Adjusting perspective

If I know everything about what is and will soon be happening in this increasingly-insane world, what does that matter if I am spiritually disordered?  What if I die, perhaps even later today?  Yes, I am relatively young and strong and healthy; however, none of us knows the day or hour.  Contrary to the belief of some, reflecting on our mortality is a healthy and immensely powerful aid to living a good, virtuous, truly happy life.

If I am not living a good life, living a long life only adds to my unhappiness and spiritual debt.  Chasing after the fleeting pleasures of this world, accumulating material goods or preparing for temporal upheaval, etc., while neglecting to spiritually prepare for this day and for eternity is to have it all backwards — and having it all backwards is the main reason we have come to the present impasse.

Death comes to us all, often when we least expect it.  It is but a transition from time to eternity.  What we do in time determines how we spend eternity.  Everything we have done, are doing or will do in this short life involves a choice — choose wisely, my friends.  Godspeed.

“The Secret of Oz” and other useful videos…

On December 6, I did a short post about the heart of the temporal problems: money manipulation.  The Money Master Mafia manipulates the world money supply in order to obtain and exert control over the entire formerly-civilized world.  As we all know, “the desire of money is the root of all evils…”  The classic documentary “The Money Masters” and two other items may be found here.

Below is “The Secret of Oz,” another must-see video from Mr. Bill Still.  If the ongoing, accelerating troubles within the financial realm are somewhat mysterious to you, please listen to what Mr. Still has to say in this film and “The Money Masters.”  Our present difficulties are the logical, long-foreseen outcome of an ugly process that has been more or less allowed to continue for centuries.  There is a way forward, but the Money Master Mafia is not going to just cede the floor because a few people are tired of their shenanigans.  What is more, driving these money changers from the proverbial temple is only the beginning.  Too few grasp how deeply-rooted and extensive our problems are; even fewer have any real clue about what needs to be done in order to restore sanity, peace and true prosperity.  It will be restored, but the path from here to there is going to be bumpier than most can conceive.  Enjoy the film:

Inbound object the temporal key to any reset?

The video at the end of this short post is the first portion of a talk given in early 2010.  The other portions of the same talk may be found on YouTube.  The general thesis is that there is an inbound object, the exact nature of which is disputed, that is going to wreak incomprehensible havoc worldwide.  While I do not agree with certain details of this presentation, it is, in the main, loaded with correct and vital information.  I will share other information on this subject as time permits.

This subject could fill an entire website, so one post only allows a scratching of the surface.  As many readers may be aware, what is commonly known as the Third Secret of Fatima has been a source of controversy for decades.  However, because that is an incredibly involved story full of lies and coverups, for the present I will limit myself to sharing some rather cryptic quotes from Karol Józef Wojtyła, the man known to the world as John Paul II.  His comments pertain to the contents of the so-called Third Secret, which was supposed to be revealed to the entire world no later than 1960.  Regardless of the reader’s position with respect to the Catholic Church, the present occupants of the Vatican, etc., I would guess we are all agreed that those in residence there over the past decades know far more than they share with the world at large.  Here are Wojtyła’s words when asked about it all in 1980 in Fulda, Germany:

“If there is a message in which it is said that the oceans will flood entire sections of the earth; that, from one moment to the other, millions of people will perish . . . there is no longer any point in really wanting to publish this secret message. Many want to know merely out of curiosity, or because of their taste for sensationalism, but they forget that ‘to know’ implies for them a responsibility. It is dangerous to want to satisfy one’s curiosity only, if one is convinced that we can do nothing against a catastrophe that has been predicted…. (At this point he took hold of his Rosary and said:) Here is the remedy against all evil! Pray, pray and ask for nothing else. Put everything in the hands of the Mother of God!”

Another report has him saying this: “I and the Popes before me did not reveal the third secret of Fatima because we did not want to make the people give up and say ‘then what is the use to continue living.’ Furthermore, we did not want to create a sensationalism in the news media. Regarding the third secret of Fatima every Christian should know the following: Continents will disappear beneath the oceans. Whole Nations will be destroyed from moment to moment.” After some weeks of speculation in the newspapers that this could be the result of a nuclear war, Pope John Paul II said to the press to stop saying that the secret of Fatima predicts a nuclear war. “No, All that I have said in Germany is the result of natural causes.”

The myriad, ubiquitous weather anomalies are no accident.  If you want to learn more about them, please visit this website.  These things will only intensify over the coming months.  I do not share this information in order to frighten anyone.  On the contrary, my only desire is to help others see, face, and deal sensibly with the gravity of these truly amazing times.  For several centuries, we have lived foolishly and squandered our inheritance, so to speak, but present and coming events constitute what I have chosen to call the Great Purification.  There will be much hardship, but the end result will be an across-the-board “reset” we so desperately need.  Considering the fact that we will all die at some point, and that the state of our soul at the moment of death has eternal ramifications, it is wise to put our spiritual house in order.  We do not control the amount of time we are given, but we do control and will have to answer for what we do with it.  We must forsake whatever presently serves as an obstacle to living a virtuous life; we must choose the road that leads to eternal life.  Godspeed, dear readers, now and always.

Fukushima: What next?

Today marks the one year anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown at Fukushima, Japan.  The leaders of Japan have been lying about the gravity of the situation since day one.  This has been as clear as the summer sun to those with eyes to see.  For what it is worth, the leaders of other nations, the MSM, et alii have also been lying about the severity of the problem.  While it is common enough for men to lie for various reasons, that is not the focus of this short blog entry.  Let us consider, rather, what is likely to happen within the next six to eighteen months.

The meltdown continues apace, despite whatever the official word is or has been.  Life on the northeast quadrant of Honshu will never be the same.  Frankly, it is ridiculous if not criminal that everyone was not evacuated as soon as humanly possible.  Making matters notably more strange, Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams, made in 1990, consists of eight short films, two of which deal with nuclear disaster.  Mount Fuji in Red depicts a dream which is really a nightmare. A large power plant near Mt. Fuji is melting down. The sky turns a terrifying color of red. Millions of people flee in desperation. They have nowhere to go except into the sea.  Readers can do their own research, but this same film or another very much like it also has as part of the storyline a massive earthquake right off the coast.  It is discovered that a good portion of Japan is going to slide into the sea.  At first, the experts say there is some time before this happens, but then they learn it will happen within a year or so.  Government officials start trying to find other countries to take the millions of refugees, but they don’t tell the people what is really happening.  Sounds familiar, eh?  The old saying is “art imitates life,” but in this case it seems to be the reverse.  It is a topic for another time, but life has been imitating art a lot in recent years, especially with respect to disasters of various kinds.

As for Japan and some of it sliding into the sea, there is an interesting prediction by a man named Edgar Cayce, also known as the sleeping prophet.  Again, I encourage those with the time and inclination to do a little research.  Bottom line: Cayce had a vision in which Japan, or a goodly portion thereof, slides into the sea in the near future.  As part of your research, look at how many earthquakes have been hitting in or around Japan since March 11, 2011.  While it is perfectly normal for Japan to have a lot of quakes, the increase during the past year has been most noteworthy.

What will happen?  We have no way of knowing for certain.  One thing that does seem certain, however, is that those whose duty it is to protect and promote the common good of the Japanese people will continue to lie about what is really happening.  Don’t be surprised if you hear about another big quake in Japan, or that Tokyo is being evacuated, or that a sizable portion of Honshu has slipped into a cold, watery grave.  Even if that does not occur, the sheer amount of radiation being released has made it most unwise to remain anywhere near Fukushima.

When we split the atom, we were messing with powers the magnitude of which we do not adequately comprehend or respect.  It is my fervent prayer that we are both able and willing to put this Genie back in the proverbial bottle, but, so far, it is not looking good on either score.  Still, all things happen for a reason, even if we often do not understand what that reason is.  Godspeed to you and yours in 2012 and beyond.

What is the aim of the spiritual life?

From the Conferences of John Cassian:

Of the question of Abbot Moses, who asked what was the goal and what the end of the monk.

ALL the arts and sciences, said he, have some goal or mark; and end or aim of their own, on which the diligent pursuer of each art has his eye, and so endures all sorts of toils and dangers and losses, cheerfully and with equanimity, e.g., the farmer, shunning neither at one time the scorching heat of the sun, nor at another the frost and cold, cleaves the earth unweariedly, and again and again subjects the clods of his field to his ploughshare, while he keeps before him his goal; viz., by diligent labour to break it up small like fine sand, and to clear it of all briers, and free it from all weeds, as he believes that in no other way can he gain his ultimate end, which is to secure a good harvest, and a large crop; on which he can either live himself free from care, or can increase his possessions. Again, when his barn is well stocked he is quite ready to empty it, and with incessant labour to commit the seed to the crumbling furrow, thinking nothing of the present lessening of his stores in view of the future harvest. Those men too who are engaged in mercantile pursuits, have no dread of the uncertainties and chances of the ocean, and fear no risks, while an eager hope urges them forward to their aim of gain. Moreover those who are inflamed with the ambition of military life, while they look forward to their aim of honours and power take no notice of danger and destruction in their wanderings, and are not crushed by present losses and wars, while they are eager to obtain the end of some honour held out to them. And our profession too has its own goal and end, for which we undergo all sorts of toils not merely without weariness but actually with delight; on account of which the want of food in fasting is no trial to us, the weariness of our vigils becomes a delight; reading and constant meditation on the Scriptures does not pall upon us; and further incessant toil, and self-denial, and the privation of all things, and the horrors also of this vast desert have no terrors for us. And doubtless for this it was that you yourselves despised the love of kinsfolk, and scorned your fatherland, and the delights of this world, and passed through so many countries, in order that you might come to us, plain and simple folk as we are, living in this wretched state in the desert. Wherefore, said he, answer and tell me what is the goal and end, which incite you to endure all these things so cheerfully.

Of our reply.

AND when he insisted on eliciting an opinion from us on this question, we replied that we endured all this for the sake of the kingdom of heaven.

Of Abbot Moses’ question on the aforesaid statement.

TO which he replied: Good, you have spoken cleverly of the (ultimate) end. But what should be our (immediate) goal or mark, by constantly sticking close to which we can gain our end, you ought first to know. And when we frankly confessed our ignorance, he proceeded: The first thing, as I said, in all the arts and sciences is to have some goal, i.e., a mark for the mind, and constant mental purpose, for unless a man keeps this before him with all diligence and persistence, he will never succeed in arriving at the ultimate aim and the gain which he desires. For, as I said, the farmer who has for his aim to live free from care and with plenty, while his crops are springing has this as his immediate object and goal; viz., to keep his field clear from all brambles, and weeds, and does not fancy that he can otherwise ensure wealth and a peaceful end, unless he first secures by some plan of work and hope that which he is anxious to obtain. The business man too does not lay aside the desire of procuring wares, by means of which he may more profitably amass riches, because he would desire gain to no purpose, unless he chose the road which leads to it: and those men who are anxious to be decorated with the honours of this world, first make up their minds to what duties and conditions they must devote themselves, that in the regular course of hope they may succeed in gaining the honours they desire. And so the end of our way of life is indeed the kingdom of God. But what is the (immediate) goal you must earnestly ask, for if it is not in the same way discovered by us, we shall strive and wear ourselves out to no purpose, because a man who is traveling in a wrong direction, has all the trouble and gets none of the good of his journey. And when we stood gaping at this remark, the old man proceeded: The end of our profession indeed, as I said, is the kingdom of God or the kingdom of heaven: but the immediate aim or goal is purity of heart, without which no one can gain that end: fixing our gaze then steadily on this goal as if on a definite mark, let us direct our course as straight towards it as possible, and if our thoughts wander somewhat from this, let us revert to our gaze upon it, and check them accurately as by a sure standard, which will always bring back all our efforts to this one mark, and will show at once if our mind has wandered ever so little from the direction marked out for it.

A comparison with a man who is trying to hit a mark.

AS those, whose business it is to use weapons of war, whenever they want to show their skill in their art before a king of this world, try to shoot their arrows or darts into certain small targets which have the prizes painted on them; for they know that they cannot in any other way than by the line of their aim secure the end and the prize they hope for, which they will only then enjoy when they have been able to hit the mark set before them; but if it happens to be withdrawn from their sight, however much in their want of skill their aim may vainly deviate from the straight path, yet they cannot perceive that they have strayed from the direction of the intended straight line because they have no distinct mark to prove the skillfulness of their aim, or to show up its badness: and therefore while they shoot their missiles idly into space, they cannot see how they have gone wrong or how utterly at fault they are, since no mark is their accuser, showing how far they have gone astray from the right direction; nor can an unsteady look help them to correct and restore the straight line enjoined on them. So then the end indeed which we have set before us is, as the Apostle says, eternal life, as he declares, “having indeed your fruit unto holiness, and the end eternal life;” but the immediate goal is purity of heart, which he not unfairly terms “sanctification,” without which the aforementioned end cannot be gained; as if he had said in other words, having your immediate goal in purity of heart, but the end life eternal. Of which goal the same blessed Apostle teaches us, and significantly uses the very term, i.e., skopoV, saying as follows, “Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those that are before, I press toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of the Lord:” which is more clearly put in Greek kata skopon diwkw, i.e., “I press toward the mark, as if he said, “With this aim, with which I forget those things that are behind, i.e., the faults of earlier life, I strive to reach as the end the heavenly prize.” Whatever then can help to guide us to this object; viz., purity of heart, we must follow with all our might, but whatever hinders us from it, we must shun as a dangerous and hurtful thing. For, for this we do and endure all things, for this we make light of our kinsfolk, our country, honours, riches, the delights of this world, and all kinds of pleasures, namely in order that we may retain a lasting purity of heart. And so when this object is set before us, we shall always direct our actions and thoughts straight towards the attainment of it; for if it be not constantly fixed before our eyes, it will not only make all our toils vain and useless, and force them to be endured to no purpose and without any reward, but it will also excite all kinds of thoughts opposed to one another. For the mind, which has no fixed point to which it may return, and on which it may chiefly fasten, is sure to rove about from hour to hour and minute to minute in all sorts of wandering thoughts, and from those things which come to it from outside, to be constantly changed into that state which first offers itself to it.

KONY baloney?

Is all the hubbub about the KONY film merited?  I do not pretend to know the entire story, but below are five items that might assist people who’d like to draw a conclusion based upon a dispassionate examination of the available facts.

Foreign Policy is hardly my favorite magazine, but it does employ professional journalists who know a thing or two about research, etc.  Here is an article that seeks to correct some of the errors of fact found within the film.

Here is another from Red Pill Philosophy.

This one is called The Kony 2012 Delusion.

Finally, here are two films:

 

I am well aware there are people who think this film and the “sensation” it created are indicative of some kind of watershed.  I respectfully but completely disagree.

Prayer request

Please say a prayer for the repose of the soul of Dale Regan, Head of the high school I attended, who was killed today by a teacher who’d recently been fired.   Thank you.  May God reward your charity.

The present hardships are only going to grow more intense.  Some people will grow saner and stronger as a result of the adversity; some will snap.  We cannot know how others will respond, but we can do everything in our own power to make sure we are faithful to the graces God provides, assisting, whenever possible, others who are struggling to carry their burden.  This is why the interior life and the intensification thereof is paramount during times like these.  While we cannot know the day or the hour of our own death, we have it within our power to use well whatever time we are granted.  Godspeed to you and yours, today and always.

Hemp oil and cancer: what is the truth?

The following is called “Run From the Cure.”  It is a documentary about the medicinal potency of hemp oil.

I do not pretend to know all there is to know about this controversial issue.  The debate is intentionally muddied and it is clear that the Pharmacological Industry has a vested interest in keeping people dependent upon their own, man-made drugs: a healthy populace is not good for business and, honey, business is good!  I present this film, although I do not have the resources to personally verify everything it claims.  If anyone knows of a better film that makes a similar case or that definitively and scientifically refutes the claims about hemp oil’s medical potency, please let me know and I will gladly post it.  Thank you.

Truth and “truthers”: everything is not always as it seems

Because it is so difficult to find truly reliable sources of news these days, I leave it to others to discern available information and make their own, informed choices.  Unfortunately, many of the more temporally useful websites are also spiritually harmful and serve as the delivery system for the bogus messages of some people who are, best case scenario, misinformed folks of goodwill or, worst case scenario, willful deceivers.  I intend to make a series of posts wherein I provide some of the available information, leaving it to readers to decide for themselves.  One result of the Great Purification will be sifting the wheat from the chaff.  Those of goodwill who’ve more or less innocently imbibed some errors will happily accept the truth; those who are willfully deceived and willfully deceive others will grow more obstinate in the face of the truth, eventually being ground into powder.

In a previous post, I took apart a brief quote from David Icke, whose essential message is just repackaged, New Age garbage, none of which is actually new.  Taking his ancient-but-false ideas behind the metaphysical/cosmological woodshed was embarrassingly easy.  In that post, however, I did not address many of his more notable errors.  This film addresses them better than I could in a blog entry:

Below is “Zeitgeist Refuted, Final Cut.”  I do not agree with all the film states, nor  do I disagree with all presented in “Zeitgeist.”  For starters, the makers of “Zeitgeist Refuted” are clearly Christians of the ‘Sola Scriptura’ variety.  Said position is manifestly erroneous: not only is it not mentioned in the Bible, there are passages in the Bible that explicitly state the opposite.  However, this is not the place for refuting such arguments.  There are countless excellent sources, online and otherwise, that thoroughly address such questions, should readers be inclined to do more research.

For those who do not know of “Zeitgeist,” it is a popular film that makes many unsubstantiated claims about Jesus Christ and the foundations and history of the Christian West.  Ironically, no one seems to notice that the (formerly) Christian West is the very world that the Money Master Mafia has been methodically destroying over the course of several centuries.  The formerly-Christian West is the “old order” that must be reduced to ashes before the New World Order can take its place.  Their own statements make it clear that they, the Money Master Mafia, whom we know are the visible enemies par excellence, have always considered the Catholic Church the supreme obstacle to their plans — not a member of their team.  It is only in very recent times that the Synagogue of Satan has successfully infiltrated and, for all intents and purposes, taken over the Vatican, even placing crypto-rabbis upon the throne of St. Peter.  However, that is another kettle of fish and a very involved story.  As for “Zeitgeist,” it pretends to act as an intellectual catalyst for those who wish to become ‘enlightened’ and ’empowered’ as the world enters a new age.  Sadly, those who’ve bought into its message have been duped by the very power they think they are resisting.

Sanity in an increasingly insane world

From G.K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy:

It is true that some speak lightly and loosely of insanity as in itself attractive. But a moment’s thought will show that if disease is beautiful, it is generally someone else’s disease. A blind man may be picturesque; but it requires two eyes to see the picture. And similarly even the wildest poetry of insanity can only be enjoyed by the sane. To the insane man his insanity is quite prosaic, because it is quite true. A man who thinks himself a chicken is to himself as ordinary as a chicken. A man who thinks he is a bit of glass is to himself as dull as a bit of glass. It is the homogeneity of his mind which makes him dull, and which makes him mad. It is only because we see the irony of his idea that we think him even amusing; it is only because he does not see the irony of his idea that he is put in an asylum at all. In short, oddities only strike ordinary people. Oddities do not strike odd people. This is why ordinary people have a much more exciting time; while odd people are always complaining of the dulness of life. This is also why the new novels die so quickly, and why the old fairy tales endure for ever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it is his adventures that are startling; they startle him because he is normal. But in the modern psychological novel the hero is abnormal; the centre is not central. Hence the fiercest adventures fail to affect him adequately, and the book is monotonous. You can make a story out of a hero among dragons; but not out of a dragon among dragons. The fairy tale discusses what a sane man will do in a mad world. The sober realistic novel of to-day discusses what an essential lunatic will do in a dull world.

Let us begin, then, with the mad-house; from this evil and fantastic inn let us set forth on our intellectual journey. Now, if we are to glance at the philosophy of sanity, the first thing to do in the matter is to blot out one big and common mistake. There is a notion adrift everywhere that imagination, especially mystical imagination, is dangerous to man’s mental balance. Poets are commonly spoken of as psychologically unreliable; and generally there is a vague association between wreathing laurels in your hair and sticking straws in it. Facts and history utterly contradict this view. Most of the very great poets have been not only sane, but extremely business-like; and if Shakespeare ever really held horses, it was because he was much the safest man to hold them. Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination. Artistic paternity is as wholesome as physical paternity. Moreover, it is worthy of remark that when a poet really was morbid it was commonly because he had some weak spot of rationality on his brain. Poe, for instance, really was morbid; not because he was poetical, but because he was specially analytical. Even chess was too poetical for him; he disliked chess because it was full of knights and castles, like a poem. He avowedly preferred the black discs of draughts, because they were more like the mere black dots on a diagram. Perhaps the strongest case of all is this: that only one great English poet went mad, Cowper. And he was definitely driven mad by logic, by the ugly and alien logic of predestination. Poetry was not the disease, but the medicine; poetry partly kept him in health. He could sometimes forget the red and thirsty hell to which his hideous necessitarianism dragged him among the wide waters and the white flat lilies of the Ouse. He was damned by John Calvin; he was almost saved by John Gilpin. Everywhere we see that men do not go mad by dreaming. Critics are much madder than poets. Homer is complete and calm enough; it is his critics who tear him into extravagant tatters. Shakespeare is quite himself; it is only some of his critics who have discovered that he was somebody else. And though St. John the Evangelist saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators. The general fact is simple. Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion, like the physical exhaustion of Mr. Holbein. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain. The poet only desires exaltation and expansion, a world to stretch himself in. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.