How to ruin a good party

So you are a 'saved' Christian, and to your delight, *BAM*, the tribulations commence, you survive them, and the Jesus Christ arrives for the End of Times and the final judgment, riding his white horse (and with a double edged sword emitting from his mouth).

Delighted, you run up to him, thrilled you were right, and before He says anything to you, you bleat out to him:

"I knew I was right, that I'd be saved, and that the End of Times would come while I'm alive. My sister, who is reincarnated Blessed Virgin Mary, and my aunt, who is reincarnated Mary Magdeline, also agreed with me! Though actually sometimes we wondered if my brother was Mary Magdeline, since we know that in reincarnation the sexual genders often change!!"

That ruins a good party for sure. And you won't even have time to get your asbestos underwear (aka "long johns") donned before you will need them ;-)

The tragedy of misguided revenge

The tragedy of misguided revenge

I’ve blogged about this before, but I know that unless I repeat things over and over, it just doesn’t “take” with those who have been raised with a warped mindset and broken emotional humanity. So I will repeat it again, sometimes at a different slant, hoping that each time it sinks in, and that people’s sad and deranged minds clear enough that they see the correlation between what I say and reality.

There are people who carry grudges and who act upon them, destroying people’s lives (including my own) because they think they are “avenging” loved ones who had tragic demises befall them. They think that their loved ones were “harmed” by people with “past lives.” So they carry these imaginary “beefs” into their current one and only life, based on misinterpreting why “bad things happen to good people.” They go so far as to believe that they are grandiose people who are reincarnated, and who bring their “ongoing” tragedies “into” their “current” lives.

As I’ve repeatedly explained, there is no such thing as reincarnation. Those who are of the New Age believers (as compared to the traditionalists who inherit that faith) are remarkably uneducated in science and biology, because they latch onto “reincarnation” as the “only explanation” for “what they have experienced,” even though there are a dozen more plausible explanations at ANY given time. They are too puffed up with their own “tragedy” to have even investigated one bit of cold hard science that could have genuinely enlightened and comforted them. Gosh, I think that a “just the facts” genius scientifically education atheist ought to be paired up with each inflated New Age reincarnation believer in order to provide them with the part of the brain they obviously do not use of their own. It would be like a brain backpack used to detox from bullshit.

Obviously that is a wish that I can’t imagine seeing fulfilled any time soon (not enough good well educated atheists around when you need them and those that exist I doubt want to hang around with pot smoking New Agers who refuse to crack the spine of a science text book but are eager to crack less productive things).

So all I can do it once again issue my expertise, which is a dire warning-AGAIN. Those of you who have harmed people thinking that you are “restoring the balance” and “settling grudges” are doomed to hell, and there is simply no nice way to put it. In fact, your followers who have been vengeful against others in the delusion that they are “reincarnated” and “settling the score” are already burning in hell for eternity, if they have died. Those of your followers who are still alive and active in this “reincarnation revenge squad” are walking on the path to hell, and there is no mistaking about that. Revenge based on fallacious occult beliefs is such a grave sin every way that you look at it that it is appalling and disturbing to even think about. Not only do you deprive the innocent of their lives and their peace of mind, through your revenge schemes, but you have also led people away from faith and belief in God, faith they might otherwise have found. Thus you do Satan’s work on multiple mortal sinful levels and it does not take the smartest person on the planet to realize that you have created the perfect formula for going to hell.

There are three unforgivable things in life. One is to take away the life of another human being unjustly. One is to take away their faith, or block them from every finding it and thus knowing God and his existence. The third is to “let” someone live but destroy their peace of mind, through stalking and tormenting them, ruining their childhood, or arranging hurtful scenarios to ruin their sanity or their sense of peaceful reality.

Those of you who have harmed others in your depraved New Age “belief” that you are restoring some sort of “balance” and avenging loved ones have only robbed your loved ones of your and everyone else’s company in heaven, should your loved one have achieved heaven upon death. Everyone that you have recruited to “avenge” your loved one from imaginary slights and wrongs (such as thinking she “got cancer” because of “bad past life spirits”) and yourselves are all destined for hell because of your persistent cruel error. If your loved one is in heaven he or she certainly is not seeing any loved ones who have died and who were engaged in this type of “avenging” activity on their “behalf.” So those who blindly followed you in your revenge and “balance” seeking and who have died are now roasting for eternity in hell. God help them, because you sure didn’t.

Whenever I think about those of you still doing this who are alive, I have a manifestation from God. When I think of you (which is as little as possible) I feel the fire of hell under my feet (and it sure is not burning me). This is the constant reinforcement that I have that there are those of you who are still in these vile activities and beliefs, are walking on a burning path to hell and will receive God’s promised, guaranteed response when “your time is up.” If your loved ones are in heaven they’ve sure made new friends, since none of you who worked to “avenge” them or “restore the balance” are there or will be there, unrepentant, you better understand that Buster.

In case some of you who are reading this do not know these types of people (or you think you don’t know them, but trust me, there are a lot of them around) wonder why I am so forceful, let me give you an example of how they think. Suppose one of their loved ones develops breast cancer and she dies. They are too evil and stupid to realize that cancer is caused by genetics, diet, environmental toxins, mutation, radiation, in other words, a long list of rational scientific reasons. They figure that someone out there-maybe you-“caused” her cancer because of your “evil spirits” or “past lives.” They will try to find a way to cause cancer in you to “even the balance.” If you get a bump and have a doctor check it, he or she will be sure to say it is cancerous and put you under surgery in order to avenge themselves on you, you know, take one of your boobs because it’s only fair (and actually ‘helping you’) since “you” “caused their loved one” to “get cancer.” Yes, this happens, for a fact. If one of their loved ones gets sick, in an accident, or dies, they shop around for someone to blame, and they will bring their wrath upon you in the “same way.” I cannot tell you how many lives they have destroyed, including my own.

Like the downtrodden throughout history all one can do is pray to God that these evil people realize that they are totally wrong, and also pray to God that he will destroy them in punishment for their sin, casting them into the hell that they have ordered and insisted upon for themselves. Hell is far more terrible than can be described and by the way, Satan likes to mimic what the evil doer has done, except he does it for all eternity (imagine that operating table with Satan in charge! And you can never leave it!) I don’t want to see that happen to anyone and that is why I continue to try to reason with these people even as I have been beaten to a spiritual pulp and no longer enjoy life. Every time “one of them” dies I think, “Well, they missed their chance to make things genuinely right and to repent, and now they will pay the price for all eternity.” Ironically, it’s the last thing their “loved one” would have wanted, if he or she has achieved heaven and knows the truth of things. But they will never see their loved one “avengers” again, because the hating deluded occultists have chosen the other place, and woe is to them. The Qur’an is more descriptive of hell than the Bible is and believe me, the Qur’an is much lighter in description than is the reality of hell.

My most frequent St. Paul quotation

"For the wages of sin is death..."

Romans 6:23

Christian missionary on drugs crashes plane

I keep explaining that everyone is flawed, and it doesn't get much worse than this. This guy, totally stoned, took a friend's child up for a ride and crashed, killing them both. Further, he'd been evoked before AND only had 90 hours of flying in a period of four years. Idiot irresponsible assholes are idiot irresponsible assholes, no matter how "Christian" or whatever they are.

Thank God he wasn't a priest. At least priest pilots is one problem the Catholic church does not have. We'd never hear the end of it otherwise, though I read a fair number of plane crashes piloted by other denomination or non denomination Christians.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2280673/Christian-missionary-high-on-ecstasy-crashed-plane-killing-13-year-old.html

snip

A Christian missionary was high on ecstasy when he crashed a light aircraft, killing himself and a 13-year-old boy.

Robbie Gunter, 34, stalled the two-seater Cessna 150 just seconds after taking off and plummeted 200ft to the ground with his teenage passenger Jamie Clapp, a family friend.
Mr Gunter's pilot's license had previously been revoked and had only been given back to him four days before the crash last July.

An official investigation by the Air Accident Investigation Branch concluded Mr Gunter had taken the Class A drug ecstasy hours before the fatal flight

Horror Film Torture

An important opinion piece in UK's Telegraph online:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/07/01/svtorture101.xml&page=1

Warning that it contains graphic description of perversion that is portrayed in so called "torture porn" films.

Here's the second warning. While the Telegraph article rightly condemns the making and viewing of these films as morally wrong, I'm here to tell you that making and viewing these films are grave mortal sins (and it don't matter what religion you are, or atheist, because God is God.) They are not "just movies," they are satanically inspired and are part of grooming souls to be lost to God, in addition to contributing to depraved criminal acts in society today. Anyone involved in such films, from the idea to the production to the acting to the sponsoring to the viewing is committing grave mortal sin that will cost them their salvation.

Many abuse Penance and Reconciliation and thus will fall

Distortions of the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation do not result in Absolution

Throughout history some Catholics have been tempted by the thought that they can continue to sin if only they periodically go to Confession, through the sacrament of Reconciliation. Some of them even think their sins are “venial” and therefore not in need of confession. And there is the occasional priest who is complicit in a cycle of forgiveness, knowing that he is aiding and abetting an ongoing condition of sin. This is a reminder that under these conditions neither the confession is valid nor is the priestly giving of forgiveness. In fact, the deliberate and knowing attempt to use Reconciliation in this manner is a mortal sin by both parties. I’m not trying to discourage people from going to the sacrament of Reconciliation, far from it, I think it is needed more frequently than ever. But I am warning people that Reconciliation cannot be used as a “forgiveness check kiting scheme.”

Here are some informative paragraphs from the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

1450 “Penance requires…the sinner to endure all things willingly, be contrite of heart, confess with the lips, and practice complete humility and fruitful satisfaction.

1451 Among the penitent’s acts contrition occupies first place. Contrition is “sorrow of the soul and detestation for the sin committed, together with the resolution not to sin again.”

(My comment: Obviously being contrite during that confession but planning to commit the same sin again is not contrition and this does not qualify for forgiveness.)

1452 When it arises from love by which God is loved above all else, contrition is called “perfect” (contrition of charity). Such contrition remits venial sins; it also obtains forgiveness of mortal sins if it includes the firm resolution to have recourse to sacramental confession as soon as possible.

1453 The contrition called “imperfect” (or attrition”) is also a gift of God, a prompting of the Holy Spirit. It is born of the consideration of sin’s ugliness or the fear of eternal damnation and the other penalties threatening the sinner (contrition of fear). Such a stirring of conscience can initiate an interior process which, under the prompting of grace, will be brought to completion by sacramental absolution. By itself however, imperfect contrition cannot obtain the forgiveness of grave sins, but it disposes one to obtain forgiveness in the sacrament of Penance.

(My comment: These two above paragraphs recognize the two “mindsets” of people about to attend Reconciliation. One is the perfect state of mind, and one is an imperfect state of mind, but one that is recognized to be a step in the right direction. Notice there is not a third option, which is to go to confession as insurance or coverage over a pattern of ongoing sinning, either venial or grave sin.)

1458 Without being strictly necessary, confession of everyday faults (venial sins) is nevertheless strongly recommended by the Church. Indeed the regular confession of our venial sins helps us form our conscience, fight against evil tendencies, let ourselves be healed by Christ and progress in the life of the Spirit. By receiving more frequently through this sacrament the gift of the Father’s mercy, we are spurred to be merciful as he is merciful:

Whoever confesses his sin… is already working with God. God indicts your sins; if you also indict them, you are joined with God…
When you begin to abhor what you have made, it is then that your good works are beginning, since you are accusing yourself of your evil works.

(My comment: One of the biggest threats to the souls of millions of people today is that they think that grave sins that they are committing are venial sins. For example anger, blasphemy, envy, hatred, malice and sins against hope, love and faith are GRAVE sins. What follows is an example of a societal ill that people do not understand that it is a GRAVE sin, not a venial sin.)

2539 Envy is a capital sin. It refers to the sadness at the sight of another’s goods and the immoderate desire to acquire them for oneself, even unjustly. When it wishes grave harm to a neighbor it is a mortal sin:

St. Augustine saw envy as “the diabolical sin.” “From envy are born hatred, detraction, calumny, joy caused by the misfortune of a neighbor, and displeasure caused by his prosperity.”

2540 Envy represents a form of sadness and therefore a refusal of charity; the baptized person should struggle against it by exercising good will. Envy often comes from pride; the baptized person should train himself to live in humility:

Would you like to see God glorified by you? Then rejoice in your brother’s progress and you will immediately give glory to God. Because his servant could conquer envy by rejoicing in the merits of others, God will be praised.

(My comments: A venial sin would be a pang of regret felt momentarily and as part of “human nature” toward someone who is better off than oneself. All other forms of envy are a GRAVE sin, especially if it leads to a continual state of mind of envy or actions against the person who is envied. Then it becomes MORTAL and is a disassociation from God’s salvation. How many people do you know who are continually envious? They are in a state of GRAVE MORTAL sin. And there are no “offsetting insurance policies.” For example you cannot “pay off” envy you have toward a person by being particularly charitable to another person. There are no offsetting of sin and charity like a ledger book. That is an offense against God in the form of the Holy Spirit.)

1459 Many sins wrong our neighbor. One must do what is possible in order to repair the harm (e.g., return stolen goods, restore the reputation of someone slandered, pay compensation for injuries). Simple justice requires as much. But sin also injures and weakens the sinner himself, as well as his relationships with God and neighbor. Absolution takes away sin, but it does not remedy all the disorders sin has caused. Raised up from sin, the sinner must still recover his full spiritual health by doing something more to make amends for the sin: he must “make satisfaction for” or “expiate” his sins. This satisfaction is also called “penance.”

(My comment: Again, if you have wronged a neighbor, you must restore the relationship to both the neighbor completely and in total, and also with God. Lavishing donations on the neighbor’s favorite charity is not restoring the relationship with the neighbor. The sacrament of Reconciliation without actually fixing the harm done to the neighbor is not valid, especially if the harm to the neighbor is part of an ongoing condition of their suffering.)

1466 The confessor is not the master of God’s forgiveness, but its servant. The minister of this sacrament should unite himself to the intention and charity of Christ. He should have a proven knowledge of Christian behavior, experience of human affairs, respect and sensitivity toward the one who has fallen; he must love the truth, be faithful to the Magisterium of the Church, and lead the penitent with patience toward healing and full maturity. He must pray and do penance for his penitent, entrusting him to the Lord’s mercy.

(My comment: Obviously the confessor must not think that he has extra insight or ability to grant Penance that is beyond what Christ has intended. Penance granted by a personal “crime and sin enabling priest” are invalid, obviously, and incurs GRAVE MORTAL sin on both the confessor and the “would be penitent.”)

2092 There are two kinds of presumption. Either man presumes upon his own capacities, (hoping to be able to save himself without help from on high), or he presumes upon God’s almighty power or his mercy (hoping to obtain his forgiveness without conversion and glory without merit.)

Bad Stalker! Bad, bad stalker...

It's important that people realize that even non-violent stalking is a mortal sin. Yes, you read right, not a venial sin, but a mortal sin. The reason that it is a mortal sin is that it violates one of the Ten Commandments. The commandment is number ten, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods." Let me start by defining stalking. It is the monitoring, and influencing, of a person's activities without their knowledge and permission. This is not the friendly nosy neighbor who you know by name, and who keeps an eye on the neighborhood, if that's all he or she does. If however that nosy neighbor knows about you from going through your things, by being part of a group of people who study your every move, or attempts to manipulate your activities, that is stalking and a violation of the Tenth Commandment. The reason is that you are coveting (wishing to have for yourself) something that you are not entitled to (inside knowledge and control.) Think of this as "gossiping on crack." It's much worse than gossip because a gossip does not know but just guesses, while a stalker takes from the person private information for their own purposes. There is no such thing as innocent stalking. There is innocent gossip, and there is innocent puppy love, and there is innocent crushes, and there is innocent celebrity fan activity. But stalking of anyone, celebrity or civilians, with the intent to spy and possess something you are not entitled to is a very serious mortal sin.

Here are some examples. There is a difference between striking up a friendship with someone you meet, or fixing someone up on a blind date and pretending not to know someone and manipulate a meeting and a relationship. This, incidentally, brings into consideration breaking the Eight Commandment, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." That is because stalkers are often in possession of and distribute false information, without their even realizing it. When one is not in an honest relationship, it is easy to misinterpret activities that you have spied upon. That is bearing false witness, first by believing it, and then by spreading that to others. Stalking ruins people's lives. It destroys love and trust. It destroys families. It destroys relationships. It destroys careers. It destroys peace of mind. And ultimately, it destroys the stalker, because by not recognizing that they are committing a moral sin, regardless of whatever else they do in their lives, they do not stop the activity and seek both Church and personal reconciliation with the person who has been hurt.

Think about the life of Jesus Christ. When people approached him for healing, even the lady who touched his hem secretly for cure from her bleeding, they were not stalking him. This is because he had made himself a public figure, and all that people knew about him was in the open. However, who did stalk him? Those who eventually crucified him. They spied on him and believed that they had knowledge of what he "really" was doing and what he "really" meant. Do you think God gave such people an "atta boy" in their personal judgment? The answer is "no" in case you are puzzled!

Let me talk again about the parable I mentioned above. It is one of the most beautiful passages in the bible. Look at Matthew 9: 20-22:

Now a woman who for twelve years had been suffering from hemorrhage, came up behind him and touched the tassel of his cloak, saying to herself, "If I touch but his cloak I shall be saved." But Jesus, turning and seeing her, said, "Take courage, daughter; thy faith has saved thee." And the woman was restored to health from that moment.

Luke 8:45 describes more of what happened, in greater detail: And Jesus said "Who touched me?" And all were denying it. Peter and those who were with him said, "Master, the crowds throng and press upon thee, and does thou say, "Who touched me?" But Jesus said, "Someone touched me; for I perceived that power has gone forth from me." But the woman, seeing that she had not escaped notice, came up trembling, and falling down at his feet, declared in the presence of all the people why she touched him and how she had been healed instantly.

I have always loved this woman. She had suffered for so many years and turned to Jesus in the most humble yet strong in faith manner. Can you imagine what a bleeding for twelve years must have been like in those times? I can. And I've heard priests give wonderful homilies about this particular miraculous healing. She was clearly not stalking Jesus. He was in the part of his life where he had proclaimed his public presence and ministry, and she, like many, believed and came to him. And when Jesus felt her touch, and the apostles and others heard him inquire, she came forward and admitted to the touch. There were three great gifts here, if you think about it. One was the healing itself. One was her total and pure faith (she was not testing him, she believed.) And the third gift was the witnessing, both by the crowds then, and to everyone today, through these events being preserved in the Gospels.

Now, here is how a miracle could have gone "all wrong through stalking." Suppose that people had gone through the garbage of the family of Jesus (not that much was thrown away in those days, but let's go along with my making a contemporary example.) What if they noticed that the Jesus family always threw away the hems of their clothes after performing sewing alterations. Is there a chance that people would have concluded, if they were stalking and not asking, that there is something wrong with hems? I mean, why not save the perfectly good material of the hems and use them as curtain tie backs? And no one asked because they thought, smugly, that they had some sort of secret knowledge of the Jesus family. If this poor woman had been a stalker or had heard of this, she might never have thought to touch the hem of his garment and be cured. Worse, people would have spread the heresy that there was any part of Jesus that was not complete and pure, by reason that they think there is some like or dislike, or power in inanimate objects that the Jesus family responds to. If they had confessed and asked the Jesus family, we have gone through your garbage and notice that you throw away your hems after shortening, why is that? Imagine what they might have heard.

o We know there is a poor old man down the street who is destitute and ashamed to beg, so we put cloth out in our garbage so that he may take it in peace and weave it into a covering.

o We do not want to have long stringy things around the young children in the family, especially the cousins' children who are toddlers and get into everything, as we fear they may choke on it.

o The color of the hem cuttings do not match the curtains, and I want only the nicest, even in our poor circumstances, for my mother and father.

This is why stalking is a mortal sin. It takes knowledge that one is not entitled to and one is most likely to abuse (because if one is not abusing it, why is one doing it in secret?) And the misunderstandings and consequences are hurtful and terrible. There is no such thing as innocent stalking, and there is nothing that is not known to God, and will be answered for. Please pray for honesty, discernment, self control, and wisdom, and do not stalk.