Coolness, light, and peace

I’m very sad. I always kind of hoped Id get to meet Zippy in person and somehow assist his quest against usury. I even registered a superpac, which I haven’t done anything with yet, to advocate against usury, and had copies of his Usury FAQ sent by Amazon to the Vatican c/o Pope Francis. I’m glad I was able to entice him to, once, comment here on my blog.

Zippy spent time generously in his blog comments lasering anti-realism that had taken root in my mind. I didn’t even know that I had substituted a concept in place of God. Because of Zippy I actually believe in God now and not a concept of God I had made up which I had been looking at most of my life. I’m very glad I knew him, online at least. I’ve been stressed with money, but life is so easily ended.

Zippy said once that he had resolved to never make any complaint before God for any injustice he had to suffer. I hope I will someday meet Zippy in Heaven. I guess, in honor of Zippy, I will go to Confession, then I’ll go to Mass on Sunday and pray for his soul.

God love you Zippy, rest in peace

I Am An Human

I had work yesterday so I had to get up early and I saw some kids at their bus stop, going to the kid version of industrial work. It struck me as absurd, school. My job is road construction which at this point is still nature based. There’s a road building season just like there’s a growing season and unless nature cooperates nothing gets done. Industrial jobs and the child sized version, school, are designed to conform with what machines prefer which is monotony and rigid scheduling. It’s taken a long time for my mind to start to break out of that mold. I remember when I first graduated from high school thinking it was strange driving around town during the school day. Everything we do now is inhuman. It’s like Jeff Bezos talking about how the human race is constantly improving and meanwhile he has his employees wearing tracking bracelets to make them function at work more like machines (monotony and rigid scheduling). They started peeing in bottles to save time which is very machine-like. I don’t really think that can be considered progress even if it does increase wealth and prosperity.

With similar inhumanity, Mark Shea thinks the only cure for feminism is more feminism. It’s weird when pro-choice people think the way to deal with abortion is to destroy the family, using tax revenue from Bezos-style inhumane systems to fund a social structure of single-motherhood. I guess that’s why he’s also so interested in protecting homosexuality. And in attacking normal men as bloodthirsty freaks for, among other things, thinking that killing babies should be a punishable offense or at least should not be proactively incentivized with grants and programs.

Is the natural family the cell of Church and Civilization or not? That was once the Catholic position. JPII though spent a lot of time working to negate part of that equation by eviscerating the rights and role of the husband/father in the family. I wonder if that might have something to do with the current crisis among fathers in the clergy/Church. I really don’t think that government and philanthropists and savvy industrialists, with the help of Mark Shea types, creating a society of single-mothers and bastards whose daddy is Big Brother and are destined for tracking bracelets and scheduled reporting to bureaucrats in the welfare office, qualifies as reasonable or human or Catholic.

The Lavender Launderer

Mark Shea is again doing all he can to protect a certain class of sexual deviant in the Church. Not pedophiles, though everything he says about celibate homos could also be said about celibate pedos, so he must logically support not blaming pedophiles and not trying to eject them from the priesthood either as long as they promise to remain celibate. Even more so since the large majority of the abuse was committed by homos not pedos. He has scaled way back on his (expressed) hatred of normal white hetero working class men but has amped up his enthusiasm for one certain intrinsically disordered sexual preference, one which represents 80%+ of perpetrators (Shea uses the fraction 4/5 instead of 80% like everyone else because it feels smaller and that helps protect homosexuals) who were protected by bishops like McCarrick and John Paul II. Maybe the lavender mafia pays his Internet bill or something.

Edward Feser takes a walk

and ably explains the situation. I don’t really think the change will do much damage over what is already done, though.

The only way Pope Francis will get away with the recent break from tradition on the death penalty is that barely anybody cares anymore. The salt has lost its savor It’s been replaced by empty, silly sentimentality, same as Hollywood virtue signaling, paired with sexual abuse like bad wine or one of those puke flavored jelly beans. People who try to defend it just end up looking silly. It’s like an intellectual version of the imfamous “clown masses” I’ve heard about. Even people who sincerely want to respect the mass in clown clothes end up looking totally undignified. It’s the same deal with recent Church architecture. Why are Christians intent on making themselves ridiculous?

Reversal!

Mark Shea:
“I expect most of the defiance will continue on in the traditional vein of using the unborn as human shields with the old ‘abortion is intrinsically immoral but the death penalty isn’t and besides the pope has not defined this dogmatically’ blah blah.”

Mark Shea one day later:
“Feser is torturing the pope’s reasoning to trying to make him claim the death penalty is intrinsically contrary to natural law. He *need* to make the pope say that so he can claim he is contradicting the Tradition. But the pope does not say that. He simply says it is not admissible.” Blah blah.

to find a reason to believe

Mark Shea looks to me to be pulling a fast one on behalf of Pope Francis. Instead of talking about development of the doctrine at hand, which is death penalty, he goes into a long post about the development of some unstated doctrine of man’s dignity or something. He weirdly claims that reversing the death penalty doctrine isn’t a reversal because it’s a development on dignity. That’s not a legitimate development. In two years Shea might be making the same claim with regard to marriage: “Allowing gay marriage isn’t a reversal of Church teaching on marriage, but a development of the Church’s understanding of the dignity of man with regard to his relationships.” Or “Allowing contractive use isn’t a reversal, but a development of the dignity of man (and woman) with regard to compassion toward people in suffering.” You can do it with anything. Especially when even the pope hides behind amorphous sayings like “there is an increasing awareness” that xyz or “a new understanding has emerged”(from somewhere) that xyz. But why should anyone believe Pope Francis if Pope Benedict (and every other pope) were wrong?

LOL

In the annals of clueless irony, we have Mark Shea, who is guilty of basically everything he accuses Trump of in this post, including “accusation is confession.” But more importantly of Trump supporters who, going by Shea’s blog, are not even human but disgusting monsters and serial murderers. And, again, he’s talking about average construction workers and truck drivers and so forth. Mainly because they like guns and support conservative gun laws and think abortion shouldn’t be allowed. Though he absolutely adores single mothers and homosexuals when it comes to orienting society for their benefit. You can tell by the sloppy tenderness of his interactions with them in his combox. He absolutely hates old-fashioned fathers, who voted for Trump or were and are happy that Trump was elected, which is why he never mentions them in his pro-choice screeds about what it means to be “prolife.”

Anyway, he pretty clearly feels Trump is at the end of his rope. It will be amazing and very amusing to observe his meltdown if Trump comes through again. Which, if history is any guide, he will. Here’s to Trump. And even if he doesn’t, it was quite a ride and was really only the beginning. What if there is an enormous backlash and someone like Alexandra ocasio cortes gets elected. Or what if they run Hitlery again and she loses again. Imagine!