@genXcessive@noetic_healing I do have the same question. Of course I'm ignorant, but I don't see how it's more difficult than trying to be Orthodox and loving/prayerful while working in, let's say a ghetto retail store.
Not to say it's easier... Just different?
@elonmusk Grok is broken. It relies too much on our chat history for fresh prompts. And it seems to be catering to the lowest common denominator, i.e. no I didn't mean "epitome," I actually meant "epitemia."
You: "I don't believe in conspiracies."
Me: "Have you read any writings of the geopolitical elite?"
You: "No."
Me: "Then you aren't competent to speak on this topic."
The next time you hand-wave what I say, let me know when you have finished working through these texts.
Here is a *selection* of 45 mainline geopolitical (almost all are non-conspiratorial) texts I've lectured through for you as a starter:
1. Tragedy & Hope by Dr Carroll Quigley
2. Anglo-American Establishment by Quigley
3. Between Two Ages by Zbigniew Brzezinski
4. Memoirs by David Rockefeller
5. Authorized Biography of the Rockefellers by Collier & Horowitz
6. Philosophy of UNESCO by Julian Huxley
7. On Living in a Revolution by Julian Huxley
8. Wall Street & Bolsheviks by Dr Antony Sutton
9. Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler
10. Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzeziลski
11. New World Order by HG Wells
12. The Open Conspiracy by HG Wells
13. Scientific Outlook by Bertrand Russell
14. Survival of the Wisest by Jonas Salk
15. Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer by Dr John C Lilly
16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
17. John C Lilly's Autobiography
18. The Phoenix Program by Douglas Valentine
19. Turning Point by Fritjof Capra
20. Game of Nations by CIA Operative Miles Copeland
21. Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab
22. Soldiers of Reason: The Rand Corporation by Alex Abella
23. Pentagon's Brain: DARPA History by Annie Jacobsen
24. Psychological Warfare and the New World Order by Servando Gonzales
25. Full Spectrum Dominance by F William Engdahl
26. Last Hegemon by F William Engdahl
27. Secret Affairs by RIIA Researcher Mark Curtis
28. Devil's Game by Robert Dreyfuss
29. Invisible History: Afghanistan's Role by Gould & Fitzgerald
30. Propaganda by Edward Bernays
31. Weaponizing Anthropology by Dr David Price
32. Brief History of the Future by Jacques Attali
33. Doors of Perception / Heaven & Hell by J Huxley
34. Milner-Fabian Conspiracy by Ioan Ratiu
35. Plato's Republic
36. Theory & Practice by J Habermas
37. Aquarian Conspiracy by M Ferguson
38. Postmodern Imperialism by Walberg
39. The Next Million Years by Charles Galton Darwin
40. Impact of Science on Society by Bertrand Russell
41. Operation Gladio by Paul Williams
42. Millennium with Salk, Rogers, Ferguson, Harman
43. John Courtney Murray, Time/Life & The American Proposition: CIA's Doctrinal Warfare Program by David Wemhoff
44. MI6 by Stephen Dorrill
45. Human Augmentation: UK MOD Declassified White Paper
@whoisssash I was wondering who tf is telling the truth and posting sensible content, and then I saw you don't have a massive following. Makes sense ๐
@jaydyer Your Kokesh debate made me question my worldview in 2016/2017. I listened to a lot of your lectures on Orthodoxy for years after that.
But I'd probably have to give credit to Pageau for getting me to actually walk through the church door in 2022.
@The_CJJC@BerzekSavant@noetic_healing I agree it's not the least confusing phrase. But the issue is of translation. The word is used in 2 senses: God's creation vs. the fallen world.
"May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world"
@The_CJJC@BerzekSavant@noetic_healing Orthodoxy isn't a materialist paradigm. It sees the structure of reality as constituted by persons. So "the world" implies the mystical, relational aspects between persons and everything else.
We don't look for sin in the external world, but in how we are relating to it.