tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post116014848788022204..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Around the Cosmos in 365 Days: Narcissistic Refractions in the Mirror of my AñoverbosaryGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160529161902267312006-10-10T18:12:00.000-07:002006-10-10T18:12:00.000-07:00Congratulations, man! As someone who tried to toss...Congratulations, man! As someone who tried to toss the occasional yok into the comments at LGF, I always knew that something great would be appunded to any post from 'Bob G'. I still plan on getting that autograph for my copy of 'One Cosmos' you promised me, although my visa to California seems to have been revoked. And don't worry; all of your emails have been deleted. (joke)Sort-of-Mad Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08372852782738000546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160379877925791592006-10-09T00:44:00.000-07:002006-10-09T00:44:00.000-07:00Congratulations on your one year anniversary! I f...Congratulations on your one year anniversary! <BR/><BR/>I followed a post recommendation from a Gates of Vienna poster who linked to your "Liberal Ghost Dance" post. Your post was a revelation, and it was everything I had been trying to articulate for the last few years. <BR/><BR/>I did not realize you were Bob G. at LGF. I've been reading LGF since shortly after 11 September. It's been quite an education.<BR/><BR/>So has your blog.<BR/><BR/>Best wishes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160291960197571962006-10-08T00:19:00.000-07:002006-10-08T00:19:00.000-07:00Dear Bob,I have been reading your blog on a near d...Dear Bob,<BR/><BR/>I have been reading your blog on a near daily basis since its inception and can say without exaggertion that I have learned more from One Cosmos than any other website. <BR/><BR/>I am probably like a lot of others out there who appreciate your blog but rarely, if ever, leave comments.<BR/><BR/>I also want to let you know that I read your first book carefully (twice)and am still absorbing its teachings. <BR/><BR/>I'm impatiently awaiting your next book, which I understand will be more of a political discourse.<BR/><BR/>Keep up the great work and don't even think about quiting again. (Did anyone else notice that Bob's blog seems to get even better each time he threatens to resign?)<BR/><BR/>Lastly, is there any chance you could restore the archives? I really would like to look over a number of the earlier posts. <BR/><BR/>Wishing you and your family the best over the next year of blogging.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160278308318397062006-10-07T20:31:00.000-07:002006-10-07T20:31:00.000-07:00Thanks for a great blog, Bob. Yours is the only b...Thanks for a great blog, Bob. Yours is the only blog where I read every post, in order, even if I miss a couple of days. In fact, after reading your, many other blogs leave me irritated at their shallowness. So, hats off to you, and thanks to Lisa, Van, Joan, and the rest of the Bobbleheads. You folks contribute to the magic.PSGInfinityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09778921507090905909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160264538942797372006-10-07T16:42:00.000-07:002006-10-07T16:42:00.000-07:00Gagdad,To cause someone to look afresh at the most...Gagdad,<BR/><BR/>To cause someone to look afresh at the most fundamental questions of who they are and what they believe and why, is a significant achievement in itself.<BR/><BR/>To cause a person to reexamine what they consider to be true, to touch the thoughts a person thinks, to cause them to see a connection between two seemingly separate thoughts which would otherwise have remained strangers within them, and so influence their thinking ever after, is to have a deeper impact on lives than nearly anything else possible between one person and another.<BR/><BR/>To have such an affect on a person without the imposition of a life shaking event, such as that of a 911, but only through catching their interest, wonder and humor is a rare talent - thanks for sharing it!Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160246705389651382006-10-07T11:45:00.000-07:002006-10-07T11:45:00.000-07:00Feliz Añoverbosary, Bob!And many happy more!Feliz Añoverbosary, Bob!<BR/>And many happy more!Faustahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07282125634465210955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160236769584488852006-10-07T08:59:00.000-07:002006-10-07T08:59:00.000-07:00Gag (may I call you Gag?? - I feel as if we must k...Gag (may I call you Gag?? - I feel as if we must know each other in some dimension),<BR/><BR/>Thank you for your blog. I have been a devoted reader for about five or six days. Anyway, I forget how I got here but I haven't left since I read your blog the first time. I'm hooked.<BR/><BR/>Now, you may ask why I like this blog so much. Well, I was hoping you'd ask that, because I'll be delighted to tell you. You see, I am a recovering clinical psychologist. In fact, I was a practicing clinical psychologist for all of 4 years in the halcyon days of <I>I'm OK You're OK</I>, Esalen, and Carl "everybody's OK" Rogers. As a result of the ordination of clinical psychologists to the order of High Priest/ess of Postmodernism, I ran as fast as I possibly could back to graduate school and got myself re-educated and re-uh-grooved as a psychophysicist. And I've never looked back, as I am far too stiff-necked for that sort of frivolity.<BR/><BR/>That you exist as a clinical psychologist is - using the word in its full meaning - <I>astonishing</I> to me. I'm sure there is a special place in APA hell, with tortures unimaginable even in the fevered dreams of Dante on acid, just for heretics like you.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, thanks and keep up the good work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160194250736904852006-10-06T21:10:00.000-07:002006-10-06T21:10:00.000-07:00Happy Anoverbosary to you, Bob.When an almost-step...Happy Anoverbosary to you, Bob.<BR/>When an almost-step-blogson has a birthday party, it makes you realize how fast time flies. Thanks for a unique and always thought provoking Blog and may you cerebrate many, many more.ShrinkWrappedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15686943576191522213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160191834775232362006-10-06T20:30:00.000-07:002006-10-06T20:30:00.000-07:00Happy Anniversary.You have a terrifically unique b...Happy Anniversary.<BR/><BR/>You have a terrifically unique blog.<BR/><BR/>It's your take on things.<BR/><BR/>You and Anchoress belong in your own category. Two of my favorites.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160188849038053632006-10-06T19:40:00.000-07:002006-10-06T19:40:00.000-07:00Well done, Bob! Congratulations to your one year m...Well done, Bob! <BR/>Congratulations to your one year milestone (just don't ask me how many miles from the first post you have travelled)!!<BR/>I remember reading your comments at Shrinkwrapped, who I found via Dr. Sanity, who I found via an acquaintance at Goldtoken, over a chess game, and the political board.<BR/>I never expected this out of chess.<BR/>After reading some of your early post, I honestly didn't know what to make of you.<BR/>I found myself thinking, "is this guy serious or is he a loon"?<BR/>Not regarding your political views, but your spiritual views, some of which appeared bizarre or strange to me, but vaguely familiar.<BR/>So I dropped in occasionally, and left again, until last January.<BR/>As I have understood more of the truths you speak of, and became more capable of distinguishing the funny from the serious, or not, I realize thar be treasure in this here cosmic cave!!!<BR/>I am here to stay!<BR/>Thank you, Bob,<BR/>and thank you, Petey!<BR/>God bless you, and your family!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160186506727097152006-10-06T19:01:00.000-07:002006-10-06T19:01:00.000-07:00Booger seconds that, Connecticut Yankee.;)Congratu...Booger seconds that, Connecticut Yankee.;)<BR/>Congratulations Bob. Thank you for what you do. It has reached me. For my concern, this blog is the most important thing on the internet. And thank you Will, and Dilys as well. <BR/><BR/>JWMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160186192016267042006-10-06T18:56:00.000-07:002006-10-06T18:56:00.000-07:00Cosmic Cats. Good.I'll get to work on the manifest...Cosmic Cats. Good.<BR/><BR/>I'll get to work on the manifesto.<BR/><BR/>Now feed me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160185004784621422006-10-06T18:36:00.000-07:002006-10-06T18:36:00.000-07:00Bob--Happy blogiversary; I remember your posts fro...Bob--<BR/><BR/>Happy blogiversary; I remember your posts from LGF too-- they're the reason I started reading this blog. I'd just like to suggest the foundation of an Order of Cosmic Cats, for those of us who aren't raccoon types. Something like the variety of religious orders to be found within Christianity. Fergus can be the official founder.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, many more happy years to you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160184480694740752006-10-06T18:28:00.000-07:002006-10-06T18:28:00.000-07:00Gagdad Bob,I just wanted to tell you how much I en...Gagdad Bob,<BR/><BR/>I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy your blog. I found it via a link from Pajamas Media a few months ago and was hooked after reading a few posts. I appreciate the spiritual perspective you bring to your posts, and enjoy your humorous takes on life in the Cosmos. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for all the hard work you put in to make this such an interesting and insightful blog. It has become a daily read for me. Happy blogoversary and keep up the "god" work.LTAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17228956608027614680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160182402903939762006-10-06T17:53:00.000-07:002006-10-06T17:53:00.000-07:00Happy OC anniversary Bob! I first came across your...Happy OC anniversary Bob! I first came across your blog last Winter and gradually became a daily reader. Now I’m hooked, yours is the only blog that I read the comments section and I even bought your book. You gave me quite a fright a few weeks back when it seemed you were going to quit blogging. <BR/><BR/>You probably needed that ten years you spent meditating, reading and reflecting. Consider it a spiritual boot camp preparing you for battle in the “Church Militant”. Though I agree with you about engaging the world, as a Catholic, considering the huge variation in Saints through out Church history, I believe there is a place and a valuable function performed by cloistered nuns and such. If only there continuous prayers on our behalf.<BR/><BR/>I was happily surprised to hear you making an appearance at the “Sanity Squad” pod cast over at Pajamas Media. I hope you become a regular with them. And keep up the good work here. I’m doing all I can to attract new readers to your blog and spread word of your magnificence. If I may steal a line Rush uses and apply it to you, I think you also have “talent on loan from God”.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160177250792780742006-10-06T16:27:00.000-07:002006-10-06T16:27:00.000-07:00Happy anoverbosary Petey, and gratitude for the...Happy anoverbosary Petey, and gratitude for the delightful daily booster shot of spiritual vitimans, and for keeping Gagdad persevering,and as Lisa mentioned the lovely Gagwife Leslie whose next book could very well be "Living with an Avatar" And thanks to all the Bobbleheads for the compelling conversation, most especially,recently, Will and Joan. <BR/> The early LGF blogs of Charles were what kept me sane and educated me out of my moonbatitus. It took a while after 911 for the jokes to flow but they sure were apreciated in our family. Hit the tip jar everyone for soul cleansing indulgences.Geckohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11150958111957262924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160173106602413452006-10-06T15:18:00.000-07:002006-10-06T15:18:00.000-07:00Bob,"appropriation of an institution called “news”...Bob,<BR/><BR/>"appropriation of an institution called “news” for the promulgation of a worldview. I, on the other hand, have an all-encompassing weltenthang through which I attempt to interpret the news of the day"<BR/><BR/>Your expositons follow the Socratic rule of being grounded in truth. So you give us dialectic, not rhetoric.<BR/><BR/>To your everlasting credit your discourse is as Socrates says speaking to Phaedrus "The sort that goes together with knowledge, and is written in the soul of the learner, that can defend itself, and knows to whom it should speak and to whom it should say nothing."<BR/><BR/>John HindsJohn Hindshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05654010029465940318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160172484267340802006-10-06T15:08:00.000-07:002006-10-06T15:08:00.000-07:00GB,many thanks for your unique writings. You conti...GB,<BR/><BR/>many thanks for your unique writings. <BR/><BR/>You continue to teach, inspire and comfort me. <BR/><BR/>Michael, GermanyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160170580124883152006-10-06T14:36:00.000-07:002006-10-06T14:36:00.000-07:00BobThanks for this blog! It is so refreshing to re...Bob<BR/>Thanks for this blog! It is so refreshing to read the writings of a fellow extreme seeker. Like C.S. Lewis, you are an intellectual voice of true spirituality, a continuing confirmation of the fact that intellect and spirituality are not mutually exclusive; in fact, one cannot truly be expressed without the other. For those who think that they only have a choice between airheaded, pretzel-logic secular pseudo-intellectualism or Fundamentalist anti-intellectualism and primitivism that make cargo cults seem logical, you are indeed the antidote. <BR/><BR/>Even though, as a Christian, I obviously don't espouse all the spiritual sources you cite, I am not so closed-minded as to ignore the deep truths that you have carefully extracted from those sources (heck, even Lewis cited Castaneda sometimes), and I am thankful for the clarity and the painstaking intellectual honesty with which you put forth those truths. With the sewage that passes for "news" and "truth" these days, I'll take my deeper truths and reality anywhere I can get them.<BR/><BR/>As I said in a previous post, I am thinking of printing out your posts from now on, and putting them in a binder, for posterity. <BR/><BR/>I also do lots of lol's at your jokes, puns and your newly invented words (such as Anoverbosary). Even Lewis Carroll and Cornel West can't outdo you in the word-invention arena.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160170418606673582006-10-06T14:33:00.000-07:002006-10-06T14:33:00.000-07:00more kudos,Bob.keep up the good work.more kudos,Bob.<BR/><BR/>keep up the good work.gumshoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10567181585153569751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160169921033514052006-10-06T14:25:00.000-07:002006-10-06T14:25:00.000-07:00Hi Bob: I've always wondered about "Petey." Wh...Hi Bob: <BR/><BR/> I've always wondered about "Petey." Who, or what, is he? What does he do? What is his place in the overall scheme of things?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160165709330914172006-10-06T13:15:00.000-07:002006-10-06T13:15:00.000-07:00Happy OC birthday! Your work is really appreciated...Happy OC birthday! Your work is really appreciated.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160160556574761232006-10-06T11:49:00.001-07:002006-10-06T11:49:00.001-07:00Love all of God’s creation, the whole of it and ev...Love all of God’s creation, the whole of it and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light! Love the animals. Love the plants; love everything. If you love everything, you will soon perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.<BR/>– Fyodor Doestoyevski<BR/><BR/>Best wishes in the second year.<BR/><BR/>In Christ<BR/><><Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160160541964568572006-10-06T11:49:00.000-07:002006-10-06T11:49:00.000-07:00Congratulations! Even if I haven't always agreed w...Congratulations! Even if I haven't always agreed with what you say, I appreciate your honesty, directness and total 'non PC' approach. Thanks especially for the book recommendation 'Meditations on the Tarot - A Journey into Christian Hermeticism' - it is AMAZING!Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15325186607138810426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1160159273891347652006-10-06T11:27:00.000-07:002006-10-06T11:27:00.000-07:00A deep and heartfelt THANKS to you Bob.A deep and heartfelt THANKS to you Bob.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com