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Follow me

So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

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To many in the twentieth-century West, the Orthodox Church seems chiefly remarkable for its air of antiquity and conservatism; the message of the Orthodox to their Western brethren seems to be, 'We are your past'. For the Orthodox themselves, however, loyalty to Tradition means not primarily the acceptance of formulae or customs from past generations, but rather the ever-new, personal and direct experience of the Holy Spirit in the present, here and now.

Kallistos Ware -- The Orthodox Way

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Tony

He‘s italian

He‘s

Tony sized

He‘s

Nervous

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Nicodemus has had possibly the best meal he has ever had, Ask for Luigi

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Nicodemus is in another world

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Superior, in every conceivable way

ROUND 2; MATCH A

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pater, do you know if there is a specific word for "non-orthodox easter"? i need to be pedantic...

wrong easter

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It‘s also sort of heresy to be the pope, we‘re fine

the pope died on easter monday for attention. ignore him.

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a village child tried to cut my beard today with scissors. naturally I destroyed him with lightning and sonic boom. now his parents are saying I "overreacted". well guess what is coming to them next. that's right it's lightning sonic boom.

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C‘thulhu ain‘t got shit on Wide Ape

“eldritch horror beyond your comprehension” and it’s just a generic monster with tentacles and eyes

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Goon

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Christ's suffering and death have, then, an objective value: He has done for us something we should be altogether incapable of doing without Him. At the same time, we should not say that Christ has suffered 'instead of us', but rather that He has suffered on our behalf. The Son of God suffered 'unto death', not that we might be exempt from suffering, but that our suffering might be like His. Christ offers us, not a way round suffering, but a way through it; not substitution, but saving companionship.

-- Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way

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REBLOG IF IT IS OKAY TO COME INTO YOUR INBOX AND SAY THE RANDOMEST SHIT I CAN THINK OF BECAUSE I REALLY WANT TO INTERACT WITH YOU.

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Too many modern churches "serve" (i use this term very loosely) a god long bereft of lordship

If we are the representation of God on earth, if we are to be accurately portray what God expects and what is coming ... modern churches do a very very poor job.

Churches shouldn't look like theme parks ... rock climbing walls, indoor basketball games in the "sanctuary", coffee bars, smoke machines and men in shorts and flip-flops.

Our conduct shows no fear, no gratitude, and no humility rooted in repentance. We are not going to go to church for entertainment purposes. We shouldn't leave smiling and lighthearted saying, "I really enjoyed that." Worship ... biblical worship, should leave you feeling humbled, naked before God, in repentant gratitude, ones life held up as an offering to Christ, an oath to a king.

God has not changed since the days of King David, nor did Christ the redeeming arm of the Holy Trinity change anything... he fulfilled and reaffirmed the glory of God, the expectation of righteousness within his kingdom and the standard to be held against the opposing world.

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You worship a cowardly and sinister god Christian. Christ has brought you nothing but misery and tyranny, and told you to hate your truest self and discard the pleasures that enhance your life. He has made you a slave and told you freedom was a sin. There are thousands of gods, and he alone is too cowardly to admit to his followers he is not the only way. Your world will one day perish. The slaves of Christ controlled the world for a time but that time will end and the old gods will reclaim their world. Your dear capitalism will be abolished, your nations will have no borders and your cities will have no police. Your suburbs will disappear and your nuclear families will fade. Your grandchildren will be queer and pagan and they will laugh to think that anyone ever worshipped christ. Hail thor, fist of the revolution. Hail Hel comfort to the oppressed. Hail Odin guide of the people. Hail Saga voice of the poets. The gods of this world have spoken to me and shown me the path to freedom. I hope someday you are no longer on the path of tyranny.

Bruh, one of my mutuals received this same ask, work for word. You think I'm gonna abandon the religion I gave up everything for, because of a lame copypasta? YOUR ancestors rejected their false gods, you need to do the same.

I was a pagan, when I was a child. I grew up in a pagan household. There's no freedom there. Real freedom is in Christ. Your beloved Norsemen kept slaves. Christians freed them.

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Whoever mocks the poor reviles their Maker; whoever rejoices in their misfortune will not go unpunished. לֹעֵ֣ג לָ֭רָשׁ חֵרֵ֣ף עֹשֵׂ֑הוּ שָׂמֵ֥חַ לְ֝אֵ֗יד לֹ֣א יִנָּקֶֽה

The Book of Proverbs (17:5)

The Singing Beggars, by Ivan Yermenyov, circa 1770