tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post2252433684927119092..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: I AM is SomebodyGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5865728459491232352009-12-14T13:14:48.184-08:002009-12-14T13:14:48.184-08:00Keynes said "In the long run, we'll all b...<i>Keynes said "In the long run, we'll all be dead"</i><br /><br />Did he really say that?<br /><br />Because that would explain a whole lot about his brand of economic theory.<br /><br />Wow.philmonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10385793223534322848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-34983871993958913702009-12-12T02:59:20.574-08:002009-12-12T02:59:20.574-08:00Ignotum per ignotus:
From Ashton-Tate's dBase...<i>Ignotum per ignotus:</i><br /><br />From Ashton-Tate's dBase III manual, glossary section (going by memory here)...<br /><br /><b>Endless Loop:</b> See <i>Loop, Endless</i><br />:<br />:<br /><b>Loop, Endless:</b> See <i>Endless Loop</i>mkfreeberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13265933747192068934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-81225386442483764012009-12-11T09:19:27.579-08:002009-12-11T09:19:27.579-08:00Magnus, I had wondered, too. That does explain a l...Magnus, I had wondered, too. That does explain a lot. I was kind of hoping you had reached enlightenment, though ;)juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-83926462292859275392009-12-11T07:32:08.109-08:002009-12-11T07:32:08.109-08:00Robin,
it would seem the cosmic screensaver accide...Robin,<br />it would seem the cosmic screensaver accidentally kicked in over northern Norway because nothing at all happened in a long time.<br /><br />(We'll certainly not reveal that it was a test flight of Santa's next generation reindeer. No sirree.)Magnus Itlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445902788427523461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-43270504900341545512009-12-11T07:29:49.997-08:002009-12-11T07:29:49.997-08:00NB said "She's 4.5 months pregnant so we ...NB said "She's 4.5 months pregnant so we figured getting in good with some priests and nuns can't hurt ;-)"<br /><br />Ha hah! Congratulations again NB! You're in for the biggest adventure in the Cosmos, you get to see Three create One... ain't no bigger thrillride out there.<br /><br />(and make sure those Ultrasound techs know you don't wanna know, they tend to let things slip, or tease you with "I know what it is... are you <i>sure</i> you don't want to know?")Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57053537607746265982009-12-11T05:17:04.836-08:002009-12-11T05:17:04.836-08:00“Do we drink toilet water? No? Then why "piss...“Do we drink toilet water? No? Then why "piss" in our air supply?”<br /><br />You know, next time I’m at the aquarium, I’m going to ask those big-brained dolphins this question.<br /><br />“Later on people will marvel at our complacement idiocy. It is by no means difficult to keep waste out of the air.”<br /><br />I’m not sure complacement is a word. Maybe it means non-complacent. Anyway, OT, I saw a youtube video the other day. Someone converted an old home movie from the 70’s of some crazy kids jumping stuff with their motorcycles. It was so weird. Every time the guy floored-it before a jump, this blast of blue-ish-gray smoke came out the tailpipe. I like totally forgot what that like looked like. Because it was 30 YEARS AGO! Anyways, looks like things are going pretty well in that department. I almost remember what that smelled like too. I sorta liked that smell. It’s gone now.<br /><br />“So why poke fun at the "climate change" people?”<br />Well, I believe in climate change. You can’t mean me. The wind chill in CT is 8 degrees F this morning. Yesterday it was about 40. That’s a lot of change! I told my kid to wear a hat.<br />(Seriously though. I even believe in AGW. But in more realistic terms regarding “scale” or proportion. Here’s an example. I’m quite certain than when I dropped my cell phone yesterday, it upset the earth’s axis a bit. I mean, this is just settled science. Unless you’re into that kinky homogenization science, then it won’t show up in your results. But we are serious here about our science. We factor in EVERYTHING.)<br /><br />“lighting millions of gallons of gasoline on fire every day”<br />You know what? You’re right. I am sick and tired of that neighbor of mine with the Lake Pontcharitrain-sized open pit of gasoline on fire. I mean, everyday! I’ve had it! I am going to write some strongly-worded letters to him. Or buy a bumper sticker. Whichever comes first.<br /><br />Ok. So we’re all on the same team now. When it’s my turn to be tribal leader, can we get a better fantasy world? Cause this one’s a downer.<br /><br />Bob, two questions:<br />1. If the libs can have their own fantasy world, why can’t I?<br />2. Why do they pick such a horrible one? Not that it’s any of my business (hint).<br /><br />RRRickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23411352810489768802009-12-11T01:36:28.114-08:002009-12-11T01:36:28.114-08:00Julie:
thanks! Looks like a new crop of coon kits...Julie:<br /><br />thanks! Looks like a new crop of coon kits is on the way! Assume you're still doing fine. Girl/boy: gonna find out the old fashioned way according to DW.Stephen Macdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13474300559219020772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-49386279799887196072009-12-10T21:59:05.852-08:002009-12-10T21:59:05.852-08:00NB - double congratulations! Do you know yet if it...NB - double congratulations! Do you know yet if it's a girl or boy?juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-74710670668881783992009-12-10T21:47:44.806-08:002009-12-10T21:47:44.806-08:00Right. Why don't you ditch the computer and g...Right. Why don't you ditch the computer and go back to smoke signals? Or trade in your car for a filthy and flatulent horse? According to the EPA the United States now has the cleanest air it has ever recorded and probably the cleanest air (in the cities at least) for the last 150 years. Just read about what London was like in 1850. The air in the cities is now twenty times cleaner than it was at the beginning of the last century. Besides, we need pollution to save us from global warming.Yodar Critchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86212241056604841172009-12-10T21:07:59.123-08:002009-12-10T21:07:59.123-08:00Seems to me that burning alot of gasoline the way ...Seems to me that burning alot of gasoline the way we do is not wise.<br /><br />That much burning dirties the air. <br /><br />Back in Medieval times the drinking water supplies of cities were thoughtlessly used as waste receptacles. In later enlightened times, we keep it clean.<br /><br />Same for air supplies. Dumping combustion products into it on the stupendous scale we do is Medieval stupid. Criminy it is the same stuff that goes in our lungs. Do we drink toilet water? No? Then why "piss" in our air supply?<br /><br />Later on people will marvel at our complacement idiocy. It is by no means difficult to keep waste out of the air.<br /><br />So why poke fun at the "climate change" people? Perhaps they aren't exactly correct but they are nevertheless smarter than those who don't see anything wrong with lighting millions of gallons of gasoline on fire every day and bathing our bodies inside and out in the by-products.<br /><br />And buring all that produces a stupendous amount of heat. Global warming? Of course its freaking obvious it makes it warmer. Perhaps not by much but of course its there.<br /><br />Get on the green train you traitors. Traitors to the species.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39008959413741485522009-12-10T16:28:07.359-08:002009-12-10T16:28:07.359-08:00Sez Julie - Heh - nor the cranium, should one be w...Sez Julie - <i>Heh - nor the cranium, should one be wearing one's backside as a hat at the time... </i><br /><br />Ha ha! That's actually one of my future options.robinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41393167932744874722009-12-10T15:46:23.940-08:002009-12-10T15:46:23.940-08:00Thanks Van. She's 4.5 months pregnant so we fi...Thanks Van. She's 4.5 months pregnant so we figured getting in good with some priests and nuns can't hurt ;-)Stephen Macdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13474300559219020772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46679888484254847092009-12-10T15:34:52.920-08:002009-12-10T15:34:52.920-08:00Julie said "Heh - nor the cranium, should one...Julie said "Heh - nor the cranium, should one be wearing one's backside as a hat at the time..."<br /><br />Ah yes, so I'm told... not that I'd have any experience with that youunnerstand... jus saying'....<br /><br />;-)<br /><br />And not that there's any relation whatsoever, but NB said, <br />"(yet) but <b>wife</b> is"<br /><br />Congratulations NB!Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-77560934668326962952009-12-10T13:03:08.188-08:002009-12-10T13:03:08.188-08:00falling the proper direction doesn't help keep...<i>falling the proper direction doesn't help keep the backside from getting bruised though does it.</i><br /><br />Heh - nor the cranium, should one be wearing one's backside as a hat at the time...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54395162554624040352009-12-10T12:59:43.522-08:002009-12-10T12:59:43.522-08:00An hour passed in the Sistine Chapel this morning ...An hour passed in the Sistine Chapel this morning as though minutes. There is nothing that can be said about such a place, nor is it possible to experience it through books or online images (it literally surrounds you on all sides -- even the floor).<br /><br />I'm not Catholic (yet) but wife is. You don't have to be Catholic to be drawn to the epicenter of Christendom. Everyone should go there at least once IMHO.Stephen Macdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13474300559219020772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39085803548232465922009-12-10T12:44:31.970-08:002009-12-10T12:44:31.970-08:00Julie said "I think the hardest part of that ...Julie said "I think the hardest part of that is trying to stay balanced at the infinitesimal point where the horizontal and vertical meet. At least I've finally figured out which way to fall. Climbing back up never gets any easier, though."<br /><br />Yep, falling the proper direction doesn't help keep the backside from getting bruised though does it.<br /><br />But, (ahem), it seems as if, if while being focused upon the present, we keep in mind that the present is place of the Many, and at the same retain focus on the One which the present many is a refraction of, or at least be aware of that principle which is an aspect of the One which contains our present many... it can serve us as an inverted cane with which we tap-tap-tap with while alternately resting our weight upon in the above, while choosing our footing in the below.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23601711770314560502009-12-10T11:56:10.799-08:002009-12-10T11:56:10.799-08:00Your last paragraphs on the complex becoming simpl...Your last paragraphs on the complex becoming simpler in the quest for God reminded me of the pearl of great price (sell everything one has for that which has real value) and also the many agricultural metaphors in the Bible. Specifically God pruning the faithful like a vine. We do the same thing to this day to keep fruit trees healthier and more productive of good fruit. Pull off suckers, trim branches that cross each other so as to let more air and light in. The Japanese produce gigantic chrysanthemums by training up one main stem to produce one rather spectacular bloom, outsized.Retrieverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09036341287285545932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4968875524403631012009-12-10T11:16:20.966-08:002009-12-10T11:16:20.966-08:00Julie noted, "I think the hardest part of tha...Julie noted, <i>"I think the hardest part of that is trying to stay balanced at the infinitesimal point where the horizontal and vertical meet."</i><br /><br />I agree. Will Johnson suggested that "... we align our minds around the vertical axis of the present moment. However, if we start getting pulled this way and that by the tugs of involuntary thoughts, we inevitably forfeit our alignment with the present moment and move forward into the future or withdraw backward into the past."<br /><br />For me, there are red flags to watch for in that statement -- 'involuntary,' 'future,' 'past.' That subconscious gossip will get'cha every time! <br /><br />Very yeasty post today, Bob!walthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388218390016612051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-79769328985497958412009-12-10T10:57:10.356-08:002009-12-10T10:57:10.356-08:00Tristan:
Good question. The answer is laid out i...Tristan:<br /><br />Good question. The answer is laid out in chapter three of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1557788367?tag=onecosmos-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=1557788367&adid=0F8KBQ6DEPDSEVY6ANWX&" rel="nofollow">my book</a>, which could easily have been a book -- or several books -- in itself. But that's what the blog is for.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-76093430353524019072009-12-10T10:44:35.656-08:002009-12-10T10:44:35.656-08:00They ...envy what they take to be the unreflecting...They <i>...envy what they take to be the unreflecting peace of the backward parts of mankind among whom tribalism rules.</i> Like the fools who romanticize the Dreamtime of Australian Aborigines, before the British came along and changed everything.<br /><br /><i>If your I be single...</i><br /><br />I think the hardest part of that is trying to stay balanced at the infinitesimal point where the horizontal and vertical meet. At least I've finally figured out which way to fall. Climbing back up never gets any easier, though.<br /><br />Robin, that would have made for a heck of a photoshoot. Did you see the video? I wonder who <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091210/sc_afp/russianorwaymilitarymissile" rel="nofollow">the Russians</a> have in mind with their testing. And whether the TOTUS will re-think his position on nuclear disarmament, since clearly everyone else is not playing along.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-60537305770559731182009-12-10T10:42:23.932-08:002009-12-10T10:42:23.932-08:00"Specifically, there is no doubt in my mind t..."Specifically, there is no doubt in my mind that human consciousness unfolds along a developmental coontinuum, and that it has a telos, or purpose, just as in the case of any other organ;"<br /><br />If I may, do you have any thoughts as to the cause for the origin of consciousness and time period that it occurred? Circumstantial or divine intervention? -- In the middle of reading Julian Jaynes (asked you about him recently) and found this relevant... thanks.Tristannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45816196538686500002009-12-10T10:15:18.927-08:002009-12-10T10:15:18.927-08:00If your I be single, your whole body will be full ...<i>If your I be single, your whole body will be full of light. </i><br /><br />Hmmm, all of Norway's probably mulling <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1234430/Mystery-spiral-blue-light-display-hovers-Norway.html" rel="nofollow">that one</a> this morning.robinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-92095023097073264952009-12-10T09:59:25.981-08:002009-12-10T09:59:25.981-08:00"One important caveat, however. In my belief ..."One important caveat, however. In my belief and experience, "complex" is not synonymous with "complicated." To the contrary, the more spiritually advanced the person, the more simple and transparent they become. Why? Because they have successfully incorporated and assimilated more consciousness into a higher dynamic unity, with fewer split-off and semi-autonomous parts at cross-purposes with oneself. In contrast, complicated and convoluted people -- the beasts of high maintenance -- are almost always "unspiritual," because they lack the wholeness -- both in time and space -- to truly embody the spiritual."<br /><br />The person of Character, habituated to Virtuous, principled behavior, is going to be free(er) of contradictory entanglements and errors... and that was once the purpose and goal of Education; now it is to learn pragmatic skills, effectiveness at this and at that, no matter their 'long term' results. Keynes said "In the long run, we'll all be dead"... and with that view, in the near term too.<br /><br />Frédéric Bastiat's <a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=78&Itemid=28" rel="nofollow">"The Law"</a> tells you all you really need to know about law and economics in about 50 pages, and all his other books elaborate the truths expressed in it, without contradiction. <br /><br />On the other hand, Keynes 'The General Theory' weighs in at 336 pages, and he almost immediately had to sling out tome after tome after it in order to reexplain and/or correct for the contradictions, errors and unforeseen consequences made in the previous one. Btw, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Failure-New-Economics-Henry-Hazlitt/dp/1933550112/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260467336&sr=1-3" rel="nofollow">Henry Hazlitt's The Failure of the New Economics </a> (free pdf online <a href="http://mises.org/books/failureofneweconomics.pdf" rel="nofollow">here</a>) blasts all of the Keynesian gyrations to smithereens.<br /><br />"So,<br /><br />If your I be single, your whole body will be full of light."<br /><br />Yep.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30024663182293016332009-12-10T09:29:59.903-08:002009-12-10T09:29:59.903-08:00"Does the arrow of spiritual development real..."Does the arrow of spiritual development really point down and back, to a "place" where humans never existed?"<br /><br />While we of course answer No, the Earth Firster's answer not only 'Yes', but <i>'Hell Yes!</i>'Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-56497850117380841852009-12-10T09:27:44.795-08:002009-12-10T09:27:44.795-08:00"The fallacy here is that nondualism "ai..."The fallacy here is that nondualism "aims at a state of awareness, which is taken to be an ideal despite the fact that a non-self-aware consciousness is in any case the normal condition of nearly all forms of animal life." "<br /><br /><br />Seeks 'awareness' in order to deny the value of awareness, uses (alleged) consciousness in order to deny the value of consciousness... they steal the benefits of the very concepts they neglect to mention they're using, in order to attack them.<br /><br />Sounds similar to Ayn Rand's <a href="http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/stolen_concept--fallacy_of.html" rel="nofollow">“Stolen Concept”</a> fallacy, which is <i>'using a concept while denying the validity of its genetic roots, i.e., of an earlier concept(s) on which it logically depends</i>.'<br /><br />and,<br /><i>"When modern philosophers declare that axioms are a matter of arbitrary choice, and proceed to choose complex, derivative concepts as the alleged axioms of their alleged reasoning, one can observe that their statements imply and depend on “existence,” “consciousness,” “identity,” which they profess to negate, but which are smuggled into their arguments in the form of unacknowledged, “stolen” concepts.</i> "<br /><br />wv:rityrips<br />Right 'e rips... on the left...and many other applicationsVan Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.com