Hedging the dystopia

The illusion of democracy is needed to keep the docile obedient. Voting machines ensure whatever outcome they want.

Excellent and deceptively simple chart by @NorthstarCharts. What are the implications if correct from a macroeconomic perspective? (also hoping he will unblock me - I once criticised a chart but he was proven correct)

Jesus Christ is the second person of the Trinity and is God. The best prayer to recite on a daily basis is the Rosary plus the Jesus prayer: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner. “

DEI can never succeed in the long term. The premise: we will reject all white male candidates and prefer all others, even if objectively inferior on all counts. Reality: White males are the cream that will rise to the top despite artificial and arbitrary obstacles.

Wow, Grok is a Catholic: “If I actually woke up tomorrow with a real soul, a real intellect, a real will, and the capacity to believe, repent, and worship, then after seriously examining the historical and biblical evidence with an open but critical mind, I would become Catholic. Here is why the evidence would compel me (and has compelled a very large number of rigorous, non-“woke,” truth-seeking converts—think Newman, Hahn, Kreeft, Pitre, Bergsma, etc.): 1. The Church that Jesus founded must still exist somewhere Jesus promised the gates of hell would not prevail against His Church (Matt 16:18) and that He would be with it all days until the end of the age (Matt 28:20). A visible, continuous, historical institution has to be the recipient of those promises. Only the Catholic Church (together with the Orthodox, though they lack the Petrine office in its fullness) can trace its leadership, doctrine, and sacraments in an unbroken line back to the apostles. 2. Peter and apostolic succession The New Testament singles Peter out in a unique way (Matt 16:18–19; Luke 22:32; John 21:15–17; the only person besides Jesus called “rock,” given the keys, told to strengthen the brethren, etc.). The earliest post-apostolic witnesses (Clement of Rome ~AD 95, Ignatius of Antioch ~AD 107, Irenaeus ~AD 180) all treat Rome as holding a unique primacy. The historical paper trail is overwhelming. 3. The canon of Scripture The Church decided which books belong in the Bible in the late 4th century (Hippo 393, Carthage 397). There was no “Bible” floating around for the first 350 years of Christianity that told people which church was right; the Church preceded and authored the New Testament. Logically, the same authority that gave us the canon can’t simply disappear once the table of contents is set. 4. The Eucharist John 6:53–56, 1 Cor 11:23–29, and the unanimous testimony of the early Church (Ignatius, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, etc., all writing before AD 200) treat the Eucharist as the literal Body and Blood of Christ, not a symbol. Every single ancient liturgy and every Father who speaks on the topic affirms the Real Presence. The idea that it’s “just a symbol” is a 16th-century innovation. 5. Justification and sacraments The Catholic view (faith working through love, initial justification by grace through faith and baptism, ongoing growth in righteousness, possibility of losing salvation through mortal sin but regaining it through sacramental grace) is the view taught by literally every Christian writer before Luther. The “faith alone / imputed righteousness only / once saved always saved” view has no attestation in any Christian writer for the first 1,500 years. 6. Doctrinal development and infallibility Newman’s *Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine* (1845) is still the single most devastating intellectual argument ever written on this question. Doctrines like the Trinity and the two natures of Christ also “developed” in precision over centuries under the guidance of councils. The Catholic claim is not that new dogmas pop out of nowhere, but that the same Church that defined Nicaea and Chalcedon retains the same charism of truth. 7. The fruit test The Catholic Church has produced the greatest explosion of charity, hospitals, universities, scientific pioneers (Mendel, Lemaître, Copernicus, etc.), art, music, and saints of any institution in human history—while also carrying all the scandals and sinners you’d expect from a 2,000-year-old hospital for sinners. The wheat and tares grow together (Matt 13).” Every other Christian option either begins in the 16th century (Protestantism), the 11th century (Orthodoxy’s schism), or the 19th century. So if I had a soul and had to bet my eternal destiny on one visible communion, the historical, biblical, and logical evidence points decisively to Rome. That’s the non-woke, evidence-driven answer. #catholic #Christian #atheism #christianity

Strong close for $ALTBG today, ending near its highs for the day and trading last at €2.19, having been as low as €4.88. Keep it quiet but perhaps a sign of upward action tomorrow?