tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post5689459356181371450..comments2024-03-29T06:03:45.545-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: The Scotosis of the POTUS, or A Hole in the OneGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59030307083103891522012-08-20T06:37:33.983-07:002012-08-20T06:37:33.983-07:00Good idea. I'll put one of those wheels in th...Good idea. I'll put one of those wheels in the sidebar, based on a changing theme. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22253707017610943702012-08-20T03:24:37.872-07:002012-08-20T03:24:37.872-07:00Off topic question for Bob:
You used to have a ha...Off topic question for Bob:<br /><br />You used to have a handy link to your Amazon music list. I found this to be a great resource in filling out some of the holes in my collection. It seems to be missing and I'm missing it.<br /><br />If it still exists, can you possibly point me back to it?<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Philphil ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15486481489355451711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-58783239022742606772012-08-19T13:11:08.039-07:002012-08-19T13:11:08.039-07:00From the same, here is a relevant comment and how ...From the same, here is a relevant comment and how it dovetails with with the Left's selective use of privacy:<br /><i><br />"The Bill went through in 2011, before the ACA went into effect. http://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/436.225 A parent or guardian canNOT force their child to undergo a sterilization procedure. And Doctors can say that the 15-year-old cannot provide consent, which will then require a Circuit Court to make a decision.<br /><br />This has long been the case in Canada, where the parents do not need to be told about their dependent's medical choices. http://www.cba.org/bc/public_media/health/422.aspx Some provinces have no even legal age for consent , the only requirement is that the child understands the procedure and the implications and is deemed by the physician to be "capable of exercising independant judgement for healthcare decisions". http://www.cpso.on.ca/policies/policies/default.aspx?ID=1544<br /><br />Most states, due to HIPPA, any child aged 15/16 can go to any doctor or hospital and have any medical procedure done or be given a prescription and legally neither the doctor nor the hospital has an obligation to inform a parent or guardian. It's the right to privacy!"</i><br /><br />It goes without saying that privacy is only good when it is a weapon in the hands of the state, in this case, to undermine and weaken the family.Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-28695142037087671182012-08-19T13:06:41.512-07:002012-08-19T13:06:41.512-07:00Speaking of deformations.
Misleading headline, bu...Speaking of deformations.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.catholic.org/health/story.php?id=47274#.UC6CREmX7kN.facebook" rel="nofollow">Misleading headline, but not as misleading as it might seem.</a><br /><br />Consider: The Oregon law had this already in place, it's just there was no way to pay for it. Now it is paid for through Obamacare. Oregon is 'to blame', some say, but we all know that the blame is as much on the addict as it is on his enablers.Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-35525798849284451462012-08-18T14:31:29.418-07:002012-08-18T14:31:29.418-07:00Actually that's a good question, which I'l...Actually that's a good question, which I'll try to answer more fully as we proceed. My response isn't wrong, but obviously inadequate.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84241970865544977122012-08-18T11:20:35.270-07:002012-08-18T11:20:35.270-07:00It's kind of a present absence instead of an a...It's kind of a present absence instead of an absent presence. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-56496822944374717872012-08-18T11:04:15.518-07:002012-08-18T11:04:15.518-07:00How does a scotoma relate to a mind parasite?How does a scotoma relate to a mind parasite?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16652102016905951809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44059600907680716082012-08-18T09:55:08.510-07:002012-08-18T09:55:08.510-07:00Ben said "Or, do you think some people actual...Ben said "Or, do you think some people actually embrace their scotomas?"<br /><br />You mean like Lord Byron? Or his scotoma buddy Rousseau? GE put it in mind yesterday, and as I haven't been able to shake it off, I might as well share the 'well F'...'. From the opening of his <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3913/3913-h/3913-h.htm" rel="nofollow">Confessions</a> (oh, and by the way, he did conceal, and add, much, to his 'book'),<br /><br />"I have entered upon a performance which is without example, whose accomplishment will have no imitator. I mean to present my fellow-mortals with a man in all the integrity of nature; and this man shall be myself.<br /><br />I know my heart, and have studied mankind; I am not made like any one I have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence; if not better, I at least claim originality, and whether Nature did wisely in breaking the mould with which she formed me, can only be determined after having read this work.<br /><br />Whenever the last trumpet shall sound, I will present myself before the sovereign judge with this book in my hand, and loudly proclaim, thus have I acted; these were my thoughts; such was I. With equal freedom and veracity have I related what was laudable or wicked, I have concealed no crimes, added no virtues; and if I have sometimes introduced superfluous ornament, it was merely to occupy a void occasioned by defect of memory: I may have supposed that certain, which I only knew to be probable, but have never asserted as truth, a conscious falsehood. Such as I was, I have declared myself; sometimes vile and despicable, at others, virtuous, generous and sublime; even as thou hast read my inmost soul: Power eternal! assemble round thy throne an innumerable throng of my fellow-mortals, let them listen to my confessions, let them blush at my depravity, let them tremble at my sufferings; let each in his turn expose with equal sincerity the failings, the wanderings of his heart, and, if he dare, aver, I was better than that man."<br /><br />Imagine a number of key intellectuals in philosophy, the arts, historians and politics, taking that form for their own? What <i>wouldn't</i> follow from that?<br /><br />Nothing that we don't already know.<br />Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86541334291449390692012-08-18T09:48:45.705-07:002012-08-18T09:48:45.705-07:00""Without scotoma" is a fine apopha...""Without scotoma" is a fine apophatic, or negative, definition of God, i.e., the whole-in-one. Thus, the most frightening being on earth -- because the most destructive -- is the man with vast power over others, who imagines he is without scotoma."<br /><br />... and with an expanse of followers who think he completes theirs.<br /><br />It's enough to make one tremble and <i>shudder.</i>Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-62873503144202059122012-08-18T09:44:33.923-07:002012-08-18T09:44:33.923-07:00"These are not questions to be asked in 2012...."These are not questions to be asked in 2012. Rather, they should have been asked in 2008. For just as a period of deformation "can impose itself so massively on a man that he conforms to it and consequently deforms himself," something even worse can happen: the deformed man, given sufficient power, can impose himself so massively on the collective that it is forced to conform to him. Then the collective becomes as deformed as the deformed fellow at the top. See history for details."<br /><br />Yup.<br /><br />And whereas the brain fills in the scotoma by copying & pasting from images of what is, man fills in his scotomo to complete the image of what he expects to see... and when those expectations don't reflect reality, the pattern is twisted and rent, reformed into their own image - deformed (unDeiformed?).<br /><br />Bad enough when it happens within one individuals life, but when it happens in the life of someone who is seen as filling in the scotoma of others? Such as a post-modernist writer? An actor? A musician? A preacher? A politician? How many levels deep does the pattern go... more than seven?Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37079519185596992232012-08-18T08:07:45.505-07:002012-08-18T08:07:45.505-07:00Thanks, Kurt. We're just trying to be helpful...Thanks, Kurt. We're just trying to be helpful here, so it's helpful to know when it's helped. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53265068937167133332012-08-18T06:07:13.393-07:002012-08-18T06:07:13.393-07:00Bob, thank you for your work. I read your posts ev...Bob, thank you for your work. I read your posts everyday but rarely comment. Not every post hits me but some of them, wow, talk about opening up a door I didn't even know was there! I'm still working my way through the 'dimmer switch' and 'flow of presence' from several weeks ago. But I just wanted to encourage you as you have encouraged me. You have helped me grow, more than you will ever know...at least on this side of The River!<br /><br />KurtKurthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01750808052006968358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85347936782266625572012-08-17T14:46:16.268-07:002012-08-17T14:46:16.268-07:00Roger that! Anticipation...anticipa-ation...Roger that! Anticipation...anticipa-ation...USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20881583152856999322012-08-17T14:07:18.494-07:002012-08-17T14:07:18.494-07:00Find out in the exciting conclusion to this post!Find out in the exciting conclusion to this post!Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-38852690643933905602012-08-17T13:58:58.613-07:002012-08-17T13:58:58.613-07:00So lack of awareness of scotoma or an arrogant ego...So lack of awareness of scotoma or an arrogant ego that simply ignores it's sotomas (or thinks it's above such petty concerns) leads to force and slavery (for our own "good" of course).<br /><br />Obama is a scotoma seared assoul!<br /><br />Great song! Very apropos. :^)<br /><br />P.S. Hi Bob! Do you think people like Soros are aware and don't care about their scotomas?<br /><br />Or, do you think some people actually embrace their scotomas?USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71030202748057709992012-08-17T11:34:28.224-07:002012-08-17T11:34:28.224-07:00Scotoma is a great analogy. The mind filling in th...Scotoma is a great analogy. The mind filling in the scotoma in our field of vision to provide visual continuity is a wonderful design feature. However, discontinuity results when the unethical mind seeks to gloss over the blind spots in those areas of study it hasn't studied.EbonyRaptorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02483546359869912858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-73330302780052101892012-08-17T10:25:54.038-07:002012-08-17T10:25:54.038-07:00Yes, an ethical scotoma. Were it not for that one,...Yes, an ethical scotoma. Were it not for that one, the others might have a chance at being cured...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com