Monday, April 06, 2020
Lee Cheek and Carey Roberts on Calhoun's Decentralizing Agenda
The Imaginative Conservative: Jurgen Habermas, John C. Calhoun, and Slavery
By Lee Cheek and Carey Roberts
By Lee Cheek and Carey Roberts
The First and Only Joint Operation
Looks like the FB post was taken down. The story is here.
A different version of the story here. Business Insider.
One Green Beret: Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and beyond: 15 Extraordinary years in the life - 1996-2011 by Mark Giaconia
SOFRep interview, SOFRep Radio ep. 390
Quest For War: And One Green Beret's Subsequent Evolution
Related:
What We Know About KSSO, The 2,000-Strong Russian 'Delta Force' Training For War
Whither Confirmation?
Peter Kwasniewski, in Lessons from a Whisky Priest:
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No mention of the necessity of Confirmation?
Baptism by water and the Gift of the Holy Spirit should never have been separated -- both are part of one baptism into Christ; even now Latins think Confirmation is an "optional" Sacrament and is treated as such by many, even clergy.
The Roman Code of Canon Law on Confirmation:
A most unsatisfactory explanation of the sacrament:
The gift of the Holy Spirit should be mentioned first, as this explains why the sacrament is a necessary part of initiation.
Can. 883 to 886 reiterate the Latin emphasis on bishops being the regular or primary (not necessarily "ordinary") minister of the sacrament. This tradition, no doubt linked to a biased view towards the monoepiscopate, needs to be revisited.
The reception of the sacrament is obligatory: "Can. 890 The faithful are obliged to receive this sacrament at the proper time. Parents and pastors of souls, especially pastors of parishes, are to take care that the faithful are properly instructed to receive the sacrament and come to it at the appropriate time."
But it presupposes that the bishop is the regular or primary minister, even if it is not explicitly stated. What other reason for there to be a delay until the "age of discretion," instead of having Confirmation at the same time as Baptism? "The bishop is too busy."
"Can. 891 The sacrament of confirmation is to be conferred on the faithful at about the age of discretion unless the conference of bishops has determined another age, or there is danger of death, or in the judgment of the minister a grave cause suggests otherwise."
No Latin dares ask what the consequences are of an incomplete sacramental Christian initiation, even if they may resort to saying any defect in initiation is made up by God or reception of the Eucharist. Theological speculation but is it warranted by the witness of the early Church and Scripture?
The Church teaches that baptism is necessary for salvation; whatever else God may do in His freedom, He has revealed to us only one path by which we are saved: plunging into the death of Christ and rising with Him. The Church teaches that confession is the only way to be certain of the absolution of mortal sins, and in this sense, it is necessary for those in mortal sin. Extreme unction, as it was once aptly named, prepares the soul for the great passage from death to eternal life, lest it be a passage from death to second death. It fulfills the petition in the Byzantine Divine Liturgy: “For a Christian, painless, blameless, peaceful end of our lives, and for a good account before the dread judgment seat of Christ, let us beseech the Lord.”
There seems no end of dioceses where the faithful are being cut off even from necessary sacraments like baptism and confession—and for what atheistic persecution? Where are the Red Shirts breathing down our necks?
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Bishops who believe in the Christian faith will seek every creative solution to be with their people and to ensure that the clergy, who in a way represent them, can remain where they are most needed. By contrast, for an indifferentist or a universalist who thinks, Abu Dhabi-like, that many different paths lead to God, or that perhaps no path at all is needed as a merciful God will scoop us all up in the end, baptism would not be necessary. To one who no longer believes in the reality of mortal sin—sin that kills the divine life in the soul—confession would no longer be necessary. It helps, of course, that laymen can baptize their own children in a difficult situation and that one can make a firm resolution to go to confession as soon as it is available again. But will the laity who feel abandoned today by their pastors feel confident in them tomorrow after the crisis has passed? The abuse crisis and the coronavirus response are, in many ways, like a one-two punch.
No mention of the necessity of Confirmation?
Baptism by water and the Gift of the Holy Spirit should never have been separated -- both are part of one baptism into Christ; even now Latins think Confirmation is an "optional" Sacrament and is treated as such by many, even clergy.
The Roman Code of Canon Law on Confirmation:
A most unsatisfactory explanation of the sacrament:
Can. 879 The sacrament of confirmation strengthens the baptized and obliges them more firmly to be witnesses of Christ by word and deed and to spread and defend the faith. It imprints a character, enriches by the gift of the Holy Spirit the baptized continuing on the path of Christian initiation, and binds them more perfectly to the Church.
The gift of the Holy Spirit should be mentioned first, as this explains why the sacrament is a necessary part of initiation.
Can. 883 to 886 reiterate the Latin emphasis on bishops being the regular or primary (not necessarily "ordinary") minister of the sacrament. This tradition, no doubt linked to a biased view towards the monoepiscopate, needs to be revisited.
The reception of the sacrament is obligatory: "Can. 890 The faithful are obliged to receive this sacrament at the proper time. Parents and pastors of souls, especially pastors of parishes, are to take care that the faithful are properly instructed to receive the sacrament and come to it at the appropriate time."
But it presupposes that the bishop is the regular or primary minister, even if it is not explicitly stated. What other reason for there to be a delay until the "age of discretion," instead of having Confirmation at the same time as Baptism? "The bishop is too busy."
"Can. 891 The sacrament of confirmation is to be conferred on the faithful at about the age of discretion unless the conference of bishops has determined another age, or there is danger of death, or in the judgment of the minister a grave cause suggests otherwise."
No Latin dares ask what the consequences are of an incomplete sacramental Christian initiation, even if they may resort to saying any defect in initiation is made up by God or reception of the Eucharist. Theological speculation but is it warranted by the witness of the early Church and Scripture?
Stargirl
I can't tell if the intended audience for this is supposed to be teenaged males or not, or if it is just aiming at the typical Disney demographic. Son who is ostensibly living with his single mom who needs a teenaged girl who not only likes him but leads him out of his shell? A BS fantasy that must have been written by a soy male.
Sunday, April 05, 2020
SJWars
Check out the characters... (after the stupid dog intro... can you tell who is calling the shots?)
More here.
A reminder of who is running this sh*tshow.
More here.
A reminder of who is running this sh*tshow.
Hundreds of years before the Skywalker Saga, the Galactic Republic is at its height. Protected by the Jedi Knights, guardians of peace and justice throughout the galaxy.
— Star Wars (@starwars) February 25, 2020
Get the details on #StarWarsTheHighRepublic, exclusively on https://t.co/mVXi17qoJk: https://t.co/iEdglKjC6Y pic.twitter.com/hmDuUZwNjD
Taleb at Work
"Evidence based" means that she recommended in her Forbes column in late February that people wear no masks. Yes, NO masks. Because absence of evidence is not evidence based.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) April 5, 2020
It is hard to share the planet with such dangerous people. https://t.co/iKVU52M7Cd
I am amazed that an error that eludes "evidence based" "scientists", nonprobabilist statisticians, Pinker-style naive empiricists... is explained very simply by Mike to his kids. https://t.co/lXsStELc6Y
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) April 5, 2020
Department of hindsight: the NYT is now blaming mobility. Yet they were publishing crap saying it was not rational to panic when Yaneer, Joe, and I were advocating what looked like an "overreaction".https://t.co/5MOhTJeeyA
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) April 5, 2020
A Tweet from Brendan Eich
"A call to honesty in pandemic modeling"https://t.co/TR7zrGCXeE
— BrendanEich (@BrendanEich) April 4, 2020
"...the epidemic model being employed is actually implemented in Javascript, and run — live — in a users web browser. ...it is possible to hack their model to run past the end of October."https://t.co/tMJpbcekIu pic.twitter.com/O05CaxRhCX
Tigertail
Some East Asian-Americans have to [s]tell their story to American audiences... for "representation" or "to be heard" or something. Duty to family, lost love, poor father/child relationships, etc. The same themes repeated over and over again...
Do these Asian-Americans have nothing to say about what it means to be "Asian-American" in the United States? They are focused so much on family issues and family drama, which is often linked to some trauma suffered back in the homeland.
Perhaps there is an awareness that they aren't really Americans, and one of the few markers of identity they have is their family (and its problems). Being a "banana" isn't acceptable either, because it means that they have no "Asian" identity; any sort of depiction of them participating in Anglo-American society as Anglo-Americans do, embodying the same values, isn't allowed because it's not "authentic" or because it's whitewashed (in more than one sense).
With such identity issues, I don't know if they have what it takes to be integrated into an Anglo-American community.
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