Recent content by Osmotik

Hello everyone, I am an Orthodox leaning American, working on becoming an official catechumen soon. I am very grateful for the Faith and God drawing me to the truth. I am an engineering student graduating soon and am interested in industrial,chemical,and mechanical engineering as well as nature...

Hello all, I am very appreciative of this website and the EO forum in particular. I am willing to make a longer post another time when I have more time, but for now, I quickly ask for assistance Many serious turns in my life is causing me to feel the need to become more serious myself, and...

Hopefully this isn't too cloudy of a question. I have doubts often times during the day when I am focused on work, classes, etc. I realize I am not focusing on GOD during those times but completely thoughtful of the worldly task at hand. It makes me wonder if it is a lack of faith or sinful...

So much I could say but I want to keep this brief. I hope I am not in the wrong for asking for this on this site, but I am depressed and was attending an orthodox church and desiring to become a catechumin. But I have questions about my situation and I would like to speak to someone about these...

Yeah I guess it is something I will have to think about when the specific situation arises, thank you (and everyone else, thank you a lot for your thoughts). Like I said before, it is almost like I don't fit in anywhere so it seems my relationships tend to follow suit. But regardless I think...

I agree, and the reason I ask is because most of the girls I attract or have dated are non white. It is not coming from a place of dislike, I just don't want my family ripped apart. I didn't have a sound family growing up and one of my biggest fears since childhood was having the same happen to...

Hey all, I just wanted to get some opinions from Orthodox members. I also don't want this becoming or sounding politically charged. America is in a weird place culturally and spiritually right now, and I question whether marrying a girl nonwhite is justified at this point. If America falls...

I am still learning but you quote Solomon a lot and Ecclesiastes, but isn't this OT reference kind of moot considering that Jesus came to give us the gift of everlasting life?

I am going so far with the Faith and I want to thank everyone here who has helped me come closer to God and understanding, I have also started to attend an Orthodox church. Just to get to the point, can someone in this sub forum explain to me Romans 1:16? Is it saying that Jews are more...

I completely agree, I think one of the only options the US has in saving any sense of unity/culture is to be more charitable while at the meantime, focusing on family and morals. Essentially becoming more Christian. I'm wary of hardcore fascism of course but we really tend to dig ourselves in...

I'm talking about the general divisions in the country, not this one instance. I genuinely don't understand how you can't see the huge divide building in the country. It growing and growing and instances like this, CHAZ/CHOP, etc. are just smaller pieces of a bigger bubble waiting to burst

Wow certain people really will blatantly try everything in their power to destroy the Faith. How this does anything but further divide people I fail to see

I've said multiple times I'm not promoting a split, only observing the process. It definitely isn't the same discussion because the demographics, ideologies, and circumstances are different. Is it similar? Yes. Do I acknowledge the probability of large amounts of bloodshed? Absolutely and I...

Obviously I'm aware of the civil war and the outcome. I'm not here to promote any side or any attempt specifically. Nor am I here to argue emotionally or disrespect anyone. Just because something happened previously that is similar, does not mean the same outcome will always occur the next...

I know what you're implying and I think that statement is way too vague and makes too many assumptions to dissect with any sort of brevity. It's too rhetorical to have any sort of dialectic