Signs

Discussion in 'The Signs of the Times' started by themilitantcatholic, Sep 3, 2015.

  1. HeavenlyHosts

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    Thanks for posting this clarification of Washington’s Christian faith.
     
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  2. Muzhik

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    Actually, that's in keeping with the culture and the art of the time. This work was done at a time when many of the founding fathers were held up to schoolchildren as models, and so stories arose around them. For example, the young Washington cutting down a cherry tree; when his father asked who did it, Washington stepped up saying "I cannot tell a lie". The picture is just the artistic version of that movement, and should be considered as an example of the high respect commanded by Washington, and not any actual deification.
     
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  4. SgCatholic

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    I finally watched this video in full.
    I am actually surprised that you posted it, Fatima, because from ~37.30 min mark, John Salza talks about some of the errors of Vatican II, including the Novus Ordo mass.
    From your responses on the thread - 'The "Novus Ordo Paradigm" — What It Is and Why It Matters', I would have thought that you wouldn't agree with him.

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  5. DeGaulle

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    I think it was Michael Matt who recently said that the conservative/orthodox side need to stop perpetually sniping over details (not to say they are unimportant). He contrasted ourselves with the Left, who (and history tells us how ruthlessly they deal with their own splits, once they have gained total power) bury their differences in their common assault on orthodoxy and tradition.

    Whatever our disagreement with John Salza with respect to the status of the Novus Ordo, we should be thankful of the honest witness he has borne against Freemasonry.
     
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  6. HeavenlyHosts

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    Yes! Totally agree. The sniping has been relentless.:eek:
     
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  7. .....and the chip could be the conduit

    Tech giants want to read our thoughts – and the implications are frightening


    Straight out of a science fiction novel, our future might be as cyborgs, and those who don’t adapt will lose out


    Not content with monitoring almost everything you do online, Facebooknow wants to read your mind as well. The social media giant recently announced a breakthrough in its plan to create a device that reads people’s brainwaves to allow them to type just by thinking. And Elon Musk wants to go even further. One of the Tesla boss’s other companies, Neuralink, is developing a brain implant to connect people’s minds directly to a computer.

    Musk admits that he takes inspiration from science fiction and that he wants to make sure humans can “keep up” with artificial intelligence. He seems to have missed the part of sci-fi that acts as a warning for the implications of technology.

    These mind-reading systems could affect our privacy, security, identity, equality and personal safety. Do we really want all that left to companies with philosophies such as that of Facebook’s former mantra, “move fast and break things”?

    Though they sound futuristic, the technologies needed to make brainwave-reading devices are not that dissimilar to the standard MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and EEG (electroencephalography) neuroscience tools used in hospitals all over the world. You can already buy a kit to control a drone with your mind, so using one to type out words is, in some ways, not that much of a leap. The advance will likely be due to the use of machine learning to sift through huge quantities of data collected from our brains and find the patterns in neuron activity that link thoughts to specific words.

    A brain implant is likely to take a lot longer to develop, and it’s important to separate out the actual achievements of Neuralink from media hype and promotion. But Neuralink has made simultaneous improvements in materials for electrodes and robot-assisted surgery to implant them, packaging the technology neatly so it can be read via USB.

    Facebook and Neuralink’s plans may build on established medical practice. But when companies are collecting thoughts directly from our brains, the ethical issues are very different.

    Any system that could collect data directly from our brains has clear privacy risks. Privacy is about consent. But it is very difficult to give proper consent if someone is tapping directly into our thoughts. Silicon Valley companies (and governments) already surreptitiously gather as much data on us as they can and use it in ways we’d rather they didn’t. How sure can we be that our random and personal thoughts won’t be captured and studied alongside the instructions we want to give the technology?

    Discrimination and manipulation


    One of the existing ethical issues with data gathering is discrimination based on attributes such as gender or race that can be discerned from the data. Providing a window into people’s minds could make it easier to determine other things that might form the basis of prejudice, such as sexuality or political ideology, or even different ways of thinking that might include things like autism.

    How to stop Facebook tracking you across the internet

    With a system that taps directly into your brain, not only could your thoughts be stolen, but it’s also possible they could be manipulated as well. Brain stimulation is already being developed to help treat PTSD and reduce violence. There are even sensational claims that it can be used to upload knowledge directly just like in the film The Matrix.

    A predictable step would be to combine the “in” and “out” technologies for a two-way brain-computer interface. The potential for governments to make us more compliant, for employers to force us to work harder, or for companies to make us want more of their products underlines just how seriously we should take this technology.

    If mind-reading devices become the normal way to interact with computers, we may end up with little choice but to use them in order to keep up with more productive colleagues. (Imagine someone today applying for an office job but refusing to use email.) And if Neuralink-style implants become the norm, this could also lead to greater inequality determined by what level of kit you could afford to have installed.

    Elon Musk has stated that the enormous loan required to afford Neuralink surgery would be offset by potential earnings for the “enhanced”. The idea of people feeling pressured to take on huge debts to have surgery just to keep their job comes straight from a sci-fi dystopia.

    On top of all this is the more direct physical threat of having systems physically intruding on our brains. While some people may want to modify their brain with a computer interface (there are already plenty of experimental biohackers), to roll this out on a large scale would require massive and thorough testing.

    Given Silicon Valley’s reputation (and penchant) for breaking things rather than stopping to think them through, these systems will need close regulation and ethical review even before testing begins. Otherwise it risks creating mutilated human guinea pigs.

    For all this, there could be huge advantages to continuing research in this area, particularly for those suffering from paralysis or sensory impairment. But Silicon Valley should not be able to dictate the way these technologies are developed and deployed. If they do, it may radically reshape the way we identify as human.

    Garfield Benjamin is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Media Arts and Technology at Solent University. This article first appeared on The Conversation


    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ad-thoughts-silicon-valley-tech-a9080531.html






     
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  9. Carol55

    Carol55 Ave Maria

    I still have to read through all of the posts here related to George Washington, imo this is an interesting discussion.

    I noticed that Wikipedia has the following on George Washington's page,

    Washington emphasized religious toleration in a nation with numerous denominations and religions. He publicly attended services of different Christian denominations and prohibited anti-Catholic celebrations in the Army.[374] He engaged workers at Mount Vernon without regard for religious belief or affiliation. While president, he acknowledged major religious sects and gave speeches on religious toleration.[375] He was distinctly rooted in the ideas, values, and modes of thinking of the Enlightenment,[376] but he harbored no contempt of organized Christianity and its clergy, "being no bigot myself to any mode of worship".[376] In 1793, speaking to members of the New Church in Baltimore, Washington proclaimed, "We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition."[377]
    The above paragraph is taken from the section on "Religion and Freemasonry" at this link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington .

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    Curently, I have been watching the HBO miniseries "John Adams" from 2008. I have one last episode to view but I have found it to be very, very good and I think that those who are interested in the beginnings of the United States of America and John Adams and his family, along with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin etc. would really enjoy this miniseries. I highly recommend this miniseries. If you do take the time to watch I don't think that you will be disappointed and you will probably notice that although many things have changed in the USA in the past 250 years or so many things have not.



    The interesting thing about John Adams besides being our first vice president, our second president and the father of our 6th president is that he kept a diary from the time he was around 12 years old until right before his death on July 4th, 1826 exactly 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence which I consider to be a sign of some sort. The diary appears to form a pretty good historical reference for his life and the times that he lived in. In addition, John Adams never owned any slaves and he fought very hard for peace after the American Revolution.

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    Back to the discussion here, imo one of the greatest things if not the greatest thing that the USA offers its citizens is freedom of religion. There are, of course, other nations that do this also but our nation was founded on this and other premises. I often think of the short time that Jesus Christ shared his ministry with the people of Judea, he exclaimed "Follow me". Our Lord never forced anyone to follow him but I am sure that graces have been poured out on our nation despite our many mistakes due to the fact that we have enabled any citizen of the USA to follow Him as He suggested.

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    I never realized that Thomas Jefferson died on the very same day as John Adams also on July 4th, 1826 exactly 50 years after the Declaration of Independence was signed, amazing.
     
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  10. AED

    AED Powers

    I loved both the book and the series on John Adams.
     
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  11. Fatima

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    I posted it, because of his experience in the occult of being a 32nd degreed Freemason. I don't agree with his position that the Novus Ordo mass has errors. This would be ridiculous on its face, as the Vat II church council was valid and thus it was guided by the Holy Spirit. How this mass has been applied by many, if not most priests, presents its share of errors, as any of us can attest to, but errors come in to everything sacred, because the devil is active. Also, I have no problem with the Latin mass. Years ago, I used to drive my 11 children 3 hours one way, on Corpus Christi Sunday, to attend the Latin mass back in the day. I attended many men's retreats of Father John Hardon SJ, who said the Latin and NO mass with equal reverence applied.
     
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  12. SgCatholic

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    I don't know if you are referring to the article that Michael Matt wrote on The Remnant Newspaper site.
    In that article, he is basically asking the traditional groups - the SSPX and the FSSP, to unite under the old Faith and fight the Modernists.


    LEFEBVRE WAS RIGHT: For God’s Sake, Unite the Clans!
    Michael J. Matt | Editor
    When a group of feminists in Argentina wanted to mark International Women’s Day a couple of years back, they dressed a woman up to look like the Mother of God and had her perform a mock (with fake blood) abortion on herself in front of Our Lady of the Incarnation Cathedral in the city of San Miguel de Tucuman. The photographs of this blasphemy are too vile to display again here.
    Indeed. This was, quite literally, the Devil at work.

    [​IMG]A couple of days ago, during a YouTube interview, Raymond Cardinal Burke told Patrick Coffin that the working document for October’s Pan-Amazon synod amounts to “apostasy.” Coffin asked the Cardinal if the working document was definitive, and Cardinal Burke replied that, “it cannot be. The document is an apostasy. This cannot become the teaching of the Church...”

    Keeping in mind that the Amazon Synod is the pope’s very own pet project, what are we to make of it when two Cardinals have already called it “apostasy” and another, Archbishop Vigano, branded it as part of a Marxist plot to effectively destroy the Church.

    The Amazon Synod will be, quite literally, the Devil at work.

    Just fifty years after Vatican II, the Catholic Church is ceasing to be Catholic. Need more proof? Earlier this month, the USCCB announced that only a third of Catholics in America still believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

    So let's review: The priesthood is called a ‘gay profession’ and not without good reason, the Mass has been thoroughly protestantized, millions of Catholics have lost the faith and many millions more have left the Church.

    For those with eyes to see and ears to hear, the new orientation of the Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council has been, quite literally, the Devil at work.

    Further examples of Satan's progress are legion, but you get the idea. We are witnessing an auto-destruction of the human element of the Catholic Church in the Modern world that could only have been orchestrated from the bowels of hell itself.

    Imagine my surprise, then, when after we’d posted a video called PRESUMED GUILTY: Open Season on Catholic Priests lamenting the fact that the Society of St. Pius X had been falsely accused of becoming a safe haven for predator priests, a number of allegedly conservative Catholic commentators responded by insisting that, nevertheless, the SSPX is to be avoided like the plague because they are in “schism”. To which I say: Schism from what, exactly? The Great Apostasy?

    We are living through the most destructive revolution in the history of the Church, and the SSPX is the problem? This is madness! If there's a better example of the diabolical disorientation against which Sister Lucia of Fatima warned, I’d like to know what it is.

    Quite honestly, friends, our patience with this has run out. The Mystical Body of Christ is being scourged and crowned before our eyes, her human element in a state of emergency such as the world has never witnessed in the past -- and yet faithful Catholics are still fretting that Archbishop Lefebvre might have gone too far in resisting the Modernist infiltrators. They say the SSPX is not in full communion with the Vatican of Pope Francis, to which I say: And? Pope Francis is not in full communion with the vast majority of his own predecessors. What are we to do with that!?

    If some among us cannot in good conscience support the SSPX, fine. I get it. This is not a simple question. But let us at least acknowledge the downright Luciferian circumstances which created this division in the first place.

    Lefebvre's choice was simple: Novelty, or Tradition. He chose Tradition, and suffered every imaginable insult for his trouble. But ever since then, the Vatican he resisted to the face has been in doctrinal, liturgical and moral chaos. Black is white, white is black, and the shepherds have abandoned the flock.

    Lefebvre just might have been onto something. Don't you think?


    I don't know how God is going to fix this mess, but if the current ecclesial crisis doesn't rise to the level of a state of emergency in the Church then 'state of emergency in the Church' is a meaningless possibility for which the Code of Canon Law should never have made allowances in the first place.

    And where does all this leave us? In a sort of limbo, admittedly, but with enough confusion at the top to justifying our decision to say our prayers, find a good priest and let God sort it all out.

    In the meantime, we need to stay together. The traditionalist priestly orders have strategic differences, yes; but they are doing the best they can to save souls and to help us all find our way through this darkest hour in human history. Thank God for every last one of them!

    Given the betrayal of Christ by the human element of the Church since Vatican II, it is more than merely probable that History will absolve those Catholics who regarded Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre as the Athanasius of the Church in their time.

    He disrupted the entire Modernist Revolution in the Church, which is why his enemies were legion. They're still out there, in fact, trying to use obedience and the letter of the law to condemn him posthumously for having defended to the death the very dogmas, Traditions and spirit of the law which they themselves were only too eager to abandon.

    But, they tell us, Lefebvre was "disobedient"! Do you smell a rat? Me, too!

    Today among the spiritual sons of Archbishop Lefebvre should be counted all traditionalist priests—inside the SSPX and out—who follow his lead in standing strong for the Latin Mass, the traditional teachings of the Church, the rights of God, the Queenship of Mary and the Kingship of Christ.

    There is no time left for politics and games. We all need to stand together.

    read the rest at:
    https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/in...bvre-was-right-for-god-s-sake-unite-the-clans

    (emphases above are mine; SgCatholic)
     
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  13. SgCatholic

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    Well, to quote Cardinal Ciappi, who read the 3rd secret of Fatima “In the Third Secret it is foretold, among other things, that the great apostasy in the Church will begin at the top”.
     
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  14. Byron

    Byron Powers

    George Washington wrote a book on his life and he mentioned the lady who appeared to him. I remember reading it in high school.
     
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  15. DeGaulle

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    Yes, I think we are broadly in agreement. However, there are differences between orthodox Catholics who would be collectively anti-progressive. For example, some would, like myself, consider the Novus Ordo a valid Mass; while others would consider it not so. Matt's point is that we are weakening ourselves by sniping too much at one another when we should be united against the progressives. 'Fatima' and the former Freemason in the video might have differences over the validity of the Novus Ordo, but they have far more in common and perhaps these differences ought to be put aside while we attempt to counter our opponents. Certainly, it is 'madness', as you say, to treat the SSPX and other similar entities as the problem, when the whole Church is rife with apostates up to the very highest levels. God save us from all this devilish insanity.
     
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  16. DeGaulle

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    The Marks of the Beast.
     
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  17. AED

    AED Powers

    Exactly.
     
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  18. SgCatholic

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    Whatever it is, there is enough information to leave us in no doubt that the Novus Ordo mass was conceived in malice by Annibale Bugnini.
    Knowing this alone is enough for me to believe that we should return to worshiping God through the TLM.

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  19. DeGaulle

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    I would favour a return to the TLM, but in practical terms I am stuck with the NO for now. Despite Bugnini's intentions, I still believe he did not have the power to prevent the Consecration. That is why so many loyal Catholics are so outraged by Amoris laetitia. If the NO was invalid, there would be nothing to fuss about, but because Our Lord becomes present in His Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity, people are objecting that persistent adulterers be permitted to receive Him.
     
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