tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post1538897086207300058..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: On the Cosmic Inevitability of Boneheadedness and Butt UglinessGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37845881252532654402010-04-12T15:05:42.818-07:002010-04-12T15:05:42.818-07:00Again: Beauty and Truth, afternoon reading - h/t ...Again: Beauty and Truth, afternoon reading - h/t WUWT<br /><br />http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/04/12/dr-jerry-ravetz-on-willis-epidemics-rough-tumble-debate-and-post-normal-science/#more-18388<br /><br />¨There is another unsolved problem, Truth. ... I happily use the terms for other Absolutes, like ‘beauty’, ‘justice’ and ‘holy’; so clearly there is something wrong in my head.¨ - RavetzJohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11816128268464995920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-49100462498181440192010-04-12T04:59:06.269-07:002010-04-12T04:59:06.269-07:00In this regard, to say that there are no objective...In this regard, to say that there are no objective standards of aesthetic value is to insist (to paraphrase Schuon) that myopia and blindness are merely different ways of seeing instead of "defects of vision." Stupidity is not just another form of intelligence."<br /><br />Hooo! And yet, the stupid continue to tout their intelligence while demonstrating new depths of stupidity.<br /><br />It's an outright plague among democrats. <br />Island tipping, let's vote to see what's in the bill, a White Sox "fan" that can't name a single player past or present, etc..<br /><br />Hey, let's eradicate the words "Islamic radicalism".<br />That'll show the terrorists. <br /><br />Obamao can mix his stupidity with his blatant anti-semiticism.<br />Does that make him stupidly evil or evilly stupid?USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45556906608383414852010-04-11T20:23:59.630-07:002010-04-11T20:23:59.630-07:00Off topic, but Wow.
I'd like to think that wa...Off topic, but <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/7521139/Dutch-prisons-use-psychics-to-help-prisoners-contact-the-dead.html" rel="nofollow">Wow.</a><br /><br />I'd like to think that was an April Fool's joke, but going by the date it is apparently serious.<br /><br />I wonder if that'll ever catch on as the next big method for boosting self-esteem?juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-43697050977893220432010-04-11T19:09:49.901-07:002010-04-11T19:09:49.901-07:00I'm ready for some of your more inflammatory p...I'm ready for some of your more inflammatory policitcal writing, if you can cook some up for tommorrow.<br /><br />Name names, make accusation, etc.<br /><br />State some dire predictions<br /><br />In other words, lets get crackin' here Mr. G.black holehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07366633817665791528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90170753284114162802010-04-11T14:00:04.533-07:002010-04-11T14:00:04.533-07:00Oliver Clement's book is now back in print, bt...Oliver Clement's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Roots-Christian-Mysticism-Patristic-Commentary/dp/1565480295/ref=tmm_pap_title_0" rel="nofollow">book</a> is now back in print, btw.walthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388218390016612051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50058513393022383732010-04-11T12:29:59.029-07:002010-04-11T12:29:59.029-07:00"Instead of 'intelligent design,' one..."Instead of 'intelligent design,' one might just as well say 'beautiful design.'<br /><br />...In the absence of transcendence, all art is merely decoration on our prison walls."<br /><br />Just wanted to post a big "amen." <br /><br />Julie, lovely flowers & thoughts. I just spent a good ten minutes staring into our apple tree in full bloom, which was buzzing loudly. Ah, spring.<br /><br />OTOH, there's the stinkbug...or stinkbugS (plural)...now in full home invasion mode. (Ah, spring.) Taken one at a time, it might even be beautiful in its own way--or at least interesting--or maybe just symmetrical, shaped like a tiny medieval shield. <br /><br />I just don't like them en masse.Susannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381272662339466736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15046833749577947552010-04-11T10:29:39.766-07:002010-04-11T10:29:39.766-07:00Good news / bad news. The good news is the water ...Good news / bad news. The good news is the water is back on. The bad news is I have no excuse for drinking beer in the morning.Cousin Dupreenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65470783798886339262010-04-11T10:26:06.882-07:002010-04-11T10:26:06.882-07:00Go with the flow: plumbers after sod-placers - ...Go with the flow: plumbers after sod-placers - play in the water.<br /><br />Beauty and truth: morning reading<br /><br />http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2010/04/leo-strauss-and-the-second-cave<br /> Thomas S. Hibbs writes,<br />¨Yet the self-destructive transformation of philosophy in modernity has precisely to do with its confrontation with the revelation of the New Testament and Christian theology.¨<br /><br />Had it been ´consultation´ - rather than ´confrontation´ - perhaps we would not have<br />¨...so much modern art {which}is ultimately "empty," because it has been drained of any transcendent reference.¨ -BobJohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11816128268464995920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-25295309664752295032010-04-11T09:25:01.219-07:002010-04-11T09:25:01.219-07:00In defense of beauty, I don’t know about yous coon...In defense of beauty, I don’t know about yous coons, but no one sat me down and told me the definition of the term. I’m not sure one can. You learn it by hearing how it is used. Which is a sense is a triune experienced. And by comparing that indefinable thing, within the thing that was pointed to, and comparing that to the next time, and then the next, until you know the essence well enough to spot it on your own. Your unworded definition grows your whole life. The definition is perpetually enriched. If you’re lucky.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22308103946187877292010-04-11T09:19:54.666-07:002010-04-11T09:19:54.666-07:00"the world is fundamentally made of beauty, n..."the world is fundamentally made of beauty, not ugliness.... and [it] could not contain ugliness if it did not contain a priori far more beauty."<br /><br />A <a href="http://juliecork.wordpress.com/2010/04/11/the-cosmic-yes/" rel="nofollow">complement</a>. Or perhaps a supplement.<br /><br />I hope your water woes get sorted out soon!juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-79140146366227465032010-04-11T09:17:59.818-07:002010-04-11T09:17:59.818-07:00“But this is what the Christian has always believe...“But this is what the Christian has always believed; it is the materialist who cannot account for this mystery:..”<br /><br />Oh, I like this next part. It’s like when Rush says, “roll the tape” and Snerdly plays a montage of actually recorded evidence:<br /><br />"Understand that you have within yourself, upon a small scale, a second universe" (Origen). "Man, this major world in miniature, is a unified abridgment of all that exists, and the crowning of divine works" (St. Gregory of Palamas). "Man is the microcosm in the strictest sense of the word. He is the summary of all existence" (John Scottus Erigena). "All things in Heaven above, and Earth beneath, meet in the Constitution of each individual" (Peter Sterry).”<br /><br />The Mah-ha B’ob. Doing the work the {insert contemporary gurus} used to do..Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.com