the g z t gazette @gzt@witches.town

So I listened to it this week. Not sure I can form my thoughts.

tonight's dinner: gardein "fish" filets #vegan alas, too lazy to make potatoes

Why am I sharing this with you? I think you'll understand better than my co-religionists, even if the language of it is not your idiom.

continued excerpt:
The Orthodox Church seems to be setting itself up as the place where such challenges don’t apply, a separatist community holding itself up as the standard against which a wayward world is to be measured. This separatism is the antithesis of my own experience of Christ. Separation creates an idolic “Christ.” I believe such separation is what evil is all about.

An excerpt:
I believe the insistence of God as the ultimate “other,” safely describable by definitions leads then to the false separation between myself and other. And I believe that separation is ultimately the reason the Church finds itself braced against dialogue with the modern world on issues of the place of women, of sexuality, and of interaction with folks of good will of other faiths and of non-faith who surround us...

So there's a guy in my tradition (Greek/Russian Orthodoxy) that I've been following for a while, he seems to "get it". However, our tradition isn't exactly "welcoming" and the environment is getting less so. Anyway, he posted some reflections on mysticism, religious experience, and how it seems our tradition is wandering off track. It's sad but ultimately I think he's right.
https://davensati54.blogspot.com/2017/04/heretics-testament.html

it is now mandatory that everybody use these words instead of English #baseball terms

Slagman? Werper? Slagzone? I'm going to have to move to the Netherlands.

https://anywaythepointis.wordpress.com/category/i-will-now-refer-to-baseball-as-honkball/

#introduction
I decided to give the #witches a whirl because all the cool folks were on here and the description sounded like my people. Not a witch, am a Greek Orthodox guy / antifascist / antiracist / almost vegan / antiwar / #blm / #acab type. Je parle un peu français kaj mi parolas iom da esperanton. I once studied Sanskrit. I sometimes play chess and pick up heavy things. I've been making a lot of sourdough (pain au levain?) lately. I'm a statistician or something. I love all of you.

My other one is @gzthompson and if I do keep both accounts running that would be my more public or even professional thoughts and this would be my more personal/private thoughts.

I'm trying here because I thought I might want #mastodon on a place which didn't federate with bad folks and the #witches seemed like the coolest people around? And I wanted something "slightly" less tied to my name?