Message from @fallot
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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
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