tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post2164845961460605010..comments2024-03-29T06:03:45.545-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Common Sense and its Progressive AlternativesGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67378891815613255262014-07-01T15:16:09.496-07:002014-07-01T15:16:09.496-07:00"This is consistent with Hayek, who "arg..."This is consistent with Hayek, who "argued that many of our institutions and customs emerged from 'spontaneous order' -- that is, they weren’t designed on a piece of paper, they emerged, authorless, to fulfill human needs through lived experience, just as our genetic 'wisdom' is acquired through trial and error. Paths in the forest aren’t necessarily carved out on purpose. Rather they emerge over years of foot traffic.""<br /><br />Brings to mind How a free market works (or would work without State interference) .<br /><br />Of course, lefties think they know better which is why they are always trying to "fix" what isn't broken until they break it.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86975087573112118862014-07-01T14:50:09.618-07:002014-07-01T14:50:09.618-07:00From the casual sex article:
"Not unexpectedl...From the casual sex article:<br />"Not unexpectedly, the types of people who constantly desire casual sex sound a bit insufferable. They are generally “extroverted,” sensation-seeking, “impulsive,” “avoidantly attached” males, who “also invest less in romantic relationships and are more likely to have cheated on a romantic partner (perhaps because monogamous arrangements are less well-suited for them),” Vrangalova says. “Among men, they are also more likely to be physically strong, and especially among college men, also more sexist, manipulative, coercive and narcissistic.” They also tend to be “unconventional, attractive, [and] politically liberal.”"<br /><br />Now that's a shocker, said no one.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-25537281533889066072014-07-01T14:03:33.584-07:002014-07-01T14:03:33.584-07:00Casual sex is good for you?
That imbecile might as...Casual sex is good for you?<br />That imbecile might as well say crack is good for you just as long as you love it.<br /><br />In the same vein of justification based on no reason whatsoever other than 100% narcissism, one can say murdering people is good for psychopaths.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-43275466482131733172014-07-01T13:45:31.643-07:002014-07-01T13:45:31.643-07:00For one night, at least.For one night, at least.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5300072392957289922014-07-01T13:45:09.709-07:002014-07-01T13:45:09.709-07:00Seems like they're happy to commit to any idea...Seems like they're happy to commit to any idea to avoid the idea of commitment.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50266063842998636542014-07-01T13:36:02.642-07:002014-07-01T13:36:02.642-07:00Psychology is just dominated by such stupidity, th...Psychology is just dominated by such stupidity, thanks to the left. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-47013914456570188542014-07-01T13:22:29.148-07:002014-07-01T13:22:29.148-07:00Re Bob at 11:55
see http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=12...Re Bob at 11:55<br />see http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=12883<br />for a take down.katzxyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02271736861541089213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-47009001193920844922014-07-01T12:31:51.263-07:002014-07-01T12:31:51.263-07:00Rick, excellent, another opportunity to drink to h...Rick, excellent, another opportunity to drink to his health and yours.<br /><br />Speaking of soul, there's a new band around called St. Paul and the Broken Bones:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7s9A3s8iv8<br /><br />They take it to church at around 2:00. They have several good things up on Youtube.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-841292039915035262014-07-01T12:21:03.214-07:002014-07-01T12:21:03.214-07:00That's well and truly said, Julie.
It sounds...That's well and truly said, Julie. <br /><br />It sounds like Macfarlane had what's called an "emotional affair." She craved the trappings of emotional intimacy but was probably the last to give real intimacy herself. Selfishness, not lesbianism, was the root of it all.<br /><br />The opposite is balance. In marriage, you have to learn how to let things roll. Sometimes intimacy is deep, sometimes you get overwhelmed with kids and job and just have to marry marriage itself for a bit while you wrestle your relationship back into health. It takes sacrifice and commitment. You don't despair. You don't turn outside the marriage for emotional connection. You continue to work to make it work and seek to understand where your spouse is at. Why? Because you made a vow, and your spouse is probably struggling and suffering just like you. You balance your own psychological freight with this other person's -- both equally deserving.<br /><br />I also think the fear of death has something to do with it. Marriage is a spiritual school. If you don't accept that, if you think your "soul" is just a fiction, then your bodily life is all you've got, and it's pretty temporary. Ergo, ditch the husband, have sex with the sympathetic au pair for a while, rinse and repeat. Pack in as much of this as possible before nature hits your stop button. <br /><br />Marriage ceases to be a spiritual condition. I suspect this mentality is pervasive.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37302405585333229642014-07-01T12:03:06.941-07:002014-07-01T12:03:06.941-07:00Julie, her love for the other (if it was love) cou...Julie, her love for the other (if it was love) could have been an end in itself. I often think of the love between the disciples. Could they have expressed it any better?Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1065650805257084152014-07-01T11:58:04.611-07:002014-07-01T11:58:04.611-07:00Magister, I knighted him. You said he deserved it....Magister, I knighted him. You said he deserved it. I agree with you.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50737289930316810062014-07-01T11:55:53.761-07:002014-07-01T11:55:53.761-07:00News you can use: casual sex is good for you so lo...News you can use: <a href="http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/casual-sex-excellent-people-love-casual-sex-83847/" rel="nofollow">casual sex</a> is good for you so long as you're the sort of person for whom it's good. Apparently, it causes no problems at all for narcissistic, untrustworthy, sensation-seeking, impulsive, manipulative and coercive liberals.<br /><br />Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4596258495882063552014-07-01T11:34:21.952-07:002014-07-01T11:34:21.952-07:00I can't give L in A an unqualified racccoomend...I can't give L in A an unqualified racccoomendation. It was a page-turner for sure, full of shadowy characters in a strange and exotic world, but I'm not sure what I learned in the end. You still can't figure out what motivated this Lawrence guy, and there is no doubt that he embellished and exaggerated some things in Seven Pillars. But to what end? No one knows. Strange bird. And definitely traumatized by his war experiences, making him doubly strange.<br /><br />The book also shows how so many of our current problems in the Middle East can be traced to WWI, but on the other hand, you could just say they're intrinsic to Islam and Arab culture. The author, BTW, has the usual politically and academically correct condemnations of imperialism, even while describing a barbarous culture badly in need of the tutelage of the White Christian Man. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-10813068833954159492014-07-01T11:19:59.779-07:002014-07-01T11:19:59.779-07:00Rick, come again?
Roger certainly deserves to be...Rick, come again? <br /><br />Roger certainly deserves to be knighted. I've drunk to his health on more than one occasion. He's the sort of man one wishes would live to be 150 years old.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66409176203232512852014-07-01T11:16:21.752-07:002014-07-01T11:16:21.752-07:00I'm considering Lawrence in Arabia. I assume ...I'm considering <i>Lawrence in Arabia</i>. I assume it recapitulates a lot of what is in <i>Seven Pillars</i> with some expansion and explanation. Some of the low-star reviewers are dismissive because Anderson apparently finds one or two of Lawrence's more fantastic scenes questionable. He was a bizarre little dude, but he was a bad-ass.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5305000060102969122014-07-01T11:10:21.468-07:002014-07-01T11:10:21.468-07:00On our farm was (and still is) a huge white oak do...On our farm was (and still is) a huge white oak down in one of the draws, and it had a branch low to the ground and running horizontal for three feet then turning up at a near-90 degree angle. When I was too little to ride a horse by myself, I would sit on that branch and pretend it was a horse.<br /><br />So years later, I saw a thing about Indians making marker trees. I realized that limb pointed to a natural pond in a field about half a mile away that was prime ground for finding stone arrowheads. Some ancient Osage had marked the path to water and game. To me it was just an interesting place to sit and play.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-72355676043642778972014-07-01T11:09:20.412-07:002014-07-01T11:09:20.412-07:00Yes, I almost touched on that part but didn't ...Yes, I almost touched on that part but didn't want to go on for too long. In her case, I doubt that she's even really a lesbian. It's that being in that kind of intimate proximity to someone, day in and day out, can <i>of course</i> result in very powerful feelings, especially when there's a lot of physical contact involved. In fact, I have quite a bit of empathy with her feelings under the circumstances. People fall in love over much less.<br /><br />What gets me is how she - and so many people today - handled the situation. I believe there are ways to deal with such circumstances that <i>don't</i> result in, essentially, the utter destruction of the other people involved who love and depend on one the most. <br /><br />Notably, after she acted on her feelings, that relationship failed after two years, which makes me wonder what she had learned about actual love - good old <i>caritas</i> - by that point.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-64925550680207247002014-07-01T10:45:27.504-07:002014-07-01T10:45:27.504-07:00"What if the most important things not only c..."What if the most important things not only can't be taught, but can't even be clearly articulated? Rather, they can only be lived and maybe symbolized, but not with language per se."<br /><br />It would have been helpful to know this years ago.<br /><br />Granted, I only believe some things once I have lived them.<br /><br />I'm a little better at life now.<br /><br />"This touches on what bothers me so much about the culture of divorce as exemplified in Mushroom's example yesterday, of the woman who decided after twenty years of marriage that she's really a lesbian. Assuming he was a decent husband, for her to be able to crush him and her family so completely, she had to stop seeing him (or her kids) as a person, someone worthy of her continued love and respect, and worthy of the effort it would have taken to redirect her affections to where they rightly belonged."<br /><br />I've basically lived (a portion) of her experience. <br /><br />Not the lesbian part. That would be really expensive for me to do.<br /><br />This is the relevant part of the story:<br /><br />""My eyesight was deteriorating," she explains. She has a degenerative eye condition that was diagnosed in her teens and now has only 10% of her sight left. When she first sought help with childcare in 2002, her vision had begun to fail suddenly and rapidly. She stopped driving.<br /><br />...<br /><br />In this case, because of Macfarlane's condition, it wasn't an average au pair's job: the au pair was required to drive her everywhere and take her by the arm when she walked."<br /><br />She experienced the close caretaker as a potential romantic option due to the simulacrum of companionate love.<br />JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90937564520725320322014-07-01T10:20:48.687-07:002014-07-01T10:20:48.687-07:00I would say that there is a kind of permanent dial...<i>I would say that there is a kind of permanent dialectic between knowledge and mystery -- (k) and O -- and that to pretend to have transcended or eliminated the latter is to drain life of all its romance, charm, and adventure.</i><br /><br />This touches on what bothers me so much about the culture of divorce as exemplified in Mushroom's example yesterday, of the woman who decided after twenty years of marriage that she's really a lesbian. Assuming he was a decent husband, for her to be able to crush him and her family so completely, she had to stop seeing him (or her kids) as a <i>person</i>, someone worthy of her continued love and respect, and worthy of the effort it would have taken to redirect her affections to where they rightly belonged.<br /><br />People are people, and hearts are strange things. But love in the long term is a lot more <i>possible</i> when we hold on to the truth that the people we marry are real humans, and not merely props in our personal drama to be set aside as soon as someone more seemingly entertaining happens along. Loyalty and keeping promises seem to be rather unpopular these days; probably because our culture is so caught up in the culture of "me" that we forget that other people are really people, too. <br /><br />To the point of this part of the post, eliminating the dialectic between knowledge and mystery - perhaps especially in the realm of relationships - does indeed drain life of all charm, romance and adventure.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-38716059483922453982014-07-01T10:03:05.897-07:002014-07-01T10:03:05.897-07:00"The conservative attitude is...
explained b..."The conservative attitude is...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa8SzKDyWMk" rel="nofollow">explained by Sir Roger Scruton in less than 36 seconds.</a><br /><br />I knighted him, btw. You heard it here first.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.com