tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post6794956297186614929..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Verticalisthenics, O-robics, and Breathing in the EternalGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70162619576836690092007-09-17T07:09:00.000-07:002007-09-17T07:09:00.000-07:00Two excellent metaphors in an outstanding post. Th...Two excellent metaphors in an outstanding post. Thanks.shoprathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05265612188236394307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-17032397479303299352007-09-17T06:42:00.000-07:002007-09-17T06:42:00.000-07:00Yes. aren't we the walking creature? We can't run ...Yes. aren't we the walking creature? We can't run too fast (though pretty good if we want) but we can outwalk any critter.Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-34675222742958384612007-09-17T06:36:00.000-07:002007-09-17T06:36:00.000-07:00RE “motion”, I think it is our Unknown Friend who ...RE “motion”, I think it is our Unknown Friend who tells us that we do not walk because we have legs, we have them because we have a will to walk.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7370019389684999462007-09-17T05:01:00.000-07:002007-09-17T05:01:00.000-07:00Ah, so the horizontal has depth as in a train trac...Ah, so the horizontal has depth as in a train track and is not simply a one dimensional place. Or could it be more like the interstate highway system where we can make choices of where to exit and have a cup of coffee? Of course this system also affords the opportunity to get lost more often than a train. While taking pilot training some years back I was confronted with having to explain to friends the difference between flying an airplane and driving a car. I don’t expect any of them understood me, but I felt the freedom of movement in three dimensions rather than two as well as the difficulty cubed (5^3=125) rather than squared (5^2=25).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45248557225380299992007-09-17T04:14:00.000-07:002007-09-17T04:14:00.000-07:00"Now, many people who come to a spiritual practice..."Now, many people who come to a spiritual practice do so because their life has been derailed for them. They are probably the lucky ones. They have achieved a state of spiritual blankruptcy."<BR/><BR/>I'm kinda lucky that way. :^)USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29439644458891096282007-09-17T04:10:00.000-07:002007-09-17T04:10:00.000-07:00"We are fallen beings. Or, if you prefer, we are m..."We are fallen beings. Or, if you prefer, we are more or less exwholed and exiled from the vertical; we are strangers in this world, wandering in the desert of the horizontal, trying to find our way home."<BR/><BR/>Kinda like O-nut wholes?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-43121050131490263092007-09-16T18:10:00.000-07:002007-09-16T18:10:00.000-07:00"But spiritual growth is not an object. Rather, it..."But spiritual growth is not an object. Rather, it is a "motion" or movement -- an expansion."<BR/><BR/>Funny how we take notions like "spiritual growth" and by referring to them repeatedly, <I>do</I> come to think of them as "things." BIG revelation for me when one day it occurred to me that 'Reality' is a verb, not a noun.walthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388218390016612051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85665548220121297212007-09-16T16:43:00.000-07:002007-09-16T16:43:00.000-07:00Bob, I missed posting for your last 2 posts, so I ...Bob, I missed posting for your last 2 posts, so I can't resist asking these belated questions:<BR/><BR/>1. Did you manage to avoid making an ass of yourself?<BR/><BR/>2. Did you get to see how deep the rabbit hole goes?<BR/><BR/>3. Was this the end, the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning?<BR/><BR/>4. Have you added the Butthole Surfers to your long list of favorite musicians?<BR/><BR/>Sorry, had to add my less than one cent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46702603276002585242007-09-16T16:34:00.000-07:002007-09-16T16:34:00.000-07:00smoov,the same can be said for gangsta rap; just l...smoov,<BR/>the same can be said for gangsta rap; just listen to some of those people being interviewed. It's just ghetto street thuggery and disprespect for life and law covered in bling.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8614262122888190302007-09-16T15:34:00.000-07:002007-09-16T15:34:00.000-07:00We've knocked around the idea here that some artis...We've knocked around the idea here that some artists can produce beauty despite bedevilment by personal demons, or even despite an utter lack of integrity. I think that is true, to an extent. Bob's own selection of musical greats (99% of which I agree with him on) contains numerous examples of drug-dependent and even a number of what would today qualify leftist people.<BR/><BR/>Today I see that same situation with Amy Winehouse and others, but that's not what this is about.<BR/><BR/>What this is about is a film I just Tivo'd from cable called "American Hardcore". While I listened to a considerable amount of punk music as a youth, I never really heard these people actually interviewed. <BR/><BR/>Today I consider that music to be almost universally execrable and ugly, and this film shows precisely why: the people behind these punk bands were universally loathesome--frankly evil--human beings, and they apparently remain so today. I have never seen such a collection of obscene, thoughtless, cynical and hate-filled 45 and 50 year-olds in my life. To a man and woman they go further than the typical leftist into sheer nihilism. These filthy atheists are at the far end of the spectrum from Petey.<BR/><BR/>There's a reason punk sounds as ugly as it does, and they're it.Stephen Macdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13474300559219020772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-31642011681472104952007-09-16T15:11:00.000-07:002007-09-16T15:11:00.000-07:00Good timing since I have an appointment to see my ...Good timing since I have an appointment to see my Buddhist meditation coach next week. It has been far too long (at least 2 months) since I've sat with him, and I really miss it.Stephen Macdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13474300559219020772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-80374264157527550842007-09-16T14:01:00.000-07:002007-09-16T14:01:00.000-07:00Adieu - à DieuIn French - En Francaisà is a French...Adieu - à Dieu<BR/><BR/>In French - En Francais<BR/><BR/>à is a French preposition<BR/><BR/>Adieu generally means "until God"<BR/><BR/>But it can also represent<BR/>- to God (ie. movement<BR/>- in God (ie. position)<BR/>- when God (ie. position in time)<BR/>- from God (ie. origin)<BR/>- from God (ie. distance away from)<BR/>- by God (ie. activity)<BR/>- my God (ie. possession)<BR/><BR/>Whoda thunk so much could be enfolded in one word choice!<BR/><BR/>Via con Dios, mon ami!Alan McCannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01638364076808034984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-77096790448761372512007-09-16T11:15:00.000-07:002007-09-16T11:15:00.000-07:00Apropos: Dreaming of Reality from the Dark Side of...Apropos: Dreaming of Reality from the Dark Side of the Moon & <BR/>"Each basin within our personality is an open system with a life force and agenda all its own, drawing relationships and experiences it needs in order to go on being. These are the instruments of our destruction..."<BR/><BR/>great link from American Thinker to City Journal article 'The Peace Racket' by Bruce Bawer. "An anti-Western movement touts dictators, advocates appeasement—and gains momentum."<BR/><BR/><BR/>http://www.city-journal.org/html/<BR/>17_3_peace_racket.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86665771512255641342007-09-16T10:01:00.000-07:002007-09-16T10:01:00.000-07:00Garden Ghoststrue conversationtwo old friends spin...<A HREF="http://robinstarfish.blogspot.com/2007/09/garden-ghosts.html" REL="nofollow">Garden Ghosts</A><BR/>true conversation<BR/>two old friends spin mythic yarns<BR/>once where we are kingsrobinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com