Putting my dugg stories at 疯狂漫谈::东正教教会学习 (http://nstanosheck.blogspot.com) was a big mistake I think. It quickly buried (Digg pun not intended) the stories about my personal life, which is why people go there in the first place, I believe. So I am moving my dugg stories back to “This Too Was Dugg By…“, here at http://nstanosheck.wordpress.com
So I have decided to combine my two blogs and all of my digg.com stories that I have dugg will go to my usual blog at http://nstanosheck.blogspot.com instead of here. I will keep this blog open as long as wordpress.com allows so as to have an archive of dugg stories. See you at the new blog!
I am thinking of blog consolidating and adding the articles that I digg at digg.com to my main blog at http://nstanosheck.blogger.com — a blog that I have had since early 2003. I gthought it might be best to just keep one blog instead of many on various subjects. I can always use tags to separate things. Thoughts?
It is a blog made up almost solely of Orthodox and Linux related items that I have Dugg™ at Digg.com™. Outside of Great Lent and Holy Week and I think perhaps a few days of my Nativity Family Vacation, I have posted at least one Digg™ per day on this site since the first day I began this blog. How have I managed that? I have blogged in advance. This means I would find a story that I Dugg™, and would set it to hit the blog’s front page at a future date. (This is why the time posted almost always matches they date posted too. I like synchrosity.)
These days I Digg™ far less than I used too and have stopped pre-posting and post in real-time with new Diggs™, so y’all might be interested in another blog I have recently returned to and now update rather regularly. It is called “Insane Thoughts … and Orthodox Ecclesiology” which I started in 2003 and must confess that in focuses more on the words before the ellipsis (…) and to be truthful they tend to be sane thoughts, so perhaps the name is misleading. The blog can be found at http://orthodox.blogspot.com, the same place it has been since it started.
So if you do not see any updates here, or you want to learn more about me visit Insane Thoughts … and Orthodox Ecclesiology today, or some day in the future when you are reading this. Of course I posted this well in advance of the date that this will actually appear too! LOL!
People who dislike having to go to the church, read this … Going to the church is actually good for your health. It’s not me who’s saying this, just to bring you back to the church, but a recent study has confirmed this.
After spending thousands for college, and being convinced that evolution was correct, someone gave him a 50¢ cassette tape with a Christian sermon about creation on it. Hear the humorous and telling story of a former evolutionist atheist and how he came to believe in Jesus Christ.
Russian Education Minister Nikolay Karpushin says schools will soon start using freely distributed software like the Linux OS, Russky Office and OpenOffice desktop apps because of the outrageous cost of Microsoft Vista and other commercial software. Russia has begun enforcing piracy laws in order to qualify to join the WTO.
Wilson Simpkins told a reporter this week that he credits his decision to convert to Orthodoxy to the terribly annoying people he’s met so far in the Orthodox Church.
“Where else could I meet such a quirky group of people? And if the Maker of the duck-billed platypus were to create a Church, wouldn’t it look as odd as this?”
During a recent visit to America, Metropolitan VALENTINE of Suzdal and Vladimir (Russia), First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC) met with the Genuine Greek Orthodox Church ’s (GOC) Metropolitan PAVLOS of Astoria and America about establishing official communications and possibly working toward a future inter-communion of the two traditionalist Orthodox Christian Churches that have presences in America and Abroad.
Dear Friends in Christ,
I thought that I would let you all know that I will be going offline and not posting new entries for Great Lent — which starts today — so as such I wanted to say a temporary good-bye to all of you, my friends who read “This too was Dugg by … “. I shall return on Holy Pascha Sunday (26 March/8 April), the first day of Bright Week and the Paschal Season. I have a whole queue of entries ready to propagate starting that very day!
I hope that all of you will have a spiritually profitable Great Fast and may it grant you much spiritual growth. And since I will not be online after Forgiveness Vespers, in advance I ask you all, in the tradition of the Orthodox Forgiveness Sunday Vespers service, to please forgive me, a sinner for my many failings and enumerable faults.
Likewise pray that I will have a safe journey up to Loveland in March, when I plan to be the first person to buy the boxed version Yellow Dog Linux v.5.0 for PPC Macs in March!
Ever wondered how all the characters in the Bible’s New Testament are connected? Here’s a visualization. Your wish is the site’s command.
There are about 250 million Orthodox believers worldwide — and among them are a significant number of newcomers attracted to this ancient way of worship. The trend is especially notable since so few in the United States know about the Eastern Orthodox churches here. In the United States, there are only about 1.2 million Orthodox Christians.
There are two fundamental demographic trends that may occur in the 21st Century inside the U.S. that could alter several faiths in the process. Those trends are from Roman Catholic to Eastern Orthodox and from (nominal) Christian to Islam. What is the sociological impact of people looking to convert to more strict, serious, traditional Faiths?
The Yalta Conference decided that the Allies would return all USSR citizens that found themselves outside the Soviet Union. By force if necessary. Not only the liberated Soviet prisoners of war, but it also extended to all other persons like Russian Orthodox Christian refugees. What happened to these innocents? Many of the refugees were summarily executed by the Soviets in earshot of the Allies!
We want to highlight the unfair difference between Greece and other European countries and to propose the solution called Apple Greece, or even better “Apple Hellas”.
Robert E Meyer: “I have been puzzled, from the time of my earliest consideration of the matter, that science is used as a means of discrediting the existence of God. It should never be the objective of Christians to oppose the wonders of scientific progress, but only “science falsely so called;” that is, metaphysics festooned as science.”
Robert E. Meyer: “For me, atheism has a logical problem of philosophical cogency. The atheist worldview has an epistemology that won’t comport with its metaphysical narrative.”
Robert E. Meyer: “Defining atheism is a daunting undertaking. It can be an elusive moving target, with constantly varying definitions and ramifications.”
Robert E. Meyer: It is quite possible that atheists as a group are more intelligent than the community of theists at large. I don’t have statistical evidence to support this claim, but anecdotally, I can believe that it is quite likely.
Robert E. Meyer: What will become of scientific investigation? Early scientists saw their inquiries as a method of ‘thinking God’s thoughts after him.’ Without a construct in place which binds technology to ethics, what limits on social and scientific experimentation will inform the distinctions between what can be done, vs. what ought to be done?
These 9 sermons show the Orthodox Christian teaching of the young earth (approximately 7,515 years old) and the creations of the sun, the moon, the birds, the fish, the land animals, and human beings in the first 8 days of creation as described in the Bible. Very interesting reading about how if man was created as an adult that so too could Earth.
Director of the Academy of Sciences Institute of Applied Astronomy Andrey Finkelstein believes that ‘the Universe could not have come into being had the human life not been intended.’ The data accumulated by scientists in the recent decade drastically change the traditional concept of the Universe and bring up a question of its origin’s randomness.
Christ is Born!
Dear friends in Christ,
A blessed Nativity Feast to all Orthodox Christians. Orthodox Christianity celebrates the Lord’s Nativity in the Flesh (Christmas) today, 25 December 7515 according to the Julian Calendar, or 7 January 2007 on the Secular/Civil Gregorian Calendar. May God grant you all many blessings and many years this Nativity Season!
In Christ,
Νικολάος Διάκονος
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Although Orthodox Christian Nativity is not until January 7th on the secular/civil Gregorian calendar, my extended family are Roman Catholics and Protestants, so we have our “Christmas Family Get-Togethers” around the Western Christmas date of December 25th on the secular/civil Gregorian calendar. As such, I will be gone from today until the 2nd of January, 2007 so there will be no new blog entries until a day or two after the day I return. To all of the non-Orthodox, I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! May you receive the gift of refurbished Apple PPC Macs, Sony PlayStation3s, and Yellow Dog Linux v5.0! 
Patriarch Bartholomew, who recently ment with the Pope of Rome, today sent his monks to break in to the Esphigmenou Monastery’s office on Athos. They broke down a door and then attacked the monks inside vicously with the crowbars that they used to break in, sending 7 monks to the hospital. What is Esphigmenous’s crime? Not comemorating Bartholomew!
This shows whom and when the various mainstream Christian Religions were started. Here are just a few notable ones: Orthodox Christianity-33, Roman Catholicism-1054, Lutheran-1517, Church of England/Anglican-1534, Presbyterian-1560, Congregationalist-1582, Baptist-1606, Dutch Reformed-1628, Methodist-1774, Mormon/Latter Day Saints-1829 (Not truly Christian since they do not believe in the Trinity nor that Jesus is God.), Salvation Army-1865 (Yes, it IS a religion!), Christian Scientist-1879, etc. …
This is the united proclamation by the head of the Roman Catholic Communion and the “first-among-equals” of the “World Orthodox Christians” in Istanbul, Turkey. They hope that their uncanonical concelebrations will lead to a merging between their Churches — and eventually all of the Protestants and non-Christians — in to one massive world Church.
The following is a guide for properly addressing Orthodox clergy and monastics. While the titles may not exactly correspond to the terms used in Greek, Russian, or the other native languages of the national Orthodox Churches, they have been widely accepted as the traditional English usages in person, by telephone, and via formal written letters.
Russia is starting to eliminate democratic reforms that were made under Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev. You’ve got Putin sending missiles, rockets & warheads to Iran and helping their nuke program. He is oppressing all Churches except his stat-run “Moscow patriarchate”. President Vladimir Putin guy is proudly former KGB (well, to be fair, he says once KGB, always KGB), and it seems the Soviet Union is coming back.
Persecutions against the ROAC in Russia increase! In Russia, at the MP’s (The”Official” State-Run Church, the Moscow Patriarchate) request, the Russian government has increased its attacks on the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC). Threatening to take the temples of this Church made up mostly of Catacomb Christians and murder their leader!
General Thanksgiving
By the PRESIDENT of the United States Of America
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour; and Whereas both Hou∫es of Congress have, by their joint committee, reque∫ted me “to recommend to the people of the United States a DAY OF PUBLICK THANKSGIVING and PRAYER, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to e∫tabli∫h a form of government for their safety and happiness:”
NOW THEREFORE, I do recommend and a∫∫ign THURSDAY, the TWENTY-SIXTH DAY of NOVEMBER next, to be devoted by the people of the∫e States to the ∫ervice of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our ∫incere and humble thanksfor His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the ∫ignal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpo∫itions of His providence in the cour∫e and conclu∫ion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have ∫ince enjoyed;– for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to e∫tablish Con∫titutions of government for our ∫afety and happine∫s, and particularly the national one now lately instituted;– for the civil and religious liberty with which we are ble∫∫ed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffu∫ing useful knowledge;– and, in general, for all the great and various favours which He has been plea∫ed to confer upon us.
And also, that we may then unite in mo∫t humbly offering our prayers and ∫upplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and be∫eech Him to pardon our national and other tran∫gre∫∫ions;– to enable us all, whether in publick or private ∫tations, to perform our ∫everal and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a ble∫∫ing to all the people by con∫tantly being a Government of wi∫e, ju∫t, and con∫titutional laws, di∫creetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all ∫overeigns and nations (especially ∫uch as have shewn kindne∫s unto us); and to ble∫s them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increa∫e of con∫cience among them and us; and, generally to grant unto all mankind ∫uch a degree of temporal pro∫perity as he alone knows to be be∫t.
GIVEN under my hand, at the city of New-York, the third day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand ∫even hundred and eighty-nine.
(signed) G. Washington
With Christmas around the corner, you’ll be glad to know that you can check out over 100 vendors around the globe who offer desktop and notebook computers with GNU/Linux pre-installed. Put another way, LXer’s Pre-Installed Linux Vendor database is now available! All vendors in the list offer reasonably-priced desktops and/or notebooks.
Not only can you swap 2.5″ SATA HDD, you can change the operating system (OS) software. 1. Insert the disc or storage media that contains the installer in the system. 2. Select (System Settings) under (Settings) in the home menu. 3. Select [Install Other OS]. The system searches for the installer. When the installer is found, its content and location will be displayed. 4. Check the content of the installer, and then select [OK]. The installer starts. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the operation.
