tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post8554943738743995069..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Ben Carson and the God of SlackGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-77760418344484658982015-09-23T04:58:37.565-07:002015-09-23T04:58:37.565-07:00"There's more than enough room for everyo..."There's more than enough room for everyone, at present about 2.3 acres of inhabitable land for every person on earth."<br /><br />OMGZ! Peak acerage!Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-81903186332421697482015-09-22T16:19:26.327-07:002015-09-22T16:19:26.327-07:00Predestination is not only wrong, but anti-Christi...<i>Predestination is not only wrong, but anti-Christian to the core, because it leaves no space for human freedom. Indeed, to affirm predestination is to say that there is no distinction between Creator and creature. It is literally as if there is no creation, since the creation is just an extension of God.</i><br /><br />If one had not been pounded with the doctrine of predestination all one's life, why the soul of one would just naturally leap upward in aHA! recognition of so obvious a point. It rings, it does. It wakes the sleeper to rise up and slack.Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-21332163844186752232015-09-22T14:17:05.742-07:002015-09-22T14:17:05.742-07:00[rats - trying again...]
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That would be s...[rats - trying again...]<br /><br />( ゚ Д゚)<br /><br />That would be so, so wrong...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-68369181220764424482015-09-22T14:14:29.628-07:002015-09-22T14:14:29.628-07:00����juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-238829268722318412015-09-22T14:05:24.929-07:002015-09-22T14:05:24.929-07:00As long as he doesn't think a pumpkin Eucharis...As long as he doesn't think a pumpkin Eucharist would be good idea, we might be OK.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41553782448557506702015-09-22T13:54:30.326-07:002015-09-22T13:54:30.326-07:00Which is a wild idea: in the same space there is r...<i>Which is a wild idea: in the same space there is room for the ultimate-universal and for the individual-particular.</i><br /><br />Just wanted to see it again.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65590906148109422662015-09-22T12:43:57.013-07:002015-09-22T12:43:57.013-07:00What I was kind of getting at is that I think it i...What I was kind of getting at is that I think it is incumbent upon all of us to subject them to as much ridicule as their sophistry warrants. <br /><br />And that's a lot of what seems to have been working for Trump, making him like the monster that just gets stronger the more you shoot it. He seems to have gotten inside the OODA loop of the political correctness machine. With a little luck, their whole neo-puritanical system may just come crashing down right quick.mainemannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71311153669837776232015-09-22T11:37:40.889-07:002015-09-22T11:37:40.889-07:00One of the things I've learned from this place...One of the things I've learned from this place is to try to see the absolute from which the relative derives. It occurred to me last week that the absolute version of equality is absolute zero, which helps explain why the left is always on the side of totalitarianism. And opposed to Christianity, which is essentially a celebration of life (Chesterton again).<br /><br />Speaking tangentially of which, I wrote my email to Angus the King last night about some kind of abortion bill (something about not killing them if they can scream in pain) that is supposed to come up for something in Washington today. I said something like, "You responded to my wife's email by saying that you want abortion to be safe, legal, and rare. I thought that I should let you know that there is no safe way to dismember a baby, whether or not for purposes of eventual sale of the parts."mainemannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37660406918981685892015-09-22T11:18:56.032-07:002015-09-22T11:18:56.032-07:00Ha - if only the magic of pumpkin spice or caramel...Ha - if only the magic of pumpkin spice or caramel apple Oreos could have that effect!juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5868086304039497752015-09-22T11:05:39.962-07:002015-09-22T11:05:39.962-07:00Good news from the Vatican.<a href="http://www.theonion.com/article/pope-francis-reverses-position-capitalism-after-se-51363" rel="nofollow">Good news</a> from the Vatican.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54784093524174855282015-09-22T10:43:50.186-07:002015-09-22T10:43:50.186-07:00"But "the Christian tradition holds just..."But "the Christian tradition holds just the opposite." This is how Jesus can be man and God, without the one overwhelming or displacing the other. Somehow there's room for both! Which is a wild idea: in the same space there is room for the ultimate-universal and for the individual-particular."<br /><br />Two in One = Trinity<br />Spiritual Mythmatics.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8687829904426584002015-09-22T09:55:13.939-07:002015-09-22T09:55:13.939-07:00I can't help thinking of poor Pope Francis, wh...<i>I can't help thinking of poor Pope Francis, who seems to have a rather narrow and cramped view of God's creation -- as if there isn't enough of it for everyone!</i><br /><br />Someone (possibly David Warren, but I can't find the bit right now) observed the other day that if poverty is such a holy state, helping the poor to have a higher standard of living is actually doing them harm.<br /><br /><i>In short, "the creature whom [God] has caused to be, he now lets be." That's cosmic slack, baby, and without it, life is scarcely worth creating.</i><br /><br />Amen.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-25674757534537948562015-09-22T09:38:19.760-07:002015-09-22T09:38:19.760-07:00At present Ben Carson is undergoing his Ritual Hum...<i>At present Ben Carson is undergoing his Ritual Humiliation by the left for adverting to this elementary truth.</i><br /><br />One of the reasons Trump is so far ahead right now is his refusal to apologize to the Left for expressing Wrongthink. Or for pretty much anything, really. I would love to see more people follow that example - not that the world needs more Trumps, but rather that the world needs more people who are willing to state the truth and refuse to grovel when the harpies of perpetual offendedness descend to tear them apart for uttering hatefacts.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com