What is your perception of Russia?
I am curious...
How do you view Russia? What do you know about my country?
How do you view Russia? What do you know about my country?
22-25, F
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I know alot about Russian history and culture, and was being pushed by my now passed godmother to become krthodox instead of catholic. I said the only way I would do that was by becomming American Orthodox, which is a autonomous church under the (now former, due to excommunication) Russian Patriarch.
I know the old struggles between the Red and White Russian Orthodox Church, and met many White Orthodox believers who were upset with being forced into the Reda after the two churches reunited. I'm sure they are feeling quite vindicated right now.
I didn't like how my old ukrainian girlfriend's church in Alaska had no benches. Everyone just stood. Having to do a liturgy in 17 languages wasn't fun for me. The priest was Bill Clinton's old college roommate.
I hated having to watch on videotape old soviet movies and tv shows with her, and having to force up a belated laugh after she laughed not having the slightest fucking clue what just happened.
I can navigate the ideology easily from soviet times, long exposure since my teens to marxist works, but I'm no Marxist. If I'm reading a synopsis of a writer (I'm going through Konstantin Paustovsky right now) I gotta do a shitload of googling to figure out locations and bios of historical characters and situations.
As to russian culture.... it's mostly shit, and never left the old Obshchina. Even today. Why does russia have the most sky scrappers in Europe (and not just a few)? It goes back to Stalin's penis envy of the US and Western Europe, with American capitalist sky scrappers. So he built the seven sisters Сталинские высотки, but they were all half retarted because the soviets didn't quite know how to build a sky scrapper and it set the building program of russia way behind, and locked future suburban and urban development into using the factories used to build the seven buildings. That was a form of penis envy that helped lock russia into a housing shortage. It's literature is much the same. For every original writer on the world stage you have 50 shit writers. It's why many russians say russian culture is shit.
As to modern russia, it's not a whole lot different from Russian Marxism. It's a oligarchy that adopted social nationalism. Not any real private enterprise- alot on paper just like in Nazi Germany, but it's all controlled by the state and utterly smothered. The banking system is aimed at gaining foreign capital and safe assets immune to sanctions like gold and gems. One fundamental difference between Nazi Germany and the Russian Federation is Russia doesn't lack for oil, but Mr. KGB Putin never built up the mechanical engineers (fuck, even Mexico has) needed to build pipelines and run refineries. Ukraine has had a fairly easy job disabling pipelines, and Russia is deeply dependent on Chinese tech to fix things, and even then mostly can't, beyond China funding pipelines into china.
The claims russia is fighting in Ukraine in krder to rebuild the soviet empire is bullshit. He's doing it because Russia has been in a long term demographics collapse. Putin only goes after easy targets with high indexes of russian speaking populations resident, like North Ossetia. Ukraine in areas like Kiev already was too different to be a realistic thing to wrestle and Putin believed his own bullshiting generals in that they could easily take it- and had their military equipment worked yes, they could of taken it, bht they never would of held it. Only places they are holding have high pro-russian affinities close to the border.
Right nkw we are looking at russia as a net exporter of intelelctual talent, and a importer of finished technological goods from China. The battle for Kursk is a side show, it has no long term strategic worth other than as a bargaining chip in up coming peace talks, and Ukraine can't hold it long term because it is very prone to a pincer attack. Russia is already digging defenses and will still be able to send in a meat army assault.
As fkr Krasnodar, it reminds me a bit of west virginia. I did a study of the region a few years back (had a penpal studying french and english from the city). The small towns resmebled the american rust belt. Similar colonial history. The marxist architecture reminded me of the NIRA archjtecture from the roosevelt era. Very similar ignorant culture of country bumpkins with no real appreciation of the outside world. But you also had a generic middle class elite with western looking apartments and appliances.
Right now Russia moved past Ukraine in dipping into population stocks that don't breed (men over 40, prisoners, foreigners) and have tapped heavily into the active breeding population, and are using them very stupidly as far as long term population growth forcasting goes.
Alot of single women will be around at the end of the war unable to remarry. Many will move to europe, china and north america. Russian heavy industry has a big hole in it. Russian tank reservea has been halved, and the remaining half are the harder to rehabilitate stock. Central Asia will rebel if the war moves on another year and a half, but Ukrainians don't have that much time- they haven't touched their younger generation of men outside of volunteers. Their workforce is still youthful and beckmming increasingly skilled doing jobs that wouldn't usually be open to them due to glass ceilings from senority over them in skilled trades. Plus they have easy access to western technology and expertise. Russia doesn't. China isn't going to flood russia with professors, they will flood russia with skilled labor at a high price. And China is very interested in Central Asia. So excellent chance the region is going to rebel and will get flooded with both western and chinese weapons in response to a increasingly infantry centric russian army moving in to pacify the region. That's a bad war in russia's future that's very likely. We are also very likely to see break away regions of russia in the coming decades. Belarus may be in a good position to de facto shave some of these regions away from Moscow, with Ukrainian aid and NATO intel. We may very well see a russia formed of independent principalities each claiming to be the legitimate successor, much like Italy was in the renaissance. It may be a good thing, something original might form in some of these states that reinvents the soul of russia. It's time to leave the Mir.
I know the old struggles between the Red and White Russian Orthodox Church, and met many White Orthodox believers who were upset with being forced into the Reda after the two churches reunited. I'm sure they are feeling quite vindicated right now.
I didn't like how my old ukrainian girlfriend's church in Alaska had no benches. Everyone just stood. Having to do a liturgy in 17 languages wasn't fun for me. The priest was Bill Clinton's old college roommate.
I hated having to watch on videotape old soviet movies and tv shows with her, and having to force up a belated laugh after she laughed not having the slightest fucking clue what just happened.
I can navigate the ideology easily from soviet times, long exposure since my teens to marxist works, but I'm no Marxist. If I'm reading a synopsis of a writer (I'm going through Konstantin Paustovsky right now) I gotta do a shitload of googling to figure out locations and bios of historical characters and situations.
As to russian culture.... it's mostly shit, and never left the old Obshchina. Even today. Why does russia have the most sky scrappers in Europe (and not just a few)? It goes back to Stalin's penis envy of the US and Western Europe, with American capitalist sky scrappers. So he built the seven sisters Сталинские высотки, but they were all half retarted because the soviets didn't quite know how to build a sky scrapper and it set the building program of russia way behind, and locked future suburban and urban development into using the factories used to build the seven buildings. That was a form of penis envy that helped lock russia into a housing shortage. It's literature is much the same. For every original writer on the world stage you have 50 shit writers. It's why many russians say russian culture is shit.
As to modern russia, it's not a whole lot different from Russian Marxism. It's a oligarchy that adopted social nationalism. Not any real private enterprise- alot on paper just like in Nazi Germany, but it's all controlled by the state and utterly smothered. The banking system is aimed at gaining foreign capital and safe assets immune to sanctions like gold and gems. One fundamental difference between Nazi Germany and the Russian Federation is Russia doesn't lack for oil, but Mr. KGB Putin never built up the mechanical engineers (fuck, even Mexico has) needed to build pipelines and run refineries. Ukraine has had a fairly easy job disabling pipelines, and Russia is deeply dependent on Chinese tech to fix things, and even then mostly can't, beyond China funding pipelines into china.
The claims russia is fighting in Ukraine in krder to rebuild the soviet empire is bullshit. He's doing it because Russia has been in a long term demographics collapse. Putin only goes after easy targets with high indexes of russian speaking populations resident, like North Ossetia. Ukraine in areas like Kiev already was too different to be a realistic thing to wrestle and Putin believed his own bullshiting generals in that they could easily take it- and had their military equipment worked yes, they could of taken it, bht they never would of held it. Only places they are holding have high pro-russian affinities close to the border.
Right nkw we are looking at russia as a net exporter of intelelctual talent, and a importer of finished technological goods from China. The battle for Kursk is a side show, it has no long term strategic worth other than as a bargaining chip in up coming peace talks, and Ukraine can't hold it long term because it is very prone to a pincer attack. Russia is already digging defenses and will still be able to send in a meat army assault.
As fkr Krasnodar, it reminds me a bit of west virginia. I did a study of the region a few years back (had a penpal studying french and english from the city). The small towns resmebled the american rust belt. Similar colonial history. The marxist architecture reminded me of the NIRA archjtecture from the roosevelt era. Very similar ignorant culture of country bumpkins with no real appreciation of the outside world. But you also had a generic middle class elite with western looking apartments and appliances.
Right now Russia moved past Ukraine in dipping into population stocks that don't breed (men over 40, prisoners, foreigners) and have tapped heavily into the active breeding population, and are using them very stupidly as far as long term population growth forcasting goes.
Alot of single women will be around at the end of the war unable to remarry. Many will move to europe, china and north america. Russian heavy industry has a big hole in it. Russian tank reservea has been halved, and the remaining half are the harder to rehabilitate stock. Central Asia will rebel if the war moves on another year and a half, but Ukrainians don't have that much time- they haven't touched their younger generation of men outside of volunteers. Their workforce is still youthful and beckmming increasingly skilled doing jobs that wouldn't usually be open to them due to glass ceilings from senority over them in skilled trades. Plus they have easy access to western technology and expertise. Russia doesn't. China isn't going to flood russia with professors, they will flood russia with skilled labor at a high price. And China is very interested in Central Asia. So excellent chance the region is going to rebel and will get flooded with both western and chinese weapons in response to a increasingly infantry centric russian army moving in to pacify the region. That's a bad war in russia's future that's very likely. We are also very likely to see break away regions of russia in the coming decades. Belarus may be in a good position to de facto shave some of these regions away from Moscow, with Ukrainian aid and NATO intel. We may very well see a russia formed of independent principalities each claiming to be the legitimate successor, much like Italy was in the renaissance. It may be a good thing, something original might form in some of these states that reinvents the soul of russia. It's time to leave the Mir.
yestestvennaya · 22-25, F
@Dignaga Thank you for this detailed response! You shared some knowledge of Krasnodarskiy, and some of it is true. It is still my home so I am very fond of it. My family are Jewish and I have never been in Eastern Orthodox Church. I have very much thought about converting to Christianity.
"Right nkw we are looking at russia as a net exporter of intelelctual talent, and a importer of finished technological goods from China. The battle for Kursk is a side show, it has no long term strategic worth other than as a bargaining chip in up coming peace talks, and Ukraine can't hold it long term because it is very prone to a pincer attack. Russia is already digging defenses and will still be able to send in a meat army assault."
This is all true.
"Right nkw we are looking at russia as a net exporter of intelelctual talent, and a importer of finished technological goods from China. The battle for Kursk is a side show, it has no long term strategic worth other than as a bargaining chip in up coming peace talks, and Ukraine can't hold it long term because it is very prone to a pincer attack. Russia is already digging defenses and will still be able to send in a meat army assault."
This is all true.
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LeopoldBloom · M
@yestestvennaya Why would you want to convert to Christianity?
@LeopoldBloom i always guve good analysis, just your politics get in the way.
yestestvennaya · 22-25, F
@Dignaga I love your comments. I have seen them on other posts, and you have very interesting things to say, showing knowledge of different subjects. I'd like to speak with the lady you mention, I will message you about this.
@LeopoldBloom I believe in Jesus, and think Christianity is a very beautiful religion. It is my view that our Tanakh tells us about him. I do not know why Jews continue to reject him, but I don't want to.
@LeopoldBloom I believe in Jesus, and think Christianity is a very beautiful religion. It is my view that our Tanakh tells us about him. I do not know why Jews continue to reject him, but I don't want to.
IronHamster · 56-60, M
@yestestvennaya You may want to look into "Messianic Jews" if you are Jewish and have a belief that Jesus was indeed the true Messiah.
yestestvennaya · 22-25, F
@IronHamster Thank you :))) I have seen some videos about Messianic Jews. It does seem like a very small group, and in videos I saw they were very pro Israel still. They also keep all the mitzvot, 613 of them.
LeopoldBloom · M
@yestestvennaya I'm an atheist, so I'm not going to find much use for Jesus. Observant Jews reject him because he doesn't meet the requirements for the Messiah. Also, the history of Christian persecution of Jews doesn't help.
However, you have to be careful when you take passages in the Tanakh and apply them to Jesus. First, the people who wrote the NT were aware of the Tanakh, so they could have crafted the story to fit the "prophecies." The Gospels were written between 30 and 120 years after the purported events, so there was already an oral tradition. Other "prophecies" are so general as to apply to anything you want.
I also actively dislike Paul. I don't understand why his letters to other church leaders rise to the level of holy scripture. They should be like the Talmud or the Hadith - associated with scripture but not on the same level.
Also, much of what we understand to be Christian dogma, like Jesus dying for our sins, the Rapture, pre or post millenialism, etc. are relatively recent developments. I'd encourage you to check out Dan McClellan's videos on YouTube or TikTok. He's an accomplished scholar and an authority on the Bible in the original languages.
I find Messianic Jews odd. There seem to be two types - the "Jews for Jesus" who start off Jewish and incorporate belief in Jesus, and Christians who incorporate Jewish practices. For example, some Jehovah's Witnesses have seders because the Last Supper was a seder.
Finally, in the US, some of the worst people here are Christian nationalists who are actively working to turn the US into a Christian theocracy. And this isn't the kind of Christianity that's all about feeding the poor and taking care of immigrants. It's the Christianity that murders gay people and puts women in prison for having miscarriages that they couldn't prove weren't abortions. If Donald Trump is reelected, these people will have control of a branch of government and it could get very ugly if they try to impose their fascist agenda on the majority that opposes it.
However, you have to be careful when you take passages in the Tanakh and apply them to Jesus. First, the people who wrote the NT were aware of the Tanakh, so they could have crafted the story to fit the "prophecies." The Gospels were written between 30 and 120 years after the purported events, so there was already an oral tradition. Other "prophecies" are so general as to apply to anything you want.
I also actively dislike Paul. I don't understand why his letters to other church leaders rise to the level of holy scripture. They should be like the Talmud or the Hadith - associated with scripture but not on the same level.
Also, much of what we understand to be Christian dogma, like Jesus dying for our sins, the Rapture, pre or post millenialism, etc. are relatively recent developments. I'd encourage you to check out Dan McClellan's videos on YouTube or TikTok. He's an accomplished scholar and an authority on the Bible in the original languages.
I find Messianic Jews odd. There seem to be two types - the "Jews for Jesus" who start off Jewish and incorporate belief in Jesus, and Christians who incorporate Jewish practices. For example, some Jehovah's Witnesses have seders because the Last Supper was a seder.
Finally, in the US, some of the worst people here are Christian nationalists who are actively working to turn the US into a Christian theocracy. And this isn't the kind of Christianity that's all about feeding the poor and taking care of immigrants. It's the Christianity that murders gay people and puts women in prison for having miscarriages that they couldn't prove weren't abortions. If Donald Trump is reelected, these people will have control of a branch of government and it could get very ugly if they try to impose their fascist agenda on the majority that opposes it.