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St. Valentine (Valentinus) was not the only St. Valentine alive in the 3rd century, as there were multiple people in the Roman world with the name “Valentinus”, which is Latin for “vigor”. St. Valentine the Presbyter of Rome, St. Valentine of Terni, and St. Valentine of Bulgaria all existed in the 3rd century and were all martyred under the government of Emperor Claudius.…
Part 2: Praxis At this point, you should already be going to church regularly (at least every Sunday, preferably multiple times a week) and if your parish offers it, enrolled in the catechumen class, or have an ongoing mentorship with the priest. When you have this basis, you can start doing the very basics. These are: Prayer Reading Fasting First, Talk with your Spiritual Father! That would be…
Step 1: Go to Church Quit researching; if you actually are considering Orthodoxy, you owe yourself a favor to “come and see”. You can read the daylights out of every book, but if you actually get into real Orthodoxy and not just a made up version in your head, you will come to see that it’s not very big on having the “correct doctrine” or a “logical…
E-readers have fallen out of favor since their popularization in the mid-2000’s. That can be traced to a lack of reading in exchange for online consumption instead (most kids would rather pull out their phones and watch TikTok or YouTube instead of pulling out a book and reading it). This isn’t to make a condemnation towards anyone, and I don’t have some grand scientific study to…
Recently I’ve been having the pleasure of hearing more about David Foster Wallace’s works, and was specifically captivated by this commencement speech that he gave many years ago that many have given the title, “This is Water”. It’s a beautiful speech, and to me it really cemented DFW as person to research more, and that his most (in)famous work, Infinite Jest, may…
Just a quick little update. I recently replaced my GPG key pair. You can find my new public key on my contact page .
Lately, I’ve noticed some guys in my generation are starting to catch on that video games may not be too healthy . Seems obvious for older people and those with an outsider perspective on the subject, but as someone who has practically defined my entire life around the medium, this is a sad realization I have come to. For the longest time I constantly fantasized and daydreamed about video…
Recently, I had the wonderful pleasure of deleting Discord once and for all in my life. Finally, I could rid myself of proprietary software once and for all. Just in time for their massive AI takeover anyways, as if there wasn’t a whole smorgasbord of reasons not to at this point. Now I have moved my IRL friends onto XMPP, and I can rest knowing I got my bases covered. Shoutouts to Victor…
If you want to contact me via E-mail, please solve the following captcha in your local or non-local email client: If you want to communicate using GPG, you can get my public key from here . Alternatively, you can enter the following command in your terminal: curl -L https://extramundane.xyz/extramundane2.asc | gpg --import
Long time no see! I have made many different administrative changes to this site, the main one of which has been switching to Hugo for my backend. As such, the RSS feed has changed (if you’re subscribed please use the new URL ) and the structure of the site has changed a bit as well. I chose Hugo primarily because I felt like it would allow me to have the kind of static site generation I…
I’m anonymous. Well, partially anyways. Obviously having a username associated with myself isn’t quite fully anonymous, but I prefer to keep my personal details more or less personal. Anonymity is something that everyone who used the internet used to abide by but it seems to be a lost art nowadays. I value my secrets and you should too. If you need a nickname, call me “Ex”.…
We got a lot of ground to cover so let’s get straight into this. If you want to know more about RSS, read my blog post about RSS. Choose an RSS Reader. This is your fist step. There are many RSS readers out there, but I have only used so many. In general, I recommend Raven Reader since their app is multi-platform ( Windows, Mac, and Linux ). NetNewsWire seems to be a decent choice for Mac…
What? RSS ( R eally S imple S yndication) and Atom are both internet protocols designed to give you “feeds” from all sorts of different websites. This is very similar to the average social media feed you might see while scrolling down a social media app, except RSS/Atom need a “reader”. An RSS reader just takes RSS/Atom links from websites, and then makes them easy to read…
I don’t believe I’ve mentioned it before, but I am quite the fan of Kirby Ferguson’s work. For those of you who don’t know, Mr. Ferguson is a filmmaker of sorts who made this great mini-series back in the early 2010’s called Everything is a Remix . In this series, he basically explains how art, and to a larger extent, thought itself is memetic. We take ideas that are…