Comments on: Contrary to convenient fiction, they really haven't changed much, have they

By: thelastpsychiatrist.com - Taboos Are The Ways Christians Try To Control Us. Adnotated. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 09:26:59 +0000

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Slavery reparations on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 23:56:45 +0000

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By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 04:46:36 +0000

Once he went into some catacombs where the caretaker had exhumed a long dead queen, and he... paid to kiss her. He then recorded this achievement, in great pride, "I am Samuel Pepys and I have kissed a Queene"

Actually the exact quote is

But I do find them staying at my tailor's, the play not being to-day, and therefore I now took them to Westminster Abbey, and there did show them all the tombs very finely, having one with us alone, there being other company this day to see the tombs, it being Shrove Tuesday; and here we did see, by particular favour, the body of Queen Katherine of Valois; and I had the upper part of her body in my hands, and I did kiss her mouth, reflecting upon it that I did kiss a Queen, and that this was my birth-day, thirty-six years old, that I did first kiss a Queen. But here this man, who seems to understand well, tells me that the saying is not true that says she was never buried, for she was buried; only, when Henry the Seventh built his chapel, it was taken up and laid in this wooden coffin; but I did there see that, in it, the body was buried in a leaden one, which remains under the body to this day.

Not that far off.

By: Mircea Popescu

Mircea Popescu — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 04:37:17 +0000

Pretty much why he's read today, such little gems. Maybe not overabundant, but spending an hour reading his antique vacillations's by a good margin more profitable than spending a year reading the contemporary pravdas, to say nothing of the general mob's prattle.

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 04:09:25 +0000

He has his better parts, like where he talks of others rather than himself:

Having done with the Duke of York, who do repose all in me, I with Mr. Wren to his, chamber, to talk; where he observed, that these people are all of them a broken sort of people, that have not much to lose, and therefore will venture all to make their fortunes better: that Sir Thomas Osborne is a beggar, having 11 or L1200 a-year, but owes above L10,000. The Duke of Buckingham's condition is shortly this: that he hath about L19,600 a-year, of which he pays away about L7,000 a-year in interest, about L2000 in fee-farm rents to the King, about L6000 wages and pensions, and the rest to live upon, and pay taxes for the whole. Wren says, that for the Duke of York to stir in this matter, as his quality might justify, would but make all things worse, and that therefore he must bend, and suffer all, till time works it out: that he fears they will sacrifice the Church, and that the King will take anything, and so he will hold up his head a little longer, and then break in pieces.

That also hasn't changed at all.