Author: VD

Mailvox: Absolution for the Boomers

A Catholic Boomer suggests how Boomers can seek absolution for their sins against the succeeding generations:

I am a traditional Catholic and a boomer who agrees with you that as a generation, the boomers are a wicked generation. No fact is needed to prove this beyond the reality of the boomers having murder tens of millions of their children by abortion. What I want to write here is what boomers should do to repent of this sin, and all their other sins, in the years of life they have left— so as to obtain God’s forgiveness and absolution. I will use as model the Catholic “sacrament of reconciliation” or “penance.” The first step is repentance: to truthfully admit the sin and feel sincere sorrow for the offense to God and for the harm it is has caused to others. All traditional Catholic spiritual writer and all Saints emphasize what Vox has emphasized: stop making excuses or looking at the sins of others and concentrate on your own sins and correcting your own faults.

Sincere repentance requires restitution: if I have stolen another’s money, I must restore that amount to him, or at least as much as I am now able; to refuse to make the restitution I am able to make means I have not yet sincerely repented, I have not yet seen the seriousness of my sin. The boomer generation has stolen so much from future generations, there is now no way to pay back in full; but the repentance of each boomer should include at least turning over assets like their second homes to children and grandchildren and start leading a simple, ascetical life (for example, no cruises) in order to leave as much inheritance as possible.

Sincere repentance also requires a firm decision to cease committing the particular sin; included in this firm decision is avoiding the near occasions of sin: an adulterer must agree not to voluntary meet with the partner in sin; the alcoholic renounce going to bars, a glutton avoid expensive restaurants, etc.  Finally, receiving absolution includes accepting an appropriate penance: that is, accepting to increase the time in prayer, of reading Scripture and “good” spiritual books; also to practice the types of asceticism that will free me from the habitual tendencies that lead me towards particular sins.

Finally, saying a generation is wicked does not mean every individual within it is wicked. But even the “non-wicked” or the relatively good must answer this question: why did I fail to stop the wickedness, why did I fail to cooperate with the graces God was sending to turn this generation from its sinful course. Considering our many sins of omission, even the relatively good boomers still have much for which to seek God’s forgiveness and absolution.

Frankly, I am extremely dubious that any Boomers will repent of their collective crimes, much less actively seek absolution of the sort he recommends. But it would certainly help both them and their children and grandchildren if they were to do so.

As for me, I would settle for simple silence and staying out of the way while the younger generations attempt to salvage what can be salvaged from a broken society and a severely wounded civilization.

A young athlete is vaxxed out

While I understand that most people only pay attention to the mainstream news, and not much attention at that, there is no reason to have any sympathy for those who experience the adverse effects of the experimental RNA modifications being pushed upon them:

Greyson Follmer, an Ohio State University (OSU) student, was an elite athlete and member of the university’s chapter of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). But, according to his mother, the 19-year-old from Ohio is looking at a very different future now, after he developed severe heart complications following his second dose of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine.

In an exclusive interview with The Defender, Marie Follmer said nobody warned her about the potential for increased risks of COVID vaccine-related adverse events for people like her son, who already had COVID and had acquired natural immunity.

Greyson has played sports since he was 4 years old. He was an athlete who played in the state soccer championship in high school and then went on to OSU and started college during the COVID pandemic. He also joined ROTC his freshman year and was very active — running several miles every day with heavy packs on his back.

Greyson was perfectly healthy and had no underlying conditions except for asthma — which didn’t affect his athletic abilities — and food allergies.

Like most students early on in the year, Greyson and his friends got COVID. Though most had no symptoms, Greyson experienced mild flu symptoms — though they were nothing like his post-vaccine symptoms, Follmer explained.

The university required students who had COVID to quarantine. It also required them to get a heart MRI before they could return to school. Follmer thought that was strange, but she made sure her son got one.

When the cardiac MRI came back it showed Greyson’s heart was enlarged with slight inflammation. The cardiologist thought it could be related to being an elite athlete, and signed a release for Greyson to return to school.

“He wasn’t 100{cc08d85cfa54367952ab9c6bd910a003a6c2c0c101231e44cdffb103f39b73a6}, but he was recovering. He was able to go skiing, return to ROTC and went on spring break,” Follmer said.

Follmer and her husband got vaccinated first with Moderna. When a friend of Follmer secured appointments for the kids to be vaccinated, she drove to OSU, picked up Greyson and told him he was going to get vaccinated.

Greyson received his first dose of Pfizer on April 16, and a second dose on May 7. After the first dose Greyson experienced minor symptoms, but his mother didn’t connect them to the COVID vaccine.

It was after his second dose that things really changed, Follmer said. Greyson experienced significant symptoms shortly after his second dose. Three times he was taken to Nationwide Children’s Emergency Hospital.

“My son feels like he’s having a heart attack 24/7,” Follmer said. “He now has high blood pressure, severe chest pains, back pain, elevated kidney levels, hypothyroidism, inflamed lymph nodes in different areas of his body, and he can’t work or exercise.”

Follmer said Greyson feels like he’s dying and has to sleep all the time. He likely won’t be able to go back to ROTC and doesn’t know if he will be able to return to school in August.

The mother claims no one told her about the potential of risks related to her son already having had COVID, but that is almost certainly misleading. Every single person I’ve tried to warn about the not-vaxxes and who subsequently ignored those warnings was, at the very least heart, already aware that there were potential adverse effects, but they felt those risks were worth taking.

The reality is that the average person want to feel protected and they are ignoring the ancient medical principle: “First Do No Harm”. Which is why so many readers here are finally beginning to understand that the MP in MPAI genuinely means “most people”. From SG:

Its amazing how fast I lose the argument on the not-vax, I’m giving up again and will now just enjoy the time I have left with the sheep until whatever is going to happen happens.

One thing I have observed is that pretty much all the contrarians I know who read alternative news of one sort or another have refused to take the vaxx and cannot be pressured into do so, while everyone else is hell-bent on taking it as soon as possible. So, I don’t worry about it. I’ve made my opinion known whenever asked – that it is reprehensibly stupid and indicative of both a Darwinian lack of fitness and a complete inability to calculate risk/reward ratios – but otherwise I don’t talk about it anymore with anyone.

Remember, Man is not a rational creature, he is a rationalizing one.

Hand Over Fluffy Pillow

When you’re weary, feeling old,

With regret in your eyes

I will take control

I’m at your side

For when times get hard

And your kids aren’t around

Like a hand over fluffy pillow

I will press it down

A gentle hand with a fluffy pillow

I will hold you down

When your time runs out

When you’re in your bed

When evening falls so hard

I will hold your head

I’ll take your part

Oh when darkness comes

And loneliness abounds

Like a hand over fluffy pillow

I will press it down

A gentle hand with a fluffy pillow

I will hold you down

Sail on, silver one

Sail on by

Your time has come to fly

Your children are far away

You’re all alone

So if you need a friend

I’ll send you to your end

Like a hand over fluffy pillow

I will give you peace

A gentle hand with a fluffy pillow

Grant you sweet release

The liberal perspective on US decline

 This is a long and thoughtful article on the decline of the USA from the perspective of a good liberal Democrat. It’s worth reading, if only to see how completely the author manages to miss the point while rather comprehensively, for the most part, describing the Four Americas as he sees them.

Just America’s origins in theory, its intolerant dogma, and its coercive tactics remind me of 1930s left-wing ideology. Liberalism as white supremacy recalls the Communist Party’s attack on social democracy as “social fascism.” Just American aesthetics are the new socialist realism.

The dead end of Just America is a tragedy. This country has had great movements for justice in the past and badly needs one now. But in order to work, it has to throw its arms out wide. It has to tell a story in which most of us can see ourselves, and start on a path that most of us want to follow.

All four of the narratives I’ve described emerged from America’s failure to sustain and enlarge the middle-class democracy of the postwar years. They all respond to real problems. Each offers a value that the others need and lacks ones that the others have. Free America celebrates the energy of the unencumbered individual. Smart America respects intelligence and welcomes change. Real America commits itself to a place and has a sense of limits. Just America demands a confrontation with what the others want to avoid. They rise from a single society, and even in one as polarized as ours they continually shape, absorb, and morph into one another. But their tendency is also to divide us, pitting tribe against tribe. These divisions impoverish each narrative into a cramped and ever more extreme version of itself.

All four narratives are also driven by a competition for status that generates fierce anxiety and resentment. They all anoint winners and losers. In Free America, the winners are the makers, and the losers are the takers who want to drag the rest down in perpetual dependency on a smothering government. In Smart America, the winners are the credentialed meritocrats, and the losers are the poorly educated who want to resist inevitable progress. In Real America, the winners are the hardworking folk of the white Christian heartland, and the losers are treacherous elites and contaminating others who want to destroy the country. In Just America, the winners are the marginalized groups, and the losers are the dominant groups that want to go on dominating.

I don’t much want to live in the republic of any of them.

It’s common these days to hear people talk about sick America, dying America, the end of America. The same kinds of things were said in 1861, in 1893, in 1933, and in 1968. The sickness, the death, is always a moral condition. Maybe this comes from our Puritan heritage. If we are dying, it can’t be from natural causes. It must be a prolonged act of suicide, which is a form of murder.

I don’t think we are dying. We have no choice but to live together—we’re quarantined as fellow citizens. Knowing who we are lets us see what kinds of change are possible. Countries are not social-science experiments. They have organic qualities, some positive, some destructive, that can’t be wished away. Our passion for equality, the individualism it produces, the hustle for money, the love of novelty, the attachment to democracy, the distrust of authority and intellect—these won’t disappear. A way forward that tries to evade or crush them on the road to some free, smart, real, or just utopia will never arrive and instead will run into a strong reaction. But a way forward that tries to make us Equal Americans, all with the same rights and opportunities—the only basis for shared citizenship and self-government—is a road that connects our past and our future.

It’s fascinating how concepts such as “immigration” and “offshoring” and “real wages” and “1965 Naturalization Act” and “surveillance society” don’t even enter into the thought processes of the liberal attempting to understand the current situation. And it’s informative to see that despite this, even the self-styled Smart American can see that the situation is untenable.

It’s impossible to resolve the situation through dialogue because all of the assumptions upon which the dialogue is based are fake. The Smart Americans are not that Smart and their beloved credentials are fraudulent. The Free Americans are not Free. Many of the Real Americans are not actually Americans, and the Just Americans are neither just nor are most of them even actual Americans.

Rhetorical contortions

Boomers are so desperate to avoid being held accountable for their actions that some of them are actually trying to “warn” Generation X about “establishing a norm” that they themselves established before Generation X was even born.

Gen X will not be called boomers, but following generations will continue vilifying the older generation for the worlds imperfections as you are establishing a norm. its like the SJW crowd, they never think the mob will come for them.

And at heart, that’s what you anti boomers are. Social justice warriors.

Hosea 8:7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind

Talk about projection. This is why it is impossible to have any respect or sympathy for Boomers. This is why they will always be contemptible. They are unrepentant to the end, like children desperate to avoid being held responsible for the actions that everyone knows they committed, always attempting to blame others for their own choices.

Now, what generation was it that coined popularized the phrase “never trust anyone over 30”, Boomer? Was it the Millennials? Was it the Silents? Was it Generation X?

No, it was the Boomers. (Yes, the guy who actually coined the phrase in 1964 was born in 1940, but it was the Boomers who made a motto of it. In like manner, John Lennon wasn’t a Boomer either, but The Beatles are Boomer music nonetheless.)

And what is the Third Law of SJW? SJWs always project.

What the Boomer is doing here is projecting the social justice tendencies of his own generation onto Generation X, while simultaneously trying to blame Generation X for establishing a norm that was already established by the Boomers. That level of rhetorical contortion is impressively twisted, but because rhetoric requires at least some element of truth to be effective, it is completely toothless.

In any event, it’s not a mob coming for you, Boomer. It’s a pillow, which is a fate far more gentle than your generation collectively deserves.

4/5 Pillows.

Ask not for whom the pillow fluffs,

Boomer, it fluffs for thee.

Monday AM Arktoons

BIG BEAR’S BIG COMIC Episode 8: In Da Forest 

COSMIC WARRIOR Episode 8: The Battle for Phobos

You can also participate in ARK Madness, which is a survey competition to determine which Arktoons series should be the next to spawn a spin-off series. In the first round, ALT-HERO is matched up against AVALON, while SHADE goes up against the new SILENZIOSA, just to name two of the eight matchups.

A reasonable request

The Smartest Man in the World has a simple request for President Trump:

I’m sorry, but I’ve gotta say it.

Dear President Trump: With all due respect, stop claiming credit for poisoning the human race. You’re smarter than that.

Forget what Gates told you, what Fauci told you, what that fashionably complexioned little cipher from the WHO told you. In fact, even if Javanka told you to fiercely claim credit for this fiasco, have them escorted from the room by Secret Service agents. (Yes, family is important, but we’re talking about the survival of humanity here.)

I vouched for your IQ the first time you ran; I said that you intellectually outclassed the typical Harvard professor. Granted, the typical Harvard professor is a drooling libtard who also believes in getting “vaccinated” with Covid/HIV spike proteins, but you need to outclass them, and claiming credit for the whole fiasco hardly does the trick.

Please reconsider your self-portrayal as “Mr. Operation Warp Speed”. By doing away with long-term safety tests for these genetic toxins, the government has horribly endangered the health and welfare of every man, woman, and child in America. Thank you for your service, and thanks for your attention.

Sincerely, Chris Langan

He’s not wrong. President Trump is still the greatest US President since Andrew Jackson, no question, but of all his failures, it’s probably his endorsement and encouragement of the not-vaxx that is going to be the most lasting stain on his record, regardless of what eventually comes out about the current political situation and the election fraud.

And I only say “probably” because a) we don’t know exactly how bad it is going to be in the long term and b) we don’t know what else is going to come out. As bad as his failure to rein in Big Tech was, Operation Warp Speed was observably worse.