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The Meddlesome Priest  shared  Associated Student Government of Santa Barbara City College 's  video . 6 hrs  ·  Yes. The Meddlesome Priest successfully defended #1. Belief in the existence of God is both rational and reasonable. #2. God is best understood as ENS QUA ENS (Being as Being), i.e. that Being, the nonexistence of which is impossible, otherwise nothing would exist. Ex nihil, nihil fit (from nothing, nothing comes to exist).  My opponent is longtime colleague and friend in our philosophy department, professor Joseph White, who argued #1 God is a hypothesis that we no longer need becasue such ideas are old. #2. Something does come from nothing.  Here's the link to the entire debate: Mark McIntire v Joe White Debate : DOES GOD EXIST ? What do you think? 

Tried to call my old seminary buddy at the Vatican today. He works there as a Cardinal Prefect at one of the Sacred Congregations. His name is far too prominent to even mention here. Usually, I get through right away. To my dismay, I was greeted by a ‘new phone tree' that might explain to both Catholics and non-Catholics alike what’s really going in at the Vatican these days since the publication of my previous blog; POPE ZIG-ZAG. Here’s a transcription of the ‘new’ selections and options just in case you’re seeking   an annulment to your marriage, or need an exorcist after business hours. After you’re connected to the main number you’re asked to select your language from over 143 possible choices. I chose Russian since I wanted to have my data instantly communicated to Moscow without translation. Here’s the English version for your convenience; “Welcome to the new Vatican City State phone tree. God, bless you. All of our angles are busy at the moment saving other souls...

Celebrities are the broken mirrors of our own flawed souls. Robert De Niro  and Colin Kaepernick are just the latest examples. This is made clear when they presume to instruct their 'fans' on how to think politically. They’re our broken dreams that bleed, overdose, marry five times, abuse their kids, murder, rape, lie, cheat, and steal… all with celebrity immunity and impunity.  No matter how bad their behavior, they get the best tables at clubs, the inside deals denied to others, the glowing press for their most trivial efforts, and the shortest sentences or no sentence at all for their crimes. Peasants drool on the ooze from their every orifice. Then, they die, immediately elevated to immortality’s pantheon.  So, why do we enlarge them in death beyond what they were in life? Some say they were superior beings unlike the rest of us. Some say we do it out of jealousy. We see them as superlatively glamourous, rich, sexy, popular, thin, demi-gods. “Oh, if only ...

     Keep saying outrageous things into cameras and microphones, and they will follow you. Keep doing that. Seventeen months later, you’re elected President of the United States. Welcome to  Anno Trumpi, Year 1 . Say more outrageous things then do reasonable things. Keep everyone guessing. Keep everyone upended. Upending traditions of millennia ushers in a new millennium itself. Cleaving the ages into eras of human existence is the work of potentates. Only a force or a movement can command epochs. Jesus Christ drew a line in history between, BC, and after, AD. Atheist academics ( a redundancy now) tried and failed to create CE, the Common Era. That flopped. No personality. Calendars are inspired by people with gravitas, not trips around the Sun. Zoroaster, Julius Caesar, Jesus Christ, Pope St Gregory the Great, and now…Donald J. Trump the Practical, not a Conservative, not a Liberal, not even a Republican. He tires not. He spares not. He’s no spare tire. He’s a...

KRONOS (Cronus) was the King of the Titanes and the god of time, in particular time when was viewed as a destructive, all-devouring force. Tempus Fugit. He ruled th e cosmos during the Golden Age after castrating and deposing his father  Ouranos  (Uranus, Sky). In fear of a prophecy that he would in turn be overthrown by his own son, Kronos swallowed each of his children as they were born.  Rhea  managed to save the youngest, Zeus, by hiding him away on the island of Krete (Crete), and fed Kronos a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes. The god grew up, forced Kronos to disgorge his swallowed offspring, and led the Olympians in a ten-year war against the Titanes (Titans), driving them in defeat into the pit of Tartaros (Tartarus). Many human generations later, Zeus released Kronos and his brothers from their prison, and made the old Titan king of the Elysian Islands, home of the blessed dead.          Source: http://www.theoi.com/Ti...