10 May 2025
Globalists Who Proclaim ‘Existential Threats’ To Justify Tyranny Are the Real Threats We Face
The real threat to our liberty is the globalists who keep warning us about "threats to our liberty" in an attempt to chip away and establish totalitarianism.
From LifeSiteNews
By Thomas Buckley
Our ruling class tells us we face numerous 'existential threats.' And that's on purpose, because it's much easier to push someone over the edge when they are already standing next to it.
Climate change is an existential threat.
Misinformation is an existential threat.
Inequality is an existential threat.
The next pandemic is an existential threat.
Our democracy is facing an existential threat.
And everyone must be prepared for each of them and prepared to do anything to stop them.
That’s the current line, at least – the line that is driving global society at all levels just up to the edge of sanity and cohesion.
And that’s on purpose, because it’s much easier to push someone over the edge when they are already standing next to it.
Each of these false threats are being intentionally inflicted, becoming co-morbidities on an already weakened body politic, making it even more vulnerable to its destruction and its eventual death.
Being told you are going to die is devastating. Being told you and your family are going to die is monumentally awful. Being told everyone is going to die is…numbing. It creates a state of utter helplessness, a state in which you are far more pliant.
Your situational awareness dims, your flight or fight sense slows and you just stand and stare until someone puts their arm around your shoulders and leads you away.
And those invoking that dread are waiting nearby to do just that – take society by the shoulder, offer it comfort on the form of entertainment, medication, and basic sustenance, and lead it away.
Each of the threats is aimed directly at the first principle of Western society – the primacy of the individual. All the threats, all of the communitarianism being foisted upon the culture – including the claim that it is what group a person is a part of, not the person himself, that is the most important defining human characteristic – have the same underlying message: the elimination of the idea that society is made up of discrete individuals with personal agency.
And from not acknowledging individual agency to not permitting it at all is a very short step.
That is the actual existential threat of the false existential threats now bouncing around the globe, clattering into people and families and societies and cultures and intentionally causing so much chaos and disruption that just standing in one place is not necessarily an irrational decision.
Of course, none the current coming catastrophes are existential threats – they aren’t really threats at all but the vanguard of the global socialite socialists statists has made sure the public thinks they are, under penalty of ostracization, job loss, and censorship.
Besides not being actual threats, they cannot even remotely be described as an existential threat. An existential threat is – in part – defined as a threat to the very existence of a thing or a system. It is terminal, global, and transgenerational. It is not transitory, it is not political, it is not determined by the people making the claim: to be an existential threat something must be real and unprecedented and permanent.
But the term – which seems to be important sounding because it actually is – can be misused by people and groups to heighten the impact of their statement, no matter what it may be, because the actual definition is either not widely known or purposefully ignored by the people using it and the media that reports what they are claiming.
This opens the door to anything being described as such a threat.
There is also the issue of the origin of the term – existential philosophers focused on subjective ideas of thought and emotion and action as they relate to existence while the more concrete “threats” described when the term is used are putatively real and specific. That is an additional misleading element of the use of the term.
In other words, the term is used to apply a thin veneer of intellectual certainty to the threat it is claiming actually exists.
Despite the protestations of the greenocracy, the real global existential threat is not fossil fuel or proper food or basic human mobility or all of the other aspects of the material economy.
The real threat is from the ethereal economy of government agencies, civil society actors, non-governmental organizations, foundations, and academia, all aided by the information cabal. Together they do, in fact, currently have the power to foist something upon civilization that truly is transgenerational, global, and terminal.
And the never ending pretense of emergency is a powerful tool in accomplishing that goal:
What happens when that dreaded decision whether to jump right or left in the face of an on-coming car is not a once or twice in a lifetime decision, but a daily question? That constant state of trepidation grinds on people, placing humans into a state of making most if not all decisions from a place of panic instead of reason.
And it is during that constant state of nervous exhaustion – a state manufactured out of whole cloth by its potential beneficiaries – when those who wish to wield power in society strike.
What is being offered is a society in which no one can fail. But a society in which no one can fail is also a society in which no one can succeed, especially to the point where they can threaten the existing power structure.
And it is that threat – which is an existential threat to that spider web of profitable tyranny – that is being targeted by the global fear noise.
The democracy being threatened is “their” democracy, not “our” democracy.
The climate being threatened is their silver-sheened scrubbed personal environment – the actual environmental destruction that is occurring is out of sight, the denigrating of the sub-Deltas who inhabit other places, is immaterial.
The information being threatened are the lies being told to prop up the societal transformation.
The equality being threatened is their right to be more equal than others forever.
And the pandemic being threatened is the right to declare a pandemic on a whim, terrifying the public into ceding basic rights in the name of safety.
The means and the ends are interchangeable, creating a Mobius Strip of dehumanization on which every degrading tactic can be hidden – unless you know exactly where they lay, they are visible only out of the side of the eye, an oblique uncertainty, and can be easily dismissed as figments, as conspiracy theories.
It cannot be known exactly what will be touted as the next existential threat.
What is already known is whom it will benefit.
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John Hunyadi, a knight of remarkable courage and skill, led the forces of the King of Poland and Hungary in the early 1440s against the unstoppable juggernaut of the age: the Ottoman Empire. He sought alliances across Europe, among them Vlad Dracul of Wallachia. Could he rally Europe to the banner of a new crusade?
Review of Thomistic Anthropology | ST I, qq. 80–83 | The Will and its Freedom
- What is the will?
- How does the will differ from the sense appetites?
- How does the will control the body and the sense appetites?
- Is the will necessitated? Is the will free?
To Follow His Call to the Priesthood, This Boy Had To Memorize 3,800 Texts of Canon Law
Today is the Feast of St Antoninus, the boy with the amazing memory. Of course, before the printing press, rote memorisation was the rule.
From Aleteia
By Larry Peterson
St. Antoninus of Florence was not only a brilliant theologian but also a father of the poor.
Antonio Pierozzi was born on March 1, 1389, in Florence which, at that time, was an independent republic. His father, Nicollo, was a notary, which was considered an upstanding position in the community. His mom died when he was five years old, and his dad remarried the very same year. His “new” mom helped raise him, but her influence in his life seems minimal.
Antonio came from a very religious family. He had a sister who became a nun, an aunt who was a nun, and a brother who entered the religious life. His other sister married and became a third-order Dominican. As for Antonio, from early on he was an extremely pious child and he spent one hour a day in prayer in front of the crucifix in the garden at the nearby church. Many people noticed his piety and his reputation began to spread. Also, Antonio was very smart and was quickly recognized as a brilliant student.
Antonio had heard a sermon by Blessed Giovanni Dominici and was instantly drawn to this man. Dominici was the leading preacher of his day and had received his authority from Blessed Raymond Capua who was the first follower of St. Catherine of Siena. Antonio’s future was now a brightly lit path for him to follow. He asked John Dominici to receive him into the Dominicans.
Antonio was only 15 years old at the time, and John Dominici thought he was still too young. He even thought he might be too small and too weak to live such a life. So he challenged Antonio. He told him to memorize the Decretum of Gratian, a complex work of Canon Law.
His motive was to overwhelm the young man while not hurting his feelings. He was sure Antonio could never fulfill such a request. He was wrong. One year later Antonino came back to John Dominici and recited the entire work. He even answered hard questions after doing so, proving he understood the nuances and meanings of the text. At that time he was received into the Dominican Order.
A new priory had opened in Fiesole, and Antonio received his habit from John Domenici. The first years of Antonio’s life as a Dominican are vague, but it is recorded that he kept growing in sanctity, spent hours in prayer, fasted constantly, and studied as much as possible. Then he moved to Cortone and met Lorenzo di Ripafratta. Lorenzo was a prominent force in the reform of the Dominicans.
His age mattered not because he was made an administrator and put in charge of communities in Rome, Naples, Cortona, and Florence. All of these places now fell under the reorganized Dominican Congregation of Tuscany, which had been created to get the Order back to its founding principles.
From 1433 to 1446 Antonio served as Vicar of the Congregation. He followed the rule as set in place by Blessed John Dominici and believed that he should care for his novices as Christ cared for His apostles. He was determined to do his best to instill in them the spirit of the Beatitudes which would sum up the Order’s Rule. He was also very strict on poverty. All that wasn’t necessary for the operation of a household would be sold and given to the poor.
It was during this time that Antonio founded an organization called Buonomini de San Martino. This was something like the St. Vincent de Paul Society, except it was designed to help poor people of high social status who were living in shame because they had become poor. This organization became a huge success. Much money was collected and many of the “hidden” poor were helped. The people began calling Antoninus the “Father of the Poor,” a name that is still used.
Antoninus became Archbishop of Florence. His writings were deeply theological and he was the papal theologian at the Council of Florence. His writings offered developments in the field of moral theology and stand to this day.
Archbishop Antoninus died on May 2, 1459. He was canonized a saint by Pope Adrian VI on May 31, 1523. His feast day is May 10.
The last words of St. Antoninus of Florence were: “Servire Deo regnare est,” “to serve God is to reign.”
The Eye Opening First Message Of Pope Leo XIV To The Church
There's a lot of misinformation being promoted about the Holy Father. Be vigilant. Don't be lulled into accepting any prepackaged narrative. The truth of his pontificate and governing style will emerge in short order—it always does. If he is truly the pope we need (as opposed to the pope we deserve), the truth will emerge shortly—and vice versa. Pray.
Pontificate To Be Inaugurated Sunday, May 18
Some were hoping for a Pope who would bring back the Papal Coronation. Alas, it is not to be. Instead, we will "inaugurate the Pontificate".
From Aleteia
By Kathleen N. Hattrup
The Vatican press office has announced the first activities of Pope Leo XIV including his first general audience, taking possession of his cathedral, and the inaugural Mass.On May 9, 2025, the Holy See Press Office published the schedule of upcoming celebrations for Pope Leo XIV, including the inaugural Mass on May 18.
Saturday, May 10: Meeting with the cardinals.
Sunday, May 11: At noon, recitation of the Regina Caeli from the central loggia of the basilica.
Monday, May 12: At 10 a.m., meeting with the world press in Paul VI Hall.
Friday, May 16: Audience with the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See.
Sunday, May 18: At 10 a.m., Mass inaugurating the pontificate.
Tuesday, May 20: Taking possession of the Papal Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls.
Wednesday, May 21: First general audience.
Saturday, May 24: Meeting with the Roman Curia and employees of Vatican City.
Sunday, May 25: At noon, Regina Caeli prayer; taking possession of the Papal Basilica of St. John Lateran (the Pope's cathedral); taking possession of the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major.