tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post6927710441393352507..comments2024-03-29T06:03:45.545-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: What is the Left's Bottom Lyin'?Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-6938886079422819142015-09-29T19:48:16.651-07:002015-09-29T19:48:16.651-07:00Hi guys, I am ok, really. Not depressed or nothing...Hi guys, I am ok, really. Not depressed or nothing like that. Thank you for your prayers! <br /><br />USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29270844392154278262015-09-29T16:27:43.415-07:002015-09-29T16:27:43.415-07:00Thanks for mentioning his post - I hadn't seen...Thanks for mentioning his post - I hadn't seen it yet.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-33548363032995642802015-09-29T15:18:52.374-07:002015-09-29T15:18:52.374-07:00Ben posted on his onecosmosatsea.blogspot.com and ...Ben posted on his onecosmosatsea.blogspot.com and does need prayers. I tried calling but had to leave message. Please do pray for him. <br />Thanks for mentioning that you hadn't heard from him. <br />Mrs G Leslie Godwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11794375005614166921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48805996972188017482015-09-29T13:01:18.193-07:002015-09-29T13:01:18.193-07:00I've been wondering about Ben too, haven't...I've been wondering about Ben too, haven't gotten a reply yet.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-88707790714792891242015-09-29T13:00:32.568-07:002015-09-29T13:00:32.568-07:00"...are ultimately attributable to the insidi..."...are ultimately attributable to the insidious influence of the members of the Institute for Social Research who came to America in the 1930's."<br /><br />When you put it that way, it does sound kind of stupid, doesn't it?<br /><br />I do not place the blame on any movement, or system, or ideology, or even Uncle Rico. Rather, each of these rides piggyback on something much deeper. First, when ideology is in the saddle, it rides on man. But what is it in man that permits him to be so easily saddled?"<br /><br />I feel your pain. When I get those folks who think it all started in the 1960's, or for the deeper thinkers, the 1930's, I show them some pamphlets and letters making the same complaints in the 1920's. At which point they usually say "It's all Dewey's fault!". Then I show them some info from the 1890's, and some might mutter about the <i>Democrats!</i> or something... at which point I point them to uber-Republican Morrill who first proposed and help to establish the first Dept of Education and teachers colleges that helped to begin roping all teachers into one noose through Teachers colleges, beginning in the mid 1860's. The stragglers will then say <i>Lincoln!</i>... at which point I show them 'Reformers' from the 1840-50's trying to make the same skills oriented changes that'd turn Education to amoral skillz centers. <br /><br />By that time I'm usually standing all alone, but occasionally a stubborn one will stick around and shout "<i>They hate America!</i>", and then I show them some fun letters and pamphlets from some of the Founders themselves, Dr. Rush, Noah Webster and some others, advocating for making the changes that the first reformers used to begin eliminating the classical materials that the Founder's were educated through (Homer, Virgil, The Bible, Shakespeare, Cicero...), making it so easy for Dewey & others to eliminate Principles in favor of pragmatic 'truths' that change with the moment. If they're still there, they might say... '<i>wuh...???</i>'.<br /><br />Then we can begin looking at where Dewey got his ideas from (Pierce, Hegel, Kant, Fichte), and where they got their ideas from (Hume, Godwin, Rousseau), and where they found the easiest means to wish reality into line, Descartes. And of course where HE got it from, was from being Human and looking to himself for answers.<br /><br />That last bit rarely goes down well.<br />Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1738771148919316212015-09-29T11:43:50.151-07:002015-09-29T11:43:50.151-07:00I was so hoping you'd review that book, and wa...I was so hoping you'd review that book, and was poised to drop you a lineHappyAcresnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-91126055244605162072015-09-29T11:31:15.444-07:002015-09-29T11:31:15.444-07:00I tried calling Ben last time he was silent but co...I tried calling Ben last time he was silent but couldn't get him. I'm praying.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23717780807735469192015-09-29T11:30:20.031-07:002015-09-29T11:30:20.031-07:00You'll have to extend a little slack my way, b...<i>You'll have to extend a little slack my way, because when I read an old post, it's like reading it for the first time.</i><br /><br />We aren't going to complain. I need all the review I can get before the final.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-83259653512068686112015-09-29T10:55:51.078-07:002015-09-29T10:55:51.078-07:00Now shifting gears, has anyone heard from Ben in t...Now shifting gears, has anyone heard from Ben in the last few days? I sent him an email a couple days ago, but never heard back. Beyond that, I'm not at all sure how to contact anyone to go and check on him. All things considered, I'm sure he could do with prayers.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-909234213667707222015-09-29T10:53:04.533-07:002015-09-29T10:53:04.533-07:00Rather, all truth was situated in a strict histori...<i>Rather, all truth was situated in a strict historicism, meaning that "truth" was simply what was believed to be true at the time, and nothing more. With the passage of time, we'll arrive at better truths, just as natural selection has produced better eyes and more clever apes.</i><br /><br />This ties in, too, with our culture's tendency to worship IQ. If truth were indeed relative, then the smarter one is, the more "better truths" one will command. But in reality, what is True really does partake of the Absolute; so long as one is capable of understanding 2+2=4, it can't really be understood "better" if your IQ is 180. Beyond a certain point, I suspect, all that extra intelligence would make a brain crazy for lack of adequate stimulation.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-49324565644639616032015-09-29T10:46:28.685-07:002015-09-29T10:46:28.685-07:00"there are no fixed or eternal principles tha...<i>"there are no fixed or eternal principles that govern, or ought to govern, the politics of a decent regime."</i><br /><br />Then by what measure can one call a regime "decent"?juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-49340525674221579672015-09-29T10:42:37.042-07:002015-09-29T10:42:37.042-07:00And "truth" would simply be a good fit b...<i>And "truth" would simply be a good fit between mind and environment. And a good fit means that it promotes survival and reproduction, or babes and power.</i><br /><br />By that reasoning, the First World with its plummeting birthrates and growing disinterest in reproduction is an abject failure, and has little to no hope of lasting very far into the future. "Be fruitful and multiply" is far more progressive, in its way, than "zero population growth" or "do what you will." And say what you want about Muslims and their death cult, at least they do have a deranged interest in propagating the species...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89402961779168153172015-09-29T10:09:44.137-07:002015-09-29T10:09:44.137-07:00When will writers learn that we don't have all...<i>When will writers learn that we don't have all the time in the world? As it stands, there are more required books on the cosmic syllaBus than we can ever drive to in one lifetime.</i><br /><br />Ha - One Cosmos: condensing the dense, which renders it less dense for the restuvus.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com