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« Reply #5 on: August 13, 2014, 08:06:13 AM »
Quote from: 1st Mansion Tenant
umm.... those videos are by Trickster? Not funny or enlightening,  just annoying. I dunnno, maybe it's European or Canadian  humor of some variety that I just don't get. (Kind of embarrassed for him...)


Hi 1st Mansion Tenant, are you referring to my videos or Placido Pax (Alphonse Jr)'s videos?  

If you are talking about mine, your opinion is yours and it is valid and I respect it.  The purpose of my video's is to focus a discussion on Traditional Catholicism (which I find very rich) and indigenous spirituality.  Hence I talk about inculturation etc.

These videos' are not scripted, they are pretty spontaneous thoughts, because part of what I am doing now is to learn how to use my camera and so forth.  I hope to create a video-blog which will approach subjects in more of a systematic manner.

As an example, i want to do video-blogs on the writings of the popes in relation to the context, background, purposes and what the encyclicals say and how they relate to the world, and in particular our times.

But for now, I am strictly an amateur, putting my thoughts out there; people are free to listen or move on to the next posting.   It's all good in my mind.

Bruce

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« Reply #6 on: August 13, 2014, 08:08:02 AM »
Quote from: BTNYC
Quote from: 1st Mansion Tenant
umm.... those videos are by Trickster?


Er, no... Alphonsus Jr... As per the "life imitates parody" bit in the title.

Humor is, of course, somewhat subjective. I find the Placido Pax videos to be hilarious because they're such a spot-on satire of typical Novus Ordite errors and hypocrisies.

As it has to do with the Crisis in the Church, it's really a gallows humor of the darkest kind, but Modernist absurdity lends itself so naturally to comedy...

And laughing at this kind of absurdity is the next most logical reaction to it... right after weeping.


I agree with you BTNYC on that assessment of Alphonsus Jr.'s videos.

Bruce


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« Reply #7 on: August 13, 2014, 08:20:43 AM »
Quote from: MaterDominici
His Taj Mahony tour was pretty good, but "Placido" is just annoying. He must have a really dull morning commute. : )

(Is that Jitpring?)


Yes, Jitpring. I'd forgotten his CI handle.

I imagine his commute gives him time to ruminate about these things and making the videos is cathartic for him.

There are worse ways to vent the very justifiable anger that the Modernist Crisis naturally elicits.

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« Reply #8 on: August 13, 2014, 11:51:25 AM »
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But for now, I am strictly an amateur, putting my thoughts out there; people are free to listen or move on to the next posting.  It's all good in my mind.

Bruce


Yes, that is the problem. It's not "all good"--some of it is bad. Much the same argument is advanced in favor of  the availability of pornography: one can always change the channel. Once obnoxious, wrongheaded moral opinions are allowed to flourish, the weeds overtake the flowers.  

One does not arrive at truth by continuous compromise. The result is lukewarm and polluted mashed potatoes. And we all know what happens to the lukewarm.

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« Reply #9 on: August 13, 2014, 02:01:00 PM »
Quote from: trickster

Hi BTNYC... I checked out Placido Pax; what an interesting character.. I only listen to two videos and he employs an interesting method in underlining the unreasonable attacks on traditionalists.  

 


I note your use of that qualifier and interpret it to mean that you believe there are "reasonable attacks" on Traditionalists? Would your post defending and promoting the error of Feminism be an example of such a "reasonable" attack on Traditionalists?

If so, have a look again at the responses you garnered. We oppose and abominate your advocacy of error, not because it is an affront to Traditionalists, (i.e. ourselves), but because it is objectively false, and is objectively harmful to society, to persons, and to souls, and is objectively offensive to Almighty God.

You've wrongly framed the argument as being between Traditionalists and those who attack us. That's a relativistic and man-centered understanding which totally leaves God and Objective Truth out of it. That is unfortunate, but not at all surprising coming from a Novus Ordite.

Lex orandi, lex credendi applies for both good and ill, after all.