Farrow's theology ,sourcings as well as his religious antennae ,cultural readings of the signs is married to a fine grounding in academic assertions,well rooted.
What I'd add is that satan surely danced at the foot of Calvary's cross that first Good Friday, and would have had his ultimate "lost weekend"on the Saturday, pre dawn on the Sunday too?
If ever this was to be his world in toto, then that would have been the time.
Now we worship He who walked out of the tomb, even leaving his shroud spotless and neatly folded! My kinda guy!
So He's not done. Not at all.
Just take hold of His ceaseless promises, in a reasoned and ordered way; seeking Truth tellers to build with..two or more remember?
Their vicious and evil desperations and tactics do chill, their global pretentions and assumptions would seem all too real ,to we who wander through this valley in 2023.
You can count on this: the future and inevitable community of a higher Order will interfere in the internal life of communities of a lower order, and not only interfere but control. And not only in the communities lower in the order, but in the members of all such communities. We can look forward to an autocratic hierarchical Order that will be a global authority. We can also look forward to expropriation of everything we now consider ours: our thought will be expropriated by AI, as will our procreative sexuality by alphabet-soup sensuality, our identity by digitized social credits, and our individual health status by One Health. We will be denied the option of having a self. In exchange for all this expropriation, we will be given a cross of anonymity to bear and be obliged to follow those higher in the Order. There will be individuals, of course, who willingly deny themselves and take up their cross of anonymity by their own choosing.
This will come about in part because, as you pointed out, Maoist tactics are being used to capture the youth. A key Maoist tactic is to turn away from contemplating the works of classical thinkers like Augustine and Farrow and turn toward a way of doing that excites, such as tearing down monuments, cancelling historical figures and bullying those to be excluded from a diverse, equitable, inclusive community. Young people will turn their backs to erudite substacks and turn their faces to slogan-style twittering from Mao’s red book. They will be easily manipulated.
Our resistance as old people who can remember the way we were is a lost cause.
It often feels like a lost cause, but it isn't. The revolution, as Del Noce points out, is determined to erase our memories. Yet it cannot actually do so. Every act of remembrance and above all every faithful Eucharist precisely as an act of remembrance—though of course it is more than that—is a spoke in the wheel of the revolution. That is why there is such hatred for these acts and why attempts are made to ban them. Bring one young person into knowledge and experience of them and you have struck a blow that may ring for the rest of time, as it will for eternity. "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever." The revolution, no matter how much force and power it accrues, cannot change that.
The evolution will simply cancel Jesus, leaving him cancelled yesterday, today and forever. Perhaps a DEI militant will walk by the open door of a church and happen to hear a gospel reading of Jesus laying his hands on children and touching them. No context is needed for cancellation, as we know, just a tweet. Moreover, the academic activists of the evolution have already cancelled Heaven, Hell and Eternity. In the future autocratic hierarchical order, the few individuals who still believe that these cancellations are of no effect will be treated to restore their sanity. Indeed, already in 2023 we are mindful that such believers are viewed in the mass media as outliers of sanity, if not borderline insane. We saw this in the media coverage of the 'unrepentant' pastors during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
Excellent essay. I wonder…how are these elites defining health? It doesn’t appear to have anything in common with my understanding of health or what it means to be healthy.
Update on the WHO treaty (Nov. 2023): https://merylnass.substack.com/p/why-is-everyone-concerned-about-the
Another angle of approach, reaching the conclusion that "this Is Organized Crime": https://reportfromplanetearth.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-a-protection-racket
Here's what local resistance can look like: pic.twitter.com/YsliXj2QzQ
Thanks to folk like this: https://gather2030.substack.com/
Pertinent and powerful. A global “protection racket” indeed.
These essays are outstanding.
Farrow's theology ,sourcings as well as his religious antennae ,cultural readings of the signs is married to a fine grounding in academic assertions,well rooted.
What I'd add is that satan surely danced at the foot of Calvary's cross that first Good Friday, and would have had his ultimate "lost weekend"on the Saturday, pre dawn on the Sunday too?
If ever this was to be his world in toto, then that would have been the time.
Now we worship He who walked out of the tomb, even leaving his shroud spotless and neatly folded! My kinda guy!
So He's not done. Not at all.
Just take hold of His ceaseless promises, in a reasoned and ordered way; seeking Truth tellers to build with..two or more remember?
Their vicious and evil desperations and tactics do chill, their global pretentions and assumptions would seem all too real ,to we who wander through this valley in 2023.
But Sundays coming ...
You can count on this: the future and inevitable community of a higher Order will interfere in the internal life of communities of a lower order, and not only interfere but control. And not only in the communities lower in the order, but in the members of all such communities. We can look forward to an autocratic hierarchical Order that will be a global authority. We can also look forward to expropriation of everything we now consider ours: our thought will be expropriated by AI, as will our procreative sexuality by alphabet-soup sensuality, our identity by digitized social credits, and our individual health status by One Health. We will be denied the option of having a self. In exchange for all this expropriation, we will be given a cross of anonymity to bear and be obliged to follow those higher in the Order. There will be individuals, of course, who willingly deny themselves and take up their cross of anonymity by their own choosing.
This will come about in part because, as you pointed out, Maoist tactics are being used to capture the youth. A key Maoist tactic is to turn away from contemplating the works of classical thinkers like Augustine and Farrow and turn toward a way of doing that excites, such as tearing down monuments, cancelling historical figures and bullying those to be excluded from a diverse, equitable, inclusive community. Young people will turn their backs to erudite substacks and turn their faces to slogan-style twittering from Mao’s red book. They will be easily manipulated.
Our resistance as old people who can remember the way we were is a lost cause.
It often feels like a lost cause, but it isn't. The revolution, as Del Noce points out, is determined to erase our memories. Yet it cannot actually do so. Every act of remembrance and above all every faithful Eucharist precisely as an act of remembrance—though of course it is more than that—is a spoke in the wheel of the revolution. That is why there is such hatred for these acts and why attempts are made to ban them. Bring one young person into knowledge and experience of them and you have struck a blow that may ring for the rest of time, as it will for eternity. "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever." The revolution, no matter how much force and power it accrues, cannot change that.
The evolution will simply cancel Jesus, leaving him cancelled yesterday, today and forever. Perhaps a DEI militant will walk by the open door of a church and happen to hear a gospel reading of Jesus laying his hands on children and touching them. No context is needed for cancellation, as we know, just a tweet. Moreover, the academic activists of the evolution have already cancelled Heaven, Hell and Eternity. In the future autocratic hierarchical order, the few individuals who still believe that these cancellations are of no effect will be treated to restore their sanity. Indeed, already in 2023 we are mindful that such believers are viewed in the mass media as outliers of sanity, if not borderline insane. We saw this in the media coverage of the 'unrepentant' pastors during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
Excellent essay. I wonder…how are these elites defining health? It doesn’t appear to have anything in common with my understanding of health or what it means to be healthy.
Stay tuned for Part 3.
Only one correction: it was not Biden, but *president warp speed*'s Biden.