tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post1426856067195829404..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Liberalism: Come for the Hope, Stay for the DestructionGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-40933130907895454772015-06-10T08:30:32.882-07:002015-06-10T08:30:32.882-07:00Nice. I never thought science would be able to pro...Nice. I never thought science would be able to prove that reality wouldn't exist if there was nobody to know it, but it seems I was wrong. It also reminds of the truism that a person is only a person in relation to other persons. If there were only one, there wouldn't be any.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46384317581062303182015-06-10T08:21:59.952-07:002015-06-10T08:21:59.952-07:00Future causation. Sure, it works in reality, but ...<a href="http://www.digitaljournal.com/science/experiment-shows-future-events-decide-what-happens-in-the-past/article/434829" rel="nofollow">Future causation</a>. Sure, it works in reality, but does it work in theory?<br /><br />It reminds me of Invisible Boy, who has the superpower of invisibility, so long as no one is looking at him.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-27523323474132441272015-06-10T04:41:07.754-07:002015-06-10T04:41:07.754-07:00I dunno, B'ob. I think B'en is vying to be...I dunno, B'ob. I think B'en is vying to be the punster laureate around here!Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84318152411999843632015-06-09T21:44:14.621-07:002015-06-09T21:44:14.621-07:00"But in the upside-down world of the left, th..."But in the upside-down world of the left, this is precisely what happens: instead of crystalizing the higher energies, they distill the lower ones."<br /><br />The gut wrenching mojo of envy n' bitterness. Talk about a horrific harangueover.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5819761503131436222015-06-09T18:06:57.007-07:002015-06-09T18:06:57.007-07:00This is funny: even the left are getting scared of...<a href="http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid" rel="nofollow">This is funny</a>: even the left are getting scared of the left. And now you got New York secular jewish liberals like Seinfeld who are saying they won't perform on college campuses because they are too politically correct. Could this be the beginning of a backlash, when people of their own ilk are going through a conversion?tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-91193292322107510302015-06-09T12:52:25.354-07:002015-06-09T12:52:25.354-07:00When talking about the left, sober realism and str...When talking about the left, sober realism and strict objectivity always sound polemical -- like "hate speech" -- to lo-fos and leftists. But you can hardly exaggerate their madness and all-around rottenness.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-76184835724616721082015-06-09T12:47:20.116-07:002015-06-09T12:47:20.116-07:00"The great march of mental destruction will g..."The great march of mental destruction will go on. Everything will be denied. Everything will become a creed. It is a reasonable position to deny the stones in the street; it will be a religious dogma to assert them. It is a rational thesis that we are all in a dream; it will be a mystical sanity to say that we are all awake. Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer. We shall be left defending, not only the incredible virtues and sanities of human life, but something more incredible still, this huge impossible universe which stares us in the face. We shall fight for visible prodigies as if they were invisible. We shall look on the impossible grass and the skies with a strange courage. We shall be of those who have seen and yet have believed."<br />Heretics -ChestertonLesliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02284936021406079076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-72016864911154964262015-06-09T12:42:44.487-07:002015-06-09T12:42:44.487-07:00Like Japanese boy-men, they're taking the path...Like Japanese boy-men, they're taking the path of lust resistance.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85561296089667508172015-06-09T12:34:58.079-07:002015-06-09T12:34:58.079-07:00"A woman of worth is the crown of her husband..."A woman of worth is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful one is like rot in his bones."<br /><br />No wonder so many men today would rather stay hame and play video games.Proverbs 12:4noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66547434836978320912015-06-09T12:14:55.809-07:002015-06-09T12:14:55.809-07:00I read both of those linked pieces this morning; c...I read both of those linked pieces this morning; can't argue with either one. Alas. All the more reason to show our children what a strong family and healthy male-female relationship looks like.<br /><br />***<br /><br /><i>"In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the heavenly," such that the result is like a "materialized dream" or perhaps dreamland-localized.</i><br /><br />On Rick's raccoomendation yesterday, I watched the Sagrada Familia documentary on Netflix last night. Very interesting. I'm not at all sure what I think of the cathedral from an aesthetic perspective, especially on the outside; there is so much happening and it's so huge that in a way it reminds me of an architectural Joyce novel. Everywhere you look it is dense with meaning and symbolism.<br /><br />Anyway, what really grabbed me was the passion of the people who are continuing the project more than a century later, particularly the Japanese sculptor who converted from being a staunch Buddhist to being a devout Catholic. Though he might say that regardless, he was always a stonecutter, and Catholicism allowed him to express that in fullness whereas Buddhism required that he deny his desire to cut stone. Many great nuggets about creativity in the service of something higher, plus a couple of gnotes on the nature of Trinity, and overall a fascinating look at the process of creation as it flows from one man's vision and inspires further generations.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51759758190278270832015-06-09T11:27:40.814-07:002015-06-09T11:27:40.814-07:00Wow, I have to say that is pretty good analysis by...Wow, I have to say that is pretty good analysis by Captain Capitalism. I can see that. mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44289369100405483032015-06-09T11:20:50.617-07:002015-06-09T11:20:50.617-07:00...collapsed into a simplistic and vulgar literali...<i> ...collapsed into a simplistic and vulgar literalism devoid of any ascending or descending energies</i><br /><br />"L-l-l-look at my $h1t. Now pay me, b1tch!"<br /><br />I don't/can't listen to rap and all that long enough to determine if this is the case for every "song", but they do seem to like to "keep it real".mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-76913496018748034482015-06-09T11:17:08.806-07:002015-06-09T11:17:08.806-07:00This one explains exactly how the micro-destructio...<a href="http://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com/2012/10/why-communism-killed-american-muse.html" rel="nofollow">This one</a> explains exactly how the micro-destruction leads directly to the macro-destruction: "In corrupting and destroying the quality and caliber of the average American woman, these veritable communists have completely disincentived men from participating in getting married, creating families and forming careers. Men are getting married much later, and some, not at all because of the various legal and financial risks involved. Men are having less children not just because they can't afford it in today's economic times, but BOTH parents MUST have careers! Children be damned."<br /><br />It's kind of like Genesis: the woman falls first, and drags the man down with her. But the converse is also true: she can be the first to point man upward, otherwise he seeks the path of least resistance.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-64611854827771771222015-06-09T10:54:01.742-07:002015-06-09T10:54:01.742-07:00In other words, "The wish to silence, censor,...In other words, "The wish to silence, censor, and impede thought is just as strong a human emotion as the desire for free expression — especially when censorship is cloaked in rhetoric about fairness, equality, justice, and all the other euphemisms for not allowing the free promulgation of ideas.... <a href="http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/building-the-new-dark-age-mind/?singlepage=true" rel="nofollow">A pre-Enlightenment Age is not just the absence of uncomfortable free expression. It is also a sort of groupthink acceptance of a lie in place of the truth on grounds of social utility</a>.... The final symptom of an un-Enlightened age is the assumption that lies are truth because untruth offers collective benefits, while veracity disrupts social justice." Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.com