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The most IM-probable thing I ever saw

The MOST improbable thing I ever saw happen was this: I was standing in the driveway of a certain woman’s house on a cold and snowy Sunday morning.  Her two year old son was on a sled beneath her foot.  The driveway was slightly sloped, so this woman held the sled beneath her foot to keep it in place and prevent it from sliding away.  She was about to load her two kids, and their sleds, in the car and take them to a park with a hill for sled riding…. that’s the opening scene….  It had snowed heavily during the night, and it was still early, with virtually no cars passing in the street…. The woman shifted her feet.  She removed the foot holding the sled, and went to replace it with her other foot.  But she missed the sled as it moved away from her.  She reached out with her foot to stop it, but missed.  I reached to grab the sled, but it escaped me.  We could only stand and watch, helplessly, as the sled drifted away down the driveway, toward the empty street. At that very moment a car came slowly into view on the snow covered street.  It seemed incredible that we were about to watch the death of her child – in slow motion before our very eyes. The driver of the car never saw the sled coming out of the driveway.  The sled passed directly beneath the moving car, behind the front-right wheel, and disappeared from our view. We could only gasp, and wait for the car to pass by.  That second-and-a-half were the slowest, longest, seconds I have ever experienced. We couldn’t even scream for that second.  When we did scream, the driver applied the brakes and came to a short skid in the snow, and got out of the car. The child and sled were in a jumble in the snow covered street. We rushed down the driveway and observed the child sit up in the street – completely unhurt! The rear of the sled was bent, slightly.  The car’s back left wheel had run over the very end of the sled’s runner.  The sled had passed perfectly through the moving car – entering behind the front right wheel, and exiting in front of the left rear wheel.  The car’s left rear wheel had barely clipped the end of the sled and tumbled it and the boy harmlessly into the snowy street. I was completely stunned.  How could this event have occurred so perfectly timed?  * ** ** ** Here is what must have occurred:  The car must have left its point of origin at EXACTLY the precise moment (having as its destination a location that would pass by the driveway!) which would create this rendezvous with the sled.  A split second earlier – or later! – and the boy would have been killed.  3 or 4 seconds difference, and it would be a NON-event. Was the driver delayed en route?  Did the driver pause a second ANYWHERE for any reason prior?  To light or extinguish a cigarette?  To adjust a seatbelt?  To clean snow from a side view mirror? We do not know.   The SLED had to have left its point of origin – beneath the mother’s foot – at EXACTLY the precise microsecond to create this IMPROBABLE nexus.  Not only that, the length of the driveway, as well as the journey of the car, had to be precisely arranged by what the ancients called “FATE” to save the life of the child.  If the driveway were a foot shorter, the kid was road kill. Or a foot longer. The SLOPE of the driveway had to be exactly as it was so as to cause the sled to drift away from the mother at the exact rate of speed to prevent her, and I, from restraining its voyage into the street, and arrive beneath the wheels PRECISELY when it did. Is this a miracle?   Was the life of the child “miraculously” saved? Nothing contravened the laws of physics.  But what about the laws of probability?  Certainly the odds that something like this could occur must be orders of magnitude greater than winning the Mega lottery….yet someone always wins it, sooner or later.   The odds that a flower is growing in a yard on a sunny day may even be more extreme.  everything may be a miracle.  Life itself may defy the laws of probability that it exists…. But I consider this event of the sled to be a miracle, as mysterious as anything I have ever seen.  Can you top that?  Probably you can !

How To Contact God – Part XIX

Shortcuts

In the previous post (about which I am not totally content, and may therefore edit) I said things are going to turn Catholic. Frankly, I think that is a bit of a cop-out.  Since access to God is a universal human right, we can go farther along the general path that we have been traveling – before having to deal with the Jews, and the Catholics.

There are certain “shortcuts” that we may take at this juncture – if they may be called such – (because, you know, shortcuts have a funny way of taking the long way around). 

For instance, as when God starts flaunting His gifts, and really sort of hiding behind them.  Let me give you an example…Suppose you are not greatly deprived…you are not in an internment camp, or starving, or homeless…but you are part of a society that is pulling together (not like the USA with the blacks obstinately pulling in other undefined direction, sinking the ship) and getting along on this planet at least above the level of mere sustenance.  That’s our: Given.

You sit down, as is our custom, to commune with God in your dark room.  Hey, this is great.  This place is now very well established, in fact, it seems as if your dwelling were composed AROUND this meditation place!

There He is, fortified in His dark obscurity; and there you are, in your slimy weakness, surrounded by relative opulence – that you realize is a gift from on High.  He has given you all this.  It is your: Given.  God, the author of all that is Good has poured out all this stuff so that you can climb the mountain of your easy chair and sit vis-a-vis Him, the Maker of the Universe, your God, your Designer who has designed you.

It has been difficult to get beyond this point.  Good deeds are an important factor…. Just as you see God being generous, and kind, forgiving and patient, so you have been – in your puny, weak, tiny imitation.  What you are doing and what you have done is not enough to save the planet, hell, you can’t even save your children…. In fact, all you have done amounts to nothing or almost nothing.  As Bob Dylan sings in his most recent album, Tempest, “ALL THESE WASTED YEARS.”

So, you can’t compete with God as far as His works go, His gifts inundate you and overflow to the point that you feel…well… inadequate.  Which is not a nice feeling….

This choice of a shortcut is sort of forced on you by the general situation you find yourself in, vis-a-vis God.

So, here’s what you do…you take a shortcut!  You NEGATE all the Gifts.  You nix them off, effectively eliminating them from the playing field.

You refuse His Gifts….not because they are defective in any way.  But because they are not Him. In fact, you view them as TRIVIAL, compared to Him.  (He who still remains invisible, and hidden.)

This is a bold move. From God’s point of view it represents a necessary progression, a progression BEYOND the confines of this Universe; but from the human point of view, it is outright insanity.

But you have in a single stroke cleared off the table.  A sudden impulsive act. Now, it’s eyeball to eyeball. He grins. Or doesn’t.

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to be continued

This shortcut is exactly what Elijah did in the Old Testament when he threw everything off and hiked out to a cave in the wilderness.  He threw off a wee bit too much, not even bringing food along with him. So God sent a bird to bring him bread. duh. Finally, after eliminating all the things that people generally associate with God, Elijah was able to contact God, finding Him in the “still-small voice” of conscience – a voice that none of us hardly ever hears BECAUSE our minds are too cluttered with the debris of daily life. NEGATE IT! Thus Elijah is the father of the Carmelites, a religious order, and a spiritual path of negation, that live in stark simplicity, seeking God alone, and nothing else. It’s like putting all your chips on RED21 and hoping to break the bank at the casino. Except that God is real and will not let you fall off the cliff or vaporize into nothing. However, it gets really really close to that.  This method of negation is not for everyone.  Each person has to appreciate and experience negation, but to permanently commit to that spiritual path for the duration of one’s whole life is a radical choice that only a few make. Buddha did not even stay on that path permanently, neither did Jesus.

But God’s silence and opaqueness can tend to drive seekers to absolute extremes.  This is not good, and not what God generally wants.  Allow me to recommend other “shortcuts”…..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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dear Reader, please notice: near the bottom of the middle column the term “Religio depopulata” – that applied to Pope Benedict XV during the First World War.  depopulation!  “Fides intrepida” would be Pius XI and describing him as intrepid is an understatement! then comes Pius XII – angelic pastor – ok, he promulgated some very ethereal doctrines, like the Assumption of Mary’s body into heaven, and that humans arose from an original pair of parents (which is not a binding doctrine like the Assumption.) the right hand column goes through the Popes from John XXIII to the one that will be elected in March, 2013: Peter the Roman – and then the end of the world.

 

Heartbreaking Outcome in Johansson Case   Dear friends, please keep the Johansson family in your thoughts and prayers as they continue to suffer at the hands of the oppressive anti-family state of Sweden. It is now nearly four years since little Domenic Johansson was kidnapped by the government of the Island of Gotland. Now, after the first sensible ruling ever in their favor at a district court last summer, a Swedish appeals court has reversed that ruling. The appeals court ruled that the parental rights of Annie and Christer should be permanently transferred to someone else—mostly because Domenic had been homeschooled and because the family has been public about this egregious human rights tragedy. Ruby Harrold-Claesson is representing the family and is appealing this decision to the Swedish Supreme Court with support from HSLDA. SeeFamily Execution—Swedish Style for more information. You can support Christer and Annie and post encouragement athttps://www.facebook.com/chris.johansson.16. Germany is only 1/2 lock-step behind, imprisoning homeschool parents. YAVOL! only government thought – RULE the people – nien! to democracy. But Sweden is worse…fruit of denying the Catholic faith that’s what it is….

For what it’s worth, here’s my conclave prediction…

First, let me say that conclave predictions are notoriously wrong and way off the mark.  This year I read the book: The Last Pope by Malachy Martin…at least I think that was the title, I threw it out because it was so off base.  And he claimed to be possessed by an angel !  Hooey!

So, I have covered my ass,…if I am wrong, it’s totally par for the course, typical, cudda been expected and all that….

But, if I am right, aaah, I am onto something, eh?  Yeah.  

So, here’t goes….

The conclave to elect the final Pope will not be an interminable mish-mash affair.  At the outset, right now, it certainly looks like that’s what it could reasonably be expected to turn into.  There is just nobody that seems a choice that could be agreed on.  The dominant factions among the cardinals don’t seem to have candidates that can win enough swing votes to push him to the top.

Right now, everything seems very muddled.  All we really have to go on is Pope Benedict XVI’s parting wish at his resignation that the new Pope be energetic…hence, young-ish.  

So, here’s my call: after a few “warm-up” votes, which will do nothing but put the favorite players officially on the board, and let everyone see the various factions real power, the impasse will be pathetically apparent.  Everyone is divided, with no principal candidate able to carry the day.

Now, my understanding is that votes must be taken at regular intervals.  That being the case they will have to vote before going to bed for the night, maybe on the second night.  And they will elect a Pope….!

“THE STONE REJECTED BY THE BUILDERS WILL BECOME THE CORNERSTONE!”

The tired and disconcerted cardinals will file up and cast their secret ballot…all will cast what I am calling “a throw-away vote”…a throw-away vote is a vote for some cardinal who is not one of the contenders.  The purpose of casting a throw-away vote is to see if there’s a trend to shift to someone, it also will allow the lesser factions to drop out and fade out of the picture.

But, VOILA!  magically, all the throw-away votes will be for the same person!  Suddenly a winner – the final Pope – has emerged from deep obscurity.

Perhaps the second night will not have quite enough votes to declare the winner.  Sleep on it, and get ready for the first vote on the third day.  Like a Resurrection!  Everyone will be happy because unity was achieved, the Holy Spirit will have seemed to have made the choice, no one is to blame, all are relieved.  We have a POPE!

Who will it be? It might be the Phillipine cardinal.  It might be the President of the fabric of Peter, Comastri.  No one can say with any certitude, but that’s how I think the vote will go….or it might be Peter Erdo.

How To Contact God- Part XVIII

The situation has evolved into this: both parties are eager to make contact, or enhance contact as the case may be, but there still seems to be an some impasse…it is as if our radio were trying to receive God’s television signals…we are not on the same wavelength, or, to use another analogy, we don’t have the right equipment to receive what God is broadcasting.

St. John of the Cross used a similar analogy…the sodden log, he said, won’t burn.

The real problem is something that stumped St. Thomas Aquinas, but which Bl. Duns Scotus resolved: how can Divinity and humanity have successful intercourse?  – by mutuality of Being.

Jesus solved this same problem Himself…by the time of 12 years old.  Obviously, the childhood education of Jesus by His parents, (Mary, His biological mother, and Joseph, His foster-father,) must have included the data-set that His conception was virginal. Jesus’ human brain, and human soul, – centered as the soul is in the “heart” – must have organically believed the transmission of His parents’ data.  This is not something that we should take for granted…it is the ideal for parent/child relations that TRUTH be communicated, passed on, whole and intact.  By “organic” belief I mean that this data of His virginal conception entered into His Being and became part of it in His Heart, just like we have an organic knowledge of where the tip of our nose is, though we cannot see it.  His parents’ data-set became hard-wired into Jesus: God conceived Him. Thus a unity of Being between Jesus and the Invisible Omnipotent Creator was established due to the successful parenting the child Jesus received. 

As an aside, let me add that Jesus seems to have kept this to Himself, self-validating it by various means… There is a story from Alexandria, Egypt that when Jesus was living there as a child He took mud and turned it into a bird, which flew away to the delight of His playmates, and His mother told him not to do such things anymore.  It wasn’t until His baptism in the Jordan by John that Jesus received external validation of His unity of Being with the Father, the Voice saying: “This is my Beloved Son,” – which had the surprising (?) effect of driving Him into the wilderness for 40 days without food.

So, this is where we are: we have established contact with God on a being-to-Being basis through our meditation technique, and the faith that it is reasonable, non-delusional, and authentic.

It is very exciting and loaded with potentiality, but doesn’t seem to be a tractable relationship: we don’t know what to do with it, or about it.  We are stuck again. 

A lot of very religious people get stuck here – and end up saying verbal prayers and attending to the form of religious life right up to the moment of death.  St. Paul calls it somewhere: ‘limiting God.”  – citation needed….

We would like to avoid this. After all, we are success-driven, with an eye to perfection.  Please do not balk at that. It is true; and every artisan will tell you so, every engineer.  Anything less, is lacking.

So, we have got some work to do. Or rather, we are in need of work TO BE DONE! – because, frankly, we aren’t quite up to managing it ourselves very well at all…human perfection seems far too remote to achieve, even if we knew what to do, we are not well suited to doing it.  So, there’s a very real cause to the impasse we are experiencing…our being is not well able to relate to the Divine Being.  very simple.  Or as the Jews say: “You cannot see the Face of God, and live.”

And so, dear Reader, we have reached the end of the line.  Thank you for coming this far.  I hope you have gotten some enjoyment out of my meditations, and some benefit. 

If you are going to go any further with me on this mission/quest you must realize that it is going to get explicitly Catholic.

The Doctrine of the Eucharist is the only way forward from this point.  You can remain here and be a wonderful Hindu, or Buddhist, or Muslim or Jew…but you cannot go forward without being a Catholic.  Oh, you can read about it, and I hope you do continue to follow this blog, but to live it you must become a Catholic.   For that, I apologize, because becoming a Catholic means you may be robbed of your cultural identifications due to prejudice on the part of your family, or the fact that not many Catholics may share the ethnic traditions from which you spring.  Catholicism is supposed to be ethnic-neutral, and is in its doctrinal elements, but historically it proceeded through Greece to Europe and then, via colonization-assisted missionary action, to the rest of the known world.  So you always have to decide – freely – if you want to go on….

 

 

 

 

 

ABORTION AND OUTER SPACE 

The link between world-wide abortion policy and the exploration of Outer Space may not be self-evident, but the Human Race seems to be hard-wired to overflow the Earth – were it not for world-wide abortion policy.

 Just at the time that humanity is filling up the Earth, discovering habitable new planets, and making technological advances that may make inter-stellar travel a possibility, world governments are instituting a devastating abortion policy through the United Nations.

 Limiting the growth of humanity, and confining it to the geo-political world, can only result in diminishment of resources, and war over those resources.  Space, however, is without limit on resources, and requires the efforts of a united humanity to expand into.

 Choose life, or choose death.  Live on Earth, a planetary home to the Human Race, spinning in unbounded space, or live on the world, divided and sectioned into conflicting and competing camps, tethered and doomed…these are the choices.

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Have you ever noticed that if you call a racist a “NAZI”…they don’t get too upset…, or

if you call a Nazi a “stinking capitalist”…they don’t get too upset either…, or

if you call a sexist a “filthy commie!” …they also don’t get upset….

But if you call a Nazi – a nazi – they get very upset.

and if you call a racist – a racist – they blow their stacks!

and if you call a sexist – a sexist – they go ballistic!

wonder why that is??  BECAUSE THE TRUTH HURTS !!!

So, accordingly, let me say: Sweden and Germany and the Good old former USA (whatever country it is now remains to be re-named) are NAZI destroyers of Democracy – of government OF the People, By the People, and FOR the People – stop imprisoning homeschoolers!!  You do not own the children.  The State does not have PRIMARY responsibility for the children.  The rights of the State derive from the People, not the other way around.  NAZIs !!!! Sweden, Germany, Canada, UK, and whatever country the USA has now become….

I thought so!  Humans are still evolving!  What are we turning into????

Here’s proof we are still evolving:  ”Nearly three-quarters of mutations in genes that code for proteins — the workhorses of the cell — occurred within the past 5,000 to 10,000 years, fairly recently in evolutionary terms, said a national consortium of genomic and genetic experts, including those at Baylor College of Medicine.”

I thought so!   Here’s some evolutionary trends that I am worried about….

1) bicycle helmets – these items should be banned, in fact, almost all helmets should be banned, except in case of an imminent impact.  Helmets cause the body to evolve to a softer cranium.  That’s right.  We are getting soft.  The switch that turns on evolution ponders the situation…what do we need hard exterior bone for if we are wearing helmets all the time?  It only makes sense.  Soon…we will NEED to wear helmets, and hard exterior protection all over, and become like crabs, or clams.  Body armor should be banned.  or we will all turn into some sort of alien invader with an evolved exoskeleton!!!

2) ipads. – The human thumb was not designed to text.  Nope. not.  This whole thumb texting craze is causing our thumbs to flatten out so that we won’t be able to grasp things anymore with force.  Instead of a durable digit able to haul heavy objects and suffer hard bangs, we will be left with a sensitized, elongated, tapping digit that is TOTALLY UNFIT to do any real work.

These two preliminary considerations affect the brain and the thumb…and the wiring of these critically important organs in the overall nervous system.  The wiring will change.  The creature that got us here will be gone.  Humans will have turned themselves into another species.  Evolution theory does not sustain species change, BUT, engineered by the species through these infernal inventions, I see humans as able to become substantially different creatures.

Don’t get me wrong…I am not for remaining Neanderthal.  In fact, Jesus may have initiated a species change through the sacrament of the Eucharist, and is in the process of turning we Neanderthal-like modern humans into a more divine race of humanoids.  Nevertheless, what I am ranting about is the RECKLESS way we institute permanent changes that can have very harmful evolutionary effects.

THEREFORE: what I recommend is a Federal Evolutionary Control Authority Laboratory (F.E.C.A.L.) which will test people over prolonged periods of time using these potentially threatening devices.  I see that Scott Kelly, the astronaut, has volunteered to do just that by remaining in space for a prolonged time to see what changes this will effect in his biology. I wish him luck.  As for me, give me sirloin steak and single malt scotch for dinner, a wife with no birth control, and free TV.  I am old fashioned, and want to stay that way.