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Aristotle explains why White British women are siding with Muslim Invaders + Roxy Music - A Really Good Time
Aristotle explains why White British women are siding with Muslim Invaders:
For slaves and women do not conspire against tyrants and they are of course friendly to tyrannies and also to democracies, since under them they have a good time.Politics Aristotle Politics Bk 5.11
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Dante Alighieri's Epistole (VI, 1-27) Letter To the Florentines
(1) Dante Alighieri, a Florentine undeservedly in exile, to the most iniquitous Florentines within the city.
(2) The gracious providence of the Eternal King, who in his goodness ever rules the affairs of the world above, yet ceases not to look down upon our concerns here below, committed to the Holy Roman Empire the governance of human affairs, to the end that mankind might repose in the peace of so powerful a protection, and everywhere, as nature demands, might live as citizens of an ordered world.
(3) And though the proof of this is to be found in holy writ, and though the ancients relying on reason alone bear witness thereto, yet is it no small confirmation of the truth, that when the throne of Augustus is vacant, the whole world goes out of course, the helmsman and rowers slumber in the ship of Peter, and unhappy Italy, forsaken and abandoned to private control, and bereft of all public guidance, is tossed with such buffeting of winds and waves as no words can describe, nay as even the Italians in their woe can scarce measure with their tears.
(4) Wherefore let all who in mad presumption have risen up against this most manifest will of God, now grow pale at the thought of the judgement of the stern Judge, which is nigh at hand, if so be the sword of Him who saith, 'Vengeance is mine', be not fallen out of heaven.
(5) But you, who transgress every law of God and man, and whom the insatiable greed of avarice has urged all too willing into every crime, does the dread of the second death not haunt you, seeing that you first and you alone, shrinking from the yoke of liberty, have murmured against the glory of the Roman Emperor, the king of the earth, and minister of God; and under cover of prescriptive right, refusing the duty of submission due to him, have chosen rather to rise up in the madness of rebellion?
(6) Have you to learn, senseless and perverse as you are, that public right can be subject to no reckoning by prescription, but must endure so long as time itself endures?
(7) Verily the sacred precepts of the law declare, and human reason after inquiry has decided, that public control of affairs, however long neglected, can never become of no effect, nor be superseded, however much it be weakened. For nothing which tends to the advantage of all can be destroyed, or even impaired, without injury to all -- a thing contrary to the intention of God and nature, and which would be utterly abhorrent to the opinion of all mankind.
(8) Wherefore, then, being disabused of such an idle conceit, do you abandon the Holy Empire, and, like the men of Babel once more, seek to found new kingdoms, so that there shall be one polity of Florence, and another of Rome? And why should not the Apostolic government be the object of a like envy, so that, if the one twin of Delos have her double in the heavens, the other should have his likewise?
(9) But if reflection upon your evil designs bring you no fears, at least let this strike terror into your hardened hearts, that as the penalty for your crime not only wisdom, but the beginning of wisdom, has been taken from you.
(10) For no condition of the sinner is more terrible than that of him who, shamelessly and without the fear of God, does whatsoever he lists. Full often, indeed, the wicked man is smitten with this punishment, that as during life he has been oblivious of God, so when he dies he is rendered oblivious of himself.
(11) But if your insolent arrogance has so deprived you of the dew from on high, like the mountain-tops of Gilboa, that you have not feared to resist the decree of the eternal senate, and have felt no fear at not having feared, shall that deadly fear, to wit human and worldly fear, not overwhelm you, when the inevitable shipwreck of your proud race, and the speedy end of your deeply to be rued lawlessness, shall be seen to be hard at hand?
(12) Do you put your trust in defences, in that you are girt about by a contemptible rampart? O you of one mind only for evil! O you blinded by wondrous greed! What shall it avail you to have girt you with a rampart, and to have fortified yourselves with bulwarks and battlements, when, terrible in gold, the eagle shall swoop down upon you, which, soaring now over the Pyrenees, now over Caucasus, now over Atlas, ever strengthened by the support of the host of heaven, gazed down of old on the vast expanse of ocean in its flight? What shall these avail you, most wretched of men, when you stand confounded in the presence of him who shall subdue the raging of Hesperia?
(13) The hopes which you vainly cherish in your unreason will not be furthered by your rebellion; but by this resistance the just wrath of the king at his coming will be but the more inflamed against you, and mercy, which ever accompanies his army, shall fly away indignant; and where you think to defend the threshold of false liberty, there in sooth shall you fall into the dungeon of slavery.
(14) For by the wondrous judgement of God, as we must believe, it sometimes comes to pass that by the very means whereby the wicked man thinks to escape the punishment which is his due, he is the more fatally hurried into it; and that he who wittingly and willingly is a rebel against the divine will, is unwittingly and unwillingly a soldier in its service.
(15) The buildings which you have raised, not in prudence to serve your needs, but have recklessly altered to gratify your wantonness, these, encircled by no walls of a renovated Troy, to your grief you shall see crumble beneath the battering-ram, and devoured by the flames.
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(16) The populace which now, divided against itself, rages indiscriminately, some for you, some against you, you shall then see united in their imprecations against you, for the starving mob knows nothing of fear. With remorse, too, you shall behold the spoliation of your temples, thronged daily by a concourse of matrons, and your children doomed in wonder and ignorance to suffer for the sins of their fathers.
(17) And if my prophetic soul be not deceived, which announces what it has been taught by infallible signs and incontrovertible arguments, your city, worn out with ceaseless mourning, shall be delivered at the last into the hands of the stranger, after the greatest part of you has been destroyed in death or captivity; and the few that shall be left to endure exile shall witness her downfall with tears and lamentation.
(18) Those sufferings, in short, which for liberty's sake the glorious city of Saguntum endured in her loyalty, you in your disloyalty must undergo with shame but to become slaves.
(19) And beware of gathering confidence from the unlooked-for success of the men of Parma, who under the spur of hunger, that evil counsellor, murmuring to one another, 'Let us rather rush into the midst of battle and meet death', broke into the camp of Caesar while Caesar was absent. For even they, though they gained a victory over Victoria, none the less reaped woe from that woe in a way not like to be forgotten.
(20) But bethink you of the thunderbolts of the first Frederick; consider the fate of Milan and of Spoleto; for at the remembrance of their disobedience and swift overthrow your too swollen flesh shall grow chill, and your too hot hearts shall contract.
(21) O most foolish of the Tuscans, insensate alike by nature and by corruption, who neither consider nor understand in your ignorance how before the eyes of the full-fledged the feet of your diseased minds go astray in the darkness of night! For the full-fledged and undefiled in the way behold you standing as it were on the threshold of the prison, and thrusting aside any that has pity on you, lest haply he should deliver you from captivity and loose you from the chains that bind your hands and your feet.
(22) Nor are ye ware in your blindness of the overmastering greed which beguiles you with venomous whispers, and with cheating threats constrains you, yea, and has brought you into captivity to the law of sin, and forbidden you to obey the most sacred laws; those laws made in the likeness of natural justice, the observance whereof, if it be joyous, if it be free, is not only no servitude, but to him who observes with understanding is manifestly in itself the most perfect liberty.
(23) For what else is this liberty but the free passage from will to act, which the laws make easy for those who obey them? Seeing, then, that they only are free who of their own will submit to the law, what do you call yourselves, who, while you make pretence of a love of liberty, in defiance of every law conspire against the Prince who is the giver of the law?
(24) O most wretched offshoot of Fiesole! O barbarians punished now a second time! Does the foretaste not suffice to terrify you? Of a truth I believe that, for you simulate hope in your looks and lying lips, yet you tremble in your waking hours, and ever start from your dreams in terror at the portents which have visited you, or rehearsing again the counsels you have debated by day.
(25) But if, while alarmed with good reason, you repent you of your madness, yet feel no remorse, then, that the streams of fear and remorse may unite in the bitter waters of repentance, bear this further in mind, that the guardian of the Roman Empire, the triumphant Henry, elect of God, thirsting not for his own but for the public good, has for our sakes undertaken his heavy task, sharing our pains of his own free will, as though to him, after Christ, the prophet Isaiah had pointed the finger of prophecy, when by the revelation of the Spirit of God he declared, 'Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows'.
(26) Wherefore you perceive, if you be not dissemblers, that the hour of bitter repentance for your mad presumption is now at hand. But a late repentance after this wise will not purchase pardon, rather is it but the prelude to seasonable chastisement. For 'the sinner is smitten so that he shall surely die'.
(27) Written from beneath the springs of Arno, on the confines of Tuscany, on the thirty-first day of March in the first year of the most auspicious passage of the Emperor Henry into Italy. Source
THE XV. SUNDAY after Pentecost. Meditation For Tuesday Fr. Thomas Hill Plaine Pathway to Heaven
THE GOSPEL. Luc. 7. V. 11.
Jesus went unto the City Naim and there wet with him his disciples, and a great multitude of people. And when he came nigh to the gates of the City, Behold a dead body was a carrying out to be buried, the only Son of his Mother, and she a widow : and a great company of the City with her. Whom when our Lord saw, being moved with pity over her, he said unto her : Do not weep, and he went and touched the Coffin, and those that carried the corpse, stood still. And he Said: Young man, I say to thee arise, and he sat up that was dead, and began to speak, & he gave him to his Mother. And all the company were stricken with fear and magnified God. Saying; That a great Prophet was risen amongst them, & that God did visit his people.
TUESDAY.
His widow was much to be pitied and comforted because she was a widow, becauſe ſhe haſt loſt her son, becauſe ſhe had no more to comfort, and succor her in her old age.
Christ was moved at it with pity at his heart, and being moved with pity, as the Text sayth, he did comfort her firſt with sweet & comfortable words, saying: Do not weep, as if he had said he came to raise her son from death, and then he did comfort her in fact or deed, raising him from death, and giving him to her again, as Lord and Master of lob r. life and death; that as Job v.21. said when God had taken away his wealth and children: The Lord (or Master) of all things gave them me, and the Lord, or Master, hath taken them away again, our Lord be blessed.
So this widow might fay, with a great deal of comfort, Our Lord or Master took my son from me, and our Lord or Master hath given him me again; our Lords name, be blessed for ever. Hereby we are inſtructed to comfort the afflicted, by pity & compassion of heart, by fair and ſweet words, & real works, as Chriſt did here join all three together: fair words and compassion of heart comfort much, if we be not able in deeds.
If we be able in deeds & do it not, but only give fair words, it doth rather discomfort then comfort them, if they know we be able, thinking we diſſemble or delude. them.
If brother or a sister (sayth S.lames) he mean a brother or Sister in Christianity, want clothes or food, and a man that hath where- withal say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed, or fed good words) and do not give them necessaries, what doth it profit ? If good words without deed do not profit, what do ill words with- out deeds, or letting the poor ſtand crying and calling at our gates, without alms, or answer?
Fr. Thomas Hill 1637
Monday, September 22, 2025
80th Anniversary of the United Nations VERSUS PARAGRAPH 67 ENCYCLICAL LETTER CARITAS IN VERITATE OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF BENEDICT XVI
there is urgent need of a true world political authority Paragraph 67
67. In the face of the unrelenting growth of global interdependence, there is a strongly felt need, even in the midst of a global recession, for a reform of the United Nations Organization, and likewise of economic institutions and international finance, so that the concept of the family of nations can acquire real teeth. One also senses the urgent need to find innovative ways of implementing the principle of the responsibility to protect[146] and of giving poorer nations an effective voice in shared decision-making. This seems necessary in order to arrive at a political, juridical and economic order which can increase and give direction to international cooperation for the development of all peoples in solidarity. To manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result; to bring about integral and timely disarmament, food security and peace; to guarantee the protection of the environment and to regulate migration: for all this, there is urgent need of a true world political authority, as my predecessor Blessed John XXIII indicated some years ago. Such an authority would need to be regulated by law, to observe consistently the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity, to seek to establish the common good[147], and to make a commitment to securing authentic integral human development inspired by the values of charity in truth. Furthermore, such an authority would need to be universally recognized and to be vested with the effective power to ensure security for all, regard for justice, and respect for rights[148]. Obviously it would have to have the authority to ensure compliance with its decisions from all parties, and also with the coordinated measures adopted in various international forums. Without this, despite the great progress accomplished in various sectors, international law would risk being conditioned by the balance of power among the strongest nations. The integral development of peoples and international cooperation require the establishment of a greater degree of international ordering, marked by subsidiarity, for the management of globalization[149]. They also require the construction of a social order that at last conforms to the moral order, to the interconnection between moral and social spheres, and to the link between politics and the economic and civil spheres, as envisaged by the Charter of the United Nations. Source
THE XV. SUNDAY after Pentecost. Meditation For Monday Fr. Thomas Hill Plaine Pathway to Heaven
THE GOSPEL. Luc. 7. V. 11.
Jesus went unto the City Naim and there wet with him his disciples, and a great multitude of people. And when he came nigh to the gates of the City, Behold a dead body was a carrying out to be buried, the only Son of his Mother, and she a widow : and a great company of the City with her. Whom when our Lord saw, being moved with pity over her, he said unto her : Do not weep, and he went and touched the Coffin, and those that carried the corpse, stood still. And he Said: Young man, I say to thee arise, and he sat up that was dead, and began to speak, & he gave him to his Mother. And all the company were stricken with fear and magnified God. Saying; That a great Prophet was risen amongst them, & that God did visit his people.
Monday.
Great company went with Christ to the City Naim, a great company went with the dead Corpse, who meeting all together saw this great miracle of raising the young man from death, and seeing it magnified God for the same.
Hereby we may learn, that as it is good sometimes, to do our good works secretly, and so secretly, as Christ counsels us, that our left hand know not Mat.6.v.3 what our right hand doth, for avoiding of vainglory and losing the merit of our works: yet if we do not our good works principally for vainglory, and praise of men, it is good also sometimes that others see them, or know thereof, and the more the better, that they seeing our good works, done for the love of God, and for his sake, and by his grace, without which we cannot ſo much as think a good thought, they may glorify and magnify, not vs, but, God so 2 Cor. 3. much the more, as this multitude of people did: to which purpose no doubt Christ did this miracle, and work, so publicly as he did: and if we see the people to magnify and glorify us for our good works, we may transfer the glory thereof unto God, by some speech to that purpose, as S. Peter did, who viz. when Mat. V 16. when he saw the people to admit and magnify him for making a lame Cripple that could not stand on his feet more then he was carried by others, to go, and leap, and skip for joy, the people admiring them, he said unto them: See men of Israel, Why do yee admire, and gaze upon us (S. John being with him) as if we had made this man to walk of our own power or virtue?
It is in the name and power of Jesus, whom God hath glorified, & whom you have crucified, that we have done this famous miracle, that you should believe in him the sooner; and thus he put of the glory of this miracle from himself unto God, and the edification of the beholders.
And moreover S.Peter did put of from himself, as much as he could, even the very doing thereof, as the instrument of God, & joined S.John with him, because he was in his company, saying to the company, Why do yee behold and admire us, in the plural number, as if S.John and he had done it both together, whereas S.Peter did it alone; an excellent example both for doing our good deeds as ſecretly as we can from vainglory, and yet as publicly as we can to the glory of God, & edification of the people, as this miracle was done at the gate of the Temple where there was a very great concourſe of people.
This example of Christ, and of S. Peter, and the ample reward of our good deeds (which is so much the more by how much the more they do shine unto others, that they may glorify God thereby) is enough to induce us not to care how much our good works be known to others, so we do them not principally for vainglory, or praise of men, or so we transfer the glory thereof, as much as we can, unto God as S. Peter did, and as the honor of holy Images is transferred of its own nature, to them whom they represent, saying unto ourselves Psal.113. with the Prophet David; not unto us.
O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy Name give the glory, as holy Images would ſay of their own nature of they could speak, & much more we, that be the living and underſtanding Images of God.
Fr. Thomas Hill 1637
Sunday, September 21, 2025
THE XV. SUNDAY after Pentecost. Meditation For Sunday Fr. Thomas Hill Plain Pathway to Heaven
THE GOSPEL. Luc. 7. V. 11.
Jesus went unto the City Naim and there wet with him his disciples, and a great multitude of people. And when he came nigh to the gates of the City, Behold a dead body was a carrying out to be buried, the only Son of his Mother, and she a widow : and a great company of the City with her. Whom when our Lord saw, being moved with pity over her, he said unto her : Do not weep, and he went and touched the Coffin, and those that carried the corpse, stood still. And he Said: Young man, I say to thee arise, and he sat up that was dead, and began to speak, & he gave him to his Mother. And all the company were stricken with fear and magnified God. Saying; That a great Prophet was risen amongst them, & that God did visit his people.
Sunday.
Jesus went not to the City Naim by chance, but of purpose, knowing all things (as he was God) to comfort this sorrowful widow: Worldly men use not to shun, but to hunt after all opportunities far and nigh, by sea, and land, night and day, to benefit themselves in worldly commodities: much more ought we so to do, in the works of mercy, & other spiritual commodities, knowing the certain reward thereof, That what we, sow in this world, we shall be sure to reap in the next, Galat. 6. Cor 9.v.6. so much better things then we sow, by how much better the soul is then the body: & oftentimes we are also bountifully rewarded here, hundred fold in this world, and life everlasting. Mat. 19.4
This made Abraham to go forth out of his house, at dinner time, in all the heat of the day, to meet with poor weary travelers and pilgrims, & invite them, not slightly, but rather compel them to his house to eat and drink, and refresh themselves, and instead of men he met once with Angels in the shape of men, and brought them into his house, and for this he was rewarded, with being made a Father of Son, being destitute of issue, and past human hope, by reason of old age: he was made a Father, I say, of a Son, & such a son, in whom all generations were blessed, of whose offspring came Christ Jesus, the Messiahs and Saviour of the world. Gen 18.V 1.
Of this virtue of Hospitality S. Paul sayth thus: Brethren let the charity of fraternity remain in you, and forget not hospitality, for by this, divers have instead of men, received Angels, Hebr.1 v.2 and in receiving Angels, have no doubt received the benediction and reward of Angels, as we may gather out of these words of Christ, He that receive a Prophet in the name of a Prophet, shall receive the reward of Prophet: and he that receive a just man, in the name of a just man, shall receive the reward of a just man: and he that giveth but a cup of cold water to the least of the poor, shall not lose his reward, Mat. 10. 41. which benediction and reward we shall also receive, if we receive and relieve the poor for Christ his sake, of whom Christ sayth, what ye down to such, ye do unto me. Mat 25 V 40. Thus much of hospitality and relieving the poor, one of the works of mercy, by reason of Christ his not relieving, but reviving this young man, which is more, & comforting his sorrowful Mother.
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Pope: Gaza 'requires another solution' as people flee city
Pope: Gaza 'requires another solution' as people flee city
Speaking to journalists as he leaves Castel Gandolfo on Tuesday evening to return to the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV laments the exodus from Gaza City, calling for efforts to find a different solution.
By Vatican News
Pope Leo XIV left the Villa Barberini in Castel Gandolfo on Tuesday evening at around 8:30 PM, greeting several people and speaking briefly with reporters.
Asked about the mass flight from Gaza City, the Pope said he had spoken by phone with the local community and the parish priest, Fr. Gabriel Romanelli.
"Many have nowhere to go, and so it is a concern," he said. “I have also spoken with our people there, with the parish priest. For now they want to stay; they are still holding on, but we really need to look for another solution.”
Earlier in the day, Pope Leo had called Fr. Romanelli, pastor of the Holy Family Catholic parish in Gaza, to check on the 450 people taking refuge in the church compound as Israel intensifies its ground campaign in the city.
Responding to a question about Kremlin statements describing a NATO war with Russia, the Pope said, “NATO has not started any war. The Poles are worried because they feel their airspace has been violated; it is a very tense situation."
Before departing, the crowd offered chants of “happy birthday” and “happy name day”—the latter marking September 17, the feast of Saint Robert Bellarmine—and a group of Polish faithful presented the Pope with a bouquet and a note.Source
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Daniel's Second Beast Bear Is Social Media: 'Social media is cancer on our society right now'...
Daniel's Second Beast Bear is Social Media
Cox: ‘Social media is a cancer on our society right now’ Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) on Friday urged people to turn away from social media, calling it a “cancer on our society” after announcing that the suspected gunman in the killing of Charlie Kirk is in custody.
At the end of his press conference announcing 22-year-old Tyler Robinson as the suspected gunman in the shooting at Utah Valley University, Cox urged people to log off of social media, citing the violent imagery that proliferates through the medium.
“We are not wired as human beings — biologically, historically — we have not evolved in a way that we are capable of processing those types of violent imagery. And by the way, we’ve seen another one with a gruesome stabbing very recently that went viral. This is not good for us. It is not good to consume,” said Cox, referring to the fatal stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in North Carolina earlier this month.
“Social media is a cancer on our society right now,” he added. “I would encourage people to log off, turn off, touch grass, hug a family member, go out and do good in your community.”
During the conference, Cox referenced similar remarks about social media that Kirk had made on the platform X in June.“When things are moving very fast and people are losing their minds, it’s important to stay grounded. Turn off your phone, read scripture, spend time with friends, and remember internet fury is not real life. It’s going to be ok,” Kirk wrote.
The governor said society has a chance to decide where it will go in this moment, to either “escalate” or “find an off-ramp.” Source
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And four great beasts, different one from another, came up out of the sea.
Daniel's First Beast Lioness is Space Industry Airline Industry
The first was like a lioness, and had the wings of an eagle: I beheld till her wings were plucked off, and she was lifted up from the earth, and stood upon her feet as a man, and the heart of a man was given to her.
Daniel's Second Beast Bear Is Social Media
And behold another beast like a bear stood up on one side: and there were three rows in the mouth thereof, and in the teeth thereof, and thus they said to it: Arise, devour much flesh.
Daniel's Third Beast is Forerunner To The Antichrist
After this I beheld, and lo, another like a leopard, and it had upon it four wings as of a fowl, and the beast had four heads, and power was given to it.
Daniel's Fourth Beast With Ten Horns Is The Antichrist
After this I beheld in the vision of the night, and lo, a fourth beast, terrible and wonderful, and exceeding strong, it had great iron teeth, eating and breaking in pieces, and treading down the rest with its feet: and it was unlike to the other beasts which I had seen before it, and had ten horns.
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