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eline at the moment to be 1 fast until noon on most days 4 6 days per week 2 typical meals and snacking no restrictions but not gorging myself silly either trying to limit nighttime eating more for gerd issues than weight loss reasons 3 desserts soda candy etc are all on the table though i try to keep a little eye on things 4 exercise 1 or 2 days per week 5 limited additional taxing physical work the above is sort of what the last four months has looked like so if i work out an extra couple days for an extended period i will note that if i eat a gallon bin of christmas cutout cookies i will note that my plan is to take this for three months and see what happens i don t know how often i ll report back and i doubt anyone is reading this anyway so it s more just for the fun of having documented it in the meantime merry christmas and happy new year share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x like loading filed under health life personal reviews and tagged dieting exipure experiment health product reviews supplements weight loss leave a comment sep 9 a little about father james altman posted on september 9 2020 by the diatribe guy standard priest making waves might not be trending on twitter but if it were there would be a picture of father james altman those who have been longing for a courageous priest to tell it like it is are embracing him as a new hope that not all is lost in this world or in the catholic church those who are a little more conciliatory have taken great offense you can t be catholic and a democrat period ok father tell us how you really feel i m not here to argue on behalf of the good father he can handle himself i have seen a couple silly attempts at rebuking him through analysis and feel inclined to at least mention a couple things about that firstly anyone who starts off an analysis by proclaiming himself as neither a republican nor a democrat in order to assuage the critic of his own passivity and neutrality so as to give the appearance of someone better served to analyze remarks than someone who is a democrat or a republican is engaging in psychological sleight of hand arguments and analysis stand on their own merits the fact that someone is too jelly like to stand firm on one side or the other to take a stand or just actually admit they are one thing or the other hardly elevates their logical credentials it s as if to say an agnostic is better served to analyze a religious opinion as opposed to an atheist or those pesky christians secondly when the first segment of analysis takes father altman s words about not loving anyone in borneo and goes into a full throated admonishment of that statement from a priest as some unbelievable offense against god and church i know i m not dealing with an honest reviewer it is so self evident that it need not be explained except apparently to this guy that by saying he does not love anyone in borneo he is not talking about a general love of mankind that desires everyone to be treated with dignity fairness justice and to live a life of freedom and liberty while working out their salvation he is obviously saying he does not love anyone in borneo in the sense of relationship just like none of us grieve and mourn over the death of every person around the globe every day because we don t love them in a familial relationship or as a close friend it makes perfect sense to say that one doesn t love everyone in the context that he is talking about he didn t say he didn t care about anyone in borneo he didn t say he wishes ill to those people he was making an obvious point that only someone being purposely obtuse wouldn t understand thirdly going into a criticism about using the baltimore catechism as some nefarious mechanism in making a subversive point instead of the catechism we should use the cathechism of the catholic church is simply silly i have no issues with the ccc it s a fine work as is father hardon s catechetical work as is the baltimore catechism one does not negate the truth of the other the baltimore catechism didn t cease to be relevant just because there is a new version any more than st thomas aquinas ceased to be relevant when subsequent theologians wrote their insights in the centuries that followed this is about as far as i got in reading that particular review because it was clear at this point it was not the supposedly neutral and balanced assessment of father altman s words promised by someone staking that claim by proclaiming his absence of partisan affiliation but all that is really unimportant so here is my disclosure i am an unapologetic republican not because every element of their platform or everyone they elect is perfect far from it but because we have a two party system and one party is diabolical and evil period so yes i agree with father and while some may appease their consciences by not voting at all or voting for a third party this simply moves the sin from complicity to passivity i will grant that if there is any remote realistic chance that a third party candidate might win then go ahead and campaign and contribute and do all you can to give him or her a chance but as it becomes perfectly clear prior to the election that this will not under any circumstance actually occur then you are doing the equivalent of standing by idly and doing nothing about evil occurring right in front of you sometimes it s not good enough to just not participate in evil sometimes you need to stop it period my other disclosure is that i am in the same diocese as father altman i know him casually he probably doesn t even remember me i spoke with him at a friend s house one day at a party i have been to mass with him when he was in his previous assignment but i was not a member of his parish i have gone to confession with him here is my insight about the man from those few occurrences one for someone who is as forthright and at times scathing as he can be towards the targets he feels deserves rebuke i have never experienced a more gentle compassionate and joyful confession one might think his fire and brimstone homilies indicates a no nonsense guy with little patience for imperfection nothing could be further from the truth in fact he loves hearing people confess because he believes in the power of the sacrament his issue like jesus is not about the average person struggling in a world of sin and falling for various traps stumbling and falling his rebukes are for those who are leading people into that sin especially those who should be doing just the opposite going to confession takes courage and he loves courage my other takeaway is that at the heart of everything he says it s because he wants people to go to heaven you can critique whether or not his approach works but it is his firm belief that milquetoast sermons and spineless priests and bishops who are afraid to call a sin a sin are making people feel good in the here and now at the potential expense of eternal salvation of souls as a parent i feel a desperation of sorts to make sure i am doing everything i can do to see my kids grow up and have not only temporal opportunities but to know god at times i may switch gears from gentleness to firmness i may even yell and punish but don t hold that against me father altman i believe feels a desperation of sorts for his spiritual children which is all of us countless priests talk about all the comfortable and nice things about faith and god which is fine as far as that goes but can lull people into a false sense of security you feel pretty darn good about yourself feel no need to challenge yourself to grow in faith tend to be less introspective and recognize your faults etc so father altman i think feels a strong need to counter this and get real with folks our modern politics politicians and unfortunately many bishops and clergy are failing us and they need to wake up and the flock needs to recognize that they are not being fed and they need to wake up and the only way to wake up is for a jarring bell or buzzer that is extremely uncomfortable to go off that s my view so even if you side with those who believe he is being too political too harsh too judgmental i can say with confidence that he fully understands the gravity of his own words and he is prepared to take them and lay them at the savior s feet and if jesus tells him he went too far he will humbly acknowledge it and accept his fate but don t question his heart his motives and his love for all he wants souls saved and right now too many are being lost we see it on our screens every single day if you want to complain that he dare say that hell exists and if you support infanticide then you re at risk well i might suggest you take a moment and think about who will have more to explain on judgment day and if you take it to heart you can thank him personally when you arrive share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x like loading filed under catholicism and tagged catholic catholic church catholic democrat catholicism christianity church father altman father james altman politics politics and religion leave a comment jun 11 diatribical idiot posted on june 11 2018 by the diatribe guy standard hey peeps as is obvious i don t spend time blogging much anymore i still enjoy commenting on stuff so i pretty much just share comments on twitter if interested just search for diatribical idiot toodles share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x like loading filed under catholicism leave a comment feb 28 we are not to worry but what does that mean posted on february 28 2017 by the diatribe guy standard god is in control god is my co pilot god is the navigator not my will but your will be done i was reflecting on the gospel reading from this last weekend matthew chapter 6 verses 24 34 i won t quote it all here but among the text are a couple key quotes can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life span why are you anxious about clothes can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life span why are you anxious about clothes do not worry about tomorrow tomorrow will take care of itself the bible is an amazing thing because it is all true and authoritative but at the same time it is quite easy to take things out of context and in isolation the bible has counterbalancing messages throughout one of the classic examples is the admonitions to feed the poor and then paul s statement that says that if a man doesn t work he doesn t deserve to eat it is easy to pick one side and dig your heels in and apply that to everything when in fact jesus is talking about the less fortunate poor who either can t work or would likely desire to earn a wage if offered whereas paul is focused on a community of able bodied people who all need to do their part after mass this last weekend a friend of mine who knows i scrutinize finances and try to make sound financial decisions and plan for the future and he is the same way smirked a bit when asking me how d you like today s gospel i could tell he was tweaking me a bit and we engaged in it he was conflating planning with worry i disagreed with him and i think by the end of our talk he was agreeing with me i think to read jesus words here as some instruction to forego any and all planning is not only incorrect but it s actually counter to what he s trying to get people to do here which is to not worry as in don t be anxious my friend as we talked had the personal revelation that his planning is his way of actually not being anxious i agree with that perhaps more important good planning will help your loved ones not have to worry as much if i didn t plan for the future and didn t have my affairs in order it would cause grave headaches for my loved ones if something happened to me stress anxiety and probably a bit of exasperation and anger would follow i always remember a personal example from our homeschool group my wife was getting frustrated because they would schedule events and then they wouldn t plan them the leader of the group at one point remarked about how they didn t need to because the holy spirit just made it all come together at the end and somehow some way the events turned out fine while maybe this was true in its literalness my wife s observation was that she and a couple other moms always did 90 of the work because they would have been utterly embarrassed had everyone showed up to nothing so these three moms ended up feeling like they had to continue taking on this burden while the others extolled the wonder of the holy spirit bringing it all together there was finally a push for some structure and reorganization in the group that led to some rifts unfortunately i guess my point is if you think you re living the gospel by not worrying but your lack of attention in the name of not worrying leads to the anxiety of others then you are not properly disposed to what you re being called to do in my opinion we christians have struggled with this balance forever we are in constant conflict with the opposing ideas of the necessity of what we do versus what that means about our trust in god one can actually take this all the way back to the heart of arguments about predestination here s how i see it you should plan for the future and plan for contingencies we should do what we feel we need to do in prudent and responsible ways this is not lacking trust in god in fact god is likely calling us to do some of these things but planning and taking action should ease your mind and not burden it if you are not able to do everything you would like to do but you are doing what you can then you need at that point to not worry and trust in god if you are moving past prudence and trying to outsmart god by being ready for everything imaginable under the sun by relying only on your own wisdom then you are trusting in yourself and not in god if you ve planned for x and the unexpected y happens you need to trust that god will help see you through or that this suffering has a greater purpose if you are obsessed with perfection you need to relax and trust in god this covers a lot of areas from finances to married life to health to raising kids and so on one should try to make good health choices that may mean you ve decided to eat in a certain way avoiding some foods not because they bother you physically but because you re trying to stay healthy but at the same time if you are traveling or visiting and the food choice is not to your general health standards and you become obsessed with the idea that eating that burger patty is going to take 2 years off your life then you are not in 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