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[tabitha]

Today is Wednesday, July 24th. Miercoles :)

PS: correct is "anyway", without "s" at the end. but this is a mistake many native do. :)

[Florin-Ionut]

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Today is Wednesday, July 24th. Miercoles :)

PS: correct is "anyway", without "s" at the end. but this is a mistake many native do. :)

My teachers were Microsoft Outlook and movies with subtitles. I wasn't that lucky to learn English is school. I actually started after I graduated the faculty.

"Anyway" is a dialect form if I understand well: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anyways .

[tabitha]

Ionut, don't worry I was not pointing fingers!!
You are good if you learned all these by yourself.
It just scratches my ears when I hear "anyways".

[Florin-Ionut]

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Ionut, don't worry I was not pointing fingers!!
You are good if you learned all these by yourself.
It just scratches my ears when I hear "anyways".

No, this site is good because it has an auto-correct tool embedded. :) It's good to know for the people that want to practice here.

Who knows, maybe in the future we will meet someone interested to get information from us about Orthodoxy, as it happened for me several times in the past. Without the "technical" terms, we cannot touch the subject. This is the main reason I opened the thread.

And, of course, the ignorance and the lack of [theological] knowledge are ones of the primary sins, for which we are going to be judged in the end...

[tabitha]

Yes, merriam Webster is a very good dictionary. You can also hear the word, beside spelling.

On the other hand, are you sure ignorance is a big sin? There are so many simple saints! Are we going to be judged for lacking theological knowledge?

[Florin-Ionut]

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Yes, merriam Webster is a very good dictionary. You can also hear the word, beside spelling.

On the other hand, are you sure ignorance is a big sin? There are so many simple saints! Are we going to be judged for lacking theological knowledge?

Mirela,

I found this assertion is Philokalia and it is not doubtful. I don't have time now to search for quote.

The Fathers cannot be accused of ignorance. I remember a story about two theologists going to put some difficult questions to an old monk and he could not respond to any of them. They retried and retried with other queries and still, no success. Then one of them asked him how it's possible to be so advanced if you don't have scriptural knowledge and so on. Then the Elder told them: ask me about how to fight against the sins and I will teach you.

EDIT: And, by the way, it depends if we have or not access to the books, if we have time to read, if we have the capacity to compile the information, to memorize and so on. Only God knows exactly what He is expecting from us to do.

[tabitha]

What you say it's very contradicting by itself.
Maybe even Philokalia has errors, who knows?
Only God is perfect !