Comments: Beware
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- March 28th, 2023
Father Josiah Trenham
TRANSHUMANISM: The Future of the Human Race
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Thank you all. I will be baptized Greek Orthodox April 8th. Your videos played a big role in my conversion from evangelism
May God bless Father Josiah Trenham and grant him many years!!
Thank you, father. I am guilty of causing hurt by writing bad comments. I repent! God be merciful to me.
I am guilty as well, and I repent. God be merciful to me a sinner and help my words to be more charitable.
@@tubalcain6874 I join this chain - I, too, am guilty. Kyrie eleison.
Me too, I've said some horrible things to people. I think at some point everyone becomes guilty of this given how easy it is to be rude online. Lord Jesus Christ, most merciful God, forgive us and grant us Your strength to be gracious and kind to others 🙏
This really hit home. I am so guilty of the things you preach about. I can be like two different people at times, becoming enflamed and crude. I have known this, but hearing it from you pierces my conscious. I wish that I could apologize to all I have offended. Thanks for enlightening me, Fr. God forgive me.
"But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified." ~ 1 Corinthians 9:27
I too am guilty. God help us all!
May the most holy Theotokos save us. Glory to the Father to the Son and to the Holy Spirit unto ages of ages Amen. Jesus Christ have mercy on our souls, full of inequities and the sins of the passions, lord have mercy, lord have mercy, lord have mercy on us. Amen
Honestly...I really needed to hear this. I had a sudden realisation that you were describing my behaviour. Thank you.
I'm not Orthodox. I have very little experience with Orthodoxy. I appreciate the opportunity to learn more about Orthodoxy. Thank you!
I can help too if you want
@@voievod9260 Fr Josiah & others way better qualified than we help inquirers, by putting out true, solid Orthodox teaching. Let us pray for them & our inquirers as for ourselves.
@@agiasf7330 True but I also have a Father to help me out with questions I'm unable to answer and I've also got an Orthodox catechesis book with hundred of questions and answers.
I and my entire family are catechumens of the GOARCH and we’ll be baptized on Holy Saturday and Chrismated on Pascha! We are beyond excited and thank you for all that you do on this TH-cam channel and the PNP App! You have guided me specifically and I have then in turn passed on your reflections and lessons on to my wife and kids. I pray one day my family and I may be blessed to meet you personally and other Fathers that have guided me on TH-cam thus far like Fr. Peter Heers, Fr Zachariah and others! Again thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking the time to guide those inquiring or already in the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.
Thank you SO MUCH Fr. Trenham for your tireless effort to educate the Orthodox and non Orthodox alike. I’ve followed you for about 4 years now and words cannot describe how indebted I am to your work. You were instrumental in my conversion to the true faith, bringing me out of Lutheranism. You are a pillar of Orthodoxy on American soil!
"There is a time to keep silent, and a time to speak", Eccl 3:7. "The one who has knowledge used words with restraint, and whoever has understanding is even-tempered", Proverbs 27.
Thank you! I have fallen short in the comment sections many times. This really causes me pause and was most helpful, thank you Fr Josiah.
Thank you father. I was very surprised when I saw the comments open earlier this year and I understood why they were always blocked, it really does bring out the worst of humanity and I am also guilty. Thank you for this lesson.
Great lecture. I am in a Protestant household, and my family continuly watch/share in the group chats heresy, and I don't always bite my tongue. I am not rude, but I feel I cannot always stand idle.
I stick to a "sincere thanks" comment. Bless us, father!
Just like any technology, it can be used for sin and it can also be used for good. A stone in the hands of Cain killed his brother. Stones in the hands of the Israelites built the temple. I'm thankful for the decision to turn on comments and have them moderated, that way we can learn and grow
I have certainly made comments I later delete because I did not think and examine my motives. Among other things, this is the age of commentators. There is no real veil of anonymity, and from God's eyes no man can hide anything.
🙏 Me too.
Thank you
Comment section is not needed people need to listen more and speak less. Also thank you Fr. Josiah for your great works and God bless you.
I refer to social media an antisocial media.
Thank you for your messages, Father.
Thank you for the truth of this video. And though you won’t see this, thank you.
Glory to God! Indeed there are a lot of perils, but also, a great opportunity of gaining many. Thank God and all of you for this great effort.
Boy did this hit home!! Thank you Father!!!
More comments helps grow the channel by boosting its place in the algorithm, Growing the Channel for more people to see!
Me, now terrified to comment even here: 💀 😰
{I will pray though that new social media/websites pop up that have a superior format for actual peaceful, illuminating dialogue}
I need to listen to this message every morning.
Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me a sinner!
Yes. Thank you father.
Arrogance and acrimony are the perfect words to describe social media and how it has degraded our culture. It is like a race straight to the bottom of the barrel in terms of content and people's behavior. Lord have mercy on us and forgive us. Amen.
Thank you so much Father Josiah for your words of wisdom!
Always a blessing to hear your words of wisdom. Thank you, Father Josiah!
Thank you so much father for this. It was so much needed
Father bless. I struggle with this. 🙏
Thank you Fr. Josiah.....open comment is the only way. God gave us all mouths to speak, but of course we will be judged by the words we spew. God be with you.
Слава Богу ☦️
You are a holy man of God. Pray for me a sinner. I thank God for your witness to Christ, His Holy Gospel and His Holy Church. May God continue to richly bless you, your family and your ministry.
Amen 🙏
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God help us ☦️
Much needed video. Thank you Father. From a Coptic Orthodox subdeacon in NJ
Well, I guess I’ll take this opportunity to say thank you. ❤
If only I could tell the world I brave to keep their comments to themselves!
Yea instead I am left to seek my Lord for understanding.
And all He reveals is my own sin.
Glory to thee O God!
Glory to thee!
Father bless. Thank you.
Please pray for me, I’m completely jaded of anything Christian. I’ve been to countless denominations, seeing horrible ridiculous things, and witnessed numerous peoples that call themselves Christian act worse and treat folks worse than non Christians would. I’ve watched literally every church I’ve attended continuously reaching for people’s pockets non stop while foaming at the mouth. I’ve heard hundreds of exaggerated testimonies and false healings. All of them business focused. I’ve literally for the past few days been watching deconstructing videos, and aithiest debates and I can agree with much of what I’ve heard. I’m literally scared to lose my faith in Jesus. If there are many people out there not saved I feel like most of these churches should be judged for it. Earlier today I stumble across a video on a man called st. Paisios and then another about my athos. Those videos gave me hope , and now im second guessing I for once seen something “Christian “ that seem to be authentic. Im still struggling with my beliefs and im just reaching out for praye
The Orthodox church is the real deal, brother
Find a Russian or Antiochian parish and just go
Talk to everyone, to the priest, tell them everything
The Orthodox Church has a different mindset from all other 'christian' churches. You will probably be happily surprised should you start attending one ☦️🙏🕊️
I have been guilty of judgement on the comments in the past, lord have mercy! Thankfully i am struggling along with not doing this anymore. Thank you fr Josiah for you continued wisdom. God bless you.
Thank you Father.
Thank you, father. This has given me a lot to think about. This will be my last comment for the time being.
Thanks
Nice!
It didn't bother me when your comments were turned off. I thought it was cool haha
My last comment. "Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me."
Thank you father. I think comments is a tool by Satan to give your dark side an outlet. Lord have mercy on me! 🙏🏻
You have been extremely wise to disable comments, Fr Trenham. You are definitely not overreacting, and I even hope you return to disabling comments. We're here to learn, or should be, period. The problem with online comments, in any space, is that it separates "trolls", or "keyboard warriors" from the natural potential consequences of their monstrous comments towards others. Said otherwise, unsavory characters say things online that they would never say in person, for reasons that are obvious. As someone who has participated in online message boards even before the existence of social media, there are obviously some bad comments I would absolutely like back, I confess that without exception or qualification, and I will answer for it one day. That being said, I've had to leave, along with Orthodox Christian users I've seen confirm the same on Twitter, other online Orthodox channels because of the prevailing bad behavior in their chats and comments. It was, precisely as you called it, "tremendous arrogance". Thank you, Fr Trenham. This was another wonderful video, perfectly articulated. God bless you. 🙏❤
IMHO:
The comment section, in general, is an excellent situationally-locational venue of employ for the "geographical mapping" aspect of data mining.
Once any of us has signed the Terms and Conditions of Service of any content-creation-hosting service such as YT -- particularly should he be an OC who also may happen to be a US citizen -- he is now under the legal jurisprudential auspices of US Corporate Law, under which the Constitutional First-Amendment-protected Right to Freedom of Speech no longer primarily applies; as such.
And, once any of us agrees to the Terms and Conditions of a Service such as YT, and as such is able to "Like" and "Comment" on videographedly-created content, then his comments are able to be seen by all on the Internet -- especially when his comments are made within the locational cyberspace of a personal Corporate Entity such as Alpha Beth and its subsidiaries, governed as such under US Corporate Law.
The First Amendment to the Constitution for the United States of America was set up to guard for each US citizen his God-given Right to Freedom of Speech -- i.e., Freedom of Speech primarily from US Federal Governmental Legislative regulation, and secondarily from Executive and Judicial regulation; as such.
Unfortunately, given these strictures surrounding the Bill of Rights, such a Right to Freedom of Speech does not appear to legally cover us as US citizens to say whatever we wish and be thus so legally indemnified thereby, particularly when we happen to have signed the Terms and Conditions of a company governed by US Corporate Law and thus allow ourselves to be governed by a legally-recognized subsystem of US Law not primarily covered as such by the First Amendment to the Constitution for the United States of America -- particularly under conditions warranted by one or many declared states of national emergency currently happening to be in legal effect and of which none has been legally rescinded [42 of them in all, since 11.14.1979]: which conditions are governmentally regulated as such via the National Emergencies Act of 1976, under emergency protocol wherein which Constitutional Law is able to be provisionally suspended, albeit not abolitionally revoked, to the US Federal Government.
The State of Emergency declared by POTUS 45 on 03.13.2020 was no. 34 out of 42.
This is how such legal measures can be taken by various agencies of the Federal Government as such, particularly under the legal jurisprudential auspices of the NEA of 1976, which legally so may allow for the POTUS under such conditions to be invested with the authority to delegate powers to such agencies to the end that they may so function to representatively govern the Republic, as it were, in loco presidentis, until such time as any or even all of said declared states of national emergency may be legally rescinded, as such.
As a nation of the Second Republic, we have been under such a perpetually-provisional declared state of national emergency for the past 43 years and counting; this 11.14.2023 will thus serve to mark the 44th anniversary thereof, as it were.
Once our personal commentary data are textually-graphically put by us on the YTCS, for example, it is assumed that they no longer legally belong to us, but ultimately to Alpha Beth - with whom each of us has so signed a legal corporate contract under the auspices of US Corporate Law, once we have checked the Terms and Conditions of Service to allow our personal data to be so used thereby, as such.
And here is the Great Secret, if you will, of data mining:
The ultimate aggregate target of such mining is not simply our data as a collective corporatized product;
The ultimate target, as such, is We the People.
I am thus no less guilty of so having sold my soul to the highest bidder for thirty pieces of silver [~US$200.00, in today’s currency] than anyone else in that regard; and for this I sincerely apologize and ultimately beg Divine forgiveness for my naïveté in this aspect of willful elective invoting, so to speak.
Yet this is what every one of us may happen to be up against in the long run:
A bait-and-switch cosmocratic animal-farm-trap game of extraordinary magnitude, wherein which not every one of us may so serve to function as Benjamin the Jackass.
We know who we are.
In the end, God alone knows who we are.
Alpha Beth may know only what God may so permit, according to His holy will, and to His All-Holy Glory; at the End of the Day.
May God forgive us all.
Christ Is Risen.
Father Trenham, keep in mind that I believe TH-cam let’s you put rules in the comment section that will notify people of the rules right before they comment.
Putin brought this on. I know our church supports 4 pastors in Ukraine and there is no persecution we also support a theological seminary .
Outro music?
The Ortho-web is a dangerous place. Generally I don't do many comments with in it. If I do it's when I see people who are very interested in Orthodoxy that seem to be lost as to what to do. When I see that I encourage them to find a local parish and reach out to the priest and go talk to him in person and if they can't do that to at least go to a liturgy/vespers. Sometimes they just need the small nudge to make the transition to the real world.
Thank you for that. I have been hurt by sone comments by the Orthodox because I am Protestant. What they didn't know was I was inquiring about the Orthodox faith so I could attend an Orthodox church. Kindness goes a long way.
@@johnsambo9379 I am here to help (Eastern Orthodox). If you want we can talk.
@@johnsambo9379 The current problem is that some people are joining the EO Churches for political reasons rather than seeking a relationship with Christ. You have to ignore these people and find the kind ones ☦️🙏🕊️
You are a much wiser person than I, but I would not listen to a false teacher such as Jordan Peterson.
Fr Trenham knows this and it’s more fleshed out in his two videos on Peterson. He’s just pointing to a valid point he made.
Το λακωνίζειν εστί φιλοσοφείν
I admit that a sermon in church doesn't get comments in the same way. Yet to ban comments makes it look like you are scared of the counterargument. I don't have much time for Orthodox in Russia trying to shut down evangelicals by force, & this is a similar kind of thing. America has been a free society so if you have problems with comments sections you have a problem with free speech.
The problem with internet comments sections is that it breeds anger and rarely contributes anything of note.
@@TairyGreen89 Heck, a few bad words on comment sections while Orthodox brethren kill each other in Ukraine? Get a sense of proportion!
And where do Russia bans Evangelicals, you have bunch of American Evangelicals living in Russia and making you tube videos, and you never heard from them, but i guess your FREE never lying press told so, so it must be true.
@@djurote3932 I suggest you read the Wikipedia article on the #YarovayaLaw. (Passed in 2016)
@@aclark903 Yes i know that law, waving a bible doesn't make you except from the public peace laws anymore.
So if you want to bump to other people's homes and to preach on the street, you need permits.
If you stop the traffic you will be fined, no matter how much you wave the bible around.
And you also can't have unregistered Parrish, this one is controversial, since some office clerks can postpone registration.
So maybe people should try to respect the laws of the country, instead of hur dur why you ain't lgbterica.
But again give me a break, world doesn't need to be current America, not to mention how hilarious idea of USA being some freedom of religion place.
Father, thank you for your words of wisdom & warning.
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