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. We must. I agree
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  3. Joe even sings for us at the end! đź’Ą
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  4. 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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  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. 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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  11.  @hobbsmatt  Fo Sho! Also… are you trying to get me disappeared?
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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. A beloved thing indeed!
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  15.  @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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  16.  @dog-headedman2634  was not drunk even a little
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  17. 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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  18. Agreed
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  19. đź’Ż
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  20.  @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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  21. Neil. You are my Nicholas Kotar
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  22. This is one helluva comment. So insightful and it makes me laugh thinking about our childhoods... Nice!
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  23. Super well said. We’ve mastered the making of the clap trap… aka, our minds.
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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26.  @parkermize  parker you are like my voice of wonder out there… I love when I see you here
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  27. Love to you sister!!
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  28. Heavy things lightly good brother Jake! Love it
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  29. 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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  30. got it throwing a Supra there up in NC
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  31. 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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  32. I wished I had done more of it… lightly.
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  33. That is very possibly true…
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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. I owe Casper WY an apology.
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  37. Also, yes it would. I think
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  38. Daaaaaang! Mic drop!
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  39.  @orthodoxboomergrandma3561  hmmm, when to make this happen?
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  40. Agreed. There is indeed such a thing as Christian “looking “ economics….
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  41. 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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  42. 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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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. Stop. You are scaring me
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  47. 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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  48.  @isaiahkerstetter3142  can I use this please!?
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  49. 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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  50. This is such a good idea. I have a few ideas that you are already anticipating… Let’s do it!
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