Gnosticism

It's hard to find an easy explanation why the new age beliefs differ from Christianity, but this essay from the CSMonitor is a pretty easy explanation of the problem.

For Tolle, echoing the teachings of the ancient Gnostics, the chief error is ignorance of our true self. This leads to the rise of "egoic mind patterns," a false consciousness that causes distress. This ego also mistakenly sees as real the "forms" and "content" of everyday life and the distinctions we see therein: right and wrong, creature and Creator.
The spiritual truth, according to Tolle, is that much of what the ego calls reality is merely – as the Hindus say – maya, illusion. Since the basic human problem is ignorance owing to illusion, the solution is the knowledge of how to attain a transformed state of human consciousness....

The Bible declares that the basic problem is not ignorance, but sin. Thus the solution is not self-realization through esoteric knowledge, but the grace that flows from the depths of God's love. As we receive God's gift of salvation by believing in Jesus Christ, we become, not gods, but "new creatures," working for and awaiting the Creator's new heaven and earth.
There is a further source of confusion. Though sounding very open, humble, and inclusive, Tolle's teachings implicitly reject this biblical truth. He declares that "all religions are equally true and equally false." But notice: While he and Oprah dismiss religious teaching that claims to be the only way and the only truth, the unstated, but logically inescapable corollary is that theirs is the only way! ...

The Baptist-raised Oprah said she could because she had opened her mind to Tolle's way of thinking and, earlier in life, freed herself from church rules and doctrine. In so doing, though, Oprah – and her millions of followers – are accepting the rules and doctrines of another system, 

 so chose which you want to follow.

Years ago, I read the Aquarius conspiracy, and after reading it, was disturbed but couldn't decide why...finally I realized: it was about upper middle class intelligent people. There was nothing in it for the lower or working classes or the poor, and there was nothing in it about children. Nope, ordinary folks need not apply.

Years ago, someone asked Pagals, a pusher of the gnostic gospels, why orthodox christianity triuumphed, and she replied because Christianity made ordinary life meaningful.

One problem with the post Vatican II catholic church is it's emphasis on "helping the poor" and the disappearance of finding holiness in ordinary life. They actually discouraged the rosary, the statues and holy pictures that remind us in our homes, and ignored the "little way" of St Therese, where every little thing you do could become a prayer.

Self esteem

iconoclast Brendan O'Neil at Spiked discusses why "gay marriage" is not about marriage, but about making gays feel better about who they are.

Which is why the cupcake wars will continue.

The aim of this very modern form of religious persecution is to discover and expose those whose attitudes have not yet been corrected by the top-down enforcement of parity of esteem, of protected feelings, for gays. That cultural equality is concerned not merely with altering laws, but with reshaping culture and even belief itself, is clear from the growing trend for harassing those who do not bow before the altar of gay marriage. Joan Burton made clear that this trend will now intensify in Ireland, when she said there will be no ‘conscience clause’ in the New Ireland: it would be intolerable, she said, to ‘exclude some people or some institutions from the operation of marriage equality’. That is, all must agree, all must partake; there can be no room for the exercise of individual conscience when it comes to the engineering of a new cultural climate.

family soap opera

the latest soap opera here is that I am now not just asked to look the other way and keep my tart tongue quiet about my step son's serial schtupping of his male employees (oh but they didn't object, I am told) but now letting him hire his latest amour as supervisor, a task that he is not qualified for, but never mind.

So it's not just about a self centered view of sex, and not just a demand that his wife, his child, and me tolerate him having a paramour, but this has expanded into tolerating the paramour as a supervisor, diverting a lot of the company's money for unknown reasons (and known reasons, such as fixing up a love nest in the third floor), ignoring that my husband's hard earned savings were no longer in his bank book so I had to use my money to bury him, but now I was asked to let him eat with me at the table.

I said no, and that if I saw him on my side of the property, I'd throw him out again (I already told the cook not to cook for him...but she cooks a lot so if the food is shared, we can't stop it).

So a simple "I'm gay and entitled to sex" has morphed not only into stealing, the breaking of his marital promise, but also a violation of social justice. Sexual harassment in it's worst form: and he justified sexual harassment of employees (including rape) because they "didn't object", and now we have the hiring of an unqualified supervisor for sexual favors (this is also a form of discrimination under US labor law, since it discriminates against those who didn't get the job).

The longer I stay here, the more homophobic I get.

Just to cause irritation, I pointed out that soon the Philippines will have a divorce law, and that his wife is entitled to half of the family assets, especially since she essentially ran the business for the last 20 years.

Presumably he will figure out how to go bankrupt before the law is changed.

Me, I already told her to get a civil separation and a church annulment. Heck, I told her before she married him that a good priest would refuse to marry them because the husband was unable to enter into a true marriage.

I have known too many pious ladies whose lives were destroyed by gays who used marriage to try to cover up their desires, and who then destroyed their wives and families when their desires got out of control.

A good argument for gay marriage, but after giving HIV prevention lectures, one has to agree with the Catholic church that this is a disordered condition, not just a simple choice of whom to have sex with. This is, of course, not the only "disordered" condition according to the church: so is promiscuity, alcoholism and being prone to drug addiction, and of course many mental disorders i.e. bipolar disease and schizophrenia come to mind.

So being gay is now "okay", and of course the modern world also will approve of their people using marijuana (with a long half life, unlike alcohol, which metabolizes out of the system within 12 hours, will alter one's mental state for days or months for those who use it regularly).

At least there is no drug use (that we know about) in our case.

some good news for a change

archbishop Romero is being beatified (first step to being declared a saint).

his ebook can be found HERE.

a film about his life here.



yes, he is played for by the actor made famous as Gomez in the Addams family film and for being in the Kiss of the Spider woman...just showing that actors are not the same as the characters they portray.

I can't watch the film, because the ambush of a priest's car resembles the ambush and murder of some friends when I worked in Africa.

Romero was portrayed in several other films LINK

Including in Oliver Stone's film Salvador

reality check

one only has to see how the news reports repeatedly pushed abortion and divorce in the 1970's, and now is pushing gay marriage (in the future, euthanasia and death panels which will deny "futile care" that will only prolong the life of someone they deem lacks quality of life).

So after US sources pushed millions of dollars of propaganda in Ireland, why think that the vote for "gay marriage" means the church needs a "reality check". Local bloggers report that there were signs up all over promoting this, and the bishop's opposition was lukewarm at best.

One of Ireland's most senior Catholic clerics has called for the Church to take a "reality check" following the country's overwhelming vote in favour of same-sex marriage.

The reality is that for at least 40 years (when I last visited that country) the press was rabidly anti Catholic. The reason? The same as here in the Philippines: The Catholic church is seen as the enemy standing in the way of becoming a "modern" country... The "pedophile" crisis was a godsend to them, and any hint of scandal is trumpeted without a follow up to see if it was true.

So the propaganda folks won. Who wudda thot?

and now the bishops want the church to change her stripes to conform to the NWO.

Excuse my sarcasm when priests who prey on teenaged boys are being used to allow society to push the lifestyle that proclaims promiscuity (not that the BBC etc. hasn't pushed living together abortion etc. for the last two generations in both the news and the media). So the "glee" generation is all hip to being gay. Duh.

There was also a generational divide - with the yes campaign capturing the interest and enthusiasm of young people in a way that few elections do. Some living abroad even returned home to Ireland simply to visit the ballot box.

That is the second report about numerous people flying home to vote...where did this story come from? And why are they still allowed to vote if they live elsewhere (if they are citizens, don't they have absentee ballots like we do?)

yet one wonders:

the vote:In total, 1,201,607 people voted in favour of same-sex marriage, while 734,300 voted against.

the population: 4.2 million, of which a half million are not of Irish ethnicity but presumably could vote.

This surprised me: Only 4 million? That was the estimated population before the potato famine was 8 million...famine, disease, and emigration caused the population to fall.

actually the population today is 5.6 million if you include the north, where "gay marriage" is not allowed even though it is part of the UK.

ah, but who is the enemy for the bishops? The House of prayer in Achill. There may be some financial irregularities here, but considering the propaganda of the press against the visionary and the condemnation of the bishops, I wonder. That place is backed by a priest who is in exile for his involvement in being a whistleblower about one of the pink palaces seminaries.

The visionary warned years ago if the people approved the Maastrict treaty, that Ireland would lose the faith. It took two tries, but the powers that be finally got the irish people to approve of that treaty, and we now see the fruits of that referendum. A list of her prophecies is here for your perusal...she seems a bit egotistical so maybe her prophacies are just from ESP and not God, but they are actually run of the mill and similar to those prophecized by Charismatics, or even hinted at by society's artistic empaths in the latest sci fi movies (District 13 about immigration, Fury road about societies without marriage, the Handmaiden's Tale about ISIS, Hunger Games about a rich elite in district one manipulating the poorer districts, the Irish film Calvary and the old play Catholics in showing the dilemma of Catholics in a hostile chuch and secular climate)...

This vote in Ireland makes me wonder if the problem is in the bishops...like most Americans, I have little respect for bishops....they are wishy washy about rooting out pedophilia and in opposing the sexual mafia, but they are outspoken against the people are praying at the shrine (when maybe what is needed is a good accountant for their books..religious people are notoriously bad at such things).

many years ago, Teresa of Avila founded a reform Carmelite convent in Spain and there was an uproar against the nuns (she wrote her famous biography as a reply to the Inquisition). Her tart reply against the critics was why were they so upset about a bunch of women who merely were praying?

A similar semi hysterical opposition was and is seen against the visions at Medjugorje: at one point, in the midst of a civil war when 100 thousand people in Yugoslavia had died and Mostar churches and mosques were being destroyed, the local bishop was asked what was the main problem the church in that country faced, and he said Medjugorje.

huh?

Ah but miracles are forbidden in the new liberal nwo church.

(yes, there are some problems at Medjugore, as the "traditionalists" point out, but one reason I visited there is that Michael Davies screed against the place was so over the top about minor problems that I figured there might be something good about the place.).

So now, someone who seems to be the voice in the wilderness has been warning about what would happen in Ireland and what is now happening, and voila, we hear about half million dollar houses (i.e. business centers) and fancy cars and overenthusiastic followers, yet I wonder. The warning was not just about the death spiral of Ireland if they approved the Maastrict treaty...I remember reading a prediction of a tsunami years before it happened in Indonesia (before that happened, one never heard predictions of tsunamis by fake seers on coast to coast etc)...so if she predicts "destroying soldiers" who will invade, is it soldiers of war, or soldiers of propaganda i.e. the millions donated from outside the country to push this initiative? Or something else?

and an ancient prophecy that Ireland would be drowned under a wave seven years before the anti Christ appears? Well, does that mean a wave of modernity, or a tsunami?

Prophecies are fun, but as Galadriel warned Frodo: The mirror can not only show things that will happen but things that might happen, so using it as a guide is dangerous (i.e. might cause you to do something that results in something happening you don't want to happen).

Whatever happens, I suspect the Philippines will be next. Already our bishops were accused of being bribed with fancy cars (the gov't lottery that funds projects for the poor gave the bishops 4WD vehicles and pickup trucks to serve rural parishes...the day after this accusation was made, the bishops sent the trucks back). And then there was NatGeo who got a priest on tape telling collectors how to fake their ivory statues (ivory is now illegal to trade...but since 90 percent of it goes to China, why did they use this to smear the church?)

And now we have an "RH BILL" that gives out free birth control (but not antibiotics to sick kids) at gov't clinics, ignoring that the high maternal mortality is because one third of our women deliver with untrained midwives because they are too poor to hire a private midwife, the "free" gov't midwives demand a bribe, or maybe there is no midwife in their area). Pushed with US money, of course, and next in line: Divorce. Actually I would welcome divorce for hard cases, but the object of the NWO is sexual freedom, not stable families, so see the fruit of this no fault divorce and cohabitation...

But with Cardinal Tagle apologizing to local gays for discrimination and that he is now being put in charge of some big church charity organization, one figures if the last shoe doesn't drop here, it is because the NWO has the Pope and now our head cardinal, under their thumb.

I haven't heard of any major Catholic seer warning the Philippines (although two famous Protestant ones are prophecizing doom).

Of course, our "virgin mary appearing" scandal in Lipa was squelched by the Vatican 60 plus years ago for excess enthusiasm and a nice business in fake relics springing up. Yet the last of the witnesses still claim it happened, and those priests who signed a paper it was a fake vision now claim they were told to sign it under pain of sin.

So now the new age and green religion is big among our elites, and the middle class is turning protestant.

Left behind: The simple rural folks who just want to live their own lives and keep their heads down.

Am I feeling paranoid or am I feeling paranoid?

Well, aside from my late husband's savings being dissipated by his gay son on boyfriends and parties, why should I care?

I am safe in a rural area, and my husband, who lived through the depression and WWII promised me that I would always have rice to eat.

So what does Ireland have to do with the Philippines in all of this?

Well guess who made the prophecy in 1994 that the revival of the church would come from the Philippines. scroll down to the end where countries are listed.

given that the Philippine diaspora is all over the world, this makes a lot more sense today than wehen it was first predicted in the 1980's.

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addendum: gabriels' horn, anyone?