@Rach4Patriarchy From the job that I have, Ive learned that, for whatever reason there's alot of fucked up people out there. If you can homeschool your kid, please do that
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Cossie
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Please stop sending your children to spend their whole day with people who don’t care about them. My position is not extreme. Parents did not outsource the raising of their children until about 100 years ago. This is not normal and shouldn’t be considered normal.
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🇺🇸 A Kentucky mother hid a camera in her nonverbal autistic son's hair because she didn't trust his school to tell her the truth. She was right. Footage allegedly caught a staff member abusing the boy while others in the room watched and did nothing.
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@TheLaurenChen Probably because you're very creepy and have no awareness of it
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@the_culturist_ That's their cover story. The real agenda was Globo-Communist demoralization and social chaos.
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Reminder: modern art was a CIA psy-op.
Former CIA officials came clean on this during the '90s, confirming that the agency used abstract art by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and others to promote American culture during the Cold War.
The intent was to portray America as a bastion of intellectual and creative freedom. This was to rebut Soviet claims that the U.S. was "culturally barren" and contrast the cultural confinement of the Soviet empire, where artists had been restricted to painting in Soviet realism since the 1930s.
Abstract Expressionism was seen as the most free and extreme form of artistic expression; the antithesis of Soviet rigidity. Modern art therefore became a weapon in the cultural war against communism.
Beginning in the 1950s, the CIA secretly funded a group called the Congress for Cultural Freedom, through which it funnelled money to international art shows, literary magazines and operated dozens of offices around the globe — all with the explicit goal of promoting American Abstract Expressionism.
These efforts, coined operation "long leash", were meant to demonstrate to disaffected Soviets and European intellectuals that American painters were free to invent, and offend; unlike under tyranny, where "artists are made the slaves and tools of the state," as Eisenhower once said.
Paradoxically, at the time the works of Pollock and de Kooning were not even broadly popular with the American public, and earlier, more open attempts to promote new American art by the State Department had been widely mocked. Even President Truman famously said, 'If that's art, I'm a Hottentot'', when visiting an exhibit purchased by the DOS.
Because of this, and because it would have been impossible to attain support for such a project through Congress, the CIA's covert operation was necessary to push Abstract Expressionism in secret.
Christie's@ChristiesInc
Jackson Pollock’s ‘Number 7A, 1948’ from Masterpieces: The Private Collection of S.I. Newhouse achieves USD $181,185,000 in tonight’s sale, nearly tripling the auction record for the artist. This work represents the key moment Pollock produces one of the first truly abstract paintings in the history of art.
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A Seattle Democrat who praised socialist Mayor Katie Wilson's 'change' now admits he's 'gravely concerned' about the business exodus gutting the city — less than five months into her term.
Starbucks just announced it will shift 2,000 corporate jobs to Nashville while cutting Seattle roles. The Columbia Tower Club, an iconic executive hub atop the city's tallest skyscraper, shut down after four decades.
Wilson's response to fleeing millionaires? 'Like, bye.'
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This is the reason that children who live with both their mother and father are safer than children in single mother homes by a factor of 12 times. Fathers are the protective element in children’s lives. The data is overwhelming and definitive.
Liberta Cherguia 🇪🇺@MbarkCherguia
A father confronts a registered sex offender after catching him speaking to his 6-year-old daughter. Is the dad right or wrong for doing this?
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@OrthodoxHistory Absolutely. Thats reasonable. But, I cant help but wonder if he was told a story. (Thats speculation on my part)
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@Cossie696 I don’t think anyone on the Platina side was being intentionally dishonest re. Fr John. The article was written by a young man in Fr John’s community who jumped to conclusions about a satanic ritual murder that turned out to be false.
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I feel like I have to repeat this like once a year: Fr John Karastamatis was not martyred. He was murdered, yes, but it had nothing to do with Orthodoxy and didn't involve a satanic ritual. His killers were a married couple who had been connected with his parish. At the murder trial, multiple women testified that Fr John had engaged in sexual activity with them. He was definitely a victim of a horrific act, but he shouldn't be on icons.
Why do some think he's a saint? It's because, immediately after his murder (and before the police found the killers), Platina (which was then in schism) published an article claiming that Fr John had been martyred in a satanic ritual. If they had waited a couple more months, this article would never have been published, because it turns out that those claims were false.
Orthodox Christian@orthodox_33ad
🔸 May 19 - The New Hieromartyr John of Santa Cruz 🔸 Today, we also commemorate the New Hieromartyr John Karastamatis of Santa Cruz. Fr John was born in 1937 on the Greek island of Andros. From a young age he nourished his soul by reading the lives of the saints and martyrs, whose unwavering faith inspired him to become a servant of God. In 1957, at age 20, John came to the United States. After 5 years he married and soon became the father of 2 children. The cities of America were in sharp contrast to the village of his birth. He found himself among many who not only did not seek God, but actively fled from Him. Still he hoped in God, knowing that the freedom of Christ can be found even in the midst of evil surroundings. He was ordained to the diaconate in 1971, and became a priest only weeks later. After serving in Alaska, Vancouver and Pennsylvania, Fr John moved to Santa Cruz, California. Eventually, the community purchased a former funeral home in downtown Santa Cruz and transformed it into the Church of the Prophet Elias. Fr John himself completed much of the interior work, helping turn the church into a refuge of holiness amidst the chaos of the world. Fr John kept an “open-door policy”, welcoming university students, the poor, and those searching for meaning in life. In the most outcast and downtrodden individuals, Fr John saw the image of Christ. He often delivered missionary services in public parks, introducing many Americans to Holy Orthodoxy. The visibility of Fr John eventually drew the attention not only of those seeking Christ, but also of those who hated Him. A few months before his death, occultists desecrated the church by painting “666” and satanic pentagrams on the entrance. Fr John continued his ministry undaunted, despite also receiving anonymous threats. On the night of May 18, 1985, Fr John was alone in the church preparing his sermon for the next morning. Shortly before midnight, one or more assailants entered the church and brutally murdered him in his office. After being stabbed and severely beaten, Fr John was finally killed by a heavy blow to the head. His body was found by his son who arrived later that night.
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@OrthodoxHistory I appreciate the distinctions you made and the detailed reply. Yes. I'm fully aware of Gleb. Its interesting that it seems this story came out after the choices he made. I've done a great deal of research about that era in California. Its not shocking if a martyr story was faked
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Platina had gone into schism shortly before this. After the death of Fr Seraphim Rose, the abbot, Fr Herman, was accused of sexual misconduct. Rather than submit to an investigation by church authorities, he went into schism, joining a pseudo-Orthodox group that turned out to be led by sexual predator “bishops.”
That said, I am not saying with certainty that Fr John Karastamatis was guilty of the sexual sins he was accused of. I’m only saying, in response to those who claim he’s a hieromartyr, no, he’s not a martyr, and there are serious unresolved allegations against him.
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@timfattig In your opinion, is there a good source to find information on Hemming?
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A minor curiosity from 1958, for those who are up to their ears in the colorful, not always authentic lore surrounding guys like Frank Sturgis and (especially) Gerry Hemming: Don Siegel’s 1958 film The Gun Runners.
The threadbare plot, *very* loosely taken from Hemingway: two down-on-their-luck charter-boat operators in the Florida Keys, Sam and Harvey (!), reluctantly run some contraband for a “gambler” by the name of Hanagan. The valuable contraband turns out to be a whole lot of guns intended for the ongoing Cuban revolution. There are hijinks and shootouts but at no point does the CIA show up to give our heroes an exploding seashell meant for Castro.
Siegel went on to make films like Dirty Harry and The Shootist, but this one is the late-‘50s equivalent of a direct-to-video action flick. The milieu and use of current events does give it some value, however.
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@eXocat6120 @DanaDooDah What is it with these people and bodily waste? You see it over and over
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J.D Salinger studying Scientology, drinking his own piss, and hanging about in a orgone box.
theguardian.com/books/news/art…
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@eXocat6120 @DanaDooDah Why do these people disagree or, hate Christians so much but, always try to claim it?
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@eXocat6120 look who just visited the New Processean Order 🤓
𝕯𝖆𝖓𝖆 𝔸𝕂𝔸 𝕽𝖔𝖙𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖌𝕵𝖊𝖜𝖊𝖑𝖘@DanaDooDah
@theElegantWorm @Jilderness Their Rome chapter is “special” (& was shut down immediately after the Manson murders). I’m sure it’s a coincidence Wyllie recounts them taking LSD at a party with Polanski’s friends singing Helter Skelter on an Italian palazzo the winter prior. Nasr’s brother clearly never left.
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@OrthodoxHistory Thank you for this. My Godfather a retired priest was a student of Father Hopko. This is personal testimony. But, even earlier than this, Father Hopko had great respect for Father Rose. I love them both. Glory to God for their devotion.
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He did have some issues with some of the ways Fr Seraphim wrote about the tollhouses or whatever, but that's to be expected. But Hopko had high praise for Fr Seraphim's translation work and he was especially fond of Fr Seraphim's short book The Place of Blessed Augustine in the Orthodox Church. Overall, Hopko expressed to me a genuine admiration and respect for Fr Seraphim. And then the next year, I remember him happily telling me that he'd been invited to serve at the memorial liturgy at Platina -- this is where he gave the homily linked above. The homily is 100% consistent with the view Fr Hopko expressed to me privately a year earlier.
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FR THOMAS HOPKO ON FR SERAPHIM ROSE
"If ever a human being lived on this earth who sought God with his whole heart, whatever sins or errors he may have had—and as the Orthodox requiem service says, there is no man who lives who does not sin—it was Fr. Seraphim Rose."
– Fr Thomas Hopko
To many familiar with either St Vladimir’s Seminary or Fr Seraphim Rose, it may come as a surprise that, in 2002, Fr Thomas Hopko — then-dean of SVS and son-in-law of Fr Alexander Schmemann — visited St Herman of Alaska Monastery in Platina, California and gave the homily at the memorial liturgy for the 20th anniversary of Fr Seraphim Rose’s repose. The full text of Fr Hopko’s remarkable homily (along with a link to a video of the event) is at the link below.
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@thenerdincharge Without a doubt and there's a lot of great documentation for it. I think it just doesn't get noticed
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@OrthodoxPole81 Just an opinion. If we just gave young men a chance, over time it would get better
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"Young men aren’t breaking under pressure. They were never trained to carry it. That’s the real problem we are talking enough about."
-- Dr. Anthony Bradley
Considering that anywhere between 18-19 million American children, effectively 1/4 to 1/3, are fatherless, this lack of ability to carry the weight in young men isn't surprising. As C.S. Lewis would say, we've castrated the stallion and are now demanding the gelding to breed.
open.substack.com/pub/anthonybbr…
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@SecretSunBlog I work in the ghetto. Plain and simple. One night, I stood outside and listened to a single bird sing in a tree. It was like medicine.
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@Cossie696 It totally depends on the bishops. The OCA’s process with St Olga took many years. But sometimes you’ll see the opposite, a brief process or an announcement that seems sudden, with no publicly-announced process at all.
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Contrary to the rumors that are spreading, ROCOR has NOT yet canonized Fr Seraphim Rose.
Orthodox Meme Squad@OrthoMemeSquad
Guess what! The Council of Bishops of ROCOR in Munich has voted for the canonization of Venerable Seraphim (Rose). St. Seraphim, pray to God for us!
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Look guys, I’m rooting for his canonization and for all I know it may get announced soon! I’m just saying, no official decision has been made yet.
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Spiritual passions are heavier and more destructive than physical ones.
When Mary anointed the Lord's feet with expensive ointment, Judas didn't say, "I'm stingy." Instead, he said: "What a waste! This ointment could have been sold and the money given to the poor!" (John 12:5). This was the one who sold Christ.
We humans know very well how to hide our malice under the guise of virtue. When someone judges another, he does not say, "I have become his judge!" He says: "I fight for the truth! Truth is above all, and everything I say is in the name of justice!"
And so, digging a pit for another, he is ready to shove them into it, believing he serves the truth. Yet we forget that God judges no one. The Scripture says, “The Father has given all judgment to the Son” (John 12:5), and Christ says, “I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world” (John 12:47).
If God the Father does not judge, and Christ does not judge—then you, who allow yourself to judge in Christ’s place, do you not make yourself His opponent?
We only love the truth when it is said about others. But do we want someone to say the "whole truth" about us? Let us be very careful about the passions of the soul. For just as the soul is superior to the body, spiritual passions are far more destructive than physical ones.
— Geron Nikos, Leader of the "Saint Spyridon" Cell, Nea Skiti
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