Mods are asleep, post absolute madmen

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The Orthodox Diogenes

>born a serf
>goes around shoplifting and giving to poor
>walks around wearing nothing but chains
>rebukes Czar
>canonized

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Y'all better know who I'm talking about here.

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>>540086
Can we post big guys?

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>>540146
>If I took those splints off would you die?

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>>540146
For you

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>>540086
Classic Herzog:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xQyQnXrLb0

>>540110
>is a Russian Orthodox saint of the type known as yurodivy or "holy fool for Christ"

>and giving to the poor to shame the miserly and help those in need. He went naked and weighed himself down with chains. He rebuked Ivan the Terrible for not paying attention in church, and for his violent behaviour towards the innocent.

>When he died on August 2, 1552 or 1557, St. Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow, served his funeral with many clergy. Ivan the Terrible himself acted as pallbearer and carried his coffin to the cemetery.

That's actually quite a beautiful story.

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>>540629
I thought so.

I think stories of Holy Fools tend to be very beautiful in general, and obviously Dostoevsky did too, since they are a running theme in his works.

>>540640
Why don't more so-called Christians do something similar?

The world would be a better place.

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REI KOZ, probably an actual """"mad"""" man

>56.

>THE END WILL OCCUR WITH THE AETHER, AND THE AETHER WILL PRECIPITATE THE BEGINNING; DO YOU FEEL THE COLD? IT IS COLDER NOW, BUT ALSO HOTTER; DO YOU FEEL THE HEAT? COLDER DAYS, HOTTER DAYS, COLDER NIGHTS, HOTTER NIGHTS, COLDER YEARS, HOTTER YEARS; THERE IS SOMETHING BEYOND THE AIR.

>ALL WILL BE WASHED FROM ABOVE WITH THE COLD FIRE OF FURIOUS LOVE; NONE WILL BE BEYOND THE PURVIEW OF THE AETHERIC HERO, BELOW THE CANDIED SKY.

>HIGHER IN SPACE, THE SKY BECOMES SMALLER, AND THE DEEP RISES TO THE HORIZON; FURTHER IN TIME, THE FUTURE CLOSES IN ON ONE, AND THE INFINITE HORDES OF THE PAST RISE FROM THE DEAD.

>>540585
OP said madmen, not geniuses.

>>540121
Of course we know about that Facebook meme

>>540215
Geoffrey Rush is nearly his spitting image. Bio-pic when?

>>540650
See Foucault's "Madness and Civilization".

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Bump

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So I told Mosley to leave the government and Labour party to establish a fascist parry instead, and he actually did it. Absolute madman

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Only an absolute madman could come up with something like the madman theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory

>I call it the Madman Theory, Bob. I want the North Vietnamese to believe I've reached the point where I might do anything to stop the war. We'll just slip the word to them that, "for God's sake, you know Nixon is obsessed about communism. We can't restrain him when he's angry—and he has his hand on the nuclear button" and Ho Chi Minh himself will be in Paris in two days begging for peace.

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>>543663
Speaking of anti-communist madmen.

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Continuing with the 'holy fools', there's the 'Great Accomplished Ones', low caste wizard-saint Indians who lived between the 8th and 12th centuries who achieved some form of enlightenment and had names like 'The Wise Washerwoman', 'The Divine Cobbler', 'the Mad Princess', 'Siddha Two-Teeth' and 'The Rejected Wastrel'

>>543667
Literally wanted to start nuclear world war three with china

>>540659
Rei is correct about literally everything tbxh

>>540086
>>540403
These two things combined with blood meridian give me my conception of God
what else should read on this topic?

>>540650
>Why don't more so-called Christians do something similar?

Why doesn't everyone do something similar?
If you'd like it would make the world a better place, why aren't you doing it?


We are all called to be saints.

>>543876
None of those are endorsements you edgy nigger

>>543885
i think you are the one misunderstaning not me desu

>>540086
Seems fair to me.

>>543667
Is that Bruce Willis?