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Episode 19: Dear Australia: The Confluence of Faith and Science in Practical Action

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المحتوى المقدم من David Schmitt. يتم تحميل جميع محتويات البودكاست بما في ذلك الحلقات والرسومات وأوصاف البودكاست وتقديمها مباشرةً بواسطة David Schmitt أو شريك منصة البودكاست الخاص بهم. إذا كنت تعتقد أن شخصًا ما يستخدم عملك المحمي بحقوق الطبع والنشر دون إذنك، فيمكنك اتباع العملية الموضحة هنا https://ar.player.fm/legal.

This Episode was recorded July 10, 2021 and posted July 11, 2021.
The disproportionate and draconian action by policy makers must be addressed.
Poor journalism and poor public policy: A mere 27 new "cases" Wednesday (severity unknown---or even whether symptomatic) out of a population of 5.4 million in Sydney.
I am both a scientist and a man of faith. I speak to my brothers and sisters in Australia, especially Sydney, tonight as both scientist and believer. I cannot believe that someone such as myself should be giving this exhortation to faith and action.
I am a student of behavior and the bodily systems that enable meaningful behavior to be exhibited. I study topics that are grouped under the titles of neuroethology and neurophysiology. Religious behavior continues with the progression of human history through the present and will continue to its end. People in all cultures have displayed religiosity---it is a universal across cultures.
In our time as in all times, being truly religious is what requires courage.

Religion, L., re-ligare, means to "tie together."
Think of a ligature where a surgeon used a piece of suture to ligate a wound. This is what religion does, it "ties all things together," even if there has been a cutting asunder.
It is indeed true that only in the language of religion and faith can some very complex patterns, having been recognized pre-verbally, be expressed in words leading to understanding. Only in this way can certain ideas, perceptions, intuitions, emotional experiences, analyses, justified suspicions and fortifying hopes be turned over in one's own mind as well as communicated to others.
In Australia, today as this is being written, there is a crisis at the confluence of science and religion, at the confluence of rationality and faith. Both a proper science and a proper religion--not at all that which has been commandeered to camouflage over ill-designed agendas---must be brought to bear on the misery which mankind is currently suffering, particularly beginning in 2019 with the so-called "Great Reset" and the attendant COVID phenomenon with its real and unreal components.
Religion and science are not opposed, but fit easily together for one who has come--usually through earnest labors and sacrifices--to achieve an integration. Many have profited from the making of enemies between scientific and religious thinking.

Australia,
you have--without discounting physical suffering--what is primarily a spiritual crisis. You, and the whole world, need a spiritual power to address what is a corruption of our personal and shared spiritual life.
Australia, you gave up you guns many years ago. This was, as many of us view it, foolhardy. Let the consequences of this acquiescence be known to all as a warning regarding the evils and the abuse that predictably followed. But so be it that God might manifest His authority and might, no matter how weakened a people may be---as long as they turn to Him.
I address primarily Catholics and Protestants. You will need to be armed. But, now, you will need to be armed with the weapons of Faith. These are more effective than swords and guns! For Protestants, I recommend your Bibles. For Catholics, a Bible is certainly the first resort. To this you can add the Rosary, Crucifixes, Holy water and many sacramentals associated with your devotion to the Angels and the Saints.
I do not to mean in anyway to discourage others from acting accordingly. For instance, Jewish peoples might don their yarmulkes and prayer shawls.
If you are vigorously secular, I leave you to find your objects of, at least, a natural symbolism. Coming to mind is an image from the Vietnam war era in the United States when there appeared an iconic photograph of a young woman inserting a flower stem into the barrel of the gun of a national guardsman during a protest of some sort. I am sure this scenario was repeated more than once.
Now, returning to the Christian audience with whom I am familiar and with whom I competently share substantial understanding---I would suggest that we need a multiplication many fold of our attention to prayer.
Prayer has, of course, spiritual--that is, immaterial and inexplicably surprising--effects as well as having its natural physically lawful manifestations.
One can certainly pray for those who are suffering medically and mentally from all of the effects of the COVID phenomenon and the actions of leaders and crafters of events, policies and propaganda. We certainly pray for those suffering in any direct way from the reputed pathogen, SARS-CoV-2, such as it is. We pray to for even our tormentors.
Very importantly, however, we want to pray for, and with, clarity and sufficient knowledge of the true nature of these events so that in practice we may act with efficacy and justice. It cannot be denied, and the evidence accumulates weekly, that the COVID event has dimensions that were controlled via the Media, government, corporations, churches and a variety of institutions to created distortions in explanation and to induce fear leading to greater manipulability.
In an early episode of the Second Society Podcast, on January 2, 2021, in a conversation with Joe Atwill and during an episode entitled, "Coronavirus and the Vigilant Bird Concept," I described the reality of predation as a threat to humans. This threat exists on the natural as well as the supernatural, spiritual planes. What is needed for a population, in this case the world-wide population of human beings, is the protective role what we will call the vigilant birds. Learn form the Robins feeding on your lawn in the early morning. While many birds are absorbed with single sight looking for morsels to eat, at least one bird forgoes immediate benefits in order to keep it's head high in search of predators.
We must be humble enough to recognize that there are predators and that predators in lofty places possess intelligences far beyond our own. As the Christian teacher, Saint Paul, instructs, it is not against flesh and blood that we contend---but rather we battle against powers and principalities in high places.
What is encouraging for the Christian follower, is that our Lord assures us that, though there is a prince of this world, he has been judges and will--in the end--be cast out. However long the road, then, we can labor and struggle for the Good, the Kingdom.
Now is one such time that we need to protect the future of practical affairs so that we and our posterity will be best provided for the salvation of their souls. Thus, this is a time when the spiritual must take on the appearances of the things of this world. Like Jesus' followers, we need to eat, we need to be rescued from turbulent seas and we need to heal the sick. ride donkeys and dine in upper rooms.
We are going to need to take ahold of our physical world and make for our physical needs. We must reclaim our towns and farms, our economies and institutions, our freedoms and our opportunities to work.
In places like Sydney, Australia as well as places around the globe where evil masquerades illegitimately as authority, we must reassert our role as adults, as Citizens and as the rightful superiors of the governments which are always only meant to serve the people of the nation where the government was formed.
Therefore, grab your Bibles and other tools of spiritual warfare. Take hold of your Rosaries and prayer books, crucifixes, Holy water and sacramentals. It is time to reclaim the necessary freedoms for health, movement, assembly, political organization, free speech and---most of all: worship.
We must do this intent upon peace and truth. We do not fight lies and propaganda with lies and propaganda, but rather with the reliability of spiritual and scientifically-discoverable truth.
The Gospel of Saint John begins with a sublime and mystical worship of the Logos--the Word who is God and who is meaning itself and who imbued all of the Universe that He spoke into existence with its semantic foundation and being. It is in the Logos that we trust to reward our total commitment to the truth.
Again, referring to St. Paul, we remember that is in Him that we live and move and have our being. We do not live as subjects to fear. Man was not created for fear, confinement, solitude, inefficacy, separation and unwarranted distrust of neighbors. Out immune systems have always been reliable--even during epidemics--and are indeed only truly meaningful as part of some degree of confluency of populations.
Here are, then, my suggestions for our brothers and sisters in Sydney and all of Australia.
On day one, open your doors and take one step out side armed only with your tools of spiritual warfare. Do this--everyone--at a designated time, perhaps 5:00 p.m. Stay outside on your claimed ground for fifteen minutes. Pray. Read Scripture, pray your Rosary or recite from sermons or saintly reflections.
On day two, take two steps out. Employ your means of spiritual war. Stay outside for fifteen at five.
Then on day three do the same. I suppose that they will arrest some---and will try to arrest more. Disordered authoritarians will always progress toward unhinged, incoherent actions---so know what you are getting into if you decide to get into it.
Let the Holy Spirit guide you in peace, but always remember to adhere to your habit of "fifteen at five!"
Processions in the streets will work very effectively as your numbers grow and the illegitimate lose legitimacy.
On Sundays, you might kneel outside and read and pray the order of the Mass when you normally would be attending Mass.
Communicate with each other, encourage each other. Call each other, share telephone numbers, email addresses and video conferencing contacts. Form email chains and trees. Listen and communicate with us out side of Australia. Help us to join our prayers with yours.
And for Catholics, remember the prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel as I recited it near the end of this podcast.

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المحتوى المقدم من David Schmitt. يتم تحميل جميع محتويات البودكاست بما في ذلك الحلقات والرسومات وأوصاف البودكاست وتقديمها مباشرةً بواسطة David Schmitt أو شريك منصة البودكاست الخاص بهم. إذا كنت تعتقد أن شخصًا ما يستخدم عملك المحمي بحقوق الطبع والنشر دون إذنك، فيمكنك اتباع العملية الموضحة هنا https://ar.player.fm/legal.

This Episode was recorded July 10, 2021 and posted July 11, 2021.
The disproportionate and draconian action by policy makers must be addressed.
Poor journalism and poor public policy: A mere 27 new "cases" Wednesday (severity unknown---or even whether symptomatic) out of a population of 5.4 million in Sydney.
I am both a scientist and a man of faith. I speak to my brothers and sisters in Australia, especially Sydney, tonight as both scientist and believer. I cannot believe that someone such as myself should be giving this exhortation to faith and action.
I am a student of behavior and the bodily systems that enable meaningful behavior to be exhibited. I study topics that are grouped under the titles of neuroethology and neurophysiology. Religious behavior continues with the progression of human history through the present and will continue to its end. People in all cultures have displayed religiosity---it is a universal across cultures.
In our time as in all times, being truly religious is what requires courage.

Religion, L., re-ligare, means to "tie together."
Think of a ligature where a surgeon used a piece of suture to ligate a wound. This is what religion does, it "ties all things together," even if there has been a cutting asunder.
It is indeed true that only in the language of religion and faith can some very complex patterns, having been recognized pre-verbally, be expressed in words leading to understanding. Only in this way can certain ideas, perceptions, intuitions, emotional experiences, analyses, justified suspicions and fortifying hopes be turned over in one's own mind as well as communicated to others.
In Australia, today as this is being written, there is a crisis at the confluence of science and religion, at the confluence of rationality and faith. Both a proper science and a proper religion--not at all that which has been commandeered to camouflage over ill-designed agendas---must be brought to bear on the misery which mankind is currently suffering, particularly beginning in 2019 with the so-called "Great Reset" and the attendant COVID phenomenon with its real and unreal components.
Religion and science are not opposed, but fit easily together for one who has come--usually through earnest labors and sacrifices--to achieve an integration. Many have profited from the making of enemies between scientific and religious thinking.

Australia,
you have--without discounting physical suffering--what is primarily a spiritual crisis. You, and the whole world, need a spiritual power to address what is a corruption of our personal and shared spiritual life.
Australia, you gave up you guns many years ago. This was, as many of us view it, foolhardy. Let the consequences of this acquiescence be known to all as a warning regarding the evils and the abuse that predictably followed. But so be it that God might manifest His authority and might, no matter how weakened a people may be---as long as they turn to Him.
I address primarily Catholics and Protestants. You will need to be armed. But, now, you will need to be armed with the weapons of Faith. These are more effective than swords and guns! For Protestants, I recommend your Bibles. For Catholics, a Bible is certainly the first resort. To this you can add the Rosary, Crucifixes, Holy water and many sacramentals associated with your devotion to the Angels and the Saints.
I do not to mean in anyway to discourage others from acting accordingly. For instance, Jewish peoples might don their yarmulkes and prayer shawls.
If you are vigorously secular, I leave you to find your objects of, at least, a natural symbolism. Coming to mind is an image from the Vietnam war era in the United States when there appeared an iconic photograph of a young woman inserting a flower stem into the barrel of the gun of a national guardsman during a protest of some sort. I am sure this scenario was repeated more than once.
Now, returning to the Christian audience with whom I am familiar and with whom I competently share substantial understanding---I would suggest that we need a multiplication many fold of our attention to prayer.
Prayer has, of course, spiritual--that is, immaterial and inexplicably surprising--effects as well as having its natural physically lawful manifestations.
One can certainly pray for those who are suffering medically and mentally from all of the effects of the COVID phenomenon and the actions of leaders and crafters of events, policies and propaganda. We certainly pray for those suffering in any direct way from the reputed pathogen, SARS-CoV-2, such as it is. We pray to for even our tormentors.
Very importantly, however, we want to pray for, and with, clarity and sufficient knowledge of the true nature of these events so that in practice we may act with efficacy and justice. It cannot be denied, and the evidence accumulates weekly, that the COVID event has dimensions that were controlled via the Media, government, corporations, churches and a variety of institutions to created distortions in explanation and to induce fear leading to greater manipulability.
In an early episode of the Second Society Podcast, on January 2, 2021, in a conversation with Joe Atwill and during an episode entitled, "Coronavirus and the Vigilant Bird Concept," I described the reality of predation as a threat to humans. This threat exists on the natural as well as the supernatural, spiritual planes. What is needed for a population, in this case the world-wide population of human beings, is the protective role what we will call the vigilant birds. Learn form the Robins feeding on your lawn in the early morning. While many birds are absorbed with single sight looking for morsels to eat, at least one bird forgoes immediate benefits in order to keep it's head high in search of predators.
We must be humble enough to recognize that there are predators and that predators in lofty places possess intelligences far beyond our own. As the Christian teacher, Saint Paul, instructs, it is not against flesh and blood that we contend---but rather we battle against powers and principalities in high places.
What is encouraging for the Christian follower, is that our Lord assures us that, though there is a prince of this world, he has been judges and will--in the end--be cast out. However long the road, then, we can labor and struggle for the Good, the Kingdom.
Now is one such time that we need to protect the future of practical affairs so that we and our posterity will be best provided for the salvation of their souls. Thus, this is a time when the spiritual must take on the appearances of the things of this world. Like Jesus' followers, we need to eat, we need to be rescued from turbulent seas and we need to heal the sick. ride donkeys and dine in upper rooms.
We are going to need to take ahold of our physical world and make for our physical needs. We must reclaim our towns and farms, our economies and institutions, our freedoms and our opportunities to work.
In places like Sydney, Australia as well as places around the globe where evil masquerades illegitimately as authority, we must reassert our role as adults, as Citizens and as the rightful superiors of the governments which are always only meant to serve the people of the nation where the government was formed.
Therefore, grab your Bibles and other tools of spiritual warfare. Take hold of your Rosaries and prayer books, crucifixes, Holy water and sacramentals. It is time to reclaim the necessary freedoms for health, movement, assembly, political organization, free speech and---most of all: worship.
We must do this intent upon peace and truth. We do not fight lies and propaganda with lies and propaganda, but rather with the reliability of spiritual and scientifically-discoverable truth.
The Gospel of Saint John begins with a sublime and mystical worship of the Logos--the Word who is God and who is meaning itself and who imbued all of the Universe that He spoke into existence with its semantic foundation and being. It is in the Logos that we trust to reward our total commitment to the truth.
Again, referring to St. Paul, we remember that is in Him that we live and move and have our being. We do not live as subjects to fear. Man was not created for fear, confinement, solitude, inefficacy, separation and unwarranted distrust of neighbors. Out immune systems have always been reliable--even during epidemics--and are indeed only truly meaningful as part of some degree of confluency of populations.
Here are, then, my suggestions for our brothers and sisters in Sydney and all of Australia.
On day one, open your doors and take one step out side armed only with your tools of spiritual warfare. Do this--everyone--at a designated time, perhaps 5:00 p.m. Stay outside on your claimed ground for fifteen minutes. Pray. Read Scripture, pray your Rosary or recite from sermons or saintly reflections.
On day two, take two steps out. Employ your means of spiritual war. Stay outside for fifteen at five.
Then on day three do the same. I suppose that they will arrest some---and will try to arrest more. Disordered authoritarians will always progress toward unhinged, incoherent actions---so know what you are getting into if you decide to get into it.
Let the Holy Spirit guide you in peace, but always remember to adhere to your habit of "fifteen at five!"
Processions in the streets will work very effectively as your numbers grow and the illegitimate lose legitimacy.
On Sundays, you might kneel outside and read and pray the order of the Mass when you normally would be attending Mass.
Communicate with each other, encourage each other. Call each other, share telephone numbers, email addresses and video conferencing contacts. Form email chains and trees. Listen and communicate with us out side of Australia. Help us to join our prayers with yours.
And for Catholics, remember the prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel as I recited it near the end of this podcast.

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