The Stranniki (Russian for Runaways or Wanderers) are the strong Pomorsky Old Believers who rejected prayers for Tsar Peter and all government papers (identification, passports, money, etc). They would not wear clothing contrary to Old Orthodox Russia, nor eat with those of contrary Faith and Practice. Keeping themselves separate from the antichrist society they went far into the Siberian wilderness. This blog is about these people and my effort to conform my life to theirs.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

The Holy Cross - Святой Крест

Here is an Old Believer wooden carving about the “Life-giving Cross” <<Животворящего Креста>>.




Спаси Христос!

Save Christ!

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Who are the Runners?

A metaphor for the modern traveler. The name ‘Bieguni’ comes from a sect of Russian Orthodox Old Believers, who treated movement as a sacred state. Permanently moving and crossing borders meant for them not belonging to anything, as an escape from evil. Evil tries to take away their freedom.

Are you a Runner?

A Runner is a nomad. Maybe it’s the case that we all have within us, the memory of our ancestors who were nomadic. It is the settled civilization, within which people build their nests, that oppresses people.

Monday, September 28, 2009

25% of the World Lives Without Electricity

For world leaders it is a real problem that 1.6 billion people worldwide now live without electricity. I saw it as good news that so many people do not use electricity. They say up to 3 billion people (almost half the worlds population) use electricity in a primitive way that is very damaging to health.

In actuality all electronics are harmful in many various ways. Let’s all work to reverse the trend before it is too late. Make it so nobody uses man-made electricity, and therefore nobody will be hurt by such things. Even though world leaders do not know what is good for them, we should be bold enough to stand up against them and say it straight for once. Do not let them electrify everyone.

Here is a link to a report that quotes Steven Chu, a Nobel laureate physicist based at the University of California, Berkeley, saying, “It’s sad that 1.6 billion people live without electricity and 2-3 billion use energy in a primitive way very damaging to health.”

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Birth Certificates & Social Security Data


As can be seen in the photo of an old Social Security Card above, they were not to be used for identification. Now that the birth certificates are inextricably tied to the Social Security Card System we are all deeper into the Antichrist than ever before.

All legal birth certificates are a bond, a piece of paper that represents the value of something. Your Birth Certificate Bond represents the value of your life’s labor. You can easily earn $1,000,000.00 during your lifetime. The bankers who control the world invest that Birth Certificate bond into the Financial Markets, and its value increases everyday. Follow these instructions to follow exactly what your account is up to.

1. Take the tracking (routing) numbers from the back of your Social Security Card, they start with a letter and end with numbers, example - F12345678 (these are either red or blue in color).


3. Select the green tab called Research.

4. Select the sub-tab called Quotes.

5. Where it says “Enter your Ticker (Stock) Symbol,” enter yours. Do you know yours? … Neither do I. So you need to select the link Find Symbol to look up your personal Stock Symbol on the International Market.

6. To do this you need to search for a “Mutual Fund,” so in the “Search For” box make that selection.

7. In the “by” box, to the right of the “Search For” box, select “Fund Number.”

8. The Fund Number is the year you were born, forward slash, and the tracking numbers on the back of your Social Security Card. So, in the Search Value box type in your Fund Number, example - 1960/F12345678 (the letter is case sensitive, so it is critical you enter it just as seen on the back of your Social Security Card).

9. When the Fund Number is entered select the “Search” button and your personal Stock Symbol will appear below the search. It should be FTIX = FIDELITY TOTAL INT’LEQUITY FUND. This is a pooled account so everyone will have the same symbol, but where it will differ is in the CUSIP, Fund Number and Tracking Numbers. That is what separates all the individual Bonds in the account.

10. Now click on your Stock Symbol, it should be in blue as a link. This will take you to your Bond’s information, they even show a YTD (Year To Date) which could be in the tens of millions of dollars that the world bank rulers have earned on your individual personal Bond. You can track the whole thing. Anyone can invest in you, even you, not that we should want to. To break it down even more click on the blue links called Chart and Research.

On a legally valid birth certificate, which is issued with the specially colored “Securities Paper,” it will have the Fund Number (which corresponds to a SSN) on the right hand corner. Please pass this information on to anyone and everyone. There is much more to all this than some might think, let’s stick together and hold on tight.

We should be keeping on always seeking what is true and telling those around us what is right, we need also to be doers of what God wants us all to do. Everything is in the balance, we can make it right. Each of us needs to live as Stranniki who renounced all government papers. There are still 2 or 3 Christians left or this world would not be here.

Forgive

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Wine-Bibbers

There is an article about the Old Believer Settlements and it mentions that they discouraged the use of alcohol [the more strict ones forbid hard liquor entirely].

On Page 15 of Alcohol and Temperance it mentions that Old Believers were either abstainers or very temperate drinkers.

Fast days (which take up more than half the year) require complete abstention from alcohol.

There is a word with a negative connotation in the Old Slavonic Language, “Vinopiica” which means “wine-bibber” and we see it twice in the holy writings at Mt. 11.19 and Proverbs 23:20. This unique word would apply to beer as well.

In the book Old Believers in Modern Russia we find on page 111 these words.

‘some Old Believer concords banned the use of spirits’

The book goes on to say that in the Belokrinitsy publication, Zlatostrui, there was an article in issue no. 4 from 1910 on page 65 titled, “Vino” which offers this:

“Liquor is the cause of enormous evil to the Russian person. There is no stronger evil than wine. War, plague, and cholera could not affect a person without wine’s pernicious strength. Wine does not only kill a person’s physical health, but ruinously destroys the strength of the spirit in him, undermining development and economic prosperity as well as agriculture. Crime, poverty and sickness are all from wine and through wine...”

The book continues to say that Zlatostrui, ‘was supported by Old Believer conferences from all those concords that either banned vodka and heavy drinking outright or had at least begun to study ways to eradicate the evil from among the Old Believers themselves.’

Again, ‘Bishops Inokentii of Nizhni and Meletii of Saratov led the Belokrinitsa episcopal fight against alcohol use by comparing Russians to the dead Lazarus, killed by the “demon of drunkenness” yet waiting to be resurrected through faith. “Religion,” explained the bishop, “is the most important factor in the question of counteracting the expansion of heavy drinking. A pious Russian person would most likely yield to the influence of religion [rather than alcohol].” Not content to stop drinking just among Old Believers, the bishops hoped to eradicate it from all Russia...’

On page 112 of this book is an almost full page image of Znamenny Chant Hook Notation verse which censures drunkenness, it is found in a referenced document of ritual prohibitions titled, Russkaia kniga. Below is a photo of the manuscript. The image is not that clear in the book either, but I think the fullsize photo is mostly readable, if you know Znammeny Hook Notation.

Forgive


Friday, September 25, 2009

Being Weighed Down With Material Fetters

Why do we attach such value to material things, seeing that we have been taught to despise them? Why do we cling to money and possessions, and disperse our intellect among a host of useless cares? Our preoccupation with such things diverts us from what is more important and makes us neglect the well-being of the soul, leading us to perdition...

For the true philosopher possessions are superfluous, since he detaches himself from bodily concerns for the sake of the souls purity... Indeed, is it ever right to engage in disputes in order to protect our property?

...Why do we try to make other people’s property our own, weighing ourselves down with material fetters, and paying no attention to the prophet’s imprecation: ‘Woe to him who gathers what is not his own, and heavily loads his yoke’ (cf. Hab. 2:6. LXX). Those who pursue us are, as Jeremiah says, ‘swifter than the eagles of heaven’ (Lam. 4:19); but we weigh ourselves down with worldly things, move slowly along the road and so are easily overtaken by our pursuer, covetousness, which Paul taught us to flee (cf. Col. 3:5)...

Attachment to worldly things is a great obstacle to those who are striving after holiness, and often brings ruin to both soul and body...

So possessions arouse feelings of jealousy against their owners, cut off their owners from men better than themselves, divide families, and make friends hate one another. Possessions, moreover, have no place in the life to come, and even in this present life have no great use... Human efforts inevitably fail unless God helps us; while God in His providence bestows every blessing without man’s assistance.

Philokalia, Vol. 1 - pages 206-7

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Ambitious Militarist/Industrial Expectations



The Pied Piper of the Earth

Industrialism is really just a prideful invention of the Military. Before the U.S. Civil War everything that could be made out of wood was. Then the need for cannons caused manufacturing to be brought to a new level. When the war was over these engineering feats were made into the great iron works which transformed society into what we see today.

It is true that practically all modern conveniences are the results of mans greedy desire to control and rule, if need be murder, the rest of the world by military force. It really does not matter what it is, whether it is the wheel or deadly electronics. They are all a catch 22 which will be our undoing if we do not find a way to escape from the clutch of the primary force behind it all.

It is all truly devilish; these concepts which man has no business being involved with in the first place. It is nothing less than intentional murder. Even the mixture and concoction of glass is something best left alone, or discarded. The many unnecessary hazards are innumerable. The sooner we all let go of these traps the better off we shall all be.

Petroleum use, gunpowder to plastics and pesticides, has always been deadly. May we separate from such practices immediately, before it is too late. Mankind will not be content until they destroy themselves. More soldiers die from suicide than in combat. Police commit suicide three times more often than the general public.

Look at what we have done and are doing to ourselves. We need to erase ourselves and break away ASAP. The more witchcraft and scientific involvement we do, like all the pharmacia, cloning and genetics,’ the more difficult it will be to stop. As it is we are all bent on mass suicide. Don’t follow the masses to their graves.

The term “Iron Triangle” more than easily applies to this topic. What we are facing is truly bigger than this if we consider it all, not only is it a Military-Industrial Complex, but also an Engery, Congressional, Media and Medical Complex infiltrating every aspect of our existence.

The only answer I know of is to find an inaccessible mountainous area and hide out from the insane society around us. Bad company corrupts good morals, and being anywhere near worldly-minded people is a snare which we ought to avoid at all costs. Learn to get along without the hallucination of money, it is an idol. Time is more than short now. 

Forgive