Thoughts?

"In the West there is little of such open persecution of faith in God, but the spiritual atmosphere is not as different from that of the East as it might seem. The same unbelief and unremitting worldliness are pounded into the heads and hearts of young people in the West in almost every public institution and medium; the same violence and rebellion disturb young souls that know no other way to express their need and frustration; and religion, although outwardly free, has become a private and subjective matter that does not move society as a whole and is generally seen by young people to have no particular power or significance in their lives.

The name of Christ—unlike the situation in the East—can be freely pronounced, but most often it is associated with a religion of dead formalism or, at best, of subjective revivalism, and at worst of a self-centered exploitation of religious feeling."

☦️Hieromonk Seraphim Rose
Introduction to the Seven Homilies of Fr. George Calciu

There is a piece of me wanting to revert back to being a gold bug 😌

It is true that this is a mixed-up generation. The only thing wrong with me is that I am not mixed-up, I know only too well what the duty of man is: to worship God and His Son and to prepare for the life of the world to come, not to make ourselves happy and comfortable in this world by exploiting our fellow man and forgetting about God and His kingdom.

If Christ were to pass through the world today, do you know what would happen to Him? He would be placed in a mental hospital and subjected to psychotherapy, and the same would happen to His Saints. The world would crucify Him today just as He crucified Him two thousand years ago, because the world has learned nothing but even more corrupt forms of hypocrisy. And what would happen if I, in one of my lectures at the university, one day told the students that all the knowledge of this world has no meaning when compared to our duty to glorify God, accepting the God-man who died for our sins, and preparing for the life to come? They would probably make fun of me, and university officials would fire me if they found out about it—because it is illegal to preach the Truth in our universities.

We say we live in a Christian society, but that is not true; there is a greater paganism and hatred towards Christ in the society in which we live, than in the society in which Christ was born.

☦️Hieromonk Seraphim Rose

Notice what the world hates and find out where the realm of Christ is: the stronger the hate, the closer its object is to Christ, in better agreement with His spirit. Though it is an external indicator, it is good enough as a first step.

☦️St. Theophan the Recluse

Thank God for monastics.

I just listened to Shawn Ryan on Tucker today and Shawn mentioned an app called glacier. Anybody have experience with the phone? Thoughts on the app?

Probably spookware but I am curious.

https://www.theglacierapp.com/