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Offline SimpleMan

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Traditional Catholic personalized license plates?
« on: March 05, 2024, 11:46:31 AM »
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  • When I went on my feverish pursuit of a new SUV a few weeks back (which I have since walked back, the Camry runs just fine, and the repair to the mudflap that I thought would cost $800 was actually discouraged by an honest body shop man who told me how to repair it with J&B weld epoxy for eight dollars), I mulled over getting a license plate to promote the TLM, or traditional Catholicism in general.  I already have a license plate frame which reads "LATIN MASS" with the www.sgg.org URL cut off the bottom, as I am not a sedevacantist and don't wish to promote it.  (My father was sede-leaning and liked Bishop Dolan, we visited SGG one time when we were in Cincinnati.  I always say we were like a poor man's version of Mel and Hutton Gibson, minus the money, the looks, the talent, the alcoholism, and the womanizing.)

    I thought of "MASSMAN", inspired by Kramer's doctor on Seinfeld, but thought that could scandalize the faithful (assuming they would actually get the reference), so I decided against it.

    I then thought of "DA MIHI" (kind of an inside family joke), but my son turned thumbs down on that.

    Other ideas that have come to mind:

    73NOT66 (books of the Bible)
    UIOGD
    AMDG
    EENS
    NO2NOV2 ("no to the Novus Ordo and Vatican II")

    Any ideas?  It needs to be confined to seven letters and spaces.

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    Re: Traditional Catholic personalized license plates?
    « Reply #1 on: March 05, 2024, 11:53:50 AM »
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  • TRAD
    PIUS'58
    QUOPRIM
    SEDEVAC

    [EDIT: Sorry, I saw you didn't want anything sedevacantist. Oh well, I'll just leave these here in case some other sede is looking for a vanity plate abbreviation]


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    Re: Traditional Catholic personalized license plates?
    « Reply #2 on: March 05, 2024, 11:58:10 AM »
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  • H8VATIC2
    LTNONLY

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    Re: Traditional Catholic personalized license plates?
    « Reply #3 on: March 05, 2024, 12:14:19 PM »
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  • Or SEMIVAC for the sedeimpoundists.

    Save your money from the extra fees on the personalized plate. Find a good old-fashioned Dieu Le Roi decal instead.
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    Offline SimpleMan

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    Re: Traditional Catholic personalized license plates?
    « Reply #4 on: March 05, 2024, 12:54:19 PM »
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  • Or SEMIVAC for the sedeimpoundists.

    Save your money from the extra fees on the personalized plate. Find a good old-fashioned Dieu Le Roi decal instead.
    I already have a TLM bumper sticker on my car.  This is something I may not even do --- as you note, it does cost extra --- just an idea I've been mulling over.

    I have not gone sede because, at the end of the day, I can't make that call either way, and there are compelling arguments on both sides.  Somebody has to be wrong --- Francis can't be Pope and not be Pope at the same time (but then there are the arguments of formaliter-materialiter, "not quite vacant but not quite full", sedeimpedism, and so on).  IMO the strongest argument against SV is that of "(near-)universal peaceful acceptance", but I'm not sure how that applies if you have a putatively valid Pope on the one hand (Benedict, so some arguments go), still in fact the Pope until he died (ditto), and another one elected, albeit probably irregularly and possibly invalidly.  And as to what happened when Benedict died, I just don't know.

    Just being brutally honest, I would then be looking at the prospect of seeking out only non una cuм Masses, which are hard to find (at least in the part of the country where I live), and I don't seek to get a debate or argument started, but I'm still not convinced that a sedevacantist should be attending una cuм Masses (or that a sedeplenist should be assisting at non una cuм Masses, though I find a weaker argument for that, in that IMO omitting the name of the putative Pope makes no direct assertion one way or the other).  Might as well be honest and say that's a factor for me.

    So I just don't know.  I am at peace in the knowledge that this is a call I don't have to make, and I just live my Catholic life as though Francis doesn't even exist.  Nothing he says or does that is contrary to the Faith can bind me.  It may be fence-sitting, but I can't see a way clear to do otherwise.  I'm not going to get into a back-and-forth SV-SP argument here, as it ultimately resolves nothing.

    I am quite aware that opinions are all over the place here on CI regarding this issue.


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    Re: Traditional Catholic personalized license plates?
    « Reply #5 on: March 05, 2024, 01:37:15 PM »
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  • ...

    I have not gone sede because, at the end of the day, I can't make that call either way, and there are compelling arguments on both sides.  

    ...

    So I just don't know.  I am at peace in the knowledge that this is a call I don't have to make, and I just live my Catholic life as though Francis doesn't even exist.  Nothing he says or does that is contrary to the Faith can bind me.  It may be fence-sitting, but I can't see a way clear to do otherwise.  I'm not going to get into a back-and-forth SV-SP argument here, as it ultimately resolves nothing.

    This is interesting. You are the first person I know that thinks like me.

    I agree with you there.

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    Re: Traditional Catholic personalized license plates?
    « Reply #6 on: March 05, 2024, 02:02:06 PM »
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  • This is interesting. You are the first person I know that thinks like me.

    I agree with you there.
    Yeah, it's tough.

    And I know I open myself up to the question "all right, if you did have a non una cuм Mass readily available to you on a weekly basis, would you take the plunge then?".

    I don't know.  Right now I want to say "probably not".

    As a practical matter, I pay Francis no mind anyway.

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    Re: Traditional Catholic personalized license plates?
    « Reply #7 on: March 05, 2024, 02:05:03 PM »
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  • I once thought of custom plates (AMDG) but after 20 attempts adding various letters I gave up as they were all taken.  We settled for a bumper sticker, "Abortion is a WRONG not a RIGHT".

    Below is a list of plates that were rejected.  Scroll down to the "religion" category for some interesting rejects.

    https://s3.docuмentcloud.org/docuмents/7041166/Ontario-s-rejected-personalized-licence-plates.pdf
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    Re: Traditional Catholic personalized license plates?
    « Reply #8 on: March 05, 2024, 03:03:53 PM »
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  • I once saw an Ave Maria plate
    I recant many opinions on the crisis in the Church and moral theology that I have espoused on here from at least 2019-2021 don't take my postings from that time as well as 2022 possibly too seriously.

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    Re: Traditional Catholic personalized license plates?
    « Reply #9 on: March 05, 2024, 04:18:20 PM »
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  • Below is a list of plates that were rejected.  Scroll down to the "religion" category for some interesting rejects.

    https://s3.docuмentcloud.org/docuмents/7041166/Ontario-s-rejected-personalized-licence-plates.pdf
    Sorry, the site just won't copy or post properly.
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    Re: Traditional Catholic personalized license plates?
    « Reply #10 on: March 05, 2024, 04:21:15 PM »
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  • I once thought of custom plates (AMDG) but after 20 attempts adding various letters I gave up as they were all taken.  We settled for a bumper sticker, "Abortion is a WRONG not a RIGHT".

    Below is a list of plates that were rejected.  Scroll down to the "religion" category for some interesting rejects.

    https://s3.docuмentcloud.org/docuмents/7041166/Ontario-s-rejected-personalized-licence-plates.pdf
    I don't think AMDG, UIOGD, or EENS would be taken in my state (Catholics in the single digit percentages).

    Fundamentalist evangelicals also believe in EENS (though obviously they don't call it that), they just define "Church" differently, viz. all people who have "been saved", who have "accepted Christ as their Lord and personal Savior".  Especially if they've been reading some Fathers of the Church (and some of them do, to their credit), you will, once in a great while, hear them rattle off a Latin theological expression, but the typical Baptist in the pew doesn't do that.


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    Re: Traditional Catholic personalized license plates?
    « Reply #11 on: March 05, 2024, 05:59:36 PM »
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  • I have been thinking about checking if "EENS" is available in my state haha
    John 15:19  If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

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    Re: Traditional Catholic personalized license plates?
    « Reply #12 on: March 05, 2024, 11:09:22 PM »
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  • I have been thinking about checking if "EENS" is available in my state haha
    Nobody outside of certain rarefied and minuscule Catholic circles, where the phrase is actually used, would have even the foggiest notion of what "EENS" means.  You're probably good.

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    Re: Traditional Catholic personalized license plates?
    « Reply #13 on: March 05, 2024, 11:35:02 PM »
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  • So I just don't know.  I am at peace in the knowledge that this is a call I don't have to make, and I just live my Catholic life as though Francis doesn't even exist.  Nothing he says or does that is contrary to the Faith can bind me.  It may be fence-sitting, but I can't see a way clear to do otherwise.  
    My conclusions on the subject are the same. My husband is staunchly non-sede but I sympathize with aspects of the position. Ultimately it does me little use to bother myself with it as it distracts me from my state in life. 

    My first thought for your license plate was JMJPREV2 until I realized that was 8 letters. 🤦‍♀️ 

    Maybe JMJNOV2

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    Re: Traditional Catholic personalized license plates?
    « Reply #14 on: March 06, 2024, 03:45:15 PM »
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  • This is interesting. You are the first person I know that thinks like me.

    I agree with you there.
    Is there a label for us?  Then count me in.