tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post1087034216392905515..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: The Cosmic Law & Disorder of the LeftGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71237159462505700102015-06-02T07:01:00.643-07:002015-06-02T07:01:00.643-07:00To be, or not to be... truth or deception.
SAVOR...To be, or not to be... truth or deception.<br /><br />SAVORING THIS WITH SMILES: "Yes, it is difficult to "love one's enemies." But bear in mind that telling them the truth is a way of loving them while irritating them at the same time, so perhaps not."<br /><br />Yes, this conforms to the Golden Rule. Certainly, telling lies is the opposite of loving others. I reckon lies irritate truth seekers as much as the truth irritates those who embrace the lie.<br />Of course, truth seekers don't go on rampages when they hear lies (altough, telling the truth in response to lies is considered a rampage by those who don't wanna hear it). by USS Ben USN (Ret)B Ambrosehttps://plus.google.com/u/0/116990850406328284498/about/p/pubnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3786569617177930002015-05-31T16:29:18.443-07:002015-05-31T16:29:18.443-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.PiltdownManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11987347856853941576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-13608530222719353442015-05-31T16:29:14.701-07:002015-05-31T16:29:14.701-07:00So, it's all connected in the cosmic area rug....<i>So, it's all connected in the cosmic area rug.</i><br />And that rug really tied the universe together.PiltdownManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11987347856853941576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54336268080184562422015-05-31T12:50:07.852-07:002015-05-31T12:50:07.852-07:00Perfectly apt to this theme of truth and lies: htt...Perfectly apt to this theme of truth and lies: http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=4617<br /><br /><i>It’s why deception is so effective and so disdained. It violates the innate rules of the human mind. This new thing that looks like this known thing suddenly turns out to be different is alarming. Alternatively, that thing we had put into its proper category that suddenly turns out to be something wildly different is scary. Deception causes us to doubt the very thing that makes us tick.</i>Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70804684634536126012015-05-31T09:09:17.398-07:002015-05-31T09:09:17.398-07:00"I was arrested by this observation at Happy ..."I was arrested by this observation at Happy Acres, to the effect that "A movement toward the Left, and ultimately toward despotism and collapse, is the 'normal course of history', in exactly the same way that the 'normal course' of a river is to run downhill."<br /><br />Yet correlation doesn't equal causation. However, lying about it, does.<br /><br />"In short, the vertical march is a march toward truth, and vice versa. Conversely, lying is the satanic eucharist, such that when we eat it, it eats us, like in that Garden once upin a timeless."<br /><br />Yep. Playing with the theme, 'When you stare into the abyss, it scares back at you.' As the Lie personifies (active verb) the power of death, the Truth personifies Life. Careful what you care to stare at.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-56020553160697774182015-05-30T08:37:58.335-07:002015-05-30T08:37:58.335-07:00"Here again, this is precisely what Jesus mea..."Here again, this is precisely what Jesus means with his crack about those who will be "persecuted for my sake." Yes, it is difficult to "love one's enemies." But bear in mind that telling them the truth is a way of loving them while irritating them at the same time, so perhaps not."<br /><br />Yes, this conforms to the Golden Rule. Certainly, telling lies is the opposite of loving others. I reckon lies irritate truth seekers as much as the truth irritates those who embrace the lie.<br />Of course, truth seekers don't go on rampages when they hear lies (altough, telling the truth in response to lies is considered a rampage by those who don't wanna hear it).<br /><br />USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26750329203332307992015-05-30T08:22:53.473-07:002015-05-30T08:22:53.473-07:00But, when you stare into the abyss you realize yer...But, when you stare into the abyss you realize yer gonna need a bigger boat.Skullynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-34352873883380836032015-05-30T08:21:25.920-07:002015-05-30T08:21:25.920-07:00When you stare into the Ablyss it cares back at yo...When you stare into the Ablyss it cares back at you.Skullynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-19008146485811619332015-05-30T08:15:55.168-07:002015-05-30T08:15:55.168-07:00"For Mouravieff, "the Devil" is sim..."For Mouravieff, "the Devil" is simply "the personalized moral aspect of the General Law"; he is the personification of a principle, so you needn't literally believe in satan so long as you see how he operates, which is via the broad way that leads to destruction and dissipation -- the abyss -- as opposed to the strait gate and narrow way that lead to Life and Truth -- the other Abyss."<br /><br />Or, the Ablyss. When you stare into the Ablyss you don't go mad, you go glad.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15394233823381092552015-05-29T16:23:08.961-07:002015-05-29T16:23:08.961-07:00Off on a tangent or two, going back to the discuss...Off on a tangent or two, going back to the discussion of art and beauty of the other day, it occurred to me just now to wonder why the sound of a bell or a chime should be so very pleasant. To my knowledge, there's nothing like it in nature.<br /><br />In line with today's post, the thing about music is that it is the very sound of order, or rather of ordered sound. The more civilized the musician, the more ordered the sound. Even if, like certain types of jazz, it comes across as disordered to the unhearing ear. Lawfully disordered music, on the other hand, is generally perfectly content to stick with pounding drums; all pulsing rhythm, very few notes.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87363848847662759152015-05-29T13:29:21.971-07:002015-05-29T13:29:21.971-07:00"wondertow"
This. When the world is run..."wondertow"<br /><br />This. When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around. And there's plenty still around, though there's a hell of a flood coming. Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-76627388216874687212015-05-29T10:37:41.025-07:002015-05-29T10:37:41.025-07:00Here it's a liberal-induced drought...Here it's a liberal-induced drought...Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-13548528324212908542015-05-29T10:36:12.689-07:002015-05-29T10:36:12.689-07:00Since it's floodin' down in Texas. I'...Since <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na-3l6DwEXQ" rel="nofollow">it's floodin' down in Texas.</a> I'm about ready to head for the Ark myself.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-56661388163759400212015-05-29T10:23:47.506-07:002015-05-29T10:23:47.506-07:00As Taranto writes, "Appeals to tradition cann...As Taranto writes, "Appeals to tradition cannot long withstand an onslaught of logic once the philosophy on which the tradition is based has died in the minds of most of the populace."<br /><br />Or as someone once said, the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-75643498322894743062015-05-29T10:23:07.048-07:002015-05-29T10:23:07.048-07:00So, a lawless and disordered life that has no high...<i>So, a lawless and disordered life that has no higher authority than transient impulses and desires is actually the most lawful life of all, except that it is the law of Chance, Accident, and Entropy</i><br /><br />You know the other name for the antichrist is "the man of lawlessness" (2 Thess. 2:3 "man of sin" in older translations).mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-25187110158651716292015-05-29T10:20:27.400-07:002015-05-29T10:20:27.400-07:00and instrumental use of human beings.and instrumental use of human beings.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-81909481251239351552015-05-29T10:18:51.561-07:002015-05-29T10:18:51.561-07:00From today's Taranto:
'The New York Times...From today's Taranto:<br /><br />'The New York Times’s Charles Blow cites additional examples, from Gallup’s “moral acceptability” index: “Acceptance of gay or lesbian relations is up 23 percentage points over that time. Having a baby outside of marriage is up 16 points. Premarital sex is up 15 points. Divorce and research using stem cells obtained from human embryos are both up 12 points.” Some of these are odd things to crow about...'<br /><br />***<br /><br />Which means that homosexual marriage correlates with bastardy, promiscuity, and divorce, or in other words, Disorder breeds disorder. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90569705684344540982015-05-29T10:17:04.514-07:002015-05-29T10:17:04.514-07:00:D
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So, a lawless and disordered life that ha...:D<br /><br />***<br /><br /><i>So, a lawless and disordered life that has no higher authority than transient impulses and desires is actually the most lawful life of all, except that it is the law of Chance, Accident, and Entropy. Which is why all those dysfunctional Democrat-run cities such as Baltimore are actually quite lawful. But instead of "law and order," they reflect "law and disorder."</i><br /><br />I'm reminded of an article I read yesterday about <a href="So,%20a%20lawless%20and%20disordered%20life%20that%20has%20no%20higher%20authority%20than%20transient%20impulses%20and%20desires%20is%20actually%20the%20most%20lawful%20life%20of%20all,%20except%20that%20it%20is%20the%20law%20of%20Chance,%20Accident,%20and%20Entropy.%20Which%20is%20why%20all%20those%20dysfunctional%20Democrat-run%20cities%20such%20as%20Baltimore%20are%20actually%20quite%20lawful.%20But%20instead%20of" rel="nofollow">life for an ordinary kid in North Korea</a>, before he made his escape. Even though in some ways, the country is ruled by an excessively intrusive, abusive and domineering leadership, for most it really is a life of the law of disorder, where families disintegrate and only the most brutish survive.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9600293921759422072015-05-29T09:55:42.552-07:002015-05-29T09:55:42.552-07:00For it is written: don't fight the undertow, ...For it is written: don't fight the undertow, but yield to the wondertow. Peteynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-68784228083699134442015-05-29T09:53:33.200-07:002015-05-29T09:53:33.200-07:00Man thus passes his days absorbed in external circ...<i>Man thus passes his days absorbed in external circumstances. The great machine that drags him along turns without stopping, and forbids him to stop under penalty of being crushed," such that "he quickly exhausts himself in the frantic race, impelled in a direction which in the end leads nowhere."</i><br /><br />I'm also reminded of how riptides work. If you <i>don't</i> struggle against them, you'll be swept out to sea, but even fighting them will result in simply holding your place, at best. Far better to swim perpendicular to the current until you find the place where the water is more slack, then make your way back.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9774781918301429302015-05-29T09:52:29.115-07:002015-05-29T09:52:29.115-07:00It would be quite impossible to calculate how many...It would be quite impossible to calculate how many millions have died as a result of the <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/05/the-unmaking-of-a-mayor.php" rel="nofollow">lies of the left</a>. But it's just a statistic, and besides, at this point, what difference does it make?<br /><br />Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.com