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@Badaccoubt @JustWow346 Like most evil supernatural critters, they only have power over you if you're afraid and lack faith in a higher power. Their supposed power melts away if you stand up to them with righteousness (like Dracula fleeing from a cross, etc)

@Badaccoubt @JustWow346 They're depicted as being quite stupid. Remember when one gets trapped in a pantry and can't figure out how to get out through a wooden door? They behave more like vampires or other supernatural creatures (in the "can't get in without being invited" types of limitations).

This movie is great and I'm tired of people acting like it's not. "Why would the aliens go to a planet that's completely inhospitable to them?" I dunno man, why do humans want to go to mars?

@DavidBanicaRO Subversive academics love to tear down your values, traditions, and cultures by undermining them and essentially doing the "nothing is real, history is a lie" shtick, as if they're just apathetic nihilists, when in truth they care DEEPLY and are just being disingenuous.

@DavidBanicaRO This is just standard tactical nihilism, where iconoclasts temporarily pretend that nothing matters and nothing is real, yet apparently it matters enough to them that they must compose whole videos about it to try to convince you of their positions.

Homer didn’t exist and Shakespeare was a unicorn and Reagan was Italian and other things I pulled out of the septic tank.

@OkeyDoker @BostonFren_88 I think, also, that actors were viewed as inherently untrustworthy due to their knack for essentially lying for a living. Since you can never know when an actor is being sincere or just pretending, you have to doubt everything they tell you. And now they give political advice.

@ianthelimner @BostonFren_88 True. They have always been considered low life’s. To a great extent they still are. Few are decent people. Most are just garbage humans.

The Romans considered lawyers and actors to be low-tier, garbage people.

@hickman0000 When I first visited an Orthodox Church, I was relieved to be able to just stand in the narthex absorbing the Liturgy without being pressed by greeters or signed up for emails etc. Everyone is very kind and welcoming of course but it's authentic and not a forced sales pitch

“The honest answer is that the Orthodox parish is operating on a different model entirely. Frankly, it’s an ancient one, sometimes inherited from village and immigrant community life, where membership was assumed, belonging was demonstrated by showing up, and no one needed to be sold on attending because the Church was the center of the community. ‘Church’ is simply what the community did and had done for centuries. That model has real virtues. It does not produce the manipulative retention machinery of megachurch culture. But it also leaves people to slip through the cracks in silence, and in an American context where almost no one arrives already embedded in Orthodox community life, it can amount to a pastoral failure. “Catechumens and new converts need to be warned clearly: The Church will not pursue you the way your last church did. That is not a sign that you are unwanted. It is a sign that you are expected to invest beyond what is intellectually, metrically, and individually stimulating to you. You are expected to show up, introduce yourself, stay for coffee, come back next week and the week after. Orthodoxy is ancient. It cares little for what the culture prescribes and precedes it by millennia. Belonging here is something you build, not something you are handed.” open.substack.com/pub/fractology…

@cityaestheticss Shhhhhh I don't want it to get any bigger, thanks

The Hampton Roads area should be a mega region. It has a major port, a beach, tourist areas, business centers, it’s in the sunbelt where everyone is moving to… But it feels completely forgotten on a national scale.

@babybeginner @jamesjonesesq @AcheJ6 I have to disagree. My local FB Marketplace is full of boomers trying to sell antiques online without success. Mostly pianos, which they can't even GIVE away, but plenty of (quite beautiful) pieces of furniture, too.

@jamesjonesesq @AcheJ6 No. They don’t know how to sell them. The internet is too complicated for them. Put that online anywhere and that is gone in a split second.

Older People are throwing away their antiques because they can’t sell them. The younger generation doesn’t have disposable income or own homes to house expensive heavy solid wood heirlooms.

@OldUSenjoyer The trick is to go to the grocery store as early in the morning as possible. Troublesome people are virtually never early risers.

I love the South, but, anyone who lives here, (with the exception of a few magical places), will tell you that there areas where you don't stop for groceries after a certain time of day, because it gets especially dark. I stopped at one yesterday evening, and brother let me tell ya,... the sun was setting. The trick is to look about half crazy yourself. *a bag full of drank wine boxes just waiting for someone else to throw away, included so you can picture the sort of fancy establishment I was buying bread and milk from.

@MrsMagdaBeard I'm thankful to live in an area far enough away from any major city that we don't get livestreamers or vloggers or whatever trying to bait people just trying to live their lives in peace. People shouldn't have to constantly worry about being part of some dumb youtube channel

Look at the replies... I cannot. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE???

@GPrime85 Similar experience for me last year, now I'm a catechumen and couldn't be more grateful to God for it ☦️

> Be me, raised Protestant > Visit Orthodox church out of curiosity > Standing, sitting, kneeling, repeat for 2.5 hours > Gorgeous, smelled good > Felt like a workout > Liked it

@AngloVarangian Economic phrases like "The Invisible Hand of the Market" do sound rather occult, now that I think about it

Another interesting takeaway from Tucker Carlson's interview of Fr. Stephen De Young is Fr. Stephen says Americans today talk about the economy the way ancient people talked about gods and religion. That the economy shows favor to some people and is unfavorable to others. That the economy demands sacrifices. Etc. Etc.

@eggstyrone_ @OldUSenjoyer I assume this isn't a serious question but no, neither, thanks for asking.

@ianthelimner @OldUSenjoyer The question is, do you have a Greek or Russian flag in the sanctuary?

Unpopular opinion, but I don't know that flags belong in the sanctuary. Ours has them, and it is just oddly out of place.

I wanted to personalize the flyleaf of a new book I bought, so I painted this. I may add more later.

The Davis-Creekmore House of New Hope, gouache on paper, 8"×10" An interpretation of a local mid-19th house, depicting it as it may have originally looked.

@adonispara Oh hey that's what I am

The North Atlantid phenotype now makes less than 0,1% of global population. In 100 years it will be rarer than a snow leopard.

@DavidBanicaRO HAS it been very good for Anlgophone countries, though? I just checked, they're not doing so hot lately.

The British tradition of classical liberalism (whatever that means to you) is basically very good for Anlgophone countries and basically devastating for almost any other traditional society.