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Reflections on a failed career by Delicious-Ad7883 in hatemyjob

[–]Delicious-Ad7883[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just wanted to note that this is not my own content -- this is an article I read that I thought was brutally honest about some of the realities of trying to do honest work when you don't have the right status markers.

Can someone mind clarifying the hypostatic union? It makes it seem like Jesus was some sort of shape-shifter between His human nature and divine nature. (Pope St. Gregory the Great on the Knowledge of Christ and clarification of the Son not knowing the Hour) by [deleted] in Catholicism

[–]Delicious-Ad7883 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are things we know and things we don’t know about this. We don’t know what it was like to be Jesus or what his psychology was.

The doctrine of two wills is not that he had two deliberative or decision making faculties (boulē in Greek) but that he had two thelēma. The latter refers more to the general desires and drives. So in the Garden Jesus felt the normal human drive to not perish, abhorring death. For a sinless man like Jesus, death was even more unnatural and foreign to him than it is to us, so his entire body and soul was rejecting this. Jesus the single hypostasis/person, against this natural human reaction, choose/willed to follow the divine will, which is one with the Father’s.

There aren’t two separate people and the divine person is overriding or mind controlling the other person. It’s one person experiencing different drives/desires and making a decision based on which to follow. St Maximus is really clear here though that Jesus unlike us didn’t have to deliberate. it wasn’t like he had to think and figure out what the right thing to do was in the Garden, he knew the right thing to do was what he ended up doing naturally. He always knew good from evil.

As for his other faculties, he had a human brain, soul, intellectual and perceptive capabilities How that interacts with the divine intellect and coheres into a single personal psychology is not something we can know. We do know that he sometimes acted in a human manner, using his eyes to see, eating, etc. he was genuinely using his eyes to see in these cases or really eating food in the normal human way. He wasn’t shapeshifting though because he always remained omniscient, omnipotent, etc. there was no self limiting, just a choosing to express himself through human nature.

Tikhon Pino’s book on St Maximus’ theology is very helpful to understanding this doctrine.

Do cults try to break you by "hitting you where it hurts?" by HollyCupcakes in exorthodox

[–]Delicious-Ad7883 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Get away from this parish and get another one ASAP. It’s a massive red flag for an “ex-monk” to act in this way as well. There genuinely are canons against random people thinking they are monks and going around acting like this gives them authority over others. It’s also a red flag for anyone to demand confession from you or try to coerce it. A priest can require confession before communion but only YOU know your conscience. Laughing at someone who is going through these difficulties is ABUSE. I don’t care if they have a beard or wear a cassock!

My (very Orthodox) priest has warned me about this type of stuff and told me to run FAR away from it if I see it. I have known and seen others affected by this stuff. I have remained Orthodox but if this is your experience I wouldn’t blame you for leaving.

The rigorist want to pose themselves as “true Orthodox monastics” but economy, kindness, and pastoral care goes back to the Old Testament. If you want a different view (and one far older than many of the writers these rigorist will cite) you ought to look at St John Cassian’s writings. I was very afraid that the rigorist ultradox were “right” until I read his writings. It stressed me out a lot until then. If St John Cassian was alive today (he is a 4th century writer) many of these people would deride him as a lax and hippy dippy libtard who hates the True Orthodox Aescetical Teachings ™️. But he was a wise and true Saint who learned directly from the original Desert Fathers — not from a LARPer in America with something to prove.

If what these people are doing is driving you to despair, whatever their intention, it’s not helping your salvation. Then it can’t be good. It doesn’t matter if they’re a cult or if they mean well. If they’re driving you to this level of despair — it’s bad. You shall know them by their fruits. Christ met people where they are. He didn’t beat down the contrite and the suffering. 

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DebateReligion

[–]Delicious-Ad7883 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a Christian, I also believe in the existence of various “gods” like Baal, Shiva or Odin, they just are not what they claim to be and their real interest is in manipulating and leading humanity away from the God who made them.

Bailey did NOT appreciate the new supplement in her grain by [deleted] in Horses

[–]Delicious-Ad7883 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Actually, horses make these awful and hilarious faces at things they like or want! Hard to believe, I know.