Column Fellow

Fellow of the Column (My real name is Nicodemus)

[rangerearlmcgraw]

The Paschal Troparian, Appalachian melody.

[seraphimscorner]

"The Lenten Spring" by Father Thomas Hopko

[burialintheabyss]

Things I've experienced/found out as a southern/appalachian person:

the woods feel safer in the middle of the night when there is a full moon.

cemeteries are never dead.

churches aren't always as holy as they are meant to be.

daylight does not mean safety.

always respect old places, whether it be churches, houses, cemeteries, or what have you. you get what you give.

superstitions could save your life.

RESPECT THE GODDAMN NATURE AND THE LOCALS AND THE CULTURE.

community matters a lot.

the first time you hear a fox yell, you'll probably be scared shitless.

be wary of deers that are acting strange. no, I don't mean this in a "skinwalker" or "cryptid" way. like, actually. some deers could have rabies or that zombie disease thing.

genuinely most animals do not give a single shit about you being around them. they're chill as long as you're chill.

belief in the paranormal and the superstitious runs DEEP throughout all of appalachia. and for a reason, too. so respect it.

[greek-orthodox-priest]

Constantinople was Constantinople, now it's Constantinople not Constantinople

[catholicapothecary]

guy who is both too trad for the trads and also, somehow, too liberal for the liberals

[columnfellow]

Literally me

[catholicapothecary]

guy who is both too trad for the trads and also, somehow, too liberal for the liberals

[myinsolence]

YES, i am THAT religious. YES, i believe in that fairytale. YES, Jesus is my imaginary friend. YES, I am delusional. YES, i pray to my skydaddy (and mom too) .

[asmallorthodoxblog]

[mybrainvoid]

To any suicidal followers I may have: This is a sign to not kill yourself. You are loved and the world is special because you are in it. Keep holding on.

-PLEASE REBLOG THIS YOU MAYBE ARE SAVING SOMEONES LIFE

You are special and amazing , If you need to talk or some help send me a dm and I will talk to you.

[andhaveapleasanttomorrow]

yesterday I had the thought "visual novel for normal people" (?) and halfway through making this image (which I thought would be really funny) I realized it was completely meaningless

[penguicorns-are-cool]

DO NOT DO THIS!!!

If a website has a paywall, like New York Times, DO NOT use the ctrl+A shortcut then the ctrl+c shortcut as fast as you can because then you may accidentally copy the entire article before the paywall comes up. And definitely don't do ctrl+v into the next google doc or whatever you open because then you will accidentally paste the entire article into a google doc or something!!!! I repeat DO NOT do this because it is piracy which is absolutely totally wrong!!!

[columnfellow]

“God save the South” type stuff

[catholicapothecary]

sunday :)

[columnfellow]

All I want is to know everything. Is that too much to ask?

[columnfellow]

It’s the year 7535 fellas

[apesoformythoughts]

“But while the Luddites lost their war, their case was always correct. That war was not fought against technology per se—what Lewis Mumford called ‘technics’. Most Luddites operated weaving looms themselves, and were quite comfortable with machinery. What mattered was who controlled it. They were fighting what they called ‘the factory system’—the destruction of lived freedom, and the regimentation of both body and soul. Like the Fen Tigers and the many unnamed people who have stood up against the onward march of dehumanising ‘progress’, General Ludd and his legions were fighting the monster from the desert, and their struggle was existential. If they could see us today, transfixed by our glowing screens, deskilled and dependent on oligarchs for permission to earn, eat and speak, with the factory system gone global and the Earth heating up from its exhaust, they might be permitted a grim smile.”

— Paul Kingsnorth: Against the Machine (pp. 51-52)

[apilgrimpassingby]

"Have you not begun to see that man’s conquest of nature is really man’s conquest of man? That every power wrested from nature is used by some men over other men? Men are the victims, not the conquerors in this struggle. Each new victory over nature yields new means of propaganda to enslave them, new weapons to kill them, new power for the state, and new weakness for the citizen."

-- C. S. Lewis, "A Christmas Sermon for Pagans"

[columnfellow]

Christ is born fellas