tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post1410836371789945784..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Idolatry, Ingratitude, Pride, and Other Left Wing Virtues Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-58189662500195234962015-10-02T08:27:21.564-07:002015-10-02T08:27:21.564-07:00Ben said "I suppose without gratitude, libert...Ben said "I suppose without gratitude, liberty will not remain, nor will anything else that is good."<br /><br />I think that's right - gratitude in part is a healthy appreciation of consequences (and an implicit recognition of hierarchy), enabling your continued participation in creation, aka Liberty. Without being open to feelings of Gratitude, you've removed yourself from participation in creation, and cut off from that there is no possibility of Liberty.<br /><br />Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22954718882930408972015-10-02T08:19:42.298-07:002015-10-02T08:19:42.298-07:00I think the root cause of the Left begins with the...I think the root cause of the Left begins with the alternative inherent in Choice - to choose in accordance with what is True, or with what you wish were true. <br /><br />What transforms that common and very human desire into one that is distinctively a leftist, is going the extra mile with their desire to recreate creation in line with they would have preferred creation to have been created as, while denying all responsibility for the consequences, or even the possibility of them - denying the Created and Creation in one fell swoop. <br /><br />That's not only wishing Truth was otherwise, but rejecting and repudiating it. And like a Lays Potato chip, you can't have just One.<br /><br />A spiraling suck downwards ensues.<br />Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-82134415704515907282015-10-02T05:59:52.061-07:002015-10-02T05:59:52.061-07:00i think the root cause of the left is rebelliousne...i think the root cause of the left is rebelliousness as in assertion of the ego against accepted authority which, of course, is characteristic of adolescence.William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86084810087582041912015-10-02T03:20:30.612-07:002015-10-02T03:20:30.612-07:00"Sowell shows again and again how the Sacred ..."Sowell shows again and again how the Sacred Vision of the left trumps reality. But "a casual glance around the world today, or back through history, would dispel any notion that good things just happen naturally, much less inevitably."<br /><br />Therefore, "Once we realize that America is an exception, we might even have a sense of *gratitude* for having been born here.... At the very least, we might develop some concern for seeing that whatever has made this country better off is not lost or discarded -- or eroded away, bit by bit, until it is gone."<br /><br />I suppose without gratitude, liberty will not remain, nor will anything else that is good. USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-64431823751453670652015-10-01T19:10:22.032-07:002015-10-01T19:10:22.032-07:00That's a big part of it -- perpetually adolesc...That's a big part of it -- perpetually adolescent or childish or infantile. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9442588421178369252015-10-01T18:21:20.606-07:002015-10-01T18:21:20.606-07:00What in your opinion is the root cause of leftism?...What in your opinion is the root cause of leftism? I'm leaning toward plain old immaturity - seems there is at least a part of many people that just never gets past the teen years, thus never completely separating from Mom and becoming a fully independent individual.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16652102016905951809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-40828653237665152082015-10-01T12:22:00.166-07:002015-10-01T12:22:00.166-07:00Julie's link doesn't surprise me. Everybo...Julie's link doesn't surprise me. Everybody is being bullied, raped and assaulted by words they don't like. <br /><br />What can't continue won't, and reality is going to eat the lunch of a whole bunch of somebodies in the not-too-distant future. mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-56123453310967007592015-10-01T12:16:51.589-07:002015-10-01T12:16:51.589-07:00... these crusades are about establishing the iden...<i>... these crusades are about establishing the identity and the superiority of the crusaders</i>.<br /><br />Since their crusades are about such, all crusades past, present, and future must have been about such. mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-64220261516456801112015-10-01T09:17:51.549-07:002015-10-01T09:17:51.549-07:00The Poet continues: "They don't mean to d...<i>The Poet continues: "They don't mean to do harm -- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves (emphasis mine).</i><br /><br />In reading various old things recently, I keep coming across the idea, once a standard in many cultures, that to compliment children is in fact to <i>curse</i> them. On the face of it, this of course sounds cruel to a culture steeped in the development of self-esteem, but... here we are. And it seems pretty clear that telling kids they are special and awesome and wonderful, etc. etc., especially when the kids in question have done nothing to earn the accolades, has not created a generation of well-adjusted adults. In fact, it seems that within the past five years or so young people have gotten <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/24407/" rel="nofollow">more fragile than ever</a>.<br /><br />As a contrast, in my study this morning we are working our way through Judges (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges+3" rel="nofollow">Chapter 3</a>), and the question arose as to why God would consider it useful to teach the sons of Israel war, and why they should be tested. Looking around, I think it is pretty clear that a) as usual, the Bible really does tell the story of what <i>always</i> happens, and b) a generation raised with every challenge removed from before them is a generation that is utterly weak, enfeebled, and essentially useless. Probably, they could be made to grow up, but it will take something terrible for that to really happen. And so it goes...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com