Anarthlic

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.

2023-11-28 12:12:01

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.

2023-11-28 12:11:46

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.

2023-09-13 01:42:38

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.
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2023-09-11 00:27:07

“Truth needs authority to protect it. Authority needs truth as its purpose.” https://image.nostr.build/df9df552d7c724012e4bcd940c9c0a2e6cb6f44aa1b03ff5de2b861c6389a7da.jpg

2023-09-05 01:25:56

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

2023-08-24 05:21:59

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.

2023-08-24 05:21:29

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.

2023-08-16 10:43:06

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? https://cdn.nostr.build/i/f98d98e5bcb93744669a6a46ff1d6eb449fbe57cda6807e946d2a7ea5da25b40.jpg

2023-08-16 10:38:15

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. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/8c2af6cd1a4022c68014699240cf1c6f075281e6a0ff0572879d328cd3fe232b.jpg

2023-08-16 10:37:41

In pink: Dangerous equivocalities and ambiguities. Pay particular attention to "within the Church's reality". It objectively implies, there are other "realities". https://cdn.nostr.build/i/53c24789869fd7320c9a9718de8ede738ac61a3c420b1e980decb833b9c25c53.jpg

2023-08-05 03:48:53

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.

2023-06-23 07:34:38

“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.

2023-06-23 07:34:05

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.

2023-06-09 07:17:30

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.

2023-06-09 05:00:35

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. 😜😂

2023-04-28 00:43:49

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.

2023-04-26 01:51:12

It’s important to make a distinction between ‘context’ and ‘nuance’. In my opinion, the latter has a tendency to anthropocentrism and sophistry (default tendency as a consequence of original sin) while the former is likely more rooted in reality. In addition, context itself (when read as it is) wouldn’t actually require ‘nuance’.
Man’s pride oft moves him to want to be in control, which one can better do in the attempt at nuance—which boring context doesn’t give one much angle to weasel his way through and squeeze himself in.

2023-04-20 12:25:53

Revelation is done. It ended with St John. But as our broken nature seems to have illustrated, we buried the supernatural in our anthropocentrism—invented the secular social construct known as DNA; the absurdity known as evolution; spent energy, time, and resources on something the Second Law of Thermodynamics clearly states is near impossible to duplicate (human life)—to the silly stars for non-existent aliens… the list goes on.
What hence, is the logical next step? It’s called the apocalypse—and no, it doesn’t mean the end of the world. It merely means the unveiling of the reality we buried and the anti-Logos nature of the means we employed to bury.
And this is how truth became stranger than fiction. It will seem this way after living for so long on a Cartesian plane, where we accelerated entropy to our detriment.
Einstein did get one thing right—God, indeed, did not play dice with the universe. We should know it as the Logos vs. the loads of social constructs we’ve created as our bodies of “knowledge” to explain away reality that we got thousands of years ago, in the first place.

2023-04-19 01:19:39

Not everything is worth arguing syllogistically and academically. It is an ‘intellectual’ trap and waste of time and energy, accelerating entropy. This is exactly how neo-intellectuals (those who dominate academia, the peer-review, and so-called ‘science’) were created; and over time, concocted their Cartesian plane and placed the entire world on it via their ‘science’ labelled with the cringe—‘scholarly’ (stealing from the Scholastics but anything but), ‘peer-review’, and ‘academic’. Inductive logic (majority from the Cartesian-Kantian club wins) was/ is the oil that sustained/ s the life of this plane; and Cartesian-Kantian club generated tokens such as journal rankings, tenure, and other titles, slogans, and labels became the currency. They are no different from the mainstream media.
This was/ is also why the old (real) intellectuals moved out. They don’t like to daydream and they don’t like arcades. They know time is finite and even if energy can neither be created nor destroyed, they know you can’t stop entropy; hence, they would rather not help accelerate it.
Reading academic journals, is now, more than ever, such a mortifying task. One feels a loss of brain cells every time.

2023-04-15 16:22:11

“Union with other denominations would be pursued without compromise to the chruch’s teachings but equally without hesitation.”
Squaring the circle, mixing oil and water, the chicken a sandwich, non-binary—all the same spirit and ‘logic’, where 2 points occupy the same and people walk on water.
Indeed, said the Care Bears, you can do anything if you put your mind to it.

2023-04-14 11:17:19

If it is true that energy is neither created nor destroyed (and we know it is hence, it isn’t an “if”), then by sheer logic, the term “renewable” energy is… uhm… a great redundancy. Hence, then, is not this redundancy and all the time, energy, and resources employed to promote and create networks and chains to prop up this redundancy ultimately… uhm… furthering the redundancy and the very problem it purports to address—which is to supposedly either to save energy or become energy efficient? Does not this effort to promote renewable energy essentially and ultimately defy the Second Law of Thermodynamics? Does not the effort in fact, exacerbate and accelerate the wastage (and entropy) and inefficiency as precisely stated by that law?

2023-03-29 12:04:51

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So you think Tether is ok. Saifedean Ammous seems to think so.

2023-03-20 07:46:18

Modern money: A psychological game fueled by insecurity and lack of confidence, it ironically fills the void with the very hot air that will eventually reveal itself to be just that—a network of lies.
Oh the irony from beginning to end. The money system is a perfect illustration of our broken nature, which no one in an insecure network will ever understand. 😂
Evil geniuses are maintained by useful idiots.

2023-03-17 01:55:02

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Yes, it is but sadly… human beings seem to go for the ugly. We mostly have proven to be mere cogs in a wheel governed by the few evil geniuses who position their useful idiots to keep those cogs on ridiculous things they invent. 2020 and beyond made me see this. Even people I thought normal proved so insanely ridiculous—and they still are.

2023-03-17 01:51:48

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Problem is, human beings are proving themselves to be… well… insane. The mainstream money and banking system is really ridiculous and yet… 2020 and beyond have been ridiculous and yet… We have a knack for choosing ridiculous. 😢

2023-03-13 03:16:14

Ultimately, the currency system of central and fractional reserve commercial banking isn’t actually a money system. It is a communication system and network of ledgers based on deals and politics, held together by that ugly part of human psychology that goes the way of our fallen nature. Its “mathematical” basis—Cartesian math on a Cartesian plane because human beings are largely creatures of obedience and mimicry, largely fueled by insecurity and fear.
Indeed, it has been virtual for far longer than all those disciples of “new money” and new technology proclaim.

2023-03-13 01:42:23

More and more as I delve into the rabbit hole of pre-Vatican II common sense, I am moved to rethink my thesis on “humanistic marketing” and “customer-centericity”/ “focus”; and the answer seems to be with the utmltimate failure of Aristotle, as even Dante himself left in limbo. But after having discovered just yesterday, Aristotle’s will, where he asked idols to be erected in his name just before he died, then it would be quite safe to assume, something even worse than being in limbo—that Aristotle indeed, didn’t quite make it, in spite all the great philosophy he gave us. There is great wisdom here in St Thomas, who said: “The Jews require signs, and the Greeks seek wisdom. And so the Lord, in order to show the path of salvation to all, willed both ways… so that those who would not be brought to the path of salvation by the miracles of the Old and New Testaments, might be brought to a knowledge of the truth by the path of wisdom.”
Hence the problem with the Greeks and Aristotle, which leads me to rethink my thesis:
“The Aristotelian god was totally immobile, totally self-sufficient, and totally other. He existed as a completely self-sufficient Being in a world where nothing changed. As a result of his perfection, God has no reason to act. Creation, as a result, became so mysterious that the Greeks could only construe the universe as eternal, having no beginning or end. As a result, the universe became a competitor with God rather than an example of His handiwork. The name of that competition is pantheism or the belief that the universe and God were identical… Because Aristotle’s God was so remote, the Greeks sought some sort of connection with the divine through polytheism and magic, as manifested in gods like Zeus and Hermes.”

2023-03-03 14:36:08

When you finally do research (real as opposed to reel), you begin to have real (vs. reel) fun. Of course, initially it can get lonely because most and almost all seem to just want to dabble in the reel. But that’s just the initial phase. Soon, the reel becomes oddly “entertaining”, only because the human being has recourse to sarcasm that enables one to convert the mediocre and downright silly and 🤡 into something one can attempt to derive insight. Either this or it serves as testament to and proof of one’s hypotheses and theses regarding what’s real vs reel.
Why watch Netflix when you can see holograms instead and have a laugh. 😜
Indeed, the metaverse isn’t new at all. It’s almost as old as Descartes.

2023-02-27 00:12:16

“All the Popes since Paul VI have made Vatican II and its implementation so central to the programme of their Pontificate that they subordinated and tied their papal Authority to whatever the Council dictated. Their “magisterium” begins with Vatican II and ends there, and succeeding Popes have
proclaimed their immediate Predecessors to be Saints for the sole fact of having convoked, concluded, or applied the Council. Theological language has also been adapted to the double-talk of the Conciliar texts, going so far as to adopt as defined doctrines things that before the Council were considered heretical, such as the State being above religion. For once, Pope Bergoglio is perfectly right when he claims that the Tridentine Mass is an intolerable threat to Vatican II, because indeed that Mass is so Catholic that it undermines any attempt at peaceful coexistence between the two “forms” of the same Roman Rite. Indeed, it is absurd to conceive of an ordinary Montinian “form” and an extraordinary Tridentine “form”. The Novus Ordo is the expression in worship of a… Conciliar church.”
“If Rome were to forbid the celebration of the ancient Mass, Catholics who believe that they can serve two masters – the Church of Christ and the Conciliar church – will discover that they have been deceived. They will have to choose between either disobeying an illicit order in order to obey God, or else bowing their heads to the will of the tyrant while betraying their duty as ministers of God. This is no less than the battle between Christ and Satan. A battle for the Mass, which is the heart of our Faith, the throne upon which the Divine Eucharistic King descends, the Calvary on which the immolation of the Immaculate Lamb is renewed in an unbloody form. This battle must be fought over the essential difference between the God-centred vision of the Tridentine Mass and the man-centred vision” of the Conciliar church, which those who have eyes and intellect can clearly apprehend and see.
You can’t square a circle. 1 is clearly not 0. There’s a fine line between nuance and context vs. mental gymnastics of abstractions designed to precisely square the circle and proclaim the chicken a sandwich. Problem is, this all happens on an anthropocentrically manufactured Cartesian plane, more popularly known as an arcade—where only those with issued tokens are allowed to play. And when they play, they can’t see what’s real underneath, for which that Cartesian plane where chickens are sandwiches was made.

2023-02-24 11:46:32

Lex orandi, Lex credendi.
Theological definition of evil: Reduction/ absence of good. What happens when good is taken out from lex orandi? It reflects in lex credendi.
Enough of good is reduced to none, the thing reduced is hence evil—which then spills over to lex credendi. Less
prayer, less belief to loss of faith. It becomes a real problem when intention is a pre-requisite for validity. This was the end goal 60 years ago.

2023-02-18 01:12:34

Finance: The system that was generated at a very specific point in history (at the first quarter of the 20th century) to transfer the yield of time and energy spent and expended by others into certain others that knew and know the plumbing of the system that was built.

2023-02-16 11:42:51

Need Austrians and Trads here.