tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post8525814429230373025..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: If Good Times are Bad, What Makes a Lifework Leafing?Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39520401365296529082010-11-16T07:00:22.438-08:002010-11-16T07:00:22.438-08:00(Fall and rise, fall and rise, olden pneumagain, s...<i>(Fall and rise, fall and rise, olden pneumagain, same old same old, to break from the infertile eggheads you've got to om a lot -- in your own way, of course.)</i><br /><br />Eggsaxly!Mizz Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02325435271880036807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41383994327187873752010-11-15T17:59:19.737-08:002010-11-15T17:59:19.737-08:00Irony and paradox are the crux, the irreducible, h...Irony and paradox are the crux, the irreducible, humanly speaking, core of every issue. Why must we always try to factor it out to one side of the polarity? Every postulation begets it's counterpart, perpetuating the dialectic of "this, not that...no, that, not this, otoh...". It's The Message, already. Let it be. Human predicament, nailed to a wooden cross (hat tip to Leonard Cohen), offers the straight and narrow Way out, just like the uterine way in. We either take it consciously, unconsciously or stay put holding our breath till we turn blue like a 2 year old or a stillborn, and pass out. Either way, don't we get processed?Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10245302282566974627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66460073454012367502010-11-15T11:51:48.164-08:002010-11-15T11:51:48.164-08:00"the loss of transcendence leads to the fligh..."the loss of transcendence leads to the flight to utopia." <br /><br />And for those who think that can be brought off without a Hitch, it seems as if it needs to be repeated, and <i>still</i> you will be left with the loss of transcendence.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-80064018318459364832010-11-15T10:31:59.516-08:002010-11-15T10:31:59.516-08:00Every political program's got a bit -- or more...<i>Every political program's got a bit -- or more than a bit -- of its opposite, so don't get all excited when one end of the sleazesaw is up.</i><br /><br />Today's example: <a href="http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2010/11/assuming_that_e.html" rel="nofollow">Why violent people are inclined to be anti-gun activists</a>juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46007559359138435092010-11-15T09:29:58.660-08:002010-11-15T09:29:58.660-08:00In the book, Murray attempts to quantify the great...<i>In the book, Murray attempts to quantify the great things humans have accomplished, but it seems that for every achievement there is an equal and opposite monument to our depravity.</i><br /><br />This because any knowledge, any creation, any idea and its execution, are only as good as the people who make use of them. Thus medical advances may make it easier to kill or die, and charity - or perhaps I should say "charity" - may bring about more human misery than pure selfishness could ever cause.<br /><br />Speaking of lost elections, Arizona narrowly approved medical marijuana after all. On the day of the elections it looked like it would lose. Looks like we lost, instead.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20438558363096917142010-11-15T08:18:55.228-08:002010-11-15T08:18:55.228-08:00See? We actually lost the election.See? We actually <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/i-think-we-lost-election_516690.html?nopager=1" rel="nofollow">lost</a> the election.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.com