Signs

Discussion in 'The Signs of the Times' started by themilitantcatholic, Sep 3, 2015.

  1. Don_D

    Don_D ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

    Not much different that those blood type diets IMO. Some of the science behind it is interesting but it is a little oracle-ish in this case.
     
  2. andree

    andree Powers

    True, but those diets probably were designed in part to get people to run the DNA tests in the first place. They are barcoding all DNA (using PCR to do it by the way) which means they want to collect blood to analyze and barcode DNA in the big database. As the elite don't like to pay for anything, they come up with ideas to get us to do it ourselves and foot the bill!
     
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  3. Don_D

    Don_D ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

    Yep, nothing nefarious going on there! lol. In the US they collect it at birth in most states.
     
  4. Muzhik

    Muzhik Powers

    You mean, they're promoting being a vampire?
     
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  5. Fede

    Fede Archangels

    Oh my goodness! Just easing the way to the chip!
     
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  6. padraig

    padraig Powers

  7. Don_D

    Don_D ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

    When aren't they? :)
     
  8. Don_D

    Don_D ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

    Looks like some of those chickens are coming home to roost.

    https://j4mb.org.uk/2021/01/09/anne...ying-row-that-threatens-schism-in-the-church/

    Anne Dyer, 63, Anglican bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney, at centre of bullying row that threatens schism in the church

    January 9, 2021 By Mike Buchanan 0 Comments

    Feminists have come close to destroying the Church of England, we shouldn’t be surprised that they’re destroying other Christian churches too. A piece in today’s Times:

    Scotland’s first woman bishop is at the centre of a “bullying” row that is threatening to cause a schism with the Episcopal Church.

    The Rt Reverend Anne Dyer, 63, was consecrated as the Anglican bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney in 2018. The Scottish Episcopal Church has begun an investigation after she dismissed the musical director at her cathedral and suspended a high-profile priest.

    Lord Glenarthur, a church member and a minister of state for Scotland in the Thatcher government, was so dismayed that he wrote to The Most Rev Mark Strange, primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, urging him to intervene. He alleges that he was “deliberately misled” when he asked Bishop Dyer about recent developments and insisted that there was growing unease over her conduct.

    Last year she and the other bishops from the country’s third largest Christian denomination took part in bullying awareness training after a report suggested that harassment was endemic within Scotland’s Anglican community. A survey found a “negative atmosphere which can foster bullying and harassment within the church” — with more than a third of clergy reporting being victimised.

    The latest allegations emerged after Bishop Dyer oversaw the closure of St Andrew’s, Aberdeen’s Anglican cathedral, and a move to the city’s St Mary’s church — which has become a temporary cathedral — last year.

    Christopher Cromar, the director of music at St Andrew’s, briefly continued his role at the new venue but was told by email in early October that his services were no longer required. It is understood that after a “robust” exchange of emails he was told he was no longer welcome at St Mary’s.

    Despite this, Mr Cromar, a conductor and organist who has given recitals at Westminster Abbey, St Paul’s Cathedral and on Radio 4, attended the Sunday service on October 11. One member of the congregation and a friend of Mr Cromar said: “Chris wanted to let everyone know how he had been treated. After the mass had finished — at a point where people have previously been invited to have their say — he stood up. All he was able to say was ‘good morning’ before the organ started and he was drowned out.”

    The next day Mr Cromar was accused of “aggressive and threatening behaviour” and conduct which risked bringing the church into disrepute.

    Friends say he was ordered to return his key and told that the bishop never wanted to see or hear from him again.

    Mr Cromar said he was unable to comment but a friend confirmed he had written to the primus. They said: “Chris was delighted that Bishop Mark had spoken out against bullying and stated it will no longer be tolerated within the church. He asked him for help and pointed out this is just the latest in the line of grievances where Bishop Anne Dyer is the common link. There are others who want to speak out but they are too frightened to challenge her.”

    The Rev Isaac Poobalan, the Provost of St Andrew’s, who in 2013 invited Muslims to use his church hall for worship, was suspended shortly after Mr Cromar was relieved of his duties. Members of the congregation say he stood by the musical director. Mr Poobalan said: “An HR investigation is being carried out so I am unable to comment.”

    Lord Glenarthur said Bishop Dyer assured him on October 13 that she had an excellent working relationship with Mr Cromar. He subsequently found out that on October 12 she had ordered Mr Cromar to never contact her again.

    Lord Glenarthur said: “I have spoken to a number of clergy and lay people and there is a view that they are finding Bishop Anne increasingly difficult to deal with. The primus needs to recognise there is an enormous problem here. There is a real risk of fracture within the diocese.” Members of the congregation said plans to leave the Episcopal Church were being actively discussed. “As things stand the cathedral congregation will wish to seek separation,” one said.

    After becoming bishop Ms Dyer claimed she had previously been subjected to sexist bullying and had faced opposition within the church because she supported gay rights.

    The Scottish Episcopal Church said an independent human resources firm had been brought in to “investigate and provide potential solutions to the current issues surrounding the director of music and subsequent breakdown in working relationships”.

    Profile

    Bishop Anne Dyer has developed a reputation as a formidable feminist trailblazer [J4MB emphasis] who has been forced to develop a thick skin (Marc Horne writes).

    Born in Yorkshire in 1957 she attended Bradford Girls’ Grammar School before studying chemistry at Oxford.

    She worked as a business systems analyst for Unilever before becoming one of the first women to be ordained as a Church of England priest in 1994.

    After serving as the first female principal of Cranmer Hall, the Anglican theological college in Durham, she moved north and made history when she became the Episcopal Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney in 2018.

    However, seven of the diocese’s 14 priests signed an open letter protesting against her appointment, claiming it was “divisive and disrespectful”. They objected to her support for same-sex marriage and claimed that she would be unable to carry out her duties properly — in an area with a large rural hinterland — as she could not drive.

    The bishop faced down her critics and said she would no longer tolerate misogyny or bullying. “I was a good girl at university and I didn’t rock the boat,” she said. “These days, well these days I do.

    “I’m only going to be bishop for a few years and I’m going to make it count.

    “I will never, ever make the tea, one of the men can do that.”

    She said that her favourite TV series was Game of Thrones and wished that more religious women would wear make-up.

    After the closure of St Andrew’s, Aberdeen’s Anglican cathedral, she installed herself as provost of St Mary’s, the new acting regional seat of worship. Making it clear she would brook no dissent she sent out an email which read: “I am bishop — with all of my rights and authority, now and into the future.”
     
  9. DesertStar7

    DesertStar7 Guest

    I'll pray that she and other women will embrace true femininity, which doesn't always strive "to do everything a man can do."
     
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  10. Don_D

    Don_D ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

    Feminists act like men at our worst. The CoE is failing anyway, it won't be around much longer.
     
  11. andree

    andree Powers

  12. Don_D

    Don_D ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

    LOL! EXACTLY the kind of thing you get conned into right before you get sucker punched. What a loon. OTOH I bet congress thinks it's a marvelous idea. Funny, I wonder who exactly people worried about Trump nuking anyway. This is exactly why Trump should lay low and let them run with all this nonsense... It always ends up the same way, they ride right into it.

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  13. Indy

    Indy Praying

    Went for a walk yesterday with my family near my house, its a lovely valley and saw this in the sky. This photo does not do it justice, but to me it was clearly Jesus with out stretched arms blessing the area. It was Jesus of the passion with a full crown of thorns on his head. I could even clearly see his beard, it was the beard of divine mercy pictures. Not sure if anyone can see what I see in this, I can still just about make out his face and beard.

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    It was this Jesus, but facing the other way, looking out rather than down.


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    I had been praying a lot lately for the area I live in, I even used blessed salt and went on a number of Rosary walk in the area. Mainly because of many 100m tall wind turbines they are planning on building here.

    Anyway, I felt I saw Jesus and it made me pray to him and thank him for giving me the feeling of safety as we go through this storm.
     
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  14. andree

    andree Powers

    I realize that the name of the outgoing president is everywhere in that article, but I understood that if this is coming up now, they are worried about the incoming president Biden, or perhaps the president elect, Kamala :(.
     
  15. AED

    AED Powers

    Beautiful answer to your prayers. Many signs these days.
     
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  16. HeavenlyHosts

    HeavenlyHosts Powers

    A great blessing
    You are not alone in using Blessed salt in your town and saying rosaries for it.
    I do, too.
     
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  17. Jo M

    Jo M Powers

    How wonderful, Indy. It must have been a breathtaking moment, you were blessed to witness this. Just a few days ago I used blessed salt around the perimeter of our house for the first time. Since the lockdown our neighborhood has been in a major transition, and I feel uneasy. There are many issues with those wind turbines. I know of a neighborhood in my county that just went through a very long court battle to have the turbines shut down. They should never be located anywhere near residential areas.
     
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  18. Muzhik

    Muzhik Powers

    The thing is, the president CANNOT just order random nuclear-tipped missiles to be launched. It comes after military officers in charge of our defense come to a consensus that we are under attack and must retaliate. The available members of the Cabinet, with the Generals, must agree on a target (because the President may press the launch button, but you've got a whole chain of command needed to punch the GPS codes into the missile.) And that brings up another issue: for the past 60 years we have had as our nuclear doctrine that we will never launch a first strike; retaliation only. Biden does not NEED to treat that like this is a brand new idea he thought up in the shower.
     
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  19. Muzhik

    Muzhik Powers

    The farmers around here don't mind. They'll rent some of the land in their fields for the turbines, it doesn't cut down on yield or anything, and it's good "butter and egg" money. The problem people are discovering is that the turbine blades are made of very strong non-recyclable material that DOES have a "retire by" date. To retire a turbine means bringing down the blades one by one, then spending days cutting them into pieces that can be hauled to a landfill. They can't be recycled (i.e., melted down to make into new things); they can't be ground into fill to use when building highways, they will be around as long as that Coke bottle that got buried by accident back in 1969 will be around.

    (FWIW, one site I checked simply said it will take 1 million years for that coke bottle to completely degrade.)
     
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  20. Don_D

    Don_D ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

    Never let a crisis go to waste. Although, the reaction to the "insurrection" and the "attempted assassination of Senate members" (I could not believe I was reading that the other day) is so over the top it's even beyond ludicrous at this point. It's pretty clear this isn't just about a few hundred people walking into the senate between some velvet ropes.
     

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