Asteriktos
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ilyazhito said:Like Marian Hossa?

ilyazhito said:Like Marian Hossa?
Is this a trick question? :angel: I ask because of the thread it is in...William said:Does Mary know the essence of God?
This is oc.net. We can seamlessly interweave between hypostatis and hat tricks.Asteriktos said:Is this a trick question? :angel: I ask because of the thread it is in...William said:Does Mary know the essence of God?
Pray tell.JamesR said:I had a very bizarre dream the other morning.
That's what the Politics board is for.William said:James and I were discussing how Christ must not have an intellect since He does not have a gnomic will. I have been pondering on how to give up on having an intellect. Maybe that is what OC.net is for?
The words came from His heart and did not need refinement in an evil mind.methodius said:your conclusion is based on a faulty premise. Lack of gnomic will does not 'ipso facto' result in, nor imply a lack of intellect.
For instance, what was Jesus at the age of twelve doing, if not using His intellect when debating with the elders of the Temple.?
Was His intellect not involved when He drove the merchants and money-changers from the Temple?
and so on...
Apollinarianism?William said:That is not to say that Christ had an evil mind, but that minds in general are evil (Genesis 6:5), and so Christ lacked a mind at all.
It is not that Christ is a human body inhabited by God in lieu of a soul as the accursed Apollinaris taught, but that Christ's human nature was so thoroughly deified that it had no need of postlapsarian creations such as a deliberating intellect. The same is true of the saints who learn to eliminate their thoughts and make their minds completely silent and still. So my heresy at the very least is not incarnational.Asteriktos said:Apollinarianism?William said:That is not to say that Christ had an evil mind, but that minds in general are evil (Genesis 6:5), and so Christ lacked a mind at all.
Well, perhaps it was induced by the cherry popsicle and aspirins I took to deal with my migraine, but the dream was a series of bizarre events.Cyrillic said:Pray tell.JamesR said:I had a very bizarre dream the other morning.
Actually, it is a well established tenet of Orthodox Christology that Christ did not deliberate, following St. Maximus and co. in the monothelete controversy.methodius said:a 'deliberating intellect' is NOT a postlapsarian, we - mankind - were created in the 'image and likeness' of God.
The 'image' is our reasoning power. That is how we were created - at the beginning.
The 'likeness' of course is what we strive to achieve in theosis.
Do some reading in Irenaeus - Adversus haerises.
That sounds more or less like most of the dreams I have that I can remember upon waking: a series of nonsensical, seemingly unconnected events that are a mix of things earthly and hellish.JamesR said:Well, perhaps it was induced by the cherry popsicle and aspirins I took to deal with my migraine, but the dream was a series of bizarre events.
First, I was at the dentist about to get a root canal, but the dentist was possessed by the yellow-eyed demon Azazel so I threw a molotov cocktail on him and escaped out the window. Then I was at Church, and the service kept systematically changing. First it was Pascha night, and for some reason my Priest gave me the Eucharist with unleavened bread and I thought it was heretical and almost had a temper tantrum, then it became the Nativity and the power went out in my Church. Then out of nowhere 6 attractive blonde women came up to me in a single-file line and each hugged and kissed me, telling me how much they loved a straight-edged virginal religious man (that's when I knew I was dreaming) and then I was on the couch with my brother watching Anthony Burdain's No Reservations, and my dad was clapping and cheering me on for attracting so many girls. Then I woke up and that was that.
Once, in my dreams, I got off the school bus, walked to my home, and opened the door, only to have really loud death metal blasting from some huge speakers that I didn't own, and Marvel Comics' Ghost Rider, skull aflame, run me over with his motorcycle.Nephi said:^Almost every dream I have and remember is apocalyptic for some reason. Either the world is ending (a different way each time) or some other cataclysmic event is taking place. I don't know why.
so you had a dream that you were Asteriktos??Mor Ephrem said:Once, in my dreams, I got off the school bus, walked to my home, and opened the door, only to have really loud death metal blasting from some huge speakers that I didn't own, and Marvel Comics' Ghost Rider, skull aflame, run me over with his motorcycle.Nephi said:^Almost every dream I have and remember is apocalyptic for some reason. Either the world is ending (a different way each time) or some other cataclysmic event is taking place. I don't know why.
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That does sound interesting, minus the getting run over bit. I think I've always had strange dreams, when I think about it. The first dream I can remember was when I was like 4, and in it my mom was swallowed whole by a snake who then went back into his hole in the ground.Mor Ephrem said:Once, in my dreams, I got off the school bus, walked to my home, and opened the door, only to have really loud death metal blasting from some huge speakers that I didn't own, and Marvel Comics' Ghost Rider, skull aflame, run me over with his motorcycle.Nephi said:^Almost every dream I have and remember is apocalyptic for some reason. Either the world is ending (a different way each time) or some other cataclysmic event is taking place. I don't know why.
Those are entertaining. When I see future events and they come true, however, that creeps me out a little.
No, but I could do a lot worse.DeniseDenise said:so you had a dream that you were Asteriktos??
Even melodic death metal? I haven't listened to the stuff in years, but In Flames was good back in the day.Asteriktos said:Being forced to listen to death metal would be my nightmare.olice:
Yeah, I think I have one death metal record, and haven't liked anything else I've heard from that type of music.Nephi said:Even melodic death metal? I haven't listened to the stuff in years, but In Flames was good back in the day.Asteriktos said:Being forced to listen to death metal would be my nightmare.olice:
Like Texas!WPM said:Not everything fits in the context of Christianity.