Topic: OCnet Quotable Quotes

[Alpo]

Good people, stop trying to make sense of this this topic. Pasasi is perfect as he is.

Pasadi is not perfect. He just prayed to God to help him give life to others. God does the heavy lifting.Pasadi is just happy. Pasadi sees the Gods power.Pasadi alone is almost nothing.Pasadi does mistakes.  Pasadi plus God is something.

[Dominika]

1. Pick random quote from random source
2. Read 21st century understanding into thousand years old quote
2. Don't read the whole text or the historical context
3. ? ? ?
4. Profit

4. Noise

There, fixed it for you.

[Mor Ephrem]

Who knows what is sitting at the bottoms of oceans. They cant even find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

[Volnutt]

I’m significantly smutty.

[RaphaCam]

Who knows what is sitting at the bottoms of oceans. They cant even find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

lol he actually has a point

[Mor Ephrem]

Who knows what is sitting at the bottoms of oceans. They cant even find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

lol he actually has a point

Still, I LOL'd.

[RaphaCam]

Still, I LOL'd.

Me too, but I always chuckle at anything Tzimis writes for some reason.

[Dominika]

Secondly, your definition of a conservative Church is based on the use of calendar?

I suspect it's at least 90% calendar and headcoverings. (Who's going to tell them? )

[Justin Kolodziej]

Maybe Garfield is so lazy and hungry because he smokes pot.

[Dominika]

Mor has explaind the jurisdictional mess in the States:

Looks like Bishop Theodore Ghandour has really enjoyed his new diocese.

Who wouldn't like the diocese of the most beautiful city in the world?

That’s why there are a dozen or so archbishops of New York.

[Rohzek]

I miss Papist; when we argued with him, we knew we were interacting with a human being. He had empathy and humor. With Xavier I might as well be getting dispatches from some polemical cyborg programmed in the Baroque era... call it the Bellarminator.

[RaphaCam]

I always learn something new about sexuality when I read OCNet.

[Mor Ephrem]

I'm ready for anything.

So am I.

While I usually tolerate sex jokes, I find this post in regard to the subject matter to be quite obscene, and it bids poorly for your eternal soul to make sex jokes in regards to the Virgin Mary. If you don't go to confession, good luck during the Last Judgment - because if I ain't making it, you sure as hell ain't.

I think even 13 year olds would find that offensive.

If I'm the "graceless schismatic" and you, Mor, are in a state of grace, I know for a fact that you are doing a poor job at representing Oriental Orthodoxy.

[Ainnir]

Repeating things or writing in capital letters does not make them more true. Corban,Corban,Corban.
Still not true.

You might be on to something. "This marriage never happened, this marriage never happened, this marriage never happened." You're right, it doesn't work.

[Justin Kolodziej]

I’m far too skeptical to embrace my doubts.

[Volnutt]

A slightly old quote, but it spoke to me today:

You'll save yourself from a lot of headaches if you remember that not all interpretive principles used with Scripture are equally beneficial with Church history or patristics. For example, the idea that a doctrine or practice is validly demonstrated "by two or three witnesses" usually works fine with the Bible, but is less helpful with Church history. One involves a (comparatively) small collection of inspired texts, the other is a mish mash of tens of thousands of texts from all sorts of sources. It doesn't matter that you can find 5 quotes from throughout church history which say crazy thing X; you don't need to build your beliefs around X, nor let it throw you for a loop.

[Mor Ephrem]

I've actually stopped reading about the Roman Rite because it does nothing for me anymore but produce headaches.

[Dominika]

I've actually stopped reading about the Roman Rite because it does nothing for me anymore but produce headaches.

I see the point.

[Justin Kolodziej]

The ones whose sense of security I really wonder about are those Orthodox who feel the need to post threads on the latest silly thing they heard the Anglicans were doing.

[Asteriktos]

He got “koinonia”. His opponent got “bewusstseinslage”. Who sinned, this girl or her parents, that she was given “bewusstseinslage”?

[Antonis]

Big difference: you judge, I don't.

[Mor Ephrem]

Big difference: you judge, I don't.

Beautiful!

[Volnutt]

Is it really right for two mods to gang up on someone like this?

[Rohzek]

Is it really right for two mods to gang up on someone like this?

Speaking from personal experience on either end of such matters, I do not think there is anything wrong with it. Sure it rustles people's jimmies, but they live. Furthermore, quoting cannot really qualify as ganging up imo.

[Mor Ephrem]

Why oh why would anyone buy pre-cut melon?

Because my heart isn’t made of stone. When I look into its little melon eyes, I can’t bear to pick up the knife.

[Asteriktos]

The moderators of oc.net use mind control techniques on everyone.

[RaphaCam]

The moderators of oc.net use mind control techniques on everyone.

Worked with me!

[Antonis]

I read the Metropolitan's article in his voice and it took me two hours to read.

[Antonis]

Two world wars and the advent of the atom bomb destroyed the credibility of old-school liberalism (so-called conservatism). To survive, liberalism had to mutate and branch into new dead ends.

[Dominika]

who needs Syriac when you have Slavonic!

I think St. Ephrem would feel silly trying to communicate in Slavonic in IV-century Syria.

[Orthodox_Slav]

who needs Syriac when you have Slavonic!

I think St. Ephrem would feel silly trying to communicate in Slavonic in IV-century Syria.

i would also feel silly!    

[Iconodule]

As long as you recite the creed without the Filioque. You can have strange believes but, I would consider you orthodox.

[Orthodox_Slav]

Well, it failed as a joke.

Sorry big man

[hecma925]

How humble!

[Dominika]

Well, it failed as a joke.

Sorry big man

[Dominika]

^^ beautiful

whats that next to his head!

A demon trying to tempt him to break the fast.

[Ainnir]

There is a secret island that has a convent full of beautiful virgin Orthodox women who only take vows to be married to an Orthodox man and have 6+ children.  I can tell you about it...for a price.

And where is such island populated by hamdsone virgin Orthodox men who don't feel vocation for monkhood and that are not extreme egoists?...

It does not exist.  I'm sorry.

[LivenotoneviL]

I just had a look at some wild bananas and now I am shooketh!

[Dominika]

so, what are the opinions of the People here of the Russian Orthodox church!

Like 90% of people who claim to be Russian Orthodox, I don't give it much thought in my daily life

[Dominika]

There is a secret island that has a convent full of beautiful virgin Orthodox women who only take vows to be married to an Orthodox man and have 6+ children.  I can tell you about it...for a price.

You know what they say about those ladies. Russian in the streets, Greek in the sheets.

       ARE YOU SAYING GREEK WOMAN ARE BETTER AT SEX!!!     

Sounds like I just found my PhD research topic...

[Mor Ephrem]

Sorry for...

[Mor Ephrem]

The homosexual thread is elsewhere.

It was a drive-by fruiting...

[Alpo]

This seems like a story that isn't conducive to discussion. What's the point of posting it?

He wants us to become Roman Catholic.

the sneaky rascal!

[LivenotoneviL]

I'm sorry, but your line of thought is very very far from logic. You're just so amazed by the immensity of the universe that you're feeling unable to wonder about events that would sever its continuity. Maths can imagine the "ultimate fate of the universe" and "cosmological events" assuming the continuity of existing patterns, but these patterns will be over, since Christ will transform them.

You're also looking at this particular verse of Ecclesiastes in a Protestant way... This is about a resentful man contrasting the impermanence of man with the endurance of the world, trying to take a doctrinal cosmological statement from it is basically torturing the verse.

are you talking about me bruv!

[Dominika]

whos he again?

Metropolitan Tikhon of the Orthodox Church of America. They are a self governing Orthodox Church in America whose origin is that of Russia.

the OCA  yeah I know them