Me yesterday's visit to Diveevo [Archive] - Debate Policy

Balu

10-22-2015, 01:30 AM

Serafimo-Diveevsky Monastery, or Saint Seraphim-Diveyevo Monastery, or Holy Trinity-Saint Seraphim-Diveyevo Monastery.

Coordinates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/WMA_button2b.png/17px-WMA_button2b.png55°2′24″N 43°14′41″E (https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Diveyevo_Monastery&params=55_2_24_N_43_14_41_E_type:landmark)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diveyevo_Monastery

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Balu

10-22-2015, 01:35 AM

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Balu

10-22-2015, 01:38 AM

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Black Diamond

10-22-2015, 01:41 AM

White nights??

Balu

10-22-2015, 01:44 AM

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Yesterday was a working day, so there were few people.
The weather was excellent. You can have an idea how Russian autumn looks like.

Balu

10-22-2015, 04:40 AM

White nights??

Why?
Midday, the end of October.

Perianne

10-22-2015, 05:55 AM

It's good to see you, Balu.

LongTermGuy

10-22-2015, 06:07 AM

....Some Very nice pictures there Balu:cool:

"One of the main relics of the monastery is this Marian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theotokos) icon highly venerated by Seraphim of Sarov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seraphim_of_Sarov) during his lifetime"

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jimnyc

10-22-2015, 09:58 AM

Good to see you, Mr. Blue, thanks for the share!!

Balu

10-22-2015, 10:16 AM

Good to see you, Mr. Blue, thanks for the share!!

Nice to see all of you too.
I hope I understood pretty good the meaning of your Mr. Blue - sad, dull, bleak, dismal, despondent, gloomy. Wrong?

Tyr-Ziu Saxnot

10-22-2015, 10:17 AM

Good to see you back and posting.. Great pictures and a pleasure to view such beauty.
Sending you a pm here tonight. Got to race off now to run important errands today.---- :beer: -- :beer: Tyr

Tyr-Ziu Saxnot

10-22-2015, 10:18 AM

Nice to see all of you too.
I hope I understood pretty good the meaning of your Mr. Blue - sad, dull, bleak, dismal, despondent, gloomy. Wrong?

Context is wrong. His sentence indicated it as a clear positive my friend. -Tyr

Balu

10-22-2015, 10:22 AM

Good to see you back and posting.. Great pictures and a pleasure to view such beauty.
Sending you a pm here tonight. Got to race off now to run important errands today.---- :beer: -- :beer: Tyr
Thank you for your words and your poems!:beer:
They keep on warming me and my Grandchildren up. :happy0100:

Balu

10-22-2015, 10:31 AM

Context is wrong. His sentence indicated it as a clear positive my friend. -Tyr
You must have aggreed that for a stranger it is rather difficult to get the context, basing on 5-6 words. http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/standart/blush2.gif

Abbey Marie

10-22-2015, 12:58 PM

Balu

10-22-2015, 04:29 PM

Welcome back, Balu! Good to see you.

Let us know in a separate thread what you think about your Mr. Putin's latest foray into the Middle East. A lot of us here like to compare him favorably to our own spineless President.

Thank you.
Let me not to speak here about this subject. My personal opinion is only my personal opinion. And 100% you'll dislike it. OK?

Black Diamond

10-22-2015, 04:33 PM

Thank you.
Let me not to speak here about this subject. My personal opinion is only my personal opinion. And 100% you'll dislike it. OK?

What would that opinon be? That he isn't quite as good as Stalin?? Lol

Balu

10-22-2015, 05:12 PM

What would that opinon be? That he isn't quite as good as Stalin?? Lol
Your laughing is rather nervous. Isn't it?
You'd better think over why USS Theodore Roosevelt noiselessly pissed off from the Red Sea.

Black Diamond

10-22-2015, 05:42 PM

Your laughing is rather nervous. Isn't it?
You'd better think over why USS Theodore Roosevelt noiselessly pissed off from the Red Sea.

No. I am laughing at how Russians nostalgically think of Stalin as a great man, when among many other things, because of his inaction and paranoia, Hitler nearly destroyed your nation.

Abbey Marie

10-23-2015, 11:55 AM

Thank you.
Let me not to speak here about this subject. My personal opinion is only my personal opinion. And 100% you'll dislike it. OK?

I would have found it interesting, but I respect that.

Balu

10-23-2015, 02:22 PM

I would have found it interesting, but I respect that.

Thank you for your understanding. http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/he_and_she/give_rose.gif

Christie Brinkley

10-23-2015, 02:23 PM

Where do you live in Russia Balu? EDIT: Oh Moscow

So you are Russian or an immigrant in Russia?

Balu

10-23-2015, 02:34 PM

Where do you live in Russia Balu? EDIT: Oh Moscow

So you are Russian or an immigrant in Russia?

Me, my grand parents and parents were born in Moscow.
Tomorrow morning I am returning back to my residence in Moscow, after my enjoing my Summer rest in the place, I feel myself calm and comfortable.

Christie Brinkley

10-23-2015, 02:35 PM

Me, my grand parents and parents were born in Moscow.
Tomorrow morning I am returning back to my residence in Moscow, after my enjoing my Summer rest in the place, I feel myself calm and comfortable.
Do you know English or are you using a translator?

Balu

10-23-2015, 02:43 PM

Do you know English or are you ('re) using a translator?

I speak English I was taught and used when in service.
Satisfied?

Christie Brinkley

10-23-2015, 02:46 PM

I speak English I was taught and used when in service.
Satisfied?
Sorry, I did not mean to sound demanding and suspicious of you. Just wondering;).

Balu

10-24-2015, 04:46 PM

Sorry, I did not mean to sound demanding and suspicious of you. Just wondering;).

Your "wondering" looks like interrogation.

Balu

10-25-2015, 05:01 AM

There are some photos of my yesterday driving from Nizhny Novgorod Region back home to Moscow (600 kms.=400 miles)
You may have some idea about local and Federal roads in Russia and see how different the weather is 2 days later.

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Balu

10-25-2015, 05:04 AM

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Jeff

10-25-2015, 05:47 AM

Hey my little Commie Buddy, how ya been Comrade ??? Long time no see.

Christie Brinkley

10-25-2015, 07:18 AM

Make sure you don't crash your car Balu!

NightTrain

10-25-2015, 08:10 AM

Great pics, Balu!

The Russian churches are beautiful... I've always liked the architecture and those are very well maintained.

Interesting that you've got snow already. We'd have some here in Alaska (we're not that far from you) but it warmed up and it was rain instead of snow.

Drive safe!

Balu

10-25-2015, 10:09 AM