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by Barbara
Sun 19 May 2024 12:59 am
Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
Topic: NatlGeo:"Jesus" special issue
Replies: 17
Views: 250

Re: NatlGeo:"Jesus" special issue

Excellent exposition ! Thank you, eish, for telling us all this. I thought i had read something about the instruction of the hesychasts to look at the stomach. That struck me as so WEIRD ! What do the Fathers mean by that ? How could one be performing a daily task yet keeping the gaze fixed on the ...
by Barbara
Sun 19 May 2024 12:37 am
Forum: Political and Social Issues
Topic: MP MetNikodim has street named for in Greek Cyprus
Replies: 16
Views: 1533

Re: MP MetNikodim has street named for in Greek Cyprus

Further details on the newer Greek and Greek Cypriot "residency-by-investment" rules : " Cyprus’s Strategic Shift Cyprus’s Golden Visa program has undergone significant changes in recent years, including new restrictions and stricter controls. The program, which grants permanent resi...
by Barbara
Sat 18 May 2024 7:57 pm
Forum: Political and Social Issues
Topic: MP MetNikodim has street named for in Greek Cyprus
Replies: 16
Views: 1533

Re: MP MetNikodim has street named for in Greek Cyprus

Update May 2024 : The process of eliminating foreign investors', including Russians', access to securing citizenship rights  by investing large amounts in Southern Cyprus and also on the island of Malta, has ended. By the next year after the post above, 2020, the door had slammed shut.  Late last m...
by Barbara
Fri 17 May 2024 11:44 pm
Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
Topic: NatlGeo:"Jesus" special issue
Replies: 17
Views: 250

Re: NatlGeo:"Jesus" special issue

Interesting observations, as always, eish.

Question : then what does one do to guard the intuitio/nous ? I'm sure there must be volumes written about that over the ages. But what simple things are recommended ?

 

by Barbara
Fri 17 May 2024 11:02 pm
Forum: Religious, Moral, and Ethical Topics
Topic: Liars:a Look atSociopathic Lying
Replies: 0
Views: 45

Liars:a Look atSociopathic Lying

Have you ever felt that all the articles on how to identify a sociopath or narcissist didn't apply fully to people you had known in real life ? Or perhaps, did not adequately describe the dynamics of the suspected sociopath's irritating interactions with you ? See if this description, written many ...
by Barbara
Fri 17 May 2024 10:44 pm
Forum: Synaxarion Orthodoxia
Topic: StTheodosius950!:1074-2024
Replies: 0
Views: 25

StTheodosius950!:1074-2024

https://eeparchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Antony_and_Theodosius.jpg "This year marks the 950th anniversary of the repose of the founder of cenobitic monasticism in ancient Rus’ and abbot of the Kiev Caves from 1062 to 1074." -OrthoChristian ******************************************...
by Barbara
Fri 17 May 2024 12:06 am
Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
Topic: NatlGeo:"Jesus" special issue
Replies: 17
Views: 250

Re: NatlGeo:"Jesus" special issue

Why is it that you date that pedestal-placing of women to the Renaissance particularly, eish ? About the "nous", i remember the 1st time i read that term. It was paradoxically in a copy of that OCA journal "Ascend", was that the name of it ? Which was edited by the future OCA Me...