“When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee, beware lest thou have a mind to imitate the abominations of those nations.” – Deuteronomy 18:9
Well, I suppose the above scripture is just as true for those of us born into the un-promised land: the putrid, cadaverous remains of Western Civilization. If, like myself, you have lived within a communist country (the USA, for instance) more of your life, then you should know well enough to avoid the abominations of local customs.
Sometimes, however, it is easy to overlook subtle items amid the complexity of day-to-day affairs. That’s what I’d like to cover in this space.
Have you noticed how your everyday life always collides into an array of dubious rituals and activities you were “programmed” to endure? This might include one or more of the following:
- Waiting in stupid lines for crummy food
- Waiting in even longer lines to collect your children from school
- Undergoing inefficacious surgeries just because “the insurance” likes them
- Watching sports-ball for six hours per day (even on the Lord’s Day)
- Drinking “tasty” craft beers even though they’re named after demons
- Wearing those damn face panties!
- . . . and so forth.
Many of us may go our entire lives without apprehending these numerous absurdities, unsettling activities in which we would otherwise not partake, were it not for societal conditioning. In light of this common pitfall, I suggest a review of these careless habits in order to withdraw from lazy, gluttonous, mindless, and moronic practices. Furthermore, these are some of many mundane ways our powerful enemies entrance us into wasting time, humiliating ourselves, and obsessing over frivolities.
Ritualistic Practices All Around Us
Ask yourself how often you experience any of the zombie behaviors described below.
Waiting in Line for New Restaurant Openings
The incredible frenzy to indulge in a fresh taste, delicacy, or flavor, takes the “fear of missing out” (FOMO) to a ridiculous level. Today’s mega businesses know this, and expand their expedient, albeit mediocre, operations to capitalize on Americans’ vulnerability to ritualized exuberance.
I’ll give you an example I’ve noticed recently with a new coffee business in my area.
I don’t know how this works everywhere throughout the country (or overseas), but in the southern United States, whenever there’s a new “drive-thru” business, folks congregate in large crowds to flood them with excessive patronage. By this, I mean to say they pile in line (as many as 20 or 30 vehicles deep), even if that means stretching into a busy avenue, intersection, or thoroughfare once the business’s parking lot meets maximum capacity.
This happened when my town welcomed a new 7 Brew Drive-Thru franchise.
People lost their minds over coffee flavors marginally superior to Starbucks. You can get a glimpse of what I mean from a similar drive-thru logjam at one of these shops in Naperville, Illinois. It’s sufficient to capture coffee drinkers in a line-waiting ritual for quite some time. So much for getting a quick cup-of-Joe on the way to work.
Even after five weeks of this franchise’s existence, people STILL storm the 7 Brew as if carrying out a caffeine-thirsted blitzkrieg. Worse yet, they do so even at FOUR O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON. How good is this coffee that you would jack yourself up on caffeine that late in the day?
While this is an excellent example of America’s line-waiting tolerance and fixation, there are plenty of others as well. Referring once more to the American South, if a town receives its first beloved “Popeyes,” you can expect a comparable ritualistic mania. After all, “I gotta have it” is common parlance if ever a soul-food restaurant arrives nearby. Thankfully, a Popeyes or Chick-fil-A mania will subside after a few weeks once everyone remembers they can obtain chicken, fries, bread, and soda from just about anywhere.
So, that’s how new drive-thrus tend to operate. What other ways do modern folks succumb to zombie rituals through their passions, appetites, or perceived needs? Well, how about the jolly DeathCare© system in the U.S.?
“Routine” Medical Procedures You Supposedly “Must” Have
There is a lot to be said about the myriad of elective surgeries available to the American medical consumer nowadays. While plenty of amazing and efficacious medical interventions may arise from a scalpel, surgery has also become a lucrative business, which has engendered yet another ritualistic practice. In the 21st-century, scarcely anyone reaches the age of 60 without participating.
The medical-procedure carousel includes several operations that don’t deliver a terribly magnificent ROI, yet oldsters get them anyway, often at the encouragement or permission of their insurance providers. This may bring to mind significant interventions and treatments like knee replacements, back surgery, all the various cardiovascular bypasses, and so forth.
Whether they work sometimes, most of the time, or seldom, today’s seniors will spend a fortune to try anything well before making functional lifestyle adjustments. After all, nowadays, if you haven’t gotten at least three surgeries by age 65, you aren’t keeping up with the “cool kids” (or cool geriatrics).
Then, there’s the boondoggle of all the so-called “preventative” medical maintenance, especially as one gets older and becomes statistically more vulnerable to cancer. I say “statistically” because cancer is by no means a foregone conclusion if you can minimize your exposure to chemicals and environmental toxins. Moreover, Catholics should not fear cancer like secularists, because bodily death shouldn’t terrorize us (quite the opposite, for those in a state of grace, yearning to meet Jesus Christ in eternity).
An example of this is found within America’s increasing fixation with the colonoscopy procedure. There’s been a significant spike in these butt probes since around the time of the Great Virus Scare of 2020. Could this be yet another humiliating ritual, or at least an overdone technique, driven by the medical community’s greed and eagerness to leverage everyone’s crippling fear of cancer?
Let’s not forget that procedures like colonoscopies are not simply innocuous health checkups akin to taking temperatures or blood pressure. That “life-saving” colonoscopy could be anything but if you sustain internal bleeding amid the process.
Although colonoscopies may have some value for high-risk patients, one should wonder if there are more efficacious ways to avert cancer over and beyond the uncomfortable and humiliating anal probe. Keep in mind, lest you insist on viewing society through rose-colored glasses, we live in a world full of perverted medical providers who may possess ulterior motives for such intimate inspections.
How might one avoid the need for a colonoscopy and still adequately ward off most cancer risks?
Focus on eating less. Then you will not be so full of “it,” rendering you far less vulnerable to cancer of the colon and rectum. Man has a tendency to eat about one-third of his food for his health, while consuming the remaining two-thirds for the economic benefit of his doctor. Let us eat less, fast appropriately, and send some of the colon-scanning doctors either out of business or to a different specialization.
Finally, even if you disagree with my quick assessment of colonoscopies, the same line of reasoning could apply to other dubious procedures, such as back surgery, knee replacements, Botox, and other popular items among the slice-me-and-dice-me-enthusiastic elderly. Remember, just because “the insurance” covers it doesn’t mean it works, or that nobody pays for it.
Pagan Beers & Beverages
Whenever I shop to purchase alcohol, I inevitably run across a selection of pagan products, which did not exist when I began drinking many moons ago.
In North Carolina, we have “Food Lions,” which, like most other venues, stock their beer shelves with at least 30% pagan brews, such as Wicked Weed, Voodoo Ranger, Golden Monkey, Magic Hat, Dragon’s Milk, and countless other demonic atrocities. These are the “premium” items you would get in lieu of Budweiser, Miller Lite, or “The Beast.”
“Who cares, you stupid curmudgeon?! These beers taste great and it doesn’t matter what’s on the label!”
Don’t be so sure of that. If you believe, for example, that the Golden Monkey beer is insignificant or harmless, then stare into his all-seeing eye positioned within his golden belly. Yes, dear reader, the most obvious occult symbols have infiltrated a grocery store near you, particularly in the adult-beverage section.
What does this have to do with rituals?
Well, I may just have wanted to rant about the paganization of craft brews, but I could stretch my irritation into a case that beer-buying has become a mundane ritual as well. How many men have allowed themselves to drift into the habit of purchasing these pagan pints with no regard for the consequences of consuming products manufactured by sworn enemies of the One True God?
That’s the reality of doing business with pagans.
“No way, I gotta have my craft brews, man. They’re so good.”
I remind you that this is not a trivial matter, either. We are the company that we keep and physiologically the foods/drinks we eat/drink. As such, when we purchase pagan concoctions, we inch ourselves oh so much closer to becoming just like them.
I can think of few other weekly (or daily) rituals as dangerous as over-imbibing on occult beer, hoping to drown one’s sorrows or frustrations with the world. Besides, there are plenty of alternatives even among craft brewing selections. Authentic Catholics must aspire to something better and mortify the lower faculties, which often seduce them into becoming drunkards through over-priced crafts.
Rounding Up Children from School!
Back in my day (assuming today is no longer it), I WALKED to and from school most of the time. I would have preferred not to attend, but I could at least count on the tranquility of walking home on a pleasant afternoon after several hours of indoctrination and antagonism from the teachers. Plus, by transporting myself on foot, I freed my parents from the obligation to chauffeur me for miserable educational commutes.
Nowadays, the walk-home option does not appear to exist.
Perhaps parents and school tyrants believe children will succumb to the spooky COVID virus if they trek home alone. Maybe they think youngsters will become abducted by Jeffrey Epstein and processed into beef jerky. I don’t know for sure.
What do modern parents do instead?
They engage in the carnival experience of leaving and picking up children from school (private or public). Have you seen this arrangement? If it wasn’t enough that the children had to wait in lines for everything, being transported around a typical juvenile detention center atmosphere, now the parents must do likewise. I guess the “circle of life” is much smaller than we imagined.
I’ve seen just about every K-8 school (and sometimes high schools) implement the same system where parents wait, 50+ cars deep, in a vehicular line that stretches throughout a long, parking-lotted obstacle course. They also have to hang some kind of school tag onto their rear-view mirrors to verify their right to regain their children from their daytime imprisonment.
It looks like the special “security procedures” you’d see on an Air Force Base, where the base administration attempts to prevent a scary terrorist from making a beeline for the flight line at high speeds. Military bases are what they are, but apparently, this precaution is also mandatory at today’s hallowed institutions of primary/secondary learning. Parents endure it, sometimes waiting for well over an hour, often impeding neighborhood traffic all the while.
I consider this yet another example of cramming Americans into various hamster-wheel operations, often and everywhere. As far as I can tell, most docile (or careless) parents seldom question this, believing, “well, that’s just how it is.” I suppose if you disagree, and you should, then it’s time to switch to a home-school education.
Schools have been doing this at least since the scamdemic, perhaps as a remnant from that era’s glorious, artificial, concocted hysteria (more on that in the section). Again, we didn’t use to do this in the 1990s or 2000s. Western Civilization insists on demolishing its culture, aesthetics, and morals, having enacted all kinds of loathsome secular ceremonies, transforming everything into a proverbial prison planet.
Will you go along with it?
Lessons from COVID-19: The Mother of All Ritual Creations
No discussion of mindless rituals would be complete without a brief reminder of the grandest of them all – the COVID-19 Enchantment of 2020. To this day, we see zealots who will don a pair of face panties, believing the mythology that a piece of cloth shelters them from contagion.
I contend, as usual, that the facemask-wearing ritual was a form of soft imprisonment, not just because their enforcement coincided with lockdowns, but because of their track record. Prior to the virus-noia of 2020, the only facemask wearers were medical workers (legitimately enough), Chinese people, and prisoners of Guantanamo Bay.
As we recollect the lockdown days, with the face panties, six-feet “social distancing,” plexiglass partitions, and other horrors, how can we summarize that experience as anything but a giant enslavement/humiliation ritual? Now that we’re six years removed from the beginning of COVIDidiocy, the lone remaining faithful to that scheme are the ones who mute their minds and sustain the staunchest normalcy bias.
That bias of the normies need not apply to the rest of us, provided we examine our lives and piece together the various strands of secular tyranny facing us. Thoughtful Catholics should now notice how the COVID scam didn’t end there, but has extended into numerous other social-political schemes: war (genocide), the controlled destruction of the economy, and beyond.
The same players who brought you “the spooky virus” are the familiar eugenicists who turn your children into trans-mutants after you carted them off to compulsory education. These are also the same folks who control minds with LSD, run pedophilia rings, create artificial civil strife (Antifa, BLM, etc.), and terrorize us with “ICE” Gestapo under the guise of eliminating the chaos they created.
If you examine closely, it will come together. Research, meditate, pray, and discern everything carefully.
In the end, it is well past the time for us to stop ignoring the small rituals, which forge essential sinews with the medium and larger ones, those that have destroyed Christendom for oh so many decades.
Conclusion: Catholic Devotions > Secular Rituals
If you do not learn the authentic Catholic religion, then even the most beautiful and consoling conversion will perish. If you convert solely on the strength of an effervescent liturgical experience, then it will eventually meet the same end as those ill-fated seeds, planted haphazardly, as Our Lord explained during His Ministry.
Part of the glory of the Catholic religion includes many alternatives to participating in mindless secular rituals. How ironic is it that our opponents, particularly Protestants, mock us for our “repetitive prayers” when it is they who have bolted themselves to the absurdities of the world? How many among them have no problem reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag without comprehending any significance of its prose?
Let us recall that these bizarre practices, such as pledging secular oaths, are often a perversion (or complete inversion) of sacred Catholic rituals. The ancient pagans required everyone to recite oaths to their Gods and Caesars, whereas Catholics recite the Apostle’s Creed, pledging fealty to the One True God.
I recommend focusing on the Creed and other Catholic devotionals if you wish to sustain your faith during these chastisements. Pray the Rosary every day, preferably all 15 decades, but at least long enough to eclipse the useless time you spend waiting in lines or enduring the medical-industrial complex. This is important for Catholics not only during this Lenten season, but all days of the year.
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