mercredi 23 avril 2014

audience (septem dierum - for seven days - de sept jours)

Australia   unum = VII  
Brazil   unum = I  
Canada   quatuor = XIII  
China   quindecim = CLXXIIX  
Denmark   unum = II  
France   viginti unum = CCCXXXIV  
Germany   sex = LI  
Italy   unum = I  
India   tredecim = XCV  
Indonesia   septendecim = LIV  
Malaysia   unum = I  
Moldova   duo = XXXIV  
Netherlands   quatuor = XI  
Poland   decem = CCLXXXV  
Romania   unum = XIV  
Russia   quatuordecim = LXXXIII  
Spain   sex = LXXXVII  
Sweden   sex = XXVII  
Switzerland   unum = II  
Taiwan   quinque = LVII  
Turkey   viginti octo = DCCXX  
Ukraine   viginti tres = DCXVIII  
United Kingdom   quinque = XVI  
United States   triginta = DCCCVI  
Venezuela   unum = I  
In toto   = MMMCCCCLXXXVIII


"United States" sive Status Uniti XXII bloggos visitaverunt una septimana, a priori separata:

71 - lxxi
11 - xi - lxxxii
3 - iii - lxxxv
12 - xii -xcvii
61 - lxi - cliii
132 - cxxxii - cclxxxv
17 - xvii - cccii
25 - xxv - cccvii
112 - cxii - cdxix
3 - iii - cdxxii
25 - xxv - cdxlvii
87 - lxxxvii - dxxxiiii
130 - cxxx - dclxiv
3 - iii - dclxvii
45 -xxxxv - dccxii
2 - ii - dccxiiii
3 - iii - dccxvii
1 - i - dccxviii
1 - i - dccxviiii
1 - i - dccxx
2 - ii - dccxxii
1 - i - dccxxiii

Inveni alios sex bloggorum statistica de Statibus Unitis

23 - xxiii - dccxlvi
1 - i - dccxlvii
6 - vi - dccliii
2 - ii - dcclv
12 - xii - dcclxvii
4 - iv - dcclxxiii

Eadem septimana a priori distincta, extra Statibus Unitis:

Australia II  8 - viii
Belgium II 3 - iiixi
Brazil I 2 - iixiii
Canada I 1 - ixiv
China XVI 130 - cxxxcxxxxiv
Denmark I 1 - icxxxxv
France XXII 213 - ccxiiiccclviii
Germany XI 214 - ccxivdlxxii
Hungary I 3 - iiidlxxv
India XIII 180 - clxxxdcclv
Ireland II 3 - iiidcclviii
Luxembourg I 1 - idcclix
Moldova I 2 - iidcclxi
Netherlands I 1 - idcclxii
Norway I 1 - idcclxiii
Poland XV 82 - lxxxiidcccxxxxv
Puerto Rico I 1 - idcccxxxxvi
Russia XVIII 196 - cxcvimxxxxii
Spain XVII 505 - dvmdxxxxvii
Sweden VIII 89 - lxxxixmdcxxxvi
Switzerland I 1 - imdcxxxvii
Taiwan III 30 - xxxmdclxvii
Turkey III 89 - lxxxixmdcclvi
Ukraine XXVI 1628 - mdcxxviiimmmccclxxxiiii
United Kingdom VII 33 - xxxiiimmmccccxvii - 3417


dcclxxiii
mmmccccxvii

mmmmclxxxx

Et prioris septimanae:

mmmcccclxxxviii

Faciunt duabus septimanis:

vii m dclxxviii - 7678

lundi 21 avril 2014

On Easter Not being Pagan

JAU
Chesterton posited that tradition was a way for the dead to have a vote in the modern world we live in. This in mind, what is wrong with observing pagan customs during winter and spring festivals? -- Holy Ishtar!!
HGL
When it comes to Pagan dead, they are not really our dead.

Ishtar is NOT the origin of Easter. That is part of a very bad Protestant tradition of Anticatholic smearing:

Great Bishop of Geneva! : Whom did Christ call "that fox"?
http://greatbishopofgeneva.blogspot.com/2014/04/whom-did-christ-call-that-fox.html
JAU
What i'm saying is that we should not be ashamed if it is.
HGL
First of all, if it were really a celebration of Ishtar, one would be ashamed. She was goddess - or rather falsely honoured as such - of harlots. As well as of love in some cleaner aspects.

Second, no, English and German are about the only two languages now alive that call the Christian feast so. And in German it sounds very much less like Ishtar. Ostern is the German word.

Third, there is a connexion to pre-Nazi lodges here (of which I am not ashamed), namely insofar as one of them or rather the whole Odinist Masonry, was called Ostara. In proto-Germanic that would have been Austara and English has this curious quirk of changing au to ea (original AEnglisc pronunciation roughly like "air" without the r pronounced), so if any Pagan goddess is involved at all, it is Eos / Aurora / Ushas = goddess of dawn (the name is ths related to East).

And a god or a goddess of a purely natural phenomenon is, this time for seriously, not a thing to be ashamed of. Helios is about synonym for Brother Sun, with the difference that St Francis was not offering 100 kine or oxen to him, but telling us to praise God for him, and the three men in the oven were themselves telling him and Sister Moon to praise the Lord.

Obviously, offering 100 kine or oxen to Helios would be a sin.

A Number of Real Baddies for Schwarzi to Judge!

Little update: Schwarzi is no longer governor of California, as I found out while sending this to his successor./HGL

Women Prisoners Sterilized To Cut Welfare Costs In California
Tell Me Now— April 13, 2014
http://tellmenow.com/2014/04/women-prisoners-sterilized-to-cut-welfare-costs-in-california/


On Christian Marriage
CASTI CONNUBII
ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XI ON CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE DECEMBER 31, 1930
http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius11/P11CASTI.HTM


Friend
1 Timothy 2:15: "Yet she shall be saved through childbearing; if she continue in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety."

Where is her chance to be saved, and if she repents and wants to live as a normal woman, the state has just prevented her from doing so. This "physician" should be hung.

Well, this is in the same country that has abortion on demand, leaves babies who have survived their mother's abortion attempt in a bucket to die, and only provides an infant of previable gestational age (an infant born under 23 weeks) with "comfort care," (they are not given any food or necessary medical care) leaving them to die.

God help this country!
NSch (not identic to the NS on other post!)
These women are not traditionalist Catholics though. If they were and married and rearing God fearing children it would be another matter. These black women are not saved by child bearing because they are raising ungodly children who are wreaking havoc and crime on the nation. They in turn are getting government handouts for this read Ecclesiasticus Chapter 16

16:1 Rejoice not in ungodly children, if they be multiplied: neither be delighted in them, if the fear of God be not with them.

16:2 Trust not to their life, and respect not their labours.

16:3 For better is one that feareth God, than a thousand ungodly children.

16:4 And it is better to die without children, than to leave ungodly children.
Friend
Yes, but sterilisation of anyone, is a grave sin. We should hope and pray for their repentence, assist them with it, and expect that they do act as holy women.

I suspect that many "Christian" men like to use the above passage you quote to justify disrepecting unGodly women, and grave evil being done to them. This is in the Old Testament - the New Convenant is additionally about love, all children being a blessing, and forgiveness.

I do not think that these women should multiply if they are not married, but for those who are, I encourage them to do so, and be Godly mothers who raise Godly children. But all children should rejoiced in and delighted in. The above passage sounds very Jewish or Muslim. We no longer stone people, either.
NSch
That is the point, they aren't married but having children with multiple male partners in order to get government benefits. These children will grow up with the same criminal outlooks. If I was in charge I would just expel these unrepentant repeat offenders from the nation. There are only so many times we are told to give them the information they need to convert, if they do not then we have to be separate from them.
Friend
I agree, but is the Godly solution to sterilise these women?
NSch
Why should we delight in children who are raised in heathenism that will rob, rape, and murder?

No the solution as I said is expulsion. Both sides in the matter are non Catholic I am sure.
Friend
Because all children are a gift from the Lord, regardless of the status of their parents union, and regardless of their parents' depravity. This is just Christian belief. All human life is sacred, and we are to give thanks for and love all children.
NSch
Ungodly children are not a gift.

Because they grow up to be ungodly adults.

If they convert then that is another matter.
Friend
That is a very fatalistic attitude.

What do you mean by "both sides in the matter…"?
I, HGL
Eugenicism was wrong when Pope Pius XI condemned it and is wrong still.
I to NSch
"These women are not traditionalist Catholics though. "

Pope Pius XI never said a word on the ban on Eugenicism applying ONLY to families that are traditionally Catholic. The words "be fruitful and multiply" were said to Adam and Eve, God knowing full well they would fall and that one of their children would be Kain, the first murderer. They are ancestors of ALL men, not of Catholics only.

"These black women are not saved by child bearing because they are raising ungodly children who are wreaking havoc and crime on the nation."

That is a thing you cannot know in advance of anyone.

By saying that beforehand, you make yourself a servant of the evil idol Apollo, or better named Apollyon.

You bring upon yourself the curse of those going to soothsayers.

A lady these last days told me she had been praying on the burial of one named John, she had seen the eagle of St John the Apostle in Church, then she asked a man to read the coffee dregs. I believe her she saw an eagle in the coffee dregs. I also told her not to consult coffee dregs again (they are useful as fertilisers).

But you are doing something infinitely much worse than asking someone for fun to read the coffee dregs.

Reading a horoscope for fun is a venial sin, and that is [basically] what she did.

Running one's own or someone else's life according to a horoscope is a mortal sin against the faith, and that is what you just approved of.

Heathen, I am not wishing YOU happiness this Easter!

Ecclesiasticus 16 applies to parents already seeing their children, like Eli who knew his sons were undevout and unfit for the priesthood - not because of what he could say beforehadn knowing himself, but because of what he saw while raising them and seeing them in action.

Abraham gave an example. When he saw how Ishmael harrassed his half brother, the Father in Faith did not rejoice in Ishmael, but chase him away.
I to Friend
"This is in the Old Testament - the New Convenant is additionally about love, all children being a blessing, and forgiveness."

Ecclesiasticus, as said, did not recommend sterilising anyone.
I to NSch
"That is the point, they aren't married but having children with multiple male partners in order to get government benefits."

So cut the doles, not the ovular tubes!

"These children will grow up with the same criminal outlooks."

There you go again serving Apollo, that is Satan, by false prophecy.

"There are only so many times we are told to give them the information they need to convert, if they do not then we have to be separate from them."

Expelling foreigners who have a land of origin elsewhere is an option.

Sterilising anyone, with or against her or his will, is, to a Christian [or any honest person], NOT.

In the last days men heading doctrines of evil spirits will forbid people to marry. That is not about monasticism, since that is voluntary and Jeremiah and Eliah gave an example. It is about YOU.

Note, when I said to cut the dole, I mean for everybody, legally.

Not for the 150 women by decision of administration.

Cutting the dole for everyone, on top of cutting excuses for such crimes as were recently perpetrated in California prisons [againt female prisoners, by doctors], also allows cutting taxes.

God curse "responsible rich" who want to keep taxes and government control of who has and who hasn't children going!
I to Friend
A little correction: "This 'physician' should be hung." I suppose you mean THESE physicianS, but otehrwise I agree. The doctors' trial after WW-II was derisory.

New blog on the kid : I thank the Cemetery of Graz
http://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2014/01/i-thank-cemetery-of-graz.html


As I said on that link:

Thanks to this, it may at last be known outside Austria too that this man, who has a Swastika and not any Cross on his grave, whose headstone features no Cross even for the date of his death (and no star for the date of his birth, just "24.3.1897 - 27.7.1934", no star and no cross), who died in the July Putsch of 1934, who was a comrade thus with the other Nazi who killed Dollfuss, who was an SA Sturmbannführer, and who was called Hans Tita Probst, was a Medical Doctor ...


I think a Schwarzenegger ought to take a good and long talk with these doctors. I think he should do so in the same spirit as his role Conan did with the role Thulsa Doom.

Hoch Dollfuss!
I on article
"The Supreme Court ruled in 1927 that women can be forcibly sterilized in jail in Buck vs Bell."

US of 1920's - prototype of Nazism. When Chesterton spoke to Mussolini in I think 1935, the latter still had the good sense to call racialism a Protestant fad. So sad that the book of his visit to Rome is NOT online.

This ruling was in the wake of legislations, state after state, which were, God be thanked, revoked in the 1970's. Precisely as in Sweden and Canada. IN Germany rectification came as early as 1945.

True pro-life: repeal Buck vs Bell AND Roe vs Wade.
I to Friend
"I do not think that these women should multiply if they are not married,"

If they have any sex, they should multiply rather than be sterilised or use condoms or pills - or obviously abortions.
NSch
Hans you are nuts and have absolutely no clue what you are talking about. The scripture is valid here and very clear in what it is saying, which is ungodly children are a curse not a blessing!.

It is very clear that these women popping out these children are a curse on the nation as well. Sorry, but if you want to pay for them so they can grow up to rape and murder YOU can. If you want to pay in YOUR blood, and YOUR children's blood when they rape, beat, and murder you and your family that is fine. Don't ask the rest of us rational people to pay that same price because you want to be irrational and sanctimonious, and forget that God has also commanded us to separate from the wicked.

Seems like a lot of the feminine attitude of the modernist novus ordo is being spouted here, which leaves all common sense out the window.

These are basically a godless people consuming us and our nations by sheer numbers.

The truth is our ancestors probably would not have worried about sterilizing them, they would have just put them to the sword because they are unrepentant and a danger to society. Wake up. Yes my option would be to banish them from the nation if I was in charge, but I am not going to cry if these criminal and ungodly women can't bear anymore thugs who will grow up to murder my kids and grandchildren. You are absolutely insane if you think our nations are better off full of Godless heathens.

These types have been targeted for conversion over and over again and it does not work, they always slip back into their wicked ways. Haiti is a prime example, they were given Catholicism and they go back to their witch doctor religion or pollute Catholicism with their demonic rituals. Please get a clue. Unless you practice arranged marriages, you personally use a form of eugenics when you select a mate whether it be based on looks or intelligence . I seriously doubt you would choose someone with downs syndrome to marry because you would be unequally yoked. Even if you practice arranged marriage, the parents would be looking for good genetic qualities in the partner they are choosing for their children.
HGL
Scripture is very clear that it is talking about sons already observed as ungodly. NOT presumed in advance to be so by your Averroistic predictions.

When the Song of Roland accused Sarracens of adoring "Mahound, Apollo and Termagant", the Muslim religion as such is what was meant by Mahound, but the fatalism that later was named Averroes and tried to invade Sorbonne, which was expulsed by St Thomas Aquinas and Bishop Stephen II Tempier, is what was meant by "Apollo".

YOU have shown yourself a disciple of Apollo, and not of Scripture.

"Unless you practice arranged marriages, you personally use a form of eugenics when you select a mate whether it be based on looks or intelligence ."

Oh really? No, if that is eugenics, everyone is eugenicist. But cutting off ovular tubes is what is commonly meant by it.

You speak of common sense and what not, but you have lost yours, when you said this:

"Sorry, but if you want to pay for them so they can grow up to rape and murder YOU can. "

I had very clearly said that I wanted the dole cut over all of the line.

"You are absolutely insane if you think our nations are better off full of Godless heathens."

You are a heathen and hardly very sane if you think you can predict someone will in the future grow up that way, just because his or her mother has been in prison.
NSch
No common sense Hans. That is why we are in trouble. How many Saints have unwed, repeat criminal, black mothers produced? Please I am waiting for you to name one.

Like I said. I am for expulsion. Their rotten fruit is all over this country and I don't see anything good coming from it. Your inability to look at things as a collective is the problem.
HGL
St Christopher had a pretty bad start in life. He was 9 feet tall and had a dog's head. I do not suppose his mother was a godly woman.

His first decision was to serve the mightiest king. Then he saw this king afraid of the devil and he served the devil. THEN he saw the devil afraid of a crucifix, and he decided to serve the man depicted on it.

THAT was how he started to become a saint. As you said sth about Novus Ordo, my beef with it is that it cut St Christopher out of the calendar.

I am NOT unable to look at things in the collective. I am saying that expulsion is a clear option - collectively - in cases where a homeland to which a community still has clear ties exists. That is not quite the case with Black Americans. And it is not the case with Black Americans either that all or even most of them are prison inmates.

But looking in the collective is one thing, looking into the future of a particular is another thing.
NSch
The future is determined by past behavior. A leopard seldom changes his spots. There is no successful black nation, all of them are riddled with crime and disease. There is a reason the Church confined the Jews to ghettos or expelled them. They are judged on their past actions and behavior.
HGL
"The future is determined by past behavior."

No.

"A leopard seldom changes his spots."

A leopard has no free will either.
NSch
hmmm The Church makes a prediction here about the behavior of Jews and Muslims which is why they were restricted and segregated from corrupting society with their actions

Whence it sometimes happens through error that Christians mingle with the women of Jews and Mohammedans and, on the other hand, Jews and Mohammedans mingle with those of Christians. Therefore, in order that such ruinous commingling of this kind through error may not serve as a refuge for further excuse for excess, We decree that such people of both sexes, that is, Jews and Mohammedans, be distinguished in public by a difference in dress in every province of Christendom and at all times, since this was also enjoined on such people by Moses.- IV Lateran Council
HGL
"There is a reason the Church confined the Jews to ghettos or expelled them. They are judged on their past actions and behavior."

Not quite, they are, as long as remaining Jews, judged on their confession. Which involves an approval of certain past behaviours, like rejecting Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Plus the Church never made individual predictions about this or that Jew converting.

"The Church makes a prediction here about the behavior of Jews and Muslims which is why they were restricted and segregated from corrupting society with their actions"

Not a correct reading.

Whence it sometimes happens through error that Christians mingle with the women of Jews and Mohammedans and, on the other hand, Jews and Mohammedans mingle with those of Christians. Therefore, in order that such ruinous commingling of this kind through error may not serve as a refuge for further excuse for excess, We decree that such people of both sexes, that is, Jews and Mohammedans, be distinguished in public by a difference in dress in every province of Christendom and at all times, since this was also enjoined on such people by Moses.- IV Lateran Council


No prediction about any single person. No dooming of any single person according to his past behaviour.

A dress can easily be laid off when one converts.

A testicular or ovular tube can not so easily be repaired, nor a killed child restored.

The Church wanted to remove an excuse. The doctors wanted to remove a physical occasion, i e control what happens. Not just - a bit insofar as a regulation can help - how responsible people get for it.

Btw, I have argued that if a distinctive dress can legitimately be imposed, it can also legitimately be voluntarily chosen by those concerned. Hence my opposition to bans on wearing the veil.
NSch
You just don't get it. The Church is going to look at things in the collective sense what you are refusing to do.

" On account of these and other serious matters, and because of the gravity of their crimes which increase day to day more and more, We order that, within 90 days, ALL Jews in our entire earthly realm of justice -- in all towns, districts, and places -- must depart these regions. ~ Pope St. Pius V (From his Bull, "The Jewish Race," Feb.26, 1569; PAC, p.648).


Pius the V orders them all out, he isn't worried that one might convert. He puts the greater good first. The greater good for our nations would be to expel these criminal women, popping out ungodly children who will grow into ungodly adults.
HGL
I am, first of all, not refusing to look in the collective and not proposing that collective expulsions are illegal.

The earthly realm of Justice of Pope St Pius V was Romagna, and little more. An expulsion not very unbearable. 100 km voyage and they had 90 days to comply.
NSch
Our ancestors more and likely would have put them to death, or burned them at the stake so sterilization isn't even an issue here.
HGL
Our ancestors would very certainly NOT have put anyone to either noose or stake for such petty crimes as landed some of the 150 in prison, especially if it was for repeated offenses rather than for very big crimes.

A person who is executed has no additional pains for not having children.

And expelled persons are not inhibited thereby from childbearing.

And a person expelled from Romagna might very well convert in Two Sicilies. Or Florence.

[Posted link to this reposting of debate, so NSch could see his bad arguments were being exposed.]

mardi 15 avril 2014

On Medical Tyranny

Friend (status plus ensuing comments, mostly quotes)
"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom." -Benjamin Rush, MD., a signer of the Declaration of Independence and personal physician to George Washington

Feel free to share this! If there is no "share" button, just copy and paste.

"The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition." -Thomas Edison

"If we doctors threw all our medicines into the sea, it would be that much better for our patients and that much worse for the fishes." -Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendel Holmes, MD

"We must admit that we have never fought the homeopath on matters of principle. We fought them because they came into our community and got the business." -Dr. J.N. McCormack, AMA, 1903

"One of the biggest tragedies of human civilization is the precedents of chemical therapy over nutrition. It's a substitution of artificial therapy over nature, of poisons over food, in which we are feeding people poisons trying to correct the reactions of starvation." -Dr. Royal Lee, January 12, 1951

"The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task." -Roger Williams Ph.D. (1971)

"Nutrition can be compared with a chain in which all essential items are separate links. We know what happens if one link of a chain is weak or is missing. The whole chain falls apart." -Patrick Wright, Ph.D.
Me (commenting on some quotes)
"If we doctors threw all our medicines into the sea, it would be that much better for our patients and that much worse for the fishes." - And for (which is relevant to Catholics) Gollum and any other Fisheaters.

"The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task." - Except of course when a beggar is forced to live more of alms given in sweets than of what he can buy with money, because some jerks think if he gets money he will drink or because some jerks know that if I get money, I will not use all on eating, but also some one communicating.

Benjamin Rush failed to foresee another kind of dictatorship of the medical corps. The one exercised by Shrinks.

Even over Hollywood. When I was small there was a film called "And One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". When I am in my forties, the main actor is now the hero of "Anger Management", the guy who "helps" a patient through therapy to use his anger correctly. That film would in my view have been better for the role of same actor ending with an axe* in his head (role, not live person, mind you).

I withdraw one word choice.

I said "medical dictatorship", but that is an insult to Mussolini. I meant medical tyranny, of course (you know, I AM in fact a bit tired)!
Friend
What a brilliant film. I greatly sympathised** with the main actor, and loved all of the other characters, too. Then, there's "Doc," before he became "Doc" (one of the actors later ended up being a main character in a famous film "Back to the Future").
Me
All the other characters? Even nurse Ratchet?
Friend
Well, although I did not like who she was, I did appreciate the character as part of the story.
Me
Well, that is hardly loving, is it? It is loving to detest.
Friend
What is "hardly loving?"
Me
If you appreciate the character in the story but do not like her, that is hardly loving but rather loving to detest.
Friend
Well, my point about Nurse Ratchet is that the character was needed to make the film what it was.
Me
Btw, did Benjamin Rush actually use the words "undercover dictatorship"? Sound a bit modern to me. Sure the quote has not been tampered with? Like "secret tyranny" in original?
Friend
I just confirmed the accuracy of the above quote by Rush.
Me
OK, what proximate source?
Friend
Source:

Gifts of Speech: Excerpts From Closing Argument
In The Trial Of Alternative Health Care Provider
Rodger Sless versus
The United States Food And Drug Administration
by Nancy Lord,
1992 Libertarian Party Vice-Presidential Candidate
http://gos.sbc.edu/l/lord.html
.

Almost sure it comes from his "Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind."
Me
OK, you quoted your proximate source correctly. Now, I would like to know how Nancy Lord quoted. Can you get his "Medical Inquiries" etc?

Btw, one fault in your quote as per your source: she showed where she had left out parts, by giving three dots, you omitted them and made it look like a continuous quote.
Friend
Did you know: "Dr. Benjamin Rush, the 'father of American psychiatry,' was the first to believe that mental illness is a disease of the mind and not a 'possession of demons.' His classic work, Observations and Inquiries upon the Diseases of the Mind, published in 1812, was the first psychiatric textbook printed in the United States. Rush served on the Pennsylvania Hospital medical staff from 1783 until the time of his death in 1813." Source:

Pennsylvania Hospital History: Stories - Dr. Benjamin Rush
http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/paharc/features/brush.html


How ironic!

I found it available for free as an e-book:

Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind ("Livre numérique"*** Google)
Benjamin Rush
Grigg and Elliot, 1835 - 365 pages
http://books.google.fr/books/about/Medical_Inquiries_and_Observations_Upon.html?id=l-oRAAAAYAAJ&redir_esc=y
Me
Now, as to Rush, perhaps he was doing a favour to people wrongfully considered possessed who in fact were not. But then, perhaps, he was himself overdiagnosing and doing worse than even protestant pseudo-exorcists had been doing.

And thank you very much for the e-book!
Friend
It is not in that book.

Well, I initially saw the quote on another website, and only attempted to confirm its accuracy upon your request, which is why I might have accidently left out the ellipsis.
Me
One good thing about copy-paste is these things are not left out.

I noted the book hardly contained any info on his views on status of doctors. It very much DOES however contain his info on his views of which certain ones can abusively have entered DSMH, so I am glad you gave it me.
Friend
I wish I could find the original source of that quote, but I assume Nancy Lord already did that.
Me
And she might have been as sloppy on vocabulary as you on the ellipsis. Or she might have been quoting from memory.

I checked and saw there were no footnotes. Btw, since she was doing a speech, she would have been quoting from memory rather than looking at a paper!
Friend
…and? Her speech first had to be written though.
Me
Not necessarily word for word. She can have learned a list of points by heart rather than learning every word by heart or even worse looking at every word on a paper.

What I meant by being grateful for the book is that if you look at chapter XI and consider the kind of tone Dawkins takes, you can see how Rush's take can very easily be abused by Antichristians if they only adjust the concrete application of the criterium a bit.

I am not sure Rush was not already treating as madmen capable of believing ANYTHING people who had true stories to tell, but whom he did not believe. I am however very sure that right now that criterium is abused against Christians, against Creationists, against CCHR, against quite a few similar people.

And obviously, Jews are likely to abuse it both against any one believing Jesus is the Christ and against anyone not quite believing all details in the Shoah story.

This is why Jewish Community when overrepresented among shrinks is doing a great deal of harm. If one wants to get rid of it without harming the community as such, the ideal is to get rid of quite a bit of psychiatry.

Obviously they° are also often enough mediocres who simply do not know enough to judge correctly whether someone's story is correct or not.

I was confronted with a person one evening who considered me as having a very screwed up view of history simply because I did not share his and his girl friend's Dan Brown fandom (basically). But he did overbelieve the claims of one Théodore Monod, a French naturalist from a family of Calvinist pastors. Himself he was not of that family as far as I could see, but could be related to one young Rothschild I have seen.


* And no, the spellcheck program is wrong to suggest I replace "axe" with "ax". The latter is an US American reformed spelling. ** Just so I prefer "sympathised" over "sympathized". *** Yes, I am reading this in France. °Is as true of shrinks as of Jews.

jeudi 10 avril 2014

Karl Keating Admitting Excessive Judaeophilia in Today's Society?

He shows a photo of Lawrence Krauss, so technically my link is to a FB photo:

Karl Keating showing Lawrence Krauss in photo
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=658027080911877&set=a.104545786260012.2844.100001137739551&type=1


But there is a LOT of text under it.

It is a somewhat longish essay to the effect that Robert Sungenis is being accused of acting as a Talmudic Jew against a Jew (since Lawrence Krauss is a Jewish Atheist) which is ironic considering what Robert Sungenis has said about the Talmud in very other contexts than the film The Principle.

However, there is a quote which I find golden to me and a bit brazen from him:

(How many theaters would risk it when Sungenis's anti-Jewish obsessions become known in the local area? Theater owners don't make money by ticking off the local rabbi and his congregation.)


That was an admission of a certain kind of Jewish supremacy syndrome.

Also an admission of Jewish habit of Guilt By Association.

  • a) Robert Sungenis is an antisemite (according to ADL standards)
  • b) The Principle is by Robert Sungenis
  • c) The Principle is an antisemitic film (even though it nowhere mentions Jews)*


Such a non-syllogism!

Apart from that Karl Keating is not exactly saying that Krauss' accusations are true, but he is going on about them and never actually putting them in doubt.

To think that I had had the cyncicism of figuring out that Robert Sungenis and Rick DeLano could have had the Chutzpah of paying Lawrence Krauss and the Star Trek actress to make this kind of "cinema" outside the film, just so as to get more attention to it without actually making it seem as publicity! But no, Karl Keating's article frees my friends from this suspicion pretty much insofar as he states that what he had seen by Krauss does not mention the film. Though it links to it.

And no, once again, this morning I saw some evidence that today's society is so much less freethinking among young than in the Sixties that a smear campaign might alas not be so likely to backfire. Since Robert and Rick are a bit better acquainted than I with "men of the world" that would surprise them less than it still surprises and pains myself.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St Fulbert of Chartres
and St Hezechiel
10-IV-2014

* Unless you count the footages with the Jewish Atheist Lawrence Krauss as "mentioning Jews"!

Appendix:

I see this when publishing under Karl Keating's photo:

Kate Mulgrew saying:
8 April, 21:22
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151985862292466&id=7122967465


"I understand there has been some controversy about my participation in a documentary called THE PRINCIPLE. Let me assure everyone that I completely agree with the eminent physicist Lawrence Krauss, who was himself misrepresented in the film, and who has written a succinct rebuttal in SLATE. I am not a geocentrist, nor am I in any way a proponent of geocentrism. More importantly, I do not subscribe to anything Robert Sungenis has written regarding science and history and, had I known of his involvement, would most certainly have avoided this documentary. I was a voice for hire, and a misinformed one, at that. I apologize for any confusion that my voice on this trailer may have caused. Kate Mulgrew"


Under it Lawrence Krauss states:
8 Avril, 22:52

Good for you Kate. Glad we agree.


The likes were 11 478 for the statement by Kate Mulgrew and 718 for the approval by Lawrence Krauss./HGL

mercredi 9 avril 2014

Geocentric Yes, Flat Earth No

Paul Michael Bales
(at least according to the FB profile)
Paul Michael Bales‎ > Robert Sungenis

Cheers for the accept Rob, I was tweeting to Phil Plait, for I am a geocentrist and flat earther and he blocked me, then posted this straight afterwards. It mentions your documentary.

The Principle: A Documentary About Geocentrism. Yeah, I Know.
By Phil Plait
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/04/08/the_principle_a_documentary_about_geocentrism.html


I think the flat earthers and geocentrits are starting to touch a nerve of the powers that be, the scientists and astronomers and NASA are getting nervous up there in their tower of babel, for it is trembling and about to collapse.
Hans-Georg Lundahl
Paul Michael Bales - how do you argue the earth as a whole is NOT bent surface going at least full circle Paris - New York - San Francisco - Peking - Moscow - Paris in face of travel?

(Btw, this is the kind of evidence that factually is lacking but in imagination is supplied by pop culture for Heliocentrism : Star Trek, Star Wars, Agent Spatio-Temporel Valérian and some more)

And Phil Plait is not new to this controversy, btw:

That NASA look
By Phil Plait | July 26, 2010 12:00 pm
On Discover Magazine, his blog Bad Astronomy
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/07/26/that-nasa-look/
Paul Michael Bales
There is no curvature of the Earth, people do not live on top of a ball, and Australians certainly don't live underneath the ball hanging upside down by their feet.

[Link to Flat Earth Cartoon showing impact of a Globe if Centre of Gravity were outside earth, very opposite North Pole]
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152338578861692&set=p.10152338578861692&type=1&theater
Hans-Georg Lundahl
Nice cartoon, if "down" were same direction counted from Paris and Australia. It is rather opposite directions.
Paul Michael Bales
NASA's cartoon paintings and drawings of a globular spinning earth are not very convincing. They are about as convincing as this picture.

Link to Geocentric Cartoon lampooning diagrams of Earth spinning around its axis or orbitting the Sun.]
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152338581421692&set=p.10152338581421692&type=1&theater
Hans-Georg Lundahl
Paul, in case you missed it, I was not arguing from a cartoon being convincing. I am arguing from known travels. MANY of them.

(If Heliocentrics would want a similar argument, we would need Han Solo to be fact. Newsflash : he is fiction.)

[On link to Phil Plait, quoting from it:]

"The trailer does seem to be making a case for Geocentrism (it's mentioned specifically), but given the title, I would guess they're going to try to make a broader point that the Universe itself was made—created, if you will—purposely for us."


I thought the title referred to the Copernican Principle which is being debunked.
Paul Michael Bales
I am going to take that Pied piper Phil Plait down, he is a pied piper misleading people, with his flute like telescope. He is not a real skeptic, he is paid to ridicule anything that goes against orthodox sciences cherished dogmas.

[Link tp Marvel Style Cartoon of Pied Piper]
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152338586506692&set=p.10152338586506692&type=1&theater
Hans-Georg Lundahl
I already did some of that under his post and I was blocked from combox, I think, or thread was closed:

That NASA look
By Phil Plait | July 26, 2010 12:00 pm
On Discover Magazine, his blog Bad Astronomy
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/07/26/that-nasa-look/
Paul Michael Bales
They never circumnavigate pole to pole, only east to west, which you can do on a flat surface, for example a formula one car going around the racing track, or you can walk around your table, but they never go up and under the so called globe, because they can't, for we don't live on a globe, there is no south pole, only a north pole in the center.

[Link to seriously taken Flat Earth map with North POle in the Middle and "Outer Rim of Ice" instead of South Pole.]
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152338590961692&set=p.10152338590961692&type=1&theater
Hans-Georg Lundahl
That map would make quite a few distances illusory.

Going from Australia to Chile, for instance is a shorter way than it would be according to that map.

Of course, God can create dimensions. Emmaus may have been already 160 stades from Jerusalem and Jesus and two disciples still have walked it in only 60 stades (32 vs 12 km, do not know about miles so well, say 20-21 vs 8)*. Now, on the Day of Resurrection this could have happened so as to spare the disciples fatigue. I do not think this happens regularly in what Globe Believers like myself call Southern Hemisphere.
Paul Michael Bales
It would be impossible to travel anywhere on a ball, you would slip right off. We are not flies who have suckers on our feet and who can walk on the ceiling.
Hans-Georg Lundahl
Once again, your argument is from believing "down" is same direction here as in Australia.

Down is INTO the centre of the Earth.

Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere: ... on Hell Fire (Yes, it Exists)
http://ppt.li/ka (=short link=works in adress bar)
Paul Michael Bales
Of course it is, our beloved Creator, who is perfect in all ways, created this world perfectly, with all countries being level, he did not create the racist globe theory which suggests Europe and North America are on top of everyone and Africa and South America below.
Hans-Georg Lundahl
In Medieval Maps the direction of UP was Jerusalem upwards.

In Spanish voyagers' discoveries, there was a constellation opposite Pole Star called Southern Cross.

If your concern is about saving vercaity of certain passages in Holy Writ, my take is that there is a very roughly square piece of land (as in a square on a globe), which does have four corners, but which is not all there is to the globe.

That rough "square on a globe" has the corners of England - Good Hope - Australia - Sachalin/Japan.

Americas and most of Oceania are a kind of "island world" outside the main square.
Paul Michael Bales
A 100 PROOFS THE EARTH IS NOT A GLOBE

[If clicking this works, even outside FB, you should be opening or downloading a word document with title given above - other links with such square brackets as these are inside FB.]
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CDEQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mrsciguy.com%2Fdocuments%2Fproofs.doc&ei=VFVFU7H4Kc2S7AaK_oGAAw&usg=AFQjCNEh-IADA9vIMwCztikOzcbAQtYg-Q&sig2=yuUCt1NmN7_8gqZwaxus6Q&bvm=bv.64507335%2Cd.ZGU
Hans-Georg Lundahl
As to your link, it seems to have been taken down

Did you write the following? Here :

THE PHILOSOPHY OF NUTRITION.--
[On FB profile of Paul Michael Bales]
https://www.facebook.com/notes/paul-michael-bales/the-philosophy-of-nutrition-/434957152907


"At his present stage of evolution man depends upon food solely because he has not become conscious of the Law governing the Force which gives atomic action to all parts of his organism. FOR THERE IS A LAW WHICH GOVERNS THE ACTION OF THIS EVER FLOWING STREAM OR REGENERATING CURRENT DIRECTED UPON MATTER. When man, in time, becomes conscious of this Law he will be able to assimilate this Force and will no longer be dependent upon matter for the support of his physical organism."


Is that what you believe or were you only quoting someone for the fun of seeing a discussion about it?
Paul Michael Bales
That was from a book.

The link works, it should download a word document straight to your computer.
Hans-Georg Lundahl
I am not downloading, only opening on this computer, and when I tried I got an mt word doc
Paul Michael Bales
I will try to tag you to my post, I have it on facebook also.
Hans-Georg Lundahl
It works now, here are my replies to the first five:

1. The aeronaut can see for himself that Earth is a Plane. The appearance presented to him, even at the highest elevation he has ever attained, is that of a concave surface - this being exactly what is to be expected of a surface that is truly level, since it is the nature of level surfaces to appear to rise to a level with the eye of the observer. This is ocular demonstration and proof that Earth is not a globe. Have not checked. At least I had the impression horizon was round, as is to be expected on a convex, and especially is this a good explanation if one country disappears from the round horizon and another appears in it. But I have not been flying for years.
 
2. Whenever experiments have been tried on the surface of standing water, this surface has always been found to be level. If the Earth were a globe, the surface of all standing water would be convex. This is an experimental proof that Earth is not a globe. The apparent flatness of water surfaces are a participation in the VERY huge convex with a VERY far off centre of radius.

Thus, INSOFAR as globe theory needs it, water surfaces can be assumed to be convex.

Note that this is just an explanation allowing Earth to be a globe. Not a positive proof that it is.
 
3. Surveyors' operations in the construction of railroads, tunnels, or canals are conducted without the slightest "allowance" being made for "curvature," although it is taught that this so-called allowance is absolutely necessary! This is a cutting proof that Earth is not a globe.  For railroads this is not so, since the distances taken into account are distances on a globe.
 
4. There are rivers that flow for hundreds of miles towards the level of the sea without falling more than a few feet - notably, the Nile, which, in a thousand miles, falls but a foot. A level expanse of this extent is quite incompatible with the idea of the Earth's "convexity." It is, therefore, a reasonable proof that Earth is not a globe. Not so.

It is quite compatible if, as earth-globe-believers including myself and Aristotle and St Thomas Aquinas between us argue, down equals at each point the direction of centre of earth globe.
Since in that precise case, the curvature does not constitute a deviation upward from the level.
 
5. The lights which are exhibited in lighthouses are seen by navigators at distances at which, according to the scale of the supposed "curvature" given by astronomers, they ought to be many hundreds of feet, in some cases, down below the line of sight! For instance: the light at Cape Hatteras is seen at such a distance (40 miles) that, according. to theory, it ought to be nine-hundred feet higher above the level of the sea than it absolutely is, in order to be visible! This is a conclusive proof that there is no "curvature," on the surface of the sea - "the level of the sea,"- ridiculous though it is to be under the necessity of proving it at all: but it is, nevertheless, a conclusive proof that the Earth is not a globe. I have not seen Cape Hatteras, I suppose you may be wrong on the facts or have calculated for too small a globe.
 
BOTTOM LINE: we have proof from travel against absolute flatness of Earth.

As far as I know we have no similar proof for Heliocentrism.
Paul Michael Bales
Aristotle's 5 arguments for the Earth being a globe have all been debunked before. I am not going to continue this discussion, for I have had this same discussion many times before, it gets boring having to repeat myself. If you want to continue being the little prince living on top of your ball, fine, enjoy it. Don't waste my time.

[Link to a charming cartoon of The Little Prince - manga style and all!]
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152338661886692&set=p.10152338661886692&type=1&theater
Hans-Georg Lundahl
Aristotle's argument number four was factually false, but principally right, it was replaced, factually, with the Vasco da Gama circumnavigation and all the other travels I referred to.

Being "the Little Prince" is quite a charming way of putting it.** Fare well, thanks for the compliment!
Update on St Fulbert of Chartres' Day
I got a mail from the guy.
His mail to me
Did I give you my permission to use my name and words on your blog? I have reported this to Facebook, and unless removed I will take this further.
My mail back
OK, do. As to your words, I find this a scoop not to be missed. A Flat Earther who is embarrassing Geocentrics shows up as having an interest in "spiritual evolution". As to your name, since I saw you described yourself as a poet, I considered you a public person, hence one whose name can be publically shown. With friends who are just friends of mine in private, I tend to use initials. Remove from my blog? You dream.
His second mail
What a sad and pathetic man you are, you need to copy and paste my material into your blog from Facebook, because nobody goes to your blog to talk with you there. aww poor Hans, he has no friends. But it is understandable, if you treat people like you do. I on the other hands have lots of friends, if people want to talk with me they can, for there is trust and love there, they know that I am not the type of person to scoop so low as you and try to use their conversation against them. Get a life mate. I just checked your facebook page, it seems that nobody ticks like on any of your posts, you are unliked, and for a good reason. You are not a likeable person. What a loser.
My second one
My dear, if you think I am "using our cnversation against you" when I am an fact copying it, is not that an admission that you did not make the best impression in it and you know it? Wouldn't you otherwise be spreading the blogpost, if you thought you had argued well?
A bit later
It seems he has forgiven me. He gave me a link to a book on Geocentrism and Flat Earth:

Zetetic Cosmogony; Or, Conclusive Evidence that the World is Not a Rotating-revolving-globe, But a Stationary-plane-circle***
https://archive.org/stream/zeteticcosmogon00recgoog#page/n8/mode/2up


I expect for my part that there are some arguments for Geostationary Universe that are better than those for a plane Geography. Enjoy the read, but I will say in advance that 1899 the author of this book thought he had to hide his name behind the pseudonym Rectangle. Says something about attitudes, doesn't it?


* The most conservative estimate is that the Emmaus in Jesus' day was only 60 stades from Jerusalem. We know it was destroyed by Romans and later rebuilt, so the 160 stades could be same community rebuilding habitation 100 stades further away from Jerusalem. One could also consider as possible that a Syriac manuscript which has 160 stades is a survival of the correct reading.

** Excepting of course the end with the snake bite!

*** The book has some nonsense about perspective in its denials of a globe-formed earth, like on p. 25. On p. 65 it becomes brighter in logic, but some people to whom this was a reference may very well have been put off by p. 25 so as to be untattentive at p. 65. Sometimes it is good to skim over pages so as to get a picture of what is there in a work. But ok, on p. 67 he is not on top form.

If the earth is at a given point in space on say January 1st, and according to present-day science, at a distance of 190,000,000 miles from that point six months afterwards, it follows that the relative position and direction of the stars will have greatly changed, however small the angle of parallax may be ...


He is not a good geometer and does not realise what angle of parallax means. What Heliocentrics mean is that alpha Centauri would be making an apparent movement of 190,000,000 miles in six months, BUT this is due to the distance of 4 light years only visible as a very small angle of parallax, namely 0,76 arch seconds.

My own argument against Heliocentrism is NOT based on angle of parallax not being greater, but on angle of parallax not being uniform. It is not a proof of Heliocentrism being impossible as "Rectangle" would have it here, but a proof of stars moving being an equal possibility as explaining what we have optically. This would not be so if we had parallax measures from Mars, giving same stellar distances (for those "measured by parallax", i e for instance 4 light years to alpha Centauri) but a parallax dependent on Mars having a greater orbit around Sun and a longer "year" than Earth. As far as I know, we do not have that. Therefore stars being all of them far closer than 4 light years and the 0,76 arch seconds of alpha Centauri being due to its moving back and forth, is an equal optical possibility. As for the physical possibility thereof, I am not an Atheist and do NOT deny what St Thomas Aquinas said about stars moving material objects in general (I, Q110, A3) or stars more specifically (I, Q70, A3). But "Rectangle" who wrote that book was a bungler in geometry./HGL

Neither Sungenis nor Palm is totally right on Psalm 18 (Sungenis is less off)

1) Creation vs. Evolution : If some pseudo-orthodox thinks Patristic and Literal interpretation of Genesis are incompatible ..., 2) CMI on Allegorical Method - Answered, 3) Literal Sense vs Literalistic Approach, Allegoric Sense vs Figurative Approach, 4) Great Bishop of Geneva! : Congratulating Lita Cosner on agreeing basically with StThomas Aquinas, 5) Mark Shea's Understanding of Scripture, 6) HGL's F.B. writings : Neither Sungenis nor Palm is totally right on Psalm 18 (Sungenis is less off)

"Posted by galileowaswrong on Jun 18, 2013 in Blog" ? June 18, 2013? Hmmm ...

Debunking David Palm, Phase 8
The Literal Interpretation of Scripture
http://galileowaswrong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Debunking_David_Palm_Phase_8.pdf


Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859 edition.
Psalm xviii. (Cœli enarrant.)
http://haydock1859.tripod.com/id743.html


Ver. 6. Sun. Here God seems to reside, (Ferrand) and the magnificence of his works shines forth, insomuch that almost all nations have offered divine honours to the sun, and even the Manichees adored it, imagining that it was the very body of Jesus Christ. (St. Augustine, contra Faust. xiv. 12., and xx. 6.) --- Hebrew, "For the sun he has place a tent in them," the heavens, (St. Jerome; Haydock) or the ends of the world. The Jews supposed that the heavens rested, like a tent, upon the earth. (Calmet, Diss.) --- The Hebrew preposition l, may have (Haydock) different meanings, ad solem posuit, &c. "He placed a tent in them, at or for the sun." The idea of the Vulgate is more noble, but we would not exclude the other, which is very good, (Berthier) and obviates the gross mistake of the Manichees. (Amama) --- The Vulgate may admit the fig. hypallage, (M. Geneb.) as good authors say dare classibus austros, and thus it may signify "he placed the sun in his tent." (Haydock) --- This vast body stands in need of no vehicle, or tent, but itself. (Diodorus) --- It was placed in the firmament at first, (Genesis i. 16.) and still performs its revolutions exactly. (Haydock) --- Giant. Moderns would render "a strong man;" and Bythner remarks that the bulk of a giant would render him less fit for running, as if the stoutest wrestlers were not often the most active. (Berthier) --- The sun is represented as a hero at some of the ancient games. St. Augustine and St. Jerome explain all this of Jesus Christ, who diffuses the light and warmth of his grace throughout the world. (Calmet) --- He always resides with the Church, and is never divorced from her. (Worthington)

Ver. 7. Circuit. So the Hebrew word is rendered "revolution." Septuagint and Vulgate, "meeting" occursus, may insinuate that the sun is found in the centre, while the earth moves daily and yearly round it, according to the Copernican system. But we must be more attentive to the life and motions of Jesus Christ, in whom the Deity resided corporally. (Berthier)


New Advent > Fathers of the Church > Expositions on the Psalms (Augustine) > Psalm 19
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1801019.htm


6. « In the sun has He set His tabernacle. » Now that He might war against the powers of temporal error, the Lord, being about to send not peace but a sword on earth, Matthew 10:34 in time, or in manifestation, set so to say His military dwelling, that is, the dispensation of His incarnation. « And He as a bridegroom coming forth out of His chamber » Psalm 18:5. And He, coming forth out of the Virgin's womb, where God was united to man's nature as a bridegroom to a bride. « Rejoiced as a giant to run His way. » Rejoiced as One exceeding strong, and surpassing all other men in power incomparable, not to inhabit, but to run His way. For, « He stood not in the way of sinners. »

7. « His going forth is from the highest heaven » Psalm 18:6. From the Father is His going forth, not that in time, but from everlasting, whereby He was born of the Father. « And His meeting is even to the height of heaven. » And in the fullness of the Godhead He meets even to an equality with the Father. « And there is none that may hide himself from His heat. » But whereas, « the Word was even made flesh, and dwelt in us, » John 1:14 assuming our mortality, He permitted no man to excuse himself from the shadow of death; for the heat of the Word penetrated even it.


My ensuing comments, quoting Sungenis directly and Palm via Sungenis:

"neither Augustine nor any of his patristic colleagues allegorized Joshua 10."


Wrong. Sun standing still so that Joshua's men can beat Amalekites is an allegory for Christ as Sun of Justice giving us the light to beat our vices. A standing allegorisation of Joshua 10 since Origen.

However, this allegorical take has nothing to say against the historical one.

"Psalm 19 could only be categorized [I read allegorized] as phenomenal language [if etc.]"


You need to check up [unless he wrote categorized where I read allegorized] on what Allegory means, Robert Sungenis! Even Jonathan Sarfati, who rejects it, could help you out.

Taking any words as "phenomenal language" is only possible while strictly talking of the Literal Sense.

CMI : Mutilating Miller*
by John Woodmorappe and Jonathan Sarfati
A review of Finding Darwin’s God
by Kenneth R. Miller
Cliff Street Books, New York, 2000
http://creation.com/review-finding-darwins-god-by-kenneth-miller


Quoted and corrected by me in:

Creation vs. Evolution : CMI on Allegorical Method - Answered
http://creavsevolu.blogspot.com/2014/02/cmi-on-allegorical-method-answered.html


"Miller’s inconsistent thinking comes through in many other ways. Like a compromising evangelical, he misrepresents Augustine and Basil (p. 255), and states that the Days in Genesis were supposed to be understood as long periods of time. But Augustine thought that Creation was instantaneous, and so he erred in the diametrically opposite direction. He was a member of the Alexandrian school that fancifully allegorized almost all Scripture (which did not necessarily deny its historicity but tried to seek additional meanings), and was not a Hebrew scholar."


[Those were the words about Miller, back to Palm and Sungenis, this time Palm:]

"Attribution of emotions to the sun reminds us that we are still firmly in the realm of metaphor."


Palm totally misses and Robert Sungenis upholds not the parallels Baruch 3 and Job 38:7 (the Song of the 3 young men in complete versions of Daniel 3 could be construed as a quasi-psalm).

May I remind that Pagan Greeks in St Augustine's day were far more likely to tout Plotinus than Heliocentrism, so if an idea is found in Plotinus, before we conclude it is erroneous, what about checking if the Church Fathers contradicted it or not?

Oh Palm ...

"And finally the psalmist emphasizes the sun’s heat, which would confine his description to the daylight hours."


The Sun is as hot on Australia when we have night in Paris as it is hot on Paris while they have night in Australia!

That was so NOT an argument for phenomenal language!

"First, what Mr. Palm doesn’t understand is that, from the geocentric model, Psalm 19:1‐6 can refer either to a daily or an annual cycle. That is because in the geocentric model the sun travels with the universe on a daily basis and completes a circle, but the sun also completes another circle of its own because it lags behind the stars by about 1 degree per day, which then makes the sun travel through the Zodiac in one year. The heliocentric model has no such movement of the sun. So, Mr. Palm wants to take it as a daily movement, but also insists that the language is merely metaphorical of a sunrise and sunset. We thus refute him on the basis that the passage does not refer to a sunrise or sunset. It refers to an orbit, even on a daily basis. On an annual basis, there is also an orbit, and one that is more specifically related to the sun itself since the annual orbit is independent of the rotating star field, whereas the daily orbit of the sun comes from the fact that it rotates around the Earth with the rest of the universe."


That is true of the Greek Geocentric model, with a round earth. Not quite so of the Hebrew Geostatic (and often conceived by Rabbis as Flat Earthed) one.

Chrysostom: And again, David saith of the sun, that “he is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a giant to run his course.” Seest thou how he places before thee the beauty of this star, and its greatness? For even as a bridegroom when he appears from some stately chamber, so the sun sends forth his rays under the East; and adorning the heaven as it were with a saffron‐colored veil, and making the clouds like roses, and running unimpeded all the day; he meets no obstacle to interrupt his course. Beholdest thou, then, his beauty?

Gregory Nazianzus: The sun is extolled by David for its beauty, its greatness, its swift course, and its power, splendid as a bridegroom, majestic as a giant; while, from the extent of its circuit, it has such power that it equally sheds its light from one end of heaven to the other, and the heat thereof is in no wise lessened by distance.


St Gregory Nazianzus is not [necessarily] thinking about circuit as in terms of Hebrew words that can also mean year.

Each day-and-night (nychthemeron, Swedish has the word "dygn" which derives from dag=day) the sun is in fact making two semicircles or a full circle. From easter horizon to western one during daytime, and from western horizon to eastern on the antipodes during nighttime.

"The only one who is going to run screaming for the hills is Mr. Palm, since his whole essay is nothing but historiography, not history."


History is what happened, or more properly diligent research into it. Historiography is a bad or good writing down of it.

"Be that as it may, perhaps Mr. Palm doesn’t realize that, in the geocentric system, in order to make an annual orbit the sun has to go through 365 daily orbits. So, as fast as it requires the sun to travel for the daily orbit is as fast as it goes for the annual orbit."


No.

In Greek Geocentrism as per Aristotle et al. the quick motion is attributed to the Primum Mobile. Sun is moving both along it, passively, and against it, actively, slower in the course of a year.

So in this view the yearly movement is 365 times slower than the daily one.

In Hebrew view, as per Josephus on Abraham, each star is moving with physical independence of the other ones (making God choreagrapher and mover by giving orders to angels rather than physical mover). This means the Sun itself is making a very swift movement (on the Greek view this would be true of the compound movement, heaven's movement minus sun's own) but a little less quick than that of Sirius, Aldebaran, and so on.

[That mere difference of speed adding up to full circle in one year.]

"The sun does not rise vertically and then trend lower, and it does not form a “complex wobbly spiral.” Rather, the whole universe is swaying between the 75 million mile margin created by the 23.5 degree angle made between the line from center of the Earth to the center of the sun , which then carries the sun in its motion. As such, the sun will always complete the same circle it began with, since it always moves in the same plane."


Still, even if this were the true physical explanation, phenomenally it is seen from earth as zenits rising higher in summer and sinking lower in winter. Except on equator where the high points are spring and autumn months (as per other parts of world) and the low points summer and winter points.

The most obvious and simple explanation of this, without resorting to Heliocentrism, is that Helios is driving his chariot in an interesting way, even if he is doing so much more in order to obey God who wants all parts of the Earth to have seasons.

"The idea that we can reach firm conclusions about scientific details of the universe by reading such a text looks increasingly ludicrous."


The question is what Palm means by detail.

If it is unimportant detail, why is Palm bothering to answer Sungenis as if the matter were important?

If it is NOT unimportant detail, but a vital matter, would Palm admit we can in THAT case find scientific truth in the Bible? Or would he find that as ludicrous as his Atheist friends would?

"In the geocentric system is the sun’s “course” or “circuit” literally from horizon to horizon? No, in that system its “course” or “circuit" literally is a circular/elliptical orbit that has no end points."


Nevertheless its passing by horizon make convenient "end points" quoad nos. Even very convenient ones.

"Once we speak of end points then even from the geocentric vantage we are unambiguously in the realm of phenomenological language. And if it’s only the language of appearances then it cannot be claimed to contribute any concrete knowledge about actual, physical motion."


If that were true of the descriptions in the INDICATIVE third person about the Sun, it can hardly be so for a command in the IMPERATIVE, second person to the Sun. Which is what we find in Joshua 10.

Providentissimus Deus:

To understand how just is the rule here formulated we must remember, first, that the sacred writers, or to speak more accurately, the Holy Ghost "Who spoke by them, did not intend to teach men these things (that is to say, the essential nature of the things of the visible universe), things in no way profitable unto salvation." Hence they did not seek to penetrate the secrets of nature, but rather described and dealt with things in more or less figurative language, or in terms which were commonly used at the time and which in many instances are in daily use at this day, even by the most eminent men of science. Ordinary speech primarily and properly describes what comes under the senses; and somewhat in the same way the sacred writers -- as the Angelic Doctor also reminds us -- "went by what sensibly appeared," or put down what God, speaking to men, signified, in the way men could understand and were accustomed to.


  • Problem: a miracle worker would not be in the same position. IF the Pope referred to Geocentrism/Heliocentrism debate.

  • Problem 2: if he did, why did he not simply name it?

    We are NOT obliged to take every hint and allusion from the Pope, in matters where he dare not speak up loud and clear.

  • A non-problem - the Pope thereby does explain why Atomism vs Continualism is not treated in Scripture.

Sean O'Neal lacks the basic skills for journalism.

1) Triviū, Quadriviū, 7 cætera : I was told Mark Steyn wrote better than me ..., 2) HGL's F.B. writings : Sean O'Neal lacks the basic skills for journalism.

[OK, for the kind of journalism he is doing.]

Star Trek's Kate Mulgrew says she was tricked into narrating film that argues the Sun revolves around Earth
By Sean O'Neal
Apr 8, 2014 •3:33 PM
http://www.avclub.com/article/star-treks-kate-mulgrew-says-she-was-tricked-narra-203216


Watch and read this, please:

Magisterial Fundies : Statement of The Producer Of "The Principle"
Wednesday, April 9, 2014, by Rick DeLano
http://magisterialfundies.blogspot.com/2014/04/statement-of-producer-of-principle.html


OK, this was linking to another denial than the one here mentioned, but Lawrence Krauss matters too.


I am not referring to his story about the actress. I am referring to these words:

Should Mulgrew and Krauss’ accusations of misrepresentation be true, they certainly wouldn’t be the first levied against The Principle’s creator and principal voice, Robert Sungenis, [...] It wouldn’t even be the first time Krauss has made one; he’s on record as refuting Sungenis as far back as 2006.


There he links to this supposed "refutation":

In this world view, the sun revolves around the earth
The Times-News - Google News Archive Search
Thursday, March 30 2006, 5A
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_1kaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XCYEAAAAIBAJ&dq=robert-sungenis&pg=6714%2C4991566


[Robert C. Newman and Alec MacAndrew had some more to say, perhaps not to the point, but more than Lawrence Krauss, or rather Robert C. Newman had. However the latter was an intelligent designer. That is perhaps why Sean O'Neal prefers crediting the supposed refutation of Sungenis to Krauss, who is on record as saying "a star had to die so that you can live."]

"What works? Science works, Geocentrism doesn't. End of story."*


ALL that Krauss had to say in that long article. Hardly a refutation. Especially not as people have been busy answering it.

OK, not all, he adds

"I've learned over time that it is hard to convince people who believe otherwise, independent of evidence."


So this is what Sean O'Neal considers as "being on record refuting Sungenis"? Please, Sean O'Neal, what about doing your journalism carreer investigating crime like Tintin or looking at wars going on? If you want to do science journalism and use words like "refuting", you might want to learn some logic first!

* Quoted within the article I am quoting from, hence the quotation marks are from there.

mardi 8 avril 2014

Some Links about Justina Pelletier

The Courant > Health > Connecticut
Lou Pelletier Rebuts Judge's Decision
http://www.courant.com/health/connecticut/hc-pelletier-rulling-response-20140402,0,2393890,full.story


Huckabee: After 14 months Mass. responds to Pelletier family
Apr. 06, 2014 - 4:01 - After overwhelming response to case, parents get answers
http://video.foxnews.com/v/3438391939001/huckabee-after-14-months-mass-responds-to-pelletier-family/#sp=show-clips


Justice for Justina
http://justiceforjustina.com/


Not yet signed, but I think I will when I have read through what it is about. I am not in the habit of signing lightly. However, my internet access is being hampered, so I am not sure when I will be able to hear all the videos. Whether or not she has a lifethreatening disease, she should not be kept in Psychiatry. Even if it's all in her head as they claim, keeping her captive will not mend matters./HGL

Dialogue entre sourds avec un vieil ami

1) New blog on the kid : Pascal Lamy ou Moyen Âge?, 2) HGL's F.B. writings : Dialogue entre sourds avec un vieil ami

Lui, statut (de la suite modifié)
"If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying you want a country built on Christian values, because you don't" Jimmy Carter
DR
Jimmy Carter qui aurait quand même pu faire beaucoup plus...
Lui
Pour le coup, nous sommes parfaitement d'accord. Léger caveat, toutefois : la citation doit se comprendre dans un contexte américain
Moi (en anglais comma la citation)
Sorry, but a Christian wants the poor helped, but only partly by tax dollars.

Of course the couple of Sales Boisy were helping poor and of course they were feudal lords in some ways taxing the country. But giving alms on occasions like the Baptism of St Francis of Sales and hoping others will also give alms on their great days is different from making alms givng a state monopoly.
Lui
Hans-Georg, il va sans dire que la charité ne peut se vivre sans implication personnelle. Bien entendu, ceci ne signifie nullement qu'il faille fermer les yeux sur les structures économiques en soi immorales. C'est le tout qu'il faut rechercher.
Moi
Une structure du fisc qui augmente les impôts pour que le gouvernement fasse à peu près la charité de tout le monde (qui devient par là solidarité plutôt que charité) est une des structures économiques en soi immorales qu'il faut combattre.

HGL's F.B. writings : Reflections on a stone block and on gruesome factory farming and more
http://hglsfbwritings.blogspot.com/2014/04/reflections-on-stone-block.html


New blog on the kid : The Communist Government of Pensacola
http://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-communist-government-of-pensacola.html
Lui
Ce n'est pas mon avis. Il y a certes des abus et de grands travers dans le système actuel, dont les principes ne sont du reste pas évidents. Abusus autem usum non tollit.
Moi
Ah ... bon ... tu préfères peut-être le système qui m'a ruiné ma vie et que j'ai fui en 2004?
Lui
Certes non. Ce système-là est en effet fort nuisible. Il y manque de nombreux éléments du droit naturel.
Moi
Tu préfères quoi, alors?
Lui
Un système distributiste fondé sur l'idée de bien commun. La justice commutative faisant bien entendu partie d'un tel système.
Moi
Commutative? Ce n'est pas la justice distributive que tu vises? Et tu entends quoi par "distributiste"?
Lui
Quant à 1 : les deux ; relativement à 2 : Chesterton et alii... Chesterton auquel tu m'initias jadis, du reste.

[La question est s'il a bien compris Chesterton.]
Moi
Ça sont les noms, j'ai aussi lu Chesterton. Il aurait aimé que le fisc soit le soutien principal des pauvres? Non.

[Il n'aurait pas été complètement d'accord avec la citation de Carter, par exemple.]
Lui
Je n'ai pas dit le principal soutien. Je n'ai pas non plus parlé des modalités, mais du principe. L'état a la charge du bien commun. Par ailleurs, sous un régime n'exigeant pas une pauvreté de masse comme l'actuel, la situation serait bien différente sous bien des aspects.
Moi
La justice commutative est celle qui règle les justes prix et les justes salaires. Et qui exclut le prêt sur interêt. N'a rien à voir avec le soutien des pauvres.

Les dollars des impôts sont d'abord pour le militaire et la justice, et ceux des dîmes/deniers de l'église y compris un peu plus pour les pauvres. Mais ni l'un ni l'autre est le soutien principal des pauvres, non plus que les pauvres soient leur principal but.

Le denier en Suède du Moyen Âge: celui principal sur le blé allait 1/3 pour le curé, 2/9 pour l'évêque, 2/9 pour l'église en soi, 2/9 pour les pauvres.

Somme total du denier = 10% d'impôt sur la récolte de blé.

Les deniers accessoires venaient uniquement au curé.

Après, c'était une responsabilité PERSONELLE et morale du curé d'utiliser davantage en faisant l'aumône.

[Notons, cette aumône était distincte du budget prévu pour les pauvres.]
Lui
"La justice commutative est celle qui règle les justes prix et les justes salaires. Et qui exclut le prêt sur interêt. N'a rien à voir avec le soutien des pauvres." - Détrompe-toi, cher ami, tout se tient, fait que la question monétaire démontre amplement.

[Si le manque de justice commutative cause effectivement de la pauvreté, le soutien des déjà pauvres en tant que tels plutôt qu'en tant de producteurs, relève de la justice DISTRIBUTIVE.]
Moi
Et la question monétaire est laquelle (il y en a plusieures, non?) et comment change-t-elle les données?
Lui
Je ne vois pas le principe en jeu, ni du reste la raison de ton opposition.
Moi
Non, tu ne vois pas le principe, tu ne vois pas la raison. Bien dit.
Lui
Le système monétaire actuel est basé sur l'usure systématique. Il consacre le pouvoir du capital sur le travail.
Moi
Alors c'est ça qu'il convient de changer.

[Avec des lois, plutôt qu'avec les impôts.]

Et ce n'était pas ça le propos de Jimmy Carter.

[Car le sien était - en effet sinon en intention - de laisser appauvrir les modestes si juste les impôts sont là pour les soutenir comme pauvres.]
Lui
Nous parlons de phénomènes imbriqués.
Moi
Qu'on peut aussi désimbriquer. Mais, même imbriqués, on peut les traiter ensemble de la bonne manière plutôt que de la mauvaise.

HGL's F.B. writings : Reflections on a stone block and on gruesome factory farming and more
http://hglsfbwritings.blogspot.com/2014/04/reflections-on-stone-block.html
Lui
Pour Carter: Certes non, du moins pas parfaitement. Ceci ne le rend pas entièrement faux. Le propos de Carter est à resituer dans le contexte de l'ultra-libéralisme actuel, où la souffrance du prochain ne gêne plus grand monde.
Moi
Il prétendait que son propos était la bonne cure contre ultralibéralisme, je le trouve une des causes de ce même ultralibéralisme.
Lui
Non, pas nécessairement. Je crois que son propos est plus profond. Quoi qu'il en soit, il vaut mieux vouloir un bien par des moyens inadaptés ou imparfaits que de rester de marbre devant le mal. Malheureusement, nous en sommes là, de nos jours.

[Que ce ne cause pas nécessairement par provocation de l'ultralibéralisme en chaqu'un qui en souffre par oreille ou le jour de payer l'impôt est une chose, ça n'empêche pas que c'est assez nécessairement vrai que ça le provoque chez quelques-uns et que ça devient donc UNE DES causes. Et que son propos soit "plus profond" ne change évidemment rien à ses effets tel qu'il a été pris.]
Moi
Et je ne considère pas l'opposition au système d'impôts aux États-Unis comme de l'ultralibéralisme.

Au contraire, quand les petites entreprises ferment à cause de par exemple d'impôts de succession, les richissimes s'enrichent davantage et appauvrissent les autres davantage.

[il vaut mieux vouloir un bien par des moyens inadaptés ou imparfaits que de rester de marbre devant le mal.]

Oui, et il accusait peut-être sans aucun fondement les opposants aux moyens inadaptés d'être de marbre.
Lui
Sur les impôts tuant les petites entreprises : Bien entendu. Le fait que tu croies que je pense le contraire tend à prouver que tu ne suis ni ma pensée ni mon intention.

[Que les impôts vont quelque part aux pauvres, qui l'aurait disputé aux années 70? Mais ce qu'on disputait était précisément faire des impôts un soutien principal ou même le soutien principal des pauvres, ce qui donnait des impôts qui tuaient des petites entreprises.]
Moi
Je ne suis pas télépathe. Je regarde tes propos directement et tes intentions et pensées à travers.
Lui
Non, malheuresement pas. Carter parle dans le contexte suivant :

Kevin O'Leary says 3.5 billion people living in poverty is 'fantastic news'
Matt Hudson
[http://tinyurl.com/osu4yf6]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuqemytQ5QA


[Je dirais, à partir de la chronologie, que Kevin O'Leary, pour démoniaque qu'il soit, pourrait être excusé, quoique malhonnêtement, par le fait de parler dans un contexte des propos de Carter et de ceux-ci n'ayant pas marché. C'est d'ailleurs Kevin O'Leary que mon vieil ami mettait dans le statut modifié.]

Tu demandes pourtant souvent aux autres de l'être, télépathe. Un peu de bonne volonté suffit le plus souvent.
Moi
Non. Celui qui ne me comprend pas est libre de me poser la question ou d'argumenter, même de manière erronnée. Et s'il le fait, je suis libre de m'expliquer.

PAR CONTRE, je me plains des gens qui jouent aux télépathes. 0 btt [=à btt, faute de frappe.]

[Après, je reviens:]
Lui
Tu viens de prouver mon propos, peut-être sans le réaliser. Laissons donc là de côté toutes ces questions pour l'instant.
Moi
Non, je ne viens pas de le prouver du tout.

Tu n'as pas donné une seule occasion que je t'aurais demandé d'être télépathe. Et tu n'as pas non plus donné une seule bonne raison pourquoi l'enchevêtrement des choses obligerait un distributiste ou soi-disant tel de faire le cas d'un socialisme essentiellement avec la "nomenclature" (Nomenklatura tak sam Sovietitchkaia, da?) échangée pour une telle un peu moins anticléricale mais vivant de même manière. En s'interposant entre le riche et l'aumône, en faisant de manière que le riche paie, en plus de l'aumône aussi son salaire. Et parfois non pas seulement le riche, mais le non pas aussi riche aussi.

Kevin O'Leary n'était évidemment pas un Chrétien quand il s'agit de l'application des valeurs dans la société. Carter parlait à propos ceux qui étaient contre ses dépenses fiscales pour les pauvres mais qui se disaient Chrétiens. Un peu genre Tea Party, non?

Je ne dis pas qu'ils aient raison en tout, par exemple pas forcément en termes de "free trade". Mais ils l'ont qq part quant au fisc.

Je suis POUR certaines choses des Démocrates, historiquement, comme le Fair Deal, Square Deal, New Deal, comme les loi contre les Trusts (conglomérats d'entreprises privées ou entreprises privées gigantesques). Mais je ne suis pas pour chaque chose depuis, certaines me dégoûtent.

Bush avait promis d'abolir l'impôt de successions/d'héritage. Il a renoncé au projet, puisque les "Responsible Rich" (il y a un club qui s'appelle ainsi) disaient qu'il ne soit pas bon pour quelqu'un d'être né avec une cuiller d'argent dans la bouche. LEURS éventuelles progénitures ne perdent pas les entreprises parce qu'ils doivent payer l'impôt sur la succession. Pas mal de petits entrepreneurs, par contre, oui. Vendre ou emprunter à la banque. Je me fais compréhensible?

Je ne te demande pas quand même d'être télépathe?

lundi 7 avril 2014

Continued from Previous, Some Debate

1) New blog on the kid : St Augustine was - Literally - a Young Earth Creationist and Geocentric, and he was Right, 2) HGL's F.B. writings : Diverging slightly from Sungenis, 3) From Catholic Cosmology Group, on Size of Universe, 4) Continued from Previous, Some Debate

Robert Sungenis
Wow. Who started this Facebook page on Geocentrism? Great idea. Hans, you have some fascinating contributions. Love your thought processes. What is your background?
Hans-Georg Lundahl
Latin and Greek.

This means for one thing I was at a Classic Letters Seminar* and know:

  • a) one can count with Roman Numerals, i e without zero,
  • b) "irrational numbers" were well identified in antiquity, but called "alogoi logoi" or "rationes irrationales" (irrational ratios). They are NOT numbers.


Here is a little series, btw:

[Linking to previous.]

* Copenhagen 90 or more probably 91.
NS
Yes, Hans, I would agree with the perspective on the video which would reason that the Sun's size compared to the Earth is obviously massive, but insignificant when compared to the rest of the Universe. Therefore we can reason that Newton's laws of gravity need to be used with the whole Universe, not merely with our Solar System. The evidence for this need is more than plentiful...

Thanks for sharing all your insights, very enlightening!
Hans-Georg Lundahl
My answer is we are in no position to say anything about any mass or law of Newtonic gravity, since there can be angelic movers (and probably are).

Therefore, obviously, we are in no position to speak of stars as larger than the sun. It is called the Greater Light, and I think that is true absolutely.
Robert Sungenis
Hans, I'll have to disagree with you here. First, there is no evidence of angelic movers, either in Scripture or Tradition. Second, we can say something about the size and distanc of stars based on reasoning from known evidence from science.
Rick DeLano
Even if there were angelic movers, it is quite clear that they are operating in a way that reduces, on local scales, to a law of gravity, and on cosmological scales, does not.

In other words, science knows nothing of angelic movers, and even angelic movers are obeying the Logos in a way that is lawful, and hence knowable to a certain degree of precision, to science.
Hans-Georg Lundahl
"First, there is no evidence of angelic movers, either in Scripture or Tradition."

Even in 66 Books there is Job [See previous to previous.]. In a Catholic Bible there is more [See previous to previous.]. Not totally unequivocal. Could also be a question of stars being ensouled, as St Jerome thought. But St Thomas Aquinas (Prima Pars, Q 70 on Day Four, I think Article 3) preferred angelic movers.

"Second, we can say something about the size and distanc of stars based on reasoning from known evidence from science."

If you consider PARALLAX as known evidence for stars distances (how come if you are geocentric?). Or if you consider self ignition by great gravitational pressure of a mass superior to Jupiter the ONLY way a star could come to start shining (how come unless you are an atheist?).

Otherwise, no.

"it is quite clear that they are operating in a way that reduces, on local scales, to a law of gravity"

Not quite clear either. This supposes we know the masses of heavenly bodies. THEN we could say the movements, except for Mercury, reflect Newton's laws of gravity. BUT the masses are concluded from the movements, with a presupposition of gravity and inertia being the agencies responsible for the movement.

"and hence knowable to a certain degree of precision, to science."

We have science of the movements. We have so much tried to explain these with gravitation, it has failed so often in new observed details, that Occam's razor favours, except to Atheists and Sadducees, saying angels move heavenly bodies.

hanslundahl - Neglected Angelology in the Angelic Doctor
http://hanslundahl.livejournal.com/964.html


Of course, there is the fact that gravitational caclulus did help discover Neptune. One Faà di Bruno, beatified by John Paul II or "beatified" by Wojtyla was involved in doing those.

However, Angels could have been so insulted by Newton they asked the Good Lord to allow them a practical joke.

You know the passage in Isaiah about "circles of the earth", with all quarrels on whether they are flat or global circles?

Same passage God is also described as destroying those who seek out secrets.

Astronomers involved in astrophysics might fall in that category.

THAT is exactly why I asked earlier on what the exact miracle of Faà di Bruno is. I have not yet got any answers.
Rick DeLano
Hans, gravitation describes motion quite well on solar system scales. It falls apart completely on scales larger than a stellar cluster. Therefore we know that, whether it is conceived of as a "force", or as the empirical outcome of angelic movers obeying the Immutable commands of the Logos-------we do not yet know what gravity is, or what the commands of the Logos might be, which the angelic movers are obeying. What we do know, is that science is legitimately entitled to pursue its answer from observation, hypothesis, and experimental test.
Hans-Georg Lundahl
Well, in the microscope you can really actually TEST theories about bacteria. In electronic microscopy, you can test some but not all theories on molecules (difference between nucleus and electrons not tested as far as sightings in microscope are concerned, and if theory is right electrons will never be sighted by electronic microscopy). But astronomy has very little possibility of actually TESTING a theory.

Since you cannot - unlike bacteria - look at stars from ALL angles, the second best is to do so from clearly different ones. I have for my part proposed TWO tests, neither of which I have been given any answer on.

Here I have, since long ago, proposed watching Parallax from Mars:

HGL's F.B. writings : Creationism and Geocentrism are sometimes used as metaphors for "outdated because disproven inexact science"
http://hglsfbwritings.blogspot.com/2011/04/cagasuamfobdis.html


To the best of my knowledge it has NOT been done yet.

Here I have proposed a test about whether spatial sonds have been seen as if zigzagging, which would be predictable parallax if earth was moving in and out of the origo of the trajectories:

Catholic Answers Forums > Forums > Apologetics
Has Cassini-Huygens spacecraft earth flyby in 1999 disproven geocentrism?
http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?p=9120534#post9120534


As for gravitation, IF Armstrong was on moon, that would be a positive test outcome against Aristotle's theory of "natural place of heavy objects". But by parallel from water droplets attracted to electrically charged knitting needle, gravitation is NOT a good explanation for orbits of any prolonged duration of repetition.

[ISS] Don Petit, Science Off The Sphere - Water Droplets Orbiting Charged Knitting Needle
SpaceVids.tv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyRv8bNDvq4


Count the number of orbits each droplet makes. I get between ten and twenty, medium fifteen.
Robert Sungenis
Hans, re angels moving planets, you mentioned Job? What verse are you referring to? You mentioned 66 books of the OT (but there are 73 in the Catholic Bible) but didn't cite any verse teaching angelic movers. As for Aquinas, he says in Reply to Obj. 5 [of Article 3 of Q 70]: "The heaven is said to move itself in as far as it is compounded of mover and moved; not by the union of the mover, as the form, with the moved, as the matter, but by contact with the motive power, as we have said. So far, then, the principle that moves it may be called intrinsic, and consequently its movement natural with respect to that active principle; just as we say that voluntary movement is natural to the animal as animal (Phys. viii, text. 27)." In Reply to Obj. 4 he refers to the mover as "intelligent power." I think we can all agree, as St. Paul says in Colossians 1:18, that God holds the universe together by his eternal power. Neither a bird falls from the sky nor an electron revolves around a proton, unless God permits it by his power. But that is different than saying that God actually moves the electron or kills the bird. Aquinas says such movements are "intrinsic" to the thing moving, but we all know there is an "intelligent power" behing every movement, but that power is indirect, not direct. As for Jerome's "ensoulment" of the stars, I'm afraid he has no support from either Scripture or Tradition for such speculation.
Hans-Georg Lundahl
"by contact with the motive power, as we have said"

Key difference. One school back in his time - Aquinas' - was saying God was moving Heaven westward, Angels were moving planets Eastward, Human Souls were moving human bodies, extrinsically, as a man moves a bike.

Another school said Human Souls were moving Human Bodies because they are united INTRINSICALLY as form to matter. And Angels similarily were souls of stars. AND God, or one Divine Person was the soul of Heaven moving daily Westward.

The fix points of Orthodoxy against these extremes are:

  • God is NOT the soul of Heaven.
  • Man's soul IS the soul, i e intrinsic form [or form=intrinsic mover], of his body.


Angels and stars could theoretically be movers and moved either way, BUT Orthodoxy in Paris settled for angels being extrinsic movers rather than intrinsic.

En lengua romance en Antimodernism y de mis caminaciones: Index in stephani tempier condempnationes
http://petitlien.com/tempier


Now, it is true that Scripture does not very directly support this idea of angels extrinsically moving the stars. Because it rather - taken very literally - supports stars having some kind of souls. THREE passages, as I mentioned above in the thread in a Catholic Bible, and ONE OF THEM left in the 66 book truncated version.

That one is Job 38:7.

That is actually taken directly better support for St Jerome than for Parisian Sorbonne Orthodoxy of 1277.

The other two are Daniel the COMPLETE chapter 3, namely where sun, moon and stars are enumerated between two mentions of SPIRITS of God, but Protestant Bibles lack the Song of the Three Young Men. And Baruch chapter 3. One which is, due to last verse, read each Holy Saturday in the Catholic Church.

You see, there are two schools of Geostasis, the Hebrew and the Greek one. In the Hebrew school, Heaven does NOT move, since it is empty space. Stars move westward under this non-moving empty space, which in its turn is under another Heaven, the roof of the universe and the throne of God. Generally stars are seen as ensouled.

God is Choreographer of the Angels. See for instance Josephus account on how Abraham figured out there was a one true God.

Greek view, Heavens move westward each day, but stars move eastward under it. BOTH movements have been - as I said - debated whether mover is extrinsic or intrinsic. In Sorbonne Orthodoxy God is extrinsically moving Heaven from East to West each day, while angels are, also extrinsically (like a man is extrinsic mover of a bike, and not like the will is extrinsic mover of his feet), moving their planets from West to East within Zodiac, Sun taking a year, Moon taking a month to do the trip and other planets other, somewhat erratic trips.

"we all know there is an 'intelligent power' behing every movement, but that power is indirect, not direct."

Now, that one is a bit rich. Have you really thought that one through?

Btw, there are not 66 or 73 Books of OT in any Bible, as far as I know. There are 66 in Protestant ones (excepting some Lutheran and Anglican editions), there are 72/73 in Catholic Bibles and usually even more in Eastern Separate Churches' canons. But not for OT alone, but for both Testaments.

Now, the three passages I referred to are all in OT, but two of them are not in the 66 book collection, even so one remaining is.

Which is of course overlooked by Protestants. My point is: if they have an excuse for overlooking just one passage, what is yours for overlooking three?
Update 9-IV-2014
HGL
It has been a bit silent for 24 hours and more. Perhaps this can help you out, at least as far asthe thoughts of St Thomas Aquinas are concerned:

I answer that, As Dionysius says (Div. Nom. vii): "Divine wisdom has joined the ends of the first to the principles of the second." Hence it is clear that the inferior nature at its highest point is in conjunction with superior nature. Now corporeal nature is below the spiritual nature. But among all corporeal movements the most perfect is local motion, as the Philosopher proves (Phys. viii, 7). The reason of this is that what is moved locally is not as such in potentiality to anything intrinsic, but only to something extrinsic--that is, to place. Therefore the corporeal nature has a natural aptitude to be moved immediately by the spiritual nature as regards place. Hence also the philosophers asserted that the supreme bodies are moved locally by the spiritual substances; whence we see that the soul moves the body first and chiefly by a local motion.


I, Q110, A3, corpus articuli
http://www.newadvent.org/summa/1110.htm#article3