tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post4092729642038737421..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Nice Gnosis & Naughty GnosticismGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84162384824380242702008-04-10T02:00:00.000-07:002008-04-10T02:00:00.000-07:00"My son -- who turns three in a couple weeks -- al..."My son -- who turns three in a couple weeks -- already knows all about immamentizing the eschaton. For example, he wants to have bacon or pizza for every meal. Thus, I often have to remind him, "stop immamentizing the eschaton! You can't have bacon around the clock unless you're either a good person or an Islamist in the hereafter." <BR/><BR/><BR/>Or, if you're a pig farmer. :^)USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51963412680156551462008-04-09T22:25:00.000-07:002008-04-09T22:25:00.000-07:00Stone Brokeundisconnectedfather son and holy ghost...<A HREF="http://robinstarfish.blogspot.com/2008/04/stone-broke.html" REL="nofollow">Stone Broke</A><BR/>undisconnected<BR/>father son and holy ghost<BR/>fill the in betweenrobinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-18570995996598962342008-04-09T21:44:00.000-07:002008-04-09T21:44:00.000-07:00"Gnosis is the perfection of faith." -- Clement of..."Gnosis is the perfection of faith." -- Clement of Alexandria<BR/><BR/>I love that. It's a process, a path. Fortunately, there's someone up ahead, <A HREF="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=heb%2012:1-3;&version=72" REL="nofollow">showing us the way</A>.NoMohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01100042056270224683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59140950748691393302008-04-09T18:39:00.000-07:002008-04-09T18:39:00.000-07:00My son -- who turns three in a couple weeks -- alr...<I>My son -- who turns three in a couple weeks -- already knows all about immamentizing the eschaton. For example, he wants to have bacon or pizza for every meal. </I><BR/><BR/>Happy Birthday, Future Leader! My grandson will be four on April 26. If FL is ever in need of a good hatchet man, I think my grand-spore would be a perfect fit. <BR/><BR/><I>the fact that an imposture necessarily imitates a good, since otherwise it could not even exist</I><BR/><BR/>Good exists in and of itself. Evil can only come into being in opposition or reaction to good, and as a perversion of it. Cool.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36002997285823117122008-04-09T18:25:00.000-07:002008-04-09T18:25:00.000-07:00For you musical bargain hunters out there, this is...For you musical bargain hunters out there, this is a pretty amazing deal -- <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BWI70W?tag=onecosmos-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=B000BWI70W&adid=02Z5ENEFAS4HC2PBB5W9&" REL="nofollow">Sinatra's Capitol albums</A>, 14 CDs and 189 tracks, representing the peak of his artistic achievement. <BR/><BR/>I don't generally envy the young, although I suppose I do envy the person who gets to hear <I>Songs for Swingin' Lovers</I> or <I>A Swingin' Affair</I> for the first time. This is popular music that will never be surpassed -- which makes it a mystical experience in its own way, being that it "touches the absolute," which is the privilege of the human station.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41028822733596420262008-04-09T15:17:00.000-07:002008-04-09T15:17:00.000-07:00"ACLU makes sure that everyone must suffer because..."ACLU makes sure that everyone must suffer because of the dietary needs of Muslim criminals. You will note that no one ever gave a rat's ass about "kosher criminals.""<BR/><BR/>Well... look at it from the point of view of the poor blind collectivist biggots of the ACLU, for whom Individual's don't exist except as representatives of large groups... you've got Group "Kosher" (which you've got to do some serious scrounging around through the jail cells to round any up <I>and</I> you won't get any msm attention for their plight anyway), or Group "iSlammer" which requires NO effort whatsoever to round up thousands, not to mention built in sympathy from the press at a whines notices... who ya gonna rep-resent?Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29660814184807361692008-04-09T13:49:00.000-07:002008-04-09T13:49:00.000-07:00Petey, you took the slur right out of my mouth, bu...Petey, you took the slur right out of my mouth, but were much nicer about it than I'd ever be.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51735930499386432902008-04-09T13:27:00.000-07:002008-04-09T13:27:00.000-07:00I don't think there are any kosher criminals.I don't think there are any kosher criminals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57758311620037925892008-04-09T13:26:00.000-07:002008-04-09T13:26:00.000-07:00Finished reading Liberal Fascism, by the way, and ...Finished reading Liberal Fascism, by the way, and Bob & co, it's worth reading (not sure if you've leafed the deadtree yet.)Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57258388647856548912008-04-09T13:25:00.000-07:002008-04-09T13:25:00.000-07:00Regarding the banning of pork products, the other ...Regarding the banning of pork products, the other day I learned from someone who works in the men's central jail in Los Angeles that they run a "pork-free kitchen" because of Muslims. In short, the ACLU makes sure that everyone must suffer because of the dietary needs of Muslim criminals. You will note that no one ever gave a rat's ass about "kosher criminals."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66915029661153027512008-04-09T13:20:00.000-07:002008-04-09T13:20:00.000-07:00Er, what I meant to say in the first comment was t...Er, what I meant to say in the first comment was that Gnosticism is sought in the sense of being 'taken', i.e. because they 'have' the correct information they can attain salvation, and in the case of leftist gnosticism it is collective salvation (only, pretty much) the result is in the case of the leftist gnosticism that the only 'gnostics' are the ones 'doing' the salvation, i.e. the priesthood of experts. Everyone else is 'saved by proxy' or rather by losing their individuality.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, real Gnosis 'finds you', especially if you are looking for it, but asks that you participate - i.e, follow. But in doing so instead of becoming an egregore or an animal, you become more clearly what you always were; so in this sense Real Gnosis runs counter to everything the leftist Gnosticism represents... Gnosis contains you instead of the other way around.<BR/><BR/>But like mushroom noted before it's because they reject transcendence that leftist gnostics are forced to 'immanentize the eschaton'.Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41335845134895650992008-04-09T13:14:00.000-07:002008-04-09T13:14:00.000-07:00"Leftists are always exaggeratedly pessimistic abo..."Leftists are always exaggeratedly pessimistic about the present state of the world, but "optimistic" in a crazed and manic way that <B>steamrules</B> over anyone who would dare delay the immediate implementation of paradise. "<BR/><BR/>Oh ho... <I>really</I> like that.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89436437761204460432008-04-09T13:13:00.000-07:002008-04-09T13:13:00.000-07:00WHAT XIMEZE SAID!WHAT XIMEZE SAID!Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14795901495866591512008-04-09T12:54:00.000-07:002008-04-09T12:54:00.000-07:00"Progressives believe that by manipulating people ..."Progressives believe that by manipulating people with just the right coercive policies..."<BR/><BR/>Check out this "totalitarian-style dorm program for indoctrinating freshmen in the full complement of today’s radical dicta."<BR/><BR/>http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/college-mind-<BR/>police-live-to-brainwash-another-day/<BR/><BR/>VDH on The Academic Morass:<BR/><BR/>I have a modest prediction—just as the bloggers, talk-radio, and cable news began to make irrelevant the grandees at the New York Times and the likes of Dan Rather at CBS, so too online colleges, web-based data archives, and junior colleges are starting to question the notion that one pays $40-50 thousand a year for university training—and often gets biased professors, part-timers and TAs, and a curriculum imbued with popular culture and politically-driven therapeutic courses. Learning and the university are not any longer synonymous, and the divide is ever widening.<BR/><BR/>YES PLEASE!<BR/><BR/><BR/>"Liberalism—a Strange Thing Indeed"<BR/><BR/>http://main.pajamasmedia.com/xpress/<BR/>victordavishanson/2008/04/07/post_23.phpAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-19007514958863400772008-04-09T11:59:00.000-07:002008-04-09T11:59:00.000-07:00Then again, maybe the distinction isn't so clear. ...Then again, maybe the distinction isn't so clear. Dunno where I got that one from.<BR/><BR/>Slow afternoon here...Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-76934414589828613802008-04-09T11:49:00.000-07:002008-04-09T11:49:00.000-07:00Well, I don't agree that humankind is fallen. Eac...Well, I don't agree that humankind is fallen. Each person is precisely what and how he is supposed to be.<BR/><BR/>Human beings who are fully under the influence of the matter/pain world will awake from it to some degree when they die, so that the apparent tragedy of human ugliness is more like a child's drawing to be thrown away, rather than a serious work of art.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-42638199747661277232008-04-09T11:47:00.000-07:002008-04-09T11:47:00.000-07:00True Gnosis is one of those subtle things - it's l...True Gnosis is one of those subtle things - it's like, we don't really know what True Gnosis is, and since we know what Gnostic teachings are, they obviously aren't True Gnosis...<BR/><BR/>But then again, we may be able to say that true Gnosis is the Word; and Gnosticism's problem is that it is trying to use non-incarnate words to attain salvation, whereas the Word was already incarnated thus dealing with every facet and direction to salvation in one star-crossed crater...<BR/><BR/>The difference perhaps being fundamentally that Gnosticism is the thing you can only ever find by seeking it, whereas Gnosis finds you and asks you to follow. Not that there is anything wrong with seeking, just - you know, holding on versus being carried and all.Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-25923545807276195452008-04-09T10:53:00.000-07:002008-04-09T10:53:00.000-07:00And on a completely unrelated note, you SoCal folk...And on a completely unrelated note, you SoCal folks may want to consider migrating to a more fiscally hospitable location before the Cult of the Immanent Eschaton (Our Mother of Escapable Warmening diocese) succeeds in <A HREF="http://www.desertdispatch.com/opinion/global_3006___article.html/warming_tax.html" REL="nofollow">sucking even more moola</A> from all that excess income you must surely be making.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-19036724853219771762008-04-09T10:34:00.000-07:002008-04-09T10:34:00.000-07:00I like the update to the last graph; it should be ...I like the update to the last graph; it should be noted, however, that being painted by a San Francisco Fairy Princess may actually be an initiation into the first circle of hell (unless, of course, that <I>is</I> your idea of heaven...).juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com