Quote: (12-13-2018 08:39 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:
By my reasoning you have Christ's teachings and everything after that (including edits and rewrites of the Bible) is not Christianity but functionally fanfiction and 3rd edition DM handbooks that's become canon by a various assortment of "authorities" who may or may not have been on the pipe the entire time.
For those paying attention to what I mentioned elsewhere, this is another one of my suspected polarities.
Superficiality <--> Gravity
Those paying attention might have noticed the evaporation of detectable snark in my writing over the last nine months. That's because I'm wading through books like 500 pages of Ludwig Ott's 'Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma' or 441 pages of Jordan Aumann's 'Spiritual Theology' on a regular basis. I suspected the further 'upstream' you travel, the less, well,
lightweight, your thinking becomes.
So, I'll have a conversation with, say, Mother Superior, where we swap maybe five-ten brief statements, and it feels like
worlds of deeper truth are shared, and
nothing more needs to be said, because a simple statement like, say, 'He's in the silence' unites both of our separate life experiences that arrived at the same point that our individual details don't need to be shared.
There's a Priest I know who has such depth of off-the-cuff thought that it's humbling to hear his words in a stolen moment, because he's so detached from the world, that I suspect he's unaware of just how rich with knowledge his words are.
Now, think about those who have been swept downstream. Notice the similarity of lightweight concerns, glibness, and desire to handwave away more serious interpretation of events: Trump is Voldermort! Republicans are the Empire! Christians are Ned Flanders!
I suspect this attitude terminates in the fetid swamp of the Pervert and Pathetic Stages of a Dysfunctional Interior Life: the Camp Culture of the Homosexual, where nothing is to be taken seriously other than one's sense of Victimhood, to be worn as an Inverted 'Righteous Morality'.
Now, remember, I recently wrote in the video game thread that a man living a Dysfunctional Interior Life will lack control over his Appetites, becoming more feminine - feeding comfort - rather than refining his masculinity - by always doing the hard thing. This predicts a lack of control of the Concupiscible and Irascible Appetites.
Couple this with what I just saw flicking through Aumann, a book which can be used to ascertain Demonic Intention in people, and states, unsurprisingly, that anything 'useless, futile, frivolous or impertinent' is not of God, and what is is always 'serious and beneficial'.
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Quote: (12-13-2018 08:39 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:
By my reasoning you have Christ's teachings and everything after that (including edits and rewrites of the Bible) is not Christianity but functionally fanfiction and 3rd edition DM handbooks that's become canon by a various assortment of "authorities" who may or may not have been on the pipe the entire time.
Ask yourself: does this sound masculine, or feminine? Upstream, or down? A man interested in having a serious conversation about Theology or, as I think I termed the style, 'Irritated, Impotent Faggotry'.
Another polarity would be:
Allegiance to Fantasy <--> Acceptance of Reality
Ages back, I wrote about the tendency for a type of musician to attempt to create 'Gnostic Realities', which I noted always led to a dissatisfaction with their work. Under Catholic Theology, it makes more sense now: what they're actually truly seeking is God, who is the only thing that can satisfy them.
I see no functional difference in the Commie Dreaming of Utopia and a Right Wing Keyboard Warrior dreaming of a White Revolution. Both are delusional as to the human and spiritual reality of the world and will create a world of dysfunction during the process of attempting to force their fantasy into being. Since they're both downstream, they're both reek of Femininity.
Myself? I've read enough to know that 'He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword' is a far more complex idea than when Worldings try to warp it and throw it around to justify their intentions. An offhanded comment by the Priest in question made me dig deeper into it.
Simon Peter draws his sword in the Garden of Gethsemane and cuts off the ear of Malchus and Jesus reprimands him with the quote.
What is important is the
sword in question. Peter was carrying a Roman Gladius, a tool of the current oppressors of the Jewish people.
The warning behind this is taken also to mean:
He who puts his faith in the protective all-encompassing power of the state - rather than God - will suffer at the state's hand.
As such, the Bible predicts whenever a Godless State is created in the name of 'saving the people', it will instead oppress them, which is why I see this 'Spontaneous' Simultaneous Worldwide Nationalism, always with Zionist Actors in the background, as an approaching cloud of doom.
Note this is the difference between Catholics and Communists: Catholics understand you should share your resources, sure, but know it has to be a choice of each person of their own Free Will, rather than under Force of the State, which negates opportunity for personal sanctification, and is open for abuse.
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I'm more interested in what works, since I have a wife and kids and going away to live in a monastery to eschew worldly matters while leaving my family to their own devices is not an option I think God would look kindly upon.
Then stop sinking endless hours into the latest (((video game))), stop wasting hours a day whining online across multiple locations about revolutionary fantasies that you don't want to disturb your comfort by engaging in yourself, and
be an active, engaged husband and father to your family, assuming they even exist.
I say that because it's interesting that you chose to invert the point of this thread and turning it into a tedious bitchfest on Christianity. Why, it's almost like you
deliberately-tried to derail the topic, so no-one could get to close to the (((uncomfortable truth))) being discussed.
Anyway, I think the original topic is too black pill a topic for the forum, because the books by Orthodox Jewish authors that I dug into yesterday suggest that Labour Zionists, Freemasons / Illuminati and Reform Jews are all the same S-F Heretics, pretending to be multiple sides of any argument to guarantee the already decided outcome.
It matches my long standing suspicion that Trump isn't really fighting anything, and things that don't fit the Anti-Globalist Propaganda Narrative - obviously trying to shape the desired outcome - such as, Sheldon Adelson controlling the leftist cops and courts in Australia for years, or the Rothschild's Interests in Genie Energy, members of which are all through Trump's White House. If anyone was paying attention - and no-one was - you'll notice that recently, America, for the first time, refused to sign the UN's yearly condemnation on the illegal occupation of Syria's Golan Heights by Israel - the oil rich area that Genie has its hungry eyes on because it will make Israel - a state created by the Rothschilds - energy-independent. This is, apparently, MAGA.
If I was emotionally-invested instead of intellectually-curious, I'd be depressed, but I detached a long time ago, and didn't expect anything by misdirection and impotence from the culture war. Instead I just remember Jesus' words about the Lilies of the Field and the Birds of the Air, and have realised the more you detach from (((culture))), and the more you embrace suffering, the less vile life is.
This means I can face a very harsh approaching reality without trying to deny it or numb it, using illegal drugs, medication, sex, music, money, social media, creature comforts, movies, books, television, pursuit of social status, popularity or tedious fantasies of political power to hide the reality of political impotence. All of which only lead to dysfunction and lead you open to the (((wrong ideas))) being planted in your head.
Thinking about it,
The Cross perfects masculinity.
This place is probably the last attachment I need to give up.
