This passage from Pieper's essay demonstrates today's predicament: "Finally, it is no longer completely fantastic to think that a day may come when not the executioners alone will deny the existence of inalienable rights of men, but when even the victims will not be able to say why it is that they are suffering injustice…"
Last weekend Pres. Biden was awarded an honorary doctorate by Howard University, where he was the commencement speaker. The award was premised on the assertion Biden was an esteemed scholar. The scholar then exhorted the all black audience of graduates that white supremacy was the greatest threat to them and the rest of us. This from the man who praised KKK Senator Robert Byrd and bragged that his state, Delaware, was on the South's side in the Civil War.
That nobody got up and walked out on Biden is evidence even the victims will not be able to say why it is that they are suffering injustice.
Biden is a symbol of the real white supremacists, the grizzled old white men of the western elites, doing the bidding of the hidden hands of global capitalism, which is made up of white supremacist families, bankers, monarchies, yanking all our chains through their puppets like Biden, Soros, Kissinger, Schwab, Clintons, etc. And they are all screaming abuse at "white people" and telling black people we the 99% are the existential threat. Whereas the reality is that these interests of the masters of these elites who are the real threat, which are families and investors who profited from hundreds of years of imperialism and global fascist capitalism going back to 1600 with the rise of the first great multinational the British East India Company. The white elites are trying to blame the non-elite white population for the sins of the forefathers of the elites - and thereby seek to divide and conquer, cause more chaos and conflict which only serves to ramp up the power of the elites, and their opportunities to profit from raping, pillaging and plundering the 99%.
It's a vile, evil, and ugly strategy - but unfortunately a largely ignorant population is sucked in by it.
This reflects why they are trying to ramp up censorship - to hide all their crimes and their absolute evil which via the Internet has become much more exposed and available to the general public to connect the dots.
Our evil self appointed white supremacist overlords want to return humanity to being mushrooms - soft pliable, kept in the dark and fed on bullshit.
If Joe said that white supremacy was the greatest threat to the students why didn't they get up and get rid of him there and then? He fits the bill after all. The students must be incredibly thick.
Whoever speaks to another person--not simply, we presume, in spontaneous conversation but using well-considered words, and whoever in so doing is explicitly not committed to the truth--whoever, in other words, is in this guided by something other than the truth--such a person, from that moment on, no longer considers the other as partner, as equal. In fact, he no longer respects the other as a human person. From that moment on , to be precise, all conversation ceases; all dialogue and all communication come to an end.
—Josef Pieper
With truth dethroned and Plato’s revolution overturned, what public, and much of private discourse, amounts to now is psychological rape, with its participants both the rapists and the victims. Tony Annett is one such rapist, as well as all the other emasculated-pansy-serpent-men and Lilith-possessed defeminized women at, say, Where Peter Is and America Magazine and the various other covens of intellectual “progressive” sorcery. But it’s not just these leftist, godless, antichrist punks and witches on the “left,” for they are just the most noxious dregs. You also have the many “conservative orthodox Catholics” who promoted and still promote, in the face of the overwhelming evidence of harm and death, the time-release euthanasia shots by assuring themselves and others that they could play Russian Roulette “in good conscience.”
But thanks be to God there were those graced souls—many of them “spiritual but non religious”—who retained some level of Platonic love of truth, which, scandalously, can’t be said of so, so, so many American Catholics today, and thus could see ab initio that the whole pandemic was really a scamdemic, and that the vaccines were evil, even if they didn’t know yet know exactly how or why. Now we know how and why, because we sought to know, even in the face of the greatest propaganda psy-op ever orchestrated. Those who drank the kool aid then seem now to be confirmed in their sinful delusions, with even the “sudden death” of their loved ones unable to shock them out of them.
The abuse of political power is fundamentally connected with the sophistic abuse of the word, indeed finds in it the fertile soil in which to hide and grow and get ready, so much so that the latent potential of the totalitarian poison can be ascertained, as it were, by observing the symptom of the public abuse of language. The degradation, too, of man through man, alarmingly evident in the acts of physical violence committed by all tyrannies (concentration camps, torture), has its beginning, certainly much less alarmingly, at that almost imperceptible moment when the word loses its dignity.
We are living through a full-scale totalitarianism zombie apocalypse, a literal hell on earth: countless people, many young and healthy, are literally dropping dead, having been injected by a time-release euthanasia shot, with autopsy after autopsy revealing veins filled with grotesque blood clots, but the masses, including most Christians, just blink mindlessly, believing without question the most ridiculous and patent lies ever uttered—it’s due to the stress caused by anti-vaxers! It’s “sudden-adult-death-syndrome.” The western presstitutes decry “antisemitism” while they gleefully support Nazis in the Ukraine/NATO war of aggression against Russia, and the gay disco comedian installed by the Western cryptocracy to arm and protect them. Armed atheists stand outside of libraries to “protect” pedophiles from “conspiracy theorist right-wingers” so they can perform lewd acts in front of children—with their parents watching and smiling. Anyone who dares to claim that a man can’t become a women and vice versa, or that the anus is not a sex organ is considered both insane and morally deranged, even “unChristian.” Did I say that this is hell on earth?
Though the more overt mass terror and atrocities have been paused for the time being, the globalist satanists holding the reigns of power masking as custodians of the common good have no intention of ever stopping it. But it can be stopped, if only Plato’s revolution could be resurrected. And each of us can do that right now, in his own heart, for all it takes is a simple act of the will: Say it now: "My God—who is Truth—I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love you. I beg pardon for all those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love you.”
The euphemism 'clown world' sums it up. And when I say clown, I think more in terms of a deranged psychopathic 'Joker' ... and no, I haven't seen that "film."
I loved everything you said until the end because putting your faith in a "belief" is shoddy thinking, no disrespect intended, it is not going to save you imho. Never attach to beliefs, always leave room for a better more accurate understanding, that is, keep an open mind. Your belief may be valid, but then again, maybe it's not. It is up to us to save the day and if we are in alignment with the Universe (God), we may find the power, courage, and creativity to perhaps do so. But we must act, and act with an effective strategy that comes from the heart.
I am a long-time activist because I never could tolerate injustices and atrocities, which in our day and age abound. Yet too many people step over the bodies of the homeless on the sidewalks, ignore the armless, legless beggar in the gutter, vote for the politicians that glut the military with obscene amounts of money, etc., etc. This is where the Left and Right unite. They all vote for military spending. This is zombie, cold-hearted behavior that is so common.
We will never create a paradise on this paradise called Earth until it is common for all to have unconditional love for all life and we become one non-dysfunctional human family.
And we will never rid ourselves of the tyrants that run and control the world until we stop wasting our energy on voting and political parties and instead we demand that all governments restructure from vertical to horizontal, which is virtually incorruptible (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wywMhg604W8) by the people and for the people, women's rights, end of patriarchy, ecology , and direct democracy.
Because vertical is too easy to subvert, corrupt, and control through the age old technique of bribery, blackmail, intimidation with the real threat of murder (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oilxI6Dgoy8&t=5s).
I like what you wrote. But it is foolishness to dismiss the act of prayer. The act of prayer opens one's consciousness to divine guidance and wisdom. Like a faucet, the water is there and ready to drink, but you cannot get to it unless you take that one simple step: open the tap.
Maybe you are right Benj, but I imagine that if there is an entity, a God who wishes or waits for us to pray, he could just as easily know my thoughts and desires without me having to put them in thoughts/words. So for this reason it seems pointless. I would rather have faith in the goodness that lies behind everything, or some might just call it love.
"Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup
They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe"
There is something to be said for utterances though as they float across the universe. An intention of truth and light spoken however quietly I am thinking has great power encapsulated in the Sound. This is all intuitive thinking on my part
Yes, as Nikola Tesla taught us, energy, sound and vibration. This is why we go to and pray out loud together in the resonating chambers known as churches/temples. Intent has to be spoken, not just thought.
You missed my point, I think. What I'm saying is that we are REQUIRED to seek it, that you can't get it without asking (except for the occasional miracle, we do not know how it all works!).
Seeking is a factor, one that is on us to do. It primes us to receive, like priming an engine, or preparing a vessel to hold something valuable.
I know you mean well. But if anyone states anything especially metaphysical as a fact, I can't help but be skeptical. Let me ask you, how do you know that it is true?
Yes, but the thing is God is love. It is written "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."
God did not wait for people to pray but came into this world as he interacts with it and His children. He is after a relationship with His children who He created.
Ultimately he came into the world in the form of His Son Jesus Christ and as Jesus said, I have come that you might have life and have it to the full.
Life is about relationship and love, there would be no point in living otherwise.
You worship your 'activism,' and by extension yourself. People like you got us into this situation although you will never see it because you believe yourself to be thoroughly good, rather than in need of salvation.
In many "histories" of the time. And more...Spartan Army was a Sodomists' Club. They all insisted...Plato's "philosopher kings" also, that they get the males aged eight, no later than twelve.
An Athenian male had the right to "stick it" to anyone other than a "peer", i.e. male of his social/financial status/power.
One famous night the youth of Athens ..I think it was Athens, not Rome...male youth, of course, got drunk and went around knocking down all the phallus statues. Guess they'd seen enough of them.
A small aside....My Marxist Christian friends and I take umbrage at your criticism of leftists. The Democratic party is not left at all. Right wing or far right wing is more accurate.
The WEF et al is ultra capitalist and is culling us as we speak. Stop thinking that the evil satanic Death Cult is leftist or Communist, for that is absurd
And so, it appears you listened, watched, read and continue to revere the Marian Apparition at Fatima since you're writing the prayer of St. Michael the Archangel appearing to prepare the children, to give Holy Eucharist and how to pray reparation for the hurt of the Immaculate Heart of Our Holy Blessed Virgin as well as for The Sacred Heart of her son and Lord as well as ours.
"My God-Who is Truth-I believe, I adore, I hope and I love you. I beg pardon for all those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love you."
Yes. JFK: Before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental destruction we dare not tempt them with weakness.
He also said: If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich.
While FDR said something like: There are no events of any major political consequence that is accidental.
And here's what I say, there is no hole or bunker deep enough, barricaded enough, castle wall fortified enough to stop justice from coming.
Ultimately I don't think there are any inalienable rights, there are only rights that people are willing to physically defend with their own bodies and lives. If rights were indeed inalienable then they wouldn't have to be physically defended in the first place...and when people forget the brutal nature of reality is when decadence really sets in...
I would argue that you think that, because of the process Pieper and others have identified. It goes hand in hand with the elimination of the concept of an immortal soul and judgment, to be followed by an eternity in heaven or hell.
In my view, it is *true* that God gave us immortal souls, and free will, and we are engaged in this process -- through our actions while in our living bodies on earth -- that culminates in bodily death, followed by judgment, followed by (someday) resurrection of the body for those who have obeyed the teachings of Christ during their lives. Those things are not just cultural traditions that happened to take root in some societies, or comforting stories, or any of the other ways in which today's globalists and their predecessors have tried to diminish the Catholic faith into one among many ways of understanding human existence.
In my view, without that overarching meaning for human lives, as distinct from all other living creatures, there is no basis for human rights. Without that Christian framework, Noah Yuval Hariri's definition of humans as useless eaters is logically coherent, and murdering people is a morally indifferent act.
This gets into the Christian teaching about not worrying about those who can kill the body but not the soul, only worrying about those who can destroy the soul, and the Christian teaching about martyrdom, and Christian teachings about just war and self-defense and many other complex theological issues.
Much more to think about.
Bottom line, for me, is that it's much more important to guard your soul than your body, and the globalists through the biowarfare-public health-population control programs are after both, because they want you to consent, with an act of your own will, to participating in lies, murders and suicides.
Katherine...as long as your mind can make room for the cognitive dissonance of "just...war"....hello?...this of course includes just assault, just rape, just sodomy, just child rape, just murder. It's "just" murder when you do it, it's a horror and a crime when others do it. When one murders "the enemy" it's only murder. No big deal.
Fucking for virginity. Brilliant.
Give me a break. You appear to have more intelligence than this.
We all have fault lines, tho. "just war". Give me a break.
Thought experiment...if the barbarian hordes cross the border with their weapons du jour, is it more just to fight? or to surrender and allow your fellow countrymen to be murdered and raped and....etc.
Living in a two dimensional dualistic "world"/ideasphere is an option. I never wanted to go to disneyland. There are many dimensions here, and many ways to say no.
Interesting. I’m not sure how that addresses the question, one which people have struggled with for the span of human history? Are you suggesting there’s a ‘third way?’
Hi Katherine, sure, under the framework you present rights could be considered inalienable -- but only by God and only after death, if that is a framework one believes in. It does make coherent sense and form a complete worldview.
I personally have issues with the traditional religious approach, though, given the problem of evil, with evil defined in that approach as the free choice one makes to distance oneself from God. I wrestled with these issues a couple of days ago if you'd like to take a look: https://neofeudalreview.substack.com/p/meditations-on-the-problem-of-evil
Yes, there are no rights, only responsibilities. This focus on rights is misplaced and why so much of society is in such a mess. "I know my rights!" is the cry.
What is forgotten are the two principal commandments that Jesus spoke about and which are contained in the Old Testament not just the New.
These are to love God and to love our neigbour as ourselves. There is no mention of worship, only love and the word for that in Greek is 'agape' This is a sacrificial love.
If one must use the word 'right' then the only right we have is to do love the right and to do the right.
Grateful beyond measure for your research, views, writings and advocacy for the gifts of Life. This precisely is the foundation, as you said, “…the human capacity to discern and speak truth, and the capacity to clearly refute false statements, lies, deceptions, has been a very effective way for globalists to disable and disarm the victims of the executioners.” We wear the full armor of God, and as our strength in number grows, so does our fortitude, community, and our faith, hope, and love ~ these 3.
yes, for by virtue of their legal formulation and use, they have become terms of art, that have legal meaning regardless of what you choose to believe.
Similarely an "act of God," legally simply means an event over which you have no control personally, so it happens to you, you did not bring it about.
Nice of you to rob me of my soul, my honor, and the truthfulness of my life. I happen to be a spiritual person who does not honor any god but the one that resides within my spirit. How dare you dismiss others for the value of their truths.
As an interesting aside…I love Raphael’s depiction of Archangel Michael with the sword of truth and the scales of justice. In life, we are presented with in an ongoing internal relationship with truth and justice, or what I prefer to call wisdom. The masculine holds the sword and the feminine holds the scales. When these work together, here on earth, we have heaven on earth. When the scales are out of balance and the sword is wielded without wisdom, we have hell on earth.
Best example is the the 'History Writers' narrative of European events. For over 70 years it is punishable with imprisonment to even question it. It has never happened before that history cannot be questioned or investigated. The similarity with the suppression of the Covid19 narrative and the UN future plans is so eerie that we have to come to the conclusion that the same players are at work.
Profound truth. Don’t know if you have heard of Father James Schall, whose essays and books I think are an amazing gift from God for our modern times. Schall was a huge fan of Pieper, recommending him constantly.
Eomer: How shall a man judge what to do in such times?
Aragorn: As he ever has judged. Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.
God works his miracles every day and there are wonders to behold! We need to look closer with a positive mind and we can spot his hand at work. Every miracle I experience makes me smile as it is a sign to me God continues to be in charge and he is guiding me to something he wants me to learn. He is my teacher and I don't doubt him!
This passage from Pieper's essay demonstrates today's predicament: "Finally, it is no longer completely fantastic to think that a day may come when not the executioners alone will deny the existence of inalienable rights of men, but when even the victims will not be able to say why it is that they are suffering injustice…"
Last weekend Pres. Biden was awarded an honorary doctorate by Howard University, where he was the commencement speaker. The award was premised on the assertion Biden was an esteemed scholar. The scholar then exhorted the all black audience of graduates that white supremacy was the greatest threat to them and the rest of us. This from the man who praised KKK Senator Robert Byrd and bragged that his state, Delaware, was on the South's side in the Civil War.
That nobody got up and walked out on Biden is evidence even the victims will not be able to say why it is that they are suffering injustice.
Resident pant-poopooing, pedophile, Gaslighter-in-Chief
'hi job obedient serpent is a full anagram of Joe Biden's full name, Joseph Robinette Biden.
Robinette in French is slang for 'little penis'.
I think Joe Biden is the new Nero, fiddling the books whilst the USA burns.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/09/06/factcheck-is-joe-biden-the-new-nero/
Biden is a symbol of the real white supremacists, the grizzled old white men of the western elites, doing the bidding of the hidden hands of global capitalism, which is made up of white supremacist families, bankers, monarchies, yanking all our chains through their puppets like Biden, Soros, Kissinger, Schwab, Clintons, etc. And they are all screaming abuse at "white people" and telling black people we the 99% are the existential threat. Whereas the reality is that these interests of the masters of these elites who are the real threat, which are families and investors who profited from hundreds of years of imperialism and global fascist capitalism going back to 1600 with the rise of the first great multinational the British East India Company. The white elites are trying to blame the non-elite white population for the sins of the forefathers of the elites - and thereby seek to divide and conquer, cause more chaos and conflict which only serves to ramp up the power of the elites, and their opportunities to profit from raping, pillaging and plundering the 99%.
It's a vile, evil, and ugly strategy - but unfortunately a largely ignorant population is sucked in by it.
This reflects why they are trying to ramp up censorship - to hide all their crimes and their absolute evil which via the Internet has become much more exposed and available to the general public to connect the dots.
Our evil self appointed white supremacist overlords want to return humanity to being mushrooms - soft pliable, kept in the dark and fed on bullshit.
I find honorary degrees ridiculous, but especially when given to the mentally unfit like Joe Biden. He is in here.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/04/12/more-memes/
If Joe said that white supremacy was the greatest threat to the students why didn't they get up and get rid of him there and then? He fits the bill after all. The students must be incredibly thick.
Whoever speaks to another person--not simply, we presume, in spontaneous conversation but using well-considered words, and whoever in so doing is explicitly not committed to the truth--whoever, in other words, is in this guided by something other than the truth--such a person, from that moment on, no longer considers the other as partner, as equal. In fact, he no longer respects the other as a human person. From that moment on , to be precise, all conversation ceases; all dialogue and all communication come to an end.
—Josef Pieper
With truth dethroned and Plato’s revolution overturned, what public, and much of private discourse, amounts to now is psychological rape, with its participants both the rapists and the victims. Tony Annett is one such rapist, as well as all the other emasculated-pansy-serpent-men and Lilith-possessed defeminized women at, say, Where Peter Is and America Magazine and the various other covens of intellectual “progressive” sorcery. But it’s not just these leftist, godless, antichrist punks and witches on the “left,” for they are just the most noxious dregs. You also have the many “conservative orthodox Catholics” who promoted and still promote, in the face of the overwhelming evidence of harm and death, the time-release euthanasia shots by assuring themselves and others that they could play Russian Roulette “in good conscience.”
But thanks be to God there were those graced souls—many of them “spiritual but non religious”—who retained some level of Platonic love of truth, which, scandalously, can’t be said of so, so, so many American Catholics today, and thus could see ab initio that the whole pandemic was really a scamdemic, and that the vaccines were evil, even if they didn’t know yet know exactly how or why. Now we know how and why, because we sought to know, even in the face of the greatest propaganda psy-op ever orchestrated. Those who drank the kool aid then seem now to be confirmed in their sinful delusions, with even the “sudden death” of their loved ones unable to shock them out of them.
The abuse of political power is fundamentally connected with the sophistic abuse of the word, indeed finds in it the fertile soil in which to hide and grow and get ready, so much so that the latent potential of the totalitarian poison can be ascertained, as it were, by observing the symptom of the public abuse of language. The degradation, too, of man through man, alarmingly evident in the acts of physical violence committed by all tyrannies (concentration camps, torture), has its beginning, certainly much less alarmingly, at that almost imperceptible moment when the word loses its dignity.
We are living through a full-scale totalitarianism zombie apocalypse, a literal hell on earth: countless people, many young and healthy, are literally dropping dead, having been injected by a time-release euthanasia shot, with autopsy after autopsy revealing veins filled with grotesque blood clots, but the masses, including most Christians, just blink mindlessly, believing without question the most ridiculous and patent lies ever uttered—it’s due to the stress caused by anti-vaxers! It’s “sudden-adult-death-syndrome.” The western presstitutes decry “antisemitism” while they gleefully support Nazis in the Ukraine/NATO war of aggression against Russia, and the gay disco comedian installed by the Western cryptocracy to arm and protect them. Armed atheists stand outside of libraries to “protect” pedophiles from “conspiracy theorist right-wingers” so they can perform lewd acts in front of children—with their parents watching and smiling. Anyone who dares to claim that a man can’t become a women and vice versa, or that the anus is not a sex organ is considered both insane and morally deranged, even “unChristian.” Did I say that this is hell on earth?
Though the more overt mass terror and atrocities have been paused for the time being, the globalist satanists holding the reigns of power masking as custodians of the common good have no intention of ever stopping it. But it can be stopped, if only Plato’s revolution could be resurrected. And each of us can do that right now, in his own heart, for all it takes is a simple act of the will: Say it now: "My God—who is Truth—I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love you. I beg pardon for all those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love you.”
The euphemism 'clown world' sums it up. And when I say clown, I think more in terms of a deranged psychopathic 'Joker' ... and no, I haven't seen that "film."
Laus Deo Semper.
I loved everything you said until the end because putting your faith in a "belief" is shoddy thinking, no disrespect intended, it is not going to save you imho. Never attach to beliefs, always leave room for a better more accurate understanding, that is, keep an open mind. Your belief may be valid, but then again, maybe it's not. It is up to us to save the day and if we are in alignment with the Universe (God), we may find the power, courage, and creativity to perhaps do so. But we must act, and act with an effective strategy that comes from the heart.
I am a long-time activist because I never could tolerate injustices and atrocities, which in our day and age abound. Yet too many people step over the bodies of the homeless on the sidewalks, ignore the armless, legless beggar in the gutter, vote for the politicians that glut the military with obscene amounts of money, etc., etc. This is where the Left and Right unite. They all vote for military spending. This is zombie, cold-hearted behavior that is so common.
We will never create a paradise on this paradise called Earth until it is common for all to have unconditional love for all life and we become one non-dysfunctional human family.
And we will never rid ourselves of the tyrants that run and control the world until we stop wasting our energy on voting and political parties and instead we demand that all governments restructure from vertical to horizontal, which is virtually incorruptible (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wywMhg604W8) by the people and for the people, women's rights, end of patriarchy, ecology , and direct democracy.
Because vertical is too easy to subvert, corrupt, and control through the age old technique of bribery, blackmail, intimidation with the real threat of murder (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oilxI6Dgoy8&t=5s).
I like what you wrote. But it is foolishness to dismiss the act of prayer. The act of prayer opens one's consciousness to divine guidance and wisdom. Like a faucet, the water is there and ready to drink, but you cannot get to it unless you take that one simple step: open the tap.
Maybe you are right Benj, but I imagine that if there is an entity, a God who wishes or waits for us to pray, he could just as easily know my thoughts and desires without me having to put them in thoughts/words. So for this reason it seems pointless. I would rather have faith in the goodness that lies behind everything, or some might just call it love.
"Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup
They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe"
There is something to be said for utterances though as they float across the universe. An intention of truth and light spoken however quietly I am thinking has great power encapsulated in the Sound. This is all intuitive thinking on my part
Yes, as Nikola Tesla taught us, energy, sound and vibration. This is why we go to and pray out loud together in the resonating chambers known as churches/temples. Intent has to be spoken, not just thought.
You missed my point, I think. What I'm saying is that we are REQUIRED to seek it, that you can't get it without asking (except for the occasional miracle, we do not know how it all works!).
Seeking is a factor, one that is on us to do. It primes us to receive, like priming an engine, or preparing a vessel to hold something valuable.
I know you mean well. But if anyone states anything especially metaphysical as a fact, I can't help but be skeptical. Let me ask you, how do you know that it is true?
Jesus is Lord. Repent of your disbelief and become Catholic: https://thaddeuskozinski.substack.com/p/we-are-in-a-war-for-our-souls
Yes, but the thing is God is love. It is written "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."
God did not wait for people to pray but came into this world as he interacts with it and His children. He is after a relationship with His children who He created.
Ultimately he came into the world in the form of His Son Jesus Christ and as Jesus said, I have come that you might have life and have it to the full.
Life is about relationship and love, there would be no point in living otherwise.
You worship your 'activism,' and by extension yourself. People like you got us into this situation although you will never see it because you believe yourself to be thoroughly good, rather than in need of salvation.
Well said, Thank you for setting the record straight. Man isn't good, only GOD is.
Thank YOU. You always have solid takes.
"Plato's revolution"??
Plato was an infamous pedophile....maybe the word "pederast" is more acceptable?
Did you read about this in the Athenian Enquirer?
In many "histories" of the time. And more...Spartan Army was a Sodomists' Club. They all insisted...Plato's "philosopher kings" also, that they get the males aged eight, no later than twelve.
An Athenian male had the right to "stick it" to anyone other than a "peer", i.e. male of his social/financial status/power.
One famous night the youth of Athens ..I think it was Athens, not Rome...male youth, of course, got drunk and went around knocking down all the phallus statues. Guess they'd seen enough of them.
A small aside....My Marxist Christian friends and I take umbrage at your criticism of leftists. The Democratic party is not left at all. Right wing or far right wing is more accurate.
The WEF et al is ultra capitalist and is culling us as we speak. Stop thinking that the evil satanic Death Cult is leftist or Communist, for that is absurd
And so, it appears you listened, watched, read and continue to revere the Marian Apparition at Fatima since you're writing the prayer of St. Michael the Archangel appearing to prepare the children, to give Holy Eucharist and how to pray reparation for the hurt of the Immaculate Heart of Our Holy Blessed Virgin as well as for The Sacred Heart of her son and Lord as well as ours.
"My God-Who is Truth-I believe, I adore, I hope and I love you. I beg pardon for all those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love you."
Thank-You!
Amen
Yes. JFK: Before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental destruction we dare not tempt them with weakness.
He also said: If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich.
While FDR said something like: There are no events of any major political consequence that is accidental.
And here's what I say, there is no hole or bunker deep enough, barricaded enough, castle wall fortified enough to stop justice from coming.
That is God's truth. Agape!
Ultimately I don't think there are any inalienable rights, there are only rights that people are willing to physically defend with their own bodies and lives. If rights were indeed inalienable then they wouldn't have to be physically defended in the first place...and when people forget the brutal nature of reality is when decadence really sets in...
I would argue that you think that, because of the process Pieper and others have identified. It goes hand in hand with the elimination of the concept of an immortal soul and judgment, to be followed by an eternity in heaven or hell.
In my view, it is *true* that God gave us immortal souls, and free will, and we are engaged in this process -- through our actions while in our living bodies on earth -- that culminates in bodily death, followed by judgment, followed by (someday) resurrection of the body for those who have obeyed the teachings of Christ during their lives. Those things are not just cultural traditions that happened to take root in some societies, or comforting stories, or any of the other ways in which today's globalists and their predecessors have tried to diminish the Catholic faith into one among many ways of understanding human existence.
In my view, without that overarching meaning for human lives, as distinct from all other living creatures, there is no basis for human rights. Without that Christian framework, Noah Yuval Hariri's definition of humans as useless eaters is logically coherent, and murdering people is a morally indifferent act.
This gets into the Christian teaching about not worrying about those who can kill the body but not the soul, only worrying about those who can destroy the soul, and the Christian teaching about martyrdom, and Christian teachings about just war and self-defense and many other complex theological issues.
Much more to think about.
Bottom line, for me, is that it's much more important to guard your soul than your body, and the globalists through the biowarfare-public health-population control programs are after both, because they want you to consent, with an act of your own will, to participating in lies, murders and suicides.
Katherine...as long as your mind can make room for the cognitive dissonance of "just...war"....hello?...this of course includes just assault, just rape, just sodomy, just child rape, just murder. It's "just" murder when you do it, it's a horror and a crime when others do it. When one murders "the enemy" it's only murder. No big deal.
Fucking for virginity. Brilliant.
Give me a break. You appear to have more intelligence than this.
We all have fault lines, tho. "just war". Give me a break.
Thought experiment...if the barbarian hordes cross the border with their weapons du jour, is it more just to fight? or to surrender and allow your fellow countrymen to be murdered and raped and....etc.
I don't operate within your "either/or".
Living in a two dimensional dualistic "world"/ideasphere is an option. I never wanted to go to disneyland. There are many dimensions here, and many ways to say no.
You were very "either/or" in your takedown of Katherine's premise. If your non-duality was up to snuff, you wouldn't have any objection. To anything.
Interesting. I’m not sure how that addresses the question, one which people have struggled with for the span of human history? Are you suggesting there’s a ‘third way?’
Third and fourth and as many as you have imagination.
Some folks shape shift. Some dis-appear.
Fairies and Bigfoot live interdimensionally.
You'll never know, until you say "NO". Then you get another card.
In order for something or someone new to come in, you have to have a free space.
I might just say to you the very thing I use to keep behind my bed on the wall for and that is "Pray to God- But row to shore"...cheers
Hi Katherine, sure, under the framework you present rights could be considered inalienable -- but only by God and only after death, if that is a framework one believes in. It does make coherent sense and form a complete worldview.
I personally have issues with the traditional religious approach, though, given the problem of evil, with evil defined in that approach as the free choice one makes to distance oneself from God. I wrestled with these issues a couple of days ago if you'd like to take a look: https://neofeudalreview.substack.com/p/meditations-on-the-problem-of-evil
So far there has been no physical force, coercion yes. A very interesting point they seem to need that consent.
Yes, there are no rights, only responsibilities. This focus on rights is misplaced and why so much of society is in such a mess. "I know my rights!" is the cry.
What is forgotten are the two principal commandments that Jesus spoke about and which are contained in the Old Testament not just the New.
These are to love God and to love our neigbour as ourselves. There is no mention of worship, only love and the word for that in Greek is 'agape' This is a sacrificial love.
If one must use the word 'right' then the only right we have is to do love the right and to do the right.
Grateful beyond measure for your research, views, writings and advocacy for the gifts of Life. This precisely is the foundation, as you said, “…the human capacity to discern and speak truth, and the capacity to clearly refute false statements, lies, deceptions, has been a very effective way for globalists to disable and disarm the victims of the executioners.” We wear the full armor of God, and as our strength in number grows, so does our fortitude, community, and our faith, hope, and love ~ these 3.
If "Man has inalienable rights because he is created a person by the act of God," does an atheist have them?
Yes. He won't want to admit it but God made him too. along with his arrogance.
BRAVO!
yes, for by virtue of their legal formulation and use, they have become terms of art, that have legal meaning regardless of what you choose to believe.
Similarely an "act of God," legally simply means an event over which you have no control personally, so it happens to you, you did not bring it about.
No, the atheist is an empty vessel devoid of everything, including inalienable rights.
Nice of you to rob me of my soul, my honor, and the truthfulness of my life. I happen to be a spiritual person who does not honor any god but the one that resides within my spirit. How dare you dismiss others for the value of their truths.
Is that you, Jesus, following your return to the planet?
It is strange that you act more like Satan than anyone else.
Yes
As an interesting aside…I love Raphael’s depiction of Archangel Michael with the sword of truth and the scales of justice. In life, we are presented with in an ongoing internal relationship with truth and justice, or what I prefer to call wisdom. The masculine holds the sword and the feminine holds the scales. When these work together, here on earth, we have heaven on earth. When the scales are out of balance and the sword is wielded without wisdom, we have hell on earth.
We are still growing up!
Best example is the the 'History Writers' narrative of European events. For over 70 years it is punishable with imprisonment to even question it. It has never happened before that history cannot be questioned or investigated. The similarity with the suppression of the Covid19 narrative and the UN future plans is so eerie that we have to come to the conclusion that the same players are at work.
Profound truth. Don’t know if you have heard of Father James Schall, whose essays and books I think are an amazing gift from God for our modern times. Schall was a huge fan of Pieper, recommending him constantly.
Eomer: How shall a man judge what to do in such times?
Aragorn: As he ever has judged. Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.
God works his miracles every day and there are wonders to behold! We need to look closer with a positive mind and we can spot his hand at work. Every miracle I experience makes me smile as it is a sign to me God continues to be in charge and he is guiding me to something he wants me to learn. He is my teacher and I don't doubt him!
"to instill in human minds an inability to think of anything in the world as unequivocably true or false"
Exactly.
Intellects have been deliberately impaired. Pieper is fabulous.
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And Charles Said:
“Mummy, Why Can’t I Be King Of The World” ?
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You had me at "right to not be maimed, sterilized or killed..." Yeah, we need to cull the psychopaths.
Yes, very well said; the death of truth: https://open.substack.com/pub/thaddeuskozinski/p/the-death-of-truth?utm_source=direct&r=24l7o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I love this argument as to the objective reality of right and wrong--essentially, that the "ought" IS--here in Book One of "Mere Christianity" by C.S.Lewis, starting on p. 21 of this pdf: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4c4NxBlBtXTcWw2ZV94ZzV6VTg/edit?resourcekey=0-XK3XdM0eYfxqpM9nXZQOxw.