@HKragh Good thing God knows all this before we even say it. If I were the Creator and had to hear Protestants howling and shrieking at me, preaching hate in my name and behaving like they were at a rock festival, I would create a heavenly aspirin to take.
@allsaintsmonastery Well, if he didn't want hatred to be preached in his name, he could have left it out of his book. Because it's there. Unless you want to ignore those parts...
@HKragh Actually, I agree that the use of modern,spoken English would be much better. In the parishes it is almost always used. Here in the Monastery we did not bother to change it, and the chanting is slower because it is a monastery. Ironically, the new arrivals from Eastern Europe find it easier, for one reason: in older English one can still use the familar, rather than having only the formal plural "You." and the structure of older English is more like other languages.
@HKragh That is a valid question, and a solid one. But, as you say, this is not the place to discuss it. I certainly would not argue about it or try to "talk it away." It is there, and cannot be denied.
If you are speaking to the creator of the universe, the most intelligent being in existance, why do you speak so strangely? Why not just say stuff, instead of singing in strange notes? Does he/she understand this better? Do you enjoy it more? What is the reason for not just speaking in plain english to the guy?
Could you please clarify...around 9:35-6 it sounds like the Fr said, "Sins of the Holy Spirit":...I played it twice and it really sounds like it so please clarify it. Thank you.
Precisely why I do not think that we can have intergalactic travel or communications. I don't think the Uni. is expanding faster than the speed of light, but even at the base speed, if someone left another galaxy to come to earth, even if he was travelling near the speed of light, earth would continue to get farther away from him at about the speed of light.
@allsaintsmonastery Yes, I thought the universe was traveling at a base speed. But recently, I've heard and read the universe is expanding greater than the speed of light. I don't understand it but I saw it on Nova.
@neildingman If you imagine the universe as a 3 dimensional grid, and each cell in this grid is growing at a speed below the speed of light, grid cells far apart will in fact move away from each other by speeds above the speed of light, even though no object itself is moving above the speed limit.
Nice video. I read somewhere that the universe is expanding faster and faster, greater than the speed of light? How can gravity hold matter together at those speeds? It sounds like space travel would be impossible. When St. Gregory the Theologian had postulated existence of other universes in his Nativity Sermon was he think of something like the multiverse theory? He also mentioned Christ suffering in other dimensions or something, what was he talking about? Nobody seems to know the answer.
"Believe in" is a strange phrase. Do I think it possible that extraterrestrial life exists? Yes, and I am confident that we will discover some forms of it within the next 10 years. Sentient life is another matter. It may exist elsewhere,but it is very doubtful that we will ever know if it does simply because of the distances to which we have now penetrated and not found it. The distances make it doubtful that we will find it.
@allsaintsmonastery What I was trying to get at is why would God bother taking the time arranging conditions outside our galaxy where any other life form exists, seems redundant and impractical. Why perform such a superfluous act?
@adrenacrumb It is entirely possible that God does not agree with you about that. The elements of life and the ability for life to commence exist throughout the entire universe. The one necessary thing that may be missing is liquid water. Water exists throughout the known universe also, but not in liq. form.
@HKragh Good thing God knows all this before we even say it. If I were the Creator and had to hear Protestants howling and shrieking at me, preaching hate in my name and behaving like they were at a rock festival, I would create a heavenly aspirin to take.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
@allsaintsmonastery Well, if he didn't want hatred to be preached in his name, he could have left it out of his book. Because it's there. Unless you want to ignore those parts...
Anyways, this is not the time for such a debate.
HKragh 1 month ago
@HKragh Actually, I agree that the use of modern,spoken English would be much better. In the parishes it is almost always used. Here in the Monastery we did not bother to change it, and the chanting is slower because it is a monastery. Ironically, the new arrivals from Eastern Europe find it easier, for one reason: in older English one can still use the familar, rather than having only the formal plural "You." and the structure of older English is more like other languages.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
@HKragh That is a valid question, and a solid one. But, as you say, this is not the place to discuss it. I certainly would not argue about it or try to "talk it away." It is there, and cannot be denied.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
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hadadezer11 1 month ago
If you are speaking to the creator of the universe, the most intelligent being in existance, why do you speak so strangely? Why not just say stuff, instead of singing in strange notes? Does he/she understand this better? Do you enjoy it more? What is the reason for not just speaking in plain english to the guy?
HKragh 1 month ago
Could you please clarify...around 9:35-6 it sounds like the Fr said, "Sins of the Holy Spirit":...I played it twice and it really sounds like it so please clarify it. Thank you.
davidperi 1 month ago
@davidperi It's "descent of the Holy Spirit".
givebackrankflv 1 month ago
@davidperi Descent of the Holy Spirit is what is being said.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
Precisely why I do not think that we can have intergalactic travel or communications. I don't think the Uni. is expanding faster than the speed of light, but even at the base speed, if someone left another galaxy to come to earth, even if he was travelling near the speed of light, earth would continue to get farther away from him at about the speed of light.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
@allsaintsmonastery Yes, I thought the universe was traveling at a base speed. But recently, I've heard and read the universe is expanding greater than the speed of light. I don't understand it but I saw it on Nova.
neildingman 1 month ago
@neildingman Reality is strange. Perhaps the speed has reached that velocity.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
@neildingman If you imagine the universe as a 3 dimensional grid, and each cell in this grid is growing at a speed below the speed of light, grid cells far apart will in fact move away from each other by speeds above the speed of light, even though no object itself is moving above the speed limit.
HKragh 1 month ago
Nice video. I read somewhere that the universe is expanding faster and faster, greater than the speed of light? How can gravity hold matter together at those speeds? It sounds like space travel would be impossible. When St. Gregory the Theologian had postulated existence of other universes in his Nativity Sermon was he think of something like the multiverse theory? He also mentioned Christ suffering in other dimensions or something, what was he talking about? Nobody seems to know the answer.
neildingman 1 month ago
@neildingman Sorry, it is "Oration 27 : An Introductory Sermon against the Eunomians.." My mistake it isn't the Nativity Sermon, sorry.
neildingman 1 month ago
"Believe in" is a strange phrase. Do I think it possible that extraterrestrial life exists? Yes, and I am confident that we will discover some forms of it within the next 10 years. Sentient life is another matter. It may exist elsewhere,but it is very doubtful that we will ever know if it does simply because of the distances to which we have now penetrated and not found it. The distances make it doubtful that we will find it.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
@allsaintsmonastery What I was trying to get at is why would God bother taking the time arranging conditions outside our galaxy where any other life form exists, seems redundant and impractical. Why perform such a superfluous act?
adrenacrumb 1 month ago
@adrenacrumb It is entirely possible that God does not agree with you about that. The elements of life and the ability for life to commence exist throughout the entire universe. The one necessary thing that may be missing is liquid water. Water exists throughout the known universe also, but not in liq. form.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
This may seem unrelated but do you believe in extraterrestrial life?
adrenacrumb 1 month ago