tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post6562362627255042956..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: What'd I Say?, Part 2Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-16882648847143872482007-08-01T06:01:00.000-07:002007-08-01T06:01:00.000-07:00small correction, I meant to say 163 words in one ...small correction, I meant to say 163 words in one sentence Bob.<BR/>One sentence inside a paragraph that is 163 words long.<BR/>I can just imagine an english teacher's eyes glazing over that paragraph!<BR/>That is just one example of the fun and mysterious things we find in your blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-60257799464537507892007-08-01T05:48:00.000-07:002007-08-01T05:48:00.000-07:00Ricky said "Who doesn’t love a rerun?"I'll bet tha...Ricky said "Who doesn’t love a rerun?"<BR/><BR/>I'll bet that I could turn on the boob tube and find the Honeymooners or the Andy Griffith show with Don Knotts playing on some station... if they can hang out 40 and 50 years, no reason OC can't tooAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2609721624264488192007-08-01T05:42:00.000-07:002007-08-01T05:42:00.000-07:00"If he wrote the laws of physics, who's to say tha..."If he wrote the laws of physics, who's to say that he couldn’t have inscribed the moral law within our hearts?"<BR/><BR/>Yep, and I suspecet closer to being one and the same than we might think. Both exist, both are there, and both need to be looked for to be found.<BR/><BR/>As Bacon (?) said, "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed", ignore that, and you ain't got a prayer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-55601417435492603722007-08-01T05:22:00.000-07:002007-08-01T05:22:00.000-07:00"So to sum it all up, no spiritual progress is pos..."So to sum it all up, no spiritual progress is possible without the cultivation of virtue, the closing of the gap between us and our highest ideals. "To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." But not arbitrarily. Timeless moral truths are the luster of the eternal target to which our lives are properly aimed. Or as some old seerslacker said, "Affix to the Upanishad, the bow incomparable, the sharp arrow of devotional worship; then, with mind absorbed and heart melted in love, draw the arrow and hit the mark -- the imperishable Brahman." <BR/><BR/>Say, did I mention that Brahman and Abraham are etymologically related?"<BR/><BR/>Cultivatin' virtue! The highest ideals!<BR/>The reason the secularists keep missin' this Message is because they are focused on the lowest ideals, or no ideals at all other than their own.<BR/>Rigid, static and unchanging, they not only fail to hit the mark, but they fail to find the bow and arrows, choosing instead to slit their own throats on the altar on "consensus."USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48192626641747349722007-08-01T05:09:00.000-07:002007-08-01T05:09:00.000-07:00"Remember, in genuine philosophy, the "ultimate re..."Remember, in genuine philosophy, the "ultimate real" does not refer to the constantly changing material world, but to the abiding reality behind it."<BR/><BR/>Here here!USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-81875812859269870462007-08-01T05:06:00.000-07:002007-08-01T05:06:00.000-07:00Bob,I did not know that Wilber was stalking you an...Bob,<BR/>I did not know that Wilber was stalking you and tapping your phone!<BR/>I guess I should buy some of his newer books, then.Magnus Itlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445902788427523461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-40826276797186345792007-07-31T19:43:00.000-07:002007-07-31T19:43:00.000-07:00163 words in that last paragraph Bob. That's got t...163 words in that last paragraph Bob. That's got to be a record and that paragraph should be in a book??<BR/>Has anyone here tried to read that paragraph out loud?<BR/>I am constantly amazed by your writing, the blog especially because I have not read all of your book.<BR/>Just in case you don't hear from some of us all the time in my case anyway, we're reading the blog and<BR/>Thinking, thinking, thinking!<BR/><BR/>Thanks Bob!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-76300874841469442422007-07-31T12:09:00.000-07:002007-07-31T12:09:00.000-07:00Ever thought about becoming a stand-up co(s)mic?Bo...Ever thought about becoming a stand-up co(s)mic?<BR/><BR/>Bob F.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5656029274030996442007-07-31T11:04:00.000-07:002007-07-31T11:04:00.000-07:00Bob said,“But where are these truths before the ma...Bob said,<BR/>“But where are these truths before the mathematician discovers them.”<BR/><BR/>I think it is safe to say too that the truths of mathematics are not only that they are real and exist all at once – independent of the need for anyone to discover them, but that they are also in constant “practice”…carried out and flowing all the time throughout the cosmos. A continuous reminder or demonstration that we should reflect, as in, it is necessary to also practice religion and not just read about it or to think it is enough to just know more and more about it. You have to experience it in order to really know it. Continuation depends on it and it is true for any growing thing…or nothing grows and likewise nothing would exist without it.<BR/><BR/>Regarding “inventing” and “discovering”, likewise, Columbus didn’t invent the New World he just remembered where He left it.<BR/><BR/>Who doesn’t love a rerun?Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.com