tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post4739020660273593963..comments2024-03-18T19:37:21.040-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Holy Poverty, B'atman, We're Blankrupt!Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87591935396120883382009-03-17T10:16:00.000-07:002009-03-17T10:16:00.000-07:00Sayet's mention in the Q&A portion, of sta...Sayet's mention in the Q&A portion, of standing up at a dinner party, and calling his cousin's comments (that 'we only have troops in Iraq and not Sudan, because the Sudanese are black and Iraq has oil!') asinine and went down the obvious reasons why he was asinine which moved his cousin not one bit... but that there was another couple at the table who had never heard those reasons. They are who you may reach and may be worth reaching. Never forget, that in public, the fool you are upbraiding, is not necessarily your audience.<BR/><BR/>Speak out, don't let the idiocies pass unopposed.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2866839979027465722009-03-17T08:23:00.000-07:002009-03-17T08:23:00.000-07:00I really like Sayet a lot. As Ricky pointed out, h...I really like Sayet a lot. As Ricky pointed out, he should not say "Republican" when he should say "Conservative". Actually I'd go a step further and say that he <I>really</I> should say "classical liberal". Ideally he'd be able to simply say "Liberal", but it is one of the great tragedies of our age that the viscously illiberal Left has managed to appropriate that word to itself. Nothing would improve America for the better politically than to begin to disentangle the term "liberal" (good) from "leftist" (sheer evil).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15909543803045534282009-03-17T05:02:00.000-07:002009-03-17T05:02:00.000-07:00Thanks, Bob. Yes. I should have said “an enormous ...Thanks, Bob. Yes. I should have said “an enormous amount of individual books <I>outside</I> of the already enormous 16 volume trilogy”. BTW, I wonder if the 16th volume (brief Epilogue) is a little like the interview after the marathon, or with the boxing champ after the big fight :-) Oh..and yes, I saw mention of the 69 books(!) he dictated during Adrienne von Speyr’s mystical experiences.<BR/><BR/>And this provocative clip on the Balthasar wiki page: “Balthasar's most controversial theological assertions were that Christ deposited His Divine knowledge with the Father before the incarnation (kenotic doctrine), the possibility that all men will be saved, that Christ literally was "made sin," and was for a time separated from the Father in suffering in Sheol pain worse than hell.” I felt this in my bones a few weeks ago when we were talking about temptation.<BR/><BR/>While reading McGinn’s Eckhart I’m forgetting who is saying what (Eckhart or Balthasar), they are such similar thinkers at times. In fact (well…my experience so far, anyway) it often seems as though Eckhart is the more youthful and Balthasar the more ancient. But I’ve only read a tiny bit of Balthasar… here and a little in MOTT.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7795637999358566582009-03-17T00:09:00.000-07:002009-03-17T00:09:00.000-07:00Good call, I agree.(With the fecal material statem...Good call, I agree.<BR/>(With the fecal material statement that is)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57295219488860442292009-03-16T21:34:00.000-07:002009-03-16T21:34:00.000-07:00This was an exceptionally good post. However, the ...This was an exceptionally good post. <BR/><BR/>However, the dim view of non-believers is a bit heavy handed.<BR/><BR/>We all know of non-believers who became believers, perhaps even are one ourselves.<BR/><BR/>But, believers who become non-believers are rare birds indeed. I know of none.<BR/><BR/>What does this evidence say? I think it means that non-believers are never quite sure of their footing and harbor a bit of belief in hidden places. <BR/><BR/>They are the more scared among us. The more fearful a person, the more ego structure they need, and the harder it becomes to see God clearly. <BR/><BR/>So, to ascribe any kind of willfull intent to a non-believer is a little off the mark. To say they are scared is more like it.<BR/><BR/>And fear is bad, no doubt about it. <BR/><BR/>In the light of this, what to say of non-believers? They are just waiting to be relieved of their burden. They are not any kind of enemy that I can see and have zero power to truly derail this world.<BR/><BR/>God draws us all in at his own pace.<BR/><BR/>So, what am I trying to convey here? I'm not sure. Some kind of condescending schlocky fecal material?<BR/><BR/>Or? You be the judge.<BR/><BR/>EMTA -Early Morning Troll Attack, Smokes them every time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-60349250510000908002009-03-16T20:55:00.000-07:002009-03-16T20:55:00.000-07:00Coming to your neighborhood Obama’s (Highly Creepy...Coming to your neighborhood <A HREF="http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obamas-very-creepy-pledge-project" REL="nofollow">Obama’s (Highly Creepy) ‘Pledge Project’</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-68479358206660033732009-03-16T19:52:00.000-07:002009-03-16T19:52:00.000-07:00Julie, just finished Dr. Bob's link from your firs...Julie, just finished Dr. Bob's link from your first comment above. Horrifying, and absolutely unsurprising.<BR/><BR/>As I've said ad infinitum, the proregressive infection entered our culture through the school system, which had mainlined the rousseauing message of determinism from the very start, and unless we get off the educrats i.v. drip of indoctrination, no other 'solution', especially political, will succeed.<BR/><BR/>Aren't I a little ray of sunshine.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14442569768353678052009-03-16T19:44:00.000-07:002009-03-16T19:44:00.000-07:00Rick:Yes, he has a huge body of work, but his majo...Rick:<BR/><BR/>Yes, he has a huge body of work, but his major work is the three part, 16 volume, systematic theology that I'm plowing through. Thus far I've read five of seven volumes of the Glory of the Lord and one of three volumes of the Theo-Logic. I've also read some of his more minor works in the past, plus a couple of introductory works by others.<BR/><BR/>A lot of his books are collected essays, although some of his earliest works were excellent volumes on church fathers such as Origen, Maximus, and Gregory of Nyssa. Then there is all of the channeled material by his collaborator, Adrienne von Speyr, which is a whole other world unto itself.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59576977527337668862009-03-16T19:30:00.000-07:002009-03-16T19:30:00.000-07:00Bob,I was poking around last night trying to get t...Bob,<BR/>I was poking around last night trying to get the Balthasar volumes straight (I did) and see that he has published an enormous amount of <A HREF="http://hansursvonbalthasar.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">books.</A> RE the current trilogy you are reading, is it the first book of his that you have read? I found that he even has one called “Test Everything..” which the other day I accused the both of us of doing :-) Plus a number of other books which look as if they were purposely written as intro to his way of thinking about Christianity.. Have you read any of them?Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-10616907464491490672009-03-16T19:19:00.000-07:002009-03-16T19:19:00.000-07:00Watched Sayet’s new talk. Good stuff but he often ...Watched Sayet’s new talk. Good stuff but he often if not always says Republican when he means and should say Conservative. He is right about many things. One of them critical: we are running out of time. Another generation and we won’t have people around who remember what the country used to be like.<BR/>He believes the Democrat/Left can be separated into the reachable and the not-reachable. I believe he is right. I know a few such youngins. The Adopt-a-Democrat program actually sounds like it could work. Except that normally I am repelled by the word program. Sounds expensive.<BR/>I like the Merry Christmas wishing and general rejection of PC talk and America bashing at all opportunities. I began verbally rejecting the “Happy Holidays” a couple of Christmas’ ago. Not at all in any aggressive way. 9 out 10 times when someone says Happy Holidays they seem to not want to have to put it that way. I’ve found a genuine, pleasant Merry Christmas response is returned 9 out of 10 times with an, “Oh Yes!! Merry Christmas to you tooo!” As if they’ve been holding it in. Because they have – if they are over 40. The 10th guy I couldn’t care less about. He’s a mow-ron.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2023493453205014472009-03-16T18:51:00.000-07:002009-03-16T18:51:00.000-07:00"Thus, the left goes about needlessly proving this..."Thus, the left goes about needlessly proving this truism with their proud displays of absolute ignorance, since the True, the Good, and the Beautiful are all above their praygrade, which is the minimum wages of death. To think that you are the Absolute is the ultimate form of identity theft, and it carries the death penalty."<BR/><BR/>Now <I>that's</I> compact... a veritable halOgen light verse.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4724732186111985052009-03-16T16:14:00.000-07:002009-03-16T16:14:00.000-07:00FYI: Audio MP3's of Gil Baillie. http://cornerston...FYI: Audio MP3's of Gil Baillie. <BR/><BR/>http://cornerstone-forum.org/downloadablemp3s.aspx<BR/><BR/>5 in total. Registration required, but no biggie. Longish but very good. <BR/><BR/>All the best, MikeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87469186298101931712009-03-16T13:32:00.001-07:002009-03-16T13:32:00.001-07:00Oops - forgot the link.Oops - forgot the <A HREF="http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2009/03/15/2009-03-15_face_the_truth_how_your_features_reveal_.html" REL="nofollow">link</A>.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9988878861032767722009-03-16T13:32:00.000-07:002009-03-16T13:32:00.000-07:00Ew - almost lost my lunch on this one (so of cours...Ew - almost lost my lunch on this one (so of course, I'm sharing it here). Can you guess who's getting a furtive stroking under the facade of an article of general "scientific" (it's <I>at least</I> as accurate as phrenology!) interest? <BR/><BR/>An excerpt:<BR/><BR/>Hairline: His face shows he's highly independent and doesn't do what other people want him to do, says Haner. His hairline goes straight across, meaning he is a rule breaker and paradigm shifter.<BR/><BR/>Ears: Big ears are a positive trait: They suggest a strong sense of confidence and the ability to take risks.<BR/><BR/>Jawline: A narrow jaw line, Haner says, shows a person is willing to listen to other people's opinions.<BR/><BR/>*urp*<BR/>At least she didn't describe the lips as "purple"...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3486146977594684042009-03-16T10:56:00.000-07:002009-03-16T10:56:00.000-07:00Ha! I like Jackie Mason.Jackie Mason"During a perf...Ha! I like Jackie Mason.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.tmz.com/2009/03/15/jackie-mason-hurls-insult-at-obama/" REL="nofollow">Jackie Mason</A><BR/><BR/>"During a performance at Feinstein's at Loews Regency in NYC, Mason referred to Obama as a "schwartza" -- some say it's equivalent to the "N" word -- others say it's just part of the Yiddish culture and a literal translation of the word "Black."<BR/><BR/>"We spoke with Mason by phone a few minutes ago, and he was outraged at the criticism, saying, "I'm not going to defend myself. Chris Rock has told a lot more jokes about whites than I have against Blacks. What about the demeaning words Blacks say about Jews?" <BR/><BR/>Mason added, "If it's a racist society, the white people are the ones being persecuted because they have to defend themselves." Mason called people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson "professional racists."<BR/><BR/>Mason added, "I'm an old Jew. I was raised in a Jewish family where 'schwartza' was used. It's not a demeaning word and I'm not going to defend myself." <BR/><BR/>Now that's the way to hand the "offended" their asses on a platter. Schmucks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53507515937559446202009-03-16T10:51:00.000-07:002009-03-16T10:51:00.000-07:00Well, our dog was definitely coprophagic, but we g...Well, our dog was definitely coprophagic, but we gradually weaned her from the academic journals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-60401184467011203922009-03-16T10:49:00.000-07:002009-03-16T10:49:00.000-07:00I'm not sure equating animals and the tenured is f...I'm not sure equating animals and the tenured is fair. My dog has never crapped in her food bowl, and the cats never resort to coprophagia. <BR/><BR/>Julie, that is very well said.<BR/><BR/>wv says there's a <I>loboa</I> in the grass.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-88036904986273309972009-03-16T10:43:00.000-07:002009-03-16T10:43:00.000-07:00Well said, Julie. I get it."That way, it's all bad...Well said, Julie. I get it.<BR/><BR/>"That way, it's all bad so that it's all "good."<BR/><BR/>Yep. The those who allow that to happen will either repent or say something like "how dare you convict or judge me?" With as much outrage as they can muster.<BR/><BR/>Thus, even a truthful observation becomes a personal attack. <BR/>Which is why the Left came up with code words, PC speech, etc.. They attack speech, twist it and charge the speaker of reality with a thought crime.<BR/>All to deflect from what the reality the speaker is talking about.<BR/><BR/>And unfortunately, far too many Republicans fall for this trap.<BR/>Just look at the recent Steele and Gingrich debacle (among others).<BR/><BR/>They concede the narrative, intent and meaning to the Left's agents and attack the messenger (in this case, Rush), which allows the Left to attach that now toxic speech to Conservatives.<BR/><BR/>Best for them both to point out the lies and perversion that those on the Left propagated and attached to Limbaugh (and the Right), rather then surrender the truth to them. <BR/><BR/>Too many Conservatives are far too concerned with not offending the delicate sensibilities of those who are trying to stifle free speech. It's insane and cluelesside. <BR/><BR/>I understand why this is happening, because for at least four decades public schools, the MSM, politicians, etc., have indoctrinated folks into a perverse groupthink that says we must never offend anyone, which is freakin' impossible anyway.<BR/><BR/>Jeff Goldstein said this recently, which explains it better than I, but Bob has essentially said the same thing differently:<BR/><BR/>"In the simplest terms, taking someone else’s signs, ignoring their meaning, and then adding your own meaning in place of the original meaning, is NOT interpretation. Interpretation requires that the receiver attempt to decode the message sent by the author. It does not justify replacing the author’s message with one of your own creation and then pretending what you’ve done is anything other than engaged in a bit of creative writing." <BR/><BR/>This is what the Left does, and we must not allow it. If a politician isn't bright enough to point this out they should just shut up or deflect, at least. But it's not like they should be surprised since the Left only does this all the time.<BR/><BR/>Okay, got a bit off topic there, sorry.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53152995107326591562009-03-16T10:17:00.000-07:002009-03-16T10:17:00.000-07:00Or vice, versa.Or vice, versa.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41735064825622132912009-03-16T10:16:00.000-07:002009-03-16T10:16:00.000-07:00To be "poor" is to be capable of receiving, and th...To be "poor" is to be capable of receiving, and therefore to "put the life back in truth."<BR/><BR/>And hungry for the truth. It's sUPper time! Lotsa meat, pudding and ice cold milk with a grogerita chaser.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20976535495772574502009-03-16T10:02:00.000-07:002009-03-16T10:02:00.000-07:00Okay, listening to Sayet at around 19:00, (paraphr...Okay, listening to Sayet at around 19:00, (paraphrasing)<BR/><BR/>"... not only must the modern liberal attack that which is good and right and true, he must <I>justify the crime</I>... He must <I>elevate the degree of evil</I> committed by the victim."<BR/><BR/>This is the exact inversion of what it is that we try to do with, for example, mind parasites (I'm not sure if I'm putting this well, but bear with me). What I mean is, as was mentioned in the comments here last week, feelings of for instance lust or envy must be, not <I>justified</I> (made acceptable), but transposed into a higher vertical key - so that base lust is transformed to a reflection of divine Love, and the depth of envy becomes its opposite, the height of Charity. But that's a difficult thing to do, as we all know. Instead of transforming the bad into the good, they drag the good down into the bad, and crap all over it just to make sure it is put in its place. That way, it's all bad so that it's all "good."<BR/><BR/>(Sorry, this feels very badly worded, but hopefully the point comes through)juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66279145821505120652009-03-16T08:22:00.000-07:002009-03-16T08:22:00.000-07:00I haven't read the post yet, but hand in hand with...I haven't read the post yet, but hand in hand with Sayet (I assume - haven't listened yet, either) is <A HREF="http://docisinblog.com/" REL="nofollow">this eye-opening post</A> by the other Dr. Bob this morning.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com