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Hello, friends. Peace be with you all.
United hispaniola, Konstantinos, Fredgast, Cristero, and 1 otherThemerba
We've been living as an American society without much struggle for too long. Say what you will about racial/class struggles, they're not nearly as bad as any other country.
People are getting too comfortable without said struggle and fail to realize that real people are on the other side of the political spectrum. They're not just dots or numbers on a screen like they are here. Real people suffer when there's famine or when there's corruption. News and social media focuses so much time on the top few percent of people that others assume everyone who isn't them lives like that. It's why some think tanks assume that, since the Amazons and Walmarts of the world can afford to pay their employees $15 an hour but don't, then everbody can.
Basically, social media is an echo chamber where the loudest and prettiest are heard most, even those who promote bad or evil ideas. Just hold faith, we win in the end when we are brought into our Father's arms.
Prudentias and Kordavail
The Darkest Hour
Every single hospital 100% full already.
Health system colapse.
My girlfriend and her mother are infected by COVID-19.
There is no anxiety medications but this ia not affecting me, yet.
I stay in my room every single day, financial and supplies planning doing reasonable well considering the collapse.
I have my parents to protect.
I fear having myself COVID-19.
Brazil became more than ever a dog eats dog scenario. It's every citizen for himself already.
Most people are on famine already I am one of the few who don't, I am not in misery, but I am worried a lot.
Everything is collapsing.
Let us all pray for all mankind please.
I am sorry to hear about your girlfriend and her mom my brother, I pray for them.
If it truly is as bad as you say then take what excess you have and give to those who don't have anything and God will bless you.
Joshua 1:9 "Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”"
Matthew 25:35 "For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,"
Jesus is Lord
Cristero, Prudentias, and Kordavail
Sending prayers.
Fredgast and Prudentias
Whoa. That's my favorite Bible verse!
Fredgast, Cristero, and Prudentias
Brothers I don't want to take up so much space in this forum but I want to ask all of you to pray for Pope Francis during his travel to Iraq.
I used to be very against Pope Francis which I regret because later I have come to see that Francis embodies the mercy and love of Jesus Christ. He may have said a wrong thing or two but I don't think it was ever malicious or willfully siding with the world over God. Francis is a man like the rest of us and God has chosen him to lead the Church through this time so we should listen more to him and most definitely pray for his success in going into a place like Iraq where just a couple of years ago ISIS militants had full control.
Pope Francis has proven himself to be a brave man and someone who loves and has faith in God. Let us all pray for him extra much during these 3-4 days that he may be protected and able to complete his mission not only in Iraq but in the world.
Jesus is Lord.
Omensa, Sundiata, Attike, Cristero, and 2 othersPrudentias, and Themerba
TIL: After heckling Pope John Paul II in a European parliamentary session, known anti-Catholic, Presbyterian Minister and DUP leader Ian Paisley was silenced by Catholic parliament members among them was the last crowned Habsburg prince, Otto. My respect for the Habsburgs has doubled now.
Oire, Fredgast, Sundiata, Attike, and 2 othersCristero, and Prudentias
Ha ha. It was the Spanish Hapsburgs (and even later the Spanish Bourbons) who kept pushing reforms for the little people with the opposition of the italian nobility, not wanting to do away with their priviledges, and the envy of those who resented Spanish prominence who even resorted (often) to racist stereotypes, saying, for example, that the Spanish are inferior because we allegedly have "moorish", "jewish" or "gothic" blood. Sometimes the injustice of italian commentators to the Spanish influence in Italy is hilarious, like when the ambassador Paolo Tiepolo critizices the presence of Spanish soldiers in Milan, claiming it is really to ensure the obedience of the people; consciously ignoring the fact that the only reason there were Spanish soldiers garrisoned there is because the milanese had been time and again refusing to commit their own soldiers to their own defense. And to claim Spanish presence prevented economic development of Italy doesnt hold much water considering how the Spanish worked to protect Italy from the Turks and the piracy they sponsored which was suffocating italian trade routes. To put it in the words of a french historian (Breaudel), commenting in the silly as well as offensive words of venetians who complained about the Spanish effort put forth to vanquish the Turks at Lepanto, that it was in reality just to ruin venetian trade (when Lepanto actually saved them): "Pouvait-on etre plus injuste?" ("Can they be any more unfair than that?")
"Religion is the clearest telescope through which we can behold the beauties of creation, and the good of our Creator."
- William Scott Downey
Fredgast, Attike, Cristero, The Pilgrims in the Desert, and 1 otherPrudentias
I know I said I'd stay away from the internet for Lent...I've failed so much. This is something wholesome (aka "at least I'm playing video games...")that I'm using the internet for this time and I feel as if I don't tell someone this my heart will explode.
I've been thinking about Christ's mercy and how horrible the Cross must have been and yet how wonderful the Resurrection was. Honestly I think this year I understand it more than I did in the past. I lost a dear family member a few months ago and I still remember holding their cold hand while telling them I love them. I saw a painting of Mary holding Christ's dead body which reminded me of that. It's easier for me to imagine the joy when the tomb was empty and Christ came back from the dead. I'd be overjoyed if my dear family member came back.
Christ came back, how am I to then respond to such a miracle? God incarnate has beaten sin and death. He has gone to battle with death itself and won.
Sett'Ispadas de Dolore
https://youtu.be/4LY3Zg9z8No
Fredgast, Attike, Cristero, and Prudentias
Good day or night my Brothers, well I still resisting and Bolsonaro will finally buy vaccines because the governors begun to do it first and Lula, the socialist ex-president were considered not guilty of his crimes by the same court that put him in the jail, considering that he puts Bolsonaro second term into peril our stupid president begun to use masks and buy millions of vaccines. We are in lockdown, only pharmacy, hospitals and markets operating, the economy colapsed and death rate by COVID-19 skyrocketed, a new variation of the virus from Amazon, more contagious and more deadly put us under siege, we need a vaccine wall.
Well, I was talking to my girlfriend about eugenics, she showed some support but I really turned her mind against it. The argument may be used by you even on non-christians because it don't even need to use an theological argument.
- Eugenics is natural, nature works by eugenics.
- The nature works without sanitation, so let destroy the sewers because it is not natural at all.
- But sometimes we must let nature do their work.
- This have nothing to do with nature. My love you know the problem with eugenics? It is that eugenics means the selection of the betters, or at least people considered fit do live.
- Nature do that every day.
- Yes, nature. Do you know in eugenics who choose who is the better? It is humans, they choose according to random criteria who is the better, black people were considered inferior by eugenics in USA to put eugenics supporters creating birth control to prevent them from having children, Nazi Germany (Godwin Law) choose that people like Gypsies and Jews were not the better too, the group of people in the top of power choose who is the "better" to live without any objective criteria, do you think that this is natural at all? Anyone could use eugenics argument to deal with opposing groups, falible human beings, just pick your enemies or some group you don't like and put them among those unfit or not among the better to live, evil becomes just more easy.
- Animals choose among their children who survives.
- They do this by instinct not by a project of creating better versions of their species, this is not eugenics at all.
I agree completely. Eugenics is nothing more than a form of superiority complex and a very dangerous belief. If people are to decide what are worthy traits to have, they hold the belief that life isn't sacred and that there are inherently those that are more worthy. With regards to faith, a belief in eugenics is a contradiction to the idea that we are all made in God's image. It's good that you changed your girlfriend's mind on it.
On another note you have my prayers. May God bless you and your family and may God bless the people of Brazil in these difficult times.
Fredgast, Jungiania, Attike, and Prudentias
I'm sure that God will understand you're reasoning for using the internet in this instance. There are times when you need to talk about how you are feeling.
https://silvatongue.medium.com/the-blessing-of-the-sussexian-dynasty-by-the-pontifex-angelus-ac436bcd417e
Thank you for the praying brother, I will be praying for you and all my brothers and sisters here too, I feel my cognition and intelligence falling due to isolation, obvious effects of the isolation of course.
Well Brazil collapsed as a society, I'm on a privileged position here despite don't being rich at all.
I get myself far from politics and trying to read things every day as I did before, politics is inherently corrupt, despite liking to write about it here I am not a big fan of it.
When this pandemics end we will have a really big problem, the dragon from the east, the digital totalitarian society is spreading it's imperialistic claims with more confidence and power.
As if the people of the crescent moon was not problem enough already.
So the Vatican says no to blessing same-sex unions.
Frustrated Franciscans, Fredgast, Francis, Sundiata, and 4 othersAttike, Terentino, Prudentias, and Themerba
Let us praise the Lord, for guiding the Holy Mother Church on her quest for guarding the Depositus Fideī.
Omensa, Fredgast, Cristero, and Themerba
I was quite relieved when I saw the news online hours ago.
Omensa, Fredgast, Attike, and Novi comi res publica
Hi guys! Today is March 17th: 160 years of Italian unification. On this day in Turin, 160 years ago, his majesty Vittorio Emanuele II solemnly proclaimed the birth of the Kingdom of Italy in front of Parliament.
"Raccolgaci un'unica
Bandiera, una speme:
Di fonderci insieme
Già l'ora suonò"
Fredgast, Cristero, and Prudentias
Hi
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