Thomas Deretich and Name-Worshipping

[Lazarún Zalónir]

Bruder Klaus, tell us what that painting of the battle scene is [if you haven't already] ?

I may have been led astray by a Thomas Deretich, I just need to submit to Reader Sava and shut my mouth, Father Joseph is starting to say I'm on thin ice.

[Barbara]

Oh Oh, Lazarun ! You better take heed, then. Fr Joseph has been quite tolerant, but you don't want to strain his patience further !

A nice apology might work. This is the Orthodox classic behavior by the way. Whomever one has harmed, find them and heartily beg forgiveness. Even when you don't feel really repentant or you believe that you weren't really in the wrong, but it's a good exercise to say the words anyway.
Soon, after some practice, you WILL feel humble, and see where there was a CHANCE you could have been wrong ! You see ? It's a progressive process, not easy at the beginning.

Yes - Reader Sava is a solid member who knows really a lot about True Orthodoxy ! You won't make any mistake to adhere to his ways of thinking. Whereas others may be more marginal.

[Lazarún Zalónir]

Oh Oh, Lazarun ! You better take heed, then. Fr Joseph has been quite tolerant, but you don't want to strain his patience further !

A nice apology might work. This is the Orthodox classic behavior by the way. Whomever one has harmed, find them and heartily beg forgiveness. Even when you don't feel really repentant or you believe that you weren't really in the wrong, but it's a good exercise to say the words anyway.
Soon, after some practice, you WILL feel humble, and see where there was a CHANCE you could have been wrong ! You see ? It's a progressive process, not easy at the beginning.

Yes - Reader Sava is a solid member who knows really a lot about True Orthodoxy ! You won't make any mistake to adhere to his ways of thinking. Whereas others may be more marginal.

I already apologized and Said I hoped to become The New Confessor and Apostles to all Iceland in the ROAC, but he didn't accept my apology, he didn't even want my money to support him

[Suaidan]

I already apologized and Said I hoped to become The New Confessor and Apostles to all Iceland in the ROAC, but he didn't accept my apology, he didn't even want my money to support him

Focus on being saved, not dreaming. The desire to claim a title smacks of arrogance. You should be under a priest, not making up plans and prayer rules without being baptized. And I didn't respond to your desire to send me money because you started dinging me in the cafe chat immediately after I blocked you on the stream. (To be clear to the reader: yes, I was live on stream and he was demanding answers in the Cafe at the same time and yes, he knew that.) You demand my attention, something you admitted to in the chat, and when you flagrantly violate boundaries I personally set, you then get upset that I won't play your game.

"Apologizing" when you choose not to respect my space repeatedly isn't how an apology works. And since you weren't getting my attention, you decided to put it here in a request for sympathy.

Such an "apology" reminds me of the Sam Bankman-Fried apology they did on South Park.

P.S. I never turn down someone's offer of financial help. Just don't expect it to change my behavior. (That's called "bribery.") The best way to change my increasingly hardened attitude is to be more serious. I am not convinced you're not just trying to use the forum (like the broadcast and chat) as a means of entertaining yourself at the expense of the annoyance/frustration of others.

[Bruder Klaus]

Bruder Klaus, tell us what that painting of the battle scene is [if you haven't already] ?

That's Otto the Great (912-973). In the battle of Lechfeld, he defeated the Magyars that were raiding western europe from time to time. Since he was able to gather the different german tribes, he is considered the first german emperor. In the battle, he used the banner of St Michael the Archangel who became the german patron saint eversince.

[Niles_The_New]

HOCNA related, but not thread related. What happened to those communities who followed HTM when it was in ROCOR, but stayed with the ROCOR during the split? Was there still a Greek community in the ROCOR, or did they all leave for other local churches?

[Suaidan]

HOCNA related, but not thread related. What happened to those communities who followed HTM when it was in ROCOR, but stayed with the ROCOR during the split? Was there still a Greek community in the ROCOR, or did they all leave for other local churches?

There weren't many. A notable exception to those that didn't follow HTM during the split was Holy Virgin Protection Cathedral in Astoria under Fr Anthony Gavalas, who went to the Matthewites. I know that Fr George Lardas and his Matushka were connected to HTM, but I am not sure if he was made priest before or after the split.