Just a reminder

Anyone saying that the Mass has been "suppressed" and the churches have been "closed" is a liar who is calumniating their local bishop and the bishops in general.

The Mass has not been suppressed. The Mass continues to be said everyday at all parishes. The churches have not been closed; they remain open for private prayer. Confessions are available. The bishops remain in close and respectful dialogue with health authorities.

It's interesting, the kind of selfishness in which a person seeks after the imprimatur or approval of their bishop as regards the publication of their locutions, but when it comes to respecting their bishop as regards the factual reality of their bishop's leadership, they just don't give a shit.

The church is for them a candy machine, as they arrogate to themselves the position of prophesying the "shipwreck" of the church, and all other kinds of bullshit doom and gloom.

They are, as Pope Francis says, juvenile.

They are fanatic fundamentalists.

They are incapable of writing words without playing word games.

They have a deep and dense dishonesty problem.

Do not listen to them.

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Is the mask issue contentious?

No, not really. Though there are some fearful sectarian nuts who desperately want it to be.

I believe Japan only did partial lockdown measures, if any, and they've done well because they all wear masks, no problem. That's just what people in Japan, and many other Asian countries, voluntarily do when one may have a cold and one goes out in public. It's to prevent others from getting your cold. So they have no problems doing it when it's a highly contagious and deadly virus.

They don't have selfish speculators who talk about masks from the standpoint of the effectiveness of it preventing you from getting the virus from someone else. They start from the standpoint of wearing a mask as a means of preventing others from getting it from yourself - when you don't know if you have it.

The beauty of it is when everyone is looking out for their neighbours, then everyone is wearing a mask out in public, and transmission of the virus goes way, way down.

A 100,000 times more ideological brainwashing goes into the refusal to wear a mask than into choosing to wear a mask.

COVID science denial, including speculating about the number of deaths from COVID and whether it was COVID that killed them, as well as biased speculation about the effectiveness of wearing masks dressed up as journalism, is all at bottom predatory opportunism, lying in wait, and nourishing itself into something extraordinarily malignant.

It is not seeking truth; it is not concerned with freedom. It is an entrenched, nasty, predatory opportunism; the refusal of the exercise of mercy in a bid for power. They approach a crisis this way: as vultures, like those in a pyramid scheme. The fact that they don't even realize this about themselves because their motives are not nefarious only speaks to how brainwashed they are, and how much they are content to stew in the relativism of ambiguity, the dictatorship of relativism.

They project this despairing power grab from the contented darkness of ambiguity (where any and all conspiracy theories are valid) onto others. Their capitulation to right-wing nuttery and sectarian fantasies - their defeat in surrendering to the politicization of the pandemic for the sake of their own comfort (including the comfortable illusion that they are prophets of the wilderness) - they project onto those complying with safety measures: they lie through their teeth about "defeated and fearful" eyes peering out above their masks.

This image is a total fabrication they weave out of their own desperate, private, wishful thinking.

Wearing a mask in public places, one only encounters this: kind eyes, humour, lots of solid eye contact, and a sense of fraternity. All the bullshit about "fearful and defeated" eyes peering out from above their masks is one of the flat-earthers' little preciouses they will never give up, no matter how much reality says otherwise.

The thought of people simply shouldering a rather mild burden and changing things up to accommodate the lives of others, and not have hospitals overwhelmed, thinking about all the nurses and doctors and hospital staff who would get heavy viral loads if the hospitals are overwhelmed (as clearly happened in Italy among other places) - and that people would do this and simply remain normal - no, this is too much for the sectarian nutbars. We all have to be fearful sheeple staring with round eyes of despair above our strangling masks as we are herded like steer into the vaccination barns.

It's amazing how much they love and cling to this fantasy over and above all observable reality to the contrary.

It's really quite something. But maybe observable reality is just a hologram? It's part of the COVID-21 Hologram? Now that would be something. Holy shit.

"There may be a basis in the case of some individuals, as perhaps when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this can be a first step in the direction of a moralization, a first assumption of responsibility, on the way toward recovering an awareness that not everything is allowed and that one cannot do whatever one wants. But it is not really the way to deal with the evil of HIV infection. That can really lie only in a humanization of sexuality.

"She [the Church] of course does not regard it as a real or moral solution, but, in this or that case, there can be nonetheless, in the intention of reducing the risk of infection, a first step in a movement toward a different way, a more human way, of living sexuality." --Pope Benedict XVI, in the book-length interview Holy Father We Ask For Clarity

Had a run in with a stranger the other day - or rather, he imposed himself and interrupted my work in order to expound at great length on every one of his conspiracy theories and how much he knows about what is going on.

I'm standing there in my usual too-kind endurance with my arms full of branches I had pruned, and this guy is just rattling on and on, and then hijacking every one of my words to prolong his interruption, completely oblivious to the rudeness of his holding me up. You know how you begin saying something to wind down the (very one-sided) conversation, leading to a courteous close, and the person just keeps freakishly honing in on your words to tie back into a means to continue his monologues? It's practically a form of abuse.

So here's one more to add to the roster: isolation measures at the beginning of the pandemic were the Big Mistake. The isolation measures are what got us into the present mess of so many infections and deaths. The isolation/lock-down is what actually led to an increase of the virus, because all the less-at-risk non-old people who could have been developing Herd ImmunityTM spent that time away from each other.

We put ourselves in the position of the weak immunity of the indigenous people who were devastated by the colonial pox (to which, it is implied, the white man had herd immunity).

Prior to this, he was saying how the virus was a media ploy to herd us sheep (he used the term 'sheep', and I was like, funny how all you enlightened individualists uniformly use the word 'sheep'), after all - as he proceeded to tell me in the highly original individualist's awakened thoughts, like I don't know this thing called the internet and read all the same crap he's repeating to me on it - how many people do you know who have the virus? Ask anyone, who do you know who contracted the virus?

So you start to realize why such people need to cast themselves as prophets. Because normal people see what they say - how simultaneously the virus is an overblown media deception in order to herd us sheep and a super-spreading virus due to the isolation/lock-down measures - and know that in order to proceed further down that line of contradictory thinking requires more and more red pills glasses of arsenic kool-aid, and so people laugh off or punch down with scorn (whichever according to various personalities) such blatantly insane garbage. These conspiricists isolate themselves through their cerebral and spiritual abuse/manipulation of others and dress it up as 'I'm a prophet of the wilderness!'

The fact that recognizing the plain reality that the isolation measures - late and bungled as they were - went effectively towards flattening the curve (leading to 'this is all an overreaction!' as the experts warned would happen) and the premature 're-opening' of the economy in certain places is causing the numbers to spike back - that simply this is too much for these people to process, is weird. It's almost as if - oh, I don't know, like they were desperately frightened sheep.

Anyways, beside that, he had a complete inability to hear what I actually said (none of which was argumentative), listening only for what he could work into his cerebral bubble world.

For instance, he began talking about work, and asked me about my work, and so on, and I say to him that I've been lucky with regards to work because I don't work around anyone, and that I work alone. He immediately says,  'Oh you reveal how much the media is controlling your thoughts when you say that', and I'm like WTF you stupid dick, I was simply saying that I'm lucky my work situation hasn't changed (i.e. unemployment) due to the fact that I don't work in an office/work-community/customer contact type environment.

Nor was his 'mishearing' an innocent mistake. We were talking about unemployment. This guy was completely listening only for certain things, and then imposing those things on my speech: he was conditioned to think - because he is controlled by the media that he reads and listens to - that I was saying I was lucky, due to working alone, that I'm at low to no risk of contracting the virus. In other words, the first thing that must be on my mind is 'fear of the virus'.

So what do you call someone who is conditioned to hear what other people say as only the bleating of conditioned sheep? That person is a sheep when it comes to their own intellectual/perceptual comfort, and a narcissistic wolf towards others.

Huh, imagine that.

When the oppressed tin foil conspiracists succeed in ridding from the market the billion gazillion dog-whistle Masonic symbols everywhere imbedded in advertising (which we would not know about were it not for their prophetic decoding vigilance), by the result of an awakening in mass protests (since there's so many of them and they are so ready to act for justice) - a purge that is so necessary because such symbology has a nefarious unconscious influence regardless of how aware people are of it - then I will adopt an ironically detached air about the whole thing, since I'm not a Freemason nor am tainted by Freemasonry (whenever I saw a Dodge Ram truck, I never thought, "Ah, good, the Masons!"), and I'll say what a bunch of virtue-signallers, and what's going to be next - the obelisk in St. Peter's Square?

All Statues Matter

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"They came to the pillar of the White Hand. The pillar was still standing, but the graven hand had been thrown down and broken into small pieces. Right in the middle of the road the long forefinger lay, white in the dusk, its red nail darkening to black.

'The Ents pay attention to every detail!' said Gandalf." -- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

It's not iconoclasm. Nor is it mob revolution.

It's just looking after the details.

As such, it is right and good.

These figures, represented under dime-a-dozen state benefactor commemoration bronzes, are repellent not only for who they represent and what that person did, but also in that they feign to make an "official" minting of who that region's benefactor is.

In other words, THANK YOU SLAVE TRADERS WHO MURDERED SLAVES IN THE THOUSANDS FOR THE GENEROUS MAMMON YOU HAVE SO BENEVOLENTLY BESTOWED UPON US BRAVELY PAVING THE WAY FOR OUR WELL BEING!!!

And yet the world just spent the last three months exhausting its cosplaying energies in telling us who the REAL ESSENTIAL WORKERS are that build our civilization and keep it running. All the while writing headlines asking how the Bezos (whose bottom lines Spray Tan studiously padded out) could "make it safely to their yachts through the germ-ridden masses".

THANK YOU ESSENTIAL WORKERS! BUT PLEASE ESSENTIAL WORKERS DON'T TAKE DOWN THOSE STATUES OF THE MONEYED INTERESTS WHO MURDERED SLAVES IN THE THOUSANDS YOU RIOTING LOOTERS!

In truth, these protestors are not "erasing history". They are removing the "official" historical lie.

Huh, imagine that.

The evangelical opportunity that was perfectly ripe in the use of the pachamama relief carving, used by indigenous people in innocent devotion to Our Lady, expressing by means of their own culture their love for Our Lady, was shot down by white Catholics ideologically obsessed by a fascistic appropriation of western culture, and unjustly stolen and thrown into the river.

Because, according to these assholes, as they whitesplained to the indigenous people, that, no, pachamama is a demonic god who devours babies! You stupid naive uncatechised savages. Yeah, no room here for seeking the good to be baptized (in spite of long historical precedence that says otherwise) about pachamama which is generally Mother Earth. No, you can't have a rather open-ended symbol to yield up to Our Lady and bring a new aspect of understanding her - no. Pachamama is a baby-eating demon!

But the literal racist slave trader murderers who literally committed mass genocide, devouring the actual lives of real living people - yeah, their bronze representation isn't an idol or whitewashing of a lie and it most certainly should not be cast into the river, because NUANCE, it's more nuanced than that, there were many shades, and you know, it was complicated, and he was a complex person.

Right.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!

Holy Toledo, it seems that confederate monuments/statues are beginning to be removed left, right and center all over the U.S.!

We live in interesting times! This is major - kinda sorta - news. This is kind of like First Moon Landing news.

I love it. The wind blows where it will. It comes out of nowhere. You never knew it was coming. And where it came from you cannot tell.

COVID-19 was cooked up in a Chinese lab as a form of global warfare and more people die in a year from frisbee accidents.

The guy who made Plandemic is a New Ager but that doesn't change the truth in the documentary and some of the scientists who make vaccines are very likely atheists so a vaccine is not God's science.

Jesus said, "Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?" but cancelling social events and closing non-essential businesses such as barbershops for the sake of the preservation of human life is the epitome of the draconian cancellation of life.

The literal cancellation of people's lives due to a highly contagious virus (the cancellation otherwise known as death, which also includes the cancellation of their funeral) including besetting the future lives of today's children with lifelong ailments, is just natural blasé statistical "death" like getting killed by frisbees (you cowards, every man dies, not every man really lives) and I hate that my frisbee throwing competition was cancelled. This is totalitarianism.

All human life is precious and sacred to the very last dying breath and is to be cared for and euthanasia is an intrinsic evil, but taking effective safety measures that dramatically flattens the rate of infection so that hospitals aren't overwhelmed and so that huge numbers of people don't end up getting killed by the virus, as well as those who would die from other sicknesses because they can't get the care they need because the health system would be overwhelmed because haircuts - well, is all human life really sacred? At what cost? Every man dies. Not every man really lives. And those health systems, those hospitals, that's where they do all the abortions. The overwhelmed capacity in the wards, it's just the devil claiming his own. Too bad those suckers didn't know about essential oils (aka God's Science).

Truth is absolute and if I don't want to accept the hard cold fact that this virus has a highly contagious asymptomatic period up to two weeks and I don't want to factor in the basic hard cold math of how many people one person comes into proximity with in one day, and how many each of those people in turn come into proximity with - in other words, if I don't want to listen to the objective science, then you're the propagandist, not me.

We are being herded like sheeple and corralled into accepting the mark of the beast by observing safety measures (we've been duped by the perfect crisis!) and we should equate the sacred value of human life with the economy of mammon and define life by the incapacity for self-sacrifice in protesting against safety measures and cancellations. To devalue life in this way in the name of freedom or fill in the blank is not being duped and herded into accepting the branding of the mark of the beast. Fascism is a little rough around the edges. It's an acceptable instrument for God. But Socialism (by which I mean anything that contradicts my ideology) is super uber duper evil!

Got to be prepared. Be a prepper. Life can change in an instant. Yeah, that's right, you wimpy couch potato sheeple. Are you ready for the storms of life? I'm just telling you like it is, bitches. Your boot straps and all, and all these eerie creepy scientific people with their science who were predicting a pandemic and warning to makes plans and be prepared - it's a conspiracy!

Every man dies. Not every man really kills Grandma.

Gee whiz, thanks William Wallace!

LOL.

Anyways, that Braveheart meme I posted was made by Timothy Jones and featured on his facebook back in like 2012 or something, and I remembered it when I read this excellent essay by Sam Rocha: Braveheart Freedom Will Kill You.

My first encounter with a multi-level marketing pyramid cult was Primerica, over a decade ago.

I was kneeling in the second-to-last pew after Mass in communion, and I noticed in the farthest periphery of my eye someone coming in and kneeling down in the pew behind me. I knew right away that the person was intent on me, had looked at me, and was in fact kneeling there waiting for me.

I knew all that, instinctively, immediately. I knew this person was kneeling there pretending to pray. I was slightly annoyed, because now I was self-conscious about taking my time with Jesus; I waited a few more minutes, and figured I would just get up and go, because otherwise I would then be kneeling there pretending to pray.

And as I was going out through the vestibule, the man got up and approached me. He began talking; I can't remember what he said; at the time I was considering possibilities of other kinds of work. He gave me his card, but he wanted to make sure he could get in contact, so he wanted my number. It was all very non-aggressive I'm-interested-in-your-value-and-would-like-to-promote-you kind of thing. I gave him my work number.

We arranged a meeting at my place. He came with a woman. The day before the meeting I took the time to google Primerica, and pretty quickly decided I wasn't going to get involved, firmly made up my mind.

While I didn't tell them what I had read about the company - which reading was my first time learning about pyramid MLM - being the main reason why I didn't want to join, I didn't exactly lie to them either: I told them I'm not the kind of person who is good at just approaching people and visiting homes to make sales lectures and so on. That was in fact the honest truth.

When I said that, and that I didn't want to be involved, the lady became suddenly upfront and aggressive. I can't remember her exact words, but she was like, "Who did you talk to?! What did they say?!"

And in my mind I was like, "LOL WTF!"

I'm glad for the little encounter, because from that point forward I have been able to know pretty much right away when I am either approached by, or happen upon, a multi-level marketing pyramid cult.

You know something, I think Darcy was the greatest of the Christmas dragons. He just wanted to get presents for his friends, and the Christmas snow blessed his good will and his pure heart and put out the fire inside of him.

Anyways, one time I accidentally set a palm tree on fire. It went up so fast I was like, "Oh no - shit!"