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Title: The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare Author: G.K. Chesterton 1874-1936 Birthplace: Campden Hill, London Genre: metaphysical thriller Published: 1908 (age 34) Religion: baptized at 48 left: Chesterton at 17
right: Bernard Shaw, Hilaire Belloc, Chesterton
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Writer/Director: Park Heung-Sik
Genre: drama based on a true story Release Date: November 30, 2022 Runtime: 151 minutes Nation: South Korea Andrew Kim Taegeon, (1821 – 1846) is the patron saint of Korean clergy. I've been told he had a sinful life when young, and that makes him realistic.  Joe Ketzer, friend and tutor, sent me this photo of the 2024 nativity scene at the FSSP church, St. Paul's, Vienna, Austria. Mass is said daily, and confessions are heard beginning 1/2 hour before Mass.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” General Sun Tzu (544 - 496 BC), The Art of War
BRICS is an intergovernmental organization comprising nine countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, plus Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates. BRICS is a polyhedron. In geometry, a polyhedron is a solid figure with many faces, typically more than six. It is the Argentinian pope's favorite shape. “The worst thing you can possibly do in a deal is seem desperate to make it. That makes the other guy smell blood, and then you’re dead. The best thing you can do is deal from strength, and leverage is the biggest strength you can have. Leverage is having something the other guy wants. Or better yet, needs. Or best of all, simply can’t do without.” Trump (1946- ), The Art of the Deal. and The New York Times
I deleted 'conservative' networks when I discovered that their headlines exaggerated content.
Music: Tchaikovsky, Bayer, Rubenstein, Drigo, Pugni Math: Frequent time signature changes requiring a lot of counting Story: Bring dolls to life, as in a Twilight Zone episode in which mannequins come alive, one in particular, Marsha? The name Valerie comes from the Latin word valere, which means "to be strong", from the feminine French name Valérie. "Nonanomalous" means not irregular, unusual, or different. classic short story: The Box of Robbers machinist strike over
After watching you might be wondering about the workforce. What percentage are men? 76 Women? 24 The naturalized citizen was on the Asian American outreach team for the Biden 2020 campaign. Fast forward...in 2024, WIRED magazine named Li one of the top influencers shaping the Harris presidential campaign as an official content creator at the convention.
Li quote 12/19/2024 Wikipedia "I'm probably going to get canceled again for what I am about to say — men are men and women are women, and it's an issue when men are trouncing women in women's sports. This should not be a controversial take. "This is common sense, and the American people understand that the Democratic Party, they exist in their ivory towers that are so far removed from reality, and these ridiculous [culture] wars are not what Americans care about. . . "We care about bread and butter issues. We care about putting food on the table, sending our kids to school, strong borders, not having millions of people rush to the border, and I'm a naturalized immigrant myself. Just because you care about these issues doesn't make you a sexist, racist." Thomas Becket & Henry II Thomas More & Henry VIII Thomas Becket, Bishop/Martyr, was murdered on December 29, 1170, in Canterbury Cathedral. He died by the sword. Thomas More died July 6, 1535, on the chopping block. When they were executed, Becket was 50 and More 57. Oxford to London is about 60 miles, and London to Canterbury is about 70 miles. The priest is using what is properly used everywhere, the last edition of the Roman Missal (1962) and the Latin Vulgate Bible (A.D. 400). This is the same Mass in the same language that Becket said and More heard. It was their duty, and it is ours, always and everywhere to pass on that which was handed down from the beginning. There are many more prayers in the Latin Mass, some of which the priest whispers, and many more in the Roman Missal than in the new. Mine is 1,820 pages and is for a lifetime. GlobalX provides ad-hoc passenger charter and cargo airlift to destinations throughout the United States, Europe, Caribbean, and Latin America.
…Some Amway distributor groups have been accused of using "cult-like" tactics to attract new distributors and keep them involved and committed. Allegations include resemblance to a Big Brother organization with a paranoid attitude toward insiders critical of the organization, seminars and rallies resembling religious revival meetings, and enormous involvement of distributors despite minimal incomes. An examination of the 1979–1980 tax records in the state of Wisconsin showed that the Direct Distributors reported a net loss of $918 on average...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amway# Betsy DeVos is married to the founder's son. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_DeVos Streisand effect
It is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information. The effect was named for the American singer/actress in 2003 when her lawyer attempted to suppress a photograph of her clifftop residence in Malibu. The photo was taken by someone else to document coastal erosion in California, and her lawyer's actions backfired. The effect is an example of psychological reactance, wherein once people are aware that some information is being kept from them, they are significantly more motivated to acquire and spread it. Tamayo Rodríguez Father José Pablo de Jesús Tamayo Rodríguez, Costa Rica, age 81, was excommunicated because he said that the pope was not validly elected. More and more priests are being canceled for saying the same thing. To find out his age, I had to view a TikTok video of a laywoman in Costa Rica saying that the excommunication is justified. The idiot is using TikTok to spread a message. My porn blocker does not occlude the communist promoter but don't worry. Vatican The charge against the Vatican is that it is acting like Streisand in its efforts to hide the naked truth. White martyr A white martyr is a person who has lived a life of total commitment to God and who has endured suffering in union with the cross of Christ without shedding blood. Priests who speak up are white martyrs. Pornographic, China-owned TikTok collects your personal information. One Euro is about $1 now. Support jewelry schools and their graduates in the USA and abroad, such as the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. The school uses safe materials in carefully controlled workshops. I've walked through and watched the students at work. I took one girl to the ER when a jewelry saw pierced her forearm, and I stayed with her until the ER doctor extracted the saw, which is similar to a thin, long screw. It was a minor injury, but only an MD could safely remove it.
Senate Intelligence Committee chair says even civilian drones can be controlled by CCP [Chinese Communist Party]
By Ryan Edwards on December 26, 2024 "During an interview that aired on the Dec. 24 edition of NBC Nightly News, Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia, said that any drones that are used by civilians are still a danger if they use Chinese software." https://dailyconservative.com/senate-intel-chair-says-even-civilian-drones-can-be-controlled-by-ccp/?utm_source=BPN&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=BPN2&utm_content=BPN2A Nigeria is about 1/2 Muslim.
Islam was introduced by merchants from the Senegalese basin and North Africa in the 11th century. The majority of Nigerian Muslims are Sunni, but there is a significant Shia minority. Portuguese missionaries introduced Catholicism to the southern half of Nigeria in the 15th century. During British colonial rule, however, other religions entered, including Anglicans, Pentecostals, Anabaptists, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, and Jehovah's Witnesses. Wikipedia's entry on Nigeria Air is inadequate. Hadi Sirika is Muslim. May 9, 2024 According to the BBC, Sirika has appeared in court on corruption charges, along with his daughter and son-in-law. A woman wants some money and decides to hire herself out as a handyman.
She canvasses a wealthy neighborhood and rings a doorbell. A man comes to the front door, and she asks if she can do an odd job for him. He says, "You can paint my porch. The blue paint and supplies are in the garage." She starts painting. Inside the house, the man's wife asks, "Does she know that the porch wraps around the entire house?" He answers, "Yes, of course she does." An hour later, the woman rings the doorbell again and says, "I'm finished." The man asks, "How did you finish the porch in such a short amount of time?" She replies, "It wasn't a porch. It was a yellow Porche." The research is not the final statement or the end, but it does show the differences between men and women, which have been blurred in the last four years.
Slightly Pollyanna, nevertheless, this 1950s travelogue offers an appalling view of what modern California has become today. The most popular television shows in the 50s and 60s were westerns and science fiction.
My first silent retreat was at St. Francis Retreat in San Juan Bautista. An aerial view of Mission Vineyard Road shows that not too much has changed, except that it is Novus Ordo, which destroyed Mass and vocations. "This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD and 2k." A small amount of audio has been lost. Spanish fray means "brother", referring to a friar and originating from the Latin word frater, meaning "brother". A Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud that pays existing investors with funds collected from new investors. Organizers often promise to invest your money and generate high returns with little or no risk, but the fraudsters do not invest the money.
They pay out money to the original group with money from the new group to keep the original group from knowing that their money was never invested. Such schemes have been on the increase since the 1980s throughout the world and now a big one in China involving banks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ponzi_schemes "Thomas Sowell's book, The Einstein Syndrome: Bright Children Who Talk Late, was published in 2021 as a follow-up to his Late-Talking Children.
"In it, Sowell discusses what he calls the 'Einstein syndrome', which refers to the phenomenon of late-talking children. Sowell says these children are frequently misdiagnosed with autism or pervasive development disorder. "He includes the research of Stephen Camarata and Steven Pinker, among others. Sowell says this trait affected many historical figures who developed prominent careers, such as physicists Albert Einstein, Edward Teller, and Richard Feynman; mathematician Julia Robinson; and musicians Arthur Rubinstein and Clara Schumann. "According to Sowell, some children develop unevenly (asynchronous development) for a period in childhood due to rapid and extraordinary development in the analytical functions of the brain. This may temporarily 'rob resources' from neighboring functions such as language development.' Wikipedia distinguishes itself in its presentation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell Experience taught me that children on the spectrum are normal. Yesterday I was talking to a very gifted young man who is studying physics, specifically nuclear reactor development, and is on the spectrum, and he said that the IQ test is useful only to diagnose and help those scoring below 80. SAN FRANCISCO, May 12, 1959 (NC)—An 18-year-old college girl towed a classmate to shore and baptized him after he was fatally hurt in an attack by a killer shark.
Shirley O'Neill, a freshman at San Francisco State College, sprinkled sea water over the head of Albert Kogler, 18, and murmured the words: “I baptize thee in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” Then she said to young Kogler, “I've baptized you. Is that all right?” He replied, “OK.” Then he repeated the Act of Contrition after Miss O'Neill. His last words before losing consciousness were: “I love God, and I love my mother, and I love my father. Oh God, help me, help me.” He died two-and-a-half hours later. Miss O'Neill and the Kogler boy had been swimming together here when the killer fish, identified as a great white shark, attacked. Despite his screams at the girl to stay away, she swam to his side and towed him to shore. Miss O'Neill was hospitalized for shock after the incident. Mayor George Christopher of San Francisco said he would recommend she be given official recognition for her heroism. Dying from wounds inflicted by a shark, Kogler, San Francisco State College student, received a hurried, beachside baptism from fellow student, O’Neill. They were swimming off Baker’s Beach near the Golden Gate Bridge when the shark attacked. Shirley managed to bring him ashore. Kneeling over him and waiting for an ambulance, she said the Catholic Rite of Baptism and got him to repeat the Act of Contrition. Kogler died shortly after arrival at the hospital. Shirley has been recommended for a Carnegie medal for heroism for her dangerous and heartbreaking attempt to save the life of her friend. https://washingtondigitalnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=CATHNWP19590515.2.22&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- My father told me that the girl and boy had talked about his becoming a Catholic and that the shark had bitten off his leg. IN the year five-thousand one-hundred and ninety-nine from the creation of the world, when in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth; In the year two-thousand nine-hundred and fifty-seven from the flood; In the year two-thousand and fifty-one from the birth of Abraham; In the year one-thousand five-hundred and ten from the going forth of the people of Israel out of Egypt under Moses; In the year one-thousand and thirty-two from the anointing of David as king; In the sixty-fifth week according to the prophecy of Daniel; In the one-hundred and ninety-fourth Olympiad; In the year seven-hundred and fifty-two from the foundation of the city of Rome; In the forty-second year of the reign of the Emperor Octavian Augustus; In the sixth age of the world, while the whole earth was at peace – Jesus Christ, eternal God and the Son of the eternal Father, willing to consecrate the world by His gracious coming, having been conceived of the Holy Ghost, and the nine months of His conception being now accomplished, was born in Bethlehem of Judah of the Virgin Mary, and became man. The birthday of our Lord Jesus Christ, according to the flesh. ANNO a creatióne mundi, quando in princípio Deus creávit cœlum et terram, quínquies millésimo centésimo nonagésimo nono: A dilúvio autem, anno bis millésimo nongentésimo quinquagésimo séptimo: A nativitáte Abrahæ, anno bis millésimo quintodécimo: A Moyse et egréssu pópuli Israel de Ægypto, anno millésimo quingentésimo décimo: Ab unctióne David in Regem, anno millésimo trigésimo secúndo; Hebdómada sexagésima quinta, juxta Daniélis prophetíam: Olympíade centésima nonagésima quarta: Ab urbe Roma cóndita, anno septingentésimo quinquagésimo secúndo: Anno Impérii Octaviáni Augústi quadragésimo secúndo, toto Orbe in pace compósito, sexta mundi ætáte, – Jesus Christus ætérnus Deus, æterníque Patris Fílius, mundum volens advéntu suo piíssimo consecráre, de Spíritu Sancto concéptus, novémque post conceptiónem decúrsis ménsibus, in Béthlehem Judæ náscitur ex María Vírgine factus Homo. Natívitas Dómini nostri Jesu Christi secúndum carnem. Proclamation of Christmas from the Roman Martyrology  St. Stephen the First Martyr, Sacramento, CA
Tomorrow is his feast day. Being a Catholic priest is ranked among the most difficult “professions” in the world. All at the same time, he must be •preacher • example • advisor • formator • planner • sacrament dispenser and confessor • visionary • director • mentor • friend • nanny • reconciler • marriage counselor • youth director • leader-trainer • Bible teacher • psychologist • intercessor, etc.
Besides being • porter • corporate administrator • event organizer Yet, all priests face constant criticism. “The Mass doesn’t fill me.” “Just thinks about money.” “Does endless fundraising.” “Homily is too long.” One of the most difficult things in his life is knowing that the people for whom he gives his life will betray him. The priest is the loneliest person: you see him surrounded but rarely by people interested in his problems, needs, or life, not to mention the demands. If you have a Catholic priest as a friend, take care of him, protect him, pray for him, understand his vision, support him, but above all, love him and don’t forget the promise made by Jesus Himself. 15 And I will give you pastors according to my own heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and doctrine 17 Obey your prelates, and be subject to them. For they watch as being to render an account of your souls; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief. For this is not expedient for you Let us honor the lives of all those men of God who have sacrificed so many things, including some of their own needs and that of their families to fulfill God’s call. Value the time a priest dedicates to you. Written by Clive Fernandes on Facebook (slightly edited) #1 film Diary of a Country Priest trailer in French https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042619/ complete movie with English subtitles https://archive.org/details/journal-dun-cure-de-campagne-diary-of-a-country-priest-1951-robert-bresson |
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