tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post3427577382595675221..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: In Order to Find Out What's In Liberalism, You Have to Surrender to LiberalismGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87244157945091458062014-12-17T10:13:09.966-08:002014-12-17T10:13:09.966-08:00Julie said "They are only human - who knew?&q...Julie said "They are only human - who knew?"<br /><br />Apparently everyone but them. <br />(Sorry, couldn't resist.)<br /><br />Hey ya Magnus!Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-72160565671390861562014-12-17T05:50:21.913-08:002014-12-17T05:50:21.913-08:00Even Buddhists can sometimes support murder, it se...Even Buddhists can sometimes support murder, it seems. They are only human - who knew?juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71226058923966796092014-12-17T05:43:23.272-08:002014-12-17T05:43:23.272-08:00Julie, This book discloses how Zen Buddhist roshi&...Julie, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Zen-War-Brian-Daizen-Victoria/dp/0742539261/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1418823542&sr=1-1&keywords=zen+at+war&pebp=1418823549847" rel="nofollow">This book</a> discloses how Zen Buddhist roshi's backed the Japanese Emperor and their plans for imperial expansion during WWII.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46932504625519635272014-12-17T05:14:24.596-08:002014-12-17T05:14:24.596-08:00Huh. If the free market were applied to terrorist ...Huh. If the free market were applied to terrorist groups, I wonder if they would become more or less murderous?<br /><br />And Magnus, yes. <br /><br />Good to see you :) juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-33076008250449245042014-12-17T05:05:01.154-08:002014-12-17T05:05:01.154-08:00ISIS has some competition.ISIS has some <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kya9l6mryMw" rel="nofollow">competition</a>.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-83955460172302148772014-12-17T04:10:52.986-08:002014-12-17T04:10:52.986-08:00trying to magically fix the soul by fixing the wor...<i>trying to magically fix the soul by fixing the world instead of the right way around. An understandable impulse, given how hard souls are to work with.</i><br /><br />Well, fixing the world pays better.Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-68188091491270226882014-12-17T00:32:06.398-08:002014-12-17T00:32:06.398-08:00You say liberalism, Shcuon says modernity ... Look...You say liberalism, Shcuon says modernity ... Looks like the same thing from the Kushner perspective, namely trying to magically fix the soul by fixing the world instead of the right way around. An understandable impulse, given how hard souls are to work with.<br />Magnus Itlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445902788427523461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7598407517056234262014-12-16T16:55:27.822-08:002014-12-16T16:55:27.822-08:00"We would say that the very purpose of this c..."We would say that the very purpose of this country is to create a place that valorizes and maintains the interior locus of control, AKA the Empire of Liberty (liberty being the quintessential "space between"). Otherwise we're no different from any other shitty country where the government controls people from without."<br /><br />Indeed, and well said, Bob. <br />That's the ultimate goal of lefties whether they are aware of it or not. The results are the utter destruction of liberty, or the conDemNation of the interior locus of control.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-74420969861858724322014-12-16T12:54:05.494-08:002014-12-16T12:54:05.494-08:00So true. Feinstein and company are treasonous. I j...<i>So true. Feinstein and company are treasonous. I just can't wait for Jeb to right the ship.</i><br /><br />Now that right there is funny.<br /><br />I used to watch our chickens pick grain out of cow manure. Reminds me of the Republican presidential field at this point. If it's Jeb in 2016, I'm going third party.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44185326529652843712014-12-16T12:42:05.997-08:002014-12-16T12:42:05.997-08:00To me, the most obviously hypocritical aspect of t...To me, the most obviously hypocritical aspect of this report is that, whatever the abuses may have been (Mitchell says he reported them), they pale in comparison to the continued killing of innocents which the Droner in Chief adores.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08797912120688482383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5271663790909739112014-12-16T12:13:38.080-08:002014-12-16T12:13:38.080-08:00Only by the media. These days, that is more than e...Only by the media. These days, that is more than enough.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90300630496321734492014-12-16T12:07:42.124-08:002014-12-16T12:07:42.124-08:00Haven't watched the interview yet, but read th...Haven't watched the interview yet, but read the article. Was he charged with something? Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08797912120688482383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7790048435632769112014-12-16T11:57:06.076-08:002014-12-16T11:57:06.076-08:00Saw this guy on Megyn Kelly last night. What the ...Saw <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/12/james-mitchell-ksm-predicted-what-the-dems-would-do-to-me.php" rel="nofollow">this guy</a> on Megyn Kelly last night. What the left is doing to people like him is unforgivable. Due process is for terrorists and traitors, not patriots and heroes. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-34411205501424641772014-12-16T11:52:34.808-08:002014-12-16T11:52:34.808-08:00"If you knew that there was a hidden nuclear ..."If you knew that there was a hidden nuclear time bomb planted somewhere in New York City -- set to go off today -- and you had a captured terrorist who knew where and when, would you not do anything whatever to make him tell you where and when? Would you pause to look up the definition of 'torture'? Would you even care what the definition of 'torture' was, when the alternative was seeing millions of innocent people murdered?"<br />So true. Feinstein and company are treasonous. I just can't wait for Jeb to right the ship.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08797912120688482383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-78383381807455630742014-12-16T11:50:01.036-08:002014-12-16T11:50:01.036-08:00Am taking your book recommendation as Christmas gi...Am taking your book recommendation as Christmas gift to selfHappyAcresnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-81361614777058467902014-12-16T11:36:22.440-08:002014-12-16T11:36:22.440-08:00I can believe that. After growing up with black f...I can believe that. After growing up with black farm kids, it was a shock to get to college and find the conflict between suburban whites and urban blacks. <br /><br />Back in the '70s, I had a good running/drinking buddy whose father was a professor at one of those historic black colleges in a fairly small town. My buddy had been a standout running back at a mostly white high school. He said he didn't know what prejudice was until he got to Columbia University.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67365692610556556562014-12-16T10:33:08.817-08:002014-12-16T10:33:08.817-08:00Which is why we see them behaving exactly like the...Which is why we see them behaving exactly like the white lynch mobs of old.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-61438384547115430492014-12-16T10:33:05.711-08:002014-12-16T10:33:05.711-08:00"For example, what is the meaning of the rela..."For example, what is the meaning of the relationship between (every) I and I AM, or (•) and O? Life is about exploring, elaborating, and deepening this meaning, unless one denies it a priori, in which case one will suffer from a false wholeness, and with it, Restless Self Syndrome. "<br /><br />That encapsulates so much, starting with the progressive leftist intellectual and moral ideal, Artificial Intelligence. There's no (•) within their "O", and that really is the way they want it. They want to be excused from having to conform the inside to the outside and to the whole, because that is what is necessary in order to (seem to) metaphysically change the world to what they wish it were. Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-34233351193666346892014-12-16T10:31:51.329-08:002014-12-16T10:31:51.329-08:00I really enjoyed his Black Rednecks too, which I r...I really enjoyed his Black Rednecks too, which I recently read. In it he proves that urban blacks are the last remnant of southern white cracker culture! <br /><br /> Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-63788564126092825952014-12-16T10:30:19.179-08:002014-12-16T10:30:19.179-08:00The book is actually wearying, because it's ju...The book is actually wearying, because it's just one lucid sentence after another, with no let up. And most of the sentences cause a fertile zap in the brain. His manner of expression is the polar opposite of the tenured. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46228027375378606152014-12-16T10:27:46.825-08:002014-12-16T10:27:46.825-08:00But any idiot can change the world in the wrong wa...<i>But any idiot can change the world in the wrong way, or there would be no such thing as "news."</i><br /><br />After some of the recent press debacles, no news is sounding better and better. <br /><br />I'm getting Sowell's book. If they don't have it at B&N, I'll subtly remind my DIL that she owes me. mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48757155815449445752014-12-16T10:21:57.357-08:002014-12-16T10:21:57.357-08:00As the Tao says -- something like we need the wall...As the Tao says -- something like we need the walls but we use the space. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57395474979215414852014-12-16T10:20:30.006-08:002014-12-16T10:20:30.006-08:00Space and relationship immediately reminds me of s...Space and relationship immediately reminds me of something I think Alan Watts said (could just be a flashback) -- that you can't really perceive or comprehend apart from space. mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-40236262397454218822014-12-16T10:16:15.426-08:002014-12-16T10:16:15.426-08:00The original it is.The original it is.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-10243042507663186542014-12-16T10:09:46.844-08:002014-12-16T10:09:46.844-08:00I liked the original better. Obviously.
(For some...I liked the original better. Obviously. <br />(For some reason I can hear Snape saying that)Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.com