Showing posts with label 2024. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2024. Show all posts
Sunday, November 3, 2024
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Lex Anteinternet: October 31. An Observation.
Lex Anteinternet: October 31. An Observation.:
October 31. An Observation.
Today is Halloween.
It's also Reformation Day.
Everyone sort of knows what Halloween is, although in its extremely secularized form. It's become so popular in that style that its now the second most popular holiday in the US, and you don't even get the da off from work or school.
Originally, and in Catholic and Orthodox Churches, it was All Hallowed Evening, the day before All Saints Day, which in the Catholic Church is a Holy Day of Obligation. There are some debates about it, but the secular traditions that are observed stem from Celtic cultures of Great Britain in a much modified form. The door to door trick or treating stems from a religious tradition in which the poor went door to door for food and were given it.
Reformation Day is a day not much observed in North America commemorating Martin Luther nailing his 95 Theses to the Cathedral door at Worms, which he actually didn't do. The legend was that he did it on this day. No matter, he did get the rebellion of the reformation going, and with it the concept that people can make up their own minds on anything, no matter how ill informed they are. Luther was fairly well informed on some things, but that was the unintentional result of his act of rebellion.
At the time of his 95 Theses, he hadn't intended a rebellion at all, but he worked his way sort of around to it. It'd be interesting to know what he thought he'd done by the time of his death, but one thing he knew is that he'd caused others with more radical ideas than his to also break away and create their own Christian sects.
Many of those new denominations have considerably changed over the years. Some of the Lutherans, who followed Luther, often with no choice due to their localities, have become almost more Catholic than the Catholics, while others have gone in another direction. The Reformation, at any rate, is winding down,and its really collapsing.
With its collapse has come the mess of contemporary culture, much of which we seeing being fought out in the United States right now, which is a Protestant country. The massive secularization is a minor example of that, but is evident in all of our religion derived holidays, including this one, but also including Thanksgiving and Christmas.
The last acts of rebellion were those against nature, which we also see playing out doay. They began in the late 1940s and came into full bloom in the 1960s, and are still enormously playing out today. Part of that has been the acceptance of rebelling against truth, which we see in the current election in more than one way, and in both political parties, although certainly Donald Trump has manifested it in a heretofore unseen level.
So its Reformation Day and Halloween in 2024. Lots of tricks on the culture are being played, and not too many treats being received.
Sunday, September 29, 2024
Lex Anteinternet: Agitio ter consuli, gemitus britannorum . . .Repel...
Lex Anteinternet: Agitio ter consuli, gemitus britannorum . . .Repel...:
Agitio ter consuli, gemitus britannorum . . .Repellunt barbari ad mare, repellit mare ad barbaros; inter haec duo genera funerum aut iugulamur aut mergimur.
So on this Sunday, 2024, I worked, contrary to God's injunction, like on so many others. As a result, I didn't really catch up with the horrific plight of Appalachia in the wake of Hurricane Helene.
It's awful.
Which makes this the worst, and best, time to note this.
We're headed into a legislative session, and an election season, in which the far right espouses a hatride of the Federal Government. If you are in Appalachia, and vote for the populists, you are voting to handle this disaster on your own. If you are in Wyoming, and voting populists, the same is true of the horrible fires we've experienced and are yet to.
If that is your view, don't ask for help, as stupid and cold as not asking for help would be.
We here are distributists, a philosophy that holds things should devolve to the lowest level possible. Here, that level is the Federal government. Distributism works up, as well as down.
Additionally, how long will we choose to ignore the signs? We've waited longer than we should have as it is. There's still time to act, no matter how much it impacts your temrporary pocket books, with you being temporary as it is.
Thursday, August 22, 2024
Lex Anteinternet: A smokey morning in Central Wyoming.
Lex Anteinternet: A smokey morning in Central Wyoming.:
A smokey morning in Central Wyoming.
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Yesterday's primary election results certainly suggest that Wyomingites have their alarm on snooze. Nature, however, chose to give another warning overnight.
Many Casperites woke up in panic to the strong smell of smoke. It woke us up, (smelling much like bacon). I figured the smoke was from yesterday's fire near Glenrock, but no, it's from a huge fire in Johnson County.
Apparently the Police Department received so many calls it decided to post on Facebook. Numerous replies demonstrated that many Casperites thought a fire was nearby, and woke up in panic.
I'm sure some will be waking up like me, a childhood and teenage asthmatic condition somewhat returned, and therefore impairing the ability to breath. For some, it'll be much worse.
A big fire is apparently also burning in Campbell County, one of the epicenters of Wyoming populism.
No matter. The 2025 Wyoming State House will be certain that the old days will return, and nothing is the matter.
ATTENTION!
BLM fire crews are assisting in response to the House Draw Fire located southeast of Buffalo, WY. The fire is currently estimated at 4,000 acres. Fire engines from Johnson County, Powder River Fire Department, and the Forest Service are also responding in addition to aerial support from Single Engine Airtankers and a Large Airtanker. A Very Large Airtanker has been ordered. The fire is fast-moving and wind driven – for the safety of firefighters and the public, ple…
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In a more primitive time, as we define primitive, which tends to mean any era other than our own, generally, people looked for signs of the Divine in disasters. Some were taken as warnings to correct an errant path, or as punishments for having taken one. As late as the closing days of the Second World War, Germans widely came to the conclusion that the disasters that were befalling them were Divine punishments for their actions under the Nazis.
Now, of course, even in a religious country like the United States, such views are never expressed. But there's something to them, even if what there is amounts to elevating our personal desires above reality and the long term interest of ourselves and our descendants can be sinful, and often will have negative outcomes simply by their very nature.
We didn't use to have massive grass fires every year.
Of course, a lot of Wyoming's "Freedom Caucus" isn't from here, and they have no real recollection of what the state is naturally like. Some time looking into it would benefit us all, even if that means looking at some uncomfortable truths. There's less excuse for those who hold certain views and are from here.
Jeanette Ward, the Freedom Caucus import from Illinois who went down in defeat in her bid for reelection in a Casper district, noted upon her losing:
I’m grateful to the Lord Jesus for the last two years I have been able to serve Him and the people of Wyoming in House District 57. Unfortunately I did not win reelection tonight. I called Julie Jarvis to congratulate her, and I pray she will serve the people and do what is righteous.
Ward infamously said in one legislative session that we were not our brother's keeper, something that Jesus stated we were.
Ward's comments were gracious in defeat. And we might all hope that servants of the people will do what is righteous, and that we all might, no matter how uncomfortable that might. That might start by considering our dedication to the truth and discerning it, which isn't always a fun thing to do.
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