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On the matter of Orthodoxy

by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | July 19, 2023


The Cathedral of Saint Sava in Belgrade, Serbia

What we have here is a failure to comply!

Many Christians must feel abandoned by their church leaders as these leaders seek to harmonize debased social absurdities with core church principles.  These social transformations include normalizing the killing of a baby in a mother’s womb and promoting  countless sexual aberrations including child sexual mutilation.   These changes are aimed squarely at recasting what was formally the traditional family into a mangled parody of its former self that is isolated, powerless, easily corruptible and controllable.  Unsurprisingly, these destructive ideologies align nicely with social engineering efforts promoted by a philosophy of secular materialism whose endpoint is a single, unifying system of global governance — a scientific dictatorship.  Despite many church leaders’ impulse to comply with these trends, the Christian Orthodox Church has remained remarkedly unchanged for over 2,000 years.  Can Orthodoxy’s consistent and unbroken tradition serve as an effective teacher and a bulwark protecting sacred Christian doctrine against these self-inflicted detours into spiritual bondage and corruption?

Questions and Answers

What is Christian Orthodoxy?

What are the roots of Orthodoxy and what do they believe?

Why have there been so few changes in Christian Orthodoxy for over 2,000 years?


Common questions:

  • How many people are baptized members of Orthodoxy?  ~225 million.
  • Do Orthodox Christians worship Mary? No, they honor Mary.
  • Do Orthodox Christians worship icons? No.
  • Do Orthodox Christians worship saints? No, they honor saints.
  • Do Orthodox Christians use the Old and New Testament? Yes. The Orthodox Study Bible is the English translation of the St. Athanasius Academy Septuagint edition for the Old Testament, and utilizes the New King James Version for the New Testament.
  • Are Orthodox Christians the same as Roman Catholics? No. Roman Catholics are considered by many as the 1st Protestants since they reformed / broke away from the ancient tradition still practiced by Orthodoxy today.
  • Are Orthodox Christians non-denominational? No, they are pre-denominational.
  • Are the Orthodox considered to be a Christian denomination?  No, Orthodox Christians are pre-denominational.
  • Does the Orthodox Church have a pope? No. (Orthodoxy rejects the Pope’s claim to universal jurisdiction.) Orthodox view on Papal Supremacy.
  • Does the Orthodox Church believe in The Nicene Creed? Yes.

A Consistent and Unbroken Tradition: Timeline Of Church History | The Roman Catholic Church added to Orthodoxy and the Protestants subtracted from Orthodoxy.


The Symbol of the Faith

Composed at the1st Ecumenical Council at Nicaea in 325,
And completed at the 2nd Ecumenical Council at Constantinople in 381.

THE NICENE CREED:

I believe in one God, Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, the only begotten, begotten  of the Father before all ages; Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten, not made; of one essence[1] with the Father; through Whom all things were made.

For us men and for our salvation, He came down from heaven, and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and became man. And He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried; And the third day He rose again, according to[2] the Scriptures. And ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father; And He shall come again with glory to judge the living and dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.

And in the Holy Spirit [3], the Lord, the Creator of life, Who proceeds from the Father[4], Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; Who spoke through the prophets.

In one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church. I confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the age to come. Amen.

[1] or “consubstantial”
[2] or “in fulfillment of”
[3] At this point the original Creed of Nicaea 325 ended; the remainder was added at the 2nd Ecumenical Council in 381.
[4] Here the Roman Catholics add the Latin word Filioque, which means “and from the son.”


Definition of (lower case) catholic:

adjective
1. broad or wide-ranging in tastes, interests, or the like; having sympathies with all; broad-minded; liberal.

2. universal in extent; involving all; of interest to all. *

*’Know the Faith’ by Rev Michael Shanbour (pg. 37): Unfortunately, the word catholic is usually translated as “universal.” But the Greek word indicates fullness and completeness.  St. Ignatius of Antioch, the first known to use the word, applies it to the local church: “Wherever the bishop appears, the whole congregation is to be present, just as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the whole [catholic] Church.”  (Ignatius, Epistle to the Smyrnaeans 7.2, in Apostolic Fathers, p. 113)

Thinking Orthodox | Understanding and Acquiring the ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN MIND
by Eugenia Scarvelis Constantinou. Ph.D.


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Ignorance: The Currency of Tyranny

by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | December 04, 2022

The tools of control

After 9/11, I took the time to read some history.  Not just any history, but history that is well-sourced and documented by individual researchers who were not part of the established power structure.  What I discovered is not conspiracy theories, but irrefutable conspiracy facts.  Most people who have been educated in our compulsory government school systems; by our universities, news media and entertainment media are unfamiliar with these historical facts.

Hidden History

We have no clue we were ‘lied into’ every war since the US Civil War; and then lied to about who the villains, victims and heroes were — and their motives. We were therefore denied a look at the hidden hands creating and orchestrating these deadly conflicts.  This includes the Spanish-American War, WW1, WW2, Korean War, Vietnam War, Iraq War and all the invasions across the globe killing and maiming millions.

Most do not know you cannot understand WW2 if you don’t understand WW1 and the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.  Most do not know our history was corrupted. Most do not know where to find solid, reliable research that will reveal the true history of these conflicts, and so we are left seeing the world through a set of demonstrably false assumptions; agreed to by the collective; created by a well-oiled consensus-generating machine.

We Won’t Fight Another Rich Man’s War!!! – Vietnam Veterans Against the War, circa 1970.

This collective agreement of a false history denies us the ability to see who the real enemies of man are and thus we are herded like livestock into the next rendering pen.


“Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion. This is the weak point of our defences, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong, the right. In a country where opinion has sway, to seize upon it, is to seize upon power. As it is a rule of humanity that the upright and well-intentioned are comparatively passive, while the designing, dishonest and selfish are the most untiring in their efforts, the danger of public opinion’s getting a false direction is four-fold, since few men think for themselves.”

– James Fenimore Cooper (The American Democrat 1838)


“We believe that the reduction of the citizen to an object of propaganda, private and public, is one of the greatest dangers to democracy. A prevalent notion is that the great mass of the people cannot understand and cannot form an independent judgment upon any matter; they cannot be educated, in the sense of developing their intellectual powers, but they can be bamboozled. The reiteration of slogans, the distortion of the news, the great storm or propaganda that beats upon the citizen twenty-four hours a day all his life long mean either that democracy must fall a prey to the loudest and most persistent propagandists or that the people must save themselves by strengthening their minds so that they can appraise the issues for themselves.” 

From Robert M. Hutchins, page xiii
December 1, 1951
Preface to the Great Books of the Western World.
The Great Conversation


Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.

Bertrand Russell The Impact of Science on Society, 1953


My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

Hosea 4:6 KJV


It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment.

This subject will make great strides when it is taken up by scientists under a scientific dictatorship. Anaxagoras maintained that snow is black, but no one believed him. The social psychologists of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. Various results will soon be arrived at. First, that the influence of home is obstructive. Second, that not much can be done unless indoctrination begins before the age of ten. Third, that verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective. Fourth, that the opinion that snow is white must be held to show a morbid taste for eccentricity. . . . It is for future scientists to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black, and how much less it would cost to make them believe it is dark gray.

Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society
Simon and Schuster, New York, 1953 Page 30:


The American people don’t read.

–Allen Dulles


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by Our Interesting Times

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Mike King returns to Our Interesting Times to discuss Germany’s declaration of war on the United States four days after the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor. We talk about why Adolf Hitler took that fateful decision and the intrigues that led to the outbreak of hostilities in September 1939.

Mike is a self-described thought criminal, researcher and author of many books challenging the official narratives of history. His website is The Real History Channel.

Tim Kelly Discusses Gaslighting on The Realist Report
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Yours truly is a guest once again on John Friend’s The Realist Report to discuss “gaslighting” being selected as the word-of-the-year by the Merriam-Webster dictionary. We examine the power of gaslighting, or how the Regime inverts the truth to manipulate the public.

 

Clash of Cultures: The Collective West (Woke-ism) vs. Russia… by Alexander Dugin

Alexander Dugin

In his Valdai keynote speech on 27 October 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin argued that:

“The direct threat to the political, economic and ideological monopoly of the West is that alternative social models may emerge in the world.”

Or even more starkly and definitively:

“I am convinced that true democracy in a multipolar world presupposes first of all the possibility for any people – I want to emphasise this – any society, any civilisation to choose its own way, its own socio-political system.”

If the United States and the European Union have this right, surely the Asian countries, the Islamic states, the Persian Gulf monarchies and the states of other continents also have it. Of course, our country, Russia, also has this right, and no one can ever impose on our people what kind of society we should build and on what principles.

Today, in Russia, it is only a matter of proposing an alternative social model to liberal democracy and building our own socio-political system. This very constructive step should be the next step in our strategy in the deployment of the acute civilisation war.

The foundation of this social model is necessarily the traditional values, which the President signed into law on 9 November 2022 (Decree No. 809). This is what such a model should be based on.

Here is a list of traditional values that are essentially national in nature today. These are the foundations of a sovereign ideology that is, in a way, obligatory for all Russian citizens.

Let us analyse this crucial code of the new operating system of Russian society in a little more detail. To quote Decree No. 809:

Traditional values include:

  1. life,
  2. dignity,
  3. human rights and freedom,
  4. patriotism, citizenship, service to the homeland and responsibility for its destiny,
  5. high moral ideals
  6. a strong family,
  7. constructive work,
  8. spiritual over material
  9. humanism,
  10. charity,
  11. justice,
  12. collectivism, mutual assistance and respect,
  13. historical memory and intergenerational continuity,
  14. unity of the peoples of Russia.

Continue reading: DECREE NO. 809: THE FOUNDATIONS OF A SOVEREIGN IDEOLOGY ARE LAID

Alexander Dugin

 

 

The Network Behind FTX – Whitney Webb

Tony Blair, Bill Clinton & Sam Bankman-Fried at FTX/Salt Conference

The Network Behind FTX:  Marty Bent and Mike Krieger join Whitney to unravel the network behind the meteoric rise of Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX and what was actually going on at the company. The discussion goes far beyond the obvious fraud at FTX and looks at the networks that brought Bankman-Fried to power and were using him as a front for a dangerous agenda.

Listen to podcast here: https://rokfin.com/post/109744

Show notes: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/11/resources/show-notes/the-network-behind-ftx-with-marty-bent-and-michael-krieger/

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Nord Stream Attack

Courtesy of Scott Freeman … 

An interesting article from Taiwan on Nord Stream translated with the help of Google translate.

According to the German media “NDR” reported on August 3 this year, the United States quietly deployed 4,000 soldiers near Bornholm Island in Denmark, and the location of the explosion and leakage happened to be located on Bornholm Island.

On August 23, the U.S. military sold two robotic arms with a water depth of 150 meters to the British intelligence service; before the explosion, the frogmen of the British Surface Fleet worked for three days near Bornholm Island, which is the North Stream pipeline.

From September 2 to 13, the U.S. Navy MH-60S conducted a series of flights with the ADS-B signal turned on around the leak point of the Beixi (Nord Stream) pipeline, and its flight trajectory completely coincided with the leak point of the Beixi pipeline.

On September 27, two British frogmen were rewarded for performing a particularly difficult underwater mission in foreign waters; the two pipeline explosions were separated by fifteen hours, during which time the U.S. P8A reconnaissance aircraft repeatedly reconnaissance.

It can be seen from this information that under the cover of the deployment of the US military, the British underwater frogman special forces used the underwater manipulator provided by the United States to take directional blasting on the Beixi No. 2 pipeline. It is not difficult to place explosives under water for several tens of meters, but it is necessary to drill through the concrete wrapped by the pipeline and then place the explosives on it, and multiple layers of detonation are required to ensure that the pipeline is directly blown after the concrete is blown up, which requires professional soldiers of the special forces. Judging from an earthquake with an explosive yield of 2.3, such a large yield is enough to destroy the pipeline. At the same time, in order to ensure the safety of the blasters, a long-distance remote-controlled underwater manipulator must be used.

Although the Beixi Line 1 is under maintenance and the Beixi Line 2 has not been opened yet, the interior of the pipe body is already full of natural gas. Therefore, after the successful blasting, the natural gas gushed out like spring water. The bubbles rose to the surface of the Baltic Sea, forming a “bubble circle” more than a kilometer in diameter. And because it was an underwater explosion, the explosion did not cause a fire, and it was not noticed until a large influx of natural gas. From the time of the influx to the discovery, the British and American personnel have completed their tasks and retreated.

The British and American methods of blasting the Nord Stream pipeline are very tricky. The North Stream pipeline is 1,000 kilometers long, and most of the waters it passes through are very shallow. However, the British underwater frogmen specially chose to blast in the deep water area 2 kilometers away from the Danish territorial waters. This greatly increases the complexity and difficulty of Russian maintenance, and cannot be repaired in a short period of time. If it is not maintained for a long time, a large amount of salt water will flow in and corrode the pipeline, and the entire Nord Stream pipeline will never be used. The location of the selected point is accurate, and the whole is directly scrapped. This is obviously the blasting point carefully planned and selected by the British and the United States.

Source: https://cofacts.tw/article/3367w40cj09k5


The Swedish newspaper Expressen published photos of the destroyed section of the Nord Stream: https://tinyurl.com/2m46eqw6

https://www.rbc.ru/politics/18/10/2022/634e55969a79470c072bc39f?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop

Nuland-Pyatt transcript on Ukraine (2014)

Recorded conversation between Asst. Sec. of State Victoria Nuland and Amb. Jeffery Pyatt speaking about US strategy for a political transition in Ukraine (2014)

Asst. Secretary of State Victoria Nuland

Nuland: What do you think?

Pyatt: I think we’re in play. The Klitschko [Vitaly Klitschko, one of three main opposition leaders] piece is obviously the complicated electron here. Especially the announcement of him as deputy prime minister and you’ve seen some of my notes on the troubles in the marriage right now so we’re trying to get a read really fast on where he is on this stuff. But I think your argument to him, which you’ll need to make, I think that’s the next phone call you want to set up, is exactly the one you made to Yats [Arseniy Yatseniuk, another opposition leader]. And I’m glad you sort of put him on the spot on where he fits in this scenario. And I’m very glad that he said what he said in response.

Nuland: Good. I don’t think Klitsch should go into the government. I don’t think it’s necessary, I don’t think it’s a good idea.

Pyatt: Yeah. I guess… in terms of him not going into the government, just let him stay out and do his political homework and stuff. I’m just thinking in terms of sort of the process moving ahead we want to keep the moderate democrats together. The problem is going to be Tyahnybok [Oleh Tyahnybok, the other opposition leader] and his guys and I’m sure that’s part of what [President Viktor] Yanukovych is calculating on all this.

Nuland: [Breaks in] I think Yats is the guy who’s got the economic experience, the governing experience. He’s the… what he needs is Klitsch and Tyahnybok on the outside. He needs to be talking to them four times a week, you know. I just think Klitsch going in… he’s going to be at that level working for Yatseniuk, it’s just not going to work.

Pyatt: Yeah, no, I think that’s right. OK. Good. Do you want us to set up a call with him as the next step?

Nuland: My understanding from that call – but you tell me – was that the big three were going into their own meeting and that Yats was going to offer in that context a… three-plus-one conversation or three-plus-two with you. Is that not how you understood it?

Pyatt: No. I think… I mean that’s what he proposed but I think, just knowing the dynamic that’s been with them where Klitschko has been the top dog, he’s going to take a while to show up for whatever meeting they’ve got and he’s probably talking to his guys at this point, so I think you reaching out directly to him helps with the personality management among the three and it gives you also a chance to move fast on all this stuff and put us behind it before they all sit down and he explains why he doesn’t like it.

Nuland: OK, good. I’m happy. Why don’t you reach out to him and see if he wants to talk before or after.

Pyatt: OK, will do. Thanks.

Nuland: OK… one more wrinkle for you Geoff. [A click can be heard] I can’t remember if I told you this, or if I only told Washington this, that when I talked to Jeff Feltman [United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs] this morning, he had a new name for the UN guy Robert Serry did I write you that this morning?

Pyatt: Yeah I saw that.

Nuland: OK. He’s now gotten both Serry and [UN Secretary General] Ban Ki-moon to agree that Serry could come in Monday or Tuesday. So that would be great, I think, to help glue this thing and to have the UN help glue it and, you know, Fuck the EU.

Pyatt: No, exactly. And I think we’ve got to do something to make it stick together because you can be pretty sure that if it does start to gain altitude, that the Russians will be working behind the scenes to try to torpedo it. And again the fact that this is out there right now, I’m still trying to figure out in my mind why Yanukovych (garbled) that. In the meantime there’s a Party of Regions faction meeting going on right now and I’m sure there’s a lively argument going on in that group at this point. But anyway we could land jelly side up on this one if we move fast. So let me work on Klitschko and if you can just keep… we want to try to get somebody with an international personality to come out here and help to midwife this thing. The other issue is some kind of outreach to Yanukovych but we probably regroup on that tomorrow as we see how things start to fall into place.

Nuland: So on that piece Geoff, when I wrote the note [US vice-president’s national security adviser Jake] Sullivan’s come back to me VFR [direct to me], saying you need [US Vice-President Joe] Biden and I said probably tomorrow for an atta-boy and to get the deets [details] to stick. So Biden’s willing.

Pyatt: OK. Great. Thanks.



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Putin’s speech on September 30th, 2022

Presidential address on the occasion of signing the treaties on the accession of the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions to Russia. Photo: Grigoriy Sisoev, RIA Novosti

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Citizens of Russia, citizens of the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, residents of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, deputies of the State Duma, senators of the Russian Federation,

As you know, referendums have been held in the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. The ballots have been counted and the results have been announced. The people have made their unequivocal choice.

Today we will sign treaties on the accession of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Lugansk People’s Republic, Zaporozhye Region and Kherson Region to the Russian Federation. I have no doubt that the Federal Assembly will support the constitutional laws on the accession to Russia and the establishment of four new regions, our new constituent entities of the Russian Federation, because this is the will of millions of people. (Applause.)

It is undoubtedly their right, an inherent right sealed in Article 1 of the UN Charter, which directly states the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples.

I repeat, it is an inherent right of the people. It is based on our historical affinity, and it is that right that led generations of our predecessors, those who built and defended Russia for centuries since the period of Ancient Rus, to victory.

Here in Novorossiya, [Pyotr] Rumyantsev, [Alexander] Suvorov and [Fyodor] Ushakov fought their battles, and Catherine the Great and [Grigory] Potyomkin founded new cities. Our grandfathers and great-grandfathers fought here to the bitter end during the Great Patriotic War.

We will always remember the heroes of the Russian Spring, those who refused to accept the neo-Nazi coup d’état in Ukraine in 2014, all those who died for the right to speak their native language, to preserve their culture, traditions and religion, and for the very right to live. We remember the soldiers of Donbass, the martyrs of the “Odessa Khatyn,” the victims of inhuman terrorist attacks carried out by the Kiev regime. We commemorate volunteers and militiamen, civilians, children, women, senior citizens, Russians, Ukrainians, people of various nationalities; popular leader of Donetsk Alexander Zakharchenko; military commanders Arsen Pavlov and Vladimir Zhoga, Olga Kochura and Alexei Mozgovoy; prosecutor of the Lugansk Republic Sergei Gorenko; paratrooper Nurmagomed Gadzhimagomedov and all our soldiers and officers who died a hero’s death during the special military operation. They are heroes. (Applause.) Heroes of great Russia. Please join me in a minute of silence to honour their memory.

(Minute of silence.)

Thank you.

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David’s Stack of Stuff (Sunday September 4, 2022)

by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | September 04, 2022

Colossal Financial Pyramid: BlackRock and The WEF “Great Reset” By F. William Engdahl Global Research, August 31, 2022  https://www.globalresearch.ca/more-blackrock-than-you-might-imagine/5748159

“It’s not my fault, man…”

Jefferey Sachs Blows Whistle On DoD – Damage Control Mode Engaged by WEF!  Great Commentary from Dr. Kevin W. McCairn Ph.D, but unfortunately this one has been deleted from YouTube.  His site is here: https://www.mccairndojo.com/  I knew to save this one.  I may re-upload on BitChute or odysee at some point, but will have to edit for length (4 hrs. / 27 min).  Old location:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqUwXG6KogQ

Here’s the interview of Jefferey Sachs by RFK, Jr. referenced above without Dr. McCairn’s commentary:   Notice the unusual smiles and body language as Mr. Sachs carefully describes mass murder by fraud … and of course it’s “Not my fault, man.” ‘The Defender Show’ Episode 64: The Origins of COVID-19 With Jeffrey Sachs:  https://rumble.com/v1hat53-the-defender-show-episode-64-the-origins-of-covid-19-with-jeffrey-sachs.html

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