tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post6526080844694334490..comments2024-03-18T21:33:35.309-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: The Devil, Dylan, and the Dead (3.08.09)Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50591407654164409062008-02-15T15:55:00.000-08:002008-02-15T15:55:00.000-08:00Blah blah whorehay, that claim about Obama being a...Blah blah whorehay, that claim about Obama being angry is laughable. Is this the return of the conservatives as the embittered and curmudgeonly minority? Whither good-natured affability?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-19814369523460604272008-02-15T08:54:00.000-08:002008-02-15T08:54:00.000-08:00Anonymous said... "There is no way anybody could e...Anonymous said... <BR/>"There is no way anybody could ever reasonably describe Obama's rhetoric as angry."<BR/><BR/>Or your reading comprehension as particularly accurate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-28175239408904320402008-02-15T04:02:00.000-08:002008-02-15T04:02:00.000-08:00Magnus -As I recall, Pearce's Crack in the Cosmic ...Magnus -<BR/><BR/>As I recall, Pearce's <I>Crack in the Cosmic Egg</I> was intriguing as well.<BR/><BR/>If we can think of Joseph Chilton Pearce as a New-Ager, we'll have to endure him thinking of us as <I>"You whippersnappers!"</I>walthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388218390016612051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66086400144180735582008-02-15T03:18:00.000-08:002008-02-15T03:18:00.000-08:00Ordered The Biology of Transcendence as per your l...Ordered The Biology of Transcendence as per your link. Normally I'd written it off as one more confused newager, but if it has passed the Gagdadian newage-filter, it has to be pretty gritty.Magnus Itlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445902788427523461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-72700815539084051362008-02-15T01:49:00.000-08:002008-02-15T01:49:00.000-08:00There is no way anybody could ever reasonably desc...There is no way anybody could ever reasonably describe Obama's rhetoric as angry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-55027649895168993402008-02-14T22:04:00.000-08:002008-02-14T22:04:00.000-08:00The weird thing is, we wouldn't even be having thi...The weird thing is, we wouldn't even be having this conversation if he just called himself plain old Barry Dunham. <BR/><BR/>Similar to the way Clinton didn't like the ring of "Billy Blythe."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15757346957428074312008-02-14T21:52:00.000-08:002008-02-14T21:52:00.000-08:00At the beginning of the Obama campaign I noticed a...At the beginning of the Obama campaign I noticed a lot of the angry Jesse Jacksoneque rhetoric coming out of his and also his wife's mouths. It became obvious to me that he had some type of chip on his shoulder. Then I heard about his backgropund with his Muslim father abandoning the family early on as well as a Muslim step father and his eventually going to live and be raised with white grandparents in Honolulu Hawaii. If anyone knows anything about prejudice in Hawaii, caucasians are the ones taking the brunt of it, so I wondered about how he would have developed the "chip" there. I also heard a short piece on his life in high school where he was given a scholarship to Punahou School (pronounced puna ho) one of the most prestigious, if not the most prestigious private school on the island. The interviewer spoke with some of his friends of that time, (keep in mind this was early in the campaign when the rhetoric was especially angry) one of his friends from the basketball team remembered it as a time of treating each other as equals and friends regardless of color and he was perplexed as to where Obama had picked up the attitude. In more recent days, the campaign has realized that the anger wasn't working and they have pretty much stayed on point with soaring platitudes of hope and change and it has obviously worked well for him. He doesn't do the "Jena justice, Scooter Libby justice" schtick much anymore unless his teleprompter goes out. (Even though Jena was a media fabrication and Scooter Libby got screwed)<BR/>I've seen what's underneath and what will eventually come to the surface to whatever degree if the man comes to power. <BR/>Instead of gratitude for a life which has turned out reasonably well compared to how it could have ended up, we get some sort of longing to be accepted by a culture and a father who left decades ago and a manufactured bond with a side of his "heritage" which he can only fantisize about.<BR/>I'm left wondering how I'll be victimized and enslaved because of his undoneness. Scares the hell out of me. The fifteen different accents don't do much to put me at ease either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-574594501678934432008-02-14T21:46:00.000-08:002008-02-14T21:46:00.000-08:00Hoarhey said "You can name it "The Churchill Syndr...Hoarhey said "You can name it "The Churchill Syndrome" after Winston Curchill, owing to the fact that the ink hadn't even dried on the WWII surrender documents when the Brits voted him out of office for a weasely socialist."<BR/><BR/>Remember, that they only turned to Churchill in the first place after their guy botched things almost beyond all hope.<BR/><BR/>There's a line in Atlas Shrugged, where one of the heroes, after asking how the looting gov't thugs think they'll be able to get away with their continous stream of idiotic actions, taxes and regulations, and she finally understands as she hear's one of them mutter under his breath "Oh... you'll think of something, you always do...."<BR/><BR/>The spoiled child counts on Mommy and Daddy to fix everything and make it all better... but only after they don't think they can get away with making it any worse. And then afterwards they 'know' that they can go back to the business of behaving like spoiled children once again.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12171487688676419822008-02-14T21:08:00.000-08:002008-02-14T21:08:00.000-08:00Xi None of us here are serious about this we are a...Xi <BR/><BR/>None of us here are serious about this we are as Bernnie Ward said "just doing research for a book"<BR/>Woof<BR/><BR/>JimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54427107237538890412008-02-14T19:54:00.000-08:002008-02-14T19:54:00.000-08:00Xi, I'm not just trying to flatter you, but you so...Xi, I'm not just trying to flatter you, but you sound like a junior college professor. Any time you'd like to take over the blog and write a guest post, just give me a holler, and it's all yours. You may not know this, but I've been on semi-hiatus for awhile, working on my secret project, so I could use the help. We're all dying to know what you know and how you know it. <BR/><BR/>Frankly, I tried to take a course in epistemology at my local community college, but it ended up being in epistolariology. Now all I can do is write these long, meaningless letters....Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84333416450316078122008-02-14T19:34:00.000-08:002008-02-14T19:34:00.000-08:00what a curious epistemology you employ; 'the thing...what a curious epistemology you employ; 'the things I say are self-evident. If you don't see that they are self-evident then you are one of those Leftists who is beyond help.'<BR/><BR/>Very sound.<BR/><BR/>You might want to take a course on epistemology at your local community college[I'd suggest a real college but I'm not sure your intellect could get you in] to learn a bit about rational/irrational methodology.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-88357107969237935352008-02-14T17:56:00.000-08:002008-02-14T17:56:00.000-08:00It's definitely a magnetic attraction to his cente...It's definitely a magnetic attraction to his center rather than a displacement of the center into the periphery. That there is a cult of personality around him is, in fact, probably the inverse of the Bush=devil thing, but Obama is more coincidentally lucky to be the recipient (lucky from the perspective of, it allows him to win) than the cause of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-43906108600211588592008-02-14T13:15:00.000-08:002008-02-14T13:15:00.000-08:00Thanks for the reccomendations. I will check them...Thanks for the reccomendations. I will check them out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15229364258721725012008-02-14T12:39:00.000-08:002008-02-14T12:39:00.000-08:00Alternatively, for a more enjoyable, post-scholarl...Alternatively, for a more enjoyable, post-scholarly One Cosmos-like romp, I might recommend Joseph Chilton Pearce's <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594770166?ie=UTF8&tag=onecosmos-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1594770166" REL="nofollow">The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint for the Human Spirit</A>.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-11976003667799632812008-02-14T12:33:00.000-08:002008-02-14T12:33:00.000-08:00I see that the paperback edition has a different s...I see that the paperback edition has a different subtitle, "How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are." Same book.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-73489820620916570022008-02-14T12:31:00.000-08:002008-02-14T12:31:00.000-08:00BTW, I noticed that there are also a number of goo...BTW, I noticed that there are also a number of good volumes on that amazon page under the heading "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought." Allan Schore is especially good, but he's a little dry and academic.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48572816682739068442008-02-14T12:28:00.000-08:002008-02-14T12:28:00.000-08:00Anon--In my opinion, the most fruitful area of psy...Anon--<BR/><BR/>In my opinion, the most fruitful area of psychology is at the interface of developmental psychoanalysis, attachment theory, and neurobiology. I suppose the best intro I can think of at the moment is <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1572307404?ie=UTF8&tag=onecosmos-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1572307404" REL="nofollow">The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience</A>, by Dan Siegel. Sounds forbidding, but if I remember correctly, it's pretty reader friendly. The bottom line is that cutting edge research in neurobiology is confirming many of the insights of modern Object Relations psychoanalysis.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-34632390550405610362008-02-14T12:01:00.000-08:002008-02-14T12:01:00.000-08:00Psychoanalysis has a bad rap nowadays so I never g...Psychoanalysis has a bad rap nowadays so I never got much exposure to it in my education. Which writers and/or books can you reccomend as a good intro but not too academic and boring? BTW, if you have the time I would be interested in any ideas you may have about the causes of this decline.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-17098692310808443192008-02-14T11:35:00.000-08:002008-02-14T11:35:00.000-08:00"In fact, it is probably no coincidence that the c..."In fact, it is probably no coincidence that the country chose a feminized, mother-bound man as president after the conclusion of the Cold War, since father had done his job and was therefore felt to be no longer necessary."<BR/><BR/>Bob,<BR/><BR/>Here is an new pathology for you to develop and insert into the psychological lexicon to make people consiously aware of it and possibly a little ashamed. You can name it "The Churchill Syndrome" after Winston Curchill, owing to the fact that the ink hadn't even dried on the WWII surrender documents when the Brits voted him out of office for a weasely socialist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-56896437664961688352008-02-14T11:19:00.000-08:002008-02-14T11:19:00.000-08:00Lots of good points in this post, Bob. I thought y...Lots of good points in this post, Bob. I thought you were giving this up? ; )<BR/><BR/>And for me it's suiting that you gave a big Dylan mention (again) since I'm off to see the Dylan exhibit today at the Skirball.<BR/><BR/>Prayers coming your way, Ben.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-91871741105787579712008-02-14T10:35:00.000-08:002008-02-14T10:35:00.000-08:00Raccoon Alert: Prayer request over at Ben'shttp://...Raccoon Alert: <BR/>Prayer request over at Ben's<BR/><BR/>http://onecosmosatsea.blogspot.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29491121712918815312008-02-14T10:31:00.000-08:002008-02-14T10:31:00.000-08:00"The circle must come first, followed by the point...<I>"The circle must come first, followed by the point, which forms the center (and which will in turn extend "vertically" to the celestial Father..."</I><BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunce_hat_%28topology%29" REL="nofollow">Illustrated. </A>;-)<BR/><BR/>better to wear a <BR/>dunce cap than to sit on one<BR/>pointy part downwardrobinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com