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Post by assisi on Jan 22, 2020 15:24:54 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. I would certainly mock utopian communities but I would certainly be partial to the home grown breads, cheeses, beers and wines that they produce!
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Post by Séamus on Jan 28, 2020 5:49:35 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.) Yesterday John McEnroe joined the anti-Margaret Court clamour on her Jubilee'Grand Slam' year,claiming that her views on homosexual lifestyles made her "a ventriloquist using the Bible of the dummy to say whatever she wants". Colourful language- not quite sure of the full meaning. Assuming the statement was written, it should be noted that he seems to have used the capital B. Despite his prediction Serena Williams had crashed out of the AO,so Court's 25-record for women won't be equalled at this stage. On this point, Monday last week we had St Sebastian's feast (and relic) at our chapel,patron of athletes (I assume this extends to modern sportspeople). Our attendance included a young lady named Sebastiana,an elderly lady who hadn't been to the traditional mass since childhood and,importantly,a sport teacher and a man who works in disabled sport(the Irish cricket team had won a test that weekend also!). We often see a youthful,slim Sebastian in images;I only learned that day that the earliest image in Rome depicts an ageing grey-haired and -bearded soldier,no less strong or imposing,but an appropriate-looking patron for sportsmen for the stage that they'll usually need one: as the lights go out and they'll often begin their search for further meaning. Good to remember as America and the world mourns Mr Bryant and friends.
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Post by assisi on Mar 4, 2020 13:35:36 GMT
I enjoyed your new book, Roger, particularly the dialogue and the analysis at the end. Its funny how all the modes of 'progressivism' are beginning to merge along the same generals tenets. Monism being one of these. And the new age version fits in snugly with the political idea of a globalist one world government. It reminds me of that song from the 70's, which kind of sums things up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib-Qiyklq-QThe other main tenet of new age, for me, is escapism, a flight from reality and a flight away from the suffering of life. The idea that seeking some sort of personal internal fulfilment will somehow protect you from real life. It's like Christ without the cross, a retreat from real life. Again this is paralleled politically by the the rise of a fantasy culture whereby you can attempt to redefine yourself as the opposite sex if you 'feel' that that is right for you. I don't know if new agers actually think about it, but nature, and the 'universe', as well as being beautiful to look upon, are completely indifferent to mankind. The universe tends to be made up of rocks, gases, fireballs, dark matter and many more materials that would kill man outright at close proximity. Similarly nature is also the nature of storms, floods earthquakes and viruses. In short, creation without the creator is cruel and indifferent. The difference with Catholicism is as you say "the Eucharist strengthened me to bear suffering rather than 'transcend' it". In the past I have read new age type books but thankfully the majority of them left little impression. Tolle's 'Power of Now' didn't impress. 'Zen and the Art of motorcycle maintenance' I can hardly remember. Erich Von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods sticks in my mind due to the novelty value of the work. One author whose work I think could be more pernicious is a gentleman called Paulo Coelho whose works include the Alchemist and The Pilgrimage. I was quite taken early on by his works as they are nominally Catholic. But on reading a third book of his, the Zahir, I was shocked by how indulgent he was towards the main female protagonist in the book as she deserts her husband to 'discover herself' somewhere else in the world leaving the husband disconsolate and spending ages searching for her. My impression of a lot of new age literature is that it seems to dwell in a dream world. Like the magic realism of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' there does seem to be the recurring theme that real life must be set on a dreamlike stage so that it can be made bearable. One last thing. The youtube clip below may give you a good laugh. Oprah lecturing on the importance of balance and harmony........ www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEN2CmE49gs
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Post by Séamus on Mar 7, 2020 7:35:07 GMT
I enjoyed your new book, Roger, particularly the dialogue and the analysis at the end. Its funny how all the modes of 'progressivism' are beginning to merge along the same generals tenets. Monism being one of these. And the new age version fits in snugly with the political idea of a globalist one world government. It reminds me of that song from the 70's, which kind of sums things up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib-Qiyklq-Q...etc...s The links included in the Forum often come up blank for me,perhaps because I'm in a different hemisphere,but extreme consumerism (whether wedded with new agism or not)is always worth noting- Widdecombe remarked recently that 350,000 tons of intact clothing are reportedly landfill-binned yearly in Britain. But,while getting the general point, I'm still curious what the song was....I thought ABBA was too overplayed for anyone to need to provide a reference.,.. I thought PinkFloyd was probably a bit too 70s-gothic for any likelihood of mention by conservatives...something from Evita?... My mother receives the odd letter or card from an Argentine gentleman she met several years ago. Last January, just gone,it had cost 300 pesos to send- is that an indication that the money didn't keep rolling in after all?,even if they're rolling in notes of some sort?
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Post by assisi on Mar 7, 2020 18:40:30 GMT
I enjoyed your new book, Roger, particularly the dialogue and the analysis at the end. Its funny how all the modes of 'progressivism' are beginning to merge along the same generals tenets. Monism being one of these. And the new age version fits in snugly with the political idea of a globalist one world government. It reminds me of that song from the 70's, which kind of sums things up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib-Qiyklq-Q...etc...s The links included in the Forum often come up blank for me,perhaps because I'm in a different hemisphere,but extreme consumerism (whether wedded with new agism or not)is always worth noting- Widdecombe remarked recently that 350,000 tons of intact clothing are reportedly landfill-binned yearly in Britain. But,while getting the general point, I'm still curious what the song was....I thought ABBA was too overplayed for anyone to need to provide a reference.,.. I thought PinkFloyd was probably a bit too 70s-gothic for any likelihood of mention by conservatives...something from Evita?... My mother receives the odd letter or card from an Argentine gentleman she met several years ago. Last January, just gone,it had cost 300 pesos to send- is that an indication that the money didn't keep rolling in after all?,even if they're rolling in notes of some sort? Does the following work? If not search youtube for ' Coca Cola Commercial - I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) - 1971' on youtube. For the other video at the bottom search youtube for 'Oprah Winfrey Stumbles and falls flat on the Ground '
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Post by Séamus on Mar 8, 2020 7:28:40 GMT
The links included in the Forum often come up blank for me,perhaps because I'm in a different hemisphere,but extreme consumerism (whether wedded with new agism or not)is always worth noting- Widdecombe remarked recently that 350,000 tons of intact clothing are reportedly landfill-binned yearly in Britain. But,while getting the general point, I'm still curious what the song was....I thought ABBA was too overplayed for anyone to need to provide a reference.,.. I thought PinkFloyd was probably a bit too 70s-gothic for any likelihood of mention by conservatives...something from Evita?... My mother receives the odd letter or card from an Argentine gentleman she met several years ago. Last January, just gone,it had cost 300 pesos to send- is that an indication that the money didn't keep rolling in after all?,even if they're rolling in notes of some sort? Does the following work? If not search youtube for ' Coca Cola Commercial - I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) - 1971' on youtube. For the other video at the bottom search youtube for 'Oprah Winfrey Stumbles and falls flat on the Ground ' Yes thankyou. Got stuck at first(probably my phone's fault) Real Mammas and the Pappas style,that. I definately wasn't expecting (such an interesting) Coke ad- I notice glass bottles were the norm, I wonder did anyone foresee the fall-and-more-expensive-rise-again of glass,all for environmental reasons? Or foresee the day when younger people in big numbers would buy (hippier) bottled water,gym-junkie energy drinks or spirit-soul-body mixtures,made from rare Amazonian berries and the teardrop of a Tibetan yak,over boring old Coca-Cola ? Not sure that world harmony was quite achieved either(although I'm sure the drink did it's bit). And any Mama Cass fans among the singers wouldn't have foreseen her young death. (RIP)
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Post by rogerbuck on Oct 16, 2020 22:05:13 GMT
I am truly ashamed to say that I'm only now noticing all the responses in this thread - a bad oversight even by my (low) standards.
But thank you, Assisi for saying that about my book and thank you to others for further kindness that is here.
As I just indicated on another thread, I'm finding virtually all internet stimulation difficult right now. Part of that is some personal stuff, but part of it is a need to try, at least try, to think as intensely as I can.
It's a funny thing. This forum is unusually intelligent as well as warm and certainly stimulates thinking!
But I am just needing silence to think ... or contemplate.
So for the moment I shall be very quiet. I will say though that I have finally put out a new video.
The first half hour is just me reading the first chapter of my first GT book.
After that, though, it changes.
The last 15 minutes are completely different, with some quite personal reflections which just may be of interest to some here:
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Post by Moi-même! on Mar 6, 2021 18:47:13 GMT
This is me, myself, moi-même - i.e. Roger.
As, arghh, something has been changed at the forum itself, it seems, that won't let me log in. (I'd rather not start a new account, so would appreciate any help as to how to get into my old one.)
Although, alas, I'm so pressed for time right now that I can't contribute much here. I am also being terribly slow getting back to one or two people who may see this. Forgive me ...
Anyway, I was recently honoured to be interviewed by Professor Joseph Shaw of Oxford University and Chairman of the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales.
This podcast - the first in a series - is appearing on several sites, but here it is on my own YouTube channel:
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Post by cato on Mar 6, 2021 19:49:23 GMT
This is me, myself, moi-même - i.e. Roger. As, arghh, something has been changed at the forum itself, it seems, that won't let me log in. (I'd rather not start a new account, so would appreciate any help as to how to get into my old one.) Although, alas, I'm so pressed for time right now that I can't contribute much here. I am also being terribly slow getting back to one or two people who may see this. Forgive me ... Anyway, I was recently honoured to be interviewed by Professor Joseph Shaw of Oxford University and Chairman of the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales. This podcast - the first in a series - is appearing on several sites, but here it is on my own YouTube channel: [br Perhaps Maolsheachlann can work some white magic Rodger ? Nice to see you back.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Mar 6, 2021 23:45:34 GMT
This is me, myself, moi-même - i.e. Roger. As, arghh, something has been changed at the forum itself, it seems, that won't let me log in. (I'd rather not start a new account, so would appreciate any help as to how to get into my old one.) Although, alas, I'm so pressed for time right now that I can't contribute much here. I am also being terribly slow getting back to one or two people who may see this. Forgive me ... Anyway, I was recently honoured to be interviewed by Professor Joseph Shaw of Oxford University and Chairman of the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales. This podcast - the first in a series - is appearing on several sites, but here it is on my own YouTube channel: [br Perhaps Maolsheachlann can work some white magic Rodger ? Nice to see you back. Well, I'll try, but my wand is a bit faulty..
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Post by Tomas on Mar 7, 2021 11:59:10 GMT
Roger, glad to hear from you again, yesterday Ep. 26 made me only more confirmed in the view that New Age aka Secular Religion of the NWOs (?) has a lot to do with Eastern beliefs adapted to a shallow and somehow systematically egobased West in moral decline and disarray. Since I have noticed these undertows for decades it feels almost paradoxical to get the puzzle pieces set up in public view during these last few years. Alas, in a late hour for a generation to convert, and no hard signs of truthful returns to sanity as yet?
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Post by rogerbuck on Mar 13, 2021 13:16:01 GMT
Thank you all. : - )
I must have been very tired when I posted that last one - as I now see getting back into my account was far easier than I thought. Sorry to create any bother.
Anyway here is my latest video with Joseph Shaw:
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Post by rogerbuck on May 11, 2021 19:13:12 GMT
Feeling very, very S-T-R-E-T-C-H-E-D.
With the result that I find it hard to comment either here or anywhere else on the internet.
But in case anyone is interested in what I'm up to, this brief, strange 3 1/2 minute video will tell the tale.
And as the video says more strangeness coming soon . . .
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Post by rogerbuck on May 30, 2021 15:55:27 GMT
Irish friends, friends of Ireland,
I have been far, very far from this forum, indeed it even feels like far from Ireland itself. (Even though, I live here in the north!)
As I've felt I've had to focus all my energies, all my self on a single, enormous video that is likewise far, very far from the themes of this forum.
So I don't think it will interest many here - but video is below, following a second trailer I did:
Think of the trailers - this one and the one above - as the short version, if you like.
But if anyone wants the L-O-O-O-N-G version here it is:
A final note: I say this is far from the themes of this forum.
But the New Age movement - that weird hybrid of Eastern spirituality with Anglophone liberalism - is very, very much in Ireland. And destroying much of Irish culture (what's left of it, I mean.)
And whatever else Tomberg is, he is the greatest antidote I have ever found to this strange Anglo-Eastern hybrid …
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Post by rogerbuck on Aug 15, 2021 11:54:39 GMT
May I once more play a tired old tune I've played before:
I like and respect this forum and the people here. I think it is very important and I want to support it.
But I am just finding everything too, too much right now to participate.
Still, I hope nobody will mind too much if I do the self-promotion thing once again and offer my latest video, which has been an important turning point for me, personally:
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