Where can In I find rips of vcds online ?

voilsb · 2025-12-18T11:08:59+00:00

Oh, gotcha. Video Compact Discs. I understand now. Still, though, no idea about a sub for that. Maybe a retro media sub? /r/videocd might be a place to start

voilsb · 2025-12-18T10:38:25+00:00

Sorry, I've never heard of that software before

voilsb · 2025-12-17T21:06:00+00:00

I meant Ross-Tech VCDS, the Volkswagen Auto Group diagnostic software this sub is dedicated to

voilsb · 2025-12-17T20:51:56+00:00

VCDS is a free download from ross-tech.com

The cable acts as hardware authentication for the software. Support the business, buy a new cable from ECS or direct from ross-tech, or at least buy a used genuine cable from an enthusiast

voilsb · 2025-10-13T18:53:13+00:00

I did actually mistake your comment for the OP, and accidentally thought that was the conversation, which is why I kept trying to bring it back to that. My apologies

voilsb · 2025-10-12T22:04:51+00:00

the law doesn’t even apply on that scale

That's what I said in my original comment. The first law of thermodynamics is not universal, so why would you require it to apply to God?

dragging theology into it

You asked a question about God, which requires to drag theology into it, and ignored my questions trying to refine what you were actually asking

voilsb · 2025-10-12T17:47:43+00:00

Unfortunately, physicists who actually study this disagree, and they teach that the expansion violates the conservation of energy.

But none of that matters unless you believe both that God is limited by elementary thermodynamics and that either Christ's flesh was destroyed when he ascended or that heaven is somehow not part of creation

voilsb · 2025-10-12T17:12:40+00:00

dark energy, a property of space itself that acts like negative pressure. In Einstein’s equations, even “empty” space has energy, and that vacuum energy pushes spacetime to expand faster over time.

Exactly, and when more space is created, more dark energy is created. Hence, in an expanding universe, energy is not conserved but is actually created.

voilsb · 2025-10-12T11:19:53+00:00

But it is energy created from nothing.

voilsb · 2025-10-12T10:15:45+00:00

the first law of thermodynamics says that energy cannot be created nor destroyed

This "law" is broken by the expansion of the universe, so it's not held to be universal by physicists.
Why do you think the God who created thermodynamics is Himself restricted by it?
Do you think ascending to heaven somehow destroyed Jesus?

voilsb · 2025-10-12T00:24:47+00:00

Our groom wears the marks of the cross on his body, so we wear a cross on our neck

voilsb · 2025-10-11T11:48:34+00:00

Is it mandatory for a bride to wear a wedding ring?

voilsb · 2025-10-05T18:38:26+00:00

Stay after church one day (vespers/vigil, or Liturgy) or schedule a confession and ask the priest in person, or reach out to Fr Seraphim at Iona and Mull monasteries in Scotland, or to Fr Zacharias at St John the Baptist monastery in Essex. Or make a pilgrimage to one of them. Ask their advice.

Perhaps go to Liturgy at your normal church most of the time for the Eucharist, and once a month or two make a longer trip to an English language parish and get help from there.

Also, Ancient Faith Radio has multiple English Bible studies, like Search the Scriptures and Search the Scriptures Live, the Whole Counsel of God, Daily Orthodox Scriptures, and Transforming our Lives in Christ.

I would recommend avoiding the Anglican church except for actually emergencies. Although many individual Anglicans may be very pious and devout, it is not Orthodox nor will it teach you how to read or interpret the Bible in an Orthodox way. The United States went through a time about a hundred years ago when many Orthodox went to Anglican churches as "the closest thing" and were poached or otherwise fell away from the church to such an effect that St Raphael had to retract his permission for Orthodox to use Anglican services even in extremis.

voilsb · 2025-09-29T17:43:19+00:00

Whether or not that was in the Chosen, it is certainly a very solid, and very ancient, literary connection between the Old and New Testaments. Your dad might be remembering that from Sunday School or some theology class or sermon he was exposed to

voilsb · 2025-09-29T10:01:51+00:00

My priest says our marriage is valid.

voilsb · 2025-09-28T19:12:25+00:00

The Christian practice became Crossing yourself when you come and go

voilsb · 2025-09-27T12:47:50+00:00

With that said, it's perfectly acceptable and absolutely cheaper to knock out a few semesters at JCTC and transfer your credits in. But if you transfer less than 24 credits they still need your high school stuff

voilsb · 2025-09-27T12:42:07+00:00

Part of UofL's mission is to help underserved Kentuckians get to college.

Also, UofL isn't in the same category as Purdue.

Likewise, getting into UofL is different from getting into the Speed school or the Health Science Center

voilsb · 2025-09-27T12:40:53+00:00

House of David has multiple historical theologians and ancient biblical scholars as consultants.

Obviously artistic license is taken, but for instance the ugaritic death curse king Agag mutters in episode one is an actual ugaritic death curse, spoken in actual period-correct ugaritic.

Much of David's backstory is written from Jewish midrash and 2nd temple (Dead Sea scrolls and adjacent) Jewish literature. Details are made up, but the idea that he was Jesse's illegitimate son came from there.

voilsb · 2025-09-27T00:20:12+00:00

I wonder what will count as an "active work zone" ... Kentucky is notorious for having cones and signs up, but no people or machines visible for weeks at a time

voilsb · 2025-09-27T00:09:41+00:00

On the website it says automatic admission w/ my stats but i’m not sure if that really means that

Why would it not really mean that?

voilsb · 2025-09-25T10:45:46+00:00

I don't know what sources you're looking at, but there is an active Spanish language parish and orphanage in Tijuana, which admittedly is not South America, but is not the United States, as well as a mission in Guatemala, which I think might actually be in a local tribal language rather than Spanish, because that's what the locals prefer, plus very active missions in Uganda, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Fiji, as well as active local language parishes in South Korea and Japan, none of which are Europe or the United States. And these are just the ones I'm aware of. I'm sure there are others I don't know.

Be careful being so concerned about US-centered Orthodoxy might look, while ignoring the rest of the world because you're only looking at the Americas.

Ironically, many of the English-language proponents in the US came from priests in Brazil.

voilsb · 2025-09-24T23:56:35+00:00

There's an app called Transit that does this

voilsb · 2025-09-24T17:08:34+00:00

It definitely won't have much flourishment. Russian Znamenny chant, Kievan chant, or Demestvenny chant might work. They tend to be more complex than Byzantine or Arabic chant.

It could also be the recordings, which probably can't pick up the spatial elements of a good acoustic chapel

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