Dogism and catism: Catholic Doctrine of Pessimism

Posted 29th July 2011 

by 

MJ 'Black Messiah'

I'm feeling rough I'm feeling raw
I'm in the prime of my life
Let's make some music, make some money
Find some models for wives
I'll move to Paris shoot some heroin
And fuck with the stars
You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars

This is our decision
To live fast and die young
We've got the vision
Now lets have some fun

Yeah, it's overwhelming
But what else can we do?
Get jobs in offices
And wake up for the morning commute?
Forget about our mothers and our friends
We're fated to pretend
To pretend
We're fated to pretend
To pretend

I'll miss the playgrounds
And the animals and digging up worms

I'll miss the comfort of my mother and
The weight of the world
I'll miss my sister miss my father
Miss my dog and my home
Yeah, I'll miss the boredom and the freedom
And the time spent alone

But there is really nothing
Nothing we can do
Love must be forgotten
Life can always start off anew

The models will have children
We'll get a divorce
We'll find some more models
Everything must run its course
We'll choke on our vomit
That will be the end
We were fated to pretend
To pretend
We're fated to pretend
To pretend
I said yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah

                                   MGMT-TIME
                             TO PRETEND

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CATHOLIC ~{PESSIMISM}~DOCTRINE

The view to be taken of the contention of Pessimism depends mainly on whether the question can be settled by an estimate — supposing that one can be formed — of the relative amount of pleasure and pain in average human life. 

It may well be thought that such a calculus is impossible, since it must obviously depend in a great degree on purely subjective and therefore variable considerations. Pleasure and pain vary indefinitely both in kind and intensity with persons of differing idiosyncrasies. Life, it is contended, may still be happy, even though its pains may exceed its pleasures; or it may be worthless even if the reverse is the case. The point of view involves a judgment of values, rather than a quantitative estimate of pleasure and pain. The true(?)pessimistic estimate of life would be that it is rather unhappy, because it is worthless, than worthless because it is unhappy. But again, values can be estimated or judged only according to the degree of personal satisfaction they imply; 

and 
we are brought back to a merely subjective view of the value of(?)life, 

I can of my own self do nothing
:~

{unless we can discover[{i hear, !judge}]some absolute standard} 


:~

my judgement is just because I seek not 
my 
own will but the will of thy father who has sent me.

some estimate of the comparative importance of its pleasures and pains which is invariable and the same for all. 

Such a standard of value is to be found in religious belief, and exists in its most complete form in the faith of Catholics. Religion fixes the scale of values by reference not to varying individual sensibilities, but to an eternal law which is always ideally and may be actually the reason of the individual(?)judgment. Moreover, the recognition of such an absolute standard itself provides an absolute satisfaction, arising from action in accordance with it, which cannot exist in the absence of such recognition, and which is only travestied by Schopenhauer's pseudo-mystical delight in contemplating the "kernel of things", or by von Hartmann's personal adoption of the assumed "ends" of the unconscious.

Thus the Christian law of duty gives to action, in itself possibly quite the reverse of pleasurable, a value far outweighing that of the satisfaction arising from any specific pleasure, whether sensuous or intellectual. The inevitable Christian tendency to depreciate satisfaction arising from pleasure as against the performance of duty has caused Christianity to be classified as a system of Pessimism. This is, for example, the view taken of it by Schopenhauer, who declares that "Optimism is irreconcilable with Christianity", and that true Christianity has throughout that ascetic fundamental character which his philosophy(?)explains as the denial of the will to live.

Von Hartmann, in like manner, rejecting as mythical the foundation of the Christian Faith and its hope of the hereafter, takes its historical and only important content to be the doctrine that

 "this earthly vale of tears has in itself no value whatever, but that, on the contrary, the earthly life is composed of tribulation and daily torment."

It can hardly be disputed that the Christian view of life in itself is scarcely less pessimistic than that of Schopenhauer or Hartmann; and its pains are regarded as essentially characteristic of its present condition, due to the initial misdirection of human free-will. 

No estimate of the essential(?)painfulness of human life could well exceed that of the 'Imitatio Christi" (see, e.g., III, xx). But the outlook is profoundly modified by the introduction of the "eternal values"... 

Which(?)WITCH(?)Which...

 are the(?)special province of Christianity. The unhappiness of the world is counterbalanced by the satisfaction which arises from a peaceful conscience, and a sense(?).

 ~(36!36)~

  
SENTIENT PUDDLE

~{MIND-(6!9)-MEDIA}~
!THE SIXTH SENSE?

SITTING... 

RIGHT 
HAND OF(?) GOD?

Of 

harmony between individual action and eternal law; 

faith and love 

contribute 
an 
element of joy to life which cannot be destroyed, 
and 
may even be enhanced, 
by 
temporal suffering; 
and 
in some cases 
at least the delights of 
supernatural mystical contemplation 

reduce 
merely(?)natural pain 
and 
pleasure to comparative insignificance.

Temporal Punishment 

Sin has two consequences, or punishments (CCC 1472). 

The first is eternal punishment, 

in which the soul loses heaven and is confined to an eternity in hell. 

"Well...how about with the President of Emory University?  

Could it be possible for you arranging a meeting between me and him?"

~(Simply: Jim Ed)~

"Who!  Jim?  

WHY HE'D NEVER!"

~(George Robert Gary, Sr. ThD/Retired(?)Emory University/ [Candler(?)School (?)Theology])~

NO~( One Third(?)Gay Friendly)~NO

"If there is such a place as heaven;

no doubt in my mind...

YOU TWO WILL BURN IN HELL!"

~(Simply Jim:  Radical Fairy the Methodist Fag)~

This punishment is remitted through the forgiveness of sins.

"No ...SUCH THING...a Christian; 

"OH!!! THAT ONE A GOOD ONE!!!"

until....AT LEAST...it's...A DEAD ONE!"

Different way of saying the same thing...

"TIME". 

The second is temporal punishment, 

in which a person must expiate, or make reparation for his sins.

"Jim... I'm going to w(right) out a check to the Methodist Church for...

 $10,000.

~(My Mother/Shortly After Father Died)~

"I'm okay with this...Mother. 

 I....DO...understand...THAT...church being very helpful with the raising of your children; 

 most(?)especially with Me and David considering our(?)hearing impairments."

~(James E. Avery, D.V.M.)~

This temporal punishment remains even after sin is forgiven. 

Some examples include Adam and Eve getting thrown out of Paradise when they ate the forbidden fruit (Genesis), and the Israelites losing the privilege of seeing the Promised Land because they worshiped the golden bull (Exodus). 

Unlike eternal punishment, 

temporal 

punishment remains only for the period 

of 

time it takes for the expiation of one's

 sins. 

Temporal punishment is God's method of loving discipline: 

"Do not disdain the discipline of the Lord . . . for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines; he scourges every son he receives" (Heb. 12:5).

How does one expiate his sins? 

"WRESTLING (CONFLICTED) !JACOBS"

(Jacob Prepares to Meet Esau)

Genesis 32 

New International Version (NIV)

32 [a]Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 2 When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.[b]

3 Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom. 4 He instructed them: “This is what you are to say to my lord Esau: ‘Your servant Jacob says, I have been staying with Laban and have remained there till now. 5 I have cattle and donkeys, sheep and goats, male and female servants. Now I am sending this message to my lord, that I may find favor in your eyes.’”

6 When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”

7 In great fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups,[c] and the flocks and herds and camels as well. 8 He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one group,[d] the group[e] that is left may escape.”

9 Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, Lord, you who said to me, ‘Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,’ 10 I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two camps. 11 Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, and also the mothers with their children. 12 But you have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.’”

13 He spent the night there, and from what he had with him he selected a gift for his brother Esau: 14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 15 thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys. 16 He put them in the care of his servants, each herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Go ahead of me, and keep some space between the herds.”

17 He instructed the one in the lead: “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘Who do you belong to, and where are you going, and who owns all these animals in front of you?’ 18 then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau, and he is coming behind us.’”

19 He also instructed the second, the third and all the others who followed the herds: “You are to say the same thing to Esau when you meet him. 20 And be sure to say, ‘Your servant Jacob is coming behind us.’” For he thought, “I will pacify him with these gifts I am sending on ahead; later, when I see him, perhaps he will receive me.” 

 Alms (/ɑːmz/, /ɑːlmz/) or almsgiving involves giving to others as an act of virtue, either materially or in the sense of providing capabilities (i. e. education) for free. It exists in a number of religions and regions. The word, in the modern English language, comes from the Old English ælmesse, ælmes, from Late Latin eleemosyna, from Greek ἐλεημοσύνη eleēmosynē "pity, alms", from ἐλεήμων eleēmōn "merciful", from ἔλεος eleos "pity".

21 So Jacob’s gifts went on ahead of him, but he himself spent the night in the camp.

Jacob(?)Wrestles With God

22 That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. 24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man/MAL wrestled with him till daybreak. 25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. 26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”

But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

27 The man asked him, “What is your name?”

“Jacob,” he answered.

28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,[f] because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”

29 Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.”

But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there.

30 So Jacob called the place Peniel,[g] saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”

A Christophany is an appearance, or non-physical manifestation, of Christ. Traditionally the term refers to visions of Christ after his ascension such as the bright light of the Damascus Christophany.^[1] 

Also, following the example of Justin Martyr who identified the Angel of the Lord with the Logos,^[2] some appearances of angels in the Hebrew Bible are also identified by some Christians as preincarnate appearances of Christ.^[3]

31 The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel,[h] and he was limping because of his hip. 32 Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was touched near the tendon.

THE HIGHER UP WE GO...

THE MORE DIFFICULT THE TESTS BECOME

 

CON...$...ent
possibility
MANIPULATIONS AND DECEPTIONS 
eliminating 
CON...$...ent.

The Catholic Church has traditionally 

identified 

three major ways–

con¹

kän/

informal

verb

verb: con; 3rd person present: cons; past tense: conned; past participle: conned; gerund or present participle: conning

1. 1.

   persuade (someone) to do or believe something, typically by use of a deception.

   "I conned him into giving me your home number"

noun

noun: con; plural noun: cons

1. 1.

   an instance of deceiving or tricking someone.

   "when depositors, realizing that the whole thing is a con, demand repayment"

Origin

late 19th century (originally US): abbreviation of confidence, as in confidence trick .

con²

kän/

noun

noun: con; plural noun: cons

1. a disadvantage.

   "borrowers have to weigh up the pros and cons of each mortgage offer"

Origin

late 16th century: from Latin contra ‘against.’

con³

kän/

noun

informal

noun: con; plural noun: cons

1. a convict.

Origin

late 19th century: abbreviation.

con⁴

kän/

verb

archaic

verb: con; 3rd person present: cons; past tense: conned; past participle: conned; gerund or present participle: conning

1. study attentively or learn by heart (a piece of writing).

   "the girls conned their pages with a great show of industry"

Origin

prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.

In Buddhism, alms or almsgiving is the respect given by a lay Buddhist to a Buddhist monk, nun, spiritually-developed person or other sentient being. It is not charity as presumed by Western interpreters. It is closer to a symbolic connection to the spiritual realm and to show humbleness and respect in the presence of the secular society. The act of alms giving assists in connecting the human to the monk or nun and what he/she represents.  As (T)he 

Buddha has stated: 

Householders & the homeless

 or
  charity  
[monastics]

in mutual dependence
both reach the true Dhamma....
—Itivuttaka 4.7

Any good work or sacrifice expiates sin, as well as patiently bearing our sufferings and offering them up in satisfaction for our sins (CCC 1459-1460). 

We may also take it upon ourselves to do voluntary penance.

Some saints have done austere penances in satisfaction for their sins, such as sleeping on bare boards, dressing scantily in cold weather, self-flagellation, and wearing a hairshirt or a necklace made of jagged items to irritate the skin. Although efficacious, most Christians should strive to follow the penitential spirit of the saints while performing penances suitable to them.

There is one more method of expiation, and that is the gaining of indulgences. 

An indulgence is the remission of temporal punishment due to sins already forgiven (CCC 1471). The merits gained by Christ was enough to expiate all sins, and these merits, combined with the merits of Mary and the saints that were in excess of what they needed, from the Spiritual Treasury of the Church (CCC 1476). It is from this treasury that the Church grants indulgences for the remission of temporal punishment, when a certain prayer or work is performed. A plenary indulgence (ie. The Stations of the Cross) remits all of one's punishment, while a partial indulgence (ie. reading Scripture or 15 minutes) remits a portion of one's punishment. A certain number of days and years used to be attached to partial indulgences, but this was changed due to the confusion it caused. Indulgences may be gained for one's self, or may be applied to the souls in purgatory. To gain an indulgence, one must have at least a general intention of gaining the indulgence, be in the state of grace, and perform the work. To gain a plenary indulgence, which can only be gained once per day, one must also confess eight days before or after the work is performed, receive communion on the day of the work, pray an Our Father and a Hail Mary for the pope's intentions, and have no attachment to (intention to commit) any sin, even venial sin.

What happens if one has not fully expiated his sins before dying? Such a person, before going to heaven, would have to expiate his sins in purgatory (CCC 1030), where love for God is perfected through our sufferings there. Traditionally, the sufferings of purgatory have been compared to a "consuming fire" (1 Cor. 3:11-15). Because certain sins can be forgiven "in the age to come" (Matt. 12:32), Catholics have always prayed for the dead–for the relief of their souls, or their speedy deliverance, if they are in purgatory, for "it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins" (2 Macc. 12:46).

Our sufferings, according to St. Paul, "make up for what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ" (Col. 1:24). Interpreted properly, this means that our sufferings can be offered up for any intentions and act just like a prayer. When we do this, God pours out His grace (as He does through all our prayers) and our sufferings become redemptive. Because of this, we should patiently bear our sufferings and "offer them up".

AN(SWEARING)D  S(T)UF(?)FERING

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                                  Dogism and catism

Whenever people tend to ask me about my highly unusual

lifestyle which has made me world famous in my hostel

(Did you get the joke :-P) I always make an excuse and change

the subject..Sometimes I make up wierd excuses like...

It all started with the stupid vampire saga twilight...

I thought maybe I cant become a hot vampire overnight..

but atleast I can adopt their sleeping habits...

You know now people..why I am the way I am..:-P

But enough jokin..woking

I am finally about To tell you how it all started

Yeah here it is..

I am a total advocate of catism...

You ask Catism!!!Whats that?

Its infact the fundamental philosophy behind a religeon

or it should be better to say cult

I followed a few years back..

It goes something like this-

DONT RUN IF YOU CAN WALK

DONT WALK IF YOU CAN STAND

DONT STAND IF YOU CAN SIT

DONT SIT IF YOU CAN LIE DOWN

DONT STAY AWAKE IF YOU CAN TAKE A NAP

See a simple logic and truth about life which kickstarted

a way of living for many people around the world..

There is another one-

HE WHO SLEEPS THE DAY AWAY

LIVES TO SEE ANOTHER DAY

Lolest right?

Wait for the next then...

It is called Dogism

If you cant eat it and fuck it, piss on it

-Dogism

SUCH A SIMPLE LIFE!!!

Thats why I still dont understand when people

use statements like its a Dog's life out there..

At least a dog doesnt have to worry about their CG..:-P

Posted 10th July 2010 by MJ 'Black Messiah'

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