Orthodox in michigan wrote:Yes for me it was very hard to internalize all this and really get is it was a very slow process to see how the world really works.
Yes, OiM, it is a long and arduous journey to begin to unlearn all the lies and propaganda that we have been immersed in our entire lifetimes. We have been lied to and propagandized from our very birth, by our government, our press, our educational and cultural institutions. We have been inculcated with false history, false science, false religion, and a false reality.
None of us are able to unlearn in a single month, or even a year, all the varied deceptions that have permeated every aspect of our lives, for our entire lifetime. It is a lifelong process unlearning the false reality which has been foisted upon us, and this process can only begin when we have the sure and true guidance of the Church, the pillar and ground of truth. First we must become solidly grounded in the Faith, before concerning ourselves with a critical examination of the world, just as bank tellers know how to spot a counterfeit bill not from spending all their time studying counterfeits, but by repeatedly handling the true currency. Then, when an occasional counterfeit is encountered, something does not feel right.
Some of us are simply a bit further along in this unlearning process than others, and it would behoove those who have made choices in life that mean they are left to care for the things of the world, in order to please their spouse, would exhibit some humility and recognize that they can learn from those who have foregone a career, a spouse, children, and other worldly cares, etc.
We cannot have it all, reaping where we have not sown. We cannot be encumbered with worldly cares, attending to the needs of our spouses, and children, and grandchildren, spending what little free time that remains worrying about what chemical in this food might be poisoning us, gazing up at the stars and space weather, etc, and then be legitimately qualified to tell everyone how the world works.
Folks that spend a large percentage of their precious free time concerning themselves with carnally-minded endeavors such as this, must inevitably resort to shortcuts. They clutter their mind with things that are inconsequential and not profitable, and do not properly spend the necessary time needed to vet the sources they depend on, so they resort to allowing NaturalNews, Infowars, Gordon Duff, Breitbart, QAnon, Fox News, or some other propaganda outlet to do their thinking for them. None of these aforementioned are Orthodox, and they should not even be considered Christian, in my estimation.
Fox News is pure Zionist propaganda, and that is why the Zionist Trump is cozy with the network. All it takes is a modicum of discernment to see this, and a rudimentary understanding of the teachings of Sacred Scripture and the Holy Fathers. Anyone who spends even a few minutes reading about this Zionist Rupert Murdoch, a proprietor of filthy supermarket tabloid journalism, and the owner of Fox Broadcasting Company, which produces vile and demonic programming such as The Simpsons and Family Guy, and can stomach listening to the tripe on Fox News for longer than 5 minutes, is completely delusional. I cannot stomach it myself, and have to turn it off after only a short while. Can an evil tree bringeth forth good fruit? Is not Family Guy one of the most disgusting and diabolical programs on television? Rupert Murdoch's Fox Network has been broadcasting this vile filth for many years, and who is stupid enough to think that this evil-worker is going to tell them the truth about news events on his news channel? An evil tree cannot bring forth good fruit.
"Rupert Murdoch is such a hard-right supporter of Israel — Ariel Sharon was his great hero (he even visited him on his farm) — that many regard him as a Zionist."
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2007/12/t ... ddle-east/
The fact of the matter is, some of my detractors on this forum are themselves obviously Judaized, and simply do not have a proper Orthodox formation. They would rather spend time gazing at upside down rainbows than reading St. John Chrysostom's eight homilies against the Jews, and then they have the audacity to accuse me of being a "Jew-hater" or so-called "anti-Semitic".
These hypocrites need to read these sermons before accusing me of hating the Jews. I can assure them that nothing I have said about the Jews eclipses anything than what the saint felt compelled to say:
John Chrysostom, Against the Jews
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/index ... t_the_Jews
How anyone could stomach the Zionist propaganda coming from the likes of Fox News and Donald Trump after reading these beautiful sermons is beyond me.
There are too many examples of 911 on movies made years ago the prime example that predictable programming is real and in your face fact.
Yes, you are correct, it is very much in our face. I am not even telling people to go out and watch all these movies. It is not necessary. They can learn enough about what Hollywood is about from reading my posts. It is so in our face, that Trump's handlers scripted a fake sex scandal involving a woman named "Stormy" Daniels, with her lawyer MICHAEL Avenatti always prominently featured all over TV advocating on her behalf. In fact, they arranged for him to represent the third accuser of Kavanaugh, Julie Swetnick, in the eleventh hour of the confirmation process, just so they could plaster him all over the news some more. Who is so blind as to not be able to recognize that they wanted Trump's attorney named MICHAEL (Cohen), involved in a pay-off scandal with another attorney named MICHAEL (Avenatti), who represented one of the phony accusers of Brett MICHAEL Kavanaugh, to associate STORMY and her attorney MICHAEL, and Trump and his attorney MICHAEL, to "Stormy" Hurricane Michael?
As I have said repeatedly, Trump and Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels and Michael Avenatti, Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh, and the Senate Judiciary Committee who confirmed him, are ALL LIARS and MURDERERS. The blood of the deaths of those killed by the tsunami in Indonesia and the storms that they perpetrated in the Carolinas and recently in Florida are on their hands.
OiM, just ask yourself one thing. If you are thoroughly convinced that Hollywood knew all about the plans for the attacks of September 11th many years in advance, and embedded this foreknowledge in many of their public productions, do you really think they would do this in only one instance, for only one single event? An attack as massive and transformative on society as the attacks of 9/11 have been? I can assure you, without an iota of doubt, that all the other major attacks this secret society has perpetrated, are also shown ahead of time in film as well. There are countless works of literature, films and tell-a-vision programs about this phony Brett Kavanaugh and his phony accuser Dr. Ford. All Supreme Court Justices are groomed for the Supreme Court decades in advance, and Kavanaugh is no exception.
George W. Bush is culpable for the deaths of all those killed on September 11, because he was obviously in on the attacks. That lying fraud Kavanaugh boasted in his testimony that he served with George W. Bush for several years, flying around the world with him on Air Force One, privy to the government's most sensitive secrets.
George W. Bush is a liar and a murderer, a member of a secret society at Yale, Skull and Bones, like his father before him, who proclaimed a New World Order eleven years to the day prior to September 11, 2001. There is nothing remotely Christian about the Bushes in any sense. Many people know that the number of Skull and Bones is 322. Kavanaugh's handlers in the secret society arranged for Brett Kavanaugh to attend Yale as well, and have a birthday of February 12, because there are 322 days in the year after February 12, and 322 is the number of Skull and Bones.
I think most of us never really will see this or fully accept it just like you mentioned roman catholic baggage or other vestages of false beleifs and programming we had growing up i find myself slipping in some of these delusions now and then and have to hard check myself.
As long as all of us are aware that we are all under Western influence, and all of us need to be constantly vigilant about unlearning all the unorthodox habits we have acquired our whole life, we will be just fine. The danger lies in becoming proud and believing we are no longer under any Western influence, as if we have conquered it. I think most all of us will have to struggle to unlearn our Western ways for the remainder of our lives. It is a never ending process, to try to detach ourselves from the world we live in, and perceive it in a more critical fashion.
The beautiful and liberating thing about the Orthodox Church is that we can totally and completely depend on Her, and we do not have to worry about viewing Her critically. She will always be a faithful and trustworthy guide and will never lead us astray.