Notices by ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st), page 2
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☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 12:03:34 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ @shortstories @EvilSandmich @Humpleupagus @HarryNuggets Gosh, it seems to me the Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study really put that position to pasture. As far as IQ goes, it’s hard to find a more heritable trait, genetically speaking.
I don’t deny culture and society have parts to play - but the data strongly suggests to me these are downstream of biology -
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☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 21:05:30 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ @realman543 @Witch_Hunter_Siegfired @supersid333 @mk @s2208 Yeah I understand this to mean “othering”. -
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☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 03:04:30 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ @placebo @BowsacNoodle @vonzeppelin @Jewpacabra Baptism-by-Laity is reserved for literal life-or-death type situations, in Orthodoxy. Holy Baptism mystically unites a man to the Death and Resurrection of Our Lord - and also to a particular Bishop, by extension. So it makes sense *not* to just allow these things all willy-nilly.
> “For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.”
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☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 11:29:03 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ @BattleDwarfGimli @Jonny @chris @JeffTheJoker @WilhelmIII @emma_rooks @s2208 That’s interesting, I was also at Fort Ord at some point during the 90s. Not for too long; small world. -
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☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 03:37:01 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ @doonxib @sickburnbro Maybe a little hyperbolic, but not by much. The only way to avoid overhead cost on prepared-food is dumpster diving - which comes with its own risks and usually isn’t worth it.
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☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 01:10:37 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ @sickburnbro @TrevorGoodchild @skinwalkerq400 He wasn’t prepared for what it would really have taken to change course. Heads on pikes would have been entry-level. -
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☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 12:43:46 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ @Turdicus @givenup @BowsacNoodle @graf @coolboymew @Kookee2k2 @ooignignoktoo I guess “two heads are better than one” doesn’t really pan out in evolutionary biology.
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☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 10:37:44 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ @BowsacNoodle @eee @tyler @KK954 5:1 eh ? Did you happen to notice any performance difference ? Curious. -
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☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 20:48:55 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ It’s like this guy thinks we’re just making things up and calling it “Scripture”.
Tying it to no specific instances of where we’re doing so; a broad, general complaint, apropos of nothing.
We’re doing this because he says so, and it’s sufficient.
RT: https://poa.st/objects/846417df-88d0-4db9-808b-26de57174aee -
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☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 19:56:07 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ @BadOptniks @James_Dixon @patris @JohnYoungE @Escoffier @Sulla_Felix @somemightsay We don’t even consider the Book of Enoch as Scripture - in spite of how *some* people interpret St. Jude. -
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☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 19:55:45 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ @Escoffier @James_Dixon @Sulla_Felix @somemightsay There are at least four things one should find in a living Church:
- the True Faith;
- Apostolic Succession;
- History of Saints and Holiness, and;
- Lives currently being transformed by the Gospel.
I don’t know for absolute certain that this is an exhaustive list, but it’s something Trad Christians are all apparently on the same page about.
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☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 19:55:44 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ @Escoffier @Sulla_Felix @James_Dixon @somemightsay Hey that’s a good question; do Latins even do that, anymore ?
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I’ve got some cute stories about ours. -
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☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 19:55:40 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ @BadOptniks @James_Dixon @patris @JohnYoungE @Escoffier @Sulla_Felix @somemightsay I *think* I technically understand what’s involved in the impulse to whittle everything down to the absolute bare minimum that‘s absolutely indisputably required to keep one from ending up in the fiery Gehenna at the end of their lives - based entirely upon whatever written evidence can be gleaned within a pared-down version of a set-of-Scriptures bafflingly sundered from the wider Tradition of the Communion that produced them.
I’d never dream of forcing one so wholly convinced this is the Right Thing to Do, to join said Communion.
But it’s apparent to me they’ve simply placed themselves upon the Throne of Universal Jurisdiction, instead of the Pope. Personally, I could never take myself that seriously. -
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☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 19:55:39 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ @BadOptniks @James_Dixon @patris @JohnYoungE @Escoffier @Sulla_Felix @somemightsay Traditionally, the heresy specifically mentioned in Galatians is understood to be judaizing / legalism - which is the belief that the rites of the Old Covenant are necessary for Salvation.
This doesn’t relate to Church Councils - one of which is itself recorded in Acts, the First Council of Jerusalem, presided by St. James the brother of Our Lord. I’m sure you’d likely argue that’s different specifically because it’s Biblical. We’ve never had reason to make that distinction - since we’re the ones that did it in the first place. -
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☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 19:55:39 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ @BadOptniks @James_Dixon @patris @JohnYoungE @Escoffier @Sulla_Felix @somemightsay Our Lord is nigh-*scandalously* merciful, there‘s no honest denying it. I’ve long hoped beyond hope passages referring to “working out Salvation with fear and trembling” are essentially hyperbolic; justified by what’s at stake. But I’d really really rather not presume upon His Grace more than I already do.
We received a Traditional perspective regarding the appropriate response to heresies arising from within and without the Church, extending clear back to Apostolic times. While I do certainly hope the saving Grace spilled out by Our Lord overflows above and beyond the bounds of Our Communion, I don’t see any examples of Saints from the First Century onward taking a casual approach to conceptual or logical straying from The Faith-Once-Received. Otherwise, what sense do Ecumenical Councils even make? I don’t honestly think they’re just a bunch of meanie sticks-in-the-mud.
Since it’s the Faith that saves - because it’s Christ’s - I rather take my cues from them. Nothing personal, I hope that’s obvious. -
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☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 19:55:38 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ @BadOptniks @James_Dixon @patris @JohnYoungE @Escoffier @Sulla_Felix @somemightsay Then what was the purpose of the First Council in Jerusalem ? Why did they do it ? Why was it necessary ? Why wouldn’t all the believers everywhere just draw the same conclusions, on their own, Bible in hand ? -
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☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 19:55:38 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ @BadOptniks @James_Dixon @patris @JohnYoungE @Escoffier @Sulla_Felix @somemightsay From all I’ve heard, it comes across like you’ve decided any sort of Church Hierarchy, at all, is heresy - on the grounds that it’s “judaizing”. But I can’t believe that’s really your position - I must be missing something. -
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☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 19:55:38 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ @BadOptniks @James_Dixon @patris @JohnYoungE @Escoffier @Sulla_Felix @somemightsay > counsels and extra documental texts are the heresy we were warned about in galatians
My point is to dispute this sentence. Clearly I don’t believe True Orthodoxy is heretical, and St. Paul clearly couldn’t have meant Church Councils in general are heretical.
If you meant that specific Councils are heretical, then you’d have to be in a position to make that determination, authoritatively. Anybody could just up and decide for themselves that “x, y and z” are heretical; that doesn’t automatically make it correct. -
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☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 19:55:37 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ @BadOptniks @James_Dixon @patris @JohnYoungE @Escoffier @Sulla_Felix @somemightsay My point is, that *we* are the Faith Communuin that *held* the First Council in Jerusalem; and we held it because certain problems were cropping up subsequent to the Founding of these Apostolic communities.
Why would there be any problems ? If it‘s all just “sharing the Gospel and forming communities around it”, why couldn’t each of this communities deal with it on their own ? What reason did they believe St. James in Jerusalem had answers for them, that applied in any way to them ? Where did *that* come from ? -
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☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 19:55:37 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ @BadOptniks @James_Dixon @patris @JohnYoungE @Escoffier @Sulla_Felix @somemightsay I am asking, point blank - why was the First Council of Jerusalem held in the first place ? If the Church is just sharing the Gospel, and forming communities around it - what was the point of the Council ?