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Pompey the Great was the foremost Roman general of his day, an all-conquering commander who redefined what military success meant in the late Republic. But the Civil War with Caesar led to his first decisive defeat at Pharsalus and to his inglorious death youtu.be/0tMaeLL_ypM

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I like this pose. It’s the opposite of a memento mori. His skeleton is reenacting one of one of his life’s happiest moments. Death can erase us. With time it can bury all memory of us, but it can never negate the reality of a life well-lived.

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I am not religious but "render unto Caesar" is a teaching I think a lot about these days. The way I was taught it, it's about the practice of personal moral/spiritual boundaries with the oppressive state. Which is really an incredibly necessary practice. And a subversive one, frankly

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Anna, Beth

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Rock n' Roll is back baby. I have single-handedly revived it with Tranny witchcraft

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"And WOE shall fall into the who stray from the Path and the Way (the thing that won 43% of the vote in a three-way race in 1992)"

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Me trying to revive the term copperhead

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It's "Make a Terrible Comic Day," and cousin, I sure tried

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