"I spoke with Father Sam today over lunch in a Winnipeg café. . ."

I sat for lunch with Father Sam today, the prominent Italian priest from Winnipeg who is dedicated his life to the cloth and served as a legend in this community.

I had an invaluable conversation with him and I thought to share it. Hopefully you find it useful reading from it.

These are my thoughts: that relate to what we spoke. I admitted (to him) I was struggling with my own depression and guilt with confessing my sins. He came through for me and this is what I learned from this encounter and how I took from it. ~

The moral of the following is immanent with what I confessed to Father Sam. I know it is a private thing. But I am a traditionalist, and even though I am a traditional member for conforming to the RC faith - it is a faith undying to my death.

I told Father Sam is how I felt consumed by my guilt for my sins. That I believe we are born into sin. Therefore, it is my belief (irreligious to me or not) that even if you are not of religious belief, you automatically fall into the same category. (e.g. That no one can escape morality.)

In conclusion to our meeting, Father Sam asked me if I would accept what he listened (in our talk) was my act in confession. I obliged.

He summoned me to accept: that I can be forgiven for my sins. In return to what he said I offered, "You mean do I repent. Yes, I do." I felt he caught me. No, not lying to him. Like he caught me in light of something far more than I was prepared for. And that was the end of our conversation.

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April 1st, 2026

(Thesis)

I am RC. I know, because I am a sinner I can only come to accept it. Personally, I know that we are all born into sin. My point is if you feel guilt knowing you are a sinner in itself, makes us perfectly normal about the way we feel. If I process signs of my own sin internally, is it something I absorb without thinking. (It means you have an awareness about sin, because sin lives in us all.) Therefore, my repentance is the next question. Am I worthy of being saved?

What I overcome is the result of forgiveness. My guilt (this awareness of guilt) is the root of all my personal sin. The point of my awareness is not to do as I think I'm entitled, (i.e. lead a life of sin) but I am benefiting from receiving forgiveness no matter my sin. When questioning something I will do, (first) I allow for forgiveness then (second) I act. This is awareness between sin opposite my own repentance. Forgiveness for the sin and repentance for the act. I have to understand I am a sinner that deserves forgiveness for this awareness. I have come to terms with my own ignorance, ignorance that played a factor, and ignorance that participated in blocking me from paying it forward.

The purpose is not to be absolved in sin. It is the repentance I have to be forgiven for the guilt I have over things I can't control. Therefore, I atone to being saved. No matter what anyone says: your morality is your greatest asset. What I achieve in life is my surrendering to god. That is the where my strength lives. I abide. I obey.

Kyrie Eleison

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This personal thesis statement is what came after I met with Father Sam (his excellency). We both agreed it was divine intervention that we were meant to have met today. The last time I had seen Father Sam was at Enzo Daniel papa Sergio's funeral.

- Marco

Marco the artist

 Here are reasons as I specify: which having seen my peril to first become an artistic professional, then, before I decided the role of a writer. (MA2013)

"I ought to refer to her as M. Let us say it is a premonition, some vague desire or vow, the simple superstition of appeasing gestures."

"I am writing slowly, writing with enormous effort after six hours of dialogue, and I am probably incapable of expressing vivid sentiments and emotions,"

"...which are set out here with some sense of order, not exactly classified,"

"...but passed from hand to hand and arranged according to their weight, density and (since I have not given up painting) color."

"I cannot write any other way, and if I have thrown myself into this writing, it was precisely in order to give myself sufficient time to think, to think with time."

"To be born, live and die are universal truths which form a natural sequence."

"If we wish to transform them into a personal truth and natural sequence, then we shall have to write much more that the three verbs arranged in that order and concede that between the two extremes of nothingness and nothingness, life may contain a number of births and deaths, not only those of others,"

"...which may touch or distress us, but our own births and deaths."

"Like a cobra, we shed our skin when we no longer fit inside it, or we lose our strength and waste away, and thius only happens to humans."

"A skin which has aged, turned dry and wrinkled covers these pages with black and white pellicles, the words and spaces between them."

- Jose Saramago

The prediction of all predictions

 Easter is a sacred time of year...This I value, and I prove it as a universal body that includes religious and non religious artifice. - Marco

 

 

 Yes. I tend to agree. But how about divine words more beautiful than are things to describe it as.

- Marco

 So if I am aware of my personal psychological space and thereby eliminate my preconceptions. Therefore, I can in fact not be taken advantage of for less. "Less" than that which is expected of me vs (my own expectations) from anyone else I find as an object to me. - Marco

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March 31st 2025

 "Ignoring a risk is not to reduce it"

- Mark Carney

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Interlocutor:

No it’s to tax it to oblivion

My rebuttal:

taxes are such a copout. No one is saying taxes are a solution. Conservatives talk about extortion. It is not. Extortion is when conservatives cut social programs to disguise the fact social programs serve corporate interests, if they are run by government agency. Social programs help dissolve the blurred line between a society that has class divided by rich and poor.

Brad Gross

Marco Almeida taxes hinder small

Business owners and people who drive

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My rebuttal: 

What are you thinking? Carney is making a valid philosophically based statement. He is saying to face the situation even if it seems like life or death. One must have courage. Not to take the risk without the truth that's involved... is what blinds you. To find out what truth is. Carney understands what Canadians are feeling. And he is facing Trump's fear based intimidation tactics with a response that Trump sees - the  can't win.

I cannot make it any clearer for you, Brad.

Irawan Wiharja

 WHERE IS WESTERN SCIENTIFIC CIVILIZATION GOING?

In recent centuries, the baton of knowledge has been held by Western scientific civilization—but since Immanuel Kant, in particular, who limited the scope of reason to the realm of phenomena—then the emergence of empiricist thinkers—followed by the proclamation of the Vienna School—we understand where science in Western civilization is headed.

The lurking danger, particularly feared by religious scholars, is when humans only understand the physical world but are blind to the metaphysical dimension beyond the physical. Rationality is distorted, swept away by the strong current of empiricism. Rationality is reduced to the empirical. The door of rationality to metaphysics is firmly closed.

But this is also a characteristic of the end times foretold by the prophets: when a one-eyed perspective becomes dominant—it is like a play that has almost entered its final act—the sign is when the antagonists have taken control of the stage.

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And today the world is witnessing the dominance of Western scientific civilization, which has also emerged as a worldview of science based on empiricism—framed by positivism and, on the other hand, utilized by materialists in a different way.

However, the method Science is never singular. It is not just empiricism; rationalism serves as another foundation for understanding reality. Even in the revealed religious tradition, the horizon is much broader: there is the realm of essence (the deepest ontological truth) and the realm of wisdom (meaningful wisdom that transcends mere data).

However, the tradition of modern Western scientific civilization has indeed chosen a very specific path: rigorous proof based on observation and verification. Since the rise of Francis Bacon and David Hume, Western epistemology has moved toward radical empiricism—where something is considered "meaningful" if it can be verified sensorily. This culminated in the Logical Positivism movement, which explicitly removed metaphysics from the scientific realm.

The result is clear: reality is reduced solely to what can be physically measured. Questions about meaning, purpose, and ultimate cause are no longer considered matters of science, but merely speculation or even linguistic illusions.

In fact, if we look to the broader philosophical tradition—from Immanuel Kant to Ibn Arabi—we will discover the realization that reality does not stop at phenomena. Kant himself recognized the limits of empirical reason with the concept of noumena (das Ding an sich), while Ibn Arabi spoke of layers of reality that can only be uncovered through inner purification and spiritual intuition.

At this point, we must be honest: modern science does have a strong tradition of explaining the physical "how," but it often remains silent when asked about the deepest "why." It can explain the mechanisms of nature, but it fails to answer the purpose of existence.

Therefore, it would be too shallow to reduce this brief life to merely collecting empirical facts, only to end up meaningless. Humans are not merely sensing creatures, but also meaning-seeking creatures. They ask not only "what happened," but "why do I exist" and "where is all this leading?"

This is where religion and metaphysics do not exist as "gap-fillers" (gods of the gaps), but rather as horizons of meaning—ones that have always existed in a different realm from science. Science explains the structure of the world—revelation, and wisdom explains the meaning of existence within that structure.

If both are understood proportionally, there is no conflict—instead, there is completeness: reason bridges, empiricism tests, rationalism structures, and revelation provides direction.

Without a sense of purpose in life, knowledge may be abundant—but empty of meaning—empty of spiritual happiness.

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Note: Comte adds the word science and observation together. So "if science (is) grounded in observation." The 'if' equates to a wide range of probabilities and the missing (IS)? What 'IS' lends itself to a qualification of the observer acting as the empiricist. I believe that makes a causal relationship to examine, theoretically, everything plausibly made into something of observance. I am a big believer in what acts as theoretically based. My point is why - why make inferentially relevant material into something non-material in nature. (i.e. the linear vs. the abstract) My second point follows that ontological reasoning has a place in philosophy if the philosopher has engaged as a source of her language. Both reflect meaning and purpose as stated in Irawan's dissertation.

- Marco

March 30th 2013

 A random four part syllogism:

"Either I find out by myself or I will never know."

"And today, within this circle, I have traveled in all directions, at least I know where the wall and boundaries are situated."

"No one can proceed further without this knowledge."

"The difference between the circle and the spiral."

- Jose Saramago

Tia (March 30th 2020) 'Marco's angel'

 

 We never see because we have opinions about what we see -- jiddu krishnamurti

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Your eyes don't see -- dr. Joe dispenza

Believing is seeing -- dr. Michael Gullien

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March 30th 2024

 In a world made of gambling pieces; sometimes the worst gamblers take the pot. That is the root of all corruption.

- Marco

"There is no self-contradiction" why Liberalism is an art : : (by: Marco Almeida)

 The following is an extremely important conversation to learn from.

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Liberalism is an art. That is the truth. The other side of that is anything that poses as anything less than Liberalist ideology is not even a counter approach to reason. Quite simply anything dissociative of this acts as an antithesis to Liberal ideology. The philosophy against Liberal principles, is not a sure thing as merely to denounce from it a position of insatiability.

"An anti-liberal theory on the rise..." does NOT constitute a philosophically plausible end game.

How Liberalist philosophy is proving to become nihilism is without validity. An indivisible slippery slope. Nothing to compete with there. It is simply peak anti-intellectual in the event that you are being censored if you speak Liberalist truth. (As herein...) "pretends to represent universal reason" is a laughable contradiction to all philosophy. Not just Liberalism. If pretending to reason, is predicated as Heidegger, you are instead - in fact - a lost soul. A vagabond.

Marco Almeida 2025

-The Peg

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Interlocutor:

An extremely important component of Professor Alexandr Dugin, alongside his criticism of the Western belief in "Progress", is that Liberalism is rooted in Medieval Nominalism. Nominalism being the doctrine that rejects Platos Theory of Universals and proclaims that there are no such thing as groups of things with identifying characteristics but that there are only individual material things. This is essentially where the Nihlism of Liberalism is rooted.

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Prove to everyone that nihilism is Liberalism in principle. Unless you are informing me with presumptuous abstract philsophically aburdist ideals. Anyone, can try to do that. Categorically philosophy is meant to be debunked in such fashion. That is it. Your entire argument is a slippery slope.

MA2025

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Absolutism is a form of superlative, where conditioning is meant to inform the masses of what they think, and is a classic form of propaganda. Speaking as a philosopher, you should know that.

What you refer to right off this same interjection is what we can infer (is Liberal individualism) as a misnomer. It is such toothless approach to reason with - FYI. Empirically invalid, in defense of characterizing liberal ideology. This is outlandish communist idealism.

Further to not providing evidence that Liberalist notions are invalid... deserve a proper funeral. But not on Putin's watch and not while right wing idelaism exists. This follows...

I as a Liberalist take a counter revolutionary appraoch as Zelensky is with Ukraine.

To further contrast your description of "liberal individualism" - yes - things change. Times change. But thinking? No.

You are referring to liberals using a false dichotomy. Wait. Wait a minute... what if. What if what you are saying is categorically true.

The whole arguement: Katian ethics wouldn't even begin to acknowledge, that an incomplete theory in trying to negate the other, does NOT reduce Liberalism to a irrational stereotype. What on earth does ANY system that moral and ethical peoblems not arise? A dictatorship? A fascist state? A socialist form of government?

Let's not bullshit here. The illogical contractions embedded in communist ideology, is Putin trying to philosophically maneuver his ideas into the history thereof. If his shrills couldn't do it, then why not put the furtive together? How else is your message eliminating Liberalism.

I just have to know.

Marco Almeida 2025

-The Peg

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Interlocutor:

Liberal Individualism constitutes a philosophical system wherein moral and ethical considerations are relegated to individual discretion, as opposed to being recognized as absolute truths embedded in the values of the society and civilization into which one is born and raised. This system is tantamount to a philosophy of Moral Relativism, which underlies the Liberal assertion that 'morality cannot be legislated.' In practice, it is impossible to reconcile Liberalism with a concrete, non-relative morality. This, in turn, deprives individuals of a sense of sacrality and absolute truth, culminating in an existence characterized by meaninglessness and atomization.

My response:

1- "This system is tantamount to a philosophy of Moral Relativism, which underlies the Liberal assertion that 'morality cannot be legislated.' In practice, it is impossible to reconcile Liberalism with a concrete, non-relative morality."

No. This fallacy is wrong. How is that you are describing a Liberal assertion. Prove it. In what are you deducing legislation, cannot be morally renounced??? That is beyond absurd. We are not on the same page if at all!

2- "This, in turn, deprives individuals of a sense of sacrality and absolute truth, culminating in an existence characterized by meaninglessness and atomization."

Metaphysical interpretation takes art. In what world should censorship be allowed.

Marco Almeida 2025

-the peg

March 29th, 2025

 I know. I know I have a big heart. I come from a lineage of influence both genetically and environmentally. The affluence I have over others has nothing - absolutely nothing to do with anger. Anger turned inward is not a healthy habit. Psychologically, a intelligent cognizant individual looks to signs. These signs act as a cursor to what I believe channels emotions. All anger is - is an emotion that you train the mind to think. It is a form of emotional intelligence. I don't think Patterson is a credible source to claim otherwise.

- Marco

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Jordan Peterson

March 29th, 2010

 The most extraordinary of talents ever raised; is the discussion between deception and self-deception. (Nietzsche has himself all wrong from the get-go.)

- Marco

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For anyone I know who acts out of character, are the usual suspects of uncharismatic wanna-be archetype.

The rule of all rules to love by. . .

 "The fact is that men should never try to dictate to women. They never know how to do it, and when they do do it, they always say something particularly foolish."

--Cecily Cardew from "The Importance of Being Earnest"

March 29th 2014

 I have worked tirelessly to defend myself from the rental aspect of others ignorance toward me. It is a battle to do so.

-Marco

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I have learned to view people that think they can take a lease out on my qualities then make me feel bad for it.

- Marco

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I find it highly ambitious of others that treat me for a fool yet underestimate my own unadulterated ability to see right through themselves.

- Marco

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Oscar Wilde

"There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life fully, entirely, completely, or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands."

March 29th 2022

 I just have this feeling of nostalgia in certain moments where I feel a place I want to go back to. Today is no different. I drift my thoughts back to when I was I university. I spent the best years of my life going to the University of Winnipeg during that time. It is not a manner of wanting to go back to change something but a matter of revisiting that past. I loved going there. I had a fascination with learning even if I was only unconscious of it. You would probably equate the feeling of love with the thought of nostalgia. University was a defining period in my personal life. I met my true self in return. That is what I need to recall right now.

Marco