Substack has a lot of incredible material, overwhelming even. NOSTR seems so obvious from the inside looking out 😌

My next two reads. I got about a 1/3rd of the way through Berdyaev's book but nothing stuck, so round 2 it is. #bookstr

GN☦️🙏

Not a bad place to house sit 🤝

☦️St. Anthony the Great https://blossom.primal.net/e22324316d9e350a9359c5c0f87a3299306cf186d744cf0f8f0577264b3786c1.jpgp

I beg you to watch this dudes content 🙏

“The world is the general name for all the passions. When we wish to call the passions by a common name, we call them the world. But when we wish to distinguish them by their special names, we call them the passions. The passions are the following: love of riches, desire for possessions, bodily pleasure from which comes sexual passion, love of honour which gives rise to envy, lust for power, arrogance and pride of position, the craving to adorn oneself with luxurious clothes and vain ornaments, the itch for human glory which is a source of rancour and resentment, and physical fear. Where these passions cease to be active, there the world is dead; for though living in the flesh, they did not live for the flesh. See for which of these passions you are alive. Then you will know how far you are alive to the world, and how far you are dead to it” ☦️St. Isaac the Syrian

Bluegrass is deeply American and Billy Strings is the best in the bizz.

Perhaps the most Godly leader in the post enlightenment era and was assassinated because of it. . ☦️

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And He was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan, and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to Him. - Mark 1:13 Soon after he had been baptized, he performed a fast of forty days by himself, and he taught and informed us by his example that, after we have received forgiveness of sins in baptism, we should devote ourselves to vigils, fasts, prayers and other spiritually fruitful things, lest when we are sluggish and less vigilant the unclean spirit expelled from our heart by baptism may return, and finding us fruitless in spiritual riches, weigh us down again with a sevenfold pestilence, and our last state would then be worse than the first. Let us be wary that we do not relight the fires of old obsessions which would wreck us on our new voyage. Whatever sort of flaming sword it is that guards the doorway of paradise has been already effectively extinguished for each of the faithful in the font of baptism. For the unfaithful, however, the gate remains always formidable, and also for those falsely called faithful though they have not been chosen, since they have no fear of entangling themselves in sins after baptism. It is as though the same fire put out in baptism has been rekindled after it had been once extinguished. ☦️ Bede Temptation is brought to fulfillment by three stages: suggestion, delight, consent. And we in temptation generally fall through delight, and then through consent; for being begotten of the sin of the flesh we bear within us that through which we suffer conflict. But God, incarnate in the womb of a virgin, came into the world without sin, and so suffers no conflict within himself. He could therefore be tempted by suggestion, but the delight of sin could never touch his mind. So all these temptations of the devil were from without, not from within Him. ☦️Gregory The Dialogist

Religion informs culture which informs politics. This is why ideologies fail as they are very much downstream from Truth. This is just as true for communism as it is for capitalism.

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