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Voice of the New World | WAWTAR #123

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I Shall Not Dishonor You by Not Attending Your Wedding

In the ancient Orthodox Christian world, asceticism and honor were tied together. To be honorable was to practice the no. I shall not dishonor you by not attending your wedding. You can try not to embrace everything, including the whims of scientific potential. Scientific potential does not have to be embraced. It's not the point of life. Like an ice cream cake, you want to eat it but maybe you shouldn't because you just ate one eight minutes ago. Maybe the second ice cream cake is not for you. You should not eat it. And so that's asceticism. In the old world, I shall not is me buttoning down the hatches. It's tying

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