Anarthlic

Bitcoin is having a Vatican II moment. Fortunately, unlike the Catholic Church at Vatican II, it looks like those faithful to tradition (the truth) will expel the effeminate and naive as well as the infiltrators attempting to make heresy and filth normal. Let’s hope and pray.

Desensitization via the Hegelian dialectic is so effective. It is indeed, a work of genius. One with perfect intellect.

The Hegelian dialectic is such an insidious and pernicious weapon, towards increasing entropy, and hence, order in chaos for solve et coagula.

Currency issuance became a psychological game of game theory. Question is, when was it not? When did utility as a consequence of reasonable living and existence transition to a system that has become so institutionalized? Methinks too the transition happened slowly, which can be explained by the inevitable acceleration of entropy and that brokenness as a consequence of original sin (our fallen nature), perhaps reaching its breaking point —which is exactly what entropy already implies.

The dynastic system of governance under a monarch who owns his property and kingdom, works best. This was the traditional practice that achieved civilization. Political dynasties in democratic systems are composed of caretakers (not rulers and landlords) because they don’t own the property and kingdom they govern. This was the more novel practice invented by stupid social contract theorists. Yes, the hacienda system (while not perfect), in principle, works very well—but ONLY if the ruler is an owner and not a mere caretaker—the crucial caveat. Reality check: Naive children of “light” have put in power and authority, those children of the world who are really but caretakers. And that stupid social contract theory (that never existed) cemented it all.

Saw my taxes at work today, in the guise of helping the poor. What it really was—politicians on an institutionalized early campaign trail to bag their dynasty (reality: caretaker status). Indeed, it takes two to tango. One recalls Luke 16:1-8 (particularly, eight)—for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light. One can see the effeminacy, naïveté, and pacifism of the latter allows the triumph of the former. And given the very socialist nature of our social order, even for those of us who see… it’s checkmate. More and more one can see just how irresolvable the situation—that no work of human hands can address. Indeed, checkmate on man—stubborn, broken, and fallen. One isn’t being pessimistic. It’s simply a consistent pattern in biblical history, called reality—stubborn and forgetful are we.

Purchasing a new frame and a refraction gave me a first-hand experience with the depth of the problem with truth. I had the frame adjusted twice because it was crooked. I handed it to the salesperson who would go inside to give it to the guy whose job it was to do these things. Finally, after the second adjustment, I said, can you have the guy come out and maybe he can do it beside me and I can give immediate feedback and show him what’s wrong. The guy came out and I showed him it was still crooked. He placed the frame on the table to show me it wasn’t—because it was on the table’s surface supposedly stable and not rocking or flipping. Hmm… we were looking at the same objective reality—and reality was, it was rocking. He insisted it wasn’t. I demonstrated to him, like a microscope would and made him really stare—only then did he see it was in fact, not stable and could be rocked. Reminder: This is actually his job. After so much entropy under finite time, I finally got my glasses normal. Hermitage is really tempting. 🤡

“Truth needs authority to protect it. Authority needs truth as its purpose.”

Modernism: 1) The liberation of the mind from reality. 2) Ideas taking precedence over reality. 3) Man, the idiot.

The one the reasonable can’t have a real exchange with—the triumvirate of ambiguity, equivocality, and contradiction. It’s the most entropic of situations that will only steal from the reasonable that only scarce resource known as time, while yielding a loot that is ultimately worthless even for the thief, who is probably oblivious to the fact, they were/ are in fact, a thief. There would ultimately be no exchange going on while eating away at the potential players of an exchange that never could’ve been in the first place.

worthless even for the thief, who is probably oblivious to the fact, they were/ are in fact, a thief. There would ultimately be no exchange going on while eating away at the potential players of an exchange that never could’ve been in the first place.

More danger ahead in pink: The worldly media was canonized to be liked to the Gospel and proclaimed to have an "ecclesiastical dimension", "based on the Trinitarian connection"--and that "it is a perfect exemplar of communication leading to unity." Based on the previous pages--they speak of universal values and a brotherhood and fraternity, with the Trinitarian God as a mere mention but oft obscured by so many other things, one needs to wade through so many equivocal and ambiguous terms to determine what they really mean. How many people have the time to make this out? How many are phlegmatic enough (as St. Thomas Aquinas was) with the right formation to not allow this to spill over onto a different plane and find themselves Cartesian and Kantian? And what of entropy, given time is such a scarce resource? One again, it resembles the "occasion of sin" framework. An additional note on the media having an “ecclesiastical dimension”—they are like priests now, eh? Vatican II apologists will quip: That’s not what they mean. You mean what you say and say what you mean. Enough with the anthropocentric adventures that only accelerate entropy and lead to confusion—misleading souls in the process. Of course, each soul is ultimately responsible. But why invite that soul to the fringes of interpretation?

Danger ahead: "The subject of mass media's role in the theological context." Canonizing something as worldly as the media to have a "role in the theological context" is testing and stretching tolerance for the fringe--almost like (if not, already like) the framework of "occasion of sin". This was written in 2015. We see today, the yield of this canonization. It's the same framework that explains the problem with World Youth Day. Compromising with the world is just objectively not a theologically appropriate/ correct thing to do.

In pink: Dangerous equivocalities and ambiguities. Pay particular attention to "within the Church's reality". It objectively implies, there are other "realities".

Borrowing a quote by Blaise Paschal, which was invoked by a certain blogger, recently: “I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion; beyond this, he has no further need of God.” The Cartesian reality—meaning, that Descartes created a ‘reality’ within his own rules (that is ‘logical’ within his system)—renders a “natural law” only based argument absurd. It wasn’t yet absurd during the time of the Greeks but it has become absurd after the Logos Incarnate. It is especially even more absurd when the Aristotelian framework is appropriated, as St Thomas did, in the reverse—taking things written by those whose ideas are premised in Protest of Catholicism (the truth). In doing so, one gives credence to the non-Catholic position—because if the non-Catholic position can “reach the truth”, conversion to that which we hold the One, True Faith, irrelevant and unnecessary. And the Cartesian phenomenon—and all those modern and post-modern “philosophers” that came after, illustrate the reality of the sordid and absurd attempt. What is instead tenable, realistic, truthful, and helpful, is to find non-Catholic thinkers, who recognize the reasonable beauty of Catholicism—because in this way, we identify and proclaim what should be obvious after the Logos Incarnate—that the stripping of Catholicism from reality will inevitably lead to a Cartesian plane, powered by the Hegelian dialectic, with Kantian lenses. In the end, St. Thomas said, his Summa was all straw.

“While rhetoric serves an important social function in aiding truth and justice, it should not be confused with dialectic, which actually discovers the truth that rhetoric makes persuasive.” Of course, one would have to define rhetoric. But if we go by popular rhetoric, one would expect the dialectic of those who want to discover the truth would be quite turned off by the rhetoric that specifically seeks to persuade as this is the kind that tends to be contrived and cringe—with the likelihood of an appreciation and sensitivity to truth and reality, near nil.

expect the dialectic of those who want to discover the truth would be quite turned off by the rhetoric that specifically seeks to persuade as this is the kind that tends to be contrived and cringe—with the likelihood of an appreciation and sensitivity to truth and reality, near nil.

I didn’t see it then (because others I assumed more learned knew better), but I see it very clearly now—the impossibility of achieving true logic and natural law principles, assertions, and conclusions while stripping an argument/ a thesis of everything and anything God—because how can one possibly achieve logic without the Logos? Without the Logos, the circle appears squared and the chicken will begin to look like a sandwich—because the process of stripping requires one to assume the Kantian lenses on a Cartesian plane. Ultimately, even those who proclaim the errors of Descartes and Kant, are merely proclaiming because the very act of stripping is Kantian and Cartesian to and at the core.

A certain academic journal (indexed by one of the top indexer of the scholarly peer-reviewed) came up with a special issue on Bulls&1t. Scholarly and academic—subject to rigor, they call them—and peer-reviewed by scholars and academics. 😜😂🤡 And this is by far, the most tame example of the 🤡 the top scholarly publish out there—one would be flattered to get a reject and disturbed to get a letter of acceptance. 😜😂

Heavy traffic is directly proportional to control. Control: number of traffic cops and lights, and rules. Central planners are like the gods of Olympus. Got from point A to B in 10 minutes today because coppers weren’t where they were “supposed” to be. When they’re zealous and there, it takes double the time. Hmm… perhaps I should relate this to communication and turn it into a class requirement. Traffic controls by central planners are… noise; and noise unnecessarily increases inevitable entropy, hence, considerably wasting time and energy. Perhaps too, I can go the next step and relate it to the crisis in the church—how the anthropocentric innovaltions and novelties from above (central planners) yielded the ever changing nature of the synodal church.