tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post3434730839135572822..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Christian Fertile Eggheads Unite!Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-62837553817012797582009-07-21T11:03:06.259-07:002009-07-21T11:03:06.259-07:00Oops, I mean River, not Ricky... poetic justice!Oops, I mean River, not Ricky... poetic justice!Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26120461158291612442009-07-21T11:01:49.476-07:002009-07-21T11:01:49.476-07:00Ricky said "Petty consistency is the hobgobli...Ricky said "Petty consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.<br />Just to correct Rand and all."<br /><br />Actually, Emerson's line was "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."(from <a href="http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm" rel="nofollow">Self-Reliance</a>), and I think he was more speaking to those who cling to repeating what has been consistently repeated before, rather than seeking or admitting what the truth actually is.<br /><br />Rand I'm sure took it as '1 + 1 = 2, only vaAary leetle minds would value an inconsistent answer!'<br /><br />If you ever heard her pronounce the word 'mystic' (<i>'uhmmMeeesss-teeeKk'</i>) you'd get her point of view, she cut and dried assessed them as deliberately making an assault upon the Truth, and so sentenced them to the gallows forthwith.<br /><br />Like any good acid-washing product, one must be careful in applying it, but if done properly, the resulting clean shine is very satisfying.<br /><br />;-)Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-76990422586422033722009-07-21T06:40:59.401-07:002009-07-21T06:40:59.401-07:00Petty consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...<em>Petty consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.</em><br /><br />Just to correct Rand and all.Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-6097708116506195122009-07-20T15:51:10.574-07:002009-07-20T15:51:10.574-07:00I am aiming for that nonlocal vector where heart a...I am aiming for that nonlocal vector where heart and mind intersect -- where the mind "sings" and the heart "thinks."<br /><br />That is beautiful, Bob.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39427012118349073422009-07-20T15:01:46.619-07:002009-07-20T15:01:46.619-07:00Robin -
>> . . just visit a so-called Chri...Robin - <br /><br />>> . . just visit a so-called Christian bookstore and try to find some real meat among the racks of fuzzy devotionals, self-helps, and figurines<<<br /><br />Yup, same with contemporary Christian music, which is annoyingly derivative, often cloyingly sentimental and shallow. Meanwhile, modern classic composers are still so sicklied over with "modernism" they won't touch a genuine spiritual/religious theme (with the exception of some E. European composers) <br /><br />Sad, because bad art makes for bad religion.<br /><br />Bach, Beethoven, the venerable greats . . . that's where the meat is.willnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-47027080399559353022009-07-20T14:32:45.263-07:002009-07-20T14:32:45.263-07:00But faith without knowledge -- without the possibi...But faith without knowledge -- without the possibility of knowledge -- is just stupid. <br /><br />Indeed, faith is supposed to be a subtle mode of knowledge, so to yield epistemology to materialism means that there is no longer any real and accessible "object of faith" to be known."<br /><br />Amen, brudda!<br />Faith without knowledge is hollow.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-27623764011063266082009-07-20T11:07:53.290-07:002009-07-20T11:07:53.290-07:00Ah, a pipe! What an excellent accessory for a true...Ah, a pipe! What an excellent accessory for a true Christian gentleman. One day I must have one too :)<br /><br />/JohanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-72466582923340416482009-07-20T11:07:02.737-07:002009-07-20T11:07:02.737-07:00"As for why this degeneration took place, I s..."As for why this degeneration took place, I suppose you could blame Kant, but how many people read Kant?"<br /><br />ME!<br /><br />Oh... you mean besides me?<br /><br />Ummm...<br /><br />Well... Ayn Rand got around that issue in a speech at West Point with a question,<br /> <br />"<i>You might claim-as most people do--that you have never been influenced by philosophy. I will ask you to check that claim. Have you ever thought or said the following?</i>..."<br /><br />, which, leaving out some of the iconoclasm, she handled this way,<br /><br /><i>"...Or: "It may be true for you, but it's not true for me." You got it from William James. Or: "I couldn't help it! Nobody can help anything he does." You got it from Hegel. Or: "I can't prove it, but I feel that it's true." You got it from Kant. Or: "It's logical, but logic has nothing to do with reality." You got it from Kant. Or: "It's evil, because it's selfish." You got it from Kant. Have you heard the modern activists say: "Act first, think afterward"? They got it from John Dewey.<br /><br />Some people might answer: "Sure, I've said those things at different times, but I don't have to believe that stuff all of the time. It may have been true yesterday, but it's not true today." They got it from Hegel. They might say: "Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." They got it from a very little mind, Emerson. They might say: "But can't one compromise and borrow different ideas from different philosophies according to the expediency of the moment?" They got it from Richard Nixon--who got it from William James.</i>""<br /><br /><br />Wham!Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44343028384059251272009-07-20T11:04:49.005-07:002009-07-20T11:04:49.005-07:00I've been looking for a way forward. Bob, you...I've been looking for a way forward. Bob, you stated the obvious. I need to keep reading.<br /><br />ThanksJameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03149296283560293988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-78099838104999373402009-07-20T10:31:05.991-07:002009-07-20T10:31:05.991-07:00That's why they make Orthodox bookstores.
Ha...That's why they make Orthodox bookstores. <br /><br />Harder to find, but worth it...Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-62062044679690189882009-07-20T10:11:08.454-07:002009-07-20T10:11:08.454-07:00I believe that many who find that 'nothing hap...<i>I believe that many who find that 'nothing happens' when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand. </i> <br /><br />Ah, so <i>that's</i> it - I was missing the pipe!<br /><br />As for the 'intellectual impoverishment that has taken place within Christianity', just visit a so-called Christian bookstore and try to find some real meat among the racks of fuzzy devotionals, self-helps, and figurines.robinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com