tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post7465977476271955605..comments2024-03-28T12:10:26.197-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Just My LuxGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22510631947377968622013-06-04T08:54:46.630-07:002013-06-04T08:54:46.630-07:00OT said "I have trouble with the concept of s...OT said "I have trouble with the concept of surrender of volition also."<br /><br />The problem you have is that you think that Truth is something that volition must surrender to, whereas I think that true volition revels in, embraces Truth. Volition, unencumbered by [insert appropriate Gagdad symbol here], is enhanced and expanded the more fully the Truth is grasped and realized. <br /><br />It's not Truth that hampers volition, or that puts you against 'the way', but the desire for falsehood, the desire to make what is not, and cannot be, so. <br /><br />IOW Descartes, Rousseau and modernity.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-81900889305902106902013-06-03T18:44:45.003-07:002013-06-03T18:44:45.003-07:00Off topic, but wow - who would have thought that F...Off topic, but wow - who would have thought that <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/06/01/Millions-Take-Part-As-Traditional-Marriage-Movement-Sweeps-Through-France" rel="nofollow">France would provide a locus of sanity</a> regarding gay marriage?juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-28609816839760135742013-06-03T15:57:51.613-07:002013-06-03T15:57:51.613-07:00Hi Van:
I see your point about volition.
I have ...Hi Van:<br /><br />I see your point about volition. <br />I have trouble with the concept of surrender of volition also. We tend to think it is necessary to guide or control our own life.<br /><br />However, it is said, if a person, in all sincerity (and it must be total), offers their mind to God to have Him do with it what He may, marvelous results are to be had. <br /><br />The life and body are offered up also and all fear and hope or preference for outcome is released.<br /><br />Admittedly it is not for family folk trying to live a conventional life. The point I was trying to make is that sooner or later, in one of the many bodies you will inhabit over the coming aeons, you will arrive at that point because all who comment here are marked or identifed for eventual total spiritual conversion and reversal of consciousness.<br /><br />You will be on the inside looking out, instead of on the outside looking in.<br /><br />In the meantime, enjoy volition as at the normal human stage it is fit to do so.<br /><br />And I shall write no more on the topic. <br />Open Trenchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06354412002318534131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14261474115137237142013-06-03T15:23:48.354-07:002013-06-03T15:23:48.354-07:00"After the thresher is finished, the straw pi..."After the thresher is finished, the straw pile is always bigger than the wheat pile."<br /><br />It also takes a lot of stardust to make a solar system.<br /><br />Let alone an earth.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-16152081517243635582013-06-03T13:00:03.801-07:002013-06-03T13:00:03.801-07:00... said that all his (↑) was "so much straw&...<i>... said that all his (↑) was "so much straw" in comparison to the overpowering infusion of (↓) he was vouchsafed toward the end of his life.</i><br /><br />After the thresher is finished, the straw pile is always bigger than the wheat pile.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7834272341461082272013-06-03T11:06:43.257-07:002013-06-03T11:06:43.257-07:00Julie said "Van, I think you just won the ren...Julie said "Van, I think you just won the renovations game."<br /><br />Heh, yeah, I think you're probably right. We went from stressing over getting a couple rooms of basement carpet right, to possibly tearing it all down and starting from near scratch.<br /><br />Winner, winner chicken dinner!<br /><br />Oh well, the 'upside' is we probably won't be living in the building with the noise. <br /><br />Hello, room service? Send me up a room!Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-76671726375101054912013-06-03T11:02:53.509-07:002013-06-03T11:02:53.509-07:00OT said "... the awake person surrenders voli...OT said "... the awake person surrenders volition of the mind to the Light..."<br /><br />I think that follows along well with your usual total and complete misunderstanding of anything having to do with truth, understanding, virtue, etc. <br /><br />If anyone at any point, ever gives up volition, then they will be unable to be awake to reading, thinking, truth or light in any ways, shape or form. Having the understanding to be able to choose rightly, and making that choice, has no relation whatsoever to giving up any fragment (if that were even possible) of volition, if anything, it intensifies it.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30232122237076049112013-06-03T10:34:08.119-07:002013-06-03T10:34:08.119-07:00@OT
It is unlikely I will be marked for the Great...@OT<br /><br />It is unlikely I will be marked for the Great Schema any time soon.<br /><br />If anything, my Great Schema will be my own blood, at last won in resistance to the monster my ancestors created and nurtured.Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-10384971117235718792013-06-03T10:25:17.002-07:002013-06-03T10:25:17.002-07:00My readings indicate at a certain altitude the awa...My readings indicate at a certain altitude the awake person surrenders volition of the mind to the Light. This puts an end to reading, thinking, opionions, and the like, but at that stage these things are not missed.<br /><br />Right now all here are enamored with the power and skill of the mind and enjoy playing within its precincts. Since all of you here are marked for success in the spirit life the day will come when you will leave it aside. This is a step upwards.<br /><br />It is an honor to address this group of readers. Open Trenchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06354412002318534131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2549065159301862542013-06-03T09:52:02.328-07:002013-06-03T09:52:02.328-07:00Van, I think you just won the renovations game.
S...Van, I think you just won the renovations game.<br /><br />So does this mean close counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and tornadoes, too?juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1946800481792350172013-06-03T09:14:40.388-07:002013-06-03T09:14:40.388-07:00Cortez also was a bit of a womanizer and was well ...Cortez also was a bit of a womanizer and was well known for his cupidity, but it seems like despite this he genuinely was a Catholic. Apostasy is truly the unforgivable sin.Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65110603525732405512013-06-03T09:10:48.298-07:002013-06-03T09:10:48.298-07:00"While sensuality is the root of much evil, i..."While sensuality is the root of much evil, its evil, as Lewis suggests in The Great Divorce, is small and manageable compared to the evil of spiritual pride."<br /><br />I do wonder if the fact the Oscar Schindler was an opportunistic hard-drinking embezzling womanizer actually helped him in his quest.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-55963115603762932552013-06-03T08:09:57.862-07:002013-06-03T08:09:57.862-07:00Yes, you have to shut off the sense before you can...Yes, you have to shut off the sense before you can deny without contradiction.<br /><br />While sensuality is the root of much evil, its evil, as Lewis suggests in The Great Divorce, is small and manageable compared to the evil of spiritual pride. <br /><br />The man who shuts off the sense in this way says, 'nothing but me and what I want.'<br /><br />God will give him that which he asks for.Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23792460115947895132013-06-03T08:08:39.989-07:002013-06-03T08:08:39.989-07:00Speaking of just my lux, Tornadoes suck... but peo...Speaking of just my lux, <a href="http://blogodidact.blogspot.com/2013/06/tornadoes-suck-but-people-are-pretty.html" rel="nofollow">Tornadoes suck... but people are pretty darn cool!</a>.<br /><br />On the bright side, it made the basement flooding from overflowing rain gutters pretty much a non-concern.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15615050712134024792013-06-03T07:36:25.222-07:002013-06-03T07:36:25.222-07:00In other words. one needs to reject God with eyes ...In other words. one needs to reject God with eyes wide shut. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-78288670556684398052013-06-03T07:29:19.622-07:002013-06-03T07:29:19.622-07:00It doesn't necessarily prove the existence of ...It doesn't necessarily prove the existence of the Creator, but one shouldn't misunderestimate the absence of one.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-68440268480906725122013-06-03T07:27:24.672-07:002013-06-03T07:27:24.672-07:00What I mean is that in the absence of God, life an...What I mean is that in the absence of God, life and history and everything else are in principle 100% meaningless.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50428376298725420392013-06-03T05:53:50.923-07:002013-06-03T05:53:50.923-07:00"The ambiguity of this in-between space is th..."The ambiguity of this in-between space is the source of all this tension and drama, because compared to God we are nothing.<br /><br />And yet, compared to nothing, we are everything."<br /><br />I don't think that we need to go as far as to say we are nothing, since that leads to such wonderful ideas as the complete depravity of man and such.<br /><br />I mean, if we didn't have something that we were supposed to do, we wouldn't be here in the first place<br /><br />As Tomberg might say, the problem is intoxication.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57883533326070897212013-06-03T00:25:38.420-07:002013-06-03T00:25:38.420-07:00'...compared to God we are nothing.
And yet, c...'...compared to God we are nothing.<br />And yet, compared to nothing, we are everything'<br /><br />Mind is a mirror<br />whose usefulness depends on its<br />being 'nothing' of itself but perfectly reflecting all/anything/everything that crosses its path<br />and if God does, nothing is reflected<br /> if the world does, everything is... but an image presented...going away<br />which proves it ultimately aooarutuibak*<br />[only Mind is]<br /><br />*apparitionalgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57622898586883138052013-06-02T15:58:34.238-07:002013-06-02T15:58:34.238-07:00"Why do you need another woman when you don&#..."Why do you need another woman when you don't even know how to appreciate the one you have?"<br /><br />And, if you do appreciate the one you have you won't want another one.<br />Besides, one is way more than enough. I mean that literally and in every way imaginable. Really. Do you want 2 ladies throwin' stuff at you? USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22219020296995165812013-06-01T17:44:34.970-07:002013-06-01T17:44:34.970-07:00"""So few people know a dang thing ..."""So few people know a dang thing about the Eastern Church..."<br /><br />And they like it that way."<br /><br />Yes. Both/and.<br /><br />Have a good summer.Christina Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03026226686936294936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44837697475193626252013-06-01T12:59:13.671-07:002013-06-01T12:59:13.671-07:00Just to be clear, whatever the opposite of worthle...Just to be clear, whatever the opposite of worthless is, that's what I think of psychology.<br /><br />To Rip off Larry Sanders' producer, the problem with psychotherapy is the f'n patients!Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-160008152285728902013-06-01T09:44:15.985-07:002013-06-01T09:44:15.985-07:00"Hence my theory (which is mine) that psychol..."Hence my theory (which is mine) that psychololgy was invented because people didn't like the answers religion offered."<br /><br />I think that psychology is quite useful with respect to the things that psychology can do.<br /><br />The problem is when it is applied to areas outside of which it is useful.<br /><br />I thought it was worthless until I actually had to start dealing with it.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84013561101339870482013-06-01T09:38:46.422-07:002013-06-01T09:38:46.422-07:00"Even Aquinas -- one of the greatest thinkers..."Even Aquinas -- one of the greatest thinkers who ever lived -- said that all his (↑) was "so much straw" in comparison to the overpowering infusion of (↓) he was vouchsafed toward the end of his life."<br /><br />That's not a reason not to (↑), however.<br /><br />You just have to know that the point of (↑) is (↓), which is to say the the point of (↑) isn't just more and more (↑), which I suppose is what a professional theologian has to be in order to continue to produce scholarship.<br /><br />I mean, once you get as far as (↑) is going to take you, you're not really going to produce anything new. Well, I suppose, more importantly you aren't going to produce anything of actual value. Lots of new things are quite less than worthless.<br /><br />At best, you're just going to go round and round in circles until you get really dizzy.<br /><br />JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20768559000358506022013-06-01T08:16:20.304-07:002013-06-01T08:16:20.304-07:00If my theory is true, he promptly hired another th...If my theory is true, he promptly hired another therapist.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.com