tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post1450777534629611522..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: You Must Be Dreaming!Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-838735448648288452015-03-12T22:37:30.679-07:002015-03-12T22:37:30.679-07:00"This is again the realm of Middle Earth that..."This is again the realm of Middle Earth that flourishes between the ponderable world and our own poetic sensibility. But that is where we always live: "We walk about in the metaphysical concrescence of our private idioms." Moving through this world "evokes states sponsored by the specific objects we encounter," such that "in a very particular sense, we live our life in our own private dreaming" (ibid.).<br /><br />That might sound a little new-agey, but again, the work of creating a world takes place in the imaginative and resonant space of the In Between. This is one thing that leftists do not understand. In fact, their position is frankly incoherent, as they pretend to eliminate Middle Earth, reducing it at one end to a naive scientism, and dissolving it at the other into a deconstructionist tyranny of relativism."<br /><br />And yet, leftists like to consider themselves dreamers.<br />They conflate wishful thinking and denial of reality with dreaming.<br />USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66265711079054256512015-03-12T21:41:55.141-07:002015-03-12T21:41:55.141-07:00"For Bollas, "the human subject becomes ..."For Bollas, "the human subject becomes the dream work of his own life," meaning that, just as in a dream, "we constantly endow objects with psychic meaning" and "walk amidst our own significance." But it's one thing to do this consciously and with insight, another thing entirely to imagine that everyone should or even can live in our particular worldspace. Strokes & folks. What is the American dream but the cosmic right to be different? And what is the leftist -- or Islamist -- nightmare but the obligation to be the same?"<br /><br />Aye, leftists and islamists don't respect individual liberty. You will be assimilated into the hive mind(lessness) or else they will do everything they can to coerce or force you to.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51090832964778867932015-03-12T14:21:10.818-07:002015-03-12T14:21:10.818-07:00I'm reminded of a discussion I was having earl...I'm reminded of a discussion I was having earlier today. Back when I was younger, I thought I knew it all and tried to read the New Testament. Verdict: religion is insane. My cup was so full of BS it didn't have room for actual understanding.<br /><br />It wasn't until I became emptied by nihilism that I found I had a hunger for truth.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-600294791155203152015-03-12T13:34:06.006-07:002015-03-12T13:34:06.006-07:00Petey reminds me that I've had to unlearn a to...Petey reminds me that I've had to unlearn a ton of theology over past ten or fifteen years.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-56087319479354376632015-03-12T13:31:59.958-07:002015-03-12T13:31:59.958-07:00God successively reveals himself as man becomes in...<i>God successively reveals himself as man becomes increasingly capable of receiving and assimilating the message.</i><br /><br />Yep, Hebrews says milk before meat -- but we are supposed grow up.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-32760193599863313762015-03-12T11:14:54.603-07:002015-03-12T11:14:54.603-07:00Most of us learn to read by the age of five, and t...Most of us learn to read by the age of five, and then forget how.Peteynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-16297986813239329252015-03-12T11:05:49.990-07:002015-03-12T11:05:49.990-07:00Posts like this are very helpful for my life. May...Posts like this are very helpful for my life. Maybe I'm learning to read. Thanks!David J Quackenbushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11873818923450408281noreply@blogger.com