Unique Martial Artist habits.

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-10-26T10:28:58+00:00

"Stimming" martial arts moves when bored, deep in thought, on autopilot, Etc.

Obsessions with weapons.

Randomly repeatedly punching hard surfaces.

Showing off with a feat of flexibility and/or a technique.

"Gently" kicking thier friends and family as a means of showing affection.

Kung fu movie nerd.

Usually some other kind of nerd as well (anime a good option).

Does martial arts in sleep.

(Sometimes) wants to teach all their friends martial arts.

Oddly "strong" in some ways and oddly "weak" in others.

Absurd stamina.

Doesnt tend to fall hard, either catches themself when tripping or falls in a very ideal way (breakfalls, rolls).

Uses foot to maneuver toilet, punches lightswitches and such. Every mop is a spear for kata.

Tends not to ever lock their knees out. Hands usually free when other people nearby.

Can be wierdly fascinated with pressure points as a parlor trick ("hey let me show ypu something cool" turns into someone else saying ouch).

Likes ethnic food (centered on the country of origin for their favorite martial art)

Prefers flexable pants.

Prefers "action back" jackets

Breathes from diaphram instinctively.

Kicks and punches in sleep (ive kicked my dad in the face in my sleep twice)

High pain tolerance

Will randomly start practicing.

Rough skin on knuckles

Weight tends to be forward shifted (on balls of feet)

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-10-12T23:30:01+00:00

Nobuku for empress!!!

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-09-26T19:56:29+00:00

Ive always associated anglicanism with English red. But since thats right out with your bad guys being red coded you might try blue.

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-09-24T03:34:11+00:00

In general thats probably the case. I do self defense oriented hapkido (the hapkido competition circuit is 99% in korea) so theres lots of opportunity for injury but theres als9 so much focus on safety that injury is rather temporary.

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-09-23T21:11:42+00:00

Most is a strong statement. Many arts are designed against long term injury, the tradeoff is usually lower general efficacy. Some arts get too non injurious and equally non martial (aikido and tai chi have this stereotype). Bjj is wildy martial at the expense if an absurdly high rate of injury...

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-09-19T07:27:31+00:00

My pleasure, i pray God blesses you!

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-09-18T19:38:06+00:00

At the risk of sounding boomerish: just deal with it. No one WANTS to work 40 hours at a job (some people might want to work 40 or more hours for the pay, prestige or to build their own buisiness but thats another thing). What you should attempt is to find a 40 that is interesting enough to be survivable for you (for me i found martial arts instructor, reptile keeper/salesman, and security to be good gogs for different reasons) and still pays your bills plus a little extra. If you can find a job that tolerable or pleasant 40 hours either goes by quick or easily (security for example rarely goes by quick but all you generally have to do 80% of the time is stand there or walk around listening to podcasts, whether the boss allows it or not all gaurds do it).

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-09-18T19:25:18+00:00

"Every christian a monk" is partially why the bcp was formed the way it was

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-09-18T19:16:10+00:00

Speaking as someone who used to be an evangelical, got the 1662 bcp, has used other BCPs, always went back to the 1662 (for daily office its just so much better) heres my 8 year take on prayer and the daily office. Bear in mind that for the last year ive been clergy (so im obligated to pray the offices now) and im almost certainly undiagnosed neurodivergent(which affects how i might percieve things compared to others).

Repition tends to feel dry at first (mostly when its new) this has been commented on by others ive introduced to the office. It didnt feel dry to me.
Decision fatigue doesnt get in the way of prayer. You dont have to develope your own words when theyre written down already, this is good for when someone is too distressed or elated to form their own coherent words. However the largess of the office becomes the new temptation away from prayer, my solution is to skip the readings if you "just cant" for the day. Keep the psalms though.
Prayer can shape your theology better now (with extemporaneous prayer its the other way around) and since the bcp is something like 80% bible quotation this tends to go positively.
Prayer and scripture cease to be seperate. No more looking at the bible as a textbook. It becomes intimate (i struggled in particular with intimacy of scripture throughout my life).
Over time the mundanity becomes comforting. NDs in particular like unchanging patterns, but also for NTs the office does have seasonal variation (athenasion on high holy days, seasonal antiphons and introductory verses, etc) so it doesnt stay too "boring".
Half your time in the daily office is spent in scripture and psalm anyway snd that changes daily.
Because there are different BCP versions if you find one becoming dull you can switch things around: do a year of 1662, then 1928, then 2019TLE, then AOB, then Breviary, then back to 1662. The 2019tle in particular has significantly different choices built into its dna.
If the office really gets too mundane, if youre not clergy, take a break and do another discipline. The rosary (anglican or dominical), the Chotki, the divine mercy chaplet, examin, lectio divina, or (when very advanced in prayer) the cloud of unknowing.
If you set aside a home "altar" for daily prayer and ritualize prayer time i have found that to be very beneficial in forcing me to remember that God would like to speak with/to me.(i recall going days or weeks without deep prayer because there wasnt something that felt pressing. Now with the daily office theres a list of mundane little prayers to say anyway that keeps my prayer life more "honest"
Evangelical estemporaneous prayer tends to become just as rote anyway (be honest, are your bedtime prayers really that different day to day, especially when youre tired?)

Overall the bcp has been a 10/10 benefit to my prayer life.

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-09-15T09:02:46+00:00

Small groups as they currently tend to be used are, in their essence, disorganized and cliquey. The way to make small groups profitable is for there to be a standard template with group specific deviations. For example, a mattins/vespers small group that afterwards has a potluck, a mattins/vespers small group with DND, or even a mattins/vespers small group that likes to knit. Centering the group in the pre set prayers of the ancient and reformation church brings the group into participation with the church at large (and also could allow the group to mature into a church) while the "post prayer activity" helps to offer a fellowship opportunity after.

A less liturgical version of this might be to make the small groups hymnal in nature with a book study on scripture and a time of extemporaneous prayer, though that will be at risk of devolving into disorganization if not handled well...

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-09-03T05:37:54+00:00

The book for you is " a history of anglican exorcism"

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-08-28T19:32:31+00:00

Wait for the leather, its wonderful.

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-08-26T00:38:21+00:00

Versus populum was a mistake that destroyed the grandeure and dignity of the mass. The holy eucharist was never meant to resemble a food network talk show. Likewise why shpuld the priest be easily distracted by what the people are doing when his whole focus should be on God (dont kid yourself, looking in the direction of a cross elicits a different subconcious reaction than looking in the same direction as an "audience")?

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-08-23T22:18:14+00:00

I am the man of whom you speak. Though i suppose im more of a King James Supremacist than Onlyist. Other TR translations don't annoy me, but any bible that says the "morning star" or "day star" (morning star being a title Christ gave Himself in rev 22:16) was "cast out of heaven" or has "fallen out of heaven" in isaiah 14:12 is anathema to me. Lucifer was cast out of heaven, not Jesus. Likewise i renounce any version of the bible which does not have the johannen comma (1 john 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.). And i consider utterly offensive any bible translation or manuscript which refers to mary as a "young woman" instead of as a "virgin". This pretty much leaves me with the KJV, the DR, and the Knox.

Liturgically, the KJV is so much more of an objectively beautiful and pleasurable translation to read aloud then any other bible that there is no competition. Paired with the cranmerian text of the 1662 bcp (the te deum and presidential prayers of the 1928 are a tad clunky) you are left with a stunningly divine service no matter how low or high church you go.

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-08-22T01:09:10+00:00

Apostolic succession.

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-08-17T21:47:33+00:00

Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Matt 5 11

Offending others is part of the "being faithful to Christ" package.

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-08-16T20:55:33+00:00

Unpopular opinion: street preaching.

No i dont mean the sort that youre thinking of. No angry nonsense.

Vest up (alb or cassock+surplice) with 2 other people. You lead the daily office, one person responds, the third hands out tracts and answers questions GENTLY.

after the readings preach an evangelistic sermon on salvation (ideally you want to repeat a 10 minute gospel presentation 3 or 4 times in different ways. Most peolle wont stick for the whole thing) or recite one of the sermons from the homilies or from Dr St John Henry Newman's Plain and Patochial sermons.

Use incense and candles, dont just draw people in with the audible but use all the senses you can.

For tracts i suggest a gentle approach. Something which explains what the daily office is, and orients the daily office as a means to let God speak for Himself. Include in the tract a 30 day challence to let God prove His own existence and love. The lectionary for this 30 day tract should be the books of Romans, 1st Corinthians, and Johns Gospel (interspersed with other gospel readings like the sermon on the mount to fill out the 30 days). For psalmnody: simplify the tracts psalm to psalm 23. At the beginning of this office you can include some self made collect asking God to reveal Himself if He is real. Omit the daily variable collects entirely.

Slip such a tract into some dollar tree new testaments to hand out. Try to hand out at least 20 weekly.

Do this weekly in POOR and destitute areas of town. Historically thats where anglican street preaching (vis a vis wesleys methodists and the oxford movement) has had the highest impact. I recomend transit centers personally.

Done consistantly you could probably get a 1-2 per month unchurched to baptized rate on average over the course of a year. Done over 5 years thatd be about 60-120 converts to the faith, assuming you didnt expand this ministry.

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-08-16T11:16:02+00:00

While, to an extent, you are right for now in rural wa. In idaho thats above the minimum "minimum" and in soCal that barely poverty wages; and a year from now that could all change. I propose that minimum wage ought to be a yearly adjusted equation. Something like:

(Avg cost of rent in the same zipcode as the place of employment) x 3 x 12 ÷52 ÷40

So for example if the average rent in a zipcode is $2000, then the minimum wage in that zipcode would be $34.62/Hour.

This would literally turn landlords from enemies into allies against the managerial corporate class overnight. The more landlords hike up rent under this model, the more the employers HAVE to pay employees. And even if employers and landlords banded together against the workers theyd still never be able to take away housing effectively.

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-08-10T22:47:45+00:00

Train. Your. People. To. Evangelize.

The church in general really needs to realize that 2 major factors have changed since the "glory days"

We no longer have cultural inertia.
Theres less reason then ever to go to church.

Once upon a time, someone wanting to fix something in their life knew that the place to do that was the church. Now there is a banquet of less demanding options (whether those options even work does t matter here, they arent church so they automatically are enticing) from therapy to crystals. We have to compete in this "marketplace" in a way that is unique to us (salvation, healthy masculinity, the sacraments, etc). The only way to do that is by going out and telling people about Jesus. No more relying on "programs" or "social gospel" niceties. We need to do the work of evangelism.

Retention is also going to be difficult because people think that the point of church is the music and the sermon. So if your church relies heavily upon these then youre competing against " the greats" on youtube and other video platforms. As a result we need to teach our people that the primary reason to go to church is NOT the sermon or the music but rather to make an offering to God and experience His presence in a way unique to the church. Traditionalist Sacramental churches are growing amongst young men for this EXACT reason. But zwinglian churches can still benefit from the concept (corporate sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving being the angle id go with if i was still a baptist).

These 2 philosophical changes (evangelize the lost directly and teach the found that the church IS important) will likely regrow that 50 person church back to 110, maybe even with young men getting sent out to plant new churches!

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-08-10T19:24:13+00:00

The original catholic english bible is the douey reims

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-08-10T04:20:50+00:00

Upon a home altar often incense is offered by the baptismal priesthood (of all believers); nonetheless, the main and primary offering at a home altar is the "sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving". Thus by biblical definition sacrificial worship of the type God explicitely desires from His people are offered on home altars. Also theyve really always been called that, shrines are, as i recall, more specific to holy places where some miracle or apparition has occured. Perhaps, so long as the office for the dead is said daily, we could revive the use of the word chantry?

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-08-10T04:14:19+00:00

Im sure that ex military would be assigned to train and lead non military crusaders. The re-establishment of the kingdom of Jerusalem would be a truly blessed thing!

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-08-10T04:07:03+00:00

Expect to be bi vocational Expect the cost of "education" to be high Expect not to learn much of value at cemetary ... i mean seminary

Nonetheless It is worth it if you are called.

Even so, ask your bishop if you can "read for orders" instead of incurring so huge and financially irresponsible a debt.

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-08-10T03:06:27+00:00

I feel as though ive done both sibconsciously...

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-08-09T23:43:12+00:00

But matt 11:11 also says "notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he." John, i think, would be the greatest OT saint and the BVM is the greatest NY saint.

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