- 11 Aug 2018 04:49
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Hello friends,
Years ago, I decided to basically take my leave for this forum, having decided at the time that I had nothing further to say, since I had completed my transition from a rather right-wing and frankly reactionary outlook on life to thinking as something of a Left-wing ''Christian Communist''.
But that never really took. By the time I returned to the forum, a certain irony dawned on me that I had nothing much to say this time around because the illusion of the past few years has gradually fallen away from my being. A tree is known by it's fruits, and even allowing for exaggerations the ''tree'' of Marxist Leninism is bad beyond belief. No ideology born of extreme and pathological Anti-Theism can be right, whatever the evils of it's antithesis Capitalism are. I can't even call myself a ''Socialist'' at this point, it would be the lazy and easy way out. No more spiritual deception. The prayers of millions of martyrs have seen to that, Slava Bogu.
So, I've taken stock of what i've been believing all these years after my hiatus here, the journeys and impressions and I have come to be at peace with who and what I am. All this time no matter the ideological superficialities, I have always been;
1. A literal six day, young earth Creationist, in line with Scripture and the Holy Fathers of the Orthodox Christian Faith.
2. Yes folks, I am also a Geocentrist.... I don't talk about it, it isn't subject to debate (nor is #1, above), it just is.
3. I have always been a Monarchist, a supporter of Orthodox Autocracy. Even as a ''Christian Communist'', I held to the seeming dichotomy of such a position just as did the ''Mladorossi'' of the 1920's and 1930's. But there's no reason for the political schizophrenia, I have rejected the Socialism for good.
4. I support private property and free enterprise, not without conditions and caveats, and there is a higher voluntary communal life possible, the monastic life, but that cannot righteously be compared to the damnable and secular attempts at ''Heaven on Earth''.
5. In fact, one will find i'm back to being about as ''reactionary'' in my traditionalism as one can get, not just in my politics or cosmology, but also in my attitudes on daily life, in morality and one's societal roles, etc... Orthodox Christianity as a full way of life the way it should be lived, in Christ Jesus.
Why? I've been a Lion, trying to convince myself that I was among these Goats, those Gaderene Swine of Marxist-Leninists... I won't be numbered among them. I was there, I saw what happened and what they did. They have only themselves to blame, but God and History will Judge.
Past is future, and I won't be numbered with the Losers. Sure, Capitalism has many evils associated with it, and my critique of it continues, but I realized that unlike Socialism, It is capable of modification, of producing a ''Third Way'' that is better for mankind than either Socialism or Communism.
And that calls to my mind another final point; Hierarchy, it's real and it's natural to the condition of life. The Cosmos is Hierarchical. No further egalitarianism from me. ''Star differs from star in glory'', while still remaining stars...
A. Faith
B. Family
C. Tsar and Nation
That's what I'm about, once more and forever. I expect to be a Terror here, to be sure.
Years ago, I decided to basically take my leave for this forum, having decided at the time that I had nothing further to say, since I had completed my transition from a rather right-wing and frankly reactionary outlook on life to thinking as something of a Left-wing ''Christian Communist''.
But that never really took. By the time I returned to the forum, a certain irony dawned on me that I had nothing much to say this time around because the illusion of the past few years has gradually fallen away from my being. A tree is known by it's fruits, and even allowing for exaggerations the ''tree'' of Marxist Leninism is bad beyond belief. No ideology born of extreme and pathological Anti-Theism can be right, whatever the evils of it's antithesis Capitalism are. I can't even call myself a ''Socialist'' at this point, it would be the lazy and easy way out. No more spiritual deception. The prayers of millions of martyrs have seen to that, Slava Bogu.
So, I've taken stock of what i've been believing all these years after my hiatus here, the journeys and impressions and I have come to be at peace with who and what I am. All this time no matter the ideological superficialities, I have always been;
1. A literal six day, young earth Creationist, in line with Scripture and the Holy Fathers of the Orthodox Christian Faith.
2. Yes folks, I am also a Geocentrist.... I don't talk about it, it isn't subject to debate (nor is #1, above), it just is.
3. I have always been a Monarchist, a supporter of Orthodox Autocracy. Even as a ''Christian Communist'', I held to the seeming dichotomy of such a position just as did the ''Mladorossi'' of the 1920's and 1930's. But there's no reason for the political schizophrenia, I have rejected the Socialism for good.
4. I support private property and free enterprise, not without conditions and caveats, and there is a higher voluntary communal life possible, the monastic life, but that cannot righteously be compared to the damnable and secular attempts at ''Heaven on Earth''.
5. In fact, one will find i'm back to being about as ''reactionary'' in my traditionalism as one can get, not just in my politics or cosmology, but also in my attitudes on daily life, in morality and one's societal roles, etc... Orthodox Christianity as a full way of life the way it should be lived, in Christ Jesus.
Why? I've been a Lion, trying to convince myself that I was among these Goats, those Gaderene Swine of Marxist-Leninists... I won't be numbered among them. I was there, I saw what happened and what they did. They have only themselves to blame, but God and History will Judge.
Past is future, and I won't be numbered with the Losers. Sure, Capitalism has many evils associated with it, and my critique of it continues, but I realized that unlike Socialism, It is capable of modification, of producing a ''Third Way'' that is better for mankind than either Socialism or Communism.
And that calls to my mind another final point; Hierarchy, it's real and it's natural to the condition of life. The Cosmos is Hierarchical. No further egalitarianism from me. ''Star differs from star in glory'', while still remaining stars...
A. Faith
B. Family
C. Tsar and Nation
That's what I'm about, once more and forever. I expect to be a Terror here, to be sure.