19 November 2011. Yes, Virginia, There WAS a St Platon Seminary… We Lost it Due to Incompetent Bishops and Bad Loans… Sound Familiar?

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The above image shows St Platon Russian Orthodox Seminary in Tenafly NJ sometime before 1920. I’d tell people that although lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place in nature, it does amongst people, as we too often refuse to learn from our elders’ mistakes. As Prince Otto von Bismarck put it:

You’re all idiots… you all think that you learn from your experiences; I prefer to learn from other people’s errors, then, I’ll avoid their mistakes myself.

The Iron Chancellor’s right… do ask questions about the Honesdale Loan and how its secured… do ask questions about the questionable “reduction” in assessments” passed at the recent Sobor in Seattle (it’s worded so vaguely that the OCA could go to court and claim that they’re not bound by it)… and do make sure that your parish’s property and bank accounts are safe from Syosset’s minions (including many priests… they’re not bad… they’re simply weak reeds). The Metropolia lost this prime property in a chi-chi neighbourhood due to dodgy loans and clueless bishops. That sounds much too much like today for comfort, doesn’t it? Remember, the Church lost about six hectares (@14.5 acres) of primo real estate the last time… what’ll they lose this time? After all, they probably “had” to borrow to pay Dickie Wood’s tab at the Vanil Restoran (Moscow’s notorious for its high prices)… I wonder what Alexander Lebedeff would say about THAT use of the “widow’s mite”… perspirin’ minds DO wanna know!

Barbara-Marie Drezhlo

Saturday 19 November 2011

Albany NY

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18 November 2011. A Distant Image Glimpsed Darkly… St Platon’s DID Exist…

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More “slices of life” from the former St Platon Seminary in Tenafly NJ. The future Fr Hubiak père is at the left of the above image…

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Remember why St Platon’s had to close in 1924. The closure was due to bad loans made by Archbishop Alekdandr Nemolovsky. Shades of the Honesdale Loan, isn’t it? Note well that the OCA central apparat is STILL secretive about finances… and where is the OCA getting the money to pay for JP’s “evaluation?” If we don’t pay close attention, it’ll be “back to the future” time, again. What would we lose this time around? Oh… do make certain that Syosset has NO access to your accounts and funds… one should be prudent, after all…

BMD

A Kind Note to an Enquirer:

Due to caution (and to protect my sources), I don’t give out my e-mail address, and I NEVER give out my contacts’ names and e-mail addresses. If you’re innocent, so be it, but I have to protect myself and my friends from the likes of Karlgut, Piggy Iggy, Velencia, JP, Reardon, and Bobby. We live in “interesting times”, unfortunately…

BMD

19 September 2011. Those Were the Days, My Friend, We’d Thought They’d Never End… Love BT and Lyonyo at SVS in ’66

Love BT thinks that I’m all wet… well… “a picture is worth a thousand words”… a picture from the old pre-OCA Metropolia days (I’d like to know how Lyonyo and Love BT fell out… one does wonder… perspirin’ minds wanna know!)… I think that I DO know a thing or two that the konvertsy don’t. Note well that the Coneheads, Mattingly, JP, Dreher, Whiteford, Love BT, Lyonyo, Stokoe, Freddie M-G, and the rest don’t give you such, do they? They DO give you the rubbishy and sanitised history found in OrthoWiki (I’ll have plenty to say on that topic tomorrow, kids)… that has as much relation to reality as the Jabberwocky and Treebeard the Ent do (and, sadly, the Jabberwocky and Treebeard make MUCH more sense than the named “buglers” do).  Caveat lector… especially, if it comes from the Troll of Micheltorena Street…

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A little “mood music” from “back in the day”…

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Remember, all sorts of people were in and out at the Chancery… not just employees, staff, and clergy…

BMD

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Editor’s Update:

Another correspondent reminded me that Love BT shut down the “R” clubs on the west coast… one wonders why? Did Nick Hazila beat him at bowling, or what?

BMD