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Francis Earl

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I make you repeat yourself because you said you know what you are talking about, and yet you have missed something critical about hesychasm. which leads me to think that you have no idea of what you are talking about.

What CRITICAL thing have I missed?
 
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I mean, from experience, theosis does not reveal any three...

I can tell you what the three point at, but reality is one.

said no hesychast ever
 
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the fact that you actually asked this, shows you have no idea what hesychasm is.

I have actually capitalized "critical" so people can laugh at you for saying something stupid, but you have decided not to... good call.
 
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I have touched on catharsis, theoria, and theosis itself...

I have talked about undoing the ego, I have talked about union with God.

I have talked about the Jesus prayer, I have talked about the Spirit filling the heart...

Seriously, what do you think I'm missing?
 
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It is actually humorous because you admitted early on you haven't actually practiced it...

So you're just going by what you've read, and I am talking about the reality.

It means you don't actually know what is critical...

Yet, I have lived with this for 8+ years.
 
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The Jesus prayer isn't actually necessary, but it helps overcoming mental distractions...

Catharsis happens naturally, as you overcome your prior mindsets various things start to happen...
Theoria is the experience itself, but doesn't necessarily rid you of ego.
Theosis is the death of ego and is probably the worst thing I ever experienced.

There is no way to trigger them, they are grace... in my case a function of pondering unity of opposites... and then inquiring into the nature of what remained until that burned up.
 
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I have actually capitalized "critical" so people can laugh at you for saying something stupid, but you have decided not to... good call.

I didn't say anything stupid at all. all you have done is lectured us about something you know nothing about, because there is a CRITICAL thing you are missing.
 
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no one believes in three gods. take that nonsense elsewhere.

I'm saying, you keep talking about three and rejecting the one...

Don't try to turn it around, I am insisting on one.

You are saying a hesychast should insist on three... but the only three are the transcendent non-experienced reality, the omnipresent love, and the physical form...
 
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It is actually humorous because you admitted early on you haven't actually practiced it...

So you're just going by what you've read, and I am talking about the reality.

It means you don't actually know what is critical...

Yet, I have lived with this for 8+ years.

actually, for the second time, I never said I don't practice it.
 
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I'm saying, you keep talking about three and rejecting the one...

Don't try to turn it around, I am insisting on one.

You are saying a hesychast should insist on three... but the only three are the transcendent non-experienced reality, the omnipresent love, and the physical form...

again, not something I have said.
 
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