Signs

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

  1. Sanctus

    Sanctus "Jesus I trust in you!"

    The news says there will be an orange moon on Good Friday.
     
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  2. Don_D

    Don_D ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

    I'm not endorsing Trunews but they are certainly paying attention to what is happening in the US with Christians leaving the truth and the embrace of Zionism and kabbalah.
    Evangelicals are going off the rails with this stuff. I suppose that some may say; yeah so what? what else is new? but this stuff they are embracing is beyond the pale and they like it or not have a considerable amount of support and power in the US/Israel political arena.

     
  3. Solar Storm Alert: Earth To Be Bombarded By Solar Particles In A Few Days

    There is an upcoming solar storm expected this weekend. Researchers have noticed a sunspot that will bombard the Earth with solar particles on Monday.


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    Sunspots are patches of darkness on the Sun which are caused by an underlying magnetism beneath the surface.
    A solar storm occurs when that magnetism bubbles up and is released in the form of solar flares, which spew cosmic particles into space. Earth is in the path of these particles, so we can expect an exceptional aural display at the poles soon!

    Auroras are caused when solar particles hit the atmosphere. These include the northern lights, or aurora borealis and southern lights, or aurora australis. Both are expected to put on incredible shows thanks to this solar storm. The light show will appear when the magnetosphere gets bombarded by solar winds and that layer of the atmosphere deflects the particles.

    According to the Express, a cosmic forecasting website called Space Weather said:

    “A minor hole in the sun’s atmosphere is turning toward Earth and spewing a stream of solar wind in our direction. The estimated time of arrival is April 22nd. Geomagnetic unrest and polar auroras are possible when the gaseous material arrives.”


    Solar particles have been responsible for power grid failures and disruption in communications systems on Earth when they’ve been strong enough.
    A surge of particles can lead to high currents in the magnetosphere, which can cause a higher than normal level of electricity in power lines. The results could be devastating, especially considering Earth’s magnetic field is weakening. Eventually, as a solar storm could cause electrical transformers and power stations blowouts and a loss of power. Solar storms can also affect satellites in orbit, potentially leading to a lack of GPS navigation, mobile phone signals, and satellite TV.

    Earth’s magnetic field is getting significantly weaker, the magnetic north pole is shifting at an accelerating pace, and scientists readily admit that a sudden pole shift could potentially cause “trillions of dollars” in damage. Today, most of us take the protection provided by Earth’s magnetic field completely for granted. It is essentially a colossal force field which surrounds our planet and makes life possible. And even with such protection, a giant solar storm could still potentially hit our planet and completely fry our power grid. But as our magnetic field continues to get weaker and weaker, even much smaller solar storms will have the potential to be cataclysmic. And once the magnetic field gets weak enough, we will be facing much bigger problems. As you will see below, if enough solar radiation starts reaching our planet none of us will survive. -Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog

    The weakening magnetic field could have apocalyptic implications for all of us. Increased cancer rates will occur and there will be increasingly dangerous outcomes of fairly minor solar storms such as the one expected on Monday.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019...t-earth-be-bombarded-solar-particles-few-days
     
  4. Don_D

    Don_D ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

    Today at the public HS my daughter attends while she was in the women's restroom a boy walked in and planted himself in front of all the other girls and began admiring his own backside in the mirror! My daughter beat feet out of there and recognized him as one of the untouchable "trans" kids in her school. She texted me asking what she should do and I told her to find security and explain the situation. She did and the security person promptly told her that there was simply nothing they could do! There is no policy at this public school allowing kids who are mentally imbalanced from entering the opposite sex bathrooms and lingering there. She was told to go to the office and lodge a complaint.

    I find it hard to believe that in one decade our school system has become so frightened of offending anyone that disciplining a boy for being in the girls restroom is off limits but here we are. I will be lodging a complaint of my own.

    It is simply incredible how this is encouraged and how much these kids are allowed to get away with. She has a class with two students (teachers aids) who suffer from this and they are constantly making a spectacle of themselves and even being encouraged by their teachers in class who obviously support this madness or are so afraid of losing their livelihood that they are simply afraid to hold them to any standard.

    I knew that when our schools began asking young children how they "felt" about things that we were rocketing toward the abyss but I had no idea it would take so little time to reach it. This rot in our public schools is nothing other than the intentional and deliberate destruction of the moral underpinning of our society. Our schools today install bullet proof glass and lock their doors just like a prison and yet in the same breath intentionally corrupt the minds of those in their care with relativism and the celebration of perversion. All this while our enemies laugh at the destruction of our society.

    God help us.
     
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  5. gracia

    gracia Archangels

    ***prayers***

    This is sick, and sad. It's a mental and spiritual illness. I am sorry that your daughter has to go through this. Can you guys appeal to anyone higher up, beyond the school? I have read about a case in which a lawsuit was filed.

    https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/h...ights-complaint-over-boy-in-girls-locker-room
     
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  6. heyshepard

    heyshepard Archangels

    Don, this is very sad. I'm sorry your daughter experienced this. My prayers to you and your family.
     
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  7. AED

    AED Powers

    Yes. God help us. It is utter insanity. Your daughter is a smart good child. She asked you what to do. That is huge. Most would go along to get along. More and more the idea of forming strong Catholic community oases of families around the Church and a good traditional priest with home schooling or our own schools seem a good strategy. The Amish had some right ideas amidst all the wrong headed ones.
     
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  8. Don_D

    Don_D ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

    Want to know the real reason the states are passing live birth abortion laws? I have posted about this before with organ donations. Optimally they harvest organs when the person is alive and they want to do this with babies. Hopefully, this news will wake people up and be the final nail in the coffin of PP and abortion.

    There is a video at the link. It is disturbing. It can be watched on the page for the WA Times but on YT they are already shadow banning it by only making it available to those signed in.

    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/19/planned-parenthood-kept-aborted-babies-alive-to-ha/

    Planned Parenthood kept aborted babies alive to harvest organs, ex-technician says

    In an undercover video released Wednesday, a former technician for a tissue-harvesting company details how an aborted baby was kept alive so that its heart could be harvested at a California Planned Parenthood facility, raising more legal questions about the group’s practices.

    Holly O’Donnell, a former blood and tissue procurement technician for the biotech startup StemExpress, also said she was asked to harvest an intact brain from the late-term, male fetus whose heart was still beating after the abortion.

    A StemExpress supervisor “gave me the scissors and told me that I had to cut down the middle of the face. And I can’t even describe what that feels like,” said Ms. O’Donnell, who has been featured in earlier videos by the Center for Medical Progress, a pro-life group that previously had released six undercover clips involving Planned Parenthood personnel and practices.

    David Daleiden, the video project leader, said the undercover footage and interviews show that fetuses are sometimes delivered “intact and alive” before their organs are harvested.

    The federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002 says that when a child is born alive, including having a beating heart, he or she is a legal person and has a right to lifesaving medical care. California law also prohibits any kind of experimentation on a fetus with a discernible heartbeat, said the Center for Medical Progress, which is calling for the federal government to cease its $500 million a year support to Planned Parenthood and for it to be investigated.

    “Today’s video is especially gruesome, and it shows, once again, the barbarity of what takes place at Planned Parenthood clinics across the country,” said Rep. Joseph R. Pitts, Pennsylvania Republican and chairman of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on health, one of several congressional panels investigating Planned Parenthood.

    Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Utah Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said Wednesday that all the videos are “disturbing,” and his committee’s investigation will look into whether “any federal funding supported transactions involving fetal tissue.”

    “Top-level employees of Planned Parenthood admit to changing their procedures to harvest intact bodies of unborn children for body-part trafficking,” said Rep. Trent Franks, Arizona Republican and chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution and civil justice.

    Mr. Franks and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Virginia Republican, also said Wednesday that they have written to 58 Planned Parenthood affiliates. They are seeking 10 years of data about all abortions, late-term abortions, “born-alive” infants, fetal tissue collections and any modifications of abortion techniques to “increase the odds of preserving intact fetal tissue and organs.”

    Five states — Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Utah and New Hampshire — already have defunded Planned Parenthood.

    A request for comment from Planned Parenthood Federation of America about the new video was not immediately available, but the nonprofit organization has denounced earlier undercover videos as fraudulent and misleading.

    “These extremists show a total lack of compassion and dignity for women’s most personal medical decisions,” Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthood, said earlier this month after a video release.

    Meanwhile, pro-life groups are using the videos to step up their calls for investigations and defunding of Planned Parenthood.

    Rallies and protests at nearly 300 Planned Parenthood clinics are planned for Saturday.

    On Wednesday, Reuters/Ipsos released a rolling poll of hundreds of people that found stable support for federal funding of Planned Parenthood. Between Aug. 13 and Aug. 18, about 54 percent of Americans consistently said they support taxpayer funding for the reproductive health and abortion group. Federal funds are not permitted to be used for abortions except in cases of rape, incest or endangerment of the life of the mother. But when pollsters changed their question and asked a smaller sample of people for their views on “current efforts” to defund Planned Parenthood, the rolling poll showed a shift: Those who agreed that Planned Parenthood should be defunded grew to 39 percent, while those opposing defunding shrank to 34 percent; another 27 percent said they didn’t know.

    The Reuters/Ipsos poll further asked people if the undercover videos had affected their views on Planned Parenthood or abortion. The rolling poll found that 45 percent of people said the videos made them “more negative” about Planned Parenthood, while 33 percent said it hadn’t changed their views, 19 percent said it made them “more positive,” and 3 percent said they didn’t know.

    More at the link...
     
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  10. HeavenlyHosts

    HeavenlyHosts Powers

    Eloquent post
     
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    HeavenlyHosts Powers

  12. Mario

    Mario Powers

    A dilemma. I have friends whose children in public school who have held firm, but it is a difficult situation. Be sure to provide your own children with the rational underpinnings of your positions so that when confronted they can respond in a clear fashion.

    Safe in the Barque of Peter!
     
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  13. HeavenlyHosts

    HeavenlyHosts Powers

    Don, I think you are correct when you said that teachers are afraid to dissent from the current “norm”. Sad but true. Sheeple.
    It’s insidious. Woe unto them who call evil good, and good evil.
    I am a retired high school English teacher. I’m grateful to God that He rescued me from that milieu before it became too toxic and dangerous for my soul if I were to stay.

    You are a good father.
     
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  14. Pray4peace

    Pray4peace Ave Maria

    My son has had the exact same experience in high school, where a female walks into the boys bathroom because she claims to be male. My son leaves quickly as well. He understandably fumes with me about it at home and says "if she's really a boy, then why doesn't she use the urinal like everyone else??" Exactly.
    Why can't this type of simple, common sense prevail in society?

    And how is it fair to make 600 boys at a school uncomfortable so as to accommodate the 2-3 delusional girls at the school that think they are male? Do their feelings not matter? (same with the female students as well, but it goes beyond a feelings issue to more of a safety issue with them). Don't schools realize they when any male enters the female bathroom that it could quite easily become a liability issue for them? Why aren't more parents and students outraged?

    I'm wondering how soon we'll be dealing with the transgender locker room situation. That's the next in-school battlefield. :mad:
     
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  15. Don_D

    Don_D ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

    Thanks Mario, that is exactly what I am attempting to show them through looking at these situations objectively compared with logos. I try to help her see through these experiences that the wisdom in the natural law God has given us is the logical basis for reason and sound thought and can clearly be seen if we have the presence of mind to look at them objectively which is of course a grace. She understands and sees it all the more when this kind of absurdity is prevailing. I really want to prompt her through this to study, contemplate, and pray on these things. She is a bit emotional when it comes to these situations at times (the apple, gravity, and tree thing) so I have been trying to prompt her to see these situations as opportunities also.

    Of course at this age she is confronted by the lure of popularity and fitting in with her peers not to mention the constant attention of young men which has actually been a good teaching tool for me but I will admit is beginning to drive me a bit insane.

    At the same time, as her parent I have to try to protect her against the powers who are allowing this to take place in some manner. It strikes me as obscene but it is the world in which we all live.

    In our area catholic education ends at HS unfortunately. I spoke with my confirmation sponsor as well as our parish priest before she began HS about our options and both discouraged me from the homeschooling co ops in this area. They thought that they might even be a worse situation than public HS which was quite the surprise.
     
  16. AED

    AED Powers

    I agree absolutely. I am filled with gratitude to be out of that milieu now.
     
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  17. Don_D

    Don_D ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

    Teachers today are in a very tenuous situation and I empathize with them. It seems to me that much like anyone who has offered protection to the weak and vulnerable for love of God that the Holy Spirit in a courageous and willing person can often miraculously find a way to do the seemingly impossible. It seems more and more obvious that we are in a world in which this will become the way for us if we profess Jesus and follow Him in our vocations. It is an opportunity to become a Saint.

    Thank you for the sentiment HH. In some ways, I think that because evil has become so much more bold and obvious that it has made my task as a parent somewhat easier in that they can see these things for what they are. I just thank God that we were all confirmed, that the Holy Spirit has been strengthened in us and that my children, who are young women now, have the grace to see that what is happening goes against the very design of God. Seeing is one thing, denying your self and following Jesus is another. I pray they have the faith and fortitude to each take up their cross. I trust Jesus, I know He loves them far more than I can comprehend.
     
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  18. Don_D

    Don_D ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

    You know, another thing about this situation saddens me. I have encouraged my daughter to consider becoming a teacher because of her love for children and the way in which she has with them when teaching them.
    She told me about an incident with her teacher talking with her trans TA's in front of the class about how she just doesn't think of them as boys. (that this is even discussed in a classroom floors me) My daughter said that she knew she could never handle a situation like that in a way that would be viewed as tolerant or even indifferent by today's standards. It's all some kind of big joke to them and they are constantly looking for validation and approval from others, especially those in positions of authority. She told me that she knows that she would never be able to beat around the bush about something like this or ignore it.
    I really had nothing I could think of to offer her as encouragement. I think she is right.
     
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  19. HeavenlyHosts

    HeavenlyHosts Powers

    She’s completely right.
    I will say that she is prepared for real life. I was in a ladies restroom in a restaurant in Annapolis three years ago and a tall man dressed as a woman came in. I was fortunate to be on my way out.
     
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  20. Mario

    Mario Powers

    Don,

    Geralyn and I home schooled our children for 20 years beginning when our eldest son was in 6th grade. I cannot evaluate the above assessment because of the limited facts. Nor am I asking you for clarification. But I will say this. I believe their advice is uninformed due to lack of experience and by this strange belief that insulation from the general culture and educational system stunts their maturation process; such is the predominant mainstream perception. :rolleyes: My oldest daughter, Rachel, who just had her 4th child, is home schooling her children from square one and is doing so in the context of working with about 30 other Catholic families. She graduated magna cum laude from college but also understands the toxic situation of educating in California.

    I will say that pulling your children out of a public or Catholic educational system to homeschool once they hit the 6th grade level can prove to be very difficult because developmentally, children are beginning the process of challenging the status quo of family life and making personal choices. When young, children simply perceive homeschooling as part of growing up, not a challenge to budding independence.

    In other threads we've spoken of Cardinal Sarah and Pope Emeritus Benedict calling for the building of oases and habitats of Catholic culture, and I dare say, Catholic homeschooling associations are a successful model of these essential concepts in our own day. May the Two Hearts watch over all of our children and grandchildren!:notworthy::love:

    Safe in the Barque of Peter!
     
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