From FrancisChurchJonestown To Tradition – The Observable Process…

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So, Francis’ new FrancisDocument “The joy of something or other…” is taking a beating in the Catholic media and blogo-sphere. The usual suspects sycophants are trying their best to defend it and him, but to no avail.

Even the mainstream Catholic media is taking it to the woodshed. Here is the Catholic World Report and it’s brutal headline: Pope Francis “takes aim” in “Gaudete et Exsultate”—and misses? Ouch…

As to the opinion of your humble blogger, and as per yesterday’s post (see here), the “shelf life” of this puppy will be equal to that of un-homogenized milk once this sad bishopric of Rome is over. If for no other reasons than from it’s internal inconsistencies and contradictions.

The reason that expunging any and all internal contradictions (literal, logical, philosophical) is so critical to the “staying power” of any document, whether secular or sacred, is that an internal sense of consistency and harmony can provide a given document with an intrinsic universality (being True always, everywhere and for all) which on the individual level, translates into MEANINGFULNESS.

And if one wants to drill down into the reasoning behind reading a document of the sort that a Roman Pontiff or your lowly run-of-the-mill administrative ordinary of Rome would produce, one would have to admit that it would be foremost for the purpose to: extract MEANING.

It is this aspect of human existence, that your humble blogger alluded to in the post titled There’s Meaning And Then There’s FrancisMeaning… 

Which then raises the question, how does one “discern” whether a document, or more broadly a body of knowledge, contains any MEANING that can be considered to have a universal attribute. And the reason universality is being brought into this discussion here is that MEANING, just like our understanding of Price Theory (thanks to William of Ockham’s work), is a subjective choice.

So if anything that contains MEANING is imbued with a universal quality, then it will be meaningful ALWAYS, EVERYWHERE AND TO EVERYONE.

Here is an example of “universality” or lack there of, produced by Gallup Research this time around: (see here)

And here is a visual representation from Low Sunday, 2018:

So given these two pieces of sensory data, one can say that FrancisDoctrinePraxis  does not appear to possess any universal MEANINGFULNESS.

Actually, what one can deduce is that FrancisDoctrinePraxis has much less relative MEANINGFULNESS than did the post-conciliar NUChurch, as presented by the last two Roman Pontiffs.

Moving on to the most recent FrancisDocument, we get this below passage. It appears to be a Francis rationalization that addresses the above described situation.

A doctrine without mystery

41. When somebody has an answer for every question, it is a sign that they are not on the right road. They may well be false prophets, who use religion for their own purposes, to promote their own psychological or intellectual theories. God infinitely transcends us; he is full of surprises. We are not the ones to determine when and how we will encounter him; the exact times and places of that encounter are not up to us. Someone who wants everything to be clear and sure presumes to control God’s transcendence.

And here we see the reference to Francis’ alter-ego, i.e. our Bergoglian “god of surprises”. One manner in which this passage can be interpreted is that even the Bergoglian “god of surprises”, even if one assumes that he is not one and the same as Bergoglio, doesn’t like Francis.

If the “god of surprises” is Bergolio’s alter ego however, then this passage means that he is admitting to be an abject FAILURE.

In all honesty though, it’s much worse.

Francis most likely knows that the real Trinitarian God in Three Divine Persons, does not like him. He also knows that what he is doing will most likely FAIL. Just as has everything he touched in his life before. He even prepped his “Company” to the eventuality that he is just the latest iteration of Jim Jones and what he has planned for the One Holy Roman Catholic Church, is similar to what resulted in Jonestown.

Don’t believe me?

Here it is in his own words: (see here)

Q: What do you say (in the Company) to those who are getting older and see less people behind them?

FboR: “Considering the decrease of youth and strength (of the Society of Jesus), one could enter into institutional desolation. No, you can not afford it. Desolation pulls you down, it’s a soggy blanket that pulls at you to see how you handle it, and takes you to bitterness, to disillusionment. I wonder if Xavier, in the face of the failure to see China without being able to enter it, was desolate. No, I imagine that he turned to the Lord, saying, “You do not want it, so bye, that’s okay.” He chose to follow the path proposed to him, and in that case it was death! … But that’s okay! Like Saverio (Xavier) at the gates of China, always look ahead … You know God! “

In other words, a FrancisChurch = Jonestown.

But just to not leave you dear readers off with a sour taste in your mouth, (excuse the pun) there are reports of a “Christian”… dare I say Catholic revival taking place and noticed by others, not just this lowly and humblest of bloggers.

In a video I put up a couple days ago, there is a good explanation of how one can “discern” whether the Third Person of the Holy Trinity could be at work. So I will leave off this post with the following transcript:

Calvinist Pastor: I had a small number of subscribers, mostly friends and family who were… you know, just did a few things.

And I’d been blogging for a while and I got interested in your stuff. And I’d been reading Neil Postman (…) and I though ‘ you know, there’s something to Peterson and Youtube’ and so I thought ‘well, I’ll just make a video about this. And then I just made a video. And then Google does its thing and then… I had 200 subscribers and (then) 500 subscribers and when it hit about 2000 subscribers, it was kind of unnerving and then I thought ‘this is strange’. I don’t want this messing up my life’. 

And then I started getting letters from people. And people started showing up at my church and I’m like… you know … ‘what am I going to do with all this?’. But then, you know, I thought about this and I said, I’ll do with this what I do with everything else. And a friend of mine in Southern California said: “you should start a meet up”.

So I thought ‘so I thought, yea that’s what I should do’.  So I put out a video and said ‘anyone who wants to meet up and talk about Jordan Peterson stuff, here’s the time and the date, we’ll show up at my church and we’ll talk’. 

And that had a good response. 

And what struck me about … I was interested in your video, was because I think in some ways, you’re trying to reconnect the world in terms of the… MEANING and MATTER, and I was interested in that. 

But then I saw really, how many people were saying things like: “well, I’ve been watching Jordan Peterson and I’m interested in Christianity and I think I want to go to Church and… and I thought ‘Now THIS is part of my job.’ This is what I do. I mean, pastors are kind of like sheep dogs. We corral people. 

Concluding, what we see above is that there is FrancisChurch, i.e. the latest iteration of Jonestown, and then there is the Catholic Church and the REAL dogma and praxis of FRESHNESS.

The Catholic Church can be seen renewing itself through a OBSERVABLE PROCESS. This process can begin with the sort of “encounters” described by the Calvinist Pastor as a result of watching Dr. Peterson’s videos.

The next phase can be OBSERVABLE in the videos produced on the Lizzie Answers Youtube page. Kind of like this here.

And this PROCESS culminates in places like this:

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To “Magic Think”, Or Not To “Magic Think” – Cardinal Burke Finally Identifies The PROBLEM!

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Picking up where we left off yesterday, today we will try to quickly summarize the concept of SYNCHRONICITY and explain how it fits into the wider ONTOLOGICAL REALITY framework.

We started off by classifying three distinct yet collectively exhaustive elements that comprise ONTOLOGICAL REALITY:

The Natural sub-set – explained by the physical sciences,

The Supernatural sub-set – explained by theological science,

The Conscious sub-set (allowoing His creation to understand the above two sub-sets – explained by the social sciences (psychology).

We also observed that something that constitutes TRUTH (Epistemological) exists in and of itself. Furthermore, we observed that Truth itself has a “correspondent” property, i.e. it truth consists in a relation to reality. In other words, Truth is a “relational property involving a characteristic relation (to be specified) to some portion of reality (to be specified).

Given the above (three sub-sets of Reality and how Truth fits into the equation), we should be able to observe and identify a “specified characteristic relation” that is EPISTEMOLOGICALLY True to some portion of the Natural, Supernatural and Conscious i.e. ONTOLOGICAL REALITY.

Therefore, and not by coincidence, by laying out the above natures of TRUTH and REALITY, we have also by default proved an understanding as to what constitutes “organic growth”. Here is that definition from a post written a while back titled Fr. Spadoro’s Junk Theology “Amp Settings” Go To 11!

Organic Growth: reconciliation of reason with revelation, of science with faith and of philosophy with theology, SUBJECT TO: that source of our Faith that comes from divine Revelation.

Notice how all the pieces are beginning to fit?

What we see above is nothing less than a description of the Jungian PROCESS of SYNCHRONICITY.

Yes?

So onto SYNCHRONICITY. On the Wikipedia page, we find the following definition: (see here)

(…) a concept, first introduced by analytical psychologist Carl Jung, which holds that events are “meaningful coincidences” if they occur with no causal relationship yet seem to be meaningfully related.

The reason that a “causal relationship” can’t be obtained in the Supernatural sub-set of ONTOLOGICAL REALITY is that part can not be subjected to empirical testing. I.e. the Supernatural cannot be tested through the scientific method.

But that doesn’t mean that DATA POINTS can’t be observed through means of the senses, particularly by observation and patterns and behavior can’t be documented which could provide insights into the Supernatural sub-set of REALITY.

With respect to our understanding of the Supernatural, we have the word of God Himself that gives us insights into this sub-set of ONTOLOGICAL REALITY. And it appears that the the Holy Scripture, when combined with the interpretation of Holy Scripture, or that which we call Tradition, is a very powerful tool. 

Actually, Holy Scripture and TRADITION is so powerful, that even when it is suppressed, as it was by that period in human history called the “Enlightenment”, it reasserts itself in the darnedest of places and times.

And how can the Faithful Catholic observe  the dynamic duo of HOLY SCRIPTURE and TRADITION reasserting itself?

Well, through the Jungian concept of SYNCHRONIZATION.

Here is one example of a SYNCHRONISTIC PROCESS from the above video.  The transcript below start at the 15:35 mark:

That’s a very similar idea to the voluntary raising of the cross or the imitation of Christ. It’s very, very similar and the evidence that that’s curative is overwhelming. It’s one of the cornerstones of clinical intervention. And I would say it’s partly a cornerstone because of the influence of Christianity.

It’s like one of the things the psychotherapists of the 20th Century REDISCOVERED was that truthful dialogue was curative. So that the TRUTH was curative. In a spiritual sense. And I just think that’s TRUE.

The SYNCHRONOUS PROCESS in the Supernatural sub-set would be defined through the 8th Commandment as understood by TRADITION:

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Yes?

So why has your humble blogger brought this to your attention?

The reason being that just because Carl Jung first observed a certain PHENOMENON, yet was not a practicing Catholic, and his theories did not align themselves with Catholic doctrine of his day, does not mean prima facia that that which he observed and later developed into a theory is necessarily wrong.

A good example of just this is the one above, where Jung’s SYNCHRONICITY theory explains how “truthful dialogue” used in a curative process by a psychotherapist aligns squarely with that taught by the Catechism of the Council of Trent’s interpretation of the 8th Commandment with respect to… well “truthful dialogue”.

Concluding, so what we can infer is that the 8th Commandment exists in the two sub-sets of REALITY, one in the NATURAL and one in the SUPERNATURAL.

Now given that we are not able to EMPIRICALLY test DATA POINTS in the Supernatural sub-set of REALITY, we can test the “mirror images” of those DATA POINTS that exist NATURAL sub-set of REALITY and confirm that they are EPISTEMOLOGICALLY TRUE.

What I would like you dear reader to do is to go back to the above video and pay close attention to the parts where the Calvinist pastor explains what his new potential “parishioners” are looking for when they initially engage him and his church.

If one would classify what it is that these new “seekers of Christianity” are looking for in terms of a theological school, that school would be a SCHOLASTIC School!

What it would not be, is a “theological” school that is grounded in MAGIC THINKING!

I will have more to say in the next post…

Leaving off…

And since we are on the MAGIC THINKING subject, I would like to mention a SIGNIFICANT EVENT that appeared yesterday in Rome. In an interview, His Eminence Cardinal Raymond Burke made the following statement:

Q: If these things (“abolishing” hell and nature of the soul) are very serious, and a source of embarrassment, but the silence amazes many pastors.

CRB: Of course, the situation is further compounded by the silence of many bishops and Cardinals who share with the Roman Pontiff the concern for the universal Church. Some are simply shut up. Others say that there is nothing serious. Still others spread fantasies of a new Church, a church that takes a totally different direction from the past, fantasizing for example of a “new paradigm” for the Church or a radical conversion of the Church’s pastoral practice, making it completely new. Then there are those who are enthusiastic promoters of the so-called revolution in the Catholic Church.

Yes, indeed!

FANTASIES…

I.e. MAGIC THINKING…

The SIGNIFICANCE of this observation is that it aligns with OBJECTIVE REALITY.

And as we know, the first step in any PROBLEM RESOLUTION is to admit that you have a PROBLEM: MAGIC THINKING!

And Cardinal Burke has now admitted this publicly.

Epilogue:

I will leave off today with a great example of a new neo-Scholastic Catholic who recently came into the Church and explains the back-story of her first Confession.

It don’t get any more Scholastic than this these days…

Enjoy!

Bonus video today:

The Catholic Proselytization – “And in those days cometh John the Baptist preaching in the desert of Judea”…

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And in those days cometh John the Baptist preaching in the desert of Judea. [2] And saying: Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. [3] For this is he that was spoken of by Isaias the prophet, saying: A voice of one crying in the desert, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths. [4] And the same John had his garment of camels’ hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and his meat was locusts and wild honey. [5] Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea, and all the country about Jordan: (Matthew 3: 1-5)

 

And now for some news from the practitioners of “those forms of spirituality that reduce the faith to a ghetto culture!”  and the sect of the “religion of the encounter”…

Update –  from comment box.

Chris Benischek said:

March 10, 2018 at 9:59 am

Indeed what a contrast Dr Peterson provides to FrancisChurch. Brilliant comparison SA.

The contrast is stark at many levels. First, meaning. See review below on Peterson’s main boon.

Second, joy. Contrast the frowning sourpuss Pinto currently indoctrinating and propagandizing Catholic clergy in Texas with Peterson’s breezy air. Whereas whatever his merits he actually conveys that he actually cares about people, warts and all. He has love. Christian charity. Simple kindness. All glaringly absent in the Francis Court.

Finally, Enthusiasm; look at the popular response. Hence your second video. Then, see: At the FrancisVatican™: it’s a ghost-town. Great picture: no one gives a hoot about what the anti-Pope is selling. The sheep know the true shepherd and shun the false. I wouldn’t let my kids within a country-mile of Francis and his homosexualist minions. Whereas in Melbourne two nights ago–Dr Peterson on tour amidst sold-out venues–the lines after his talk were 25 people wide. Wide. Not long. Enough to make even an anti-Pope weep.

“Peterson was going to be signing. Buy a book and you’d get a chance to meet him, and didn’t that provide a moment to make a local author weep: the queue was 25 wide — that’s wide, not deep — and it snaked through the foyer and right up the staircase, and why wouldn’t it?”

–from The Australian @ https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/jordan-peterson-finds-fellow-travellers-in-the-search-for-meaning/news-story/f868cc3a113ed1b11be48c0813716494

 

When Objective Reality Can No Longer Be Denied…

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Today we continue with the POLITICAL thread since the information coming out is beginning to put the FACTS and EVIDENCE in place that PROVES the extent of the criminal activity in the US Justice Department and the FBI.

Today’s focus will be on Carter Page. What appears to be the case is that Carter Page was an undercover agent working for the FBI. He was an employee of the FBI until March of 2016.

Six short months later, i.e. October 2016, Mr. Page was magically transformed into a… wait for it… still waiting… a “muh Russian SPY”.

Given the “magical transformation” of Carter Page into a SPY, the FBI – Counter Intelligence Unit and the Department of Justice – National Security Division then using the “salacious” and “unverified” Steele Dossier petitioned the FISA Court to give Carter Page a Title I classification. In other words, to treat Carter Page as a … wait for it… a muh Russian SPY.

And this classification allowed the FBI and DOJ to gain access to ALL aspects of Mr. Pages communications and contacts, and ALL aspects of ALL PARTIES with which Mr. Page came into contact with.

And to finish this short synopsis, the individual who signed off on the FISA Court application, Mr. John P. Carlin, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security making the claim that Mr. Page is a muh Russian Spy, was the same person who announced the prosecution of a real Russian Spy that was obtained through the work of the FBI Undercover Agent Mr. Carter Page.

And guess what…

The Very Stable Genius President Donald J. Trump made a comment that no doubt is related in a large part to the above matter. I have embedded this video for your review at the top of this post.

Parting I will leave off with the President’s words:

“We caught ’em”…

And OBJECTIVE REALITY can no longer be denied…

One final thought: Why isn’t the #fakenews Media reporting on this. So many Pulitzers just waiting out there to be won! It’s as if they just don’t appear to be interested? Sorry for the digression…

Anyways, so that is the back story. Below is the Conservative Treehouse’s detailed explanation: (see original here)

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In March 2016 Carter Page Was an FBI Employee – In October 2016 FBI Told FISA Court He’s a Spy…

Posted on February 5, 2018 by sundance

In 2013 Carter Page was working as an “under-cover employee” (UCE) of the FBI, helping them to build a case against “Evgeny Buryakov”.  In March 2016 Carter Page remained their informant pre-trial leading to a pleading of guilty from Buryakov.

[Note – Pay close attention to dates, names in descriptions amid all citations]

Sources:  ♦ In 2013 the U.S. Department of Justice, Southern District of New York, announced an indictment against a Russian Operative Evgeny Buryakov.  LINK HERE In March of 2016 Buryakov pleaded GUILTY:

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced that EVGENY BURYAKOV, a/k/a “Zhenya,” pled guilty today to conspiring to act in the United States as an agent of the Russian Federation, without providing prior notice to the Attorney General.

[…]  The FBI obtained the recordings after Sporyshev attempted to recruit an FBI undercover employee (“UCE-1”), who was posing as an analyst from a New York-based energy company. In response to requests from Sporyshev, UCE-1 provided Sporyshev with binders containing purported industry analysis written by UCE-1 and supporting documentation relating to UCE-1’s reports, as well as covertly placed recording devices.(more)

♦ In 2016 Reuters published an article, based on the ongoing court case, going into detail about court records and how the FBI built their case.  Reuters also describes the FBI UCE-1 (Under-Cover Employee) with strong detail.  LINK HERE

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The FBI eavesdropped on meetings involving Russian intelligence personnel in New York City, including a suspected spy posing as a trade representative, by hiding recorders in binders containing supposedly confidential information about the energy sector, U.S. prosecutors said.

The hours of covert recordings from 2013 were disclosed in papers filed in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday in the case of Evgeny Buryakov, a Russian citizen who U.S. prosecutors say posed as a banker while participating in a Cold War-style spy ring.

[…] According to prosecutors, in April 2012, Sporyshev met an undercover FBI employee posing as an analyst at a New York energy firm at an oil and gas industry conference.

Over the next two years, they met to discuss the industry and other economic and political issues, prosecutors said, with Sporyshev providing gifts and cash for information.

In 2013, the FBI employee began providing Sporyshev with the binders containing purported industry analysis he wrote, supporting documents, and “covertly placed recording devices,” prosecutors wrote.  (more)

♦ In April 2017, writing a story about Carter Page (trying to enhance/affirm the Russian narrative), the New York Times outlined Page’s connections to the Trump campaign.  However, New York Times also references Page’s prior connection to the Buryakov case. If you ignore the narrative, you discover the UCE1 description is Carter Page.  READ [Notice how the story is shaped] LINK HERE:

Russian intelligence operatives tried in 2013 to recruit an American businessman and eventual foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign who is now part of the F.B.I. investigation into Russia’s interference into the American election, according to federal court documents and a statement issued by the businessman.

The businessman, Carter Page,met with one of three Russians who were eventually charged with being undeclared officers with Russia’s foreign intelligence service, known as the S.V.R.

The F.B.I. interviewed Mr. Page in 2013 as part of an investigation into the spy ring, but decided that he had not known the man was a spy, and the bureau never accused Mr. Page of wrongdoing.

The court documents say that Mr. Page, who founded an investment company in New York called Global Energy Capital, provided documents about the energy business to one of the Russians. […] To record their conversations, the F.B.I. inserted a listening device into binders that were passed to the Russian intelligence operatives during an energy conference, according to a former United States intelligence official.  (more)

When you read The Times article (2017), against the backdrop of the Reuters article (2016), and the DOJ release (2016) it is transparently clear that Carter Page was the Under-Cover Employee (UCE1) of the FBI in the 2013 case.

Carter Page was working for the FBI.  Page was the “analyst from a New York-based energy company” who “began providing Sporyshev with the binders“.

However, in 2017 the New York Times, using information from “a former intelligence official“, conflates the FBI/Page Relationship.  Heck, the NY Times tries to entirely change the relationship between Carter Page and the FBI.

Why?

Likely because on October 21st 2016 the FBI claimed to a FISA Court; to gain a “Title I” surveillance warrant; that Carter Page was working on behalf of a foreign government.

Carter Page was an FBI Under-Cover Employee in 2013, and remained the primary FBI witness through May of 2016 throughout the case.

If Carter Page was working as a UCE (FBI undercover employee), responsible for the bust of a high level Russian agent in 2013 -and remained a UCE- throughout the court case UP TO May of 2016, how is it possible that on October 21st 2016 Carter Page is put under a FISA Title 1 surveillance warrant as an alleged Russian agent?

Conclusion:  He wasn’t.  The DOJ National Security Division and the FBI Counterintelligence Division, knew he wasn’t.  The DOJ-NSD and FBI  flat-out LIED.

Now, go back to the March 2016 DOJ Press Release of the guilty pleading for Evgeny Buryakov, announced from the New York office:

…”Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced”…

Because “FISA Title I” surveillance authority against a U.S. citizen is so serious (the U.S. government is essentially calling the target a spy), only a few people are authorized to even apply for such surveillance warrants.  One of the four people authorized to make such a filing is the Asst. Attorney General who is head of the National Security Division of the DOJ.  That person is John P Carlin.

The same John P Carlin who, together with the FBI counterintelligence unit, hired Carter Page as an FBI Under-Cover Employee, turns around and six months later accuses Page of being a Russian Spy – because the DOJ-NSD and FBI CoIntel needed to find a legal way to spy on the Trump campaign. The 2016 FISA Title 1 surveillance of former FBI employee Carter Page became that legal way. [“The Insurance Policy”]

In October of 2016, at approximately the same time the DOJ was making the FISA Court filing against Page, and successfully gaining the surveillance warrant, Asst. Attorney General  John P Carlin resigns as head of the DOJ-NSD.    –SEE HERE–

The entire FISA Title I surveillance authority over Carter Page was cover, most likely retroactive cover, for the DOJ and FBI conducting surveillance on the Trump campaign.

Clear enough?

What Terrifies FrancisChurch, Whether They Know It Or Not… (w/Update)

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Today your humble blogger will do a rare Saturday post.

Reason being that information has come across the radar that is of major significance for the Deus ex Machina methodology. As my long time readers know, when analyzing data, one key aspect of any analysis that can be considered “worth its salt” is the model’s predictive ability.

And with the Deus ex Machina’s Peirce/Ockham pragmatic model, one key aspect that has always served it well is the model’s predictive ability. The best example is that the model accurately predicted that Donald J. Trump would win the US presidential election in a landslide. This prediction was made as early as July 2016. Here is a visual of what in fact the DeM POPM predicted:

The above is a map by county. If it was reduced to the precinct level, more than half of the “blue area” would be wiped out. That’s how badly Sick, Crooked, Unelectable Hillary lost by in the 2016 presidential election, and the Peirce/Ockham model predicted it.

Yet one aspect of the model’s predictive ability, let’s call it a “shortfall”, was that it couldn’t gauge at what point the Trump victory became irreversible. I assumed that there was a natural phenomenon, such as a learning curve along which the momentum to vote for Trump moved along, that would allow one to identify a “point of no return” whereby when reached, there was no turning back.

And then I came across this post, which I have republished below.

So today, we will re-arrange the normal order of my posts, and conclude after you dear reader read the post.

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FOR THE RECORD: (see original here)

Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas

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. The scientists, who are members of the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center (SCNARC) at Rensselaer, used computational and analytical methods to discover the tipping point where a minority belief becomes the majority opinion. The finding has implications for the study and influence of societal interactions ranging from the spread of innovations to the movement of political ideals.

“When the number of committed opinion holders is below 10 percent, there is no visible progress in the spread of ideas. It would literally take the amount of time comparable to the age of the universe for this size group to reach the majority,” said SCNARC Director Boleslaw Szymanski, the Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor at Rensselaer. “Once that number grows above 10 percent, the idea spreads like flame.”

As an example, the ongoing events in Tunisia and Egypt appear to exhibit a similar process, according to Szymanski. “In those countries, dictators who were in power for decades were suddenly overthrown in just a few weeks.”

The findings were published in the July 22, 2011, early online edition of the journal Physical Review E in an article titled “Social consensus through the influence of committed minorities.”

An important aspect of the finding is that the percent of committed opinion holders required to shift majority opinion does not change significantly regardless of the type of network in which the opinion holders are working. In other words, the percentage of committed opinion holders required to influence a society remains at approximately 10 percent, regardless of how or where that opinion starts and spreads in the society.

To reach their conclusion, the scientists developed computer models of various types of social networks. One of the networks had each person connect to every other person in the network. The second model included certain individuals who were connected to a large number of people, making them opinion hubs or leaders. The final model gave every person in the model roughly the same number of connections. The initial state of each of the models was a sea of traditional-view holders. Each of these individuals held a view, but were also, importantly, open minded to other views.

Once the networks were built, the scientists then “sprinkled” in some true believers throughout each of the networks. These people were completely set in their views and unflappable in modifying those beliefs. As those true believers began to converse with those who held the traditional belief system, the tides gradually and then very abruptly began to shift.

“In general, people do not like to have an unpopular opinion and are always seeking to try locally to come to consensus. We set up this dynamic in each of our models,” said SCNARC Research Associate and corresponding paper author Sameet Sreenivasan. To accomplish this, each of the individuals in the models “talked” to each other about their opinion. If the listener held the same opinions as the speaker, it reinforced the listener’s belief. If the opinion was different, the listener considered it and moved on to talk to another person. If that person also held this new belief, the listener then adopted that belief.

“As agents of change start to convince more and more people, the situation begins to change,” Sreenivasan said. “People begin to question their own views at first and then completely adopt the new view to spread it even further. If the true believers just influenced their neighbors, that wouldn’t change anything within the larger system, as we saw with percentages less than 10.”

The research has broad implications for understanding how opinion spreads. “There are clearly situations in which it helps to know how to efficiently spread some opinion or how to suppress a developing opinion,” said Associate Professor of Physics and co-author of the paper Gyorgy Korniss. “Some examples might be the need to quickly convince a town to move before a hurricane or spread new information on the prevention of disease in a rural village.”

The researchers are now looking for partners within the social sciences and other fields to compare their computational models to historical examples. They are also looking to study how the percentage might change when input into a model where the society is polarized. Instead of simply holding one traditional view, the society would instead hold two opposing viewpoints. An example of this polarization would be Democrat versus Republican. 

The research was funded by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) through SCNARC, part of the Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (NS-CTA), the Army Research Office (ARO), and the Office of Naval Research (ONR).

The research is part of a much larger body of work taking place under SCNARC at Rensselaer. The center joins researchers from a broad spectrum of fields – including sociology, physics, computer science, and engineering – in exploring social cognitive networks. The center studies the fundamentals of network structures and how those structures are altered by technology. The goal of the center is to develop a deeper understanding of networks and a firm scientific basis for the newly arising field of network science. More information on the launch of SCNARC can be found at http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2721&setappvar=page(1) 

Szymanski, Sreenivasan, and Korniss were joined in the research by Professor of Mathematics Chjan Lim, and graduate students Jierui Xie (first author) and Weituo Zhang.

Right!

Now I would like to take you dear reader back to a post that appeared on the 3rd of September, 2016. The post was titled Satanic Council – The End Game w/Updates!, where Bishop Fellay, Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X relates the following information:

It means that there are now in the Church, so serious problems, so threatening problems for the existence of the Church, that the Congregation for the Faith is forced to revise their position with us.

(…)

At the time, I was not very happy about these things but with the time, with reflecting, yes they are facing enormous problems and suddenly what appeared to be the problem that is us, maybe it looks like a solution. (Return to Tradition)

(…)

We have counted that there are between 26 and 30 cardinals who have openly attacked these modern positions. And numerous bishops. They say that to the point that we have lost the monopoly on the contestation of the protest, … (First time that this number was mentioned before the non-SSPX blogosphere put it out.)

(…)

It’s a catastrophe for the Church, but it’s good, it’s good that finally there is a reaction. It’s high time. And this reaction is growing. And now you have to reflect.

(…)

We’ve been told that at the last meeting of the Congregation of the Faith, where they all meet together, all the cardinals and bishops which are members, we call that a plenaria, this is the full meeting, there was only one cardinal who said, ‘no, no. no, the Society must absolutely accept the whole council’. And other voices who said ‘these people do only one thing, (that is) to repeat what the Church has always taught’. So you see, there is something on the move…

Concluding, I will leave off here. But one final parting thought.

One of the unstated reasons for writing this blog is to identify what is OBJECTIVE REALITY, with a specific interest of all things Catholic. One conclusion that can be drawn from the above is this:

IF: All but one member of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith think that a return to Tradition can solve the current existential crisis,

GIVEN: That when the number of committed opinion holders grows above 10 percent, the idea spreads like flame, and passes the tipping point where a minority belief becomes the majority opinion,

THEN: The Vatican hierarchy has passed the point of no return whereby they accept that the post-conciliar ideology is causing the disintegration of the Catholic Church and the resolution of the existential crisis is a return to Catholic Tradition.

Folks, the above is the OBJECTIVE REALITY.

And this is why Francis is terrified!

I will leave it here for today.

Please reflect on the above.

And also reflect on the following: 1) why is Francis clamping down on any hint of discent behind the Sacred Vatican Walls, 2) why are the same people always being appointed to the different Vatican organizations, i.e. think +Paglia, Baldisarri, Forte, 3) why is Francis willing to die on the +Barros/sexual deviants hill, 4) why is Francis “speeding up” his attempted destruction of the post-conciliar church?

             

To Be, Or Not To Be. This Is The FrancisQuestion…

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Who answering, said to them: Have ye not read, that he who made man from the beginning, Made them male and female? (Matt 19:4)

Boy, oh boy,… boy oh boy!

Today is the Feast of the Epiphany and I already have in my possession enough material for TWO Restoration Round-up 2018 posts of 1000 words each on hand.

Just to remind, information making the cut to be included in these posts must be of SIGNIFICANTLY UNIQUE importance that moves the Overton Window. In other words, this Restoration material “moves” what is considered the “mainstream range of acceptable opinions that can be held by respectable people“.

And this above referred to move is positive. What this new information does is that it brings the debate battle to the death between Tradition and the “spirit of VII” right smack into the middle of the Overton Window.

So let’s get cracking…

To wrap this debate itself in more technical terms, this death struggle is between two “operational” interpretations of not so much what actually transpired at the Second Vatican Council, but of how it was interpreted… bah, SOLD to the pew sitters (wallets) post factum. And given the Orwellian dictum that ‘he who controls the past, controls the future, and he who controls the present controls the past’, the fight is over who controls the interpretation of the “spirit of VII” presently. This maxim also strongly supports our contention behind the significance of the last post here and specifically the book that appeared under the title of: Slaying the “Spirit” of VII” with the Light of Truth.

This battle is commonly presented in terms of two post-conciliar “operational” hermeneutics (methodology of interpretation), one of continuity and one of rupture.

The reason why both these hermeneutics are “operational” is that they serve as “vehicles” through which the Universal Magisterium will be either maintained or discarded. If the Magisterium is maintained, it remains Catholic. If the Magisterium is discarded, post-conciliar church becomes a “new religion”, i.e. a sect.

So this death match is for all the marbles!

Actually, for all the tangible assets, cash on hand and rights to future cash flows!

The reason that the hermeneutic of rupture arose was because a part of the post-conciliar progressivist cabal thought that the post-conciliar church was moving too slowly toward the “new religion”.

If not now, when?

So in order for the “hermeneutic of rupture”, something quite “alien” to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, operational vehicle to be introduced into the Catholic Overton Window, it needed first to be “legitimized”. The vehicle through which it was legitimized is through “open dialogue”. And the promotion of this  “dialogue” was then wrapped in what became known as the Bologna School.

Nota bene: Notice how little if anything is being written about the Bologna School these days?

Back to the subject at hand and taking one step back. Please recall that to a neo-Marxist, cum neo-Modernists, there are two ways in which something is legitimized. There is the Leninist/Trotskyite mechanism, i.e. overthrow of established regime (legitimization by force), or the Gramscian mechanism (legitimization by stealth), i.e. subversion through infiltrating the departments of the targeted institution. Needless to say, the Bologna School melded into the post-conciliar church through the implementation of the Gramscian approach.

The above is critical to understand before we move on.

The problem with the hermeneutic of rupture though, 50 years on, is that it is an objectively abysmal failure.

What’s more, an objective case can be made for the presupposition that it is this “rupture” element inside the post-conciliar church that is wreaking havoc in the Institutional Church and causing its disintegration.

This anecdotal evidence is now being joined by empirical evidence, which is overwhelming and it is beginning to be methodically compiled and presented to the Church at large.

So let’s go to the empirical evidence, shall we?

A post containing a new study appeared yesterday at the 1Peter5 blog. In the  post written by Jack P. Oostveen and titled The Data on the Death of Religious Orders: How Does Your Favorite Measure Up?, we are presented with information about the “health and strength”, or the lack there of, of the various religious communities.

Readers of this blog will be familiar with this material and methodology since it has been partially presented earlier on this blog. In post titled A Final Rendezvous With Destiny and With Death in April of 2015, we used this same methodology, but on a sample group of religious orders. The 1Peter5 post in turn can be considered the magnum opus of studies of the Catholic religious communities. Furthermore, it is a post that EVERY ordinary or superior general of EVERY diocese or religious community within the UNIVERSAL CHURCH should become INTIMATELY familiar with, screen-grabs of the various graphs being INDELIBLY IMPRINTED in the mind of said ordinary or superior general.

But that’s not all the new information…

As it just so happens, on the same day as the 1Peter5 post appeared, a second post appeared over on The Catholic Herald website. In a post titled How to save the English Church, we are provided with much very insightful information. What I would like to concentrate on here is one piece of significant empirical evidence that appears in this passage:

Let us put these numbers another way. In 1970, for every 10,000 Sunday Mass-goers, there were 40 priests to serve them. But by 2014, the same number had 46 priests. In fact, Catholics in 2014 had a better priests-to-practisers ratio than at any time between 1950 (and no doubt long before) and the 1990s.

What this data tells us is that the ratio of pew sitters to priests is very consistent over time, and especially over the period that interests us, i.e. the entire post-conciliar crisis period. In other words, the crisis in vocations is almost perfectly correlated with and proportional to the crisis in mass attendance.

So the inference that can be drawn form the above information is that with a steady increase in vocations, one can expect to see a proportional increase in mass attendance. And this no doubt has to do with the fact that religious families produce vocations, and the rate at which they produce vocations is roughly constant.

Therefore, if we presuppose that the above is a correct analysis of the current situation, the way forward to get the Catholic Church out of Her present crisis is similar to the one proposed by Jack P. Oostveen in his 1Peter5 post: (emphasis added)

Of those institutes whose timelines are depicted in Figure 9 (Traditionalist, aka Catholic), we can ask ourselves what they have in common, aside from the fact that they were founded at a time of liturgical and doctrinal crisis in the Church. They all, in some way, are meeting the challenges of today. Each of them is confronting the crisis through sound liturgy and doctrine, like teaching, preaching, or living their religious lives in accordance with the Deposit of Faith.

Graph here:

The author, in his conclusion section then goes on to ask the most significant question that needs to be asked by all FAITHFUL CATHOLICS, and that is this:

Considering the magnitude of the loss, one has to wonder: why is there such reluctance among so many of the prelates and Superiors of the Congregations to acknowledge the reason for which the decline began and then to respond accordingly? The ongoing decline does not only pertain to those religious congregations in severe decline; it affects the entire Church and all humanity.

In our follow-up post, we will answer this question, so stayed tuned because the answer will be quite shocking.

But for now, and concluding, what Jack P. Oostveen, the author of the analysis in  1Peter5 suggest, and the empirical study of the religious communities supports his recommendation is that the post-conciliar church needs to “confront the crisis through sound liturgy and doctrine, like teaching, preaching, or living their religious lives in accordance with the Deposit of Faith”.

As for the recommendation of the author of the post that appeared in The Catholic Herald, here is what he suggests:

The basic model is simple: lift a surplus-to-requirements church out of the normal parish system and give it to a niche group that can do something distinctive with it.

And by niche groups, Stephen Bullivant means: Institute for Christ the King (St Walburge’s and English Martyrs) and the Syro-Malabar Church and the FSSP. All three groups proclaim sound liturgy and doctrine.

Yet these above suggestions are directly opposite to those that are promoted by the Bologna School. What’s even odder is that the Bologna School knows that their “doctrinal” approach is a FAILED approach.

For this information, we go over to the MondayVatican blog from way back in early 2015. In a post titled Pope Francis: Which Peripheries?, we can read the following:

What a pity, then, that a Pew Forum survey suggests instead that this approach (Bologna School) may not be helpful. In a survey on reasons why Catholics leave to join Protestant sects, the Pew Forum established as the first three reasons the search for a personal connection with God, participation in a particular style of worship and, finally, a felt need for a greater emphasis on morality.

And where was this survey taken?

Well, right in Francis’ back yard. Latin America!

Here’s more from this post and the next paragraph:

This latter reason provides interesting data, as interesting as the data suggesting that evangelicals strongly defend family and life issues and reject gender ideology at the same time that the Catholic Church in South America shows itself to be weak on ethical issues.

Oh my!

And then this is how Andrea Gagliarducci at the MondayVatican closes this discussion:

The loss of Latin America’s faithful seems to be endemic. Pope Francis’ Argentina merited treatment as a case history in the Van Thuan Observatory’s 2012 Report on Social Teaching in the World as the country that more than any other has been subjected to the colonization of human nature carried out by international lobbies.

And this was written before Francis “came out” as one of the major “colonizers” for the “international lobbies”. Here we are talking about something along the lines of this here.

I will leave off by asking just one question. And the question is this:

Given that Francis knows exactly the scale and breadth of the damage and destruction that has been wrought onto the Institutional Church, especially in Latin America by the Bologna School approach, why has he been forcing them onto the Universal Church for his entire bishopric of Rome?

The answer will be provided in the next post, so stay tuned…

Rebellion Against FrancisDeathMerchants Spreading…

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Over the last few posts, your humble blogger… make that Your Humble Blogger™, given that there appear to be more of us out there (see here), has been focusing on the Restoration theme. Specifically, the focus of those posts has been limited to the Restoration within the ecclesiastical sub-set of the Visibislium Omnium, et Invisibislium.

Yet as all my dear and loyal readers are aware, this ecclesiastical Restoration is only a sub-set of all restorations taking place at present, such as BREXIT or the Donald J. Trump Presidency just to name two. And given that the entire “Restoration of all things in Christ” is all encompassing, if for no other reason than by definition, today we will look at another small “r” restoration that is transpiring alongside the capital “R” Restoration that is the main focus of the Deus ex Machina blog.

This small “r” restoration I mentioned is transpiring in Venezuela. And as it just so happens, this country is run by one of the little FrancisDictators by the name of Nicolas Maduro. Now as we know from multiple posts on this blog, (see here and here and here) this Venezuelan FrancisDictator is being propped up by what can be called the FrancescoDittatore di tutti FrancescoDittatori. In other words, Maduro is being propped up by the bishop of Rome, Francis.

And as it just so happens, there is a restoration happening in Venezuela, similar to the one happening in the Universal Church. One part of the Venezuelan restoration that is apparently visible, is the area of government monetary policy. The FrancisDictators, both the present one and the recently deceased one, Hugo Chavez, have created a real “worker’s paradise”. Now this worker’s paradise is bearing the same fruits that the previous “worker’s paradises” bore, i.e. the ones in the Soviet Union, Communist China, Cambodia and the one run in that Caribbean penal colony by the Castro boys, i.e. Cuba. In other words, the “worker’s paradise” is just another “socialist death camp”, like all the others that have preceded it since the French Revolution.

Yet, given that God’s creation is endowed with conscientiousness, free will and the capacity for abstract thought, not to mention human ingenuity, God’s creation is fighting back. The manner in which it is fighting back against this particular satanic and despotic rule of the FrancisDictator Maduro is through the adaptation and promulgation of digital currencies, e.g. Bitcoin.

Below is a post that explains just this phenomenon as it is playing itself out in the FrancisRepublic of Venezuela. It comes via our friends at Zero Hedge and the original can be seen here.

Concluding, what we see in Venezuela is in essence the rebellion against what can be called the wider Theology of Death™. (see here) In the ecclesiastical subset of the Visibilium Omnium, the ToD™ manifests itself in such ways as the mass closing of churches (spiritual death – see here) and the implementation of abortion and euthanasia laws (physical death – see here). In the governmental policy subset of the Visibislium Omnium, the ToD™ manifests itself by destroying the local economy and thereby killing the inhabitants. (see hereand here and here). 

The promoters of this Theology of Death™ within the wider Culture of Death are easily recognizable. Actually, this appears to be one of the rare areas where all sides agree. Just to prove my point, this:

Pope Francis credited with helping euthanasia law pass in Italy

Here is the relevant text:

Euthanasia has come to Italy, and both jubilant right-to-die activists and heartbroken Catholics are giving Pope Francis part of the credit. Moreover, the law does not provide doctors the right to refuse participation via conscientious objection.

Nota bene: It appears that “conscience” does have limits in the FrancisMagisterium.

But regardless of the fact that both sides agree about who the culprits are and only disagreeing on how they are “perceived”, the downstream effects of these actions promoted by the FrancisDeathMerchants are visible and tangible. These effects bring destruction and death, both physical and spiritual.

Yet these people, who are suffering the most from the disastrous FrancisTheology of Death™ are rebelling. They are using their God given ability to correct their predicament and plight and in so doing, implementing a restoration of their own. Presently this restoration is taking the form of a rebellion in key areas of the economy. It has targeted a strategic area that directly impacts the viability and the long term sustainability of the Venezuelan FrancisRegime and its ability to fund its operations.

And just as in the Universal Church, this rebellion against the FrancisDeathMerchants in Venezuela is spreading.

Godspeed!

Oremus!

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“It’s Not Politics, It’s Survival” – Bitcoin, Local Currencies Are Taking Over In Venezuela

Anybody who believes that central banks are essential pillars of economic stability that deserve the untrammeled authority to issue currencies, which they presently enjoy, should take a close look at what’s happening in Venezuela.

Central bankers have tended to dismiss the notion of private currencies as an idea embraced only by techno-libertarian wingnuts (they have invariably described bitcoin as a “store of value” that’s “not yet big enough to threaten the economy.”

But in Venezuela, the collapse of the bolivar has forced locals to turn to alternatives like bitcoin and local community-issued currencies with fixed exchange rates. The rapid erosion of the bolivar’s value made everyday transactions like buying groceries and paying cabbies untenable – customers had to pay with large, cumbersome stacks of bolivars that were difficult to transport.

Patricia Laya, a Venezuela-based reporter, tweeted a photo of the 5,000 bolivars – the maximum amount – she was able to withdraw from an ATM in Caracas. They’re worth around $0.05. Laya stated that she had waited 20 minutes in line to obtain $0.05 in hyperinflated currency worth little to no value, according to CCN.

Even though bitcoin transactions can take hours – even days – to settle, local merchants have readily embraced the digital currency.

A Venezuelan student named John Villar said he uses bitcoin more than bolivars because it’s literally the only viable option.

“This is not a matter of politics. This is a matter of survival,” said Villar.

Villar said he has bought two plane tickets to Colombia, his wife’s medication, and paid his employees with bitcoin in the past month. Villar emphasized that he intends to continue utilizing bitcoin like the majority of Venezuelans, according to CCN.

In Venezuela, the majority of the population has lost trust in the government, the central bank and the banking system, which has clearly helped predispose Venezuelans to bitcoin.

In addition to bitcoin, communities are beginning to launch local currencies, the revival of an idea that the late Hugo Chavez became a proponent of late in life where Venezuela would adopt a series of 10 community currencies like the ones currently being issued by pro-government forces.

In one Caracas neighborhood, several shops have started accepting the panal, according to the Associated Press.

 The panal, which means honeycomb in Spanish, can be spent in just a few stores. But residents of one neighborhood desperate for spending cash said they welcome the idea proposed by pro-government groups.

“There is no cash on the street,” said Liset Sanchez, a 36-year-old housewife who plans to use her freshly printed panals to buy rice for her family. “This currency is going to be a great help for us.”

Amid triple-digit inflation and a currency meltdown, there has been a run on cash in Venezuela.

Buying common items such as toilet paper, or paying a taxi driver, requires stacks of the official currency, called the bolivar.

To be sure, not everybody agrees that these alternative currencies are necessary or even helpful.

Jose Guerra, an opposition politician, knocked the idea of an alternative currency, arguing that having multiple currencies could add “monetary chaos” to the ongoing economic crisis. Perhaps Guerra has never been faced with the prospect of either starving or finding an alternative means of procuring food.

Indeed, President Nicolas Maduro inadvertently helped validate bitcoin – even though his government is cracking down on bitcoin miners – by announcing that the country would adopt a national digital currency called the petro, similar to bitcoin, to replace the bolivar. He has offered few additional details about the plan, however.

The Restoration – It’s A Propitiation Thing…

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As we head toward the end of Advent and into the glorious season of the Nativity of Our Lord, I would like to share some good news with all my readers. The good news has to do with another “first TLM in 50 Years” occurrence.

Now, this good news isn’t like all the other “first TLM in 50 Years” occurrences which are becoming too frequent to keep track of at present. This unique occurrence has been “evolving” for a few months, but I have been holding back informing all you dear and loyal readers since I didn’t want to rush to any premature conclusions. However, over the weekend, I received confirmation that what I was observing, and what the Deus ex Machina’s Pierce/Ockham pragmatic model (POPM) was predicting, was in fact correct.

Before we start, a few words about the model and about PROCESS.

Starting with the POPM, the manner in which the model is structured is that it scours the Catholic news feeds to identify occurrences that could fall into what is called the “Restoration” bucket. These occurrences are then further scrubbed to see if there are any PATTERNS (a regular and intelligible form or sequence discernible in the way in which something happens or is done) that could be emerging. If a PATTERN is identified, then it is given a separate file and any and all subsequent related information that emerges is lodged into that file. This file is then monitored to see if any of the PATTERNS can be identified as a PROCESS (a natural phenomenon marked by gradual changes that lead toward a particular result). Nota bene: What distinguishes a PATTERN from a PROCESS is the “natural phenomenon (…) leading toward a particular result” part. And to finish the story, when we have several PROCESSES that appear to has the same characteristics or are developing along a similar trajectory, we can then form a GENERAL PRINCIPLE of the over-arching PROCESS. Or what Dr. Jordan Peterson would no doubt call a “META PROCESS”. The “Restoration of all things in Christ” is one such META PROCESS.

Actually, the “Restoration” can be considered to be THE META PROCESS, since Western Civilization’s structure and foundation are one and the same as those of the Catholic Church. One example is that Western Civilization is grounded in Natural Law, whose preeminent proponent, custodian and defender is and always has always been the Catholic Church. 

More on this in a future post, but for the time being… please trust me.

So now that the suspense is built-up a bit…let’s roll.

I have a personal sentiment to one particular PATTERN that has been identified taking shape in one Chicago church recently. That church is St. Stanislas Kostka in the Bucktown neighborhood of Chicago. The reason that this church and parish is of particular interest is that it was my first parish and I attended grammar school there up to the 7th grade. Then my family moved to the suburbs, but my heart never left.

Of further note is that I was an altar boy in 6th and 7th grade, and as it just so happened, these were the years of the destruction of the Catholic liturgy. I remember that episode quite vividly, which by the way, is the most vivid recollection that I have of that period.

Enough of the sentimental stuff… and on to the business at hand.

I have been following St. Stan’s since it started getting a social media presence a few years back. However, St. Stan’s only came across my Restoration radar in early November of this year, when news hit my filters that the Church would be offering its first Latin Mass in over 50 years. A Solemn High Mass was offered for the 150th Jubilee celebration of the Feast of St. Stanislaus Kostka on the 18th of November of this year.

Nota bene: I faintly remember the 100th Jubilee in 1967. The reason being that one of the Church steeples burned down in that year. When looking back at the Centenary Album, I also noticed that the Congregation of the Resurrection clergy who operated the parish already had the coffee table up in front of the High Altar in the upper church. Unrelated coincidence or “God of surprises”? I’ll leave that question open. And excuse the digression…

What makes the appearance of the TLM at St. Stan’s a uniquely interesting phenomenon is that it represents a departure from their “ecclesiastical” and “liturgical” strategy to date. St. Stan’s is a N.O. parish and over the last few years, the parish has introduced what is called the “Sanctuary of the Divine Mercy”. It has to do with Eucharistic Adoration in front of … well... this:

OK, so it was idea…

Anyways, what is of note is that in this “Ark of Mercy strategy”, Eucharistic Adoration is the key component. The church is open 24/7, which is one very positive aspect of this approach.

Furthermore, one can easily suspect (INFER) that it might be the Eucharistic Adoration that is leading the process to the Tratitional Latin Mass, since the TLM IS the highest form of Eucharistic Adoration.

Hold that thought…

Next occurrence that dropped into the PROCESS file was this:

According to this post that appeared on Fr. Z’s blog, we get the following information:

A while back I posted about the first TLM celebrated in decades at a famous North Side Chicago Church, St. Stanislaw Kostka.  HERE

Now I’ve received additional good news about that same church.

They will have ad orientem worship beginning in Advent.

This is a wonderful development.

Wonderful indeed.

And an “organic” development according to our methodology, is now taking place.

What we are witnessing, at a supernatural level (SUPPOSITION) is that Eucharistic Adoration is driving the PROCESS since it has SUBJUGATED, and is FORCING all other “sub-ordinate” liturgical forms present within the church, to conform to this higher requirement.

So what proof is there that the above HYPOTHESIS is objectively correct?

Supporting evidence fell into the St. Stan’s file this past weekend. On the Musings of a Pertinacious Papist blog, we get this information: (see here)

 Chicago Bus Tour Tridentine Mass Schedule

The times of the Traditional Latin Masses on this year’s Chicago Church Bus Tour have been finalized. Everyone is invited to attend these Masses if you will be in the Chicago area, whether or not you are registered on the tour:

• Thursday, December 28: 3:00 PM High Mass at St. Mary of the Angels Church
• Friday, December 29: 11:30 AM High Mass at St. John Cantius Church
• Saturday, December 30: 5:00 PM Solemn High Mass at St. Stanislaus Kostka Church. The parish has asked us to hold this Mass at the time of their Saturday Vigil Mass, to expose their parishioners to the Extraordinary Form.

There are still a few seats left on the bus for those interested in the full tour. Contact Prayer Pilgrimages for more information at (248) 250-6005.

Yes, yes,yes!

Concluding, what we see is a PROCESS of the “Restoration of all things in Christ” transpiring at St. Stanislas Kostka Church. The PROCESS has been set in motion by the adoption of a… lets call is an “business ecclesiastical model” at whose heart is Eucharistic Adoration. Given that the focus post-introduction, became Christ himself, this ecclesiastical model demanded a propitiatory (to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of) element, if for no other reason than to make the model coherent and understandable.

Using an explanation that a clinical psychologist like Dr. Peterson would offer, this propitiatory requirement, due to its higher position within the ecclesiastical/liturgical dominance hierarchy,  in turn began subjugating and ordering the lesser positions within this hierarchy, such as N.O. era liturgical forms.

Or to put it another way, rational human beings do not see puppet masses, clown masses, nor even “liturgical dance” as being neither compatible with Eucharistic Adoration not to mention being pleasing to God. And that’s just the way it is.

Nota bene: One can recognize the outlines of this above mentioned ecclesiastical dominance hierarchy in this post here.

But back to the summary. So the propitiatory requirement has begun subjugating the other liturgical forms, in that it is forcing the participants to rethink what is pleasing to God. This is driving the turning to the East, as per Fr. Z’s post, (see more  here) since this is a more propitiatory form than facing the people.

With the advancement of the restoration of the Mass of All Ages in the wider Church, and given that the largest Restorationist church in Chicago, i.e. St. John Cantius is literally a mile to the south, (and the same Religious Order) St. Stan’s is “organically” being pulled in that direction.

Evidence of this phenomenon is that it has broken through the “neo-Modernist” barricade and has offered the first TLM in 50 years. And on the back of that, the Church is not only promoting the TLM, but is trying to PROSELYTIZE its Novus Ordo flock in an attempt to bring it over into the Restoration mainstream.

It needs to be noted that St. Stan’s is NOT introducing a TLM for a small Latin Mass community in its parish which is stuck in the TLM ghetto, which is usually the case.

What St. Stan’s is doing is trying to bring its Novus Ordo pew-sitters into the Latin Mass community.

And that’s a whole different ballgame.

This is the significant development that makes this PROCESS unique.

Aside, who is it again that said “time is greater than space”?

 

 

Question To The Neo-Modernists and Post-Modernists: Can Nietzsche, Jung, Freud and Kierkegaard Be Wrong?

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Today I am breaking my weekend silence.

I have transcribed the above embedded video for your information. I find this video quite extraordinary. There are many reasons for this, but the one that is most prevalent in my mind is how well it explains the two different approaches taken to Francis’ “Joy of Sex” document. But more on that further below.

Next, it fits nicely with yesterday’s post about how the post-conciliar church effective transformed the Sacred Priesthood into a clique of social workers.

So by providing an overview of how our understanding of the concept of the Articulated Truth has been developing in the secular philosophical and psychological sub-set of the et Invisibilium, from Nietzsche to Jung, Freud and Kierkegaard, we can clearly see that what Dr. Peterson is doing is clearly enouncing what the Catholic Faith has been teaching us since it’s founding by Our Lord.

Which in turn allows us to ask the neo-Modernists and the post-Modernists the following question: Can the evolutionary process of our understanding of the Articulated Truth as has developed from Nietzsche to Jung, Freud and Kierkegaard be incorrect?

The Battle For Your Mind – What Is Truth?

Which allows us to further reduce the question to: if you don’t believe Our Lord and you don’t now believe the secular philosophers and scientists, who do you believe?

Which nicely leads into the Spadarian “2+2=5” meme and the “magic thinking” explanation.

And finally, when we listen to Dr. Peterson, we can clearly see the ESSENSE of the issue between Francis and the Dubia Fathers. The manner in which this issue manifests itself can clearly be seen from the two diametrically opposite approaches that the two sides took in promulgating their respective positions.

Of further note is the fact that this Monday, a book will be released which purportedly relates the “state of affaris” behind the Sacred Vatican Walls. Here is the Fr. Z. post informing his readers about the release of The Dictator Pope. THe below is a good framework that should help keep at the forefront the really important things, when reading this book.

On an aside, the video also contains the best EVAHHHH takedown of the protestant sect. And this comes from a Christian who himself was raised in one of these sects. I have highlighted this part in dark blue.

Please re-watch the video and read the below and I will have more to say about this in a followup post.

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Christianity makes the assumption that the word of God, that pulls order out of chaos at the beginning of time, it’s the Logos, is the thing that’s Christ, you know, so many ions later.

They’re the same thing.

It’s like; well what the hell does that mean?

Well it’s like, if you embody the immortal soul properly, you’re the thing that generates order from chaos. Or sometimes the reverse. You make… you’re the transforming agent that sits at the middle of order and chaos.

Ok, to that’s the same thing that was there at the beginning. That’s the beginning of being, not the beginning of the universe. That’s the beginning of being, that’s not the same thing.

So… and the Christians figure out that this Logos thing is very much associated with articulated truth. Articulated Truth. And so the Christian idea in part is…and this is where Nietzsche had it wrong, I think… because he was… was… he was too cynical about Osyrus, he was too cynical about Christianity. He thought all it was , was rotten infrastructure. You know, so he saw how it had become dogmatized and corrupted across time, but he didn’t see what was in the center of it. And his superman was sort of a substitute for that. But he never flushed that out well.

But Jung started to play with the superman idea, and with the idea of the philosopher stone, and he was studying Christianity and at one point he says… oh, oh… those are the same thing. They’re all the same thing. It’s complicated but one of the things that Jung recognized was that the core doctrine of Christianity in some sense is : the Truth buttresses you most thoroughly against the vicissitudes of being. That’s your salvation. The Truth. The spoken Truth.

It’s not… So you might say, … people say… Christians say, if you believe in Christ you are saved.

Well, what do you mean by believe?

Exactly?

You say, Jesus Christ is the Son of God. And you say: I believe that.

Just because you say that, that doesn’t mean that you believe that at all. It has no bearing on what you believe.

The question is: HOW DO YOU ACT?

And the fundamental question under all that is: is your speech true?

Well, then you might ask, what does true mean?

Well, and the answer to that would be, they’re twofold. What are you trying to do with your speech? There are two things you can do with your speech.

One is, you can manipulate reality so that it does what you want it to do.

And so, that’s the kind of speech people use when they are trying to get what they want. The problem with that is that is, that there is no way… they can’t actually know what they want. They just hypothesize what it is that they want based on some theory. And then they try to manipulate the world so that they get that. It’s a non satisfying venture and often when they do get it, it’s not good anyways. So and it involves a kind of falsity of speech.

The other way is to try to say what you mean and think and perceive as clearly as you possibly can always and see what happens.

Now the story that underlies Christianity, and it’s not only Christianity, but it’s Christianity that I am most familiar with, is that.

The rule is, live in accordance with the truth and see what happens.

So in the Sermon on the Mount for example, Christ basically says: Set your sights on allegiance to God. It’s like, whatever the highest value we’ll say. And act in a manner that’s concordant with that. So that’s your goal. Then pay attention to the here and now. Your best strategy for the future.

Well, you know, then you might say, prove that?

Well, that’s when the question starts to become existential. Well it’s like, you can’t prove it. You have to try it. That’s like Kierkegaard’s leap of faith. You cannot tell if this works unless you do it. And that’s a commitment.

It’s like, those two ways of being, the manipulative way of being, that’s an adversarial way of being, archetypically. It’s manipulative. It’s got the LIE at it’s core.

That’s completely different than this path.

So it’s a hypothesis. It’s a hypothesis that Jung did a good job of elaborating. Although even with Jung, it’s not fully articulated. He still saturated an image to a large degree. But no wonder, it’s very complicated to make this sort of thing fully articulated.

You read Solzhenitsyn, you think, why did the Soviet Union become the absolute hellhole that it was. Solzhenitsyn says: because everyone LIED. Oh, isn’t that interesting. Well, that isn’t the hypothesis that you here every day.   

So then you think about Freud and you think, well what’s the major cause of mental illness? Repression. Well, that’s a LIE, fundamentally. I mean, Freud’s played around with it to some degree, so… it’s sort of like, it’s more like… LYING  by omission, actually than lying by commission. But it doesn’t matter. It’s still LYING.

Jung says the same thing. It’s like, wouldn’t it be interesting if fundamental root of psychopathology is was the LIE? The fundamental root of political psychopathology is the LIE?

It’s like, well, what if that’s what’s demolishing your life?

You know, people say… people think especially when they’re NIHILISITC, and they become destructive, that the universe is sort of, it’s unfair and arbitrary place and it’s bent on their destruction, while they suffer. It’s something like that. Yea, right.

What do you do under those circumstances? That’s the question.

Well, one potential answer is: twist the thing so that you can  maybe get what you hypothetically want to get out of it.

The other is, rely on your perceptions and your capacity for accurate representation.  Communicate that, and take your chances.

It’s like, who’s right?

Well, that’s the battle between Good and evil.

Who’s right?

It’s a continual battle.        

Is Anyone Driving This FrancisMercy “2+2=5” Bus?

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Today we pick up with the “2+2=5” meme theme one more time.

Your humble blogger is beating this dead horse because it’s… well… a very, Very, VERY, VERY important meme, since at its root, is in fact an explicit indictment of the entire FrancisBishopricofRome.

More over, what the “2+2=5” meme does is that it implicitly captures the ESSENCE of the entire Vatican II post-conciliar church.

Now seeing as how we mentioned the “E” word, and given that ESSENCES are one of the three elements that are at the root of the study by philosophy, i.e. the study of how knowledge is acquired, the other two being ABSOLUTES and UNIVERSALS, what we are dealing with is an issue at its philosophical level.

Or to put it in post-Modernist jargon, what we are dealing with is the meme “2+2=5” as a “philosophical” construct.

Aside, notice the quotation marks around the word philosophical?

And just to finish this introduction, the reason why the philosophical dimension… bah, PLATFORM is so important is that if the philosophy of this (FrancisChurch) or any endeavor is not  veracious, i.e. objectively true, then the endeavor is doomed to fail. The reason being that this questionable endeavor will not have universal properties, i.e. will not be applicable always, everywhere and to everyone. 

What’s more, if any endeavor does not possess universal properties, then it does not serve everyone equally. What it does, is it favors some at the expense of others. (see section titled PERIPHERIES below.) Therefore the endeavor is not equitable. Or as we Catholics would say, it is not JUST.

Yet we know that an UNJUST system can exist and for a limited time even be sustained. Think Soviet Union… The manner in which it is sustained is not through a natural equilibrium (One that exists in nature in and of itself), but rather through the WILL of individuals which that system favors.

In other words, we are dealing with a post-Modernist, cum neo-Marixst POWER construct.

And to finish off with an example, the Holy Roman Catholic Church, an institution that has maintained what could be described as “business continuity” since its founding in Anno Domini 33, has been able to maintain it’s “business continuity” because it has at its base, a PHILOSOPHICAL PLATFORM based on OBJECTIVE TRUTH. The PRECEPTS of this PLATFORM exist in nature.

Or as we say here on this blog, exists in His creation.

And on this PLATFORM, 2+2 must equal 4, always, everywhere and to everyone.

So what can be inferred from the above is that the reason that the Catholic Church has maintained its business continuity is through a JUST system.

Which begs the question, how can one establish that a SYSTEM is  JUST?

And the answer,  that is commonly provided, is that a JUST system is one where all the participants perceive that their interests are overseen in a manner which does not favor any one individual participant.

To drill down into this thought, your humble blogger favors the NATURAL LAW explanation since your humble blogger sees NATURAL LAW as being that part of the SYSTEM that God created to govern His creation. Here is the Wikipedia definition: (see here) (emphasis and comment added)

For advocates of the theory that justice is part of natural law (e.g., John Locke), it involves the system of consequences that naturally derives from any action or choice. In this, it is similar to the laws of physics: in the same way as the Third of Newton’s laws of Motion requires that for every action there must be an equal and opposite reaction, justice requires according individuals or groups what they actually deserve, merit, or are entitled to.^{[citation needed]} Justice, on this account, is a universal and absolute concept: laws, principles, religions, (Ed. note: there can be only one “religion” in this case) etc., are merely attempts to codify that concept, sometimes with results that entirely contradict the true nature of justice.

With respect to the latter, here we are speaking about the sects.

So now that we have a good grasp of what characteristics a SYSTEM, any SYSTEM needs to possess in order for that SYSTEM to be sustainable, I will post some screen shots, sort of as a weekend meditation exercise. They all originated on the Gloria.TV website and appeared within the last few weeks.

I hope my readers read through and REFLECT on them, and then ask themselves one question:

Is anyone driving this post-conciliar FrancisMercy”2+2=5″Bus?

DIALOGUE

1.a) 

1.b)

VERACITY

2.a)

2.b)

 

2.c)

2.d)

2.e)

2.f)

COLLEGIALITY

3.a)

3.b)

3.c) 

3.d)

DOCTRINE

4.a)

4.b)

4.c)

ECUMENISM

5.a)

5.b)

5.c)

5.d)

 

PERIPHERIES

6.a)

6.b)

6.c)

 

HUMILITY

7.)