“Orthodoxy is perfect and leaves no opening for any attack; it has no Achilles’ heel. You are free to attack generic monotheism or polytheism, Pelagianism and Calvinism, Gnosticism, deism and magic, superstition and mythology, even the merits of Papists, purgatory and Caesaropapism, the Inquisition and medievalism, etc., but nothing touches Christian Orthodoxy, the Holy Church built upon the Rock of living faith and supernatural revelation.”
-Saint Nil Dorobantu
In the first series of Clarkson's Farm, a young woman told Jeremy Clarkson his sheep would never make money, and the wool cheque proved her right before the year was out.
Ellen Helliwell was the shepherd he hired when it became clear he could not manage 78 ewes himself. She lambed them through the night, treated their feet, and told him the arithmetic at the start.
Then came shearing. A gang arrives, charges by the head, and leaves a pile of fleeces. Clarkson sent the wool off and learned what every sheep farmer in Britain already knew. The fleece was worth less than the cost of taking it off the animal.
For 800 years that fleece was the wealth of England. It paid for the cathedrals and the wars. A sheep was kept for five or six years for her wool, and the mutton at the end was a bonus that fed the country.
Now the wool is a disposal problem, so the only thing a sheep can earn from is a lamb sold at five months. One income where there used to be three. Clarkson's flock lost money, and he said so on television.
The reason the fleece is worthless is in your wardrobe. The jumper is acrylic, the fleece jacket is polyester, the carpet is nylon, and all of them are made from oil.
Ellen could do everything a shepherd has had to do since the Bronze Age, and do it at three in the morning. The thing she could not do was compete with a plastics factory.
Check the label in your collar before you ask why British lamb costs what it costs.
I learned that God hates divorce. I understood it intellectually, and it's the testimony of the scripture. And it seems naturally true as a thing to hate.
But I never expected to hate divorce as much as I do. It ain't no mere doctrine. Divorce destroys everything it touches.
Jay Dyer deserves more credit than he gets. The man has read entire libraries and has studied more than most people do in ten lifetimes. I'm sitting here just trying to get through a couple books and it's taking forever.
...prayer for others is very beneficial to the man himself who prays for others; it purifies the heart, strengthens faith and hope in God, and enkindles our love for God and our neighbour.
— Saint John of Kronstadt
He had passed away on Sunday, & his funeral was earlier today, an Orthodox service by the blessing of his metropolitan. Fly high, Seraphim. May we see each other again in the next life.
I’m a 17 year old transgirl Muslima from Indonesia with a tenuous grasp of the English language and here’s my opinion on Nebraska’s state abortion regulations
Poko the European Starling has a syrinx, an organ that lets him control both lungs independently so he can produce a wider pitch range and even two sounds at once. Like other mimics, he repeats phrases he hears often. Poko is loved.
"Не компликуј свој живот – већ је мудро устројен. Веруј у Бога и не бој се. Што је твоје – доћи ће, што није – проћи ће. Живи са миром у срцу, а не са страхом у мислима. И видећеш – све ће се завршити боље него што си могао и замислити."
Свети Илија Надзорин ☦️
I have come to realize that the entire issue around raising children, parents vs grandparents, is that people honestly think and truly believe that when their children become adults their duty towards them, and the children they might have, has ended.
Everyone hates having duties now. Conservatives and liberals alike.
But this is untrue. You have duties towards your children that will never end, never. You also have a duty towards your grandchildren no matter how many you might have, and that will never end. You have a duty towards your entire bloodline. And your children alike have a duty towards you, and your grandchildren too.
We are not free floating individuals untethered to anyone and anything. You come into this world owing those around you something, and you come into this world with those around you owing you something.
There is a unspoken unbelievably important social contract that families have. And if you think you owe nobody anything then you are nothing more than a hedonistic coward, and people like you are the reason the west, and all that matters will fall.
@Rhea__Maria Lol fully understandable, the audacity to trust your own lying eyes as opposed to their omniscient gaze.
Unbelievably draining trying to argue against. My apologies for the misunderstanding.
@Rhea__Maria I am speaking about that very same bad reaction to what you are trying to show.
I didnt get to see the posts and backlash, but from what ive seen of your normal posts, it was never anything really inflammatory, not enough to be driven to be deleted.
@Rhea__Maria Youre providing alot of hope and insight into a very particular part of a land that was once held in high regard, and would be a shame to see that go.
Dont be discouraged by the lightless goofs trying to smother something bright.
@Rhea__Maria You'd think if they're such a net boon in the lands they reside now, it'd be so overwhelmingly apparent that theyd have no need to go out of their way to vehemently "defend" against critiques from people on twitter on just how far a country has fallen since their invasion.