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by fserafim
Mon 16 February 2004 3:59 pm
Forum: Theology and Tradition
Topic: Orthodox Psychology
Replies: 16
Views: 3817

In his book - Eternal Day- Seth Farber, an Orthodox psychologist laments that the Church is selling herself to biopsychiatry and psycho-analysis instead of relying on the power of the Holy Mysteries of the Church. I believe a background in psych. could be a handicap to pastoral work. Met Antony (Khr...
by fserafim
Wed 28 January 2004 2:36 pm
Forum: Theology and Tradition
Topic: Lord Have Mercy!
Replies: 10
Views: 2704

No fig leaves here! I am making a sweeping statement to clean up the pretensious position of those Orthodox groups that have more chiefs than indians. It is a proven fact, which I will not debate here, that even defrocked characters have gone off to form their own church and then promote themselves ...
by fserafim
Tue 27 January 2004 10:59 pm
Forum: Theology and Tradition
Topic: Lord Have Mercy!
Replies: 10
Views: 2704

Sorry to be controversial but our parish is larger than some dioceses in America. I know numbers don't count (sic!) when compared with quality of spiritual life. But I often wonder how people are content to receive exalted ranks and titles when they would probably not get beyond subdeacon in establi...
by fserafim
Tue 27 January 2004 10:50 pm
Forum: Theology and Tradition
Topic: Lord Have Mercy!
Replies: 10
Views: 2704

Alas! Many do. That is why we have so many splinter groups in Orthodoxy. The smaller church the greater the title etc....

Fr Serafim

by fserafim
Thu 22 January 2004 2:21 pm
Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
Topic: Pat. Alexei denies there was ever persecution in USSR!
Replies: 8
Views: 2278

Lawrence Van den Post tells how young idealistic Allied officers were very keen and determined to punish the Nazis, whereas the victims wanted to forgive them. Where is God to allow this ? - asked one young lieutenant as he entered Dachau. A survivor answered: We know where God is. But where is man?

by fserafim
Thu 22 January 2004 1:21 am
Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
Topic: The "wisdom" of an MP "priest".
Replies: 24
Views: 5685

Anybody who has read Peter Breggin's "Toxic Psychaitry" will be hesitant to judge anyone who has been a victim of the Soviet mental health system. Dissendents both political and religious were turned in zombies by drugs such as Haldon and accordinly diagnosed as "sluggish schizophreni...
by fserafim
Wed 21 January 2004 3:21 pm
Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
Topic: Interesting News on the JP
Replies: 13
Views: 4195

Having worked in Government security I can tell you that the news report read likes KGB propaganda and I suspect it comes not from Jewish sources but from politically minded Christians. Of course I don't have proof and I am not going to get involved in this filth spread about a holy Patriarch. The C...

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