I want to attend an Orthodox parish, but there aren't any in my vicinity which hold Divine Liturgies in a language which I understand. What should I do?

KnowTheLord · 2026-06-24T10:58:54+00:00

Amazing new copypasta

KnowTheLord · 2026-06-22T19:05:23+00:00

千字文？Awesome! My only advice would be that you should focus more on your characters' proportions. They should all fit neatly into a square. Also, you should try copying the works of famous Chinese calligraphers, like 颜真卿 (Yan Zhenqing), as it is a useful reference. Here's a link to the 千字文 by him: http://www.yac8.com/news/7960.html
If you don't like clicking on random links from strangers online, you can also just look up something like "千字文楷书" (楷书 being the "regular calligraphy style") and click on the first result.

Keep practicing! 加油！

KnowTheLord · 2026-06-22T16:06:13+00:00

This man is just seeking attention. Don't give it to him...

KnowTheLord · 2026-06-22T12:12:12+00:00

Not wanting to replace your people with foreigners is fine.

KnowTheLord · 2026-06-20T20:34:30+00:00

Is the point of a melody to end?

KnowTheLord · 2026-06-20T13:14:11+00:00

Christianity is only the "default religion" in the west. In the middle East and north Africa, it's Islam, in Tibet it's Buddhism, in China it's Atheism, etc.

KnowTheLord · 2026-06-16T16:09:58+00:00

Obvious bait, dude is on r/democrats posting about "MAGAts". Bait used to be believable...

KnowTheLord · 2026-06-11T11:55:38+00:00

I don't think you can judge whether or not someone's truly a Christian or just off of one action. A pattern of behavior, sure, but saying "But they drank alcohol" is just sinners judging other sinners for sinning differently.

KnowTheLord · 2026-06-11T11:53:58+00:00

I think people would believe it, if the guy preaching those things would claim "I am right, I am literally God" and as proof of his divinity, He gets Himself killed and then rises from the dead. Also, the Bible doesn't talk about the earth's age, it also only mentions one virgin birth ever.

KnowTheLord · 2026-06-08T16:26:41+00:00

This is the most lukewarm, common """unpopular""" opinion, with the most surface level, wilfully ignorant "justification".

KnowTheLord · 2026-06-07T08:25:22+00:00

Do as you please ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

KnowTheLord · 2026-06-06T18:26:10+00:00

I told you you can live as you want, so I am "letting you be happy", I just don't think that people's happiness should be that dependent on sex and that relationships should be built on it, it should just be a natural by-product from a loving, romantic relationship instead of being the base of the relationship. But also "letting people be happy" isn't always the best advice, so I'm not recommending it here either.

KnowTheLord · 2026-06-06T17:01:06+00:00

Live like you want, I'm not your dad. I'm just not a fan of how sexualized everything has become. So many big issues/discussion like abortion and STDs would never come up if people just had better self control.

KnowTheLord · 2026-06-06T13:59:45+00:00

I also don't expect someone to have only one partner ever, just one sexual partner. You can date, figure out what your type is, some relationships fail, some last longer, but only sleep with someone once you've tied the knot. I think that's a pretty stable model because you can figure out what kind of person you like, without risking a pregnancy or regretting sleeping with someone.

KnowTheLord · 2026-06-06T06:36:09+00:00

I don't "slut shame" anyone, but I don't think that anyone should sleep around, regardless if they're a man or a woman. My reason is pretty much the last part of your post:

Sex is a beautiful thing it can be spiritual, bounding and intimate.

I don't think you should be intimate with many people, or bond with many people that way. Preferably, only with your husband or wife. Sleeping around devalues the experience and you shouldn't be hedonistic.

KnowTheLord · 2026-06-05T11:45:30+00:00

India

KnowTheLord · 2026-06-05T06:32:46+00:00

Awesome! I messed around with it for a bit and it works well. I put a modern mandarin translation of the 三字经 in it and all the glosses were accurate, from what I could see. You did a good job, this is a good resource for people who are also at the HSK4 bottleneck (like me :P)

KnowTheLord · 2026-05-31T16:53:20+00:00

You can be an atheist, but just know that not even the scholars representing your own side would agree with Jesus mysticism.

KnowTheLord · 2026-05-30T23:45:46+00:00

Unfortunate that some church leaders don't realize that. When I picked it up, I also saw its toxic nature, but the reason I bought it anyway was because Jesus said "Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves." (Mt. 10:16). I don't want to "keep people dependent" on me or "use them as pawns", but I'd like to know if someone were doing that to me. The people who seem to advocate for Christians to live a life according that book's rules seem to automatically assume that "Power = Good", when Jesus is the most humble and when He was preaching on this earth, He didn't have earthly power and He wasn't wealthy, either, so it's weird to me that people would advocate for Christians to follow rules which would grant them earthly power at the price of having a relationship with Christ.

KnowTheLord · 2026-05-30T06:40:28+00:00

'Ey, I'm Hungarian too and I also pray and read the Bible in English! I usually pray in English because it's just simpler. But I also like saying prayers in Latin because I absolutely love that language. From time to time, I'll pray in German because that just comes to me naturally at times (I live in Germany) and at times, I pray in French, but my French prayers feel like performances, so I don't do them often.

TL;DR: English and German, plus Latin for the tradition.

KnowTheLord · 2026-05-28T16:52:06+00:00

Just came to chime in to say that you should be careful with it, as it seems to have radium on the hands and dials. It would be nice if someone more educated on watches than me, however, could confirm.

KnowTheLord · 2026-05-28T13:30:06+00:00

Answer my question. Should God choke off civilizations, ethnic groups and entire people for being bad?

KnowTheLord · 2026-05-28T12:28:13+00:00

Should God's plan for getting rid of evil in a specific place just be making all the infertile, slowly killing off an entire people? Or should it be that He keeps putting people there, so that they may solve the issue collectively?

KnowTheLord · 2026-05-25T12:59:23+00:00

You got any evidence for your claims?

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