tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post3669118797008219641..comments2024-03-18T21:33:35.309-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: God's Troubles with the Cosmic RolloutGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59995720848667821242014-04-09T09:29:46.596-07:002014-04-09T09:29:46.596-07:00As an artist judges his/her creation, so too does ...As an artist judges his/her creation, so too does G_D. On the macro and individual level. <br />The option to change their testimony was always in front of the martyrs of Christ, yet they held to the Truth. And there is the power and beauty and enduring strength of suffering for the Truth.<br /><br />Unlike islam. Where taqqiya is considered kosherDougmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08468871451814828157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54529044546202913042014-04-08T22:31:23.297-07:002014-04-08T22:31:23.297-07:00This makes sense to me. As we have said before, p...This makes sense to me. As we have said before, predestination is about the result not the process. Or, we might say, God knows what He wants when He sees it.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-38261794113247086912014-04-08T19:21:14.736-07:002014-04-08T19:21:14.736-07:00How else could Abraham have thought to bargain wit...How else could Abraham have thought to bargain with God, except that he felt that he, too, was part of the creative process?Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-24810085491478659182014-04-08T19:13:13.577-07:002014-04-08T19:13:13.577-07:00"Let's go All the Way Down and Back, to t..."Let's go All the Way Down and Back, to the free launch of Genesis 1. ..."<br /><br />Man, that's worth the price of admission!Peytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12270784303736251238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22600294544170749632014-04-08T18:33:25.148-07:002014-04-08T18:33:25.148-07:00You know, in a Klein Bottle, the very narrow singu...You know, in a Klein Bottle, the very narrow singular part is where the expansion is happening. Hard to have labels like before and after, living and dead. That is where humans trade places with angels, stabilizing and remembering. Of course, there is a damned War going on, gets bigger in the past, which is not over, or set.<br /><br />They say that is a snake eating it's tail, probably seems like that. Maybe just an event horizon worshiping a singular Mystery, optiks, and such.<br /><br />Humans are worried about lines, and run from whirlwinds. Very prodigal, and hard to watch.nealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10632021240126981592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66785518112720216162014-04-08T10:44:56.923-07:002014-04-08T10:44:56.923-07:00Also, to say "fractals" or "branche...Also, to say "fractals" or "branches" is to say: not-accidental<br /><br />Berlinski (ref his latest interview at Uncommon Knowledge) would agree with that, I think -- 'specially with regard to evolution.<br /><br />Maybe it has something to do with: in which direction does one look when looking at "fractals" (forward or backward) therefore depends where you fall in the evolution debate. With those on the side of "evolution is guided", we place ourminds (ala Polanyi), say, at the Cambrian explosion and look <i>forward</i> (rather than brainstanding at here-and-now and looking backward at the explosion). Berlinski may sayhe: there are simply too many branches (choices/alternative paths/protein combinations) -- the game seems rigged; or "guided".<br /><br />Berlinski is to guided, as Bob is to attractor.<br /><br />We're not looking back; we're looking forward -- or betterwet: from the "stump", through the "branches", and toward the attractor.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54940159071392556932014-04-08T10:34:52.408-07:002014-04-08T10:34:52.408-07:00Re. the Genesis book, I saw that on Amazon the oth...Re. the Genesis book, I saw that on Amazon the other day. It looks interesting, too.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-69797742383118212532014-04-08T10:22:33.901-07:002014-04-08T10:22:33.901-07:00And as to the rest of the post, yes, just so.And as to the rest of the post, yes, just so.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-18406483109047444062014-04-08T09:38:22.431-07:002014-04-08T09:38:22.431-07:00It's like each idea is a seed for its own tree...<i>It's like each idea is a seed for its own tree. Although not difficult, it is thick, or rich, or dense.</i><br /><br />Okay, okay - I just got an Amazon gift card in the mail...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46082746359409611092014-04-08T09:30:45.095-07:002014-04-08T09:30:45.095-07:00...a NT Wright and Gary Morson sorta-debate here....a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQYCE5-DtdY" rel="nofollow">NT Wright and Gary Morson sorta-debate here</a>.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-11056122633981817912014-04-08T09:30:37.792-07:002014-04-08T09:30:37.792-07:00"I suppose the problem is that the postmodern..."I suppose the problem is that the postmodern rabble doesn't understand that ideas are real, and instead pretends that words are just about other words."<br /><br />That sums it up well. I run into it daily, the slightly patronizing glint at the idea that ideas actually mean something and are consequential to their lives, while they feel free to use words (which, um, refer to... what?) as the mood strikes them, and Justify their behavior with them.<br /><br />Blink.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-615470475360073692014-04-08T09:22:52.953-07:002014-04-08T09:22:52.953-07:00"...so too is God constrained by his own natu..."...so too is God constrained by his own nature, so to speak."<br /><br />One could say He is constrained because He chooses to do so. This speaks to His will; a will to which of course His Son always makes deference (and likeways chooses to).Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.com