Curiosus Mentis

"It is a curious fact of history that the home of liberty, has always been found in the mountains. The rising words 'Make way for Liberty!' could never have been spoken if it were not for a mountain pass." -W.G. Steele

@MichaelTG09 Can't wait to see you in Mt.Angel

Made my first connecting flight. Next leg from Chicago to Denver. Finale destination is Eugene Oregon. I will meet with the newly formed Southern Oregon Chapter. Rosary and bonfire after the talk which sounds great to me.

@SandyofCthulhu I've heard the rumor. Every geologist has. It's completely bogus

There's a super neat totally unsubstantiated legend that when the Soviets dug the Kola mohole they abandoned it because when they lowered a microphone into the hole, it picked up screams and moans, and people pleading and cursing in a variety of languages. I have had no fewer than three Baptists tell me this story independently. So hey why not believe it since I can't actually confirm it one way or the other?

@MichaelTG09 Can't wait for you to come out West and hopefully meet you.

Imagine you and I go out to a field and in good fellowship and mutual love plant a tree. We dig and set that tree well and in doing so we stop, come to prayer and turn our wonder and love towards God… Then, in that moment we have made it. We have arrived. In doing good work with love for each other and God we have fulfilled our purpose. None of us know tomorrow, but the life we’ll live is carrying the traditions, and relationships that make those moments possible. May you live to know shade and taste the fruit from a tree you have planted, and God bless your work.

@pnwguerrilla It's pretty straightforward: the Gregorian calendar is far more accurate to the earths orbit. The orbit is what makes a year a year. A year on earth has nothing to do with the moon

Did you know??? Before the year 1582, We had 13 months instead of 12 in a year? Because the earth has 13 lunar cycles in a year. 13 months with 28 days each, and one day of rest. Pope Gregory introduced the “Gregorian calendar” and changed what WAS the new year (April first, today) and he had it named April fools day, because anyone who would not follow this new calendar is a fool. Many question the real reasons and purposes behind changing the calendar and our natural synchronization with the lunar cycle on earth.

I think this is the thrust of it all for me. I just very firmly believe that you don't turn your back on where you're from. If it's dying or blighted in some way, you try to fix it. Only after you've tried fixing it does leaving make sense. Even then, even if you do find that you've got to leave for elsewhere, always speak well of where you came from. I instinctively distrust those who heap scorn upon their own place of origin. And -- remember that it's all America. Includes tough ghettos in Chicago and Baltimore, trailer parks in WV and NE, little ghost towns in ND, depressed paper mill towns in Maine, Lower Manhattan, LA, Nantucket, whatever. From Sea to Shining Sea, I love it and defend all those who try to make it great. It's all America, and if you're a patriot you should naturally want to see every inch of this land thrive, and should naturally show respect to anyone who tries his damnedest to make his own home town or home state better. I remain deeply skeptical of those self-styled "patriots" who speak otherwise.

@GerardKapraun Marion Co.

Good Evening Oregon Lot's of Conservatives in our state. Let's get connected and organized. Fuck the town halls and speech makers. You. Me. We The People. Right here on X. Reply your county and repost. Let's make our presence felt. I'm The Optimistic Jerry from Douglas County.

@michaeljknowles Corporate wants you to find the difference between these two pictures

When it comes to the perpetual virginity of Mary, do you agree with the Catholic view or with the view of Protestant reformers Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, and John Wesley?

@shagbark_hick One word: boomers

The degree to which complete strangers are now surveiling each other is unreal. 4 days ago, it was 39f, no wind. We parked 250' from the door to the meat store. The walk took 45 seconds. Our baby was in (light pink) thick wool tights. This random lady whips her phone out, snaps a picture, and lambastes us publicly online. She had no idea we were only walking 250 feet, nor that we were only outside for 45 seconds. She clearly couldn't tell that the baby was in light-pink tights, nor that they were thick wool. And she didn't know that our baby SWEATS when she naps, takes her hat off, and literally coos with joy when she finally gets to cool off. So we figured a 45-second cool-down was totally harmless. This lady disagreed. These days, you are always being watched and graded on your *perceived* conduct by parochial social media vigilantes armed with cameras. It's like the paparazzi but for normal people. Who knows what could come of this kind of thing? How easy is it to be misinterpreted in public? There is no grace, no chill -- the judgements are instant and damning. This is very common. I don't really care what the woman thinks about us, but I do understand why some young people are nervous to have kids. If you have kids, you'll be watched on an extremely granular level when in public -- and there will be photographic evidence for even the smallest perceived misjudgement.

@shagbark_hick It's an objective matter of arithmetic that the Colorado does not have the water

I hear a lot of different things about water in the American Southwest. Some seem to say it's an apocalypse, everyone is going to die, it's gonna be Mad Max out there, etc. Others seem to laugh that off completely, ignore it, deny it, not worry at all. Who's right?

@CatholicCharm 4.69

How much is gas where you are? I filled up for $3.39 today in New Hampshire

@FoundationDads I just shut them down by saying I do in fact have a graduate degree and am fact a collegiate level instructor

"You aren't qualified to homeschool your children." "Interesting. I need a graduate degree to teach my child 3rd-grade math?" "No, but you need to understand how children learn, different learning styles, and teaching methods." "How about I just get to know my child, and how he learns will become apparent very quickly." "No. You're ignoring classroom management techniques." "...Not sure I need classroom management techniques for my living room." "But you need to be an expert in teaching to teach your children?" "Will that guarantee better outcomes?" "Absolutely not. In fact, in most places, outcomes are getting worse with every passing year." "Sooo...what's the point?" "The point is that I spent time and money on a degree and you can't just go and do things without my approval it's totally not fair."

“Bin.”

@alfkkifine Women

You will grow up your entire life thinking your Aunt Susan is pure evil, the sworn enemy of your household, a name you are never allowed to speak. Then you hit 25 years old and finally ask what happened, only to find out your mom hasn't spoken to her since 2001 because Susan said her potato salad was "just okay" at a barbecue. Whole generations of cousins are kept apart, completely isolated from each other, just because two women in their 30s refused to apologize over a side dish. The level of sustained, generational pettiness in family lore is unmatched. We are out here inheriting beef we don't even understand.

@LepantoInst Deeply embarrassing post

What this proves is that the highest point on earth was once under water. Genesis tells us that the flood waters covered the earth over the highest mountain peaks by 15 cubits.

@melodymlyons What you clearly don't realize is that this post perfectly embodies the female version of exactly the type of insufferable behavior you are complaining about

The toxic trad Catholic manosphere is infecting young men and it’s wicked. I’ll tell you what it looks like in real life: Trad aesthetic with all the lingo but no depth. Talks TLM, smokes a pipe, lies, manipulates, and pushes for sex very quickly. Then… When rebuffed, whines on the internet about how horrible women are. Trad aesthetic is quickly becoming a red flag. And it’s not because the young women are feminists. It’s because they are Christians with self-respect and a moral compass.

@oregonducksmama Shoot them

The reality of living in Sanctuary States like Oregon… Posted by Joe Gustafson on Facebook-👇🏻 🚨 Illegal Immigration in Oregon I debated whether or not to post this situation, but have decided the best case scenario FAR outweighs the worst case scenario. We have been working on some acreage in Marion county for a couple of months. The property was recently acquired, and known to have a problem with homeless drug users. The woman who owned it was very old and nearing the end of her life, a very common thing around here is for very old folks to own lots of property, but have no physical ability to care for or secure said property. This property was sold to my customer who hired us to solve problems and clean up. $30k in hazardous waste removal, which is still ongoing because they continue to trespass and bring in garbage. Arrests, citations, 5 sheriff visits, a $300 chain that was stolen, a brush hog that was stolen using a broken into excavator, a cellular camera that was stolen and has been with the homeless drug addict on the property since he stole it a couple of days ago. The police haven't been supported by the people or state and are stretched so thin they can't even respond to this. This is a group of about three males and one female. Illegal immigrants. They deal and use meth, steal from all of you, defecate just feet from their tents, or into buckets that they pour into the pudding river (which floats downstream to all of your children who play in the Molalla and Willamette), and leave drug paraphernalia all over the place for anyone to find, for animals to get a hold of, or anything else. One of these people thinks he's Jesus. He was arrested six times last year. His record goes back 22 years. Think about how many arrests that is, how much wasted money that is, how much wasted time that is. The sheriff's and other police are legally not allowed to call immigration because of stupid political reasons. The system is completely broken for people like this that nobody wants in the state. I can't begin the largest job that we've gotten, because I know the supplies and materials will be stolen or damaged immediately. I've worked so hard to build this business, build trust in the community, and do everything the right way. To run into a roadblock like this and see how the failed leadership of this state has literally protected the people that are ruining things for our citizens. Meanwhile the fake humanitarians have never been out there one time ever to outreach for these people. For one, it would make no difference. For two, these people have absolutely no real world experience of how these situations really are. We have only used compassion, patience, and caring to deal with this situation. I feel terrible for the sheriffs and deputies that have come out to help us numerous times, but have five officers on duty for 2,500 square miles! Sometimes it's hours before they can respond, and they can't spend hours coming the property, and they're not allowed to call the proper authorities who should be dealing with this. (Rest of his post in the comments. Ran out of space.)

@jdflynn Adam and Eve would be the obvious conclusion, as others have pointed out

I never really noticed before these two people at the very bottom of this mural at my parish. Trying to decide who they are. What do you think?

@TheresaArueyin1 This is a denial of the timelessness of Christ's sacrifice

Praying for someone's soul once they are dead is pointless. They either accepted Christ while breathing or they didn't. Last breath=last chance.

@FeserEdward @MattWalshBlog Someday Ed might get a real job

Here the Catholic @MattWalshBlog directly contradicts the teaching of the Church, as stated in this passage from the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church. Nor is this teaching some post-Vatican II novelty, but is deeply rooted in Scholastic natural law reasoning going back centuries. As the Church and natural law writers have long taught, the nation is an extension of the family, which is why the duty of patriotism is (as Aquinas taught) an extension of the obligation to honor one’s parents. Indeed, the teaching Matt here rejects is (as I have been arguing repeatedly over the last year) precisely why the Church herself acknowledges that a nation has a right to control its borders, and to consider the economic needs of its own citizens and the preservation of its own cultural heritage when deciding how many immigrants to take in and under what conditions. So, Matt’s position here would actually undermine the border control policies I assume he favors. In other ways too his position is incoherent. He says that “if you can defend your existence, then you can exist. If you can't, then eventually you won't exist,” implying that this somehow shows that a nation cannot be said to have a right to exist. But followed out consistently, this would imply that if left-wing immigration policies resulted in the erasure of (for example), the U.S. or of European countries, then those countries must never really have had a right to exist. I assume this is not a conclusion Matt would welcome. Furthermore, if inability to defend oneself entails the absence of a right to exist, then it would follow that individual human beings too who can’t defend themselves (such as the unborn) must not have a right to exist. I assume that that too is not a conclusion Matt would welcome. As with the comments of his I criticized a month or so ago, Matt here seems committed to a Hobbesian “war of all against all” conception of international relations that is diametrically opposed to the teaching of the Church and the teaching on these matters of the greatest Scholastic thinkers. It is pagan, not Christian.

@emzanotti @HallowApp Yeah so this isn't new hope that helps

What the heck @HallowApp