Orthodox memes

[dzheremi]

Not specifically Orthodox, but I thought this was cute (though it should really say HE changed my mind...again, I don't make 'em, folks!):

 

[Not David]

This one is for @ArmyMatt

 

[ArmyMatt]

This one is for @ArmyMatt
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"He stands for Truth, Justice, and the Narrow Way!"

 

[Nick1000]

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

Unfortunately he spelled HEROES wrong! But that’s neither here nor there (said in my best NY Jewish accent)

This one is for @ArmyMatt
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[prodromos]

Unfortunately he spelled HEROES wrong! But that’s neither here nor there (said in my best NY Jewish accent)

I can't remember whether "eros" has a hard breathing or not.

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

Well it ain’t agape or phileo, man. Eros is a lot hotter and heavier....

I can't remember whether "eros" has a hard breathing or not.

 

[ArmyMatt]

Eros is a lot hotter and heavier....

not gonna take the bait....

 

[Not David]

 

[GreekOrthodox]

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I have a buddy at church who wants to make a fantasy series where the Empire is the good guys instead of the usual cliché of a democratic-republican rebellion struggling against an evil autocratic empire.

Videssos Cycle by Harry Turtledove
A Roman cohort in Gaul gets transported to a world that is essentially the Byzantine Empire with magic. Good (Phos) vs. evil (Skotos), religious controversy of the good guys and mercenaries who use a Creed with an additional clause, an empire with a huge capital city on a inland sea etc. Harry Turtledove has a number of alternative history series, but since he has a doctorate in Byzantine history, these book are amazing.

 

[dzheremi]

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Hahaha. It's true...they love stars, and find them so inspiring...it reminds of the Byzantine Arabic hymn (at least I only know it in Arabic) for the Nativity that talks about the star-worshipers (the Magi) learning from the guiding star to offer true worship to the Sun of Justice (as they call Him in the hymn: shams el 'adl).

Except in today's 'secular' West, things are returning to star worship as people have forgotten the One Whom the stars lead them to, with all this hippie crystal energy new age nonsense. Lord have mercy.

 

[mothcorrupteth]

Videssos Cycle by Harry Turtledove
A Roman cohort in Gaul gets transported to a world that is essentially the Byzantine Empire with magic. Good (Phos) vs. evil (Skotos), religious controversy of the good guys and mercenaries who use a Creed with an additional clause, an empire with a huge capital city on a inland sea etc. Harry Turtledove has a number of alternative history series, but since he has a doctorate in Byzantine history, these book are amazing.

I've read Worldwar and Southern Victory all the way through, as well as several of his one-shots and about half the Atlantis series. After a while, you just get tired of him telling the same joke in every book about taking shoes off to count past ten and you realize, he's good at generating the ideas for high-concept stories but not so good at creating interesting characters or drama. I stopped reading about 10 years ago.

It was kind of hilarious to me a few years ago when Presbyterian minister Doug Wilson was pitching around ideas for a secessionist flag and came up with the exact design of the Freedom Party. I tried to warn his people that maybe that wasn't such a good idea given that the Far Left can be just as numerologically obsessed and schizo as end-times Charismatics when it comes to the subject of "dog whistles," but they just shrugged me off.

 

[GreekOrthodox]

I've read Worldwar and Southern Victory all the way through, as well as several of his one-shots and about half the Atlantis series. After a while, you just get tired of him telling the same joke in every book about taking shoes off to count past ten and you realize, he's good at generating the ideas for high-concept stories but not so good at creating interesting characters or drama. I stopped reading about 10 years ago.

I enjoyed Guns of the South and tried slugging my way through one of his other series. I agree with you on those, they just got bogged down. Videssos is the highlight for me simply because its one of the few stories that Ive read where the Byzantines (or Videssos) are the background for the novel.

 

[Not David]

 

[ArmyMatt]

nope, it sure doesn't

 

[Not David]

nope, it sure doesn't

If I have posted this in General Theology they would have already use the repetitive verse in John:
"I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all[a]; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.”

 

[prodromos]

If I have posted this in General Theology they would have already use the repetitive verse in John:
"I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all[a]; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.”

Everyone is free to walk out of His hand if they choose to do so. Unfortunately many choose worldly pleasures over God's promise.

 

[ArmyMatt]

If I have posted this in General Theology they would have already use the repetitive verse in John:
"I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all[a]; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.”

while true, just because no one can snatch you from the Father's hand, that doesn't mean you'll wanna stay there

 

[Not David]

while true, just because no one can snatch you from the Father's hand, that doesn't mean you'll wanna stay there

They would say "no one" implies "no one", so not even yourself.

 

[ArmyMatt]

They would say "no one" implies "no one", so not even yourself.

except the text says snatched from the hand. I didn't say you could snatch yourself from God, but that you don't like being in His embrace.