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2026-10-19 11:10:22 GMT

Saint Dionysius the Areopagite
The holy hieromartyr Dionysius the Areopagite was baptized by the holy apostle Paul and is numbered among the Seventy Apostles. Before his baptism, Saint Dionysius grew up in a prominent family in Athens, attended philosophical school, and was married and had several children. He was a respected member of the highest court in Greece, the Areopagus. After converting to the True Faith, he was consecrated Bishop of Athens. He joined Saint Paul in missionary travel, leaving his family for Christ. In Jerusalem, he visited the Mother of God and was present at her Dormition. Witnessing the martyrdom of Paul in Rome, Dionysius desired to be martyred as well. He went to Gaul with his presbyter Rusticus and deacon Eleutherius, preaching the Gospel to the barbarians. There, his suffering was equalled only by his success in bringing so many pagans to the Christian faith. In the year 96, Saint Dionysius and his two companions were seized and tortured for Christ, and all three were beheaded.
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2026-10-18 20:08:17 GMT

Irving books with a new release:
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2026-10-17 02:52:46 GMT

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Absolute unit 👌

2026-10-17 02:48:08 GMT

“During the 6th century, the Jews saw Christianity spreading and embracing the whole world. They wanted, however, by every means, to halt this expansion. The rapid progress of the faith and teaching of Christ troubled them. At that time, the invisible Jewish council, the Sanhedrin, convened and created an anti-Christian religion: Mohammedanism. Few people, perhaps, know that the religion of Islam was not the work of the illiterate and crude Muhammad, but of the Jews. Few have learned that Mohammedanism is a Jewish construct, because all sources of information on this matter are deliberately destroyed by those concerned. Who today knows that Muhammad himself was Jewish on his mother’s side.”
“Who knows that at least three of his wives were Jewish, and that he himself was possessed?
Who has ever learned that his entire circle consisted of Jewish satanists (magicians, astrologers, and occultists), led by the notorious Jewish cousin of his wife, Waraqah?
The satanic luciferian agents of the “Sanhedrin” succeeded in making the illiterate, uneducated, epileptic, and demon-possessed Bedouin Muhammad into a false prophet. They elevated him in order to spread, by the violence of the sword, a false religion and thus strike Christianity.
But what was the result of this hostile stance of the Jews against Christ? What did the luciferians of the Sanhedrin gain from the creation of Islam?
They created the worst and most deadly enemy of Judaism.
The first Jewish blood was shed by Muhammad himself, and his followers continue this work today.
It has not been long since 510 million Arabs took a solemn oath to eliminate from the face of the earth even the last Jew.
600 million Muslims, whom the Jews created to strike Christianity, are ready to destroy the Israelites instead—and not the Christians, as had originally been planned.
You see, therefore, reader, that God has returned upon their own heads the arrows they hurled against Christianity.”
☦️Archimandrite Charalambos Vasilopoulos, From the book: Ecumenism Without a Mask
Thought he is a papist, I think this solidifies E. Michael Jones thesis in his book "Logos Rising".

2026-10-16 13:27:51 GMT

The Symbolic World: 487 - Divine Patterns in The Life of Moses (Archive)
Starting from: 00:00:00
Episode webpage: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/page0/episodes/487---Divine-Patterns-in-The-Life-of-Moses-Archive-e3qefpe
Media file: https://anchor.fm/s/114dd2538/podcast/play/127401198/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-9-13%2F04bf1cc2-410f-f912-d62b-48bc7e10af55.mp3#t=0
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2026-10-16 12:20:15 GMT

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2026-10-04 16:31:35 GMT

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Yes, the Church is the continuation of the incarnation of Jesus Christ.

2026-09-29 11:58:35 GMT

Catena Bible app just released an absolutey massive update. Highly recommend giving it a look.

2026-09-24 15:14:11 GMT

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2026-09-22 00:22:10 GMT

Christ is in our midst ☦️
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2026-09-22 00:21:16 GMT

Yikes
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2026-09-18 01:31:48 GMT

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Cormac McCarthy is 👌👌

2026-09-17 21:59:38 GMT

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Take a look around at System76 machines.

2026-09-09 12:52:01 GMT

Read Edward Bernays and understand his great nephew is the head of Netflix.

2026-09-04 15:30:17 GMT

"Today more than at any other time the Church and the Orthodox faith are in danger from the impious and unbelievers, the masons and communists, from the false prophets and false Christs, the millenarians, the spiritualists, from wolf shepherds and devious workers of darkness and of delusion, of falsehood and of deception...Today the things which the Prophets, Apostles, and Saints prophesied are being fulfilled. But again the Ruler and Founder of our faith, the Victor over death and over Hades, He who is strong and mighty in battles, the King of Glory, the King of kings and Lord of lords will be victorious and trample upon the enemies, just like the vessels of the potters. He will crush them and annihilate them. While we should stand well, stand piously in the fear of God and not be shaken but as grateful and faithful servants let us struggle, that we may be granted crowns of glory and co-reign with Christ unto the ages of ages. Amen."
—Geronda Philotheos Zervakos
Paternal Counsels Vol. II (p. 12)

2026-09-02 19:05:28 GMT

Blessed Feast!
Fr. Seraphim Rose reposed on September 2, 1982, at the age of 48 at St. Herman of Alaska Monastery.
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2026-08-28 16:39:46 GMT

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Same

2026-08-27 11:35:19 GMT

Probably nothing.
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2026-08-26 19:37:22 GMT

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Block-fi?

2026-08-23 23:29:10 GMT

“So do not be afraid of them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known"
Mathew 10:26
Esoteric Bros in disbelief.

2026-08-22 22:58:32 GMT

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Based and Architecture pilled 🤝

2026-08-18 16:57:26 GMT

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Lion King

2026-08-15 15:12:01 GMT

A most blessed feast if the Dormition if the Mother of God!
Not too many years ago the Abbess of a convent of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, a woman of righteous life, was delivering a sermon in the convent church on the feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God. With tears she entreated her nuns and the pilgrims who had come for the feast to accept entirely and wholeheartedly what the Church hands down to us, taking such pains to preserve this tradition sacredly all these centuries—and not to choose for oneself what is “important” and what is “dispensable”; for by thinking oneself wiser than the tradition, one may end by losing the tradition.
Thus, when the Church tells us in her hymns and icons that the Apostles were miraculously gathered from the ends of the earth in order to be present at the repose and burial of the Mother of God, we as Orthodox Christians are not free to deny this or reinterpret it, but must believe as the Church hands it down to us, with simplicity of heart.
☦️ Fr. Seraphim Rose
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2026-08-14 19:21:28 GMT

Banger from St. Maximos the Confessor
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2026-08-13 21:20:58 GMT

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2026-08-13 13:04:48 GMT

The Lord also sends temptations: he who belongs to God will be sent sorrows; the one for whom things go smoothly, like spreading butter, belongs to the devil. And when the Lord wishes to remove someone from the devil, he is charged with sorrows. Sorrows are Christs chalice on the earth. Whoever is a partaker of this chalice on the earth will also partake of this chalice in Heaven.
☦️St. Ignatius Brianchaninov

2026-08-10 14:18:39 GMT

Cremation is a demonic psyop. GM

2026-08-10 14:16:58 GMT

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1.5BTC is absurd though.

2026-08-08 17:18:24 GMT

In our times, when there are such strong doubts about even the existence of Truth, when every "truth" is considered relative and it is considered proper for each person to hold to "his own truth," the struggle for the Truth acquires a particularly important meaning. And the person who does not sympathize with this struggle, who sees in it only a manifestation of "phariseeism" and suggests "humbling oneself" before Falsehood by falling away from the Truth, should naturally be recognized as a betrayer of the Truth, whoever he might be, whatever he might call or consider himself.
☦️Archbishop Averky

2026-08-06 19:36:27 GMT

"True faith takes root in the heart, not in the mind. He who holds faith only in the mind will follow the Antichrist, but he who carries faith in the heart will recognize him."
☦️St Gabriel of Georgia
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2026-08-06 13:38:27 GMT

#asknostr
Push mower recommendations
Small tractor/mower recs

2026-08-05 03:44:57 GMT

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2026-08-04 16:45:15 GMT

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2026-08-01 16:50:06 GMT

There is a piece of me wanting to revert back to being a gold bug 😌

2026-07-28 18:00:35 GMT

Notice what the world hates and find out where the realm of Christ is: the stronger the hate, the closer its object is to Christ, in better agreement with His spirit. Though it is an external indicator, it is good enough as a first step.
☦️St. Theophan the Recluse

2026-07-28 01:54:55 GMT

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I like Shawn but this does not pass the smell test 🤝

2026-07-28 01:17:02 GMT

I just listened to Shawn Ryan on Tucker today and Shawn mentioned an app called glacier. Anybody have experience with the phone? Thoughts on the app?
Probably spookware but I am curious.
https://www.theglacierapp.com/

2026-07-24 13:23:15 GMT

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Yes. In turning to Christ there are two choices: Monasticism or marriage.

2026-07-22 16:40:22 GMT

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Yes
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2026-07-22 16:30:28 GMT

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That quote can be found in Lewis' introduction here.

2026-07-21 22:16:22 GMT

Lots of great commentaries on the Gospels out there, no doubt, but this is my go to for daily devotional reading. Archbishop Averky also has commentaries for Acts of the Apostles, all of the Epistles, and St. John's Apocalypse. Highly recommend picking up the set.
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2026-07-21 18:01:23 GMT

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Counterflow with Buck Johnson
Lord of Spirits
Heavy Things Lightly w/John Heers

2026-07-21 12:48:18 GMT

One is not like the other.
The priest in an Orthodox Liturgy when consecrating the Holy Gifts: "This is my body broken for you for the forgiveness of sin". ☦️
Pro abortion feminists: My body my choice!😈
John 15:13 KJV — Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

2026-07-21 11:24:45 GMT

The likelihood of folks who drive with their hazards on in the rain having at least 3 COVID boosters... Near 100%.

2026-07-19 13:38:19 GMT

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It seems SI accepts the virgin birth of Christ so we would see eye to eye here. I'm not certain where he stands on things. In an earlier video of his he claims to follow "Nazarene Jewish Christianity" which effectively held the same views as the Orthodox Church, whereas in a debate video, he held an Arian view 🤷‍♂️
I saw he wrote a paper on "biblical materialism" but I cannot find it. If you know where to find it I'd look it over so I can better understand what he means by the term.

2026-07-18 23:30:28 GMT

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I've got no reason to block you nor will I. The meme I sent over was for a comedic effect, though id be lying if I didn't think there was truth buried in it.
Lots to unpack here but on Christ's Church being invisible, I'd obviously disagree. The advent of Christ is physical/material as is His baptism, transfiguration, miracles, passion, etc. His Church is no different as it marries, or is symbolic of Heaven and Earth meeting.
I don't disagree with corruption in the Church, it has always been the case and will continue to be an issue, after all, we've been in the end times since the Incarnation.

2026-07-18 18:57:15 GMT

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I am a lawbreaker, that's for sure. I am also interested in hearing your posistion and why you hold it.

2026-07-18 18:28:49 GMT

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I didn't realize you held an Aryan view. My apologies. Are you an Aryan yourself or some sect of Islam?

2026-07-18 18:14:58 GMT

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"Southern Israelite" by his own admission, is a pure materialist. A post Enlightment communist adjacent posistion to hold. Sad stuff.

2026-07-18 17:08:50 GMT

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2026-07-18 15:02:12 GMT

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Always feast after a fast 🤝

2026-07-17 18:41:06 GMT

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"Penal Substitutionary Atonement"

2026-07-17 15:46:43 GMT

https://youtu.be/XdA-Kkz9fi0

2026-07-17 14:52:15 GMT

Going back through some of the books I read as an inquirer to the Church and dang, this is just incredible stuff. This is so full of meat and is only ~100pgs.
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2026-07-13 23:52:09 GMT

Wild to see Jay on Tucker. 👀☦️
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2026-07-13 13:09:39 GMT

"For love to grow, you have to give it away. A person who does not give away even the little love they have is like someone holding a handful of seeds in their hand and not wanting to sow them."
☦️St Paisios of Mt Athos
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2026-07-11 15:14:16 GMT

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Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the billions of years of cosmos are all part if the same gay grift.

2026-07-09 21:58:41 GMT

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Did bitcoin play a role in your conversion to Christianity?
Is there anybody here that found bitcoin and turned agnostic/atheist?
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2026-07-09 13:19:25 GMT

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2026-07-07 13:04:36 GMT

“Western society has chosen for itself the organization best suited to its purpose and one I might call legalistic. The limits of human rights and rightness are determined by a system of laws, such limits are very broad. People in the West have acquired considerable skill in using, interpreting, and manipulating law (though laws tend to be too complicated for an average person to understand without the help of an expert). Every conflict is solved according to the letter of the law and this is considered to be the ultimate solution. If one is right from the legal point of view, nothing more is required, nobody may mention that one could still not be entirely right, and urge self-restraint or renunciation of these rights, call for sacrifice and selfless risk: This would simply sound absurd. Voluntary self-restraint is almost unheard of: Everybody strives toward further expansion to the extreme limit of the legal frames. (An oil company is legally blameless when it buys up an invention of a new type of energy in order to prevent its use. A food product manufacturer is legally blameless when he poisons his produce to make it last longer. After all, people are free not to purchase it.)
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is also less than worthy of man. A society based on the letter of the law and never reaching any higher fails to take advantage of the full range of human possibilities. The letter of the law is so cold and formal to have a beneficial influence on society. Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes man's noblest impulses. And it will be impossible to bear up to the trials of this threatening century with nothing but the support of a legalistic structure,”
A. Solzhenitsyn, Harvard Address.

2026-07-05 22:18:12 GMT

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2026-07-03 16:42:52 GMT

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Yes!

2026-07-03 14:26:07 GMT

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I've thought a lot about this too 😮‍💨

2026-07-01 18:31:19 GMT

Found some wild blackberries on our property line. 👌
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2026-07-01 17:41:08 GMT

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Adding "and the Son" in early 11th century isn't suspicious at all 😉

2026-07-01 13:11:01 GMT

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No, it's published by an Orthodox Christian publisher, but worth a look.

2026-07-01 11:45:25 GMT

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https://newromepress.com/holy-bible-readers-edition

2026-06-30 23:47:56 GMT

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St. Luke's Gospel
Luke 2:25-52 KJV — And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ. And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel. And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him. And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against; (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed. And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem. And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth. And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it. But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance. And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him. And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers. And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing. And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business? And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them. And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.

2026-06-30 15:58:17 GMT

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God promised he would not die until he held the Messiah.

2026-06-30 13:23:27 GMT

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Fun fact, St. Simeon the God receiver was one of the 70 who helped compile the Septuagint.

2026-06-29 13:05:15 GMT

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GM
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2026-06-24 01:25:11 GMT

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2026-06-24 01:07:15 GMT

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Why should we accept any premise of Darwinism?

2026-06-22 14:31:16 GMT

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🤣

2026-06-21 19:50:16 GMT

☦️
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2026-06-21 17:17:35 GMT

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So few understand this 🫂

2026-06-21 04:44:10 GMT

☦️
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2026-06-20 17:32:41 GMT

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A type of "Antichrist".

2026-06-19 17:53:02 GMT

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You may enjoy "The Lord of Spirits" podcast, Fr. De Young is a joy to listen to. They are long format ( ~3hrs).

2026-06-19 16:53:43 GMT

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Heiser?

2026-06-19 12:49:35 GMT

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Good to know! I am in a clay heavy area too 🤝

2026-06-19 11:50:12 GMT

St. Justin Martyr > Marcus Aurelius
https://thisblessedday.substack.com/p/june-1-the-execution-of-justin-the

2026-06-18 23:44:26 GMT

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2017-2022 bitcoin twitter was absolute peak. 🫂

2026-06-13 18:12:47 GMT

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2026-06-13 17:30:40 GMT

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I need a tractor in a bad way 😌

2026-06-13 17:28:18 GMT

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Therefore to this day the children of Israel do not eat the muscle that shrank, which is on the hip socket, because He touched the socket of Jacob's hip in the muscle that shrank. - Genesis 32:32
Just as the truth is quite plain in this case, however, so with the good man a kind of apparition occurred that had the effect of convincing the good man of the degree of care he enjoyed from God and the fact that Jacob would be unvanquished by all those plotting against him. Then, in order that the vision he had would not be forgotten by anyone in the future, “his thigh made him limp. For this reason the sons of Israel do not eat the nerve that stiffened on the flat of his thigh, because he lay hold of the flat of Jacob’s thigh, and it stiffened.” You see, since the good man had completed his lifespan and was about to leave this life, and since the providence accorded him by God and the marvelous considerateness should be known to the whole human race, accordingly it says, “The sons of Israel do not eat the nerve that stiffened on the flat of his thigh.” Aware of their ingratitude and the way, they forgot God’s kindnesses; he therefore devised a constant reminder for them to have of the kindnesses done by him and arranged for these reminders to be preserved in their observances of this kind. You can find this throughout the whole of Scripture. In fact, this in particular is the explanation of the great number of observances. They represent God’s wish that future generations would unfailingly meditate on God’s kindnesses and, by consigning them to oblivion, not have recourse again to their own errors—a particular weakness of the Jewish people. I mean, those who give evidence of their typical ingratitude in the face of these very kindnesses would all the more readily, had this not happened, have banished from their mind all that had been done for them by God.
☦️ St John Chrysostom

2026-06-10 17:04:27 GMT

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Based 🤝

2026-06-10 16:57:20 GMT

This is a reason why the Orthodox venerate relics of the saints ☦️
"The holy apostle Paul worked many miracles, and it was not only his hands which were wonder-working, healing every infirmity by their touch alone; but even his handkerchiefs and aprons, which had absorbed the sweat of his body, partook of the same miraculous power: for, when they were placed upon the ailing, they immediately healed them and expelled unclean spirits from the people.
Seeing this, several itinerant Jewish exorcists invoked the name of the Lord Jesus over those possessed by evil spirits, saying 'We adjure you by Jesus, Whom Paul preacheth!'
But the evil spirit answered them, saying: 'Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are ye?' And the man afflicted by the unclean spirit cast himself upon them, and, gaining mastery over them, received such power over them that he beat them and wounded them, so that, naked, they were barely able to escape the hands of the possessed man.
This became known to all the Jews and Greeks of Ephesus, and fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was glorified, and many came to believe on Him.
And even many of those who were sorcerers, after accepting the holy Faith, cast off their books of spells into a fire; and when the price of them was computed, it was found to be about fifty thousand drachmas. Thus did the word of the Lord grow mightily and spread."
— Excerpted from The Life and Sufferings of the Holy, Glorious, All-Praised and Pre-Eminent Apostle Paul
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2026-06-10 03:52:01 GMT

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Whatchu reading bro?

2026-06-08 23:32:30 GMT

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1 1/2 or 1 3/4

2026-06-08 23:02:00 GMT

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2026-06-07 06:15:22 GMT

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Picanha

2026-06-06 18:56:53 GMT

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It is nothing more than the philosophy of the materialist.

2026-06-06 13:27:48 GMT

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https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelofamerica/p/the-south-was-right
Reposting this too👌
#nevent1q…8htl

2026-06-06 12:31:59 GMT

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2026-06-06 05:32:44 GMT

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Darwinian evolution is fake and gay.

2026-06-05 14:51:01 GMT

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2026-06-05 14:27:09 GMT

An excerpt from a recent article I read on substack by a fellow named Joshua.
"Addiction is proof that humans are capable of deep devotion — they just submit it to false gods."
Most people hear this as a clever observation. But for those who have sat with the Holy Fathers, it lands differently — as a precise theological diagnosis. And one that comes, praise be to God, with a cure.
You Were Built for This
Orthodox theology teaches that humans are not a machine prone to random errors. You were fashioned with intention, with love — for union with God Himself. The Fathers call this theosis: the progressive transformation of the human person into the likeness of Christ, not by ceasing to be human, but by becoming fully what humanity was created to be.
At the center of this transformation is the kardia — the heart. Not the sentimental organ of Western romanticism, but the deepest seat of the person, where intellect, will, and love converge. This heart loves. This heart worships. This heart yearns.
And here is the critical insight of the Orthodox tradition: that yearning cannot be switched off. It was placed there by God. It can only be aimed.
The Passions
Orthodox theology has a precise word for what happens when desire is misdirected: the pathe — the passions. Not emotions in the modern sense, but God-given drives that have become disordered through the fall. Gluttony is hunger for the infinite, fixed upon food. Lust is eros aimed at the flesh. Greed is the longing for permanence, aimed at wealth.
Addiction, in this framework, is not a character flaw. It is not weakness. It is the spectacle of a soul built for God burning with the same intensity as the greatest saints — attaching that burning to something finite. The intensity is never the problem. Only the object is wrong.

2026-06-03 17:58:46 GMT

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St. Gregory Palamas is the 🐐 regarding the polemic/apologetic realm of the hesychastic tradition.

2026-06-03 16:25:09 GMT

What are y'alls take on Thiel leaving the country for Argentina? #asknostr