tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post114830987097327791..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Unhappy KampfersGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1148387552077234232006-05-23T05:32:00.000-07:002006-05-23T05:32:00.000-07:00Yes, please, more Schuon. I loved that quote.have ...Yes, please, more Schuon. I loved that quote.<BR/>have a small private bet with self about what you might say.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1148370452654197312006-05-23T00:47:00.000-07:002006-05-23T00:47:00.000-07:00Yes, JWM, he doesn't care if he steps on toes or t...Yes, JWM, he doesn't care if he steps on toes or tails. Now you've gone and broken the code! I may just have to read it again. Did you feel me wave at you on Saturday? I passed by Whittier on my way home from Newport Beach. I was going to stop and say hi but then remembered we have not actually met yet!Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04969685296436358865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1148366747583330622006-05-22T23:45:00.000-07:002006-05-22T23:45:00.000-07:00I look around and often see what’s called “diversi...I look around and often see what’s called “diversity days” or “diversity week” being implemented by many city governments and I wonder; Why can’t we celebrate commonality and the values that bind such a diverse nation and hold it together to prosper? It seems that the very values which can bring prosperity and hold together a vibrant, diverse culture enabling it to evolve are mocked as unsophisticated by people who haven’t the ability to see where the tower of babble called diversity is leading them.<BR/>Bob, thanks for the visual picture of the choice between the tree of knowledge and the tree of life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1148361742220539992006-05-22T22:22:00.000-07:002006-05-22T22:22:00.000-07:00Lisa:Wasn't it a great read? I especially like the...Lisa:<BR/>Wasn't it a great read? I especially like the part at the end when they find out that the holy grail is really a soda dispensing machine in Tel Aviv, and that Judas was actually a cable guy for Pontius Pilate. And who would have guessed the part about Moses actually getting a ride from Zechariah Sitchen in an all terrain UFO? Bob tells truth to power and he doesn't care whose toes he steps on!<BR/>;)<BR/><BR/>JWMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1148359519639305702006-05-22T21:45:00.000-07:002006-05-22T21:45:00.000-07:00I just finished the book. It was sad to see it en...I just finished the book. It was sad to see it end or did it just begin?! I must say that it was nice to confirm that I have been wandering on this path since a kid. Whenever I was asked by adults what I learned in school today or what I was doing, I usually replied, "nothing". It explains everything. I am glad you had the resolve to put it into wor(l)ds. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for being such an arrow up in a circle, Bob. Hopefully it is contagious!Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04969685296436358865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1148356361912813852006-05-22T20:52:00.000-07:002006-05-22T20:52:00.000-07:00I have heard a lot of people say stuff like: "I am...I have heard a lot of people say stuff like: "I am an ecomomic conservative but a social liberal." Meaning that they want lower taxes, less government and all but were all for social justice equal rights etc. I used to think somewhat along those lines. My position has almost completely reversed.<BR/>Should we have higher taxes, and a lot of government spending, or lower taxes and less money for libraries and parks? I can have that discussion. I'm not really passionate about it.<BR/>What disturbs me is the erosion of values: the drumbeat for equivalence, the war against differentiation. The war against common sense. Men are the same as women. Heterosexuality is equivalent to homosexuality is equivalent to bisexuality is equivalent to transgender, is equivalent to whateverism. Christianity is equivalent to islam is equivalent to Judaism is equivalent to new ageism. Racism is equivalent to bigotry is equivqalent to sexism, is equivalent to ageism... Secondhand smoke will kill you.<BR/>As rock n' roll guru Sonny Bono once put it- <I>and the beat goes on and on and on</I> (By the way Sonny Bono was equivalent to the Beatles)<BR/><BR/>Ignore the pole star. You can navigate just fine by the little light on the bow.<BR/><BR/>So much of PC dogma is clearly insane. How, you wonder, can people believe some of this stuff? <BR/>That's why I don't argue with these people anymore. I just get a sense that they are on the far side of an unbridgeable gap.<BR/><BR/>JWMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1148348045275737402006-05-22T18:34:00.000-07:002006-05-22T18:34:00.000-07:00It has been observed that if you add a spoonful of...It has been observed that if you add a spoonful of wine to a barrel full of sewage you get sewage, while if you add a spoonful of sewage to a barrel full of wine you get sewage.<BR/><BR/>I think this may apply to trying to find a middle ground between left and right.katzxyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02271736861541089213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1148329269432312512006-05-22T13:21:00.000-07:002006-05-22T13:21:00.000-07:00Excellent Bob:The left though, refuses to examine,...Excellent Bob:<BR/><BR/>The left though, refuses to examine, critically of course, the most important statement in the Bible: John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word..." <BR/><BR/>The information provided to us, for us, and through us, by the "Logos," can never be comprehended by a mind closed to all but the supposed programming of DNA. It is why the left consistently refuses to share the Gospel ie: the good news.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for thinking and sharing. I enjoy reading your blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1148318889373228122006-05-22T10:28:00.000-07:002006-05-22T10:28:00.000-07:00>>"Sometimes I wonder if some of my most important...>>"Sometimes I wonder if some of my most important points aren’t buried in a post. When you’re dashing about cyberspace, going from blog to blog, you probably just skim around, looking for the essence of what the blogger is saying."<< <BR/><BR/>I realized on my first visit here that if a post you've written at first seems superficial.... I need to read it again........Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1148313093201409662006-05-22T08:51:00.000-07:002006-05-22T08:51:00.000-07:00By the way, being a classical liberal, I would lov...By the way, being a classical liberal, I would love to see contemporary liberalism pull itself out of its philosophical mire. We need that.<BR/><BR/>But right now I need to go to work.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1148312975912861952006-05-22T08:49:00.000-07:002006-05-22T08:49:00.000-07:00Vox--I think just being polite and thoughtful will...Vox--<BR/><BR/>I think just being polite and thoughtful will suffice. I would hope that no readers jump on someone who offers a calm and intelligent challenge.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1148312310105370072006-05-22T08:38:00.000-07:002006-05-22T08:38:00.000-07:00Yes--"jihad" is the Islamist word for "kampf." Th...Yes--"jihad" is the Islamist word for "kampf." Their's is also a God of will.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1148311845744292532006-05-22T08:30:00.000-07:002006-05-22T08:30:00.000-07:00And that is precisely why those Leftists are conti...And that is precisely why those Leftists are continually so unhappy with their lives. They become the perfect victim. They are powerless and really are no better than a turtle or a horse! They are very close in thought to their Islamist kissing cousins who do not value life and cannot wait for death to be rewarded.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04969685296436358865noreply@blogger.com