@KellyPowersBPA@SilentDinosaur@JayDyer I watched it bro. Very much appreciated it. When I saw in orthodoxy apostolic succession and was exposed to church fathers I was graced with a yearning to know more. My soul knew. Watching earnest dialog is one of the things that continues to offer me healing. God bless.
@noetic_healing Right, agree.
I am a recent convert of one year. There is incredible wisdom in go be quiet and pray that I am starting to notice. Growing in Orthodoxy is like drinking from a firehose in my experience. My soul keeps recognizing the truth and my brain struggles to keep up.
Something many people might not know is that Father Zechariah Lynch lifts weights. One Orthodox guy I know who is a fellow Marine Corps vet has said that he encourages all clergy to get into a gym routine of some kind for their personal health and well-being.
Strongest argument yet that low IQ in urban areas is being drive by ghetto-inbreeding via combination of turbo-sexuality beginning around age 10 and unidentified blood relatives not sharing homes
I promised no spoilers as much as possible, but here is the basics for Disclosure Day. It is one of the most shocking pieces of propaganda I have seen in a while. It is the last call of the WWII consensus: aliens are your saviors and empathy is the only virtue.
In a post-Epstein world, it dares have a story of children seduced and kidnapped by aliens pretending to be Disney-style animals, taken to Hansel and Gretel's house (this is what it is called in the movie) to be "imbued" by aliens in a way so traumatic that they forget and repress it until they are adults, only to discover that this initiation has given them the power to:
See people's secret thoughts.
Pretend to be other people and use that to manipulate.
Make things in plain view disappear.
Translate foreign and alien languages.
Be a "passenger" for the alien's message to the world.
This is nothing to say about its take on Christianity and the suggested apostasy around accepting these beings.
Then finally the entire movie is a final desperate appeal to the traditional media as the only purveyors of truth. The entire drama of the film is a man who has irrefutable video proof of aliens looking to release it. The whole movie is a series of chases against the evil corporation that wants to keep it hidden. He ends up releasing it on the evening news! Yes, you heard me. He releases it on the evening news which is then transmitted to all the traditional media companies that are named: ABC, CNN, Fox News etc. Anyone under 70 will realize that the movie could have ended in 10 minutes with a laptop and wifi. It is really mad.
Don't go see it.
Riding the line between talking theology / doing debates, and all the other issues like geopolitics, lit, satire has been an odd thing. For some it is confusing, for others, not an issue.
However, after 10 years of mixed content, I feel that the time of online theology debate for me has come to a close. No one has of yet told me to say this - it’s a decision I’ve pondered for a while. I would rather focus on other topics I find interesting and religion is authentically at the parish level, not online anyway. It seems as if online theology debate is pretty much done. Onward to producing fun content on the other subjects!
@JayDyer I can only say thank you. I’m sad you have made this decision but I understand. Listening to you has led myself and so many others to Orthodoxy. Your work has been a blessing to so many. You put it in words I could understand and I’m grateful. God bless you.
“Orthodoxy in America, if left to itself, will simply turn into an ‘Eastern-rite Protestantism’ - that is, it will retain some of the externals of Orthodoxy, but inwardly will be scarcely different from the worldly Protestantism which is the predominant religion of America.”