tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post4110104230513532195..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: What has Two Legs and Slithers on its Ideology?Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-49467537779071288142013-08-08T11:37:44.464-07:002013-08-08T11:37:44.464-07:00shipped today Kurt!! small universe--
btw i meant ...shipped today Kurt!! small universe--<br />btw i meant the only 2 recommenders i know of are Da + Bob [which made for another 'small world' in ref to Davie's book]gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37890573606476668032013-08-08T09:24:38.797-07:002013-08-08T09:24:38.797-07:00Yeah, I wouldn't call Jesus Purusha mandatory ...Yeah, I wouldn't call Jesus Purusha mandatory reading. I think we wrung from it all we could.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-55102012546054832812013-08-08T09:20:05.695-07:002013-08-08T09:20:05.695-07:00Kurt, re. Christian Pilgrim, I quite liked that on...Kurt, re. Christian Pilgrim, I quite liked that one. May have to read it again sometime soon...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87150677697808141652013-08-08T08:57:17.708-07:002013-08-08T08:57:17.708-07:00GE,
I just ordered 'Jesus Purusha' from...GE,<br /> I just ordered 'Jesus Purusha' from Amazon. Twice, in fact. First seller didn't have it so I am hoping the second one comes through. Bob seems to have gotten something out of it so I thought I would give it a spin. Also ordered 'A Christian Pilgrim in India'. Late-summer reading, indeed!<br /><br />KurtKurthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01750808052006968358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-11287920022820674982013-08-08T08:36:34.138-07:002013-08-08T08:36:34.138-07:00Is there a Kurt here? i guess i'd listed my JE...Is there a Kurt here? i guess i'd listed my JESUS PURUSHA for amazon sale and it just did to a Kurt in the SW...Curious that the only two recommenders of this are the Scorp's Bob & Da, can we get a Badda-bim?gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-60091250214352139872013-08-08T07:19:02.803-07:002013-08-08T07:19:02.803-07:00"The fun consists in gaining a pseudo-identit...<i> "The fun consists in gaining a pseudo-identity through asserting one's power, optimally by killing somebody -- a pseudo-identity that serves as a substitute for the human self that has been lost" (Voegelin).</i><br /><br />Apropos, <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2013/08/sacrifices-of-peace.html" rel="nofollow">at TheSultan's</a>:<br /><br />"And so the measure of sacrifice comes again. The ceremonial release of terrorists with blood on their hands commenced this festival of negotiations. Some of the freed terrorists had been notoriously talented sacrificers; claiming the lives of women and children. And in reward for their service, the Moloch of Peace smiled upon them and commanded that they be set free."juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-49240403530249775012013-08-07T19:02:03.567-07:002013-08-07T19:02:03.567-07:00...children remind us of the mystery that adults c...<i>...children remind us of the mystery that adults can only pretend to have solved. </i><br /><br />With that in mind, I find the article predicting the diminution of religion to be particularly interesting, assuming the author is at least somewhat correct:<br /><br />"Research has shown that religion declines not just with rising national wealth but also with all plausible measures of the quality of life, including length of life, decline of infectious diseases, education, the rise of the welfare state, and more equal distribution of income."<br /><br />Interesting, first, that he considers the rise of the welfare state and "more equal distribution of income" to be positive measures of quality of life. But then, the type of education most people receive in most of the world is the sort that you've been posting about this week. More to the point, though, all of these factors also lead to a demographic death spiral. In the very same nations he chooses as his best examples, the quality of life is apparently "so good" that hardly anybody thinks it worthwhile to pass that life on to future generations. If he is correct that economic development leads inevitably to mass atheism, then economic development must naturally be a Darwinian dead end.<br /><br />Children can only remind us of the mystery if we remember to actually have them; those who believe there is a mystery worth rediscovering are far more likely to have children.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36971443751549282642013-08-07T13:21:30.448-07:002013-08-07T13:21:30.448-07:00I doubt that anybody could be an evolutionary psyc...I doubt that anybody could be an evolutionary psychologist without a radical ironyectomy:<br /><i><br />Research has shown that religion declines not just with rising national wealth but also with all plausible measures of the quality of life, including length of life, decline of infectious diseases, education, the rise of the welfare state, and more equal distribution of income.</i><br /><br />So -- surprise, surprise -- if one is sucking on the government teat, one loses interest in El Shaddai?<br /><br />If that's true, and if I were an evolutionary psychologist, I would think that means that atheism is just the religious preference of the insulated and comfortable and that there really are no atheists in foxholes.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-40788573461134179142013-08-07T12:37:01.508-07:002013-08-07T12:37:01.508-07:00It's amusing that a google search on "bat...It's amusing that a google search on "batin" turns up this: "<i>Batin</i> is defined as the interior or hidden meaning of the Quran." Well knock me over with a feather.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52197742090805771402013-08-07T12:34:37.418-07:002013-08-07T12:34:37.418-07:00I'd say we're pawing the earth, Bob.I'd say we're pawing the earth, Bob.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3619850125391118112013-08-07T12:12:46.043-07:002013-08-07T12:12:46.043-07:00Crawling: are we there yet?Crawling: are we <a href="http://minx.cc/?post=342321" rel="nofollow">there</a> yet?Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3052331105440375852013-08-07T10:32:47.687-07:002013-08-07T10:32:47.687-07:00He left us with the classic, Habits of the Heart. ...He left us with the classic, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Habits-Heart-Individualism-Commitment-American/dp/0520254198/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1375896711&sr=1-1&keywords=habits+of+the+heart" rel="nofollow">Habits of the Heart</a>. A favorite of mine!tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70480217335854287752013-08-07T09:20:51.098-07:002013-08-07T09:20:51.098-07:00The "prohibition of questions" sounds a ...<i>The "prohibition of questions"</i> sounds a bit like "civil religion."<br /><br />Speaking of which, Robert Bellah has died: http://tinyurl.com/ly75p85Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.com