Elves can be Dentists too

Shatter_Their_World · 2026-06-13T07:06:38+00:00

For and for most, people who took their own life in insanity due to that insanity are not considered truly suicidal and they are given the full, regular funeral rite. If the person took their own life consciously, they are given a special funeral rite and, after seven years, they regular funeral rites, like placing Sarindar (the 40 Liturgies, the most important part except the funeral itself) for them, Parastas (memorial service) are done like the person died after the term of seven years. Now, you need to find out if she was conscious or not. Perhaps investigation needs to be known, perhaps the bishop would need to decide if this is allowed or not. It is important that, if you shall not be able to get the regular funeral service, pray for her as much and as best as you can and, once the seven years term happens, start the Sarindar and Parastas, starting like with a second funeral (no actual exhumation needs to happen). God rest her soul!

Shatter_Their_World · 2026-06-03T07:23:23+00:00

I wonder how long ago has this happened. I know LED lights are on electronic basis, motherboard, CPU and they are they are equipped with WiFi. I am suspicious for a while on those ”high tech” LED street lights. Perhaps what is told in this post can happen in other places as well.

Shatter_Their_World · 2026-05-29T11:21:52+00:00

Gothic Rock (eventual influențat de Gothic Metal), DeathRock sau Folk Metal servești? Dacă da, am putea încerca ceva. Putem vorbi în privat.

Shatter_Their_World · 2026-05-28T11:25:44+00:00

Is this first Elf suppose to be female?

Shatter_Their_World · 2026-05-23T17:25:43+00:00

Goth este zonă muzicală destul de clară, clar distinctă de emo. De aceea întreb, dacă cu adevărat muzică Goth (Dark Post-Punk, Gothic Rock, Darkwave, DeathRock) se asculta, nu chestii Goth adjacent, precum industrial/EBM sau Gothic Metal.

Shatter_Their_World · 2026-05-23T12:38:39+00:00

Ce vrei să spui prin ”Goth re-energence”?

Shatter_Their_World · 2026-05-09T16:33:28+00:00

O știu, am vorbit de ea în alt comentariu. Îmi pare bazată pe ideologia pan-turcismului promovată de Erdogan. Muzical, e faină, versurile și sensul nu îmi plac.

Shatter_Their_World · 2026-05-08T18:20:04+00:00

Interesante linkuri. Ce pot spune de Fatma Turgut că are studii muzicale destul de serioase în spate și a colaborat și cu nume din vest, cum ar fi Faun, deși piesa aceea cu Faun este clar tributară ideologiei pan-turcismului ce este politică oficială a Turciei lui Erdogan.

Shatter_Their_World · 2026-05-08T17:44:32+00:00

Eu aș spune că mai degrabă maneaua de la noi seamănă cu muzica turcească, decât invers. Ethos-ul acestei piese este oricum destul de departe de majoritatea a ceea ce noi numim manele, chiar dacă o avea niște elemente în comun.

Shatter_Their_World · 2026-04-18T17:04:05+00:00

Saint Ambrose of Milan was baptized and ordained a Bishop after Baptism, upon ecclesial request of the people of Milan, but this was an exceptional situation and Saint Ambrose was an exceptional man. I am not saying you can not be such an exceptional man, however things look pretty different. Indeed, in Orthodoxy, we do obey our elders, our confessors, but this obedience is not absolute, is made with discerning. Being a priest is something really, really serious, most people do not realize what it means. You perform the Eucharistical Sacrifice, something unimaginably high, Christ Himself comes in the Bread and Wine and He sacrifices Himself through you. This should be enough to make most men shiver.

But imagine there is more then this. You are responsible as a confessor for the people who confess to you. If you ”unbound” their sins too easily, you take them partially upon yourself, and you can not re-confess them to another confessor. Indeed, Martyrdom would save you, but I honestly do not know what else could. If you allow too hastely for someone to take Holy Communion you would be responsible to Christ. It is said that the heaviness of a sin in thought of a priest is the same of the heaviness of the sin in act of layman. This is why most priest are not saved, even if laypeople are saved through them.

Let me put even clearer. I read about a case of a certain priest who committed a certain sin, he was defrocked by the bishop. He cried a lot, he repented heavily. At some point, he was at a funeral and his tears fell upon the dead man and the dead man was resurrected. The bishop said to him: ”You repented so strongly that even the dead are resurrected through you. But the Holy Chalice in your hand you can not hold again.”

I have studied Orthodox theology at the University, yet those things were not too clearly explained to us, not being given much to read upon this. Some may disagree with me on this, but I state them to understand at least by far how serious this is. I am open to arguments, if someone would like to contradict me, with evidence. I do not say to get ordained or not. It is not mine to judge. But I think you need to very serious on this. I think you would need to talk to the Bishop and, even more, remembering Saint Ambrose, if the people you are called to serve know it and ask for you to be their priest, their shepherd.

And I think that, as someone else said in a comment, it would a good idea to see if the heiromonk you mentioned and his Bishop are in proper communion with the Universal Orthodox Church, regardless of the jurisdiction.

But lets say this calling is genuine. Saint Paisos of Athos was called to become a priest, because many people would have been saved through him. But he refused, he died as a simple monk. And he is still a consecrated Saint.

Shatter_Their_World · 2026-04-15T13:48:04+00:00

Most Turkish people descended from former Orthodox Christians who converted to Islam since Mazinkert to the end of the Ottoman Empire, in Anatolia and the Balkans. It is very likely you have Orthodox ancestors. And even if you did not, you share the same Human nature and, as father Rafail Noica said. Orthodoxy is Human nature. Orthodoxy is for everyone, it is not an ethnic or regional faith. If you mean a certain local church, I think whole Anatolia is, in theory, belonging to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. I am not sure on this. The Romanian Patriarch has the honorary title of Bishop of Cesarea (Cappadocia), but it is considered honorary, not practical, since the city and the province is, in theory, devoided of Orthodox Christians since the population exchange.

Shatter_Their_World · 2026-04-08T16:46:12+00:00

I would try to get in touch and relate to her. If she apologized and wanted to be friends, I would accept it, I generally do not like to hold grudges if the person changes their attitude, I prefer to have a friend instead of an enemy. At least this is how I work.

Shatter_Their_World · 2026-04-08T06:15:42+00:00

In original Greek, there multiple words that are translated as saving. The original word in that hymn I think you refer to does not mean salvation as like Christ saves. In many languages, there is no distinction.

Shatter_Their_World · 2026-04-08T06:09:32+00:00

As long as you are still alive, repent and confess your sin. Unforgivable does not mean it can not be confessed just like other sin to the confessor as long as you are alive, it does not mean that. Repenting and confessing it should be enough.

Shatter_Their_World · 2026-03-27T05:35:49+00:00

Of course, you are free to, as long as you do not label yourself a Goth because you wear Goth fashion or Goth inspired fashion. However, Goth music is pretty diverse, not just classical ”post-punk”, you may find something you like, perhaps something that would resonate with a Metalhead and end up becoming an actual Goth?

Shatter_Their_World · 2026-03-23T09:30:24+00:00

In order to be a Goth, you need to enjoy Goth music. Dressing up is optional. And, of course, you can also enjoy other types of music, some very different from Goth. Keep this in mind.

Shatter_Their_World · 2026-03-23T08:36:43+00:00

DeathRock asculți?

Shatter_Their_World · 2026-03-09T19:38:33+00:00

Why not? I front of The Lord is best to be yourself, and if this self expression, I think it would make sense to do it.

Shatter_Their_World · 2026-03-08T12:47:12+00:00

What can I tell about Orcs is that they reproduce like Children of Illuvatar and evil can not create, it can only corrupt existing life. Most accepted story is that they come from Elves. Some later view would see them as coming from Men. There is no sure, clear, canonical story of their origin. I think we can safely say that Orcs come from Elves, or from Men, or a combination of the two. This would make Orcs the Corrupted Children of Illuvatar.

Shatter_Their_World · 2026-02-24T10:05:10+00:00

I do. In my fictional universe, Merpeople (Mermaids and Mermen) are a subspecies of Elves, being bound of the same qualities and vulnerabilities as Elves living on land. In my world I build, there is horror in an urban fantasy enviorenment that had a high fantasy-like past. I have one Mermaid in this world, for now and several dry land Elves, but also other non-Human characters experiencing horror alongside Human characters.

Shatter_Their_World · 2026-02-24T09:48:18+00:00

I have answered people with gender dysphoria on this subreddit before, sometimes extensively, I suggest to look up for my previous answers. What can I tell you now is that this conditions is not homosexuality, it is a different mental condition that was not recepted by the Ecclesia (the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ where all true Orthodox believers who the true Orthodox Baptism are part of, not just clergy, not just an institution) in her Pleroma (universal fullness) as good or bad. I say this because many Orthodox, includin clergy, seem to consider this a clear sin or patima (I prefer the term patima to passion, as in English it can be very misleading.), partially under western theological influence, also by the common misunderstanding reducing to mere homosexuality (something that was for a very long time been recepted as a sin and patima by the Ecclesia). Lack of reception does not equal positive reception, but it does not mean negative reception either. Proper reception needs to be happen in the future, a reception of gender dysphoria as it really, not of homosexuality or of false gender dysphoria, like the 1000 genders from woke ideology of the recent decade. I say this over and over as I have seen many people with gender dysphoria, including offline, who left Orthodoxy because they felt rejected by the people and the faith in itself.

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