Posted on 11/17/2018 6:21:20 PM PST by marshmallow
You mean like some ROs' are? They quote St. Theodosius Pechersky" “Be not appealed by the Latin faith, do not follow its custom, and avoid its Communion, and all its teachings, and abhor its manners. You must neither fraternize with them, nor bow down to them, nor kiss them, nor eat or drink with them from the same dish, nor eat their food...
But the ROs have their own false teachings.
Its obvious we disagree on a great many things. My post was a lighthearted look at something i find absurd. It was never meant to be blasphemous. It’s a rhetorical approach known as “appeal to absurdity” where you treat something absurd unseriously to further show its absurdity. Only those who are humor impaired would get mad at it. Or maybe you’re just a puritan. You certainly fit the profile of one. Purinanism- the sneaking dread and suspicion that somewhere, somehow, somebody is having fun. We disagree. Leave it at that. Let me worry about my own salvation, thank you very much. And, oh yeah- LIGHTEN UP, FRANCIS!
CC
Sure. If they could stay sober long enough.
Russian drunkenness is amazing and every Russian leader from Peter the Great to Stalin and Putin have tried unsuccessfully to combat it, We were about as drunken in the era of the Early Republic but did dramatically cut down on per capita consumption after 1830.
I remember reading Viktor Blenko’s “Mig Pilot'' and how he wrote that when he was stationed at a remote air base in Siberia men were so desperate for alcohol they would drain the coolant from Mig 29 fighter jets because it contained alcohol. However it was glycol primarily which left quite a number of men sick and one went blind. It also caused a number of Mig 29's to be grounded from burnt out jet engines. By and large Russian are a slovenly and devious bunch.
I think you’ve misunderstood the second sentence.
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•Cardinal Ratzinger observed,
"For nearly half a century, the Church was split into two or three obediences that excommunicated one another, so that every Catholic lived under excommunication by one pope or another, and, in the last analysis, no one could say with certainty which of the contenders had right on his side. The Church no longer offered certainty of salvation; she had become questionable in her whole objective form--the true Church, the true pledge of salvation, had to be sought outside the institution.“
"It is against this background of a profoundly shaken ecclesial consciousness that we are to understand that Luther, in the conflict between his search for salvation and the tradition of the Church, ultimately came to experience the Church, not as the guarantor, but as the adversary of salvation.
(Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, head of the Sacred Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith for the Church of Rome, “Principles of Catholic Theology,” trans. by Sister Mary Frances McCarthy, S.N.D. (San Francisco: Ignatius, 1989) p.196). http://www.whitehorseinn.org/blog/2012/06/13/whos-in-charge-here-the-illusions-of-church-infallibility/)
The reason so many things are humorous is due to the underlaying truths that spawn them.
Therein lies the mystery: being of Germanic origin, it's no stretch to know many of my distant relatives were conscripted into the Wehrmacht. I just look at it hanging in my rifle rack,and wonder if a Red Army soldier might have killed one of my great uncles with it.
Hex receiver- nice! I have a ‘43 izhevsk. All matching, no grind-offs. But as it was built in ‘43 its looks are not going to win it any prizes. It probably went right out the factory door and straight into battle. The front sight post looks like a second attempt, as there are grind marks on the barrel where a front sight was put on wrong. But it’s a shooter, and a good one at that. This piece of history set me back $150. I also have a romanian tokarev and a chinese sks. Those russkie guns just seem to scratch an itch for the history buff in me.
CC
Actually I thought it was funny, and said so, yet added "but there are already multitudes of adulatory titles, attributes and glories given to Mary, far above that which is written (which we are not to do:" 1 Co. 4:6).
But which you evidently took as if I did not see any humor on it nor see any warrant for the added censure of excessive devotion, and thus reproved me for it, as if criticism was wrong (and I thought as coming from a RC) resulting in my next reply, pointing of the RO attitude. Sorry if I read too much into your reply, but after years on the RM dealing with ardent Catholic defending such it was easy to assume this was another one.
Or maybe you’re just a puritan. You certainly fit the profile of one. Purinanism- the sneaking dread and suspicion that somewhere, somehow, somebody is having fun. CC
Which idea of Puritanism is one liberal miscontruance. They were overall serious, as life and eternity is, and the task hard and life was not easy, yet,
Contrary to myth, the Puritans did have fun. There were celebrations and festivals. People sang and told stories. Children were allowed to play games with their parents' permission. Wine and beer drinking were common place. Puritans did not all dress in black as many believe. The fundamental rule was to follow God's law. Those that did lived in peace in the Bible Commonwealth. - http://www.ushistory.org/us/3d.asp
There's a famous quote by H.L. Menken that Puritanism is "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy". While their doctrines and daily lives did emphasize work over play, Puritans were not the dour fun-haters they have been portrayed as recently. In fact, they engaged in a lot of recreational activities including sports, visual arts, literature, and music, and saw these pursuits as necessary for reinvigorating both body and spirit.
Puritans particularly enjoyed spending time outdoors. Some of the more popular diversions were hiking, picnicking, and fishing. Hunting was seen as necessary for sustenance, but discouraged as a recreational activity. This was an aspect of their general discouragement of any sort of excess. -http://www.congregationallibrary.org/blog/201208/puritans-and-entertainment
Of course, now I suspect you may want to criticism me for taking your perpetuation of erroneous characterization too seriously.
We disagree. Leave it at that. Let me worry about my own salvation, thank you very much. And, oh yeah- LIGHTEN UP, FRANCIS!
Well, actually I joke around (too) much as those who know me can tell, and conversing by text handicaps us in part, but life and eternity are serious, and I am concerned about both, knowing that everyone will spend eternity in one of two places, ultimately depending on what they did with the light they had, and yielding to the Lord Jesus or not.
Fare ye well.
Take care.
CC
Here, too, and my Tula only set me back $99 (with all the trimmings), less transfer fees. They were going as cheap as $69 back then, if you weren’t looking for a hand-select and didn’t mind mismatched serials. Love to add an SKS and (If I could find one in the same shape without the price in deep space - good luck on that, eh?) a good, solid, German-made Mauser.
I dunno, found my chinese sks in great shape, with sling for $300. And that was only 2 years ago. They’re out there. JG sales is selling surplus sks’s intermittently for that, but those are PRC army surplus and are rode hard and put away wet. Keep an eye out.
CC
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