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Region: The Decency Street Project
So is this an Anti Imperial Nations region?
No, it's not. We're independent and free.
Markus Sarasti-Varis, Steal Your Face
Oh ok.
Markus Sarasti-Varis
To be WA delegate, you must be above reproach in the Decency department
Stone Age Electricians, Berossus
Real life demands always come first of course. NationStates, as addicting as it can be, should not swallow up anyone to the point where they get sidetracked from making important progress with their lives. How do you find school?
Stone Age Electricians, Steal Your Face
NationStates is the only thing that matters in life. Decency means: NationStates, God, and Family
Stone Age Electricians, Markus Sarasti-Varis
I look it up on map. As an anti-modernist, GPS is an offer I can refuse.
Steal Your Face
It's an existentialist school. Wherever you are, there it is
Post self-deleted by Tero Porthan.
Markus Sarasti-Varis here, this is one of my resurrected and now repurposed alter-egos; looking forward to interacting with all of you fine gentlemen!
Stone Age Electricians, Steal Your Face
The Integration exchange-program that was ratified between DSP and NSM stipulated a starting mutual tribute of 2 individuals per signatory; with both myself and Stone Age Electricians having been accounted for in this number as of this moment, we can move forward to sending-in the 2nd wave of support. Once we receive the final DSP attache to the NSM, whom I have suggested to your founder could be Comrade Armisstoia, I will then proceed to give the order for one of my own lieutenants, Comrade-Adviser and Member-Advocate Vanguard Vectra of the Outer Executive Council, who has been enlisted to this endeavor, to make their presence known in The Decency Street Project. If it comes to that and it would seem appropriate, we may consider increasing the rate of integration a little bit later down the line. This is something that can get us started, and it should be also noted that this program does not yet count as a full-on alliance between our respective entities, as that would be something more deeper and more comprehensive; requiring accumulated history between ourselves and proper formal documentation. However, this program we are undergoing allows us to get more concrete benefits out of our Embassy-relations as well as to help make ourselves more familiar and approachable to one another, preparing the foundations for a potential alliance at a later date should that be something that is wished or desired by the involved parties.
Stone Age Electricians, Steal Your Face
Thank you, Markus Sarasti-Varis,
Your suggestion has been noted.
Honourable Nations of The Decency Street Project,
I think this program can work.
As Regional Officers you are expected to be advisors. So advise.
In the meanwhile I will make myself present in NSM.
Markus Sarasti-Varis, Steal Your Face
Stone Age Electricians, with a population of almost 30 billion you must have been on the site since time immemorial. Very impressive.
Steal Your Face
Thank you. Founded April 14th 2006.
Tero Porthan, Steal Your Face
It was such a different world back then.
Steal Your Face
Post self-deleted by Tero Porthan.
Yes, for what I can remember.
Steal Your Face
A much more Decent world.
Stone Age Electricians, Tero Porthan
True that. That was BC not AC.
There were no smart phone-addicted zombies shuffling through the streets in 2006, no instagram narcissists, no OnlyFans and the particular moral degradation it entails. If there was any identity-politics it certainly wasn't the tragicomically bloated political tumor it is in 2023 with LGBTQIA2S+.
Stone Age Electricians, Steal Your Face
Indeed. Well said, Tero Porthan. It was a much simpler, more decent time. It feels like things get worse and worse every year, without stopping.
Stone Age Electricians, Tero Porthan
Communism and Liberalism defeated Fascism. Liberalism later defeated Communism. Now, Liberalism is defeating itself.
The only pathway for any civilization under the yoke of liberalism and its cult of "individualism" is one of a race to the bottom, both economically and socially. Nations will continue to degrade to the point of extinction if not graced by the forces of reaction that can reassert community and basic mores, giving us the chance to prevail over this transatlantic death cult. - 🐝
Stone Age Electricians, Tero Porthan, Steal Your Face
The only political ideology that can save us now is Decency
Stone Age Electricians
Indeed. Where you see "Good" or "Responsible" Government, replace it with Decent.
Steal Your Face
Today's Decency mandate:
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat
Never drive a car when you're dead
I hope to ride my motorcycle to my own funeral.
Tero Porthan, Steal Your Face
You'll be your own pallbearer too
Stone Age Electricians
It's ok. I'm used to dig my own grave.
Today's Decency Mandate:
stultorum infinitus est numerus
Tero Porthan
What we have effectively lost is the civilizational aspiration that testifies the birth and progress of strong societies. In all cases the impetus for the classical virtues that solidified their edifice was the understanding that man ought to strive to be more than what he is merely by nature's estimation alone. In all pursuits towards science, better and more definite understanding of morality and ethics and their judicious application, philosophy, art and literature and their appreciation; in all pursuits towards the stars to touch the divine and the majesty of the cosmos, man was propelled by a desire to be triumphant over his bestial limitations. I have always held it that the ideal of humanity does not only mean to accept deeper truths about our own condition, but to try and improve ourselves as a race to be worthy of the horizons and possibilities that await us wherever, and however, they manifest.
Stone Age Electricians
Today's Decency Mandate:
Did you ever waken to the sound of street cats making love and guess from their cries you were listening to a fight? Well you know, hate's just the last thing they're thinking of. They're only trying to make it through the night
Post self-deleted by Tero Porthan.
As long as every man, woman, and child is glued to his or her Pornotron, which simultaneously "absolves" them of their sins and exempts them from any sort of deep thinking, Mankind will never progress, only regress.
Man was given Grace, but demands Law. We WANT someone to do our thinking for us. We want an endless stream of fantasies, so that our brains don't have to do any work, like thinking about "Who am I? What do I really want?" We're led mechanically through life by pixelated shapes on a glowing screen.
It's easier to live vicariously through a fantasy, one created by someone else, mind you, than it is to live your own life. It's easier to live your life on Social Media or pretend to be a political bigwig here on NS than it is to fix the issues that are plaguing our lives and society.
Stone Age Electricians, Tero Porthan
Post self-deleted by Hrid Lopata.
The problem isn't necessarily that the technology exists, if ideas are good they should be rightfully propagated and adopted, and most people are not original thinkers anyway. Before the age of screens political prophets found use in writing books or sending messengers (Like Jesus did with the apostles) to achieve the same end. There is, however, the issue of content. In both television and the internet thought-provoking material, that would perhaps give people the tools to refine ideas, is overshadowed by the endless swathes of casual or mindless entertainment. It wasn't always like this, in the 60's philosophical programs were aired on national television; https://youtu.be/EsUDzTsytMY?feature=shared
Stone Age Electricians
The medium is the message. Although Philosophical content WAS shown on TV, the primary purpose of television, what it mainly was used FOR, was to sell cigarettes - advertisements. The primary purpose of the Internet is to deliver pornography. Everything else is incidental.
Analyze how things are ACTUALLY used and extrapolate from there.
Stone Age Electricians
The longevity of the depiction of sexual acts can only be attributed to progress in the means to produce it. It would have disappeared without the strange ingenuity and imagination Man has to degrade himself and sabotage his connection to the Divine.
Today's Decency Mandate:
Where there's a Will, Ann Hath-a-way
Today's Decency Mandate:
The eyes of others address us with an unavoidable question, the question why? On this fact is built the edifice of rights and duties. And this, in the end, is what our freedom consists in the responsibility to account for what we do.
Stone Age Electricians, Tero Porthan
In today's society it is what is in for me? The decent responsibility to account for what we do no longer exists, except in our minds.
Stone Age Electricians, Tero Porthan, Steal Your Face
Decency is so important that Allied Forces in Normandy 1944 called it D-Day.
Berossus
We're making the world safe for Decency
Without Decency a civilisation has nothing.
Tero Porthan, Steal Your Face
The world became a much less Decent place when the bicycle was invented. Cyclists must be the most indecent beasts on earth
Post self-deleted by Hrid Lopata.
There was a time when we were instructed to make our parents proud; to live a life of deeds that would be worthy of the memory of our loved ones. Today, under the canon of individualism, we are told that we must not care about what others think. This is bad advice as it implies that there could not be any expectations reasonably thrust upon ourselves, even if we (still) didn't have to lose the entirety of our personal autonomy and freedom of choice to the preferences of other people. It is right that a man should live their own life, even if that life was done in service of others, and not have their life lived for them by someone else, but we are, inescapably, connected and linked to each other through the woven strands of family, friendship, neighbourhood and society. We cannot ask to be taken into account, without giving consideration and concessions for the thoughts and opinions of people apart from ourselves. There is always a little bit of sacrifice that has to be given in exchange for one's autonomy.
Berossus
Dear Nations of The Decency Street Project
I'll be back soon.
Please be patient.
Thank you
Berossus, Markus Sarasti-Varis, Steal Your Face
Decency now, Decency tomorrow, Decency forever
Stone Age Electricians, Berossus, Markus Sarasti-Varis
Decency, for lack of a better word, is good.
Berossus
The World Factbook Entry has been updated.
Tero Porthan, Steal Your Face
Nothing can stop the forces of Decency. We are riders on swift horses, and our enemies fear the hot righteousness that flows in our veins.
Stone Age Electricians
Brilliant. Mind if I insert it on the WFE ?
I see a few additional specifications and changes. For instance the "Religious Education" previously underlined Christian teaching (in a broader sense), now it highlights Catholic. Does this mean the DSP is steering towards a more Catholic theme?
Stone Age Electricians
Unrelated to any of the previous discussion, but I remembered why I had let this account CTE in the first place. Apparently there is a real Finnish artist who goes by the name of Tero Porthan, of whom I had absolutely no knowledge of when creating this account. I was worried people might make a false correlation as that person and myself are completely different, and the name is just a weird coincidence. But if any of you can appreciate art that is sourced from the depths national mythology and tradition (albeit pre-christian), you may want to check out some example of their portfolio. The style is dark and gothic which may or may not be an added bonus point depending on your tastes. https://www.artstation.com/teroporthan
Steal Your Face
Yes, it does, and I will further insist on Tradition.
Sister denominations Eastern Orthodoxy and High Church Anglican are accepted too (the latter being me not closing the door on Protestantism altogether).
Tero Porthan
Catholic girls are the epitome of Decency.
As a Catholic girl myself, I concur.
Dear Brothers (let's hope we have some Sisters here too one day) in Decency
Pope Francis' has announced recently that he would allow priests to bless same-sex couples. In their capacity as presbyters, natürlich.
While by no means a theologian, what I do understand is that this most unfortunate ruling goes against the divinely inspired words of Saint Paul on his 1st Epistle to the Corinthians 6, 9-11.
Perhaps the Argentinian Pope feels he knows better, the Holy Scripture is wrong.. ?
HE'S wrong. But he was right once. Two years ago. ⬇️
"Pope Francis says priests cannot bless same-sex unions, dashing hopes of gay Catholics"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/pope-same-sex-unions-licit/2021/03/15/8c51ee80-8581-11eb-be4a-24b89f616f2c_story.html
These are dark times for our Church. But we remain Faithfull to Her. The Church is the Body of Christ. Abandoning Her is exactly what the evil serpent wants us to do.
Worry not. As the Scripture indicates, the Lord has appointed his Mother to crush the head of the serpent, by the application of his own strength and redemptive grace.
In practical terms what this means is that Pope Francis is just a man. And he has given us every reason to ignore him, to do not as he says.
Who will you rather follow ? Saint Paul or a Pope who contradicts himself ? The unchanging Truth of a man who met Jesus, or the Pope from the city of the tango dance ?
The Decency Street Project is now officially a Traditionalist Catholic region.
Decency shall prevail.
Thank you.
Ave Maria, gratia plena,
Dominus tecum,
benedicta tu in mulieribus,
et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus.
Sancta Maria, mater Dei,
ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae.
Amen
Thank God I'm a Protestant
30,001 billion population !
Berossus, Tero Porthan
Merry Christmas to all the Decent people who celebrate
Stone Age Electricians, Berossus, Tero Porthan
Why draw attention to differences ? We're the Apostles of Decency.
Berossus
Wishing all the "Apostles of Decency" (AoD's) A Happy New Years.
Stone Age Electricians, Tero Porthan, Steal Your Face
Indeed. The AoD will spread Decency to the far corners of the globe in 2024.
Stone Age Electricians
Absolutely. Decency is a cause worth travelling for. It is our duty to stop...
.indecent exposure,
.public masturbation,
.all things shocking and offensive,
.any action we deem to be socially unhealthy, inappropriate and irresponsible
...when and where we see them.
Remember these words as measure for Decency, Apostles :
"If it's inappropriate to wear inside a church, be careful where you wear it" (for dress codes and modesty)
"Think of the children !"
Happy New Year
Berossus, Tero Porthan, Steal Your Face
Steal Your Face, as Minister of Decency could you please elaborate an Index Librorum Prohibitorum for The Decency Street Project ? People must to be told which books they shouldn't read.
Thank you
Steal Your Face
The only books that the eyes of the Decent shall peruse are as follows:
The Bible, natürlich. In English. If it was good enough for St. Paul, then it's good enough for you.
"Commit thy works unto the Lord,
and thy thoughts shall be established."
Thucydides' Account of the Peloponnesian War, in the Thomas Hobbes's translation.
"For we also give ourselves to bravery, and yet with thrift; and to philosophy, and yet without mollification of the mind. And we use riches rather for opportunities of action than for verbal ostentation, and hold it not a shame to confess poverty but not to have avoided it."
The Oresteia by Aeschylus
"But Justice turns the balance scales,
sees that we suffer
and we suffer and we learn.
And we will know the future when it comes.
Greet it too early, weep too soon.
It all comes clear in the light of day."
Parallel Lives by Plutarch
"But Alexander was determined that fortune would fall to daring, strength to courage: he was convinced that there was no position so impregnable that it could keep brave men out, and none so secure that it could keep cowards safe."
The four greatest novels of all time: Don Quixote, Tristram Shandy, Moby-Dick, and Joseph & His Brothers.
The Book of Disquiet by Pessoa
"Most people think with their feelings, whereas I feel with my thoughts."
"No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it."
Conversations with Goethe by Eckermann.
"What makes us free is not our refusal to acknowledge anything higher than ourselves, but the very fact that we do respect something higher than ourselves."
The Complete Works of Shakespeare, John Donne, and T.S. Eliot.
"Do not let me hear
Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,
Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession,
Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God.
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire
Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless."
And, of course, Calvin's Institutes for the Protestants and the Complete works of Aquinas for the Catholics.
Every other written word is forbidden, unless it is posted, and approved by me, on this Decent RMB. The AoD must be vigilant in what we consume.
Stone Age Electricians, Tero Porthan
Thank you, Minister.
Just as King Philip II of Spain had a secret unit of highly trained theologians at the Monastery and Palace of El Escorial reading all kinds of improper books to debunk heresy and persecute witchcraft, we too have someone whose sole concern is to wield the halberd of Decency in Literature and be TDSP's gatekeeper.
In a future revision of your list I will suggest The Count of Monte Cristo as a novel Apostles of Decency should read.
The Count of Monte Cristo is an extremely Decent novel and will be added to the approved list
Stone Age Electricians
The official New Year's Resolution for the Decency Street Project:
I will cut myself a path through the world or perish in the attempt. Others have begun life with nothing and ended Greatly. And shall I...remain idle, No, I will carve myself the passage to Grandeur, but never with Dishonour.
Stone Age Electricians, Tero Porthan
Spoken like a true Apostle of Decency.
We are apostles, we are warriors, we are gentlemen. We are sons, brothers, fathers ; we fight for our families, for our countries, for Civilisation, for our values, for our Faith.
And we, men of honour, do these things because we are WHOLE.
"To be great, be whole;
Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.
Be whole in everything. Put all you are
Into the smallest thing you do.
So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor
Because it blooms up above."
Tero Porthan
Post self-deleted by Twin-Spark Rangers.
Post self-deleted by Stormtroopers Of Decency.
Decency for all. No more, no less.
We shall shock them with our Decency !
Only the Decent survive
Tero Porthan
Ask yourself not what Decency did for you today but what did you do for Decency.
Decency is more than a word. It's action.
Start practicing Decency today !
Through
Family,
Loyalty,
Service,
Duty,
Courage,
Self-improvement
Tero Porthan
You can't spell Decency without Need.
As in we NEED Decency
Without Decency a society has nothing.
Society is nothing without Decency. You cannot be a serious society without the Big D - decency
I love the Big D
Tero Porthan, Stormtroopers Of Decency
Indeed.
Decency, the Big D, is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet.
By loving and understanding Decency, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other.
Tero Porthan, Steal Your Face
For a long time in history reading books was more or less a luxury of the upper- and aristocratic classes who had the necessary literary skill and wealth, as books were expensive and relatively rare. The Aristocracy had its own kind of environmental culture largely separate from that of the peasantry, clergy and merchants / craftsmen, which included a strong regime of philosophy and virtue-education, among other fields like classical languages, logic, rhetoric, music and military tactics. It is therefore natural that the style of literature reflected upon the refined habitus of its primary consumers; you will notice when reading classics that they usually contain some kind of a moral lesson or argument embedded in the story / narrative. With the advent of book printing and the effect of industrialization on society, reading for the very first time became available for the general public from the 1800's onwards. During that time we can also distinguish the birth of certain new genres like detective thrillers feeding into the particular tastes of the common folk. As books became cheaper commodities, The peasantrization of literature caused the sensational elements of storytelling to grow at the expense of the educational. Stories became just that, stories consumed for their entertainment value. While that is not to say a well-written story could not be a valuable read in its own right; as reading is generally a beneficial exercise, it is to point out a distinct paradigm shift in literary between the modern- and pre-modern era and to convey a certain kind of loss in the medium of creative art. Classics are classics afterall because the stories they encapsulate speak timeless truths and wisdoms, and because their quality withstands the teeth of time. Picking up a classic is always a safe bet for a person who knows how to appreciate them.
Steal Your Face, Stormtroopers Of Decency
Well said, Tero Porthan.
This is why ruling the Lands and the peoples should be left to us, Decents. After all, Aristocracy means "rule by the best".
We should have a Decency Test here.
Steal Your Face
The Ultimate Test of Decency is this: do you do the Honorable thing, the correct thing, the Christ-like thing even when no one is watching, when there is no benefit to you? The best RL example of the Decency test is putting away the shopping cart at the grocery store. Sure, the cart corral might be far away, but will you leave it in the parking lot, potentially obstructing a parking spot, or worse, possibly leaving it to strike another vehicle? Not to mention that an underpaid, overworked supermarket employee has to add to his troubles to go and get it.
Tero Porthan, Stormtroopers Of Decency
Time to spread some Decency around the world.
I have a cunning plan.
Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without Decency; their sole object is gain
- Napoleon
Tero Porthan, Stormtroopers Of Decency
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
Theodore Roosevelt
I AM the Decency
-Emperor Palpatine
The demise of Tradition is The Fall of Modern Man. And Decency will go down with him.
I see nothing but decay around me. Both in Material and in Moral form.
The world I knew and loved is dying and I'm glad I will die with it. The new order is here to stay and it's bleak and gloomy and filled with short-lived passion and fads and mock love.
The world has always been a strange illusion ; but now more than ever people will go through their phoney little existence believing they're alive.
The world isn't more cruel now than it has ever been before ; it's just getting uglier and poorer for lack of diversity and specialisation.
But such is the way Our Lord wants it to be. Before His Second Coming.
Personally, I will welcome the end. To quote the XVI century Spanish author and Jesuit father Baltasar Gracián,
"If happinness were to be found on this Earth, who would want to go to Heaven ?"
Steal Your Face
"Heaven is a place on Earth"
-St. Belinda of Carlisle
Stormtroopers Of Decency
Never heard of her. Must be a High Church Anglican saint. If so, she can be admitted into the Decent Street Project Canon of Saints. The only thing we do not suffer here is Indecency.
Steal Your Face
Gentlemen, a new era is upon us. A New Age.
The Age of Decency !
Raise your glasses ! To a Decent Future !
Markus Sarasti-Varis, Diarchist Coregia, Steal Your Face, Silver Ant
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