a triangle of korea, japan and american fleets there are probably active round o clock

Did you ever believe in God @The Enlightened Shepherd

How common is godlessness among your peers anecdotally, i.e no stats

define my peers

your friends, people your generation/near your age you work/study with

@fallot WE HAVE NUCLEAR WARHEADS FOR TORPEDOES, CRUISE MISSILES AND ANTI-SHIP (WAVE-SKIMMING) MISSILES

CRUISE MISSILES HAVE WINGS

ANTI-SHIP MISSILES LOOK LIKE REGULAR ROCKETS

TORPEDOES ARE YOUR BEST BET BECAUSE THEY CAN TRAVEL SEVERAL MILES

SO A SUB COULD HANG OUT OUTSIDE THE BUOY LINE AND FIRE ONE INTO THE CENTER OF A GROUP

@fallot i was born at the time when, after collapse of socialism

the counrty was getting increasingly spiritual

and was baptized at the age of 4 i believe, in Serbian Orthodox Church

My most immediate friends aren't religious, but society in general is latently religious, and massively declares as such, over 98% of people declaring as religious

but it's only declaration

herds understanding of religion, always includes murder, group sex, drugs, foul language etc

ONE CAN FEEL RELIGIOUS

WITHOUT WANTING TO GO TO CHURCH

@diversity_is_racism , north korea doesn't though

are you immediate friends exceptional

among people like them

are you immediate friends exceptional

among people like them

@The Enlightened Shepherd

i subscribed to orthodox theology, monarchism and worldview at one point in the past, briefly

a lot of gay mystical nazis approach religion from a sensual or pragmatic perspective

but at that time i was leaning more towards greek understanding of orthodoxy, and evne russian to an extent, than to Serbian

Serbian orthodox Christians are mostly fervently anti-Catholic, while I was not as much

Catholicism is to an extent, considered a mortal enemy of Serbs, and Vatican is seen as a main culprit of crimes against Serbs done by Catholics, even more than the people themselves

what's the most major religious festival

Christmass and Easter among Christians

how are both celebrated, briefly

is there any contrast to western europe/america

Christmass by fasting and burning of those great bonfires on the christmass eve

how many people would fast

and by traditional lunches and religious services on christmass day itself

depends

full fasting would often be performed by not especially pious people due to health benefits

if you had to just throw a %age out

On Easter, dying eggs, fasting and "breaking" of eggs is performed

and abstinence from all work on Good Friday

I'm unsure

how closely is this adhered to

of general population, notm any perform the entire fast

Good Friday, not working

of pious, many do

nobody does anything on good friday

any length of the fast

would count

towards the figure

both fastings last 40 days

if someone even makes the intention to fast but doesn't do a single day

I'm inclined to ask you to consider that too

but may not be reasonable

10% of adults?

the rule is no meat or dairy, more strict rules which monks adhere to include no oil on certain days, and no meat whatsoever on certain days, including fish

90% of people skipping meat for a day?

mostof people will do the so called "small fast" of fasting for only 1 single day

christmass eve and good firday

if you openly don't do it

what would be the reaction of most people

but that practice is completely unfounded in church practice

they wouldn't care

thanks

I very quickly distanced myself from Serbian approach to Orthodoxy due to a huge influx of subversive ideas and personalities

Though at times, it is the only bullwark against reccurence of bolshevik ideas

All Churchiness is prone to attracting obscure people with no qualities who use it to get a platform to educate others

Also, among certain Orthodox believers are many adherents of this Eastern styled mysticism which I dislike

what do you mean Eastern styled

Montenegrins in general have a very peculiar approach towards religion

oh, it's not Montenegros

boo

They are at soul secular and completely untameable by strict religious discipline, especially monkish meekness

in Serbia, there are much more religious zealots

do you feel a connection to Serbia

Yes

Serbs have strong regional differences

Montenegrins by far stand out as being the most distinct, and by that I mean even those who declare as Serbs

Is an ethnically Serbian Montenegrin that doesn't speak Serbian a phenomenon?

a rarity? a nonentity?

No, such thing does not exist

by eastern mysticism I mean an influx of sentimental, passive ideas in their worldview, racially unconscious, anti-elitist

All of Christianty is such

But these ideas also propagate certain sense of anti-westernism which rejects both that which is obviously degenerate about west (liberalism, individualism, materialism)

and that which is superior (elitism)

suburban morality

Orthodoxy is in general, even with this eastern mysticism included, better than Catholicism, with it's rastafarian current form

But that only speaks about Catholicism

It doesn't say why should one find a method of spiritual realization within Orthodoxy, which are scarce, and only include devoting oneself to a life of a monk

what is spiritual realization

to you

realizing higher levels of consciousness, which stand as superior to that which is in the mental sphere purely transitory

skipping the inferior, compensatory modes of spiritual life and attempting to achieve something that is in accordance with a higher, permanent and rock solid truth

which is, needless to say, completely unrelated to any human existential anxieties

or forms conditioned solely upon human bodily perception

what kind of higher, permanent, rock solid truth are we talking about here

just to be clear

You ask more questions than you talk yourself

ask me something

People who want answers and don't have much to say themselves are rare