Leaving the Euphrosynos Cafe

[romiosini]

Good Lord!
All 3 of you? Have you not noticed what I have went through? I am only 16 and I was judged as an ecumenist and a catholic! (A heretic)
Have you not noticed this is simple a trial of patience of onholding what others might cruely tell you? Then if these insults (at times) or mistreatments you recieve over the internet weaken you or spiritually hurt you, their is a problem. You must become "cooked" (As a holy Schema-Mother has told me, when I needed spiritual growing and preparing, when I was falling easily depressed at all these things that the internet or severe problems have been done to me), you must become used to taking the worse of worse insults and swallowing it into a prayer.

Of course, if it is the lack of Christian love, well... you should've known that here especially on the internet isn't the place to find it. Of course we hear so many anti-loving things in the Church today. Anyways. I reassure you that you are doing a mistake.
If I haven't convinced you, then contemplate on why did you come here in the begining.

forgive me, I just can't see other people go, if you all will be gone, then I will be alone being accused of heretic sayings.

Vasya

[Mor Ephrem]

orgive me, I just can't see other people go, if you all will be gone, then I will be alone being accused of heretic sayings.

Not to worry, you've still got me. I'll always be a heretic here!

[romiosini]

orgive me, I just can't see other people go, if you all will be gone, then I will be alone being accused of heretic sayings.

Not to worry, you've still got me. I'll always be a heretic here!

Thanks Brother!

I sure wont leave because the Devil is putting me inner voices! That's why we have the Jesus Prayer and the Prayer Rope!

[Hexapsalms]

I lurked around here several months before deciding to join this forum, which I did reluctantly yesterday. I waited that long because it did seem that there was a lot of contentiousness on these forums, especially in the "traditional orthodox" forum. It made me think that Orthodoxy is getting as divisive as the Protestants and just as rough.

I'm on several website forums and I've noticed that people often reply to each other in harsh sounding language. There is a tendency to rip into each other, talk dirty, or treat each other too familarly. Maybe it's our jagged-edge, sloppy-mannered culture that makes folks talk to each other this way. Maybe it's the overall feeling of disconnection because of the medium. One person on another site said that he responds to posters on web forums any way he feels like it (which is almost always aggressively, dismissive and nasty) because, as he said, the posters are only virtual people.

Although we see only each other's words and not the person who wrote them, still these words setting down thoughts, feelings and beliefs do represent a whole living person, not something virtual. It's not a machine that post replies on this site, but living people.

This would be a good time to re-commit to bearing with one another, and to communicate civilly. Otherwise, bad feelings an rough words makes divisiveness grow, promoting the detachment whereby each of us will certainly become something "virtual". A something to be abused at will, without concern about the very real suffering that may be caused by uncivil words and ungracious attitudes. In this atmosphere, Christ in us then becomes dis-incarnated, you might say, making us seem like virtual Christians.

[Justin Kissel]

This would be a good time to re-commit to bearing with one another, and to communicate civilly.

I agree totally May St. Nektarios help us in this!

[尼古拉前执事]

Hexapsalms,

First let me welcome you here to the Café. You come at a time where we have had more rude posts than usual and unfortunate personal attacks which I have been trying to deal with the offenders with privately, but unfortunately I have had to ban a few people who could not temper their passions.

Thankfully a few people who decided to leave actually appear to have been posting under 2 names, so they are still here.

Hexapsalms, your posts have been a breath of fresh air and I hope you will stick around and post often as I have truly enjoyed your contributions.

[George Australia]

You must become "cooked" (As a holy Schema-Mother has told me, when I needed spiritual growing and preparing, when I was falling easily depressed at all these things that the internet or severe problems have been done to me), you must become used to taking the worse of worse insults and swallowing it into a prayer.

Dear in Christ, Vasya,
Thankyou for shaming me in to returning.
George