I'm obsessed with the Russian Elders or Startsi

Couple of years ago I reconnected with a high school friend of mine who had become a monk on Atos. He scolded me for praying at a Catholic Church. I loved going to St Patrick's cathedral on 5th avenue.

We had many long hours of conversations where he talked to me and I talked to him. I ended up going back to the Eastern Orthodox Church and specifically to the St Nicholas cathedral on the Upper East Side. I totally ignored the fact that it is a Putin church. Coming out of it on Sundays I imagined CIA's sculking around the corners.

Anyway one of the books that led me on that path was Everyday Saints and Other Stories by Archimandrite Tikhon.

I've always been drawn to Zen and minimalism and the ascetic tradition of the Russian elders completed the circle.

So to complete the square of thoughts, I always connect these three vertices to the great scientists of the West especially modern physicists who try to slice the universe each and every way to find its meaning.

I believe that Central to the meaning of the universe is the human being and our realization of the spirit of love. I believe everything the saints have been saying is exactly the same thing physicists are saying, we are definitely more than meets the eye and most likely we're just all one thing, we just appear separate blobs. So whenever we do evil to the other blob we do evil to ourselves.

Taking care of my mom

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The easiest way to change the paradigm in your home is to remove the television

The easiest way to change the paradigm in your home is to remove the television and replace it with:
1. A horizontal bench or surface for creative projects like woodworking.
2. Digital creative studio.
3. Musical instruments for creating and performing music.
4. A home gym with mats on the floor for exercise, stretching etc.
5. Use the freed wall for home painting studio for the entire family, where kids and adults can draw /paint anything on the wall.

The vogonity of moronity - the advertising /media complex has convinced people in America that it's important to mow grass rake and collect leaves and use pronouns

Why don't you just grow tomatoes, mulch leaves in place and keep your sexual activity in the bedrooms, the kitchen counters or whatever fuck place you choose.

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I believe our Congress is rotten and corrupt and not our country

They love power but are too incompetent to do it in the market. They need to be all loaded onto a starship and dumped on the other side of the Moon and replaced with people who believe in public service.

I think Nancy Pelosi is the female Voldemort witch. Rotten to the core and clawing at power. We're effectively a one party state although with two parties.