tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post7441467819031002336..comments2024-03-18T21:33:35.309-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Lunacy and Solvation in the Cosmic FunhouseGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87445060794184401622007-11-27T10:03:00.000-08:002007-11-27T10:03:00.000-08:00Thanks Julie. My 8yr old came down & announced tha...Thanks Julie. My 8yr old came down & announced that she was going to take my portrait... and there ya have it....Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54023449933296506992007-11-27T06:41:00.000-08:002007-11-27T06:41:00.000-08:00concerning my last post about Creation and Grace.....concerning my last post about Creation and Grace...Since I don't mind showing my ignorance (saves a whole lot of effort) if anyone can point where my "O" has "R'd", please, enlighten me, otherwise, I'll be stuck on this island and not sailing toward the blue horizon.............Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-74856932275662018772007-11-27T06:16:00.000-08:002007-11-27T06:16:00.000-08:00pardon my ignorance, but; If one says that Creatio...pardon my ignorance, but; If one says that Creation is not to be taken at face, then are we not allowing the same to be said of Grace? Wouldn't it be more +R to say We don't nesuhSarahLee understand how God did creation rather than say Creation, as presented, isn't possible??? Or worse, are we not trying to put God in our box of reason??????Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-47369940627865374282007-11-27T06:15:00.000-08:002007-11-27T06:15:00.000-08:00(Nice photo, Van :)(Nice photo, Van :)juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-11779731510832939652007-11-27T05:46:00.000-08:002007-11-27T05:46:00.000-08:00aninnymouse,BTW, according to the Heinlein Society...aninnymouse,<BR/>BTW, according to the Heinlein Society, "Hartley M. Baldwin: Physicist who developed the Nova Effect while attempting to prove it wouldn't work..."<BR/><BR/>Sounds rather apropos, doesn't it.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5069903031814143542007-11-27T05:30:00.000-08:002007-11-27T05:30:00.000-08:00tsebring said... "EVERYONE STOP BREATHING TODAY, O...tsebring said... "EVERYONE STOP BREATHING TODAY, OR YOU ARE A SELFISH EARTH-HATER. FURTHERMORE, EVERYONE STOP DEFECATING AND URINATING AS WELL. EXCERCISING YOUR BODILY FUNCTIONS IS SELFISH AND DESTRUCTIVE TO THE PLANET. "<BR/><BR/>ISS & LOL!Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-74524820621211324942007-11-27T03:24:00.000-08:002007-11-27T03:24:00.000-08:00do you have any idea what horrors can creep into t...<I>do you have any idea what horrors can creep into the shadows of the willfully unknown?</I><BR/><BR/>Even a Freudian (the masters of the obvious) can tell you what a huge mistake it is to repress anything on that level and for that amount of time. There are some wonderful monsters who can sneak in through that open door.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87287925446154857312007-11-26T21:39:00.000-08:002007-11-26T21:39:00.000-08:00aninnymouse quoted "..The great trouble with a rel...aninnymouse quoted "..The great trouble with a religion, any religion, is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence..."<BR/><BR/>Socrates discovered that he was the wisest man in Athens, <I>not</I> because he knew more than anyone else, but because he alone knew what he didn't know, he alone wasn't fooled into thinking that sophistry <I>was</I> wisdom.<BR/><BR/>Likewise, it is only when you <I>have</I> Religion on high as a part of your Reason, and Logic in its proper place at your feet, and you in the middle, the active focal point, the agent of Reasoning, that you have all in tune and in their proper places, that you can safely, harmoniously channel the power of thought.<BR/><BR/>The materialist is a fool who thinks that his little 'r' reason <I>is</I> Reason and with it he can banish all threats, his own failings, blind to Religion, he takes his eyes off it and thinks it no longer exists - nothing but intellectual ostrich's. But the scary Truth is that little 'r' reason can't banish Religion, it isn't gone from any one of you - it is still there, but unknown - do you have any idea what horrors can creep into the shadows of the willfully unknown?<BR/><BR/>Take another look at the excerpt I noted above. The fool who thinks himself wise is a danger. If he gains power with no one of Wisdom to correct him, he's an apocalypse. If the materialist world ever comes fully into being, its inhabitants will pray for something as cute and cudly as shrunken heads and witch doctors to banish the horror of their lives.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3558615517240864212007-11-26T20:50:00.000-08:002007-11-26T20:50:00.000-08:00Hmmm...I've always thought that NOT having childre...Hmmm...I've always thought that NOT having children was kind of selfish...at least that's the conclusion one can come to when examining this waltzing batilda's reasoning. How self-absorbed can you get when feeling the need to trumpet your righteousness across cyberspace. Hey, let's take it one step further; breathing produces greenhouse gases, so...EVERYONE STOP BREATHING TODAY, OR YOU ARE A SELFISH EARTH-HATER. FURTHERMORE, EVERYONE STOP DEFECATING AND URINATING AS WELL. EXCERCISING YOUR BODILY FUNCTIONS IS SELFISH AND DESTRUCTIVE TO THE PLANET. But be comforted, brothers and sisters...perhaps there is a secret group of enviro-psychos engineering the extinction-level virus that will solve the problem once and for all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12382221655784010612007-11-26T20:49:00.000-08:002007-11-26T20:49:00.000-08:00Permit a retort."You attacked reason...It's bad th...Permit a retort.<BR/><BR/>"You attacked reason...It's bad theology." -- Father Brown, an equally fictional characterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-11708138376292175092007-11-26T20:45:00.000-08:002007-11-26T20:45:00.000-08:00"A religion is sometimes a source of happiness and..."A religion is sometimes a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak... The great trouble with a religion, any religion, is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fires of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason, but one cannot have both." Hartley M. BaldwinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-74111631346649087522007-11-26T20:30:00.000-08:002007-11-26T20:30:00.000-08:00Van, creepy as it is I'm happy to let these nihili...Van, creepy as it is I'm happy to let these nihilistic fools earn their Darwin awards - provided they don't decide to force the rest of us to follow suit. Therein lies the real danger of this type of zealotry.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52241714802627593882007-11-26T19:54:00.000-08:002007-11-26T19:54:00.000-08:00From Vogz's link:"At the age of 27 this young woma...From Vogz's <A HREF="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=495495" REL="nofollow">link</A>:<BR/><BR/>"At the age of 27 this young woman at the height of her reproductive years was sterilised to "protect the planet". Incredibly, instead of mourning the loss of a family that never was, her boyfriend (now husband) presented her with a congratulations card. <BR/><BR/>While some might think it strange to celebrate the reversal of nature and denial of motherhood, <I><B>Toni relishes her decision with an almost religious zeal</B></I>. "Having children is selfish. It's all about maintaining your genetic line at the expense of the planet," says Toni, 35."<BR/><BR/>How better to sum up the loony lefties than with their own lunacy? Their politics, economics and ethics - such as they truly are, pretty much flow, oh so logically, from just that little bit.<BR/><BR/>Asstounding.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-159768080940932762007-11-26T17:08:00.000-08:002007-11-26T17:08:00.000-08:00"...the atheist's metaphysic "explains a large num..."...the atheist's metaphysic "explains a large number of things" but not "in a large way." ...Such a person doesn't need more arguments but more air..."<BR/><BR/>Truth, Beauty and Goodness, and the Freedom they contain, are on a <I>scale</I> with soul-aspirations; in their "air" I can breathe deeply. To the contrary, when I follow the rational descriptions of atheists, I <I>swear</I> I get a whiff of carrion.<BR/><BR/>Bob wrote, "This mystery grows, even as we illuminate more of it..." Yikes! <I>It's alive!</I>walthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388218390016612051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-123146090131146052007-11-26T16:58:00.000-08:002007-11-26T16:58:00.000-08:00moriarity said "The atheist slips his metaphysic e...moriarity said "The atheist slips his metaphysic every night and roams free with God.<BR/>The blindness is only cosmetic."<BR/><BR/>You peddling botox?Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-58321352794194524912007-11-26T16:46:00.000-08:002007-11-26T16:46:00.000-08:00Once again I feel duty bound to point out a distor...Once again I feel duty bound to point out a distortion in your thinking; that is, you take "materialists" or atheists at their word. They do not get out from under God so easily.<BR/><BR/>In reality, the "metaphysic" that people profess out loud or in their heads is a flimsy construct (even yours and mine).<BR/><BR/>The difference in consciousness between the God-lover and the atheist is not all that great, especially during dream-states at night. <BR/><BR/>The postures taken by people are of some moment in the development of their lives and souls, but God has and holds us all pretty much alike. The atheist slips his metaphysic every night and roams free with God. <BR/><BR/>The blindness is only cosmetic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50847252279370721432007-11-26T15:31:00.000-08:002007-11-26T15:31:00.000-08:00"Real spiritual doctrines do not limit the mind, b..."Real spiritual doctrines do not limit the mind, but allow it to soar, while materialistic prose just makes your aesthetic sensibilities sore. "<BR/><BR/>Ain't it the Truth? Speaking of aesthetic sensibilities, compare what was typical of pre-post moderns with the <A HREF="http://witcombe.sbc.edu/baroquetheory/images/carracciheracles.jpg" REL="nofollow">"Choice of Hercules"</A> between sexy vice (passing herself off as happyness), and modest Virtue. It's an ever present choice that pre-post moderns recognized as difficult and ever present to us, a state vividly expressed as fallen, where temptation exists to do what is not Right and Wise, and which you can't pretend is ignorable. Facing up to that ever present responsibility, results in the aesthetic feel typified in the "Choice of Hercules".<BR/><BR/>Contrast that with the state of mind and soul fostered by rejecting that ever present responsibility, to one that asserts neither Virtue nor Vice, but only neverending stuff, 'choosing' only between varrying shades of stuff, for no meaningful purpose, and understandably that results in what Munch envisaged with <A HREF="http://www.answers.com/topic/the-scream-jpg" REL="nofollow">'The Scream'</A>.<BR/><BR/><BR/>"On the other hand, the detached intellectualism of materialism is "all moonshine; for it is light without heat, and it is secondary light, reflected from a dead world." In a word, lunacy. "<BR/><BR/>Dead on.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23059505128699695322007-11-26T10:53:00.000-08:002007-11-26T10:53:00.000-08:00Lunacy alert: Save The Planet, Kill Your Fetus.ht...Lunacy alert: Save The Planet, Kill Your Fetus.<BR/><BR/>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=495495vogzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04777803276210863997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-49546808008630979292007-11-26T09:45:00.000-08:002007-11-26T09:45:00.000-08:00Bob Dylan ripped off that Francis Albert verse on ...Bob Dylan ripped off that Francis Albert verse on Sugar Baby (Love and Theft)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89283900998679758692007-11-26T09:39:00.000-08:002007-11-26T09:39:00.000-08:00When a part so ptee does duty for the holos, we so...When a part so ptee does duty for the holos, we soon grow to use of an allforabit. Somedivide and sumthelot but the tally turns round the same balifuson. Can you rede its world? It is the same told of all. If you are abcedminded to this claybook, what curios of signs in this allaphbed!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3459756309720112262007-11-26T09:27:00.000-08:002007-11-26T09:27:00.000-08:00Luna? see. Materialism and -ismit it all con-cysta...Luna? see. Materialism and -ismit it all con-cystant! Hopefooly isn't canseerus! Right! And left behind in the dust of exit-stance. Dust it seam income-plete? Purrhaps taint the hole kitten-kaboodle.Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.com