tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post3597339839977653812..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Law and MusicGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-60646866881365636382015-01-31T08:37:07.817-08:002015-01-31T08:37:07.817-08:00"W]hat must the world be like, what must I be..."W]hat must the world be like, what must I be like, if between me and the world the phenomenon of music can occur?"<br /><br />Yes. Math, Music, Geometry, Poetry, Beauty, Goodness - Truth. As far as materialistic man is concerned, they do not need to be. But to become Man, he cannot be without them. <br /><br />Ariadne's thread taunts us to be threaded....Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46815875193401187832015-01-31T08:30:22.771-08:002015-01-31T08:30:22.771-08:00Anonymous said "...Moldbug at Unqualified Res...Anonymous said "...Moldbug at Unqualified Reservations..." <br /><br />He is interesting on the surface, very good at identifying symptoms, and the seemingly unexpected relations between them, but he flat out sucks in the solutions Dept. Cynicism, skepticism and power don't work out well together. <br /><br />On the other hand, he does sometimes make me seem shortwinded, so there's that. Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-83852279569274879782015-01-31T08:24:29.183-08:002015-01-31T08:24:29.183-08:00"So, the folks who play the game realize that..."So, the folks who play the game realize that all truth is related, and that it is indeed One Cosmos after all. And although I didn't understand the book, I've been playing the game ever since. It goes like this: take two subjects or disciplines that appear to have nothing to do with each other, and show how they are related. I do it all the time. Or, maybe I can't help doing it."<br /><br />Now that is interesting. Ayn Rand and the Objectivists used to talk about playing a parlor game, I don't remember what they called it, "Integrate" or something, which was exactly that. Someone would throw out two seemingly unrelated topics, and you had to find the principle which united them, and if you couldn't you were out. Winner being the last One standing. Particularly interesting as Rand Despised Hesse.<br /><br />"Kook Lux Klan -- crazy for the light." To qualify as a Raccoon player, gots to keep in mind that the Light is more than the output of wattage. Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3772442517551172272015-01-29T17:08:28.278-08:002015-01-29T17:08:28.278-08:00"Here again, we're talking about a repeti..."Here again, we're talking about a repetitious tune grounded in some self-serving murky-mythic encounter with ultimate authority, vs. a new reality in which we are at liberty to compose our own damn melody, free of the state's tedious ditty blaring in our ears."<br /><br />Damn straight! Amen! And the state expects a Grammy for their blaring, ear-splitting performance.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-25805612548374808612015-01-29T17:04:29.244-08:002015-01-29T17:04:29.244-08:00The stupid intellectials were the first ones to re...The stupid intellectials were the first ones to reduce white achievements to privilege.<br /><br />Which is so idiotic because anyone who achieves either directly or indirectly help others in one way or another.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-42996731337634869712015-01-29T16:50:52.537-08:002015-01-29T16:50:52.537-08:00The left is so caught up in reductionism that they...The left is so caught up in reductionism that they reduce order to chaos.<br /><br />Which is ironic since they so desparately want the opposite. The problem is, until they eventually hafta pay, like the restuvus for their short-sighted thinking (and lack of thinking about the consequences of their thinking) they just continue blindly following the path to destruction.<br /><br />And even then there are dome who never learn from their mistakes or the mistakes of others before them, such as Obama.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54709907057344279882015-01-29T16:42:20.002-08:002015-01-29T16:42:20.002-08:00The left is KFC: Kooky Fission Clan.The left is KFC: Kooky Fission Clan.Skullynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-25607626827161611322015-01-29T14:24:10.548-08:002015-01-29T14:24:10.548-08:00The closer one gets to Truth, the less that can be...The closer one gets to Truth, the less that can be said.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5235879236298421252015-01-29T14:11:40.483-08:002015-01-29T14:11:40.483-08:00"How is music possible?.... [W]hat must the w..."How is music possible?.... [W]hat must the world be like, what must I be like, if between me and the world the phenomenon of music can occur? How must I consider the world, how must I consider myself, if I am to understand the reality of music?"<br /><br />There really is something BIG here - this connection between us and music. That it should connect so well (hand in glove) and that we recognize this perfect fit as beautiful. As if all this beautiful music lies waiting in the <i>listener</i> to be revealed. <i>Why</i> should is be there? <i>Why</i> should the composer be able to create something that fits the other listener (another person) so perfectly?<br />This mystery is full of meaning. And it seems, we might not have discovered music at all.<br />It seems to be a quite unique type of beautiful in the world. Or rather not in the world. You don't just stumble across it walking in the woods and then make some of your own (say, like a landscape painting). And yet so much of it has been "found".Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-69925933928428297672015-01-29T11:37:52.002-08:002015-01-29T11:37:52.002-08:00Give me a word-slinger who boldly mansplains in br...Give me a word-slinger who boldly mansplains in broad daylight instead of fumfering around with his pen for 500 pages.Cousin Dupreenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-38881889141346922592015-01-29T11:33:33.523-08:002015-01-29T11:33:33.523-08:00In general I don't like "writers" an...In general I don't like "writers" and do not consider myself one, because they generally take a whole book to say what can be said in one sentence, as if we have all the time in the world. Besides, few writers are as good as a Don Colacho anyway.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-6334221230072097702015-01-29T11:30:28.585-08:002015-01-29T11:30:28.585-08:00A bit longwinded, no?A bit longwinded, no?Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-35263060486201761122015-01-29T11:18:17.983-08:002015-01-29T11:18:17.983-08:00If you haven't read Moldbug at Unqualified Res...If you haven't read Moldbug at Unqualified Reservations; you should.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23613877127862608422015-01-29T11:16:36.128-08:002015-01-29T11:16:36.128-08:00Heh - yep.
On the legal note, there was a brief a...Heh - yep.<br /><br />On the legal note, there was a brief aside in last night's RCIA lecture about some of the thought behind Vatican II, and how many people in the church had gotten so caught up in various overgrown and overly rigid legalisms that they had lost sight of the Spirit - thus, for instance, fretting over a morsel of meat on a Friday while having no concern about a habit of being cruel to the unfortunate. It brought to mind UF's talk of crystallization.<br /><br />Conversely, though, it seemed to me there's a real jeopardy of throwing out the law altogether and replacing it with feelings of goodness. And we already know how well that tends to turn out...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-18653395326959773002015-01-29T10:41:36.836-08:002015-01-29T10:41:36.836-08:00Kook Lux Klan -- crazy for the light.Kook Lux Klan -- crazy for the light.Cousin Dupreenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70844502629115442702015-01-29T10:30:13.704-08:002015-01-29T10:30:13.704-08:00It goes like this: take two subjects or discipline...<i>It goes like this: take two subjects or disciplines that appear to have nothing to do with each other, and show how they are related. I do it all the time. Or, maybe I can't help doing it. </i><br /><br />The distinguishing mark of the Raccoon clan.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.com