tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post226011786329731761..comments2024-03-28T12:10:26.197-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Permanent Cootie Protection from the LeftGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-42157384553009305742012-05-11T06:54:26.450-07:002012-05-11T06:54:26.450-07:00RE gay marriage, I think my only issue with it is ...RE gay marriage, I think my only issue with it is the use of the word marriage. I have no problem with calling it civil union. Seems just fine. And the claim to rights of equal treatment that gay couples say are not being met (I don't doubt them) seem to me to already be protected under the Constitution.<br /><br />So as you say "on principle", we concur. Gay marriage is not up to me. I can't bless it nor can any man. It is a fraud and disservice to say it is the same or just as good or to say it is blessed. But I understand the desire to wish it to be so. And I think the love, if it is truly there and genuine, that is blessed.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-62948242772695773572012-05-11T06:37:00.903-07:002012-05-11T06:37:00.903-07:00Riv! good to see you.
Sorry about your friend.
So...Riv! good to see you.<br /><br />Sorry about your friend.<br />Something similar, although not nearly to such an extreme, happened to me a few years ago with a friend (who was/is) a coworker. For lack of a better way to put it, it (the explosive event) almost seemed to be the beginning of his recovery. Both a symptom and necessary stage for him to pass through. (Maybe Bob has seen this sort of thing in the practice, similar to, maybe, the explosive event when the therapist and patient simulataneously get dangerously close to discovering the "actual" problem and the patient goes medieval on Dr.) My friend has been slowly turning conservative over the years since. Actually, I think of it as a recognition of what was already there, but dormant. I can't tell you how many times he's dropped hints about his (new) opinions -- like he can't keep them in. He wants me to know.<br /><br />So maybe there is hope for your friend, that your shared "event" is both a sign and a threshold.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-43787338691307233202012-05-10T17:31:08.600-07:002012-05-10T17:31:08.600-07:00Must have attended college to not know what the gu...Must have attended college to not know what the gulags were and who instituted them (hint: it wasn't conservatives). Either that or Senator Durbin is a new reader.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48082384843463417752012-05-10T17:21:22.051-07:002012-05-10T17:21:22.051-07:00This line and its variants always makes me laugh:
...This line and its variants always makes me laugh:<br /><br />"Especially in a free society such as ours"<br /><br />The US, of course, is the world's biggest Gulag: 5% of the population, 25% of those in cages.Bilejoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15426920337506809987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-6427332247488572252012-05-10T09:24:55.195-07:002012-05-10T09:24:55.195-07:00Thanks! Interesting stuff - I don't have a tum...Thanks! Interesting stuff - I don't have a tumblr, so probably can't comment there, but I like your thoughts on game development.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-24779783459656758182012-05-10T08:57:16.780-07:002012-05-10T08:57:16.780-07:00Hey ya, Van!
Julie,
This is the link.Hey ya, Van!<br /><br />Julie,<br /><a href="http://grown-gato.tumblr.com" rel="nofollow">This is the link.</a>Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44062018200987771942012-05-10T08:30:34.954-07:002012-05-10T08:30:34.954-07:00Hey River, long time, no virtual see.
Sorry about...Hey River, long time, no virtual see.<br /><br />Sorry about your friend, but congrats on the toddler toddling! At least some people are still learning to grow up.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84011879789631117462012-05-10T08:27:07.007-07:002012-05-10T08:27:07.007-07:00The game idea sounds cool - I hope it goes well!
...The game idea sounds cool - I hope it goes well!<br /><br />Didn't know you had a tumblr now; glad you're still at it, though. If you don't mind sharing, what's the address?juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50228972369902038102012-05-10T08:19:16.928-07:002012-05-10T08:19:16.928-07:00Yep. I've also started a mad game project. Wel...Yep. I've also started a mad game project. Well, started isn't the word, so much as, I have working demos. When my brother finishes his work on their nursery (having twins, he and his wife) he'll be able to being helping me. <br /><br />The name of the project is Grown and I've been keeping a tumblr where I muse about all manner of stuff.<br /><br />Anyway, glad to see the Bobster is still at it!Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-58674973682459812922012-05-10T08:14:35.969-07:002012-05-10T08:14:35.969-07:00Aw, that's a fun stage. Hard to believe mine w...Aw, that's a fun stage. Hard to believe mine was there, just over a year ago; now he likes to run and jump everywhere.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-77026320231513190242012-05-10T08:12:38.202-07:002012-05-10T08:12:38.202-07:00Still just the one... he's a handful. Getting ...Still just the one... he's a handful. Getting close to learning to walk!Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-74185916876484485722012-05-10T08:11:03.362-07:002012-05-10T08:11:03.362-07:00River! It's been quite a while :)
How many ki...River! It's been quite a while :)<br /><br />How many kids do you have now?juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-61132186607051897332012-05-10T08:05:34.740-07:002012-05-10T08:05:34.740-07:00@ted
That's a very good quote. I think it app...@ted<br /><br />That's a very good quote. I think it applies not only to esoteric spiritual knowledge, but also to almost any other craft. Every power risks becoming a means for man to make a monument to his own perceived greatness. God of course casts down all such towers... If I recall the meaning of the Tower card has much to do with this meaning: the Mason who imprisons himself so he can build his mad way to God.Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50001764062888267872012-05-10T08:01:23.429-07:002012-05-10T08:01:23.429-07:00Well, r'coons, seems like the latest political...Well, r'coons, seems like the latest political development is quite the hummdinger. Had myself threatened with violence for saying I opposed Gay Marriage (and called a bigot to boot) even though I did so wholly on principle. <br /><br />It's not surprising at all, but it's always sad when its a friend of yours.<br /><br />I understand that each person needs to follow their conscience on such things, so I understand why some people support it. But I don't - I can't - in good conscience support it. <br /><br />My reasons however are either 'obtuse' or unacceptable. Hard to understand why if one believes in sin, and not just as a matter of blind faith but from experience of its effects, how one can support the validation of a sin? It is one thing to say nothing (to hide one's neighbor's sin, as it were) but another to enable them. <br /><br />They crossed the line when they threatened to eat my kids. I guess they forgot that some people in the conversation actually had children.<br /><br />And I'm the one accused of lacking openness!Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90078867360883137042012-05-10T04:42:07.758-07:002012-05-10T04:42:07.758-07:00"Thus, instead of a spiritually open engageme..."Thus, instead of a spiritually open engagement with reality and truth -- which is philo-sophy, or love of wisdom -- the gnostic closes himself to this ground and constructs a closed system based upon the Answer known only to elites such as himself, quintessential examples being Marxism on the political plane or metaphysical Darwinism on the scientific plane (and this is the kind of perverse and simplistic science -- i.e., scientism -- preferred by the left in order to bolster its enfeebled image of man). Each of these denies transcendence up front, which has the practical effect of murdering man."<br /><br />Murder indeed. The living can't communicate with the walking dead let alone reason with them.<br /><br />Those who deny transcendence have already reached the top ("top of the world ma!").<br />Or perhaps I should say the bottom.<br /><br />Thing is, these bottom feeders need something to feed on and they are never content, so they simultaneously seek to pull us down to their level and feed on us like the parasites they have become.<br /><br />And like mosquitos they can spread their dis-ease so be wise and circumspect to their ways.<br /><br />Very important to remember to use your parasite O-pellent.<br />Better known as the armor of god.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-92173244650907514172012-05-09T15:50:56.930-07:002012-05-09T15:50:56.930-07:00Julie says:
"I hadn't given it much thou...Julie says:<br /><br />"I hadn't given it much thought before, but the vision of every Darwinistic visionary is to somehow "perfect" the human race. But of course, such a perfection runs completely counter to the actual function of evolution."<br /><br />I think one of the "actual functions" of Darwinian evolution is to produce man.<br /><br />So, it did what it's supposed to do.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48029325615224588382012-05-09T15:48:16.437-07:002012-05-09T15:48:16.437-07:00"and Mushroom: I am currently reading a fasci..."and Mushroom: I am currently reading a fascinating book on What Happened at Vatican II, and a big part of it was definitely becoming more "open" in the ways I'm talking about. I had no idea how conservative they had become during what the author calls the "long 19th" century, lasting from the French Revolution to V2. It seems that utter stasis had become the ideal, at least for the ruling majority."<br /><br />You know, it would be a good idea for someone to map the Catholic church from after the Pornocracy (the Cluniac era) to the present era with respect to openness and stasis, looking in particular at the orders and various initiatives.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59889213998367619052012-05-09T15:45:41.786-07:002012-05-09T15:45:41.786-07:00I shouldn't have called her a sow.
I apologiz...I shouldn't have called her a sow.<br /><br />I apologize.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29303984282104146802012-05-09T15:44:53.660-07:002012-05-09T15:44:53.660-07:00They understand it -- especially that sow. Claire...They understand it -- especially that sow. Claire was just looking for some excuse to be a victim and be "brave". She didn't have a chance, I guess, to dodge sniper fire in Serbia. <br /><br />It reminds me of Daily Rash thing Gerard put up the other day about the old Revlon model. I can't remember her name, and it's not worth looking up. A bunch of people reacted that thinking the woman was really that stupid because it was so close to the reality of leftists that it was completely believable.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-19566150016512070602012-05-09T15:44:12.678-07:002012-05-09T15:44:12.678-07:00"And in our view, one of the things that is f..."And in our view, one of the things that is fundamentally wrong with man is his tendency to become a closed system. Please note that this is true of every level of existence, the material, psychic, and pneumatic."<br /><br />Life makes a lot more sense once you realize this.<br /><br />Moral of the story? <br /><br />Don't turn your back on O.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53995331677737665352012-05-09T14:10:38.038-07:002012-05-09T14:10:38.038-07:00... not surprisingly, that also describes the deve...... not surprisingly, that also describes the development of education, schooling and curriculum, particularly over the last century.<br /><br />Facts. Literal facts, only. Dryly delivered in unimaginative textbooks. Precisely and rigidly tested upon in multiple choice or T or F format.<br /><br />Lots of results, some retention, and ever lessening possibilities for right reasoning.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-24206189892578591822012-05-09T14:05:34.071-07:002012-05-09T14:05:34.071-07:00"Especially in a free society such as ours, r..."Especially in a free society such as ours, right thinking is our main line of defense against tyranny, which is precisely why it is attacked and undermined by the irrational and dis-ordered forces of the left. The left imposes a system in which lies either become compulsory, or in which the proper conclusions cannot be drawn from the allowable data."<br /><br />Recent events, especially this week which I posted on <a href="http://blogodidact.blogspot.com/2012/05/leftist-aphasia-outbreak-doctors-warn.html" rel="nofollow">last night</a> (and even <a href="http://blogodidact.blogspot.com/2012/05/redistributionism-class-warfare-by.html" rel="nofollow">yesterday</a>)... that term 'right thinking', is deeply bound up with imaginative, figurative, language, the use of which must be read and considered as such in order to be able to discover and understand its meaning. If, on the other hand, the language is held to a rigid, literal reading (and this is by no means confined to the left, though more obvious there), the language, the thought, the rightness of the reasoning is strangled almost as soon as it passes into the eye.<br /><br />"... The essence of modern tyranny involves prohibiting questions that might undermine the credibility of the system..."<br /><br />It really is as if there is a Leftist-Aphasia, where each believer becomes their own Big Brother, and with which they render themselves incapable of interpreting figurative language in any way but literally. <br /><br />It not only prohibits questions, but thinking as such, and the mind falls flattened upon its face.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4728658377591252382012-05-09T12:39:04.402-07:002012-05-09T12:39:04.402-07:00I confess I never knew much about Catholicism befo...I confess I never knew much about Catholicism before I met my wife and possibly even less afterward. I never realized how earth-shattering V2, but I did get the impression from members of her family that things were not the way they has always been.<br /><br />Looks like another book I need to read.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39758367191330133702012-05-09T10:55:36.749-07:002012-05-09T10:55:36.749-07:00and Mushroom: I am currently reading a fascinatin...and Mushroom: I am currently reading a fascinating book on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/What-Happened-at-Vatican-II/dp/0674047494/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1336585938&sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">What Happened at Vatican II</a>, and a big part of it was definitely becoming more "open" in the ways I'm talking about. I had no idea how conservative they had become during what the author calls the "long 19th" century, lasting from the French Revolution to V2. It seems that utter stasis had become the ideal, at least for the ruling majority.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-33054398831334126592012-05-09T10:50:44.719-07:002012-05-09T10:50:44.719-07:00Yes, it is quite clear that a living thing is an o...Yes, it is quite clear that a <i>living thing</i> is an <i>open system</i> and that Gnosticism is always closed and therefore dead. One must <i>love</i> truth, not pretend to possess it, let alone deny its existence. The metabolism of truth leads to growth, but one still needs to eat every day.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.com