tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post4132946295929411472..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Real Socialism is the Only Remedy for Socialist FantasiesGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86671406327113085422013-10-01T19:19:12.813-07:002013-10-01T19:19:12.813-07:00Bravo.
Linking.
We live in interesting times. ...Bravo. <br /><br />Linking. <br /><br />We live in interesting times. <br />TmjUtahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07479506083401061662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-64925496851245516792011-07-04T17:16:16.428-07:002011-07-04T17:16:16.428-07:00"Importantly, for the believer, our uniquenes..."Importantly, for the believer, our uniqueness is not accidental, but absolutely essential -- which is none other than the true meaning of "liberalism," for real freedom is genuine individuality lived."<br /><br />Uniqueness as essential nature and essence as one. One God, One Essence makes of Essence in-numerable essential uniqueness-es. From One many Ones from many One.<br /><br />Some feat, quite remarkable, transcends comprehension, well, mine anyhow.David R. Grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416692639208634879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-73720139868091854772011-07-03T09:11:34.036-07:002011-07-03T09:11:34.036-07:00Like Bob, I'm in this for the Light. And the t...Like Bob, I'm in this for the Light. And the thing is, if you can't see the Light, there is no point in discussing who is blind.<br /><br />The Light in a person's words is kind of between the lines. It is not about facts as such. <br /><br />Any Holy Scripture worth its salt has factual errors. You see, if God came down in our generation and wrote a Holy Scripture, God would have to include numerous factual errors simply in order for us to approach the text at all. We may not be aware of this usually, but we don't know everything even about the natural world. Ten years from now some of the things we know will have to be unlearned, and fifty years... at this speed, there will be very little left of our certainties regarding the material world.<br /><br />But the Light will remain. It is beyond time.Magnus Itlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445902788427523461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-25735429826506959542011-07-03T07:54:43.086-07:002011-07-03T07:54:43.086-07:00Jewel said "So I coined the definition for th...Jewel said "So I coined the definition for them: A racist is anyone who disagrees with a liberal. And by golly, it's twue!"<br /><br />Yep, it really does work out that way, and it always boggles our minds... but that's because we're expecting reason to be used as a tool to help us down the path towards truth, but as the NY Times recently told us (looks like the article is subscription only now, I <a href="http://blogodidact.blogspot.com/2011/07/importance-of-being-in-earnest-or-of.html" rel="nofollow">posted on it here</a>), that's just silly, the real purpose for reason is to win arguments. Period. And fallacies aren't failures of reason, but powerful techniques to aid in winning arguments. <br /><br />And naturally the best place to teach children what's useful is "...if they are put into a group and allowed to reason through a problem together. " . The individual, like the truth, for the leftist, is very much beside the point.<br /><br />Gaining control over people, and even reality, is their point. Or as alinsky's hero said "Ye shall be as gods..."<br /><br />Julie said "Little did my momma know she was planting a seed just then... "<br /><br />So, so, sooo true. I try to always remind people that it isn't necessary to 'win' when you speak up to leftists spouting their nonsense, but simply to point out that what they are saying is non-sense.<br /><br />People are listening, even the ones nodding for the other side, and you've no idea how that seed might blossom later on.<br /><br />Always speak up. You don't need to win, and you don't need to be rude, we just need to state what is true and expose what is false. Have faith that reality will take it from there.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90683183892053810842011-07-03T07:32:20.874-07:002011-07-03T07:32:20.874-07:00And Jewel, your comment reminds me of my great-aun...And Jewel, your comment reminds me of my great-aunt, a blue-eyed black woman who lived near Detroit. My family was visiting her back in the early 90s when my mom discovered Aunt W was a Limbaugh fan. My mom was secretary of the local branch of the League of Women voters at the time, and she was scandalized. "How can you listen to that man? He's a racist!" <br /><br />Aunt W just cocked an eyebrow and said, "Have you ever listened to him?"<br /><br /> "Well, no, but I just know he's racist!"<br /><br />Little did my momma know she was planting a seed just then...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-6712480080610786042011-07-03T07:27:01.725-07:002011-07-03T07:27:01.725-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46327804946671478002011-07-03T07:26:49.678-07:002011-07-03T07:26:49.678-07:00Off topic, if you folks could say a couple of pray...Off topic, if you folks could say a couple of prayers for an older friend of mine who was admitted to the hospital last night with a blood clot in her lung, it would be appreciated.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-16660888963718948292011-07-03T07:24:52.401-07:002011-07-03T07:24:52.401-07:00Ben, ROFLOL!
Gagdad:"Compromise: a position b...Ben, ROFLOL!<br />Gagdad:"Compromise: a position between what reality is and what leftists wish it was."<br /><br />Comedy central sucks eggs, now <i>this</i> is The Deily Show!Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46963372255114262222011-07-03T06:52:41.687-07:002011-07-03T06:52:41.687-07:00Compromise: a position between what reality is an...Compromise: a position between what reality is and what leftists wish it was.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-24565400314551261642011-07-03T05:24:39.673-07:002011-07-03T05:24:39.673-07:00Er...zehsa was the wv. Not sure how it got in the ...Er...zehsa was the wv. Not sure how it got in the last comment.<br /><br />Incidently, it's funny (in a sad way) that Will-I-Ain't (just tryin' to avoid the I Am in yer name, wily, knowin' how much that offends you) thinks we could ever have any commonly held humanity with leftists.<br /><br />How can anyone have anything in common with those on the left who are so inhuman they would deprive us of liberty...by force?<br /><br />How can we ever have a productive discussion with those who wanna enslave us? What would we talk about? How purty those chains are? <br /><br />Besides, words have no objective meaning for leftists. Language is only a tool for them to fool people, since they can't say what they really mean and still have enough converts to survive as an idiotology.<br /><br />As Bob said, each generation must fight liberty, and the responsibilty that that intales, as well as the leftist slavers who fight tooth n' nail to keep their plantations stocked with fresh slaves.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-74229882166708464702011-07-03T05:09:33.075-07:002011-07-03T05:09:33.075-07:00zehsaYous guys really handed
Will-I-Aint his prov...zehsaYous guys really handed <br />Will-I-Aint his proverbial ass!<br /><br />You done Skully proud.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46149907975423084872011-07-03T05:00:23.834-07:002011-07-03T05:00:23.834-07:00Recall Ratzinger's answer to the question of h...Recall Ratzinger's answer to the question of how many ways there are to God: "As many as there are people." It can be no other way. It is reminiscent of Sri Aurobindo's comment that each of us is a "unique problem of God," with no one-size-fits-Allah solution. Indeed, to suggest that there is one solution (in all its details and particulars) to the problem of humanness is the very definition of tyranny."<br /><br />Leftists believe in the one-size-fits-allah solution:<br /><br />"Give us allah your money."<br /><br />Which is probably why so many of them have sympathy for their Islamic brethren. <br />They really do have a lot in common, including a fundamentalist radicalism in their own respective cults of unpersonality.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51848835175628468352011-07-03T04:49:15.037-07:002011-07-03T04:49:15.037-07:00Cultural AIDS works, although I would call it a si...Cultural AIDS works, although I would call it a sindrone rather than a syndrome.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54740384383956481202011-07-02T23:50:58.608-07:002011-07-02T23:50:58.608-07:00Goodness, I wish I'd been commenting here more...Goodness, I wish I'd been commenting here more often. You all have such a way of fisking anons with the brownest of words! <br />When I worked with the strange people of journalism, (unreality is a vortex that ceases once you leave the building)I was often called a racist for my political views, even though they could never quite find the definition in the dictionary to describe what it was I believed that made me racist. This was in 1991! So I coined the definition for them: A racist is anyone who disagrees with a liberal. And by golly, it's twue! It's even more fun when their assumption that all black people think alike comes falling apart at the seems, by which I mean, seems many black beneficiaries found out some time in their lives that it is better to work than to receive, and there wasn't any going back, and that paying dues to the NAACP left them colored somewhat jaded.Jewelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10766356570958377494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30832718329542158892011-07-02T17:27:42.465-07:002011-07-02T17:27:42.465-07:00Oops, sorry, I didn't realize Cuz had already ...Oops, sorry, I didn't realize Cuz had already cleaned up on I'll Three.<br /><br />wv:nowei<br />Way.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-17308388127291638482011-07-02T17:25:14.236-07:002011-07-02T17:25:14.236-07:00anunce said "...reheated Ayn Rand is even les...anunce said "...reheated Ayn Rand is even less appealing than the fresh version..."<br /><br />Lol. I believe that that would be combining a straight ad hominem fallacy and a guilt by association variation into one neat package (we'll skip over the strawman & others... too messy), in order to get out of answering. How surprising.<br /><br />Actually, no, though Rand got me going, it was in discovering her, and many of her follower's errors, that I went back to basics a couple decades ago, starting with Homer, and worked my way forward. Note I didn't say "A is A", that's a misstatement of Aristotle's principle of non-contradiction, and he had a reason for not stating it as she did. Aristotle had it right.<br /><br />However, I believe Rand also mentioned a few other things, 2+2=4 for instance... gonna discount that on the basis of her being a 'sociopath' as well?<br /><br />But really, I'm sorry you don't have the courage to argue for your errors, but I suppose your having the sense to know that you can't defend your 'ideas' will have to suffice.<br /><br />It's certainly funnier. And besides, it just makes this days post even more tailor made for you:<br /><br />" This is the principle, baldly stated, that reality is bad and unreality is good, therefore unreality is real." (I would just add that this applies with special force to vertical, or principial, reality.)"Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-17741922434254098382011-07-02T16:24:22.826-07:002011-07-02T16:24:22.826-07:00I guess they figured out that Obama isn't goin...I guess they figured out that Obama isn't going to pay for their bills after all...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-63072994235728820462011-07-02T16:07:42.321-07:002011-07-02T16:07:42.321-07:00It is also critical to point out that when the ten...It is also critical to point out that when the tenured sneeze, the poor catch cold, e.g., the way in which the black family was decimated as a result of policies based upon wacky sociological theories. No one has been more harmed as a result of Obama's policies than than low-income Americans. At least they're <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/gallup-obama-hits-all-time-low-among-poo" rel="nofollow">wising up</a>.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15656022747120729922011-07-02T15:59:36.001-07:002011-07-02T15:59:36.001-07:00Re. The Goreacle series, it's been a real plea...Re. The Goreacle series, it's been a real pleasure to read. One of the things that's so incredibly irritating about leftists, particularly the limousine liberal set, is their presumption that they can, like feudal lords of old, dictate to their inferiors how they ought best to live - even though the advice they give is often so awfully wrong. I'm reminded of the rich patroness in <i>Pride and Prejudice</i> who made it her business to not only provide a home and an income for her local clergyman, but also directed all the minutiae of his life. He, being something of a lickspittle by nature, was only too happy to receive her solicitous attentions, but any normal person could only be repulsed by the dynamic. To live that way is, at the very least, particularly unAmerican.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-31781938478937684232011-07-02T13:18:36.544-07:002011-07-02T13:18:36.544-07:00anon said “How are words without meaning supposed ...anon said “How are words without meaning supposed to overpower anyone?”<br /><br />Exactly so, hence our continued laughter in your direction.<br /><br />But maybe you're feeling up to the aninny challenge...? Hmmm... well, if you want to claim that you're able to use words with their meaning intact, I'll play along if you'll agree to start with me at the beginning.<br /><br />To start at the beginning means accepting three axioms, without which, your words cannot be credibly claimed to have meaning. I'll warn you though, no leftist worth his salt in cynicism would dare agree to it.<br /><br />Ready? Here we go:<br />1. Reality - it exists.<br />2. Identity - What exists, exists as something, and cannot at the same time and in the same context be something else.<br />3. Consciousness - through our awareness of what existence exists as, we become conscious of the fact that we are conscious, and are able to identify the world around us.<br /><br />You've gotta start here if you want to even try to claim that anything can be factual, that words can meaningfully convey anything about them, let alone hope to be able to arrive at the truth of anything.<br /><br />If you'll agree with that as a starting point, further discussion might actually be interesting, and I'll play along.<br /><br />Without that agreement though, we'll just have to settle on laughing at you.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-31784887359487215882011-07-02T13:14:45.852-07:002011-07-02T13:14:45.852-07:00"he is a living example of what you get when ..."he is a living example of what you get when a worldview outlives its time. He presses the old buttons and turns the old cranks, but the machine isn’t running any more. The priests dance around the altar, the priestess chews the sacred herbs, but the god no longer speaks. Like President Obama watching a universal healthcare program that he thought would secure his place in history turn into an electoral albatross and a policy meltdown, Al Gore thought that in the climate issue he had picked a winning horse. Judging from his Rolling Stone essay he has no idea why the climate movement failed, and no clue at all about how he could re-think the issue."Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39734461141494959052011-07-02T13:13:40.922-07:002011-07-02T13:13:40.922-07:00"More than that, the former vice president’s ..."More than that, the former vice president’s troubles don’t just reflect his personal ideas and limits. Gore’s errors are exemplary: by studying where he goes wrong we can see how a substantial section of our ruling elite has lost its way. Al Gore is steeped in the Blue Social Model that I’ve been posting about; his social imagination has been so molded by modern American progressivism and the liberalism of the late 20th century that he literally cannot conceive of solutions in any terms the conventional center-left wisdom doesn’t make room for."Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-83004634283914272362011-07-02T13:12:07.429-07:002011-07-02T13:12:07.429-07:00(nut)Case in point: The Reverend Al.(nut)Case in point: <a href="http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/07/01/the-failure-of-al-gore-part-three-singing-the-climate-blues/" rel="nofollow">The Reverend Al</a>.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-13780735170873037772011-07-02T12:56:49.028-07:002011-07-02T12:56:49.028-07:00It just occurred to me that liberal subjectivism -...It just occurred to me that liberal subjectivism -- their ubiquitous flight into fantasy -- is a kind of determined revolt against the very world created by their own arid and flattened consciousness. In other words, they create both the spiritual void and the false way out of it: a bogus cure for a made up disease.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-68450358868499456082011-07-02T11:32:35.505-07:002011-07-02T11:32:35.505-07:00How are words without meaning supposed to overpowe...How are words without meaning supposed to overpower anyone?<br /><br />You people are strange.anonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207020184445548247noreply@blogger.com