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As if I hadn't enough to read! But it's your perspective which stimulates and is valuable, thanks

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Bookmarked for later, thank you!! 🙏

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Thanks for the introductions - it's a bit frustrating that the articles you link to all require a paid subscription to read the whole article. I haven't read enough of them to know whether I want to subscribe, and I certainly don't want to subscribe to all of them...

Is it possible that if you link an article then your paid subscribers can read all of that article, without having to take out another subscription? Relatively new to Substack and your posts (which I am enjoying), so others may have made this point already...

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I shall see you in Dublin, that line up is hard to beat! Jonathan Pageau was the first person to introduce me to Orthodoxy about 5 years ago via his Symbolic World channel. Little did I know that he planted a seed that would eventually lead me to becoming Christmated, which happened last Saturday! Hard to believe that I am fully Orthodox now...just the start!

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Thanks for this Paul. Beginning the Great Compline this week, the nine odes, prostrations, incensing... mysterious , powerful, solemn, humble, beautiful …beyond words really and next to me, fully engaged in all of it were children seven and ten. I got a message from their mom yesterday, how her son randomly said, “last nights Gospel was awesome”…

keep the fires burning❤️

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The Covid public health emergency in the USA is scheduled to end on May 11, 2023. Perhaps that event will also bring to an end the foolish requirement that people entering the country must be vaccinated.

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Thanks for the info! I’m especially glad to learn about FPR and their work. And a happy Lent to you :)

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Mar 1, 2023·edited Mar 1, 2023

That's wonderful that so many people want to hear about Wild Christianity. Now I'm wondering if they'd also sign up for spending a week in a dripping cave seeking God alone. If even a handful of them do after their own fashion it will have been a smashing success!

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I don't know if that requirement for vaccination exists. I've had quite a few trips back and forth to the UK, as has my sister and her British husband, and no one has asked for any vaccination documents any time in the past year. In fact, in spite of the supposed vaccination requirements, in my situation, I have never once in 3 years been asked for vaccination documents, not at any restaurant, not at any public space, not in an airport, nowhere. On two trips in 2021 I did have to prove negative Covid status, that's it.

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In Canada, would love if you share the live event with us here .

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Paul, a response to your discussion with Michael Martin and Michael Sauter on the video conversation, Paul Kingsnorth on ‘The Machine’ and More! < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0YiaMtvXJk >. Extremely interesting discussion, especially – to me – the second half (40 minutes in) on living a robust, pure Christian spiritual life in our time! Thought provoking!

Sitting among seers, listening < https://apocalypsefield.substack.com/p/sitting-among-seers-listening >

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Re-reading medieval history, I am struck by the attraction power has to sociopaths, and the endless and transparently hilarious justifications those sociopaths and their courtiers can dream up.

The thing with sociopaths is - once you get past the Will To Power, once you lift the mask, there really is nothing there.

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Mar 1, 2023Liked by Paul Kingsnorth

I am loathe to read any new novel for fear it is nothing more than a trip down diversity/equality rights/wokeness lane. Yuck. As soon as I see any of this crap, I move on to something else. Same with newer movies.

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Will be at the Dublin event (day 1). Looking forward to it, and looking forward to June in general as it should be warmer. I'm going to spill a dirty secret about Ireland that they carefully leave out of all the tourist literature: it's always cold here. Not like a Nordic cold, but just "this is sort of unpleasant innit?" cold. I went to school in Buffalo, NY (that *was* Nordic cold) and Ireland in winter reminds me of that dreary place; one grey, cold day after the next. Now I understand why everyone here with the means buys a place in Spain to flee to...

Also, I've been laughing about this for days. Enjoy:

https://youtu.be/pBsvMrOheCI

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I hope you come to the us but I’d have more respect for your opinions if you were vaccinated

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Thanks for the shout out, Paul, and the wonderful words and ideas you weave.

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