Gaslighting and lies anyone/?

 Manipulating people by gaslighting and by ridicule.

a lesson on how good, loyal folk can be manipulated by sociopaths and narcissists. 

Right now, when the Pope is spreading confusion by contradictory statements,manipulations, lies, gaslighting,  and by saying both A and B at different times: so that if you quote A YOU are the problem because he also said B... if you object, you are accused of of disloyalty by his minions. 

There is a lot of similar gaslighting and lies are going on in the latest shennanigans of the so called Synodal meeting in Rome.

 The assumption is that meetings let all have a say. But anyone who has been at some such meetings know this is nonsense: They are to manipulate you into group think.

We had done to us in the 1960s and 1970s... a meeting supposed to represent everyone stressing that everyone should give their honest opinion... but the meeting is run by those with an agenda and includes extras who are known to agree with the predetrmined agenda. So even if you suspect many in the group agree with you, they keep quiet in the face of criticism... Don't disagree with them, or you are called disloyal or rigid or a hundred variations of stupid... easier to keep quiet.

Am I being cynical? Yup. 

The dirty little secret about all this synodality stuff is that these meetings have the conclusion predecided by those running it: they are a sham meetings. 

We saw Pope Francis pull this trick a couple of years ago in a meeting about the family, where the plan was to have the bishops approve of allowing divorced and remarried outside the church to receive the sacraments although living in sin. 

Some bishops notieced the already prewritten report (italics mine) on the meeting included this, so they made it known and that part was removed: But someone snuck it in in a small footnote, and voila soon the Pope was telling bishops on the phone it was okay, pointing to the footnote to support his opinion. 

Yup. The footnote trick of sleezy crooked lawyers, and no one said: Wait a second. Because loyalty to the Pope. (italics and sarcasm mine).

Ah, but is he pope when the election was irregular and manipulated by a powerful group who wanted to change the church? Not my area of expertise, but a lot of people are questioning it because it was politically manipulated by the StGallen group.

what about now? Is unity and niceness is more important than calling out a liar? That is what we see in the Trad community: Respect above all else.

 Mr Matt, call your office

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— Michael J. Matt (@Michael_J_Matt) October 2, 2023

Sigh.

the latest atrocity?

when asked point blank by four important bishops if he supported blessing of gay couples, a ceremony that the press and the woke are insisting is the church's stealth way to approve of gay marriage, the Pope, after saying marriage is sacred, went on to ignore common sense and reality when he said no this is charity and individuals could discern by themselves whether or not to do it. LINK

Excuse me, I am a physician.

I often treat people whose behavior is literally killing themselves. 

I am charitable and try to help them, but I would not be a good physician if I said: OK go ahead and pig out on junk food to someone who is obese, or it's okay to have a double chocolate shake to a diabetic, or don't tell a person with COPD to stop smoking, or say hey, one or two drinks are okay to a known alcoholic, or tell a person or a couple joints on a weekend won't hurt you, when you suspect that the person is into all sorts of drug use because his grandmother keeps losing her pain pills from her purse.

this might work for ordinary folk, but we docs know that there are some who will twist what we said to justify their dangerous behavior.

Ditto with sexual practices that endager one's health.

So do you follow common sense and recognize reality, or do you pretend everything is sweetness and light and evil does not exist.

So the Pope pretends what he is doing is charity, but what he is actually doing is sending a message that wink wink it's okay to have sex outside of marriage, and in today's world that means people will think the Pope said that there is nothing is wrong with promiscuity... 

because it might hurt their feelings if you say: do this you are endangering your health (STDs, MPox), your family, your children's welfare, or in this case endangering your soul

Hello Groomer

 no, not the naive activists lamenting in the headlines that they can't push their agenda without the bluenosed bigots objecting: but the real predators who are ready, willing, and able to exploit the children whose natural defenses against being sexually touched or used have been weakened by such teaching.

but by exposing immature children to distorted sexual ideas instead of teaching traditional ideas like self control, it makes them quite vulnerable to being exploited, not necessarily by the teachers, who often are innocent about such things, but by other predators who can spot vulnerable kids and abuse them.

Back when I was in medical school (late 1960s) the Freudian theory was that kids needed to be exposed to sexual knowledge at an early age so they wouldn't have hangups: And some of our psychiatric treachers even said it would be a good idea if they were introduced to sex by an older, sympathetic adult.

Later, when a TV film about incest was shown and talked about, I read in Newsweek that if docs and social workers found such incest, we should not report it because it would "break up" the family...

These ideas are getting pushed again now, but luckily for the public, there are a few honest reporters who note that there are indeed bad people out there...

I am talking about Netflix/BBC drama on Jimmy Saville:

No I haven't seen it yet, but the ReviewGeek has and his review is here.

Ultimately though, Jimmy Saville: A British Horror Story is not an easy watch. This is a documentary that’s going to leave a sour taste in the mouth and some of the victim stories are absolutely heart-breaking to listen to. There’s no fixing them and the disgusting red-ribboned medallions, claiming that Jim has done just that, feels now like a stomach churning joke at our expense. I’m not a religious man but if there is an afterlife, let’s hope Saville is rotting in the deepest recesses of Hell for his actions.

I have treated quite a few young girls who were groomed and abused by such sociopaths (back in the 1980s I was the only woman doc in town). And to my horror, when there was a TV movie about incest  on TV, I found to my horror quite a few of my patients (especially those who had been in foster homes) had suffered such abuse.

Sigh

But Ann Althouse quotes a WAPO reporter who seems to think that when a judge is lenient on a distributer of child porn, that such things shouldn't really be brought up... because politics.

well, maybe. But the lady was put up as a Supreme Court justice because of the colour of her skin, and my main objection is that she is the child of lawyers and probably has always lived inside the elite bubble, whereas I am a blueDog Democrat who objects to Karen types looking down on me for my blue collar background (something that was going on 50 years ago, by the way.)

so one suspects she might not be sensitive on how poor children, or children left unsupervised because of an economy that requires the parent to work long hours, can easily be exploited by the predators in our midst.

Sigh. 

As for the kerfuffle in Florida: Well, the modern woke religion has an anthopology of individual choice that is diametrically opposed to traditional religions, who posit that the Lord made us male and female and invented something called a family in order to beget and nurture the childen who are given to us.

So my main objection is that a teacher has no more right to proclaim his sexuality to students any more than he has the right to proclaim his belief in Jesus Christ as his personal savior.

And having the US embassies push the woke ideology is not making friends in conservative Christian/Islamic/Confucian cultures.

We have baclas/tomboys and cross dressers, but you know, they are considered just part of the family; but in most areas, they don't dare prey on kids for fear of getting shot.

on the other hand, the exploitation of street kids of both sexes by sexual predators is an ongoing problem here: we tend to be the world leader in cyberporn of children.

So, judge: do you want to talk to a couple of the Filipino girls and boys whose drug addled or maybe just very poor parents rent them out to be exploited on camera for rich white folks in Europe and America?

from 2016 report

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also an older 2014 report from AlJ: . 

a more recent case in an Australian documentary...,,,,

and with the lockdowns and increase in poverty/unemployment from Covid, I suspect that these cases have skyrocketed.

Sigh.

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update: Newsweek actually permitted an editorial opinion that points out how the very real worries of parents over their children's indoctrination is being ignored or distorted by the MSM.

 Instead of speaking with upset parents, journalists chose to dismiss them again and again—and even worse, they chose to tell them that what they are seeing it isn't really there. The mainstream media apparatus prefers gaslighting instead of investigating, especially when it involves the concerns of working-class people, speaking as if we are too dumb to understand concepts, speaking for us instead of with us and then gaslighting us when step out of line.