tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post6242365100611703459..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Out of this World: Ideology Eclipses I-AMologyGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-62126389308863694372013-06-29T22:39:12.199-07:002013-06-29T22:39:12.199-07:00Open Trench, I will have to go back and read some ...Open Trench, I will have to go back and read some of your previous comments to see if you explain how you came up with your assertion that, "it is useful to feel a sense of sin in the early phases of awakening and then it must be dropped off as the tendency to do wrong is naturally effaced by an increase in consciousness and becomes less of an issue." <br /><br />Dennis Prager proves this point wrong on his radio show every weekday between 9 and noon PT. I don't often post comments, but happened to be listening to a podcast of a recent DP show this evening that described how flimsy the conscience is against the flesh's desires, for example. And how the struggle against our nature is a lifelong one in all of us. Maybe you are a buddhist or New Ager of some kind, but you might tune in to Prager's "Ultimate Issues" hour (Tuesdays, 11 to noon, PT) if you are interested in an intellectually honest challenge to your point of view on this important issue. <br /><br />I can't think of anything that is more important re. raising our son than helping him understand that he has (we all have) to fight against his (our) nature. I'm pretty sure that even most saints still struggled against their nature and temptations throughout their lives, from what I've read.Leslie Godwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11794375005614166921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85671301522990491392013-06-28T04:59:33.123-07:002013-06-28T04:59:33.123-07:00[shite sorry for the irresistible pps:]
how would...[shite sorry for the irresistible pps:]<br />how would we translate that slogan?:<br />"We want real jobs not blow-jobs!"...<br />"More ca-reers! not more 'in the rear's!'"gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65110944449953744682013-06-28T04:51:57.189-07:002013-06-28T04:51:57.189-07:00ps:
Funny related sentence from article just happ&...ps:<br />Funny related sentence from article just happ'd onto: <br /><br />'In the spring, graffiti all over Paris read: “We want jobs, not gay marriage” (in French it rhymes).<br /><br />http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/06/the-death-of-a-paris-student-and-the-rise-of-the-fringe.html#entry-moregehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-31317125877849247132013-06-28T04:16:43.056-07:002013-06-28T04:16:43.056-07:00'poems are just "gay sentences."'...'poems are just "gay sentences."'<br /><br />That's a nice one! Mewonders: wherefrom cameth?---[among TV i don't watch] -Simpsons? Beavis?<br />the Ellen Show? Maya Angelou??----where?!gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59961357871709644942013-06-27T14:19:53.691-07:002013-06-27T14:19:53.691-07:00Which leads us to ask: just what kind of blindness...Which leads us to ask: just what kind of blindness afflicts them? For it isn't just sightlessness, but a substitution of illusion for vision -- which means a substitution of will or passion for intelligence. Which is again none other than the pride at the heart of man's Primordial Calamity (c.f. Obama)."<br /><br />Yep. The substitution of the "I wish it was" for the "It is". A duh-your-fault glitch in the wetware, transformed into an admirable quality by modernists.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12603250068559126292013-06-27T12:35:38.579-07:002013-06-27T12:35:38.579-07:00I think that's right. When a person first bec...I think that's right. When a person first becomes a Christian, I think it is good to spend some time in the "desert", cut off from pop culture and all, to develop and sharpen discernment. After that, yes, you have to go back into it.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-33047346311428625002013-06-27T11:59:39.557-07:002013-06-27T11:59:39.557-07:00Hi Mushroom:
Your point is well taken. I have as...Hi Mushroom:<br /><br />Your point is well taken. I have assumed spiritual awake people wouldn't be as materially productive as the sleeping ones; I don't have evidence to back that statement up.<br /><br />Guidance on sin given to me is that it is useful to feel a sense of sin in the early phases of awakening and then it must be dropped off as the tendency to do wrong is naturally effaced by an increase in consciousness and becomes less of an issue. Open Trenchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06354412002318534131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41577241809546422142013-06-27T10:49:37.091-07:002013-06-27T10:49:37.091-07:00We're close to be being orthodox at least. It...We're close to be being orthodox at least. It is the will that is in bondage to sin.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-91030072485749089262013-06-27T10:48:11.551-07:002013-06-27T10:48:11.551-07:00While it is true, OT, that the spiritual man would...While it is true, OT, that the spiritual man would not create the technology and the system we have today, I think it is incorrect to assume he would not be creative in the material realm.<br /><br />We find ourselves in opposition to a world order that is corrupted and intentionally out of sync with the Divine order. Paul talks about grafting into an olive tree in Romans 11. The world system took a good root stock and grafted in a whole bunch of stuff that was worthless and unproductive. We still appreciate the root, but some of the branches need to go.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-75246907449229095682013-06-27T10:46:19.768-07:002013-06-27T10:46:19.768-07:00Don't they say sin is located in the will, or ...Don't they say sin is located in the will, or something like that?Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-92113586990997579042013-06-27T10:44:01.956-07:002013-06-27T10:44:01.956-07:00I believe that is orthodox teaching: that it'...I believe that is orthodox teaching: that it's the will that does us in, not the uncontaminated intellect. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46910472792800052812013-06-27T10:40:02.746-07:002013-06-27T10:40:02.746-07:00Schuon concedes that "intelligence can in fac...<i>Schuon concedes that "intelligence can in fact fall into error," but that "for this to happen a volitional factor must intervene...</i><br /><br />I am more and more convinced of that the longer I live. Even when we have inadequate information, it is often the result of something in our will or that of another. We are willfully blinded.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-18909852261689120032013-06-27T08:33:12.608-07:002013-06-27T08:33:12.608-07:00Jokes: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevol...Jokes: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/06/whats-the-most-intellectual-joke-you-know.html#commentsTonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-82470419389516652032013-06-27T08:32:31.386-07:002013-06-27T08:32:31.386-07:00Aye. The Pride and the Prejudice. T'ain't ...Aye. The Pride and the Prejudice. T'ain't jest a book as you demonstrate so effectively here. USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.com