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We ought to attend to our people’s needs, not do what we’re doing now.
It ain’t over till it’s over.
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Here’s what one Cabinet member said:
Let’s all hope that IF JP does go to the ROCOR, he and his disciples will stop playing the martyr game, which we all know that he took out of Gleb Podmoshensky’s handbook…
I replied:
After all, JP was GP’s main disciple… but do look at the good side of it all. Brum and Eliel will never become bishops.
That elicited:
Ha, ha, ha… really… now, THAT would’ve been a disaster!
Another one of the old sweats opined:
Why does he deserve a big settlement? He resigned! He was incompetent and he resigned! None of us would get a big settlement if we resigned our jobs. Let him go though, let him go, and, then, see what happens. He’ll mess up… he’s very conflicted and he’ll mess up. I do wish the Monomoron crowd would wake up… the gay rumours will be his downfall…
In short, the situation is far from over, it’s very much in flux and by no means set in stone yet. The ROCOR hasn’t accepted El Gordo. The OCA Holy Synod hasn’t issued Fathausen a canonical release, nor is there any solid information (or even top-shelf leaked rumour) that they are going to or have done so. There’s NO final settlement on Fathausen’s demands in re financial matters. The OCA Holy Synod would do well to give him NOTHING. There are no legal grounds, as Fathausen didn’t have a contract, either implied or written.
Indeed, it was an “at will employment” situation, so, JP should accept his comeuppance, as his rightwing pals say that’s the only thing that all employees deserve (after all, JP spoke at the Far Right American Enterprise Institute, he should accept the consequences of his profession of “economic freedom”)… why is he special? Is it because he comes from a pampered upper-middle milieu? Is it because he was an ordinary monk for only one year before becoming an “abbot?” Is it because he’s special because he’s part of the K Street parasite crowd?
Nevertheless, there was NO contract… therefore, the OCA Holy Synod should give him a swift kick in the arse for arrogance and cheek. I know that Bishop Mel would LOVE to do precisely that, but Peterson and Dahulich may yet throw a spanner into the works. Peterson would do so to hide his spotty past; Dahulich would join in out of overweening ambition (don’t forget… Dahulich and Nicholas Smisko had a real knock down-drag out brawl… watch your back around Dahulich). Liolin’s sick… Mollard’s a ditherer… Moriak’s spoilt goods… Maymon’s a joke.
It’ll all depend on the three real bishops… and on which of the two sides represented by them the bovine majority of the Holy Synod will choose to follow. That’s still up in the air… it’ll depend on where Lyonyo and Bobby land (both have more clout than any bishop has, unfortunately)… and that’s by no means certain (Bobby could support Mel just to fuck up Lyonyo… that’s how things happen in the real world).
Let’s look at two more quotes from Chernomyrdin and the Yog:
We wanted the best outcome, but it turned out as it always does.
Viktor Chernomyrdin
If you don’t know where you’re going, you might not get there.
Yogi Berra
The OCA Holy Synod’s a headless chicken careering about the farmyard, spraying all and sundry with blood n’ gore. As they don’t know where they’re going, they’re not going to get anywhere. They didn’t want the “best outcome”, so, it turned out worse than it always does. If this isn’t proof that the Russian Orthodox in this country need and want UNITY under the Mother Church, well, I can’t help you.
We can afford no more James Paffhausens… and that’s all that there’s to say on it…
Barbara-Marie Drezhlo
Saturday 29 December 2012
Albany NY
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