Comments by "" (@johnheers6220) on "Heavy Things Lightly" channel.

  1. Guys, the opening handshake fail might be on my tombstone because it was perfectly absurd and made me happy…
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  2. This is so spot on, and I want to address some of this in the next emergency podcast. Which isn’t really an emergency. Because these are very old ideas and not urgent. Well… There is urgency in trying to get people to see clearly that whiteness, and blackness, are just like you said… New ideas ground in materialistic atheism. Much love!
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  3. We must. I agree
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  4. Joe even sings for us at the end! 💥
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  5. I couldn't help but think Utopian as well. Malcolm is a classic "fix it" guy, a type of engineering mind. Which is nice. But it somehow fails to account for the spirit, or as he might prefer, the nature of fallen humans. It feels Sysiphean to me at times. Though he was fascinating to me for his deep desire to "help". The helping part eludes me because it feels like a love far away and abstract. Like... how do I help "the future". Is that a thing?
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  6. I agree with this! But there is tension within the Vedic traditions about this. I too get confused as many Hindus speak of the One. I’m not sure where that leaves me… but I get this what you are saying
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  7. It is. And we gonna need help. It's a big idea with big hopes and I can't wait to share. Where are you Iwon?
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  8. I kinda wanted that to be the whole episode…
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  9. Malcolm’s voice is so true in that sense. He is a true believer in the modern project and I think hearing him is very helpful. Even when I disagree or am put off by his premises. Insightful comment you have here
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  10.  @hobbsmatt  Fo Sho! Also… are you trying to get me disappeared?
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  11. Gosh it is always so hard to just say it that way but it is utterly so! Maybe that’s the point right? Maybe the altar ends up being the only real place left on earth in the end… much love nodakrome!
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  12. 💯
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  13.  @BitterBucolic1  well colossal is a pretty big word here… it was only like 40 mins. Once I waited in the parking lot at a DMV waiting for my daughter to replace an ID. She came out 190 minutes later with no ID. Colossal! I’d say this was closer to a jumbo waste of time. Feels fatty. Obese? It was an oversized waste of time. That feels true.
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  14.  @CLFmoto87  the “healed your mind” part in your comment is intriguing. This is just me starting a fire so that others like “before healed you” might have to confront the materialist eugenicist within. And I’d love to chat with JT as you call him. But I don’t do debates. They are dumb. I’ll just ask him questions and we will toast together (cuz to commune together is to truly heal). May it all end as a beautiful thing. One is Holy. One is God.
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  15. This is utterly true: I was drinking a diet soda I even said so, but my editor cut that part… I don’t think anyone will believe me but an animated white nationalist conversation tends to make me appear drunk. Passion. Maybe I should avoid drinking from the white nationalist cup though! That’s possible…
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  16. That is very possibly true…
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  17. I have thought this as well. In me it is about empathy I think. I am inclined to want to honor their non specific hope for unity. But… does that break a spiritual law found in my bones, and in my Orthodoxy: non specific hope is nihilism where it doesn’t move toward incarnation. Is my empathy leading me toward honoring nihilism? That’s where I get stuck.
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  18. A very good point… it is a danger and I pray we don’t do that… and yet we all know such a man and we shall tell our story and when we do we will run the risk of dirtying the pearls. It is in fact what mission work always risks…
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  19. Please we have to do this! I’m working on him right now!
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  20. A beloved thing indeed!
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  21.  @dog-headedman2634  not a sip of the liquor my friend. Not a drip. Sometimes passion is simple foolishness . Sometimes it is wisdom disguised as foolishness. This? One day we will know…
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  22.  @dog-headedman2634  was not drunk even a little
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  23. Will do sister... it makes a ton of sense. Also, did you get the info you needed on the Georgian trip?
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  24. Agreed
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  25. Neil. You are my Nicholas Kotar
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  26. Ugh. It wasn’t that cynical it was actually an attempt to get something out that feels relevant and somehow important to young people. But yes, it does feel cynical. But I swear to you it’s not. Though it’s possible I guess… Life is hard.
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  27. It’s such a good example of the upside down world. And it’s weird because these stroller folks have like giant hearts for living things… except maybe for human living things?
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  28. This is one helluva comment. So insightful and it makes me laugh thinking about our childhoods... Nice!
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  29. That is an irresponsible comment treebeard
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  30. Super well said. We’ve mastered the making of the clap trap… aka, our minds.
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  31. This is what I was Leaning into right at that moment! And I failed to press. Forgive me guys. We is I… and that’s the point. Ugh. Yes! Needed to be said.
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  32. But even Fr Peter was led by the heretical Anglican confession, and for not a few years. He grew up reading the 1923 Anglican prayer book. Talk about a mess of a document. He was led to Orthodoxy by a mother utterly dedicated to a heretical church. I mean, Bishop Spong? He was Fr Peters “bishop” when he was a young man. Are you actually saying none of that LED this priest to Christ? If you are then I’d just say that seems very wrong. How does the loving Hindu mother with all of her icons NOT lead her son, a new convert to Orthodoxy, to the True church? We just call all of that demon infested and the sins conversion a “rescue” from his demon mom? How could it be anything else but a type of assistance used by God to teach the Truth? I mean, Christ chose the Samaritan to teach the Pharisees about pride. Samaritans were Jewish heretics. I think we can rest easy knowing we don’t know as much as we think we do. No?
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  33.  @parkermize  parker you are like my voice of wonder out there… I love when I see you here
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  34.  @KollarConsulting  and highly poetic
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  35. Love to you sister!!
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  36. Heavy things lightly good brother Jake! Love it
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  37. @ that’s possible for sure! Drunk as per imbibing liquor… not a drop.
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  38. got it throwing a Supra there up in NC
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  39. That’s the next pod! We should talk about what you see but then you might see it anymore because the pet mafia will ruin you. PS: I love dogs!
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  40. I wished I had done more of it… lightly.
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  41. That’s funny. Zero dollars. Every penny from people like you. 👍🏽
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  42. Oh man is this the question! You were being a good dad! You were manning up… yes?! How could it be any other way? Love this example. It really is about Seth and folks trying to or being forced to reconsider fixed natures in the created world. But I think the fixed part, understood scientifically, is the hang up. “Fixed” for me means, something like, “home” or “ecclesia” or “estuary “… the place you identity to even if you aren’t always expressing that identity. Like… you are always a Smith kid even if you hang with and dress like the Wilson’s kids… So, that is your nature. I think…
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  43. Knock it off! I know you and it's true. My wife is my church rep!
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  44. A million good ideas here that Uncle Seth will squeal about… but the underpinnings of modern society is indeed being challenged by all the truths you mention here… which makes many old world Orthodox ideas deeply radical (in this current version of modernity)…
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  45. Wait. What? Parker, you know there is a seat for all of you anytime. You are the old school supporter prince of princes! Do definitely find me if you can come this way
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  46. I owe Casper WY an apology.
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  47. Also, yes it would. I think
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  48. Daaaaaang! Mic drop!
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  49.  @orthodoxboomergrandma3561  hmmm, when to make this happen?
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  50. Agreed. There is indeed such a thing as Christian “looking “ economics….
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  51. I am seriously laughing right now as I get ready to go and brush my teeth. I hate brushing my teeth, but I do it. It’s like rough food. You are the best Slav I know.
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  52. Yes the research is all over the place! That’s why I like what you said… “the church prescribes….” It’s kinda straightforward
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  53. Best comment ever
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  54. Ilya! Best comment ever… and I think it’s because I generally hate the interwebs and so avoid them as per my job of spreading the word!? Maybe. Let’s make a pact! Let’s make it grow… cuz it’s for beauty and a good cause. Love your comment and thank you!
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  55. Stop. You are scaring me
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  56. Best comment ever. The hard part about being born into dirty water is realizing it's the only water in which you can ever swim.
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  57.  @isaiahkerstetter3142  can I use this please!?
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  58. So… to become like God we must submit to God. The submitters are saved. It still begs the question, though not all that relevant for a Christian, “who are the submitters?” Cuz I know some serious submitters to the god of the 401k god. It feels like this impossibly long comment tells us only people of the book who submit are true “submitters”. Perhaps?
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  59. This is such a good idea. I have a few ideas that you are already anticipating… Let’s do it!
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  60. I’m sorry. I’m going to be a lot better in the next one. I hope you come back.
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  61. The unbalance you speak of is the KEY! Deletingnourselves is the result of an improper and unbalanced understanding of what we are. Good stuff in you comment. But I love Malcolm for coming on and offering…
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  62. I agree... the only way out is a type of awakening and then the thing that is more important than anything else is human connection. Love. The idea that no matter what stupidity I do or what kind of horror befalls me there is someone right there who will hold onto me. Most people subject to the machine, the west, have fewer and fewer of these bonds. And that's not by chance...
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  63. My brother! Also… I was sober as southern Baptist at tea party!
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  64. Guilty as charged, but when you think about it, this one makes the last even more miraculous!
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  65. It made me feel yucky until I decided it was just going to be light things for 30 mins! Much love!
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  66. It’s a good idea. Any guests you’d recommend?
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  67. Who doesn’t! But also… should your pug wear a dress and have an iPhone holder in his stroller?
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  68.  @a8785lloyd  sometimes you indeed burn the field before sowing the seeds
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  69.  @fornost64  I wanted to hear about this. Yes, Seth wants politics to be the end point but mostly I think he is goading me lol
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  70. Yes… the escape part might be the wrong way of understanding. The church allows us to escape our smallness and our sin and enter something bigger than ourselves. And still we might get killed. The death part won’t go away I’m afraid. The peace part though has been for me in knowing the beauty of Christs body…
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  71. It’s weird right? I can feel people out there right now rooting for some minutes dedicated to the art of pillow fluffing. We don’t mess around on wawtar. But stay close. It gets good. I promise
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  72. Sho is
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  73. But their cat has their own see through mobile home! It’s true love!
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  74. Where are we going? I love a good adventure!
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  75.  @MichaelOregonia  Correcto good Michael! But the problem is he does see them often as a teacher. I think he runs in certain circles that don’t really have the god conversation anymore…
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  76. Can you send it to me brother!?
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  77. One other note: there are many many gradations of humble community living and “smallness” societies that are anything but communist (in the Marxist and atheistic sense). The apprehension you express just doesn’t hit home for me after living in non communist communitarian societies. Be at peace. Christian’s can be semi poor, mostly happy and non communist all at the same time. See most of Christian history for such evidence.
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  78. We love you for that... reach out anytime and come and eat at Keipi if you come thru SC. The scales of nature need to eat too!
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  79. I feel like your offering, like a butterflies attempt to fly halfway around the world… it has made me a better person. I love you Brad!
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  80. True! Maybe it’s proper to be sad with a sweet joy for what is to come… like that? A sweet sadness seems Royal
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  81. I know! So weird. I need to think about this more but it has to do with the anthropological presuppositions. Like… what is a human being. Then go from there. If that is off, all the science is off all the way down the line.
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  82. But like without any musical ability… at all
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  83. Love! And much more
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  84. I’m a true believer in the marital fast , full stop!
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  85. I’ll try and connect you indeed. What is your email Ivan?
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  86. Kinda
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  87. Indeed and thank you all you lovely Russian and Ukrainian folks. Mostly I think people too easily take the hate bait. Pavel avoids it. Be at peace folks. We all shall die. Little by little, may all of this bear fruit. Joy!
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  88. Ron! 💯
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  89.  @marinastant5249  much love to you chem da! Gagimarjos!
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  90.  @fabiolinsleite  Fabio!!!!
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  91. Wow. Possible! But… the question is can help come in many forms….
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  92. Your words are poetry…
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  93. Sister!
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  94.  @justian1772  of course you do… you’re a Slav!
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  95.  @Ribsicle  which seems like every election in the US these days
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  96. It’s the last part that makes the first part a dead end… I think. We get a hump when we do camel like things…. We become what we do and that means like a camel with a hump we can’t fit into the passageway, the way into the joy of eternity. I think…
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  97. This is great feedback. I kinda like the rambling too. I’m using this to my advantage Steve. You’re the best
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  98. Bingo. But if you think about it, if you are the world, then... the world is in fact the answer to the question. Weirdly.
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  99. I have, well, I have read parts. It’s here in my shelf a gift from Nicholas Kotar. Gotta dig back in!
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  100. Paul, did they let you in the gold room?
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  101. I wonder tho if I am that thing sometimes? Cuz of Wisconsin in my mother’s blood!
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  102. Wait you scored a 2!? Okay yung old boi, so is your love for Malcolm’s episode as one seeing his work as efficacious or is it a love for the episode as a type of unveiling of dangerous thinking? I’m fascinated because I loved it too as one being taught about the importance of presuppositions. Malcom’s presuppositions mean he will sound sensible and rational yet end up implementing things deeply irrational. Maybe? Like eugenics makes sense until it’s applied to a soul.
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  103. Stop trolling me exceedingly tall man
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  104. Perhaps they are indeed appointed to play a role?
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  105.  @As-fs6qd  interesting brother… if the book is also and at the same time the word and the word as printed in the heart of man, in what way does that spiritual book manifest as God Himself? How does God interact with his creation other than as per the revelation we/you might call Q’uran? And if that Godly activity in the world is the book of the heart, do we need the book called Quran ? As per perrenialism, yes… but that they emphasized “praxis” always sits oddly with me… which? Why this praxis not that? Why do they prioritize the monotheistic practices (which they clearly do)… I find perennial practice talk nonsensical… I understand why they emphasize it. They have no ground for praxis as per the gnostic nature of perrenialist intellectualism. Or so it seems…
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  106.  @educationalporpoises9592  I’m gonna do it less. Probably. I hope.
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  107.  @kevwatski3351  good luck! How did it go lol
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  108. Yes you would. The medicine mind is more than just about medicine I fear…
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  109.  @MichaelOregonia  that could kill a man
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  110. The good news is that the church healed your mind. It healed your mind of white nationalism. It’s a joy! That is my point. God is good! There was no sauce in my glass. I was drunk on the notion that people actually think whiteness exists. It’s an intoxicating absurdity. it was fun having fun about an idea that’s not real and yet captivates and captures people who are hurting. The Pod isn’t about those people it’s about the evil idea that stymies them. Keep going… Free yourself from the foolishness of whiteness.
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  111. It is indeed a deep temptation…
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  112.  @grahampardun  Graham! Peace to you… as Reese says below, and I will say on some future “emergency” pods, it’s a category problem. And it’s largely a problem created by Enlightenment style science that attempts to teach us that there is something unifying about “Europe” qua “white”. There’s nothing more “white” about Northern Europeans than “white” Serbs or Georgians. Or Italians. Whiteness does nothing to help us understand these differences. Foolish “scientists” built in the image of foolish “enlightened” deists and atheists wanted us to believe this however. They created categories to serve their cultures. And their cultures were all about “progress” and material power and efficiency and funny thing… all of these values turn out to be “white”. Buy your comment which I love because it is as you are, earnest, makes the most terrifying point of all for me. You frame this as about my generation. Gen X. If so it lays waste to St Maximos and St John Chrysostom and other Gen Ancients who did not write as “whites” or “browns”. The excuse that this is an old guy not getting it is the most dangerous comment of all for me. Whiteness is not a thing and Christians, Orthodox above all, should never find themselves embracing it as such. I would say it is demonic. I think.
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  113. I am kind of giggling right now
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  114. Why are we talking about rabbits… the name of our pod.
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  115.  @cyndibee2289  I had a thought. For some reason the next thought to illustrate said thought was “Dairy Queen”. And so I added the word Christian to the thought “Dairy Queen” and said it all out loud as a way to say that adding Christian to something should make it better. Adding the word Christian to the words white nationalist… well, that just makes Christianity worse. So I’d love if white nationalist types just stopped doing that. It’s like “hey, I’m a LBTQ+… Christian.” Um. So… that’s kinda the idea. I wish I could say things better
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  116. What up Michigan!?
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  117. So true… small talk should quickly go to big talk in parishes I think. No talk is weird lol
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  118. Second most to Tusheti!
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  119. Tell more! So the observer changes reality by observing? This is also a type of principle in string theory yes? And the new physics?
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  120. Exactly!
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  121. I wonder about this too. Sometimes I think all material prognostications are false without an accompanying spiritual world view.
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  122. Gosh you are making sense, especially when it comes to the idea of a ubiquitous God. All things. Fillest all things. It has deep implications. Bravo!
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  123. Ouch
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  124. It’s because this stuff reminds me about my deep self and I can’t help but laugh
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  125. This is so insightful… and it won’t end well either 😐
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  126. I agree.... how do I not talk to him more often. Guys... much love!
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  127.  @rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr1  I just couldn’t agree more. See… what is happening to me now and I think maybe to many others, is simply this hunched shoulders moment when I look at the science guy of choice (here it is my pal Seth) and just sort of say “your facts are just not relevant anymore”. It’s just not convincing that the Light People have it all figured out. The narrative is comical to me now. “No, sorry, your plan for the future of humanity also includes the caveat that random atoms collided in really cool ways in order to create an animal that cries tears of joy. Yep. Just not buying it science guy. Your words feel dead to me. I can’t get excited anymore when you say “potential” and “future” and “freedom” and “rights.” It all feels rather made up now. I’d rather imagine a soul and see a brother next to me on the subway. Seems more beautiful in the end…
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  128.  @rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr1  your point is so obvious and yet secular people can’t see it. Even Plato understood the idea of the sage and his goal Was Anything but to create a theocracy. Something must be at the top. Better the wise than the mob
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  129. There is joy even in the internet somehow. That story is incredible. And telling. And real.
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  130. Solid but perhaps the idea still applies? Obesity and debt image each other?
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  131. You bring up a great set of points Thomas! The world is, in some ways, making brothers again of the disparate fractured Christian heresies… and I say that with love. I am fully believing these days that the world is being broken into what the deists aimed to define as theism and atheism. Which makes us United. But… are we brothers in Christ? It seems the western worlds turn into postmodernism is forcing a reconciliation or, perhaps, a series of tests that will burn away the nominal confessor of Christ. And… well… maybe that’s yet another way to answer the question: we shall see! As an Orthodox convert dude much of this conversation is not unlike old tense conversations from the early days of any marriage; quaint but less and less painful or even relevant. That’s my approach these days, I think I know what I have entered and as for you (others), I am not able to say. I try to embrace the depth I have rather than peruse the reality of the experiences I don’t have. Or no longer have. And I love Fsther Sils beard.
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  132. Much love KH!
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  133.  @eyesee9715  tell me more indeed
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  134. LOVED!
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  135. Sacrifice is a beautiful thing. Especially when it includes time that you can never get back. I thank you!
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  136. Russians are Russians because they have a language, an ethnicity, a unifying Theos. What is the white language? What is the white god? Whiteness is a terrible category. It offers nearly nothing but some sort of genos poorly constructed by deistic “scientists”. German is a thing. Whiteness is nearly nothing. It binds nearly nothing. Dutchmen is a thing. They have very little in common with Greekmen. To pretend such a white unity exists is simply a reaction to some nebulous “blackmen “ concept. What I am saying is obvious. Your questions are fascinating and let’s talk about them. Whiteness ? A white nation? Sad… an wholly without precedent
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  137.  @brianbob7514  here is an answer: of course. You should be proud of your own nation. Your nation is not a white nation. There is no such thing. Your culture is not “white”. What is white food? French food I know. White food? Whiteness is foolishness. Love your people! But who are they?
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  138. Good cents my brother! But I really do think martyrdom is detachment in a way that makes “westerners” deeply uncomfortable. Martyrdom is the archetypal image of Christianity. It is the pattern of Christ. That we in the west chafe at it is well… normal. We westerners also literally destroyed our monasteries. See England. It was the plan of “Christian’s” to destroy their monastic institutions. That’s not an idea we should dismiss.
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  139. Tell me more!
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  140. Aha! Now I know!
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  141. Beautiful comment! Though I may not have done it. Well, the ideas are about the ideas. White nationalism is an idea and it is worthy of attention and negative attention people who sound and act like white nationalist are good people because they are created in God‘s image. They are good. The idea,however, is not only bad, it is destructive to the Christian life that is the key point. So… A few harsh words can be a good is thing when applied to a very bad idea. A hard saying can be healing. I can be more prescriptive and I’ll try harder next time! People are good… and yet we adhere to the bad. White nationalism is a very bad idea indeed. German nationalism? Could be a wonderful thing! Depends on the disposition of the souls of Germans. Ethiopian nationalism? Could be hot! White nationalism? That’s not a thing… or at best it is a very mongrelized and debased thing. What is “a white”?
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  142. So you think it ends with like a doggy matrix? Somehow we all live in a manufactured world controlled by cocker spaniels?
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  143. ❤
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  144.  @reelsongod  Michael, we should get a Diet Coke together sometime.
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  145. Lisa! We love you!
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  146. Can we create enough relief? Unflatten it by just being present?
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  147. It’s true! It’s on Friday and ots gonna be a blast. A bit more dough than at our Keipi restaurant but this will be unique for sure. Come say hello! Can’t wait…
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  148. Absolutely! Here’s the thing… Is being white and ethnicity? Is there such a thing as a white nation? White is a terrible category…American nationalism? Sounds like a thing. White nationalism? I actually don’t even know what that is… Were the white people of France killing the German people of Germany Because the German people were less white? Whiteness is a terrible category. We shouldn’t use it if we are serious about following Christ.
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  149. This is the best comment that has ever blessed our Podcast. I was so not drunk in this podcast! But as I think back… Am I always drunk? It’s possible… Sometimes well I drink but lots of people drink. But to say, I was drunk? No way! That I was drunk on the conversation about whiteness as an actual category worth building a nation around? Definitely wasted when it comes to that drink of choice! That idea made me very drunk. It should make all of us rather tipsy from a strong sense of stupidity and confusion.
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  150. This is a very important thing and needs to be said
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  151. Gosh that is helpful as a type of review of the process as per the reformation! It is this tow in the water but beware the alligators (but there aren’t any in there). I felt it growing up! Thank you for this…
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  152. It’s hard lol
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  153. Delicious
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  154. In a good or bad way lol…
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  155. Dufffffff!
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  156.  @serbianbyzantine you are kind and I feel better! 🇷🇸❤️
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