Friday, October 29, 2010
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I cannot talk about anything without talking about everything. --Chesterton
Fundamentally there are only three miracles: existence, life, intelligence; with intelligence, the curve springing from God closes on itself like a ring that in reality has never been parted from the Infinite. --Schuon
The quest, thus, has no external 'object,' but is reality itself becoming luminous for its movement from the ineffable, through the Cosmos, to the ineffable. --Voegelin
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. --Wittgenstein
I could use his help!
ReplyDeleteI am so bored at this seminar, it's physically painful. Exactly how high school felt -- like waiting in the airport for seven hours.
ReplyDeleteThankfully I haven't felt your pain since the last time I worked at a major corp... few things worse than the barrage of incoming worker sensitivity training classes given by modern 'right wing' corporation human resource(!) departments.
ReplyDelete(Though, considering where you are, I understand if you differ)
Well, I don't mean to be unkind about you being in mandated boredom, but I'm glad that you can't post for a bit. You see, I just began reading you recently and how will I ever get a chance if there is constantly a new post up to ponder, to poke around in the archives and get a glimmer of what on earth you are horizontaling about and how that relates to inspiration to aspire vertically?
ReplyDeleteHave you talked to anybody about being able to remember how highschool felt? Not that there is likely any cure for that other than avoiding, as best as able, circumstances that quicken old memories that hide in the cells of seats.
I remember high school; I studied marijuana. My favorite elective: leaving the campus midday with disreputable peers.
ReplyDeleteI did not like high school. But loved junior college.
I never stopped going to college until two years ago and I'm a fairly old person.
You don't see too many aging women of color in literature classes anymore. Maybe I should go back...
I don't think I ever mentioned this volume here, but rereading it I sense its importance and depth. [the author's sole published work]
ReplyDelete[J. Nigro Sansonese maintains that ancient myths throughout the world are coded instructions for esoteric practice involving a deep awareness of the human body. He points out that the ancient Greeks share common ancestry with the Hindus and that the primal traditions of all peoples involve a knowledge of trance states which is coded in myth.]
search "darwin' for his [p. 302] critique of Neodarwinism
Hi Mushroom: I read your parable the other day. Loved it.
ReplyDeleteKilling the protagonist shows a sense of fatalism and hopelessness.
This is the perfect expression of the culture of fear we live in. You have channeled the essence of America.
God bless you, BH. I'm glad you enjoyed it. If I have pleased you, my life has not been lived in vain.
ReplyDeleteGreat photo and costume!
ReplyDeleteFL is definitely 4-O and squared away. :^)
Exactly how high school felt...
ReplyDeleteI know that feeling.
So have you gotten to the part yet where you realize you're standing naked in the hallway and all your finals start in five minutes?
Another one today. Don't want to wait until the last minute to get my CE credits, since my license to exorcise assouls expires on 10/31.
ReplyDeleteJeanatte says:
ReplyDelete"Have you talked to anybody about being able to remember how highschool felt?"
To me high school was a game. My goal was to win. That was the last game like that I ever played. It lasted four years and came down to GPA difference of 0.14% if I recall correctly.
Plus, I had access to the easy button. I used the easy button to change the rules and boost my GPA.
So, to win the game, I had to break the rules.
That's what I learned from high school.
Jeanette says:
ReplyDelete"You see, I just began reading you recently and how will I ever get a chance if there is constantly a new post up to ponder, to poke around in the archives and get a glimmer of what on earth you are horizontaling about and how that relates to inspiration to aspire vertically?"
Bob is contantly reiterintegrating his old posts, so you get the old with the new.
It just occurred to me that due to the laws of fractals, emergent order, and Cousin Dupree, the Archive has some sort of hidden structure of which I am unaware.
Bob says:
ReplyDelete"I am so bored at this seminar, it's physically painful. Exactly how high school felt -- like waiting in the airport for seven hours."
That's how life feels for me every day. I haven't figured out how to fix that.
here 's a song i heard a snippet-- basically just the title of-- on the radio in the '90s and no one identified the artist; so i spent ages hoping to find it, and did---ever have that happen?
ReplyDeleteGE - thanks for the book link. I glanced at it a bit yesterday; it shed a new perspective on things I've long noticed.
ReplyDeleteYeah Julie Sansonese has some unique POVs---I was struck by his 'pituitary catastrophe' hypothesis [the pages around 212] recalling some of my own unsolved blisstery intercranial epileptoid breakthroughs... 'Proprioception' is another theme he explores
ReplyDeleteBob, does the bee know anything interesting?
ReplyDeleteJust curious - Amazon has very little in the way of description on that one.
Don't know yet. Travers, who wrote Mary Poppins, was also a mystic who wrote on myth and symbol. This is a collection of the pieces she wrote for the journal Parabola.
ReplyDeleteThis earlier edition has a couple of reviews. It was out of print until a couple months ago, and too expensive. I've always been curious about it.
ReplyDeleteInteresting - I thought the name sounded familiar. I like the description. Being driven about an American Indian reservation by a surly cowboy has got to be fodder for a tale or two, as well as a good means of deepening one's appreciation for and understanding of tall tales.
ReplyDelete-everyone know this author ?
ReplyDeletei consider him a modern gnostic philosopher
wv: evermigh...(t) !! :)
ReplyDelete(That was in re FL.)
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