Michael Maryon
@divdiff1
Orthodox Christian father, husband, engineer, & athlete
This is a core theme in Lord of the Rings! The lives of Aragorn and Denethor serve as a particularly great contrasting pair to explore the concept of agency. Over a long career, Aragorn has known the odds were never good, but as Isildur’s heir he forever working towards…
von Neumann gave us "zero-sum" in 1944 and it's one of my favorite examples of linguistic compression. Two words that mean “strictly competitive, fixed pie, stop looking for win-wins.” The term's real gift: it reveals the default human assumption that life is chess and value…
If anyone wants to know why millions of people are about to be deported allow me to explain. 1. They came here illegally or they have overstayed their visa, or certain noncitizens' legal status is about to change due to their behavior in our country, which means deportation is…
St. Luke's Church, Virginia, born 1632.
There’s no way I’d say a thing about that publicly if I were in Kash P’s position. Doxxing the folks the shooter spoke with is going to make them vanish like smoke on the wind.
How come we don’t have information about who was in the Discord channel Charlie Kirk’s assassin was in? Discord is the same platform the Butler assassin was communicating with people in. We were never told who he communicated with. If what we were told today is true, how…
Stop Trying to Fix Everything—Start Facing God Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra holyresurrection.shop buymeacoffee.com/holyresurrecti…
"Oh you don't trust the experts let's see you perform brain surgery then" Experts can be trusted with tasks that require expertise. But there's very little correlation between expertise and wisdom in our current world.
Blessed humility month, folks. Let us all work to acquire this virtue and follow in the footsteps of Christ.
Eugene Rose tried it all—drugs, sex, Buddhism, the Tao Te Ching. Nothing filled the void. Then one Easter in San Francisco, he stepped into a Russian Orthodox church. “Something in my heart said I was home.” Paul Kingsnorth for The Free Press:
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You must teach yourself how to eat less, but with discernment, insofar as your work allows. The measure of temperance should be such that after lunch you want to pray. St. Silouan the Athonite
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My family and I go to a monastery near us, and we did a blessing of their lake for old calendar Theophany. We also broke the ice and took a dip. I highly recommend it. I feel it’s a renewal of your baptism.
I was watching an episode of The Great Tales hosted by @richardrohlin while working from home. My daughter walked into my office and asked if he and Fr Andrew were my coworkers :)
St Porphyrios on the upbringing of children
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