Purple Turtle

Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance --Matthew 3:8 ☦️

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[Purple Turtle @canfishdrown]

@GigaBasedDad Maple syrup comes from a tree and doesn't cause botulism......

[k 📿 @HatePillled]

i’ll never forget my friend telling me she used to cry at church because she thought she felt the Holy Spirit, only to feel the exam same way at a one direction concert.

she’s now an atheist.

[Purple Turtle @canfishdrown]

@OldHollowTree Yup

[Purple Turtle @canfishdrown]

@WhaleLandUtahni @AppyOrtho In the Orthodox church this is one of the reasons we have prewritten prayers. The prayer of the church transform how we think and how we interact with the world, which is healing.

[Purple Turtle @canfishdrown]

@WhaleLandUtahni @AppyOrtho Intersession is only one aspect of prayer and should always be concluded with "thy will be done" in spirit if not explicitly. We pray to align our will with God's not to convince him to change his mind. Many people of course do the latter which is the folly you point out.

[☦︎ 𝔓𝔞𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔠 𝔓𝔦𝔩𝔩 ☦︎ @patristicpill]

The Orthodox do not baptize infants because we think babies are little Calvinist criminals.

We baptize them because death is already hunting them, and Christ told us to bring the little children to Him.

[Jonathan Pageau @PageauJonathan]

Once there was a very sick man. This man tried everything he could: diet, exercise and different supplements, and though it helped him feel a bit better, the sickness still persisted and even got worse. Some of his friends told him to see a doctor, but the man was sure he could make himself well.

After much suffering, the man finally relented and went to see the doctor. The doctor told him: "There is nothing you can do on your own to heal from this disease. You must take this very bitter pill. The pill will at first feel like you are dying, but you must trust me and the medicine. It will heal you."

After much struggle, the man finally accepted and took the very bitter pill. It felt like his entire life was being wasted away, but as the doctor promised, he soon discovered he had new strength in his body, a strength he had not known before.

A few weeks later, the man began having symptoms of the disease again. Saddened by this, he called the doctor. The doctor sent him a list of diet, exercises and supplements. The man was shocked and called the doctor again: "You told me there was nothing I could do on my own to heal from this disease!"

"You are already healed from the disease, but your body was so affected by it, that you must now persevere in discipline, consulting me and evaluating what your health is. These are not simply rules you must follow, but habits you must develop. If you persevere, you will do better and better and will discover levels of health you could not even imagine. But if you do not persevere, the effects of the disease can still kill you."

I have heard different ends to this story. Some say that the man submitted to the discipline and became an athlete. Others insist that he took the rule given by the doctor, applying it to the letter without developing the habits.

Others still, say the man only stood by the original statement of the doctor and had "assurance of his health", refusing that his health was dependent on the habits he needed to develop. "Sure, I can maybe follow the rules the doctor gave me" he told himself, "but that is just in gratitude for having healed me." Sadly this man remained sick, though believing he was healed, and never became the athlete he had in fact been born to be.

[Gabriel J. Benton ☦️🇺🇸 @OrthodoxPole81]

Father Josiah Trenham gives a gentle pastoral correction to a couple of Protestant young women in his customary winsome fashion.

https://t.co/697dOV4CiE

[Paul White Gold Eagle @PaulGoldEagle]

MY FRIENDS!

IT'S OFFICIAL!!!
PFIZER HAS JUST PUBLISHED THE LIST OF POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS,
OF ITS « COVID VACCINE »!!!

IT'S CRIMINAL!

1) Blood clot,
2) Acute kidney injury,
3) Acute flaccid myelitis,
4) Positive anti-sperm antibodies,
5) Brainstem embolism,
6) Brainstem thrombosis,
7) Cardiac arrest (hundreds of cases),
😎 Heart failure,

*** 9) Cardiac ventricular thrombosis...

10) Cardiogenic shock,
11) Central nervous system vasculitis,
12) Neonatal death,
13) Deep vein thrombosis,
14) Brainstem encephalitis,
15) Hemorrhagic encephalitis,
16) Frontal lobe epilepsy,
17) Epileptic psychosis,
18) Facial paralysis,
19) Fetal distress syndrome,
20) Gastrointestinal amyloidosis,
21) Generalized tonic-clonic seizure,
22) Hashimoto's encephalopathy,
23) Hepatic vascular thrombosis,
24) Shingles reactivation,

25) *** Cancer reactivation...

26) Turbo cancers,
27) Immune-mediated hepatitis,
28) Interstitial lung disease,
29) Jugular vein embolism,
30) Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy,
31) Liver damage,
32) Low birth weight,
34) Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children,
35) Myocarditis,
36) Neonatal seizure,
37) Pancreatitis,
38) Pneumonia,
39) Stillbirth,
40) Tachycardia,
41) Temporal lobe epilepsy,
43) Testicular autoimmunity,
44) Thrombotic stroke,
45) Type 1 diabetes mellitus,
46) Neonatal vein thrombosis,
47) Vertebral artery thrombosis,
48) Pericarditis,
49) Sudden infant death syndrome.

SEVERE CONSEQUENCES of a so-called vaccine that protects neither against the disease, nor its transmission, nor severe forms!

" I was insulted, called a dangerous conspiracy theorist, I lost friends for saying that, for any medication, there are side effects, for loudly proclaiming that a so-called vaccine, which kills more than the disease, has no reason to be used, nor made mandatory.

I lost my job as a surgeon because of it! "

Doctor RESIMONT

[Southern Chestnut 🇺🇸 @AppyOrtho]

People use to become grandparents in their mid 30s. Have a baby at 18 who has a baby at 18 and that’s 36! We have totally lost touch with how things use to be.

[Fr. Michael Lillie @FrLillie]

“Every Divine Liturgy is an atomic bomb dropped on hell.” - St. Nikolai Velimirovich

[David @ThePolemikOne]

Have you realized this about Orthodoxy?

Every single day is sacred.

Not just Pascha.
Not just Sundays.
Not just when life feels “spiritual”

Every day, the Church remembers:

Saints who lived and struggled like us
Scripture meant to guide us
Moments where heaven touched earth

This isn’t random.

This is intentional because in Orthodoxy, faith is not something you visit, it's something you live.

Daily.
In your home.
In your thoughts.
In your struggles.
In your repentance.

The calendar isn’t just telling you what day it is, it’s reminding you that today is another chance to become holy.

Holiness is not seasonal, it is daily.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Myth: "I only wear vegan fabrics. Better for the animals, better for the planet."

Let's check in on Doris's annual contribution.

Once a year, in late spring, Doris is sheared. The procedure takes approximately three minutes. Doris does not enjoy it. Doris does not, by any visible measure, suffer from it. Doris is, immediately afterwards, a noticeably more comfortable animal in the British summer.

The fleece weighs approximately 3 kilograms. It is sold to the British Wool Marketing Board for, depending on the year, between £0.40 and £2.50 per kilogram. The shearing costs more than the wool fetches. Brian is shearing Doris at a loss.

The wool is then:
- Naturally flame-retardant
- Naturally antibacterial
- Moisture-wicking
- Biodegradable
- Renewable, annually
- Carbon-storing while in use

The replacement, in performance fabrics:
- Polyester
- Polyamide
- Acrylic
- Polypropylene
- All petroleum-derived
- All shedding microplastics on every wash
- All requiring fossil fuel inputs to produce
- All non-biodegradable, with a typical landfill lifespan of 200-500 years

A single wash of a polyester fleece can release up to 700,000 microplastic fibres into the water system. These fibres are now in: every tested water source on earth, every tested human placenta, every tested rainfall sample, the deep ocean, the Arctic ice, and the lungs of marine mammals.

A single wash of a wool jumper releases: nothing. The wool, when eventually disposed of, returns to soil within a few years.

The fabric being marketed as the "ethical" alternative to wool is plastic.

The plastic is "ethical" because nobody has been asked to slaughter the polymer.

The polymer also has not been asked.

Doris, by being a sheep on a fell, is producing the most thoroughly sustainable performance fabric humans have ever made.

Brian is selling it at a loss.

The fashion industry, meanwhile, is selling petroleum at a profit and calling it ethical.

Reject plastic. Wear wool.

Doris is, this morning, growing next year's batch.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Your vegan oat-and-almond latte killed more bees, drained more groundwater, and required more long-haul lorry mileage than a year's worth of dairy milk from a Welsh cow that drank rain. You will not have heard about this, because the carton has "plant-based" on it in nice green lettering.

California's Central Valley produces 80% of the world's almonds. Every almond on every supermarket shelf, in every flapjack, blended into every oat-and-almond latte from London to Berlin, started life in one valley in central California.

A gallon of almond milk requires around 162 gallons of irrigation water. A gallon of British dairy milk uses around 8 gallons of tap water, and the rest comes from rain falling on grass that grows nothing else of nutritional value to humans. The cow drinks the rain. The almond tree drinks the aquifer.

California almonds consume approximately 1.1 trillion gallons of irrigation water annually. Roughly the same volume of water used by Los Angeles and San Francisco combined. Around two-thirds of the crop is then exported to Asia and Europe. A state in repeated drought emergencies, where over a million residents lack reliable access to clean drinking water, is locking its aquifer inside almonds and shipping it overseas in containers.

Almond trees bloom for three weeks in February. To pollinate 1.5 million acres of orchards in that window, California requires roughly two-thirds of every commercial honeybee in the United States to be physically transported into the Central Valley on flatbed lorries. The largest managed pollination event on earth, every year, conducted on the back of a truck.

The bees are released into groves sprayed with neonicotinoids, which scramble their navigation. Fungicides, which weaken their immune systems. Herbicides, which have already killed the wildflowers they would normally forage on between blooms.

Between June 2024 and March 2025, US commercial beekeepers lost 62% of their colonies. 1.6 million colonies dead. The largest honeybee die-off ever recorded in American history. The trigger period for the worst losses was the months immediately surrounding the almond bloom.

Meanwhile, beneath the orchards, the ground itself is sinking. The US Geological Survey has documented parts of the San Joaquin Valley that have subsided by up to 30 feet since groundwater pumping began in the 1920s. The valley lost as much elevation between 2006 and 2022 as it lost in the previous forty-five years. The Friant-Kern Canal has lost 60% of its flow capacity because the land beneath it sank faster than the canal could be redesigned.

Once those clay aquifer layers compact, the storage is permanently lost. The aquifer is being run as a one-way withdrawal, and California has been told this in formal hydrological reports for decades.

The land was never meant to grow almonds. The bees were never meant to live on flatbed trucks. The aquifer was never meant to be a tap.

But the carton says "plant-based" in nice green lettering.

So, presumably, you are saving the planet.

Carry on.

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

“Tradition doesn’t mean that the living are dead; it means that the dead are living.”
— Harold Macmillan, 1894-1986

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

mandatory Ursula K. Le Guin quote

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

The sexual revolution is dramatically increasing the power of the state.

Until now, who counts as a child’s legal parents was based on biological relationship. The woman who gives birth is the mother and her legal husband was presumed to be the child’s biological father.

This is called the presumption of parentage.

But in same-sex couples, at least one partner is not biologically related to the child—so until recently that person’s name did not go on the birth certificate.

Same-sex couples said that was discrimination. And in 2017, the SupCt agreed: If a same-sex couple is legally married, the non-biological partner is given the presumption of parentage.

Which means the state has claimed the authority to redefine parenthood—without regard to biology.

In principle, parenthood is now treated as something created by the state. You are your child’s parent if the state says you are.

Today with IVF and surrogacy, the state says the legal parent is the “intended” parent – the one who paid for the baby.

Parenthood used to be pre-political right, rooted in biology.

But when the law no longer recognizes biology, the state claims the authority to redefine those rights.

[Tanya @tanyaelisabethh]

I was pro choice until I found out at 20 years old that I lost a sibling through abortion

When it hit that close to home I was faced with feelings I had never had before.

What do you mean one of us is missing?

Abortion has a far greater impact than just a “personal medical choice between a woman and her doctor”, my brother or sister they were a real person, a real human, they shared the same parents as me, they were part of me, of our entire family.

Who knows what kind of wonderful things they would have done? the memories, stories, all of it is just gone, never to be allowed to exist because of one selfish decision.

Learning this also made me so confused as to why was I allowed to exist and live? Why did she make the choice to allow me to live and yet did not allow my sibling the same right? Why me and not them? You say you love me but had I come at another time would you have decided to not have me? How can you love someone when you can so easily decide if they live or die? How can you truly love a child if you are willing to live without them, and not only that, be the reason they die?