tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post113061450740154084..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: The Petey FilesGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1132302064707832462005-11-18T00:21:00.000-08:002005-11-18T00:21:00.000-08:00I get home from work tonight and all I read is the...I get home from work tonight and all I read is the same old bad news. You know, this lefty spewed this crap, that lefty dropped some more.<BR/><BR/>Then I came here and laughed. I thought "the crazy glue that holds the liberal fantasy together." was great. And,<BR/><BR/>shrinkwrapped, I learned a new word thanks to you. deconstupidism<BR/><BR/>Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1132294721197478752005-11-17T22:18:00.000-08:002005-11-17T22:18:00.000-08:00Gotta love Petey!Gotta love Petey!LiquidLifeHackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01949269503629475002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1132285514462643792005-11-17T19:45:00.000-08:002005-11-17T19:45:00.000-08:00who, me? said..."Is gumshoe1 talking about antinom...who, me? said...<BR/><BR/>"Is gumshoe1 talking about antinomianism, or nominalism and its antithesis?"<BR/><BR/>______________<BR/><BR/>attempt #2 <BR/>at explaining what i was after...<BR/>a short,well known example,<BR/>who me?:<BR/>____________________________<BR/><BR/><BR/>"A Rose,<BR/>by any other name<BR/>would smell as sweet."<BR/>- W. Shakespeare<BR/><BR/>____________________________<BR/><BR/>it's odd.<BR/><BR/>the PoMo's i was exposed to in the <BR/>80's were fascinated by Semantics,Symbology,and especially...*metaphor*.<BR/><BR/>if it weren't for the Will to Power,<BR/>they'd all be poets<BR/>luxuriating in language.<BR/><BR/>if i recall, there <BR/>was in the classical tradition<BR/>the idea that poetry was<BR/>NOT A TRIFLE BUT ONE OF THE HIGHEST PURSUITS.<BR/><BR/>PoMo and Deconstruction are simply <BR/>repetitively describing the <BR/>the wasteland of meaninglessness.<BR/><BR/>the search ...even the LEAP to higher meaning has been abandoned.gumshoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10567181585153569751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1132270921441354782005-11-17T15:42:00.000-08:002005-11-17T15:42:00.000-08:00When reality looks too grim, you can either change...When reality looks too grim, you can either change your perception of reality, which the left have conveniently done via deconstupidism, become psychotic (or do I repeat myself) or have a good laugh. Sometimes we just need a good laugh and Petey not only amuses, he even makes us think, and in these strange times (whatever that is), when reality (whatever that is) looks bleak, that isn't nothin'.ShrinkWrappedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15686943576191522213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1132269689282557552005-11-17T15:21:00.000-08:002005-11-17T15:21:00.000-08:00who me? - in reply...prior to reading your post, i...who me? - <BR/><BR/><BR/>in reply...prior to reading your post, i had looked up "anti-nomiaLism" <BR/>at Wiki-pedia.<BR/><BR/>the search <BR/>gave links to your religious definition...ie"anti-nomiaNism":<BR/><BR/>this website (even has pictures!)<BR/>gives an over-view:<BR/>www.rotten.com/library/religion/heresy/antinomianism/<BR/><BR/>i will pursue "anti-nomiaLism" <BR/>more rigourously and try to post some findings here...<BR/><BR/>...but my <BR/>executive summary understanding <BR/>of it was as a philosophy that says,<BR/>not unlike post-modernism,<BR/>that: <BR/><BR/>"words do not describe,and infact,*cannot* approach *Reality*".<BR/><BR/>that,in terms of cognition,<BR/>words are an imperfect <BR/>(and even fataly mis-leading)<BR/>intermediary between understanding and Reality.<BR/><BR/>hth.gumshoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10567181585153569751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1132258880668749692005-11-17T12:21:00.000-08:002005-11-17T12:21:00.000-08:00--"Job one" of leftists is to attack language."Ste...--"Job one" of leftists is to attack language."<BR/><BR/>Stephen Hicks would very likely agree.<BR/>well put,Petey!!<BR/><BR/><BR/>"--Along these lines, he once said "When language becomes unmoored from reality, evolution becomes as static as a dog's bark." (I think this was in reference to Howard Dean; in fact, Petey refers to Democratc ideas as their "barking points.")"<BR/><BR/><BR/>Bob - <BR/><BR/>maybe you can enlighten me about a <BR/>branch of philosophy called<BR/>...wait for it..."anti-nomialism".<BR/><BR/>in my under developed understanding...<BR/>it is something like<BR/>"zen"...which may be something like the corrupting(?) influence of "phenomenology"...<BR/><BR/>you mentioned something in a post of yours within the last 2-3 weeks<BR/>about a lower or more primitive<BR/>cognition that is <BR/>pre-verbal or primarily<BR/>*visual*...<BR/><BR/>while i was interested in your elaborating on that nugget,<BR/>these comments quoted above<BR/>and the current Gen X/Y/etc <BR/>addiction of *video* for <BR/>critical news and info,<BR/>and the possible decline in reading writing,and respect for <BR/>"History" with a capital H <BR/>with its indepth "backstory"...<BR/>suggests a under-developed "knowing".<BR/><BR/><BR/>that instinctive or intuitive knowing that i understand <BR/>as being somehow related to "zen" might parallel the fondness for <BR/>"feelings" vs. critical rationality.<BR/><BR/>we "feel" that we "Know".<BR/><BR/>anything more than that requires actual WORK to LEARN.<BR/><BR/>and as someone once said,<BR/>almost all TRUE learning<BR/>is PAINFUL...so most of us avoid it like the plague.<BR/><BR/>could this fondness for <BR/>"felt" knowledge on the part of the Left just be the more common<BR/>*Human Laziness*???<BR/><BR/>and/or: <BR/>"why assume evil intent <BR/>when incompetence suffices as the explanation?"<BR/><BR/>___________________________<BR/><BR/>"--Along these lines, he once said "When language becomes unmoored from reality, evolution becomes as static as a dog's bark." (I think this was in reference to Howard Dean; in fact, Petey refers to Democratc ideas as their "barking points.")"<BR/><BR/>that one made me laugh out loud.gumshoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10567181585153569751noreply@blogger.com