tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post9118587735728542323..comments2024-03-28T18:48:41.469-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Title IX, Benedict XVI, and the Absolution of Liberal GuiltGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-17423097177219774282013-02-16T17:46:50.603-08:002013-02-16T17:46:50.603-08:00[T]he duel between Christianity and atheism is the...<i>[T]he duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world.... the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.</i> --WFB<br /><br />Is a Truth loving Athiest just what River said at one time? <br />A Thiest in Truth?Dougmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08468871451814828157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3833067998465562252013-02-16T17:44:06.033-08:002013-02-16T17:44:06.033-08:00Excellent post.
Like the water pulled out of the ...Excellent post. <br />Like the water pulled out of the cleanest, coolest well, to pour over the spirit and detoxify the soul.<br /><br />Ewe have a whey with words, coon!Dougmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08468871451814828157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66890576811301414422013-02-12T06:59:09.153-08:002013-02-12T06:59:09.153-08:00Epistemological beatings will continue until moral...Epistemological beatings will continue until morality unglues.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-78160400246909458302013-02-11T20:19:41.378-08:002013-02-11T20:19:41.378-08:00Mushroom writes:
Lowerarchy, that's a goo...Mushroom writes:<br /><br /> <i>Lowerarchy, that's a good word.</i><br /><br />IIRC, C.S. Lewis used it to good effect in <i>The Screwtape Letters</i>.<br /><br />I really should dig my copy out of the piles of stuph around here.....Hale Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04444321234572718061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-78482182724862207932013-02-11T19:00:00.591-08:002013-02-11T19:00:00.591-08:00Self-styled victims of white males are at the top ...Self-styled victims of white males are at the top of the lowrarchy. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1216139931885205582013-02-11T18:52:17.966-08:002013-02-11T18:52:17.966-08:00Lowerarchy, that's a good word.Lowerarchy, that's a good word.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85486614337389377922013-02-11T14:05:03.886-08:002013-02-11T14:05:03.886-08:00Oh, and congrats to FL on his first reconciliation...Oh, and congrats to FL on his first reconciliation!juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14506786561178061562013-02-11T13:56:44.169-08:002013-02-11T13:56:44.169-08:00Oh, lord, the NO phase. We just started that in ea...Oh, lord, the NO phase. We just started that in earnest a week or two ago. I can't wait until it passes; he gets so worked up saying "no" that he forgets there are alternatives, such as just telling me what he wants.<br /><br />To the point of hierarchies and cultural delusions, one of the things that occurred to me last week after seeing that appalling Mickey show was that even though they were trying, in a sense, to abolish hierarchy by forbidding winners and forcing everybody to travel at the pace of the slowest people in the group regardless of ability, there was still a hierarchy. Still leaders deciding how best to order the group, and importantly - maybe even <i>most</i> importantly, still an outcast being punished for the sin of trying to rise higher in the hierarchy. The lowerarch, as it were, there to establish that in leftist world, while nobody may be higher than the group, someone can always be lower. Much, much lower.<br /><br />In Mickey land, of course, he's simply made to see the light and brought back into line. But in the real world, it's always been much easier in such systems just to kill off the ones who don't play along.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-28765385617080418592013-02-11T12:40:08.601-08:002013-02-11T12:40:08.601-08:00they will begin to turn on each other, of course; ...they will begin to turn on each other, of course; few are fully postmodern but are moderns courting post-modernism. I think to note the unpopularity of Sartre in France today (for instance) shows that Modernism continues with a facade of Postmodernism. And if what I've said is true, the universal belief that underpins Modern Liberalism can sort of shoehorn itself into multiculturalism at least visually. But when push comes to shove it still raises taxes, believes in self-evident universal human rights, its own pedigree to rule, and the reality of utopian possibility. So at some point those who are slightly more postmodern will begin to polarize (Maher is an example, if you've seen recent news) and begin fighting their Modern Liberal masters. Like Obama, the elites understand 'Rules for Radicals' and use / abuse these techniques as much as they are useful to their own gain, but discard the anarchic designs and revolutionary ideas. Instead, they keep believing what they've always believed; they're right, everyone else is wrong, and that they are the future of the world as soon as they get the power to make it real.<br /><br />It would seem that critique is an acid, and postmodernism is an ulcer. And we all know how that goes.Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-33823921612836483912013-02-11T12:28:13.645-08:002013-02-11T12:28:13.645-08:00It's common for narcissists to know all about ...It's common for narcissists to know all about what they hate, but they never say what they do like or believe in. It would make them too vulnerable, among other problems. Bill Maher would be a textbook case -- a kind of mindless and absolute narcissistic cynicism that dissolves everything in its path. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67867323464782791462013-02-11T12:13:31.390-08:002013-02-11T12:13:31.390-08:00Feel free to ignore my horrible use of commas... m...Feel free to ignore my horrible use of commas... merciful God.Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85926058866349238482013-02-11T12:11:49.498-08:002013-02-11T12:11:49.498-08:00Exactly, lol. So it's like Marxism; it's j...Exactly, lol. So it's like Marxism; it's just a mental space of questioning and critique that is weak and empty, waiting for something strong to come and take it over, like Stalinism or internet porn.Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44119735765460425052013-02-11T11:58:08.416-08:002013-02-11T11:58:08.416-08:00Reminds me of Yelverton, who has never had an orig...Reminds me of Yelverton, who has never had an original thought in his life, so he compensates by way of coming here and yelling NO at mine. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30926285732338970092013-02-11T11:52:13.768-08:002013-02-11T11:52:13.768-08:00In which case it is a narcissistic developmental a...In which case it is a narcissistic developmental arrest rooted in the two-year year old's ability to say NO! It's appropriate at that age, when one is trying to sort out boundaries and agency. The rest of us move on. <br /><br />Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71094376112356143812013-02-11T11:46:57.713-08:002013-02-11T11:46:57.713-08:00Bob, my bro and I were discussing this and I think...Bob, my bro and I were discussing this and I think I understand what's going on with Postmodernism vis a vis authority; it reconfigures the word Authority to imply positive or 'cataphatic' expression or assertion (as opposed to being neutral to positive or negative affirmations) and then can 'reject' Authority authoritatively. This is because as long as the authority is negative or critical it is 'anti-authority' (in this lexicon) and thus not subject to categorical invalidation. Note; this doesn't seem to mean that it isn't subject to critique -- but this is not a big deal, all things are critiqued, but that which is invalid is not just critiqued but invalidated or worse, demonized. <br /><br />So there is authority and absolute concepts, so long as they are negative in character, following the coward's axiom of philosophy: it is much harder to prove 'For All X, Y' than its negation.Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-73475803324746432892013-02-11T11:02:40.525-08:002013-02-11T11:02:40.525-08:00Also, criminals and psychopaths are known to have ...Also, criminals and psychopaths are known to have unusually high self esteem. But enough about Obama.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86695070167631692312013-02-11T11:01:24.907-08:002013-02-11T11:01:24.907-08:00... delusionally high self esteem ...
Isn't o...<i>... delusionally high self esteem ...</i><br /><br />Isn't one of the bad consequences of inflated self-esteem that such a person rarely does anything that has a chance of lowering that estimation? <br /><br />I wonder if that isn't part of the reason people are tending to disengage from rational discussions and resort to just calling the other side "evil".mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4355056574613098272013-02-11T10:34:42.274-08:002013-02-11T10:34:42.274-08:00Knish in same attractor:
"The advancement of...<a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-unverifiable-world.html" rel="nofollow">Knish</a> in same attractor:<br /><br />"The advancement of civilization depended on developing methods of sorting ideas based on objective standards while the program of the left has been the politicization of objectivity. Without standards there is no way to agree on anything without resorting to force. This force does not necessarily have to be physical, it can simply mean seizing control of enough institutions to distribute a manufactured consensus to everyone under the control of those institutions.<br /><br />"...No legitimate consensus can be achieved through this method, only the perpetuation of a cultural war fought between those who control the institutions and those who do not. This war is not really about the truth, because no argument can ever be settled when the tools to settle an argument are no longer a part of our politicized institutions; it's always about control. "<br /><br />Great essay. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15376610426289164222013-02-11T10:08:23.661-08:002013-02-11T10:08:23.661-08:00"Rather, he can only be the channel for such...."Rather, he can only be the <i>channel</i> for such. Unless you don't believe in hierarchy, in which case every man is not just his own priest, but his own deity."<br /><br />Indude. I thought Fr Barron provided a good and baseballsie analog for the Pope as Umpire. In this roll the Umpire allows the <i>flow</i> of the game to continue, rather than constipation set innings during a spin cycle of constant dispewtes.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.com