I have been told many times by people professing to be Traditional Catholics that one of my main “problems” is the fact that, as a convert, I take Catholicism way too seriously. The argument goes that as not having been raised in an ethnically Catholic home or community, I simply don’t understand that Catholicism is not supposed to be taken… as seriously as I take it.  I’ll never forget the famous Trad priest telling me to “wait five years… you’ll calm right down.”

I was always puzzled by this critique, as I perceive myself to be lukewarm at best.  I don’t do even remotely what I could, and often don’t do what the Church teaches should be the bare minimum for a person in my position.

Well, here is a math lesson that I hope will scare the absolute crap out of every person that reads it.  If love of God won’t motivate someone, so be it.  Let’s use abject terror.

And that abject terror comes in pondering eternity.  Infinity. Arithmetic.

To save time, I’m going to assume that everyone knows what exponents are. The power of an exponent is the number of times you multiply the number by itself.

3 ↑ 4 = 81
3×3=9
9×3=27
27×3=81

Remember how we talked about the number of angels and made a lowball guesstimate that there were SEPTILLIONS of angels (and thus demons as well?) We arrived at this number by looking at the number of stars scientists now guesstimate to be in the observable universe: 200 SEPTILLION or so. Well, one SEPTILLION is notated as:

10 ↑ 24

For reference, the earth weighs 6 SEPTILLION kilograms.

10 ↑ 80 is the number of atoms in the universe.

10 ↑ 90 is the number of grains of sand to fill the entire universe.

10 ↑ 100 is called a “googol” – note the spelling, different from the search engine.  A googol is the number of grains of sand to fill the entire universe multiplied by TEN BILLLION. To make things easier as we move forward, comprehend now the distinction between a number, and the number of DIGITS in a number.  A googol is a 100 DIGIT number.

10 ↑ 122 is the number of protons you could pack into the universe.

10 ↑ 185 is the number of Planck Volumes (the smalles volume discussed in science) in the entire universe.

A GOOGOLPLEX is 10 raised to the power of one googol: 10 ↑ googol

Now, remember the difference between a number itself, and its NOTATION, and read on.  Fill the universe with sand. On each grain of sand write TEN BILLION ZEROES. This would accomplish merely writing out the NOTATION for the number googolplex – not googolplex itself.  Not even remotely, remotely close.

Now, folks, THIS IS NOTHING. Absolutely NOTHING.

Let’s start talking about EXPONENT TOWERS. With EXPONENT TOWERS, we stack exponents on top of each other.

So 2 raised to the power of two, raised to the power of two:

2 ↑ 2 ↑ 2

Or, in exponent tower notation:

2 ↑↑ 3

With exponent towers, the second number after the arrows indicates the HEIGHT of the tower.  You start at the top, and work down to the base, so:

2 ↑ (2 x 2)
= 2 ↑ 4
= 16

“Meh,” you might say.  But let’s look at 3 ↑↑ 4

Remember, three cubed is 27, so do that operation at the top of the tower first:

3 ↑ 3 ↑ 27

Now, three raised to the POWER of 27 is… 7,625,597,484,987.  That’s 7.6 TRILLION.

So, 3 raised to the POWER of 7.6 TRILLION is going to yield a number that has has 3.7 TRILLION DIGITS. Remember, that isn’t the number itself – just the number of digits in its notation, written out.

If we simply increase from 3 ↑↑ 4, to 3 ↑↑ 5, so adding one more story to the exponent tower, that gets us to 3 raised to the power of a 3.7 trillion digit number. 3 multiplied by 3, 3.7 TRILLION times – not 3.7 TRILLION times 3, no, multiply three times three, and each successive PRODUCT times three…

3 x 3 = 9
9 x 3 = 27
27 x 3 = 81
81 x 3 = 243
and so on like that, over and over again, 3.7 TRILLION times. We only did four.

We have now DWARFED a googolplex.

But we’re just getting started. We are still dealing in numbers so small that they could be described as “basically nothing”.

If you go to the next level, using three up arrows instead of two, what you are doing is saying that the product of the topmost expansion is NOT merely the power that the number below it is raised to, but rather the HEIGHT OF THE EXPONENT TOWER ITSELF. So instead of 3 x 3 x 3… 3.7 TRILLION times as immediately above, what

3 ↑↑↑ 4

is saying is writing 3 raised to 3, raised to 3, raised to 3 (not multiplied by, RAISED TO) 3.7 TRILLION times. Remember, the product of the topmost tower is the HEIGHT of the next tower below it, and so on.  If you wrote this out in normal handwriting, with each “raised to the power of 3” in superscript (this blog won’t do superscript, but superscripting exponents is standard notation), the mere NOTATION of the number would reach from the earth to the sun. So, we can call this number the “Sun Tower”.  Remember, as we learned before in

3 ↑↑ 3

the top few CENTIMETERS of this number, whose notation reaches from the earth to the surface of the sun, would be a 3.6 TRILLION DIGIT EXPONENT. And the mere NOTATION of

3 ↑↑↑ 4

would be 150 million kilometers tall.

But we’re just getting warmed up.  There is a number called g1, which is

3 ↑↑↑↑ 3

This is getting to be almost impossible to keep up with. Just imagine the Sun Tower number raised Sun Tower number of times, and that product, let’s call it, “I’m getting scared”, being the HEIGHT of the next tower.

But we’re just getting started.

The difference between g1 and g2 is that g1 is merely the number of ARROWS in g2.  Not the height of the exponent tower – that’s child’s play – the number of ARROWS.

So if g1 is 3 ↑↑↑↑ 3, four arrows,

then g2 is

3 (with Sun Tower Number of arrows) 3

Multiply g2 all the way out, and that is the number of arrows in g3.

Mathematics stops at what is called “Graham’s Number”, which is g64.

Now, to the point of this, and I truly hope this puts terror in your heart, and that this haunts you for the rest of your life on this earth.  I hope it makes you cry.

Count to g64.

Congratulations.  You have just passed your first NANOSECOND in hell.

Nah, I’m just kidding.

You’re still AN ETERNITY AWAY from completing your first nanosecond in hell.

Now, tell me more about how I take Catholicism and the fate of the human soul (both my own and other people’s) too seriously. Tell me more about how I just need to “calm down”. Go ahead. I’m all ears.

You don’t want to go to hell. You don’t want your kids to go to hell. You don’t want your worst enemy to go to hell.

Antipope Bergoglio and now Antipope Prevost and the sodomitical Freemasonic Marxist Antichurch they front are driving people into hell by the millions.

Start caring.

Have mercy on me, O Lord, a sinner.

(The source of the mathematics in this essay, with clearer notation, but considerably more detail, is HERE.)

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Okay, folks. O Come, O Come Emmanuel is the only song anyone is allowed to sing until Christmas Eve Night!

Just kidding. But seriously, this is the penitential season of Advent. Christmas is from December 25th until Candlemas on February 2nd. Don’t lose sight of this!

With each passing year, the motif of desperate pleading for Christ to come grows stronger.

This isn’t the mere “Advent hymn” or “Christmas song” of a dozen years ago (before the Bergoglian and now Prevostian Antipapacies), now is it? Not if you’re paying any attention. The notion of ransoming captives and mourning in lonely exile here isn’t external to our experience anymore the way it used to be. Just ask the faithful of Charlotte….

And remember, this song has three simultaneous motifs: The Israel of the Old Covenant, before the Incarnation and Nativity of Our Lord; the New and Eternal Israel that is the Holy Catholic Church, which emerged from the side of Christ Crucified and was formally established at Pentecost, to which Our Eucharistic Lord comes at every Mass; and the Second Coming of Our Lord in Glory at the Consummation of the world and the New Jerusalem.

This song has nothing, and I mean ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the atheist state founded in the Middle East in the late 1940’s, nor does it have ANYTHING to do with the pseudo-religion based on the Talmud that is commonly called “Judaism” today. This song is exclusively about the Catholic Church: seminal and anticipated, extant, and yet to come in fully consummated triumph.

Three versions. Original Latin, Bluegrass and Instrumental. Bluegrass is by definition a mournful, longing sound, and the Cello in the instrumental selection likewise carries the mournful, pleading sound.

Latin:

English:

Instrumental:

The St. Andrew Christmas Novena – which isn’t exactly a novena because it is 25 days long from November 30th through December 24th – begins November 30th, the Feast of St. Andrew – which is actually bumped forward one day this year because November 30th falls on the First Sunday of Advent.

It’s a great feast for me, because Andrew is my Confirmation Name. It was a fortuitous choice, as ‘Andrew’ means “manly” and “brave”, “strong” and “courageous” in Greek. I like to think that St. Andrew, being St. Peter’s big brother, would defend Peter in a street fight, which is definitely what defending the Petrine See against the Bergoglian and now Prevostian Antipapacies feels like.

I’ve seen and personally received great graces from this beautiful devotion over the years, and strongly recommend it. In addition to the obvious Matthew 17:20 Intention, I am dedicating my Novena to my benefactors and supporters, their needs and intentions, and for the salvation of their souls. This year especially many people have financial and real estate intentions. And, as always, so many people are praying for conversions, and especially REVERSIONS to the One True Faith, of loved ones.

Here is the text of the Novena – you say the following prayer fifteen times per day – and break the fifteen up however you would like:

Hail, and blessed be the hour and moment at which the Son of God was born of a most pure Virgin in a stable at midnight in Bethlehem in the piercing cold. At that hour vouchsafe, I beseech Thee, to hear my prayers and grant my desires. (Mention your intentions here) Through Jesus Christ and His most Blessed Mother. Amen.

And here is the fivefold intention of the Matthew 17:20 prayer initiative:

-That Antipope Bergoglio be publicly recognized as having been an Antipope all along, and that the entire Bergoglian Antipapacy be publicly nullified.

-That Pope Benedict XVI Ratzinger be publicly recognized as having been the one and only living Vicar of Christ, uninterrupted, from April ARSH 2005 until his death on December 31, ARSH 2022.

-That Antipope Robert Prevost be publicly recognized and removed as an Antipope, that his Antipapacy be completely nullified, and that he repent, revert to Catholicism, die in a state of grace in the fullness of time, and someday achieve the Beatific Vision.

-That the souls of the FAITHFUL departed, by the mercy of God, rest in peace.

-For the repose of the soul of Pope Benedict XVI Ratzinger

St. Andrew, pray for us.

Our Lady of Copacabana, slayer of the Nachomama demon, pray for us.

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and upon your Holy Catholic Church, outside of which there is no salvation.

The Crucifixion of St. Andrew, Mattia Preti, ARSH 1651

Follow the recipe on the back of the Karo Syrup bottle, AND add a glug of Amaretto Liqueur (like Disaronno). Amaretto is the flavor of Dr. Pepper. Put Amaretto liqueur in Coke to make a near-exact clone of Dr. Pepper… with booze. Amaretto takes pecan pie to the next level.

And, yes, OF COURSE the crust is made with lard. I’m mildly offended that the question even had to be raised.

Happy continued Thanksgiving to one and all.

Lean into it, because the penitential season of Advent begins tomorrow!

Sing it, Bingo!

This is computer-generated, folks. The voice isn’t real. The music is computer-generated.

But Chris Jackson wrote the words. Enjoy!

Verse 1
You used to shout “this pope is killing off the faith”
Now it’s “friends, be very careful, don’t be harsh, don’t lack good taste”
You used to torch the yes-men as they spun each Vatican twist
Now you sell the same excuses with a “Patreon benefits list”

You used to say “no compromise, we must speak, whatever comes”
Now you’re counting YouTube sponsors while you bite down on your tongue

Chorus
Trad Inc, you preached “stand up to Rome,” now it’s “trust the man in white”
You built fame by yelling “crisis,” now you scold us for the fight
Trad Inc, brave on yesterday, today you toe the line
Big rosary on the thumbnail, corporate Catholic in your spine

Verse 2
You used to call Pachamama a disgrace before the Lord
Now it’s “please don’t be dramatic, let’s use a softer, safer word”
You used to say the new rite showed the crisis, clear as day
Now when Leo cuts the old one, you tell people, “just obey”

You used to swear you’d lose it all before you’d sell the truth
Now you tone it down for donors so the checks keep coming through

Chorus
Trad Inc, you preached “stand up to Rome,” now it’s “trust the man in white”
You built fame by yelling “crisis,” now you scold us for the fight
Trad Inc, brave on yesterday, today you toe the line
Big rosary on the thumbnail, corporate Catholic in your spine

Verse 3
They still sell the old Missals, they still tweet “Cristeros, rise!”
But the comments get deleted if you mention compromise
They told you Cardinal Burke was the model to embrace
“The Latin Mass is coming, just be quiet, know your place”

Now they clutch their Mass permissions like a fragile golden pass
While their neighbors lose the Latin and get drums at daily Mass

Verse 4
There’s the blogger who once thundered, “We must fight this modern cult!”
Now he’s blocking every follower who mentions the result
There’s the priest who called Pachamama “demonic, hard stop, no way”
Now he tells you that the problem is “your tone on Leo today.”

Welcome to Trad Inc, with its “healthy critique” brand,
Where they slap a trad veneer on every new Vatican plan
They once warned of “papal novelty,” now they pour it in your drink
With a traddy label on it, certified by Trad Inc

Final Chorus / Outro
Trad Inc, you preached “stand up to Rome,” now it’s “trust the man in white”
You built fame by yelling “crisis,” now you scold us for the fight
Trad Inc, brave on yesterday, today you toe the line
Big rosary on the thumbnail, corporate Catholic in your spine

Dear Ann,

First, I wanted to say Happy [belated] Birthday. Second, I cannot tell you how much good God is doing through you. I want to say thank you, though I really don’t see that I have any adequate way to do that. So just, thank you, and I thank God for you, and I am praying for you. Please pray for my family and me as well.

You have done more good for me than I can say. I am a teacher at [Name Redacted] at the moment, and I have a PhD in Systematic Theology, my happy area of expertise being the person I love most after God: Mary. Mariology is my speciality. The only way I can put it is what St. Bernardine of Sienna said: “Mary, you are my absolute love.” She saved my life, brought me into the Catholic Church, and more than I can possibly say. And despite having a degree, being lettered and entitled and such, I’m not interested in academics per se…I want to know the truth, teach the truth, and thereby bring people to Mary and her Son. That’s my plan and that’s why I got those degrees.

Yet, you are the one I always go to for advice and knowledge, to be sure I am not off the rails on some topic or another, to know what is going on behind the scenes, etc etc. You are one of the very few places where one can find someone who says what is true.

I could go on, but all that to say, again, thank you so, so much. I would gladly send donations your way too, but we (me, my wife, our five kids) are rather poor and can’t make ends meet at all, and it is getting worse. If you could pray for us in that regard too, I would be grateful. [Jobs are tough to come by, and it’s no use taking a job where I will just get fired in a week for being honest about the two antipopes and that Mary is Coredemptrix and Mediatrix of All Grace and those titles are part of who she is, thus cannot be put aside.]

I should add that I teach theology and Mariology at [Name Redacted].

Finally, having listened to your recent podcast, I wanted to write something up based on what I have learned myself, what I have heard from you, and I what I have learned from Saints and current exorcists concerning Mary as Coredemptrix and Mediatrix, and on what the literal Hell is going on with attacking Mary in this way. I think we might be seeing, in fact, the unveiling of the mystery of iniquity, or the beginning of that unveiling. So, below are my insights on what I wanted to share. You can do whatever you want with them, I just thought they might be helpful. Helpful or not, thank you again, and I’m praying for you. Maybe one day we will meet in a prison camp on the way to be martyred for defending Our Lady, the way things are going….

This could be better polished, I put all this together in the midst of grading essays and such and without much time on my hands….

Prof. B

“The Devil’s Fall”

by Prof. B

God showed the angels that He would create mankind, that He Himself would assume a human nature (thereby lifting human beings, by grace, above the angels in dignity, though the angels are superior to man by nature), and that He would become man by assuming a human nature from Mary.
Whether mankind fell or not, Jesus was always to be the center and reason for everything created. The Incarnation did not depend on sin; the change is that when He did become incarnate, due to the sin of Adam, He comes as the redeemer.

What happened is that the devil wanted to be the vector through which the Eternal Word would come to mankind. He knew, seeing Mary, that he would always be number two, and that number two would not come close to Mary. Due to this, and seeing that this girl would be the queen of all angels as well, hated his own nature—an angelic nature, which, for an angel, is in some way identical with the mission God created them for, and he thus hated his own self. It seems that the devil wanted the Eternal Word to come to man not by assuming a physical nature, which he considered unworthily low by nature compared to the angelic nature, but in a spiritual manner; that is, that the Word would come to mankind by uniting with this angel, Lucifer, and in this way mankind would be enlightened.

Here is the kicker: each angel is its own species, so if the Eternal Word united with a particular angel, that would not affect other angels, but only the one angel, that one species, and the devil would then be lifted up to a level of dignity that would make him number 1, with a dignity far beyond every other creature, angelic and human, due to union with the Eternal Word.

In this way, the Son would come to mankind in a spiritual manner via this angel, Lucifer—the Light Bearer—and mankind would not be raised up in their dignity above the angels. The only one who would benefit here is Lucifer, existing in a quasi-hypostatic union with the Eternal Word.

Mary is in the spot Lucifer wanted to be—in intimate union with God in a way that surpasses all, and making Him, with God, above all. Instead, Mary is above Him and is queen of all, excepting God, but she is a perfect reflection of God. And what is the one thing narcissists cannot stand, the devil being the first and ultimate narcissist? That anyone would be above them.

Mary is with God in everything; the devil wanted to be the one with God in everything, he wanted to be Mary in his own angelic way, so to speak. Mary as Coredemptrix and Mediatrix of all Grace Lucifer considers a slap in the face, because she is the one with God in all His plans, totally united with Him, inseperable from her Son, and not Lucifer. And she Mediates the Eternal Word to us, not the devil, she mediates all grace to us, not the devil.

One of the most disturbing things on the face of earth is a guy as a woman; it is a specific, direct, diabolical perversion where the devil is showing who and what he wanted to be, but can’t be. It might be the most horrific image on the face of the earth in fact, the clearest portrait of the devil, along with his satanic actions, such as abortion, etc etc etc.

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