tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post9186626767318700861..comments2024-03-29T06:03:45.545-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Seeing Through Atheism and Other IdolsGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65232962204690793132015-05-27T07:34:08.058-07:002015-05-27T07:34:08.058-07:00Re. literacy, there are those who are claiming tha...Re. literacy, there are those who are claiming that <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/418775/end-writing-jane-s-shaw" rel="nofollow">the era of writing is at its end</a>.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-82917545079550439502015-05-27T05:50:39.515-07:002015-05-27T05:50:39.515-07:00It's our choice: through the glass darkly, or ...It's our choice: through the glass darkly, or through the glass sparkly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53056064553383874542015-05-27T04:07:36.875-07:002015-05-27T04:07:36.875-07:00Gagdad: "Jesus is at once God's icon of m...Gagdad: "Jesus is at once God's icon of man and our icon of God"<br /><br />Mushroom: "Wow.<br /><br />Mirror; mirror."<br /><br />The ambiguous window. 'Zactly so.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85666991692576156982015-05-27T03:29:21.205-07:002015-05-27T03:29:21.205-07:00"There are some exceptions to this rule, as i..."There are some exceptions to this rule, as in pure math or metaphysics, but even then math is transparent to beauty, while metaphysics is ultimately transparent to God; neither is simply an end in itself."<br /><br />Can you imagine poetry without ambiguity? The words might be made to rhyme, I suppose, but they wouldn't carry you anywhere further than that. Another problem area for ambiguity though, is logic, where it is The tool for masking ugliness and carrying, hijacking you, downwards.<br /><br />So there's the test for ambiguity, it opens roads and portals to you, but you need to check your virtueall Gps to see which direction it is proposing to take you in. Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-18317147677438318282015-05-27T02:38:56.595-07:002015-05-27T02:38:56.595-07:00A bum steer sounds like somthin' the USDA woul...A bum steer sounds like somthin' the USDA would subsidize,Skullynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48792557546477928202015-05-27T02:37:10.571-07:002015-05-27T02:37:10.571-07:00"Speaking of cutandry: if it is castrated, it..."Speaking of cutandry: if it is castrated, it will steer us wrong."<br /><br />Ha! And who needs a bum steer?USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22981542322306612472015-05-27T02:34:32.273-07:002015-05-27T02:34:32.273-07:00"This is not a new problem, only more widespr..."This is not a new problem, only more widespread. For example, "Plato worried about what would happen when people started to read his words fixed on a page rather than think along with him in dialogue -- he feared that they would take his words 'literally.'"<br /><br />Aye. Jest look at all the fools that believe the truth can be replaced by facts. USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15942498545980841982015-05-26T15:17:54.060-07:002015-05-26T15:17:54.060-07:00Cheetham isn't the only person to have thought...Cheetham isn't the only person to have thought that. I've heard it said (by someone back in the 1800s; Nietzsche, maybe?) that if everyone can read and write, thinking (or philosophy, maybe it was) would be destroyed. At the time I first came across the idea, it seemed like a particularly misanthropic sentiment. With the rise of social media, I have to wonder...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-63378162512775190872015-05-26T15:08:57.327-07:002015-05-26T15:08:57.327-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.John Lienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02302615225311776021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54617102398629034612015-05-26T15:08:56.918-07:002015-05-26T15:08:56.918-07:00Cheetham links this problem to the widespread acqu...Cheetham links this problem to the widespread acquisition of literacy and its access to the text -- which is no doubt why the tenured are the biggest idolaters of all. The text contributes to the illusion of a static, cutandry meaning, for which reason scientism and a certain type of Protestantism are mirror images of one another.<br /><br />That's interesting.<br /><br />All you modern kids with your fancy pants literacy! Get off my hay field!<br /><br />Mush, heh heh.John Lienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02302615225311776021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-81329709840525667042015-05-26T14:52:10.650-07:002015-05-26T14:52:10.650-07:00Jesus wrote in the dirt. Labyrinth. Just swirly ...Jesus wrote in the dirt. Labyrinth. Just swirly stuff with a cross. Mostly old stuff spread out on the rocks that have not gone their way, yet.<br />Of course, that is the old emergence geometry. Not really discussed much, these days. Probably because assigning parameters of time and space is ongoing dynamics. <br /><br />Stars fall to respond. Looks like War. There is math for that, but that would mean that the looking is as alive as the broadcast.<br /><br />Of course, that is paint by number. Not so different from sound and light as is usually constructed. Probably lands somewhere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8394353284372387852015-05-26T13:28:42.893-07:002015-05-26T13:28:42.893-07:00The text contributes to the illusion of a static, ...<i>The text contributes to the illusion of a static, cutandry meaning, for which reason scientism and a certain type of Protestantism are mirror images of one another</i><br /><br />Speaking of cutandry: if it is castrated, it will steer us wrong.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-10308045342179138712015-05-26T13:25:39.332-07:002015-05-26T13:25:39.332-07:00Jesus is at once God's icon of man and our ico...<i>Jesus is at once God's icon of man and our icon of God</i><br /><br />Wow.<br /><br />Mirror; mirror.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-28359418318919530212015-05-26T12:40:46.163-07:002015-05-26T12:40:46.163-07:00David Warren, yesterday:
"Now, let us take 5...David Warren, <a href="http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/2015/05/25/de-metrification/" rel="nofollow">yesterday</a>:<br /><br />"Now, let us take 5760 of these feet to make a mile, and we are very close to the nautical mile, still used in navigation, for it corresponds to the surviving ancient division of our home planet, by increments of 360 Babylonian degrees, of 60 miles each, then 60ths of those; as too, the 24 hours, then 60th minutes, then 60th seconds, at which that world turns (a mile takes the sun four seconds). For hexagesimals are so beautiful, and so apt, to the wheels-in-wheels turning, nonny, nonny. … O, how the wheel becomes it!"juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36306162643644120972015-05-26T11:24:21.171-07:002015-05-26T11:24:21.171-07:00"The New Testament is the deposit of their fa..."The New Testament is the <i>deposit</i> of their faith, not its first cause or ground source."<br /><br />What an excellent Bobservation!<br /><br />'course, it brings to mind (and ties together) that other one you made long ago that went something like: "Jesus wrote nothing down."Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46046047886938084572015-05-26T10:17:25.567-07:002015-05-26T10:17:25.567-07:00But here Hardy is situating mathematics in the Hig...<i>But here Hardy is situating mathematics in the Higher Musticism of transcendent beauty. As such, he is not idolizing numbers, but properly icon-ilizing them. He sees right through their tricks.</i><br /><br />The way we are able to recognize and appreciate beauty is such a wonderful mystery. How strange to simply <i>see</i> (or hear, taste, touch, or smell) something and have it resonate within ourselves and invoke a powerful response!juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com