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Oh I thought leaving Buddhism, the Diana cult, RCism or the Baptists might have been.*
But are you not now being catechized by another priest online who like the last spiritual father you had, encouraged you to visit as much as you can?
*All mentioned only because you have spoken publicly about these things in the past.
e-catechumen=A person who becomes a Catechumen and exercises oneself thusly over the internet or some other form of electronic communication device.
e-Fiasco=the same thing, except a fiasco that occurs over the internet or some other electronic communication device.
I do see what you say however. But one must also consider that your website, the ROACCafe, and her's as well as any others run by ROAC people reflect back upon the ROAC. Whether one likes it or not, that is how it is. When people see the owners/operators of these websites they see ROAC, assuming they are acting with the knowledge and blessing of their Priest.
Joe Zollars
Nicholas wrote:Oh I thought leaving Buddhism, the Diana cult, RCism or the Baptists might have been.*
perhaps you are right, but I am begining to think there wasn't much of a difference.
But are you not now being catechized by another priest online who like the last spiritual father you had, encouraged you to visit as much as you can?
No.
Joe Zollars
JoeZollars wrote:Whether one likes it or not, that is how it is. When people see the owners/operators of these websites they see ROAC, assuming they are acting with the knowledge and blessing of their Priest.
Were all your websites containing only the knowledge of your priest and blessed by your priest? I think not. Why expect this of others? I assure you this is not the case with OCnet either.
Trust me, I did NOT tell my last Uniate priest about OCnet! 
Disclaimer: Many older posts were made before my baptism and thus may not reflect an Orthodox point of view.
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Please note that I do not subscribe to "Old Calendar Ecumenism" and believe that only the Synod of Archbishop Kallinikos is the canonical GOC of Greece. I do believe, however, that we can break down barriers and misunderstandings through prayer and discussion on forums such as this one.
Joe I am sorry that your situation with the ROAC did not work out, but the truth is that your decisions and your experiences reflect you as much as you claim they reflect ROAC.
You see, you are attacking the very thing that at one time you felt was THE CHURCH. You had a website, you advocated on the internet ,you posted for people's conversions to the ROAC, you said that certain people did not have grace. You said these things because you believed them at one point. Are these official pronouncements of the ROAC?
By your own definition you are in no place to judge Olga or the ROAC because you at one time wether you want to accpt it or not either agreed with them or you lied ot them for 6 months. I am unsure which and am in no postition to judge. But the truth is that you of all people, as with I, as with anyone else, should know that these things you equate also reflect on everyone else as well because we are all struggling for the Truth and for the Church. Our experiences are always before us and they shape us into who we will be when we move on if we have not found what we are looking for.
I am sorry that you are angry with decisions you made in the past but trudging them up is no way for you to forget them or for others to do the same. If you desired at one point to be deleted from the forum then the best way to do that is to speak charitably of people. Your posts may not disappear but the attitudes that you seem to believe were wrong might change and believe it or not that could have a more positive effect on people than anything else.
I, the worst of sinners,
Juvenaly
