tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post8369890879595495903..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: You Ought to be Ashamed!Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-64805092387123174542014-05-11T14:01:06.236-07:002014-05-11T14:01:06.236-07:00I guess you can take the Rams out of LA, but you c...I guess you can take the Rams out of LA, but you can't take LA out of the Rams. At least <a href="http://gaytravel.about.com/od/losangelesgaytravel/ss/West-Hollywood-Gay-Guide.htm" rel="nofollow">West LA</a>. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66477536241402800212014-05-11T13:44:16.328-07:002014-05-11T13:44:16.328-07:00Yes, we in St. Louis are so enjoying discovering t...Yes, we in St. Louis are so enjoying discovering these new meanings for "Gateway to the West".Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-47857821689025680452014-05-11T11:36:37.949-07:002014-05-11T11:36:37.949-07:00Sure didn't take the Times long to defenestrat...Sure didn't take the Times long to <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/10/30-year-new-york-times-science-writer-out-after-writing-book-about-genetics-race/" rel="nofollow">defenestrate</a> their science writer for being too scientific. I haven't yet gotten to the book... Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-205931605365170912014-05-11T10:54:45.687-07:002014-05-11T10:54:45.687-07:00(Bad link)
I wonder how often he ends up in the ...(Bad link) <br /><br />I wonder how often he ends up in the middle of a pileup?juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71137839999694778352014-05-11T10:30:21.467-07:002014-05-11T10:30:21.467-07:00I guess it's good career path for someone who ...I guess it's good career path for someone who can't decide between hurting and flirting with men. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9228839249664766442014-05-11T10:12:59.632-07:002014-05-11T10:12:59.632-07:00With the gang culture, excessive violence, constan...With the gang culture, excessive violence, constant boner pill ads, and the <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&docid=1cEJEg7VP_3s-M&tbnid=EmebHsYZXd8TvM:&ved=0CAIQjBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hollywoodreporter.com%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fimagecache%2Fnews_landscape%2F2014%2F05%2Fmichael_sam.png&ei=p61vU6K8HIe_oQSv94GICQ&bvm=bv.66330100,d.cGU&psig=AFQjCNFNgZprivYxEyZdEC2SKrrL-hAtUA&ust=1399914272262200" rel="nofollow">celebration</a> of sodomy, the NFL is more wholesome than ever. <br /><br />Now when your kid reaches adolescence, you have to explain the birds, the bees, and the Rams.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26458749012029850362014-05-10T05:51:00.060-07:002014-05-10T05:51:00.060-07:00Paul - yes, very humbling. Especially that "s...Paul - yes, very humbling. Especially that "sin no more" part. Oy. <i>mea culpa, mea culpa...</i><br /><br />***<br /><br />Slightly off topic (or is it?)<br /><br />A bit of Saturday morning reading: <a href="http://www.steynonline.com/6326/bringbackourballs" rel="nofollow">Steyn: #BringBackOurBalls</a>juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-82981099212282160692014-05-09T20:47:50.560-07:002014-05-09T20:47:50.560-07:00I have not had much time for active meditation, bu...I have not had much time for active meditation, but I've been marinating in the direction of my earlier thoughts (and some of mushroom's as well) over the course of the day. To wit, some half-baked thoughts that have tumbled out:<br /><br />-Clinical projection still involves a recognition of guilt, but an unwillingness to own it. It is only the first half of the equation.<br /><br />-The difference between the modern concept of scapegoating and the action from whence the term comes is confession. We must own our guilt AND our inability to do anything about it before Christ's death becomes truly meaningful.<br /><br />-I cannot imagine being the designated projectee for just one other person, accepting whatever guilt (and receiving any associated punishment) they decided to project on me without complaint. Bearing every accusation without a word.<br /><br />-If Christ truly died for our sins, "while we were yet sinners," as my namesake tells us in Romans, if our sins are truly what put Him on the tree, then we have all projected our guilt onto Him in the most clinical, unhealthy way possible, whether we realize it or not. He bears it all, whether or not we confess it or identify with Him. How could we not accept His Grace in return? How has our pride become so blinding? What do we have to be proud of?<br /><br />-What has truly struck me viscerally in meditating on this today is the magnitude of this action on His part. I feel positively microscopic, almost terrified... And yet He tells us that if we will confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive and purify us!Paul Griffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11266956202232070017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-946420892102158572014-05-09T13:56:22.146-07:002014-05-09T13:56:22.146-07:00I guess you could call it projection when the high...I guess you could call it projection when the high priest laid his hands on the scapegoat and confessed the sins of the people over it, but it really only works if we <i>identify</i> with the vicarious sufferer. <br /><br />Projection is a defense and dishonest at its root. I identify with Christ because He dies in my place, paying the penalty and freeing me of the burden of guilt that I must honestly recognize and acknowledge that I earned and deserved. There's no gratitude or relief in projection.<br /><br />But that's projection as a technical term. Non-technically it could be roughly equivalent to identification.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-43220426290446253302014-05-09T13:43:45.745-07:002014-05-09T13:43:45.745-07:00Slack for hunter-gatherers -- Amen, you can eat mo...Slack for hunter-gatherers -- Amen, you can eat more calories or you can save the ones you've already consumed. Works either way.<br /><br />Agriculture is the long day bringer, but even farming is seasonal. Not that there's not always plenty to do on the farm, if you're German or something. For us Scot-Irish hillbillies, it'll keep.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29330921730469150342014-05-09T11:34:25.997-07:002014-05-09T11:34:25.997-07:00It is as though, upon seeing a weary, dirty travel...It is as though, upon seeing a weary, dirty traveler, one offered him a bath and a bed, and in response, the traveler were to look down, see his filth, then curse you for covering him with dirt.<br /><br />They speak as though the church put the guilt there. Some people just can't recognize a friend.Paul Griffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11266956202232070017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26557139864462418952014-05-09T11:11:28.404-07:002014-05-09T11:11:28.404-07:00Paul - excellent points. The guilt question really...Paul - excellent points. The guilt question really is an interesting one. You hear a lot of people spouting off about "Catholic guilt," and usually those same people are mocking it as misplaced, superstition-based, etc. Very rarely do they have any idea what they are talking about, and even then they usually speak from a perspective of poor catechesis. But these same people are quick to load an entire group - White Christian Males, or Jews, or whoever the out-group du jour in the victimhood game happens to be - with the burden of all the shame and guilt for everything they imagine is wrong in the world.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67653492981976650752014-05-09T11:00:35.796-07:002014-05-09T11:00:35.796-07:00It's all good. Like the 1950s, but without the...<i>It's all good. Like the 1950s, but without the beatniks.<br /><br />But then something unexpected happens. The text is frustratingly vague as to exactly what it is, but it is possible that it is conflating or reversing cause and effect.</i><br /><br />This time around, I suspect it had a lot to do with "better living through chemistry," in various permutations. Same as it ever was: things were going great, then somebody gets the bright idea to taste the latest iteration of the forbidden fruit, and it all goes downhill from there. Againandagainandagainanda...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84516745359243008362014-05-09T10:58:33.904-07:002014-05-09T10:58:33.904-07:00I have become more and more interested in the ques...I have become more and more interested in the question of guilt and what we do with it of late. It has been a much more fruitful topic of discussion with those who might otherwise revert to cliches and ad hominems. A person may reject religion, authority, even the influence of any one else around them, but will almost certainly have some sort of idea, however twisted, of right and wrong. And they can usually be made aware of their inability to conform to their concept of right and wrong. What do they do with that guilt? <br /><br />I am becoming convinced that most people today outside of the church do not have a coherent answer to this most important of all questions. They have been told that religion is a crock, that they are not really guilty of anything. But the guilt remains (as long as we have any sense of <i>ought</i>, guilt must remain), and their means for its dispersion has been taken from them, so they are left with more primitive mechanisms that only mitigate the problem, and then only temporarily, like projection. <br /><br />Or, thinking out loud now, maybe projection is all we have ever had, because the ultimate end of projection is sacrifice of the projectee and the attempted dispersal of the guilt placed thereupon. So maybe we are not given a new mechanism, but instead a proper Person upon whom to project our guilt. A spotless Lamb, strong enough to bear the guilt and take away the sins of the world...<br /><br />Now I think I will have some serious meditation to do.<br /><br />Have mercy upon us all, indeed.Paul Griffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11266956202232070017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67352234823560600922014-05-09T09:43:06.705-07:002014-05-09T09:43:06.705-07:00Apropos, Lileks on monogamy.Apropos, <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/377497/monogamy-envy-james-lileks" rel="nofollow">Lileks on monogamy</a>.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com