tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post114787712200408069..comments2024-03-18T21:33:35.309-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: The Demon Haunted World of the Spiritually Repressed LeftGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1148188080528397322006-05-20T22:08:00.000-07:002006-05-20T22:08:00.000-07:00www.kosherconnection.com/karaoke/shoofly.htmwww.kosherconnection.com/karaoke/shoofly.htmLisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04969685296436358865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1148139064515238482006-05-20T08:31:00.000-07:002006-05-20T08:31:00.000-07:00"Why is it that some people continue to worship fa..."Why is it that some people continue to worship false gods such as Che, Marx, Lenin, etc. even after they have been proven to be dangerous, ineffective, and spiritually stifling?"<BR/><BR/>Couldn't one ask a variation of the same question of fundamentalist Jews and Christians?Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02549770321948541384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1148138915884883062006-05-20T08:28:00.000-07:002006-05-20T08:28:00.000-07:00"No difference between a literalist Christian, an ..."No difference between a literalist Christian, an Orthodox Jew, and a moslem: just different flavors of the same quaint nonsense."<BR/><BR/>You don't think that "literalism" in ANY religion--be it Jewish, Muslim, OR Chrisitian--is "quaint nonsense"?Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02549770321948541384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1147966971817963162006-05-18T08:42:00.000-07:002006-05-18T08:42:00.000-07:00Peter Singer, that moral beacon who believes paren...Peter Singer, that moral beacon who believes parents should have the right to kill their infants if they don't want them. I suppose that does minimize the suffering of parents who have better things to do than minister to a whining infant.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1147963679621743532006-05-18T07:47:00.000-07:002006-05-18T07:47:00.000-07:00"I'll admit that your questions today were valid b..."I'll admit that your questions today were valid but people had had enough of the smarmy attitude."<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure how "smarmy" applies to what I've EVER written here, hoarhey. But it seems to me that there's been enough "attitude" from all sides, yours as well as mine.<BR/><BR/>"If you are truly interested in what's going on here you'll have to do a bit more homework on your own and be patient."<BR/><BR/>I'll continue reading the posts and comments here. But I believe that even after I've done so, most of the questions I've asked and comments I've made would still be appropriate, and there may well be more of the same after I've read everything. And maybe, just maybe this is because your years of contemplation and putting the pieces together hasn't put ALL the pieces together yet, just as I don't presume to have put all of the pieces together either. Although I seem to have been dismissed by most of you as some kind of dogmtic and kooky leftist spewing nothing more than leftist "talking points" and have been treated with corresponding contempt, the fact is that my political, economic, and religious perspective is probably not nearly as easily pigeonholed as that, and I don't believe that a CAREFUL reading of what remains of what I've posted here would indicate otherwise.<BR/><BR/>I read something recently that put into clearer perspective for me where I'm coming from. The famous philosopher Peter Singer "defines 'the left' as being those who place minimizing suffering above other moral imperatives, such as tradition or rights." I guess this minimizalization of suffering IS my highest priority. But I don't necessarily look to socialism or conventionally 'leftist' ideology as embodying the solution to the problem of suffering. For I recognize that suffering is not just a physical phenomenon arising from unfulfilled physical needs but also a psychological and spiritual one arising from unfulfilled needs for self-actualization. But I believe that neither socialism nor capitalism as they have developed thus far have engendered optimal freedom from all such suffering, and I suspect that any system that does will be a more evolved synthesis of both.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02549770321948541384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1147935860742918282006-05-18T00:04:00.000-07:002006-05-18T00:04:00.000-07:00>>"and I may have bristled with some understated a...>>"and I may have bristled with some understated antagonism for awhile."<<<BR/><BR/>Hey, a breakthough. It seemed more overstated to me.<BR/><BR/>Nagar,<BR/><BR/>People ignored you today (for the most part) because of what has happened in the previous few days. I'll admit that your questions today were valid but people had had enough of the smarmy attitude. If you are truly interested in what's going on here you'll have to do a bit more homework on your own and be patient. Most here have come to where they are through years of contemplation and pulling the pieces together. If it seems foreign to you, but you are TRULY interested in trying to understand, you'll have to give it time. If not, you're wasting your timeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1147930112566097452006-05-17T22:28:00.000-07:002006-05-17T22:28:00.000-07:00"It seems like he is on the verge of understanding..."It seems like he is on the verge of understanding but then goes and bangs his head on the same wall with another question in the same vein. It is really a waste of energy. He keeps trying to play "gotcha" and it's kind of annoying now."<BR/><BR/>My dear Lisa, I'm not playing any "gotcha games." I AM trying to understand your perspective, and I think I do understand it better than I did initially. One way I do this is by asking questions of the things I read here. My questions are sincere, and I believe that they are also substantive. Nobody has to answer them if they don't feel like doing so, but I hope that I will be allowed to continue posting here when I have respectful questions to ask or comments to make, as I believe that the majority of my questions and comments in the past and all of them today have been. If you disagree, I'd appreciate it if you cite examples of any questions I've asked today that weren't respectful and substantive. Or have you formed such an unfavorable impression of me that you see everthing I say through the distorting filter of it?<BR/><BR/>"But this is the exact same pattern as witnessed in the past where one answer or many answers was a complete waste of time followed by an in your face slam as outlined by Lisa in her above post."<BR/><BR/>hoarhey, I have a sincere request to make of you. Could you please point out to me what "in your face slam" I've been guilty of today? It seems that I have been on the receiving end of slams since I appeared here with sincere questions and comments about what I was reading here, and I may have bristled with some understated antagonism for awhile. But I am trying to dialogue with all of you and understand your perspective, and I hope you can open your minds enough to see that over time, just as I'm trying to open my mind to the notion that I my initial impressions of you and your ideas may have been overly unfavorable.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02549770321948541384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1147927514753019122006-05-17T21:45:00.000-07:002006-05-17T21:45:00.000-07:00Bob,I genuflect before your ability to slog throug...Bob,<BR/><BR/>I genuflect before your ability to slog through Anon's slag. Question: How closely does (he/she/it/other)'s mental onanism resemble your actual psychiatric patients?PSGInfinityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09778921507090905909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1147923519183069892006-05-17T20:38:00.000-07:002006-05-17T20:38:00.000-07:00Booger - You know, on further consideration, you'...Booger - You know, on further consideration, you're right, you couldn't be "anonymous". No way are you that stupid. Very few of God's creatures, human or feline, are that luminously cracked. My apologies.<BR/><BR/>However - cut it out with the "I'm too hungry to post" stuff. I know you're eating like a sultan. Fergus is always trying to cadge free food that way too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1147922388628434052006-05-17T20:19:00.000-07:002006-05-17T20:19:00.000-07:00it wustn me htat did amomuynus post i'm tu hngerey...it wustn me htat did amomuynus post i'm tu hngerey to posst cuz that jwm spent my catfud muniys on a dum jabanese toys an wont biy me no catspart indernets mashien an beside i'mnot thet stubid<BR/><BR/>sined bugerth catAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1147921143558587662006-05-17T19:59:00.000-07:002006-05-17T19:59:00.000-07:00It's SNOT funny! Will!It's SNOT funny! Will!Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04969685296436358865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1147920989371378842006-05-17T19:56:00.000-07:002006-05-17T19:56:00.000-07:00Anonymous . . .hey, wait a sec, you can't fool me ...Anonymous . . .hey, wait a sec, you can't fool me . . . . you're BOOGER THE CAT! <BR/><BR/>JWM - until you get a CatSmart, this is the kind nonsense Booger is going to be posting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1147920851218891542006-05-17T19:54:00.000-07:002006-05-17T19:54:00.000-07:00Wait until the shit hits the roof, Doc! ;0)Wait until the shit hits the roof, Doc! ;0)Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04969685296436358865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1147918011641625922006-05-17T19:06:00.000-07:002006-05-17T19:06:00.000-07:00I guess I've been called more colorfully nonsensic...I guess I've been called more colorfully nonsensical things. But not since my internship at Camarillo State Mental Hospital in '86-'87. One patient once said, "yeah, Doc, you can dish it out, but you can't dish it in."Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1147917243269195682006-05-17T18:54:00.000-07:002006-05-17T18:54:00.000-07:00Please forgive me oh god of spelling, logic, gramm...Please forgive me oh god of spelling, logic, grammar and punctuation... english is my third language so please to not let it become the topic at hand... besides we all know that someday someone will design software in your image... it will be called microsoft: Word! are beginning to see what it is that constitutes you... u r nothing more than another slot machine dipded in history... how stale a nation! how rotten an idea...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1147911498784697602006-05-17T17:18:00.000-07:002006-05-17T17:18:00.000-07:00Kahn,I agree with you about answering genuine ques...Kahn,<BR/><BR/>I agree with you about answering genuine questions and have absolutely no problem with that. But this is the exact same pattern as witnessed in the past where one answer or many answers was a complete waste of time followed by an in your face slam as outlined by Lisa in her above post. A person who truly wants to understand doesn't go about it in that way.<BR/>I do see a point about answering the questions as you have done so well, not as a direct response to a person playing the gotcha game but as a clarification to others reading the blog who truly are open to ideas they may not have entertained before. People who truly are open and searching.<BR/>It would be sort of an answer the question while ignoring the questioner in this case. <BR/><BR/>(P.S. The above rant by anon. may well have been that gut shot I alluded to without the courage to claim it.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1147909592454927112006-05-17T16:46:00.000-07:002006-05-17T16:46:00.000-07:00Anonymous--Perhaps you could share with us the sto...Anonymous--<BR/><BR/>Perhaps you could share with us the story of how you transcended the limitations of rudimentary spelling, logic, grammar, and punctuation? <BR/><BR/>But, if you don't mind, could you throw in a bit of spelling, logic, grammar and punctuation in relating that tale? Otherwise it's likely to go under our heads.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1147906592636623752006-05-17T15:56:00.000-07:002006-05-17T15:56:00.000-07:00I just came across a fascinating article about Hug...I just came across a fascinating article about Hugo Chavez and his leftist policies and rule. I thought it might interest some here.<BR/><BR/>http://www.noticierodigital.com/img2006/hugoboss.phpLisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04969685296436358865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1147905898060769132006-05-17T15:44:00.000-07:002006-05-17T15:44:00.000-07:00JWM - OK, I understand. However, Fergus wishes you...JWM - OK, I understand. However, Fergus wishes you to behold a cat haiku he composed, the writing of which was made possible only by the SmartCat.<BR/><BR/>HAIKU # 117 (by Fergus the Cat)<BR/><BR/>One paw left.<BR/><BR/>One paw right.<BR/><BR/>Waxed floor!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1147904794650987032006-05-17T15:26:00.000-07:002006-05-17T15:26:00.000-07:00I have problems taking spiritual advice from anony...I have problems taking spiritual advice from anonymous individuals that don't know the difference between witch and which!<BR/><BR/>Kahn- have you read the past 3 days of patiently trying to explain to Nag the difficulties in the logic of leftist thinking? It seems like he is on the verge of understanding but then goes and bangs his head on the same wall with another question in the same vein. It is really a waste of energy. He keeps trying to play "gotcha" and it's kind of annoying now.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04969685296436358865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1147904016190825772006-05-17T15:13:00.000-07:002006-05-17T15:13:00.000-07:00Hoarhey (and, yes you, Petey),C'mon guys, It seems...Hoarhey (and, yes you, Petey),<BR/><BR/>C'mon guys, It seems to me that Nagarjuna is politely asking questions out of sincere curiosity.<BR/><BR/>If all of the people we deride as moonbats were, like him, out there reading different views and asking genuine questions we wouldn't be in the situation we're in now.<BR/><BR/>Are we here simply to pat each other on the backs and dismiss all who disagree? Because, if we're going to be dismissive of Nagarjuna - at least from what I've seen of him today - I don't see what kind of dissention we <I>are</I> willing to tolerate.<BR/><BR/>I'm not going proclaim that anyone has an obligation to answer every question, but why risk chasing genuine person from the light?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1147902036891258132006-05-17T14:40:00.000-07:002006-05-17T14:40:00.000-07:00You know although I have two eyes a left eye and a...You know although I have two eyes a left eye and a right eye I find its quite a challenge to continually make myself see double... so let me first commend you on having breached into a paradigm luxurious enough to allow you to live that way. shhhh... don't tell anyone but.... there is no evolution there is only realization... whatever that you may believe that you have evolved into witch is really not to far removed from the idea of "baboons with cell phones"is in fact nothing at all, it is simply your mind's eye cristalized... "let your ideas fall from mind like snow from the heavens but beware of clouds of ice for they are called icebergs and they are so dense that only the oceans can support them, the man who makes his home on this iceberg will wake up every morning and remark on the way in witch the world beneath him is flooded in dellusion but perhaps it is him who is lost at sea" so todays headline is "the demon haunted world of the spiritually repressed left" some will read that and take from it how primitive the left is yet others could realize how authoritarian the right is... why be so petty... there is a world of hunger and yet all of you allow a few godheads of state to lead you over and over through the same circus of modernity... do you not think at all? "The average nobody to think that they are somebody" Nice one gaddag... I feel sorry for your kids... as they will go through life in search of the rewards enjoyed by all somebodys but they will only find conptemtp for you...because what is sad is not that you think the vision of a world where all the earth's ressources are not concentrated in the north should be thought of as a myth, you see that is just naivety... what's sad is that you want to stop thinking this way but you can't not of yet... not until you realize and except that the paradigm you inhabit is an egotistical trap... one that can only be penetrated by compasion ah but there is our dilemma you see, logic and analysis may bring you to walk on the moon it does not say you belong there... and it certainly doesn't cultivate love... it is so fiting that you would descibe potential as vertical... your heads are so finite, yet you dig galaxies into them... why not not just give up your spine superman?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1147899130866492492006-05-17T13:52:00.000-07:002006-05-17T13:52:00.000-07:00Will: I'm typing very quietly to avoid waking ol' ...Will: I'm typing very quietly to avoid waking ol' Boogies who is sleeping right here at my left elbow. I've been getting nagged night and day for a Smart Cat unit, but this month I had a chance to snag a mint-in-box 1978 Takara Balatak #3 Trotter space cruiser from a guy in Canada. You gotta' keep in mind I've had the #1 and #2 ships since '78 and I've been looking for the third unit ever since. After 28 years of heartfelt longing, and feeling utterly incomplete as a human being I couln't resist. What person in his right mind could? My wife is just getting adjusted to a diet of surplus rice and dandelion greens. I don't need more pressure from the cat. (by the way, Booger the Cat's a she.)<BR/>;)<BR/><BR/>JWMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1147898276626668022006-05-17T13:37:00.000-07:002006-05-17T13:37:00.000-07:00Kahn and petey,Testing out rule #2 in Wills' "Law ...Kahn and petey,<BR/><BR/>Testing out rule #2 in Wills' "Law of differing modes of consciousness" eh?<BR/>No good deed goes unpunished.<BR/>Sucker punch to the gut in 4,3,2,.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1147895328953116492006-05-17T12:48:00.000-07:002006-05-17T12:48:00.000-07:00Nagarjuna:This is an automated reply from the moon...Nagarjuna:<BR/><BR/>This is an automated reply from the moonbat detector at One Cosmos. Your recent posts contained certain predictable patterns that matched profiles of other trolls in our database. Please read and memorize before commenting further. <BR/><BR/>Memos:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/2006/03/political-seance-101.html" REL="nofollow">Political Seance 101</A><BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/2006/03/political-seance-part-2.html" REL="nofollow">Political Seance 201</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com