tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post7078838395250007199..comments2024-03-18T21:33:35.309-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Man is a Person in Order to Become OneGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-63386699271695233742012-11-25T15:16:41.875-08:002012-11-25T15:16:41.875-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708393262849661076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-74341832441132694272012-11-25T13:24:41.272-08:002012-11-25T13:24:41.272-08:00Bravo Pravda!
At least they get it<a href="http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/19-11-2012/122849-obama_soviet_mistake-0/" rel="nofollow">Bravo Pravda!</a> <br /> At least <i>they</i> get itgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20517866849114437882012-11-24T23:04:29.521-08:002012-11-24T23:04:29.521-08:00After seeing the onesie parade, I can say with pri...After seeing the onesie parade, I can say with pride I'm glad to be old and out of it.EbonyRaptorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02483546359869912858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-91441632437987800932012-11-24T17:07:07.915-08:002012-11-24T17:07:07.915-08:00I'm becoming more and more convinced the end r...I'm becoming more and more convinced <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2236382/Celebrities-fuel-trend-onesies-Asda-stockpiles-ONE-MILLION-time-Christmas.html" rel="nofollow">the end really is near</a>...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-72800621439120136542012-11-24T13:47:41.218-08:002012-11-24T13:47:41.218-08:00AKA the Yelverton Bible.AKA the Yelverton Bible.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5921018594763955892012-11-24T13:42:05.658-08:002012-11-24T13:42:05.658-08:00bob
here's one
for your sidebar list
with ...bob <br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Barack-Jonah-Winter/dp/0061703966/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353793156&sr=1-1&keywords=barack" rel="nofollow">here's one</a> <br />for your sidebar list<br /><br />with a head like a pingehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-78658881588517745562012-11-23T11:39:27.520-08:002012-11-23T11:39:27.520-08:00Sarah Palin
as youve never seen her<a href="http://www.topnews.in/files/images/Uma-Thurman1.jpeg" rel="nofollow">Sarah Palin</a> <br />as youve never seen hergehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-72524926383627210202012-11-23T09:42:50.252-08:002012-11-23T09:42:50.252-08:00"But unlike the left, we only offer the help...."But unlike the left, we only offer the help. It would frankly never occur to us to force it on you, backed by the threat of state violence. "<br /><br />Amen.Cond0011https://www.blogger.com/profile/04576204654819543273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-62495717164256548172012-11-23T09:40:08.294-08:002012-11-23T09:40:08.294-08:00Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals enshrines ad...Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals enshrines ad hominem attack as the basic tenet of his teaching. And which political persuation worship Alinsky? Yes, that would be the progressive personality with their psychological projection pathologies.<br /><br />As the old saying goes - "no one is useless because they can always serve as a bad example". So having one useful idiot around isn't so bad.EbonyRaptorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02483546359869912858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-79465664527092419992012-11-23T08:43:18.004-08:002012-11-23T08:43:18.004-08:00Terrence McKenna said 12-21, so I'll go with h...Terrence McKenna said 12-21, so I'll go with him. I'm unaware anyone else who took a sufficient amount of drugs to be in a position to know these things.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-74349426010781204122012-11-23T08:30:47.730-08:002012-11-23T08:30:47.730-08:00Is it the 12th, or the 21st? I've seen it both...Is it the 12th, or the 21st? I've seen it both ways. But either way, yes, lets hope they aren't in a hurry...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51330059000239460802012-11-23T07:38:23.902-08:002012-11-23T07:38:23.902-08:00I just hope they're kidding about wanting it b...I just hope they're kidding about wanting it back on December 12....Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4913901168774553112012-11-23T07:35:27.186-08:002012-11-23T07:35:27.186-08:00Great Whittle: The Gods of Virtue and Wisdom want...Great Whittle: <a href="http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/driveby/afterburner_with_bill_whi_1.php" rel="nofollow">The Gods of Virtue and Wisdom</a> want their stuff back. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-61230293268450891632012-11-23T07:08:31.088-08:002012-11-23T07:08:31.088-08:00One reviewer writes that
'The word "God&...One reviewer writes that<br /><br />'The word "God", at this stage, is only used as a name for the mystery the total understanding of which lies beyond the grasping of human mind, but still leaves man with no other choice than to pursue it. In other words, when Giussani looks inside the human, he sees the intuition of an answer to our basic questions (like the meaning of life to say one) and the need to go toward that answer. That unreachable hypothesis we go after, he calls God.'<br /><br />That sounds kind of familiar....Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-19896652245512098522012-11-23T07:04:25.981-08:002012-11-23T07:04:25.981-08:00Re what David posted above about Father Giussani -...Re what David posted above about Father Giussani -- alert readers will have noticed that Magnus also mentioned him in a comment a couple of days ago. This qualifies as genuine synchronicity, i.e., a cosmic coonspiracy. I took the hint from Fr. G and ordered a couple of his books, one called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Religious-Sense-Luigi-Giussani/dp/0773516263/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353682876&sr=1-1&keywords=luigi+giussani" rel="nofollow">The Religious Sense</a>, the other <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Communion-Liberation-Davide-Rondoni/dp/0773520317/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353682876&sr=1-11&keywords=luigi+giussani" rel="nofollow">Communion and Liberation</a>. I'll no doubt be writing about him in the near future.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-31344410935141351002012-11-23T06:43:51.242-08:002012-11-23T06:43:51.242-08:00Meanwhile, over at Slate: Who Said It: Marco Rubio...Meanwhile, over at Slate: <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/11/rubio_and_obama_and_the_age_of_earth_politicians_hedge_about_whether_universe.html" rel="nofollow">Who Said It: Marco Rubio or Barack Obama?<br />Willful ignorance of science is a bipartisan value."</a>juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-13151580930741241342012-11-22T18:35:45.827-08:002012-11-22T18:35:45.827-08:00"Man is a Person in Order to Become One"..."Man is a Person in Order to Become One"<br /><br />Yep. In an equation like a2 + b2 = c2, the left side of the equation equals the right side of the equation, and did so from the very beginning. The mystery is only felt by the person who hasn't solved it yet. <br /><br />And of course the answer is the One that is three. <br /><br />Go figure.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26678300040908870492012-11-22T12:44:51.215-08:002012-11-22T12:44:51.215-08:00So apart from being right about what man is, how d...So apart from being right about what man is, how do we offer that truth to others, and receive it more ourselves? The best example I know of that is these guys, inspired by Giussani: http://www.meetingrimini.org/eng/<br /><br />This is the summary statement about the 2012 Rimini meeting: (forgive the length -- it corresponds so well to this conversation that I couldn't decide how to cut it)<br /><br />"Ninety-eight encounters with 271 speakers, 9 exhibitions, 21 spectacles, and 800,000 people present from 40 different countries. The experience of these days, the facts that have occurred, the population of the Meeting, have shown that it is possible to live this dimension of human existence, giving testimony to this 'relation to the infinite' for which each man yearns. This is not a question of spiritualism for insiders or 'pious' people but an essential factor in living every aspect of life with truth.<br /><br />'Nothing is trivial or meaningless in the path of life and of the world. Man is made for an infinite God who was made flesh and that took our humanity to raise it to the heights of His divine nature,' wrote Benedict XVI. An infinite that became flesh, present in all circumstances of life: this is why everything interests us, this is why we confronted ourselves with institutional personalities and with men of other cultures and other religions, such as the Lebanese company protagonist of the opening spectacle. This is why we proposed a new lecture on Dostoevsky and a new way to look at rock 'n' roll, as took place at two of the most visited exhibitions during this Meeting. Then we have the exhibition, The Unforeseeable Instant: Young Protagonists for Development: young people that have said that to thousands and thousands of people that it is possible to not be broken down by circumstances but to be reborn and build in every moment, discovering again the profound nature of our own 'I' as insuppressible desire for good.<br /><br />This is our path. This is the journey that we want to keep walking: testifying to that which we have encountered and that to which generates what we have witnessed in recent days.<br /><br />In society that we live in there is an urgent need to redefine a clear identity to our 'I,' the protagonist of life and builder of history. For this reason, the title of the 34th edition of the Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples -- which will take place from the 18th to 24th of August, 2013 -- will be: 'Human Urgency.'"David J Quackenbushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11873818923450408281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-79433332520228528822012-11-22T06:06:47.034-08:002012-11-22T06:06:47.034-08:00Pope dating controversy
in the news
Symbolism re...Pope dating controversy <br /><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/the-pope/9693576/Jesus-was-born-years-earlier-than-thought-claims-Pope.html" rel="nofollow">in the news</a> <br />Symbolism reigns!<br /><br /><b>The stable</b><br />"Now let us go back to the stable. In this stable there were neither shepherds nor flocks, only the ox and the ass. Why? The story has been repeated again and again over the centuries without being understood, because the knowledge of universal symbolism has been lost. The stable represents the physical body, and we know that in ancient days, the ox, the bull, stood for the principle of generation. In Egypt, for instance, the bull Apis was the symbol of fertility and fecundity. The bull is under the influence of Venus and represents sexual force; the ass is under the influence of Saturn and represents the personality, man's lower nature, the old Adam, headstrong and stubborn but a good servant. Here are the two animals, waiting to serve Jesus. But serve him how?<br />When man begins the work of making himself more perfect, he comes into conflict with his personality and his sensuality. The Initiate is one who has been able to master these two forces and put them to work for him, not by annihilating them... the two beasts are not chased away or killed... they are there, present at the Birth, but what do they do? They breathe on the Christ Child and warm him with their breath! When the Initiate is able to transform the ass and the ox within himself by putting them to work for him they warm the newborn child with their breath. The forces are no longer there to torment him, lead him astray or cause him suffering... no, they are now life-giving forces. Breath is life! You see, the breath of the ass and ox is reminiscent of the Breath of God which brought Life to the first man. The ox and the ass serve the Christ Child, meaning that all who have the Christ within them will be served by their personality and sensuality, and once you put them to work, these are extraordinarily useful forces... "<br /><a href="http://digilander.libero.it/vangeli/christmas.htm" rel="nofollow">-O M Aivanhov</a>gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-6493155981182164292012-11-21T23:08:52.595-08:002012-11-21T23:08:52.595-08:00I recall a conservative hispanic talk show caller ...I recall a conservative hispanic talk show caller in my blue state mentioning that his brethren would only vote for Romney if his name were 'Romero'...and also a hispanic lady in a debate 'focus group' mentioned she didnt know any people like Romney [so she would vote Democrat] ...ah the dumb vanity of the average doofus of today<br /><br />'One idiot body, one stoopit vote'...<br />white males should never have given up the vote<br />:)gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20255120929171572502012-11-21T15:44:41.499-08:002012-11-21T15:44:41.499-08:00Conversely, a leftist is always a leftist in order...Conversely, a leftist is always a leftist in order to become less than a person in the full sense of the word. And yes, we mean that literally. Because we are trying to help. <br /><br />But unlike the left, we only offer the help. It would frankly never occur to us to force it on you, backed by the threat of state violence."<br /><br />Precisely! We're about giving help through freedom, while the left is about FORCE! which only helps themselves (the chosen ones that is. The rest of the left, as always will also suffer along with the restuvus, but they usually won't know why unless their eyes b' ears are opened).<br /><br />Great post, Bob!<br /><br />USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37916120063043939932012-11-21T10:37:44.346-08:002012-11-21T10:37:44.346-08:00When we say Obama is a wicked man who is unfit for...<i>When we say Obama is a wicked man who is unfit for the office he holds, this is what we mean -- that he not only stands by silently while his allies engage in the most slanderous racial and sexual demagoguery, but that he himself instinctively engages in it.</i><br /><br />I've often thought that if he were a genuinely decent person who really wanted to see the black community grow and improve, he could have taken his presidency as an opportunity to counsel reason over racism, and to lead by example. What a perfect chance he had and has to model strength, leadership and virtue to young black men; instead, we have a man who surreptitiously flips the bird, literally and figuratively, to anyone who gets in his way.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41282679563052318512012-11-21T10:24:20.247-08:002012-11-21T10:24:20.247-08:00... man is someone who cannot be derived ...
Yes,...<i>... man is someone who cannot be derived ...</i><br /><br />Yes, as you point out with ape statement, even the part of a human that <i>could</i> be considered derived could only be seen from the <i>un</i>derived.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41147641593505543822012-11-21T10:23:28.147-08:002012-11-21T10:23:28.147-08:00Note also that such an infrahuman animal is no lon...<i>Note also that such an infrahuman animal is no longer in need of redemption from above. Rather, he can get it from some quack psychologist who pardons him because -- well, in the words of West Side Story, because he's depraved on accounta' he's deprived!</i><br /><br />He's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vXW66o15e0" rel="nofollow">only a lad</a>!juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-88517749335258894692012-11-21T10:19:25.579-08:002012-11-21T10:19:25.579-08:00Oh peoples, I gots the anointin' this mornin&#...<i>Oh peoples, I gots the anointin' this mornin'! Listen to what the almighty is tellin' you in yo' soul! </i><br /><br />Tongues of fire came down upon them.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.com