Clayman

Certified Ohio Man | ☦️

[Clayman @_claylucki_]

@ZenorMuffins @NickHintonn He just smoked you like a Rasta, Hinton

[Clayman @_claylucki_]

@BisqueBoi Bron Yr Aur?

[Clayman @_claylucki_]

@tvvitterhandle @NickHintonn You tell him!

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@NickHintonn Stop fear mongering, it’s a beautiful day in Idaho and you’re at a gas station tweeting about this? Go roll around in a grassy meadow and eat some dirt!

[Clayman @_claylucki_]

@NickHintonn @tvvitterhandle You’re both so weird

[Nick Hinton @NickHintonn]

there once was a prince who was cursed and turned into a frog. He could only go back to normal if he received the kiss of true love. So he found a lady and shared his story with her. She listened intently. Then she said wow cool a talking frog and put it in her pocket the end

[Clayman @_claylucki_]

@izzyizzy90 @NickHintonn He’s a really good guy he’s just misunderstood.

[Nick Hinton @NickHintonn]

Sandu Tudor was a Romanian poet, painter, and journalist. He was also an adventurer. Most of his youth was spent traveling and working odd jobs. But eventually, he was serendipitously led to Mount Athos. He said many mini miracles guided him there, despite his original goal of writing a tabloid about the bad aspects of monasticism.

When he got to Mount Athos in 1929, he just followed the monks around and copied them. However, his performative prostrations became real. Somehow, he got a taste of the noetic prayer. So, he ended up staying for 7 months. Then, he truly converted. Even though he grew up in an Orthodox family and country, he realized he hadn’t experienced true Orthodoxy before.

When he returned home, people thought he went insane. He had grown a beard and became serious about repentance. He claimed many churches, even though they appeared Christian, were actually practicing the religion of the Dark One. They were outward and political, a shell of what the Apostles and Holy Fathers once taught.

So, Sandu started a movement called the Burning Bush. It was intended to revive the ancient and mystical tradition of hesychasm. And he quickly made many enemies this way. He was arrested for reading the Philokalia. He was accused of conspiring against the government. But all he was doing was praying.

Finally, in 1948, he officially became a monk. But the spying and harassment didn’t stop. In fact, it only got worse. Sandu’s influence was still felt in society. His movement was growing. So, the secret police threw him in Aiud Prison, a communist reeducation camp where people were tortured not only physically, but mentally.

Some said the mental tortures were worse. They were supposed to reprogram people to deny God. So, some Christians became perfect communists. Other Christians were broken and became like animals. But Sandu, along with other members of the Burning Bush, just increased their prayer. Like the youths in the furnace, they were refined into gold, into saints.

They were forced to find the Kingdom of Heaven within. They were forced to learn the spiritual benefits of suffering. They learned the hard way, that God is not in books, but in crucifixion. Like Father Roman Braga said, “When God speaks to you He does not use material words but brings you joy. I experienced such joys in prison, I could not detach myself from them. I was never interested when they brought me food or water...”

Nevertheless, Sandu did not make it out like Roman did. He was beaten so bad, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage. This happened in 1962! That’s not that long ago. So, it wouldn’t be unthinkable for us to find ourselves in a similar situation again. There is hope though. A hope that transcends death.

Yet, it’s only when we’re surrounded by death that we can truly appreciate it. According to one of Sandu’s friends, they were locked in a cold cell together. It was as cold as the winter was outside, around -22 degrees Fahrenheit. It had no windows. It was covered in urine and feces. Everyone who went in there was expected to die.

But Sandu spread out on the ground in the shape of a cross and told his friend to lay on top of him the same way. Then, Sandu said “Don’t say anything more than: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, the sinner!” Later, Sandu started praying and a blinding light entered the room. Then, time stopped.

When the guards finally checked on them, they found out they had survived for 8 days without water, food, sleep, or anything to wear in below freezing temperatures. Sandu was hotter than he was when he went in too. Everything around him had melted. So, Sandu didn’t just die. He made that prison holy before he left.

Like the faithful in the first century, he was a real, miracle working Christian. At the end, he wasn’t cultural or intellectual. He was truly otherworldly. And if we are blessed, maybe we will have a chance to do the same.

[Clayman @_claylucki_]

@NickHintonn Start telling your joke about the frog on the bench again

[Clayman @_claylucki_]

@NickHintonn That’s Lam bro whatchu know about it G?

[Clayman @_claylucki_]

@balefulrays Dude this is so deep

[Clayman @_claylucki_]

@NickHintonn When did you get a girlfriend?

[Clayman @_claylucki_]

@NickHintonn Back to conspiracy shitpost eh Hinton?

[Flesh Simulator @fleshsimulator]

I like how nobody is alarmed by the fact that wifi PCBs need to look like this

[Clayman @_claylucki_]

I don’t know a single person doing work on these and there’s multiple ones being built near me

[TheRealKimShady™️ @TRKShady]

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Anyone care to address this executive order?

https://t.co/p5NtMURnuM

[Clayman @_claylucki_]

@DavidLCorbo You and your pal are both feds anyways

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@MidActsPosition @TopLobsta We believe in works and faith, and if you don’t believe in replacement theology you’re a judaizer so you’re brainwashed and your church probably flies the Israeli flag proud. No debate is going to get you to see it, you’re like a brainwashed communist. You’ve been demoralized.

[Clayman @_claylucki_]

@JayDyer Debate @TopLobsta so he shuts up