tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post1644178218779993819..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Power & FarceGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-17786240392467464162013-04-21T06:48:21.729-07:002013-04-21T06:48:21.729-07:00I appreciate the post.I appreciate the post.DeAnnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09476048474730678421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4814314775811523172013-04-20T07:58:36.493-07:002013-04-20T07:58:36.493-07:00In particular watch the video at the bottom of the...In particular watch the video at the bottom of the article.Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708393262849661076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-33767039068670829642013-04-20T07:56:12.496-07:002013-04-20T07:56:12.496-07:00Slow Motion Implosion?<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/melee-erupts-cops-arrest-muslim-teen-taunting-jewish-subway-rider-article-1.1320655#ixzz2QuwKlYDy" rel="nofollow">Slow Motion Implosion?</a><br /><br /><br /><br />Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708393262849661076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41032867057448154992013-04-20T07:22:37.136-07:002013-04-20T07:22:37.136-07:00watched more tv last few days than in a long time....watched more tv last few days than in a long time....most depressing item seen was doubtless the footage of ellen degeneres' audience of ecstatic drooling cretin obamaniac gals dancing out of their seats as ellen grooved thru the aisles also dancing to the hiphop tune: hopeless homo-ho's in heaven, if i may be so alliterategehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52029305591437446702013-04-19T19:01:05.971-07:002013-04-19T19:01:05.971-07:00our job is to improve ourselves and our local comm...<i>our job is to improve ourselves and our local community life.<br /></i><br /><br />River, again, has hit on the very head of the nail. In the freedom that my fasting from politics bought me, I noticed a glaring omission in the lives of younger Christians around me. I am filled with a renewed sense of mission. The political is over, and the world shall turn as it will. The eternal abides. The unschooled youth in our churches have put themselves at the center of their worship, their feelings as the arbiter of Truth. The culture has polluted even the best minds of the best young people. There is a field with hope of eternal harvest.<br /><br />I may have to start a new blog...Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-62749446126580953342013-04-19T18:22:16.266-07:002013-04-19T18:22:16.266-07:00Heh. Via Insty,
“This week is so bad that an Elvi...<a href="https://twitter.com/ljmabouttown/status/325294067237916672" rel="nofollow">Heh</a>. Via Insty,<br /><br />“This week is so bad that an Elvis-impersonating conspiracy theorist sent poison to Obama and THAT’S LIKE THE TENTH BIGGEST STORY.”juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-55121225138414876482013-04-19T18:07:53.105-07:002013-04-19T18:07:53.105-07:00The core of the self is empty; it looks for someth...The core of the self is empty; it looks for something to fill it. Put another way, St. Theophan the Recluse said,<br /><br />"Most men are like shavings of wood, curled about their inner emptiness."<br /><br />The inclination of the will, toward good or evil, this determines what sort of thing will fill the core, and thus what sort of thing the core will be.<br /><br />It may be that we were created good, but we were also created empty. If this was not so, we would be complete in ourselves and have no need of an other.<br /><br />I think I recall that a friend of mine put it this way, that the <i><b>proper</b> Spirit of Man is the Spirit of God. </i><br /><br />Nature abhors a vacuum...Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52717815307790764752013-04-19T15:19:33.495-07:002013-04-19T15:19:33.495-07:00The core of Open Trench is incapable of wisdom. A...The core of Open Trench is incapable of wisdom. As is the surface. And everything in between. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50381368189509171212013-04-19T14:54:36.768-07:002013-04-19T14:54:36.768-07:00The core self is incapable of evil
wrong.
sorry....<i>The core self is incapable of evil </i><br /><br />wrong.<br />sorry.<br />and in no mood for it.<br /><br />JWMJWMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05564732483476859555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-68937993091714780382013-04-19T13:23:42.084-07:002013-04-19T13:23:42.084-07:00"There is a lot of malaise going around. It&#..."There is a lot of malaise going around. It's like being trapped on a boat crewed by millions of clueless paddlers who don't or won't see that they're moving us all straight for a waterfall. <br /><br />And what will come next?"<br /><br />You mean once we get past the post-Unraveling part of this standard-issue Crisis era?<br /><br />Some kind of anabolism, good or bad, depending on which ideas are used.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-64844838209159038692013-04-19T11:54:20.320-07:002013-04-19T11:54:20.320-07:00Oh holy cow.
I'm not the only one, and this is...Oh holy cow.<br />I'm not the only one, and this is not the first time I've found myself all out of joint only to hear the same sort of angst/malaise/*WTF?* going on here as well.<br />I was working on the graphics for the bike club last night, and I needed to find a copy of my signature logo that I used to use on my artwork. This caused me to start digging through a huge box full of notes, sketches, and layout drawings for the Celtic pieces that I did back in the early-mid nineties. I was floored. That stuff was as complicated as college algebra. I could understand barely half of it. I looked at work I had done, and I could not figure out how I did it. I looked at the way I could write, and manipulate really complicated, and intricate patterns- weaves, braids, knots, and interlacings- some patterns requiring twelve lines (12!) It was visual counterpoint. And I might as well have been trying to read music. Where did that energy come from? And where did it go? No idea, but it left me feeling like I've lost an awful lot.<br />And even though I've pulled the plug on all media, the Orwellian cloud of lies has found its way to my Facebook account, and seved to piss me off, big. So I've flamed a few libtards, and unfriended a hippie or two. But even that's not much fun.<br />I'm gonna' go wash the dishes.<br /><br />JWMJWMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05564732483476859555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-31397978693026575482013-04-19T11:05:55.986-07:002013-04-19T11:05:55.986-07:00The Chechen President has said, "Look for thi...The Chechen President has said, "Look for this evil in America" - on the face it's just nationalist rivalry, but he's right: Chechnya may be a hotbed for terrorism, but these boys radicalized while in America. <br /><br />My guess is, look first at the parents - their dad is a nut - but then secondly at a society so fragmented that these kids look for substance elsewhere.<br /><br />More encouragement to ignore the national, cultivate the local.Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-75125339733791381402013-04-19T10:57:40.463-07:002013-04-19T10:57:40.463-07:00I agree Mushroom. I just find it interesting that ...I agree Mushroom. I just find it interesting that such a spectacle could be created by one person. Otherwise, I am fine sitting home and catching up on my music collection.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59041124721939286762013-04-19T10:45:43.264-07:002013-04-19T10:45:43.264-07:00Ted, you certainly have our sympathy. But I'm...Ted, you certainly have our sympathy. But I'm also a little sympathetic toward law enforcement in this case. They will certainly be blamed if anyone gets hurt. There is already one officer down, and we don't want them to shoot up a carload of nuns by mistake. <br /><br />By the way, I've seen law enforcement officers qualify. Anything that isn't standing directly behind some of those boys is in danger of being ventilated.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54945166906508400172013-04-19T10:10:17.871-07:002013-04-19T10:10:17.871-07:00If anyone is curious about what a police state wou...If anyone is curious about what a police state would be like, I am living it now. Boston is in lockdown, and shutdown! Evil has influence, and soon it will have its consequences.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-78909013754907603882013-04-19T08:37:49.632-07:002013-04-19T08:37:49.632-07:00True that.
The command to love your neighbor is t...True that.<br /><br />The command to love your neighbor is truly a local and real one. A friend-ship with plenty of paddlers for today. Begin there. The periphery is akin to a projection as far as what one can do about it.<br /><br />PsychoSpritual Shockwave Number 2: the one still on the loose was born the day before my son.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-83670501406574625202013-04-19T07:30:23.023-07:002013-04-19T07:30:23.023-07:00The outside is in chaos and hysteria, but my own l...The outside is in chaos and hysteria, but my own local life is very good.Christina Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03026226686936294936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65630804570090174772013-04-19T07:19:22.965-07:002013-04-19T07:19:22.965-07:00On Monday morning, I had written this, as part of ...On Monday morning, I had written this, as part of a longer rant on the untrustworthiness of the MSM and ginning up hysteria: <br /><br />“I've been giving this a lot of thought since the year after 9/11, when I woke up one day and realized that none of the things I had spent the last year agonizing about had come to pass. In the last few months and especially during Lent, this realization has come to a head.<br /><br />I'm flat-out rejecting it, as of today. This is my manifesto: I woke up today. My family is alive and well. The sun is shining. Everything is green and blooming. There is fresh, clean water running out of the faucets in my house. I have an indoor toilet and food in the fridge and pantry. Thank you God, for this wonderful, beautiful life you have given me. <br /><br />I'm refusing to ride on anyone's Anxiety Train any longer.”<br /><br />And then I shut off the computer and refused to have anything more to do with news or politics for this coming year. I’ve put a note in my tickler file that says, “During this past year 2013, I was either forced to eat a prepper; or a prepper was forced to eat a year’s worth of fear.” 15 April 2014 (I don't like preppers.)<br /><br />I didn’t even know about the bombings in Boston until my husband came home that night. It was then that I realized something important for me. I had not spent the day agonizing over something over which I had no control. <br /><br />I took some Tylenol last night and this morning. It feels this last week like someone has been beating me about the shoulders and neck, continuously. I was hoping it would help with the anxiety too. I might not be reading or following the news right now, but I'm feeling it, big time. <br /><br />This is the year of the water snake, and all that a serpent means, I suppose. It's interesting to note that 2001 was the year of the metal serpent.Christina Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03026226686936294936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-72139916685994422842013-04-19T06:55:37.315-07:002013-04-19T06:55:37.315-07:00It's been a long and dreary winter, so there&#...It's been a long and dreary winter, so there's that.<br /><br />Inside, the internet news is a window on the destruction of the World. What I've noticed about my own sense of dread is that it's directly a function of how much time I pay attention to the global news cycle. When I'm outside, and working, fixing things, teaching my kids, reading scripture, cultivating my garden, helping my friends, then my mind is simply full of those things, and I feel better. <br /><br />The global is depressing because our proximity to it makes us think we have responsibility for it -- so we feel powerless. The local, starting with home, is invigorating. Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86641261639733013382013-04-18T20:53:21.996-07:002013-04-18T20:53:21.996-07:00I used to work with a Jewish kid who liked to joke...I used to work with a Jewish kid who liked to joke about having existential angst. <br /><br />I'm guessing there is a strong placebo effect with the Tylenol. I've heard McCormick bourbon is pretty effective as well.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-27107373026129364882013-04-18T16:40:21.664-07:002013-04-18T16:40:21.664-07:00Well, at least I'm not alone in this "low...Well, at least I'm not alone in this "low-level despair" which I've been noticing in myself as of late. There was an instant recognition of RC's phrase "slow-motion implosion", though I am unable to articulate exactly what I think I recognize.<br /><br />It's like in those dreams where you are certain you are making perfect sense but everyone around you is unable to understand what you are saying. Of course, I live in one of the most leftist small cities in the U.S. so that could be the problem! It's not a dream it's my daily waking life!<br /><br />Maybe it just seems like there isn't a common language any more. And things are going to have to get far worse and they may not get better. I hope I am wrong. <br /><br />Anyway.Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708393262849661076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-16942965836975203372013-04-18T15:24:20.821-07:002013-04-18T15:24:20.821-07:00Speaking of malaise, Tylenol for anxiety?Speaking of malaise, <a href="http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/04/17/acetaminophen-seems-to-ease-some-existential-fears/53821.html" rel="nofollow">Tylenol for anxiety</a>?juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-63352950063308518942013-04-18T14:52:52.116-07:002013-04-18T14:52:52.116-07:00We search for a city not made by hands.We search for a city not made by hands.Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71850050731507302902013-04-18T14:31:28.452-07:002013-04-18T14:31:28.452-07:00The comments put me in a mind again of the old ess...The comments put me in a mind again of the old essay (Albert Nock) "Isaiah's Job." Google and reskim if you like. These feel like the times of mass man's complacency, where we need a little Isaiah. Today's lectionary reading in Isaiah was in ch. 44, an extended passage on the folly of taking the block of wood, and using half to cook your food, and the remainder to burnish and polish and worship as an idol. Living in the unremitting material, and seeking power in politicians and politics is a fool's errand. But mass man and mass woman are drawn as moths. "give it to us good and hard, GB," despair not. Home repair like days of endless fog is meant to try the soul of man and prophet alike. Hold focus. <br /><br />Many, I suspect, just rub along doing best as they can, as do I. Tomberg, you and several others help keep the light on. swiftonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00532818697764708659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-82607156786695969302013-04-18T13:51:04.671-07:002013-04-18T13:51:04.671-07:00Bob, re. releasing demons from the walls in remode...Bob, re. releasing demons from the walls in remodeling, it stands to reason. Haven't you lived in that house your whole life? No matter how wonderful the changes (and they do sound wonderful), there's probably going to be some part of you that feels horrible about it. Or memories that are disturbed.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com