I am somewhat embarrassed to admit that last summer I was singing praises of Leo coming out of the gait because he seemed to be deliberately sending positive signals to traditionalists with smells, bells, Latin, his somber demeanor, and especially his choice of papal name, that he may be “the one” to heal our wounds, reach out and comfort us, and restore our rights.
Expose the satanic cabal once and for all. Bring them all down. The victims deserve it. Time to bring down the House of Cards even if the stock market crashes. We’ll survive.This is worth it.
Technology is neither morally good nor bad, but in the modern era collectively it tends more towards evil than good. We should have the mindset of a very conscientious, intentional approach to all technology, lest it continue to enslave us, rather than being rightfully in essence a slave for us, and subject to us.
C.S. Lewis for one talked a lot about this, as well as the well followed K.U. Classics professor Dr. John Senior.
I’m not suggesting everyone be a Luddite like the Amish, but rather imitate their strong mental framework about carefully choosing technology. Any use of AI or robots then should be a) a very thought out, intentional choice, b) keeping it subject to us, and not us to it, and c) always making sure it is used for the good and not evil.
But what are the odds the general population does that, just looking at our extreme addiction to smartphones? I’d say close to 0%. Therefore, some trusted people or industries could be encouraged to use it, while in general our current society as a whole should not.
Government must dig down deep philosophically and religiously ASAP to come to terms with the inevitable, that whether we like it or not futuristic technology is descending exponentially upon us, which is generally an evil in that too rapid change destroys society and culture. This must be slowed down and ethically regulated.
I’m generally not in favor of more government regulation, but when artificial intelligence and humanoid robots are poised to take over the world, then yeah, it needs heavy regulation so that doesn’t happen. Akin to regulating the use of nuclear weapons. Otherwise, we are in store for an utterly dystopic future like seen in the Terminator movies.
Using the City of Broken Arrow, OK as an Example:
As readers may have discovered, I am considering running for city council and indirectly mayor (elected by city council), for April, 2027, to amend the city charter and restore the Office of Mayor to be elected directly by The People, to create a local equivalent to the D.O.G.E. to “drain the Swamp,” and to radically reduce taxes. So I will turn my attention to what my policy might be about the use of Optimus 3 in my city.
Elon has announced it is coming out this year, then in mass production in 2027, its movements, mechanical capabilities, and advanced AI (his Grok) will make it seem “like a human inside a robot uniform.” It will be able to perform 3000 domestic and other tasks, and be self-learning, learning new tasks. The uses are endless, and will wipe out many, many jobs. In the relatively near future.
So what should we do? Shun it? Radically embrace it? Or something in the middle, and if so to what degree? How to use it in the beginning?
This will not go away, forcing us generally to accept and use it. Not necessarily everyone, or a lot of people, but I don’t see a way to completely avoid this unless you “go Amish” which might be a prudent option for some people.
As a traditional Catholic Christian, I strongly tend to view this as very morally and socially dangerous, another step replacing God with man-made divine-like things, just as people once rightly viewed the emergence of TV in the 1950s as morally and socially dangerous. And boy were those “backward conservatives” proven right if you look at the effects of TV culture on society these last 70 years.
My Policy?
Consult pastors, philosophers and theologians, and technology experts. Perhaps ask Elon himself for advice, invite him to BA for BBQ and drinks in the Rose District. He himself thinks humanity may be destroyed by AI robots, but is the very “mad scientist” now advancing this. I’d also consult my personal pastor, as well as major pastors in BA for their I input.
By the way, as an aside, I think it is a high priority to slow the growth of BA before it melts into Tulsa urbanity, by helping to found new towns outside but near BA, there being a lot of rural land, especially east. Musk could help with this, if he agreed to build a plant in that area as the primary source of jobs.
That would likely attract more right-leaning Okie factory workers and tech specialists, with higher paying jobs. Start with a few square miles (ancient Rome was 4 square miles, with 1 million people, very well planned, with many services), build the factory, a neighborhood and apartments, and a Main Street starting with the basics (city hall, sheriff, court house, post office, credit unions, diner, grocery store, gas station). Maintain traditional small town culture while re-vitalizing traditional town and rural life, instead of creating mega cities. Musk is already doing this in Texas.
Write and pass an Ethical Guidelines for Use of AI and Robots. Direct the City Manager and all relative departments to implement it. Weekly checks to make sure it is.
Have an experimental phase using AI and robots, continually assessing their use emphasizing the moral and social impact.
As a rule, develop their use at all times in a slow, wise, and conservative way, within city government, and to the degree government encourages their use in the community.
Emphasize The People and Industry ultimately making these choices for themselves, not the government imposing their use and rules upon society. Emphasize the role of church, religion, and parents in helping to make these decisions. Not Big Brother.
Yet educate the public mainly on the problems and evils to be aware of and to avoid.
Encourage their use for those most in need, starting with the elderly and disabled who may benefit from an Optimus in the home.
Personally, if God asked me to choose a button to push, the green button being to allow AI and robotics to proceed, or red button to wipe it off the face of the planet, I’d discern for a moment God’s Will, and Christ’s teachings, and without hesitation push the red button.
But unfortunately I’m not a god so this is in the hands of Divine Providence. I use a smartphone, AI, and, to tell the truth probably would get an Optimus at some point when the price is right, and at least keep it in the closet until it’s needed for housework. My wife would be very thankful being the homemaker.
It’s continuously a “Brave New World” out there. Buckle up. It’s going to be a very interesting ride.
So I learned today the DA’s office dropped the case when they learned the protective order judge denied a PO, because the stalker lied in court. The last incident/threat being last June, the DA’s own Victim’s Witness Center “advocate” advised me in November to STILL file for a PO which I did on her advise weeks later in December.
Introduction:
This meeting sadly signals more clampdown by the Vatican, which was expected. A gigantic sledge hammer continues to be held over the heads of the SSPX, just waiting for the opportunity to split some skulls.
But this is ultimately, in my opinion, a heroic opportunity, despite the high probability it will be yet another gaslighting “dialogue of the deaf” (2013-2014 doctrinal discussions reference).
We can frankly talk yet again in a quiet, formal setting about the doctrinal issues in the congregation once established to deal with doctrinal problems. That was actually a good measure put in place by Benedict XVI, even though the motive on the conciliar side of the line is to require the SSPX to blindly accept IN TOTO, that is in total, the Council and the Novus Ordo Missae.
Which will never happen.
The Problem is Child Porn Author Tucho Overseeing The New Discussions:
Tucho is led by his heretical mystical sentimentalism and liberalism, while the SSPX is led by reason and the Papal Magisterium condemning modernism and liberalism, specifically the notion of a “natural, universal right to religious liberty.” It can be in certain circumstances granted as a civil right, but the Council language clearly doesn’t limit religious liberty to this.
No word games or mind games will help Tucho to sit down with the SSPX and literally do what no logical person or theologian has been able to do since the Council, that is square the circle, that is reconcile a list of problematic statements in Vatican II with the pre-conciliar Magisterium or Sacred Tradition.
1 + 1 = 2
Even a sympathetic atheist or secular humanist could understand you can’t force a child to believe that 1 + 1= 3, when every mathematics text book up until that point taught them that 1 + 1 = 2. It is not only absurdism, it is psychological cruelty.
Let Bishop Schneider Be on The New Commission. He was the Vatican diplomat to the Society, in some ways still is, who assessed that the Society’s positions are orthodox and justifiable.
It will boil down to this ultimatum: “So yeah…Pope Leo got back to me. He says you must simultaneously agree in writing that 1 + 1 = 2 and that 1 + 1 = 3, or else if you don’t but go ahead and consecrate more auxiliary bishops to help out old +Fellay and +De Galaretta give confirmations around the globe, so, you know, they don’t drop dead of a heart attack, then you will be excommunicated, and this time the entire SSPX down to every unborn child.”
THAT is now the current reality. Unless Tucho miraculously opens his sentimental heart to truly listen to reason, this will end in another “schism” most likely extending across the ENTIRE SSPX.
A Crusade Against Vatican Modernism:
So buckle your belts these next five months. Let’s pray for the discussions. And prepare for the inevitable, to be further ostracized for our fidelity.
(By the way, the so-called Resistance movement, Sedes, and Barnhard-ites are wrong-minded when it comes to the SSPX negotiating with Rome. Their side will resort to sophistry to falsely argue the Archbishop changed his position towards dealing with Rome before his death. Yet, they lost that war of quotes over a decade ago.)
Part of the de facto mission of the SSPX is to help convert modernist Rome back to Tradition by insisting on the immutability of the traditional dogma and doctrine, and showing our willingness to suffer martyrdom to not compromise one little bit to the conciliar errors. That was always what the Archbishop kept trying to do. He never abandoned that approach. This bishop saint, this Confessor of the Faith, many times made interventions with Rome.
That is the good fight that keeps unfolding year after year, and the necessity of new bishops only rightfully brings back to light what the fight is over. To remind everyone once again.
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The SSPX cannot nor will not sign any document compromising on THE TRUTH even if Tucho and Leo falsely excommunicate every person who even remotely gives support for the SSPX. They would rather die a martyrs death.
However, to a great extent because of the SSPX, but also because of the Sunmorum Pontificum movement they helped create, the fact of the Crisis and its traditional remedies are ever more clear in the mind of many, including certain bishops, like Burke, Strickland, Schneider, or Zen. And there are alliances in the Vatican who share their point of view, even though we now know clearly Leo isn’t even remotely in that camp despite the initial smells and bells coming out since coming out on the balcony.
The Crisis Must Be Fully Addressed by the Vatican, Once and For All:
The people are sick and tired of your banalized liturgies, hippie church music, milquetoast sermons, novel synodality, and effeminate leadership. Those who deep down want what the traditional Faith represents, who either have understandably fallen away from regular weekly attendance because of the extreme scarcity of proper Catholic churches and Masses, or suffer in nausea in the back pew of the Novus Ordo, especially since the diocesan TLM is now suppressed, want a restoration of Catholic Tradition. Not only because that would mean a return to sanity and the sacred, but ultimately because it would be a total restoration of the Church currently in ruins. Any orthodox Catholic truly with a devotion and fidelity to our Catholic tradition would want that.
Just once and for all admit it is not unreasonable nor unacceptable for any Catholic to hold the position that there are contradictions in language in certain documents of Vatican II, and the Novus Ordo, with what was always taught before. Don’t impose on these good priests, brothers, and sisters (and indirectly the laity) what none of us can in good conscience do in order to be accepted as regularized.
We cannot let our brains be turned into scrambled eggs in order to be accepted. We cannot nor WILL NOT violate the sanctity of our interior life of faith, even if a gun is put to our head.
Over my dead body, Child Porn Author Tucho. Not in my household.
Note: what they are requiring of the SSPX (in Toto acceptance to prove “full communion”) IS NOT nor ever HAS BEEN, nor CAN EVER be required by the laity to individually be recognized and treated as Catholics.
Until conciliar Rome becomes intellectually honest about this, any apparent schism is purely on the side of the Vatican modernists, projecting it back onto the SSPX.
Accept the SSPX AS IS:
Let the SSPX proceed AS IS, as an approved Apostolic Administration. To be able to continue its critiques, perhaps, if approved, in a more diplomatic or collegial way which naturally would be an expected shift once regularized. Consider the case of California Bishop Barron, for example, who accepts them AS IS granting them ordinary jurisdiction in his diocese.There are other examples.
If the Vatican can now hold the “above ground”(communist) Church in China to be truly Catholic in union with Rome, despite their continued allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party and its heretical positions about the limits of government, abortion, and birth control, then let’s be honest, they certainly can make a similar diplomatic agreement with the SSPX.
It doesn’t take a scholar or mental gymnastics to sit down with a yellow legal pad and write out the parameters. I could do it in 15 minutes.
Allow official mental reservations on key paragraphs and sentences. A) To basically give an priori assent, in principle assent to what is true in each extremely problematic statement, however ambiguous or contorted is the language, but be allowed to hold and express mental reservations to what appears to be a clear contradiction, b) to have an a priori, in principle temporary suspension of religious assent (vs the assent of faith) on that language which cannot in good conscience be fully accepted, c) until Rome once and for all finally clarifies and corrects the language with the help of the SSPX (and other Ecclesia Dei Trads), d) with permission to keep giving the same strong critiques but within a more diplomatic framework.
There you go. That literally took me about four minutes. It isn’t brain surgery.
Moving Forward. Let the Debate Begin:
The first year of the Leo pontificate has shown itself to be a bad omen for us traditionalists. If Tucho gaslights the SSPX with more implicit threats, imposing compromise, then he and Leo will have created more liturgical and doctrinal war across the Church. The internet frenzy will endlessly continue year after year.
That will be good for clicks, but not good for souls. Or serotonin levels.
Everybody and their dog will compare and contrast the approach of the SSPX and Tucho. Everybody will see even more clearly a group that simply wants to be Catholic, to assist the Church, with dishonest modernists hell bent on destroying more of what is left of the Church.
To demonstrate that even more clearly, let this new round of doctrinal discussions be made public, put on YouTube. And/or the transcript posted online. Make the great debate transparent for all.
Conclusion:
In all probability no bishops will be allowed. Then excommunication. And the era of 1970-2007 all over again, with all the same endless polemics. In the coming months, one of my prayer intentions will be that doesn’t happen. But if it does, then so be it.
God’s Will Be Done.
“The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord” - Job