I Have Actually Been a Teacher

French teacher's perspective on the French protests
The OuiCommunicate French Method | 18 Oct. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YNPhRZ8Vtk

I have been a teacher.

More teachers per students actually is a legitimate concern.

By now, it's so clear that High School is not giving all who have the Baccalaureate a more decent life, so, I think the solution is fewer students, and more young people starting their "real life" or better "adult careers" ...

And please don't tell me, I need to become a teacher, I can take a class of twelve if it's friendly, but not of 20, and French schools have like 35 students per class.

In 35 students, the teacher gets less respect simply by being less audible.

Now, you have been to a teachers' school, I haven't, I jumped in twice, once for two months when a Latin teacher went to Rome, and once for a term, after another one of their teachers quit. You may know how to make a clas of 35 work, I don't. But I'm sure, even your good recipe would fail in 5 out of 6 classes of 35 in France.

So, I'm not asking for more teachers, I'm asking for more freedom to quit school and start marriage or a job or both ....

"The War on Beauty" Spoke on the War that is being made on Beauty and Righteousness

The West is in ruins
The War on Beauty | 18 Oct. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xFUN475tVrs

Would you consider it basically kind of already was over (with some stray survivals of decency) by 1918?

I hold that the office of the Roman Caesar was "ho katekhon" and obviously the last one of the East was killed in Yekaterineburg and the last one of the West left Hofburg somewhat later, same year.

Would you also consider that, given this degradation of decency, the states around the Earth are no longer fit to mete out death penalty, as Romans 13, alluding to this, mentions "the prince" as "servant of God" ...?

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What it was for?

Delaying the Great Apostasy and so giving some more generations some time to not live under the Antichrist.

Ultimately, it will come to a brutal end, and the only next peace will be when Christ arrives at the Battle of Armegeddon.

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Oh, progressivism certainly is part of someone's answer.

Not God's, I would say.

Progress in Swedish takes the definite article, so "framsteget", but in a dialect I learned too late to be able to make friends in the villages, it's "framstega" ...

Take that in upper case letters, give each the number value it has in ASCII and the answer looks ugly.

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Yes, indeed Jesus is the Lord and a Psalm had to say something about "nisi Dominus aedificaverit domum, in vanum laboraverunt qui aedificant eam" ...

Missa versus populum ends in tragedy

Priest Killed on Air: What Really Happened? And Pope Leo News
Eternal Life Plan | 19 Oct. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyOlp10Oa1Q

If he had been celebrating to the old and traditional altar, the exact same fall of the crucifix would not have killed him.

He celebrated to the people and further away, so he neither saw the fall, nor was close to the fulcrum, he had it in the neck at full swing.

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OK, young Prevost smoked or not ... did he ever bow down to Pachamama?

Geocentrism Revisited

The Motion of Planets and the Geocentric Model
Jason Kendall | 26 Dec. 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np9Rk3q-s_g

10:29 We see Sun, Moon and Stars moving from East to West, and we see Son, Moon and other Planets move from mostly West to East along the fix stars.

Now, the thing is, while parallactic views of things (like seeing houses move in a train ride) are possible, I would consider this possibility an insufficient argument for Earth moving.

I think only two arguments of necessity are possible.

They are opposed and depend on what youo think is the most obvious.

Both share the premiss that

• the Geocentric especially Tychonian Ricciolian movements are too complex for being simple products of automatic processes like inertia or gravity.

One continues:

• But on this scale, voluntary causes are non-extant;
• Therefore Geocentrism is an illusion.

The other continues:

• But Geocentrism is what we directly observe;
• Therefore causes that have will do exist and have power on this scale, like God and angels.

I know what an Atheist would chose. Given I'm Christian, can you guess what I would chose?*

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* Jason Kendall should still be alive. He posted a video 10 days ago.

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16:48 Tycho Brahe died in 1601.

His system was updated by Riccioli and was advanced against Galileo in the debate over his Assayer. St. Robert Bellarmine didn't bother to try to defend Ptolemy as such.

The update by Riccioli took into account Kepler's view on orbits being bifocal ellipses, not monocentric circles.

Now Riccioli's work was 17th C, Almagestum Novum came out in 1651.

17:32 As far as I can recall, "Almagest" is a corruption of "he megale syntaxis" just as "Istanbul" is of "eis ten polin" ...

Other video:

The Dawning of Astrophysics
Jason Kendall | 27 Dec. 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MfMGPppzg0

14:29 to past 14:39
instead of using circles he tried an ellipse so he said ah wait if I make the orbits not circular but ellipses guess what and put the Sun at the focus of one ellipse then it works

And if the ellipses are then later by Riccioli (after Kepler died) put back into Tycho Brahe's idea of Geoheliocentrism, it still works.

Rapture Theology and Date-Setting, NOT the Same Thing

Is The Rapture Biblical?
Marie Mazzanti | 12 Oct. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HcyIJwhU6Yg

Let's be specific about the last point, shall we.

Day or hour is way more specific than "within a decade or two" ...

Now, a Catholic authoritative text, actually has connected the verse to date setting in the more general sense.

However, the text is in Lateran V, under Pope Leo X.

And the point to observe is, it comes in a disciplinary decree concerning preachers.

So, on that text, if I were ever appointed bishop or curate, or even certain types of deacon, I'd have a duty to avoid date setting. However, it doesn't specify laymen must have the exact same extra caution beyond Our Lord's words.

I totally agree on the post-Trib rapture, by the way, no Darby-fan here.

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Never read or saw Left Behind.

Disagree on the character of "Nicolae Jetty Carpathia" (which doesn't add up to 666), there is no indication the Antichrist will sign a peace treaty.

However, I did read Mother Basilea Schlink. Lutheran nun, died in 2001. She wrote one book on angels, specifically guardian angels and one on the scary chapter of the Apocalypse (and she didn't teach a pre-Trib rapture).

Reunion of Israel and Judah, Fulfilled 2000 Years Ago, Nearly

Israel and Judah Were Reunited in Christ, Not in 1948 (Ezekiel's Two Sticks)
Christ The King | 15 Oct. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eng8Ez1YHwU

1:07 Unless the Church as such restored them.

Christian Palestinians to this day are fruits of this reunited Kingdom, in the correct covenant, or for EO and Copts, a version of it.

3:30 And David ruled over Samaria at the well of Sychar and in Acts 8.

9:46 It can however be a population which for 2000 years has been at peace between North and South, between Kana and Samaria, Jerusalem and Bethlehem, and for the same time unarmed, fulfilling some peace prophecies about precisely Ephraim and Judah.

Jews to their detriment conflate this prophecy or these prophecies, which are fulfilled in the Christian Palestinian population, with the more universal prophecy of "the word of the Lord shall go out to the nations, commanding peace" which doesn't state this word would be obeyed at all or even most times by all. However, between Judah and Ephraim, the prophecy says actual disarmament.

Fulfilled in Christian Palestinians. (Al Qassem brigades are Muslim Palestinians, not Christian ones).

17:14 Both have been restored as the two first dioceses of the Catholic Church.

17:30 Historical evidence.

I happen to have read more history of the region than most, between Jesus' time and ours.

AD 70 to 313. The ethnically Jewish Church of Jerusalem fled to Pella (al Fahl in Jordan) and then returned after the legions left.

That's part of how St. Helen could find the Holy Cross, the Church recalled the locality of Calvary.

Chapter 1, I think, of Stephan Borgehammar's How the Holy Cross was Found: from event to Medieval legend.

AD 313 to Omar.

Chosroes invaded. He persecuted Christians and favoured Judaism. Many Christians "returned to the Judaism of their fathers" (the wording of the Anglican author, Derwas J. Chitty), implying they were of Jewish ethnicity.

Omar invaded. Some Beduin tribes (so Semitic populations) went to their monastery and told them "we were forced to convert, we are now Muslims, we are still your friends" implying Muslim Palestinians have ancestry in this Christian Palestinian (or possibly Negev Beduin) population.

Last chapter of The Desert a City by Derwas James Chitty. Previous ones were on Egyptian monasticism, this last one on Palestinian monasticism.

Archaeology. During my "excursion" to Orthodoxy (I'm a convert from Lutheranism in 1988, revert from Orthodoxy in 2009), I met a priest's or deacon's daughter or granddaughter, who had been at an archaeology dig of a monastery from this period, halted by Zionists. She displayed an Aramaic Our Father as found there.

Omar to present day. Both Christian Palestinians and Jews have been put under pressure to become Muslims and are thus roots of the Muslim Palestinian population.

Genetics. An iron age skeleton from Galilee has been compared to modern populations.

1) Closest match: Samaritans.
2nd closest: Christian Palestinians
12th to 15th closest: Muslim Palestinians
3rd to 11th or 3rd to 14th) between these last ones several populations of Mitsrahi Jews and also two populations of Druz.

She underdoes [understates] the case for Catholicism

Was the Reformation a Return to Biblical Christianity?
Humbled Catholic | 14 Oct. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUl9uK6-lNw

Before I hear your answer, no.

Matthew 28:16—20.

The passage means Jesus built his Church on Apostles (verse 16 tells us whom He's talking to), what their mission is (all truth and all justice), what their help is and for how long (Jesus Himself and every single day to the end of time), what His power is (all power in Heaven and on Earth) ...

This being so, there can be no "return to Biblical Christianity" ever, except individually or regionally or otherwise less than universally. Because it can never be universally lost.

The only Protestants who get this right are those supporting Baptist Continuity, and they don't claim the Reformation was a "return to Biblical Christianity" but rather an attempted and botched return to it under influence of Baptists who had never left it.

What these guys get wrong is Matthew 5:14—15. The continuing Church cannot be a hidden secret society.

1:53 Calvin actually was somewhat insincere (or very obtuse) about Matthew 28:20.

In his commentary, he states that the promise doesn't mean Jesus ties Himself like a mercenary to all supposed successors who might change His doctrine, but he doesn't even adress the question where (if not in the Catholic Church) the doctrine hadn't been misrepresented.

2:08 "the Church is always in need of purification and reform"

The Church Universal?

2:16 not every action of every Catholic

No, but every doctrine held by the Church Universal. I don't defend (at least not actively) the expulsion of Jews from Spain, but I do defend the expulsion of Jews with exceptions by St. Pius V, or the expulsion of Jewish usurers by St. Lewis IX of France.

7:01 Actually, some shall we say "thoughtful" Protestants actually agree with you about Tradition in the First Century, they just say that past then, the only remaining infallible authority is Scripture.

Obviously, this contradicts Matthew 28:16—20.

But at least it admits that Jesus didn't establish Sola Scriptura as such.