You will have heard perverts imposed themselves on the Olympic’s opening ceremony, mocking God and committing innumerable blasphemies in the name of, well, whatever the name is of the sex god cult that now rages over the world. Some call it “Globohomo”, and this is good enough for a working monkier.
Some Christians complained that it was not God that was insulted, but them. There is, of course, some truth to that. Cult members do not like, even hate (while simultaneously condemning hate), little-o orthodox Christians for not surrendering to the demands of the cult, chief of which is to admit (even if insincerely) that the acts of Globohomoists are good. Well, so what. Christians, and even bloggers, can be insulted, and usually to no effect, or interest. Insulting God, however, is another matter altogether.
Shortly after the blasphemies, this happened, in the words of Sister Mary Joseph Calore:
Just twenty four hours after the opening olympic debauchery in Paris they get a blackout – the only lights that could be seen were on the Basilica Of The Sacred Heart Of Jesus – Sacré-Cœur Basilica located at the summit of the butte of Montmartre. From its dome two hundred meters above the Seine, the basilica overlooks the entire city of Paris and its suburbs.
The picture of the blackout heads today’s post. These two events form a coincidence. A co-incident. Two, or more, incidents occurring together near in time, where “near” is judged relative to the circumstances.
Two or more incidents occurring near in time are not by themselves interesting. After all, as you read these words, right now, there are innumerable incidents happening in world, and outside the world. So many that no man could count them all. This is true now, and will always be true.
Recognizing this, there are two main meanings of coincidence, and they are mirrors of each other. The first is co-incidents matched with a causal connection. The second, which predominates, features the same co-incidents but where there is no causal connection, and where some might falsely think there is. This dismisses from consideration the infinite number co-incidents that assail us, and focuses on those which appear to have, or are wrongly thought to have, some causal tie.
The blasphemy-blackout co-incidents fits either of these definitions well, and one of them perfectly, depending on whether there was a cause tying the two together.
Now, before we come to that, here is what I find fascinating. About two weeks ago, I started on a series of graphics, to show how likely and unlikely certain coincidences are, on the second, mundane interpretation of the word. I was casting about for some dramatic, juicy coincidence that would illustrate a case where both interpretations are possible. I must, after all, keep you entertained as well as informed, dear reader. The blasphemy-blackout fell into my lap, as it were. Another pair of co-incidents which fits both interpretations.
Persi Diaconis and Fredrick Mosteller investigated the math of coincidences of the second kind in the well known 1989 paper “Methods for Studying Coincidences.” We’ll look into that math, and the graphics I made, another time. Meanwhile, here is what they say about cause:
Hidden Cause. Much of scientific discovery depends on finding the cause of a perplexing coincidence. Changes in the world can create coincidences; likewise, changes in our own behavior such as a new pattern of reading or eating can create a pattern. Frequency of forecasting the same dire event improves the chances of simultaneity of forecast and outcome. Forgetting many failed predictions makes success seem more surprising.
At the same time, vast numbers of coincidences arise from hidden causes that are never discovered. At the moment, we have no measure of the size of this body of occurrences. Similarly, we have no general way to allow for misrepresentation, mistaken or deliberate, that may lead to many reports of coincidences that never occurred.
The point, as I have repeatedly emphasized, in all scientific investigations, it that cause must always be paramount. Effects, the events we see, have causes, even if we can never discover them, and even if they are undiscoverable specifically.
In both interpretations of coincidence, there is cause. There are separate immediate causes of both or all incidents involved. But only in the first, and stronger definition, is there an overriding cause connecting all incidents. This is the meta-cause; the cause behind the causes of the coincidental incidents. In the second, and weaker, interpretation, there is no overriding or meta-cause, but some might mistakenly think there is.
It is not terribly interesting discussing intermediate causes, unless we are, as with Persi and Fred, trying to find a mathematical theory of improbability of them, given certain assumptions. We’ll do that, too, another day.
What’s gripping are the possible connecting or meta-causes. The behind-the-scenes causes that drive all co-incidents.
Can we prove or disprove in the blasphemy-blackout coincident if there was a meta-cause?
One candidate meta-cause is obvious. And that cause may still have been operative even if, as some are pointing out, the Basilica had a generator. Presumably lots of places (like hospitals) had generators. The main thrust of the coincidence is not the (second) intermediate cause of the light, which is the generator, but the blackout itself which allowed the generator its time to shine.
The job of the man holding with the meta-cause is easy in this case, but not always—think of those tangled-line memes “exposing” deep conspiracies to explain strange coincidences, in which the meta-cause is a complex conspiracy. It does not take much argument to see the form of the meta-cause in the blasphemy-blackout conjunction. God is only slow to anger. Consider the blackout as a sign or omen, a warning of worse to come should the perversions continue. There are precedents of what “worse” means. And so on.
Those dismissing the meta-cause as “just a coincidence” (tacitly in the second definition) have the harder task, as far as formal proof goes. Most would concede that God, assuming God exists, would consider the perverts’ actions blasphemies. Others would say God does not exist, and that’s that. But the other side would say the coincidence is evidence for God’s existence. The atheist might shoot back that this coincidence prove religious people see causes where they are not.
Others might point to the frequency of blackouts when the electrical system is similarly stressed (numbers of air conditioners in use, say), to show that this kind of thing might be expected. There is some value in investigations into the intermediate causes like this, as Persi and Fred showed, and we will examine later. Some will even attack the idea that the perversion actually wasn’t one. Which shows that one can go after either side of the incidents to argue against the meta-cause.
Yet none of these arguments, on either side, are proofs. Not sound, valid logical proofs. Consider, atheists would have to prove God does not exist, a key premise in their arguments, a task which has never been accomplished. And theists to come to perfect knowledge would have to insist they heard from God himself on the matter.
Since there doesn’t appear to be such proof, being short in this case of divine revelation, we are stuck with uncertainty.
Which is our state for most coincidences. Uncertainty. We usually leave it at uncertainty, too, saving coincidences in a bucket of evidence which might be used for a time they can can be fit together with other similar evidence.
Or we can choose to believe, or act as if we believe, whether the meta-cause is there or not. Belief, and acts, are not uncertainty. They are decisions. Acts and decisions come with costs and rewards. But that is a subject for another time.
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There are no coincidences with God, as they say. Thus everything that happens is part of the divine plan. How we interpret events in life, whether as coincidences or acts of God, is a result of our faith in God and the insight with which we are gifted. Seeing the world this way is the basis for our sense of wonder, which is a great way to live.
The plague of the poopy Siene disrupting swimming is another coincidence.
Recommended reading “Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle” by C. G. Jung
https://iaap.org/jung-analytical-psychology/short-articles-on-analytical-psychology/synchronicity-an-acausal-connecting-principle/
First not sure if giving homage to false gods is strictly blasphemy (that was NOT the Last Supper) especially for non-believers. I saw the extremely cringeworthy performance on Dave Rubin’s podcast (although Jill Biden was completely enamored and worried that the US couldn’t match such wonderful performance art (although did praise Hollywood for it’s wonders).
That was no Seder. It was simply a party on Mt Olympus.
That said:
Galatians 6:7-8
New Catholic Bible
7 Do not be deceived; God cannot be mocked. A person will reap only what he sows. 8 The one who sows in his flesh will reap a harvest of corruption, but the one who sows in the Spirit will reap from the Spirit the reward of eternal life.
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It’s not about coincidence, it’s about SIGNIFICANCE! Something atheist THE SCIENTISTS (TM) never learn, never see, never hear, but always taste, no matter how many coincidences die of heart attacks, blood clots, cancers, or COVID anyway. After all, meaningless coincidences maketh man in their non-conspiratorial eyes. Hence the symbol of the mask. It’s not about how reality operates, it’s about sending a message! See DIE and economic results for the same reason.
Now, John b, according to the fat dyke playing the role, it was a deliberate mockery of Da Vinci’s Last Supper. A tweet now deleted, but seen by all, no matter what the Olympic PR lady tells you as they try to scrub the internet from their well meant harmonious intent… That alongside a pale horse riding the Siene and decapitated hersterics in the windows all have significance and a message for you too! That message is coming!
Was the faggy’s ball sack hanging out on teevee a coincidence? Or did he feel a thrill exposing himself?
Another (X)th tranny gets exposed as a child predator? Another non-citizen-of-color is caught vandalizing, stealing and raping? Another mishap under the watch of an unqualified buteaucrat turned out to be put in charge? Another completely distorted CNN headline? Etc. etc.
Atheists and the daft automatically assume it is an accident. Not just an accident, a MEANINGLESS accident! Only a far-right bigot would proclaim otherwise! And whaddya know, he’s coincidentally a white male Christian!
This is not a coincidence, their gods are the LGBTees and the State. Their gods make mistakes. Mistakes lead to evolutionary progress! But more importantly, their gods, like the process of evolution, are always INNOCENT, and always working for our BEST INTERESTS! Whatever those are…
Trust the non-plan! Believe in the coincidences! It’s all they have! Because any evidence of amy overarching grand plan means they could be responsible for F-ing up on their end.
With concern to the ‘Globohomoists’, there has been deepening discussion on the pedos and sexual deviants who run our world, likely precisely because they are mutually blackmailable because of it, and the term that come up for them are ‘Frankists.’
Candace Owens has a good recent show on this regarding the Olympics, the whole thing worth a listen to from start to end.
https://www.youtube.com/live/kdULHwLNhic?si=3p03f7mmWz0n2HOM
With that in mind, it is interesting that the suspect man in white at the Vatican, who is all for this debauchery, and even had his Mouth, Paglia, coming to the Olympics’ defence, had chosen to take as his anti-Papal name – ‘Francis.’
Coincidence?
That’s a fabulous image after that obscene display but the main takeaway is how vulnerable the grid is get a generator.
Control of the grid is a little like having your finger on the button.
“…atheists would have to prove God does not exist, a key premise in their arguments, a task which has never been accomplished.”
Prove a negative? It never will be proved. For a very long time, a lot of very smart people believed Apollo exists. Nobody can prove he doesn’t.
In reading the excerpt from Diaconis and Mosteller, I was impressed by the straightforward, unpretentious English still being employed in an academic paper in 1989. In-group jargon signaling and aca-babble were not yet the rule. They just wanted to communicate.
If the homo/trans-freak tableau in Paris had mocked Islam, boy oh boy would we be seeing some good old jihad slaughter across Europe right now!
Briggs: “I must, after all, keep you entertained as well as informed, dear reader.”
You are entertaining. That’s why I keep coming back. Oh sure, there’s the egghead stuff, which is pretty interesting and a challenge for my dim bulb, but I’m too lazy, or busy with other stuff to really sweat bullets over long abstract logic chains. I appreciate that you can do it. It’s like watching an Olympic athlete whose exploits you could never match but are amazing to watch. Plus you have the savvy of a stage magician for keeping your audience engaged, you’re dogged in your persistence, you’re funny, a fine stylist, tall but not fat, and you don’t eat babies onstage. Fine qualities nowadays. On the downside — you’re dyslexic, romantic, and have the profile of a turkey buzzard. You might even be wrong. No matter, I’m happy to throw some more cash in your hat. Pony up, peeps, Briggs has earned it.
The grid failed because Globowarmo hysterics have been deconstructing/sabotaging the French energy system for twenty years. They are also the supersodomites. It’s the same folks. Same pagan cult.
That is not to deny that God works in mysterious ways, nor His anger.
French culture website Sortir à Paris, noting the clever pun in staging the tableau on the Seine – Scène de la Cène à Paris sur la Seine … la Cène is the French name for the Last Supper.
Hagfish,
Turkey buzzards are majestic birds and only eat babies offstage.
Johnno
Thanks.
I’ll stand corrected.
There were far to many people that I admire that believed it a mockery (not the least, our host) so I was a bit confused. Many would be in a position to distinguish the Dionysus argument. Later I did see the still shot.
Galatians is even more apropos
The only coincidence in this whole story that I clearly see as being meaningful is the Catholics of Paris praying in unison. https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2024/07/too-little-too-late.html I joined them from the other side of the continent, even if just for a short time. You can do so too, even if their act ceased, because God will surely give you audience to add your voice to theirs.
“For a very long time, a lot of very smart people believed Apollo exists. ”
I am not that intelligent but count me among these people. The gods of the pagans are demons, as the Bible says. And Apollo gave some evidence of power in ancient history.
Your point was? That you cannot prove a negative? Lots of negatives have been proven in the history of knowledge. The non-existence of the aether or spontaneous generation, for example. The non-existence of some lands or some creatures that were believed to be true in the Middle Ages.
All these “freethinkers” only repeat the same silly slogans without thinking through. They feel so bright repeating the same slogan it has been repeated for decades.
And extraordinary claims in here requires extraordinary evidence! If there were gods or one of monotheisms, two of which plagiarize the other there would be good objective evidence for his existence. But there is no good objective evidence for his existence! Then, he/she/zhe probably doesn’t exist. Godlike attributes should be readily available and they’re never! And he, etc has done nothing about the problem of evil and the unnecessary sufferings of people on the planet. Oh, intercessory prayers? They don’t work. Shocker.
Or better yet. To all you theists;
With God on Our Side
WRITTEN BY: BOB DYLAN
Oh my name it is nothin’
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I’s taught and brought up there
The laws to abide
And that the land that I live in
Has God on its side
Oh the history books tell it
They tell it so well
The cavalries charged
The Indians fell
The cavalries charged
The Indians died
Oh the country was young
With God on its side
Oh the Spanish-American
War had its day
And the Civil War too
Was soon laid away
And the names of the heroes
l’s made to memorize
With guns in their hands
And God on their side
Oh the First World War, boys
It closed out its fate
The reason for fighting
I never got straight
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don’t count the dead
When God’s on your side
When the Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now too
Have God on their side
I’ve learned to hate Russians
All through my whole life
If another war starts
It’s them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side
But now we got weapons
Of the chemical dust
If fire them we’re forced to
Then fire them we must
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide
And you never ask questions
When God’s on your side
Through many dark hour
I’ve been thinkin’ about this
That Jesus Christ
Was betrayed by a kiss
But I can’t think for you
You’ll have to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side
So now as I’m leavin’
I’m weary as Hell
The confusion I’m feelin’
Ain’t no tongue can tell
The words fill my head
And fall to the floor
If God’s on our side
He’ll stop the next war
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