Popularity of my LiveJournal
Nicked from dharmabum (whose journal is more popular than mine).
methodius's LiveJournal popularity rating is 3.34/10.
methodius is more popular than 93.8% of all LiveJournal users.
methodius is more popular than 50.0% of their mutual friends.
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methodius's LiveJournal popularity rating is 3.34/10.
methodius is more popular than 93.8% of all LiveJournal users.
methodius is more popular than 50.0% of their mutual friends.
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But they are also notorious for their squabbles and their political partisanship. Both tend to post overtly political articles that have nothing to do with Orthodoxy. I have no objection to political discussions, but in an Orthodox forum I think they should at least be related to Orthodox theology, a sort of "How do we respond to this as Orthodox Christians?" kind of thing. Unfortunately neither of them do that, but simply post political diatribes as if their truth were self-evident.
There have been threads about Bishop Tikhon, most of which I have ignored completely. I don't know whether he's good or bad, but slandering bishops in a public forum like that (anybody can read Usenet) doesn't seem right to me. I don't know him and so am in no position to evaluate the opinions that others post so freely. I have disagreements with my own bishop and his policies sometimes, but if I write about them at all, I write them in my personal journal and never publish them on the net, or I write them to my bishop himself. Sometimes he takes the point and sometimes he doesn't.
So when you mentioned the "complaints" web site, I thought it was an opportunity to post a bit of tongue-in-cheek satire about all the mud-flinging going on there, and, after an interval, explain that it was saitre, if anyone seemed not to grasp it.
Unfortunately, it seems, one cannot take the mickey! Several people seemed to take what the complaints generator said quite seriously, and added that to their verbal ammunition. I'm still not sure whether that is more sad than funny, or vice versa.
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some letter of the hierarch in question is
now translated in russian and available
in large part through interfax, the russian news
agency,but perhaps this was his intention
however leaving that aside I would say that
perhaps of (again leaving that aside) as to
the two ,who are not 'newsworthy' blessedly,
I would think it is a case of men living too
much in the internet.
the complaint generator is cleverly done in that
like astrological predections of which people
say uh well hmm yes indeed, it is so general
and nonspecific(if I may commit a tautology
failing to find the ... well wait so vague and
nonspecific might be better..anyway, before
breakfast...) that one does not immediately
realize it is something some idiot might have
written about one unless one is clever enough to
click the link at the bottom to find out why this
is there.
I think explaining it on the usenet might be a
good idea. I beieve the fellow who said good thing
you are in south africa has been known to take it
outside of lj. mr green does not do that and
that is why I ssid the other was bad news.
however as he observes you are outside of range.
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I'm not sure that I "need to know" as they say in the spy stories, and I'm not one for ecclesiastical gossip, especially when it is all so far away. But sometimes my bishop does ask me to find out things for him about far away places -- and so if he asked me about this, it might be better to be informed from a reliable source. He once asked me to find out more about two episcopi vagantes who had written to the Holy Synod of our Patriarchate asking to be received into the Church. I did follow up, and found that neither request was genuine, and that he could safely tell the synod that they could ignore them.
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