Veritas:Truth

Aphrodite nuzzling her cat mischiveus cherubic son

I don't understand why so many people think that Aphrodite was a controlling mother to Eros, that little boy had his mother wrapped around his finger, he is a mischievous god who often play tricks against other gods (Very bold move if you ask me) and Aphrodite LOVES his attics

Between all faces of Aphrodite and between all different types of love she represents my favourite, and the one I am most fond of, is her storge, aka love for family. Aphrodite is a goddess mother, and she cares deeply for her children.. like she named Aeneas GRIEF! If I am not wrong it is because thats' a son of her SHE KNOWS WILL DIE, her son, her unborn baby, she is already mourning him...

Oh sorry back to Eros and Aphrodite. There are so so many myths and statues of them having the cuttest interactions ever, this one myth that I love tells that Eros was picking flowers and got stung by a bee, he ran to his mother crying and she laughted at him! Lol, she really did, she chuckled at her baby and compared how small and painful the bee is to how he himself is small and painful with his arrows ksksksks

This is a war about which the accepted, mainstream consensus is that no one is able to explain the U.S. decision to invade Iraq. The people involved in that decision are unable, in retrospect, to explain or justify it. In almost every postmortem of this decision, you will find some reference to the fact that Richard Haass, who advised Colin Powell at the State Department in 2001-3, has said that he “will go to [his] grave not knowing” why the U.S. invaded Iraq. George Packer, in The Assassins’ Gate, describes the invasion as “something that some people wanted to do.”

This is a war that destroyed a country. It created ISIS. It destabilized the Middle East. It killed a minimum of c. 200,000 people. It displaced millions more. It resulted in devastating losses to the cultural heritage of Iraq. And twenty years on, no one is able to explain why it happened.