Thread by @CMelonhead

Various photos taken over the last days

First off - the coat of arms of the Romanian police

The imperial eagle - a bird of prey who kills the dove of peace.
An admission that the Empire never ended, it's still the same predatory entity, the enemy of peace

The fasces were the weapons of the lictors - "a Roman civil servant who was an attendant and bodyguard to a magistrate who held imperium."

The message is pretty clear - the police are the Empire's bodyguards.

They guard Them from You

Across the street there's this gigantic thing

First off, notice how the street is at a slope, while the building seems to predate it.

There are no records of such an event, nor does anyone seem to know how the building ended up gutted and dilapidated.

WHAT ARE THEY HIDING ?

Are we going to pretend this is normal ?

Moar ornate construction left to decay (plus a random nutbag shouting at me to stop taking photos)

Keep this is mind next time some talking head starts saying there's a "housing shortage"

these two were next to each other

this sort of spiraling grilles seem to have been standard issue

what were they for ?

more intentional decay

This thing is called "Carol Park Mausoleum" (regular-sized human included for scale)

studyromanian.com/post/study-rom…

"the base is [...] plated with black granite. Above rise five narrow arches covered with red granite. Inside the base there is a rotunda covered in red granite plates"

First off, it reminds me of Lenin's mausoleum.

And then, there's this curious paragraph

"it hosted the tomb of the country’s most prominent communist leader, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. It was watched over by a flame in a granite amphora which used to burn around the clock"

Second photo - Monument to the Battle of the Nations
in Leipzig

Third photo - another always-burning flame in a granite amphora from the monument's crypt
Please look carefully, those are some rather peculiar looking flames

Fourth photo - "Sacred Grove" by Arnold Bocklin

For further (rather rambling) musings of the subject, I'd suggest reading this (google translate is your friend)

tart-aria.info/mgnovenie-mgno…

And while we're on the subject of funerals, this is the standard burial practice around here.

I didn't bother taking more than 2 photos since it would have been pointless.
A cemetery 'round here is parallel row after parallel row of these things.

Kinda like cells in a battery

I came across this thing while walking down the street

If the cross is supposed to symbolise Jesus dying for our sins, I can only imagine these people pray to a 4-dimensional Christ who died on a tesseract

That, or it's a fractal antenna

It says it was opened in 2006

So knowledge of fractal antennae and electrostatic generators hasn't been lost, it's just hidden from the sheeple

Fractal antennae on shiny copper domes

Surely it means nothing, it's just stupid religious symbolism.

Move along, nothing to see here