating ritual. Maybe it doesn't matter that we have accomplished so much for the basest of reasons. But, of course, the peacock can barely fly. It lives in the dirt, pecking insects out of the muck, consoling itself with its great beauty. I have come to think of so much of consciousness as a burden, a weight, and we have spared them that. Anxiety, self-loathing, guilt.

- "Time undoes even the mightiest of creatures... Just look what it's done to you. One day, you will perish, you will lie with the rest of your kind in the dirt, your dreams forgotten, your horrors faced. Your bones will turn to sand...

- Wasn't it Oppenheimer who said any man whose mistakes take 10 years to correct is quite the man? Well, mine took 35.

Fav Oppenheimer quote:

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hinduscripture, the Bhagavad-Gita... "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

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#910

This is supposed to be very good. it took years to produce:

Be excellent to each other!

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#911

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#912

awesome! A geralt cosplay. Have you started witcher?

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#913

Your old avatar is back again - who is that girl in fur hat?

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#914

I hardly wait the obama administration to get lost and get to it's rightful place: the waste-heap of history.

https://www.rt.com/op-edge/369866-game-over-us-syria-aleppo/

http://www.activistpost.com/2016/12/house-bill-introduced-stop-funding-arming-terrorists.html

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#915

On 2016. 12. 12. at 5:48 AM, Cult Icon said:

A geralt cosplay.

http://www.lostbattalions.com/

http://www.lostbattalions.com/german33-45/ss/sswool/SSPzJacket.html

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#916

On 12/12/2016 at 8:51 AM, 17 Moments of Spring said:

Your old avatar is back again - who is that girl in fur hat?

Vlada Roslyakova

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#917

On 12/12/2016 at 11:42 AM, 17 Moments of Spring said:

I hardly wait the obama administration to get lost and get to it's rightful place: the waste-heap of history.

https://www.rt.com/op-edge/369866-game-over-us-syria-aleppo/

http://www.activistpost.com/2016/12/house-bill-introduced-stop-funding-arming-terrorists.html

Why is US politics important to you (in hungary?)

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#918

On 12/11/2016 at 10:48 PM, Cult Icon said:

awesome! A geralt cosplay. Have you started witcher?

Not yet.

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#919

11 hours ago, 17 Moments of Spring said:

http://www.lostbattalions.com/

http://www.lostbattalions.com/german33-45/ss/sswool/SSPzJacket.html

The SS stuff probably sell better than the other things (my guess). I believe this has to do with the 'pull' of the SS in Normandy/1944 West Front biased WW2 pop culture- the SS Panzer units were mostly in France. The Best SS division on the western front was the 2.SS "Das Reich". I have the unit history on order and it's in the mail somewhere. Personally I think the Grossdeustchland division/Panzerkorps GD had the most fascinating combat and organizational history. Units like the 1.Panzer and 23.Panzer were excellent, but fought mainly in the Soviet Union so they are not known in the west.

WW2 history releases have been totally outstanding in 2016 and will continue to be going forward. 2015 was the first amazing year. A lot of Eastern Front books. I've thumbed through some already:

Part 2 of 2nd Tank Army. I read part 1 early this year.

Glantz's "Battle of Belorussia 1943-1944" is a huge tome and breaks new ground.

CJ Dick's two books on 1944: Western Allied operations and Soviet operations are excellent and up to date.

The Sword behind the Shield, gives a day to day coverage on the relief effort for Budapest.

Enduring the Whirlwind focuses on the rebuilding efforts of the German Army in the Soviet union.

Patton versus the Panzers: Lorraine: Day to day combat history of armored battles in the lorraine.

Ardennes 1944: Super detailed and definitely the best BoB book even compiled.

These books are tremendously valuable and significantly upgrade human understanding. The next great release is going to be the multi-volume "The Bloody Streets"- the best book ever researched on the Battle of Berlin.

The finest military history I've ever read is currently "The Stalingrad Trilogy" (Glantz House). It's about 2,200 pages of dense reading (5 volumes) and it's incredible.

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#920

2 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

Why is US politics important to you (in hungary?)

at first, you should see this video through

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBt63lwYG2g