Message from @The Enlightened Shepherd
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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
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
fortunately I'm well equipped in the latter
Why are you keen to listen to random strangers online who could as well be talking complete non-sense and wasting your precious time
you're not a stranger, I've been talking to you for days
and no, it isn't nonsense
that is something discernible
don't give yourself so little credit
Yes, but I'm just another individual spotted in the wild
not quite
Why would you want to hear my opinions
I think you're an intelligent and thoughtful person
I'm not suspicious btw, only curious
I understand
you underwent a couple of layers of selection to end up in here
you're not just a random, even if we had not talked to date