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Date: 26 September 2007 07:39:41
I haven't really done a very good job of discussing Orthodoxy. It's been a big of a struggle to incorporate all these new discoveries of ancient ways into my life. I think it's me being arrogant saying, "how can this be helpful?", when for the last 2000 years other's have found it to be. Below is a quote I've found helpful, which says much more eloquently a similar thing.
G. K. Chesterton on tradition
"Tradition is only democracy extended through time. It is trusting to a
consensus of common human voices rather than to some isolated or arbitrary
record...Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes,
our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to
submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be
walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the
accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the
accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion,
even if he is our groom; tradition asks us not to neglect a good man's
opinion, even if he is our father."
(from his book entitled "Orthodoxy")