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Parent Post: To anyone who notices đź“ť
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seraphima
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9/26/2025, 2:16:08 PM
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I like your romantic take here. So sweet. “Love conquers all”? lol Love is complicated. The saying, to me, implies struggle. Re: “conquer.” It’s not for the faint of heart. It’s a war. Most people surrender after one battle. They don’t wanna fight. They either surrender immediately or bleed out and die. I wish more people had a Viking mentality in life.
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hyokkim
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9/26/2025, 5:42:19 PM
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''If Stalin lost faith in God, he kept his Calvinist beliefs on sin, the fall,  grace, and damnation. He even retained his belief in the supremacy of love. Much has been plundered from Stalin’s library but his copy of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov still exists. The chapters that Stalin underlined most heavily have nothing to do with murdering one’s father or the right of the individual to do what he wants once God is shown to be dead; what held Stalin’s attention was the philosophy of Dostoevsky’s monks. Father Zosima’s musings on the nature of “active love” for one’s fellow human beings are underlined by Stalin: “active love, compared with dreaming love, is a cruel and terrifying business.” https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/active-love-is-a-harsh-and-fearful-thing/ ''The dream ends when Sunday is asked if he has ever suffered. His last words, "can ye drink of the cup that I drink of?", is the question Jesus asks St. James and St. John in the Gospel of Mark, chapter 10, vs 38–39, a rhetorical question intended to demonstrate that the disciples are wrong to covet his glory because they are unable to bear the suffering for the sins of the world for which he is destined.'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Was_Thursday
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