tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65769251791787494012024-03-17T23:03:29.361-04:00Wondering Zygote Emeritus“Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal.” -Pope John Paul II, "Fides et Ratio", "Faith and Reason"Gutterball Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07950081663822774046noreply@blogger.comBlogger339125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576925179178749401.post-12637229446420524042023-01-25T12:46:00.001-05:002023-01-25T12:46:55.242-05:00Unalienable Essence - Sartre and Abortion<p><span style="font-size: large;">Recently, the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, Former Vice President Joe Biden infamously said on The Breakfast Club podcast, “You’ve got more questions? Well I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re voting for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">This quote by Biden seems to apply the existential idea of Jean-Paul Sartre’s “existence precedes essence” in a roundabout way. In Sartre’s atheistic view, people are involuntarily thrust into existence as meaningless clumps of cells. There is no pre-rational essence, purpose or value for people in the mind of a god. At some point after coming into existence and achieving rationality, a person decides to have a self-imposed purpose, or no purpose at all. Sartre’s philosophy makes sense if there is no God to ascribe essence onto a human life before coming into existence; however, this atheistic view of essence would be shattered if God in fact existed. In theism, our essence, purpose or value are predetermined by God before we come into existence. In this case, the recognition of our personal essence could coincide, or be in communion with God’s mind, at least partially, or be in contradiction with it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">If Biden’s quote and Sartre’s idea were synthesized, there might be a new atheistic possibility. Other people, other gods, may take the place of the Judeo-Christian God in rationally creating our essence. Assuming atheism is true, we could be open to the possibility that someone else could impute their own perception of our essence, purpose or value onto us. (This is not the same interpersonal dynamic as with The Gaze of Sartre’s Being and Nothingness when our subjective essence is objectified by another while we reassert our own subjectivity.) In this case, we could have as many essences as there are people. We may be in agreement with their assignments or not, just like with the Judeo-Christian God, being in communion with some gods and not others.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Joe Biden may not know a particular black person, but if that person has a problem voting for him, he or she is not black in essence to Biden. The former Vice President is assigning essence not on one particular black person, but on an entire subset of black people who don’t vote for him. Black leftists operating the Black Lives Matter organization (BLM) and running his campaign are real black people. Black people in President Trump’s administration, like Dr. Ben Carson, are not black, whether he personally knows them or not.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Consider one black leader who doesn’t seem to be in full communion with Vice President Biden. Black Entertainment Television (BET) founder Robert Johnson told Fox News,</span></p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">Now whether [Joe Biden] was as he said trying to be a wise guy or whatever, but if you’ve been supposedly hanging out with black people, you’re eight years Obama’s vice president, you don’t think like that. There’s something in you that tells you I can’t be halfway wise guy, halfway cute by telling a black man and by extension every black person listing that if you even think about voting for somebody other than me and then to use this so-called colloquial expression ‘you ain’t black,’ that’s the biggest turn off I’ve heard from a politician in a long time.</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">It is a question for Biden as to whether Mr. Johnson is black or not according to the “ain’t black” rhetoric. Since Johnson is turned-off by Biden and may not vote for him, it doesn’t seem that the BET founder would be part of the “every black person” subset according to Biden. No doubt Mr. Johnson has another position on his own essence.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Now consider a statement by Hawk Newsome, the black chairman of the Greater New York chapter of BLM. He told the New York Post, “When black people become police officers, they are no longer black. They are blue. And I have been told this by numerous officers.” Newsome’s statement is another instance of one person or group assigning essence, meaning or value to a group of people beyond themselves.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">This could have real-world consequences. In view of the quote by Biden, no black life would most likely be physically harmed if he voted for President Trump in 2020 since voting is carried-out in private. It could be another story for black lives on the police force if Newsome’s quote were taken seriously. If enough protestors, BLM members, and Antifa members took Newsome’s idea to heart and really believed that black cops are not really black lives that mattered, real harm could come to their blue marked lives.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Lastly, BLM wrote in 2018 that, “We deserve and thus we demand reproductive justice that gives us autonomy over our bodies and our identities while ensuring that our children and families are supported, safe, and able to thrive.” The pairing of “reproductive justice” and “autonomy over our bodies” in this BLM quote implies that abortion against preborn black boys and girls is demanded. This has the most dangerous implications for black lives due to the hundreds of thousands of black preborn babies killed every year. When preborn persons of color are not wanted by their mothers, they become products of conception in an abortion chamber.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The unwanted designation of a preborn baby by his or her mother is the ultimate imputation of essence, value and meaning by another person. The differences between being designated a wanted or an unwanted human in utero are human or parasite, precious or bio-waste, life or death.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Mother Theresa’s words at her acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 speak to the power of ascribing value and meaning to preborn children.</span></p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">And I feel one thing I want to share with you all, the greatest destroyer of peace today is the cry of the innocent unborn child. For if a mother can murder her own child in her own womb, what is left for you and for me to kill each other? … [N]obody speaks of the millions of little ones who have been conceived to the same life as you and I, to the life of God, and we say nothing, we allow it. … [Nations] are afraid of the little one, they are afraid of the unborn child, and the child must die because they don’t want to feed one more child, to educate one more child, the child must die.</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">At the end of the day, if a mother can declare that her innocent unborn child is not really a human child in essence due to asserting autonomy over her body and her identity in order to kill her child, there is nothing left for you or for me, for black lives or for blue lives, for black Biden voters or for all Trump voters from killing each other.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The final solution against violence is found in the truth of each human’s inherent dignity as Imago Dei which is our true essence, given by God to men and women of all skin hues, born and preborn at the moment of our created existence. This is why the Declaration of Independence announced self-evidently that our essence and unalienable Rights came from our Creator, not imparted to us by those in government, by others, or even by ourselves. Nationally reasserting and unapologetically teaching this American Creed in all schools is the key to bringing peace and unity back to our beloved country.</span></p><div><br /></div>Gutterball Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07950081663822774046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576925179178749401.post-45403550942476260872021-02-10T11:30:00.002-05:002022-06-04T09:45:37.456-04:00CCP Virus Test Inquisition<span style="font-size: x-large;">I've been having a debate online elsewhere about the use of PCR tests to diagnose the CCP virus in the field, as opposed to the use of PCR tests in a controlled laboratory environment. (CCP = Chinese Communist Party)</span><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">It seems like I've turned into an Inquisitor against the PCR tests for the CCP virus. It's almost as if I understand what the Inquisition was doing with Galileo.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Galileo.arp.300pix.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="652" height="400" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Galileo.arp.300pix.jpg" width="326" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Galileo just couldn't scientifically show that heliocentrism was the correct view.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">It's the same with the PCR tests for the CCP virus in that there is no scientific evidence (double blind studies/comparative trials) that it is accurate as intended in the field.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">All this comes on the back of these videos by Dr. Sam Bailey of New Zealand.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">"The Truth About PCR Tests"</span>
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</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">From the first video, 12: 33 (corman drosten paper, "Detection of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) by real-time RT-PCR") "[The only peer-reviewed paper on the use of PCR test for clinical use in the field for CCP virus diagnosis] never established how it should be applied in clinical use and this is one of the many reasons why a consortium of scientists have requested its retraction it is also unsound medical practice to claim that covid 19 is diagnosed by a pcr test and that the definition of covid 19 is a positive pcr test."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">From the second, 8: 02 "It's important that those of us that respect logic and the scientific method will not allow analytical specificity to be merged into diagnostic specificity and then passed off as a valid medical practice; however, the lack of formalized clinical diagnostic criteria for covid 19 seemed to allow the sleight of hand to be hidden in plain sight."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">This is a big deal since the official CCP virus numbers may be, to put it mildly, astronomically off from the real CCP virus numbers which would make all of the lockdowns, closings, and mental & physical health problems the fault of doctors and scientists who should know better. It opens the door to conspiracy theories galore as to why this destruction of lives through false testing and its results were allowed to happen.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">(FYI: counterfactuals "New Zealand doctor makes misleading claims about the country’s PCR testing regime in widely shared YouTube video" (FACTCHECK dot AFP dot COM) "Experts slam Christchurch doctor's claims Covid-19 tests are unreliable" (STUFF dot CO dot NZ) <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/288306">https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/288306</a> "COVID-19: Who fact-checks the fact-checkers?"</span><span style="font-size: xx-large;">)</span></div>Gutterball Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07950081663822774046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576925179178749401.post-88186285578065227072021-02-08T16:13:00.005-05:002021-02-08T16:13:52.676-05:00Trouble with Bernies<span style="font-size: x-large;">The Bernie meme was an interesting phenomenon. My favorite one was very telling. It was Bernie as a tribble, as in Star Trek's TOS episode <i>Trouble with Tribbles</i>.</span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.stinque.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/bernietribbles.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="480" height="233" src="https://www.stinque.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/bernietribbles.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">I watched it again last night to catch-up my memory on the story line.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Tribbles seem like cute and cuddly animals that make a pleasant purring sound. However, they have a secret. Let them have a little food, and they multiply ten fold.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">In the episode, the Enterprise with Capt. Kirk was to guard grain at a space station from Klingons since it was to be used to feed a Federation outpost near the Klingon border.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Unfortunately for the station and Kirk, the grain compartment had air vents that allowed the small tribbles to get into the grain compartment.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Bernie-as-Tribbles meme shows that Bernie and the (Democratic) Socialists (DSA) will sneak into a hole and eat resources from within. They have taken-up camp in the Democratic Party (DNC) and have taken over its resources. They could take over our country and eat our resources like they did in Venezuela. Then very little to nothing will be left for the rest of us. The DSA members will eat the grain that capitalism provided and give the rest of the country the scraps, like it always ends up happening. Socialism will then leave the country in ruins after capitalism is eaten through.</span></div>Gutterball Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07950081663822774046noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576925179178749401.post-40051372064250021512021-02-02T17:48:00.000-05:002021-02-02T17:48:09.768-05:00Gender Theories Purposefully Cancel Christians<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Another one bites the dust over transgenderism. Daily wire had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/christian-organization-suspended-from-twitter-after-calling-dr-rachel-levine-a-man-who-believes-he-is-a-woman" target="_blank">an article entitled</a>, <i>Christian Organization Suspended From Twitter After Calling Dr. Rachel Levine ‘A Man Who Believes He Is A Woman.’</i></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EX8XHlMWkAEiXvS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="471" data-original-width="800" height="236" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EX8XHlMWkAEiXvS.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">I still believe that the powers-that-be are using this issue and LGBTQ+ promotion to cancel Christians, especially Catholics. It divides Christians to the nth degree. It seems like compassion to accept and tolerate (tolerance in the old sense) this disorder, but it's not loving per <a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/1corinthians/13" target="_blank">1 Corr. 13: 6</a>. "Love does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the Truth."</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Once we're out of the way, the utopia may commence.</span></p>Gutterball Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07950081663822774046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576925179178749401.post-21478704100020046992021-01-29T10:52:00.003-05:002021-01-29T11:57:50.487-05:00Pro-Abortion Buffer Zones<span style="font-size: x-large;">Today is the online March for Life. Some have said that it was a cop-out to not march in D.C. I don't know about that since D.C. is mostly a police zone now.</span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://media.nbcwashington.com/2021/01/DC-Protest-Police-Perimeter-GettyImages-1294947499.jpg?resize=850%2C478" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="225" src="https://media.nbcwashington.com/2021/01/DC-Protest-Police-Perimeter-GettyImages-1294947499.jpg?resize=850%2C478" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">But why is it a police zone? Because a very few (representative?) Trump supporters caused violence and mayhem at the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">I can't help but see the parallels with the pro-life movement. Extremely very few (representative?) pro-life demonstrators killed abortion doctors. Because of this, countless state/local jurisdictions created buffer zone laws around abortion killing centers to keep mostly peaceful pro-life protestors away.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Recently, some <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pro-life-mass-in-columbus-cathedral-disrupted-by-pro-abortion-protesters" target="_blank">pro-abortion protestors demonstrated in the building of a Catholic Mass</a>. Will there be laws that curb this intimidation for this one offence? Will there be pro-abortion buffer zones? Perhaps because they didn't kill anyone it won't happen.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://assets.lifesitenews.com/images/made/images/remote/https_www.lifesitenews.com/images/local/IMG_0054_1_810_500_75_s_c1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="800" height="247" src="https://assets.lifesitenews.com/images/made/images/remote/https_www.lifesitenews.com/images/local/IMG_0054_1_810_500_75_s_c1.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">It's not very fair, but as I always tell myself and my children, life isn't fair. That's what the particular and final judgments are for.</span></div>Gutterball Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07950081663822774046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576925179178749401.post-67047531941333071762021-01-26T17:23:00.005-05:002021-01-26T17:24:29.322-05:00Gender Fluid Children's Book Warning<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>So, my youngest came home with a <i>Magnus Chase</i> book. The one with the <i>Gods of Asgard </i>(not leaving a link). She's been reading the other mythology books by </span><span>Rick Riordan. They weren't weird. (I always ask if they're weird just in case we need to talk about it; yes, I need to do better).</span></span><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>Well, I didn't notice that this particular new </span><span>one with the </span><i>Gods of Asgard </i><span>won the </span><i>Stonewall Book Award</i><span>. Yes, that's what it's called. The "Stonewall" award. It's "for exceptional merit relating to the GLBT experience." It's from the </span><i>American Library Association</i><span>.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Thank goodness my wife looked up the book online. I didn't notice the award glaring on the back of the book. There's a major character who explores/questions his/her gender identity in the book. And my eleven-year-old was going to read it. Got to be more careful.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://stream.org/wp-content/uploads/Gender-Identity-Kids-Teaching-900.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="225" src="https://stream.org/wp-content/uploads/Gender-Identity-Kids-Teaching-900.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>Being from the </span><i>American Library Association </i><span>itself gives me chills since every library is now a minefield for my children. Well, I should have known with the drag queen story hour and such in so many libraries. (I stood in the childrens' section in the Boston Public Library with my children where the abomination started. I probably shouldn't have taken a picture of the big chair near the window where the drag queens read. It was just a tourist attraction as much as any other Boston landmark.)</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">I should've known that Rick Riordan was going to go full gender confused on the kids. He works for Disney/Hyperion.</span></div>Gutterball Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07950081663822774046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576925179178749401.post-29172974655137633552021-01-26T17:00:00.005-05:002021-01-26T17:00:03.570-05:00Star Trek: The Motion Picture Part III<p> <span style="font-size: x-large;">I just finished the Star Trek novel <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/397632.The_Lost_Years" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Lost Years</a>.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1223500341l/397632.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="280" height="400" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1223500341l/397632.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">It's about the Enterprise crew's time between the end of the original series (ST:TOS) and the first movie.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Since it was a while since I watched <i>Star Trek: The Motion Picture</i>, I watched it again.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">In 2014, <a href="https://wonderingzygoteemeritus.blogspot.com/2014/01/star-trek-motion-picture-part-ii.html" target="_blank">I wrote two blog posts</a> about the movie.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">The posts came down to the longing for God along the Augustinian line (no rest for my soul until it rests in Thee, God) and baptism.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Upon re-watching the movie, it actually seems more like the sacrament of the Eucharist.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">V'ger wants to touch the creator, who is human.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">In reality, we touch and become one in a real, physical way with the One True God through Jesus in the Holy Eucharist. Jesus, the second person of the Trinity physically joins with us in a real and spiritual sense, since he is truly and substantially present in the form of bread and wine that enters our body. He joins with our body.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://dejareviewer.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/decker-joins-with-ilia-vger-to-become-a-new-lifeform.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="488" height="225" src="https://dejareviewer.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/decker-joins-with-ilia-vger-to-become-a-new-lifeform.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">We don't join together with a halo or energy around us like Decker and V'ger's probe did. However, our lives are never the same.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/fellowshipandfairydust.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/z-i-KqaboLG5E0s-unsplash.jpg?fit=920%2C490&ssl=1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="800" height="213" src="https://i0.wp.com/fellowshipandfairydust.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/z-i-KqaboLG5E0s-unsplash.jpg?fit=920%2C490&ssl=1" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>Gutterball Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07950081663822774046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576925179178749401.post-48413804463386823142021-01-25T01:00:00.025-05:002021-01-25T01:00:01.155-05:00Abortion in the States<p><span style="font-size: xx-large;">Check out these two diverging, recent headlines from <i>Life Site News</i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-large;">"<a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/mississippi-bill-would-classify-abortion-as-murder" target="_blank">Mississippi bill would classify abortion as murder</a>"</span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-large;">"<a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/action-alert-virginia-senate-likely-to-vote-on-forcing-taxpayer-funded-abortions" target="_blank">UPDATED: Virginia Senate votes to force taxpayer-funded abortions</a></span><span style="font-size: xx-large;">"</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqqeRmo9kM5PJ8k1x4L1gTAB3qTJn1_ORswGnXdpA2IJqWKVaZhdWnVbgAl30H-Qjjd1MRjVFSiQ_P5kVH2qxYmcwE8ng4nbnvc_UHeb62ev-nNeWUAerPKTWiLOlu9ix1YDdnq-faCdIe/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="594" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqqeRmo9kM5PJ8k1x4L1gTAB3qTJn1_ORswGnXdpA2IJqWKVaZhdWnVbgAl30H-Qjjd1MRjVFSiQ_P5kVH2qxYmcwE8ng4nbnvc_UHeb62ev-nNeWUAerPKTWiLOlu9ix1YDdnq-faCdIe/w400-h306/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-large;">When Roe v. Wade (1973; created abortion right in US) is overturned, it's been said that abortion rights will be determined by each state. From the headlines above, it sure looks like that.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-large;">I'm wondering if this is actually not the case. Roe had a sentence about personhood of </span><span style="font-size: xx-large;">the preborn (unborn)</span><span style="font-size: xx-large;">. If personhood is established for the preborn, the fourteenth amendment would protect the preborn from elective abortion death under the due process clause (no taking of life or liberty without due process of law). I wonder if the constitutional conservatives will remember this and actually make abortion itself illegal in all fifty states. I wonder.</span></p>Gutterball Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07950081663822774046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576925179178749401.post-46479773892243038322021-01-22T01:00:00.000-05:002021-01-22T01:00:04.581-05:00Hitting the Mark<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sin is a word and concept that is contemptible in our libertine age. The only "sin" is even implying that an action or feeling is not right for someone else to do or feel. According to former President Obama, a sin is to do something against one's principles; there is no external reference for those principles.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8b/8f/bd/8b8fbd3da698318c9648c8de4704caba.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="459" data-original-width="575" height="319" src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8b/8f/bd/8b8fbd3da698318c9648c8de4704caba.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Well, the above approaches to sin would be correct if there were no God. As Sartre wrote, we create our own meaning without reference to any god. His entire philosophical matrix would fall apart if God existed-in-fact.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">If God existed, He made you and me a certain way to live rightly. What sin really includes is missing the mark of living in the right way.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Think of a bow, arrow, and target. The goal of bow and arrow shooting at the range of life is to get a bullseye. We have to train, practice, and obtain the correct materials/equipment to get the maximum number of bullseyes. We'll more likely hit the mark.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Then we'll be truly happy.<br /></span></p>Gutterball Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07950081663822774046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576925179178749401.post-66505247934134584372021-01-21T01:00:00.000-05:002021-01-21T01:00:03.083-05:00Heaven is Awesome<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Is heaven boring? I have a teenager that thought that it was. In heaven, you just sit around for eternity and get bored, bored, bored without end.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Well, I combined something I learned a long time ago from Real Catholic TV (before it changed to Church Militant) and his love of soccer.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">When we die, think of it as a snapshot, a moment in time that lasts forever. At the same time, think of how you feel when you play a really important and excruciatingly tough game that you win.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://famegirlsworldcupblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/soccer-heaven-jpg.jpg?w=640" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="640" height="233" src="https://famegirlsworldcupblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/soccer-heaven-jpg.jpg?w=640" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">The experience of heaven is like the feeling of winning that game forever. It never goes away like it does on earth with the Church Militant. As a member of the Church Triumphant, we are always in God's presence. We won the game of life through the sacrifice and resurrection of Jesus, along with our participation with his work. The game was a killer, but the victory was a miracle beyond understanding. We are teammates of Jesus in His Church. He purchased the grace of forgiveness of our sins through the cross for the heaven win. Heaven is awesome.<br /></span><p></p>Gutterball Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07950081663822774046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576925179178749401.post-72279992457067906322021-01-20T01:00:00.079-05:002021-01-20T01:00:07.928-05:00Violence is Verboten Except<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Yes, violence is verboten. But, as <a href="https://wonderingzygoteemeritus.blogspot.com/2021/01/inverting-martin-luther-kings-message.html" target="_blank">I wrote earlier this week</a>, this does not seem to apply to the left, media, or Democrats.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Antifa violence at the Capitol</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_fs/1.4267921.1591026873!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/ratio_16x9_w1200/image.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="225" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_fs/1.4267921.1591026873!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/ratio_16x9_w1200/image.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Mrs. Hughes of MRCTV (Media Research Council TV) had some things to say about this double standard which is maddening. It's worth the listen.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Dr. King would not be happy with this inversion.</span></p>Gutterball Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07950081663822774046noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576925179178749401.post-29579176091657700432021-01-12T10:34:00.002-05:002021-01-12T10:51:22.989-05:00The Olbermann Left<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">The Left and/or Never-Trumpers have called for the
impeachment and/or incarceration of President Trump for his alleged incitement
of a riot on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C on January 6, 2021. They have gone
the way of Keith Olbermann. Last year, around the time Amy Coney Barrett was
confirmed to the Supreme Court (Sept.-Oct. 2020), <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvZ1krezt40" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">he said</a></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://assets.change.org/photos/5/xa/xm/NkxaXMBqAyLXmum-400x400-noPad.jpg?1602446900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="178" data-original-width="318" height="224" src="https://assets.change.org/photos/5/xa/xm/NkxaXMBqAyLXmum-400x400-noPad.jpg?1602446900" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">[Trump] and his enablers and his supporters and his collaborators and the Mike Lees and the William Bars and the Sean Hannitys and the Mike Pences and the Rudy Giulianis and the Kyle Rittenhouses and the Amy Coney Barretts must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society while we try to rebuild it and to rebuild the world Trump has nearly destroyed by turning it over to a virus. Remember it even as we dream of a return to reality and safety and the country for which our Forefathers died that the fight is not just to win an election but to win it by enough to chase at least for a moment Trump and the Maggots off the stage and then try to clean up what they left.</span></blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">(This led to a petition on change dot org against Olbermann for <a href="https://www.change.org/p/espn-keith-olbermann-threatens-us-voters-for-trump-with-calls-for-violence-hate-against-them?original_footer_petition_id=13421916&algorithm=promoted&source_location=petition_footer&grid_position=9&pt=AVBldGl0aW9uAFuVgAEAAAAAX4N6RXnqJh40Njk5OGIzNg%3D%3D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">inciting violence here</a>.)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />Mr. Olbermann de-personified Trump enablers (Maggots = MAGA supporters), among whom I count myself since I think Trump is better than any radical Democratic candidate. He called for the arbitrary arrest of approximately half of the U.S. voting population. (Hello, Marxist countries!)<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />Tech giants Google (Alphabet), Facebook, Apple, and Amazon have already <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNkOdYfDKTg" target="_blank">placed into virtual jail Parler</a>, the neutral/libertarian alternative to Leftist Twitter. Twitter and Facebook both banned Trump from their platforms. Financial institutions have banned anything associated with Trump.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />And for what?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />According to the House Resolution for <a href="https://www.speaker.gov/sites/speaker.house.gov/files/1.10.21_25thAmendmentResolution%5BFOR%20INTRO%5D.pdf" target="_blank">Trump’s second impeachment</a>, the President incited the violence at the Capitol building on Jan. 6. However, at the rally, Trump explicitly said that everyone should “peacefully” protest. He said that he won the 2020 presidential race by a landslide; the protest was titled “Stop the Steal.” This does not in itself incite violence. The GA Governor was supposedly told to commit fraud and was threatened by the president. This did not incite violence on the capitol. Telling the protestors to “march on the capitol” and “fight” is general political speech that is well known to mean to stand up for your rights and protest along with persuading peacefully.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />Further, Trump’s tweets were not incendiary. Calling people patriots and asking them to fight for their rights is not inciting violence.<br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.wivb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/97/2021/01/Trump-Tweet.jpg?w=900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="225" src="https://www.wivb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/97/2021/01/Trump-Tweet.jpg?w=900" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">What it really comes down to is that the protestors are responsible for their actions. Many protestors attempted to stop the destruction and vandalism of the Capitol by other protestors (or Antifa?).</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />Pres. Trump not being responsible for the violent protestors is similar to not holding Al Sharpton, Pres. Obama, or Bernie Sanders responsible for the action of their violent/riotous supporters.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />In 1995, Al Sharpton was accused of starting a riot against Jews.<br /><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/james-hodgkinson-shooting-sanders-supporter-625792">https://www.newsweek.com/james-hodgkinson-shooting-sanders-supporter-625792</a><br /><a href="https://lidblog.com/sharpton-incited-freddys-massacre/">https://lidblog.com/sharpton-incited-freddys-massacre/</a><br /><a href="https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/01/10/cnn-commentator-steps-in-it-big-time-with-al-sharpton-comparison-to-u-s-capitol-riot-1014546/">https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/01/10/cnn-commentator-steps-in-it-big-time-with-al-sharpton-comparison-to-u-s-capitol-riot-1014546/</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />During Obama’s reign, he was accused of inspiring BLM protestors to shoot police for being police.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />Bernie Sanders was accused of inspiring a Leftist to shoot Republicans at a congressional baseball game for taking away healthcare from the elderly. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHR__AwABCc" target="_blank">ht Ben Shapiro at the Daily Wir</a>e:<br />24:47 Sanders incited violence against Republicans.<br />25:26 Obama incited violence against cops<br />26:21 Sharpton incited violence against Jews.)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />However, Sharpton, Obama, and Sanders are still outstanding examples of citizenry to Big Tech and the Left. Their speech was not construed out of context to be inciting violence. They were not banned </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">from society</span> and threatened to be jailed as Olbermann demanded of Trump.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />What it comes down to is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvEhSkRG9f8" target="_blank">the double standard</a> that is applied to the Left, Right, and those that support either side. Social Media and the Legacy Media have made the double standard worse by withholding information that negatively effects the Left and exaggerating the information that negatively effects the Right and Trump. Plus, dividing and raising the temperature of political discourse helps their bottom line to the detriment of the entire country they have a responsibility to serve.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />I pray that the cancel culture, unhinged rhetoric, and biased interpretation of the Left and/or Never-Trumpers are deescalated so that more widespread violence is not inspired, if not cause a Civil War. China and Russia would be pleased if that happened.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">(<a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/remember-leftist-rioters-killed-people-ransacked-d.c-while-democrats-cheered-them-on" target="_blank">More left-inspired violence by left politicians</a>.)<br /></span></p><p></p>
Gutterball Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07950081663822774046noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576925179178749401.post-33133058759450083672021-01-08T20:55:00.001-05:002021-01-09T17:30:43.787-05:00Old Meme - New Time<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">There is an old meme </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">below about the US</span>, before memes were as big as they are now in certain circles.<br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Jesusland.png/1200px-Jesusland.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="726" data-original-width="800" height="363" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Jesusland.png/1200px-Jesusland.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">The northern part of the US and Canada are the United States of Canada and the southern part is Jesusland.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">This says so much. This was originally made by those who prefer to be in the red, northern part of the map above. (How unjust is it that Jesus is treated like a shunned man? It reminds me of something...)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">The enlightened U.S. Canadians believe that Jesus lovers are freaks, rubes, and backward. In reality it is the reverse. It is the north that want us to progress backward to the time of oligarchs, dependency, and decay (sort of like in Russia, come to think of it).<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">What I now see on the map above is the Church of Rome and Constantinople on a mission to the hordes of the barbarian North.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">(BTW, most of these map memes of Jesusland have PA in the north. This is one of the few that doesn't.)<br /></span></p>Gutterball Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07950081663822774046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576925179178749401.post-61794569816321523122021-01-07T11:56:00.002-05:002021-01-07T11:56:22.422-05:00My Wife Versus the Current Dark Age<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">What signifies a dark age? An age in which the barbarians overrun a civilization. We are now suffering in such an age in the West. I believe historians will not label our epoch as the information age or space age; this is the real Dark Age.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">We have abandoned our Western heritage for <a href="https://wonderingzygoteemeritus.blogspot.com/2020/12/unalienable-essence.html" target="_blank">Sartreland</a>. We no longer look outside ourselves for Truth that saves but look inward for our little truth that decays, withers, and dies.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">My wife has taken this on with most of her time. She is a classical school teacher. Truth, beauty, and goodness through Jesus and His Church are her weapons against the barbarians.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://cathlibed.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/icle-logo-xlarge2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="232" data-original-width="800" height="116" src="https://cathlibed.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/icle-logo-xlarge2.png" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://catholicliberaleducation.org/" target="_blank">Please consider enrolling</a> in an online classical school or in-person classical school for this or next year. You can join my wife in saving the West.<br /></span><p></p>Gutterball Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07950081663822774046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576925179178749401.post-6003426508567417162021-01-06T13:21:00.000-05:002021-01-06T13:21:07.087-05:00Black Lives Matter Inc. Opinions<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Opinions of Three Black Men Who Are Honest about the Official BLM Organization<br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.imgflip.com/46hd01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="225" src="https://i.imgflip.com/46hd01.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>FYI: I wrote this post elsewhere in June 2020.</b></span></span> <br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The partial-transcripts of their opinions are below
and at <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/15-76bSEN4KxjkKA4yOF1YuggLaWJs6_A/view?fbclid=IwAR1jcQ9uu6d99ScOrPJ4iBcg41WvJCjcE3o32ZIIA4ZA65dC_cRTJe2BOB8 " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/file/d/15-76bSEN4KxjkKA4yOF1YuggLaWJs6_A/view?fbclid=IwAR1jcQ9uu6d99ScOrPJ4iBcg41WvJCjcE3o32ZIIA4ZA65dC_cRTJe2BOB8 </a></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">(1) George Floyd Was Murdered - An Honest Perspective [by Zuby]<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jINiEOE2sQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jINiEOE2sQ</a><br />(2) 'Black Lives Matter' Is Not Helping Blacks [by Derryck Green]<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxLi-6RtmUQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxLi-6RtmUQ</a><br />(3) Why I don't support # BlackLivesMatter [by Eric D July]<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JocOjvPizzY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JocOjvPizzY</a><br /><br />**Partial Transcripts:<br />Opinions of Three Black Men Who Are Honest about the Official BLM Organization<br />(1) George Floyd Was Murdered - An Honest Perspective [by Zuby]<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jINiEOE2sQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jINiEOE2sQ</a><br />2:00 George Floyd was murdered. There is no excuse.<br />2:30 Zuby does not have BLM/anti-police sentiment (not activist).<br />2:40 He is critical of BLM because they are silent on the 99% of black people who are killed in US.<br />4:49 If the optics do not line-up with BLM's narrative (white on black violence/bl on bl violence), BLM ignores.<br />3:07 Of course he is in agreement with the "black lives matter" sentiment (as well as "all lives matter"). Almost everyone agrees with that.<br />3:15 He believes in womb to the tomb, human lives matter. It doesn't matter if man, woman, baby, unborn baby, adult, orange, yellow, white.<br />3:43 He believes all humans have inherent value.<br />3:46 He doesn't get caught-up in race bating.<br />3:51 He is also not hyper-emotional.<br />3:57 Nearly all contentious cases are not clear, there are other circumstances going on (4:13).<br />4:15 However, in this situation, Mr. Floyd was hand-cuffed and neutralized.<br />4:27 There is no self-defense here.<br />4:38 This could have happened to a white man, Asian man, white woman, black woman. It wouldn't matter.<br />4:47 People are getting bogged-down in "bull crap" like they always do, and it gets so tiresome.<br />4:51 This is why he made the video.<br />5:00 People who try to defend this police officer sound like clowns.<br />5:27 Even if Mr. Floyd was casing people with a chainsaw, this is still murder.<br />5:33 It would still be a massive error by the police involved.<br />5:46 In this circumstance, after subduing Mr. Floyd, there is no reason to kill him. There is no excuse.<br />6:12 It's extremely rare to have a video of police killing suspects in cold-blood like here.<br />6:31 The officer knew what he was doing.<br />7:33 Four other officers, including Latino [Asian?], were present and did nothing.<br />7:42 This is evidence that this this is not a black and white thing.<br />8:05 Only about 1% of police officers would do this. But what about those standing around?<br />8:30 This act was evil since he didn't need to kill him. Sometimes killing/harming is justified, but not here.<br />9:30 People are trying to make this a left-right thing.<br />10:40 Police violence in Minneapolis was also against white woman.<br />10:49 "When you have principles, race becomes a non-issue. That becomes a distraction."<br />11:09 Issue is not right-left, black-white.<br />12:00 Worse case of police violence was against white male in a hotel. The police defendant in case got off scot-free and got a payout for it.<br />12:15 Zuby is not social justice warrior (SJW). He believes in justice. Just justice.<br />12:25 Nobody is above the law. Citizen or police.<br />12:35 We can't afford to have bad apples in the police force.<br />12:50 They have a badge and a gun.<br />13:30 They have the authority to kill people legally in many cases.<br />14:15 There's nothing that can justify Mr. Floyd's killing. Even if he was a moment before chasing someone with a chainsaw.<br />(2) 'Black Lives Matter' Is Not Helping Blacks [by Derryck Green]<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxLi-6RtmUQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxLi-6RtmUQ</a><br />0:25 Derryck Green has done extensive research on the civil rights movement, black power movement, and BLM.<br />0:55 He believes police brutality is an issue.<br />1:15 People should rightly protest about police officer's actions that killed Mr. Floyd.<br />1:20 There are a lot more "pressing issues" that should be "prioritized above" the issue of police brutality if we are serious about changing the way black communities are lived in the country currently.<br />1:35 This does not trivialize George Floyd's death.<br />1:43 Justice should be rightly meted-out.<br />1:48 There are so many other issues that impact black families and black lives.<br />2:05 (Will Witt) If BLM really cared about black lives, BLM should focus on those issues that really effect black lives daily.<br />2:25 (Green) BLM is primarily focused on police brutality.<br />2:28 The numbers of unarmed blacks killed by police each year is almost a statistical zero. This is not to trivialize the lives that were lost (2:38). They should be put in proper context.<br />2:53 One of the issues that should be prominent is black marriage rates. Black marriage rates are under thirty percent. (Whites are ~50%.)<br />3:05 Black parents having kids in marriage would improve black lives.<br />3:09 Another issue is education.<br />3:45 Increasing minimum wage hurts black lives. (Prices out of market.)<br />4:25 Reducing government to help blacks thrive.<br />4:44 White Antifa members support BLM destroy black businesses.<br />5:20 Antifa are social opportunists.<br />5:25 BLM had an obligation to shut down Antifa/riots that hurt black lives and businesses.<br />5:40 Riots turn people away who would normally listen to your cause/pleas for justice.<br />6:15 It costs a lot of money to set up in city areas. Who would want to come to cities knowing it’s a tinderbox ready to explode.<br />6:43 BLM not shutting Antifa down in the beginning of the riots/violence eliminated BLM moral authority.<br />7:40 The left frames the parameters of the debate. They force you to operate within those parameters, and if you don't, you are evil and not with them.<br />8:10 The left and right were in agreement that the death of Mr. Floyd was a travesty and the officers should be fired and arrested.<br />8:15 It wasn't enough. Rioting was not the answer.<br />8:25 One way to help black lives is not to riot. Many people who live in those communities work in those communities where businesses were destroyed.<br />8:44 But businesses will come back (like Covid). We don't know that, esp. after extended periods of time.<br />9:30 BLM is a movement to use white guilt and black rage to achieve their aims.<br />9:40 Affirmative action is absolutely racist.<br />10:00 White people kneeling to black people is racist in itself.<br />10:09 Going back on blacks integrating into society. It's almost segregation again.<br />10:29 Affirmative action and BLM won't end because they are ready-made vehicles that white people can support to disprove their racism in advance, however counter-productive they are.<br />11:00 Without coerced gov't intervention you would not be successful.<br />11:15 Handouts are at the expense of black development it stifles black flourishing.<br />11:22 Also has stigma of lower standards. Never be rest assured what accomplished were on own merits.<br />11:32 BLM same way. Kneeling is patronizing: we can't deal with a black person like a regular human being.<br />11:45 We don't think their emotionally mature enough to deal with life separately and distinct from race. Not that we should ignore it. We have to show we're not racist.<br />12:00 It's like patting them on the head. That's offensive.<br />12:20 White groveling doesn't solve the problem; it shows weakness.<br />12:33 White guilt is the leverage to black power.<br />12:55 We should treat blacks as equals.<br />13:25 Treat blacks as equals and peers, not children.<br />13:32 (Witt) We live in the generation of virtue signaling.<br />14:15 (Green) White guilt/privilege thrust upon whites, and if left unchecked it would expand white supremacy.<br />14:40 Social media is substitute for real activism. A black square means absolutely nothing.<br />15:19 Original civil rights leaders marched to help US live up to ideals of Dec. of Ind.<br />15:38 Advocate for better schools instead of social media virtue signaling.<br />15:55 Advocate for blacks to get married and stay married?<br />16:03 It's very difficult work.<br />16:22 (Witt) Don't blame people putting up black squares.<br />16:55 (Green) Differences between civil rights movement (MLK/non-violence) and black power movements (black panthers).<br />17:50 Civil rights movement believed US just didn't live up to ideals of Dec. of Ind.<br />18:28 Civil rights movement born and thrived in black churches.<br />18:48 Black power movements wanted separatism. (18:57 black nationalism)<br />19:50 Black power movements coopted by white left.<br />19:58 Black fists.<br />20:53 BLM won't convince anyone who already doesn't have their ideological presuppositions.<br />22:30 What happens to conservative blacks (or blacks not on the left) when they speak-out.<br />23:00 There is strength in numbers. More conservatives (or blacks not on the left) speaking out will help black lives.<br />23:50 More white conservatives (or whites not on the left) should speak out to help black lives.<br />24:55 Rejecting BLM as a movement is not rejecting the idea that black lives matter.<br />(3) Why I don't support # BlackLivesMatter [by Eric D July]<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JocOjvPizzY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JocOjvPizzY</a><br />3:14 Solutions should also be good for freedom purposes.<br />4:30 Black lives matter to who?<br />6:30 Be self-reliant.<br />8:00 Woke police, not demolish them is goal.<br />9:15 BLM corporate movement.<br />9:40 BLM: Please stop beating us but also include us.<br />11:15 BLM very leftist movement.<br />11:30 Eric's not like Candace, but don't hate her.<br />12:00 POC, what is that?<br />12:45 LGBT thing. Not hating on them, though.<br />12:55 BLM started with LGBT thing.<br />13:00 It's a leadership problem.<br />13:15 Eric doesn't want your civil rights laws or pity.<br />13:22 "This whole movement is about white folk feeling as if black men and black women’s world can't move unless they move it for them. Let's just keep it real."<br />13:40 It would be one thing if they [BLM] said to keep the hell out of our way.<br />14:05 Self-loathing whites helping out blacks.<br />14:30 Human beings are human beings and there will always be disparities.<br />14:40 Not interested in evening the odds [in outcome percentages].<br />14:55 Putting more black cops and politicians is not the solution.<br />15:48 Worried about what is right or wrong.<br />16:25 There is a problem in black communities. Cultural problem. Pains them to address issues.<br />17:40 Welfare status<br />17:55 Baby mommas<br />15:45 Marriage direct link to positive outcomes.<br />19:20 Drug problems<br />19:40 Prison assumptions offensive<br />20:50 Raised by mother<br />21:20 Mother taught him that her situation was not preferable as single mother<br />21:50 It's ok to acknowledge the preference even when it's not present<br />21:55 People that terrorize their community are bad people. (He was a bad person at one time too.)<br />23:30 Tale of when first called unblack when said didn't want handouts.<br />23:40 Kill and be bad person is what it is to be black, but if don't want handouts, not black.<br />23:50 Addressing cultural problems require responsibility.<br />24:15 "I'm the victim" (despite the experience of black immigrants).<br />24:39 Legacy of slavery? Like come on dog. No.<br />25:47 This is white supremacy.<br />26:50 Get black people armed and trained.<br />27:40 Privatizing police or community police.<br />28:35 More woke police?<br />29:15 Why ignoring statism and focusing on racism instead of having self-ownership.<br />29:35 "Holding signs rioting is not about to save them 'cause you must of forgot that that's the power you gave them."<br />29:45 Stockholm syndrome.<br />30:00 "obedient"<br />30:25 Eric's against the state.</span></p><p></p>Gutterball Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07950081663822774046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576925179178749401.post-8763323364336790522021-01-05T15:59:00.001-05:002021-01-05T16:01:41.398-05:00Love(1) Is Not Love(2)<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I grew up in a town northeast of a big city named Adelphia. The city's name means "City of Love." Never heard of it? It's in the U.S.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Of course, the real name is Philadelphia which means "City of <i>Brotherly </i>Love."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">But I heard that "Love is Love." I wonder how can this be true?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Are all these loves equivalent?</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sister/Brother</span></li><li><span style="font-size: x-large;">Mother/Son</span></li><li><span style="font-size: x-large;">Father/Daughter</span></li><li><span style="font-size: x-large;">Dog/Dog owner</span></li><li><span style="font-size: x-large;">Gamer/Mindcraft </span></li><li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Husband/Wife</span></span></li></ul><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Greeks had at least four words for love that can be found in the book <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29938407-the-four-loves" target="_blank">The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://media.swncdn.com/cms/CW/faith/59232-freestocks-org-547542-unsplash%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="800" height="209" src="https://media.swncdn.com/cms/CW/faith/59232-freestocks-org-547542-unsplash%20(2).jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">They are (according to Wikipedia)</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Storge – empathy bond<br />Philia – friend bond<br />Eros – romantic love<br />Agape – unconditional "God" love<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">or (affection - friendship - eros - charity)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Eros can also be a desirous love for chocolate or video games.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Lets put the letters of the loves next to the list above.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Storge = S; </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Philia = P; etc.<br /></span></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sister/Brother S/P/A<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size: x-large;">Mother/Son S/A<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size: x-large;">Father/Daughter S/A<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size: x-large;">Dog/Dog owner S/P<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size: x-large;">Gamer/Mindcraft E <br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Husband/Wife S/P/E/A</span></span></span></li></ul><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The above listing may be debatable, but it can be seen that love is not love in all cases. Husband/Wife love is the ultimate love (includes all four) that has the potential to create new humans that can love.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">May we always cringe whenever we read "Love is Love." It's not. </span></span><br /></span></p>Gutterball Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07950081663822774046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576925179178749401.post-42808503190889918822021-01-04T17:50:00.002-05:002021-01-04T17:50:52.894-05:00Answering Hitchens's Impossible Question<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Let's start the year with a religious post and attempt to address the late Christopher Hitchens's "impossible question."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">The question is, "I challenge you to find one good or noble thing which cannot be accomplished without religion." Or name something good a believer can do that an Atheist cannot.<br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/13Fxdau2iAY/maxresdefault.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="225" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/13Fxdau2iAY/maxresdefault.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">I found two answers by Christians on YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Fxdau2iAY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDT_de6an2s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. There is one by W. L. Craig on the internet somewhere.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Years ago, I read Prof. Dawkins's <i>The God Delusion</i> where he suggested that we create a believing machine to get around the obvious answer to this question: only believers can believe in God, only believers can love God with all their heart, soul, and strength. According to </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Dawkins</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">, the machine could believe in God for us so we can go about our business. Prof. Dawkins also derided parents who taught their impressionable children about any religion, especially Christianity with its belief in hell: it is on par with physical child abuse.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">From this alone, I can report that no Atheist, or non-theist could believe or teach positively about the Judeo-Christian God, the only living and true God.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">But is this good?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I'm part of a non-denominational Habitat-for-Humanity-like apostolate called <a href="http://www.goodworksinc.org/" target="_blank"><i>Good Works</i></a> in a poor part of PA. At the beginning of the work day, we have a small talk that comes from the Bible and ask for prayer requests. We then pray together with the home owner before we work at the worksite. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">If someone is not Christian, they can come to the work site after this. </span>From my observation, the Christians show up more often than the non-Christians to work on the houses.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">St. Mother Theresa of Calcutta always made it a priority to pray and attend mass before helping the poorest of the poor, to take scheduled breaks for this throughout the day. I'm not Mother Theresa, but it says something that belief in God motivates more consistent and harder work for the poor who are Jesus in disguise (<a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/25" target="_blank">Matthew 25: 31-46</a>).</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">However, this does not actually address the most important <i>action</i>: loving God Himself. Love requires action. We do this by receiving Jesus bodily into ourselves in the sacrament of Communion and being forgiven in the sacrament of Reconciliation. No non-theist would ever do this in Truth, only mock and/or invert it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I wonder why debaters against Hitchens </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">didn't </span>say this type of answer every time? Where they afraid that Hitchens would shoot them down? Could it perhaps be that most were Protestant, who believe in <i>sola fides</i>? Love requires more than faith; it requires works, some only Christians can do.<br /></span></p>Gutterball Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07950081663822774046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576925179178749401.post-61738276341805248372020-12-31T11:59:00.001-05:002020-12-31T12:14:46.052-05:00Most Important Books in 2020<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Most important (secular) books that I read in 2020:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">1a. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40961427-1984" target="_blank"><i>1984</i></a> by George Orwell</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">1b. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World" target="_blank"><i>Brave New World</i></a> by Aldous Huxley</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">2. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36366820-bully-of-asia" target="_blank"><i>Bully of Asia: Why China's Dream is the New Threat to World Order</i></a> by Steven W. Mosher</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">3. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51333444-united-states-of-socialism" target="_blank"><i>United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It</i></a> by Dinesh D'Souza</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Why are these books important?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">1a./1b. Both these books taken together explain and emotionally inform how elites and non-elites conform to social/financial top-tier elites and governments.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/assets/3/28/1984bravenew.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="602" height="300" src="https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/assets/3/28/1984bravenew.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>1984 </i>explains how the elites manipulate mostly other elites to think how Big Brother wants them to think and live.</span><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Brave New World</i> explains how the non-elites cope with their circumstances by lulling themselves into submission - at least getting them out of the way of the elites - by drugs and entertainment. Think opium crisis and entertainment-imbibing as reason for/ends of living. Marx had it backwards: real, life-directing religion leads people to stand up to oppression (think Pope Saint John Paul II in Poland, "We want God.") while atheism leads to <i>laissez-faire</i> hedonism (often a type of <i>Buddhism</i>).</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">These books should be standard reading for all high school students.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">2. Dr. Mosher (China expert who is fluent in Chinese) powerfully explains that China's effort to be the world's superpower is </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">more than simply </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">spreading communism. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">thinks</span>, much like the former Chinese emperors, that Chinese culture/race is the best in the same way that the Nazi's believed that their culture/race was the best. That culture/race should be dominant over all aspects of the world's life and governments. China is to be the sole world hegemon.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">3. Mr. D'Souza's most important contribution in his book is showing, in eye-popping detail, how the currently-attempted Socialist/Marxist takeover of the US parallels almost exactly with the takeover of Venezuela. This includes the race wars, gun confiscation, removing statues/rewriting history, and overall political rhetoric.<br /></span></p>Gutterball Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07950081663822774046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576925179178749401.post-91081719611908004492020-12-29T17:27:00.002-05:002020-12-29T17:30:41.789-05:00The Great Star Trek Reset<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">You may have heard of the </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Great Reset</i> of the </span>World Economic Forum (WEF), its Leader Klaus Schwab's plan to re-imagine capitalism, i.e., bring about world communism. The outline of the plan is on their website for all to see (and in an entire Time magazine issue, among many other main-stream publications). This is not a conspiracy theory; it's a conspiracy.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">The video of other main parts of the plan was scrubbed from their website which included lovely goals such as, "You will own nothing, and you will be happy," and "A handful of countries will dominate." (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soljN2eAN60" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">See more info here.</a>)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">A<span style="font-size: x-large;">ll </span>this reminds me of <i>Star Trek</i>, specifically, Captain Picard's explanation of the <i>Star Trek</i> utopian future to Lily in the movie <i>First Contact</i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://treksphere.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Image-Picard-Exlains-to-Lily.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="800" height="213" src="https://treksphere.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Image-Picard-Exlains-to-Lily.png" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">There is no money in the <i>Trek </i>universe (except for some of the backward worlds). Technology has freed us from slavery-in-the-pursuit-of-frivolous-trivialities. He also made it clear that
all planets in the <i>Federation of Planets</i> are one-world governments (it is a requirement for entry into the <i>Federation</i>).</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The visionary creator of <i>Star Trek</i> was an Atheist.
Everyone knew it. He wrote episodes mocking belief in God left and
right in the original series (TOS) and the Next Generation (TNG) series.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">He would love this development of the world elites in business and government if he were living. He died during the production of TNG, I believe.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">On a side note, I plan to read Comrade Schwab's book <i>COVID-19: The Great Reset</i> when I can get a free copy (I don't want to give him more of my money than I have to).<br /></span></p>Gutterball Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07950081663822774046noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576925179178749401.post-59918609444276345732020-12-18T17:50:00.003-05:002020-12-30T10:09:16.781-05:00New Eagle Scout Intersectionality Requirement<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Well, I was a Boy Scout merit badge counselor. Not after this requirement.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Scouts (the <i>Boy </i>was removed) is now part of the </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>intersectionality </b></i>cult. No thank you.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Requiring safety training is one thing (mandated reporter, fighting abuse). Becoming one with Marxist BLM, no way.<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/80539375/so-the-boy-scouts-are-going-to-let-girls-join-teenage-boys-and-girls-camping-in-the-woods-together-w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="400" src="https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/80539375/so-the-boy-scouts-are-going-to-let-girls-join-teenage-boys-and-girls-camping-in-the-woods-together-w.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">"Calling all Merit Badge Counselors<br /><br />"We need merit badge counselors for the soon to be released Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion merit badge. A draft of the requirements is out but not yet official. It will be an Eagle required merit badge. The total of 21 merit badges will not change, there will now be 14 Eagle required merit badges and 7 elective merit badges. Scouts will be able to start working on this merit badge on January 1, 2021. Starting May 1, 2021 this merit badge will be required to attain the rank of Eagle.<br /><br />"Following is a summary of what the merit badge entails:<br /><br /> · Discussions of diversity, equity, inclusion, bigotry, and intersectionality.<br /> · Discussions of the various types of racism.<br /> · How to create a welcoming environment in you unit<br /> · Develop a presentation on diversity, equity, and inclusion<br /> · Research organizations and individuals and how they work in these fields<br /> · Attend or learn about an event an event related to diversity<br /> · Learn and discuss specific scenarios about how to be an upstander<br /> · Other work related to subjects in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion<br /><br />"There are quite a few more requirements proposed for this merit badge, all dealing with the above topics. The final requirements are scheduled to be released sometime in December."</span><br /></p>Gutterball Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07950081663822774046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576925179178749401.post-45971757673291116682020-12-18T16:56:00.006-05:002020-12-30T12:35:31.739-05:00Catholic-Themed Play Goes Mainstream in Philadelphia<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span><span data-offset-key="5th2d-0-0"><span data-text="true">Just</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="5th2d-1-0"><span data-text="true"> watched this play online that a friend suggested: <i><a href="https://wilmatheater.org/event/heroes-of-the-fourth-turning/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Heroes of the Fourth Turning</a></i>.</span></span></span></p><div data-contents="true"><div data-block="true" data-editor="2r14p" data-offset-key="em13b-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="em13b-0-0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://wilmatheater.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/50590174862_18bddd3703_k-1800x1013.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="225" src="https://wilmatheater.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/50590174862_18bddd3703_k-1800x1013.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span data-offset-key="em13b-0-0"></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2r14p" data-offset-key="dvlf0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dvlf0-0-0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-offset-key="dvlf0-0-0"><span data-text="true">It's produced by a Philadelphia, PA theater (Wilma Theater).</span></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2r14p" data-offset-key="7an7m-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7an7m-0-0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-offset-key="7an7m-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2r14p" data-offset-key="2oau5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2oau5-0-0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-offset-key="2oau5-0-0"><span data-text="true">Synopsis: "Four Catholic conservative friends gather at a late-night backyard party in Wyoming, shortly before the 2017 eclipse. As they wait for the arrival of their mentor and newly appointed college president, secret passions and fears surface, revealing their troubled place in a divided country."</span></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2r14p" data-offset-key="2je3m-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2je3m-0-0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-offset-key="2je3m-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2r14p" data-offset-key="5ng1q-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5ng1q-0-0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-offset-key="5ng1q-0-0"><span data-text="true">It was interesting. Worth the watch? It's definitely dramatic. Had quite a bit of name dropping and theology/philosophy that was unusual for a play. It worked though.</span></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2r14p" data-offset-key="cu9v3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cu9v3-0-0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-offset-key="cu9v3-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2r14p" data-offset-key="efsrr-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="efsrr-0-0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-offset-key="efsrr-0-0"><span data-text="true">It did win awards:</span></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2r14p" data-offset-key="5jj00-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5jj00-0-0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-offset-key="5jj00-0-0"><span data-text="true">"Winner of the 2020 Obie Award for Playwriting!</span></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2r14p" data-offset-key="10glj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="10glj-0-0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-offset-key="10glj-0-0"><span data-text="true">"Best Play, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award!</span></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2r14p" data-offset-key="b8mg6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b8mg6-0-0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-offset-key="b8mg6-0-0"><span data-text="true">"Outstanding Play, Lucille Lortel Award!</span></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2r14p" data-offset-key="dlqld-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dlqld-0-0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-offset-key="dlqld-0-0"><span data-text="true">"Finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama!"</span></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2r14p" data-offset-key="364js-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="364js-0-0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-offset-key="364js-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2r14p" data-offset-key="8pmr2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8pmr2-0-0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-offset-key="8pmr2-0-0"><span data-text="true">I would give it an award for making Conservative Catholics relatable and flawed without making them into devils incarnate.</span></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2r14p" data-offset-key="9d45e-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9d45e-0-0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-offset-key="9d45e-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2r14p" data-offset-key="v8jl-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="v8jl-0-0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-offset-key="v8jl-0-0"><span data-text="true">***Spoiler:***</span></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2r14p" data-offset-key="b8ie5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b8ie5-0-0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-offset-key="b8ie5-0-0"><span data-text="true">Well, sort-of devils: I don't know if the possession was necessary. Well, maybe.</span></span></span></div></div></div>Gutterball Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07950081663822774046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576925179178749401.post-20487199302594440722020-12-17T09:06:00.003-05:002020-12-17T09:06:38.838-05:00CCP Capitalism<p> <span style="font-size: x-large;">Andrew Klavan of The Daily Wire said something profound yesterday on his show (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynn7XpeCmxQ" target="_blank">The Andrew Klavan Show on 12/16/2020</a>) that should become common parlance. He said that elites of corporations desire (Communist/CCP) <i>Chinese capitalism</i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">"It is this free market with no freedom for the people."</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/Tianasquare.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="330" height="264" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/Tianasquare.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">People become consumers with no spiritual dimension. Communist, materialist capitalism is the goal. It's Ayn Rand free markets without selfishness. In actuality, no self at all - only Big Brother.<br /></span><p></p>Gutterball Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07950081663822774046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576925179178749401.post-52462597371135752272020-12-14T13:10:00.003-05:002020-12-30T12:35:59.645-05:00Advent Lessons & Carols<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">A choir I'm in at Church had an event "Advent Lessons & Carols" last night 12/13 (the music starts at 4:18). <a href="https://boxcast.tv/view/advent-lessons--carols-484029?fbclid=IwAR3inATEX1PJx6AQybjPsGny1-zDsPVWxTSjHPL889vn3JRMcwcORxI5aqs" target="_blank">The event can be viewed here.</a></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Let me know what you think. (I'm the big one to the left.)<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://uploads.boxcast.com/weugvtc5ojaiqeexshge/2020-12/ajypkolbs6netqpgwprl/LessonsBoxcastPreRoll_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="800" height="237" src="https://uploads.boxcast.com/weugvtc5ojaiqeexshge/2020-12/ajypkolbs6netqpgwprl/LessonsBoxcastPreRoll_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /> </span><br /><p></p>Gutterball Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07950081663822774046noreply@blogger.com0