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virgin

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virgin is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between May 10, 2021 and October 01, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “(I guess these became “Chad” and “virgin” at some point)”; “Joe Peasant must have felt staring at the Virgin’s coat”; “the Virgin’s face”. It most often appears alongside America, Catholic Church, France.

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  • Category: Concepts
  • Mention count: 3
  • Issue count: 3
  • First seen: May 10, 2021
  • Last seen: October 01, 2025

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

The Rise And Fall Of Online Culture Wars
May 10, 2021 · Original source
Earlier eras of social justice had their enemies. Around 2010, some people who didn't like feminism banded together under the umbrella of "men's rights advocates" (MRAs). Pickup artists (PUAs) were originally a totally different group - guys who talked a lot about the best ways to pick up girls - but many of them merged into the generic anti-feminist current for complicated reasons. "Red Pillers" were a third group, vaguely related to the previous two, whose main contribution to the discourse was giving us the terms "alpha male" and "beta male" (I guess these became "Chad" and "virgin" at some point). Sometimes all of these groups together called themselves "the manosphere".
The Colors Of Her Coat
April 01, 2025 · Original source
In Ballad of the White Horse, G.K. Chesterton describes the Virgin Mary:
In practice, the medievals converged on a single use case - painting the Virgin Mary’s coat.
To us moderns, this seems bizarrely specific. But the Catholic Church had united Europe in a single symbolic language, with lots of rules like "this style is only used for such-and-such a saint”. Within this context, “ultramarine = Virgin Mary’s coat” was a normal piece of symbolic vocabulary.
The Fatima Sun Miracle: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
October 01, 2025 · Original source
In 1917, three Portuguese children reported a vision of the Virgin Mary. She promised to return to them on the 13th of each month. On the sixth month - October 13th - she would perform a great miracle.
On October 13, a crowd of about 70,000 people descended on the children’s home village of Fatima. At solar noon, the children made contact with the Virgin and said the great miracle was still on track. Then someone - accounts differ as to whether it was the children or a member of the crowd - pointed to the sky.
Immediately afterwards the people asked each other if they saw anything and what they had seen. The greatest number avowed that they saw the sun trembling and dancing; others declared that they saw the smiling face of the Blessed Virgin Herself; they swore that the sun turned around on itself as if it were a wheel of fireworks and had fallen almost to the point of burning the earth with its rays. Some said they saw it change colors successively.