tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post9173039284152764039..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: We Are All Christians NowGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70881482535681154722009-08-05T16:45:03.975-07:002009-08-05T16:45:03.975-07:00Anonymous said...
I’d think the trick is to annih...Anonymous said... <br />I’d think the trick is to annihilate the sociopathy without getting rid of the liberty.<br /><br />I cooncur. In the meantime, we oughtta question their empathy, or their particular definition of empathy (because true empathy includes liberty and freedom).USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8214007109858245662009-08-05T16:10:25.564-07:002009-08-05T16:10:25.564-07:00I’d think the trick is to annihilate the sociopath...I’d think the trick is to annihilate the sociopathy without getting rid of the liberty.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51689828366314942062009-08-05T15:03:58.646-07:002009-08-05T15:03:58.646-07:00"And this is also exactly where libertarianis..."And this is also exactly where libertarianism fails - where you wind up with unempathetic nutjobs running everything, except for government of course."<br /><br />Most politicians might very well be empathetic...towards their own ideology, BUTT...when that "empathy" believes it's okay to annihilate liberty...our liberty, then it's not a redeeming factor by any stretch of the word, but one we should never want.Doc Skullynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3070193881035234252009-08-05T14:58:20.335-07:002009-08-05T14:58:20.335-07:00This is a fascinating train you're conducting ...This is a fascinating train you're conducting here, Bob.<br />Entering gnu (gnew?) territory...for me anyway.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-43730016816374499372009-08-05T13:49:29.298-07:002009-08-05T13:49:29.298-07:00This has got to be some kind of first -- an actual...<i>This has got to be some kind of first -- an actually useful article in Psychology Today: Why Most Journalists Are Democrats.</i><br /><br />Her point about journalistic neurocircuitry makes sense. If these types were more interested in making money, they’d most likely be attorneys. <br /><br />What’s intriguing though, is how Ms. Oakley mentions psychopathy/sociopathy, yet appears to miss the concept that people whose methods are not constrained by any morality and who are also expert chameleons (such as the intelligent psychopath) are always best equipped to take control of any institution which will have them. <br /><br />Corporations, unions, the media, the USSR, churches... are all susceptible to the crafty megalomaniac. <br /><br />So how does she propose checking and balancing those with dysfunctional drive for power neurocircuitry? She doesn’t. And this is also exactly where libertarianism fails - where you wind up with unempathetic nutjobs running everything, except for government of course.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-68905611092453272922009-08-05T09:05:29.478-07:002009-08-05T09:05:29.478-07:00"A course in manacles."
That's a ke..."A course in manacles."<br /><br />That's a keeper.sehoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00398831051769112602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-80357672171483667342009-08-05T07:55:53.334-07:002009-08-05T07:55:53.334-07:00Who you callin' a monkey?Who you callin' a monkey?Concerned Scientistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8167544480665657282009-08-04T20:44:47.735-07:002009-08-04T20:44:47.735-07:00"Excellent! Science is catching up to the Rac..."Excellent! Science is catching up to the Raccoons."<br /><br />Studies show, given enough time, typewriters and scientists...Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-61912907019813493032009-08-04T20:07:03.411-07:002009-08-04T20:07:03.411-07:00Up here we call it a course in manacles.Up here we call it a course in manacles.Peteynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65106944418665091192009-08-04T19:52:58.348-07:002009-08-04T19:52:58.348-07:00"It might be a good idea to read A Course in ..."It might be a good idea to read A Course in Miracles."<br /><br />...if you like being deceived by demons.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-69489091960549505432009-08-04T18:18:01.095-07:002009-08-04T18:18:01.095-07:00Here's her book on amazon.Here's her <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Philosophical-Baby-Children-Minds-Meaning/dp/0374231966/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1249434949&sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">book</a> on amazon.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66446492723092650452009-08-04T18:15:22.249-07:002009-08-04T18:15:22.249-07:00Excellent! Science is catching up to the Raccoons...Excellent! Science is catching up to the Raccoons.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65055777255486622582009-08-04T17:55:26.183-07:002009-08-04T17:55:26.183-07:00Speaking of scientific articles, you may want to g...Speaking of scientific articles, you may want to glance at this one from New Scientist:<br /><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327191.700-from-butterfly-to-caterpillar-how-children-grow-up.html" rel="nofollow">From butterfly to caterpillar: How children grow up</a>.<br />It suffers from the mandatory "must find a species that does the same thing", but since the best match is crows, it probably won't shake anyone here to the core...<br />The idea that what made us human was not the evolutionary pressure of hunting but the "division of labor" between children and adults, sounds eerily familiar...Magnus Itlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445902788427523461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-40869339957633550262009-08-04T16:47:11.771-07:002009-08-04T16:47:11.771-07:00Hm. Spengler has an interesting idea, for those wh...Hm. <a href="http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/spengler/2009/08/04/heres-a-project-for-all-of-us-altered-prayers/" rel="nofollow">Spengler</a> has an interesting idea, for those who regularly go to church: "Let the scoundrels know that vigilantes for orthodoxy are watching them."<br /><br />Sounds like there may be more examples of "intelligent people falling into the collective delusion that what they are doing is the right thing." I wonder what kind of response he'll get?juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29634224023992218552009-08-04T15:08:00.375-07:002009-08-04T15:08:00.375-07:00"But, having worked among the Soviets, I know..."But, having worked among the Soviets, I know that large groups of very intelligent people can fall into a collective delusion that what they are doing in certain areas is the right thing, when it's actually not the right thing at all."<br /><br />I mean seriously though, somebody MUST have hijacked Psychology Today...<br /><br />What's next, a reflective Queeg? A humble and decent Maher?<br /><br />The Mayans were right!Northern Banditnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48215737360869709782009-08-04T15:00:26.290-07:002009-08-04T15:00:26.290-07:00I noticed that Psych Today article in the bytestre...I noticed that Psych Today article in the bytestream this morning, but I thought it had to be a mirage or the product of a poltergeist.<br /><br />It seems real though...Northern Banditnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2428132894236626212009-08-04T14:43:53.900-07:002009-08-04T14:43:53.900-07:00It might be a good idea to read A Course in Miracl...It might be a good idea to read A Course in Miracles. Then understanding might come. I think you've already read the Spiritual Basis of Liberty:<br />http://spirituallibertarian.blogspot.com/Christian Prophethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10020964652943679070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29631170636183731882009-08-04T14:27:49.406-07:002009-08-04T14:27:49.406-07:00This has got to be some kind of first -- an actual...This has got to be some kind of first -- an actually useful article in Psychology Today: <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/scalliwag/200908/why-most-journalists-are-democrats-view-the-soviet-socialist-trenches" rel="nofollow">Why Most Journalists Are Democrats</a>.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-80336380634024866012009-08-04T14:27:01.143-07:002009-08-04T14:27:01.143-07:00To be honest, today's post was beyond me, exce...To be honest, today's post was beyond me, except in so far as it aligned perfectly with my view of the universe as a multidimensional membrane between the void (negative nothingness) and godhead (positive no-thing-ness), with a layered structure or rather gradient with content of realness higher the closer you come to the positive pole.<br /><br />In truth, I cannot even imagine the worlds closest to the poles. I know that those who withdraw toward the Void get a temporary feeling of being more real, due to the thinning of reality around them, but eventually this path cause us to lose substance as we move, kind of like a snail. There is an ocean of chaos and madness in that direction and I know of no one who has come further than that.<br /><br />In the other direction is an increased "density of reality", and increased sanity, not a comfortable thing at first. Things grow ever more durable and unyielding. There are causes of things we only knew as effects. Myths, archetypes and ideas. But the distance from Mundania to the pole is also there beyond my comprehension.<br /><br />Maximus, John Scotus or even von Balthasar... it is like they have traveled around the globe, where I have only watched the masts of a ship disappear slowly under the horizon and realized from this that yes, the world is round.<br /><br />But round it is, anyway.Magnus Itlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445902788427523461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-16907839806215653172009-08-04T14:26:20.889-07:002009-08-04T14:26:20.889-07:00Then buy my book and read the previous 1,244 posts...Then buy my book and read the previous 1,244 posts.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-43006017690905511862009-08-04T14:10:11.759-07:002009-08-04T14:10:11.759-07:00Let us say that what you write is correct and true...Let us say that what you write is correct and true...then what?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65894571761423366692009-08-04T12:03:35.235-07:002009-08-04T12:03:35.235-07:00and call it O
Obama....Obama....Obama....Obama......<i>and call it O</i><br /><br />Obama....Obama....Obama....Obama....!<br /><br />Wait, not what you meant. Sorry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-24521387515543556882009-08-04T12:03:13.492-07:002009-08-04T12:03:13.492-07:00My mistake; I hadn't seen the debunking, just ...My mistake; I hadn't seen the debunking, just Avrech's commentary. Thanks for the clarification, QP.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54902046096187404782009-08-04T11:38:43.124-07:002009-08-04T11:38:43.124-07:00Re: Hamas Mass Wedding
I first saw that story on...Re: Hamas Mass Wedding<br /><br />I first saw that story on Jihad Watch that linked to an AFP report and <a href="http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2009/07/hamas-sponsors-mass-wedding-for-little.html" rel="nofollow">this blog post.</a> Given the lack of clear cut evidence that the little girls in white were in fact the brides and not just flower girls, Robert Spencer removed the post at JW.<br /><br />In this Aug. 2nd <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYmtaXQHEtw" rel="nofollow">AlJazerraEnglish video</a>, you can see the 225 brides all seated together wearing black & green.<br /><br />This <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4727291.stm" rel="nofollow">BBC story</a> also has a photo of the brides. "Hamas frowns on brides wearing white". <br /><br />Of course we all know that arranged marriages between adult males and young girls in muslim dominated lands is not uncommon, just not this time.QPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15827536245376441948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9135680657147398572009-08-04T11:37:53.475-07:002009-08-04T11:37:53.475-07:00Or as Abdul would say (translating my previous com...Or as Abdul would say (translating my previous comment to German->Portuguese -> Japanese and back into English<br /><br /><i>My God! <br /><br />In order to save valuable time and receive the HTML, I can help the rest of the comments for this article, I pretended like I was in line in the line of the email, yes I disappeared repasted! Framework, you must let go.</i><br /><br />(isn't this citizen of the world stuff great? I feel like I've just communicated with all the worlds beings!)<br /><br />sheesh.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.com