Charity- I don't know you or Mark 79. Everyone here is operating from behind an electronic curtain, so- to speak. However, if what you say is true about Mark 79, then I do apologize for accusing him of being phony and a crypto Jєω. In spite of that, the steady, consistent diet of what the SS is up to is really(my opinion) in a sense a diversion of time and energy best spent on prayer and reparation. To know what the SS is up to and wants for every catholic individually and for the church as a whole, study the crucifix and passion Christ. Thats all that is necessary. If Catholics pray like they mean it and were praying like they mean it, the SS would have very little success against the church.
Also, in spite of your testimony to the upright moral integrity of Mark 79, I would never associate with him because of his reckless position on smoking pot. There is nothing upright about the destruction caused by smoking pot. Studies don't change reality. By the way, how many of those peer reviewed studies on pot were done by members of the tribe? The military, civil service jobs and Mark 79's own job prohibit pot use because it is not harmless. I don't see how someone can "tolerate" this destructive vice connected with loose morals and souls existing out side the state of grace and call themselves catholic.
My friend, Charity, is more generous in his praise than I deserve. 'nuff said.
@GTD I put no demand or expectation on what you choose to do. If you want to live on your knees, that is your choice and perhaps what God wants for you. Just as you don't have to be a clone of me, I do not—and am not—a clone of you.
For Meg, "activism" evokes leftism. Remarkably stupid for someone who should know the meaning of CATHOLIC ACTION.
After already having answered her question "why?" she asked it again. In every case of activism I mentioned previously, the answer has been "circuмstances" and "If I don't, who will?"
An example. A 12-year-old altar boy that I knew well was so brutally sodomized by our pastor, a priest who ate at our dinner table, that the boy needed emergency rectal surgery. My friends, the parents, reported the priest. The Bishop paid the boy's medical bills and promised that the priest would never be around children again. 6 months later the patents discovered that the priest was teaching at a Catholic grammar school. THAT was when the parents told me about it. That priest has not spent a nano-second in a police station. He is living comofrtably with his catamite in his Hawaiian beach condo. THAT is when I became an anti-sodomite activist and joined shoulder-to-shoulder with one of my other friends here at CI to fight the pederast plague in the Dioceses of Oakland and San Jose. The cops were called on us plenty of times. Two dioceses stationed security guards to prevent us from picketing and leafleting, but they could never quite predict which parish we'd choose Sunday after Sunday/ If not me, who? If not him, who? Why not YOU?
Similarly, the pain of others awoke me about MJ. You call me reckless. I call you CRUEL. You are so damn high and mighty that you place your rabid prejudices about MJ before the needs of others. You, Meg, and the jerk who laughs ("LOL") about dragging our children into his rabies find all manner of excuses to rationalize your denial of the medical benefits of MJ.
You pretend I am hoisted on my own petard because I mention that I can be drug tested at any moment. You pretend that the law proves the risk. By such asinine and anti-Catholic illogic, the law then justifies abortion, sodomite marriage, and genetic bioweapon mandates, as also slavery was the law of the land.
If you really believe that .gov/.zog "malum prohibitum" law defines what is right and wrong, you are the enemy of every practicing Catholic.
"Studies don't change reality"??? Neither do your faction's rabid delusions change the reality of medical benefit for the long list of diseases I have mentioned–and backed up with serious evidence since my first post in this thread. If a man tells you his seizures are gone, his rectal bleeding has stopped, he is no longer vomiting, he has been able to stop Fentanyl patches and Oxycontin, yet you and Meg can spit in his face saying that his "intent is just to get high," you are CRUEL and WICKED MONSTERS. As my year of hospitalization and rehab have well demonstrated, there is no shortage of pain in this world. Who the hell are you to deny relief to anyone?
I throw your insult back in your face. Your pompous ignorant cruelty makes you a shame to Catholics.