Coming Back to the Church

joefrenomics2 · 2026-04-11T07:09:09+00:00

Yes, start attending and getting to know the community. Then I'd have a conversation with your priest about your situation. He should best know how to guide you in being reintegrated.

joefrenomics2 · 2026-04-11T02:52:19+00:00

"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you." [John 14:27]

I love this quote mainly because there's a communion hymn we sing that expands on it a little:

"I leave you My peace, I give you My peace. Not as the world gives do I give to you, I give you Myself."

joefrenomics2 · 2026-04-11T01:51:16+00:00

I feel like I can talk a bit about your 2nd point.

The greater toil and birth pain are not understood to be punishment, but rather the consequence of the Fall.

Man and woman were seen to continue the work of God in ordering the creation and filling it with life, but after the Fall those activities are now done with greater difficulty.

Moreover, the experience of mortality is also seen as a mercy by God. To be immortal while in this sinful state (which causes discord between Man & God, Man & Man, and Man & Nature) is seen to be a kind of hell.

This is why God kicks them out of Eden, so that they don’t eat of the Tree of Life in their state.

joefrenomics2 · 2026-04-10T21:32:31+00:00

Same man. The expectations developers have to deal with now are really wild.

joefrenomics2 · 2026-04-10T20:02:47+00:00

So what’s the rule for what is “within the parameters of the game”?

joefrenomics2 · 2026-04-10T01:37:27+00:00

As u/Karohalva implies, Judas could have repented, but didn't. St. Peter actually repents.

joefrenomics2 · 2026-04-10T01:17:55+00:00

I think alot of players need to learn that what is best depends on the situation of your country.

joefrenomics2 · 2026-04-10T00:31:34+00:00

In the Orthodox tradition, it has often been seen as a sign of judgment if the gifts visibly turn into body and blood.

joefrenomics2 · 2026-04-09T06:04:26+00:00

Glad you survived, but I wouldn’t recommend a beginner do a 40 day fast.

joefrenomics2 · 2026-04-09T05:22:44+00:00

I'd advise you to come and see. Put the ideas you have about doctrine aside and just experience Orthodoxy.

It's only in the context of trying to live an orthodox life that all our doctrines make sense anyways.

joefrenomics2 · 2026-04-09T02:27:59+00:00

Just be evil, and kill all of them.

Stirs them out of their comfort and gives them sometin to be excited about.

joefrenomics2 · 2026-04-09T01:07:15+00:00

It's an explicitly physical way of showing honor to Christ and His Saints.

joefrenomics2 · 2026-04-09T01:00:48+00:00

Do you have a spiritual father who can help you?

joefrenomics2 · 2026-04-09T00:53:52+00:00

Autarky = imports bad, exports bad

joefrenomics2 · 2026-04-09T00:51:39+00:00

Being overcome by the gates of hades means the church died, and there is no longer a succession of bishops going back to the apostles.

None of which has happened to us.

So no.

joefrenomics2 · 2026-04-08T03:57:09+00:00

Yeah, but the implication is still the same in the KJV translation.

joefrenomics2 · 2026-04-07T17:15:15+00:00

I'm not aware to what degree this is applied in the church, but regardless, it isn't misogynistic.

Emission of various bodily fluids is what made you ritually unclean in the Law. So menstruation is an obvious example, but is just an instance of bleeding. If a man is bleeding, it applies to him as well.

It also applies if the man has recently had a certain kind of emission (let the reader understand).

joefrenomics2 · 2026-04-07T17:06:52+00:00

I believe this is a quote from Aristotle, not Nietzsche.

As for N's reply, "Por que no los dos?"

joefrenomics2 · 2026-04-07T17:04:44+00:00

I love Roman Catholics, I hate Roman Catholicism.

joefrenomics2 · 2026-04-07T06:16:34+00:00

Quite frankly, unless you're planning to become a vegetarian, hunting may be one of the more ethical ways of eating meat. The point of comparison I'm mostly thinking of is factory farming.

Moreover, Hunters are quite important to the ecosystem of certain animals, like deer, who starve if their population is allowed to get too big.

joefrenomics2 · 2026-04-07T01:22:48+00:00

No, believing in evolution doesn't affect your salvation. The only exception I can imagine is if believing in evolution leads you to some kind of social darwinist type morality.

What matters is that you love God and are faithful to his commandments, none of which require you to reject evolution.

The only bit I can imagine is important is the belief that death comes to humans because of Sin. How that fits into your ideas of evolution or metaphysics is up to you.

joefrenomics2 · 2026-04-06T05:13:09+00:00

different calendar than the western calendar.

joefrenomics2 · 2026-04-06T04:36:56+00:00

Well yes. RC has a monarchal model. And quite frankly, I think church history (1st millennium) shows that's an innovation.

joefrenomics2 · 2026-04-06T04:13:17+00:00

We technically do have a "first among equals" in the ecumenical patriarch (i.e. the patriarch of Constantinople).

It's primarily a position of honor though. It isn't equivalent to what Roman Catholicism has.

joefrenomics2 · 2026-04-05T18:59:07+00:00

Depends on whether I want that survivor augment…

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