tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post115781611431036375..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Day and Night Time HistoryGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1158004407503565972006-09-11T12:53:00.000-07:002006-09-11T12:53:00.000-07:00ed in texasAnd you didn't go for the "Up With Peop...ed in texas<BR/><BR/>And you didn't go for the "Up With People" joke... I'm impressed.<BR/>(Then again I'm easily impressed.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1157897959933536822006-09-10T07:19:00.000-07:002006-09-10T07:19:00.000-07:00Bob - You mention the left chides Bush for North K...Bob - You mention the left chides Bush for North Korea developing nuclear weapons on his watch. Of course this is an unfair assessment of what happened, but I suppose you realize this... To the contrary, Bush directly confronted North Korea about what the United States secretly knew for years, and only then was the secret admitted to publicly. <BR/><BR/>Going back to the lazy, appeasement days of the Clinton administration, where no stance was too soft, Clinton sent Bill Richardson over to make a phony deal with a dictator in order to make Clinton’s North Korea nuclear crisis 'disappear'. In reality, it only gave the dictator more time to develop his weapon in secret, under phony cover of 'compliance' with a toothless agreement.<BR/><BR/>Funny how politics is the same, no matter if one is on the global stage or at the office. Those who stand up and challenge wrong, those who take chances and risks, will most likely be pilloried and may not succeed. In fact, the risk taker may be personally and professionally destroyed. But those who wish to be popular, who don't take a stance or make a controversial decision, can retain and even enhance their popularity - and ultimately their personal success. Unfortunately for our country, Clinton chose to maintain his mass appeal and popularity at our nation's expense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1157860427872827302006-09-09T20:53:00.000-07:002006-09-09T20:53:00.000-07:00"...I’m not even blaming Clinton. We all wanted to..."...I’m not even blaming Clinton. We all wanted to ignore the gathering threat and sleepwalk through history at the time."<BR/><BR/>Bob, thoughtful people you, and almost anyone else, never heard of were predicting about this situation in the mid-1970s. However, back then the catalyst was meddling by the Soviet Union. It seems to be that the catalyst for rise of radical Islam was not the Soviets, rather it was the lack of them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1157827568917889692006-09-09T11:46:00.000-07:002006-09-09T11:46:00.000-07:00(whoops, post was truncated, due to my ditziness -...(whoops, post was truncated, due to my ditziness - here's the conclusion)<BR/><BR/>We might be cosmically isolated at present, the cosmos waiting for us to take the next step in Creation's plan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1157827431511503192006-09-09T11:43:00.000-07:002006-09-09T11:43:00.000-07:00>>One thing we do know--and this is without histor...>>One thing we do know--and this is without historical parallel--is that, thanks to technology, “second-rate powers like Iran, as well as basket cases like North Korea and modern-day Thugees like Bin Laden, can quickly attain destructive power Hitler only dreamed of.<<<BR/><BR/>This is among the reasons why I think ours is something of an "end of days"age, and not only because of the unprecedented destructive power potentially available to primitives such as Bin Laden and his ilk - it's also because the response to this threat must be pure and spiritually insightful, *righteous* in the true sense of the word. Without a spiritually righteous, unsullied response, unprecedented horrors are going to befall the world. Of course, humanity will have to find within itself the space for a purely spiritual response. Not a whole lot of time left.<BR/><BR/>The Roman empire had actually developed rudimentary steam power. One or two more developments and they could have industrialized - 2000 years ago. Instead, the Romans used their rudimentary steam power for toys, basically. This was, in my view, completely Providential, literally so. Imagine Caligula or Nero with an artillery-equiped army, possibly with nukes. <BR/><BR/>Of course the primitives are too primitive to develop their own modern military arsenals; they deal with our hand-me-downs. Still, Divine Providence is not there for us in the way it has always been, protecting us from Torquemadas with A-bombs at their disposal. I'm inclined to think that this indicates that the "Other" of Divine Providence, that which in ages past could guide us from above, is now embodied, it is within us - if we can find it within. Obviously, if this be the case, we have to find it, and soon. We mightAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1157825366593041712006-09-09T11:09:00.000-07:002006-09-09T11:09:00.000-07:00Great post, Bob. Our own personal part in the unf...Great post, Bob. Our own personal part in the unfolding of history should be uppermost in our minds. Joan of Argghh's post reminds us that "God's wind" tugs at our souls as well; the question to always ask is "what is the best use of my time right now?"<BR/> Conservatives, liberals, apathetic people, and avatars all work together to create our cultural drift and create history. It makes for great entertainment.black holehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07366633817665791528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1157818975165379232006-09-09T09:22:00.000-07:002006-09-09T09:22:00.000-07:00Bob: I vist your site at least once a day to see ...Bob: I vist your site at least once a day to see if you posted something new. This post is wonderful.<BR/><BR/>You have written that you might need to stop your efforts, and I understand that. A site is a lot of work. But even if your "public" is small, it is loyal.<BR/><BR/>Keep up the great work. Your ideas and writing are a refreshing anti-postmodern commentary that is at times Christian and at times almost pantheistic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1157818145634337142006-09-09T09:09:00.000-07:002006-09-09T09:09:00.000-07:00Sorry, I just liked the idea of the upward spiral....Sorry, I just liked the idea of the upward spiral... and kites and sun and breezes. It's Saturday, go play.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1157818065236270642006-09-09T09:07:00.000-07:002006-09-09T09:07:00.000-07:00Life tugs us toward eternity--our souls,like the e...Life tugs us toward eternity--<BR/>our souls,<BR/>like the earth-bound<BR/>reel of a kite's tether<BR/>feel the dance<BR/>of the passing wind<BR/>yet cling tightly<BR/>to earth lest<BR/>we float free<BR/>wild<BR/>to unknown future<BR/>wondering<BR/>if the wind<BR/>is God's own...<BR/>pulling us in<BR/>from beyond our<BR/>aerodynamic ideas<BR/>of flight and faithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com