0:00 In the name of The Father and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit. Amen. 0:05 0:24 Metropolitan Anastasy, a collection of his impressions in a book 📖 titled _Conversations With My Heart_ 1:11 + Depth and Range of Commentary 1:29 The nature of human commentary on society. 1:59 Endless commentary, critique, judgement, analysis; enabled by technology, to speak non-stop on a subject. 2:27 Keep in mind, there is good, but we have to be careful with new abilities. 2:54 Goodness and Darkness handling new abilities. 3:20 Two Readings from Metropolitan Anastasy, read by Bishop Irene. 3:26 What makes certain thoughts seem popular and noteworthy? 3:46 4:24 Mass Media, News, Internet 📺 💻📱 4:46 5:17 Cutting against which grain? 7:16 Exalt Truths and Genuine Beauty. 8:11 Classical Literature, Classical Art. 8:30 It is easy to look at something and spot things we dislike without trying to contemplate Truth. 9:04 To see Truth requires Spiritual Clarity, and that comes through long practice, through discipline. ✍🏻 9:37 Attentiveness to + Every line + Every angle + Every tint of color + Longpractice, instruction, perception, and awareness. 9:53 Enables a work of art to be finished. 10:04 Discipline our words to not be impulsive to react to what we hear or see. 10:24 Discipline, through the Church’s Ascetical Life, in order to perceive The Simple Truths which are at the Heart of Reality. The Truths of God and how they are disclosed in the world, and society. 10:40 And then! then our words might have power to speak to this world. Something other than just our emotional reactions to what we behold. 10:54 Words of Salvation.
My mind is constantly accusing and slandering. The battle is fierce but glorious, pray for my struggles brothers and sisters as we fight the enemy, and I shall pray for you all ❤ good struggles to all and may God be with you ❤
This is a very apt comment, Bishop Irenei. This "positivism" has to do with the purity of the heart. The more you struggle to purify your heart (of the debris of unwisdom that is being fed into you) the more you are able to see the beauty of God and of His work.
I've recently learned, and been pondering about, the fact that philosophical realism and philosophical skepticism are fundamentally opposites. I think most skeptics would say that they are both a skeptic and a realist, which is, in essence, not possible. In reality, they are neither. They are pretending to be one or the other depending on what is convenient to them in the moment. This is helping me better understand this frustrating inconsistency with skeptics: where they will be hyper-skeptical about anything that is inconvenient, but then mindlessly accept any falsehood, even very obvious falsehoods, as long as they are convenient. It's because they don't even care about skepticism or realism. Using these words is not an appeal to any philosophical paradigm, it is simply using a self-descriptor that sounds sophisticated in order to win some social status points during a conflict. I suppose that also explains why it never works to point out the inconsistencies The goal is social status points, and acknowledging any mistake does not help with that, so the mistake must be denied immediately, without hesistation, and without letting any truth get in the way. Any inconvenient truth can simply be disregarded through "skepticism", after all.
We live in a world that's offended by everything and everyone and live in fear of what other people think. I don't and never will but yes it's a balancing act.
Fight against the Spirit of this Age. Thank you Your Grace.
❤❤❤❤❤ i hope his grace will continue speaking to us like this always.
0:00 In the name of The Father and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit. Amen.
0:05
0:24 Metropolitan Anastasy, a collection of his impressions in a book 📖 titled _Conversations With My Heart_
1:11 + Depth and Range of Commentary
1:29 The nature of human commentary on society.
1:59 Endless commentary, critique, judgement, analysis; enabled by technology, to speak non-stop on a subject.
2:27 Keep in mind, there is good, but we have to be careful with new abilities.
2:54 Goodness and Darkness handling new abilities.
3:20 Two Readings from Metropolitan Anastasy, read by Bishop Irene.
3:26 What makes certain thoughts seem popular and noteworthy?
3:46
4:24 Mass Media, News, Internet 📺 💻📱
4:46
5:17 Cutting against which grain?
7:16 Exalt Truths and Genuine Beauty.
8:11 Classical Literature, Classical Art.
8:30 It is easy to look at something and spot things we dislike without trying to contemplate Truth.
9:04 To see Truth requires Spiritual Clarity, and that comes through long practice, through discipline. ✍🏻
9:37 Attentiveness to
+ Every line
+ Every angle
+ Every tint of color
+ Longpractice, instruction, perception, and awareness.
9:53 Enables a work of art to be finished.
10:04 Discipline our words to not be impulsive to react to what we hear or see.
10:24 Discipline, through the Church’s Ascetical Life, in order to perceive The Simple Truths which are at the Heart of Reality. The Truths of God and how they are disclosed in the world, and society. 10:40 And then! then our words might have power to speak to this world. Something other than just our emotional reactions to what we behold.
10:54 Words of Salvation.
What an attentive individual
❤Thank you
Beautifully expressed, and timely. Thank you.
My mind is constantly accusing and slandering. The battle is fierce but glorious, pray for my struggles brothers and sisters as we fight the enemy, and I shall pray for you all ❤ good struggles to all and may God be with you ❤
Thank you!
This is a very apt comment, Bishop Irenei. This "positivism" has to do with the purity of the heart. The more you struggle to purify your heart (of the debris of unwisdom that is being fed into you) the more you are able to see the beauty of God and of His work.
The context makes it difficult to attain purity of heart, What a beautiful offering. Thank you Bishop Ireni
Brilliant
Thank you I very much needed to hear this.
I've recently learned, and been pondering about, the fact that philosophical realism and philosophical skepticism are fundamentally opposites. I think most skeptics would say that they are both a skeptic and a realist, which is, in essence, not possible. In reality, they are neither. They are pretending to be one or the other depending on what is convenient to them in the moment. This is helping me better understand this frustrating inconsistency with skeptics: where they will be hyper-skeptical about anything that is inconvenient, but then mindlessly accept any falsehood, even very obvious falsehoods, as long as they are convenient. It's because they don't even care about skepticism or realism. Using these words is not an appeal to any philosophical paradigm, it is simply using a self-descriptor that sounds sophisticated in order to win some social status points during a conflict. I suppose that also explains why it never works to point out the inconsistencies The goal is social status points, and acknowledging any mistake does not help with that, so the mistake must be denied immediately, without hesistation, and without letting any truth get in the way. Any inconvenient truth can simply be disregarded through "skepticism", after all.
Very edifying, thank you Vladyka.
Beautiful talk
Thank you.
Very true! I enjoyed listening. Thank you.
💥 guilty
Great talk Vladika, I can be an big mouth opinionated bully. I hate hypocrisy.
Same. Best to practice silence.
We live in a world that's offended by everything and everyone and live in fear of what other people think. I don't and never will but yes it's a balancing act.
Me to
Me too.