We will have to live with things the way they are till Catholics realize there is a crisis and return to live the faith. It does not look to me like that will be any time soon, as Catholics think everything is great and that only a few "nuts" think there is a crisis in the Church. As far as "enduring" it is not so hard to do, as no one is being beheading or ripped apart by hooks, or shot through with arrows for not burning incense to the gods.

We will sooner see the entire NO apostasise than that. As it stands, the vast majority of young Catholics are heretics(in terms of basic stuff, like transubstantiation, birth control, etc.), and that's only counting the small percentage who actually do go to Mass and take their faith in any way seriously. When the current grey flock die off, the churches will empty and the remaining few who bother to go will barely be Catholic in belief at all. This is the Great Apostasy of the End Times, surely. 

Well that's why I asked, Nadir, because it's just wrong. There was no King of France 100 years ago, and they said that the King of France was asked 100 years BEFORE the French Revolution, so not in 1929. The French Revolution happened in 1789, so once again not 100 years ago, not even close.

You misread what I said, forlorn. I apologize, my statement wasn’t very clearly written. 

I was talking about the kings of France BEFORE the French Revolution. Our Lord asked a French king (not sure who) to consecrate France to His Sacred Heart. The kings refused and 100 years after the initial request, the Revolution started. 

I have heard people speculate that something similar will happen on account of Our Lady’s request being unfulfilled. 2029 will be the 100 year anniversary of Our Lady’s consecration request.  

We will have to live with things the way they are till Catholics realize there is a crisis and return to live the faith. It does not look to me like that will be any time soon, as Catholics think everything is great and that only a few "nuts" think there is a crisis in the Church. As far as "enduring" it is not so hard to do, as no one is being beheading or ripped apart by hooks, or shot through with arrows for not burning incense to the gods.

NOT YET!

Yeah Pocher, that's right.

It's just been "eclipsed" or covered-up like Our Lady of LaSalette warned.
Sadly, most people who call themselves Catholics today, don't really understand what the Catholic Church is

I take Jesus at His Word.

We will have to live with things the way they are till Catholics realize there is a crisis and return to live the faith. It does not look to me like that will be any time soon, as Catholics think everything is great and that only a few "nuts" think there is a crisis in the Church. As far as "enduring" it is not so hard to do, as no one is being beheading or ripped apart by hooks, or shot through with arrows for not burning incense to the gods.

Beheading or ripped apart by hooks is too old fashioned for modern day techniques.



The Australian
12:00AM February 22, 2018

Get ready for the technology body invasion. Connected sensors, millimetre-sized robots and even a supplementary brain could enhance our lives from within our bodies. And we may not mind if we like the benefits. Then again, we may care if this internal technology makes us more vulnerable to hacking. Imagine being murdered from across the globe by an anonymous bot. An Inspector Morse, Holmes or a Vera might hit a brick wall trying to find the villain.

The truth is, humankind already is comfortable with some tech augmenting our bodies. We welcome Cochlear implants, pacemakers, replacement hips and knee joints when we need them, and the prospect of organs being 3-D printed or grown from stem cells is on the horizon. That will extend lives. At the cutting edge there are prosthetic limbs we can control with the brain.

But going further, the debate gets contentious. Biohacking was a discussion point at this week’s SingularityU conference in Sydney, organised by US-based start-up Singularity University.

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The tech think tank was founded in 2008 at the NASA Research Park in California and makes a business out of predicting the future. It holds summits worldwide and this week hosted its first in Australia. It is banking on its futurists, enthusiasts and academics making the right calls about rapid technological change for the benefit of policymakers, businesspeople and investors.

But not everyone at Singularity University is a conventional futurist. Take Tim Cannon, the chief information officer of Grindhouse Netware, a biotechnical start-up that builds gadgetry that can be implanted in your body. Such biohackers are called grinders.

Cannon is more than your typical cyborg in waiting. Sure, he has an RFID (radio-frequency identification) tag in his hand, which allows him to open security doors with his palm. He has subcutaneous “light tattoos” that highlight skin and tattoos on the surface.

He also experimented with embedding a sensor in his body that measures his internal temperature and is linked to his home climate control system. If his body feels hot, the house cools down.

Cannon says he is working with Utah State University on sensors that can be implanted in cattle to record and transmit their vital signs. The outcome is instant feedback on the health of a herd: an illness, a cow on heat, pregnancy or early detection of a disease affecting an entire herd.

Heart rate, oxygen saturation, pulse wave velocity and body temperature are some of the measurable metrics. Implants would be connected through a long-range wide area network, he says.

Cannon believes in 15 years humans will be embedded with enough biometric sensors to gain an accurate picture of their health — a human version of a diagnostic computer system in a car.

It’s the linking of these devices to the periphery of the central nervous system, and eventually to the nervous system, that is particularly contentious. He points to experiments where a culture of rat brain cells can react to sensor data and move a robot. It could be the basis for a second brain — an implanted human coprocessor.
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Instead of augmenting our existing brains, we could command a co-processor brain to perform more complex tasks. It could be linked to a battery of sensors in our bodies, and offer feedback.

The electrical pulses generated by the brain to control, say, the movement of your little finger can be mapped, so it also would be possible to map such functions on to commanding a co-processor brain.

Cannon has a long-term vision that journeys into theology. Across time, he sees the human brain connected to so much technology that most of our organic bodies become redundant. He says humans won’t travel to the stars in spaceships, they will be those spaceships.

Other researchers are focused on the here and now. Sarah Bergbreiter, associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Maryland, specialises in building centimetre-scale robots that use millimetre-scale power systems.
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Some of her tiny robots are smaller than ants. Their mission is to travel in the body to the sites of trauma and carry out procedures under a surgeon’s control.

“Don’t think of a creepy crawling insect inside of you, I think that’s a wrong image perhaps,” Bergbreiter says. “If you think of what you could fit at the end of a catheter in terms of sensing, actuation control and mechanisms, you can do much more complex surgical tasks with much less invasiveness. There’s a lot of medical procedures the people are looking at using these for, everything from eye surgery to GI (gastrointestinal) tract work.”

A mini submarine in your system? “Well, not quite Fantastic Voyage,” she replies, referring to Richard Fleischer’s 1966 sci-fi movie about a shrunken submarine inside a human body attempting to remove a blood clot. But it does sound like Fantastic Voyage come true.

“My long-term goal is to start looking at the medical applications of the work that we do,” Bergbreiter says. “The other thing we primarily use them for is with biologists to understand biomechanics, how things can run around as well as they do.”
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As a specialist in tiny robots, can she say whether it’s true that tiny flying mechanical insects are used for espionage — robots resembling a proverbial fly on the wall? She dismisses the idea. “Something that can fly around is still pretty far out because of the power challenges. It becomes a battery challenge,” she says.

A colleague was working on flying robots with a wing span of 3cm or so, she says. They fly, but the battery size and weight limits flight time to seconds or, at best, to minutes. However, drones about 5cm across are being used in the field for surveillance.

Invasive body tech may seem empowering to some and frightening to others. But there is a cost either way: the growing susceptibility of the human body to hacking, with digital viruses potentially as lethal as biological ones.

“Now for the very first time, with pacemakers and Cochlear implants and the like, the human body itself is subject to cyber attack,” says Marc Goodman, author of bestseller Future Crimes.

It seems you could be killed by a bot operating on the other side of the world, in what would be the perfect murder. “In my paper Who Does the Autopsy, the question that I posed is, when you have a 70 or 80-year-old man who died and had a pacemaker, how will you know if it’s natural causes or if the pacemaker was hacked?

“Because currently the court has no experience in doing computer forensics on all these devices, and the police have no experience in doing it,” he tells The Australian.

Goodman also warns about genetic privacy. He says that, a few years ago, to sequence someone’s genome cost $US3 billion. Now there are companies in the US that will do a version of your genetic sequencing for $US99 ($126).
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“If you read the terms of service it says they’ve got the right to sell your genetic data to advertisers. There will be quite a few privacy concerns around this. Prospective employers, insurers and criminals could glean personal information such as sɛҳuąƖ orientation, temperament, psychological challenges, and whether you have schizophrenia. Criminals could replicate your DNA and leave it at the scene of a crime.”

Whether these particular outcomes manifest remains to be seen. But the augmentation of the human body with technology is a prospect that Singularity University is grappling with, nonetheless.

The Australian

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https://christianjournal.net/turning-point/science/4th/dna-mod/artificial-creation-lab-made-humans-scientists-grow-human-eggs-to-full-maturity-outside-the-womb/

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/332749

https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/31542-at-world-government-summit-globalists-push-un-agenda-2030?vsmaid=3507&vcid=2442

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These people are living in a fantasy world.  The effect is never greater than the cause.  Computers are good at accomplishing tasks fast and efficiently and they are good at recalling previously stored information.  But they don’t have minds, they don’t have self awareness, they don’t have true intelligence and they don’t have souls.  Therefore they will never become anything more than a tool of true intelligent beings namely human persons.  Which means they can be used for both good and bad.  We will not become slaves of computers but we could very well become slaves of the people who control the computers.

2028 will be 70 years since the death of Pius XII.

So what? 2017 was 100 year anniversary of Fatima and nothing happened.

Won't 2027 be 100 years since Our Lady asked for the consecration of Russia?

Muh Fatima !!