tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post700265865728192092..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Human Beings are Out of This World!Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39926469619079928342013-11-11T10:32:52.766-08:002013-11-11T10:32:52.766-08:00The secular seeker can only pretend that this is n...<i>The secular seeker can only pretend that this is not the phenomenological structure of his quest. But he then imagines that the same thing is true of the religious seeker -- that there is no elation or joy associated with "fulfillment in an embrace of truth in its essence." </i><br /><br />Back when I was young and thought I knew everything, I actually (and to my eternal shame) laughed at a guy once because he said he wanted to be a priest. I apologized the moment I realized he was serious. Fortunately, I don't think he took offense, and as I understand it after graduating college he did join the priesthood. But anyway. Up until that point, the only religious people I had ever met were old, and at some point during my college years, I got the idea in my head that priests and nuns couldn't possibly <i>really</i> believe. Or at least, that their belief was anything but purely intellectual and maybe even cynical. But then, of course, I was simply projecting my own experience into their reality...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-16733237624468300792013-11-11T10:30:42.157-08:002013-11-11T10:30:42.157-08:00Beautiful reflection.
how a dog must experience m...Beautiful reflection.<br /><br /><i>how a dog must experience music</i><br /><br />Or even a dolphin. I wonder. There's been a long line of reactionary talk now that puts humanity on a continuum with other animals. The emphasis to date has been on the nonhuman side. There's not nearly enough on the human side, the differentials. <br /><br />Speaking of dogs, I've been reading a book on neurogastronomy. It turns out that while dogs have more scent receptors in their shnozzles, humans have something called a massive "neocortex." We have fewer receptors, but oh, what our fancy neocortices can do with them! <br /><br />It takes effort to stay vertical, perpendicular. Maybe that's why there's such relentless Gresham effect in our cultures right now -- so much easier to slouch, slouch, slouch.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.com