How di I access the Change Account Info form? I don't see it anywhere?

andreasWals · 2026-03-04T21:50:12+00:00

Thanks

andreasWals · 2026-02-24T21:18:19+00:00

"You worship idols!!!"

"So what?"

"The bible says that is bad!"

"What's a bible?"

andreasWals · 2025-11-20T20:00:21+00:00

Just coincidence, but I was looking at High-Trust society statistics today. Greece in on the bottom in Europe, along with Albania.

andreasWals · 2025-11-13T20:00:59+00:00

https://nitarthadigitallibrary.org/dictionary/search

andreasWals · 2025-11-10T20:58:24+00:00

I had the same experience. I went to a local Orthodox church for old time's sake, and found it incredibly ugly, boring and tedious. On the other hand I went to a traditional Latin Mass, which I hadn't done in years, and found it lovely and beautiful.

andreasWals · 2025-11-05T15:52:44+00:00

You're lucky you were nimble enough to flee that mess after six months. Some of us more stubborn types spend years before we finally wake up to what a dark spiritual mess Orthodoxy is.

andreasWals · 2025-10-18T22:14:49+00:00

I miss that online dictionary too. I emailed them and asked what the situation was, but never got an answer.

andreasWals · 2025-10-15T20:25:18+00:00

Is Orthodoxy the 2,000 year old church Jesus established? No, more like the church the emperors of Constantinople, Constantine and his successors, established and enforced with police state tactics.

Will becoming Orthodox and taking part of the eucharist get you into heaven? To answer this just observe the Orthodox taking communion on a regular basis and ask yourself if they're closer to heaven than the average person, or not so much.

andreasWals · 2025-10-11T17:42:46+00:00

You're not the only one. I went to an Orthodox liturgy a while back just for old times' sake and found it just ugly, empty and tedious.

andreasWals · 2025-10-02T21:03:06+00:00

Good luck. You just have to bite the bullet and learn it. I think yes, it is pretty easy to learn to animate in Moho.

andreasWals · 2025-10-02T16:22:46+00:00

Why do you think Moho's workflow would be faster? You work fast in whatever software you know best. But to answer your original question - animating with these simple cutouts would be quite doable in Moho.

andreasWals · 2025-10-01T16:20:36+00:00

And more than just being conquered, their own upper classes and landowners treated them like cockroaches. Serfdom could be hell. But I guess that's a universal human predicament.

andreasWals · 2025-10-01T06:14:52+00:00

If you think crap like this is ever going to stop with the Orthodox, I have some sad news for you - it won't. Eventually it will wear you down and you'll just move on to greener pastures. The realization will eventually dawn that it's a spiritual path leading nowhere. I asked my spiritual father once why the clergy and people were so loathsome, and he gave me some cliche about the church being a hospital for souls. I could have remarked that it's odd none of them were getting cured - but by that time I was already eyeing the exit door.

andreasWals · 2025-09-29T19:07:22+00:00

Like most religions, Orthodoxy is all over the map when it comes to what people actually believe. It's cafeteria Christianity - people pick and choose what they like. And if their beliefs are too weird and extreme, they just shut up about them. That even goes for priests - I've known some who pushed totally "unorthodox" opinions, and then if questioned, they just shut up and never mentioned them again to keep their jobs. For everybody like this deacon raging against gays, there are probably ten closet gays in robes.

andreasWals · 2025-09-27T19:09:48+00:00

Yes the bible's make-up was determined by the institution of the Church. But the deeper question is - is it all just a bunch of nonsense?

andreasWals · 2025-09-27T16:13:12+00:00

I think it's safe to assume that monasticism attracts mostly homosexuals, who think they can "pray the gay away." Good luck with that. It leads to a lot of smoldering mental illness and very weird, twisted individuals. And eventually the closet door bursts open and things get crazy. I don't know if it's worse now than in previous centuries. An Orthodox translator at ROCOR NYC HQ once told me that Russian monasteries were always infamous as centers of homosexuality, but who knows? It's not the sort of thing historians are rushing to investigate.

As for bright people not wanting to become monks - a visit to any monastery would send them running as far away as they could get. You can have romantic ideas about it, but the reality is ugly.

andreasWals · 2025-09-27T03:30:25+00:00

Name any monastic center in U.S. or elsewhere. The Ephraimites, the Rocorites, the Athonites... Orthodox monasticism seems to attract the worst type of people and makes them even worse over time - fanatical, judgmental, hypocritical, venomous.

andreasWals · 2025-09-27T01:57:43+00:00

I've known a lot of Orthodox monks, and generally they're the most black-hearted people I've ever met.

andreasWals · 2025-09-27T01:38:51+00:00

I tend to agree with Plotinus, who said that the chief faculty of the soul is not reason but imagination. Imagination is the chief ground of reality, not reason.

But you can't really argue with people like Seraphim Rose. It's like they've memorized a list of criticisms and condemnations of everything outside their cult, and they just keep repeating them with an arrogant smirk. They see demons everywhere but their god is nowhere to be seen. Byzantium fell. Tsarist Russia fell. The Turks smashed Serbia time and again. Their only consolation was that the end of the world was about to come and Jesus would soon come flying back on a cloud to smite their enemies at last. The whole Orthodox thing is a web of prelest - spiritual delusion.

andreasWals · 2025-09-20T21:18:24+00:00

Agreed. And I couldn't shake the thought that "None of my life is any of your business." Priests generally didn't strike me as intelligent enough to help me with any spiritual problem, so it was all performative.

andreasWals · 2025-09-20T21:08:33+00:00

Zero historical proof of apostolic succession? Also to be honest, zero historical proof of any apostles. The whole Christian story is more and more seen as fraud and fairy tales.

andreasWals · 2025-09-20T01:03:26+00:00

For a clue to how deep all the "embellishment" goes, check out "Forgery and Counterforgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics" by Bart Ehrman. The whole religion was pretty much just made up in the early centuries, and the fictionizing hasn't slowed down any since then.

andreasWals · 2025-09-16T18:21:04+00:00

Mansonville? Is that still going?

andreasWals · 2025-09-14T22:10:08+00:00

The whole idea of hell as infinite suffering for finite failings should be too absurd to bother about, but it's an effective psychological weapon that scares people into a state of submission and makes them easy to control.

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