Sigh. Death on the march

Dr. Campbell discusses the covid jab lies (again) but they also discuss euthanasia.

yes, depressing.

This is being pushed in popular films and the MSM as compassionate and many see it as a way to stay in control of their lives as they get older and frail.

But back in the 1990s I researched the ethical literature, which was pushing three trends: Limiting medical care for those with poor quality of life, insisting that a person is not a person unless they meet the criteria for personhood, and eliminating the idea that we are responsible for our neighbor, because it is one of those things the deity thinks we should do.

I was getting a bit paranoid about all of this, until Pope John Paul II wrote an encyclical

that noted the same thing: follow the money. The encyclical is easy to read, and covers all the trends behind what he calls the cultures of death, and he also inculdes the reminder that "

It needs to be determined whether the means of treatment available are objectively proportionate to the prospects for improvement. To forego extraordinary or disproportionate means is not the equivalent of suicide or euthanasia; it rather expresses acceptance of the human condition in the face of death.

Something that often naive pro life types see as wrong, and minorities who distrust the medical establishment insist on doing everything, because they distrust the medical establishment. (no not paranoia: the Tuskegee experiment, the Red Lake Strep study, the Oklahoma city non treatment protocol for meningocoels all come to mind).

Ironically, Tucker Carlson got it right. It's about a world view that thinks there is a God and alas a lot of American trends are about the ME ME ME idea of narcissistic egotism.

No I have never watched him: I live in the Philippines and rarely watch the inane discussions on CNN or Fox on our cable TV, although I do watch local ANC news and the BBC when I need to find out what is going on.

Popular delusions and the madness of the tictoc crowds

Dr. Malone, who took on the covid mRNA vaccine coverup estalishment, has a nice article pointing out that the gender wars are causing a delusion among the young.

In 2018, Psychology Today published an article summarizing trans research and what was happening in the culture that is truly shocking. That is, a large minority of kids have developed a belief system whereby they, as a group, espouse that being a normal biological female or male is akin to being immoral and evil.

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This bizarre concept has spread across social media and has infiltrated even down to elementary schools. This is a set of cultural beliefs which have morphed from groupthink and rebellion on social media to going viral throughout an age cohort which is vulnerable to new concepts being permanently instilled into their mindsets.

 

Why Is Transgender Identity on the Rise Among Teens? Psychology Today article. 2018

 

A new study of social contagion raises important clinical and ethical questions. Psychology Today, 2018 “In general, cis-gendered people are considered evil and unsupportive, regardless of their actual views on the topic.

To be heterosexual, comfortable with the gender you were assigned at birth, and non-minority places you in the ‘most evil’ of categories with this group of friends.

Statement of opinions by the evil cis-gendered population are consider phobic and discriminatory and are generally discounted as unenlightened.” Parents further reported being derogatorily called “breeders” by their children, or being routinely harassed by children who played “pronoun-police."

The observation that they no longer recognized their child’s voice came up time and again in parental reports. In turn, the eerie similarity between the youth's discourse and trans-positive online content was repeatedly emphasized. Youth were described as “sounding scripted," “reading from a script,” “wooden,” “like a form letter,” “verbatim,” “word for word," or “practically copy and paste." Littman raises cautions about encouraging young people’s desire to transition in all instances.

From the cases reviewed in her study, she concluded that what she terms “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” (ROGD) appears to be a novel condition that emerges from cohort and contagion effects and novel social pressures. From this perspective, ROGD likely exhibits an aetiology and epidemiology that is distinct from the "classical" cases of gender dysphoria documented in the DSM.

This Wikipedia article has a lot of references on this phenomenum.

and Project Gutenburg has the classic book on this 

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay

I haven't commented on this, because I live in the Philippines where we have baclas and trans and tomboys (and commercials with Vice Ganda) and have no problem with it: Because we see them as outsiders but part of the family. They do not threaten the family because this is a Christian society where the family is the basis of society. But in areas like Makati, with it's large American expat gay influence, I worry it soon will be, especially as BongBong Marcos is kissing the ass of the Biden administration in hopes that the US will finally decide to help us stop Chinese aggression.

In contrast, the gender stuff that seems to be pushed in US Schools is anti family and this powerful group behind this is using civil rights to push it on the media.

So Bud Light lauded a person who is on twitter pushing his transition (i.e. pushing it and getting postive feedback for his actions on many levels). In essence, the corporation is seen as backing a preacher of the gender neutral utopian ideas that undermine the family: Ideas that are so toxic that even Pope Francis has condemned them.

And to make things worse, the Biden adminstation is pushing this on many levels to poor countries, where the family is the core of their society. Not just Biden but the UN and the EU.

And then they wonder why Russia (who is pushing tradtional values) and China (who is pragmatic and ignoring the fight) are more popular?

Crowd delusions are not a new phenomenum.

Dancing mania, witch hunts, pogroms, ethnic cleansing, wars of religion etc are all based on this: toxic ideas that spread and are picked up by true believers.

so follow the money? Dr. Malone also notes:

This is big business: So who profits from this new mind contagion? Most notably hospitals, surgeons, physicians, healthcare workers, insurance companies and big pharma are making huge amounts of profit from kids and adults “transitioning” from one sex to another.

and making it popular in the echochamber, where schools, celebrities, and big businesses all affirm this as truth.

This is essentially the government proselytizing a religion in public schools, leading wit CarpeDonktum to post a twitter thread pretending to be a teacher encouraging his student to embrace Christianity.

Not every parent is ready to accept a child identifies as Christian. For some of these kids, I am the only person they have told. It would violate my conscience to out these kids to their parents. I wish I didn't have to, but spiritually affirming care must be private. https://t.co/8DHuFYGiwB

— Carpe Donktum🔹 (@CarpeDonktum) April 17, 2023

LOL

why the bishops are silent

 the MSM kept saying that the election of a pro abortion judge, whose campaign was widely funded by outside sources, and who was running on the idea that she would turn down the abortion laws.

But when a priest preached that voting for her essentially was endangering her soul, both the diocese and the IRS quickly got into line and conemned him.

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t. Patrick Catholic Church is facing criticism after its priest wrote a message urging people to not vote for a specific candidate in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election. 

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Rev. Brian Dulli urged parishioners to not vote for a specific candidate in the upcoming Wisconsin Supreme Court election.

COTTAGE GROVE (WKOW) — A Cottage Grove church is facing criticism after its priest wrote a message in the bulletin Sunday, urging people to not vote for a specific candidate in the upcoming state Supreme Court election. 

Rev. Brian Dulli's message explained Catholic teachings about abortion. Dulli said he believes one Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate "has tried to make this race entirely an effort to legalize abortion in the State [sic] of Wisconsin."

Dulli continued on to say, "As a Catholic, I urge you, for the salvation of your soul; do not vote for her in the Supreme Court race on April 4." 

Dulli did not name any candidates in his message, but Janet Protasiewicz is the only female candidate on the ballot for the race. 

27 News has reached out to Dulli several times, but he has not responded. When reporter Caroline Dade was on public property outside St. Patrick Catholic Church on Monday, a man wearing a clerical collar walked out of the church, approached her and asked what she was doing. He refused to answer any of her questions or identify himself. 

Guidelines for church political activity

The Wisconsin Catholic Conference publishes guidelines for church officials to follow during elections. 

The guidelines say churches and people acting in an official church capacity, including clergy, are not allowed to endorse or oppose political candidates or engage in political campaigns for or against any candidate. 

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops instructs parishes and their representatives to not endorse or oppose candidates or "take any action that reasonably could be construed as endorsement or opposition."

27 News reached out to the Diocese of Madison, which St. Patrick Church is part of. Communications Director Brent King sent this statement: 

"The Catholic Church's involvement in public life doesn't extend to endorsing candidates for election to public office nor calling for their defeat, and thus refrains from partisan political activities. The Church does encourage voter registration and encourages Catholics, as citizens, to vote and to be civically engaged. However, the Church also has both a duty and a right to call attention to the moral and religious dimensions of public issues, measuring social policies and political activities against the natural moral law and Gospel values. Since the first century the Church has consistently affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law in its respect for all human life."

Reaction to priest's message

Conservative radio host Vicki McKenna lauded Dulli's message and called for "every Catholic pastor in WI" to put out a similar statement. 

However, Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) said he thinks Dulli went too far. He said he thinks the message is "overtly political," and he believes it is "making a case against [St. Patrick Church's] tax exempt status."

Churches and tax exemption

The Internal Revenue Service classifies churches as 501(c)(3) organizations that are tax exempt. That means people can deduct donations they make to those organizations, and the organizations are exempt from paying taxes. 

However, the IRS does limit the political involvement of 501(c)(3) organizations. 

"Those organizations are prohibited from what the IRS calls political activity, which is directly or indirectly advocating for or against any particular candidate or intervening in any political campaign," Mary Beth Collins said. Collins is the executive director of UW-Madison's Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies. 

She said any tax-exempt organization, including a church, that breaks the ban on political activity could face consequences.

"The usual repercussions for that, if it were really pursued, would be a revocation of that tax exempt status," Collins said. 

She said there is precedent for the IRS revoking churches' exemptions, but that hasn't been the norm in recent years. 

"There's not a very big prosecutorial arm of the IRS going around and looking for this stuff," she said. "A lot of churches have been doing things that are sort of in contravention to that law, and there hasn't been a lot of repercussions."

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AI and chatbots and legos

Lots of stuff out there about AI etc.

Since I have essentially been off line since I had Dengue (which made me weaker, tire easily and have problems thinking), I am now trying to catch up with the stuff going on out there.

So here are a few videos that discuss what is going on with AI, which seems to be worrying Elon Musk etc.

Here are a few videos that discuss the problem.

manipulation anyone?

 So what is AI, and why are the lords of the internet/tech world worried about it?

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A lot of the videos seem to imply that the AI stuff is actually thinking: see first video that implies this.

But that is not true:AI and chatbot stuff are just parroting what was built into them. 

Garbage in/garbage out.

But most people are getting to the idea that the problem is AI itself doing bad stuff, not the danger that AI is being manipulated to manipulate you.

and just like people were silenced if they questioned the propaganda about covid by shouting "follow the science" at them, we soon will see us being manipulated by assuming what the AI/Chatbot is saying is the TRUTH with a capital T...and if you question them, you will become a heretic.

So who dares to say "the emperor is naked", that AI is not a new being that is an ubermensch that should boss you areound, but something that is being manipulated, for good or for bad?

Here is an explantion of how AI works that even I can understand. 

AI and chatbot are legos.

Toward the end he goes into religious conspiracy theories, so be warned... 

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I believe there are non human intelligences: CS Lewis in Out of the Silent Planet.. And shows how this idea can be considered as part of the Christian theology.

But I always figured that most of the UFO stuff was imagination/psychological delusion. Why? Because all those UFO books of the 1950s told about people abducted by aliens, who put them under machine that came down from the ceiling to scan them. But in more recent UFO abduction stories, they are put into a tube to be scanned. 

In other words, the X Ray machine morphed into a CT/ MRI scanner? No. This is human technology, Hence the story comes from the human's imagination.

There were some overly pious Christian sites that insisted that UFOs were diabolic, which I figured was paranoia. However, this video suggests that indeed there is a link between UFOs and the occult. 

so a lot of this is coming out and letting people manipulate you for fun and profit.

and given all the coast to coast/Art bell interviews out there, apparantly a lot of people are more prone to believe someone channeling an alien from planet X then believe the Bible or the prophets of most major religions, that worked because they helped ordinary people in the duties of their daily lives.

So if you believe in the war of good vs evil (an idea that long predates Christianity by the way) and if you believe there are non human entities out there manipulating us, mainly by using people who they deceive (again an idea that predates Christianity) it does make you wonder.

Of course, one doesn't have to believe in the supernatural: the monsters of the id will do.

But again it doesn't require a conspiracy theory or a belief in devils: human beings are able to do this to control you too.