tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87298408002011607302024-03-12T19:35:19.906-07:00Outside The AsylumI'm Outside the Autistic Asylum!<br><a href="https://outsidetheautisticasylum.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss">RSS Feed link</a> <br>The crazy stuff I can't post anyplace else<br>
<a href="https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Wonko_the_Sane">Introduction to Wonko the Sane and Outside the Asylum, which this blog is named after.</a>Theodore M. Seeberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315945417122366201noreply@blogger.comBlogger1144125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8729840800201160730.post-86609255204490125772023-08-06T18:56:00.001-07:002023-08-06T18:56:23.974-07:00prayer request<p>I received a request for prayers for Isaiah a 3-year-old child who has been having some extremely serious medical issues since July 11th focusing on a fever of unknown origin. Please pray for the doctors to have the wisdom to know how to care for him, and also keep his family in your prayers.</p><p>Thanks. </p><p>Deacon Bill</p>Theodore M. Seeberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315945417122366201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8729840800201160730.post-50283621743665124792023-07-13T09:19:00.000-07:002023-07-13T09:19:01.396-07:00From my pastor, on Catholic Schools<p>From Fr. Don, in the bulletin for St. Clare's Church in Portland, OR. <a href="https://archdpdx.org/gender"> The Archdiocese is being attacked in the media for the information in this link.</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>I want to re-emphasize what I wrote about last week:
the recent media articles about Catholic schools. I was
personally at the meeting with the archbishop that got
all this media storm started and I don’t expect any
changes here at St. Clare School. In spite of what the
media is trying to imply, the bishop is NOT asking us
to go to a “classical education” model, nor is he asking
us to make changes in our gender policy: we have
always treated a person in a girl’s body as a girl and
a person in a boy’s body as a boy. That’s not new
and I don’t think it’s radical. St. Clare School is an
outstanding school that loves and supports every
student and we will continue our long-standing
tradition of nurturing the spiritual and educational
development of the whole child.</p>Theodore M. Seeberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315945417122366201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8729840800201160730.post-37353327366404796772023-07-13T08:16:00.001-07:002023-07-13T08:16:24.102-07:00How to win, politically<p> This post was originally written about the Presidential race in the United States, but it could easily be adapted in many of its planks to fighting back against the pornocracy at any level of government.</p><p>These are the party planks I want to see in a primary from *any* primary race. You can easily tailor them to the jurisdiction you are running in.</p><p>- Be pro-life to the point of supporting unwed mothers and heterosexual marriage for parents of children between conception and age 21. </p><p>- Eliminate bigotry against the unwanted and disabled in the forms of euthanasia, abortion, and transgender mutilation</p><p>- Fund marital counseling services to reduce and eliminate divorce. </p><p>- Bring us a *workable* plan to start rolling back the Imperialistic financial aid and armed forces from the United States that the pornocracy has been using to push homosexuality, abortion, and birth control on the third world.</p><p>- God's Children are Not for Sale; repurpose those troops to freeing illegal slaves here in the United States and around the world. End sex and labor trafficking with strong borders to interrupt the $150 Billion worldwide slave trade.</p><p>- Clean up the entertainment industry. Strongly prosecute any and all producers or directors who use their position for the sexual abuse of women and men.</p><p>- End the free trade system that encourages 3rd world slave conditions in factories; use technology to manufacture goods as close to consumers as possible even when slavery would be more efficient.</p><p>- Tax retailers that sell slave origin goods to pay for it, this includes entertainment properties that profit off of soft porn created by abusive directors and producers.</p><p>- Return the rights of life, free speech, and the pursuit of happiness to the American lower classes, regardless of color of skin</p><p>- Make it entirely illegal to discriminate based on color of skin for anybody.</p><p>The only third party I see that could accomplish this, is the American Solidarity Party. But if just ONE Democrat, and just ONE Republican, stood up to run in their respective primaries with eliminating the Pornocrats from their party platforms, 2024 would become a much different race.</p>Theodore M. Seeberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315945417122366201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8729840800201160730.post-32342447030702695162023-07-01T03:41:00.001-07:002023-07-01T03:41:01.908-07:00What is Love?<div>Aging hippies claim that the reason the sexual revolution happened was because love got replaced in American culture with righteousness.</div><div><br></div><div>I disagree. Love is an essential part of righteousness, and does not exist in the sexual revolution.</div><div><br></div><div>Let us begin with "what is Love?" For the righteous man, there can be only one answer: love is willing what is BEST for other people.</div><div><br></div><div>Thus sexual orientation, when not oriented to procreation, can never be love, but rather, abuse. Including heterosexual birth control and divorce, of course.</div><div><br></div><div>Abuse is not love.</div><div><br></div><div>This is not a reason to hate, it is a reason to mourn- mourn the loss of reason, the loss of the ideal agape love, that wills what is best for the other.</div><div><br></div><div>And thus mourn the loss of righteousness itself, in favor of something far less.</div>Theodore M. Seeberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315945417122366201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8729840800201160730.post-71146268829407048522023-06-05T07:09:00.000-07:002023-06-05T07:09:08.343-07:00Called to Defend Our Faith<p> As we were cooking the Knights of Columbus Breakfast at St. Clare's in Portland on June 4th, our pancake flipper Scott Young brought up the Dodgers controversy for First Deadly Sin Month, and I was surprised to hear that many of the men there were unaware of the problem.<br /><br />On Friday, the Wall Street Journal published a few opinion pieces about this blatant anti-Catholic group being honored by Major League Baseball. I must admit, I've been a bit cowardly myself about defending the faith on this topic, as I work for a corporation that is very vocal about First Deadly Sin Month- and rather anti-Catholic about it.<br /><br />However, there comes a time when as Catholic Knights, we must draw a line in the sand, and this is sufficiently non-partisan, even if some elements on both sides want to make it partisan, that I think we need to stand together as brothers, to stand up and just say NO.<br /><br />Here is the EWTN interview with the author of one of those opinion pieces published in the Wall Street Journal, that shows why I say it is not a partisan issue.<br /><br /><br /></p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="215" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cZiaMOJRSgM" title="YouTube video player" width="360"></iframe><br /><br />Should you choose to act, I urge you to <a href="https://lp.catholicvote.org/dodgers-petition/">sign Catholic Vote's petition at this link</a> and join people such as Archbishop Sample in the boycott of the Dodgers.<div><br /></div><div>Ted Seeber</div>Theodore M. Seeberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315945417122366201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8729840800201160730.post-75006124779588624612023-06-01T08:43:00.004-07:002023-06-01T08:43:43.773-07:00It's been a long time, and it's going to be longer<p> I think I'm almost done with my personal blog for a while.<br /><br />I'm certainly almost done with pride month.<br /><br />This is what I'm posting on any social media post that promotes the First Deadly Sin.<br /><br />https://theridgewoodblog.net/the-meaning-of-pride/ <br /><br />And with that, I'm snoozing you for 30 days. See you in July when you have recovered from insanity. </p><p>Including myself. Pride is evil. Time for Fidelity and Humility instead.</p>Theodore M. Seeberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315945417122366201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8729840800201160730.post-9433519100635646082023-03-18T08:27:00.001-07:002023-03-18T08:27:27.546-07:00Daring to imagine the Salvation of HereticsTwo recent articles. <a href="https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2023/02/imagining-a-heretical-cardinal" target="_blank">Imagineing a Heretic Cardinal</a> and <a href="https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2023/03/18/imagining-a-heretical-president/" target="_blank">Imagining a Heretic President</a>, dare to take a canon law view of excommunication- and why a Catholic cannot, should never, teach against the church on matters of faith and morals, particularily sins against the fourth, fifth, and sixth commandments.<BR><BR>But as much as American heterodox Catholics like to break the fourth, fifth, and sixth commandment, often in ruin and distruction not just for themselves but for their families out to the 7th generation; this is NOT the unforgiveable sin you are looking for. The whole intent of excommunication is as a teaching tool- to inspire conversion back to the true faith. <br><br>Even heretics deserve salvation; all are called to be Catholic in deed in Heaven, the only question is, are you willing to give up your favorite sins to answer the call?Theodore M. Seeberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315945417122366201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8729840800201160730.post-74669853202903260602023-02-28T08:32:00.001-08:002023-02-28T08:32:34.919-08:00The final word on the mistakes made during the Pandemic<p> With Apologies to <a href="https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/apparently-were-the-bad-guys">Heather Heyring.</a><br /><br /></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Do you dare to share? Here's a list of pandemic related conspiracy theories that turned out to be predictions that were true. Did you cancel somebody from your family over one or more of them? Perhaps it is time to apologize and create a new bridge. Rest of post is from Heather Heying, with a couple of links to her content.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Consider these ideas, and who knows what could happen.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Early in the pandemic we thought that masks were broadly effective. We were wrong. First, we <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>spoke about the importance of masks, and as new evidence came in, our position changed. We spoke about that, too.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">We also thought that short, early, and strong lockdowns had a chance of stopping the spread of SARS-CoV2. We were wrong about that. I don’t think lockdowns could have worked, in part because I don’t think sufficient worldwide compliance was possible to stop the spread. And as much as I am disappointed to have landed here: I no longer trust my government to borrow any of my freedoms.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Even when physical distancing made sense to slow the spread of disease, social distancing never did. Social distancing tore families apart. People died alone. Children and teenagers lost their way; some of them lost their lives. We became inhumane to one another.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Wearing masks outside was never a good idea (we understood this even when we still thought that being masked indoors in public spaces was protective).</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Keeping people inside was a huge error. Closing parks and beaches, forests and playgrounds, was a mistake. Everyone should have been getting outside as much as possible, moving their bodies with enthusiasm and abandon, breathing in the air, letting the sun shine down upon their bare skin.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Vitamin D deficiency was a risk factor for Covid, and getting your D—best if you can do so by letting the sun be on your skin, so that you can make it yourself, but acceptable to get it through supplements—was a very good prophylactic measure, not just against Covid, but against other common illnesses, too.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Having dark skin is a risk factor for Covid, because dark-skinned people are not as efficient at making vitamin D as are light-skinned people. We were of the opinion that talking about this was the opposite of racist.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Speaking of not racist: We also thought that talking about the likely lab origins of SARS-CoV2 was the opposite of racist, as the alternative was blaming the weird habits of exotic Chinese people who buy food at—gasp—outdoor markets. Perhaps my favorite moment in this nuttiness was when Peter Daszak, President of the ironically-named EcoHealth Alliance, blamed the pandemic on the supposed predilection of Chinese people for frozen ferret badger steaks (covered in DarkHorse livestream #67).</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Obesity is a comorbidity for Covid, a fact that an intact public health system would have publicized. Instead, the press claimed that mentioning this fact was “fat-shaming,” and mostly succeeded in shutting down the discussion.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">There was a lot that you could do to keep yourself healthy as this novel coronavirus scoured the Earth. Eat high quality fat and protein. Restrict your consumption of sugar. Drink the nectar of the gods (honey stirred into hot water, before adding the freshly squeezed juice of a lemon). Enjoy onions in abundance. Use a neti pot for nasal irrigation. Supplement with D and C and Zinc and Magnesium if your levels are low, especially during the Winter.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Understanding the origin of SARS-CoV2 is important. This is partly because if it did emerge from gain-of-function research in a lab, we need to have a conversation about why that research continues. But it is also important because the artificial selection that the virus would have gone through in the lab could be used to understand how it would behave in the wild. Many argued that where the virus came from was unimportant, but that argument demonstrates a failure to understand evolution. That’s okay. Most people don’t understand evolution. But the people who don’t understand evolution should not be shutting down the voices of people who do, especially when a quickly evolving pathogen is destroying lives and societies.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Mass vaccinating a population during a pandemic was likely to drive the evolution of new variants, as Geert Vanden Bossche repeatedly and urgently argued.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Organizations including but not limited to the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) were doing honest medicine, honorable medicine, and a public service. We watched as they were repeatedly slandered and slammed.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Covid is an unusual and nasty disease, and not to be taken lightly. We wondered whether those who had facilitated its creation and unleashed it on the world would ever be held to account.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Immunity acquired from having had the disease is at least as good as the immunity acquired from getting a vaccine. We found it suspect that the idea of “natural immunity”—which, after all, our immune systems have been working on for hundreds of millions of years—was now considered a conspiracy theory. Where’s the conspiracy—between B cells and T cells? Or was the problem that we were talking about any way forward that didn’t include pharma’s solution?</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“These newly developed vaccines are safe” was a tell. There was no way for anyone to know that they were safe—not enough time had passed to know. Even if they had turned out to be safe—and we all wish that they had—nobody could possibly have known that less than a year after they were developed. We thought that being blatantly lied to by public health authorities was sufficient reason to even more carefully consider all of their pronouncements going forward.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">When it still seemed that the vaccines might turn out to be safe and effective for a lot of people, we nevertheless understood it to be a bad idea to give them to children, or to pregnant or breast-feeding women. Children are at the lowest risk from Covid, and at the highest risk from the vaccines. Functioning societies do not put children at risk to protect the old.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Vaccine mandates were a very bad idea. People being fired or kept out of school for not accepting an experimental treatment was anti-democratic. We applauded the courage of the Canadians who stood up to tyranny and said no, including the truckers who early in the pandemic had been celebrated as heroes but were now being called every epithet under the sun. The truckers’ convoy was a joyous coming together, and we wished that we could have been there. We could not, as we were not vaccinated, and crossing the border between the United States and Canada was not allowed if you were dirty and unvaccinated. Similarly terrible policies persist to this day.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The governments of many Western countries, including especially the mostly English speaking worlds of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, instituted policies that were damnably anti-democratic, anti-scientific, and authoritarian. We thought with some grim satisfaction: now we know. Now we know what they are willing to do.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Universities and Hollywood became some of the most eager institutions to enforce vaccine mandates, thus revealing how very anti-intellectual and conformist they have become. Where we should expect creativity, analysis, and a diversity of opinions, instead we have lockstep. It is ironic that these are the very domains that triumphantly embrace pseudo-diversity, in the form of Diversity Equity and Inclusion offices and officers. People are waving metaphorical flags that literally mean the opposite of what they stand for.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Shutting down schools was bad for children, and for society. After the initial confusion in the Spring of 2020, there was no excuse. Putting masks on children was diabolical. Masking children would impair their language and their social development, and make them fearful, just like their parents.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">People were manipulated with fear, and then promised relief from their fear if only they would comply. Many complied. But the virus did not go away. People got sick anyway. Their compliance did not achieve the goal they were told it would achieve. Many got injured from the treatment. Many others did not, but quietly decided, nevertheless, not to get any more of the miracle treatment.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">We thought that the people who changed their minds should say so publicly. We still do.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, which was published in September 2021 but fully drafted before the pandemic, we wrote the following:</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Combine a tendency to engage only proximate questions, with a bias toward reductionism, and you end up with medicine that has blinders on. The view is narrow. Even the great victories of Western medicine—surgery, antibiotics, and vaccines— have been over-extrapolated, applied in many cases where they shouldn’t be. When all you have is a knife, a pill, and a shot, the whole world looks as though it would benefit from being cut and medicated.</div></div>Theodore M. Seeberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315945417122366201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8729840800201160730.post-55511678595414821772023-02-22T09:10:00.002-08:002023-02-22T09:10:45.547-08:00On the subject of race<p> On facebook, a friend asked if racism was ever correct. My answer, is nuanced.<br /><br /></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r" style="background-color: #3a3b3c; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Perhaps at one time long ago (racism is a *culturally evolved* behavior, after all, protection of the clan/tribe from invaders) but I would argue that increases in travel technology and war technology defeated all positive reasons for this behavior more than 800 years ago.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: #3a3b3c; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Evolutionarily, skin color has no bearing on intelligence, honesty, trustworthiness, persistence, or any other human behavior.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: #3a3b3c; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">It's merely an indication that you have a large percentage of ancestors who spend time in an area of the world that got a certain average amount of sunlight a year. Nothing more than that.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: #3a3b3c; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And since your recent ancestors (within the last 6 generations) could have been from anywhere it isn't even a good predictor of ethnic culture anymore.</div></div>Theodore M. Seeberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315945417122366201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8729840800201160730.post-59299389407702684902023-02-01T05:58:00.001-08:002023-02-01T05:58:25.496-08:00On the Document for the Continental Stage: Synod 2020-2024<p> The Synod has released the <a href="https://www.synod.va/content/dam/synod/common/phases/continental-stage/dcs/Documento-Tappa-Continentale-EN.pdf">Document for the Continental Stage.<br /></a><br />It's extremely problematic in one significant way- censorship of cisgenedered heteronormative lifelong relationships.<br /></p><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">It starts with paragraph 11 of the introduction, which looks like it came straight out of a secular HR department, using language that pretends to be inclusive, but which we find later on is radically EXCLUSIVE, with a dismissal of the concerns in Catechism of the Catholic Church 2300-2400 inclusive.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">The one small concession we have to my way of thinking is in paragraphs 17-19, but even here conservative cisgendered lay Catholics and priests faithful to the 2000 year old teaching are called "rigid" thinkers who are unwelcoming of change.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Paragraph 28, in particular, abuses the word of God to pretend that "enlarging the tent" means "welcoming diversity"- but we already know from the secular world that diversity is only for the minority, majorities are not included in the diversity. It's an exclusive inclusivity.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Paragraphs 34-48 show a remarkable LACK of listening to ordinary people, while highlighting only those "diverse" examples that fit the agenda of excluding cisgendered heteronormative families. One should point out here that the ideal of being in a cisgendered heteronormative family is a luxury requiring a level of sacrifice not often seen in the world of modernism; people unwilling to make that sacrifice see those who are as being somewhat bigoted and prudish. But that is no reason to exclude them from your discussion on diversity.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Paragraphs 50-52 refer to the failed experiment of ecumenicism, by which the light of Christ was hidden under the bushel of secular humanism. On some continents that experiment is still going on, despite its obvious failure elsewhere; but usually under pressure from external culture wars that force different types of Christians to band together for survival.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Paragraphs 54-56 are outright heretical- the heresy of syncretism.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Paragraphs 60-65 are what I'd call the American Feminist Paragraphs- they read like the Seneca Falls Manifesto. They confuse clericalism with power (clerics are servants, not leaders) and the word "Mother"- the peak of true feminine identity and power, whether spiritual or biological- is nowhere to be found.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Paragraphs 66-70 are on vocation- but the vocation to raising a family does not even get mentioned. A church that isn't crying is dying; didn't we learn anything from the Shaker Protestant error?</span></div></div>Theodore M. Seeberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315945417122366201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8729840800201160730.post-75668442698977732052023-01-20T06:13:00.002-08:002023-01-20T06:13:18.143-08:00A documentary I need to watch<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/ondemand/deadname"> Dead Name</a> is a new documentary staring parents of trans children. I think I need to watch this.</p>Theodore M. Seeberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315945417122366201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8729840800201160730.post-32754664684832029392023-01-10T19:55:00.002-08:002023-01-10T19:55:26.858-08:00It's time to end this pro-choice nonsense- but also end the myth that life is just pro-birth.<p> <span style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is time for Democrats to join Republicans and say that BIRTH MATTERS. Pro-choicers have claimed for years that they care about babies after birth- now is the time to prove it. Let's see this bill guaranteeing medical care to the most helpless members of the human species pass with no opposition.</span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>Providing medical care to infants who are born alive and trying to survive after an attempted abortion should be something that we can all agree on. Tragically however, Oregon does not afford this basic protection of human life, thanks to pro-death malthusian eugenicists, and so Congress must act on its responsibility to enforce the guarantees of equal protection of ALL races and abilities under law. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Let's put bigotry, racism, and ableism behind us and speak out strongly for the least of these. If we can't even do that, how can we possibly claim to be a moral nation?</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Please vote “Yes” on the Born-Alive Survivors Protection Act when it comes before the House. The bill would make sure that health care providers give the same needed care to these children as any born at the same age. The need for this legislation is real. The CDC reported that over 140 children died after surviving an abortion attempt from 2003 to 2014 and, with difficulty in reliable reporting of such events, even admitted this was likely an underestimate. And the cause? Quite often these third term abortions are urged by ableist and racist doctors who look at the potential cost of treating disabilities or the color of the mother's skin, in recommending the abortion in the first place!</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The House Judiciary Committee in years past has heard testimony about the brutal ways in which such children can be left to die in bags or closets. Women and their children deserve better. Please vote “Yes,” and work toward meaningful solutions for mothers in need that affirm life and offer hope.</div></div>Theodore M. Seeberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315945417122366201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8729840800201160730.post-27759580056139068972023-01-10T11:38:00.006-08:002023-01-10T11:38:59.576-08:00The five reasons given for a 3rd trimester abortion (and why each of them is wrong)<p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Health of the mother (including mental health): Past the 21st week with modern healthcare, the only use of pregnancy is to save two weeks in the hospital for the child for every week the pregnancy continues. If the mother's life is in danger, an emergency c-section is safer for both her and the child than either abortion or inducement.</li><li>Health of the child- so you kill the child rather than treat it? How does that help? This one is just ableist bigotry from people who fear the disabled.</li><li>Wealth of the parents- this is the biggest fallacy of all. Children are an investment that pays off in ways you'll never expect. They are ALWAYS worth bringing into the world.</li><li>Race of the parents- how despicable is it that some medical professionals would rather abort a child of the wrong color or ethnicity than allow it to be born? This needs to be eliminated from the medical profession.</li><li>Biological sex of the child (including intersex children, but quite often female children in authoritarian societies or male children in egalitarian ones)- same as race- sexism is ridiculously outdated. And in many cases is a form of ablism in and of itself.<br /><br /></li></ol><p></p>Theodore M. Seeberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315945417122366201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8729840800201160730.post-19771838906417146982023-01-09T06:59:00.003-08:002023-01-09T06:59:33.604-08:00Did Vatican II ban communion in the hand?<p> In 1978, I was one of the first classes of First Communion to receive "Eucharist in the Hand" in the Catholic Church in Oregon.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/instruction-on-the-manner-of-distributing-holy-communion-2195">But 9 years earlier, did Pope Paul VI ban the practice?</a></p><p>Was this actually a missing encyclical from Vatican II, widely ignored in the United States? The encyclical linked to above, shows the synodal votes on the subject just after the close of the council:<br /><br /></p><p style="background-color: #dddddd; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Three questions were asked of the bishops, and the replies received by 12 March 1969 were as follows:</p><p style="background-color: #dddddd; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">1. Do you think that attention should be paid to the desire that, over and above the traditional manner, the rite of receiving holy communion on the hand should be admitted?</p><p style="background-color: #dddddd; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Yes: 597</p><p style="background-color: #dddddd; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">No: 1,233</p><p style="background-color: #dddddd; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Yes, but with reservations: 315</p><p style="background-color: #dddddd; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Invalid votes: 20</p><p style="background-color: #dddddd; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">2. Is it your wish that this new rite be first tried in small communities, with the consent of the bishop?</p><p style="background-color: #dddddd; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Yes: 751</p><p style="background-color: #dddddd; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">No: 1,215</p><p style="background-color: #dddddd; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Invalid votes, 70</p><p style="background-color: #dddddd; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">3. Do you think that the faithful will receive this new rite gladly, after a proper catechetical preparation?</p><p style="background-color: #dddddd; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Yes: 835</p><p style="background-color: #dddddd; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">No: 1,185</p><p style="background-color: #dddddd; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Invalid votes: 128</p><p style="background-color: #dddddd; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">From the returns it is clear that the vast majority of bishops believe that the present discipline should not be changed, and that if it were, the change would be offensive to the sentiments and the spiritual culture of these bishops and of many of the faithful.</p>Theodore M. Seeberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315945417122366201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8729840800201160730.post-85432634540529127062022-12-17T06:05:00.001-08:002022-12-17T06:08:10.446-08:00The Value of a Woman<div>A feminist catholic commentator, who seems to hate everything about heteronormative monogamy, complains about GenX men who still at 40 or 50 see women in terms of sex appeal.</div><div><br></div><div>I am worse than that. I think the main value women have is motherhood, and that value is greater than the value of any man, any career, any other vocation- for it is the only vocation that can bring forth new life.</div>Theodore M. Seeberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315945417122366201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8729840800201160730.post-29607728082115023142022-12-15T10:52:00.000-08:002022-12-15T10:52:17.319-08:00On Father Mike Schmid's upcoming Catechism In a Year Series- Dogma, Doctrine, and Discipline.<p><span style="background-color: white;">I started writing this as a post for Fr. Mike Schmidt's Catechism in a Year group on facebook, then I realized it had drifted very off topic, so I'm putting it here.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I hope that we start with an understanding of what the catechism is. There is much confusion these days between dogma, doctrine, and discipline; and the Catechism is doctrine. </span></span></p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
Dogma is the foundation- it's the deposit of faith the Apostles received from Christ, and has not changed in 2000 years. It's supposed to not change; it's the bedrock of the faith of Peter. If dogma changes, we're in very deep and have essentially started teaching against the gospels. Even many of our separated brethren, be they ethnic orthodox or Protestant, hold to dogma; they'll usually pick some inflection point where Catholicism appeared to separate from dogma as the sticking point causing the branch. To avoid schism, we must avoid such sticking points! Changing the definition of a sacrament, for instance, as the German Bishops are proposing (to change marriage and ordination from the family unit that brings forth children to serve God in the Church, to something else I truly don't understand that can encompass birth control, abortion, women priests, and same sex marriage) runs the risk of schism from the teachings of Christ and from those of us who consider the Sacraments to be dogmatic.
Doctrine is our very human, but led by the magisterium, understanding of dogma- it's the Kerygma, the preaching of the Gospel, and how the gospel applies to our lives today. As such, it changes very slowly and carefully- and it's the idealized form of our religion. Nobody can possibly live up to it all, that's why we have the Sacrament of Reconciliation, that's why we have Purgatory! Not living up to it doesn't mean you're automatically going to hell, and it doesn't mean that you have lost friendship with Christ. It does mean you could, but that depends on a very individual set of circumstances as to how and why you've strayed.
Discipline changes both temporally and geographically- and as such can be very different from diocese to diocese and decade to decade. Your local Bishop's job is to set discipline for your diocese. Discipline is boots on the ground, how to apply the teachings of Doctrine. One good example is the "Ordinary Form" General Instruction of the Roman Missal- it's translated into local languages, and implemented by the Bishops, there's a lot less wiggle room for priests than most people think. But it is only discipline- and your experience at Mass will change from diocese to diocese, often subtly.
I think it is essential to point this out at the beginning, to avoid scrupulosity and the problems of literalism that can arise from such a study.</span>Theodore M. Seeberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315945417122366201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8729840800201160730.post-30001397902372701352022-12-07T08:07:00.002-08:002022-12-07T08:09:14.822-08:00A chill just ran down my spine<p> My Knights council recently ran an essay contest. 7 days ago, OpenAI released <a href="https://beta.openai.com/playground">ChatGPT,</a> a chatbot designed to use artificial intelligence to write essays.<br /><br />On a whim, I modified the topic of the essay, and this is the result. The first line is my instruction to ChatGPT, the rest was written entirely by AI. The result is at least as good as 90% of the entries we received.<br /><br /><span data-offset-key="fo7rv-0-0" face="ColfaxAI, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #353740; font-size: 16px; white-space: break-spaces;"><span data-offset-key="fo7rv-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Write</span></span><span data-offset-key="fo7rv-1-0" face="ColfaxAI, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #353740; font-size: 16px; white-space: break-spaces;"><span data-offset-key="fo7rv-1-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> a</span></span><span data-offset-key="fo7rv-2-0" face="ColfaxAI, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #353740; font-size: 16px; white-space: break-spaces;"><span data-offset-key="fo7rv-2-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> 750</span></span><span data-offset-key="fo7rv-3-0" face="ColfaxAI, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; 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color: #353740; font-size: 16px; white-space: break-spaces;"> understand</span><span data-offset-key="fo7rv-438-0" face="ColfaxAI, helvetica, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #353740; font-size: 16px; white-space: break-spaces;"> the</span><span data-offset-key="fo7rv-439-0" face="ColfaxAI, helvetica, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #353740; font-size: 16px; white-space: break-spaces;"> struggles</span><span data-offset-key="fo7rv-440-0" face="ColfaxAI, helvetica, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #353740; font-size: 16px; white-space: break-spaces;"> of</span><span data-offset-key="fo7rv-441-0" face="ColfaxAI, helvetica, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #353740; font-size: 16px; white-space: break-spaces;"> young</span><span data-offset-key="fo7rv-442-0" face="ColfaxAI, helvetica, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #353740; font-size: 16px; white-space: break-spaces;"> people</span><span data-offset-key="fo7rv-443-0" face="ColfaxAI, helvetica, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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color: #353740; font-size: 16px; white-space: break-spaces;"> with</span><span data-offset-key="fo7rv-531-0" face="ColfaxAI, helvetica, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #353740; font-size: 16px; white-space: break-spaces;"> young</span><span data-offset-key="fo7rv-532-0" face="ColfaxAI, helvetica, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #353740; font-size: 16px; white-space: break-spaces;"> people</span><span data-offset-key="fo7rv-533-0" face="ColfaxAI, helvetica, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #353740; font-size: 16px; white-space: break-spaces;">,</span><span data-offset-key="fo7rv-534-0" face="ColfaxAI, helvetica, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #353740; font-size: 16px; white-space: break-spaces;"> the</span><span data-offset-key="fo7rv-535-0" face="ColfaxAI, helvetica, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #353740; font-size: 16px; white-space: break-spaces;"> Catholic</span><span data-offset-key="fo7rv-536-0" face="ColfaxAI, helvetica, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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Seeberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315945417122366201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8729840800201160730.post-31978956279371801242022-12-06T09:14:00.004-08:002022-12-06T09:14:38.476-08:00Jubilee of Mercy artist Fr. Rupnik, has a long history of sexually abusing nuns<p> Back in 2015, during the Jubilee of Mercy, we were faced<a href="http://www.im.va/content/gdm/en/giubileo/logo.html"> with this bizarre logo</a>, often described as a monster with three eyes, four hands, four feet, on skis. We wondered about <a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/deaconsbench/2015/05/who-is-marco-rupnik-and-what-was-he-thinking-with-that-jubilee-of-mercy-logo/">Fr. Marco Rupnik</a>, described as a friend of Pope Francis, who was commissioned to create this work.<br /><br />Well, now it turns out we know <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/why-has-jesuit-artist-father-rupnik-been-practicing-his-ministry-despite-vatican-restrictions/?fbclid=IwAR0fpLwWrZqd4Q3w4EDdwv9TozT7PilPP-ex0xMDEqim3XTwuSqoIz4Wxt4">what Fr. Marco Rupnik was moved to Rome to avoid prosecution for:</a> Raping nuns. That's what he wants mercy for, raping nuns- he's asking for mercy from Christ for stealing Christ's spouses for his own sexual use.<br /><br />And Pope Francis protects this abuser?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Theodore M. Seeberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315945417122366201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8729840800201160730.post-23024390433592378152022-12-05T11:44:00.002-08:002022-12-05T11:47:28.112-08:00On this advent, a Papal Denial of personhood has a pastoral dimension.<p> The <a href="https://www.americamagazine.org/content/all-things/push-personhood">Jesuit denial of personhood in the womb</a> has long been established, as this article from 2011 shows. But this is NOT church teaching. <a href="https://www.catholiccrossreference.online/catechism/#!/search/2270-2274"> The Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2270-2274</a>, clearly states that the personhood of the unborn is not in dispute.<br /><br />And during Advent, this takes on a particularly pastoral meaning as we await the Feast of the Nativity- for Jesus was God before he was born- Jesus, the 2nd person of the trinity, the <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%201&version=NIV">Bible tells us was God Even Before Conception!</a><br /><br />So imagine the failure of <a href="https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2022/11/28/pope-francis-interview-america-244225">pastoral protection implied by a Pope claiming that the personhood of the unborn is debatable, DURING ADVENT.</a> This is a scandal beyond the weak "this is wrong" language of the question- for it attacks the divinity of Jesus Christ himself.<br /><br />But that's what the Jesuits have come to. A papal denial of the personhood of the second part of the trinity.<br /><br />I'm sure I'm wrong in some way, and hopefully one of my readers will tell me how- but as it stands,<a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252147/taken-out-of-context-pontifical-academy-defends-archbishop-paglias-abortion-law-remarks"> this might explain the strange disconnect in the Vatican as of late in Archbishop Paglia's support of legal abortion.</a></p>Theodore M. Seeberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315945417122366201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8729840800201160730.post-24259466453813255062022-09-26T12:41:00.003-07:002022-12-06T08:57:41.202-08:00An interesting comparison<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;"> In 1729, Dr. Johnathan Swift, completely tongue in cheek wrote <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080-h/1080-h.htm">A Modest Proposal</a>. In 2022, we now know that some people took this <a href="https://citizengo.org/en/node/208973">entirely too seriously</a>, now selling the unwanted children of the poor for spare parts in the medical community.</span></h3><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;"><br />Michael Smith published <a href="https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/pwh/swift1.asp">Gay Revolutionary</a>, also a little noticed satire, in <i>Gay Community News</i><span face="Trebuchet, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">, Feb. 15-21, 1987. <br /><br />I would suggest that by 2015, with the Obergefell decision, and by 2022, with the revelation of large numbers of <a href="https://youtu.be/9sV2zeE4X08">teachers and preachers and parents</a> actively grooming children for <a href="https://youtu.be/hjzQZ2EjuJM">transgenderism</a>, surgery, and now even <a href="https://youtu.be/Aqcokp4ZAko">uterus transplants</a>, that this second satire has also been taken to extremes.</span></span></p>Theodore M. Seeberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315945417122366201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8729840800201160730.post-65792592852975674792022-09-25T06:12:00.001-07:002022-09-25T06:12:49.444-07:00Prove it!28 minutes in to <a href="https://youtu.be/p9zfKOA6hHQ">this video</a>, is why men are not allowed to complain..<div><br></div><div>But the whole video is a good exercise in cognitive dissonance.</div><div><br></div><div>I read Dilbert online. I have not subscribed to any paper other than the diocese Catholic paper in a long time. Dead trees are dead- in more ways than one, my diocese paper subscription is ending this October because after 120 years, COVID-19 killed it (the diocese has been printing it at a loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year).</div><div><br></div><div>So perhaps, in the long term, this will just allow Scott to sell more books in retirement. But they will be on kindle. Because Dead Trees Are Dead.</div>Theodore M. Seeberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315945417122366201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8729840800201160730.post-85991708948593236562022-09-12T14:12:00.003-07:002022-09-12T14:12:57.404-07:00Why I care about aberosexualityLesbian, Gay, Queer, Transsexual, abortion, birth control: the effects of the sexual revolution, which I call aberrosexuality. Why care about aberrosexuals?<br><br>Biological sex is the basis of the family, the family is the basic unit of the tribe, the tribe the basic unit of the clan, the clan the basic unit of the town, the town the basic unit of the county, the county the basic unit of the state, the state the basic unit of the nation.
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It is a philosophical attack on the very basis of all we are as human beings- how we procreate, how we gather and protect resources, how we live.
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The failure to protect that basic philosophy over the past 60 years has resulted in a wide variety of basic failures in economics, in medicine, and in governance. It has in the United States cost us the lives of at least 80 million people, because aberrosexuality is not sustainable, not even within a single lifetime, let alone as the *default* form of a community.
<BR><BR>It has become quite clear that the aberrosexual revolution isn't satisfied with merely keeping to themselves, the violent attacks on pro-life clinics this summer have proven that until the family is destroyed, the revolution will be incomplete.
Theodore M. Seeberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315945417122366201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8729840800201160730.post-90641700286322698352022-08-09T09:00:00.002-07:002022-08-09T09:00:45.501-07:00Been a while, but this youtube video makes WAY too much sense<p> Not going to embed this time- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8f4PEXT7Hs">middle click this link to </a>watch the video. <br /><br />I would say that this video doesn't go far enough. YES, it is correct- the reason for the decrease in faith and church attendance is directly correlated to the divorce and anti-procreative sexual orientations now endemic in the United States.<br /><br />But that isn't the only thing declining. Food production is declining and becoming centralized, as large monocultural agribusinesses take over. There is an epidemic of loneliness taking hold. There's a labor shortage going on, requiring more immigration. There is a significant decrease not just in marital vocation but in clerical vocations. And the young who aren't in church- are angry, continually rioting and destroying what little civilization we have left.<br /><br />The sexual revolution, as a whole, has been a disaster.</p><p><br /></p>Theodore M. Seeberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315945417122366201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8729840800201160730.post-21128006998386638022022-06-24T11:24:00.001-07:002022-06-25T14:00:37.008-07:00I am Unfit<p><b>Today, June 24, 2022 we saw the new Supreme Court come into its own, finally opposing the lies of the sexual revolution. I offer once again this poem, followed by several links that women facing crisis pregnancies need.</b></p>I am Unfit<br><br>My mother is a teenager, just starting out in Life<br>I am the Unfit<br>I am the Child of Poor Parents<br>I am the Unfit<br>I have a genetic disease<br>I am the Unfit<br>My mother was bit by a mosquito and I am in danger of microcephaly<br>I am the Unfit<br>I have a terminal illness<br>I am the Unfit<br>I signed up with the Military to feed my family<br>I am the Unfit<br>I am accused of treason<br>I am the Unfit<br>I am accused of murder<br>I am the Unfit<br>My parents were of two different races<br>I am the Unfit<br>I am the wrong race<br>I am the Unfit<br>My father raped my mother and I was conceived<br>I am the Unfit<br>I am the genius scientist that is face blind<br>I am the Unfit<br>I have a genetic defect<br>I am the Unfit<br>My parents abuse children<br>I am the Unfit<br>I will spend more over my lifetime than I will earn<br>I am the Unfit<br>I struggle with Same Sex Attraction<br>I am the Unfit<br>I am Ugly<br>I am the Unfit<br>I have a socially transmitted disease<br>I am the Unfit<br>I am a boy<br>I am the Unfit<br>I am a girl<br>I am the Unfit<br>I am a hermaphrodite<br>I am the Unfit<br>I have autism<br>I am the Unfit<br>I am the minimum wage worker working three jobs<br>I am the Unfit<br>I am the unionist<br>I am the Unfit<br>I am the little person<br>I am the Unfit<br>I am the obese<br>I am the Unfit<br>I have cancer due to pollution<br>I am the Unfit<br>We are infertile in our marriage due to synthetic estrogen in the drinking water<br>I am the Unfit<br>I am the son of an unwed mother- God knows the Future<br>You do not<br>Who are you to decide that<br>I am the Unfit?<br><br><br>For young women facing a crisis pregnancy, <a href="http://standupgirl.com">click here to search for help in your area.</a><div><br></div><div>For young families facing the cost of an unexpected pregnancy unable to find their way out,<a href="http://letthemlive.org"> click here for a pro-life charity that will show you how to balance your budget and help with immediate needs.</a><br><br>For women and their men who have been tricked into abortion in the past, <a href="https://hopeafterabortion.com/">click here to find forgiveness and healing.</a><br><br>For those facing divorce or abandonment, <a href="https://thembeforeus.com/?utm=semalt.com">click here to find a better way to think about family.</a><br><br>For those who feel they have no choice, <a href="https://www.humancoalition.org/what-we-do/">click here to find a REAL choice.</a></div><div><br></div><div>For those who have been raped, <a href="https://savethe1.com">click here to save the one.</a></div>Theodore M. Seeberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315945417122366201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8729840800201160730.post-72469057260320082542022-05-13T06:44:00.002-07:002022-05-13T06:48:06.776-07:00On Neurodiversity, LGBTQ+, and Transgenderism as it relates to Title IX<p> <span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just finished the OBVC left wing progressive push survey- and for once it gave me a great idea based on what it didn't include. Much of it was focused on Title IX an the left-wing looney idea that sexual orientation and gender-fluidity is as important as biological sex (hint, I'm of the opinion that it isn't, TL;DR is that I'm against this concept).</span></p><p>Now having said that, here's a strange concept. As a society, we deal with the individuality (and extreme individuality) of neurodiversity through a variety of evolving concepts in education where each autistic is treated as an INDIVIDUAL, instead of an IDENTITY GROUP. To that end- neurodiverse students get Individual Education Plans (IEPs) and Special Olympics provides co-ed athletic opportunities. This counts for more than just autism: A large number of individual difference kids are in these co-ed teams- it's easy to see people of every ability out on the field, nobody keeps score and nobody cares.<br /><br />Is there any reason why we can't address the suicide issues experienced by LGBTQ+ and transgender people in a similar fashion? They have unique issues they need to navigate that others do not. Sure, include them whenever possible- but maybe it is time once again to view these neurodiverse populations as neurodiverse, and celebrate them for the individuals they are, instead of trying to force them into the box of "normal" (or worse yet, adjusting the normal box until nobody who is cisgendered and straight fits into it).<br /><br />Give them IEPs, give them extra counseling in how to mask and coping skills in how to appear normal. Give them scenario life skills to live and navigate the world that is always going to be foreign to them in at least some ways. Teach them to accept the bodies they have even when they think they need to dress and act differently. Let them stim- whatever that looks like for them! Teach them how to deal with anxiety. And most of all- stop treating them like an identity, and start treating them like an individual.<br /><br />Because in the long run, ONLY treating them as an individual- will allow them the inclusion they so desperately seek. And yes, I chose that word on purpose- for what is the ultimate cause of suicide among the great tapestry that is the neurodiverse spectrum, but despair? Remove the despair from these kids, and perhaps then we will see a reduction in self-harm and body modification and suicide.</p>Theodore M. Seeberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315945417122366201noreply@blogger.com0