tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post3598492413024008958..comments2024-03-18T21:33:35.309-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: The Present is a Foreign CountryGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-80549529685042947012010-12-01T08:37:35.946-08:002010-12-01T08:37:35.946-08:00"could"
Sheesh."could"<br /><br />Sheesh.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41704248325844375282010-12-01T08:36:53.397-08:002010-12-01T08:36:53.397-08:00bh said "I know my own vibe. Needy. What can ...bh said "I know my own vibe. Needy. What can I say."<br /><br />Eh. I think your neediness mistakes my non giveeness for hostility. Maybe it'd help if you can't hear my laughter. But probably not.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45909993170300111282010-12-01T08:34:42.848-08:002010-12-01T08:34:42.848-08:00'What is the use of history' than asking w...'What is the use of history' than asking what is the use of memory. An individual who has lost his memory is a lost individual, and a society that has no history and no historical consciousness is a barbarous society. It is as simple as that."<br />...But the present is obviously never stable, so we might look at history as "the presence of the past," which is to say, an extension and probe of the present into the past, rather than vice versa -- which is why history must be rewritten (or at least reevaluated) by each generation, since the past keeps changing in light of what is revealed by the future. " <br /><br />I like that a lot, especially history as the presence of the past. And even more than a probe into the past (or rather in addition to), it helps us aim into the future.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37880001609794285912010-12-01T07:59:32.683-08:002010-12-01T07:59:32.683-08:00GE - was that a reference to the Smithsonian?
Sur...GE - was that a reference to the <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/smithsonian-christmas-season-exhibit-fea" rel="nofollow">Smithsonian</a>?<br /><br />Surprisingly, they've actually pulled the Jesus portion of the exhibit. The rest stays, though - wouldn't want to ruin the friends and family atmosphere.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-16107455130713000882010-12-01T06:59:00.154-08:002010-12-01T06:59:00.154-08:00To: blackhole
Re: "Tigtog and James don't...To: blackhole<br />Re: "Tigtog and James don't give a specific vibe."<br /><br />"Arf arf." Don't neuter me dude. BTW who is RG? Also, are you like really into Soundgarden or something?Tigtoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03290914498892961024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2751541031519970682010-12-01T06:02:01.602-08:002010-12-01T06:02:01.602-08:00we're here
we're queer
we're in your f...we're here<br />we're queer<br />we're in your face!gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-21388557057941033522010-12-01T01:03:14.699-08:002010-12-01T01:03:14.699-08:00Mushroom said:
"So, a child has been abducte...Mushroom said:<br /><br />"So, a child has been abducted by two individuals. One is taking the child to a location where the abuse will take place. I have caught the other one, and I know that he can tell me where his partner is headed. Whether or not it is perfectly legal, is it reasonable and moral to hold the jerk's head under water to get him to talk?"<br /><br />Damn straight it is! Not only reasonable and moral, but just, plain right.<br />A criminal's rights should never trump the rights or the life of their victim.<br /><br />Leftists and all "letter of the law" modern day pharisees (the ACLU) should try explaining to a raped and battered child or the parents of a murdered child how a criminal's rights, comfort and feelings are more important than their rights, well being and life.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70516471263511113632010-12-01T00:52:17.964-08:002010-12-01T00:52:17.964-08:00Ano said:
"You probably aren't really evi...Ano said:<br />"You probably aren't really evil either, although you certainly seem headed that way (see, eg, your logic that justifies torture as long as the right people are doing it)."<br /><br />Why on earth would anyone want the wrong people doing it?USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-11214260615088273502010-12-01T00:50:14.315-08:002010-12-01T00:50:14.315-08:00"Is it possible for one's gut to be in th..."Is it possible for one's gut to be in the wrong place? Of course! Referring back to Dupes, consider all of the leftists who have positive gut feelings about Castro, or Gorbachev, or Hugo Chavez, or Daniel Ortega, or Jimmy Carter, or John Edwards, or Obama."<br /><br />ie: the Chebaggers.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39212720574982484852010-11-30T21:29:24.316-08:002010-11-30T21:29:24.316-08:00GM:I theorize there may be methods to enable a mor...GM:<i>I theorize there may be methods to enable a more capable inner being.</i><br /><br />This is exactly what much Buddhist practice is about. Some, like my dear wife, delight in it. Others, like myself, find it a dry and painful austerity. <br /><br />JWMJWMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05564732483476859555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-43236499072425018432010-11-30T19:44:07.799-08:002010-11-30T19:44:07.799-08:00the past extends into the present, just as the pre...<i>the past extends into the present, just as the present reaches into the past. What we call "history," or the re-collected past, is more like a dynamic whirlpool created by these two streams. </i><br /><br />Speaking of matters of the past and present, Groundhog Day is on. Also Scrooged.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-63614360603293594032010-11-30T17:35:50.219-08:002010-11-30T17:35:50.219-08:00Not so sure about the fascination, though.
Of cou...<i>Not so sure about the fascination, though.</i><br /><br />Of course, Anon imagines censorship, so who knows what else he imagines...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-16086175489037618532010-11-30T17:32:23.781-08:002010-11-30T17:32:23.781-08:00Some actions are inherently bad, and it would be d...Some actions are inherently bad, and it would be difficult if not impossible to justify them in any circumstances -- for example, the rape of a child. <br /><br />So, a child has been abducted by two individuals. One is taking the child to a location where the abuse will take place. I have caught the other one, and I know that he can tell me where his partner is headed. Whether or not it is perfectly legal, is it reasonable and moral to hold the jerk's head under water to get him to talk?mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-33360865116849163582010-11-30T17:26:11.264-08:002010-11-30T17:26:11.264-08:00Always the victim. We feel your pain. Not so sur...Always the victim. We feel your pain. Not so sure about the fascination, though.Cousin Dupreenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39011217988629961622010-11-30T16:55:42.592-08:002010-11-30T16:55:42.592-08:00This is why conservatives generally think that lib...<i>This is why conservatives generally think that liberals are simply innocently ignorant or willfully stupid, while liberals feel that conservatives are evil. </i><br /><br />On the contrary, I think most conservatives are stupid. Moronic. <a href="http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/148855/taibbi:_the_tea_party_moron_complex/" rel="nofollow">Dumb as a bag of hammers</a>. <br /><br />You on the other hand obviously aren't dumb. You probably aren't really evil either, although you certainly seem headed that way (see, eg, your logic that justifies torture as long as the right people are doing it). I guess that's the source of my fascination, to see someone with a degree of intelligence contort themselves to conform to an essentially stupid ideology. <br /><br /><i>And since we are evil, there is no reason to develop sensible arguments to deal with us.</i><br /><br />You know, I've seen several attempts from liberals to engage you with "sensible arguments". They are inevitably met with ridicule rather than any sort of attempt at dialog. Or censorship, which Is what I imagine will happen to this comment.anonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207020184445548247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65935979206147111062010-11-30T15:55:33.747-08:002010-11-30T15:55:33.747-08:00I get a hostile vibe from Dupree, Van, and RG, eve...I get a hostile vibe from Dupree, Van, and RG, even over the internet. Julie comes across as loving even when being harsh. Wierd. Mushroom is simpatico. G. Maher is stuffy and stale. Tigtog and James don't give a specific vibe. <br /><br />I love it all, especially hostility. Hostility is an acquired taste; once you get used to it, life without loses its savor.<br /><br />I know my own vibe. Needy. What can I say.black holehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07366633817665791528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9794143529053221482010-11-30T14:04:00.987-08:002010-11-30T14:04:00.987-08:00I wonder if that was Gibbs. We know it wasn't...I wonder if that was Gibbs. We know it wasn't Moochelle because the Secret Service didn't have to intervene. <br /><br />Which brings up an interesting question. If the First Lady is kicking the crap out of the President, does the Secret Service:<br /><br />a) intervene <br />b) referee<br />c) post the video on youtubemushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7264595052168736342010-11-30T12:46:02.390-08:002010-11-30T12:46:02.390-08:00And this is why they are so incredibly blind to th...<i>And this is why they are so incredibly blind to their prejudices: because they are first felt and only then disguised as self-evident "thoughts."</i><br /><br />"I love you, man. I want you to look after yourself.<a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/how_the_nanny_president_sees_himself_Rz5QE1GoCFaiwCJvR9mrdP" rel="nofollow">Eat the salad</a>."<br /><br />(Via Vanderleun)juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48358905638643633802010-11-30T12:15:49.990-08:002010-11-30T12:15:49.990-08:00Re: Vibes
"Positive waves, Moriarty, positiv...Re: Vibes<br /><br />"Positive waves, Moriarty, positive waves. Woof - woof"Tigtoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03290914498892961024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-49667365774007326192010-11-30T11:58:45.954-08:002010-11-30T11:58:45.954-08:00When I read leftist "revisionist" histor...<i>When I read leftist "revisionist" history, the first question that occurs to me is not "why is this person wrong?," but "why is this person such an assoul?"</i><br /><br />I have a similar response -- instead of WWJD, I think NTSA (Not This S*** Again).mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54225951011962400112010-11-30T10:46:44.696-08:002010-11-30T10:46:44.696-08:00We all notice this field, even if only (or especia...<i>We all notice this field, even if only (or especially) unconsciously. Call it the "vibes" of a situation if you like. As a therapist, one is trained to pay close attention (but not react) to the vibes given off by a patient (the "counter-transference"), since they speak volumes about the psychic reality in which the patient lives and has his being. Furthermore, one must be especially careful not to confuse the patient's vibes with one's own, which is easy to do if one lacks insight and awareness.</i><br /><br />I can personally relate to the vibe that people give off. I broke off a relationship because the vibe wasn't right. I felt like a crazy hippy when I told her that she puts out this mood which sucks all the fun from the room. The sad thing about it is she was otherwise a beautiful, intelligent woman who I thought seriously about marrying, but her vibe put me in the wrong frame of mind.<br /> As for the past, I've found if I don't keep the truth out front I end up Wille Lowmaning myself.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03149296283560293988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9811183672607593732010-11-30T10:45:18.596-08:002010-11-30T10:45:18.596-08:00GM says:
"How do we take command of our inne...GM says:<br /><br />"How do we take command of our inner world and not be subject to unwanted moods, vibes, or errata in interpreting the past?"<br /><br />Through the appropriate pharmaceutical application of beer.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57435078412884156772010-11-30T10:05:35.607-08:002010-11-30T10:05:35.607-08:00For me, it is a common experience that certain typ...<i>For me, it is a common experience that certain types of music are inaccessible if I am not in the right frame of mind. What can sound like the music of the spheres one day can sound like music of the squares the next. </i><br /><br />It's interesting how that works. Every now and then, I like to keep listening when something hits me wrong, simply to figure out <i>why</i> it's suddenly so grating on the rare occasion the reason isn't apparent. I try to do the same thing with people - that is, when there's a strong visceral reaction to someone I want to know why.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22110453296353145912010-11-30T09:10:33.929-08:002010-11-30T09:10:33.929-08:00This intricate post delves into the workings of co...This intricate post delves into the workings of consciousness down to the street level, as it were. Utterly fascinating from start to finish.<br /><br />We begin to understand that interpretation of the past is a fairly fluid undertaking.<br /><br />That gut feelings (a holistic or integrated form of consiousness) are a more accurate indicator of reality than the intellect.<br /><br />Overall vibes should be heeded closely.<br /><br />That we are at the mercy of mood states, which play havoc witin relationships or with enjoyment of the arts.<br /><br />With these nuanced truths now flushed out into the open (some for the first time, I believe), we can begin to ask a question:<br /><br />How do we take command of our inner world and not be subject to unwanted moods, vibes, or errata in interpreting the past?<br /><br />I theorize there may be methods to enable a more capable inner being.Open Trenchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06354412002318534131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30504100592883281712010-11-30T08:27:44.052-08:002010-11-30T08:27:44.052-08:00So the proper functioning of one's gut is quit...<i>So the proper functioning of one's gut is quite important, a reality that usually goes unnoticed by infertile eggheads who are adept at rationalizing gut feelings into sophistry, in what is known as intellectualization or "shit masquerading as scholarship."</i><br /><br />Heh - I think a spit-take warning was needed for that one...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com