Thomism, Just What The Doctor Ordered…

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So today we will speak about structures.

As we wrote a couple of days back (see here), STRUCTURES are very important. Below is a fragment from a discussion between Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and Stanley McChrystal, a former US Army general.

To place this fragment into CONTEXT is to note that the retired General has “leftist leanings” which were exhibited in the Rolling Stones article that was the root cause of the earlier alluded to dismissal. Now we find out that he most likely obtained his “political leanings” from his mother who was a leftist. So having a “left leaning” individual, like General McChrystal speaking about the NECCESITY of STRUCTURES definitely is NEWS in and of itself.

Given the above CONTEXT, here is the Dr. Peterson part of the exchange.

Ok, so that’s… that’s real interesting to me because one of the things I learned when I was reading Friedrich Nietzsche in particular, he was a great critic of Christianity but also a great admirer of the Catholic Church.

And one of the things he said about Catholicism was that over the centuries of its unfolding, that it required all of its practitioners to adopt a particular disciplined ethos and to explain the world within the confines of a single coherent system, and then also to act that out.

And so Nietzsche was also interested in the development of, let’s call it “full individuality”. But he also knew that the pathway to individuality was through the rigors of a disciplinary structure.

Therefore, from the above passage, what is of importance to understand is that the Catholic Church had in place “over the centuries of its unfolding” a STRUCTURE in place which was based on “a particular disciplined ethos”, which allowed to “explain the world within the confines of a single coherent system” and then mandated that those practitioners “act that out”.

Now for those new to this blog, that “disciplined” and “coherent” STRUCTURE which these distinguished gentlemen were referring to is what is known as THOMISM.

And just to remind all the new readers, THOMISM (see here) has been out of favor with the Modernists since… at least the times of Pope St. Pius X. In a seminal essay by Dr. John Lamont, the short explanation of the post-conciliar church’s problem with THOMISM is laid out as follows:

Another article of the postconciliar creed has to do with the character of the Thomism that was promoted by popes from Leo XIII to Pius XII. The substantive accusations made against this Thomism are that it unjustifiably limited theology to a particular philosophical system, that theology was forced to conform to it, and that it was not the true thought of St. Thomas. These claims play a subordinate role in the criticism of preconciliar Thomism, whose main thrust lies in accusations that Thomism was ‘abstract’, ‘rationalist’, ‘ahistorical’, ‘arid’, ‘frozen’, ‘immobile’, ‘obsessed’, ‘encouraging pure secularity’, ‘sclerotically hardened and furred theologically, spiritually and ecclesially’, ‘causing a rupture between theology and life’, a ‘wax mask’, a ‘straightjacket’ that ‘reduced theological speculation to sterility’. The essence of this villainous form of Thomism is supposed to be given by the 24 Thomistic theses developed by leading scholars and endorsed by the Sacred Congregation of Studies in 1914, as containing the principles and main pronouncements of St. Thomas’s philosophy.³

But in reality, the OBJECTIVE kind, this was in fact the case:

The substantive accusations against Thomism are easily dismissed. The allegation that Thomism was imposed on preconciliar theology is without foundation, as can easily be seen by looking at the official texts that deal with it. All these texts are concerned with the teaching of philosophy and theology in educational institutions. Leo XIII and subsequent popes had decided that it was essential that the clergy be given a sound philosophical formation, and that the best philosophy for them to be formed in was Thomism. In order to achieve that end, they ruled that philosophical formation in seminaries and Catholic universities should be Thomistic in nature. This made it necessary to give some definition of what Thomism consisted in, and the 24 Thomistic theses were promulgated to meet this need.

Without belaboring this point, but to finish Lamont’s summary, here is how the suppression of THOMISM worked out for the post-conciliar church:

The key to the neomodernist capture of power is however also the reason for their failure to sustain a religious culture. Neomodernism is not like Protestantism, which contains ideas with a positive content as well as being a rejection of Catholicism. These ideas – justification by faith, and the like – are not correct, but they say something substantial, and have an appeal that can give rise to an important movement. Neomodernism, however, on a religious level is a purely negative thesis. As a result it has no attractive force of its own, and ecclesiastical structures that fall into its grip eventually die away – a process now visible all over the world.

And here is why post-Modernism is disintegrating and why it is only a question of time until it die away:

This is one thing that on the natural level permitted the survival of Thomism, despite the drastic measures taken to uproot it from the Church; unlike neomodernism, it has something positive and substantial to say. Moreover, what it has to say is actually true. This is in no way a guarantee of broad success, but it ensures the continued existence of Thomism in the small constituency of good scholars who are concerned with the truth and in a position to discover it. Whether it will expand much beyond this constituency in the future is unknown, but there is no doubt that its future shows more promise than that of neomodernism.

So where does this above information leave us?

Well, it would appear that in fact, “NATURAL PHILOSOPHICAL STRUCTURES”, like Thomism are making a big comeback. In the video above, Dr. Steven Turley identifies just this aspect as the basis for the OBSERVATION that young Polish voters are voting for conservative parties.

Dr. Turley also notices that this same PHENOMENON is the basis behind the return of the Traditional Latin Mass among young Catholics.

And just to finish off this post, here is a passage from the Wikipedia entry as to the future prospects of Natural Philosophy:

Especially since the mid-20th-century European crisis, some thinkers argued the importance of looking at nature from a broad philosophical perspective, rather than what they considered a narrowly positivist approach relying implicitly on a hidden, unexamined philosophy. One line of thought grows from the Aristotelian tradition, especially as developed by Thomas Aquinas.

Concluding, what we Faithful Catholics are witnessing is nothing short of a Restoration of Catholicism that is not just liturgical in nature, but theological in nature as well. This Restoration is also not just limited to the ecclesiastical sub-set of the Visibilium Omnium, et Invisibilium. 

One can say that what we are in fact witnessing is the disintegration of the “Enlightenment fallacy” that that which is not proved by the scientific method, does not exist.

What we as a civilization are beginning to understand at present is that the scientific method is only a tool to understand the greater REALITY. This REALITY in turn is OBJECTIVE in nature, therefore can be studied with OBJECTIVE tools, one of which is the scientific method.

Yet the scientific method does not constitute an end in itself. It can only be considered to be a means to an end. And a limited means at that. What the scientific method CANNOT do is provide VALUES nor MEANING nor even a comprehensive STRUCUTRE to understand the greater OBJECTIVE REALITY of human existence.

For that, philosophy is needed. And the reason philosophy is needed is that it provides STRUCTURES in which individual’s live and in which they function. These STRUCTURES are needed above all in the theological domain, if what we believe is to be COHERENT, i.e. taken seriously. And it is a return to STRUCTURES that Western Civilization and above all, the post-conciliar church desperately need in order to stop the disintegration that we are observing at the moment.

What one can in fact conclude from the above material is that for the post-conciliar church and Western Civilization in which it subsists, Thomism with its embedded STRUCTURES, is just what the doctor ordered.

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The SoapBubblePapacy™ – A Creation Of The Intrinsically Disordered…

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Today we return to our theme of the Soap Bubble Papacy™. The important information today comes via a recent post to which your humble blogger will reference, namely Must Watch – Michael Voris Inteviews Milo…

The above mentioned post contains a video clip which in turn contains a brilliant observation on the parts of both Milo Yannopoulis and Michael Voris. It begins at the 26:00 minute mark. Before I provide the transcripts of this section, a few words are in order about this exchange.

What makes this exchange and the information contained therein key to our understanding of the Francis bishopric of Rome, is its relevance to an OBSERVATION that has been made on this humble blog right from the very onset. This observation has become one of the main themes analyzed on this humble blog and has been termed as the The SoapBubblePapacy™.

This term has been used to convey the REALITY that the post-conciliar FrancisPervDeathChurch is presently nothing more than a social construction of the #fakenews media.

The SoapBubblePapacy™ contains in essence the inference, that if not for the corporatist globalist #fakenews media, the Francis bishopric of Rome would have been terminated more or less after the second half of the disastrous bi-Synod on Intrinsically Disordered Sex in late 2015.

Moreover, the key to keeping The SoapBubblePapacy™ “inflated” has been attributed by the Deus ex Machina analysis to the post-conciliar “homo-mafia” and Francis’ reliance on this subculture within the post-conciliar church to manage FrancisPervChurch’s day to day operations.

In other words, if not for the Intrinsically Disordered, the Vatican upper and middle management would have forced a “management shake-up” in late 2015. This could have been simply done by not complying with the directives emanating from the “leadership”. Moreover, there were rumors to that effect during this time period.

An Italian strike, one could say would have done the trick.

Yet this is not what has happened, regardless of daily dose of heresy emanating from Bergoglio’s lips.

What we have in fact seen is the post-conciliar homo-mafia becoming more intrenched within the Sacred Vatican Walls and beyond. The analysis of this particular situation has indicated that it is the globalist corporatist #fakenews media which has thrown a blanket of protection over the Francis bishopric of Rome and has allowed it to survive for this long.

Which then raises the question, what’s the connection?

And it is the answer to this conundrum that the exchange between Milo and Michael clearly lay out in the video interview referenced earlier.

Specifically, a “fuller” picture of the power behind the throne is emerging. With the information that Milo and Michael “threw out there”, we can see that it is the Intrinsically Disordered that are not only the operational “ground troops” of the FrancisPervChurch, but are also responsible for providing it with “protection” from the Faithful Catholics.

And this protection consists of the corporatist globalist #fakenews media who in turn have been taken over by a small clique of Intrinsically Disordered, just like that small Intrinsically Disordered clique behind the Sacred Vatican Walls.

So without further delay, here is the relevant part of the video HERE transcribed by yours truly:

(Starts at the 26:43 minute mark)

Michael V: Are you surprised that the largest association in the journalistic world, the TV news media specifically is the (…) gay and lesbian journalist association? That’s the largest group, there’s black reporters, there’s Hispanic reporters, but that is the single largest membership group in the entire television news world.

Milo Y: Specifically it’s lesbians. And nobody will tell you this. Not many people know this, nor care enough to spend time enough to think about this but my next book, that I am writing at the moment has a chapter on this. The chapter is called “How lesbians ruined everything”. They even ruined the gay stuff. Now if you look at gay charities like Stonewall (?) and gay aids charities like the Terrence Higgins Trust which was supposed to be about stopping gay people from getting aids, they’re all now run by lesbians. And they’re all preoccupied by transgender pronouns and slighting rightwing whatever in defiance of  their charitable obligations blah, blah, blah, and they’re all concurrent with being taken over, with their management, with their administration being taken over by gay women.

Gay women have done the same thing in the Academy. Starting gender studies courses. You know, whether they’re bitter divorcees, people that call themselves divorcees, or they’re spinsters, people who think they’re lesbians… Having read for almost a decade about the background for all this stuff, because I’ve been looking into it, for myself, for personal reasons, I’ve come to the conclusion that female homosexuality is fundamentally different to male homosexuality.

MV: Sure

MY: And lesbianism among women is much more of a conscious political choice. And very often, these women retreat into the arms of other women after bad relationships with men. Men very rarely do that. You know, a man has a very bad relationship with a woman, he doesn’t go and get with a guy. He goes and plays sports or goes plays video games, gets fat. He doesn’t go off and… That’s not how male sexuality works. By the time you’re in a rut and wired in, it’s pretty much all you can do, whichever direction your pointed in for the rest of your life. But women have much more malleable sexuality and it’s more of a conscious political choice for them. And for many of these women, I think their sexuality is part of a package of political opinions and part of that consumerist package of identity that they have put together.  And the same thing is happening with Wicca, witchcraft you know. These women that have lost God, they’re empty, they don’t have a husband, they don’t have children so they have this vast gulf, this void in the middle of their souls. And they don’t know how to fill it or what to fill it with. So they’re finding things like witchcraft. I think the choice to identify as lesbian comes from somewhere similar.

MV: Yea, that’s very interesting. It certainly is my experience in TV news, there are obviously a lot of gay guys, you know producers and reporters and all that sort of thing, but there was always behind the schenes that kind of controlling lesbian atmosphere.

MY: That’s exactly what it is. Only half the gay men in these industries are going to show up for these clubs, these unions, the societies. The other half are too busy having a life. (…) And then you got the other half that are just sort of the limp wristed wet blankets who are happy to be bossed around by lesbians. And that’s what the gay charitable world is like. We’re weak minded bottoms if you like. (…) And the bossy lesbians who rule over them, and very often in these societies like the journalistic societies, they are dominated by domineering women who’ve decided to foreswear male company. And I don’t really believe in lesbianism per se. But I think definitely that they’ve swore off men and certainly they probably have some  unsatisfying, unfulfilling momentary encounters with women. But basically they’re alone. They’re just spinsters. They call themselves lesbians because of the horror, the full realization of the horror of admitting that you’re just going to be alone forever, is too much. So they’ve decided to be a lesbian instead.

MV: Sure. One of the reasons why it’s important to sort of lay that out is because it is the news media. And the entertainment media, but specifically the news media because it sets so much of the agenda in the cultural, political, which all spills into the theological debate. That’s just the reality that is. So, it’s  interesting we were all sitting around the newsroom one time, 15, 20 years ago and saying ‘this is amazing, there are probably less than 1000 people… that was the debate… is it 500 or is it 1000 people in the United States who determine on a daily basis what 300,000,000 other people are fed.’ And that’s what it comes down to.

MY: It’s somewhere between that number for sure. It’s always remarkable to me that number of batty conservative things from the past that repeat on us, and reveal themselves to be true.

    

Major Development: Michael Voris And Church Militant’s Observable “Lefebvrist Drift”…

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MUST WATCH!

Again…

A lot of our prayers are being answered…

Aside, one of the side effects of Francis’ recent move on the Ecclesia Dei communities and the talk of “regularization” of the SSPX, is that obstinate Catholics who for reasons “only known to them” have criticized the SSPX in the past, can now see the errors of their former ways and start acting in accordance with OBJECTIVE REALITY.

One more thing since we are on the subject:

The SSPX was never in SCHISM and Archbishop Lefebvre was CORRECT!

Nuff said!

Germania Delenda Est!

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Greetings in the New Year Anno Domini 2019.

Wanting to get the new year off to a good start, this humble blogger will begin with addressing an issue that appears in the comment box every now and then. The issue pertains to this blogger’s given name, i.e. Scipio and the suggestion that this blogger use a “sign-off phrase” made infamous on account of a couple of his name-sakes, i.e. Scipio Africanus Major and  Scipio Aemilianus Africanus.

The back story is as follows: Scipio Africanus Major was a Roman general and statesman who was the victor of the Second Punic War (218-201 BC). In that war, the Roman forces defeated the Carthaginians and their famous general Hannibal. Yet even after the Roman victory, not all within the Roman ruling elites were satisfied. One foresighted and notable Roman statesman , namely Cato the Elder was so unsatisfied with the ensuing “peace” that he took to ending all his speeches with the phrase “Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam“, which translates into “Moreover, I consider that Carthage must be destroyed.

Hence the origin of the term “Carthago delenda est” (Carthage must be destroyed).

And it would appear that Cato had a point.

Fifty two years later, the Third Punic War was waged (149-146 BC) in which Scipio Aemilianus Africanus defeated Carthage for the final time. As legend has it, (most likely a 19th Century legend) the victorious Romans sowed salt into the Carthaginian fields to ensure that the lands could never again produce the necessary crops which would then enable a rebirth of a Carthaginian power. Even if this anecdote is not historically true, the Romans took Cato the Elder’s suggestion to heart after the Third Punic War and destroyed Carthage to such a degree that it never again was a threat to Roman hegemony.

So there is a lesson to be learned in the above.

Fast forward to contemporary times Anno Domini 2019, the Roman Empire in its present form, Western Civilization is once again facing an existential threat as were the Romans of the 3rd and 2nd Centuries BC. The threat to Western civilization, in the humble opinion of this even more humble blogger are the Germans.

This blogger has laid out the case in various posts on the Deus ex Machina blog written over these last four years. Today’s post will be an additional piece of evidence to support the contention that not only must Germany be once again defeated, but that after this defeat, it can never again threaten Western Civilization!

The subject matter for today’s post is the “UN Migration Pact” recently signed in the Moroccan capital of Marrakesh and Germany’s duplicity in this process. The background is provided in a post that appeared on the Zero Hedge  website recently (reposted below) titled Angela Merkel: Nation States Must “Give Up Sovereignty” To New World Order.

This German call for a globalist NEW WORLD ORDER was most likely a strategic ploy used to neutralize (and partially justify) the disastrous Merkel “open door” policy of 2015 and 2016 whereby up to 1.5 million illegal immigrants came into the European countries on the back of an open invitation from Germany. This disastrous “open door” policy in large part has led to BREXIT and the rise of the nationalist-centrist parties in European elections since that time. And the rest, as they say is history.

Chalk one up to the Law of Unintended Consequences, or as we call Him on this blog, the real “God of suprises”. But I digress…

Yet there is one more aspect to the story that is not widely reported, but is critical to understand. That aspect is what happened after the fall out of the Merkel “open door” policy. In order to save her Chancellorship and rule over the German nation and wider Euroland, the Merkel government, using one of its “client-appendages”, i.e. the United Nations, constructed a “global open door” policy that later became the Global Compact for Migration, the one and the same that was signed in Marrakech, Morocco on the 11th of December, 2018.

“Hey, we couldn’t have been wrong in 2015 if the UN is now trying to do the same thing”… or so now the argument goes.

The back-story on this is provided by the Voice of Europe post (via Breitbart) also reposted directly below.

But that’s not all…

What makes this Marrakech pact much, much more sinister is in what it is attempting to do, and that  is to make illegal migration into a legally defined “HUMAN RIGHT”, with all the associated benefits to the illegal immigrants and costs, with an added loss of sovereinty (Where have we heard that before?) to the targeted countries.

It is just this aspect of the Global Compact for Migration that is explained in the embedded video below.

And finally, when taking into account the position taken by another of Germany’s “client-appendages” with respect to Illegal Migration, i.e. the FrancisVatican, one can see the direct lineage between the initiators and funding agents of these actions (Germany), the intermediaries and other “useful idiots” (France, UN, Vatican, etc) and the end results (Yellow Vest protests in France).

As we can see from the above, it is the Germans and their global soft-power operations that are initiating and funding these anti-Western Civilizational initiatives. So it is not just the Catholic Church which has been “taken over” by the Germany soft-power operations (KIRCHENSTEUER funding) but this is in fact a much wider global problem.

And it is not just the Catholic Church which has been destabilized by the Frankfurt School’s appendage, i.e. the German Critical “Theology” School of Rahner and his ilk and is most likely the source of the present “Two Popes” Dilemma. Not the mention the Bergoglio bishopric of Rome!

The problem is much, much wider.

Yet given the above, the proper understanding of the PROBLEM also allows us to define a SOLUTION.

And that solution aligns itself perfectly with the historical analogy of the period between the Second and Third Punic Wars, which then once again allows us to take Cato the Elder’s advice as being our optimal SOLUTION, paraphrased as:

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VOICE OF EUROPE

Is Angela Merkel behind the UN Migration Pact? New document sheds light

Read the full story on Breitbart here (emphasis added)

Germany’s Deception: Internal documents from Germany’s Federal Foreign Office divulge that Angela Merkel’s government has been the main mastermind behind the controversial UN migrant pact.

The document, described by MP Petr Bystron of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), reveals that the Federal Foreign Office taking credit for the disastrous UN Migrant Pact, claiming they’ve been working on the agreement since 2016.

The deception runs deep, the Foreign Office having stated that the German government has been behind the Global Compact on Refugees and the Global Compact on Migration, saying that though they are not legally binding, they were both designed to be “politically binding”.

Belgian International Law professor Pierre d’Argent, has explained that the agreement sets up a “legal framework” that can be used by lawyers in interpretting the meaning of the law. “…one can imagine that in some cases before international jurisdictions, lawyers use this pact as a reference tool to try to guide them,” d’Argent said.

Alexander Gauland, Co-leader of Germany’s populist AfD party told Breitbart London:

“It’s becoming glaringly obvious that the German government was trying to deceive the public, and still is. They are trying to retroactively legalise Merkel’s illegal opening of the borders since 2015. If the AfD had not raised the topic of the Global Compact, no one would ever have known about it until it was too late.”

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ZERO HEDGE

Angela Merkel: Nation States Must “Give Up Sovereignty” To New World Order

Submitted by Tapainfo.com

“Nation states must today be prepared to give up their sovereignty”, according to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who told an audience in Berlin that sovereign nation states must not listen to the will of their citizens when it comes to questions of immigration, borders, or even sovereignty.

No this wasn’t something Adolf Hitler said many decades ago, this is what German Chancellor Angela Merkel told attendants at an event by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Berlin. Merkel has announced she won’t seek re-election in 2021 and it is clear she is attempting to push the globalist agenda to its disturbing conclusion before she stands down.

“In an orderly fashion of course,” Merkel joked, attempting to lighten the mood. But Merkel has always had a tin ear for comedy and she soon launched into a dark speech condemning those in her own party who think Germany should have listened to the will of its citizens and refused to sign the controversial UN migration pact:

“There were [politicians] who believed that they could decide when these agreements are no longer valid because they are representing The People”.

“[But] the people are individuals who are living in a country, they are not a group who define themselves as the [German] people,” she stressed.

Merkel has previously accused critics of the UN Global Compact for Safe and Orderly Migration of not being patriotic, saying “That is not patriotism, because patriotism is when you include others in German interests and accept win-win situations”.

Her words echo recent comments by the deeply unpopular French President Emmanuel Macron who stated in a Remembrance Day speech that “patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism [because] nationalism is treason.”

The French president’s words were deeply unpopular with the French population and his approval rating nosedived even further after the comments.

Macron, whose lack of leadership is proving unable to deal with growing protests in France, told the Bundestag that France and Germany should be at the center of the emerging New World Order.

“The Franco-German couple [has]the obligation not to let the world slip into chaos and to guide it on the road to peace”.

“Europe must be stronger… and win more sovereignty,” he went on to demand, just like Merkel, that EU member states surrender national sovereignty to Brussels over “foreign affairs, migration, and development” as well as giving “an increasing part of our budgets and even fiscal resources”.

The New Polylogists…

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As we enter the second half of Advent, this humble blogger has some bad news for you dear and loyal readers. You probably don’t know this, but you suffer from something called “polylogism”.

Before your humble blogger offers an explanation, it needs to be stated FOR THE RECORD that this humble blogger has NOT TAKEN A POSITION on whether Francis is in fact the bishop of Rome of not.

To be perfectly honest, nobody would care about what I personally think about this matter.

Having said that, this humble blogger is emphatic however, that approaching the question of whether His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI’s “resignation” was valid or was not valid, be done in a scientific… bah CATHOLIC manner. And the Catholic manner is through using sensory data, logic and reason to determine what in fact is the OBJECTIVE REALITY of the issue.

Having said the above, it is with astonishment that this humble blogger reads a post in the preeminent Catholic website that is Rorate Caeli, which contains the following:

There seems to be a need for us to repeat something we’ve said often. We do not believe our years-long readers suffer from this syndrome, but there are more than a few people who seem confused, especially those whom Francis has recently driven toward tradition.

The obvious problem with the above passage is that negating the subjective opinion that Catholics who find problems with Pope Benedict’s “resignation”, suffer from a mental condition (We do not believe our years-long readers suffer from this syndrome), the implication is that they possibly could. Note, it is the editor of Rorate Caeli that “does not believe”.

FOR THE RECORD: This humble blogger can definitively state that these folks DO NOT SUFFER FROM A MENTAL CONDITION. 

Which brings us to the following: What we are dealing with here is qutie possibly what is known as “polylogism”.

Polylogism is explained in the below republished post as follows: (see here)

According to (Karl) Marx, different classes of people had different structures in their minds. Thus, Marx declared the bourgeoisie to be mentally defective because they were inherently unable to comprehend Marx’s (allegedly) revelatory and progressive theories. Since they were, in a sense, insane, there was no valid reason for communists to “waste time” arguing with them.

 Therefore, a situation, as was outlined in the post The Fatal Problem With A “Multi-Nodal” Papacy… where:

(…) it is visibly observable that there are two individuals who live inside the Sacred Vatican Walls. Further, Pope Benedict continues to wear the white tunic, continues to sign himself “Benedictus XVI, pope emeritus,” continues to live “in the enclosure of Saint Peter,” continues to have himself called “Holiness” and “Holy Father.” And finally, Pope Benedict claims that he and Francis, the bishop of Rome “share” the PONTIFICAL OFFICE, “One “Active” and One “Contemplative”. (See here)

… cannot be questioned, according to this polylogistic explanation.

Paraphrasing, you dear and loyal reader are mentally defective because you are inherently unable to comprehend the post-conciliar church’s (allegedly) revelatory and progressive theories that there can be two “popes”, one active and one contemplative sharing the Petrine Office at any given time.

Ontology and epistemology be damned!

Yet as we know through studying the history of the Soviet Union (and Communist China, Cuba, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, the City of Detroit, the protestant sects, the post-conciliar church, FrancisChurch, etc.), we know that OBJECTIVE REALITY will reassert itself.

Eventually!

Just as the LEX ARMATICUS posits.

Something worth contemplating…

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Soviet Dissidents, America’s Academia, & The Weaponization Of Psychiatry

The New York Times obituary opened with a simple recitation of facts:

“Zhores A. Medvedev, the Soviet biologist, writer and dissident who was declared insane, confined to a mental institution and stripped of his citizenship in the 1970s after attacking a Stalinist pseudoscience, died … in London.”

Zhores Medvedev, his twin brother Roy (still alive at 93), the physicist Andrei Sakharov, and the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn were leading dissidents. They courageously put their lives on the line to smuggle manuscripts out of the Soviet Union. They wanted the wider world to learn the truth about the “the workers’ paradise” that so many Western intellectuals (some deluded, others having gone over to the dark side) praised.

A generation of Americans has been born since the Soviet Union, the USSR that President Ronald Reagan boldly labeled “the evil empire,” ceased to exist.

They have little to no concept of how ferociously the USSR’s communist tyranny suppressed dissent. As the Times obit of Dr. Medvedev illustrates, one Soviet technique of oppression was to declare that political dissidents were insane. They were then incarcerated in psychiatric hospitals where they were tormented and tortured. Some were used as human guinea pigs for dangerous experiments. (Shades of Hitler’s buddy, Dr. Mengele.) Some even succumbed to the not-so-tender ministrations of those “hospitals.”

I recall one particular example of the disgusting abuse of human beings in Soviet psychiatric hospitals. Vladimir Bukovsky, who will turn 76 later this month, spent a dozen years being shuffled between Soviet jails, labor camps, and psychiatric hospitals. One of the “therapies” administered in a psychiatric hospital was putting a cord into Bukovsky’s mouth, then threading it from his throat up through his nasal passages, and then drawing it out through one of his nostrils. (Maybe the cord went in the opposite direction; I’ve never been interested in memorizing torture techniques.) Alas, this communist “treatment” did not “cure” Bukovsky of his rational (NOT irrational) abhorrence of tyranny and brutality.

The warped thought process that led to the perversion and weaponization of psychiatry in the Soviet Union can be traced back to communist icon and thought leader Karl Marx. Marx propounded a spurious doctrine known as “polylogism” to justify stifling dissent. According to Marx, different classes of people had different structures in their minds. Thus, Marx declared the bourgeoisie to be mentally defective because they were inherently unable to comprehend Marx’s (allegedly) revelatory and progressive theories. Since they were, in a sense, insane, there was no valid reason for communists to “waste time” arguing with them. On the contrary, communists were justified in not only ignoring or suppressing bourgeois ideas, but in liquidating the entire bourgeois class.

The practice of categorizing one’s enemies as “insane” became a ready tool of suppression in the Soviet state founded by Lenin and developed under Stalin. The USSR’s infamous secret police energetically wielded quack psychiatry as a club with which to destroy political dissidents. If you want more information about how the Soviets kidnapped and misused psychiatry, here is a link to a document that describes what American agents of the USSR were taught about psycho-political techniques in the late 1930s. (The provenance of the booklet is murky, and Soviet apologists have long tried to discredit it, but in light of numerous psychiatric abuses known to have been committed with the approval of the USSR’s rulers, the content of the book is highly plausible.)

The incarceration of Zhores Medvedev in psychiatric hospitals in the 1970s was a monstrous injustice. His “crime” was having exposed the bizarre pseudoscience of Lysenkoism that Stalin had embraced in the 1950s. Lysenko’s quack theories led to deadly crop failures and widespread starvation. Nevertheless, Stalin backed him by executing scientists who dared to disagree with Lysenko. Millions of innocents lost their lives because “truth” in the Soviet Union wasn’t scientific, but political.

Another vivid example of the destructive consequences of politicizing truth is related in Solzhenitsyn’s exposé of Soviet labor camps, The Gulag Archipelago. Certain Soviet officials decided to increase the steel shipped to a certain area. When the planners issued orders for trains to carry double the steel to the designated destination, conscientious engineers informed them that it couldn’t be done. They pointed out that the existing train tracks could not support such great weights. The politicians had the engineers executed as “saboteurs” for opposing “the plan.” What followed was predictable: The loads were doubled, the tracks gave out, and the designated area ended up getting less steel, not more.

This episode shows where the true insanity was in the USSR. The central planners believed that constructing their ideal country was simply a matter of will.

Alas, reality doesn’t conform to the whims or will of any human being, but the arrogance of central planners remains stubbornly impervious to that inescapable fact of life. Instead, as the havoc wrought by Soviet central economic planners repeatedly demonstrated, the communist central planners refused to abandon their insufferable self-delusion and mystical belief in the power of their own will to alter reality. This was the true insanity, compounded by the error of persecuting competent scientists like Zhores Medvedev.

Sadly, the practice of branding political opponents as “insane” is not confined to the now-defunct Soviet state. In 1981, when I was completing my master’s thesis on Solzhenitsyn, I telephoned an American college professor of history to ask whether he recalled if Solzhenitsyn had been granted honorary U.S. citizenship. (He hadn’t. President Ford didn’t want to offend the Soviet leadership.) The reply to my question was this: “Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn belongs in an insane asylum.” The virus of Marx’s polylogism is, unfortunately, alive and well in American academia.

As for Zhores Medvedev, may he now rest in peace and receive his reward for his integrity and courage.

The French Can’t Be Bought Off…

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So the figures are in and it looks like the French can’t be bought off by the new and improved “populist” Manu.

Below is a post that appeared just a few minutes ago on Zero Hedge’s website. (see here) It gives you dear and loyal reader a good idea about the state of play in France.

And here is a post that gives you dear and loyal reader, a good idea about how the Law of Non-Contradiction tips over Euroland’s apple cart. (see here)

Above is another excellent analysis by Dr. Steve Turley. He has a very good grasp on that which can be termed as OBJECTIVE REALITY.

And finally, remember that the game is global. If Macron falls, the cultural Marxist internationalists, a.k.a. globalists will not have a “functional” political leader in any country that counts. And Canada doesn’t count.

Which quite accurately explains that which is going on with all the confusion and the New York AG trying to indict our VERY STABLE GENIUS President Donald J. Trump in order to remove him from office.

So dear and loyal readers, please keep President Trump in your prayers.

And one more thing, please keep in mind why God created money: So that His creation can purchase food and guns.

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Macron Faces Thursday No Confidence Vote As Protesters Reject Economic “Crumbs”

The majority of French people are not satisfied with a series of new economic policies unveiled by President Emmanuel Macron this week, and say that the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) protests should continue, according to a new poll.

According to a poll by Odoxa, 59% of French say that they are not convinced by Macron, despite finding his proposal “satisfactory,” according to Le Figaro. Just 21% found Macron’s new policies convincing despite viewership for his speech jumping 40% over a speech last month. 

That said, while Macron may have failed to win his people over – most of those polled agreed with his specific proposals; 61% favored the minimum wage boost, 55% liked the tax-free year-end bonuses and 85% of those surveyed backed no tax on overtime pay. 

54% of those surveyed said the Yellow Vest protests should continue. 

Many of the Yellow Vests have flat-out rejected Macron’s proposals, according to European-Views.

He is trying to do a pirouette to land back on his feet but we can see that he isn’t sincere, that it’s all smoke and mirrors,” said Jean-Marc, a car mechanic as a gathering of some 150 Yellow Vests in the southern town of Le Boulou.

“It’s just window dressing, for the media, some trivial measures, it almost seems like a provocation,” said Thierry, 55, a bicycle mechanic.

“All this is cinema, it doesn’t tackle the problems of substance. “We’re really wound up, we’re going back to battle,” he told AFP before taking part in blocking the Boulou turnpike on the French-Spanish border.

“Maybe if Macron had made this speech three weeks ago, it would have calmed the movement, but now it’s too late. For us, this speech is nonsense,” said Gaetan, 34, one of the “Rennes Lapins Jaunes” (Yellow Rabbits of Rennes).

One 35-year-old French official said that Macron “is being held hostage so he drops some crumbs.” 

Meanwhile, Macron faces a no confidence vote in parliament on Thursday, after left-of-center lawmakers moved against the President. 

Approximately 4,100 of the 4,523 Yellow Vest protesters arrested since the Nov 17 start of the massive demonstrations across France were thrown in jail according to French television broadcaster BFM, citing police sources. Nearly 2,000 of those arrested were arrested last Saturday during the movement’s “Act IV” protest, according to the Interior Ministry – over half of which, 1,082, occurred in Paris.

The 48-hour detentions have been criticized for denying citizens their right to demonstrate.

“By locking them up for 48 hours, they were denied the opportunity to go to a demonstration and that in a democratic country is shocking” Paris Bar attorney attorney Raphael Kempf told BFM (translated). 

FrancisChurch And The New Atheists…

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1opHWsHr798

Today your humble blogger transitions to a philosophical thread.

One reason for this post below is to set the stage for future citations from the four debates that took place between Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and one of the cookie-cutter “new atheists”, Sam Harris. Specifically in this future material, you dear reader will hear Sam Harris become quite irate when Dr. Peterson mentions that the atheists were the cause of approximately 150 million people killed in the last century. Truth hurts, but hey, they weren’t real atheists.

Next reason, and unrelated to the above is that the below post gives us a good insight into our discussion of MEANING. As we mentioned in that post:

It’s that that is the secret to a meaningful life. And without the meaningful life, all you have is the suffering. And nihilism (Ed note: Oh my! There’s that word again) and despair and self-contempt and that’s not good.

Which leads to the following question: what gives MEANING to the individuals that make up FrancisChurch?

Well, it’s not Catholicism, that’s for certain. (see here)

Now, this humble blogger will leave this question open so that you dear and loyal reader can answer it for yourselves.

To further reinforce the observations in the below post, above is a recent video with Jordan Peterson, Dave Rubin and Ben Shapiro. Without getting into too much detail, what I would like you dear reader to do is watch this video and try to identify all the parts where the three gentlemen inadvertently confirm that Catholicism is the ONE TRUE FAITH.

Nota bene: The video is going viral…

How many can you identify?

Please use comment box for the above sightings, if you so chose.

Below is a post from the Orthosphere blog which I mentioned at the beginning of this post, an is being republished for your reading pleasure. (see original here)

PS You humble blogger is traveling, so posting will be limited during this Advent Season.

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Christopher Hitchens is Not Great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55GtlOyJnis&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_b0sTjvuas&feature=youtu.be

Self-sealing Fallacy

Some modern militant atheists like to claim things like “religion ruins everything.” Or that the planet would be so much better off without a belief in God. An obvious response is to point at the horrors perpetrated by explicitly atheistic political movements in the twentieth century to claim that actually, things get much worse – atheism ruins everything.

Some atheists have attempted a rebuttal. This is the idea that Hitler, Stalin and Mao Zedong were not “real” atheists, communism and fascism are not genuinely atheistic, and neither were their followers, and that their ill-deeds cannot be laid at the feet of atheism. The first time I encountered it, I incorrectly imagined it was just one person’s confusion. Apparently, this is not so.

Christopher Hitchens advances the argument in the above clips.

It is a nice example of the self-sealing fallacy – also known as the “no true Scotsman” fallacy.

A Scotsman reads of a horrific rape and murder in London and tells his wife that no Scotsman would do such a thing. Subsequently, it is discovered that the rapist/murderer is John McDonald of Aberdeen. The Scotsman replies that no “true” Scotsman would do such a thing, thereby making himself immune to counterexample.

The fallacy involves someone making an empirical claim, then refuted with an empirical counterexample, then the original claim is converted into a tautology, making it immune to counterexample. Tautologies are true by definition, not as matters of fact. Bachelors are unmarried men by definition.

Hitchens and other new atheists make an empirical claim – human affairs would have proceeded much better if religion had never existed. A counter-example is then provided. There have in fact been large-scale political movements based on explicitly atheist principles. The result was between 100 and 200 million deaths. It turns out that religion probably has an ameliorating effect on human behavior.

So, a factual claim is met with a factual rebuttal. The fallacy then involves showing that the counter-example is not a real counter-example. Hitchens’ argument is that communism and fascism are not real atheistic movements because their leaders came to be viewed as being godlike and their followers proceeded to worship them; i.e., the atheism in the counter-example is not “real” atheism. This converts the original factual claim into a tautology – something that is true due to the meaning of words. The original claim is then true by definition and immune to counterexample.

The new atheist is right. The atheistic political movements that have occurred have adopted features of pagan religion. It turns out that this is what happened when this was attempted. The religious impulse seems to be ineradicable. If it cannot find an outlet in God, it will erect a substitute, known as idolatry. If not God, then the greatest happiness for the greatest number, progress, science, the Enlightenment, social justice, the singularity, immortality via computers, will take His place. Human beings need something to worship and they need a larger meaning. Without it they sink into depression, nihilism and, potentially, suicide.

Berdyaev writes that “Without the idea of God there can be no idea of man.” If man does not share in the divine nature and possess ultimate value, then some value will be held to be higher than man, and man will be treated as a means to an end; an expendable nothing of no supreme importance to be used as a pawn in the name of creating “happiness,” the social good, the well-being of Mother Russia or the Fatherland.

The ubiquity of the religious impulse is an empirical claim about how human beings work. It is well-supported by the evidence. Hitchens, Dawkins and the others have the aim and ambitions of religious proselytizers out to convert the masses and to save them. If they did actually get rid of God, they would not know what to do with themselves. They are as God-fixated as the most fanatical religious zealot.

Communist sympathizers sometimes argue that “real” communism has not been tried because Marx’s fantasy was that after a brief dictatorship of the proletariat, pure, blissful anarchic living was to emerge, where the state and the military were no longer necessary. This never ever happened. It never happened because communism as dreamed of by Marx is a fantasy.

Two results of atheism have been communism and fascism. Atheists, generally speaking, it turns out are unable to remove their religious tendencies and they find substitutes. The substitutes turn out to be much worse than the real thing. With no God in heaven, we come to treat our fellow man as gods and resent them for it. With no God to worship, we worship money, or success, or something else. This is what atheism looks like in practice. Without Christianity and official religion, we just revert back to pagan behavior – not consistent, thorough-going nonreligion.

Atheism would be a great boon. Communism and Fascism? They are not real atheism because those things are not a great boon. They are a pagan religious nightmare. Correct! Now you are starting to get it!

Hitchens et al could be interpreted as saying that were it humanly possible to truly eradicate the religious impulse even from the hearts of atheists like him, this would be a great boon. Since this would involve removing ourselves from the human condition, this will have to remain an unprovable counterfactual. We do not know what an individual non-suicidal person would look like under such a description. On a mass scale we just find religion substitutes such as the passion for “social justice” followed with the utmost zealotry by some and the return of pre-Christian pagan scapegoating. An atheistic society that does not devolve into politically correct conformity, where academics must overtly embrace “diversity and inclusion” to be hired, in the same way that Oxford university used to require attestations of religious adherence, and the scapegoating of the successful, is an unknown phenomenon. It seems likely that it cannot exist. Certainly, it has never existed.

The real, complicated history of Man’s relationship to religion

It is true that the history of humanity contains all sorts of very brutal behavior. Religion is likely to be involved in many instances at least in part because all human cultures have had religious foundations without exception. This would suggest that the existence of human culture is thanks to religion. René Girard argues this – though it comes about through the false sacred. A scapegoat is credited with sowing universal destruction, and thus God-like power, and then murdered. His murder unites the mutually antagonistic parties creating peace, again in a God-like fashion. Christianity reveals the scapegoat mechanism for the first time in human history but awareness of the mechanism is partial at best and has taken a long time to enter human consciousness on a wider scale. Thanks to the reduced cultural significance of Christianity, in tandem with social media, we are seeing one sacrificial crisis after another with an ever-expanding list of corpses as the flash mobs descend on one person after another to disembowel them.

Scapegoat victims are neither demons nor gods. Human culture arose from their innocent bones. This is highly unpleasant to say the least. The victims should not be forgotten and we should do our best not to repeat this behavior. The question then becomes, can humans unite on the basis of love instead of hatred and not let mutual antagonism get out of hand? It might be that Christianity means the end of human culture.

Atheists bond together in shared hatred of theists and vice versa.

History is an odd discipline because it cries out for counterfactual experimentation. For example, some historians like to blame the Treaty of Versailles for WWII. At most it might have been a necessary condition, but obviously it was not sufficient. To test this claim it would be necessary to remove the Treaty and see what happens. The new atheists would need to do something similar with religion.

Human beings have a strong tendency to be violent because we imitate each other including other people’s desires and this puts us in competition with them. We become rivals – twin brothers. A key myth is of Cain and Abel. One brother makes an effort and is met with success. The other brother tries hard and fails. Cain looks at Abel in resentment – the key human sin. Resentment combines love and hatred. Cain wants to be Abel – but there is an obstacle – a stumbling block, a scandal, called Abel. Abel is already Abel. He occupies the space that Cain wants. Cain wants Abel’s being. Frustrated and resentful, Cain kills Abel.

Resentment is not an invention of religion. The false sacred creates the scapegoat mechanism in order to solve outbreaks of violence that otherwise would spiral out of control with no logical end – e.g., centuries long feuds. True religion reveals this mechanism in an act of revelation – Jesus’ crucifixion; the murder of the innocent victim.

False religion is a solution to an aspect of the human condition. Thus there are reasons for thinking that the history of humanity would have been much worse without religion. Since wherever humans go, religion goes with them, the two will be associated. The claim is that, as hard as it is to imagine, things would have gone worse without it.

A crucial point of contention between theists and atheists is what happens when organized religion ceases and the idea of God as the focus of worship is abandoned.

There is no evidence that atheism is sustainable on a large scale for any length of time.

Jews and Christians claim that man is made in the image of God. He has an immortal soul and participates in creative activity by wresting order out of chaos, finding the good, the true and the beautiful. Theists have faith that the universe and life have meaning and purpose. They must then find the meaning that can justify the suffering that is a necessary part of the existence of a finite being.

The sacredness of human life and of creation then become the basis for a workable morality and moral realism; God or moral nihilism. If this is true, an atheist who uses morality as a standard by which to accuse religion of being evil is helping himself to something inaccessible by his own lights.

Marxism as a bastardized, atheistic Christianity

Socialism is not merely an economic theory. It is in active competition with theism (as of course is atheism).

Karl Marx simply restated the Judeo-Christian emphasis on compassion for the weak, the poor and the suffering while introducing two evil innovations. One was to make any help for the poor to be a matter of state compulsion with massive taxation and redistribution of wealth from the successful to the unsuccessful undermining the incentive to work hard and succeed. Russian communists took evidence of success as a sign that a person was an oppressor and murdered the Kulaks, successful, hardworking peasants, as the first order of business. And indeed, communism reduces all to relative poverty as could be seen with East vs West Germany. Social justice warriors follow this same logic with predictably similar results.

Thus Marxism succumbs to the Three Temptations of Christ as described in the Bible and by Dostoevsky. In the Brothers Karamazov, Jesus refuses earthly power and to feed the poor on an ongoing and permanent basis. Such a state of affairs would make the poor beholden to the state to which they would willingly sacrifice their freedom for the promise of free food. Christianity, properly understood, involves complete freedom.

Marxism also reinstates scapegoating as a central tenet.  Myths take the point of view of the mob; true religion, of the victim. The proletariat are the mob and the bourgeoisie are the victims. The persecution of the innocent is thus built into the system. When this fails to unify the populace in shared hatred for long, new classes of enemy, “enemies of the revolution,” are found and the scapegoating continues on an industrial scale.

Thus Marxism explicitly rejects religion as the opium of the people while returning us to pre-Christian scapegoating and taking volunteeristic charity and creating a giant bureaucracy reducing the population to servitude in the name of fairness and equality. It is a bastardized religion.

In Russia, with no God to worship, Stalin promoted himself and was treated as man as God. Likewise with Chinese communism and Mao Zedong.

German fascism also competed with religion. It adopted features from pre-Christian paganism – namely the creepy slogan of “blood and soil” and the scapegoating of Jews. It too was socialist and nationalized industry. Since the Jews tended to be very socially successful, they could be accused of belonging to the oppressor class just like the communists’ bourgeoisie.

Contemporary atheists engage in all sorts of religion substitutes. Ray Kurzweil rejects a Christian afterlife but does not give up on the Christian hope for eternal life. He is as obsessed with immortality as the most true believer but with computers as the medium for downloading his consciousness. Personally, I find nothing good, true or beautiful about his ambitions.

Conspiracy Theories, Conspiracy Facts, Confirmation Biases And The “Resignation, That Wasn’t”…

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Today we do conspiracy theories moving toward becoming conspiracy facts.

This post is inspired by a lively exchange that took place on my Twitter feed yesterday. The subject matter of the exchange was the “resignation, that wasn’t”, made by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI.

Now, what this blogger found interesting about this particular exchange, and the major take-away from this experience, is the level of emotion introduced by one of the sides. The lesson that needs to be learned here, is that whenever one of the sides employs EMOTIONS in a debate, that side is conceding that it has no rational, logical nor dispassionate arguments left at its disposal.

In a poker game, it’s known as a tell.

And now to the conspiracy theory -> conspiracy fact...

Over the years, it has been commonly held in circles that derive their view of reality from objectively observable occurrences, that one of the major, if not the sole benefactor of most radical left wing causes is GEORGE SOROS.

Globally!

In fact, it was even once considered a conspiracy theory to make an assertion that George Soros was funding DISSIDENT “c”atholic groups who promoted an un-Catholic agenda and that these groups even tried to install a DISSIDENT bishop of Rome.

And then this here appeared:

At present, the conspiracy theory has taken on the air of a “conspiracy fact”, given that making a statement to this effect is now considered to be acceptable in polite society, is that George Soros has a “moneyed” interest in changing Catholic teaching on a whole host of issues, including who the Roman Pontiff should be.

With respect to the “resignation, that wasn’t” of HH Pope Benedict XVI, it is highly probable that one of the “conspiracies” that was launched and financed by the Soros funded John Podesta group, was to put in motion a PROCESS that would bare exactly those results.

Yes, folks, the Overton Window has moved on this one, as per above email exchange.

So today, a post from Tom Luongo, which appeared on the Zero Hedge website explains to what extent, George Soros is a benefactor of radical left wing causes.

Among those causes funded by Soros, could have been a scheme to bring about the “retirement” of a sitting Roman Pontiff.

I will leave off here, but remember dear and loyal reader, coincidence does not equal causation. However, the next time someone wants to shut down debate by using what are called the “relevance fallacies”, point him to this post.

Nota bene: Relevance fallacies are those fallacies that take advantage of human weaknesses like: fear, desire, pity, prejudice, bigotry, gullibility, insecurity, vanity, snobbery, modesty, guilt, admiration, loyalty, patriotism, hatred, etc., rather than present reasoned and relevant evidence. At their core, these fallacies that operate on the basis of what is known as “confirmation bias”!

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Have We Reached Peak Soros?

Authored by Tom Luongo,

George Soros is losing.  He still thinks he’s winning.  But, in reality, he’s losing.

All around you, if you look closely enough, you will see the spectre of George Soros lurking behind the headlines.  The caravan, net neutrality, regulating Facebook, the de-platforming of independent media, color revolutions and election meddling, refugee creation and manipulation, the trolls on Twitter, your blog and YouTube, etc.

All of these things we see in the headlines today are a product of George Soros’ money and his singular obsession with re-creating the world in his image.

Soros himself is a product of the times.  A multi-billionaire who could only exist in an era of unprecedented corruption of the basic foundations of society.  An age where the dangerous mix of Marxist ideology governs the somewhat unfettered free flow of capital has resulted in the mother of all bubbles in making money on money.

Mo’ Money Mo’ Time

A primary thesis of this blog is that corrupt money begets a corrupt society.  Corrupting the prices we pay for the things we buy dissociates us from their true cost of ownership  and the opportunity costs of making different choices.

It has given rise to a seemingly all-powerful class of money-changers who manipulate policy to arrogate unearned wealth to themselves, known as rent, and then use that new wealth to fund their next scheme to fleece people of their time.

Because the aphorism is true, time truly is money.  Time is the only true scarce natural resource.  Everything else is, ultimately, recyclable, just ask Einstein.

And men like Soros understand that filling your time with distractions keeps you poorer than you would be otherwise.  This is the main mechanism by which they steal your wealth.

The process of political and ideological radicalization that his NGO’s excel in are part of this scheme.  Get the people outraged over irrelevancies, emotionally charge them up and then set them against each other until the political system breaks.

Even when it fails ultimately, like in Armenia, it succeeds in wasting a year of millions of people’s lives.  Time lost to the machinations of a madman.

How much time do we as Americans spend worrying about the issues du jour concocted by Soros and his cohort Tom Steyer?  And the sad truth is that we need to worry about these issues, even though the costs are high.

Why?

Because Soros’ goal is the destruction of the United States and what it stands for.  He is chaos incarnate continually using his money to stoke conflict which ends in a Hobson’s Choice for us, damned if we do, damned if we don’t.

The Face of Hobson’s Choice

That choice today is one between a Facebook and Silicon Valley that has way too much power over governing our speech, hiding behind broadly-worded EULA’s or accepting regulation of them for abusing their power.

Think about how egregious the treatment of conservatives and alternative press is at the moment.  It’s completely one-sided.  Now ask yourself the obvious question.

Why?

Why would they do this knowing it will result in people getting angry and calling for something to be done?

Because, lightbulb, that was the plan all along.

Notice how today Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook are being set up to be the fall guys for this situation.  If you can’t see at this point the man behind the curtain pulling the strings on this to achieve this very goal then you aren’t wokeor red-pilled.  You are part of the problem.

You are just another of George Soros’ useful idiots.

Governments on both sides of the Atlantic are lining up now to make Zuckerberg into the villain for not answering the their concerns over Facebook’s data handling.

Zuckerberg is the patsy.

And Soros will get what he wants: compliant, paid-for, bureaucrats and politicians ramming through legislation that gives them oversight into social media platforms to regulate not only their behavior but yours.

Game. Set. Match.

If that’s the case then why do I think we’ve reached Peak Soros?

Lies Are Expensive

Because none of this is working anymore.  Look around you.

  Just this week, out of nowhere, Soros’ Open Society Foundation packed its bags and left Turkey after its founder was arrested for fomenting dissent.

Last month OSF and his Central European University pissed off out of Hungary where Viktor Orban put his foot down against Soros’ malign influence on Hungarian culture.

The Russians threw him out years ago and there’s an arrest warrant out for him there.

He fought these latter two countries for years before finally leaving.

And OSF pulls out in a day?

Reason?  They are guilty and Soros is losing his cover.  Everywhere where opposition to globalists is hardening Soros is pulling up his tents and running away.

Bullies are weak.  Soros hides behind the venal and the vane.  He’s never built anything of value, only won a rigged version of a zero-sum game, i.e. currency trading.

He’s not an entrepreneur, he’s a vampire.  And vampire’s don’t build things, they destroy things other people love while being unloved themselves.

The overthrow of the government in Armenia didn’t go as planned either, as Nikol Pashinyan failed to form a government even after he gave lip service to remaining a friend to Russia. No one bought that line and Pashinyan’s people’s revolt has left a a vacuum in its wake, but one that won’t be filled with a Eurocratic stooge under Soros and NATO’s control.

But most importantly, fewer and fewer people are falling for the Hobson’s Choice I described earlier that Soros gins up to move the political ball in his direction.

Now, instead, he is resorting to openly backing voter fraud in Broward County and Georgia.  He’s paying protesters to harass Senators over a Supreme Court nominee and organizing a violent storming of the U.S. southern border which is quickly becoming a political albatross around the Democrats’ neck.

Lies are expensive.  That’s why men like Soros need so much money.

It’s why they continue to also manipulate markets, sow discord and volatility at the same time that they push open conflicts which rightly scare rational people half to death — like Ukraine’s ham-fisted attempt to draw Russia into a shooting war in the Kerch Strait here.

Their lies are being debunked in real time.  I’ve said before.  These men may be the smartest men in the room but the are not smarter than the room itself.  From here on out for George Soros and his ilk in The Davos Crowd victories will get more expensive and losses harder to overcome.

This is why control over the flow of information, control of The Wire, as I talked about recently is so very important.  It’s why decentralized platforms are so important and why personal connections we make here in the cyber-world need to be anti-fragile.

It’s also why we’ve reached Peak Soros.

Why We Catholics Need To Follow Dr. Jordan Peterson Religiously…

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Today’s post was inspired by a dear and loyal reader, one JTLiuzza who wrote the following comment:

I enjoy your blog but I must admit I’m at a loss to understand your fascination, or anyone’s for that matter, with this Peterson fellow.

Before your humble blogger provides you, dear and loyal reader with that which he wrote in response, a transcript from the above video embedded at the top of this post is in order. It sets the context of the below discussion.

The exchange between Dr. Peterson and just the next in line cookie cutter feminist takes place coming right out of the gate, and is a follows:

Narrator: In this video, I would like to discuss a particularly contentious exchange where Lewis confronts Peterson attacking Peterson’s now famous lobster hierarchy argument, featured in his bestselling book 12 Rules for Life.

Lewis: My big problem with the lobsters it’s that it’s scientifically… bollocks. Right? You cannot read across from lobsters and what they do and what humans…

Peterson: Of course you can. That’s why serotonin works on lobsters.

Lewis: But it works in two different ways. Serotonin makes lobsters more aggressive and it make humans less aggressive. Right?

Peterson: No. It makes them more dominant. No that’s not right. Serotonin makes human beings more dominant, but less aggressive. And the only reason it makes them more dominant is that they are less irritable and they are less defensively aggressive. So it’s not bollocks. I know my neurochemistry. So if you’re going to play neurochemistry let’s go and do it.

What is of particular significance in the above exchange is the contrasting degree of competence brought to the discussion by the respective sides. The interviewer is just a typical IDEOLOGUE who asks a question without doing her homework about what it is that she is in fact asking. Dr. Peterson in turn knows his neurochemistry and confronts her directly.

So the moral of the story is: OBJECTIVE REALITY always wins.

Which brings me back to my response to JTLiuzza, in which your humble blogger wrote the following:

I am not sure how much of Dr. P’s work you are familiar with, so I’ll explain.

What I find fascinating about him is that he is a (self-avowed) Traditionalist in the Natural Law sense of the term.

If we look at the nature of reality (ontology) we can distinguish between the natural and the supernatural. The supernatural reality we obtain from revealed Truth. The natural reality we obtain through the “natural light of human reason from the things that are made”. This is what is known as natural theology.

What Peterson does is that he takes that which we know from the natural light of human reason and ties it back to the supernatural part of ontology. In other words, he reconciles the natural with the supernatural.

And from what I observe, his message is a very effective weapon for not only proselytizing, but more importantly, for stopping the eradication of Christianity from the public domain altogether.

Concluding, the most destructive element of the Modernist revolution and that which we call the Enlightenment is that the forces of evil have been able to put in place this notion that the supernatural is some sort of an exotic “superstition” and relic from a past dark, ignorant age and will eventually fade away and die out. And then we will enter a new age of enlightenment where our values will be generated from reason, empiricism and science.

And along come Dr. P and makes the obvious observation that reason, empiricism and science can explain reality, but they can’t generate a set of values which will give meaning to the lives of those who are guided solely by reason, empiricism and science.

So Dr. P makes the case that no matter how much the Modernists would like to eradicate (organized) religion, they will not be able to do it since it satisfies a basic human need. And I find this aspect of Dr. P’s work nothing short of prophetic.

Hope this helps.

Now, with the material in this video and in that which Dr. Peterson espouses, we can agree with most and disagree with some. What we can’t do however, is to discount the impact that he is having on what we call on this blog: RECONCILING post-Modernist VIRTUAL REALITY with OBJECTIVE REALITY.

Frankly, it’s the only weapon that is at our disposal to deal with something like this below:

Disgusting…

Nota bene: Dr. Peterson stated that the end of this child abuse will definitely come when the institutions that are promoting this genital mutilation, are bankrupted by future law suit judgments. Sound familiar? But I digress…

Which brings me to another positive development which I have been noticing of late. I see this phenomenon as a return to natural theology.

Over at another of the Deus ex Machina’s favorite blogs, the Non Veni Pacem (simply love that title), we get a discussion on Overton Windows and growth functions. The title of the post is: Nuff said: “Sunlight is always the best disinfectant”. In this post, Non Veni Pacem discusses the significance of the Msgr. Bux interview. (see here)

The relevant passage is as follows:

But the point being made here, with regards to the idea of the Bergoglian Antipapacy being the blue line on this chart, is that we just passed Point “A” in the last 24 hours. Point “A” is when the idea takes off, and the chart hockey-sticks. Which means we are about to see a whole lot more focus – white hot light – on this question.

Where point A is defined in the below graph:

Which suggests that within 26% of the Catholic population, it is ACCEPTABLE to question the validity of the Francis bishopric of Rome.

Let that sink in!

And finally, please recall that: (see here)

What appears to be the case is that:

Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society.

Extending the above SCIENTIFIC CLAIM into the ECCLESIASTICAL sub-set of the Visibilium Omnium, it could be restated as:

When just 10 percent of the CLERICAL population holds the unshakable belief that it is the “spirit of the new springtime of the Second Vatican Council” that is the ROOT CAUSE of the disintegration of the post-conciliar church , their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society and the inevitable Restoration will be at hand.

In other words, the follow-up question is, how close are we to point R with respect to the population that holds an “unshakable belief” that this is in fact the case?

Which answers the question as to why all Catholics need to follow Dr. Jordan B. Peterson religiously.

And on that note, I will wish you a pleasant day!

MODERNISM Is Dead And The Sooner We Deal With It, The Quicker We Will Find A Solution To This FrancisMess …

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Never, ever, EVER thought that this humble blogger would write a sentence, let alone a post title on a blog dedicated to the Restoration of all things in Christ, like the one at the top of this one.

Anyways…

As the US FrancisBishops Conference’s conference has come to a FrancisEnd, the Dictator of Rome orders the US Bishops, Cardinals, FrancisCardinals and FrancisBishops NOT to put in place any transparent, laity led, honest review of the current CRISIS brought about by the INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED “clericalists”.

Needless to say, a lot of people are upset.

So today, this humble blogger will take a stab at why these “upset people” are in fact UPSET!

But before we get to that subject matter, this humble blogger needs to make a digression and posit the following claim:

MODERNISM IS DEAD… 

… and the Modernists killed it.

The reason for making the above claim, is that it needs to be understood. The reason why it needs to be understood is that without this specific understanding, one cannot properly diagnose the current problem plaguing the Holy Roman Catholic Church.

So we begin with a definition (see here)

Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late-20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism and that marked a departure from modernism.^[1][2][3] The term has also more generally been applied to the historical era following modernity and the tendencies of this era.^[4] (In this context, “modern” is not used in the sense of “contemporary”, but merely as a name for a specific period in history.)

While encompassing a wide variety of approaches, postmodernism is generally defined by an attitude of skepticism, irony, or rejection toward the meta-narratives and ideologies of modernism, often calling into question various assumptions of Enlightenment rationality.^[5] Consequently, common targets of postmodern critique include universalist notions of objective reality, morality, truth, human nature, reason, language, and social progress.^[5] Postmodern thinkers frequently call attention to the contingent or socially-conditioned nature of knowledge claims and value systems, situating them as products of particular political, historical, or cultural discourses and hierarchies.^[5] Accordingly, postmodern thought is broadly characterized by tendencies to self-referentiality, epistemological and moral relativism, pluralism, subjectivism, and irreverence.^[5]

So why is your humble blogger making the above point AGAIN?

Because if there is any system of categorization that can contain the various speeches, newspaper interviews, musings at the Domus Sanctae Marthae and off-the cuff remarks generated by the bishop of Rome, i.e. the magisterium of Francis, it is post-Modernism.

Which means the following: if we continuously misdiagnose Francis as a Modernist, what we are doing is superimposing on the Francis and his FrancisMagisterium, the FALSE CLAIM of universalist notions of objective reality, morality, truth, human nature, reason, language, and social progress.

And this is regardless of whether we agree with their Modernist versions or not.

The reason that Catholics can debate the concept of Modernism in the first place, is that Modenism shares a rational, logical, empirical cognitive framework with Catholicism. What we agree with and disagree with, are the specifics within that framework, while not questioning the framework itself.

With Francis and his post-Modernists, there is no framework.

In fact, Francis and the FrancisMagisterium is not only a critique of, but the antithesis to the qualities that we falsely ascribe to “Francis the MODERNIST”, while in reality, Francis is the exact opposite of a MODERNIST.

Therefore any discussions, or even arguments that we have with Francis, don’t affect either him nor do they affect his actions. Figuratively speaking, it’s like talking to a wall. And that’s because Francis and his FrancisMagisterium is in fact STRUCTURE-LESS, i.e. characterizes by self-referentiality, epistemological and moral relativism, pluralism, subjectivism, and irreverence.

The reason that this humble blogger eliminated the descriptor “pluralism” from the above list is that Francis, the Dictator of Rome doesn’t have a pluralist bone in his body.

And post-Modernism doesn’t demand that he have one either!

Now given the above, and taking Dr. Jordan B. Peterson’s critique of post-Modernism into account, namely that post-Modernism, due to its claim that  all hierarchies of values are “equal”, can’t define (establish) a hierarchy of values that can sustain it.

Therefore, to gain and sustain itself in power, it reverts to its ideological foundational doctrine: MARXISM.

And this is the TRUE PHILOSOPHICAL CRITICISM of Francis and his FrancisChurch.

Which brings us to the original question: What is it in FACT that has the “upset people” so UPSET?

And as you can rightly suspect, what has the “upset people” so UPSET is the FORMLESSNESS of FrancisChurch’s post-Modernism.

Just to provide one example: FrancisCardinal Cupich and the “clericalists”. The word has a specific phonetic sound, a sound that is suggestive of something to the imagination of the listener, but in reality has no OBJECTIVE MEANING and is in no manner tied down by any sort of COMMON USAGE.

In other words, “clericalist” used by FrancisChurch can mean anything.

I.e. GIBBERISH!

Have a nice weekend…