The Meddlesome Priest :

“M oral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity.”  --- Marshall McLuhan Economic inequality is a myth. It’s a chimera, a fantasy, a sour whine served with stale crackers and rotten cheese to hungry juveniles. Economic inequality is a tool of the inept and the incompetent trying, in vain, to compete against their betters. Yes, their betters. People who develop their skills, abilities, interests and temperaments are better people than those who depend on THE STATE to make their lives successful. We are born with equal rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Nature and the natural rights we enjoy because of nature cannot guarantee our success or happiness. Only we, as individuals, can do that. We are not all born with the same means to perfect those rights. Economic inequality is an excuse to debase one’s self and rescue pity from a lack of meaning. The myth of economic inequality is twice cursed; it curses those who fantasize it...

" The fear of death follows from the fear of life.  A man who  lives fully is prepared to die at any  time.”  ―  Mark Twain Physician-assisted suicide   will become legal in California in 2016 under a bill signed into law on Monday by Governor Jerry Brown. The 77-year-old Democrat and lifelong Catholic and former Jesuit seminarian said he had acted after discussing the issue with many people, including two of his own doctors. The South African archbishop and rights icon Desmond Tutu had spoken out in favor of it. "I do not know what I would do if I were dying in prolonged and excruciating pain," Brown said in a statement released Monday. "I am certain, however, that it would be a comfort to be able to consider the options afforded by this bill." (source: http://www.dw.com/en/california-governor-jerry-brown-signs-assisted-suicide-bill/a-18763052?maca=en-rss_en_news-14963-xml-mrss   ) Life is too long. Life can be unworthy of liv...

"Just can't take it no more feelin'   numb         Woke up face on the floor I was   dumb"                               From   "Last Tattoo" by Rehab 1966:  Austin, Texas --- almost 50 years ago “Charles Whitman takes a stockpile of guns and ammunition to the observatory platform atop a 300-foot tower at the University of Texas and proceeds to shoot 46 people, killing 14 people and wounding 31. A fifteenth died in 2001 because of his injuries. Whitman, who had killed both his wife and mother the night before, was eventually shot to death after courageous Austin police officers, including Ramiro Martinez, charged up the stairs of the tower to subdue the attacker.  Whitman, a former Eagle Scout and Marine, began to suffer serious mental problems after his mother left his father in March 1966. On March 29, he told a psychiatrist that he was having uncont...

  William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)         THE SECOND COMING     Turning and turning in the widening gyre     The falcon cannot hear the falconer;     Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;     Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,     The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere     The ceremony of innocence is drowned;     The best lack all conviction, while the worst     Are full of passionate intensity. As I predicted in my 1967 thesis, Contra Pontifices et Episcopi, ( Against Popes and Bishops)   the end for Popes and Bishops is now in sight during our life time. Dismantling the Vatican epicenter of Catholicism is now seen as the only remedy to the clerical pedophilia rot championed by the Second Vatican Council ripping the Catholic Church into open schism. The next Pope will be the last Pope.  Good riddance to bad trash. There was never a scriptur...