Christianity Thread II: Y'all need Jesus

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good things: vestments, bells, elaborate music, theology, gays

bad things: polyester, people who don't care about theology, Just Asking Questions, hats that aren't silly

# ¿ Sep 20, 2016 16:20

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 17:15

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Paladinus posted:

Controversial opinion: some new things are actually better than old things.

hot take: no they aren't

# ¿ Sep 20, 2016 16:21

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why are you friends with jerks, mo tzu

# ¿ Sep 20, 2016 16:26

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while looking for a soundtrack for a game i run, i found this loving thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6gyxbBvmTY

# ¿ Sep 20, 2016 16:28

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Cythereal posted:

Honestly, who hasn't raided with a Trans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas album blaring over vent?

go Charpentier or go home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vha5Sd53Ah0

# ¿ Sep 20, 2016 16:36

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Gaspy Conana posted:

Guy who doesn't know what denomination he is checking in. I'm glad the new Christianity thread has a broader title because I wasn't sure if I was allowed to post in the last one. Not used to liturgical services, but I'm definitely over the Charismatic evangelical thing. It gets really weird and political and flag-worshippy for my taste. Even the gentrified young people churches are like that, except they have espresso machines instead of a drip brew from the seventies.

Also I imbued my clown game with shenanigans. No direct Christ allegory, more like a ~what a Christian should look like~ metaphor. Anyway, cool to talk about this on SA.

go to a bunch of services of different denominations, see what grabs you

i hope it's orthodoxy

# ¿ Sep 20, 2016 17:55

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Mo Tzu posted:

This is good advice, though if you're more intellectual and less experiential (this seems elitist but I'm not sure how else to say "if thinking is easier than feeling for you") then reading up on different church dogmas, ideologies, and theologies is also good

there's also different kinds of thinking, for instance i think about abstract things or general things in terms of concrete or specific things, so in order to explain something when i write something i end up listing a billion examples

# ¿ Sep 20, 2016 18:47

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Blurred posted:

i love the facial expressions in that comic so very very much.

# ¿ Sep 20, 2016 20:19

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System Metternich posted:

Gotta explain this to a dirty Old Worlder

southerners are extremely gastfreundlich, except maybe texans but that's the west not the south
i do not know anyone from New England so i don't have the appropriate german adjective

ed: also southern food is delicious and fattening

# ¿ Sep 20, 2016 20:54

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Cythereal posted:

I'm in the fourth city I've lived in in the past ten years. Maybe if I find the right one. Of the churches I visited, though, it was the ELCA Lutheran church I was happiest with. They certainly had the best food.

For those new to this thread, I'm an Evangelical by background and general beliefs, but I no longer consider myself Southern Baptist per se - I have issues with how right-wing the SBC has become, and a lot of Evangelical churches in general.

and he moves a lot, add that to the character sheet

# ¿ Sep 20, 2016 21:45

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System Metternich posted:

(Charpentier is to die for, and he's afaik the only French composer of that period to emulate the Baroque style that was popular in the rest of Catholic Europe at the time. That's probably because he studied at Rome)

you know the fun thing about Charpentier's Te Deum? The opening bit is all brass and kettledrums, which is the cavalry version of the infantry's familiar flutes and drums. The kettledrums would be hung one on either side of the horse.

# ¿ Sep 21, 2016 09:35

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Bel_Canto posted:

although that did help cement the Poles' status as "too slavic for the west, too roman for the east" and the unfortunate military stomping ground of europe for several centuries

in the period i study, they did the stomping

# ¿ Sep 21, 2016 16:34

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divorce and left wing economic policy, how terrible

# ¿ Sep 21, 2016 19:17

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Smoking Crow posted:

I see funny cash and immediately think Company scrip

the dude's making fun of a left winger because the real cool rad poo poo is being right wing, i would bet it's about welfare

# ¿ Sep 21, 2016 19:29

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Worthleast posted:

It's Chesterton. He hated Usury.

haha,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Charges_of_anti-Semitism

# ¿ Sep 21, 2016 19:57

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syscall girl posted:

it did mention putting someone in an oven

maybe it was a game of thrones reference

inb4 ezra pound reference

# ¿ Sep 21, 2016 20:10

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Arsenic Lupin posted:

Can I suggest an amplification to the OP?

You don't have to be a Christian. You do have to be polite.

that's the "be a cool guy don't be an unchool guy" clause

# ¿ Sep 21, 2016 23:48

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we probably have many different opinions (like, i know for a fact zonohedron and i do because i read her posts on the topic), and unlike our opinions on a whole bunch of other stuff, we will probably get emotional about them if it comes to an argument and say things we'll regret

# ¿ Sep 22, 2016 16:32

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Pellisworth posted:

It does not reflect our fundamentally sinful reality.

our true nature is to be good and we are only bad out of ignorance (maybe Crow couldn't spell) and because we are misdirected by the passions (maybe his fingers slipped because he was typing too fast). you too can get in touch with your true nature, with God's help (a mod fixed it)

:angel:

# ¿ Sep 22, 2016 16:36

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our official position on a thing is almost always literally �\_(ツ)_/�

# ¿ Sep 22, 2016 18:03

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Cythereal posted:

I'm a Southern Baptist by background and would absolutely be fine going to church in a t-shirt and shorts, but look at some of the ridiculous costumes some other folks in this thread have posted being associated with their denomination.

that's for the priests. the less americanized the Orthodox in question are the less likely they are to dress up for church. but men should uncover their heads and women should cover theirs.

also, zonohedron, what is a "particular church"? then i'll let you know if we have them

# ¿ Sep 22, 2016 18:36

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zonohedron posted:

I have no idea the actual definition, but, e.g. the Latin-rite Catholics are a particular church, the Maronites are one...

In America those would probably be either "jurisdictions" (if nobody's a heretic) or the big groups, like us and the Copts, were the result of schism.

I think.

Edit: And I know ROCOR priests have gotten in trouble for rebaptizing Catholics. Some OCA priests do that and some do not.

# ¿ Sep 22, 2016 19:03

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cythreal, isn't your ex black? what did the women who were like...three times her age wear to church? those hats are more like wedding cakes

# ¿ Sep 22, 2016 22:43

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Cythereal posted:

We dated for three months and people dressed like any other college students going to church - t shirts and jeans were the rule.

black lady church hats are resplendent and magnificent. but people your ex's age are too young for that.

# ¿ Sep 22, 2016 23:03

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System Metternich posted:

It's much older, too, most of those Spanish confraternities (hermandades or cofrad�as)

for the record, i have never heard the first word, always only the second

# ¿ Sep 23, 2016 09:02

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pasta by white people is all terrible

if you want to learn how to make good pasta i will teach you people

# ¿ Sep 23, 2016 09:11

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Tias posted:

teach us

-->salt your water, put a little olive oil in it
-->take it to a rolling boil, a very intense boil
-->put pasta in
-->keep stirring it, make sure it doesn't stick together
-->taste it frequently
-->when it is mostly cooked but (this is the important bit) still has a tiny bit in the middle where it isn't done yet then it is ready. you should probably even stop it cooking slightly before this point because it will keep cooking in the hot water on your way to the sink to drain it
-->drain it
-->serve immediately

-->different shapes of pasta go with different kinds of sauce, too.

# ¿ Sep 23, 2016 09:50

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Pellisworth posted:

In the rural Midwest where I grew up, church was the major social gathering for most people, since that's about the only time you would see a lot of each other. That and school events, possibly family reunions because more than half your neighbors are your second cousins lol.

JcDent, one of the reasons this is different for y'all might be because Pellisworth is from a region that is goddamn huge and has almost no people in it. Church might be one of the few occasions there's enough of them in one place for people to hang out.

# ¿ Sep 23, 2016 10:11

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we dressed La Conquistadora up when i was a child

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/history-of-la-conquistadora/article_ca342910-fe14-5b69-a766-8cb9000ac3d8.html

there is also a collection of her tiny clothing in our cathedral museum

# ¿ Sep 23, 2016 16:47

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in english we say bedroom community

also my church is like...30 people

# ¿ Sep 23, 2016 18:11

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there is a chick in this hostel from Alaska, and it's making me think: does anyone here know how native Alaskans fast? if you live in Alaska and hunt whales, there's not a lot of farming up there. Same for native Siberians I guess.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2016 09:49

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Pellisworth posted:

That's a good question, I do know you're right and the Inuits have an almost entirely animal-based diet so fasting seems like it'd be tough. They also would be dealing with serious vitamin D deficiency since they're getting all their vit D from eating animals (especially seafood) rather than sunlight.

they might not, like some 18th century russian could have looked around at the ice and gone "maybe we just won't tell them that bit"

ed: i think there are also some people who are mongolian-adjacent and Orthodox

# ¿ Sep 24, 2016 10:13

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Pellisworth posted:

I thought the Orthodox line on fasting was more or less "it is a very good thing you should do if you're able to."

the dude eating the whale is probably not that demographic tho

# ¿ Sep 24, 2016 10:29

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the devotio moderna is not medieval, it is modern

hence the name

# ¿ Sep 24, 2016 18:38

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project defenestration is a go, repeat it is a go

# ¿ Sep 24, 2016 23:10

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many early communists were also orthodox, qed

# ¿ Sep 25, 2016 20:19

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usually i tone down the bluntness but not in this case: if your life sucks and you are thinking about the religious life, it might be as a fantasy of escape instead of anything real.

also if god gave you a person you love and she loves you, that might be a message about what kind of life you are going to lead in the future--one in the world.

if you still want this after you find a job again, then it might be a legit vocation.

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# ¿ Sep 26, 2016 06:49

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nothing sexier than hearing your lover's words: "hello. Hello? Hello! Can you hear me!...it's frozen again..."

edit: not dissing long distance relationships, since i move around so much, not only my romantic relationships but also my friendships are long distance at least half the time. without modern communication i'd either be lonely as gently caress or be writing 8 letters a day to everyone i know

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# ¿ Sep 26, 2016 07:15

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if you're anywhere near florida, cythreal is looking for people to hang out with and it turns out there's at least two of you :v:

# ¿ Sep 26, 2016 20:15

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 17:15

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Man Whore posted:

Basically a politically motivated coup in a loving christian denomination.

it almost happened in my denomination too, fortunately we deposed the Metropolitan who was the most infected

# ¿ Sep 26, 2016 20:34

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