tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post163037424708101660..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Taking the Cosmic Bus Out for a JoyreadGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-55549590933461789702007-12-23T10:39:00.000-08:002007-12-23T10:39:00.000-08:00...a little dead threading, as they say at LGF.Van......a little dead threading, as they say at LGF.<BR/><BR/>Van:<BR/>Thanks for the kind word. :)<BR/><BR/>JWMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-49565052568855133002007-12-23T02:12:00.000-08:002007-12-23T02:12:00.000-08:00Yeah baby! Gimme some mo dat Bo Diddly. Reminds m...Yeah baby! Gimme some mo dat Bo Diddly. Reminds me ah mah ole Granpappy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85845482035679351882007-12-23T00:14:00.000-08:002007-12-23T00:14:00.000-08:00Finally figured out a way to comment, blogger's ch...Finally figured out a way to comment, blogger's changed something and screwed it up for signing in on PocketPCz... but now too tired to.<BR/>Bummer... great post today....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52936383370209043512007-12-23T00:05:00.000-08:002007-12-23T00:05:00.000-08:00JWMNow there's three initial's I'm very pleased to...JWM<BR/><BR/>Now there's three initial's I'm very pleased to see.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67111589651845035002007-12-22T22:46:00.000-08:002007-12-22T22:46:00.000-08:00Now, don't get me wrong. As you plant those new se...<I>Now, don't get me wrong. As you plant those new seeds, they will help you bear what you have coming to you with grace and equanimity -- they will give you the strength to bear your cross, but you still have to bear it if you want to grow, and equally importantly, understand what's happening to you while you do. Spiritual maturity means re-penting or turning around and accepting responsibility, not obliterating it. </I><BR/><BR/>Damn, Bob that one put a lump in my throat. I seem to be taking this very medicine by the tablespoon these days. I haven't posted anything in quite a while, but I haven't missed a post or comments. There is more to say than I have space or words for. I am grateful that you all are here. Blessings to all in this Christmas season. Special thanks to Will and Dilys for ringing bells and lighting lights.<BR/><BR/>JWMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44307255160234786742007-12-22T16:32:00.000-08:002007-12-22T16:32:00.000-08:00Bob's Unconscious,Yes, I was going to mention the ...Bob's Unconscious,<BR/>Yes, I was going to mention the AIDS thing along with the obesity/type 2 diabetes issue. I guess I kind of still harbor an irrational fear of being trucked off to a gulag in North Korea by the PC Gestapo if I was to mention AIDS in such a non-PC context. Thankfully I seem to be losing that fear slowly but surely, thanks in part to this blog and the Kool Koons that inhabit it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-11104233526605521842007-12-22T16:27:00.000-08:002007-12-22T16:27:00.000-08:00I tried to say many of these very same things last...I tried to say many of these very same things last night. The words were tumbling out of me faster than my mind could corral them...<BR/><BR/>The Original Thought is still producing, and upholding all creation. It Thought a me and I became an other thought, separated and yet...knowing where I came from...such a lovely paradox of mind and matter and providence and ...what a strange commodity is the free will...and within the freedom of that Original Thought, freely thunk, I too, can create with a thought, but only if it aligns with what was Already There.<BR/><BR/>I think... <BR/><BR/>[Confucius said, "Everything has been thought of before; the difficulty is to think of it again."]Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-47415300545110542312007-12-22T15:42:00.000-08:002007-12-22T15:42:00.000-08:00ok, i have a nearly finished script that i would l...ok, i have a nearly finished script that i would love bob's unconscious to assess. whaddya say?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-68729557616075875982007-12-22T15:19:00.000-08:002007-12-22T15:19:00.000-08:00I'm in Love, Darlene!I'm in Love, Darlene!NoMohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01100042056270224683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-24299600956415645492007-12-22T15:02:00.000-08:002007-12-22T15:02:00.000-08:00tsebring:Very good point. In another book, Bolton...tsebring:<BR/><BR/>Very good point. In another book, Bolton mentions that one of the spiritually perilous aspects of our day and age is that we can imagine that we are free from the moral consequences of our actions. I immediately thought of how AIDS treatments are causing an alarming return of the very behavior responsible for it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84969567315793304262007-12-22T14:53:00.000-08:002007-12-22T14:53:00.000-08:00"Someone who lives their life by mindlessly propag..."Someone who lives their life by mindlessly propagating all those bad seeds is essentially a slave to both randomness and fate -- and therefore meaninglessness. In other words, not only are they living "randomly" in the moment, but they are guaranteeing that bad things will keep happening to them in the future that "appear" random."<BR/><BR/>Yes, like the ballooning numbers of obese and type-2 diabetic folks, who often have other bad karma like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, bad liver enzymes, etc, and, who, if you look at their lifestyles, have significantly contributed to their own coming demise. Yes, they can to a great degree reverse the effects by adopting a less toxic lifestyle, but to some extent, especially if the abuse has a long history, the damage has been done. And yet I seem to hear a lot of these folks clamoring for cures to these conditions and better insurance coverage, like there is some magic bullet that can erase years of abuse to their bodies. It's more of the entitlement mentality and the failure of people to take personal responsibility, which liberalism helps to propagate. And when there are what seem to be great awakenings about health, it more often than not is driven by charlatans spewing out pseudo-science books or bogus drugs, preying upon those of us who truly want to change the gloomy picture of our medical futures ourselves. <BR/><BR/>I'm not necessarily condemning unhealthy people as immoral or evil; I myself have a few of those very conditions, and my past lifestyle is the biggest reason. I'm just saying, as Bob's stand-in is, that we really have no leg to stand on if we demand that medical science make us better when it is us that is making ourselves sick. In the end, like living spiritually, it comes down to hard work and discipline and pain; there really aren't any shortcuts. But that's how we grow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8402441990218191642007-12-22T14:02:00.000-08:002007-12-22T14:02:00.000-08:00"It seems to me that the dude can play!"Me too!"It seems to me that the dude can play!"<BR/><BR/>Me too!juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-68899871864662841842007-12-22T13:58:00.000-08:002007-12-22T13:58:00.000-08:00There are strange things happening every dayI hear...There are strange things happening every day<BR/>I hear music up above my head<BR/>Fill me up with your wonder<BR/>Give me my rapture today --<A HREF="http://www.actionext.com/names_v/van_morrison_lyrics/give_me_my_rapture.html" REL="nofollow">Van</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-83047274750586686582007-12-22T13:54:00.000-08:002007-12-22T13:54:00.000-08:00Diggin' that crazy vibe today...smoooooth. And the...Diggin' that crazy vibe today...smoooooth. And the soundtrack - sweet. There was a soundtrack wasn't there? Well I sure heard it as I read. Angels hoverin' - maybe it was their wings.NoMohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01100042056270224683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15151690273978088482007-12-22T12:51:00.000-08:002007-12-22T12:51:00.000-08:0065 million people on the move this weekend, but ho...65 million people <I>on the move</I> this weekend, but hovering around One Cosmos still seems like "the ONE place to be," if you know what I mean. And I think you <I>do,</I> since I learned it <I>here!</I><BR/><BR/>Bob's Unconscious mused:<BR/>"...one of the central purposes of a spiritual practice is to help you "rise above" fate and align your being with providence..."<BR/><BR/><I>"Align your being."</I> <BR/>Now, that's a phrase worthy of plumbing! <BR/><BR/>Already I am wondering: about the future of Bob's Unconscious. I know: future/past - it's all the same; but assuming Bob recovers ... will Un-con be warming the bench again? It seems to me that the dude can <I>play!</I>walthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388218390016612051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-64176799022024563262007-12-22T11:18:00.000-08:002007-12-22T11:18:00.000-08:00"Rave on John Donne, rave on thy Holy foolRave on ..."Rave on John Donne, rave on thy Holy fool<BR/><BR/>Rave on let a man come out of Ireland<BR/>Rave on on Mr. Yeats,<BR/>Rave on down through thy Holy Rosey Cross<BR/>Rave on down through theosophy and the Golden Dawn<BR/>Rave on through the writing of A Vision<BR/><BR/>Rave on, Rave on, Rave on, Rave on..."<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000009DDK?ie=UTF8&tag=onecosmos-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B000009DDK" REL="nofollow">This</A> is the best version, although a newly remastered edition should be coming out some time next year...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-80988445510954193342007-12-22T11:03:00.000-08:002007-12-22T11:03:00.000-08:00"...which I hope I have playgiarized and rewordgit...<I>"...which I hope I have playgiarized and rewordgitated with my own psychic substance as it trickled its way down here."</I><BR/><BR/>More like a bursting <I>flood</I> if you ask me. <BR/><BR/>"Rave on, down through the industrial revolution<BR/>Empiricism, atomic and nuclear age<BR/>Rave on down through time and space down through the corridors<BR/>Rave on words on printed page<BR/><BR/>Rave on, you left us infinity<BR/>And well pressed pages torn to fade<BR/>Drive on with wild abandon<BR/>Uptempo, frenzied heels" <BR/><BR/>-Van Morrisonrobinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com