tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post2677393333822373221..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Alternate Facts, Alternate BrainsGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-61914220866224189612020-09-09T16:42:50.617-07:002020-09-09T16:42:50.617-07:00awesomeawesomepakai-masker.blogspot.comhttps://pakai-masker.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-40498741220137131262017-04-17T14:09:17.476-07:002017-04-17T14:09:17.476-07:00I've always been curious as to why persons fee...I've always been curious as to why persons feel they need a God, when the State is right here and ready to serve as one's God.<br /><br />The highest human virtue being obedience to authority, why not forget about a nebulous God you cannot visualize or understand, and just pledge obedience to your superiors in government? Problem solved. For instance, you know where the Governor lives, what she looks like, and what she wants. Therefore you can set about being of service. Harmony reigns.<br /><br />Thousands of years of civilization have created the apparatus of State, which now serves as man's proper religion. While serving the State, you are no longer small and helpless. You belong to something larger than yourself.<br /><br />Those inferior to you in the social order will be your obedient servants, and so a stable hierarchy is maintained which fosters stability and peace, and everyone is content with their place in the universe.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70389760248752392662017-04-16T20:48:39.568-07:002017-04-16T20:48:39.568-07:00That's why atheists make the best despots, the...That's why atheists make the best despots, they believe they are the highest authonity. God Bless all Racoons this Easter.debasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13546940741042023260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71329518249131719272017-04-16T12:13:36.245-07:002017-04-16T12:13:36.245-07:00Happy Easter!!
"I have been crucified with C...Happy Easter!!<br /><br />"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."<br /><br />God Bless,<br />Mrs. G and familyLeslie Godwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11794375005614166921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-17442256808760336832017-04-16T12:07:07.947-07:002017-04-16T12:07:07.947-07:00Happy Easter to all Racoons near and far!Happy Easter to all Racoons near and far!Kurthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01750808052006968358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14071891041711939402017-04-15T20:17:50.672-07:002017-04-15T20:17:50.672-07:00Seriously. By what authority does the good atheist...Seriously. By what authority does the good atheist make such lofty and magnanimous claims? It must warm the very cockles of his heart to know that he alone bears the burden for meting out justice, goodness, and righteousness, and purely on his own merit!juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-68759576806674875082017-04-15T17:36:05.415-07:002017-04-15T17:36:05.415-07:00Funny how people who shun religion so often descen...Funny how people who shun religion so often descend into a cringing sentimentalism.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5274227496181868182017-04-15T15:48:52.031-07:002017-04-15T15:48:52.031-07:00An atheist believes in the soul?
Sat Apr 15, 12:...An atheist believes in the soul?<br /><br /><br />Sat Apr 15, 12:23:00 PM EDT<br />Deuce-<i>There were 900 souls on the St. Louis.</i><br /><br />Me-<i>And where would you relegate their souls with atheism?</i><br /><br />Deuce ☂Sat Apr 15, 04:23:00 PM EDT<br /><br />Easy Peasy - Atheism allows one to make moral and ethical decisions based on goodness for the sake of goodness - kindness and humanity for humanity - justice for peace and protection. Atheism recognizes the incredible responsibility and the extraordinary fortune of being alive. Atheism demands responsibility for one's every decision. Atheism refuses to accept that there are slaves and masters offered a choice of punishment and reward for human behavior, demanding that one has responsibility to the living, the here and now, with respect to the past and faith in the role of humanity in the future.<br /><br />The reward is being to have eyes and mind open to let some infinitely small piece of the universe, for a pathetic sliver of time, have the knowledge that there is a universe.<br /><br />Atheists value life, reject the nonsense that death is a ticket to a better place and would recognize the true value of six hundred living souls and would exert their responsibility to shelter and protect them.Dougmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16376833358762656823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-38884532673474502232017-04-15T08:56:53.994-07:002017-04-15T08:56:53.994-07:00This weeks series of posts have been very interest...This weeks series of posts have been very interesting. I never suspected the existence of thinkers such as Bion and Blanco. Bi-logic sounds plausible. And statesmanship is a good place to use it. <br /><br />I had no issues with our recent missile attack in Syria, or the use of the MOAB in Afghanistan.<br /><br />There was one bombing thing we did in Syria awhile back, as I recall, where there were about 100 civilian collateral deaths, and that made me a bit concerned.<br /><br />Even further back was our strafing of hospital by a gunship, which took out some 21 aid workers and patients. This was disappointing, to say the least.<br /><br />Each bomb, shell, or rocket that falls could be said to be from our military, but in truth it from us...the taxpayers. The weapons may as well have our signatures on it. It could be said we are all statesmen, inasmuch as we condone our leader's actions. So when body parts scatter from the blast, you the taxpayer some of the offal splattered on your pants, so to speak. <br /><br />If the body be that of an enemy, so much the good; you share the glory. If not an enemy, step back and consider how you would console the surviving family members; if it gets to an onerous level, then reconsideration of the quality of the statesmanship is in order.<br /><br />Now back to my trench. Thank you, blog author, for your service this week. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37810802193318356832017-04-14T16:11:46.625-07:002017-04-14T16:11:46.625-07:00"Logic, then, is not necessarily an instrumen..."Logic, then, is not necessarily an instrument for finding truth; on the contrary, truth is necessarily an instrument for using logic—for using it, that is, for the discovery of further truth and for the profit of humanity. Briefly, you can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."<br />G. K. Chesterton (Daily News, Feb 25, 1905)Jozephushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00134307851845034073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59776987623815821972017-04-14T15:43:08.158-07:002017-04-14T15:43:08.158-07:00"At any rate, there was no ready formula that..."At any rate, there was no ready formula that could tell him, say, whether or not to bomb the French fleet, just as there is no formula that can tell Trump whether or not to drop the mother of all bombs on ISIS."<br /><br />This is why I do not fear Skynet.<br />And why the Big Brains do.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12994306709948231112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8244754386630471612017-04-14T13:08:05.360-07:002017-04-14T13:08:05.360-07:00Like it says in the Bible: "What is truth?&qu...Like it says in the Bible: "What is truth?" (John 18:38). A much later statesman said it all had to do with what "is is." The more things change, the more they stay the same.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8058335154700440332017-04-14T12:31:39.774-07:002017-04-14T12:31:39.774-07:00Oddly enough, a while back, I got on a right-brain...Oddly enough, a while back, I got on a right-brain kick. I got a book called <i>Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain</i>. I've also been reading a book I've had for a while about the right brain and the limbic system. Drawing is fun.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39283613724938848002017-04-14T11:21:20.980-07:002017-04-14T11:21:20.980-07:00As they say, it has not pleased God to save men th...<i>As they say, it has not pleased God to save men through logic. </i><br /><br />Thank God - were it so, salvation would be reserved only for the most intelligent.<br /><br />Hm. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQfjIw3mivc" rel="nofollow">I feel a song coming on...</a><br /><br />juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-34859201605361738702017-04-14T11:07:08.051-07:002017-04-14T11:07:08.051-07:00No doubt because people hate being caged within ra...<i>No doubt because people hate being caged within rationalism. If they can't escape via religion, then they'll find another way out, whether through drugs, political radicalism, literature, whatever.</i><br /><br />Rationality and reason are good tools, but like any tool, they can be misused.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.com