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TheLizardKing
Let's talk Michelle.
EDIT: Never mind.
Circuit
Writing Letters
New Barcelona Compact said:
Signed, Governor William Jeter of the Grand Republic of Florida
To: United States of America
From: Grand Republic of Florida
Should the Charleston government rescind its claim to the territories currently occupied by the newly-formed Grand Republics of Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Appalachia, we invite you to join this compact, and we will recognize the territories currently held as your sovereign territory. We will make exception to all clauses in Article II (which would allow the current government to remain, should it hold true to the promises it has made regarding suffrage and rights within its territory) save for Art. II sec. e., and the trade, diplomatic, and defense coordination guaranteed by it.
To: Whom concerned
From: Grand Republic of Florida
Via diplomatic coup, Proletarism in America has been defeated, and those nations formerly under the ugly specter of Proletarism are now reforming their ways and adopting democratic principles and the promise to respect the property rights of individuals. We therefore ask those nations who are belligerent to the former Mississippi, Tennessee, and Appalachian Proletarist Republics (by 1916, to become the Grand Republics of Mississippi, Tennessee, and Appalachia) to drop their arms and welcome them into the democratic and libertarian society.
ChiefDesigner
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Signed,
Chairman Scipio, on behalf of the people and government of Tennessee
Chairman Scipio, on behalf of the people and government of Tennessee
TheLizardKing
Let's talk Michelle.
From: Germany
To: The Grand Republic of Florida
We applaud this peace settlement in North America, and hope it brings the peace the people's of America rightfully deserve.
To: The Grand Republic of Florida
We applaud this peace settlement in North America, and hope it brings the peace the people's of America rightfully deserve.
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To: Jacksonia
From: Peru
We welcome you as well. Three cheers to Jacksonia's future!
To: Florida and the ex-Traditional Proletarists
From: Peru
Peru commends Florida's brilliant initiative and the willingness of the traditional proletarists to abandon their violent past and faulty ideology.
Circuit
Writing Letters
To: Whites in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Appalachia
From: Grand Republic of Florida
We know, and sympathize with, those of you who are concerned with the dominant position the negro has taken in your regions. Should some of you not be willing to accept this reality, the Grand Republic of Florida would like to present itself as a home to you, where you can live with members of your community in peace. The borders are free now, and you are safe to come. You will be guaranteed rights and citizenship in the Grand Republic. This is the least we can offer you.
OOC: I sure do hope no one thinks that I personally am racist, despite the Grand Republic's racial rhetoric.
From: Grand Republic of Florida
We know, and sympathize with, those of you who are concerned with the dominant position the negro has taken in your regions. Should some of you not be willing to accept this reality, the Grand Republic of Florida would like to present itself as a home to you, where you can live with members of your community in peace. The borders are free now, and you are safe to come. You will be guaranteed rights and citizenship in the Grand Republic. This is the least we can offer you.
OOC: I sure do hope no one thinks that I personally am racist, despite the Grand Republic's racial rhetoric.
Jehoshua
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The Holy See thanks Italy for its continued support for the divine Catholic Religion, within which is contained all truth. May the faith we share, and our mutual struggle against the errors spawned out of modernism, the synthesis of all heresies, serve to increase not only our spiritual co-operation, but our temporal co-operation as well in the name of peace amongst the faithful, and the salvation of souls.
~ Pope Paul VI
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ooc: apologies for the inactivity lately, i've been quite busy IRL.
Jehoshua
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ON GENUINE EDUCATION
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In this age, where education so often has become the vehicle of propaganda for the erroneous ideologies of modernism, the cultivation of the mind, rather than professional training for a profession should be the true purpose of our educational institution. A university should educate the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth and to grasp it, for the ultimate ontological end of humanity, to which man was made, is to seek the truth and its ultimate culmination in our Lord Jesus Christ, who can be known only in the Catholic Church which as scripture says, is the Pillar and Foundation of Truth(1 timothy 3:15). As such our Catholic institutions, which as agencies of the Divine Faith and the Divine Truth, must maintain that classical literary and philosophical learning that strengthens, refines, and enriches the mind for such a mode of expansive thinking. For we must everywhere avoid the utilitarian tendencies of modernist education, which sees education merely as a tool to produce cogs in the business and industry machines. Therefore, as a consequence we can contend that the university exists solely for the purposes of teaching, for cultivating men of intellect and wisdom. This does not mean excluding academic research and discovery, for indeed these efforts produce good teachers. However, the academy should properly be the primary institute of research.
We must also emphasise the communal dimension of learning. Namely two essential points that are integral to common life at university. First we mmust give importance to the relationship between teacher and student. By this interchange students catch "the living presence" of information contained in their texts. Such animated learning is critical to the education of the whole person: alongside concern for acquiring knowledge and forming character. This also requires attentiveness to the spiritual as well as intellectual development of students. To this end a shared college, where the faculty resides alongside students formed and rooted in the Catholic faith is the ideal environment for academic and intellectual development.
Secondly, we are troubled by the fragmentation, or compartmentalisation, of learning at universities which are leaning towards modernistic modes of thought. Such compartmentalisation limits creative exchange amongst departments and promotes an erroneous utilitarian mentality in regards to academic and intellectual development. Proper education at the university should be united under the meta-discipline of philosophy, because philosophy is the universal method of exercising reason on knowledge. As such Philosophy has an unlimited horizon capable of fostering cooperation amongst diverse and complex truths. Through such a system life at the university should be a united and stimulating collective of colleges, libraries, religious institutions formed in the Catholic faith, alongside the ordinary infrastructure required for a common purpose of expanding minds.
Another aspect of fragmentation which concerns us in this day and age is the secularisation in some places of higher learning. This artificially divides truth, which ultimately is one reality with many facets, and promotes the atheistic and erroneous separation between divine revelation, reason, and empirical knowledge. This erroneous and spiritually harmful distinction must be rectified precisely through the kind of education the Church proposes, and which we expound in this document. The Laity should be well instructed and of informed intellect, they should know fully and well the Catholic Faith, which is the One True Faith, and have the ability and knowledge to give an account of it in the public square to counter those who would denigrate it. We should as such promote truly Catholic learning, universal in its content and interiorly connected in its grasp of reality.
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In this age, where education so often has become the vehicle of propaganda for the erroneous ideologies of modernism, the cultivation of the mind, rather than professional training for a profession should be the true purpose of our educational institution. A university should educate the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth and to grasp it, for the ultimate ontological end of humanity, to which man was made, is to seek the truth and its ultimate culmination in our Lord Jesus Christ, who can be known only in the Catholic Church which as scripture says, is the Pillar and Foundation of Truth(1 timothy 3:15). As such our Catholic institutions, which as agencies of the Divine Faith and the Divine Truth, must maintain that classical literary and philosophical learning that strengthens, refines, and enriches the mind for such a mode of expansive thinking. For we must everywhere avoid the utilitarian tendencies of modernist education, which sees education merely as a tool to produce cogs in the business and industry machines. Therefore, as a consequence we can contend that the university exists solely for the purposes of teaching, for cultivating men of intellect and wisdom. This does not mean excluding academic research and discovery, for indeed these efforts produce good teachers. However, the academy should properly be the primary institute of research.
We must also emphasise the communal dimension of learning. Namely two essential points that are integral to common life at university. First we mmust give importance to the relationship between teacher and student. By this interchange students catch "the living presence" of information contained in their texts. Such animated learning is critical to the education of the whole person: alongside concern for acquiring knowledge and forming character. This also requires attentiveness to the spiritual as well as intellectual development of students. To this end a shared college, where the faculty resides alongside students formed and rooted in the Catholic faith is the ideal environment for academic and intellectual development.
Secondly, we are troubled by the fragmentation, or compartmentalisation, of learning at universities which are leaning towards modernistic modes of thought. Such compartmentalisation limits creative exchange amongst departments and promotes an erroneous utilitarian mentality in regards to academic and intellectual development. Proper education at the university should be united under the meta-discipline of philosophy, because philosophy is the universal method of exercising reason on knowledge. As such Philosophy has an unlimited horizon capable of fostering cooperation amongst diverse and complex truths. Through such a system life at the university should be a united and stimulating collective of colleges, libraries, religious institutions formed in the Catholic faith, alongside the ordinary infrastructure required for a common purpose of expanding minds.
Another aspect of fragmentation which concerns us in this day and age is the secularisation in some places of higher learning. This artificially divides truth, which ultimately is one reality with many facets, and promotes the atheistic and erroneous separation between divine revelation, reason, and empirical knowledge. This erroneous and spiritually harmful distinction must be rectified precisely through the kind of education the Church proposes, and which we expound in this document. The Laity should be well instructed and of informed intellect, they should know fully and well the Catholic Faith, which is the One True Faith, and have the ability and knowledge to give an account of it in the public square to counter those who would denigrate it. We should as such promote truly Catholic learning, universal in its content and interiorly connected in its grasp of reality.
OOC: What the hell happened to the notion of playing in character? I take it that the NPCs in question positively have agreed to this settlement, and moreover the Feds failed to enter proper negotiations, in which case I once again despair at EQ's NPCing. Goodness me this NES is surreal sometimes.
On the other hand I've not seen such a well-executed diplomatic coup for a long time.
EQ: so are all the Proletarists actually going along with this?
On the other hand I've not seen such a well-executed diplomatic coup for a long time.
EQ: so are all the Proletarists actually going along with this?
Lord of Elves
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OOC: What the hell happened to the notion of playing in character? I take it that the NPCs in question positively have agreed to this settlement, and moreover the Feds failed to enter proper negotiations, in which case I once again despair at EQ's NPCing. Goodness me this NES is surreal sometimes.
On the other hand I've not seen such a well-executed diplomatic coup for a long time.
EQ: so are all the Proletarists actually going along with this?
There is an absolute epidemic of this kind of treason to the Revolution
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Luckymoose
The World is Mine
[redacted].
The Confederation also withdraws its support for offensives against the formerly Proletarist armies in North America and expresses its delight that the mere threat of action by the Confederation was enough to sway the hearts of millions of ardent armed revolutionaries. This is another triumph, if a [very] disappointingly easy one, for Confederate diplomacy, and we hope it brings long lasting peace to North America. We urge the Federal Government out of necessity to accept the peace proffered by the signatories to the New Barcelona Compact.
The American Federal Government refuses to recognize the results of these negotiations and insists that the world not be taken in by the fraud which is this agreement. Proletarists and negroes will cheat and lie under any circumstances in order to achieve their perfidious agendas. We do not recognize the "Grand Republics" and we will continue to push forward until this great nation is reunified under a proper white government. We condemn the Floridian government for their lack of faith and dastardly behavior against other good white men. This action will force us to reconsider our previously cordial relationship with Dallas, and for the time being, we are withdrawing our recognition of their government.
Shadowbound
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OOC: I will now treat the events in North America with the respect they deserve. Fun coming later today.
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
TO: Florida
FROM: Brazil
Withdraw your support for the murderers and rapists. This is your only warning.
FROM: Brazil
Withdraw your support for the murderers and rapists. This is your only warning.
The Confederation must confess that it has no idea whether the New Barcelona Compact is, in fact, for real or not, or whether the supposed signatories are in fact in agreement. We suspend our judgement and will act as we see fit, possibly sending forces to North America and possibly not doing so.
ChiefDesigner
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OOC: Mao did it; Trotsky did it; united and popular fronts are a well-established proletarist tactic in OTL. On top of that, Scipio's much more of a Bukharin or Zhou Enlai rather than a Lenin; and Lenin wasn't facing institutionalized racism.
(If this is the Spanish Civil War, we're the Basques or Catalans.)
Anyway, give me some time to flesh things out before declaring everything OOC, will ya?
