tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post1350576055357969528..comments2024-03-18T21:33:35.309-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: PS I'm Ambivalent About YouGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-62277337079921023402014-02-26T12:19:13.323-08:002014-02-26T12:19:13.323-08:00Hi Bob,
I like what you wrote about the fact that...Hi Bob,<br /><br />I like what you wrote about the fact that the object of the revelation has to be ready for it.<br /><br />Reminds me that when the student is ready, the teacher will appear.<br /><br />Has he any choice?<br /><br />By the way, the name "People of the Book," of which so many secularized Jews are so proud, originated as a term of art in Islamic jurisprudence, designating those communities whose adherents a Muslim was not absolutely required to slaughter if they did not submit and become Muslims themselves. "People of the Book," including Zoroastrians, Christians, and Jews, were allowed to pay a head-tax instead of losing their physical heads. Gandalinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09196550750055246901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48416297276340477762014-02-26T08:43:37.859-08:002014-02-26T08:43:37.859-08:00Ha! So true Julie. I think the tell-all are the en...Ha! So true Julie. I think the tell-all are the endorsements by Tony Robbins and Marianne Williamson. This is just spiritual Nietzscheism.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71158222992111473212014-02-26T08:40:34.212-08:002014-02-26T08:40:34.212-08:00Though it is telling that it is generally leftists...Though it is telling that it is generally leftists who fall for this, where conservatives tend to stick to traditional religion.<br /><br />After all, they are so much more progressive than everyone else; they <i>must</i> be superhuman. They are the change they've been waiting for! Now if only the unevolved would recognize their superiority...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-76970532108372603672014-02-26T08:38:07.862-08:002014-02-26T08:38:07.862-08:00Ugh. I guess there's no shortage of money to b...Ugh. I guess there's no shortage of money to be made in telling people what they want to hear. juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-68749102688845073922014-02-26T08:27:58.188-08:002014-02-26T08:27:58.188-08:00OT: Just awful.OT: Just <a href="http://yoursuperhumanpotential.com/?orid=92&opid=1" rel="nofollow">awful</a>.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57511648402971619072014-02-26T06:45:37.494-08:002014-02-26T06:45:37.494-08:00I have absolutely no problem with variable aspects...I have absolutely no problem with variable aspects of God. In fact, I'd like to eventually return to that subject, but I keep getting distracted. Absolute changelessness strikes me as an impossible concept.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-80476730471379522882014-02-26T06:27:26.363-08:002014-02-26T06:27:26.363-08:00"Which only continues to happen all the time;..."Which only continues to happen all the time; comforting, given that world seems yet again to be hopelessly disintegrated and flying off its hinges."<br /><br />This has all happened before.<br /><br />This will all happen again.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20758842358011256772014-02-26T06:21:55.605-08:002014-02-26T06:21:55.605-08:00"You could say that a "nervous breakdown..."You could say that a "nervous breakdown" is a descent into unremitting PS. These fragments of PS are persecutory and predatory, especially as they become more primitive. Even "curiosity" is a kind of "pain," i.e., the pain of not-knowing."<br /><br />It helps if you know that you've completely melted your emotional topography at the time you melt your emotional topography.<br /><br />I feel really bad for people who disintegrate themselves without realizing that they've disintegrated themselves.<br /><br />Granted, I was *trying* to disintegrate myself. <br /><br />I just didn't realize that I would actually accomplish what I was trying to do. <br /><br />Yeah, you have unremitting PS, but it's more of a "Um. Uh, oh. That wasn't good. I am sooooo in trouble now." Granted, I was really impressed with myself that I actually accomplished something.<br /><br />This is also the only time in my life that I really realized what Wile-E Coyote feels like when he runs off the cliff and realizes that there is no longer any cliff under his feet.<br /><br />Then you have to go track down all the PS and tie them up so that you have time to find the emergency override switch.<br /><br />I suppose if you know precisely what's going on, it's not really a nervous breakdown.<br /><br />Plus, I was experiencing intermittent PS that was entirely my fault.<br /><br />Kids: Don't try this at home.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-58207058996089957572014-02-26T05:51:40.138-08:002014-02-26T05:51:40.138-08:00"Interestingly, looked at this way, the trini..."Interestingly, looked at this way, the trinitarian God is a kind of eternally dynamic PS↔D. I don't mean to vulgarize the deity, or contaminate him with our own limited ideas."<br /><br />Which gets us back to the issue we were discussing some time ago regarding the fixed and variable aspects of God.<br /><br />I suppose that it's probably important to note that this is only a *problem* from our perspective.<br /><br />It's not a problem from God's perspective.<br /><br />Kind of like the issue of how light is both a particle and a wave.<br /><br />That's *our* conceptional problem. <br /><br />Light has not problem with this whatsoever.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85071806852563153782014-02-25T19:44:46.879-08:002014-02-25T19:44:46.879-08:00There are probably some Muslims at the NSA. There are probably some Muslims at the NSA. mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-13700375164411612142014-02-25T17:07:04.842-08:002014-02-25T17:07:04.842-08:00:D:Djuliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36206513304529909952014-02-25T16:50:04.571-08:002014-02-25T16:50:04.571-08:00We kid that we have Muslim readers.We kid that we have Muslim readers.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-91928787568367928832014-02-25T16:49:40.917-08:002014-02-25T16:49:40.917-08:00We kid our Muslim readers.We kid our Muslim readers.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-64115282540489953012014-02-25T16:48:50.236-08:002014-02-25T16:48:50.236-08:00cough ***koran*** coughcough ***koran*** coughGagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87030573542204274502014-02-25T16:47:51.965-08:002014-02-25T16:47:51.965-08:00For example, you can't have a People of the Bo...For example, you can't have a People of the Book if the people can't read and write. Rather, they'd probably call themselves the People of the Doorstop: "God gave us this nice doorstop. We revere it, but no one knows why." Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-79480676337286925972014-02-25T16:41:24.593-08:002014-02-25T16:41:24.593-08:00I thought about that: in order for something to b...I thought about that: in order for something to be revealed, the reveal-ee must be at least capable of apprehending it. God could reveal himself to a cow, but the cow would just go on chewing. That a human has the potential to understand and assimilate the divine message says something important about humans. But just as God had to nurture a people in order to reveal himself, I think he first had to nurture a species, so to speak. If God had revealed himself (in the same way) to human beings of, say, 100,000 years ago, it is doubtful that they would have been ready for it. So there is a necessary dialectic between the revelation and our ability to understand it -- not because the revelation is relative, but because we are. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9665088107638149682014-02-25T14:15:36.795-08:002014-02-25T14:15:36.795-08:00Hi Bob,
All very good, although I would be inclin...Hi Bob,<br /><br />All very good, although I would be inclined to give Abraham less credit than you for discovering that God is One, because I think this was an idea that was revealed. Gandalinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09196550750055246901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-76623797307499334182014-02-25T10:04:00.256-08:002014-02-25T10:04:00.256-08:00Somewhat related: Ricky Skaggs gives blood in Isr...Somewhat related: <a href="http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/11002/grammy-winner-ricky-skaggs-saves-lives-israel/" rel="nofollow">Ricky Skaggs gives blood in Israel.</a><br /><br />Ricky and I are practically the same age. Sharon, take away his carbs.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-27982913207179088692014-02-25T09:57:12.786-08:002014-02-25T09:57:12.786-08:00I can see this. We break it up, put it together, ...I can see this. We break it up, put it together, break it up, and so on. I have been thinking about this in terms of what we were talking about a while back -- where we are part of the process. mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41270585783414256192014-02-25T09:13:09.966-08:002014-02-25T09:13:09.966-08:00Interestingly, looked at this way, the trinitarian...<i>Interestingly, looked at this way, the trinitarian God is a kind of eternally dynamic PS↔D. I don't mean to vulgarize the deity, or contaminate him with our own limited ideas. </i><br /><br />It's a very appealing idea, though. It has a pulse, so to speak.<br /><br /><i>Just when the apostles think the world is hopelessly disintegrated and flying off its hinges, it reintegrates at a higher level than they could have possibly imagined. "Transfiguration," you might say, is a very high-level D. </i><br /><br />Which only continues to happen all the time; comforting, given that world seems yet again to be hopelessly disintegrated and flying off its hinges.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com