tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post155144402565423353..comments2024-03-18T21:33:35.309-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Between Cynicism and FaithGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15035482295294831032014-03-10T18:35:09.213-07:002014-03-10T18:35:09.213-07:00OT, new interview with David Berlinski at The Hove...OT, new interview with David Berlinski at The Hover Institute:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31MI5c7LYSU" rel="nofollow">Uncommon Knowledge, David Berlinski, new book: The Best of Times</a><br /><br />It's good.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-10483579441161569852014-03-10T12:41:47.678-07:002014-03-10T12:41:47.678-07:00Did you see where an Ethiopian woman was first acr...<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Sports/2014/03/09/LA-Marathon-Ethiopians-Women-Gender-Challenge" rel="nofollow">Did you see where an Ethiopian woman was first across the finish line in the LA marathon?</a><br /><br />They gave her a 17 minute, 41 second head start, and she beat the fastest man -- also an Ethiopian (do you get food for winning?) by 41 seconds.<br /><br />Does this seem fixed to you?<br /><br />It reminds me of the old joke about the golfer who was struck by lightning and died. He got to heaven, and St. Peter apologized, "It was a little mistake. It wasn't your time to go. To make up for it, we're going to send you back as anything you want."<br /><br />"Well," he says, "I'd like to go back as a lesbian."<br /><br />St. Peter raises his eyebrows but nods, "OK, that's the deal, but do you mind if I ask why a lesbian?"<br /><br />"You still get to make love to women, but you get to hit from the red tees."mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-74854896786314051182014-03-09T15:17:45.207-07:002014-03-09T15:17:45.207-07:00No post tomorrow?
Man, this spring is working out...No post tomorrow?<br /><br />Man, this spring is working out to be one crushing defeat after another, until you just wish Flanders was dead.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-55512519038065890352014-03-09T14:40:41.170-07:002014-03-09T14:40:41.170-07:00Theodata? Pneunomena?
Theorrata would be a good t...Theodata? Pneunomena?<br /><br />Theorrata would be a good term for all the ways that people get God all wrong. Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4904888189062337182014-03-09T09:33:47.270-07:002014-03-09T09:33:47.270-07:00Boy, with this missing hour, a post tomorrow seems...Boy, with this missing hour, a post tomorrow seems unlikely. Which is too bad, because I already have a provocative title: Theology, Theologic, and Thenomena. "Thenomena" is my word for experiential Facts of God, or spiritual data, unless someone can come up with a better term by Tuesday. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45686831724219762942014-03-07T13:13:30.682-08:002014-03-07T13:13:30.682-08:00Hell, AKA immortality without hope of improvement....Hell, AKA immortality without hope of improvement.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67511264826209321582014-03-07T11:57:28.843-08:002014-03-07T11:57:28.843-08:00I ask'd thee, 'Give me immortality.'
T...I ask'd thee, 'Give me immortality.'<br />Then didst thou grant mine asking with a smile,<br />Like wealthy men, who care not how they give.<br />But thy strong Hours indignant work'd their wills,<br />And beat me down and marr'd and wasted me,<br />And tho' they could not end me, left me maim'd<br />To dwell in presence of immortal youth,<br />Immortal age beside immortal youth,<br />And all I was, in ashes.<br /><br />TennysonTonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-21577774666983542642014-03-07T10:12:29.901-08:002014-03-07T10:12:29.901-08:00"Assuming for a moment that scientists find t..."Assuming for a moment that scientists find their unified theory, and the singularity is reached, and people - or at least, some small percent - can live darn near forever, well... Then what? If it were somehow possible to strip the world of all it's mystery, with every secret laid bare on the dissecting table, what would be the point of living?"<br /><br />I think saw this in a Star Trek episode where a Q wanted to kill himself.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54873705981570531922014-03-07T10:11:07.186-08:002014-03-07T10:11:07.186-08:00I think they're like the Yanomamö: it's a...I think they're like the Yanomamö: it's all about sex and violence for them, even if the sex obsession takes an inverse form. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-75830326817519859172014-03-07T10:08:21.941-08:002014-03-07T10:08:21.941-08:00"Thus, for example, the leftist cannot compre..."Thus, for example, the leftist cannot comprehend Islamic terrorism, because they think it must be caused by something we did to them."<br /><br />It is caused by something we did to them.<br /><br />Namely, it's caused by our decision to continue to engage in thoughts that they don't like.<br /><br />It's either that or the fact that we continue to exist in their world.<br /><br />I think it depends how they feel in the morning.<br /><br />If they wake up feeling good, then it's the former. If they wake up in a grumpy mood, then the latter.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-21901753199808580292014-03-07T09:55:22.008-08:002014-03-07T09:55:22.008-08:00At that point some of them will finally ask: but ...At that point some of them will finally ask: but seriously, <i>why</i>?Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-92171065227571324552014-03-07T09:31:52.971-08:002014-03-07T09:31:52.971-08:00Because it cannot legitimately accomplish the latt...<i>Because it cannot legitimately accomplish the latter, scientism simply elevates its own substitutes to the teleological ends of science, where everything is settled and the idolatrous soul finds its rest.</i><br /><br />Assuming for a moment that scientists find their unified theory, and the singularity is reached, and people - or at least, some small percent - can live darn near forever, well... Then what? If it were somehow possible to strip the world of all it's mystery, with every secret laid bare on the dissecting table, what would be the point of living?juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com