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Post by rogerbuck on Jun 18, 2018 9:30:33 GMT
I haven't been too active here for awhile, but I hope it will not be amiss if update this thread with my two latest videos.
Actually, these are just the segments of an EWTN "Celtic Connections" radio interview I did in Belfast which some here I know have heard. I will just note then that the second video has an additional 8 minutes commentary tagged on at the end, recorded especially for YouTube. So that much is new, anyway ...
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Jun 18, 2018 10:09:27 GMT
I was listening to it last night, Roger. Very good! I especially appreciate your desire not to caricature the New Age practitioners.
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Post by rogerbuck on Aug 21, 2018 11:34:50 GMT
Okay, I'm updating this with my most recent videos.
I'll put episodes 15, 17, 18 here and devote a special post to episode 16.
Episode 15
Jumping to Episode 17 ...
Episode 18:
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Post by rogerbuck on Aug 21, 2018 11:40:28 GMT
Somehow I wanted to do a separate post for Episode 16, make it stand out more, I guess.
Because it certainly stands out in my own psyche. Sweated more on this one than any other and as I say in the YouTube description:
"This feels for me the most important video I have yet done. It is both a political statement - and very, very much a personal one. I have bared more of my soul in this one than any other.
In the wake of the tragic abortion referendum this year, I have needed to confront the indoctrination of once Catholic Ireland like never before.
In that inner process, indeed inner revolution, the legacy of the great G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc has guided me. What has resulted is a very wide-ranging exploration of apparently very disparate elements, including:
* Irish Mysticism and British Materialism
* The Easter Rising of 1916 and Catholic Ireland
* Carroll Quigley, Conspiracy and the Anglo-American Establishment
* George Soros
* The Economist and other cesspits
* The Alt-Right
* Liberalism vs. Conservativism
* Katy Perry
* Tragedy and Hope
* and, of course, the Chesterbelloc and its alternative Catholic and Distributist vision to Capitalism."
Cue drum roll then : - ) ...
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Post by Stephen on Aug 21, 2018 13:41:27 GMT
Your YouTube video may have inspired myself and a few others to undertake a new Catholic venture. If it pans out, I will share it on this forum.
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Post by rogerbuck on Aug 24, 2018 16:48:01 GMT
I look forward to hearing Stephen! Thank you for telling me this intriguing thing ...
Meanwhile I shall quickly paste in my latest video - which also features my wife Kim - before I rather hurriedly go away/offline for a bit ...
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Post by rogerbuck on Sept 10, 2018 15:31:56 GMT
And the latest ...
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Post by rogerbuck on May 30, 2019 13:33:50 GMT
Well, it's Ascension Day again. So even though I've barely been active in recent months, I hope no-one will mind, if I belatedly promote my last video from some months ago here: How Catholicism made me Human.
Will just add that this one is shorter, more succinct than many - better, I think, at getting to some of the most essential points I want to make.
It's possibly my favourite video of all - along with Episode 16 above and the new one out very soon, which I'm also particularly happy with, and as I said on recent thread of the Importance of the Irish Conservative Movement, has stuff that seems particularly relevant to that thread. So I may post that one there ...
Finally, so many thanks again to Stephen here at this forum for making this one possible and more ...
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Post by rogerbuck on Jun 9, 2019 11:45:07 GMT
Although it appeared elsewhere, I hope no-one will mind if I include, first, my own most recent video here:
And second from my beloved muse ...
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Post by rogerbuck on Jun 24, 2019 13:48:55 GMT
From Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll to the Sacred Heart of Jesus ... my beloved wife's profound journey.
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Post by rogerbuck on Jul 31, 2019 12:00:44 GMT
My latest video, with quite a lot about Ireland, both directly and indirectly, among other things.
Or, as I put it, repeatedly and maybe ad nauseum, in certain Facebook groups: What happens when you mix Chesterton, Belloc, Charles de Gaulle, GAFA, Ireland, France, UKIP with Margaret Thatcher's devastation of Britain, the Jam and "A Town Called Malice" . . .
This also relates to the "Are the Irish materialistic" thread which I, for once, have been arguing with good people in ...
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Post by rogerbuck on Jan 19, 2020 14:18:34 GMT
Here is my latest video - all about the New Age.
This one has Oprah Winfrey, Marianne Williamson, Neale Donald Walsch's alleged Conversations with God, A Course in Miracles, Eckhart Tolle, H.P. Blavatsky, Alice Bailey and the seminal New Age community of Findhorn of which I was once a member ...
As I say in the videos, these are all BORING compared to the far more rich and meaningful stuff discussed by the people at this forum!
But I've tried to make it as un-boring as possible.
Because it's important.
Have really knocked myself out one this one and hope people will watch it. There must be 60-80 hours hard sweat in it, what with assembling all the clips, graphics, filming etc (which is yet another reason why I've been so delayed in getting back to good people here.)
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Post by Stephen on Jan 21, 2020 10:11:00 GMT
Here is my latest video - all about the New Age. This one has Oprah Winfrey, Marianne Williamson, Neale Donald Walsch's alleged Conversations with God, A Course in Miracles, Eckhart Tolle, H.P. Blavatsky, Alice Bailey and the seminal New Age community of Findhorn of which I was once a member ... As I say in the videos, these are all BORING compared to the far more rich and meaningful stuff discussed by the people at this forum! But I've tried to make it as un-boring as possible. Because it's important. Have really knocked myself out one this one and hope people will watch it. There must be 60-80 hours hard sweat in it, what with assembling all the clips, graphics, filming etc (which is yet another reason why I've been so delayed in getting back to good people here.) Great work, I look forward to watching it very soon.
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Post by assisi on Jan 21, 2020 15:30:20 GMT
I enjoyed the video. Coincidentally I was reading the start of Malcolm Muggeridge's autobiography where he talks about the 'colony', a retreat near Stroud in the Cotswolds, where his socialist father had friends and where Muggeridge visited as a child.
It was established by a Quaker in 1898 and was inspired by Tolstoy's views, and was a kind of utopian socialist commune where money was abhorred and a back to the land and communal living encouraged. It had a new age feel and in Muggeridge's time attitudes to traditional marriage were scorned.
I see that Marianne Williamson had some sort of vaguely explained belief in an afterlife. But I would also see an attempt at creating a heaven on earth, the ideal and perfect society. Or, viewed from another angle, an attempt by people to merge with the universe of which we are all somehow connected.
It's sort of sad because settlements like this don't seem to recognise the fallenness of mankind. The original Quaker founder and his family and others left the colony soon afterwards as they became increasingly frustrated with the other residents' idleness.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Jan 22, 2020 12:27:59 GMT
It's sort of sad because settlements like this don't seem to recognise the fallenness of mankind. The original Quaker founder and his family and others left the colony soon afterwards as they became increasingly frustrated with the other residents' idleness. That reminds me of the old joke: "We started an anarchist colony, but nobody would follow the rules." Although I don't want to mock utopian communities and intentional communities, I see an admirable idealism in the effort.
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