tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post1122443585201296037..comments2024-03-18T13:34:06.557-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Dim and DimmerGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-74993290553136406752012-07-31T03:16:04.586-07:002012-07-31T03:16:04.586-07:00Do the moth and turn up the brighter switch I alwa...Do the moth and turn up the brighter switch I always say.<br /><br />Okay, I don't always say it. If you catch my drift.<br /><br />Julie: Aye. Horrendous. Damn!<br /><br />You would think they would find more creative ways to kill their patients.<br />Not very sporting of them, I daresay. <br /><br />But I'm sure Willyam will be here to remind us again that there are no death panels (planned or otherwise) and how great free healthcare really is.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-69716885731880799552012-07-30T23:00:43.608-07:002012-07-30T23:00:43.608-07:00Also apropos that first quoted bit, and sadly much...Also <a href="http://www.velociworld.com/Velociblog/Oldvelocity/003951.html" rel="nofollow">apropos that first quoted bit</a>, and sadly much closer to home, <br /><br />"Having children performing somersaults of joy on their hospital beds when the NHS uses dehydration as a form of euthanasia is a fucking repellent thing for a supposedly civilized people."juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84160811455841953232012-07-30T22:52:38.772-07:002012-07-30T22:52:38.772-07:00We laft off with a description of the leftist (or ...<i>We laft off with a description of the leftist (or any other ideologue, left or right, up or down) who refuses or suspends the Search in favor of a special gnostic formula -- what Voegelin calls a second reality -- which he then attempts to impose upon the world.</i><br /><br />Along those lines, <a href="http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2012/07/16/the-story-of-oh/" rel="nofollow">Oh's tale of woe</a>. I read his story a week or two back; dreadful.<br /><br />Back to the post, I like the metaphor of the dimmer switch; it has a particular resonance just now.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59948526895604064912012-07-30T12:45:04.765-07:002012-07-30T12:45:04.765-07:00I like the analogies (with graphics here), too.
O...I like the analogies (with graphics here), too.<br /><br />One of Bob's best posts, recently.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-63855386920586800492012-07-30T10:47:43.772-07:002012-07-30T10:47:43.772-07:00I was thinking that, too. There are a lot of delu...I was thinking that, too. There are a lot of delusional sociopaths in the world. <br /><br />The moon and sun and the eclipse presents a good analogy -- that a little mote of dust that can only be seen because it reflects the light of O can cast a big shadow.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-33296083291279706182012-07-30T09:03:32.287-07:002012-07-30T09:03:32.287-07:00"In other words, whether or not God exists, w..."In other words, whether or not God exists, we can all stipulate that you and I are not That."<br /><br />Unless you are feeling delusional.<br /><br />Isn't this the basis of solipsism?<br /><br />For example, the assertion that everything is the figment of my imagination. <br /><br />Ergo, all that was, is, and shall be is *mine*.<br /><br />Or as UF puts it, Me (Real) --- You (Shadow)JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.com