tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post2130960735727311820..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Leaving Eden for the Big CityGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20329191320367255012011-04-27T07:42:32.163-07:002011-04-27T07:42:32.163-07:00Hole: I also said you ought to remove the beam - i...Hole: I also said you ought to remove the beam - in your case, one about the size of a mountain - from your own eye before helping - or in your case, "helping" - your brother remove the mote from his.<br /><br />NEWSFLASH: <b>Acting like a pimple on the ass of good men and women will neither make you a better person nor fix any of your profound personal problems.</b>Christnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7981091704808564642011-04-27T02:06:21.274-07:002011-04-27T02:06:21.274-07:00"Importantly, political correctness results i..."Importantly, political correctness results in a false unity, since it is founded upon fear and hatred rather than love. It is rooted in thanatos, not eros (or a "false eros," i.e., (-L), as when the troll leaves us with a chirpy namaste, assoul!)."<br /><br />Aye! You never see lefties respond to non-pc talk (or normal talk ie free speech) with love, decency, nobility or class.<br />Quite the opposite as Bob so aptly describes.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53835404165630459572011-04-27T02:00:43.852-07:002011-04-27T02:00:43.852-07:00"Even so, the problem with a Chinese burial w..."Even so, the problem with a Chinese burial was that the spirits were still hungry an hour later."<br /><br />Ha ha! Good one! And it soytenly is tough for spirits to use chop-stick-foo. :^)<br /><br />In ancient (and not-so-ancient) China (and Egypt, etc.) the dead buried the living. <br /><br />Hey! Don't shoot the msg-er. <br /><br />Too late.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-38141253315119515862011-04-27T01:45:06.236-07:002011-04-27T01:45:06.236-07:00Trollinsky said:
"The United States should b...Trollinsky said:<br /><br />"The United States should be the leader and become the global hegemon. We should be more militant than we currently are.<br /><br />Consensus, please?"<br /><br />You want a consensus for consenselessness? <br />Hyeah! Right out of the democrat party playbook (ie Alinsky 101).<br /><br />Y'know, you guys really do need some new...material (way to beat a dead ass). <br />You get poor Marx for work this shoddy (correction is in red no less!).USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48454839842588261142011-04-26T21:19:39.693-07:002011-04-26T21:19:39.693-07:00This is an interesting treatise. Humanity may be ...This is an interesting treatise. Humanity may be seen to be formulating ever more massive unions, starting with the band, then the tribe, then the city-state, then the nation-state, then the multi-national bloc, culminating in the global state.<br /><br />We have yet to achieve the final stage but it is in the works.<br /><br />The United States should be the leader and become the global hegemon. We should be more militant than we currently are.<br /><br />Consensus, please?Australopicthecus Sneezing Hardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45622957926049813312011-04-26T20:58:06.316-07:002011-04-26T20:58:06.316-07:00There's a scene in The Greatest Story where th...There's a scene in The Greatest Story where the mob is asking each other "what do we do with this guy?!" For a second they don't seem to be getting off the pot so Satan sticks his head through the bars of the gate and shouts the idea "crucify him!" They take the bait and roll with it.<br /><br />It sort of reminded me of that scene, but in reverse, in the Pee Wee movie where the bikers are mobbed around Pee Wee (because he knocked all their motorcycles over) and they're shouting ideas what to do with him. One guy says, "I say we burn him, then we hang him and then we kill him!" Pee Wee throws his disguise voice into the crowd "I say we let him go!"<br />:-)Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-83911514349720969842011-04-26T20:24:12.564-07:002011-04-26T20:24:12.564-07:00Down in Glenrose, Texas they used to have an outdo...Down in Glenrose, Texas they used to have an outdoor amphitheater where they put on a big musical of the life of Christ called "The Promise". It's like that. The devil is in every scene, sitting somewhere, standing behind someone, walking around behind Jesus.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46086497910775047182011-04-26T20:16:33.216-07:002011-04-26T20:16:33.216-07:00There is a big difference between getting together...<i>There is a big difference between getting together with the boys to go on a hunting trip vs. turning soil and picking weeds. Ask any man.</i><br /><br />This is the truth.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50639518948050460542011-04-26T16:45:23.766-07:002011-04-26T16:45:23.766-07:00Also off topic, this reminds me of Athos (the albu...Also off topic, <a href="http://fatherstephen.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/15th-antiphon-of-holy-friday-matins-sung-by-archbishop-job/" rel="nofollow">this</a> reminds me of <i>Athos</i> (the album), though of course it should be the other way around. It took me a few minutes to realize he's singing in English. Lovely; makes me want to go to an Orthodox service, just to sit in the back and listen. And breathe.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7485943255438104602011-04-26T15:47:08.617-07:002011-04-26T15:47:08.617-07:00Off topic, but this comes as no surprise. Sad, tho...Off topic, but <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/science/26tier.html?_r=2&s+rc=me&ref=general" rel="nofollow">this</a> comes as no surprise. Sad, though - it's so rare to find <i>romance</i> in today's music.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54929962802127200302011-04-26T11:07:50.168-07:002011-04-26T11:07:50.168-07:00""Even so, the problem with a Chinese bu...""Even so, the problem with a Chinese burial was that the spirits were still hungry an hour later."<br /><br />As Jethro might have said to uncle Jed, "today in school I learned that he chinese have discovered and done just about everything! Today I learned that Hu is the president of our country!"Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45229026492003455052011-04-26T11:04:34.969-07:002011-04-26T11:04:34.969-07:00The need for constant mobility limited the size of...<i>The need for constant mobility limited the size of bands, but agriculture brought with it great increases in population that required new modes of interaction. Now, for the first time, human beings had to deal with others outside the clan without simply killing them.</i><br /><br />On a tangent, one of the other side effects of this growth would have been both the birth and flourishing of commerce, and a concomitant flourishing of creativity. In tribal life, there is a very limited number of job descriptions that are compatible with survival. With the shift to an agrarian culture, suddenly the possibilities become endless.<br /><br />The true wonder, again, is that all of that creative potential must of necessity have been present in our monkey brains from the beginning, just as the fully-grown tree is present in the seed. All it took was the proper soil conditions, and suddenly there were advances in art, music, technology, cooking, architecture...<br /><br />Which again leads to the idea that bread is so much more than just a source of high GI carbohydrates. In some ways, it was the source of life as we know it.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26513448419530443492011-04-26T09:48:44.965-07:002011-04-26T09:48:44.965-07:00Rick -- also "You don't realize that it i...Rick -- also "You don't realize that it is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed."Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52221180701140866942011-04-26T09:42:52.105-07:002011-04-26T09:42:52.105-07:00Interesting you place a snap from The Seventh Seal...Interesting you place a snap from The Seventh Seal. I finally watched The Greatest Story Ever Told this weekend also starring Max von Sydow.<br />Always thought I'd seen it before...confusing it with the Jesus of Nazareth movie.<br /><br />In the latter I don't believe they cover the Pilate and Herod friendship. I think I like how the Satan character seems to be everywhere after the tempting event with Jesus. Played by Ernst Stavro Blofeld.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5891063036289614892011-04-26T09:35:14.211-07:002011-04-26T09:35:14.211-07:00Bob, said:
"This is the same unity as human ...Bob, said:<br /><br />"This is the same unity as human sacrifice, which I believe Gil Bailie calls "unanimity minus one."<br /><br />Exhibited here as well:<br /><br />"And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves." Luke 23:12Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86595116889072274562011-04-26T09:30:41.342-07:002011-04-26T09:30:41.342-07:00Here again, this reminds me of the implicit regime...<i>Here again, this reminds me of the implicit regime of political correctness, which is also always present, aggressively pushing people into little boxes of identity in order to enforce community standards. Political correctness is like the rule of law, only furtively established by totalitarians. </i><br /><br />Heh - yesterday's whiny troll was a classic example. You don't act the way he thinks you should, and suddenly you're the embodiment of everything bad. And he <i>is</i> like a fungus - ever lingering, spineless, lacking even a foundation (for if he had one, he could stop whining and start growing), pulling himself together just long enough to hurl inanities, lacking even a solid identity, though his words reveal him for the same slimy growth every time.<br /><br />Ugh - even thinking about it that much makes me want to take a bleach bath.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com