What Did Romans Look Like?

 

We all want to know what the Romans looked like, and all we've got are these marble statues. Augustus, Nero, Claudius, Septimus Severus, Caracalla, Marcus Aurelius, Constantine himself and on. Result, these give us a picture, and mostly we think a lifelike one, of imperium, but what did these rulers of the world, and perhaps more importantly their subjects actually look like?  Thanks to a ring found near Rome in 2000 AD we have a glimpse.

The ring's remarkable for its holographic properties, displaying the face, perhaps, of Titus Carvilius Gemello, buried in the same tomb as his noble mother, Aebutia Quarta. Whether the image on the ring is Aebutia's son or not, it was found on her finger when the tomb was reexamined at the turn of the Millennium.

I call Aebutia, not Titus

Specific identity aside, this remarkable ring shows us what at least one Roman looked like, whether it's the image of Titus, his Mother or someone else. The image is heroic, I think, as well as haunting. Sic transit and the days of man are but as grass.

DFTR,

LSP

PS. Dear readers, did you know the Romans could do holograms? Huh, now we know.

Short Sunday Sermon - Apocalypse

 

If you follow the new-fangled three year lectionary you will have heard Luke's "Little Apocalypse," in which Our Lord prophecies the end times, the great and terrible day of the Lord. When that comes, as it will, the wicked will be eradicated "root and branch" and burned away like stubble in an oven (Malachi). So yes, the righteous will be vindicated mightily even as the wicked apparently prosper. Are we there yet?

No, we're not. For sure, certain signs have been fulfilled, Elijah's returned in the form of John the Baptist, the Church around the world is persecuted as never before an the unrighteous, per Malachi, prosper and escape justice, for now. In fact, they appear to wax ever stronger and that's as it should be. As we approach the definitive battle between good and evil, between God and Satan, each respective side will become more clearly defined. We see that now, if you have eyes to see.

The question is, which side are you on? On the side of truth, beauty, goodness and light, on the side of God, obviously. Accordingly, as the Apostle tells the Thessalonians, don't be idle but get to work, we must apply ourselves to the opus dei, the work of God. Christ narrows the focus, "By your endurance you will save your lives."

Endurance. Never, ever give up. Not on the Faith, the Gospel of life, Not in prayer. Not in the active pursuit of holiness and in that daily endeavor to deny ourselves, take up our cross and follow Christ. Is this hard? Of course, and no one ever said it'd be easy. Does it involve hardship? It should, endurance and duress are cognate. Does it have a reward? Assuredly yes, eternal life.

That's our goal. Run accordingly, and do not be dismayed at the present ascendance of the apostate and heathen, they will meet their reward. Here endeth the lesson.

God Bless,

LSP

Wolf!

 

"I am a wolf man." Can't for a moment think who or what that might apply to. With applause to all concerned:

Seriously, check out Virtual Mirage for real news and please, try not to take Captain Calvert too seriously. 

DFTR,

LSP

Don't Fear The Reaper

 

Sometimes it's better in song, don't you think?

Keen-eyed readers of this humble mind blog will know we've been saying it for years.

DFTR,

LSP

Stand Steady

 

Just some inspirational music.

Don't underestimate the Sceptered Isle, reports of its death are, I reckon, premature, and remember this. Everything the Left enacts or intends produces the exact opposite of its intended result.

DFTR,

LSP

DFTR

 

Are you worried? A little bit future testy, sitting in your wretched little foxhole? If so, buck up and Don't Fear The Reaper, kids, unless maybe you should. Speaking of which, M, a seasoned session singer outta Minneapolis (?) told me back in the halcyon she was suffering from "catholic guilt." Huh.

"What, m'dear have you done wrong?" She laughed and we moved on from there into the wilds of Shoreditch and Columbia Road's flower market, , it was cool then. After that? Well, everyone went home to bed, obvs.

DFTR,

LSP

Another Year Around The Sun

 

Here it is, another year 'round the sun and I've cheated the prophets so far, "Try and make it to 40, fella," said a friend in a Bayswater pub in the '90s, over cold-as-you-like lager. Lo and behold, against the odds, Force LSP fought through that objective and set up Ops in the New Country. And I can't complain, Texas, especially, has been good. All hail country life, to say nothing of God and Guns.

To mark this achievement, the Specialist came home with totally unaffordable steaks. We'll grill those in a bit and celebrate, asparagus wrapped in bacon and baby potatoes alongside. So there it is. But speaking of celebration, I've got a good mind to take a train journey.

You know, for several days, with a Pullman, Diner and all the rest. Traverse this land by rail, as a kind of recce perhaps. But witch way? Maybe the Dallas-Chicago-Detroit run or go West, up to Montana and then Alberta? Then again, perhaps something more... specialized?

All advice welcome and in the meanwhile, one song to rule them all.

DFTR,

LSP

DFTR

 

This seems appropriate, right about now. Gunfight reported to close to Kiev center.

DFTR,

LSP

Trudeau Calls Jewish MP Nazi

 

Justin Trudeau went full everyone I don't like is Hitler on Wednesday in Canada's Parliament, accusing Jewish MP Melissa Lantsman of supporting Nazism. Her crime? 

Supporting Canadians' right to protest and accusing the Prime Minister of fanning "the flame of an unjustified national emergency." When "did the Prime Minister lose his way?" she asked with brazen NSDAP temerity.

Trudeau, popularly known as Justine, ripped back, "Conservative Party members can stand with people who wave swastikas. They stand with people who wave the Confederate flag." Lantsman, whose grandparents survived the holocaust, was unimpressed and demanded an apology on social media.

I think the Prime Minister should think long and hard about his own history before singling out a Jewish Member of Parliament and falsely accusing me of standing with a Swastika. What a disgraceful statement unbecoming of anyone in public office - he owes me an apology. #cdnpoli

— Melissa Lantsman (@MelissaLantsman) February 16, 2022

You can watch the deplorable Judeo-Reich Lantsman question Trudeau here, and while you're at it wonder at the deceit, duplicity and outright mendacity, the doublethink of Canada's GloboCap rulers and their shills in Parliament. 

Wow. Look at you, Jew, you're a Nazi, and you'd better watch out or we'll seize your bank account and put you in a camp. For the health of the nation. The irony is deafening.

There have been precisely two people out of tens of thousands in Ottawa photographed carrying Trudeau's far right extremist flags. They were conveniently walking next to legacy media photographers.

Trudeau's Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland's grandfather edited a Nazi magazine in the Ukraine before fleeing the doomed Reich. The Freedom Convoy is calling for a general strike even as their leaders are being arrested and bank accounts confiscated by the Canadian State.

Perhaps you think this can't happen here.

DFTR,

LSP

DFTR

I feel this relevant,

LSP