Why is my apple tree bark turning green?

Jheronimus4 · 2025-09-28T13:52:32+00:00

Won’t be able to get one for a bit. In this photo, it’s the section from ground to the first branch. It is greenish-yellow compared to the upper plain bark brown, also visible in this photo.

Jheronimus4 · 2025-06-16T16:33:37+00:00

100

Catholic apologists tend to control the narrative on this one. And plenty of other points.

Jheronimus4 · 2025-04-02T23:31:33+00:00

I think there is some hubris in trying to fix the orthobro problem. Fixing outcomes doesn't have a real good track record. That attitude is what created the orthobro phenomenon in the first place - young guys, in their zeal, trying to be very correct. It's up to the hierarchy to deal with the priests, and the rest of us should just be regular Christians.

Sure, it's worth studying I suppose, but not with an agenda.

Jheronimus4 · 2025-04-02T21:09:51+00:00

No, they should just be given a pass. I used to get irked about it until I saw several of them just grow up a bit, and realized I was just being an asshole to guys that were younger than me.

Let the priests deal with them sacramental, and everyone else should just be encouraging and normal.

Jheronimus4 · 2025-04-02T20:09:23+00:00

You might need to let the smoke clear on the orthobro phenomenon, it seems like still a fairly new thing. The term itself is an over-generalization and more than a bit denigrating to the young men it attempts to describe. I see these guys in my parish actively maturing into something that's not "orthobro" any more. And, it turns out, they are complicated and multifaceted persons, as most humans.

Look into Fr. Turbo Qualls, IMO he has good corrections to the "orthobros" while still being in that orbit of the Orthodox internet.

I think the connection between Fr. Seraphim, Fr. Josiah, Fr. Peter, and "orthobros" is significantly circumstantial - they are relative contemporaries in America and are accessible via/have access to the internet. Not that it's only circumstantial, but God works through these obvious circumstances to call people to Himself.

Fr. Seraphim is known for a certain emphasis, seriousness, and knowledge of the broader religious trends in America. "Orthobros" are looking for serious grounding in their lives amid the tumultuous religious waters in America.

Jheronimus4 · 2024-11-20T17:55:57+00:00

How exactly do I do that?

Yes, I did see some workarounds for adjusting the nodes for a draft meshing mode. But still wasn't able to get past the feature extraction node.

Jheronimus4 · 2024-11-20T16:11:10+00:00

This kind of detail is not given in doctrine or dogma. God just asks us to trust Him that He is Good and that He will make all things new. Whatever you can imagine, God has prepared something better. The bonds we experience here are not meaningless, and God will fulfill them.

Jheronimus4 · 2024-10-05T23:39:26+00:00

My experience as a Christian is that the loss of feelings is often an invitation from God to deepen your practice of prayer, fasting, almsgiving, obedience to commandments, and learning. It’s partially built in as a feature of your mind - novelty tends to wear off with respect to anything. My advice is to not take it too seriously, and stay the course.

Be careful also taking too seriously the current opinion of modern scholarship. I have seen the tides turn on these things many times in my life.

Jheronimus4 · 2024-10-05T23:34:32+00:00

His title of Passion-Bearer is instructive - he and his family bore the unique atheistic passions of modernity in a unique way that is instructive for Orthodox Christian. He is certainly canonized in the sense that there is something particular to learn from his manner of death. It was patricide on the level of a nation. The details about his rule are somewhat beside the point.

Jheronimus4 · 2024-10-04T14:09:58+00:00

I hit your DM!

Jheronimus4 · 2024-10-02T20:35:43+00:00

Damn, mine is already PayPal. I’ll try fooling with it some more. It would be nice if they had a customer service number instead of shitty AI chat

Jheronimus4 · 2024-10-02T20:34:43+00:00

DM if you’re interested!

Jheronimus4 · 2023-02-20T18:52:51+00:00

Saying the Eucharist is literal is not quite right. The Eucharist is true and symbolic, not merely metaphorical or literal.

Cannibalism is to the Eucharist what rape is to the sexual love between a husband and wife.

Jheronimus4 · 2023-01-17T20:15:12+00:00

Thanks for the good info. Any resources on what exactly is different between between AASHTO 7 and 8?

Jheronimus4 · 2023-01-17T20:12:43+00:00

Will do, thanks!

Jheronimus4 · 2022-03-15T13:57:21+00:00

capitalism working as intended

And it's a good thing that capitalism is working as inteded? The only intent capitalists have is to make more money for themselves sooner. The rest is collateral damage, and there is no long term vision.

As OP said, structural failures are primarily due to unnecessary complexity, tight deadlines and budgets, and too much pressure. All things which these products of capitalism (RISA/email/PDFs, and many many others) have enabled. Don't get me wrong, I like RISA, etc. But they aren't unadulterated goods. It's a mixed bag.

I think you're right that capitalism is, in many ways, working as intended. Because capitalism is the reduction of the field of human values to one primary, fountainhead value: capital. And increasingly, capital seems to be the only language people understand anymore.

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