tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post7436061028411967596..comments2024-03-29T06:03:45.545-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Is Man the Problem or the Solution?Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-27549889845020542972011-06-17T14:10:54.368-07:002011-06-17T14:10:54.368-07:00"And this was simply the recognition that our..."And this was simply the recognition that our rights "belong to man by nature, that the state recognizes them but does not confer them, and that they belong to all human beings as they are human beings and not because of secondary characteristics that others would have the right to determine arbitrarily" (ibid). "<br /><br />And everything Right in American govt follows from recognizing that. You can guess what ignoring it produces... complicating matters which have no substance, forces that "... have no ultimate reality"... like Weiner at a roast, their own worst enemy.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45054429968877714732011-06-17T10:19:00.970-07:002011-06-17T10:19:00.970-07:00@ Rick "Let us have the baby. We will worry a...@ Rick "Let us have the baby. We will worry about tomorrow tomorrow.": or, as G.K. Chesterton phrased it back nearly one-hundred years ago, “Let all the babies be born. Then let us drown those we do not like.” – Babies and Distributism, GK’s Weekly, 11/12/32Pajakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10110522421355544357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85380612766889872792011-06-16T19:32:49.978-07:002011-06-16T19:32:49.978-07:00For some reason this post made me think of Jeremia...For some reason this post made me think of Jeremiah: <i>The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will let you hear my words.” So I went down to the potter's house, and there he was working at his wheel. And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter's hand, and</i> <b>he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.</b> (Jeremiah 18:1-4)mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-31744761647559557672011-06-16T14:28:04.942-07:002011-06-16T14:28:04.942-07:00...conscience is the capacity to be open to the ca...<i>...conscience is the capacity to be open to the call of truth, which is objective, universal, the same for all who can and must seek it. It is not isolation but </i>communion.<br /><br />Speaking of communion, I was struck by the bit, earlier in <i>Intro to Christianity</i>, where Ratzinger discusses the etymology of "<i>symbolum</i>":<br /><br />"The background of the word's etymology is an ancient usage: two corresponding halves of a ring, a staff, or a tablet were used as tokens of identity for guests, messengers, or partners to a treaty. Possession of the corresponding piece entitled the holder to receive a thing or simply to hospitality. A <i>symbolum</i> is something that points to its complementary other half and thus creates mutual recognition and unity. It is the expression and means of unity."<br /><br />Which brings one back to this particular <i>symbolum</i>:<br /><br />"And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body."juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12003515847448321252011-06-16T13:21:38.831-07:002011-06-16T13:21:38.831-07:00Great post as usual. Man is the problem, God'...Great post as usual. Man is the problem, God's grace in man is the solution.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03149296283560293988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-38953130898402381642011-06-16T12:24:30.447-07:002011-06-16T12:24:30.447-07:00"Human life is untouchable because it is divi..."Human life is untouchable because it is divine property"<br /><br />This is a good point. If not, THE point.<br />Yes. To end the life of a child in the womb is one thing. The child has a soul and a body which constitutes a person. You may decide to end the body but the soul continues. Can we say the soul of the child will be all right (without sin) if the life of its body has been ended? I think so. But what about the soul of the one who decides against the life? It is this person that is saying something to God. Perhaps this is the point, I mean.<br /><br />I remember reading an Orthodox Christian answering the question "What do we do with the unwanted pregnancy." His said, "Let us have the baby. We will worry about tomorrow tomorrow."Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66709365649414253802011-06-16T09:59:50.523-07:002011-06-16T09:59:50.523-07:00Thus, we embody a complementarity that spans every...<i>Thus, we embody a complementarity that spans every degree of creation, from the lowdown downdest to the toppermost of the poppermost, and everything in between. </i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.seraphicpress.com/archives/2011/06/elvis_falling_i.php" rel="nofollow">Elvis Meets Bardot</a>. Granted, only in Avrech's dream, but it works for me...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-78925610085226435272011-06-16T07:50:25.819-07:002011-06-16T07:50:25.819-07:00Disease or cure? Well, as we learn in the sacred b...Disease or cure? Well, as we learn in the sacred book of Saint Stallone, One man is the disease and another the cure.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE2-7a_F_B0vanderleunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10296245324443413545noreply@blogger.com