Recent content by Llauralin

Sorry about that, but probably believe her words more than her expressions. I tend to accidentally give mixed signals too, even worse than she does ("sure I'll go out for drinks and tapas alone with you in a romantic European port town on Christmas Eve. No, I don't think I'm interested in you...

Hi all, I just had a friend ask for my perspective on the morality of genetic engineering, especially reintroducing traits that have been long extinct (a wooly mammoth, for example). I haven't really thought about it much, and wasn't sure, but said I'd try to think about it and get back to him...

It's almost always worth showing up and seeing what happens. Sometimes Really interesting, unexpected things happen. I've been struggling some with attending church regularly in Serbian and Slavonic, but last week I did go, and then ended up following them around on a tour, lunch, folk festival...

Did you try calling her? In person would be better, I'd think, if she's willing to find the time to meet up (and if she isn't, she's probably not interested?)

I second dayhiker -- ask her what's going on, and if she's interested in being in a relationship with you. Messenger might or might not be about you. Some of us have very mixed feelings about internet chatting, and will get into a pattern with our devices where we're extremely responsive and...

Sacraments! Prayer! Feast days! Pascha! (!!) But I agree with All4Christ, "better than" probably isn't a good way to look at it. It isn't one thing or the other.

In Georgia they worship in Georgian, but there was a period before the Communist revolution where they were required to worship in Slavonic for political reasons, and it was really difficult, and apparently drove people away. From what I gathered, they have strongly negative feelings about the...

I haven't had these exact struggles, but when I get stuck in negative feedback loops it usually helps to break out of it by going for a walk someplace beautiful, singing, talking God everything I'm glad of that day, talking to other people about things they love, trying to repent of my own sins...

Decani is an excellent monastery! Let me know if you make it to Kosovo -- I'd love to show you around Prizren!

Lord have mercy. It sounds like you must care about it some, or it wouldn't bother you so much. Machiavelli and Marx are better with wine (though why not beer? If you really like it), friends, good skies, and some prayer. Otherwise we end up with monstrous regimes that can do a lot of...

Love that quote -- our priest quoted it in a homily a while back, and thought it was lovely. Elder Porphyrios is great.

Ah, I see now. I had read the posts, but got them confused, thanks.

Oh man. Having majorly mixed feelings about this. Please be careful. In any event, you started this with a request for something to help these Serbian youth (and others?) in your area, and your Facebook page. I'm not sure what you had in mind, though. A FB page can be a good way to...

Sorry to hear that Seventh Valley. Why are you feeling that way? Why hate and dread? Have you talked about this with your wife? It sounds like much more than the indifference or expectation of tiredness of someone who doesn't believe in what's being celebrated.

Joined in 2005, but haven't been on much for the past few years.