Monday, January 31, 2022
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Thursday, January 27, 2022
Author Jim Forest, chronicler of giants like Day and Berrigan, strengthened many
In a long reply, Merton wrote, "Do not depend on the hope of results. When you are doing the sort of work you have taken on, essentially an apostolic work, you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no results at all." Merton counseled Jim about investing in slogans, or in building an identity in his witness as a way of protecting himself from nothingness.
"The real hope," Merton wrote, "is not in something we think we can do, but in God who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see."
And then this: do not depend on the hope of results. When you are doing the sort of work you have taken on, essentially an apostolic work, you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea you start more and more to concentrate not on the results but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. And there too a great deal has to be gone through, as gradually you struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. The range tends to narrow down, but it gets much more real. In the end, as you yourself mention in passing, it is the reality of personal relationships that saves everything....
So the next step in the process is for you to see that your own thinking about what you are doing is crucially important. You are probably striving to build yourself an identity in your work and your witness. You are using it so to speak to protect yourself against nothingness, annihilation. That is not the right use of your work. All the good that you will do will come not from you but from the fact that you have allowed yourself, in the obedience of faith, to be used by God’s love. Think of this more and gradually you will be free from the need to prove yourself, and you can be more open to the power that will work through you without your knowing it.
https://jimandnancyforest.com/2014/10/mertons-letter-to-a-young-activist/
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
‘I lost my princess,’ says mother of 8-year-old Melissa Ortega as officials announce charges in child’s slaying
Melissa and her mother immigrated to Chicago from Mexico this past August, according to a fundraiser started to help pay a funeral and to bring her to her hometown in Mexico.
“They were both excited to start a new life in Chicago and build their American Dream,” the fundraiser organizer wrote. “I was honored to have met Melissa and will always remember her beautiful smile.”
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Ivermectin Prophylaxis Used for COVID-19: A Citywide, Prospective, Observational Study of 223,128 Subjects Using Propensity Score Matching
The regular use of ivermectin led to a 68% reduction in COVID-19 mortality (25 [0.8%] versus 79 [2.6%] among ivermectin non-users; RR, 0.32; 95% CI, 0.20-0.49; p < 0.0001). When adjusted for residual variables, reduction in mortality rate was 70% (RR, 0.30; 95% CI, 0.19-0.46; p < 0.0001). There was a 56% reduction in hospitalization rate (44 versus 99 hospitalizations among ivermectin users and non-users, respectively; RR, 0.44; 95% CI, 0.31-0.63; p < 0.0001). After adjustment for residual variables, reduction in hospitalization rate was 67% (RR, 0.33; 95% CI, 023-0.66; p < 0.0001).
Christianization of Scandinavia (including Sweden)
The reigning king Inge decided to end the *traditional pagan [human!] sacrifices* at Uppsala which caused a public counter-reaction. Inge was forced into exile, and his brother-in-law Blot-Sweyn was elected king on condition that he allow the sacrifices to continue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianization_of_Scandinavia
Sunday, January 23, 2022
Fort Mohave man charged in infant's death
https://mohavedailynews.com/news/137264/fort-mohave-man-charged-in-infants-death/
Upon arriving, deputies found McLachlan, the boyfriend of the child’s mother, performing CPR along with a neighbor who had raced over to help after hearing screams, the sheriff’s office said.
https://news.yahoo.com/arizona-man-charged-murder-girlfriend-185035259.html
Saturday, January 22, 2022
UK launches trial of drug to tackle fatigue in long Covid patients
Top-line data are expected to be reported from the Phase 2a trial in mid-2022.
https://www.yahoo.com/now/axcella-therapeutics-announces-initiation-axa1125-122800063.html
Baby Miraculously Saved After Mom Casually Throws It In Dumpster
https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=423446202895183
Avila identified the father of the child and said their relationship ended in August 2021.
Friday, January 21, 2022
The False God of Central Planning: The Mysterious Reappearance of the Flu, Natural vs Vaccine-Induced Immunity, the Inability of the Vaccines to Control the Virus, and Other Extraordinary Lessons About the End of the Pandemic (𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁)
one type of interferon called IFN-I is actually suppressed or delayed by the SARS-CoV-2 virus (the opposite of what should happen), which is the reason why some people end up with severe Covid. In other words, the virus is actively fighting back against this portion of the innate immune system.
https://www.juliusruechel.com/2022/01/the-false-god-of-central-planning.html
Thursday, January 20, 2022
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Monday, January 17, 2022
Steve Kirsch, 291 Verified Athlete Collapses/Deaths following COVID Vaccination
Archibald was the last player on a Canadian NHL team to remain unvaccinated (!), which would have been very problematic had the Oilers planned to keep him in their lineup. Every time the team crossed the U.S. border and then returned to Canada — 13 times this season — Archibald would have been forced to quarantine for 14 days, away from his team and teammates.
Sunday, January 16, 2022
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Friday, January 14, 2022
Yale law graduate founder of far-right Oath Keepers group is charged
A former firearms instructor, he dropped a loaded handgun when he was 28 and it shot him in the face, blinding him in his left eye.
Thursday, January 13, 2022
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Sunday, January 9, 2022
Gary Cooper, Ernest Hemingway and Our Lady of Fatima
“In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.”
Saturday, January 8, 2022
Friday, January 7, 2022
G.K. Chesterton and Dorothy Day on Economics: Neither Socialism nor Capitalism (Distributism)
Chesterton pointed out the irony of this: “One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property because they are enemies of their own limitations. They do not want their own land; but other people’s. . . It is the negation of property that the Duke of Sutherland should have all the farms in one estate; just as it would be the negation of marriage if he had all our wives in one harem.”
