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    Not every problem that comes to you has to become your problem.

    September 29, 2026

    O mare parte din oboseala vieții nu vine din ceea ce avem efectiv de făcut, ci din faptul că preluăm mental responsabilități care aparțin altora: graba lor, lipsa lor de organizare, conflictele lor, anxietatea lor, urgențele pe care tot ei le-au creat. Înțelepciunea nu înseamnă…

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  • Religie și mistică

    Connecting dots on the sheet of memory.

    11 September 2021

      When you are in the Varna area, it is advisable to visit Balcicul. One reason is that there aren’t many places worth visiting in the area (outside the city of Varna). The second reason is to strengthen our resentment that some inexperienced politicians have given up half of…

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  • Politică și actualitate

    „Cancel honor”

    21 August 2021September 29, 2026

    „Revenge cannot have meaning; bleeding does not bring the wound out of the soul.” Nicolae Iorga On August 15, 2021, the (fictitious) president of the United States of America delivered a speech about the situation of withdrawal from Afghanistan. I do not want to analyze what happened after the disastrous…

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  • Umor și sarcasm

    Radio Yerevan

    July 18, 2021September 29, 2026

    Question: What is the difference between conspiracy theory and reality? Answer: About 6 months, maximum 1 year

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  • Filosofie și metafizică

    Tips from a master..

    3 July 2021

     „You are not Proust. You don’t make long sentences. If they come to you, write them down; but then, shorten them… Write down everything that comes to your mind, but only at the first draft. After that, you will realize that the emphasis forced your hand and took you away from the center of your subject. Then…

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  • Istorie

    Considerations on the Dacian war of Emperor Trajan.

    2 July 2021September 29, 2026

    The predictions of the Dacian war of Emperor Trajan. The occupation of the Balkans by the Roman Empire began at the end of the 3rd century BC (the Illyrian Wars) and Rome’s advance towards Dacia. An empire maintains and thrives through successive conquests, and the emperors of Rome have understood this inherent necessity since time immemorial…

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  • Religie și mistică

    Honey

    21 June 2021

    A monk once came to his spiritual director and said: – Father, whenever he comes to you, he confesses and cries out his sins to you; he receives advice from you to correct his ways; but he cannot change. What use is it for me to come to…

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  • Religie și mistică

    Coranic Inaccuracies

    18 June 2021

    After Muhammad's death in 632, a number of his companions who knew the Quran by heart were killed in the battle of Yamama by Musaylimah. The first caliph, Abu Bakr, later decided to collect the book into a single volume so that...

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  • Religie și mistică

    Homily on the Sixth Sunday after Easter (of the Blind from Birth) – Saint Nicholas Velimirovici

    6 June 2021

     Who is a greater God than our God? You are God, who works wonders! (cf. Psalm 76, 13-14). There are no eyes that can see all these wonders, no tongue that can count them, no mind that can understand them. The eyes have seen; they have seen…

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  • Istorie

    The human sacrifices of the Aztecs.

    8 May 2021September 29, 2026

     „[…] Brought to the buttock, which was a three-fingered stone and still a little in height and almost two in width, they were thrown on their backs and held by five people: two grabbed their feet, two their arms, and one their head. Then the priest came who had to…

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