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Offline DiesIrae

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Stuck in college! Please read
« on: February 07, 2013, 12:10:04 PM »
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  • I'm in a desperate situation and I dont know what to do.

    I've heard that most or many of traditionalists homeschool and don't go to colleges or universities for obvious reasons.

    Well I made a really bad choice and now I am stuck in a completely heretical, blasphemous and abominable Novus Ordo university. The semester has just started but I cant take it anymore. I feel so bad. I dont ever want to go there again. I have financial aid and I've been researching and looking at the consequences of "walking out" and just not going to class anymore. Basically failing the entire semester. I won't withdraw because I read if I do that I would have to pay myself right now and i cant.

    This is my 6th semester there and I've never failed a class. I have passed all the semesters before. The only thing is that i've done 2 incompletes and right now im supposedly doing one because i got an incomplete last semester.

    The thing is i have been "off and on" with God and the Catholic Faith the whole time ive been there but now i am resolved 100% not to offend God in the slightest anymore and i dont want to keep offending God by going there anymore!

    I am a 23 year old sedevacantist male. As you may know these universities are a complete scandal and occasion of sin. I am taking 4 classes and only 1 of them isnt heretical, blasphemous or an occasion of sin class-content-wise, which is accounting. In the other 3 classes, the professors do "prayers" at the start and sometimes at the end; they make us participate with the other people there; they just cant help themselves in saying heresies and blasphemies all the time, and in one class, art, there are immodest and bad pictures and things like that so all the classes really, are an occasion of sin. Obviously all the women go dressed immodestly and in shorts, jeans, see-through, etc. etc. I feel contaminated and polluted and corrupted just by being there.

    So right now im thinking, will i keep offending God by being silent and by compromising, by basically denying the Faith and shutting my mouth, and by all kinds of sins of omission, or will i get the heck out of here right now even if i fail the semester and get in big trouble with my family?

    By the way i live outside the U.S. but it is an american university, the one i go to. My parents could provide for me if i were to get out of the university, they would never kick me out of the house, so i think i could stay with them until i decide and plan what im going to do. I am living with them and they are Novus Ordo pagans and im trying to convert them.

    So, these last few days i have just been thinking about this because i dont know what to do or what would be the best choice and i would just like to see what would some of you do in this situation.

    I know that i shouldnt even be there to begin with because it goes against everything the Church teaches and Tradition, such as co-education, non-Catholic school, ocassion of sin, etc. It's just abominable and i cant take it anymore.

    I figure i could get expelled anyways if i were to speak up and denounce the professors and the whole university, so i think i should just stop going from now, it will be the same result.

    I mean they even teach evolution here! A "catholic" university.

    I have been missing some classes on purpose because I just don't want to be here anymore.

    There is one class, basic public speaking, in which we are forced to work in groups and with partners and that kind of thing, and there's just no way you won't end up denying the Faith and God. There is even an open ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ in this class and I may well end up having to work with him some day because the professor picks the groups at random!

    The only thing holding me back from just not ever going again is that if I would owe the university and would have to pay myself or something like that, I will get that clear with the financial aid office here.

    This is all my fault because I shouldn't even be here in the first place.

    My problem is deciding to get out right now, today, or finish the semester, because I have decided there's no way I will ever come here again.


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    « Reply #1 on: February 07, 2013, 12:18:16 PM »
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  • Welcome to CI, DiesIrae.

    Sorry about your situation. If the college is that bad, it probably would be best to leave. If your parents really want you to earn a degree, I'm thinking online college would be better. It's cheaper and there is no occasion of sin. I'll pray that things work out for you.

    God Bless.
    Please ignore ALL of my posts. I was naive during my time posting on this forum and didn’t know any better. I retract and deeply regret any and all uncharitable or erroneous statements I ever made here.


    Offline Spork

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    « Reply #2 on: February 07, 2013, 10:29:33 PM »
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  • You need to settle down and get a grip. Easier for me to say since i am not you, but we all live and manage in this rotten world, too. Keep the Rosary close.

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    « Reply #3 on: February 07, 2013, 10:50:14 PM »
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  • That's a heck of a situation you've found yourself in, DiesIrae. I know the feeling, as I used to go to a community college here in NC, so it was Protestant/moron central.

    If you want my advice, I suggest you stay strong and just finish up the semester as best you can. It's going to suck big time, I know, but as long as you divert your eyes from scandalous women, guard your mind from blasphemous "teachings", and study just enough to pass your tests, you should be fine. You don't even have to deny your faith. When I went to class, I would be silent for most of the period, but if it came to a time where we would be asked to express our opinion, I would do so without hesitation. I had no trouble telling people of my anti-liberal and anti-feminist beliefs, nor did I ever deny my Catholic faith because they asked for my opinion. If they didn't want it, they shouldn't have asked.

    So, in short, guard your senses, be silent, finish the semester, and get out, but if your faith is attacked and you've been given a soapbox to stand on, be a lion and tear your opponents a new one. I think you might be surprised to see how many people find themselves agreeing with you anyway.

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    « Reply #4 on: February 07, 2013, 11:12:40 PM »
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  • I agree with Alex. You might just need to build spiritual muscle. Exercise with the Rosary. Talk to your parents. If you need to speak, speak the truth humbly. You might just find another who thinks like you. There seem to be quite a few young'uns out there who are awake to the truth of tradition or at least seeking more than they've been dealt.
    Help of Christians, guard our land from assault or inward stain,
    Let it be what God has planned, His new Eden where You reign.


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    « Reply #5 on: February 08, 2013, 03:03:15 AM »
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  • Can you ask your professors if you can do some of the work independently without attending class except for exams? Either way stick out the semester. Go talk to the public speaking professor if you have just been absent and try to get on track with that. I'm sorry you are suffering, it's very hard sometimes to cope with what is around us.

    The other idea I had was go down to the minimum of full time for financial aid. For example if it's 12 credits for full time and you are taking 18, withdraw from 1 or 2 so you are only taking the minimum for full time financial aid.


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    « Reply #6 on: February 08, 2013, 03:33:56 AM »
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  • Frater, I know the drill, I go through it every day and I had lot´s of thoughts of  quitting but I never will. Why? Im a traditional catholic man and men do not give up even though it sometimes feels pointless. The more I encounter the godforsaken modernism the more I feel the present of God and also how much my surroundings are in desperate need for God and faith. Their pot, beer, birth control pills, computer games, hours of TV watching, casual sex with different people, unchristian dress and so on will only make their spiritual emptiness so much deeper. I feel sorry for them all. They can have all the "friends", gatherings, crowds and social surroundings as they want but I have never seen such a lonely people as a modern and secular person.

    Hang in their buddy.

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    « Reply #7 on: February 08, 2013, 03:44:30 AM »
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  •  Depending on how much you've got to go - if you're just started, then perhaps
     look into doing more off campus subjects, or even the whole degree via correspondence. Or think to yourself: is this the type of career I think God's providence has disposed me for? If not, it may be indication to look into something else.

    Pretty much all universities are crazy. I did my degree at a secular university, which was pagan, anti-Christian, Communist, etc etc. But I still think my heart rate would have been higher at a so called Catholic university. Personally, perversions of the Faith have always made me more irate than simple denial.  

    As for your duty as a Catholic bearing witness to the Faith, it comes down to this: do you think speaking out will help others, or make them more obstinate? It's a loaded question. Pray for the virtue of prudence to correctly judge when to speak out (or even just hint), or when to keep silent.





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    « Reply #8 on: February 08, 2013, 04:36:13 AM »
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  • Quote from: Spork
    You need to settle down and get a grip. Easier for me to say since i am not you, but we all live and manage in this rotten world, too. Keep the Rosary close.


    Wise, wise words.

    Find a traditional priest and discuss your concerns with him.

    And, talk to your parents.

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    « Reply #9 on: February 09, 2013, 04:40:30 PM »
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  • I will pray for you.  I have a son who is in his third year as well.  Don't give up!  It may be very hard, but just hang in there.  This world is very hard to live in.  Be strong.  Pray hard.  Offer your sufferings up to the Lord.  Keep your Rosary with you!

    God Bless you!

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    « Reply #10 on: February 18, 2013, 01:18:21 AM »
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  • For the short-term, try to find some like minded students. At least then you can support each other by praying together.
    Laudetur Iesus Christus!