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Ascetic Laboring is Coool
I’m re-reading a small book by a famous Russian Orthodox priest that lived in the 1800s, and in one part of it, a fellow named Nicholas Motovilov implied that there was some idea going around in 19th century Russia that laboring as a monk was fashionable. This is not as ridiculous as it sounds. The Continue reading
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Russian Dvoeverie and Public Applied Psychology
There is a generalization about Russian spirituality, which leaves out the exceptions, such as the Hindus and Muslims to the south, and the Buddhists to the east, and it is that the people of Russia have a simultaneous duel-faith, which is Russia Orthodoxy and the pre-Christian Paganism. But to cut to the chase, ‘Paganism’ is Continue reading
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The Preponderance of Russian Gimbal-less FLIR Systems
One rather interesting thing about Russian FLIR systems on their aircraft is that they tend to only point forwards, and that they do not tend to be the gimbal types used by western aerial platforms. The reason isn’t necessarily because of ‘Protected Gimbal Technology’ that the West is guarding jealously from Russia, but instead a Continue reading
Unsupported Speculation 