tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post7275000588857854260..comments2024-03-29T06:03:45.545-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Wisdom and Magic at the Edge of the ExpressibleGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-64398495543383639792012-09-12T07:59:52.888-07:002012-09-12T07:59:52.888-07:00A nice takedown of leftism in this AmericanThinker...A nice takedown of leftism in this AmericanThinker article: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/09/the_tedium_of_leftism.htmlEbonyRaptorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02483546359869912858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-79957079844842985852012-09-12T07:45:29.920-07:002012-09-12T07:45:29.920-07:00"What is consistently striking about evil is ..."What is consistently striking about evil is its utter incomprehensibility."<br /><br />Here's a thought, Bob-<br /><br />If you can blind yourself to the soul that resides within the body then evil is comprehensible: The 'human' you see is merely the opposition, the enemy, a pawn, a rook, a bishop, a symbol that consumes x amount of foodstuffs and has various qualities (in quantifiable packets) that can be used to further whatever purpose you have in store. A tool.<br /><br />When I was young, I loved war. I dreamed it in my sleep. I thought about it constantly during the day. I enhanced it with the tools of education (math, history, geography, etc...). Back then I had thought to myself if I had a choice between love and war, I chose war. Be it chess, Game boards, debate, etc...<br /><br />But one saving grace for me was my awareness of the humanity of others: I dared not (!!!) invoke this passion - fully - upon another in Real-Space (outside the gameboard or topic) (though people did get glancing blows - of which I suffered for - in my lust to compete).<br /><br />Through out my years I was astonished at the matter of fact cruelty that I would see day to day (in Real-Space) coming from various people and wondered how possibly someone could do it. I do now: they cannot percieve the soul that resides within (or perhaps do not honor the soul) and those people are not seen as equals - but as pawns, and symbols, and tools.<br /><br />Now that I perceive that competition (with another human being) has a touch of murder to it (even in the conceptual arena), I no longer compete out of pleasure (and only see it as a job that needs to be done - if I have to).<br /><br />But there are those who do...<br /><br />Cond0011https://www.blogger.com/profile/04576204654819543273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-32159847578826973272012-09-11T20:05:17.011-07:002012-09-11T20:05:17.011-07:00Stop the sorrowful-go-round, I want to get off.
A...Stop the sorrowful-go-round, I want to get off.<br /><br />As a conservative, it seems the best I can hope for is that somehow we held back the inevitable tidal wave today. Tomorrow we'll try to hold it back for another day.<br /><br />Whereas, the leftists run headlong every which way without the burden of conscience, always advancing their agenda convinced they're on the right side of history until it's actually history, at which time they'll ignore it.<br /><br />A war can not be won always playing defense. At some point, before it's too late, the good guys better go on offense and start retaking the cultural ground that's been lost. If that isn't done, the decay in our civil society will pass the tipping point and our once great country will go the way of every other great society that came before us.EbonyRaptorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02483546359869912858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2918078632383926862012-09-11T13:54:53.400-07:002012-09-11T13:54:53.400-07:00You know what's sad, ge? I remember that from...You know what's sad, ge? I remember that from college. Must have been in an underground comic or a <i>Lampoon</i>mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1471103547999455302012-09-11T13:49:13.303-07:002012-09-11T13:49:13.303-07:00not to mess...with the God of
the Thronenot to mess...with the God of <br /><a href="http://commonsensepoliticalthought.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/tommy_toilet_560px.jpg" rel="nofollow">the Throne</a>gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89349016481777555562012-09-11T13:46:30.952-07:002012-09-11T13:46:30.952-07:00Having said that, I feel for the pilot and his fam...Having said that, I feel for the pilot and his family, now that it occurs to me to look up the story. Stunt flying is inherently dangerous, but still that's an awful way to lose someone.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51166951573836518522012-09-11T13:38:38.383-07:002012-09-11T13:38:38.383-07:00For some reason, "not a square to spare"...For some reason, "not a square to spare" comes to mind...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89355580153140628402012-09-11T13:18:51.810-07:002012-09-11T13:18:51.810-07:00Mushroom said"It could be a metaphor."
...Mushroom said"It could be a metaphor."<br /><br />Shit out of luck?<br /><br />Indeed.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-60698887572041924242012-09-11T12:48:10.390-07:002012-09-11T12:48:10.390-07:00Apparently they were TPing their own meeting. Thi...Apparently they were TPing their own meeting. This was one of two planes doing an airshow over Moscow. It seems a standard stunt is to drop a roll of TP and see how many times the plane can cut through it or something. <br /><br />The pilot probably stalled trying to turn sharply at too low an altitude. <br /><br />It could be a metaphor.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23431988026325181422012-09-11T10:42:29.715-07:002012-09-11T10:42:29.715-07:00What Moses said.
That's good. We know we are...<i>What Moses said.</i><br /><br />That's good. We know we are going the right direction not when we are facing God but when we are facing the same way.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-19363136166588319392012-09-11T09:04:25.989-07:002012-09-11T09:04:25.989-07:00No, just delivering the Times.No, just delivering the Times.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-40544252021517025202012-09-11T09:01:50.378-07:002012-09-11T09:01:50.378-07:00IDAHO PLANE THAT CRASHED WAS DROPPING TOILET PAPER...<i>IDAHO PLANE THAT CRASHED WAS DROPPING TOILET PAPER ON GOP EVENT...</i>gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29666742701125389112012-09-11T08:22:11.209-07:002012-09-11T08:22:11.209-07:00"This is the point where faith begins -- wher..."This is the point where faith begins -- where we leave language below and plunge heartlong into the Mystery. Or, just call it keeping an open soul (o). Doing so will still provoke language, but the language will necessarily be of a more poetical nature and therefore make perfect nonsense in spite of myself. Or so one hopes. "<br /><br />This is my understanding of 'Speaking in Tongues'. Thus it is not the gibberish nonesense of the pentecostals - unless your a Bhakti, I suppose... hmmm...Cond0011https://www.blogger.com/profile/04576204654819543273noreply@blogger.com