@FeserEdward Basic logic has not been taught to children for many years and have grown up to be the adults in the room with nothing to build on but an emotional choice.
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Michael Merimee
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Michael Merimee
@MichaelMerimee
Building Pipelines & Pondering the Divine. Catholic father chasing beauty in my work (DevOps engineer) history, poetry, and liturgy
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It’s astounding how many people (including many Catholics) treat the question of whether the Iran war meets just war criteria as if the burden of proof were on the critics of the war rather than on the defenders. This is like saying that when deciding whether to execute someone, the burden of proof is on those who say that the condemned man is innocent, rather than on those who say he is guilty. Most would never take this insanely reckless attitude if the other party were in power, even if the issue were less momentous than war. For example, most of these same people (rightly) did not take this ridiculous “the burden of proof is on the critics” attitude where lockdowns were concerned. This alone shows how corrupted by partisanship and emotion their judgment on the war has become.
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Enemy: The Germans' War, pt. 2 - The Work of the Men
As the starving, exhausted people of Germany process their defeat in the Great War, they face a new enemy more terrible than any they faced in the trenches. (Link below)
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@Deaf__Smith @buckrebel @martyrmade @scotthortonshow @DissidentMedia I always suspected, I just couldn't figure out if he was Orthodox or tlm Catholic. It was a great show last night and I'm looking forward to the counterflow conversation.
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@buckrebel @martyrmade @scotthortonshow @DissidentMedia Good show! Excellent work adjusting to the last minute shift. Cool you finally got it out of him that he's orthodox. We all knew, but its good to hear.
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I’ll be joining @martyrmade and @scotthortonshow at 7pm CST on their livestream for Provoked 🫡
I’m honored, to say the least. @DissidentMedia
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WAR
Eye for an eye
While both sides lie,
Blood on the field
Where both sides die.
War on the mind
While rich men grind,
Hands of the poor
In the chains they bind.
Greed in the heart
Of those who start,
Calls for the young
To play their part.
War in the throats
of the bleating goats,
sung from their pride
and the siren notes.
"Enemy Enemy"
Both sides cry,
While noble men
For nothing die.
"Come to our side"
the war man lies
"We fight for your good
and the poor man rights."
Blood on the hands
of waring clans,
Peace in the heart
Of a common man,
Death takes his son
And the father breaks,
Hate fills his heart
As revenge bakes.
"Join us join us"
The recruiter calls,
And the father turns
To the blood stained halls.
Through the town
The soldiers tear,
The father finds
A Family scared.
He takes his knife
And hate he slakes,
A son is dead
Revenge is fed.
He rapes the mother
While her child looks on,
"Blood for blood"
Will become his song.
This child grows up
Till a son he kills,
A mother he rapes
And the pit he fills.
Inside that pit
A demon waits,
Is slaked until
He wants for hate.
He'll kill this child
But bids his time,
Drinking of blood
And boiling the brine.
The father and child
Will someday fall,
Will someday come
To hells hall.
There they wait
The demons of hate,
Born in the heart
Of men they create.
So round we go
All over the earth,
War is the sound
Of broken man's mirth.
For land and a grand
The soul is sold,
The knife is fed
With the innocent dead.
All the while
On Golgotha hill,
God looks down
With thorny crown.
"Forgive them father"
He prays again,
As a child of ten
Kills his friend.
"Why have you"
Goes the refrain,
"Abandoned us"
In scouring pain.
No land is worth
The price you pay,
When a slave to death
Your children stay.
Eye for an eye
While both sides cry,
Death in the field
Where both sides lie
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never forget what you’re fighting for
Acyn@Acyn
Trump: The lives of American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties — that often happens in war.
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It is typical of our time that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy the more certain we are about the value of education. That is, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to children.
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I am the director of a department. I am not going to divulge more than that. I don't want you leftists coming after me or my family.
You know FERPA exists, right? I can't pull you our placement data without a justifiable educational reason for it.
@grok, give this guy data that shows homeschooled kids score better on placement exams than public school kids.
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@AuronMacintyre They can't, they are enslaved by worship of the 'free market'. Can't do anything to hurt international trade even if it means in the long run the destruction of your country and people. But what do they care. They only think of themselves and not their descendants.
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The fact that, even under the Trump admin, we have not banned all Chinese immigration lets you know that our political class hates the country and will sell us out without hesitation
It’s treasonous
Bloomberg@business
Looking to reduce China’s reliance on Western aviation technologies, Beijing had spies spend years accumulating knowledge about the industry’s secrets bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Dr. John Bergsma—one of the great Catholic converts biblical theologians of our day—has a son with deadly brain cancer. The medical expenses have become overwhelming, exceeding what is covered by insurance.
Please support them in their hour of need.
gofundme.com/f/support-fran…
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It is clear why many Church Fathers and Saints throughout the ages have said Antichrist will be welcomed not only by the Jews (at least initially), but by a throng of heretics.
As a Catholic, we must stand for the truth as preserved in the Church for 2,000 years.
To the Jews, whose eternal salvation we desire: turn to Christ. The Messiah came (Messiah Ben Joseph). The Messiah will come back (Messiah Ben David). After He came, the demonic oracles were silenced. The Gentiles abandoned the paganism and idol worship of their ancestors and turned in droves to the God of Israel (Jesus called this the “sign of Jonah”). Egypt—that ancient lair of demons that enslaved you—turned from its demon worship, and this not after Abraham or Moses sojourned there, but only after Christ appeared in the world. For 2,000 years, the priesthood, temple, and altar that God removed from among you—which He prophesied would take place—has been maintained in the Catholic Church, where the one sacrifice of Christ in the Holy Eucharist is offered on Catholic altars throughout the world. 40 years before the destruction of the Temple (AD 30)—when Christ was crucified—your own Talmud reports that the scapegoat sacrifice of Yom Kippur was no longer accepted by God (Yoma 39b). Many more have come to the worship of the God of Israel through the Church over the last 2,000 years than ever came before. The Church is the Home of the religion of ancient Israel, now fulfilled and completed in the New Covenant, and extended to Jew and Gentile on equal terms. It is the Home of the “prophet” who Moses commanded you to follow, whose prophecies—particularly of the destruction of the Temple—came true (Deut. 18:15-22). The Church is therefore your Home, and we will rejoice as never before when you return to this Home to which you were the first to be invited, an invitation a remnant of your brethren accepted, and in doing so became its foundation (i.e. the Apostles).
To evangelicals who believe such things, with whom we share the bond of Holy Baptism: repent of your heresies, discover the truth of the Christian Faith as passed down by millennia of your Catholic ancestors (including countless martyrs). Return to the one and only Church founded by Christ, which amidst all the trials and storms of the last 2,000 years (including the sins of its own members) has exhibited precisely that continuity and permanence which you have entirely lacked: the Catholic Church. Your religion is not the religion of your ancestors, or anything close to it. It is not the religion of the Bible or the Apostles, but a recent invention built on the traditions of men—ephemeral, discordant, and protean in all its ways. As a former evangelical who is extraordinarily grateful for many of the gifts I received as an evangelical, I thank God for revealing this disturbing but medicinal truth to me, particularly through the testimony of our ancient Christian ancestors. I urge you to repent, before you too are overtaken by the lies of Antichrist. Perhaps that False Messiah will be interviewed by the Jerusalem Post. But when the real Messiah appears, you can be assured no one will have to view the Jerusalem Post to see Him.
AF Post@AFpost
“Christian” Zionist Robert Stearns apologizes to Jews at Jerusalem Post conference for 2,000 years of “Christian history” hurting Jewish people. He says it's “irrelevant” if Jesus was the Messiah and claims to be part of a new Christian group “serving Zion.” Follow: @AFpost
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I find X is unfortunately often the antithesis of St. Paul's great advice in Philippians.
"And now, brethren, all that rings true, all that commands reverence, and all that makes for right; all that is pure, all that is lovely, all that is gracious in the telling; virtue and merit, wherever virtue and merit are found—let this be the argument of your thoughts.
The lessons I taught you, the traditions I handed on to you, all you have heard and seen of my way of living—let this be your rule of conduct. Then the God of peace will be with you."
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I've just re-read the Didache -- in Greek and in a very good English translation -- and man, is that work powerful. It is steeped in the gospels, and it marks out with severe yet cheerful clarity the stark difference between the way of Christ and the way of the world. There is no middle term, no compromise.
C. S. Lewis understood the same, which he sets forth with a similar clarity in The Great Divorce. You can't have a little bit of hell in heaven. For people want hell: they choose it. If you don't believe that, all you need to do is to scroll through the posts here on X, and find people delighting in thinking the worst of their fellow men, fault-finding everywhere but in themselves, rejoicing when there is cause to attack an enemy, engaging in slander and detraction, laughing at virtue -- the usual stuff for man when he doesn't have to look his enemy in the eye, and when he's not in the habit of examining his own conscience.
Whose sins are the worst in the world? For each of us, the answer in the first instance is, "Mine are." And it is true, too. That is what Father Zossima teaches. That is essentially what Raskolnikov accepts at the end of his self-delusion. It is what that most cheerful of saints, Philip Neri, instilled in his followers. It is what Father Cristoforo, in I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed), believes, and lives -- and he gets my nod for the most powerful and radiant and TRUE portrait of a priest in the history of literature. When you work on your OWN sins, you find you have a lot less time to get all uppity about this or that other person's.
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I keep seeing this verse posted as some sort of gotcha. It's complete ignorance of scripture. The covenant was taken from them and the eternal covenant in Christ blood was given to others who would produce the fruit of the vineyard at the appropriate time.
His apostles and their successors replaced the Pharisees as the teaching authority on Earth.
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It’s not “Old Testament Judaism”
The Old Testament was Christianity
Christianity is the fulfillment of the Old Testament
The same way Protestantism is a splinter of Catholicism, “Rabbinical Judaism” is a splinter of Christianity
chunguskitten@chunguskitten
Rabbinic Judaism, the main form of Judaism today, emerged in the aftermath of the destruction of the temple in AD 70, as foretold by Jesus It is rooted in the teachings of the Pharisees who He called: serpents, hypocrites and children of hell A newer faith than Christianity ⚠️
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@InThePaint100 @chunguskitten And the seat of Moses was taken from them and given to others who would produce fruit. He makes that quite clear over and over again. When he said that he had not died and risen and established his apostles as the new teaching authority upon Earth.
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Rabbinic Judaism, the main form of Judaism today, emerged in the aftermath of the destruction of the temple in AD 70, as foretold by Jesus
It is rooted in the teachings of the Pharisees who He called: serpents, hypocrites and children of hell
A newer faith than Christianity ⚠️
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Tonight we party for Tomorrow is War!
I have the best team battling non-stop to Save Ohio. They need YOUR support!
Links below!
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@LakiusMaximus @WesternLensman They're doing his dirty work by supporting all his immoral efforts so I suppose they already are.
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@WesternLensman This is funny. They’d defend Satan if he took over the earth.
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CNN reporter sets up shot of herself on the phone, hard at work investigating….not the fraud…but Nick Shirley and his claims.
"We reached out to several of the daycares featured in the now viral video. Only one daycare facility answered."
This is how CNN is devoting its resources.
Cringe attempts to discredit the non-corporate-media-approved reporter.
If it wasn’t so entirely pathetic, it would be hysterical.
Actually, it still is.
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Wow. Vivek Ramaswamy just REFUSED to commit to ending H1B visas that are replacing American workers. Instead he says Americans need to be more "educated."
The Constitutionalist 🇺🇸@WeWillBeFree24
Ohio is Minnesota, and worse. Vivek knows this. Tweeting his normal diversionary tactics, after not addressing the mass migration ONCE publicly while visiting all 88 Ohio counties. Here is him slipping the H1B and migrant question in Cincinnati this fall, and blaming uneducated Americans.
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Pope Leo, in just 8 months of pontificate, has recovered 17 small traditions that had been abandoned by Francis:
1. Leo XIV celebrates Mass, and he does so devoutly, making it clear that he believes in what he celebrates.
2. He not only celebrates it, but he sings it, and in Latin.
3. He uses beautiful vestments, far removed from the costly pauperism of the Franciscan style.
4. He wears a dalmatic under the chasuble, as the ritual prescribes.
5. The cross and the seven historic candelabra have returned to the Altar of the Confessio. For now, placed obliquely, but I presume they will soon occupy the center of the altar.
6. The "midnight Mass" has returned to being celebrated at 10 p.m., as in recent decades, and no longer at 7 p.m., the absurd Bergoglian hour that stripped all meaning from the celebration.
7. The tradition of publicly celebrating the Mass of the day (of Christmas) has been resumed, which had been lost in 1993 (Did he also celebrate the Mass of Dawn privately?).
8. The four assisting deacons of the pontiff have returned.
9. The Pope uses a cassock made of a dignified fabric—not transparent like Bergoglio's—and with sleeves.
10. He has returned to using the sash with the pontifical coat of arms embroidered on it.
11. He uses the choir habit when required: surplice, red mozzetta, and red stole embroidered with his coat of arms.
12. This week, the red velvet and gilded wood throne, with the pontifical coats of arms, reappeared, both in the Clementine Hall and in the loggia of St. Peter's.
13. He uses Castel Gandolfo weekly to rest and do sports.
14. He attends the musical concerts given in his honor.
15. At the beginning of next year, he will move to live in the Apostolic Palace.
16. He parked Francis's white Fiat 500 on some pontifical block and uses a car befitting his rank.
17. Ignoring the provisions of his predecessor, he graciously grants the title of "Chaplain of His Holiness" to priests whom he wishes to particularly distinguish.
Some will stupidly say that it is an "assault on intelligence" to focus on those changes. Others will say that these are merely cosmetic changes, and they are right. But the fact is that traditions (with a lowercase "t") are always cosmetic, but that does not mean they lack importance. In fact, it is they that reveal truths and mysteries, just as accidents reveal the substance. If we remove many of an elephant's accidents (trunk, tusks, ears), it will no longer be recognized as the pachyderm it is. It would not be serious to omit some of the "superficial" details we have listed; the problem is that if they are all removed, the Catholic truth of the Roman pontificate is obscured.
Caminante Wanderer@CaminaWanderer
El Papa León, en sólo 8 meses de pontificado, ha recuperado 17 pequeñas tradiciones que habían sido abandonadas por Francisco: 1. León XIV celebra la misa, lo hace devotamente y resulta claro que cree en lo que celebra. 2. No sólo la celebra, sino que la canta, y en latín. 3. Utiliza ornamentos bellos, muy alejados del costoso pobrismo francisquista. 4. Viste dalmática debajo de la casulla, como dispone el ritual. 5. Volvieron al Altar de la Confesión la cruz y los siete candelabros históricos. Por ahora, puestos en oblicuo, pero presumo que pronto ocuparán el centro del altar. 6. La «misa de medianoche» volvió a celebrarse a las 22 hs., como en las últimas décadas, y ya no a las 19, la absurda hora bergogliana que quitaba todo sentido a la celebración. 7. Se retomó la tradición de celebrar públicamente la misa del día (de Navidad), que se había perdido en 1993 (¿Habrá celebrado en forma privada también la misa de la aurora?). 8. Volvieron los cuatro diáconos asistentes del pontífice. 9. El Papa utiliza sotana de un tejido digno -no transparente como Bergoglio- y con sobre mangas. 10. Volvió a utilizar la faja con el escudo pontificio bordado en ella. 11. Utiliza cuando es requerido el hábito coral: roquete, muceta roja y estolón rojo bordado con su escudo de armas. 12. Esta semana volvió a aparecer el trono de terciopelo rojo y madera dorada, con los escudos pontificios, tanto en la Sala Clementina como en la loggiade San Pedro. 13. Utiliza semanalmente la villa de Castelgandolfo para descansar y hacer deportes. 14. Asiste a los concierto musicales que se dan en honor. 15. A comienzo del próximo año se trasladará a vivir al Palacio Apostólico. 16. Estacióno el Fiat 500 blanco de Francisco en alguna cuadra pontificia, y utiliza un automóvil acorde a su rango. 17. Haciendo caso omiso a las disposiciones de su antecesor, otorga graciosamente el título de «Capellán de Su Santidad» a sacerdotes a los que quiere distinguir particularmente. Algunos dirán estúpidamente que es un «atentado a la inteligencia» fijarse en esos cambios. Otros dirán que se trata solamente de cambios cosméticos, y éstos tienen razón. Pero lo que ocurre es que las tradiciones (con «t» minúscula») son siempre cosméticas, pero no significa que no tengan importancia. De hecho, son ellas las que revelan verdadades y misterios, así como los accidentes revelan a la sustancia. Si a un elefante le quitamos muchos de sus accidentes (trompa, colmillos, orejas), ya no se lo reconocerá como el paquidermo que es. No sería grave que se omitan algunos de los detalles «superficiales» que hemos enumerado; el problema es que si se quitan todos, se oscurece la verdad católica del pontificao romano.
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On the eve of execution, the condemned of Revolutionary France were often given paper, ink, and a few hours to say goodbye. No speeches were allowed. No appeals were heard. The blade would fall whether the words were written or not. And so bakers, seamstresses, priests, clerks, soldiers, and widows—people who had never imagined themselves part of history—sat in cold cells and tried to compress a lifetime into a page. Many began the same way: My dear wife, My beloved children, Forgive me. The Revolution that had promised liberty and equality now granted its final mercy only in ink.
I’ve read hundreds of these letters. What makes them so unsettling is how ordinary they are. There is no grand political philosophy, no defiant rhetoric. A father worries about debts and winter coats. A mother apologizes for leaving her children without guidance. A young woman asks that her hair be given to her sister.
One such woman was a Parisian seamstress in her early thirties, arrested after a neighbor denounced her for “lukewarm patriotism.” I don’t know why, but her case struck a chord with me. Her crime appeared to amount to little more than having regularly attended Mass and failing to denounce her brother quickly enough. The night before her execution, she wrote to her sister asking that her scissors be given to their youngest niece and that their mother be told she had died calmly.
Again and again, the writers insist on their innocence—not always of crimes, but of hatred. “I die without bitterness,” one wrote, “and I forgive those who send me to death.” The language is plain, domestic, and heartbreakingly human. The Terror did not slay monsters; but it did produce victims who sounded like us.
Many of the condemned had supported the Revolution at first. Some had cheered the fall of the Bastille. Others had denounced aristocrats, signed petitions, worn the cockade. But revolutions devour loyalty as easily as opposition. A careless remark, a past friendship, a failure to applaud loudly enough could be fatal. In the machinery of suspicion, innocence was not a defense—it was often a liability. As one prisoner wrote, “I do not know what crime I have committed, but I know I am to die for it.”
On execution mornings, carts rolled through Paris streets lined with spectators who had grown accustomed to death as public ritual. The letters were folded, sealed, and handed to jailers or priests, some of whom risked punishment to deliver them. Many never arrived. Others survived by chance, preserved in family trunks or police archives—small scraps of paper that outlived the so-called Republic of Virtue. The guillotine was efficient; memory was not meant to be.
These final letters endure because they expose the lie at the heart of revolutionary extremism: that abstract ideals can replace human bonds without cost. When politics demands total purity, ordinary life becomes treason. In the end, the French Revolution did not silence its victims with the blade alone. It silenced them by convincing enough of the nation that the individual did not matter. History’s task is to read their letters anyway.
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@TAmTrib @Will_Tanner_1 The pendulum must swing back to the rule of one. The rule of many has quickly deteriorated into the rule of the few who are corrupt and have no care for the common good. I'm not sure who but someone with a strong will must cut through the Gordian Knot that we live in now.
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If a foreign-born judge who remains a foreign citizen can overrule the President of the United States, then what's the point?
As Bukele noted, the judicial coup must first be ended and the judges who back it destroyed if the country is to be saved
C3@C_3C_3
A foreign born Judge just overruled the President of the United States. Insane.
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