@AydinPaladin @kangminlee @QTRBlackGarrett Or how "Paki" is deemed offensive, despite Pakistan meaning "Land of the Pakis".
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Orthodrexler
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Orthodrexler
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Orthodox Christian (OCA Old Calendar), Minecraft fan.
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@kangminlee @QTRBlackGarrett Same way "Chinaman" is a slur, I suppose, despite being a literal description of a man from China.
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As an Asian, I believe we should revive the usage of the term "Oriental" to distinguish East Asians from South Asians, Arabs, and other races in Asia
Everyone knows we're extremely different, yet we're lumped together simply because we share the same continent
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@MeltingSnowBro @BrainyPirate Matthew 22:37 is also very relevant; atheists by the nature of their unbelief fail to keep the First and Great Commandment.
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Paul explains that gentiles have the law on their hearts to show that they can still be condemned by it, in Romans 2:12-13.
And in Romans 3:20, Paul says no one has obeyed the law, and all are condemned.
Fortunately, in Romans 8:1, he explains that being in Christ Jesus frees us from our condemnation.
Taken together, it is clear that no one obeys the law completely, and we can only be rescued from condemnation by Christ Jesus. And the only way to be in Christ Jesus is to believe in his resurrection and to be baptized.
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@porfiriy I felt that way until I started counting calories. It's a good way to contain yourself and not go hog in the fast-free periods.
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a couple weeks after Pascha, looking forward to those Wed and Fri fasts 😸
LiterallyMeCats@literallymecats
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@fleshsimulator Reality is truth doesn't exist for these people and they will say anything for the express purpose of hurting their enemies.
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This is a funny tweet to take out of context because the post above it was
"What did that guy DO to deserve being dosed heavily with acid and then left in the woods alone at night?"
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@OrthodoxPole81 Attacking Fr. Seraphim for his past is akin to attacking St. Paul for his past. If you believe in God's grace and power then there is no question that he can transform a human heart and turn it towards the Good.
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The most recent post by Pope Respector involving Saint Seraphim of Platina leaves out the most obvious fact about the transformation of Eugene Rose. From a man who was lost in Eastern Mysticism and sexual identity to a Hieromonk of the Orthodox Church who was on the Royal Path of the martyrdom of self for the Eternal Kingdom of Heaven.
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@OrthodoxEthos I was traveling and visited a decade-old convert parish where men and women stood on opposite sides of the nave. It was very encouraging to see this practice alive and well today!
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FYI to all concerned:
The tradition is men on one side and women on the other. (And not only, but in some places it is also according to age.) This is how it is in the old world in many places and has been so for many, many, many generations.
In fact, this is presupposed in such ancient practices (still practiced by the clergy) as the kiss of peace.
Obviously, the church would not have women and men exchanging the kiss of peace in the liturgy. It would be disorderly and possibly provoking scandal or misunderstanding.
But, moreover, it is a good pastoral practice today, as we live in age of an attack on hierarchy and patriarchy and we should cultivate in the youth respect for the older generation and especially older men in the community. And, it is good for young people to to learn patience, to give deference and respect to their elders.
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@PaulSkallas What's interesting is that in messaging apps even talking to friends and family typing is still heavily preferred to voice messages in the Anglosphere. Written language is a very useful tool and it is unlikely that it will be supplanted any time soon.
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Remember the Lindy rule. Humans only talk to things that are alive
1) Other humans
2) Themselves
3) animals
4) Things embodied with spiritual significance (gravestones, holy places, prayer)
We could all just sit and talk to our computers now. We have the technology. But we don't. It feels weird. We sit and type in silence.
Many people have tried so far to create a talking device. all have failed
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@uubzu The "Battle of the Sexes" is also a huge example of this fake history. I didn't learn until fairly recently that Bobby Riggs was actually in his 50s. It wasn't close to being an even match and in reality basically any professional male tennis player will beat basically any woman.
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They’re worse than blacks about making up history
If Ada Lovelace had never been born, I’d be sending you this message by carrier pigeon. This is a normal, lucid way to understand the past
バニー 💌@BunAikoMoon
@uubzu You wouldn’t even be able to spout your misogynistic bullshit on this website without the woman, Ada Lovelace, who invented computer programming
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@ThetrueKS @revenant_MMXX Exactly. I hope everyone lives, but I'm not willing to put my life in the hands of a majority vote.
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@revenant_MMXX I think what people who argue for blue tend to not realize is that people who vote red hope blue wins, they're just not joining a suicide pact to make that difference, and convincing someone to join said suicide pact would be morally irresponsible at best, murder at worst.
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Best IQ test this site has seen in a while. Most read it as blue being the only way to guarantee everyone's survival, but the simpler solution is for everyone to press red. Although one may press red for selfish reasons, it's also the only true guarantee of survival for anyone.
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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@feelsdesperate The reason why intellectual vacancy has come is because there's no punishment for pushing slop and drivel. The masses cannot discern intellect and don't care.
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I get the sense that we have arrived at a ‘post-intellectual leftism’ that is no longer capable of any sort of coherent materialist critique.
If you are a midwit like me, you could start with Marx and then look at how his ideas were successively updated up through the end of the 20th century in the setting of failed predictions and changes in technology and political economy.
That project seems to have ended, and what we’re left with is an enemies-list politics of spite whose primary purpose is therapeutic, and that seeks to generate morality tales that explain the disappointments and humiliations of a class of people who had much greater expectations.
I don’t fully understand why the Leftist intellectual tradition has terminated (it may be technology, it may be that those it was handed off to were not up to the task) but regardless the important corollary is that theater kid leftism is intellectually vacant and cognitively bounded.
This matters because the dominant leftism is clearly a misarticulation when legitimate issues abound (eg. the implosion of creative and academic economic models, elite overproduction, etc.) that could form the basis of a more meaningful politics that is more purposeful and might offer some redress. But that obviously isn’t possible in this political moment when you look at who the protagonists are and how they articulate themselves.
Reihan Salam@reihan
Mamdani and his allies are tenant organizers, and their chief tactic is to identify specific villains. This creates an illusion of accountability (as if the city's fiscal challenges can be assigned to some external bad actor rather than the cumulative impact of buck-passing), emotional engagement (find a focus for public anger and resentment that is not you), and polarization (if you don't join in the outpouring of hatred, you are suspect). The trouble is that the villain needs to be a vulnerable target you can cut off from key resources (money, public support) through intimidating public protest, a media campaign, etc. Mamdani has decided not to make Trump the villain, possibly because Trump has cards to play and doesn't seek the approval of Mamdani's base. Hochul can't be the villain, as the mayor is begging Albany for money. He decided to go after Ken Griffin as a stand-in for nonresident owners of expensive investment properties in NYC, but of course Griffin is not obliged to take the abuse. There's a good case that NYC needs Griffin more than Griffin needs NYC. So who's next? Without a villain, it's not clear that the organizer's playbook can work.
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@Anarseldain It baffles me why "better graphics" is strongly correlated with "can't see what is onscreen". Who thinks having the middle of the screen be an indistinguishable mass of dark brown is good?
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The original looks far better and it seems that this mod fundamentally misses what makes DS2 look amazing. The whole point of Alonne’s arena is to reflect as though it’s perfectly polished, not just shiny; the sky especially. The skyboxes are what make DS2. This has no soul.
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@katherineortho Modern American society is based around a Christian heresy wherein "judge not" is the totality of the Gospel. We have no standards because we do not shame shameful conduct, which traps us in a continual downward spiral.
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The working class and poorest people in the country still wore actual clothing. It’s not that hard.
Katherine ☦︎@katherineortho
I love how repeating basic church etiquette that any priest would encourage in his parish, triggered so many people 😑 If you can dress for an interview, you can have the decency to put on real pants for Divine Liturgy. What happened to our generation, man? Why does everyone insist we need to look like we’re going to Walmart in our pajamas
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@BrazilBrian The main culprit is a collapse of the family driven by growing degeneracy and a worsening social divide between the sexes. I see this problem show itself again and again among my in-laws, with basically none of them having a functioning relationship or children to show for it.
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Latin America is now aging faster than ANY region in the world. Chile has a lower birthrate than even Japan.
What is going on?
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@chionerin Men who don't want families tend to be stunted man-children. Women who try to stigmatize men caring about their posterity are a massive red flag and can't conceive of actually caring about someone else.
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Men is it wrong to want children? Ive been seeing alot of women online lately who seem to think a man yearning for his own family is inherently "predatory"?
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@CozyOomfie The elephant in the room is that cultural Protestantism is gone and not returning. That ethos was built over many centuries and was shattered in 50 years. The path forward is somewhere else, and the only real alternative to the ones he names is a very dark one.
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The problem with this is that those groups ultimately all descend from and became more and more alien to the Roman Church. Byzantine Rome spent incredible amounts of capital to preserve the Roman Church in it's original form which led to the creation of superior citizens.
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@Nicholai_Korea It's always the trads who want to cast stones from their glass houses. Having married a woman from South America and learned what life is like there, the level of degeneracy in those countries is beyond what Americans can comprehend.
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Actually since fall of soviet union it has collapsed. Improving in all metrics. And church attendance numbers are not well recorded. My Bishop who is MP says they cannot keep up with demand for new parishes and Priests
🌵Augustine of the Valley🌲@AugustineOTV
Let’s look at the divorce, abortion, and church attendance of Russia. It’ll show that Russia is not that much of a Christian nation.
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@Romanos911 @OrthodoxEthos I remember in 2021 seeing a schedule of services at a Greek Orthodox church in Australia; they had designated vaxxed and unvaxxed services, and uncoincidentally Sundays were always the former. The contempt that they had for people who obeyed their Christian conscience was clear.
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@OrthodoxEthos Isn't he the same Abp that persecuted Bp. Aimilianos for fighting covidism?
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So does mean that the Greeks are not to be present in Australia **as missionaries**, following in the footsteps of such great missionaries that Saint Nicholas of Japan, or Saint Innocent of Alaska or holy Father Kosmas of Grigoriou in the Congo?
They all worked tirelessly to translate the Divine Scriptures and Services into the local languages…
UOJ - America@UOJ_America
FAWKNER, AUSTRALIA — Abp. Makarios of Australia has reaffirmed the central role of the Greek language in Orthodox worship, warning that abandoning it would endanger the Church’s identity within the Greek diaspora. Speaking at the conclusion of the Vespers of the Descent from the Cross on Holy Friday at the Church of St. Nektarios in Fawkner, he stressed that liturgical Greek remains essential to preserving both spiritual and cultural continuity.
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@revenant_MMXX I remember teachers getting upset at me for correcting them on simple points of knowledge like knowing the study of space is astronomy and not astrology. Most teachers are not smart and it's awkward how society acts like it is some hard, load-bearing task.
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The issue isn't that the smart kids were "disliked" by teachers, it's that their teachers were less intelligent than them and it showed
VB Knives@Empty_America
At my kid's school, the gifted program cut off is 125IQ, and they use a real test to determine this. So I know who the 125IQ+ kids are, and honestly none of them are disruptive or problematic in any way, none are disliked by teachers. Many are shy, "odd" or anxious however.
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@Dancr200 @HellasHardrada Coordinate activities with likeminded individuals in the other parishes in your city. By doing that you can break down these silos and facilitate a sense of proper community that testifies to the oneness you possess in Christ.
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@JesseWayne81 @UOJ_America This is correct. The mission was planted in 2009 and they built a permanent church in 2023.
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BEND, OREGON — Josh Lazie, a former bassist for the heavy metal band Danzig, is preparing to be received into the Orthodox Church after a yearlong spiritual journey that began with a simple visit to a local parish. Lazie, 54, discussed his conversion on the Counterflow podcast, where he spoke candidly about faith, sobriety, and suffering.
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