tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post113293504169962255..comments2024-03-18T21:33:35.309-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: How Much Would You Spend to Save Your Soul?Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1133097379779302612005-11-27T05:16:00.000-08:002005-11-27T05:16:00.000-08:00Please make sure that his education is well rounde...Please make sure that his education is well rounded (which I am sure that you will).<BR/><BR/>I still remember the shock I recieved at work one day. I was listening to the radio, while doing something both painstaking and tedious. The station started to play a recording of Bach played by Albert Schwieitzer. I was in rhapsody. My co-worker was completely unfamilar with Dr. Schwietzer, even when I mentioned his humanitary work. <BR/><BR/>And she was college educatedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1132978623777092862005-11-25T20:17:00.000-08:002005-11-25T20:17:00.000-08:00I pre-date the boomer generation by a few years. ...I pre-date the boomer generation by a few years. One of the things that amazed me when I got my PhD in chemistry and went out into the world, was that my fellow PhD chemists had no more education than the average person with the exception of their degree. All that a university had been for them was a trade school. <BR/><BR/>So much for the ersatz idealism presented about an education. I figure that the day Sputnik went up was the day that American Education became corrupted. It resulted in a massive outpouring of federal dollars into any kind of engineering or science, with the resultant creation of inflated equipment prices, publish or perish tenure policies, and bloated journals. While doing research for seminars and my dissertation, I saw that prior to 1957, the literature was filled with long, thorough papers that described years of coherent work to show a major finding and support it. After that time, I found multiples of essentially the same information from the same laboratories and authors, altered slightly or spun in some way to make the claim of a "different" paper, and the amount of new information was miniscule.Legacy Userhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13194329470033659277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1132968209213449622005-11-25T17:23:00.000-08:002005-11-25T17:23:00.000-08:00The eminent philosopher Frank Zappa once said that...The eminent philosopher Frank Zappa once said that if you really wanted to get an education, you should drop out of school and go to the library. The internet is the biggest, easiest to use library ever invented and just wait until we have developed full immersion virtual reality...ShrinkWrappedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15686943576191522213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1132959021940039332005-11-25T14:50:00.000-08:002005-11-25T14:50:00.000-08:00Ha Ha Bob...well actually I was told *wink wink* t...Ha Ha Bob...well actually I was told *wink wink* that the term "dirty old man" was coined after a certain father's eyes went up and down and back up to lock onto the boobs of his son's dinner guest on a friday night prior to a ballgame...the once upon a time story goes....LOOOOOOOOOOL...I even think turtlenecks were invented after that incident to avoid cleavage eye strain. <BR/><BR/>Oh...BTW...did you read the interview with Kenneth Levin on the psychopathology of Israel and the Oslo syndrome? I don't know if you have read his book but you might be interested.<BR/>http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20222LiquidLifeHackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01949269503629475002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1132945950998451772005-11-25T11:12:00.000-08:002005-11-25T11:12:00.000-08:00I wonder if that's the reason some fathers don't s...I wonder if that's the reason some fathers don't seem to mind if their son is gay? That way they don't have to deal with the intolerable envy regarding the 18 year old GF. Of course, one of the benefits of having children later in life is that it increases the chance that you will croak before your child rips off the mask and is revealed as the Spawn of Satan.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1132945367459984752005-11-25T11:02:00.000-08:002005-11-25T11:02:00.000-08:00"But only if he's willing to sign over that educat..."But only if he's willing to sign over that educational trust fund to my name."<BR/><BR/>LOL Bob! Only if huh? You crack me up! I always giggle at your words. See you can tease about that stuff now since your little boy is so preciously young. But you just wait till he is testing every moral water while you sit home waiting for him to make curfew or you catch him in his first real lie, which by the way, I was told was the absolute shattering of my parent's world, because although parents are realist and expect such at some time, it crushes them and disappoints them with excruciating pain at the moment of discovery. I truly think that your most spiritual "free at cost" experience for deeeeeep education is still yet to come...and that is being and feeling of the growing father inside you. Because as a father, year after year, it gives you a glimpse of how God must feel. A real cosmic connection there Bob...all ahead of you. God, our father, is sharing with you what it feels like to have a child...a wonderful gift....think about the pain that He experiences, because most of his children won't even look up and aknowledge him, let alone think of sharing a trust fund. But yes, for you Bob, the joys and pains of fatherhood will be a wonderful spiritual ride for you with so much wonderful education ahead of you. Wow, you just stepped into being a lifetime student of "parenthood"<BR/><BR/>PS: Hey Bob... if you think you are coveting his trust fund now...wait till he brings home those cute big busted 18 year old girlfriends! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL Petey's eyes will pop OUT I tell ya!LiquidLifeHackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01949269503629475002noreply@blogger.com