Well, seeing as how the annihilation of the entire human race is at stake we can either be like:












Or we can be like:




I know it's Christmastide and there are more joyful threads to visit.

The Church reminds us that the Christ Child was not born into a world of lasting peace and joy, however.

Today is the Feast of Stephen which is a reminder of the price each of us may be called to pay in the near future. 

We need to be very clear why we may be called to follow in St Stephen's footsteps or we might cave and be very sorry to find ourselves still alive but slaves to a system the likes the world has never seen.

St Stephen's Day is followed quickly by the Feast of the Holy Innocents with the Holy Babe in the cross hairs of a genocide.

Thank goodness St Joseph was well informed of the enemies plans and didn't ignore the signs.  He had the courage to face the dangers and devise an escape for his family!

May the Holy Angels guide us as well!

May the peace of the Christ Child reign in our hearts despite the war raging all around us!

Oh my goodness, another DUH.  You are preaching to the choir.

You sound like a lady trying to convert a Jehovah's Witness or something. All you need to do is trade places with the Jehovah on the street corner and her pamphlets. Yikes. You fit right in to my point; too many people OVER-ANALYZE stuff, and I am finding a lot of that here. There is a lot of narrow-mindedness and one-track thinking. But if a person is so caught up in it, they will NOT see it! They are in too deep. They look for negative stuff to happen, and so it will. 

I have figured out (without even looking at too many avatars), that I would bet the great majority of people actually posting on the forums have been here a lonnnng time--5 or 10 years or more. I would also bet it is their only social outlet for many, and the prime outlet for many others. Which is fine, because Trads are spread all over, etc. I am not knocking that in itself. 

But if you have ever figured out how groups behave, they all go through certain dynamics and adopt certain roles and hierarchies. It is very clear that this forum has a pecking order and group-think and group dynamics and that there are certain people in certain sub-groups. Make of that what you will.

And if you go looking for martyrdom, well, I am sorry to tell you that you will be disappointed. VERY few people are called to that route. We aren't supposed to actually seek it out either.

Have a nice day, Anne.

This thread 

I've been listening to this guy's videos lately, and he has some pretty interesting critiques of modern cosmology. I don't know what flavor of Christian he is, probably not trad Catholic given some of the language he uses, but the points he makes are good.

Language warning.

I watched about half of the video. Some very good points are made. He may be right about the kabbalistic connection with NASA and the new cosmological worldview. I had assumed previously that NASA and the rest of the new cosmologists were pagan or atheistic. I'll have to reconsider. 

He sounds Catholic, but it's difficult to tell. Some Catholics do use bad language. There are worse things.

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