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 Aaron's Profile |
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Tapping your feet to the ceremony just won't do. |
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| Age: | 31 years old |
| Sex: | Male |
| Location: | OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA |
| Country: |  United States |
| Height: | 5' 11" |
| BodyType: | More to love! |
| Zodiac: |  Virgo (Aug 23 - Sep 22) |
| Last Login: | Nov 5, 2008 (391 days back) |
| I am Here For Friends. | |
About Me |
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| Socialite. Philanthropist. Dilettante. Bon vivant. Bibliophile. Husband and father. Grad student in ethical theology. Proponent of British orthographical conventions. Beard promoter. Orthodox Christian.Oh yeah, and in case you were wondering, I'm not really interested in cell-phone ringtones, or Macy's cards, or legal marijuana, or enlarging my penis, or looking at pictures they won't let you show on MySpace, or IM'ing with strangers, or 'showing you around' if you've 'just moved to my area'. So if you're trying to sell me on these things, may God have mercy on your soul. | |
My Interests |
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| In deliberately shuffled order, as if to emphasise the helter-skelter and wide-ranging nature of my interests, I am interested in--but do not necessarily endorse all of--the following: reading; writing; theology; hagiography; asceticism; the Philokalia; the Corpus Dionysiacum; coffee; ales, stouts and porters; neckties (no cartoon characters); downloading fonts; interior decorating; book collecting; visiting monasteries; drawing crude caricatures of temps at work; hermeneutics; iconography; Eastern European culture; lengthy rock songs with enigmatic lyrics; classic Russian literature; English poetry; Pythagoreanism; monastic history; Renaissance hermeticism; Plato and his followers; the music of the spheres; Byzantium; the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; William Morris and Arts and Crafts; John Ruskin; the Beuronese art school; monarchy; trees; the epic; languages; Mikhail Bakhtin; cultural criticism; alchemy and pre-Copernican astronomy; mediaeval literature; Anglo-Saxon culture; woodcuts and engravings; tradition; the Romantic movement; the Slavophiles; Dracula; acoustic music; Homer and Virgil; the Inklings; Nikita Mikhalkov; Emir Kusturica; fauns and satyrs, and of course, Pan; libraries; Romanesque art and architecture; semiotics; the Trivium; Arthurian legend; Dante; Confucius and Lao-Tzu; the Lord of the Rings; Chasidus, Chabad and the Tanya; the Celts; Balkan history; printing; woodcuts; chanting; illuminated manuscripts; the 14th-century hesychastic movement; Ss Cyril and Methodius and the mission to the Slavs; Mount Athos; St Benedict and Benedictinism; erudite novels of the arcane; Sherlock Holmes; classical culture; existentialism; the Beats; William Gibson; the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; pastoral cultures and pastoral poetry; John Dee; Norse mythology and Asatru; W. B. Yeats; postmodernity; irony; Stoicism; Kabbalah; Haroun al-Rashid; Radical Orthodoxy; the art of memory; German expressionist film; vampires; H. P. Lovecraft; steampunk; Harry Potter and its symbolism; the Warburg Institute; Paideia; church architecture; Ricky Jay; old books; the British Isles; alphabets; the celestial hierarchy; the Desert Fathers; incunabula; simulacra; probably a few other things too | |
I'd like to meet:People who hate ballcaps, t-shirts, commercials, cars, video games, celebrities and their cult, tv, sports or nihilism. Also, old friends who I fear may be dead or in prison. By the way, my profile background is a detail from a fresco by iconographer Aidan Hart. I might like to meet him too.ctl00_Main_ctl00_UserBasicInformation1_ctrlViewMorePics: hover{}.contactTable A IMG{} |
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Music:Byzantine chant, Valaam/znamenny chant, Gregorian chant, Russian choral music, Baroque (esp. Bach), Romantic/Classical orchestral music, European folk music of pretty much every sort, Russian shanson/blatnyak, Arvo Part, Matisyahu, Emir Kusturica and the No Smoking Orchestra, Gogol Bordello, Terem Quartet, Golem, the Pogues, Iron Maiden (pre-No Prayer for the Dying), old Metallica, ska (The Toasters, Leningrad), industrial (esp FLA, Skinny Puppy and Mentallo and the Fixer), Soulfly, Skyclad, old King's X, Voivod, Tom Waits, bluegrass, klezmer, Robert Johnson, Johnny Cash, anything involving HIP (historically informed performance, if you haven't read John Butt, and hey, who has?), film score music (esp. Danny Elfman, Howard Shore, Wojciech Kilar, and John Williams), Russian bards (Okudzhava and Vysotsky), Vince Dicola, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Faith No More, Mr Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3, Goran Bregovic, Taraf de Haidouks, Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares, Anuna, Ziyia, Scorn, some punk, jazz, goth, trip-hop, etc., anything with an accordion or a shawm/zurna |
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Movies:Lord of the Rings, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Last Crusade (no Temple, please), Amadeus, Dead Poets Society, Ghostbusters, Young Frankenstein, Star Wars (original trilogy), Dracula (Browning's), Bram Stoker's Dracula (yes, Coppola), Nosferatu, Andrei Rublev (I'm the only person I know who didn't find it boring), The Salton Sea, Rushmore, Mystery Men, The Mission, Transformers the Movie (the animated one), Shawshank Redemption, The Burbs, Christopher Guest movies, Coen brothers movies, Road to Perdition, Burnt by the Sun, Black Cat White Cat, Snatch, Ostrov, Everything is Illuminated |
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Television:Television sucks, but I have been known to watch a few shows on dvd. For instance, I just re-watched a few 'Jeeves and Wooster' episodes last night. (I say 'television' because 'tv' is a nickname, and nicknames are for friends, and television is no friend of mine!) |
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Books:The Rule of St Benedict; St Cassian's Conferences; St Damascene's Lives of Ss Barlaam and Ioasaph; The Philokalia; anything by Plato; Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy; Epictetus's Handbook and any Stoic ethical writings; Beowulf; Fr Justin Popovich's Orthodox Faith and Life in Christ; The Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People; H. Middleton's Precious Vessels of the Holy Spirit; The Fall of Interpretation by James K.A. Smith; George Herbert and any 16th- or 17th-century English poetry; Tennyson; The Pre-Raphaelites (esp. Christina Rossetti); The Corpus Dionysiacum; anything by Chesterton, Lewis (esp. Till We Have Faces and The Discarded Image), Tolkien, Charles Williams, or Dostoevsky; The Optina Pustyn Monastery in the Russian Literary Imagination; The Hellenic-Christian Philosophical Tradition by Constantine Cavarnos; anything by Dame Frances Yates or Seneca; The Iliad; Life's Little Deconstruction Book; The Club Dumas; The Name of the Rose; Travels in Hyperreality; Dracula; The Bridge on the Drina; The Historian; Confederacy of Dunces The Divine Comedy The Aeneid Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Boris Akunin books |
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Heroes:King Alfred the Great. New Hieromartyr Veniamin, Metropolitan of Petrograd. Patriarch Kiril of Bulgaria. |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| MaritalStatus: | Married |
| Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian |
| SexualOrientation: | Straight |
| Hometown: | OK<tr><td><b>Religion:</td> |
| Children: | Proud parent |
| Education: | Grad / professional school |
| Income: | Less than $30,000 |
My Blog |
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| Deuteronomy 30:15-20 (LXX)
15 Behold, I have set before thee this day life and death, good and evil. 16 If thou wilt hearken to the commands of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to love... Posted by Aaron on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:41:00 PST |
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Coronation Prayer of the Russian Tsar |
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| Having just uploaded my 'Monarchy' photo album, I thought I should post something giving some idea of the Orthodox understanding of monarchy. Obviously, there is much that could be said on this subjec... Posted by Aaron on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:42:00 PST |
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The Days Are Passing: From St Ephraim |
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| This is 'Psalm' 92, from the Spiritual Psalter compiled in Russian by St Theophan the Recluse from St Ephraim the Syrian's writings. Of course, keep in mind this is the 'Greek Ephraim', on which see t... Posted by Aaron on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:22:00 PST |
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’that eternall Glasse’ |
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| Although I already possessed copies of many of its poems, the lure of the Penguin Classic, the melancholy painting 'Sir Thomas Aston at the Deathbed of his First Wife' which forms the cover illustrati... Posted by Aaron on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:37:00 PST |
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From St Nicholas’s ’Prayers by the Lake’ |
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| You pour Your holy oil into the stars, O Holy Spirit, and out of senseless conflagrations You make vigil lamps before the Glory of Heaven. Pour Yourself into my soul also, and out of a passionate conf... Posted by Aaron on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:45:00 PST |
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Adalbert de Vogüés Advice on Reading an Ancient Text |
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| Adalbert de Vogüé, OSB, is a famous scholar of the Life and Rule of St Benedict of Nursia, the father of Western monasticism. This is from the introductory note 'To Novices' in his book, Reading St Be... Posted by Aaron on Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:00:00 PST |
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The Orthodox Liturgical Prayer Against Abortion |
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| This is a petition from the Supplicatory Service for the Victims of Abortion in the Orthodox Church:
Again we pray for the children of God condemned to death by the unjust judgement of men: that the ... Posted by Aaron on Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:14:00 PST |
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Elder Joseph the Hesychast on Spiritual Struggle |
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| Therefore, struggle now during your youth without asking 'why' and losing heart. And when you grow old you will reap sheaves of dispassion. Then you will wonder how such beautiful crops grew, since yo... Posted by Aaron on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:27:00 PST |
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Persecution and the Interior Church |
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| The New Martyr German (Ryashentsev) was a Russian Orthodox bishop who spent the last 14 years of his life (from 1923-1937?) in prison and exile. While in exile in Siberia he disappeared and was n... Posted by Aaron on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:47:00 PST |
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The Protection of Innocent Life |
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| I've just posted this article as a bulletin, so all of my friends should be able to read it that way. But I thought it would be good to post it as a blog so that even people who are not my MySpace fri... Posted by Aaron on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:40:00 PST |
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My Friends |
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Allison, Stephen, Andrea, GOLD, Phil, Ali, Toma, Tommy, daddy bear, T Funk, jenna be, Shabrayle, 'Oon, David, Lewisiana, The Inklings, Fyodor Dostoevsky, DEATH TO THE WORLD, Saint Nicholas, St. Benedict, nikolai II, Dr. John Dee, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Prince Vlad Dracul Tepes III, William Shakespeare, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Umberto Eco, ENGLAND'S PARTY, BYZANTINE EMPIRE, Serbian Byzantin Choir Saint Sava, Slovo, Isihia, Secret Chiefs 3, taraf de haidouks, GOGOL BORDELLO, Tom Waits, Matisyahu, BRANDED by BEARDS, Irish Daigle, Dreamspore, tatjana, Amy, Whitney, The Unfamous Anne Springer, Henry, BEARDZZZ, Jesse, Nighttiming, bob THA fish, Sarah, ophelia, m@ry, The Transcendental Maggot, BELTUNER, £e Postman, Leventissa, My Green Garden, Emazon, shorena, Countess Lettice Knollys of Essex and Leicester, juan, JEREMY, LC Bart und Schnauzer Friendship Society, Holly the Hermit, Broadside Electric, Teodulia, Russ, Chris, Dustin Cooper
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