Mood vs. Emotion: Differences & Traits
Five factors outlining the difference between mood and emotion In an excerpt taken from “The Nature Of Emotion”, Dr. Ekman lays out five factors for determining...
Category: Stuff
Ad-hoc thoughts for which I have failed to find an appropriate category; contemplation is, nevertheless, hoped for…
The Ladder of Divine Ascent – Step 24, The First Seven Paragraphs
Step 24 On meekness, simplicity, guilelessness which come not from nature but from habit, and about malice. 1. The morning light precedes the sun, and the precu...
No Local Church Supports the Ecumenical Patriarch
It’s all about the facts and salvation, not drama. Source: https://orthodoxsynaxis.org/2018/10/18/ukraine-church-controversy-frequently-asked-questions-faq/ The...
An Unrepentant Secularism
“Perhaps the greatest tragedy of life in a secularized world is the freedom from failure. The mantra of progress ignores every secular failure as an abiding ill...
Syllogism . . .
. . . judging individuals on the basis of group membership (i.e., Russians) is the literal definition of stereotyping. If one used the same syllogism but swappe...
Proper argumentation . . .
Compare actions to actions or condition to conditions, but not actions to conditions.
On some select hierarchs . . .
Warning. Keep thy sense of humor. “An amusing old doggrel acrostic for Latin “vicarius” (“substitute, delegate” – esp. a vicar of Christ who may be a prou...
On the Ukranian Church Crisis
On the Ukrainian Church crisis…
On Filaret . . .
OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE DEFROCKING AND ANATHEMATIZATION OF PHILARET DENISENKO Documents of the June 1992, 1994, and 1997 Bishops’ Councils of the Russian Orthod...