Anne Boleyn
They called Anne Boleyn the Great Whore. It is a Bible thing. Great Whore is a title from the Book of Revelation, and it is "end of the world" stuff.
An apocalyptic title is overdoing it a bit. They exaggerated the threat Anne posed. Or has history grossly underestimated Anne Boleyn?
Was Anne an existential threat to the Catholic religion and what is known as Abrahamic faith?
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I must thank historians Lucy Worsley, Suzannah Lipscombe and Tracy Borman
for introducing Anne Boleyn to me. I must thank William Shakespeare for humanism. I must thank Elizabeth I for Shakespeare.
Anne Boleyn
To Russia With Love
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Vladimir Putin's claims about existential threats to Russia sparked an exploration into the nature of existence, leading to the surprising discovery of Anne Boleyn as possibly the first existentialist in history, four centuries before Jean-Paul Sartre. Existentialism offers a powerful alternative to propaganda as an operating system for both individuals and nations.
Alexei Navalny the last great existentialist said, "If they decide to kill me, it means that we are incredibly strong." Like Boleyn, he refused to surrender his conscience despite knowing the consequences. Both represented threats not because they endangered physical existence, but because they exposed the falsified accounts of reality upon which power depended.
Join me in exploring how the courage to face reality without comfortable distortions might be our most rebellious act.