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The article posted below comes from The Coming Depression blog. I don't know anything about the guy that wrote it or if it has any basis in fact, scientific or otherwise. That being said, it gave me pause.
Over the last week, watching this whole story evolve I've been struck by a few things that have made it different than the normal, run of the mill disaster that seems to come along with predictable regularity. Usually some experts are run out in short order to explain the fix. This time around, not only have the experts been lacking but so have the solutions. What has been discussed is the massive difficulties involved, but not in detail, only vaguely. I've had the feeling that there really isn't a solution, at least not one that is readily available. We haven't heard any real details of precisely what the repair crews are facing; the kind of details that are normally broadcast in a minute by minute fashion. Look at the recent mine collapses as an example.
The only real solution I've heard to this is to drill a relief well. How long will that take to put in place? And how much oil will be spilled in the meantime? How much oil can be spilled before the effects begin to grow beyond the local coasts and fisheries? Can they? How much oil leaks into the oceans everyday naturally? How many years will it take the gulf states to recover from this assuming at a minimum months of leaking? How will that effect the economy of the nation?
Also, there was a news conference a few days back from Bobby Jindal, the Governor of Louisiana. He looked like he was well aware that this was something much greater than the public was being told about. He had a sort of Hurricane Katrina look about him. It looked and sounded as though he knew that what was coming couldn't be stopped and that massive damage was inevitable.
Then there's this from the Daily Comet today:
"Today, Governor Bobby Jindal said he remains concerned about BP’s ability to respond to the oil spill in the Gulf and the state is developing contingency plans in order to protect Louisiana’s way of life. The Governor stressed that it is critical for BP and the Incident Commander to provide funding approval and authorization quickly for these contingency plans in order to protect the state’s coast.
Governor Jindal said, “We continue to be concerned about BP’s ability to respond to this incident. As we continue to work with local leaders on the ground, we are focused on forward-leaning and proactive action. I want to be very clear on this point – this incident is not just about our coast. It is fundamentally about our way of life in Louisiana (emphasis added).
“Our shrimpers, our fishermen, the coasts that make Louisiana Sportsmen’s Paradise – this all makes up Louisiana and this is our way of life. We have to do absolutely everything we can to protect our land, our businesses and our communities.
“We are past the point of waiting for any clean up plans from BP or the Incident Commander. We have already begun developing contingency plans for parishes – meaning we are preparing detailed secondary response capabilities to protect our land and our people. We are developing those plans ourselves and we need two things to implement these plans – funding approval from BP and authorization from the Incident Commander."
I applaud the Governor and his proactive stance. However, the hesitancy and inaction on the part of both the federal government and BP tells me that they don't have any sort of plan, that this thing is much bigger and worse than they're letting on. It almost sounds as though the Governor is resigned to no real help and knows that he will have to do what he can, with the understanding that it will be woefully inadequate.
All of this is purely subjective on my part; just things that have been bothering me as I watch this unfold. Is the guy in the article below an expert? Is he right in his assessment of the situation? I don't know.
Not to mention the Biblical perspective and the words of many of the modern seers regarding the oceans and the worlds water.
What I am sure of is that this oil leak is far more significant than is being reported. It bears close watching.
"Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.
About, about, in reel and rout
The death-fires danced at night;
The water, like a witch's oils,
Burnt green, and blue, and white.
And some in dreams assured were
Of the Spirit that plagued us so;
Nine fathom deep he had followed us
From the land of mist and snow.
And every tongue, through utter drought,
Was withered at the root;
We could not speak, no more than if
We had been choked with soot.
Ah! well-a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung."
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Saturday, May 1, 2010
An Nuclear Bomb Can Only Fix This Oil Spill
A reader who is an engineer of considerable experience says watch this one evolve carefully because it is destined to continue to grow and he shares this long (but worthy explanation why:
"Heard your mention of the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico this morning, and you (and most everyone else except maybe George Noory) are totally missing the boat on how big and bad of a disaster this is.
First fact, the original estimate was about 5,000 gallons of oil a day spilling into the ocean. Now they're saying 200,000 gallons a day. That's over a million gallons of crude oil a week!
I'm engineer with 25 years of experience. I've worked on some big projects with big machines. Maybe that's why this mess is so clear to me.
First, the BP platform was drilling for what they call deep oil. They go out where the ocean is about 5,000 feet deep and drill another 30,000 feet into the crust of the earth. This it right on the edge of what human technology can do. Well, this time they hit a pocket of oil at such high pressure that it burst all of their safety valves all the way up to the drilling rig and then caused the rig to explode and sink. Take a moment to grasp the import of that. The pressure behind this oil is so high that it destroyed the maximum effort of human science to contain it.
When the rig sank it flipped over and landed on top of the drill hole some 5,000 feet under the ocean.
Now they've got a hole in the ocean floor, 5,000 feet down with a wrecked oil drilling rig sitting on top of is spewing 200,000 barrels of oil a day into the ocean. Take a moment and consider that, will you!
First they have to get the oil rig off the hole to get at it in order to try to cap it. Do you know the level of effort it will take to move that wrecked oil rig, sitting under 5,000 feet of water? That operation alone would take years and hundreds of millions to accomplish. Then, how do you cap that hole in the muddy ocean floor? There just is no way. No way.
The only piece of human technology that might address this is a nuclear bomb. I'm not kidding. If they put a nuke down there in the right spot it might seal up the hole. Nothing short of that will work.
If we can't cap that hole that oil is going to destroy the oceans of the world. It only takes one quart of motor oil to make 250,000 gallons of ocean water toxic to wildlife. Are you starting to get the magnitude of this?
We're so used to our politicians creating false crises to forward their criminal agendas that we aren't recognizing that we're staring straight into possibly the greatest disaster mankind will ever see. Imagine what happens if that oil keeps flowing until it destroys all life in the oceans of this planet. Who knows how big of a reservoir of oil is down there.
Not to mention that the oceans are critical to maintaining the proper oxygen level in the atmosphere for human life.
We're humped. Unless God steps in and fixes this. No human can. You can be sure of that."
All of the crying of late over global warming and man's impact on the environment and look at what one little volcano can do. We are insignificant in terms of our ability to manipulate or damage the environment. It's only our inflated sense of self that allows us to assume such visions of power.
"A volcano erupts in Iceland, and the effects ripple around the globe: A mom in Romania frets about making her son's wedding in Texas. A florist in New York worries shipments won't arrive. Patients awaiting treatment in Nigeria have to wait another week for the doctors.
The fallout from the ash cloud looming over Europe illustrates just how interconnected our world has become.
Thousands of planes fly millions of passengers and tons of cargo each day, providing the economic lifeblood of nations and businesses. The flights deliver products for sale or items as small as a specialized tool that lets a factory keep operating.
The planes also bring medicines to hospitals and food aid to earthquake or hurricane victims. And they bring war and peace. Soldiers are often transported to and from hot spots by air.
Tales of woe and inconvenience span every social level, from the Norweigian prime minister who got stuck in New York and had to govern using his iPad, to ordinary people who saved money for trips of a lifetime, then had to abandon those plans.
The eruption was a single act of nature, but it stopped the world in countless ways."
AP News
In terms of destruction, we ain't seen nothing yet. If the rest of this volcano goes our world will be changed for decades to come and in some ways forever.
Almost seems kind of Biblical, doesn't it?
"The last time Eyjafjallajökull blew its top the eruption lasted for two years, spreading smoke and ash over Iceland causing significant damage.
The last time Eyjafjallajökull erupted, it lasted 2 years stretching from 1821-1823. It also erupted in 920 and 1612.
The 1821 eruption spread fluoride across iceland, damaging livestock and human well-being. Glacial flooding also resulted from the eruption.
Eyjafjallajökull's eruption usually precedes an eruption for another Icelandic volcano called Katla, as it did in 1823. Katla's eruptions are usually more violent than Eyjafjallajökul's.
Katla is partially trapped under a glacier and its eruption would create even more flooding problems for Iceland.
The Laki volcano, which erupted in 1783, was the worst in Icelandic history. It killed a quarter of Iceland's residents, created a poisonous plume over Prague, made New Jersey's snowfall its highest ever, and had an impact on one of Egypt's worst droughts.
The Laki volcano is considered a central cause of the French Revolution, as it led to a poor harvest and public unrest in the country."
Business Insider
"The simple truth is that there is no litmus test for being Catholic. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that “All men are called to this catholic unity of the People of God . . . And to it, in different ways, belong or are ordered: the Catholic faithful, others who believe in Christ, and finally all mankind, called by God’s grace to salvation.” (CCC 836) There is room for everyone under that umbrella. There are many ways of living out the Catholic faith. When we disagree with how someone is living out their faith, our best recourse is to pray for them and for ourselves. We are called to love one another. That is the mark of a true Christian. We are all sinners in need of God’s mercy. None of us fully live up to the Christian ideal. Our place is not to judge our Catholic brethren."
Catholic Exchange
It appears that our modernist friend above neglected those paragraphs in the Catechism that put the lie to her assertion; you know, the ones that directly follow the paragraph she quoted:
837 "Fully incorporated into the society of the Church are those who, possessing the Spirit of Christ, accept all the means of salvation given to the Church together with her entire organization, and who - by the bonds constituted by the profession of faith, the sacraments, ecclesiastical government, and communion - are joined in the visible structure of the Church of Christ, who rules her through the Supreme Pontiff and the bishops. Even though incorporated into the Church, one who does not however persevere in charity is not saved. He remains indeed in the bosom of the Church, but 'in body' not 'in heart.'"
838 "The Church knows that she is joined in many ways to the baptized who are honored by the name of Christian, but do not profess the Catholic faith in its entirety or have not preserved unity or communion under the successor of Peter." Those "who believe in Christ and have been properly baptized are put in a certain, although imperfect, communion with the Catholic Church." With the Orthodox Churches, this communion is so profound "that it lacks little to attain the fullness that would permit a common celebration of the Lord's Eucharist."
So how many exclusions to the modernist's washed out, gray and meaningless version of catholicism can we find in these two paragraphs?
1. To be a Catholic you must be baptized in the proper form and matter.
2. You must accept all means of salvation given to the Church. No doubts about the real presence on the altar or the efficacy of confession will be allowed.
3. You must accept the authority of the Pope and the Bishops, acting through the Magisterium.
4. Catholics are bound by the profession of faith; the Nicene Creed. You must believe that every word spoken in the Creed is true. No wiggle room is allowed.
5. Even if you have been baptized in the proper form and matter by another church you are not considered Catholic. Your Christian faith is imperfect and will need to be reconciled to the Catholic faith before you can receive the benefits of Christ's salvific action.
While number 5 may seem, I don't know, so unnecessarily divisive to the modernist mind it is after all taught in the Catechism. Unfortunately, our author above overlooked that, too.
"Outside the Church there is no salvation"
846 How are we to understand this affirmation, often repeated by the Church Fathers? Re-formulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body:
Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and Baptism, and thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church which men enter through Baptism as through a door. Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it.
So what is modernism? According to the Catholic Encyclopedia:
"The general idea of modernism may be best expressed in the words of Abbate Cavallanti, though even here there is a little vagueness: "Modernism is modern in a false sense of the word; it is a morbid state of conscience among Catholics, and especially young Catholics, that professes manifold ideals, opinions, and tendencies. From time to time these tendencies work out into systems, that are to renew the basis and superstructure of society, politics, philosophy, theology, of the Church herself and of the Christian religion".
In other words, to the modernist there are no absolutes. One idea is as good as the next and to judge a belief system against the wisdom of the past is archaic and irrelevant. God is not what he is, the eternal "I am who am", but instead is held hostage to the personal beliefs and values of the individual. Modernism is the root of modern liberalism, a system of beliefs that holds the individual has primacy over everything, that he is a free agent with no restraint against his actions or understandings of the world around him.
To the modernist there is only emotion and personal desire. Right and wrong can only be defined in how they work to either restrain or advance the needs of the individual, regardless of the cost to society. Modernism and narcissism share the same basic flaws in their self centered destructive blindness to the truth.
Modernism is a lie and as a lie it is evil. It has infected the Church to such an extent that we now have the homosexual abuse crisis and the USCCB supporting Marxist government initiatives against the clear and consistent teachings of Holy Mother Church. The pews have become empty and why shouldn't they be. So many of the priests of the Church are Modernists at heart and don't believe that what they are teaching is any more true that what the Baptist preacher or Buddhist monk down the street believe. And if the priests don't believe it, them why should the parishioner?
America and the world need to divorce themselves from this fallacy. Truth exists and it IS knowable. We must honestly search to find it and accept it, following it wherever it leads us. Until mankind realizes that there is one greater than themselves and accepts the fact He has created rules that we must follow we will continue to wallow in a cesspool of moral ambiguity and vain-glorious self destruction. Modernism plays to the goals of Satan and those that follow him in designing our "New World Order". Because we no longer believe in objective truth we cannot recognize destructive evil.
We are beginning to reap the crops sown by Modernism. Pray for all of us.
"In a 19-17 vote on Monday night, the House Budget Committee shot down the inclusion of the Stupak-Pitts amendment in the health care reconciliation bill. The amendment, which was drafted by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) last November, would prevent the use of federal funds for abortion and is likely to be addressed by the full House later this week."
Catholic News Agency
The lines are being drawn pretty clearly. It seems that the radicalization of America is serving the purpose of clarifying individual beliefs. I know that this statement is subjective but, to me anyway, some of the muddiness that usually surrounds politics is being hosed off. Even though they're trying to vote for this bill in the house without voting for it we all know what's going on. With most things political it's just the geeks that pay attention and get pissed off about the levels of corruption. This time, it's the whole country.
The same is true in the Church. The veneer of holiness is being stripped from those in the leadership that have decided to follow evil instead of Christ. Whether it's the Progressives in the USCCB or the priests molesting kids, everything is being brought into the open.
I think it likely that evil will once again gain the upper hand and much of what we are seeing will be obscured. But, for a short period of time, man is being given a great grace and a choice. You see, I believe that we are approaching the end of an era. I can feel it in the air and in my soul. Satan has been in control of the earth since the fall. If you believe in such things, which I do, he was given additional power by God to try and destroy the Church about a hundred years ago. This power was to last around a century (See The Vision of Pope Leo XIII).
The time allotted to Satan has passed and along with it a century filled with wars, plagues, famines, holocaust and the most Satanic of all political movements, Communism. We have also seen the "Smoke of Satan" enter God's Church. I read a lot of history so I'm not saying that all of this hasn't happened before. It has. Just not on such a concentrated level and with such a clear intent to destroy not only the Church but to completely disrupt salvation history and, through the attempted destruction of the Jews, man's way to redemption.
God is about to enter history again. Maybe not physically, as with the incarnation, but directly. We will all have to choose sides and because the truth has been exposed we will be held to account for our choice.
For anyone out there that hopes to sit this out and just side with the winner, your actions will serve as your decision. Inaction supports evil because it doesn't oppose it.
We are being called to arms. If we support God we have to speak out. If we support freedom we have to speak out. We can't bury our heads in the sand and hope this goes away. It won't. Everything that we know is about to collapse and our lives will never be the same.
We have the right to make a choice but along with the right comes the obligation to choose. If you don't fulfill the obligation you will lose the right. And if you lose the right to choose you lose the right to freedom along with it.
So make your choice or cower into slavery. It really has become as simple as that. The lines have been drawn clearly now. We have reached an absolutely pivotal point in history. Nothing will ever be the same again. Make your choice and act on it.
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