The Morlocks, of course, pick several of the Eloi which they will butcher and eat. The siren is an air raid or storm warning siren. Much of our spiritual struggle is toward de-conditioning ourselves from the passions and desires that are born of our egoism and self-focus.
Ironically, we think that through the conveniences and comforts that we have been conditioned to seek, we will have more time. The reality is that we have less time than we did fifty years or a century ago without our technologies and conveniences. But even this lack of the expected extra time is a result of conditioning about our expectations.
LP: The idea of stimulating various parts of the brain or body as medical treatments sounds very good. Neuroscientists are trying to figure out the locus of human consciousness, and whatever else one can discover with the use of probes that are implanted into the brain.
Overstimulation is a possible problem with some of them. Allow me to speculate that we could create psychiatric illnesses in people using these or similar devices because one can artificially stimulate parts of the brain that are not normally stimulated in this manner.
This could surely become a dependency after a while. I do not see how this could continue in the brain like that without having unforeseen side-effects. Part of the experiment is to discover to what degree one could actually control the brains of human beings.
All of these brain stimulation devices work on brain chemistry and electrical circuits. We have little idea, and only guesses as to what experiments are taking place behind the scenes. You have people with clandestine interest seeking how such developments can be used in national intelligence services and interrogation, of those who are simply interested in to what degree one can control the human brain. That is part of the issue; what else will these things be used for? No technological device will ever be used exclusively for good.
So electro-stimulation for pain, say in damaged nerves in the spine, has been developing and is at stages where we can do considerable benefit, and this beneficial use is increasing. These devices will become so commonplace. If we can catalogue reasons to use them, we may, for instance, be able to interject into the depression and despair loop in the Brodmann 25 area of the brain, or use stimulators on so many other medical ways.
Perhaps we will be able to change or level off dopamine when it causes problems, or activate the medial prefrontal cortex in sociopaths and elicit empathy or an active conscience, who knows? That is why in the short-term we can use these things for medical and prosthetic uses, but we might also be able to create mental illnesses, or forms of schizophrenia so people start hearing voices, or they are overstimulated in ways that can resemble bipolar syndrome.
They [the mentally ill] could, perhaps, be controlled like Sergeant Shaw in The Manchurian Candidate. Others might simply like to develop robots to carry out their will. That is just a reality. But for the future, if we continue in such a way that the fallen human nature is seen as a kind of perfection then the world can only become less livable.
That is my real concern about the future, since food and water shortages and other aspects of global climate change will test our humanity and moral concepts to the limit. Think of these crises taking place in a world where the human in the pursuit of the fulfilment of the passions is thought to be the best possible mode of existence.
The loss of the concept of a moral conscience and the idea that the passion of the moment is the ultimate reality is surely a definition of a hell on earth. Enter through FaceBook. Your name:. Your e-mail:. Enter the digits, seen on picture:. Characters remaining: Send comments. Please consider supporting OrthodoxWiki. From OrthodoxWiki. Jump to: navigation , search. Categories : Bishops 20thst-century bishops. Navigation menu Personal tools Log in Request account.
Ignatius Brianchaninov, St. John the Wonderworker, St. Nikolai of Zica, St. This man denounces the saints and the Fathers and wishes to discard countless prayers of the Church which refer to the journey of the soul after death in order to support his false theories.
Here I am not disrespecting a hierarch but a former deacon who is an unrepentant heretic. As the man is still alive, his views at present are of more importance than views he held at one time. I do not know that any real investigation has been made into what he now believes. Incidentally, if you go to the OrthodoxWiki page on Archbishop Puhalo, you will see him censing an icon of Fr. Seraphim Rose. I'm not saying it isn't valid, but that is a point you have to remember.
This is something that is desired by the Mother Churches, and not just the local jurisdictions and their Bishops. If the Council decrees there to be one unified Church in the United States, it is most likely going to happen, whether one personally disagrees with it or not. Also, it won't simply be a merging of a few jurisdictions that choose to participate, it is going to mandatory as the Episcopal Assembly is mandatory.
Therefore, disobedience to the Council would be a big no-no If it does, then some of our Saints are heretics. You also cannot define a heresy on your own, with your own definition. If it isn't something the overall Church recognizes a heresy, I would be cautious about accusing one of such "heresy" And yes, accusing a hierarch of heresy without sufficient evidence is disrespectful to said hierarch. Many Priests have been addressed here without their proper titles. It's against the forum policy.
No matter do you agree with them, or do you consider their titles to be valid - I ask you to use them properly. Following violations of the rules will result in green dot till the beginning of Philip Fast Old Style.
The issue of ROCOR ever being in schism from anyone other than the Moscow Patriarchate on the canonical territory of the Moscow Patriarchate is an issue to discuss separately. John Krestiankin, a respected spiritual father of the MP, said in his letters written before the reconciliation that there was no schism except where ROCOR had parishes on the canonical territory of the MP. It is, rather, easier to prove that Archbishop Lazar Puhalo received consecration from bodies that were definitely in schism from the Orthodox Church.
The OCA received him, rightly or wrongly, for purposes of its own economia and Puhalo's sake. Other churches are not obligated to view him the same way. Likewise, one does no need to officially be declared a heretic. If one professes heresy, fighting against the received belief of the Orthodox Church, one is a heretic. Now, for some people and beliefs, it may be a matter for investigation and discussion. We have to realize, however, our current poverty and disorder.
I will say, in addition, that, looking at Church history, the cause of correctness has not always prevailed. Many times, we have just had to move on. It is unfortunate that confusion exists, continues, and spreads, but eventually it will pass. No one in their posts addressed him as a Deacon. His bare name was used.
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