tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post2768665748676572577..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: You Have Omail: The End is Near!Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86149239995864833252007-02-28T06:31:00.000-08:002007-02-28T06:31:00.000-08:00jwm said... Robin Starfish:Your haiku gave me a la...jwm said... <BR/>Robin Starfish:<BR/><BR/>Your haiku gave me a laughing fit. Hard to type.<BR/>You rule.<BR/>WV: yimjee (Korean pickled yams?)<BR/><BR/>Heh heh! I got yimjee comin' outta my nose after Robin and JWM's posts!USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-19524674001857933762007-02-28T06:26:00.000-08:002007-02-28T06:26:00.000-08:00Thanks Ricky Raccoon! God bless you also!Thanks Ricky Raccoon! <BR/>God bless you also!USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37403851668802522862007-02-27T21:25:00.000-08:002007-02-27T21:25:00.000-08:00Lisa - Youthful idealism isn't a bad thing - as lo...Lisa - Youthful idealism isn't a bad thing - as long as you grow out of it. Seriously, many of us really Believed it. "Let the sun shine in...!NoMohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01100042056270224683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14504592999107782482007-02-27T20:19:00.000-08:002007-02-27T20:19:00.000-08:00Robin Starfish:Your haiku gave me a laughing fit. ...Robin Starfish:<BR/><BR/>Your haiku gave me a laughing fit. Hard to type.<BR/>You rule.<BR/>WV: yimjee (Korean pickled yams?)<BR/><BR/>JWMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-63710826992157382892007-02-27T19:29:00.000-08:002007-02-27T19:29:00.000-08:00Debass- Ha Ha! Aha!Harmony and understandingSympat...Debass- Ha Ha! Aha!<BR/><BR/>Harmony and understanding<BR/>Sympathy and trust abounding<BR/>No more falsehoods or derisions<BR/>Golden living dreams of visions<BR/>Mystic crystal revelation<BR/>And the mind's true liberation<BR/>Aquarius! Aquarius!<BR/><BR/>How did all those hippy baby boomers fail to realize the obvious, still stuck in a leftist down-ward spiral?!Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04969685296436358865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29979257483212152272007-02-27T16:53:00.000-08:002007-02-27T16:53:00.000-08:00There have been some people here who are having a ...There have been some people here who are having a tough time meditating. While I struggle with the practice as well I believe that a good way to train the mind to quiet itself is through memorization. Not too long ago I felt in my spirit that I should start memorizing a scripture per day. So I started choosing scripture that directly addressed those things which I had little understanding of at the time. For instance, before not too long ago I had a lot of trouble with the idea of God's grace being powerful and sufficient to change my heart. So I would start memorizing scriptures regarding the nature of God and His grace. Though I haven't been able to do 1 per day I have been making scripture memorization a habit and I believe it has helped me in both increasing my mind and my spirit's ability to focus and the ability to block out distractions. Hopefully this helps someone else out.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15918123399102574536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-75458112259810574382007-02-27T16:47:00.000-08:002007-02-27T16:47:00.000-08:00I've enjoyed the re-thinking that the last few pos...I've enjoyed the re-thinking that the last few posts have evoked in my spirit. I've liked re-visiting the Trinity afresh, with new questions and possible insights, and real wonder. The Magical Bobical Tour has taken me places I'd never be able to visit with other, lesser Tour Guides and Cosmic Travel Agencies.<BR/><BR/>Saying that, today's post is like coming home for a family reunion and finding that nobody's actually changed, they've just processed all the family history in a way that's making sense. <BR/><BR/>Seeing the Holy Spirit as Part the Third in the timeline of history makes all that dysfunction, befuddlement, and incomplete information now blossom into a maturity of vision, a joyful arrival at peaceful fellowship without all the drama: The Helper is here.<BR/><BR/>*****<BR/><BR/>Historical dysfunctions: I remember when many a good Christian believed the end was near because gasoline went up to 70 cents a gallon! And Jimmah was president! But the numerous predictions of "The End is Near" were silly but widespread. <BR/><BR/>If the Spirit is real, if the Help is True, then everything can pass away tomorrow and the peace of that Truth will suffice. <BR/><BR/>I think it more likely that all things--past pains and present joys--are being made "alive" unto the Eternal gambit for Salvation. Part III is full of Promise.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-60997387758568538242007-02-27T16:33:00.000-08:002007-02-27T16:33:00.000-08:00go ahead and laughmoonbats like to lick themselves...go ahead and laugh<BR/>moonbats like to lick themselves<BR/>then hand out awardsrobinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50938435446581546122007-02-27T16:28:00.000-08:002007-02-27T16:28:00.000-08:00USS Ben,Thank you for your service.Ben says:“Don't...USS Ben,<BR/><BR/>Thank you for your service.<BR/><BR/>Ben says:<BR/>“Don't sell yourself short, Ricky. <BR/>You can do far more than you think you can…”<BR/><BR/>See what I mean fellow Coonsters? He’s worried about me.<BR/><BR/>But don’t worry. I’m not getting down on me. I’m getting up with you guys.<BR/><BR/>And please take the rung above me. It would be my pleasure.<BR/><BR/>I’ll do what I can to help out from here.<BR/><BR/>God bless you, BenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-6264997700070192232007-02-27T15:37:00.000-08:002007-02-27T15:37:00.000-08:00cosanostradamus,Your Gumbo Reux is positively deli...cosanostradamus,<BR/>Your Gumbo Reux is positively delicious.<BR/>It is a mitzvah to share gleanings.<BR/><BR/>I once saw one of those portable, rentable, electric signs on wheels in rural Louisiana that said:<BR/><BR/><B>"Git 'er done for Jesus".</B><BR/><BR/>Why? cusof (wv)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5163153382103198662007-02-27T15:25:00.000-08:002007-02-27T15:25:00.000-08:00cosanostradamus said... This ark has the best port...cosanostradamus said... <BR/>This ark has the best ports of call anywhere. Fjords, calving icebergs, gourmet repasts...<BR/><BR/>Amen to that! We're talkin' about Liberty Call! <BR/>Two words every Sailor Coon loves to hear!<BR/><BR/>We Coons are supernatural Sailors, sailing the seven sees, the vast O'sheens, and the Eternal waters of Life; making port O calls as the Master sees fit, awaiting those sweet words, Liberty Call!<BR/><BR/>Gno what I mean?USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2718642510325682072007-02-27T15:10:00.000-08:002007-02-27T15:10:00.000-08:00Van der Leun over at American Digest has a couple ...Van der Leun over at American Digest has a couple of good posts about Algore and the awards show. (All his posts are worth reading, if you have a few minutes)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70706133278876867672007-02-27T15:09:00.000-08:002007-02-27T15:09:00.000-08:00While re-reading the last paragraph of your latest...While re-reading the last paragraph of your latest post, the Holy Spirit gave me such a nudge…for many years, since first hearing a fragment of “Amazing Grace” sung (in Arlo Guthrie’s movie), I’ve felt Her* presence sneaking up on me (or occasionally wielding a righteous clue-by-four upside my head). Although Jesus is my blessed savior, the Holy Spirit is the aspect I normally pray/complain/plead/rejoice/thank/chat with…and the “Gift of the Spirit” She has blessed/saddled me with is the tendency to become totally gobsmacked with awe, joy and wonder over the INDESCRIBABLE GLORY & BEAUTY OF GOD’S CREATION at the slightest provocation. Anyhoo….to make a long story longer…what the Holy Spirit 'said' to me was “By Me, I strongly suspect this Gagdad-Bob person is on to Us (nudge-nudge, wink-wink).”<BR/><BR/>* Since people who can read the user’s manual in its original language, tell me that in the Old Testament, Wisdom (archaic Hebrew for Holy Spirit) is given the feminine form, I feel it only proper to follow their precedent. <BR/><BR/>PS wv:xnnya ...could I be mistaken in my assumptions...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-78599066434055568682007-02-27T15:07:00.000-08:002007-02-27T15:07:00.000-08:00Lisa said... Wasn't the Goregy at The Oscars just ...Lisa said... <BR/>Wasn't the Goregy at The Oscars just pathetic...?<BR/><BR/>Goregy...heh heh! Good one, Lisa.<BR/>It was pathetic to see the Goregy and Goregasms, in public no less.<BR/>They have no shame.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7029031139710270782007-02-27T15:05:00.000-08:002007-02-27T15:05:00.000-08:00This ark has the best ports of call anywhere. Fjor...This ark has the best ports of call anywhere. Fjords, calving icebergs, gourmet repasts...<BR/><BR/>The Arc series has me thinking along the lines that gifts of the Spirit are to be a prime duty rather than some mysterious attribute bestowed on a few lucky super saints.<BR/><BR/>To boil this down to gumbo (and I apologize in advance if it's reheated):<BR/><BR/>The first post-Noah directive was to be fruitful and multiply. Done, check, but as Bob so clearly points out, mankind went about as far as it could with civilisation-building before it needed another shivering of timber.<BR/><BR/>The ascension of Christ was the "meteor strike" that filled that bill (and is still endangering dinosaurs to this day). It also opened the door for the Paraclete and the second directive: go into all the world and preach the gospel. Eureka! It's the same directive all over again, just at a higher frequency! More logos and less hand to plow. The result - our "astonishing progress of science, technology, and human arts in general" seen in the nations with ears to hear.<BR/><BR/>So...the gifts of the Spirit. Assuming that the first and second directives were talking about the same thing - the grease of verticality into the cogs and wheels of human life - isn't the exercise of the gifts a command, a duty instead of a prayer cloth received from Benny Hinn for $29.95?<BR/><BR/>If so, it's incredibly liberating, especially in terms of creativity. It makes creativity (of the Beautiful, Good, and True variety) Job # 1 instead of an "avocation" to play around with after doing the "real" work of making money, feeding the family, making the electric Hummer payments, etc. Perhaps most naturally creative people have enough antivenom to deal with that particular parasite, but it certainly affected me through my educational years. And of course it's far worse now.<BR/><BR/>But to be infused with that spiritual dimension, together with the knowledge that it's our job, our duty to procreate it through our art, music, writing, daily work, whatever and whoever we touch - wow, that's like a load of monkeys off my back and a source of honest to god Joy. Time to git 'er done, just do it.<BR/><BR/>Sorry to ramble on, but the Arc of Salvation posts of the past several days are causing all sorts of synaptic tentacular rewiring. I hope it rains for another 36 days and nights.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45614563077260131292007-02-27T15:02:00.000-08:002007-02-27T15:02:00.000-08:00Ricky Raccoon said:"They are good, good people who...Ricky Raccoon said:<BR/>"They are good, good people who have the guts (a natural gut) to do what is right. I place them above me on the vertical ladder."<BR/><BR/>Don't sell yourself short, Ricky. <BR/>You can do far more than you think you can.<BR/>In fact, we all can do far more than we think we can.<BR/>Maybe not in the way we would choose, but in the best way in any sense.<BR/><BR/>Their can be no service without support, and for that I thank you and all my fellow brothers and sistas under the pelt.<BR/><BR/>We are all one team (Coons that is), and we all have our Destiny(ies) to fullfill.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9627744297236844332007-02-27T14:55:00.000-08:002007-02-27T14:55:00.000-08:00Wasn't the Goregy at The Oscars just pathetic, as ...Wasn't the Goregy at The Oscars just pathetic, as if film and Hollywood can't get much worse....what's next Nobel Peace Prize?<BR/><BR/>Not that I actually watched, I happen to think all those people get an award with every paycheck and have no need for all the hypocritical self-congratulation. Only interested in dresses and jewelry...Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04969685296436358865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-81472624636380826682007-02-27T14:40:00.000-08:002007-02-27T14:40:00.000-08:00Yup!Breaking news: Glenn Greenwald(s)' thought rea...Yup!<BR/><BR/>Breaking news: Glenn Greenwald(s)' thought reaches negative mass and begins generating world-destroying dumb-grav(y?)ity : <A HREF="http://proteinwisdom.com/index.php?/weblog/entry/22516/" REL="nofollow">Whoaz.</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22078332507483219292007-02-27T14:28:00.000-08:002007-02-27T14:28:00.000-08:00River,RE movies and Hollywood, I find it easier no...River,<BR/><BR/>RE movies and Hollywood, I find it easier now if I tell myself "I like parts of movies". Sort of a rationalization, but at least it lets me not completely give up on movies. I'm hopeful of what movies ‘can’ do. And also often times they can be beautiful visually.<BR/><BR/>By the way, if you are impressed by William Wilberforce, you would also enjoy I'm certain David McCullough’s biography of President John Adams. Have you read it?<BR/>I am reminded of it by your reference to slavery. Adam’s and his family had no slaves. Not a one. Ever. In contrast, President Jefferson about 60 or so. Both had strong feeling against slavery and realized their hypocrisy having declared all men created equal. But they were also well aware of what they may only be able to accomplish in their time.<BR/><BR/>After Adams died and his estate settled it had an estimated net worth of about $100,000. Quite a bit for those days. Jefferson on the other hand died quite a bit in debt. Adams no slaves. Jefferson lots of them.<BR/><BR/>I love Jefferson, despite his failings on that issue. Clearly a big issue as issues go. I would make a similar point about Washington – who I consider the greatest American that ever lived. For without him – and especially of course God, there would be no America.<BR/><BR/>So related to Dr Bob’s posts lately, it’s important to try to see the world through the eyes of these great people as they were in their time, on their ‘train’ looking forward.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41269315045839937872007-02-27T14:17:00.000-08:002007-02-27T14:17:00.000-08:00"Yet if we analyze the style and characteristic 'p..."Yet if we analyze the style and characteristic 'plotting' of God's story of the world as Christians see it, it would be entirely out of character for him to have arranged a big anticlimax after the ascension of Christ. The redemption outdoes in drama and even importance the earlier creation and fall; if this is the third age, the era of the Paraclete, then surely it must be more marvellous still, and marked by a personal style not entirely the same as that of the Father and the Son. It would behoove us to pay more attention to the divine person who is with us now, as present among us as Jesus was, if we believe what Jesus says" (emphasis mine).<BR/><BR/>I'm glad you brought this up, Bob.<BR/>This is probably the most misunderstood attribute of God in Religion today.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-11312863711233589312007-02-27T14:04:00.000-08:002007-02-27T14:04:00.000-08:00I had octopus sashimi. It was tentacular!I had octopus sashimi. <BR/><BR/>It was <I>tentacular</I>!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-61383097841678110892007-02-27T14:03:00.000-08:002007-02-27T14:03:00.000-08:00What he says his experience with 'dumb' people is,...What he says his experience with 'dumb' people is, they aren't nearly as 'dumb' as we think, or rather, they are not <I>smarter</I> than we think but are far more functional than our screwed up understanding of intelligence -> functionality would indicate.<BR/><BR/>In other words people of low intelligence can learn to drive and do so well; even if they would take 10 years to learn calculus. He also indicates that our supposed understanding of what 'average' intelligence is, at least <I>can</I> be is a gross error. Not that it's surprising, but a lot of our schooling is shaped around what the perceived averages are.<BR/><BR/>Sad.<BR/><BR/>wv: tvmsstme - and I'm glad it did.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-64800402274148593322007-02-27T13:59:00.000-08:002007-02-27T13:59:00.000-08:00Algore's ideas are tentacular on the level of 20,0...Algore's ideas are tentacular on the level of 20,000 leagues UNDER the SEE.<BR/><BR/>I knew that word would come in handy.<BR/><BR/>WV: xkruhoqh...need I say more?USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4747915092941985962007-02-27T13:55:00.000-08:002007-02-27T13:55:00.000-08:00The agreed-upon shame (at least in some circles) i...The agreed-upon shame (at least in some circles) is that we're forced to go through that drek. But then again, it is a terrible winnowing...<BR/><BR/>Doesn't make it sound any better, though.<BR/><BR/>wv: isbyk! Sounds like a heretofore unknown bird.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45675228565362944292007-02-27T13:53:00.000-08:002007-02-27T13:53:00.000-08:00Cool post, Bob!Really cool...because it's... snowi...Cool post, Bob!<BR/>Really cool...because it's... snowing. <BR/><BR/>Flashback: about 7 or 8 hours.<BR/>"Todays weather where you (me, Ben) are at; partly sunny, possibility of showers."<BR/><BR/>Yesterday I saw clips of the oscars, where Algore was preachin' to the masses. <BR/>All the faces of the algorians in the audience were aglow in rapture, leaning forward and hanging on every word. Nodding as the cameras focused on them.<BR/>Algore, their Profitt had spoken.<BR/><BR/>Now, can someone tell me why I should believe Al "I got a liberal arts degree" Gore making dire predictions about Disneyworld turning into waterworld 10, 20 or 100 years from now, when meteorologists can't even get an 8 hour prediction right?USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.com