“Red Pilling” And The Road To Damascus…

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Today your humble blogger will stay on the “definition” theme. As a quick refresher, in the last couple of post, we have been introduced to such terms as “platforming”, “normalization”, “tone policing” and “privileged rage”.

Today we add two more. One comes by way of Ann Barnhardt’s excellent blog. The term is “Ghira”. Ghira is defined as: Rage In the Face of Logic. Please venture over to Ann’s website and get the load down on this quite prescient observation. Last word, it is a very post-Modernist thing.

Our term for today is “Red Pilling”. Red Pilling is a situation where a person, upon coming into contact with an objective truth that resonates with that person (pscyche), is so overpowered by the objective truth, that it forces that person to substantively change their approach to the decisions that that person subsequently makes.

Here is how the Urban Dictionary defines the term:

‘Red pill’ has become a popular phrase among cyberculture and signifies a free-thinking attitude, and a waking up from a “normal” life of sloth and ignorance. Red pills prefer the truth, no matter how gritty and painful it may be.

Before we go on, one word about the “red pilling” PROCESS itself. This PROCESS is an “individualistic” PROCESS. Actually, it is very similar to what we call conversion in the Catholic Church. One can say that “red pilling” can be seen as either a first step toward conversion or maybe a “transitional” PROCESS along the individual’s very own “road to Damascus”.

Now this doesn’t mean that the “red pilled” individual will actually travel the entire road, but it is a first step and a rather large one at that. I would also go as far as to say that this is the end point of the second source of the Catholic Faith, i.e. that is known through “natural light of human reason from the things that are made”. 

Everything past this point requires the intervention of a really good priest. 

So that’s the theory.

Now to reinforce the above HYPOTHESIS about what constitutes a “red pilling” EFFECT, I bring you one link and three video.

I will start with a post that appeared at Fr. Z’s website. In the post titled: Wherein another reader does indeed “throw in the towel”. The following passage can be read:

Last weekend, I traveled home to Milwaukee for a wedding. I attended Mass at St. Stanislaus, which I am sure you have visited.[Indeed I have.]In a way, I felt like I was attending Mass itself for the first time ever. This was my first Latin Mass outside of my new small Latin Mass parish.

Again, I don’t understand the Latin Mass. But I feel dedicated and energized by my experience to understand it the way so many in my generation understand it.

If we want to fix the world, we have to [with reliance on the grace of God] fix ourselves. I have known for a long time that this is something I needed to do. And I am going to figure it out.

So what we can observe in the above passage is that an individual, upon coming into contact with an objective Truth that resonated with his psyche, is forced to substantively change his approach to the decisions that this person subsequently makes, i.e. attend the proper Catholic Mass in this case.

What we see in the above example can be considered a “supernatural” red pilling EVENT.

And now for an example of a “natural” red pilling EVENT. On the You Tube channel, I found a new “personality” who is producing video about her own individual “conversion”. Now this conversion is strictly limited to the that part of our Faith that is known through “natural light of human reason from the things that are made”. 

The individual goes by the name of Robyn (hope I spell it correct) and her channel is called CRITICAL CONDITION. The background of this limited conversion is that this young lady, upon moving to Ireland, was unhappy because the types of people she was meeting were of what we call the TRANSRATIONAL variety. In other words, they were what is commonly called Social Justice Warriors or leftists. So Robyn adopted their “belief system”, but deep down inside, she was not happy about it.

Robyn was in this unhappy state for the better part of four years. What changed her life, i.e. the red pilling EVENT, was  due to coming across a video produced by Dr. Jordan Peterson.

I will stop with the story here and will embed three of Robyn’s videos. They are approximately 18:00 long and worth the watch. I will start with her first video, where she explains here conversion. I will include the follow-up video of the relief she had that the first video really resonated with others on You Tube. And the third video is her application of one of Dr. Peterson’s metaphor in her own relationship with her father.

NB: What I have come to understand is that the “Rescuing the Father” metaphor can be viewed as a sort of half way house into the full Catholic Faith. The “Rescuing the Father” metaphor comes from the literary work Pinocchio. The father figure, as explained by Jordan Peterson, appears to be nothing more than the First Person of the Most Holy Trinity, and it is not the individual who saves the father, but rather it is the individual who becomes “re-aquainted” with the Father. But more on that in a follow-up post.

So for your viewing pleasure, I bring you Robyn of the CRITICAL CONDITION You Tube Channel:

1. The CONVERSION

2. Post CONVERSION

3. Application of rational thought

Concluding, what I think is important to understand, and is quite evident in the above three videos, is the state of mind of your typical individual from the age demographic commonly referred to as MILLENNIALS. We can observe that these children have been completely destroyed by the educational establishment. Furthermore, as in the case of Robyn, she came from a broken home, which only exacerbated her fragile emotional condition.

However, what is also apparent from the above videos is that, that part of our Faith that comes from that which is known through “natural light of human reason from the things that are made” is so powerful, that it can breach any ideological filters or blockades that the eduction establishment has been able to put up over the span of that child’s formative years.

What is also striking about these videos is that an intellectually honest person, when coming into contact with basically one video (Dr. Jordan Peterson) and being introduced to a number of definitions (how Thomist?) contained in that video, was able to reason out a quite rational understanding of OBJECTIVE REALITY and their predicament in that REALITY.

Now this above conclusion by no means implies, that this is the end of the road for Robyn. She has found some good advice that will put some MEANING back into her life. To be more precise, the Peterson advice will provide her with a better, more natural, rational and individualistic definition of MEANING than that which she had before. If she had any at all, that is to say.

But she still needs the help of a good priest to fill in the rest of the missing blanks in order to give her life true MEANING, not to mention set her on the road to working out her “salvation in fear and trembling”.

But this is a personal decision, and as we know from the Catholic Canon, Our Lord came to save pro multis…

So the takeaway from the above is that “red pilling” could just describe the first step toward salvation…

“Tone Policing”, “Anger Privilige” And You…

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Today we stay with our parallel theme, what one may call: understanding the operational aspects of post-Modernism.

The reason I am interrupting the main theme, i.e. the interdisciplinary attempt to form an understanding of where the post-conciliar church went wrong and to define a “cure” that would allow it to return to its mission, as defined by its Founder, namely: the salvation of souls, is that the parallel theme provides invaluable insights into the manner in which the post-Modernists are attempting to overthrow the existing societal order, be it in the POLITICAL or the ECCLESIASTICAL sub-set of the Visibilium Omnium, et Invisibilium, an order that took anywhere from 4000 (if we date it back to Mosaic Law) to 2500 (if we date it back to the Greek Academy) years to put in place.

Given the above, and if you recall dear reader, in the recent post we learned about such contemporary concepts (strategies) as “platforming”, “normalizing” and the “normalization” NARRATIVES.

Today, we add “tone policing” and “privileged rage” to our post-Modernist lexicon. I will not go into detail in this post, since the below republication does an excellent job of explaining these concepts. But one thing I will note is that some anger is “privileged” while other anger is not. Excuse the small digression…

What I will mention though is that there are a lot of people catching on. Not only are they catching on, they understand the danger in allowing this TRANSRATIONAL behaviour to become rooted in our legal and societal… let’s call them “conventions”.

Furthermore, they are beginning to organize the resistance to this post-Modernist ideology.

Today I post two videos, for your weekend viewing pleasure. The first is from Stefan Molyneux titled: The Ugly Truth About Relativism. Aside, doesn’t that title just give you dear reader a warm and fuzzy feeling inside? It does me… But I digress…

What I find interesting in this video is that Stefan takes one more observable step towards Catholicism, or what we call on this blog: the CONVERGENCE PROCESS.

The second video comes by way of Dr. Jordan Peterson. This is a two-hour video but definitely worth the watch. In this video, Dr. Peterson also takes some large steps toward Catholicism. In this video, he inadvertently crushes Francis, the bishop of Rome and the entire FrancisMercy and Bergoglian Theology of Hate cult. One such face smash comes when Dr. Peterson talks about borders. Both material borders, like walls, and immaterial borders, like the Law. In this monologue, Peterson succinctly explains why Francis and the rest of the Death cult (without naming them) are nothing more than your typical run-of-the-mill Nihilists.

But what is the most interesting aspect of this video is that Dr. Peterson provides guidance for a strategy to combat the above mentioned death cult. And the strategy is so clear and reasonable that it should easily register with the average citizen, those who will subsequently go into a voting booth and have to make an educated decision. After watching even one video like this, that decision should be much easier to make and should be of a much better quality.

On the ECCLESIASTICAL side, watching this video should allow the pew sitter to make a much better decision at the time when the collection plate is being passed around. Like these folks here.

And since we have touched on ECCLESIASTICAL matters and “privileged anger”, one more thing needs to be mentioned here and that is this: Francis’ anger is “privileged”...

So without any further comment, I bring you… (see original post here)

 

“Tone Policing” And The Left’s Anger privilege.

Authored by Daniel Greenfield via CanadaFreePress.com,

If you want to know who has privilege in a society and who doesn’t, follow the anger…

There are people in this country who can safely express their anger. And those who can’t. If you’re angry that Trump won, your anger is socially acceptable. If you were angry that Obama won, it wasn’t.

James Hodgkinson’s rage was socially acceptable. It continued to be socially acceptable until he crossed the line into murder. And he’s not alone. There’s Micah Xavier Johnson, the Black Lives Matter cop-killer in Dallas, and Gavin Long, the Black Lives Matter cop-killer in Baton Rouge. If you’re black and angry about the police, your anger is celebrated. If you’re white and angry about the Terror travel ban, the Paris Climate treaty, ObamaCare repeal or any leftist cause, you’re on the side of the angry angels. But if you’re white and angry that your job is going to China or that you just missed being killed in a Muslim suicide bombing, your anger is unacceptable.

If you’re an angry leftist, your party leader, Tom Perez will scream and curse into a microphone, and your aspiring presidential candidate, Kirsten Gillibrand, will curse along, to channel the anger of the base. But if you’re an angry conservative, then Trump channeling your anger is “dangerous” because you aren’t allowed to be angry.

Not all anger is created equal. Some anger is privileged rage.

Good anger gets you a gig as a CNN commentator. Bad anger gets you hounded out of your job. Good anger isn’t described as anger at all. Instead it’s linguistically whitewashed as “passionate” or “courageous”. Bad anger however is “worrying” or “dangerous”. Angry left-wing protesters “call out”, angry right-wing protesters “threaten”. Good anger is left-wing. Bad anger is right-wing.

Socially acceptable displays of anger, from Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter riots to the anti-Trump marches to the furious campus protests, are invariably left-wing.

Left-wing anger over the elections of Bush and Trump was sanctified. Right-wing outrage over Obama’s victory was demonized. Now that left-wing anger led a Bernie Sanders volunteer to open fire at a Republican charity baseball practice outing. And the media reluctantly concedes that maybe both sides should moderate their rhetoric. Before listing examples that lean to the right like “Lock her up”.

Not all anger is created equal. Anger, like everything else, is ideologically coded

Why were chants of “Lock her up” immoderate, but not Bush era cries of “Jail to the chief”?

Why were Tea Party rallies “ominous” but the latest We Hate Trump march is “courageous”?

Why is killing Trump on stage the hottest thing to hit Shakespeare while a rodeo clown who wore an Obama mask was hounded by everyone from the Lieutenant Governor of Missouri to the NAACP?

Not all anger is created equal. Anger, like everything else, is ideologically coded. Left-wing anger is good because its ideological foundations are good. Right-wing anger is bad because its ideology is bad.

It’s not the level of anger, its intensity or its threatening nature that makes it good or bad.

And that is why the left so easily slips into violence. All its ideological ends are good. Therefore its means, from mass starvation to gulags to riots and tyranny, must be good. If I slash your tires because of your Obama bumper sticker, I’m a monster. But if you key my car because of my Trump bumper sticker, you’re fighting racism and fascism. Your tactics might be in error, but your viewpoint isn’t.

There are no universal standards of behavior. Civility, like everything else, is ideologically limited.

Tone policing is how the anger of privileged leftists is protected while the frustration of their victims is suppressed

Intersectionality frowns on expecting civil behavior from “oppressed” protesters. Asking that shrieking campus crybully not to scream threats in your face is “tone policing”. An African-American millionaire’s child at Yale is fighting for her “existence”, unlike the Pennsylvania coal miner, the Baltimore police officer and the Christian florist whose existences really are threatened.

Tone policing is how the anger of privileged leftists is protected while the frustration of their victims is suppressed. The existence of tone policing as a specific term to protect displays of left-wing anger shows the collapse of civility into anger privilege. Civility has been replaced by a political entitlement to anger.

The left prides itself on an unearned moral superiority (“When they go low, we go high”) reinforced by its own echo chamber even as it has become incapable of controlling its angry outbursts. The national tantrum after Trump’s victory has all but shut down the government, turned every media outlet into a non-stop feed of conspiracy theories and set off protests that quickly escalated into street violence.

But Trump Derangement Syndrome is a symptom of a problem with the left that existed before he was born. The left is an angry movement. It is animated by an outraged self-righteousness whose moral superiority doubles as dehumanization. And its machinery of culture glamorizes its anger. The media dresses up the seething rage so that the left never has to look at its inner Hodgkinson in the mirror.

The angry left has gained a great deal of power

The left is as angry as ever. Campus riots and assassinations of Republican politicians are nothing new. What is changing is that its opponents are beginning to match its anger. The left still clings to the same anger it had when it was a theoretical movement with plans, but little impact on the country. The outrage at the left is no longer ideological. There are millions of people whose health care was destroyed by ObamaCare, whose First Amendment rights were taken away, whose land was seized, whose children were turned against them and whose livelihoods were destroyed.

The angry left has gained a great deal of power. It has used that power to wreck lives. It is feverishly plotting to deprive nearly 63 million Americans of their vote by using its entrenched power in the government, the media and the non-profit sector. And it is too blinded by its own anger over the results of the election to realize the anger over its wholesale abuses of power and privileged tantrums.

But monopolies on anger only work in totalitarian states. In a free society, both sides are expected to control their anger and find terms on which to debate and settle issues. The left rejects civility and refuses to control its anger. The only settlement it will accept is absolute power. If an election doesn’t go its way, it will overturn the results. If someone offends it, he must be punished. Or there will be anger.

The angry left demands that everyone recognize the absolute righteousness of its anger as the basis for its power. This anger privilege, like tone policing, is often cast in terms of oppressed groups. But its anger isn’t in defiance of oppression, but in pursuit of oppression.

Anger privilege is used to silence opposition, to enforce illegal policies and to seize power. But the left’s monopolies on anger are cultural, not political. The entertainment industry and the media can enforce anger privilege norms through public shaming, but their smears can’t stop the consequences of the collapse of civility in public life. There are no monopolies on emotion.

James Hodgkinson absorbed all this. The left fed his anger. And eventually he snapped

When anger becomes the basis for political power, then it won’t stop with Howard Dean or Bernie Sanders. That’s what the left found out in the last election. Its phony pearl clutching was a reaction to the consequences of its destruction of civility. Its reaction to that show of anger by conservatives and independents was to escalate the conflict. Instead of being the opposition, the left became the “resistance”. Trump was simultaneously Hitler and a traitor. Republicans were evil beasts.

James Hodgkinson absorbed all this. The left fed his anger. And eventually he snapped.

Anger has to go somewhere.

The left likes to think that its anger is good anger because it’s angry over the plight of illegal aliens, Muslim terrorists, transgender bathrooms, the lack of abortion in South Carolina, the minimum wage at Taco Bell, budget cuts, tax cuts, police arrests, drone strikes and all the other ways in which reality differs from its utopia. But all that anger isn’t the road to a better world, but to hate and violence.

Millions of leftists, just like Hodgkinson, are told every day that Republicans are responsible for everything wrong with their lives, the country and the planet. Despite everything they do, all the petitions they sign, the marches they attend, the donations, the angry letters, the social media rants, Republicans continue to exist and even be elected to public office. Where does that anger go?

Leftist anger is a privileged bubble of entitlement that bursts every other election

Either we have a political system based on existing laws and norms of civility. Or we have one based on coups and populist leftist anger. And there are already a whole bunch of those south of the border.

Leftist anger is a privileged bubble of entitlement that bursts every other election. Its choice is to try to understand the rest of the country or to intimidate, censor, oppress and eventually kill them.

James Hodgkinson took the latter course. His personal leftist revolution ended, as all leftist revolutions do, in blood and violence. The left can check its anger privilege and examine its entitlement.

Or his violence will be our future.

Twisting The “Fabric Of Reality” Has Consequences…

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I have come across “something” that I think is quite significant. I will try to lay it out over the next several posts, so please bear with me. I think this “something” is of major significance to not only understand the crisis in the post-conciliar church, but likewise serves to understand how to get out of this crisis and back to the core mission of the Church, namely the salvation of souls.

Furthermore, the implications from this material are that if we can arrest the “degeneration” of the Catholic Faith, by extension we can arrest the degeneration of Western Civilization in general. Or at least we can take one large step in that direction.

So let’s get started.

For the information of new readers on this blog, and there’s a quite a few lately, the most cited source on this blog is an essay by Dr. John Lamont titled Attacks on Thomism. (see here) This essay provides a detailed account of how the neomodernists in the second half of the 20th Century went about suppressing and eradicating Thomism as the foundational philosophical construct underpinning Catholic theology.

In this essay, there were quite a few observations made as to how the neomodernists went about suppressing Thomism and the unintended consequences of that suppression. One of the contentions drawn from this information is that the “instability” (non-iterability) of the post-conciliar neomodernists theology, had a causal effect on the disintegration of the Institutional Church in the West.

Fast forward to the present. Over the last couple of weeks, Dr. Jordan Peterson has been doing a series of lectures titled The Biblical Series. These lectures can be described as a clinical psychologist’s analysis of the Biblical narrative, let’s say.

What is of importance is that in these lectures, Dr. Peterson brings his clinician’s analytical toolbox to understanding processes that appear in the Bible, and by extension carry forward into the theological sub-set of the Visibilium Omnium, et Invisibilium.

So today, I will re-post a transcript of a 15 – 20 minute fragment from Dr. Peterson’s third lecture. I am republishing this fragment because it precisely details the ROOT CAUSE behind the disintegration process of post-conciliar theology and breaks down the process explained in the Lamont essay in clinical terms, into its primary components.

On a different note, I have also noticed a great example of what I call the CONVERGENCE PROCESS. The idea is that any new knowledge that is acquired, if it is OBJECTIVELY CORRECT (TRUE), will CONVERGE with that which is taught by the Catholic Magisterium. The example that I came across deals with the proper ends of Marriage. It was so good that I decided to put up an entire page titled “Reconciling Faith and Reason”. When you have time, please venture over there. It is intended to be a reader participation page, so if you dear reader come across other examples, please drop me a note in the comment box and I will post.

And now, the transcripts from the III Biblical Series. The transcript starts at the 1:30:00 mark. ( with emphasis, added emphasis and [comments])

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Any group has a set of customs. Just like a wolf pack does. So then the customs are being manifest, and then someone who is a genius is watching and thinking, ‘so what’s the rule in this situation, what’s the rule in this situation, what’s the rule in this situation’. And then in his imagination, the rules turn into a hierarchy and he goes up on a mountain and he goes bang, he thinks ‘God, here are the rules we’ve been living by all this time’.  And that’s the revelation of the Commandments.

Well then you think: ‘how else can it be’. You think rules came first and obeying came second? (…)

The actions come first, the obeying them comes first, and then you figure out what everybody’s up to and say ‘hey look, this is what you’ve been up to all along’.  Everybody goes ‘oh yea, that seems to make sense’. And if it didn’t, who would follow them? No one would follow them if they didn’t match what’s already there. Just think about that as unjust.

And so that’s portrayed there as a cataclysmic human event. It’s like ‘oh my God, we’ve been chimpanzees, we’ve been in this hierarchy of authority for so long, we have no idea what we are doing, and all of a sudden POOF, it bursts into revelatory consciousness and we can say: ‘Here is the law’. And you say: ‘is it given by God?’ Well, it depends on what you mean by God. You can start with that presupposition, but it’s not like it just came out of nowhere. It took…

And this is something else that Nietzsche observed, so interestingly, he said a moral revelation was the product of a tremendously long process of initial construction and formulation. Thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of years of custom, of building custom before you get the revelation of the articulation of the law.

And that’s a description of the pattern that works. So you say, ‘what’s the pattern that works?’

It’s the game that you can play with everybody else day after day with no degeneration.

It’s another thing that Piaget (Jean Piaget) figured out that’s so brilliant and that’s the idea of the equilibrated state.

It’s an extension of Immanual Kant’s idea about the universal maxim. You can act in a way, that each action could become a universal rule.

That was Kant’s universal moral maxim, and Piaget put a twist on that. He said, no, no, it’s not exactly it. It’s act in such a way that it works for you now, and next week and next month and next year and 10 years from now. And so while it’s working for you, it’s also working for the people around you and for the broader society. And that’s the equilibrated state.

You can think about that as the intimation as the city of God, on earth. It’s something like that. And it’s base on this idea that a morality has to be iterable.

[NB:  Iterable: capable of being iterated or repeated.]

And you know, there’s been lots of simulations online already, artificial intelligence simulations of trading games. The people who have been studying the emergence of moral behavior, say in artificial intelligence systems, have already caught onto the idea that one of the crucial elements to the analysis of morality is the iterability. You can’t play a degenerating game (post-conciliar “morality”). Because it degenerates.  You want to play a game that at least remains stable across time (Catholic morality), and God, if you can really get your act together, it could slowly get better. Of course, that’s what you’d hope for your family. Right? That’s what you are always trying to do, unless you are completely hell bent on revenge and destruction. (explains Francis’ behavior to a “t”)

[NB: What the above passage infers is that “morality systems” that lack the element of “iterability” degenerate over time. And the inference here is that post-conciliar “morality”, due to the lack of “iterability” began degenerating, and it is this degeneration that caused the Faithful to not “want to play the game” any longer. So they left…

Example: Think about a “moral system” that allows a husband to abandon his wife, and “marry” another. What is the “appeal” (iterability) of this “moral system” to that abandoned wife and her children? And what if the wayward husband had more than one family that he abandaned? ]

Is there a way that we can play together that will make playing together even better the next day? That’s what you are up to and I don’t see anything arbitrary about that.

And this is also why I think that the bloody post-modernists are so incorrect. You know, they say something like: ‘there’s an infinite number of interpretations of the world. And that’s actually true. But then they make a mistake, and they say: ‘ no interpretation is to be privileged over any other interpretation.’  It’s like WRONG. WRONG. That’s where things go seriously off the rails because the interpretation has to be… and this is the Piagetian objection: ‘ if you and I are going to play a game, rule 1 is that we both have to want to play. Rule 2 is that other people are going to let us play. Rule 3 is we should be able to play it across a pretty long period of time without it degenerating. And maybe Rule 4 is that while we are playing, the world shouldn’t kill us. There are not that many games… you know, you don’t send your kids to play on the super highway right. They’re not playing hockey on the superhighway. Cause world kills them. So there is an infinite number of interpretations, but there is not an infinite number of solutions.

And the solutions are constrained by the fact of the world and our suffering in the world, and also by the fact that we constrain each other.

[NB: And the fundamental constraint on ANY and ALL “moral systems” is that it has to conform to the Laws of Thought, i.e. Identity, Contratiction and Excluded Middle. If the “moral system” doesn’t, then one side will not want to “play the game” because the game will be stacked against that side, i.e. is corrupted. And due to the corruption, the “game” degenerates.]

And so that’s where I think it’s gone dreadfully, dreadfully wrong.

It’s really fun to look at these old pictures once you know what they mean.

What I’ve discovered is that once I understand… the underlying rationale for the… You know, someone worked hard on that. That’s an engraving. They took a long time making that picture. (…) And when you understand what it means…

You know, all those people, they’re prostrate  at the revelation of the law. Well, it’s like no wonder, break the law and see what happens? Break the universal moral law man, and see what happens?

(…) It’s no joke. You break a universal moral law and things will go seriously wrong for you. No wonder you would be in wonder… of the revelation of the structure that governs our being.

[NB: Exactly what has happened to the post-conciliar church. They broke a “universal moral law” and is now bearing the consequences.]

One of the things about the Old Testament… This is another thing that Nietzsche commented on. He was a real admirer of the Old Testament, not so much the New. He thought it was a sin for Europe to have glued the New Testament onto the Old Testament because he thought that the Old Testament was a really accurate representation of the phenomenology of being.  It’s like: stay awake, speak properly, be honest or watch the hell out, because things will come your way that you do not want to see at all. And it might not just be you, it might be everyone you know and everything about your culture that is demolished for generation and generation. It’s like, stay awake and be careful.

[NB: In our case, one can say that by suppressing Thomism (an iterable – non-degenerative moral system), and adopting an approach that was based on the “historical perspectivism” fallacy as the foundation of post-conciliar theology, the post-conciliar church, as a consequence, has “twisted the fabric of reality” by violating the “universal moral law” and is suffering from the consequences of that violation.]

I think people only don’t believe that when they are being hubristic. I think that most people know that deep in their hearts. You know, when you get high on your horse that happens fairly often. If you have any sense, you would think ‘ gee I’d better be careful. I better tap myself down a bit, because if I get too puffed up man, something is going to come along and take me out at the knees and everyone knows that: pride comes before the fall.

That’s why it says in the Old Testament that: Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.

[NB: I have not come across a better piece of advice that anyone can offer to the post-conciliar hierarchy at this point in time, than this above.]

(…)

Something happens. Someone twists the fabric of reality. And they do it “successfully” because it doesn’t snap back at them that moment. And then two years later, something unravels. And they get whalloped. And they say: That’s so unfair. And we track it. And then we say, what happened before that? This, and then before that this, and before that this… oh this. And that is where it went wrong.  

 [NB: A great way to describe what happened in the middle of the last century. The neomodernists “bent the “fabric of reality” and it is snapping back. But instead of stepping back and correcting the error, they are doubling down.]

Yea, because you can’t twist the fabric of reality without having it snap back. Because it doesn’t work that way. Because what are you going to do, twist the fabric of reality? I don’t think so. Because it’s bigger than you. Because I think that one of the things that temps people is that ‘ I can get away with it’. Yea, try. You’ll see how well that works. It’s like, you get away with nothing. And that is the beginning of wisdom, and that’s something that deeply terrifies me…

Because there are rules. And if you break them: God help you.

And I would just add: …because there is a just GOD!

To be continued…

 

 

They Hate You…

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I hope all my dear readers had a lovely mid-June weekend.

So if you did, today’s headline will not “trigger” you.

And yes, they really, really hate us.

But more about that later.

So back to the subject at hand…

Given that we have been hitting the philosophical aspects of His creation’s existence quite hard lately, today we will turn to the practical. In the video above, you will observe a self proclaimed “nominal atheist” giving one of his best “homiletics” to date, one of a supernatural character at that, about the necessity to fight EVIL.

Yes, Stefan Molyneux has hit another one out of the ball park.

One reason why I bring this video to your attention, is to make amends for an older Molyneux video that I linked to in the previous post, one in which Stefan derided some dogmatic aspects of Catholicism. Now, as I noted in a comment to that post, this earlier video that I posted was made in mid 2015. If we look at and compare the Stefan of 2015 and the Stefan of literally yesterday, we see a CONVERGENCE PROCESS taking place.

The second reason I am brining this to your attention is to begin the discussion about RESOURCES.

Why RESOURCES you might ask?

Well, because of something that God told us when he cast out our original parents from the Garden of Eden. Here is what He said: (Genesis 3: 17-19)

“And to Adam he said, Thou hast listened to thy wife’s counsel, and hast eaten the fruit I forbade thee to eat; and now, through thy act, the ground is under a curse. All the days of thy life thou shalt win food from it with toil;  

thorns and thistles it shall yield thee, this ground from which thou dost win thy food.

Still thou shalt earn thy bread with the sweat of thy brow, until thou goest back into the ground from which thou wast taken; dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”

Now to translate this into contemporary terms, what God told Adam was that he and his descendents would have to continuously acquire their RESOURCES through hard work.

Or as Milton Freidman would say: there is no such thing as a free lunch.

Note bene: Notice how nicely this concept works itself into the r/K Selection Theory?

Which brings us to our practical advice on how to fight EVIL.

One sure way to fight EVIL is to deprive EVIL of their RESOURCES.

Going one step further, the manner in which one can deprive EVIL of their RESOURCES is to STOP patronizing those businesses that promulgate EVIL, whether intentionally or not.

To this end, you humble blogger has created a new page titled “They Hate Us!” On this page, a list of businesses will be named (and shamed) that are promulgating EVIL. EVIL is defined as per Catechism of the Catholic Church. Therefore, if one patronizes these businesses, one is effectively promulgating EVIL.

And just to demonstrate that we will not be the only ones who have adopted this strategy of FIGHTING EVIL, I re-publish a Zero Hedge post that has some interesting information. (see here)

It would appear that approximately 25% of adults already boycott selective brands.

And finally, a few words about hatred.

Over at the Catechism of the Catholic Church, we can read the following:

1755 A morally good act requires the goodness of the object, of the end, and of the circumstances together. An evil end corrupts the action, even if the object is good in itself (such as praying and fasting “in order to be seen by men”).

The object of the choice can by itself vitiate an act in its entirety. There are some concrete acts – such as fornication – that it is always wrong to choose, because choosing them entails a disorder of the will, that is, a moral evil.

1756 It is therefore an error to judge the morality of human acts by considering only the intention that inspires them or the circumstances (environment, social pressure, duress or emergency, etc.) which supply their context. There are acts which, in and of themselves, independently of circumstances and intentions, are always gravely illicit by reason of their object; such as blasphemy and perjury, murder and adultery. One may not do evil so that good may result from it.

And Canon 1756 is subject to Canon 1789 which reads as follows:

1789 Some rules apply in every case:

– One may never do evil so that good may result from it;

– the Golden Rule: “Whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.”⁵⁶

– charity always proceeds by way of respect for one’s neighbor and his conscience: “Thus sinning against your brethren and wounding their conscience . . . you sin against Christ.”⁵⁷ Therefore “it is right not to . . . do anything that makes your brother stumble.”⁵⁸

And Canon 1789 is the best answer against sophist arguments about “an adolescent spirituality” as promoted by certain FrancisCardinals, and is being allowed by the bishop of Rome himself.

And pointing out these inconvenient inconsistencies is why they literally hate us.

So the moral of the story is, as per the LEX ARMATICUS: 

6th Principle:

Stop giving these leftists money!

*****

25% Of Americans Admit Partisan Politics Drove Them To Boycott Brands

Amid the increasingly divided electorate, it appears the most important part of America – the consumer – is now caught up in the political partisanship like never before.

Think there’s more hoopla about brand boycotts than actual boycotting? Maybe not. As Adage.com reports, a new Ipsos survey found that 25% of Americans said they had stopped using a brand’s goods or services in the previous three months because of protests, boycotts or the brand’s perceived political leanings.

A quarter of the U.S. population amounts to around 80 million people according to US Census data.

“That’s a lot of people that are saying politics are driving their purchasing behavior,” said Chris Jackson, VP and strategic communication research lead at Ipsos Public Affairs.

“Socially conscientious consumerism has been on the rise for years,” said Ronn Torossian, CEO of 5W Public Relations.

“Given the combination of that trend and the current politically charged climate, it’s not surprising to see that such a significant number of Americans have changed their shopping habits due to politics.”

The big takeaway according to Ipsos: Marketers can’t always avoid the political fray any more, and are well-advised to at least know their consumers’ political leanings.

“It’s really important to understand are your customers liberal or conservative, or do they cross the line or are they both,” Jackson said.

Daniel O’Connell, managing director and Brand Definition, a agency that works primarily with tech clients including Hitachi and Philips, was not convinced, arguing that brands shouldn’t worry about political biases of consumers and should refrain from getting caught up in politics.

“Swaying one way versus another to mollify or pander maybe to one part of the group — that makes no sense whatsoever,” he said.

“As a brand, you’ve got to stand for something yourselves and it’s got to be your values.”

Just ask Starbucks, Nordstrom, or Uber…

“That’s Just The Nature Of Things”

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Today will be a good news day. Having said that, since most of the news coming from the FrancisRabbitChurch™ is so dreadful, the bar for what constitutes good news is quite low. But anyways…

First point of order is that your humble blogger has been observing a pattern which could lead to a identifiable PROCESS. The pattern that has been observed is one where bloggers from the Catholic blogosphere have been picking up and commenting on the work produced by Dr. Jordan Peterson.

Background is as follows. A few months after I started noticing and writing about Dr. Peterson’s videos and lectures, I noticed another blogger, namely Tantum from the Dallas Area Catholics blog also producing posts about Dr. Peterson’s work. (see here and here just to mention 2).

Now a third blogger has entered the fray. Over at the The Orthosphere blog, I came across a post titled Some ideas either from or inspired by listening to Jordan Peterson podcasts. This post is so good, and written with what one can call a “Nietzschian compactness”, that I am reposting it here:

The one thing God lacks is limitation. Every being that exists is limited. Limitation creates suffering. I would add that overcoming current limitations involves suffering; but limitations will continue and thus suffering will continue. The trick is not to become angry and resentful due to the necessary suffering that existence involves. In the pathological, the anger and resentment at one’s own existence is directed at all of existence in toto, which makes a kind of sense since suffering and existence are coextensive; it’s nothing personal! Peterson sees certain dictators, among others, as ultimately infected with this nihilistic urge for total destruction.

So, suffering is not just part of the human condition, but at the heart of all existence. If it were possible to exist outside of actually being a limited creature, then upon hearing of the existence of a person with even the greatest blessings of health, wealth and beauty, one can imagine sending one’s condolences.

What I find interesting about this above text is that it is a perfect example of what we call the CONVERGENCE PROCESS on this blog. What is in fact happening is that the subset of the Visibilium Omnium, et Invisibilium that is clinical psychology, as represented by Dr. Peterson is CONVERGING with the philosophical (theological) subset as represented by Richard Cocks at the Orthosphere blog.

Another PROCESS that could be taking form, but is still in the early stage is what I will call: The proper categorization of what is the “theology” of Francis. Your humble blogger has been writing about this, and placing Francis’ “theology” in the post-modernist camp. Just to review, the post-modernists are a quasi-religious sect, whose basic tenants of their belief system are described as follows: (see here) (emphasis added)

The post-Modernists don’t believe in coherency, and I’m not making this up. This is part of their philosophy. They don’t believe in logic. You know, Derrida says straight out that Western is fallo- logo centric, by which he means male centered and privileging the idea of logic. Well, he doesn’t buy any of that.  He doesn’t think that there is a truth that is out there. He doesn’t believe that individuals can reach any sort of truth by thinking. He certainly doesn’t believe that we can move towards truth in dialogue. Because that’s “dia-logic”. Right? There’s none of that. (case in point here)

Given the above as context, over at the Musings of a Pertinacious Papist blog, a post appeared titled ‘Is Francis a Postmodernist’? Here is that post:

I’m not sure the discourse of the Holy Father rises (or ‘sinks’) to the level of academic abstraction sufficient to qualify him as a ‘Postmodernist,’ but when you read some of the seemingly hyperbolic praise he heaps on the likes of nihilistic Postmodern writers like Michel de Certeau (right), you can see how someone might come up with an article like that of the pro-life activist, Fred Martinez, “Pope Francis and Nihilism” (Catholic Monitor, Sunday, May 28, 2017).

What I think is key to understand the above is that there really is no such thing as ‘Postmodernism’. As Dr. Peterson explains, post-Modernism is just a veneer that masks Marxism. (Here is Noam Chomsky, an eye witness to explain how post-Modernism came into being.) Reverting back to the Peterson video, we get an explanation of the difference between the post-modernist FrancisTheology™ and the “populist cum Marxist” – Francis, the bishop of Rome:

Anyways, forget about logic. That’s out the window. That’s just a construct of Western society and the whole point of the construct was to oppress those other people and to take their wealth. And to privilege the people who live in that so called logic system, so that they can justify to themselves and other people their predator rapaciousness.  Straight and simple. And that’s partly because post-Modernism was influenced by Marxism and that of course because that’s what the Marxist think about any  situation where there is a power status differential. The people at the top are only there because they stole everything from the people at the bottom.

Going one step further, and as we know from Hilary White’s great assessment of Francis (see here), he is all about CONTROL. So using a “populist cum Marxist” framework disguised in a post-Modernist FrancisTheology™, and given the current intellectual state of the post-conciliar church, especially the hierarchy, this is what works now.

A minor digression… But if Vladimir Putin took over the world, and the power structure turned to a “conservative/nationalistic” mindset, kind of like in Argentina during the rule of the Generals, Francis would no doubt sound like this here.

Notice the difference?

If Francis is anything, it is malleable!

Concluding, what is important to understand is that PROCESSES are taking place. These PROCESSES are independent events, outside the control of anyone or any group that would like to control them. These PROCESSES appear to be driven by rational thought and can be characterized as independent and stand alone.

In the above text, we see two such PROCESSES, namely the CONVERGENCE between the secular and ecclesiastical sub-sets of human activity.

Next, we also notice a PROCESS in its early stages, one that attempts to identify the “verbiage” coming from Francis, the bishop of Rome and categorize it into the CORRECT “school of thought” that it objectively represents. By identifying and categorizing what it is that Francis is telling us, we can then assess… or rather judge the VALUE of that message.

What is important to take away from the Pertinacious Papist post is that the classification of Francis’ message is definitely falling outside of that which we can call a Catholic “school of thought”.

And rightly so.

And finally, what is the most encouraging is that these questions are beginning to be asked, and in forums that are Catholic. In other words, we are beginning to see the early signs of an Institution (Catholic Church) that is trying to understand the situation that it finds itself in, and hopefully the beginning of the PROCESS of righting itself.

And this appears to be due just to the nature of the things…

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In today’s post we will transition from the POLITICAL to the ECCLESIASTICAL subset of the Visibilium Omnium. The transition itself will be structured, in that it will pivot around one idea. That one idea can be defined as textual criticism.

What we will do today is take one example of the employment of textual criticism in the POLITICAL subset and through the LEX ARMATICUS, transition into the ECCLESIASTICAL.

Today we begin with the infamous #ComeyMemo and its textual criticism by none other than Stefan Molyneux. I will not bore you with the transcribed text, but you dear reader should listen to the video to get an idea of what a textual criticism PROCESS should entails.

On a different level, what can be discerned from the above video is that the above mentioned PROCESS is derived from one of the two sources of our Faith, i.e. those things known through “natural light of human reason from the things that are made”. This is the foundation for the textual criticism PROCESS that Mr. Molyneux employs when discerning the VALUE, or the lack there of, of the #ComeyMemos.

And if there is one overriding PRINCIPLE that can be termed as the HIGHEST STANDARD (some would say “rigid”) for Mr. Molyneux critical examination of the facts surrounding the #ComeyMemos, it is the old Roman legal maxim:

Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus.

Now we transitioning to the ECCLESIASTICAL subset of the Visibilium Omnium. The observation that your humble blogger has noticed and is putting out for your consideration is the following:

all pre Vatican II papal documents have never violated the Roman legal maxim of “falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus”.

Let this sink in for a minute or two…

So why am I bringing this matter up at this time?

The reason is that this textual criticism methodology that is known through “natural light of human reason from the things that are made”, when applied to ALL papal documents promulgated post Vatican II, can serve as the OBJECTIVE MECHANISM that can separate that which is grounded in Truth, from that which is not.

In other words, before allowing a “definitive” interpretation of a papal document, a textual criticism methodology should be performed of that document. A textual criticism methodology, using OBJECTIVELY defined techniques would check for things stemming the range from violating the rules of logical thought and other basic editing errors to more advanced techniques that the field of textual criticism currently offers.

What’s more important, all documents produced after the Second Vatican Council should need to undergo this thorough evaluation.

And finally, a few paragraphs about why this is so important. Over at the Rorate Caeli blog, a post appeared titled Latest statistics: seminarians down in the USA and the world, priests worldwide in decline, catastrophic decline in women religious. Will vocations survive the new Bergoglian priestly formation document? 

And as you dear reader no doubt guessed, and as your humble blogger has been predicting, vocations are tanking. Here is how the author describes what we call the Real FrancisEffect or conversely the FrancisDisaster:

The summary notes that “In 2015 there is decline in the number of priests from the previous year, thus reversing the upward trend that characterized the years from 2000 to 2014.”

  So how bad is it?

It’s BAD.

Relatively speaking, it is as if Francis, the bishop of Rome is extending the disastrous post-Bergoglio Buenos Aires seminary into the Universal Church. Once again I ask: How is it that no one seen this coming? But I digress…

And what is one aspect of the Francis seminary EPIC FAIL that the author of the post has identified? Here is that passage:

In December of last year, the Congregation for the Clergy released a new document on priestly formation that, among other things, lays down (in p. 21) that seminarians should be “helped to recognise and correct ‘spiritual worldiness’: obsession with personal appearances, a presumed theological or disciplinary certainty, narcissism and authoritarianism, the attempt to dominate others, a merely external and ostentatious preoccupation with the liturgy, vainglory, individualism, the inability to listen to others, and every form of careerism”. With “theological and disciplinary certainty” now considered a defect that must be eradicated from seminarians, only God knows what kind of priests we’ll be getting (and how many) in the future.

So right about now, you dear reader are asking: isn’t this a small, insignificant sentence or two, that has very little if no impact on anything having to do with seminary enrollment and future vocations? And in the same paragraph, the author responds to exactly that observation as follows:

Some might argue that we need not worry about this little passage and that most of the document is sound, but the past year has shown us how brief passages and even footnotes in an official document can cause immense chaos in the Church.

Even so, why is this passage so important, you still might be asking?

Well, it just so happens that at the next Conclave, it is the VOCATIONS AND SEMINARY FRANCISDISASTER that will be the overriding theme. I say again:

V. O. C. A. T. I. O. N. S. 

Here is Andre Gagliarducci from the MondayVatican blog with that information:

“… rumors are circulating about the Cardinals’ moves and expectations for the next Pope. At the same time, there is a need to understand what the Church needs, and what is the natural continuation of a Church that is “outward bound” and heading “toward peripheries,” two themes that characterize Francis’s pontificate along with the agenda of mercy. All of those involved in these conversations give a unanimous response: the next election will be about the seminaries.”

And there you have it.

So what is the moral of this story?

It would appear that if the future electors at the next conclave want to seriously address the vocations and seminaries issue, they should be putting in place an OBJECTIVE METHODOLOGY that assess what went wrong over the last 50 years.

A good place to start would be to eliminate any confusion that has been caused by issues arising from a lack of “editing” and a thorough textual criticism of any documents pertaining to this issue. Kind of like Stefan Molyneux did with the #ComeyMemo.

And the benchmark threshold of acceptance should be falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus.

This should be done so that the men and women who may have a calling to the religious life, know exactly where they stand!

And once that is performed, the cardinals can take that same methodology and apply it to the rest of the post Vatican II docs. Also using the benchmark falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus. This will allow the rest of us Faithful to know exactly where we stand!

So FALSUS IN UNO, FALSUS IN OMNIBUS should be our Catholic battle cry!

Come to think of it, I just got an idea for a felt banner…

Dr. Jordan Peterson (Clinical Psychologist) GOES THERE!

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For those following my blog, you will know that I have been following the work (as posted in videos on YouTube) of Dr. Jordan Peterson. And as you know, I have been recognizing patterns that support PROCESSES that are taking place inside and outside of the Catholic Church. I have termed these as CONVERGENCE PROCESSES.

The patterns that I have noticed in turn can be summed up as follows: a return to Thomism. As my loyal reader know, Thomism is the philosophical framework (and not just) that was developed by the 13th century Scholastics and served as foundation of Catholic doctrine until it was brutally suppressed by the neo-Modernists in the middle of the last century.

What I have been observing on the secular side of human endeavor, especially in some areas of academia, is that serious scholars, let’s call them EMPIRICISTS, are returning to what can be called the classical scholars and picking up where these scholars left off.

In the video at the top of this page, you will notice (at about the 1:46:00 mark) that Dr. Peterson talks about morality and Fredric Nietzsche’ critique of Christianity. He goes on to say that Nietzsche, who created the “overman”, someone who was able to create his own “values” was wrong and that Carl Jung corrected Nietzsche. What Jung corrected was the notion that “values”, i.e. morality is inherent in man. Now Carl Jung was no St. Thomas Aquinas, but Dr. Jordan Peterson is quickly closing the distance. But I digress… When I first heard this, the first thing that came to my mind is the following discussion of Natural Moral Law here: (Romans 2:14-15)

For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature those things that are of the law; these having not the law are a law to themselves: Who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness to them, and their thoughts between themselves accusing, or also defending one another.

Notice the CONVERGENCE PROCESS or is it just me?

Now to the subject at hand and more CONVERGENCE PROCESS. What I have done below is transcribe the summary that Dr. Peterson gave starting at the 1:06:00 mark. I will repost and comment.

And so I will repeat the outline and end.

Now I was talking about the boundaries of free speech. And I believe that speech should be untrammeled because it is too dangerous to encapsulate it, but that does not mean that I believe that speech, free speech comes without responsibility. I believe quite the contrary, that free speech carries with it the highest responsibility because if you wish the right to free speech, so that the responsibility of speaking, then you have to contend with the fact that your words are the force that shapes the world. And that with every word you utter, things tilt slightly heavenward or slightly hell ward and that responsibility rests firmly on your shoulders. And it’s inescapable.

After you have digested the above, please go into this video here (time permitting) and see what inferences you can draw from that material.

But back to the Peterson video:

And that’s a terrible thing to realize although it is a meaningful thing to realize. And people say that they would like their life to be meaningful and that’s a questionable claim because to recognize your life as meaningful, is to understand that everything you do matters and that what it means for things to matter is that your deciding in some sense between heaven on earth and hell on earth  with every decision that you make. And that the decision that you make echo far beyond you in ways that are almost incomprehensible and that the destiny of the world is determined by the collective decisions of the individuals that make up the world. And that we’re all locked together deciding in which metaphysical direction our little planet will go.

So free speech carries with it heavy responsibility but the responsibility is something you want because it justifies the suffering of existence.

Life is suffering.

Love is the desire to see unnecessary suffering ameliorated.

Truth is the handmaiden of love.

Dialogue is the pathway to truth.

Humility, that’s recognition of personal insufficiency and the willingness to learn.

To learn is to die voluntarily. And to be born again in great ways and small.

So speech must be untrammeled so that dialogue can take place. So that we can all humbly learn. So that truth can serve life. So that suffering can be ameliorated. So that we can all stumble forward.

Towards the Kingdom of God.

Notice the above. Sound familiar, yes.

And what is surprising is where Dr. Peterson’s logical progression terminates. Aside, please listen carefully to the part about Pinocchio’s FATHER, Geppetto and how he relates to the classics. But I digress…

Now, Dr. Peterson doesn’t differentiate between the kingdom of God (a proposed secular construct) and the Kingdom of God as per Quas Primas, but the differentiation can be extracted from this lecture.

I will end here, since there is a lot of watching.

But one final request. As you are watching this video, always please keep in mind that you are listening to a clinical psychologist.

“FrancisSovereign” Order Of Malta – The Dry Run…

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For those who have been following my blog, you will have noticed recurring themes. Among these recurring themes are: NUChurch – in Liquidation and the FrancisChurch NGO. The manner in which these two theme converge is: due to the EPIC FAIL of the post-conciliar NUChurch, the dwindling number of pew sitters that are the source of funding of the contributions made pursuant to Canon 1271 of the Code of Canon Law and the IDEOLOGICAL RIGIDITY of the bishop of Rome, Francis has decided to transform the Bride of Christ into a functionally secular NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION. Today we have more evidence (DATA POINTS) supporting correctness of the above supposition.

What’s more, we introduce a new element: Historiological and Cultural FrancisCleansing. 

The Cultural FrancisCleansing can be observed from such occurrences as the completely irrational FrancisWar on Tradition. This FrancisWar appears to be an emotional exercise on Francis’ part since it is being waged regardless of either economic or operational consequences. (see here and more recently here)

With respect to the Historiological FrancisCleansing, what is meant by this is term is purging of any previous historical structures that have been put in place within the Institutional Church by Francis’ predecessors. All 265 of them, including the 36 or 42 false ones! We got an preview of just this FrancisStrategy in the interview given byArchbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez to the Corriere della Sera on the 10th of May 2015. (see here)

Today, we add to our knowledge.

Our jump-off point is our post titled The Bishops Really Need To Start Speaking Out About This…

In that post, we laid out in some detail how Francis is attempting to transform the very nature of the Catholic Church. What is in fact happening is that Francis is trying to get rid of the supernatural nature of the Catholic Faith and TRANSFORM post-conciliar NUChurch into FrancisChurch, a completely worldly institution. And if we are to believer Archbishop Victor Fernandez, Francis wants to make these changes permanent.

This FrancisStrategy is in turn due to the catastrophic state of Vatican finances, as we have pointed out many times (latest see here). The post-conciliar church, by driving the Faithful away has created a huge funding gap. Since they have not replaced the old funding model with a new one, post-conciliar church is at the mercy of special interests for a big part of their funding.  Cough, cough… KIRCHENSTEUER. These special interests in turn have their own agendas, agendas which are contradictory to the Church’s stated mission, i.e. the salvation of souls.

This is where we pick up the story today.

I found two post today relating to the upcoming election of the Grand Master of the “FrancisSovereign” Order of Malta. (see here and here)  In these posts, the careful observer can identify the above themes playing themselves out in real-time.

Carefully watching what is transpiring “behind” the scenes, we first notice that Francis has taken an extraordinarily unusual interest in the upcoming election. An election of the government of a previously SOVEREIGN state.

The interest in the election and the new order in the Maltese Order, on a operational level, can be viewed as transformational in its own right.  To explain, Giuseppe Nardi on the Eponymous Flower blog writes the following:

The latter regulation [limiting the eligible candidates] to assures the Order its elitist character, but on the whole, the limitation of the candidates for the Grand Master office to the first class ensures, above all, its spiritual character. 

So what are the limitations on the eligibility to become the next Grand Master?

The Grand Master must be a professed knight, for only these, among all knights, undertake the solemn vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. These are currently among the world’s 13,000 knights less than 60. (…) The Maltese are similar and yet different. The Second and the Third Estate, together with the First Estate, elect the Grand Master, but must choose him from the small circle of the “Monks’ Knights”. This is reduced to currently 12 candidates because, according to old custom, all four grandparents of the Grand Master must be of noble descent.

And the reason behind these statutory restrictions is:

This has been and still is to prevent the ancient order from becoming a mere humanitarian NGO among others. 

So it appears that Francis has problems with the 12 potential candidates that could be elected under the current Order’s statutes. The reason he would have a problem with these individuals is that they most likely do not want to take the Order in a new direction. A “German tendency“.

On the other hand, Team Francis would like a new and transformational direction very much, a “German tendency”. Giuseppe explains what this “German tendency” entails:

The “German tendency” in the Order has for some years been said to make the Maltese Order such an NGO, which would surely be efficient, thoroughly organized with German efficiency and superior to all comparable NGOs because of the diplomatic immunity of the Order. They see the framework within the Order to build up therein the perfect humanitarian, international player and contact for governments and international institutions. 

The critics of this “German tendency“, i.e. the 12 potential candidates under the current statutory regime however, are of the following mindset:

Critics, on the other hand, argue that this is possible only at an unacceptable price: the loss of its identity as a Catholic order, if not the loss of its Christian identity. The main distinction between other humanitarian NGOs would no longer be the charism of the Knights ‘and Hospitaler’ Order, which in Jerusalem protected the pilgrims on their way to the holy places, who for centuries defended Christianity militarily and who always performed works of active charity with the works of the spiritual Charity.

And what is the primary motivation for introducing these transformational FrancisChanges into the FrancisSovereign Order of Malta?

The answer comes via Edward Pentin and the OnePeterFive blog. Here is that text:

The anonymously written paper also claims that the Vatican is supportive of Boeselager (the “German tendency”) and the order’s wealthy German members partly because it is cash poor and relying on outside financial help.

“The German bishops practically control the Vatican because they are so rich and the Vatican so poor,” the author stated. “Indeed, the Vatican is constantly in danger of becoming insolvent and is easily manipulated by the German bishops.”

This is said to explain why the Vatican did not want Boeselager dismissed, formed a commission of investigation into his dismissal largely made up of people connected with a $118 million bequest to the order based in Switzerland, and had him swiftly reinstated.

So what can be inferred from the information above?

Much!

What we are witnessing is TRANSFORMATIONAL FrancisChange being forced onto the Order of Malta. What in fact is happening is that The Francis is using the artificially created leadership crisis that he brought about, to bring new management into the Order, management that will change the Order from a Catholic organization into a secular Non Governmental Organization.

What is in fact also happening, is that Francis is using the Order as an experimental Petri dish to see how far he can go in introducing this sort of TRANSFORMATIONAL FrancisChange into the wider Universal Church.

If it goes smoothly, and Francis sees that there is little or no opposition, we can expect that the FrancisChange will go full speed ahead in the Universal Church

If he is stopped or even faces stiff opposition, he will adjust his scheming and skullduggery and try to figure out something else.

Remember, his ghost writer Victor “heal me with your kiss” Fernandez said so.

But whatever the outcome of this little situation, the FrancisWreckingBall is in full swing, taking down any and all opposition to Francis’ plan for creating a ONE WORLD RELIGION with Francis sitting on the top of the heap.

He is doing to the Order of Malta that which the Taliban did to the Buddhas of Bamiyan

Welcome to reality folks!

Vive La France… (w Updates)

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Today, Low Sunday is a big EVENT day. The first round of the French presidential elections are taking place as I write this.

Update 6: 13:25 23 April 2017

No drama.

LePen and Macron through.

Not surprising, but disappointing none the less.

Uphill fight since entire French establishment will be against her.

Update 5: 12:35 23 April 2017

UK’s Daily Mail reporting Le Pen through to second round.

They have Macron as leading though, so we have conflicting reports.

Update 4: 12:20 23 April 2017

More leaks. Looks like Le Pen and the communist Melenchon going through to second round.

OBJECTIVE REALITY is just 34 minutes away!

Update 3: 11:33 23 April 2017

We are on the right track folks… (see here)

Story appeared on Gateway Pundit with a timestamp of 09:41 Eastern.

If correct, it looks like Le Pen v. Fillon in second round.

Update 2: 10:10 23 April 2017

It’s like Deja Vu all over again…

Just took an online poll and here are the results:

And this is the result from the #FrenchElection Twitter timeline, i.e. not pro Le Pen.

And this one here:

The above poll shows Le Pen within 2 percentage points of wrapping it all up in the first round.

Wow!

Fillon is consistant at 9% to 11%. If this is correct, that would mean that his support is heading over to the Le Pen camp. Very interesting….

Update 1: 09:40 23 April 2017

The Daily Telegraph comes out and admits that Marine Le Pen is “riding high in the bellwether town”.

Slowly the unwashed masses are being prepared for OBJECTIVE REALITY.

Turnout in the first round of France’s hotly contest presidential elections was higher than expected at midday, after recent polls suggested that more than a third may stay away from polling booths.

At midday, the interior ministry said that 28.54 percent of eligible voters had cast their ballot, compared with 28.29 percent in 2012.

Turnout is key. Big turnout is good for Marine Le Pen. And in a country where 80% + of the electorate goes to the polls, even fractions of percents become significant.

 

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I have not been writing about nor predicting the French election since I don’t speak French and don’t follow the French political scene let alone the cultural scene. Therefore, I will not insult your intelligence by providing you dear reader with information that I have no way of verifying.

Having said that, there is one blog that I do follow which operates under the name of GalliaWatch. Today, on this blog their appeared the following post titled: The latest poll and the bookmakers.

In that post, there is some information that I find credible, in the “can be objectively verifiable” sense of that term. This has to do with one of the candidates, namely Mousier Macron. Now for those who have not been following this campaign, Macron shot up from nowhere into the lead, in the French fake polls after Mousier Fillon had his little problem with nepotism and sweetheart deals given to immediate family members.

Now Mr. Fillon was leading in the polls at the time the scandal broke and what I found strange about this flip-flop was that intuitively, it would mean that the ex-Fillon voters would be going over now to the Macron side.

HIGHLY UNLIKELY, especially in the first round!

Now… knowing the positions that these two politicians represent, I found this hardly credible. Hence, FAKE POLLS.

Which brings us the the below post. In this post, a poll appears with the following results:

I find the above credible in terms of positioning in which the candidates will fall after the polls close.

If this is the case, the second round will be fought between Marine Le Pen and François Fillon.

The second and last observation that needs to be made is this: by how much are the Le Pen votes suppressed in the fake polls? If we recall, in the Trump election, we had a 13% point swing in the final week (Courtesy of ABC “News”).

So what we will be watching for today is the voting percentage that Le Pen gains from the actual voting. If she gets an increase of say 10%-13% that we saw in the Trump elections, she could be in the mid 30’s in the first round.

And if we are in the mid 30’s in the first round and Fillon is the opponent, then Marine Le Pen stands a good chance to be the next President of the Republic of France.!

OREMUS!

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The latest poll and the bookmakers

First, as you probably know, Donald Trump tweeted for Marine Le Pen.

Second, the impatience is growing in the comment sections of the websites I consult.

Third, all kinds of plots and schemes are being bruited about but I have no proof of anything. These “plots” concern the honesty of the election and whether or not one can place any faith at all in the “democratic” process. We have been through that here, we know how it feels to suddenly realize that an election is merely a trick, a bait that the gullible population gobbles up, that it is all rigged in advance, that nothing we do matters, etc… But here, we learned (to our amazement) that the people still had something to say, and we can only hope that the same is true in France. For the people of France, the patriots, to win on Sunday they have to come out massively, and leave their doubts behind. If Marine Le Pen wins in the end, and becomes president, there will be ample time to criticize her decisions, to complain, to say you’re sorry you voted for her, to wish you were in another country, to cry in your beer, etc… And the complaints may be justified. She is NOT  the “far right-winger” the media proclaim her to be, we know that, and she has changed the nature of the Front National from a nationalist right-wing party into a nationalist left-friendly party, and this is not good. But there is no other choice. Of course, you can stay home and not vote, and many people refuse to participate in a “democratic” process they perceive as corrupt and leftist financed and manipulated.

Rather than rant like everyone else is doing, I’ll give you the latest predictions, showing Marine in the lead. This poll, dated April 21, 11:30 p.m., is the last one from Filteris. The FN is black, the LR (Fillon) is blue, Mélenchon is red, and Macron is yellow:

From Riposte Laïque:

Note that the attack on the Champs-Elysées occurred 24 hours before this poll. Marine Le Pen advanced by almost one point (0.97%) while François Fillon remains qualified for the second round, even though he lost 0.56% of potential votes.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon seems to be the beneficiary of the “useful votes”, that are coming from the voters of Benoît Hamon and Philippe Poutou (both leftists). He has progressed again 0.23% and is currently at 21.34% or barely 0.2% from the Les Républicains candidate (i.e., François Fillon).

As for Emmanuel Macron, he too has progressed by 0.11%, stopping his free-fall, no doubt because Benoît Hamon’s voters are also giving him some “useful votes”.

Note: In France a “useful vote” is a tactical vote, not a vote based on conviction. It usually serves the purpose of preventing someone from being elected.

Among the “small candidates” François Asselineau appears to be the only one to advance slightly.

Note: Asselineau founded the UPR party in 2007 and has slowly managed to become known to the public via the Internet. He espouses a comprehensive platform that is essentially pro-sovereignty and nationalist/protectionist, and advocates that France leave the EU, the Euro Zone and NATO. He has been accused of promoting conspiracy theories, and of being anti-American. Read more at Wikipedia.

If we are to believe Filteris, we are heading for a second round between Marine and Fillon, with a possible surprise from Mélenchon. (…)

The bookmakers continue to bank on a second round between Macron (favored by far) against Marine, who would beat Fillon by a hair.

Note: Readers at Riposte Laïque have no faith whatsoever in Filteris and feel the author of the article, Anne-Laure Joly, doesn’t know her job. Many readers at this website believe Marine is way ahead of everyone and that the truth about her ratings is being covered up.

One reader reports the following, but does not provide the source:

– The news is out. If in the second round it’s Marine vs Fillon, the left is calling for a night of barricades and destruction throughout all of France… a fine example of democracy. I don’t remember any FN voter burning a car, smashing a bus stop or throwing Molotov cocktails at the police during the 2012 victory of that slug Hollande. Now we know who the real fascists are in this country.

For those interested in the gambling aspects of the election, the website Oddschecker posted this report dated April 21, 10:44 p.m. (gambling jargon is above my head):

The first round of the Presidential elections will take place this Sunday as French voters head to the polls. Results will be released around 8pm local time and if one candidate receives more than 50% of the first vote, they will automatically become the next French President and the second round of voting will be cancelled. However, no candidate has ever walked away with the main prize after the first round of voting and given the odds, it seems unlikely to happen this year. If there is no outright majority, the top two politicians will face-off again on Sunday May 7.

Betting on the next French President has been a popular market throughout the year on Oddschecker, with betting activity at its highest this past week. Emmanuel Macron remains favourite with the bookmakers at 5/6 (54.5% implied probability), ahead of the National Front leader, Marine Le Pen who is 10/3 (23.1% implied probability) to take the hot seat. Far-right leader, Le Pen has always been a popular pick with bettors; in the first three months of 2017 she accounted for a massive 42% of bets on the market, whereas Macron only held 23% of bets placed via Oddschecker. Third favourite, Francios Fillon took up 13% of bets in the same period and his odds are currently 4/1 (20% implied probability). In the last week, Macron who married his former high school teacher, has become an ever more popular pick with politics punters. Despite Le Pen still being the favourite choice (34%) with bettors, Macron’s share of bets placed has grown to 26.6%.

As well as increasing support for the favourite, both Fillion, Mélenchon and Asselineau’s share of bets placed have also risen and they now account for 15.2%, 11.1% and 7.2% respectively. The left-wing politician, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s odds have been extremely volatile leading up to the first round of voting. On March 12th he was available to back at odds as big as 150/1 (0.7% implied probability). However, just over a month later these odds had been slashed to as short as 4/1 (20% implied probability) on the 15th April. His chances, and with that his odds, seem to have dwindled of late though and he’s now as big as 16/1 (5.9% implied probability) to win the election. Despite the dramatic change in odds, Melenchon has only accounted for 7% of bets placed through Oddschecker so far this year.

Another candidate whose support has grown throughout April is François Asselineau. The Popular Republican Union President’s views on taking France out of the EU seem to have resonated with members of the French public. Even though his odds of 250/1 suggest there’s no chance of him making it through this round of voting, he’s accounted for just over 7% of all bets placed on the market this week.

According to bets placed on the next President market today, Marine Le Pen looks guaranteed to make it through the first round of voting with over 87% of stakes placed, and 60% of bets. One bookmaker is still offering 66/1 that she wins over 50% of the first round share.

For They Sow The Wind, And They Shall Reap The Whirlwind

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For itself also is the invention of Israel: a workman made it, and it is no god: for the calf of Samaria shall be turned to spiders’ webs. [7] For they shall sow wind, and reap a whirlwind, there is no standing stalk in it, the bud shall yield no meal; and if it should yield, strangers shall eat it. [8] Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations like an unclean vessel. (Hosea 8:6-8)

 

On the back to the recent post titled Restoration Round-up: The Zeal For Tradition, over at the Rorate Caeli blog this appears:

For the first time in nearly 200 (or 50?…) years, only the traditional Latin Mass to be offered in Irish Diocese

The pathetic tale of the Catholic Church in Ireland continues to unfold. The latest chapter is that, because of a priest shortage, there will be “no Masses” said on Tuesday in the entire Diocese of Limerick — something that hasn’t happened in almost two centuries.

The diocese and the media tell us there will only be “lay-led liturgies of the Word” (God be praised, this Catholic has no idea what that even is, and will die happy never knowing).

Normally, we wouldn’t really care that all the Novus Ordos dried up in a Diocese. Why would we? We pray they all die on the vine around the world. But we did find this a good time to correct the Diocese of Limerick and the media.

There will indeed be Masses said there Tuesday. Two of them, in fact, by the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest (click here for Mass times and location).

You can read the full — yet incomplete — story, for the record here by the Irish Times.

So history truly is being made Tuesday in Limerick. This will be there first time in nearly 200 years  –or, to be exact, the first time since Paul VI invented and imposed his committee-made new mass, on the First Sunday of Advent, 1969 — that the only Mass a Catholic can attend in an entire Irish diocese will be the traditional Latin Mass. Deo gratias.

– See more at: http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2017/04/for-first-time-in-nearly-200-years-only.html#sthash.VwnhLxXw.dpuf

And then there is this, from the SSPX Ireland website:

The Isle without Priests

The numbers of working Catholic priests in Ireland will halve in the next 10 years, a bishop has warned.

Bishop Francis Duffy has issued a letter on the severity of the vocations crisis to all 41 churches in his diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise. He has told how a priest in each parish will be a thing of the past.

Bishop Duffy says a big factor in the decline is how a changing faith in Ireland is down to people becoming more private about their religion.

The bishop’s pastoral letter detailed how the numbers of priests will drop from 52 to 25 by the year 2030.

Bishop Duffy said there are currently no seminarians getting ready to be ordained in the diocese, which covers most of Longford, much of Leitrim and parts of Westmeath, Offaly and Cavan.

(Read the rest here)

Where some see problems, others see opportunities.

Hint, hint…