Outside The Asylum

  Seen in Knights group, changed to be more generic and make a point: If you see an older American not wearing a mask, or wearing a mask improperly (mouth and nose need to be covered), do not immediately assume selfishness or ill will. Instead, especially if the mask is visible but merely not being worn correctly, take this as a sign of distress. Your mask, if you are wearing a real mask and not just some virtue signal fake mask, will protect you enough to approach them to ask what is wrong. If they say they cannot breathe, escort them to a place where they can sit down for a bit. Ask them why they are there, offer to help them with their shopping. This is charity. This is kindness. This is how we should ALL be acting.

 As of Today, November 9, 2020, COVID-19 has infected over 50 million people worldwide, killed 1.2 million, and 35 million have already recovered from the illness. Out of 7.8 billion human beings, more children were both born and died of abortion in 2020 than people will be killed by COVID-19.     Now Pfizer comes along with a vaccine that is 90% effective.   For a disease that already human beings seem to have a 99.995% resistance to, for a disease that 96% of patients recover from. Ours is not to reason why....

  I am against the choice of a man to drink and drive. I am against the choice of anybody to take illicit substances. As a man who has experienced the temptation of suicide, I'm damned glad that it was illegal at the time, and I'm against the choice for euthanasia. I'm against the choice for war. I'm against the choice to sit in a hotel room and spray bullets down at random at a crowd at a jazz festival. I am indeed against choice for abortion. I am not against using a caesarian when a woman can no longer medically maintain a pregnancy, as long as *every effort is made to also save the child*, EVEN WHEN all current science says the child can't be saved. But that operation is NEVER by choice- only by triage. A pregnant woman is TWO patients, not one, and both need to be respected, and that is what a personhood amendment correctly written, will bring about. So yes, I am anti-choice. But it goes further than that. I'm against the choice to underpay a worker. I'...

  ‎ Leo Marinak ‎   to   Knights of Columbus Tempus Fugit Memento Mori! Do you remember receiving the first degree? I have a question. Who are you to judge me!? I have been reading and commenting on the recent posts here on the Knights of Columbus page over the past month or so, and I am so very disappointed in some of our Catholic brethren, who claim to call themselves, "Knights of Columbus." In fact, I think they are actually masons in the costume. How about that! First of all, to those of us, who cast judgments. There's a HUGE difference between judging and righteous judgment. We have to know the difference between them. Righteous judgment is when you see your brethren worshiping Moloch, and you don't do everything you can to stop them. Matthew 7:1-5 1 'Do not judge, and you will not be judged; 2 because the judgements you give are the judgements you will get, and the standard you use will be the standard used for you. 3 Why do you observe the splinter ...

  Ok, let's look at the BLM protests closest to me in Portland, OR through  Leninist lens: - dismisses political reform and compromise: Yep, they're demanding a complete abolition of the police department and are rejecting any reform - advocates violently overthrowing capitalist regimes, in order to create an authoritarian state that controls the economy: I give you the firebombing of the Federal Building, Police Union, and Police Precincts after blocking the doors to prevent escape. -class racism is the only correct lens through which to understand society: Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility is the textbook of the movement, despite being rather racist in and of itself. -uncompromisingly materialist and, yes, atheistic: The attacks on Catholic Churches speak for their atheism and the demand of reparations is materialism. so, I give them a 4/4 for being Leninist Bolsheviks ready to kill their neighbor rather than compromise.

In America, we crossed 5 million cases yesterday, and will likely hit 10-15 million cases by the end of the year. That means one out of every 35 Americans, minimum, is going to get this. Shut down the churches, but unless you also shut down the protests, that means nothing. When you fail to treat the sick differently from the well- when you fail to segregate based on actually having the virus, nothing else you do matters. Masks don't matter, shutdowns don't matter. One in 35 Americans will get this, and it looks like after all the people over the age of 80 who get it are dead, the rest have less than a 1% chance of dying. Let's bump this up. Go worldwide. 20 million cases out of 7.5 billion people so far. Double that. Heck, let's multiply it by 5- say we hit 100 million people by the end of the year. Worldwide that means 98.6% will not even get sick. We're now closing in on 720,000 deaths. Worldwide, dying "with COVID" , because nobody dies FROM ...

Here are some racist assumptions that I've heard from the purveyors of White Supremacy/White Privilege/White Fragility that I believe are not only erroneous assumptions about minorities, but that actively create and build upon the illusion of systemic racism.  I will add to this post slowly over the next week, but here are a few that have sprung up lately: All minorities are held back by the "wind resistance" of historic racism.  Oddly enough, almost all the minority people claiming this have wealth far in advance of what I'll ever see, and if wealth is material privilege, then they are way more privileged than most white people I know. It's not possible for a minority or poor person to carry proper photo id.  And yet, every minority person I know over the age of 18 has a driver's license, a Costco card, and usually one to three forms of photobadge for work. Minorities are less able to succeed at paying off real estate mortgage.  This one is largely due to rac...

I had an idea today for a truly peaceful protest against racism, and it would make it impossible for anybody to oppose it. How about Saturday morning, both black lives matter and all lives matter people commit to putting lawn chairs and tables in OWN their front lawns, signs on the tables, and spend their morning actually talking to their neighbors from a socially distanced 6 feet? THAT is what a truly nonviolent protest looks like. Not invading other people's spaces, but having conversations with your neighbors for real grass roots change. In my case, crabgrass change. Speaking truth to power in Oregon involves ballot measures, not protest signs and denying your fellow citizens the right to speak. Let alone destroying private businesses, stopping traffic on major streets, and burning down buildings with people still inside them. Orwell's law states that any violent rebellion against a tyranny will create an even worse tyranny. All that ever happens when you get violent is some...

Here is the link for the Knights of Columbus Safe Environment training.   There are two ways to make sure you are updated on this training.  If you are in the REQUIRED TRAINING officer and service program list, you need to press the green button and log in with the userID of your member # combined with your last name, for instance Ted's username is 4253418seeber .  Yours can of course be found on your membership card. If you are not in the list, you should click on the BLUE button and the registration code is KofC safe. Both buttons are halfway down the page. For our council, this is the list of people who need to pass Safe Environment training: Grand Knights Deputy Grand Knights Program Directors Community Directors Family Directors Youth Directors

Is that there really is no law against segregation today, as long as it is chosen voluntarily. There is NOTHING keeping sexist or racist protesters from moving elsewhere and building their own city to their liking. In fact, there are plenty of small towns in Kansas, Texas, Colorado, Nebraska, and Minnesota that would be willing to host such a project, no matter what color you are.

An ethical hacker point of view of the cancel culture: First they came for the conservatives- banning their posts and videos, canceling voices they could not stand. Then they came for the statues and paintings and works of art- the Iconoclasm. Every hint that the past ever existed, must be destroyed. Next they will come for the books, burning any that give a hint that any other way of life than theirs existed. After that they'll be writing memory hole worms to edit the internet to their liking so that no post can be made without approved speech and thought codes applied. At what level of historical revisionism are you comfortable with? Because I am not comfortable with any of it. If you must practice historical revision, add data, don't delete it. Write your own point of view on a plaque to attach to the base of a statue or the frame of that painting so that future inhabitants of the city can get both sides. ...

1. “Charlie X”  (Ep. 2, Season 1) What happens when a young man (Robert Walker), dizzy from hormones and zero family ties, can literally make anything he wishes a reality? His emotions take over, with disaster and death the natural byproduct. Enter Captain James T. Kirk (Shatner), the Alpha Male figure poor Charlie needs. Kirk can’t fully control Charlie, but he commands the lad’s respect and buys the crew time to deal with his god-like powers. The unchecked Charlie has no one to explain life to him, let alone place vital boundaries in his path. Without a father figure he revolts, not unlike what we’re seeing nationwide as the spoiled children who make up the Antifa crowd drag statues to the ground. Kirk’s uber-masculine guidance can’t prevent a sad ending for Charlie, but the captain ensures no more Starfleet personnel will die by Charlie’s hands. 2. “The City on the Edge of Forever”  (Ep. 28, Season 1) Kirk falls in love, hard, during this time travel episode ...

One fictional autistic I have always admired is Wonko the Sane, from Life, the Universe, and Everything By Douglas Adams.   I've linked to my blog in a post where somebody said they feel like they were living in a giant asylum, and I thought I'd post this link.  Wonko the Sane- and the inner meaning of being Outside the Asylum

For George Floyd, based on this description of his life For want of a father, security is lost, For want of security, victimhood is assured, For the sense of being a victim, loyalty to the law is lost, For want of loyalty to the law, the crime is commuted, For want of justice, following police orders is lost, For want of following police orders, a life is lost, For want of a life, the protest for justice began, For want of justice, the riot began, For want of a riot, the looting began, For want of the looting, an zone was created, For want of the zone, a private army was created, For the private army, citizens were beaten. All for want of a father.

I am only providing a link to this, because it's a pirated copy, but the copyright owner seems to have absolutely zero interest in it anymore due to "racism" and "the most racist movie we ever made". But I think it needs a re-think.  I'm not even going to name it publicly for fear of the more violent racists attacking this post.  But it is a movie I think everybody with children, of any skin color, need to watch.   Some hints on why I think this movie is EXTREMELY important to any honest study on racism, the sexual revolution, and an understanding of the massive contribution that African Americans made to the pre-civil-war south. In no particular order: This movie is based on a book that wasn't actually what it seemed to be.  It was put forth as a children's book, but it was the first book to record the mythology, wisdom, and learning brought from West Africa by people that even the anti-racists today think of as slaves. The main character ...