tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91030892268536003852024-03-29T05:53:26.078+02:00Ending Abusive RelationshipsAfter His brutal mistreatment at the hands of earthlings, Christ finally ascends to Heaven, never to be seen or heard from again ...The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.comBlogger607125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103089226853600385.post-14195315341737555412024-02-29T16:30:00.003+02:002024-03-02T14:31:51.121+02:00Republican Idols<br><center><a href="http://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/51f91c0e-1a27-4f7f-874c-2558a23175dc/deh2pud-3dcbb2ed-bc62-45ed-9a66-1d038df1da24.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7InBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcLzUxZjkxYzBlLTFhMjctNGY3Zi04NzRjLTI1NThhMjMxNzVkY1wvZGVoMnB1ZC0zZGNiYjJlZC1iYzYyLTQ1ZWQtOWE2Ni0xZDAzOGRmMWRhMjQuanBnIn1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmZpbGUuZG93bmxvYWQiXX0.JScNMd6EJhG-ENSDI6zfCKQ9cC4JRGICwhmvFirpSD0"><img src="http://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/51f91c0e-1a27-4f7f-874c-2558a23175dc/deh2pud-3dcbb2ed-bc62-45ed-9a66-1d038df1da24.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7InBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcLzUxZjkxYzBlLTFhMjctNGY3Zi04NzRjLTI1NThhMjMxNzVkY1wvZGVoMnB1ZC0zZGNiYjJlZC1iYzYyLTQ1ZWQtOWE2Ni0xZDAzOGRmMWRhMjQuanBnIn1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmZpbGUuZG93bmxvYWQiXX0.JScNMd6EJhG-ENSDI6zfCKQ9cC4JRGICwhmvFirpSD0" width=640></a><blockquote><b>Exodus 15:3</b><br><br>The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name.<br><br><b>Genesis 1:26~27</b><br><br>And God said: <i>Let us make man in our image, after our likeness</i>.<br>So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him.</blockquote><br><embed allowfullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='true' height='360' src='http://www.youtube.com/v/h2xa7hHMUho&start=1038' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' width='640' wmode='transparent'><br><br>( <i>You may wish to <b>turn up</b> the <b>volume</b> on your computer</i> ).<br><br><br>Since <i>leadership required killing people</i>, why won't republicans arm Ukraine's leadership ?<br><br><br><blockquote>I need ammunition, not a ride.</blockquote><div align=right><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy"><b>Vladimir Zelensky</b></a></div></center><br>The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103089226853600385.post-30253491133942784862024-02-22T15:55:00.002+02:002024-02-29T16:17:14.220+02:00From The Dnieper River, To The Black Sea, Ukraine Will Be Free !<br><center><blockquote><i>Wherever the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_world">(Russian) sun</a> doth shine,<br>there's always <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine">(s)laughter</a>, and good <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodka">red wine</a></i>.</blockquote></center><div align=right><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilaire_Belloc"><b>Hilaire Belloc</b></a></div><br>The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103089226853600385.post-73873140828073959972024-01-01T07:25:00.002+02:002024-01-01T07:29:10.166+02:00Orthodox Christianity: Mortally Wounding Its Opponents Since 363 AD<br><blockquote><a href="http://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2000/01/01/100003">Saint Basil the Great</a>, whose feast is celebrated on New Year's Day, once prayed before an icon of the <a href="http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/Theotokos">Most Holy Theotokos</a>, upon which <a href="http://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2000/11/24/103383">Saint Mercurius</a> was depicted as a soldier holding a spear.<br><br>He asked God not to permit the emperor <a href="http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/Julian_the_Apostate">Julian the Apostate</a> to return from his war against the Persians and resume his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine">oppression of Christians</a>. The image of the holy <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Mercurius">Great Martyr Mercurius</a>, depicted on the icon beside the image of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theotokos">Most Holy Theotokos</a>, became invisible. It reappeared later with a bloodied spear.<br><br>At this very moment <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_(emperor)">Julian the Apostate</a>, on his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian's_Persian_expedition">Persian campaign</a>, was wounded by the spear of an unknown soldier, who immediately disappeared. The <b>mortally wounded</b> <a href="http://www.britannica.com/biography/Julian-Roman-emperor">Julian</a>, as he lay dying, cried out, “<i>Thou hast conquered, O Galilean</i> !” </blockquote><br>The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103089226853600385.post-229698759385464552023-09-22T09:45:00.035+03:002023-10-08T22:53:47.140+03:00A Life In Ruins<br><center><a href='http://www.instagram.com/p/B5tNtGlBI86'><img src='http://farm1.staticflickr.com/65535/53205305315_8b1dc4fb36_b.jpg'></a><br><br><b><font style="font-family: Corsiva; font-size: 30px">Beauty Will Save The World</font></b><br><br><br><embed allowfullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='true' height='360' src='http://www.youtube.com/v/gdczQ2LsY0I&start=33' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' width='640' wmode='transparent'><br><br>( <i>You may wish to <b>turn up</b> the <b>volume</b> on your computer</i> ).</center><br>The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103089226853600385.post-62590726543309357942023-07-30T01:00:00.005+03:002023-07-30T01:13:58.356+03:00On God's Involvement In The Big Bang<br><center><a href='http://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhneNVNXEAAU2CA.jpg:orig'><img src='http://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhneNVNXEAAU2CA.jpg:orig' width=640></a><br><br><b><font style="font-family: Corsiva; font-size: 30px">Hypothetically speaking, of course...</font></b></center><br>The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103089226853600385.post-53240630922241872482023-03-29T05:45:00.004+03:002023-08-09T23:20:21.853+03:00Prayer For Protection Against Invaders<br><center><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/9-2-NtkxCAA' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' width='640' height='360' allowfullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='true' wmode='transparent'><br><br>( <i>You may wish to <b>turn up</b> the <b>volume</b> on your computer</i> ).<br><br><br><b><font style="font-family: Corsiva; font-size: 30px">Amen.</font><br><br><br>Securing Ukraine's existence, and a future for its children.</b></center><br><blockquote><center><b><font color=#08F>Revelation</font></b></center><br><b>16:6</b> They have <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucha_massacre">shed the blood</a> of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.<br><br><b>17:6</b> I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.<br><br><b>18:24</b> In her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izium_mass_graves">all that were slain</a> upon the earth.</blockquote><br>The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103089226853600385.post-54548341853491797072023-02-18T20:00:00.008+02:002023-02-18T20:30:29.120+02:00Running Russia<br><center><a href='http://www.themoviedb.org/t/p/original/hPbwUPafp0uN9pLaKc1O9zQVX2J.jpg'><img src='http://www.themoviedb.org/t/p/original/hPbwUPafp0uN9pLaKc1O9zQVX2J.jpg' width=640></a><br><br><b><font style="font-family: Corsiva; font-size: 30px">...into the ground.</font></b></center><br>The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103089226853600385.post-12964986637264791812022-12-25T06:50:00.006+02:002022-12-26T21:48:53.236+02:00A Putrid Christmas, And A Rotten New Year !Like a second Herod, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtOSNQRXqU8&t=90">Putin the Pious</a> saw fit to brutally mock and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_strikes_against_Ukrainian_infrastructure">viciously destroy</a> an entire country, by drowning it in senseless bloodshed and unspeakable violence, smearing it with the stench of death and despair, defiling it with the dismembered and decomposing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucha_massacre">corpses</a> of its defenseless women and innocent children, whose lost lives and shattered limbs, as globes and tinsel upon Christmas trees, now adorn its once beautiful landscape.The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103089226853600385.post-89545716897842107592022-11-28T10:20:00.002+02:002022-12-06T13:27:31.907+02:00Prayer For The Ukraine<br><center><blockquote>Arise, O Lord, and judge thine own cause ! Incline thine ears to our prayers !<br><br>For <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin">foxes</a> have arisen, seeking to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_strikes_against_Ukrainian_infrastructure">destroy the vineyard</a>, whose winepress thou alone hast trod.<br>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia">wild boar</a> from the forest seeketh to destroy it, and every <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Armed_Forces">wild beast</a> feedeth upon it.</blockquote></center><div align=right><b>Pope Leo the Tenth</b>, <i><a href="http://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Exsurge,_Domine">Exsurge, Domine</a></i></div><br>The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103089226853600385.post-21196253981270689792022-10-30T21:15:00.002+02:002022-10-30T21:20:18.180+02:00The One True Faith<br><center><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/Naggi7ufrLc' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' width='640' height='270' allowfullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='true' wmode='transparent'><br><br>( <i>You may wish to <b>turn up</b> the <b>volume</b> on your computer</i> ).<br><br><br><b><font style="font-family: Corsiva; font-size: 30px"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_world">Saint Vladimir</a> of the <a href="http://eastern-orthodox-apologetics.blogspot.com/2020/03/chaos-is-ladder.html">Ladder</a></font></b></center><br>The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103089226853600385.post-74349176087977329822022-10-03T21:00:00.012+03:002022-10-03T21:10:20.992+03:00Innocence Interrupted<br><center><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/Qx1_rPWj5k4&start=55' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' width='640' height='360' allowfullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='true' wmode='transparent'><br><br>( <i>You may wish to <b>turn up</b> the <b>volume</b> on your computer</i> ).<br><br><br><b><font style="font-family: Corsiva; font-size: 30px">The Fine Line Between Observer And Collaborator</font></b><br><br><br><blockquote>People like to <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/index.php?search=Matthew_27:24&version=KJV&interface=print">wash their hands</a> of the <a href="http://eastern-orthodox-apologetics.blogspot.com/2012/02/settling-our-issues-like-civilized.html">violence</a>. But we all wash our hands in <a href="http://eastern-orthodox-apologetics.blogspot.com/2022/08/feeling-blue-summertime-sadness.html">blood</a>.</blockquote></center><br>The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103089226853600385.post-26632830424195788642022-09-19T00:20:00.006+03:002022-09-25T00:30:05.305+03:00In This Sign, Conquer<br><blockquote><center><b>Psalm 151</b></center><br><b>1</b> I was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Russia">small</a> among <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Historical_Unity_of_Russians_and_Ukrainians">my brethren</a>, and youngest in my father's house. <b>5</b> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Historical_Unity_of_Russians_and_Ukrainians">My brothers</a> were <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Russia">great</a> and handsome; but the Lord was not pleased with them. <b>6</b> I went forth to meet the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin">Philistine</a>; and he cursed me by his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_world">idols</a>. <b>7</b> But I drew his own sword, and beheaded him, and removed reproach from the children of Israel.<br><br><br><center><b>Troparion of the Holy Cross</b></center><br>Lord, save Your <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainians">people</a> and bless Your <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine">inheritance</a>, granting <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy">our rulers</a> to prevail over <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine">adversaries</a>, and protecting Your <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus'">commonwealth</a> by Your <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cossack_cross">cross</a>.</blockquote><br>The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103089226853600385.post-82690582557705010752022-09-05T08:20:00.001+03:002022-09-05T08:24:03.150+03:00On (Dis)Honoring One's Parents<br><blockquote>The <b>throne of Kiev</b> held a <b>dominant position</b> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus'">Ancient Rus</a>. This had been the custom since the late ninth century. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_Chronicle">Tale of Bygone Years</a> captured for posterity the words of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_of_Novgorod">Oleg the Prophet</a> about <b>Kiev</b>: <i>May it be the <b>mother</b> of all <b>Russian cities</b>.</i></blockquote><div align=right><b>Vladimir Putin</b>,<br><a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_Historical_Unity_of_Russians_and_Ukrainians">On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians</a></div><br><br><blockquote><b>Exodus 20:12</b> Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.<br><br><b>Deuteronomy 5:16</b> Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.<br><br><b>Deuteronomy 21:18</b> If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them; <b>19</b> Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; <b>21</b> And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die; so shalt thou put evil away from among you.<br><br><b>Matthew 15:4</b> For God commanded, saying: <i>Honour thy father and mother</i>; and: <i>He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death</i>.<br><br><b>Mark 7:10</b> For Moses said: <i>Honour thy father and thy mother</i>; and: <i>Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death</i>.</blockquote><br>The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103089226853600385.post-57237198128884542692022-08-15T04:40:00.008+03:002022-08-17T21:32:48.938+03:00Feeling Blue: Summertime Sadness<br><center><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/Y8aEY4T22UY&start=105' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' width='640' height='480' allowfullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='true' wmode='transparent'><br><br>( <i>You may wish to <b>turn up</b> the <b>volume</b> on your computer</i> ).</center><br><br><blockquote>The sky hung high and blue; the child was staring at it, mouth open, hand above his forehead. The bright, cool morning breeze enveloped his sunburned cheeks, and dusty feet. Somewhere far away, at the edge of the plain, muffled, faded bangs were heard at times. There was no single cloud upon the clear sky, nor any smell of rain being brought on by the wind. The child stopped on the footpath near the road, openmouthed, beholding the unencompassed blue sky. He kept dragging his feet through the dew-soaked grass, to wet them. He whistled, constantly gazing at the azure sky. His father's jacket, which he had on, reached below his knees, his hands barely visible.<br><br>The child was short in stature, blue-eyed, no older than, say, seven or eight. He was returning home, from his grandmother's neighboring village, carrying, in a twig basket he could barely hold in his hands, a fat, white goose, he named Lyla on the way. He covered her in wide burdock leaves, least someone might see her. The child was whistling, to embolden himself, even though he was not particularly shy, and there was no one nearby. He was whistling out of habit, so the goose might seem less heavy.<br><br>As he passed the middle of the road separating the two villages, he laid his basket upon the grass, and took off his garment, breathing in the warm summer breeze. The goose was honking, softly flapping her wings, and making him giggle. He admired the red cloth he tied around her neck, to ward off the evil eye. After tying her wings to a hemp rope, he let her walk freely on the path before him. She treaded slowly, pecking grass, turning, from time to time, towards the boy, with her small, round eyes. She tried flying off, a few times, but the rope kept her in place.<br><br>On the road, far ahead, the child saw a dust cloud coming his way. The dusty truck drove straight past him. He found a dried up rod, and picked it up. The goose was neither answering him, nor turning around to look at him anymore. Instead, she kept on walking idly by. The knot of the red cloth around her neck reached up to her nape, looking like a bow. The sky was clear. The child was whistling, holding the basket and the rope in one hand, and the rod in the other. He wore his father's coat upon his shoulders, like a grownup. He was biding his time.<br><br>At the turn of the road, as he was about to cross the river, he saw a car, crossways before the bridge. He stopped in front of the car, to say hello. <i>Would you let me across the bridge ?</i>, he asked, looking at the two young, blond men, leaning on the car wheels. The two laughed, and, one of them, handing him a piece of chocolate, asked him his name. <i>Emil</i>, answered the boy, <i>and her name is Lyla</i>. — <i>And whereto are you going, Emil, with Lyla ?</i> — <i>Home, if you'd let me cross the bridge</i>. — <i>We'll let you, but first, tell us more about Lyla</i>.<br><br>The child started telling them anything that crossed his mind. The men were besides themselves with laughter, and Emil was glad he'll get to go home with the goose. At some point, a man came up from underneath the bridge, all smutty, and covered in mud. <i>You can cross now, but quickly, very quickly</i>, said the young blonde, handing him another piece of chocolate. Emil thanked him, and went on to cross the bridge. The three got into the car, setting off towards the village the child came from.<br><br>Upon reaching the middle of the bridge, Emil stopped, and, whilst still eating his chocolate, looked behind him, seeing the car now far gone. He wanted to say something, but felt Lyla flying out of his hands, and a deafening blow hitting him hard over the ears, as if the bridge itself was being lifted up, towards the sky, and torn apart. <i>Lylaaa !</i> His thoughts dissipated into thin air. Far away, within another dust cloud, the car raced. Upon the field, and upon the river, like unto a faded echo, the silence of an August morning eventually fell. The sky was clear, like the child's eyes.</blockquote><br><div align=right><b>Dumitru Radu Popescu</b>, <i><a href="http://copilarieuitata.blogspot.com/2015/08/senin-de-august.html">August Clear</a></i></div><br>The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103089226853600385.post-11354933533492694182022-08-02T11:20:00.002+03:002022-08-02T11:27:09.268+03:00Prophecy Against Russia's Czar<br><blockquote><b>1 Kings 21:17</b> And the word of the Lord came to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah">Elijah the Tishbite</a>, saying: <b>18</b> Arise, go down to meet <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahab">Ahab king of Israel</a>, which is in Samaria</i>. <b>19</b> And thou shalt speak unto him, saying:<blockquote>Thus saith the Lord: Hast thou <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucha_massacre"><b>killed</b></a>, and also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine"><b>taken possession</b></a> ? In the place where dogs licked the blood of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naboth">Naboth</a> shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine. <b>20</b> Because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord, <b>21</b> I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, <b>22</b> And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.</blockquote><b>23</b> And of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jezebel">Jezebel</a> also spake the Lord, saying:<blockquote>The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel. <b>24</b> Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.</blockquote><b>25</b> But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.<br><br><b>27</b> And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly. <b>28</b> And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying:<blockquote><b>29</b> Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.</blockquote></blockquote><br>The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103089226853600385.post-34784317087789528392022-07-19T23:20:00.006+03:002022-07-19T23:48:30.051+03:00Fighting To The Last Slav<br><center><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Wochenspruch_der_NSDAP_7_September_1941.jpg"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Wochenspruch_der_NSDAP_7_September_1941.jpg/640px--.jpg"></a><br><br><b>Paraphrasing the above <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler's_prophecy">prophecy</a>:</b></center><br><blockquote>Were <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand">the [Slavs] to succeed, in dragging the nations once again, into yet another world war</a>, then its result will not spell the triumph of [Slavism], but rather the destruction of the [Slavic] race in Europe.</blockquote><br>The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103089226853600385.post-56489469494258190572022-07-05T01:15:00.005+03:002022-07-05T01:31:42.876+03:00Russian Orthodox Crusade Against The Wicked West<br><blockquote><center><b><a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf07.ix.ix.vi.html">The Apostolic Canons</a></b></center><br><b>28</b>. We command that a bishop, or presbyter, or deacon who strikes the faithful that offend, or the unbelievers who do wickedly, and thinks to terrify them by such means, be deprived, for our Lord has nowhere taught us such things. On the contrary, “when Himself was stricken, He did not strike again; when He was reviled, He reviled not again; when He suffered, He threatened not.”</blockquote><br>I couldn't help but notice the Kremlin's ever-increasing employment of Chechen Muslim troops, in Russia's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_conducting_a_special_military_operation">special military operation</a> against its sovereign Orthodox neighbor. Perhaps someone should inform <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin">Rasputin</a> that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihad">Jihad</a> has never been an Orthodox tradition.<br><br>In its ostensive desire to fight the west, Russia has become just like it, crusades being a product of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East-West_Schism">schism</a>, which, ironically enough, even westerners themselves have long since repudiated.<br>The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103089226853600385.post-2041868755909920042022-06-13T00:25:00.038+03:002022-06-13T01:29:49.104+03:00Fire From Heaven<br><blockquote><b>Acts 2:1</b> And when the day of <b>Pentecost</b> was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. <b>2</b> And suddenly there came a sound <b><font color=#08F>from heaven</font></b> as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. <b>3</b> And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of <b><font color=red>fire</font></b>, and it sat upon each of them. <b>4</b> And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.<br><br><center><b>Genesis 19:24</b><br><br>Then it rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah <b><font color=red>brimstone</font></b> and <b><font color=red>fire</font></b> from the Lord <b><font color=#08F>out of heaven</font></b>.</center></blockquote><br><br>After tainting this year's Easter holidays, marking Christ's holy resurrection, by defiling them with the stain of death, like a second Herod, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtOSNQRXqU8&t=90">Putin the Pious</a> saw fit to mock the sacred day of Pentecost as well, by turning it from a day of divine fire, descending from the celestial spheres, unto the spiritual enlightenment of many nations, into one where the hellish flames of an ever-burning Gehenna of his own making, fueled by explosions raining down from heaven upon countless innocents, whose lives are lost and limbs are shattered, demonically deride and ultimately fall short of, not only God's highly elevated standards of moral sanctity, but even those of basic human decency.<br><br>The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103089226853600385.post-38207987370764114752022-05-31T22:40:00.001+03:002022-05-31T22:42:45.249+03:00Tuesdays On MarsAfter Constantinople, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Rome">New Rome</a>, eventually <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople">fell</a> into the hands of the Ottoman Turks, half a millennium ago, Moscow gradually became the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow,_third_Rome">third Rome</a>. The <a href="http://eastern-orthodox-apologetics.blogspot.com/2011/05/as-in-heaven-so-on-earth.html">Christian empire</a> lasted for an entire <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation_20:4-7&version=KJV&interface=print">millennium</a>, reckoned as the seventh from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Mundi#Greek_tradition">creation</a>, according to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_calendar">Byzantine calendar era</a>.<br><br>Prior to the time of its Christianization, following the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_the_Great_and_Christianity">conversion of Constantine</a>, pagan Rome was worshipping ancient idols, such as <b>Mars</b>, the god of war, in whose honor both the third day of the week, and the third month of the year, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFipsSv3p3Y&t=40">March</a>, were named.<br><br>Russia's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_conducting_a_special_military_operation">special military operation</a> in Ukraine started shortly before the beginning of March, close to the feast day of <a href="http://eastern-orthodox-apologetics.blogspot.com/2022/04/why-russian-leaders-are-exempt-from.html">Saint Nicholas Salos of Pskov</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foolishness_for_Christ">fool for Christ</a>. Throughout the entire month, the term <i>war</i> was not applied to it, in defiance of the deity whose name it bears; a brazen impiety, continuing up to the present moment. This undoubtedly constituted an affront to Mars, thereby incurring his wrath, thus explaining their slow, snail paced progress, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv_offensive_(2022)">subsequent withdrawal</a>.<br><br>On the other hand, the besieged declared <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law_in_Ukraine#2022_martial_law"><i>martial</i> law</a> from the very beginning, honoring the latter's memory, and gaining his favor. The ides of April, unlike those of <a href="http://eastern-orthodox-apologetics.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-ides-of-march.html">March</a>, fall on the month's thirteenth day. On this occasion, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-360_Neptune">Neptune</a>, the Roman god of stormy seas, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Moskva">avenged Mars' offended honor</a>.The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103089226853600385.post-67549321907620052162022-05-23T13:30:00.002+03:002022-05-23T13:30:26.657+03:00Lessons In Agronomy: On The Importance Of Cereals<br><center><b>Russia and the Ukraine are among the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wheat_exports">world's largest grain producers</a>:</b></center><br><blockquote><b>John 12:24</b> Verily, verily, I say unto you: <i>Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit</i>. <b>25</b> <i>He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal</i>.<br><br><b>1 Corinthians 15:35</b> But some man will say: <i>How are the dead raised up ? And with what body do they come ?</i> <b>36</b> Thou fool ! That which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die; <b>37</b> And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but mere seeds, perchance of wheat, or of some other grain.</blockquote><br>The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103089226853600385.post-22061628888836593452022-05-09T03:50:00.008+03:002022-05-09T04:36:53.824+03:00Weather Forecast<br><center><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/iQJj4w9-WuQ&start=42' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' width='640' height='360' allowfullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='true' wmode='transparent'><br><br>( <i>You may wish to <b>turn up</b> the <b>volume</b> on your computer</i> ).<br><br><br><b><font style="font-family: Corsiva; font-size: 30px">Official Eastern Orthodox Stance On <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Victory_Day_Parade">Pride Parades</a></font></b><br><br><br><blockquote><b>Genesis 19:24</b><br><br>Then it <font color=#08F>rained</font> upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.</blockquote></center><br>The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103089226853600385.post-40193563361434252012022-05-01T17:45:00.008+03:002022-05-01T17:49:23.753+03:00Lessons In Misguided Optimism<br><center><b>What <a href="http://eastern-orthodox-apologetics.blogspot.com/2012/04/doubting-thomas.html">atheism</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial">Holocaust denial</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucha_massacre">Russian war propaganda</a> have in common:</b></center><br><blockquote><b>John 20:25</b> Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.</blockquote><br>The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103089226853600385.post-7630220897446412812022-04-24T00:50:00.001+03:002022-04-24T12:57:08.978+03:00Crucifying A Country For Easter<br><center>Apparently, <b>Halloween came early</b> this year...</center><br>After pseudo-religious <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_on_religion">civil disobedience</a> of the most <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew_4:5-7,Luke+4:9-13&version=KJV&interface=print">divinely uninspired</a> kind tainted the last two Easters, by turning them from celebrations of life into festivals of death, thus marking the triumph of death over life, rather than the other way around, as would normally have been expected, this year, a certain <a href="http://eastern-orthodox-apologetics.blogspot.com/2022/04/why-russian-leaders-are-exempt-from.html">Czar</a> of the same stock as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible">Ivan the Terrible</a>, deemed it expediently appropriate to smear the sacred Holidays, by defiling them with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucha_massacre">corpses</a> of raped women and children, thereby trampling human life once again underfoot, as an anti-Christ mocking the Savior's resurrection, by which He trampled on death by death, as our Orthodox Paschal anthem, sung every spring, so beautifully puts it.<br><br>A putrid, rotten Easter, filled with the stench of decaying bodies, whose unbearable smell <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis_18:20-21&version=KJV&interface=print">rises to the high heavens</a>, demanding <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AounoSj7QuQ&t=134">justice and retribution</a>, and a bloody Bright Week, to all !<br><br>The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103089226853600385.post-12767625587161112472022-04-19T00:00:00.003+03:002022-04-19T00:16:45.349+03:00Pharaoh, Moses, And The Exodus<br>As the Egyptian Pharaoh oppressed the people of Israel,<br>so the Russian <a href="http://eastern-orthodox-apologetics.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-ides-of-march.html">Czar</a> oppresses the people of the Ukraine.<br><br><div style="margin-left: 300px">As Moses turned Egypt's rivers into blood,<br>so Russian invaders make rivers of blood flow in the Ukraine.</div><br>As the Jews left Egypt during the Exodus,<br>so Ukrainians are fleeing their homeland.<br><br>The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103089226853600385.post-19914938269364351332022-04-11T19:50:00.002+03:002022-05-01T18:05:40.309+03:00Why Russian Leaders Are Exempt From Fasting<br><blockquote><center>It was the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lent#Clean_Week">first week of Lent</a>...</center><br>Hearing that the Tsar was coming to visit him, <a href="http://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2000/02/28/100616">Nicholas</a> found a piece of raw meat and, when the Tsar entered his cell, <a href="http://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/saintoftheday/blessed_nicholas_of_pskov_fool_for_christ_15763">Nicholas</a> bowed down, and offered the meat to the Tsar:<br><br><center><blockquote>Eat, little Ivan, eat !</blockquote></center><br>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible">terrible Tsar</a> answered him furiously:<br><br><center><blockquote><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtOSNQRXqU8&t=90">I am a Christian</a>, and do not eat any meat during Lent !</blockquote></center><br>To which the man of God promptly retorted:<br><br><center><blockquote>You do that, and much worse !<br><a href="http://eastern-orthodox-apologetics.blogspot.com/2022/04/lenten-recipe.html">You feed on men's flesh and blood</a>,<br>forgetting not only the Fast, but God as well !</blockquote></center><br>This lecture entered deeply into the heart of Tsar Ivan, and he immediately left <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pskov#History">Pskov</a> in shame, having intended to wreak <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucha_massacre">great slaughter</a> there.</blockquote><br>The Blogger Formerly Known As Lvkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663692507774640889noreply@blogger.com0