Thomas Solomon
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Liturgy of St. Germanus
The Liturgy of St. Germanus by the Choir of the Orthodox Cathedral of St. Irénée.
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Відео

Second Response to HD on Free Will
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Continuing with HonestDiscussioner on the topic of free will.
A response to Kyle Rivelli
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The Forms call you, Kyle ...
Reply to APOSTATE RANDALL
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An exchange with my friend Randall.
Replying to HonestDiscussioner on Free Will
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A reply to my good friend HD on the subject of Free Will.
An introduction of an introduction to theology
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Use this as a launching point for my confusing philosophical worldview.
Free Will - the Basics
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This is a brief account of free will for my friend HD and for anyone else who feels like taking a crack. Rehashing briefly: *Free will, loosely, is the ability of an agent to cause to bring about one of two or more goals that are each individually sufficient as a solution in a particular scenario. *Materially, this is present as the event itself, the objects or actions of possible resolution, t...

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  • @SwoleSlim
    @SwoleSlim Місяць тому

    God please grant them to come back into communion ☦️

  • @haceneouerdane6840
    @haceneouerdane6840 4 місяці тому

    Je suis tombé amoureux de cette liturgie. Vive la Sainte France !

  • @eromadroleromadrol5171
    @eromadroleromadrol5171 5 місяців тому

    Sublime liturgie ! Gloire au Père, au Fils et au Saint-Esprit !

  • @brunohouver
    @brunohouver Рік тому

    cela s'appelle du piratage que du mettre un CD à la disposition de tout le monde, alors qu'il est en vente

    • @colettehenry3145
      @colettehenry3145 Рік тому

      Qu'importe Bruno : Qu'est ce qui est le plus important ? Le partage du trésor de la liturgie selon St Germain de Paris, ou les quelques euros rapportés par la vente des disques ? Je sais bien qu'on ne vit pas d'amour et d'eau fraîche, mais la négation du trésor inestimable que constitue cette liturgie selon St Germain de Paris est tellement plus dramatique que les trous dans le porte monnaie ! Plus cette liturgie sera connue , plus nous sortirons de l'exil que nous connaissons en tant que chrétiens orthodoxes d'occident. Depuis 1993 je suis "sur le bord des fleuves de Babylone, là nous pleurions en nous souvenant...". du temps où nous célébrions la liturgie d'Occident dans la communion avec nos frères d'Orient. Quand saurons nous être unis pour adorer ensemble en esprit et vérité au lieu d'être, unis orient contre occident et occident contre orient ; Et là j'enlève les majuscules car on est au ras des pâquerettes et on broute en enfer ! Colette

    • @brunohouver
      @brunohouver Рік тому

      @@colettehenry3145 Tout a fait de ton avis ! mais quand même, cela n'empêche pas le respect élémentaire. On peut demander non ?

    • @colettehenry3145
      @colettehenry3145 Рік тому

      @@brunohouver Ok pour le dire mais merci (un peu quand même) au pirate qui fait de la pub pour une Tradition qui, à mon sens, a toute sa place dans l'immense cortège de ceux qui adorent en Esprit et Vérité. C'est si facile "ÊTRE UNIS ET FAIRE FRONT CONTRE", mais si difficile d'être "UNIS POUR" UN BUT COMMUN DANS NOS MULTIPLES DIVERSITES". Bienvenue à ceux qui marchent dans la joie et l'émerveillement de la prière avec nous. Mais tu as quand même raison : dans le respect des règles.

  • @vacheshmavonyan5946
    @vacheshmavonyan5946 Рік тому

    ua-cam.com/video/kRK_veqdSQ0l/v-deo.htmlisten also to Rev. Komitas' four-voice liturgy.

  • @pancratius602
    @pancratius602 Рік тому

    This is absolutely beautiful. I love that they're using Gregorian chant.

  • @vincentciraolo1650
    @vincentciraolo1650 Рік тому

  • @markaraujo06
    @markaraujo06 2 роки тому

    is there any good caring heart in you to agree to help & support me one thousand dollars a week for life?this st germanus?

  • @polemeros
    @polemeros 2 роки тому

    Funny how the Orthodox get all huffy about "Uniates" and Latinization but then set up their own little "Uniates" in the West and the signs of Russification are all over them.

  • @BruvaLucius
    @BruvaLucius 3 роки тому

    The choir here sings so bright and wonderful, Glory to God and may the lords grace be with all my orthodox faithful, greetings from my small mission in Northern Ireland!

  • @memoryroom6388
    @memoryroom6388 3 роки тому

    Here is a St Germanus Liturgy done at a neighborhood church: ua-cam.com/video/dMQ_DA0KfWc/v-deo.html

    • @distracted900
      @distracted900 2 роки тому

      That's a Saint Germanus *Litany*, not a liturgy

  • @telfordpenfold18
    @telfordpenfold18 4 роки тому

    Three men have helped me lose my faith in the church. The patriarch of Constantinople, the patriarch of Moscow, and the Bishop of Rome. These men supposedly represent Jesus Christ to us. I don’t see Jesus in the Gospel jealously protecting his rights.

    • @distracted900
      @distracted900 2 роки тому

      The Bishop of Rome is a heretic, so you shouldn't pay him any mind

    • @matrixnorm6672
      @matrixnorm6672 10 місяців тому

      your faith was very weak to begin with if you are so upset about CIA orchestrated schism 🙂

  • @BecomeAnOrthodoxChristian
    @BecomeAnOrthodoxChristian 4 роки тому

    This music may be the best sound this side of Heaven.

  • @RhenishHelm
    @RhenishHelm 4 роки тому

    0:00 Entrée de l'Évêque (Bishop's Entrance) 2:07 Praelegendum 4:37 Trisagion 6:00 Kyrie eleison 6:50 Les étendards du roi s'avancent (The Royal Banners Forward Go) 9:04 Collecte (Collect) 10:18 Graduel (Gradual) 12:11 Lecture Apostolique (Epistle Reading) 14:23 Benedicte (Song of the Three Children) 15:29 Alleluia 16:22 Lecture de L'Évangile (Gospel Reading) 20:06 Cantique de l'Apocalypse (Apocalyptic Hymn) 21:16 Litanies 30:46 Proclamation de la foi (Nicene Creed) 33:44 Sonus (Let all mortal flesh keep silence...) 35:27 Laudes 36:10 Diptyques (Diptychs) 39:49 Baiser de paix (Kiss of Peace) 41:47 Anaphore (Anaphora) 43:42 Sanctus (Holy, Holy, Holy) 45:11 Recit de l'institution (Words of Institution) 46:12 Anamnèse (Anamnesis) 47:23 Nous Te prions, Seigneur (We pray you, Lord) 48:20 Bénédiction des éléments (Blessing of the Elements) 49:11 Fraction du pain (Breaking of the Bread) 50:46 Notre Père (The Lord's Prayer) 52:27 Élévation des dons (Elevation of the Gifts) 53:28 Communion des fidèles (Communion of the Faithful) 56:17 Renvoi (Dismissal) 57:35 Collecte de Postcommunion (Postcommunion Collect) 58:29 Hymne d'action de grâces (Hymn of Thanksgiving) 1:00:01 Bénédiction finale (Final Blessing) 1:01:21 Ad Multos Annos (To Many Years)

    • @Speer4570
      @Speer4570 4 роки тому

      Merci 🙏

    • @antoinelecomte7650
      @antoinelecomte7650 3 роки тому

      Bonjour, serait il possible d'avoir la partition de l'hymne "Les étendards du roi s'avancent" (6:50) s'il vous plaît?

    • @RhenishHelm
      @RhenishHelm 3 роки тому

      @@antoinelecomte7650 done!

    • @fernandolh6538
      @fernandolh6538 Рік тому

      @@RhenishHelm Hi, firend, would you have the poliphonic score of "6:50 Les étendards du roi s'avancent (The Royal Banners Forward Go)"? I'd be so grateful...!!!

    • @RhenishHelm
      @RhenishHelm Рік тому

      @@fernandolh6538 unfortunately, I do not have access to such, but if you search for a score under "Vexilla Regis Prodeunt," you may find what you're looking for.

  • @Fr.DeaconPatrick
    @Fr.DeaconPatrick 5 років тому

    Beautiful

  • @xskramx8078
    @xskramx8078 5 років тому

    Remember friends this is CATHOLIC CULTURE Western Christendom, the western rite orthodox is laughable you have no connection to latin culture

    • @seronymus
      @seronymus 5 років тому

      Ignorant comment

    • @patriarchprime
      @patriarchprime 5 років тому

      The Roman Catholic church is wrong deal with it

    • @distracted900
      @distracted900 4 роки тому

      The Church of Rome was Orthodox for short of a millennium, and this rite fell out of use centuries before the Schism

    • @seronymus
      @seronymus 4 роки тому

      @@distracted900 I'm an Orthodox Westaboo my brother, you are preaching to the choir! It is really tragic to ponder what could have been a faithful Orthodox Gaul that survived. Now France is Masonic globohomo.... For the most part. Lord have mercy on us, St. Germanus pray for us.

    • @eldermillennial8330
      @eldermillennial8330 4 роки тому

      seronymus 🤔.:: True, but given how the average Early medieval Greek looking down his nose at the Gauls and Celts as a whole, it made it too tempting to disregard the Opinions of the Eastern Church along with that secular bigotry at the time. That made someone like Charlemagne coming along to change the balance inevitable, the people demanded it, but his relationship with the pope eroded regional flavors of Liturgy, as unity under saint Gregory the Great’s liturgy was increasingly seen as the need to not only have a common creed, which all Orthodox Catholicism had, but also a common Rite in the West, an attitude that eroded the value of autocephaly, an attitude that slowly but increasingly made the Western Patriarchate Anti-confederate in their interpretation of what “The ROCK” actually MEANS. Such mistakes as these led to the notion of Papal Supremacy. It wasn’t all the West’s fault that such mistakes were made. Generally Successful Christian countries must never fall into the temptation of putting Truth before Mercy regarding those they might consider “backwards”; as Chesterton rightly says, Truth and Mercy MUST be emphasized by the Universal Church in EQUAL measure.

  • @seronymus
    @seronymus 5 років тому

    I wish we had subtitles :(

  • @seekerseraphimtherecluse4314
    @seekerseraphimtherecluse4314 5 років тому

    Never ever forget the west was orthodox longer than it was catholic! Always remember the countless native saints of France! Glory to the Lord

    • @xskramx8078
      @xskramx8078 5 років тому

      Orthodox in what sense? The West is Indebted to Catholicism, The early Gauls would consider themselves Roman Christians, Same with the Anglo Saxons, the germans etc.. Eastern liturgy, customs and theology would be alien to western christendom..the orthodox have a tendency to consider all pre schism saints "orthodox" which is a ridiculous notion, its called Western Christendom for a reason, Its separate from eastern christendom ..many of these western liturgies survived until the council of trent when Rome decided to rein in the liturgical movements, which the east has also done many times .. but honestly these cultures are part of western christendom , the western rite churches are a very weak attempt at evangelization.. but Western Culture was and is a catholic culture im sorry to tell you , the theology, monasticism, liturgy would have fallen in line with the greater western christian culture and would appear alien to the east.. Just look at your church, the divine liturgy, the aesthetics ..they are very alien to the west, Now go to a tridentine mass, or an old Catholic Church and look at the aesthetics The West was and always will be Catholic

    • @eldermillennial8330
      @eldermillennial8330 5 років тому

      steven tipton The controversy isn’t “West Versus East”, per se, it never really was, beyond the petty, fleeting secular political aspects. It ALL comes down to what the actual jurisdictional powers of the pope really are. I’ve been Roman Catholic, born and raised, but I’ve had to face some hard truths, but none more important then this: IF the Pope really IS theoretically the supreme pontiff of ALL that is Catholic and Orthodox, East and West, even if that was always theoretically possible, this special authority could never ITSELF be legally authoritative until a VALID ecumenical council representing all five Patriarchies could unanimously agree to it. From then on, the Pope would have supreme authority, but how could it be so before then? And how have the recent Popes’ capitulation to modernist pressures to functionally renounce their status as a monarch not hurt the matter? The Vacate Sevadist position also seems absurd to me. The seat has been vacant for 60 years, yet God prevented error from being taught all the time before? “Papal infallibility”, a rather stupidly oversimplified term, is theoretically at least two things: God will make a special exception to never interfering with free will whenever a Pope is tempted to teach error, and directly influence him to do otherwise, and it is an EXCEPTIONALLY special and rare ability allowing an authoritative, EXCLUSIVELY negative veto power to counter any increasingly popular heresy spreading so fast that there is no time to gather a council to counter it properly. Yet, any such notions as, say, “priestesses”, were successfully stamped out of the Orthodox without any of the other four Patriarchs having such special powers. I look at the evidence presented and on a more careful examination a real case can be made that God has influenced several popes to be LESS fallible, but the more I think about it , HOW can that evidence by ITSELF prove special powers unless a PROPER ecumenical council unanimously agreed to it? It’s such a Old Western conceit to make such a claim. We need a new more Humble Western Rite. One that is both older and paradoxically YOUNGER then the one currently making so many errors. We have to admit that, while most of the ideas of the Scholastics do deserve a PROPER day in an actual Authoritative court, and always did, it hasn’t actually happened yet. Except for the role Islam has played (such as the ottoman puppet bishops), it doesn’t even matter WHY. We need a fresh start and that means admitting our theories about jurisdiction, at the VERY LEAST have been wrong. We can then use modern technology to go through all the old controversies relatively quickly (as in, it won’t take us 200 years) up through Trent one by one to plan for a LEGITIMATE 8th council in the future. But “Vatican 1&2”? I just don’t see almost any legitimate ideas to discuss in those anymore, apart from A new theory of “LOW Fallibility”. I think that might have a chance of being dogmatically recognizable in a future legitimate council.

    • @distracted900
      @distracted900 4 роки тому

      @@eldermillennial8330 Fantastic comment, well said

    • @devinlawson2208
      @devinlawson2208 4 роки тому

      @@xskramx8078 this liturgy is western. The Church in the Gauls was influenced by the Eastern missionaries. You clearly have zero knowledge of Liturgics, nor church history. This rite was surpressed by Clovis and Charlemagne. I am Orthodox and personally use the Tridentine Rite, but I am not ignorant of this liturgical tradition. The West and East were one. Romanism is a group of hereises from Greek hellinism, imposed on the Western people by the Roman Pope.

    • @Alexander_Fuscinianus
      @Alexander_Fuscinianus 4 роки тому

      @@xskramx8078 Orthodox in sense of doctrine; "orthodoxy" is not only the East and not only in Byzantine rite. Latin Mass is legitimate as well as Greek Divine Liturgy. Problem is that while greek liturgy is still contain doctrine of orthodoxy, Latin Mass through its history absorb many Roman Catholics' mistakes

  • @applestrudels
    @applestrudels 5 років тому

    Je suis decidé de visiter cette eglise avec l' aide de Dieu!

  • @BecomeAnOrthodoxChristian
    @BecomeAnOrthodoxChristian 5 років тому

    The singing sounds very eastern.

    • @severianmonk7394
      @severianmonk7394 5 років тому

      There was no surviving source of Gallican chant. Instead of adopting another western chant system wholesale Maxime Kovalevski composed modern music of rather Russian style for their Liturgy and Office but he incorporated some western themes when it appeared expedient.

    • @seronymus
      @seronymus 5 років тому

      @severian monk thank you, where can I read more of this? Are you really a monk btw?

  • @BuckDanny2314
    @BuckDanny2314 6 років тому

    C'est très beau.

  • @andrewharvest2528
    @andrewharvest2528 6 років тому

    Stunningly beautiful

  • @RaphaelArchangelus
    @RaphaelArchangelus 6 років тому

    Soon, with God's grace, I will rejoin the true Church : the one, holy, catholic, apostolic and orthodox Church ! Christ is risen, Amen, Alleluia ! May our Lord's grace be will all of you, Orthodox brothers !

    • @quinkasbiome7989
      @quinkasbiome7989 3 роки тому

      I hope this message finds you well and I hope you made it back in time. Pray for me, someone who also seeks The Way

  • @Kim221bbakerSt
    @Kim221bbakerSt 7 років тому

    How different with Liturgy of St. John or St. Basil?

  • @vertenature
    @vertenature 7 років тому

    Merci infiniment d'avoir mis en ligne cette liturgie, je suis de cette eglise (l'ECOF), Mais j'habite desormais loin de toutes paroisses et jusqu'a present je n'avais jamais trouve cette liturgie sur le web... Vraiment un grand grand MERCI!

    • @brunohouver
      @brunohouver Рік тому

      mais on peut quand même acheter les CD !

  • @davidpusey3489
    @davidpusey3489 7 років тому

    Inspiring and love the comments!

  • @edmundburke3373
    @edmundburke3373 7 років тому

    Where did they get the tones? It sounds too Russian.

    • @vertenature
      @vertenature 7 років тому

      Edmund Burke effectivement il y a une influence russe dans les chants de cette eglise car sa fondation a ete l'oeuvre d'emigres russes (Eugraph Kowalevsky devenu Monseigneur Jean de St Denys et sacre eveque justement par St Jean de Shangai et de St Francisco, et son frere Maxime) dans la 1ere moitie du XXeme siecle, il y a eu tout un immense travail d'archeologie chretienne pour restaurer le rite primitif des 1ers siecles chretiens en Gaule. Il y a beaucoup de choses occidentales specifiques et Maxime Kowalevsky a tres evidemment apporte sa culture russe dans la mise en forme. Mais franchement ce n'est pas "trop" russe, Mais ca en a la richesse !

    • @zachmockbee6283
      @zachmockbee6283 7 років тому

      verte nature English?

    • @jeanserge21
      @jeanserge21 Рік тому

      Indeed, I call their pseudo-rite a platypus rite : take the anaphora on Saint James liturgy, pick some texts from different manuscript, take this from here and there... use Russian musci in Bortniansky style, do not forget some Gregorian song... shake all of it and here you go.

  • @TonyMontana-rv2yq
    @TonyMontana-rv2yq 8 років тому

    That's beautiful singing. It gives me medieval feelings. Where life still was life.

  • @applestrudels
    @applestrudels 8 років тому

    Beautiful! Thank you for the upload! I wish things would go better for the western rite orthodoxy...

  • @applestrudels
    @applestrudels 8 років тому

    Christ is Risen!

  • @TheBuckmaster777
    @TheBuckmaster777 8 років тому

    This is amazing, I really hope the French Orthodox Churches will become canonical again. I know its a complicated mess. Where can I find more material like this?

    • @vertenature
      @vertenature 7 років тому

      Ian Buckmaster you can find a lot of their chants on youtube, specificaly on the account of "Bruno HOUVER" (he is the chief of the choir). And also a lot of videos on "Eglise catholique orthodoxe de France" that contain

    • @vertenature
      @vertenature 7 років тому

      Ian Buckmaster (suite) that contain the homelies of Monseigneur Germain, their bishop.

    • @TheBuckmaster777
      @TheBuckmaster777 7 років тому

      Have they been in any dialogue with the canonical Orthodox Church recently?

    • @vertenature
      @vertenature 7 років тому

      Which canonical Orthodox Church ? they are so numerous.... what i can tell you is that they have two new bishops more, now, one has been sent by "le synode russe hors frontière", this one that was lead in the fifties/sexties, by John of Shangaï and San Francisco, whom is like a father for orthodox church of France...it's very recent, and a great thing for this orthodox church of France, that was as "orphan" since several years....

    • @TheBuckmaster777
      @TheBuckmaster777 7 років тому

      verte nature, so the ECOF has or has not been in dialogue with the canonical Orthodox Church? I understand your counter-question was meant to safe-guard your view of the ECOF's legitimacy as a local Orthodox Church but I believe you do understand what I was asking.

  • @dalo82009
    @dalo82009 8 років тому

    Una de las Liturgias màs lindas que hay!!!!

  • @Southlander1000
    @Southlander1000 9 років тому

    Beautiful! The choir is perfect. This is a blessing to listen to.

    • @vertenature
      @vertenature 7 років тому

      Southlander1000 Yes the choir is realy excellent!

  • @GarrettFruge
    @GarrettFruge 9 років тому

    This is a phenomenal liturgy, thank you so much for uploading this! Christ is risen!!!

    • @vertenature
      @vertenature 7 років тому

      Garrett Frugé Yes Garrett this liturgy is just AMAZING, bringing all the being in hands of God

  • @anathemios
    @anathemios 9 років тому

    Glory to The Father and to The Son and to The Holy Spirit now and forever and to the ages of ages amen! Thank you for uploading such a Holy Liturgy!

  • @brianherman4912
    @brianherman4912 9 років тому

    As captioned above this was sung by the choir of the Orthodox Cathedral of St. Irénée in Paris, France forthe feast of the Holy Cross; it is the cathedral for Eglise Catholique Orthodoxe de France (ECOF). This is link to The Divine Liturgy according to Saint Germanus of Paris (English translation) : www.stjohndsm.org/Gallican%20130312%20a.pdf It doesn’t have the movable hymns for the feast of the Holy Cross. They are currently not in communion with any other Orthodox church, but at one time Vladyka John Maximovitch (now St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia) celebrated this liturgy with them. Currently (as far as I know) my parish is the only Orthodox parish in the U.S. that celebrates this liturgy with the blessing of our bishop Metropolitan Hilarion of ROCOR. St. John the Wonderworker Orthodox Church in Des Moines, Iowa. www.stjohndsm.org/ Come join us!

    • @zachmockbee6283
      @zachmockbee6283 7 років тому

      Brian Herman Would you ever consider putting up a video of your Sunday liturgy? I do desire to see and hear this liturgy in English.

    • @brianherman4912
      @brianherman4912 7 років тому

      One of these days. The pastor of our mission has talked about doing it, but I don't know what his time line is; he calls the shots on that one.

    • @brianherman4912
      @brianherman4912 7 років тому

      It is definitely a beautiful liturgy, a nice bridge between the Byzantine & Slavic traditions. I love to celebrate it, although I was formed in the Byzantine monophonic sphere of music with the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom & Basil.

    • @zachmockbee6283
      @zachmockbee6283 7 років тому

      Brian Herman Which setting of Vespers do you all use? Is there a specific Gallican Rite setting that your parish uses for Vespers? If so, is there a website where I can find it?

  • @robertshillenn6404
    @robertshillenn6404 9 років тому

    J'ai trouvé ce chant très beau. Je dois être à Paris dès mardi prochain. Où la cathédrale de St.-Irénée se trouve-t-elle exactement?

    • @ibrahimabdurrahmani1577
      @ibrahimabdurrahmani1577 9 років тому

      Robert ShillennParoisse Cathédrale SAINT- IRÉNÉE. 96, bd Auguste Blanqui. 75013 PARIS. Tél : 01 43 36 83 45.

  • @sebastiancabral75
    @sebastiancabral75 10 років тому

    Excellent!!!

  • @twistedw0lf
    @twistedw0lf 10 років тому

    Nothing short of amazing. Where can I purchase this? I actually have plans to attend a Western Rite Orthodox Church that uses the Liturgy of St. Germanus of Paris.

    • @nadinevallette7945
      @nadinevallette7945 4 роки тому

      Aller sur le site de l'Association Saint Germain de Paris

  • @Juan-bw7rl
    @Juan-bw7rl 11 років тому

    Where is the text of this liturgy? Is it a Gallican liturgy, or simply an orthodox liturgy celebrated at St. Germain des Pres?

    • @mattb9914
      @mattb9914 6 років тому

      It is a Gallican Liturgy - It is an attempted restoration of the Liturgy that was used in France during the time of Saint Germanus, using the rubrics he set forth. It was approved by Saint John the Wonderworker and is used by some Western Churches, although mostly by the Orthodox Church in France, said church which is in schism from the canonical Orthodox Church.

    • @severianmonk7394
      @severianmonk7394 5 років тому

      You can find it online. It is a reputable reconstruction of the ancient Gallican Liturgy described by St Germain with some descreet additions, mainly to the festal office, from eastern rites. .

    • @arnoldconrad744
      @arnoldconrad744 5 років тому

      St. Germain des Pres is a Catholic church in Paris using the Roman Rite.

    • @rhodesianwojak2095
      @rhodesianwojak2095 4 роки тому

      @@severianmonk7394 link?

    • @devinlawson2208
      @devinlawson2208 4 роки тому

      @@mattb9914 they just are not recognized by others due to political reasons. "Canonical" isn't really a distinction. They hold the exact same faith that Russia and Greece do, they just are not allowed access by them.

  • @mikenorman4001
    @mikenorman4001 11 років тому

    And, the decay of an atom *is* a function of its composition. Each isotope of each element has a different half-life, and the decay products give a record of the decay event. They can be traced with the chart of the nuclides. Also, the process conserves mass-energy. Conservation is one of the simplest functions of all, other than stasis. Further, some decay events can be forced by putting the nucleus in an excited state, literally shaking it apart. I'm doing it again. I really shouldn't care.

  • @mikenorman4001
    @mikenorman4001 11 років тому

    I guess you can conceptualize it any way you want. Fire is emergent, for example, depending on, say, wood, energy, and air. Treat it as primary if you want. It isn't useful, though. You can burn carbon, or hydrogen, or ethanol, too, and treating fire as "primary" won't help you discover or understand that. Fire emerges. Consciousness emerges. I don't know. Have your fun, I guess. This is starting to feel like sophistry to me. It has certainly stopped doing anything for *me*,

  • @angrydrunkentheist
    @angrydrunkentheist 11 років тому

    That's fine. But what motivates reductionism? Why give primacy to the material composition of things possessing consciousness, rather than starting with consciousness and including any associated material within that idea as a (necessary!) secondary measure? Regarding decay, I accept your criticism, but I did not mean that in a Bill O sense of "you can't explain that!" but rather that the **actual event** of an atom's decaying is not a function of its material composition.

  • @angrydrunkentheist
    @angrydrunkentheist 11 років тому

    Yup. Gave up the cigars two weeks ago. So much better.

  • @SisyphusRedeemed
    @SisyphusRedeemed 11 років тому

    That seems to assume the natural state of being is nothingness. But why assume that? Maybe something is more real than nothing.

  • @mikenorman4001
    @mikenorman4001 11 років тому

    Umm. Huh. First, the consciousness question that you raise is trivially easy to address. We just say, "Consciousness is tied to a perspective which, to use your facile terminology, is an 'arrangement of atoms' located in space and time." Second, the only thing about radioactive decay that is not "explainable" is its exact timing. We reason about the tendency to decay, represented in the aggregate by half-life, in terms of the geometry and energy of the configuration of particles in the nucleus.

  • @DmitryIvanAlyosha80
    @DmitryIvanAlyosha80 11 років тому

    E-cig?

  • @LJonYT
    @LJonYT 11 років тому

    Bird!! You orthodox are honestly a lot more interesting to me than fundamentalist. And you are interesting.

  • @SisyphusRedeemed
    @SisyphusRedeemed 11 років тому

    "How would you... account for the mystery of the contingency of the universe." I have no idea what that sentence is asking. How could we tell, for example, the difference between a contingent universe and a noncontingent one?

  • @RomanMissalExegete
    @RomanMissalExegete 11 років тому

    This video gave me a theological orgasm.