tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post849912901577958254..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Icons, Con Men, Misplaced Concrete, and Absolute CondescensionGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-10608826316582384422009-05-05T11:29:00.000-07:002009-05-05T11:29:00.000-07:00I think ge's a lady.I think ge's a lady.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9025226425546598212009-05-05T07:00:00.000-07:002009-05-05T07:00:00.000-07:00Hearkening back to Sunday's original topic is this...Hearkening back to Sunday's original topic is this observation at <A HREF="http://mkfreeberg.webloggin.com/liberal-arrogance/" REL="nofollow">House of Eratosthenes</A>.<br /><br />Also, one of the best wv's ever: ashaticjuliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50413341566858626892009-05-04T22:41:00.000-07:002009-05-04T22:41:00.000-07:00Speaking of Icons.
ge wins avatar of the day.Speaking of Icons.<br />ge wins avatar of the day.hoarheynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1855245239069435552009-05-04T21:29:00.000-07:002009-05-04T21:29:00.000-07:00Anon. 8:23,
Was too moi, still want the CD.
Julie...Anon. 8:23,<br /><br />Was too moi, still want the CD.<br />Julie?<br /><br />TheofiliaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51847705719376863982009-05-04T20:46:00.000-07:002009-05-04T20:46:00.000-07:00Since you asked anon, I don't have a tape player e...Since you asked anon, I don't have a tape player either. Both second hand CD player and the tape player, killed over long ago. I don't have a budget to replace 'em.<br />I do have 1 clock radio which works ok. The other, that's in the kitchen is full of static and on its last leg.<br /><br />TheofiliaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-24198664102996316752009-05-04T20:29:00.000-07:002009-05-04T20:29:00.000-07:00So what is it you do have, Theofamilia et al? A re...So what is it you do have, Theofamilia et al? A record player? A cassette deck? A ukelele?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-11371012404514780082009-05-04T20:25:00.000-07:002009-05-04T20:25:00.000-07:00Forgot to add, this Theofilia doesn't have a CD pl...Forgot to add, this Theofilia doesn't have a CD player.<br /><br />TheofiliaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-16025721458421893732009-05-04T20:23:00.000-07:002009-05-04T20:23:00.000-07:00Theofilia 5:30 and Theofilia 5:55 posts? = was no...Theofilia 5:30 and Theofilia 5:55 posts? = was not this moi!<br /><br />TheofiliaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87589453469092755372009-05-04T19:21:00.000-07:002009-05-04T19:21:00.000-07:00In honor of recent troll "Anonymous", I immodestl...In honor of recent troll "Anonymous", I immodestly bring my troll poem out of mothballs.<br /><br />THE TROLL PRIMEVAL <br /><br />trolls come and go<br />like days of sun and days of snow -<br /><br />one pictures them as tiny things<br />with crooked backs and insect wings - <br /><br />and eyes that roll like a drunkard's moon,<br />and florid breath, aye, one could swoon - <br /><br />from whence they come? well, no one knows,<br />but a school of thought says: from Black Holes!<br /><br />with their clamminess and dark thought ramble-ly,<br />some think they're of the mushroom family,<br /><br />that they grow in forests where the sun is nil<br />and sprout small legs eventually, but still<br /><br />others think that their rife debasement<br />means they were conjured in some voodoo basement - <br /><br />each theory has merits I must entertain<br />for as we have noticed, as they appear yet again,<br /><br />all of them, down to the last nutter<br />is as though designed by cookie-cutter:<br /><br />the garbling, the syntax, the fever of brain . . . <br />the notions themselves - they're all the same!<br /><br />what if - no, it cannot be - <br />yet they bend the mind towards conspiracy<br /><br />most foul and thoughts all undone<br />for what if there's not many a troll . . but one!<br /><br />Aye, one massive troll, always in flux,<br />the size of one of those Monster Rally Trucks - <br /><br />let's say it lives in the death valley gloom,<br />because, c'mon, who's going to rent it a room?<br /><br />it's got glowing red eyes and giggles a lot<br />as it squats huge over its cowering lap top<br /><br />as it posts its dribble and nonsensical spume<br />under one of many a nom d' plume,<br /><br />be it "Raymond” or "Anonymous", the dithering fuss<br />(yes, when the troll is drunk, it's default "anonymous")<br /><br />and when the troll shifts buttocks on the dried up rivers,<br />somewhere a Richter needle shivers - <br /><br />all right, OK, this is only a guess - <br />perhaps I need an aspirin and a good eve of rest - <br /><br />but when the hour is wee and the lights dim,<br />and your thoughts begin to churn grim,<br /><br />you'll wonder if the fluttering leaves<br />aren't really fat massive fingers working the keys - <br /><br />but enough! you all have your own memes - <br />goodnite, sleep well - and oh yes - sweet dreams! <br /><br />wmwillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23079932237969875412009-05-04T19:13:00.000-07:002009-05-04T19:13:00.000-07:00Furthermore,
'Being in encounter is being in the o...Furthermore,<br /><I>'Being in encounter is being in the openness of the one to the other and for the other'</I>juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59998796460247136292009-05-04T19:11:00.000-07:002009-05-04T19:11:00.000-07:00Ricky, and speaking of seeing, just came across th...Ricky, and speaking of seeing, just came across this in <I>Seeing the Form</I>:<br /><br /><I>We see the Thou with real bodily eyes, and indeed not as a thing but in all its exceptionalness and particularity as person in the midst of the cosmos...The fundamental human sense of the eye and its act of seeing is precisely the fact that this happens thus, that this 'other' becomes visible to oneself and is seen by one as person. All seeing is inhuman if it does not comprise this kind of seeing. 'But this is only the one half. When one looks the other in the eye, it takes place automatically that he lets the other look him in the eye:... that man </I>himself<I> should be visible to the other person'</I>juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89730994966697471862009-05-04T18:48:00.000-07:002009-05-04T18:48:00.000-07:00Bob: 'No one can see the ground, i.e., the Father....Bob: 'No one can see the ground, i.e., the Father. But we can see his icon, his own unveiling, or appearance, the Sun. And ultimately, the two are "not two."'<br />[ge changed one letter]gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67551837253546311282009-05-04T18:27:00.000-07:002009-05-04T18:27:00.000-07:00Julie,
The music on the “sheet music” site is incr...Julie,<br />The music on the “sheet music” site is incredible. Thank you.<br /><br />RE scifi, looking forward to a couple movies coming this summer: “Moon” and “District 9”.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-42857201350796331652009-05-04T18:05:00.000-07:002009-05-04T18:05:00.000-07:00Hearkening back to this weekend's comments, guess ...Hearkening back to this weekend's comments, guess what's <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/They-Live-Roddy-Piper/dp/B0000AOX0F/ref=br_lf_m_1000350001_2_56_ttl?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&s=dvd&pf_rd_p=474037611&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_i=1000350001&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=02K19E7WCN4JZ87CAGCJ" REL="nofollow">on sale</A> at Amazon right now, along with a ton of other <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&plgroup=1&docId=1000350001&plpage=1" REL="nofollow">Sci Fi</A> stuff?juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39223352698802659122009-05-04T18:03:00.000-07:002009-05-04T18:03:00.000-07:00“..which touches on how Jesus can simultaneously b...“..which touches on how Jesus can simultaneously be God's icon of man and man's icon of God.”<br /><br />Jesus is often referred to as “the Son of Man”, perhaps as often as he is as “the Son of God”. I say this is no accident, that it is for a meaning similar to what you may be suggesting, Bob. So that “… ultimately, the two are "not two"” and to indicate the perspective from where he is “facing” – facing toward God or toward man, or facing from God or from man.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15199460363078498272009-05-04T17:55:00.000-07:002009-05-04T17:55:00.000-07:00Julie?.............
TheofiliaJulie?.............<br /><br />TheofiliaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-42685167068895630892009-05-04T17:54:00.000-07:002009-05-04T17:54:00.000-07:00:D
The Herb Alpert collector's can? Hilarious and ...:D<br />The Herb Alpert collector's can? Hilarious and awesome.<br /><br />In other news, today's <A HREF="http://www.freep.com/article/20090503/COL28/905030325/?imw=Y" REL="nofollow">schadenfreude</A>.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67507944630849278452009-05-04T17:42:00.000-07:002009-05-04T17:42:00.000-07:00Given the grammatical errors, I'm guessing it's th...Given the grammatical errors, I'm guessing it's the Makers...Fritznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84831724004620233052009-05-04T17:41:00.000-07:002009-05-04T17:41:00.000-07:00Me?!? Offended?!?
Sputter, cough, choke. HARRU...Me?!? Offended?!? <br /><br />Sputter, cough, choke. HARRUMPHH!!<br /><br />Inner leftist (mind parasite)trying to emerge. <br /><br />Hope. Change. We are the ones we have been waiting for. <br /><br />AAARGGHHH!!<br /><br />Ah. There. Much better now.<br /><br />Hope you all are well. Be sure and stay in touch with that inner whatever. Remember that you are not what you can perceive.Corynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7074768132348037672009-05-04T17:40:00.000-07:002009-05-04T17:40:00.000-07:00Thanks for the sober and direct response, G.B.
...Thanks for the sober and direct response, G.B. <br /><br />I was gonna say something about death and rebirth and how perhaps there is no hope for this world after all -- that it must die in order to make way for the New Jerusalem and whatnot.<br /><br />But then I remembered that if Abraham found just 10 holy men in all of Sodom and Gomorrah, God would have spared the entire city. And of course there is Noahide covenant. <br /><br />I am firmly in the evolution camp, with the important caveat that the world, like man, cannot save itself, but will be redeemed by God.<br /><br />P.S. Here's another metaphyical stumper. Was man was created fallen or not? Given our intrinsically relative and derivative nature, and our necessary distance from the Absolute, is our "Fallenness" at all escapable? Or were we explitly created to "Fall" aeay form the Center so we could return there? Or is our Fallen nature something entirely different, in the sense that we fall from a "pure" relatively to an "impure" relatively? Get what I'm saying or is it the double Makers talking?Fritznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2129053355829316632009-05-04T17:37:00.000-07:002009-05-04T17:37:00.000-07:00Well, thanks, Van -
But let this stranger pass ....Well, thanks, Van - <br /><br />But let this stranger pass . . what? A kidney stone? A hairball? A bowling ball?willnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45912494601643159102009-05-04T17:30:00.001-07:002009-05-04T17:30:00.001-07:00Julie,
I'll take one of those free CDs :)
Shoot m...Julie,<br /><br />I'll take one of those free CDs :)<br />Shoot me an e-mail, I'll give you my addy, eh?<br /><br />TheofiliaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-83009287092143049242009-05-04T17:30:00.000-07:002009-05-04T17:30:00.000-07:00“It offers itself to us in such a way that it alwa...“It offers itself to us in such a way that it always points back to its source, at least if we look at it in the proper way.”<br /><br />Tomberg has this to say:<br /><br />“With all perceiving there has to be the possibility of a projection of the object into the subject, and simultaneously a projection of the subject out into the object. The eye is not merely the receiver of light-permeated impressions, it also rays forth light itself…it “speaks” at the same time as it perceives. The eyes, and the senses altogether, represent the concrete reflection of the cosmic principle of cognition…”<br /><br />And…<br /><br />“As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”<br />- JesusRickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-19192943362240113992009-05-04T17:27:00.001-07:002009-05-04T17:27:00.001-07:00BTW, concerning the obsession over my gramatical a...BTW, concerning the obsession over my gramatical and spelling errors, that's why I hire editors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-19891476623584709932009-05-04T17:27:00.000-07:002009-05-04T17:27:00.000-07:00Will,
yes, I'm in a choir. We performed that piece...Will,<br />yes, I'm in a <A HREF="http://www.sonorandesertchorale.org/" REL="nofollow">choir</A>. We performed that piece on Saturday and Sunday. Also had a guest conductor on Saturday who works as a Chief Engineer at Boeing's Apache Helicopter factory; when he came onstage, he put on an old leather flying cap and a white scarf, and joked that he'd do better holding the baton like a joystick. Good times :)<br /><br />If you ever want a free cd of my personal favorites, send me an email.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com