“As With Interwar Flappers In Europe And America, A New Philosophy Was Emerging [in Japan] In Which

knowing anything about history is great because it makes you seem mentally insane

Vyacheslav Belov, Russia

Nightmare or salvation, nothingness or existence

suck, and i cannot stress this enough, my cock to the fucking base

ok so the first calendars were lunar calendars, 28 days, and a woman's menstrual cycles are 28 days. The implications of this are staggering, like isn't it conceivable that women were the first to recognize and implement time as a concept as a matter of survival just based on having to plan for one's period every month? and her observation that the moon's phases roughly correlates to her period could be one of the earliest breakthroughs of abstract thinking. what if she believed the moon controlled her cycle? First deity, first worship. Why would prehistoric men need to conceptualize time in the sophisticated way women clearly did? Men did not need to plan for periods, pregnancy, or raising children into adulthood. They had no reason not to scamper around the wilderness pissing on trees and ejaculating into the nearest holes they can find for the rest of time because they never had to plan long-term for monthly uncontrollable bleeding and keeping infants alive for years. Why would men look at the moon's phases and see anything other than the moon's phases? He cannot biologically realize how the moon is intrinsically connected to him, how he and time are intertwined, how one is all.

We are the timekeepers. This blood built society.

Yekaterina, when she left all to follow Christ, remembered a common but very special kind of Russian believer: the poustinik. Every so often some peasant, and less frequently a wealthy person in Russia, like Pyotr, would get rid of his or her things and take to the poustinia. That word means desert. The poustinik however did not go to a literal desert. He only put on rough linen clothing and went to live in the barest, simplest house in the village. There, with no lock on the door, he lived with nothing but the Bible, his daily bread, and his clothes. The poustinik was no hermit. On call, day or night, he lived to help others. Whether that meant feeding the sick, counselling a distressed sinner at midnight, or quick helping a farmer get his hay in before it rained, did not matter. He lived in the “desert” of freedom from personal ambition and let Christ use him however it suited. All his free time he spent in his house or garden alone.

Peter Hoover with Serguei V. Petrov, The Russians' Secret: What Christians Today Would Survive Persecution?

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New research reveals ancient humans used animal bone tools much earlier than thought

The handcrafted tools found in Tanzania were made 1.5 million years ago and were fashioned primarily from the bones of elephants and hippopo

Early humans used animal bones to craft tools — more than a million years earlier than scientists previously thought, according to new research published this week. A group of researchers from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Indiana University made the discovery in East Africa. Ignacio de la Torre, co-director of the excavation and a CSIC researcher, says the bone tools are from the Acheulean period, which is known as the age of the hand axes — tear-shaped tools with a sharp point made from stone. "Now, we have a human species here that is able to innovate, to create an innovation by applying a knowledge they know they have or the working of stone," de la Torre tells NPR.

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Karelian burials, known as “houses of the dead”, are remnants of the Karelian pagan culture. Yushkozersky cemetery, 1880s

Grave-house was the “eternal dwelling” of the deceased and therefore naturally reflected in itself the features of a real house. The house was slightly different depending on the place: the grave-house of north-western Karelia has the window for the “soul of the deceased”.

A tayuu from Shimabara in Kyoto, about 1920s