Oct 2018
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2:37 - Whatâs your favourite movie and why? Symbolism in movies
4:17 - Have you read Sam Harrisâ book, Waking Up? Opinion on new atheists (like Dawkins), Sam Harrisâ jumping between ontological levels
8:06 - Your least favourite icons?
9:03 - White privilege = ethnic Gnosticism?
11:58 - What do you have to say about the pattern of the barren woman who conceives?
14:34 - Question about geometry in beauty - Comparing a more Renaissance image of beauty VS beauty in Orthodoxy. Church architecture and balance between unity and multiplicity. Pendulu swing in modern art
20:03 - Why did you initially get into the work of Derrida? What did you get out of it? Post-modernism. There is no âliteralâ. NB for literal meaning
22:26 - Jesusâ death and resurrection fills the hierarchy. Christ taking on sin? Did Jesus sin?
25:55 - Is fasting common in Orthodoxy?
26:42 - Robert Lentâs iconography. Individuals donât get to decide who are saints - what makes a saint? On representing Christ (Connect with recent talk)
31:55 - Travels and speaking engagements
32:43 - How are time horizons represented in iconography?
35:08 - Please explain the connection/parallels between modern stories and Biblical stories? For example how Batman maps onto the story of Adam and Eve. Biblical stories are maps of reality
40:41 & 1:17:26 - Whatâs the significance of Christâs garments being woven in one piece?
42:33 - Question about being assigned an angel of help as well as a corrupter
44:45 - Symbolism of Genesis 43 & 44, Joseph putting a cup in Benjaminâs bag? Double inversion
47:18 - Why does the Holy Spirit descend like a dove?
50:01 - Whatâs the role of disagreeable people in church?
51:57 - Symbolism of hair
52:53 - How does one know when do walk on the waters or whether to dive below? (Baptism)
54:55 - How does Donald Trump fit in with the Biblical stories or the patterns of the world? Holy fool
59:05 - Ancient forms of medicine and the placebo effect - self-referential influence. The problem with the way medicine is viewed today.
1:04:10 - Can you discuss the perpetual virginity of Mary? Why is this important symbolically and how does it apply to the church?
1:06:15 - Is there anything in Matthieuâs book that you disagree with?
1:08:28 - Good primer on the concept of Logos? Where can I start if I want to understand it better?
1:08:55 - What do you make of the political inversion happening?
1:09:26 - If Santa exists, do the mythological gods also exist? And is this in conflict with Christianity? The Romans and the emperor Augustus - Christianity being an answer to that
1:13:25 - Are you familiar with I Ching?
1:14:09 - If Christ is the only person who can really accurately explain himself to someone, what are you talking about? Isnât this material supposed to be expounded upon by a priest?