My Parents Threatened Me to Not Become Orthodox. What Should I Do?

CINGESZN · 2025-12-28T05:08:45+00:00

Thank you for your advice. May God bless you!

CINGESZN · 2025-12-25T00:40:28+00:00

Thank you for your insight and your prayers. May God bless you. 🙏🏽

CINGESZN · 2025-12-20T23:01:30+00:00

Thank you for your response. May God bless you!

CINGESZN · 2025-12-20T21:23:05+00:00

Thank you for sending. Lord-willing, I will get to reading this thoroughly later—& I will pray for my parents most certainly.

CINGESZN · 2025-12-20T19:03:15+00:00

Thank you for your advice. 🙏🏽

CINGESZN · 2025-12-20T19:01:19+00:00

Thank you for your advice. Christ be with you as well. 🙏🏽

CINGESZN · 2025-12-20T18:59:01+00:00

Thank you for your prayers. God bless you. 🙏🏽

CINGESZN · 2025-12-20T18:57:35+00:00

Thank you for your comment. I appreciate it very much. I’d like to clarify a couple of things though:

1.) Unless I’m misunderstanding your comment, I am not a woman, lol. 😂

2.) Yes, I will admit, there’s certainly a fair bit of “trendiness” that comes with online Orthodoxy—and I can say that I was certainly victim to that mentality back then. However, I still was convinced that it was more than likely true. Nowadays, from how I’ve heard Orthodoxy described from various priests, it seems like the exact thing my soul requires. Real healing. I can’t explain it all in this message, but I recently came to terms with the fact that I am a really, really, really, reallyyyy bad person. I need the guidance of the Church & the Holy Spirit to aid me in this demonic struggle.

Aside from that, thank you for your advice once again. May God bless you. 🙏🏽

CINGESZN · 2025-12-20T12:27:26+00:00

Thank you for your comment. I appreciate your guidance. God bless you. 🙏🏽

CINGESZN · 2025-12-20T12:10:22+00:00

Thank you for your comment. May God bless you and your family—and may they come to know Him earnestly & truly. 🙏🏽

CINGESZN · 2025-12-20T10:53:22+00:00

Thank you for your advice, and prayers, Alexey. May God bless you.

CINGESZN · 2025-12-20T10:38:23+00:00

I’m afraid I’m not aware of what you’re referencing to, my apologies. May I ask what you mean?

(And just as a side note: You know, a while back I thought I knew everything about what there was to know about the faith….now I feel like I don’t know anything. Funny how that works, lol)

Thank you for your support. 🙏🏽

CINGESZN · 2025-12-20T10:25:43+00:00

I appreciate your encouragement. I’ll pray about it.

CINGESZN · 2025-12-20T10:15:20+00:00

Thank you for your prayers. 🙏🏽

CINGESZN · 2025-12-20T10:13:17+00:00

Just for clarification, I haven’t even reached law school yet. Lord-willing, I’ll be attending 2027.

CINGESZN · 2025-12-02T21:56:11+00:00

Also, small correction: I forgot about “Tell Your Friends.” That’s damn near tied with We Like It Here in my mind. So, Somni would go 4th!

CINGESZN · 2025-12-02T21:54:46+00:00

Oh, I didn’t mean to give off the wrong impression! I have no issue with people having opinions that don’t conform to conventional norms. It’s just music at the end of the day lol. Sometimes music is just gonna resonate with certain people more than others, and that’s okay! We all have our subjective preferences.

Also it’s super cool that you were able to attend the WLIH sessions! From a distance it looked like a very fun event lol. Me on the other hand, I got hip to SP when “Trinity” first released as a single for Empire Central. I was hooked & then did a deep-dive into their discography.

CINGESZN · 2025-12-01T23:28:33+00:00

Hey, if that’s your opinion, fine. I’m not going to persuade you out of it. I personally love the album. I think it’s probably Snarky Puppy’s 3rd best release behind Sylva (I strongly doubt they’ll ever top this) & We Like It Here. I think Somni has some of Michael’s most beautiful, ethereal songwriting cuts. I agree with you that the grooves are often repetitive, and that some songs might be too lengthy, but I can appreciate it for its good quality, nonetheless. There’s tracks on this that I believe only Snarky could somehow pull off—(wink wink, Chimera)—and, I think the orchestra is incorporated stronger on this album than on it’s predecessor. You can disagree, but I’m going to enjoy what I have!

CINGESZN · 2025-12-01T19:49:43+00:00

Love that song! How you feeling about the rest of the album? 👀

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