tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post6593325273624752461..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: John Paul II.3: God is a PlaywrightGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59858376849530997192011-06-28T06:56:45.078-07:002011-06-28T06:56:45.078-07:00Bummer of a pair of birthday buds.
Henry, sure he...Bummer of a pair of birthday buds.<br /><br />Henry, sure he had some of his wives killed, but at least he let his kids live. Probably wouldn't have had Shakespeare without Elizabeth.<br /><br />More than you can say for Rousseau, sure he let his 'wife' live, but he sent all of their kids to die. I suppose you could say his intellectual children lived... like Marx... but I'd rather not.<br /><br />Then again, they're dead and gone, and if today is your birthday, let the sonshine in, it's been redeemed!Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-35476835000005991572011-06-28T06:43:23.009-07:002011-06-28T06:43:23.009-07:00Modern history is the dialogue between two men: on...<i>Modern history is the dialogue between two men: one who believes in God, another who believes he is a god.</i> --Don Colacho<br /><br />Yikes. Two 'anothers', i.e. badasses were also born on June 28th.<br /><br />Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Henry VIIIMizz Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02325435271880036807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71960254007306448612011-06-27T21:45:05.514-07:002011-06-27T21:45:05.514-07:00Happy Birthday's MizzE & Mushroom!Happy Birthday's MizzE & Mushroom!Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-670284870314930262011-06-27T21:44:19.077-07:002011-06-27T21:44:19.077-07:00JWM said “As of late, I've really begun to won...JWM said “As of late, I've really begun to wonder just what this thing is that has so deeply infected our culture?”<br /><br />Take a little bit of error (I think therefore I am), add a touch of malevolence with a spoonful of flattery to make it go down (Rousseau seduced society into believing that they were naturally pure and perfect before civilization corrupted them through the trickeries of family and property ... why would he do it?... I mean... come on...aside from his private delights of exposing himself at ladies windows at night... this was a guy, who during the era that would produce the likes of Mozart, this cretin proposed a musical system that would reduce, if not entirely do away with, musical harmonies... what more do you need to know about him?)... and then top it off with a pleasing pinch of hubris (we don’t need any of those old tales, we’re smarter than earlier times, we’ve got calculus, we’ll calculate the square root of poems and distill all useful knowledge into a few tables of facts, ain’t we sumpthin?!)... put it all in a pot and let it simmer a century or two, and you get a cultural inclination that whispers that reality doesn’t matter, you are secretly great though others wish to keep you down, and that you can and should decide whatever you want to do simply because you naturally wish to, and you've got the recipe for...<br /><br />"Ye shall be as gods..."<br /><br />That <i>is</i> just what they’ve been saying... and teaching, for a couple centuries now... is it really any wonder that the lessons have been so widely learned? This system of thought tells you that your whims are the justification for everything you want, that reality isn’t really real, and that whatever we say, <i>should</i> be real. <br /><br />What else could possibly follow from that but envy, ugliness and a passion for disharmony? Why is it so popular? I suppose above all else, because it is easy to master, rewards you for not discovering your errors and it enables you to feel like a wronged god.<br /><br />Sssound familiar?Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-13528595053335560572011-06-27T20:57:58.659-07:002011-06-27T20:57:58.659-07:00Not just Western Civilization, but against humanit...Not just Western Civilization, but against humanity, period. It <i>is</i> downright reptilian - is there even one mammal species where the male and female are identical and interchangeable except for reproductive equipment? I don't know of any. So why in the name of <i>biology</i> would they expect humans (who after all they see only as one animal among all the rest) to be any different? It's insane not only from a religious standpoint, but from a materialist perspective as well. Whatever the reasoning, it serves not to propagate the human species, but to obliterate it with fruitless fruity alternative lifestyles.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-91641908342041647322011-06-27T20:40:52.468-07:002011-06-27T20:40:52.468-07:00@ Julie:
Re Sweden, and the full neuter.
How can i...@ Julie:<br />Re Sweden, and the full neuter.<br />How can it possibly be that anyone thinks this is a good idea? And it doesn't take five minutes of internet time to find literally hundreds, if not thousands of similar stories. As of late, I've really begun to wonder just what this thing is that has so deeply infected our culture? How is it that such huge numbers of people buy in to this idiocy? I'm trying to get a notion of just what is at the core of this weird notion that every value that has created Western Civilization must now be inverted, twisted, turned inside out and backwards. From whence comes this perverse desire to unmake all that created us? Why the yearning for some undifferentiated world where no one thing is any better or worse than any other thing?<br />The article that Mizz E linked goes a long way to explain some of it. Still, I can't help wondering just what the hell is happening. And I <i> should</i> know, because I believed much of this crap myself at one time.<br />All goofing aside I am mystified, astonished, and in no small measure frightened by this.<br /><br />"Ye shall be as gods..."<br />They see the serpent as some foolish myth, yet they believe what he says.<br /><br />JWMJWMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05564732483476859555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-88801745982808457502011-06-27T19:13:03.308-07:002011-06-27T19:13:03.308-07:00Off topic, Sweden goes full neuter:
"Nearly ...Off topic, <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/27/501364/main20074594.shtml" rel="nofollow">Sweden goes full neuter</a>:<br /><br />"Nearly all the children's books deal with homosexual couples, single parents or adopted children. There are no "Snow White," "Cinderella" or other classic fairy tales seen as cementing stereotypes."<br /><br />In other words, in this preschool the only acceptable "genders" are the queer ones and the only acceptable families are anything <i>but</i> traditional. I wonder if any of those kids go home and get upset because they have just one mother and one father?<br /><br />"Egalia doesn't deny the biological differences between boys and girls — the dolls the children play with are anatomically correct."<br /><br />For what possible reason would a preschool for kids age 1-6, where gender is practically a taboo topic, need <i>anatomically correct</i> dolls for them to play with? Something is rotten in the state of Sweden...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15855661257511600992011-06-27T17:45:59.417-07:002011-06-27T17:45:59.417-07:00Thank you, John.
I'm glad I didn't miss i...Thank you, John.<br /><br />I'm glad I didn't miss it. I have another reason to celebrate tomorrow.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29362502331879205012011-06-27T17:35:42.626-07:002011-06-27T17:35:42.626-07:00Happy belated and be-earlied birthdays, Mushroom a...Happy belated and be-earlied birthdays, Mushroom and Mizze! And thanks for that link, too.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-42343792720307173702011-06-27T16:41:34.664-07:002011-06-27T16:41:34.664-07:00Thanks 'Shroom, close, very close :) Mi cumple...Thanks 'Shroom, close, very close :) Mi cumpleaños es mañana when I'll claim the coveted honor of being an authentic Racc-o.o-n Elder.Mizz Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02325435271880036807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-18966875723044796952011-06-27T16:13:11.916-07:002011-06-27T16:13:11.916-07:00Happy B-day Mushroom! Hope you have a bunch more o...Happy B-day Mushroom! Hope you have a bunch more of them.<br /> Mizz E: Thank you for that great link.<br /><br />JWMJWMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05564732483476859555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87674543568579304682011-06-27T16:00:54.595-07:002011-06-27T16:00:54.595-07:00And, by the way, if I had a birthday, that means M...And, by the way, if I had a birthday, that means Mizz E just turned 29 as well. <br /><br />A happy belated birthday to you!mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84389578771753244762011-06-27T15:14:14.409-07:002011-06-27T15:14:14.409-07:00In any event, God obviously studied math, but his ...In any event, God obviously studied math, but his major is in drama.<br /><br />who de<br /><a href="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/187738_100002305310385_6356775_n.jpg" rel="nofollow">Klass Klown</a> ?<br />.<br />.<br />.<br />aw shucks, i'd throw the award to Bob!gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-42083713416791397642011-06-27T14:15:45.484-07:002011-06-27T14:15:45.484-07:00Yes, indeed, I had a very happy birthday.
I had...Yes, indeed, I had a very happy birthday. <br /><br />I had Mexican food for lunch and got a fried ice cream. The ice cream was free since it was my birthday. I did talk the waitstaff out of singing.<br /><br />Then we took the Enterprise out for a spin. <br /><br />I have to get about 150 more miles on it before I get the break-in oil changed and try the Warp Drive.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-63174796878155100652011-06-27T13:00:00.574-07:002011-06-27T13:00:00.574-07:00Ooops.
Hiding from Truth: Denying What We Can’t N...Ooops.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/articles.cfm?ID=496" rel="nofollow">Hiding from Truth: Denying What We Can’t Not Know</a>Mizz Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02325435271880036807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-10171929820850202552011-06-27T12:55:32.916-07:002011-06-27T12:55:32.916-07:00Speaking of birthdays...
♪•*¨*•.¸¸♫¸.•*¨*••*♫♪♪•*...Speaking of birthdays...<br /><br />♪•*¨*•.¸¸♫¸.•*¨*••*♫♪♪•*¨*•.¸¸♫¸.•*¨*••*♫♪<br /><br /><b>Happy, day late, Birthday 'Shroom</b>Mizz Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02325435271880036807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12040546283097011982011-06-27T12:54:46.312-07:002011-06-27T12:54:46.312-07:00(Mizze, there's a missing link...)(Mizze, there's a missing link...)juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-21423996214325647532011-06-27T12:53:36.165-07:002011-06-27T12:53:36.165-07:00Hiding from Truth: Denying What We Can’t Not Know<a rel="nofollow">Hiding from Truth: Denying What We Can’t Not Know</a>Mizz Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02325435271880036807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-55959071712642472632011-06-27T12:21:10.688-07:002011-06-27T12:21:10.688-07:00"What can only be, of course, is Truth, regar..."What can only be, of course, is Truth, regardless of whether we recognize it. Again, Truth is synonymous with "reality," and reality is not diminished by one's failure to appreciate it."<br /><br />Reality isn't diminished by our failure to recognize it, but what does that mean for us? What does our refulsal to recognize it, do to us? Diminishment would seem to be the least of the implications.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84718777475995784452011-06-27T12:16:36.834-07:002011-06-27T12:16:36.834-07:00...especially in comparison to the contemporary id...<i>...especially in comparison to the contemporary ideal -- if there is one</i>.<br /><br />I wonder sometimes.<br />****<br /><br />We're all going to read from somebody's script. It might as well be from the One who writes the best lines.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30812261367784044862011-06-27T11:36:46.138-07:002011-06-27T11:36:46.138-07:00Tangentially, speaking of words that open, a birth...Tangentially, speaking of words that open, <a href="http://westsoundmodern.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/approaching-double-nickels/" rel="nofollow">a birthday rumination</a> (emphasis mine):<br /><br />"When I was twenty I had all the answers. As half a century of living fades in the rear view mirror I increasingly have only questions about the road ahead. When problems are overwhelming I try to fight the trap of certainty and instead employ curiosity. <b>When the problems are big, the working of them make me bigger.</b> I am fifty four years old and have never felt younger."juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70788776879001259722011-06-27T10:19:36.669-07:002011-06-27T10:19:36.669-07:00Anyone who tries to make a distinction between edu...<i>Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.</i><br /><br />-Marshall McLuhanMizz Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02325435271880036807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67539879298148229662011-06-27T09:52:36.952-07:002011-06-27T09:52:36.952-07:00And if the world of the stage "could unveil t...<i>And if the world of the stage "could unveil the deeper dimensions of the truth of things, might there be a dramatic structure to every human life? To the whole of reality?" </i><br /><br />Sipp has <a href="http://sippicancottage.blogspot.com/2011/06/electric-and-electrifying-edwardians.html" rel="nofollow">been watching old movies</a>. In that street scene, an army of faces moves past. In some ways, they even have a sameness about them, in clothing and bearing and expression, yet behind each and every one there was a unique drama, known in wholeness and truth <i>not even</i> by the one who bore the countenance, but only by the One who knows and would be known. All that remains of them, here and now, are tantalizing glimpses of mystery. To the flatminded, the images that remain are the ghosts of the past, signifying nothing anymore but an arrangement of light that happens to show a particular arrangement of particulars at one particular point, but otherwise bearing no deeper meaning. But to the One, they still <i>are</i>, even if we don't know the particulars, for that which is known by the Absolute can never <i>not</i> be known.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-42654552497562098502011-06-27T09:28:58.997-07:002011-06-27T09:28:58.997-07:00One of his literary mentors taught that properly c...<i>One of his literary mentors taught that properly communicated -- and received -- words could "open up, through the materials of this world, the realm of transcendent truth" and universal moral values.<br /></i><br /><br />Just so; this is what I was thinking of yesterday, after reading about stupidity being contagious. For any word to be "word," it must <i>convey</i> something that acts upon the hearer, one way or another. Thus the belowviations of the foolish are <i>not</i> harmless. But also, thus the words of the holy are not useless - they help to elevate and reorient the hearer toward the true soular center.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57567965670076937932011-06-27T08:29:48.739-07:002011-06-27T08:29:48.739-07:00In the end, it comes down to a rather simple dicho...<i>In the end, it comes down to a rather simple dichotomy: either he thought and acted in conformity to a Truth that transcends us, or he was essentially a lunatic who wasted his obvious talents in thrall to a host of primitive delusions and childish superstitions. </i><br /><br />One could say the same about Jesus, so JPII could not have emulated a better model.robinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com