tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post6416174945224514487..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: You Shall Not Turn Stones into Government CheeseGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-13898375243939419832011-04-19T21:42:45.833-07:002011-04-19T21:42:45.833-07:00You're a day late and a witticism short.
Re. ...You're a day late and a witticism short.<br /><br />Re. The language link, well duh. Given that all living humans are descended from one very small group, it stands to reason that small group had one tongue.<br /><br />Come to think of it, I believe some old Hebrews had a nice bit of mythos pertaining to that fact.<br /><br />This does nothing to change the fact that charitable giving at gunpoint has nothing to do with caritas, and everything to do with greed and envy.Old Fartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-27005344594069231472011-04-19T18:58:47.135-07:002011-04-19T18:58:47.135-07:00For the leftist, taxes are his eucharist and entit...<i>For the leftist, taxes are his eucharist and entitlements his benediction.</i><br /><br />"This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God's servants, who give their full time to governing. Give to everyone what you owe: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor." (Romans 13:1-7)<br /><br />More proof that <a href="http://loosetncanon.blogspot.com/2011/04/bible-jesus-was-clearly-liberal.html" rel="nofollow">Jesus was clearly a liberal socialist.</a> <br /><br />You know, Republican Paul Ryan, whose budget is designed to slash entitlements for the poor and disadvantaged? When Ryan was 16 years old , his 55 year old father passed away from a heart attack. After his father’s death, Ryan started collecting social security benefits that paid for his college education. Like conservative hero Ayn Rand who smoked 2 packs a day and secretly took gov't assistance after her cancer surgery. <br /><br />It's about time to realize <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/business-tech/science/110415/language-science-linguistics-mother-tongue-english-chinese-mandarin-africa" rel="nofollow">we're all related.</a>Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05861596158055480390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50062739868865743452011-04-19T08:28:33.928-07:002011-04-19T08:28:33.928-07:00An ill wind passes through...An ill wind passes through...Old Fartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51044946794213519362011-04-19T08:27:12.164-07:002011-04-19T08:27:12.164-07:00Well I think we SHOULD turn stones into Government...Well I think we SHOULD turn stones into Government cheese. <br /><br />So what do you say to that? <br /><br />And furthermore, Jimmy Carter is a swell fellow and so is Deepak Chopra.<br /><br />I'm tenured and I think that's good.<br /><br />So what do you say to all that? Huh?Proteen Diffishentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54571633422411182112011-04-19T07:37:20.244-07:002011-04-19T07:37:20.244-07:00Phil,
this should be a familiar solution to fellow...Phil,<br /><i>this should be a familiar solution to fellow coons.</i><br /><br />Oh, indeed. I'm taking it a little further because of the metabolic issues, but for most people I think that's the best route.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-69937486663980701212011-04-19T07:20:19.797-07:002011-04-19T07:20:19.797-07:00"This cosmic inversion cannot fail to result ..."This cosmic inversion cannot fail to result in epic falls, for no house can be built upon sand. In replacing God with man, we necessarily replace truth with opinion, virtue with convention, beauty with pleasure, and wisdom with tenure."<br /><br />Don't forget the great human effort known as the Reformation which replaced Catholicism with Protestantism.<br /><br />PatrickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4086492388435077532011-04-19T03:52:17.672-07:002011-04-19T03:52:17.672-07:00Not to turn this into a diet thread but I follow d...Not to turn this into a diet thread but I follow diet and exercise info closely and have a couple of thoughts to share...<br /><br />Forget about the paleo and other fads, they're too extreme and unnecessary.<br /><br />Eat like your Grandmother used cook. High quality, home cooked meat, 'taters and veggies. Don't eat too much fruit = too much fructose. Basically flip the FDA's food pyramid upside down...this should be a familiar solution to fellow coons.<br /><br />Avoid as much as possible HFCS and industrial seed oils (vegatable oils) as much as possible these act as poisons to our systems. Almost all processed foods and juices contain HFCS and/or hydrogenated oils...these should be consumed rarely if ever.<br /><br />Balance your Omega 6 and Omega 3 fatty acids. We're way too heavy on Omega 6 and typically deficient in Omega 3 which is manifesting as severe health issues in our population. Omega 6 comes from the vegetable oils we consume. Omega 3 primarily from wild fish that we typically don't. Eat wild fish (frozen is typically best way) and take quality fish oil supplements or cod liver oil. Today's cod liver isn't the same as the rancid stuff you were probably given as a kid.<br /><br />Drink your wine/beer in moderation, exercise regularly even if it just walking and enjoy life.<br /><br />A healthy lifestyle really isn't that complicated and would do wonders to reduce our health care costs.phil ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15486481489355451711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37702487751335410452011-04-18T22:34:34.436-07:002011-04-18T22:34:34.436-07:00Good point Julie. For comparison: What happened to...Good point Julie. For comparison: What happened to Jesus' message of God as our Heavenly father, when earthly fathers became people who live far away and hopefully send money?Magnus Itlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445902788427523461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-76064298440177342232011-04-18T17:13:27.741-07:002011-04-18T17:13:27.741-07:00Then again, maybe I'm just being a dork about ...Then again, maybe I'm just being a dork about the whole thing. That's always a distinct possibility.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-18174117673843662562011-04-18T15:40:11.157-07:002011-04-18T15:40:11.157-07:00Grateful for the Bread of Life...
Oddly enough, t...<i>Grateful for the Bread of Life...</i><br /><br />Oddly enough, that's what got me going in the first place :) In the past couple of months, I've pretty much stopped eating bread. Which seems to be good for my health, but the down side is that, before, whenever I'd have a piece of bread I made it a habit to try and think of it as a small sort of communion, keeping in mind the Last Supper. But since I've stopped eating bread (and drinking much wine, for that matter), that small bit of conscientiousness doesn't come up.<br /><br />On a larger cultural scale, what happens when people stop seeing bread as the stuff of life, and instead see it as something to be avoided? Maybe I'm wrong, but given that so much of the Bible revolves around bread so specifically, it seems at least a little relevant.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7684723955503519472011-04-18T14:44:58.289-07:002011-04-18T14:44:58.289-07:00Ah ha! Well, eventually one could certain draw so...Ah ha! Well, eventually one could certain draw some conclusions upon further examination of the matter. :)<br /><br />Remember - man does not live by bread alone! (Somehow had to toss that in there. Hmmm... Oh, and one must always remember to combine it with protein.) <br /><br />Bread is even part of the Jewish patterns - Shabbat Challah. <br /><br />Grateful for the Bread of Life... it really fills you up! No simple sugars there, always a complex carbohydrate.Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16900344453710081874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84786875665723796302011-04-18T14:32:19.520-07:002011-04-18T14:32:19.520-07:00:D
Ya know, I bet I could get a government grant ...:D<br /><br />Ya know, I bet I could get a government grant for an exploration of "the meaning of bread." I could start by parsing the original meaning, doing an exploration of different forms based on different types of flour, throw in the requisite condemnation of modern America's obsession with bleached flour and the evils of mechanized food production, wax rhapsodic about some obscure culture's use of manioc or coconut flour, chastise Western European agrarian culture, all while carefully coming to no conclusion whatsoever. I bet they'd give me millions.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87096491227684922872011-04-18T14:25:15.115-07:002011-04-18T14:25:15.115-07:00Julie -
Interesting connection. Maybe something ...Julie -<br /><br />Interesting connection. Maybe something to keep in mind without drawing immediate conclusions. ? <br /><br />wv says: worsome<br /><br />Shorthand for worrisome? Or... some Word?Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16900344453710081874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52694558054665585852011-04-18T14:23:35.534-07:002011-04-18T14:23:35.534-07:00Believe me, I am intimately familiar with insulin ...Believe me, I am intimately familiar with insulin resistance/ syndrome x. Though I suspect that for most people, bread in general is less the issue than the insane amounts of sugar and hfcs added to pretty much everything these days, I know that once the damage is done regular bread becomes decidedly unhelpful.<br /><br />That said, what we think of as "bread" these days, so I've read, more closely resembles what people historically thought of as "cake." If so, again it is not bread as such that's the problem, it's the essentially dessert-like nature of our version of bread.<br /><br />And agreed, moderation is key.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7109227744352155602011-04-18T13:54:33.752-07:002011-04-18T13:54:33.752-07:00Hi Julie:
It's logical to assume that bread i...Hi Julie:<br /><br />It's logical to assume that bread is a mixed blessing.<br /><br />For people who do hard physical labor or exert themselves, a moderate amount of bread will be burned off quickly without deranging the system.<br /><br />Howevever, for people who are not moving around much, bread will slowly derange the glucose metabolism system, namely the insulin.<br /><br />The resulting chaos leads to "Metabolic Syndrome X" which eventually kills by blocking the circulation to stratetgic organs such as the brain or heart.<br /><br />The current advice is to severely limit bread; a little bit goes a long way. Think of it as an occasionsl treat, but not necessarily the "staff of life."<br /><br />Unless you're poor. Then you're stuck with it and yer going to die.occult syndrome Xnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70731870509136151912011-04-18T12:41:32.122-07:002011-04-18T12:41:32.122-07:00On the topic of bread and stones, there's some...On the topic of bread and stones, there's something I've been thinking about a lot lately, which has me wondering.<br /><br />For anyone paying attention to trends in healthy - or maybe "healthy," since often the expert advice we are given turns out to be completely wrong-headed - eating, there is a new scapedough on the scene in the form of all things bread. The Paleo dieters believe man wasn't evolved to eat grain, period, and do all they can to avoid it; the low carbers, not unreasonably, distrust it for glycemic reasons, and of course there's the whole "gluten-free" movement full of people convinced that gluten will kill us all.<br /><br />In a sense, then, there is a movement to turn bread into stones, and I have to wonder whether that is wise.<br /><br />While I agree that culturally, we probably eat too much of the stuff, especially overly-processed white breads, the fact that it is given such Biblical importance makes me think that for most people, a little bread is a good thing, literally and figuratively. If we take too seriously the argument from evolution, while objecting to the notion that the last five thousand years of human history could have played any significant role in our development, does that give an undue amount of weight to what we assume based on scientific theory? And doesn't that also then, for the vertically minded, too easily reject the blessings of agrarian cultures - the gifts of bread?<br /><br />Maybe I'm being foolish and overthinking the issue. I just wonder...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-10821082289371268752011-04-18T12:29:50.384-07:002011-04-18T12:29:50.384-07:00More grunting from the black hole ofMore grunting from the black hole ofVan Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12961291962702205752011-04-18T11:24:04.235-07:002011-04-18T11:24:04.235-07:00I enjoyed the the topic of temptation as a test of...I enjoyed the the topic of temptation as a test of purity in your post.<br /><br />For most people there is a certain failure rate in resisting temptation; <br /><br />A failure rate of 25% or below is acceptable. A rate below 5% is exemplary.<br /><br />On the contrary, rates above 25% are unacceptable, are rates over 75% are outrageous.<br /><br />A 100% failure rate at resisting temptation implies debauchery.<br /><br />My rate is: 25%. Yours?Calculadoranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26618638208180269242011-04-18T10:08:35.576-07:002011-04-18T10:08:35.576-07:00Re: Rob Bell
And the name of the boy in The Secre...Re: Rob Bell<br /><br />And the name of the boy in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Matchbox-Val-Willis/dp/0374465932" rel="nofollow">The Secret in the Matchbox</a> is <b>BOBBY BELL!</b> <i>"A droll tale of a mysterious Bobby Bell, whose secret is a tiny dragon that escapes from its matchbox dwelling and grows at an alarming rate.</i>"<br /><br />I love reading this story aloud, which much drama, to my young art students. We then draw a fantasy image, with narration, and slip it inside a matchbox for safe keeping.Mizz Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02325435271880036807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-21130422528234219442011-04-18T09:50:14.971-07:002011-04-18T09:50:14.971-07:00"……..does it have anything to do with someone..."……..does it have anything to do with someone else carrying you across the beach?"<br /><br />Not exactly, but it has a lot to say about oceans and fish….Hint: grace at work in the mind of a character played by Chris Cooper, who'd, no doubt, agree that "having only TIME magazine on hand turns waiting rooms into hell here." (Ha, good one, Van.)Mizz Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02325435271880036807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22857355403796716462011-04-18T09:31:57.708-07:002011-04-18T09:31:57.708-07:00Off topic, I'd love to see the naked bike ridi...Off topic, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1377780/London-Taliban-targeting-women-gays-bid-impose-sharia-law.html?ITO=1490" rel="nofollow">I'd love to see</a> the naked bike riding protesters or the topless lady protesters have the guts to organize an event there, where it might actually make an important statement. They love to stand up to non-existent faux persecution, but when the real deal is happening just down the street, they're resoundingly absent.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-61371115863813349492011-04-18T09:10:00.768-07:002011-04-18T09:10:00.768-07:00Wouldn't surprise me a bit, seeing as having o...Wouldn't surprise me a bit, seeing as having only TIME magazine on hand turns waiting rooms into hell here.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-63274106207408259822011-04-18T09:08:13.499-07:002011-04-18T09:08:13.499-07:00MizzE, sites blocked for me here... does it have a...MizzE, sites blocked for me here... does it have anything to do with someone else carrying you across the beach?Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-10480689818217403582011-04-18T09:07:04.992-07:002011-04-18T09:07:04.992-07:00I know for a fact that they have Time magazine in ...I know for a fact that they have Time magazine in the waiting room of hell.Peteynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-6962210776924027332011-04-18T09:04:51.890-07:002011-04-18T09:04:51.890-07:00OT: Fair and balanced, though tardy, TIME is appar...OT: Fair and balanced, though tardy, TIME is apparently now asking <a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2065080,00.html" rel="nofollow">Is Hell Dead?</a><br /><br />... which might be an even worse question.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.com