Which means only without fanaticism. Without fanaticism, it's like

Fanaticism is a terrible disaster both for society as a whole and for the individual. A fanatic invariably appears before us as a mentally ill person who is incapable of taking responsibility for his actions. And these actions can be disastrous for our entire planet or its individual parts, as soon as a fanatic is allowed to power.

Fanaticism... What is this?

However, not every manifestation of excessive interest in something can characterize a person as a fanatic. And vice versa.

Fanaticism is an excessive passion for any idea or personality, expressed in devoting a significant part of one’s life and its spiritual content to the object of worship, as well as in uncompromisingly defending one’s own view and imposing it on other people, often in an aggressive form. This phenomenon can be related to anything - morality, a famous person, a political trend, etc. However, religious fanaticism acts as its most dangerous form.

Concept

Fanaticism as an emotional manifestation is characterized by excessive zeal, enthusiasm, obsession, blind faith in the correctness of one’s (most often extreme religious or political) beliefs, in the superiority and exclusivity of the object of one’s adoration and its followers in one’s own person.

According to the definition of the American philosopher George Santayana, “Fanaticism consists of redoubling efforts when the goal is forgotten”; According to Winston Churchill, “a fanatic is one who is unable to change his mind and never changes the subject.” Both of these definitions imply extremely strict requirements and intolerance for any deviations.

The difference between a fanatic and an admirer is that the behavior of a fanatic is seen as a violation of prevailing social norms, while the fan does not violate these norms (although his behavior may seem strange). What unites fans and fanatics is their all-consuming interest, love for a particular field of activity, occupation, hobby, person.

The so-called eccentrics differ from fanatics in that the ideas they profess and the activities they engage in are usually harmless, but very different from generally accepted ideas or the usual behavior and lifestyle of the people around them. As for fanatics, the object of their worship or passion in itself can be considered “normal”, and only the degree of obsession seems excessive or “abnormal” to others.

Disadvantages of fanaticism and its negative impact

Fanaticism is a destructive tendency towards something. It prevents the individual from feeling freedom, developing, and self-realization in life. And that's not the whole problem. Another danger of fanaticism is the fanatical person's lack of ability to agree with another point of view. As a result, rejection of opposing ideas can become a reason for war, violence, and infringement of rights.

Fanatics do not have a stable psychological state. These are asocial and aggressive people who pose a danger to themselves and society, and do not take into account existing norms and rules. The appearance of fanatics and their behavior only frightens the people around them. To describe a fanatic, the following phrase is enough: “he is crazy.” Fanatic people are characterized by loud speech, harsh expressions, shouting, an unnatural sparkle in the eyes, and active gestures. The fanatic does not want to see and hear the real world. He has his own reality.

Conflict between a simple and a fanatical person can break out for any reason. For example, visiting a club. A fan is ready to tear another person to pieces for any little thing that is opposed to him. He also has strong positive emotions. A crowd of fanatics can practically tear their idol to pieces.

Signs of fanaticism

A characteristic feature of fanaticism is that a person does not divide the content of his faith into good and bad elements, acceptable and unacceptable. He considers everything that relates to his idea to be correct and all outside opinions to be incorrect.

Other signs of fanaticism include:

• close and painful experience, violent reactions to everything related to faith;
• the presence of attributes of faith, the pursuit of an idol;
• defending one's own rightness, not the truth;
• aggression towards others;
• loss of interest in previous hobbies;
• slang, rituals characteristic of the subject of fanaticism;
• pride;
• conviction of one's own righteousness and a sense of one's own superiority;
• isolation or communication with “associates”.

Fanatics are not psychologically stable, antisocial and aggressive. They are dangerous to themselves and others, as they do not obey any norms and rules. A fanatic causes fear in those around him by his very appearance and behavior. They are often described with the phrase “he’s like he’s out of his mind, crazy.” The appearance is usually appropriate: loud speech, harsh and expressive expressions, screams and threats, an abnormal shine in the eyes, active gestures. A fanatic does not see or hear the real world, he lives in his own reality.

The criminal code will not help

Most often, such people practice ritual belief, know who and where to light a candle, and also always keep a bottle of holy water at home. For them, the concept of sin is associated exclusively with serious crimes: murder, theft, and so on. And here we must explain to a person that the division of sins into deadly and not so deadly is very, very conditional. If one steals his whole life, and the other only condemns his loved ones, then they will both destroy their souls if they do not repent, although from the point of view of the criminal code their guilt is unequal. And here sometimes patience and even humility are needed, because you have to explain the same thing to a person many times.

Once a woman came to confession. At first she listed many “minor” sins: resentment, envy and the like. As if between the words, the phrase slipped through her mouth: “I haven’t gone to church for a long time.” I asked her: how long ago - a month or two? She answered: “Twenty years.” Wow! This is where we should have started! This is the cause of all other sins. Others had to stand in line while I spoke to this woman in detail...

I remember another example: a man constantly came to confession and simply remained silent, waiting for the prescribed prayer to be read. To all my admonitions and suggestions that he could have sinned in certain situations, he shook his head negatively. And only my assumption that he had already achieved holiness and could no longer come to confession made him begin to remember “small”, “meaningless” sins.

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The Federal News Agency, which began work on May 22, 2014, was headed by the former top manager of the regional branch of RIA Novosti Vladislav Kraev (who was the general editor) and the former editor of Rosbalt Evgeny Zubarev. The agency owns the websites “People's News” and “Economy Today”. Since August 25, 2014, editor-in-chief Evgeniy Zubarev has owned the domain, where the Kharkov News Agency (NAHNews) began publishing materials in September.

In 2015, FAN and a number of media outlets (“Economy Today”, “Federal Agency of Incidents” and “Svobodnoe Vremya”), owned by a common legal entity, moved from the street. Savushkina, 55 (where the so-called “troll factory” is located) to the office in the business on the street. Beloostrovskaya, 8. By 2017, in addition to FAN, Politics Today and Economics Today, People's News was also listed there. Since 2021, the FAN-funded English-language publication USA Really has been operating, covering problems in the United States, which was blocked on the largest American social networks shortly after its creation.

The agency employs former employees of Rosbalt, RIA Novosti, Telegraph, and Baltinfo. Popular search queries related to FAN were devoted to events in Syria and Ukraine. The publication's journalists were the first to receive exclusive materials from Syria, which RBC attributed to the help of the Wagner PMC, which is associated with Yevgeny Prigozhin. The head of the agency, Evgeniy Zubarev, admits bias in the editorial policy in relation to some news from Ukraine.

Notes

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2. Dictionary of foreign words. 18th ed., erased. - M: Russian language, 1989. - P. 531. ISBN 5-200-00408-8 (erroneous)
3. 1 2 3 4 Fanaticism // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron: in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - St. Petersburg, 1890-1907.
4. Santayana, George. Life of Reason: Reason in Common Sense. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons)
5. Thorne, Scott; Bruner, Gordon C. An exploratory investigation of the characteristics of consumer fanaticism (English) // Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal : journal. - 2006. - Vol. 9, no. 1. - P. 51-72. — ISSN 1352-2752. — DOI:10.1108/13522750610640558.
6. 1 2 Berdyaev N. A. About fanaticism, orthodoxy and truth / “Man”, No. 9, 1997.
7. Berdyaev N. A. The fate of Russia: Self-knowledge / Rostov-on-Don; Phoenix, 1997. P. 263.
8. G. P. Chistyakov - philologist, historian, theologian. He was a priest of the Church of St. Cosmas and Damian in Moscow and rector of the Church of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary at the Children's Republican Clinical Hospital, a member of the Board of the Russian Bible Society and the International Association for the Study of the Church Fathers, rector of the Public Orthodox University, founded by Archpriest A. Men, head of the department of cultural history at MIPT . He has given lectures at MIPT on the history of Christianity and theological thought since 1985.
9. Chistyakov G. Where does this anger come from?
10. 1 2 Religious extremism
11. Modern terrorism: myths and reality
12. Mexican terrorists hijacked a plane
13. A group of Christian terrorists who were preparing to start a war with the government is on trial in the United States.
14. Optical sights for the Pentagon are “coded” by the New Testament
15. US Marines fire Bible code rifles (inaccessible link). Retrieved August 26, 2010. Archived September 24, 2010.

Medieval fans

Often a person analyzes his actions and comes to the conclusion that only his behavior is basic and correct in all respects. This is not true. Each person is very scrupulous and competent, but in his own way.

When people communicate with each other and one of them strives for complete fanaticism from the ideas of the other, then such fanaticism cannot be called real.

The concept of “without fanaticism” helps people get rid of unnecessary dependence on other people’s opinions.

In the Middle Ages, Christian Europe experienced a regime of “fanatics.” These were the crusaders who spread the canons of the Catholic Church by force.

At the same time, the Inquisition flourished. People disliked by the authorities and the church were betrayed by the fanatical ministers of the Catholic Church to various tortures, condemnation and even death.

Long cardio

This is my favorite workout. She has another goal - meditation. Surprisingly, after a certain point it really brings pleasure.

Your heart loves long cardio. This is a useful thing for the development of your heart and cardiovascular system. It reduces the risk of dying from heart disease.

They need to be done once a week and it lasts about one to one and a half hours. This is running, cycling or swimming. It is best to start with running for 40 minutes and gradually increase the time to an hour. There's nothing complicated about it. All long workouts should be done with heart rate monitoring.

You don’t really need a trainer here, but it’s best to start running with a group. This is very useful for making training enjoyable. The heart rate zone for long cardio is 120-155 beats per minute. If the goal of intense interval training is to briefly bring the heart into the last zone, then the goal of long-term cardio is to steadily keep it in one middle zone.

Many people, like me in the past, make the same mistake. They start running like crazy. I would go outside and run like it was a competition. My heart rate reached 170 beats per minute.

There are some helpful tips for long cardio sessions. It is better to do them in the morning or in the first half of the day, since heavy training has a bad effect on sleep. It's hard to sleep after them.

It is important to control your pulse. Try not to let it get too high. You also need to remember about water, especially when it’s hot. I also recommend signing up for easy competitions. This works very well for motivation.

Scandals

In July 2021, FAN editor-in-chief Evgeny Zubarev, during a hearing on Yevgeny Prigozhin’s claim against Yandex to exclude 22 links to materials about his business from the search engine results in order to “prevent the dissemination of information about the names of articles,” tried to prevent other journalists from going to court The media, instructing their employees to take all available seats in the hall.

At the end of October 2021, Google, without explanation, removed links to FAN and the entire archive of publications on Google News from search results. FAN considered this “an act of political censorship that benefits the US government, carried out to limit the dissemination of information about the fight against international terrorism.” After a request to Google from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Roskomnadzor, on November 4, 2017, 8 days after the blocking, Google unblocked access and the news archive.

In December 2021, the US Treasury imposed sanctions against RIA FAN as associated with Evgeniy Prigozhin’s Concord Management and Consulting.

In August 2021, RIA FAN and three related publications were added to the Russian Wikipedia spam list as sources of political disinformation. In response, RIA FAN released news with reference to State Duma deputy Mikhail Yemelyanov, in which he stated that Wikipedia’s decision is an example of the selectivity of freedom of speech in the West.

1. 1 2 3 IA FAN - a new project by Evgeny Prigozhin?
2. Information agency "FEDERAL NEWS AGENCY (RIA FAN)"
3. https://riafan.ru/page/o-nas
4. 1 2 Prigozhin has already dismissed Poltavchenko // Fontanka.ru, 09/23/2016
5. The St. Petersburg “troll factory” suffered from the “Maidan flames” (inaccessible link). Retrieved February 5, 2021. Archived February 5, 2021.
6. Game of trolls: the hip digi-kids helping Putin's fight for online supremacy
7. Rezunkov V. They love Putin for 12 hours straight // Radio Liberty, 03.14.2015
8. Petrov O. Agony of trolls from RIA FAN // The Moscow Post, 02.11.2016
9. A network of pro-Kremlin sites associated with the “troll factory” was identified using Google Analytics
10. Open-Source Information Reveals Pro-Kremlin Web Campaign (inaccessible link)
11. Anton Butsenko. Networks of “Ukrainian” news sites have been discovered in Russia “Business Petersburg”, 11/11/2014
12. Adrian Chen. The New York Times Agency, 06/04/2015
13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Andrey Zakharov, Polina Rusyaeva, with the participation of Vladislav Kovalenko. RBC investigation: how a “media factory” grew from a “troll factory” RBC, No. 4, 2017
14. Kremlin propaganda moves to the USA
15. Why St. Petersburg publications are closing and what happened to BaltInfo, Telegraph and Echo of Petersburg
16. FAN launches the “Media Classifier” project
17. The most read Internet portals were divided by class
18. 26 anti-Russian media, according to the Federal News Agency
19. RIA FAN has replaced its editor-in-chief
20. About 20 journalists were not allowed to attend the open court hearing on Prigozhin’s lawsuit against Yandex.
21. The editors of FAN announced the cessation of issuing links in the Google service News “RIA Novosti”, 11/02/2017
22. Google News stopped publishing news from the FAN agency, which is associated with the “troll factory” Meduza, 11/02/2017
23. Google Incorporated has returned FAN access to Google.News
24. The United States imposed sanctions against the FAN agency, Mishkin and Chepiga. RBC. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
25. Treasury Targets Russian Operatives over Election Interference, World Anti-Doping Agency Hacking, and Other Malign Activities | US Department of the Treasury. home.treasury.gov. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
26. Wikipedia blacklisted four media outlets associated with businessman Prigozhin. New newspaper - Novayagazeta.ru. Retrieved August 5, 2021.

Oil is the cause of despondency

During confession, new Christians often hear the word “give” - people ask God for health, happiness, and prosperity. And there seems to be nothing wrong with this, but there is a feeling of a consumerist attitude towards the Lord. But in confession you should probably use not the verb “give,” but a completely different one: “forgive.”

Many of us are ready to talk about everything except our soul. For example, a woman may come up and talk about a terrible sin. It turns out that the day before I ate a spoonful of puree, and then found out that there was vegetable oil in it. How hard does it take to harden, to distort the meaning of repentance, so that a drop of vegetable oil can plunge you into despondency?!

There is a fantastic willingness to repent of anything. And you rarely hear repentance for the unbelief of your children, for ignorance of the faith and teachings of the Church.

How do you become fanatics?

The psychology of fanaticism identifies 3 reasons that push a person to change.

1. Envy of other people's successes.
2. Low self-esteem.
3. A famous person who has achieved everything and shines.

The psychology of religious fanaticism is based on the hopelessness of a person when he finds himself in a difficult life situation and sees no way out of it. At such moments, he goes into religion and, unbeknownst to himself, falls under the influence of the adherents of the sect. They instill in him knowledge of the “right path”, sympathize, express their readiness to support and talk about problems that they themselves have recently encountered. Fanatics flee from reality into religion not out of love for God, but from their own suffering and the indifference of others.

Forms of fanaticism

Ideas of sexism or feminism and political parties can turn into fanaticism. In general, fanaticism can arise in any area where there is the right of personal choice and belief: tastes, group membership, theoretical concepts, music, and more. But freedom in conditions of fanaticism looks conditional. The fanatic is not free, he is dependent and sick.

More often the phenomenon of fanaticism is discussed within the framework of religion. Believers do not join sects, do not kill themselves for the sake of enlightenment, and do not give all their earnings (not just their own) to the religious treasury. This is what fanatics do. Terrorism is also a variant of a fanatical attitude towards faith.

Based on the degree of danger, we can distinguish two forms of fanaticism:

• Average. Adherents of the idea deny alternatives and defend their point of view. Fanatics of the average type mainly communicate with their own kind and, if necessary, defend their faith.
• Severe form. Fanatics try to convince adherents of other opinions or win over neutral people to their side. To convince them, they use harsh methods: torture, beatings, threats, punishment.

In addition to the above forms, we note:

• Socially acceptable fanaticism, for example, football (it is treated with caution, but more or less loyal), subcultural (teenage thematic associations based on interests: music or philosophy, clothing style).
• Socially condemned fanaticism (sects, terrorism).

It is worth noting that any form of fanaticism is potentially dangerous. Football fanatics often continue their path in the criminal direction. Teenagers can kill for wearing the “wrong” clothes (reports about this are not so uncommon, for example, the sensational “explain about your clothes”).