tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post207544631632735794..comments2024-03-29T06:03:45.545-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Stupid Burns but Intelligence Incinerates Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4605801248918543502013-07-12T06:19:15.187-07:002013-07-12T06:19:15.187-07:00Reminds me of the poem by art prodigy Akiane where...Reminds me of the poem by art prodigy Akiane where she says " those who claim to know the truth pull the trigger at the universe... <br /><br />The smugness of wackademics and journos who have been brainwashed at journo school.. has to be seen to be beleived.. <br /><br />Juleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10119193175145977768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8488123618693589902013-07-02T05:19:47.283-07:002013-07-02T05:19:47.283-07:00"I've been reading a lot of Voegelin late..."I've been reading a lot of Voegelin lately, and he reminds us that virtually all political pathologies -- i.e., ideologies -- result from a de-differentiation of this space. It was a singular evolutionary achievement for man to differentiate the two spheres, so to re-collapse them is a definite step backward"<br /><br />Yep, Self-awareness vs Soph-awareness. Btw, it might seem surprising, given their history (then again...), but the Greeks truly feared the idea of a lack of limitations, especially in another man - it was purely unreasonable. Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-31274208639713322202013-07-02T04:07:25.125-07:002013-07-02T04:07:25.125-07:00And holy fire consumes and destroys that which nee...And holy fire consumes and destroys that which needs tobe destroyed.<br />Yeah,it can be psychiclly painful if we allow it to burn but it also makes us more free...of burdens, addictions, bad behavior, etc., etc..<br /><br />The fire helps us transcend our selfs. Dare I say we all oughtta welcome the fire. <br />Well, those that are ready that is. It won't burn those who don't make Truth, Goodness and Beauty THE priority and sancrosant, because thie fire is Holy.<br />USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1636771237823567812013-07-02T03:39:39.513-07:002013-07-02T03:39:39.513-07:00"Which is why you could say that stupidity al..."Which is why you could say that stupidity always has its limits, whereas intelligence has none."<br /><br />Something I recall attributed to Dag Hammarskjöld: God has placed limits on human intelligence but none at all on his stupidity. If you don't agree you haven't been paying attention to SC Justice Kennedy.DTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06478032380746721860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9607654464918517672013-07-01T15:59:22.831-07:002013-07-01T15:59:22.831-07:00"Even if true, it only makes matters worse in..."Even if true, it only makes matters worse in a man who recognizes no extrinsically transcendent limits to his ambition, his authority, and his self-regard -- or to his monomania, egomania, and pyromania."<br /><br />I do wonder how much money he will get from the lecture circuit after he loses his job since nobody is really excited about his inherent awesomeness any more.<br /><br />I remain convinced that he pretty much has no actual control or actual authority over anything, since it's pretty apparent that he has no idea what he's doing.<br /><br />I mean, he's precisely inert.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26761239830568525012013-07-01T12:43:45.430-07:002013-07-01T12:43:45.430-07:00"We must remember that "fire illuminates..."We must remember that "fire illuminates, but it also consumes and destroys" (emphasis mine)."<br /><br />This is why you always need to know your actual safe capacity.<br /><br />No point trying to get to 200% if you are just going to spontaneously combust at that point.<br /><br />Now, if your goal is to increase your capacity, which means 105% in fixed increments with time for rest is good. <br /><br />But don't overtrain!JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-63223709842440748962013-07-01T12:27:52.388-07:002013-07-01T12:27:52.388-07:00GB re your first sentences--- recalls Schwaller...GB re your first sentences--- recalls Schwaller's Doctrine of Anthropocosmos: Man IS the Cosmos. [so let's paaah-tay!]<br /><br />this sentence <br />'Just because in a roomful of people, each person will have a different view of the room, it doesn't mean that the room has no objective existence.'<br />-it doesn't? Donde esta that OE?<br />[our ideas of/POV re things are mightily hard to separate from their 'actuality', so much so that one laughs eve as mouthing that word!]<br />Where we see a <a href="http://furnitureoutlet.ie/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/s/h/sh2225-cherry-chippendale-carver.jpg" rel="nofollow">Chippendale</a> <br />a termite sees: Lunch! Of course some see a <a href="http://www.bestofvegas.com/cdn/Shows-Tickets/Chippendales/images/Chippendales_Billy_-Final.jpg" rel="nofollow">Chippendale</a><br />and also see 'Lunch! Ooh-ga'gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89507527320814125162013-07-01T10:35:44.281-07:002013-07-01T10:35:44.281-07:00There have been lots of unveilings in various plac...There have been lots of unveilings in various places just over the last couple of hundred years. <br /><br /><i>And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.</i> -- Isaiah 66:24<br /><br />"Hell's comin' to breakfast."mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20809565788736999472013-07-01T10:19:59.760-07:002013-07-01T10:19:59.760-07:00It's been taken care of OT. See Ephesians 2:1...It's been taken care of OT. <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians%202:13-16&version=NASB" rel="nofollow">See Ephesians 2:13-16.</a><br /><br />One new man.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-68760084000981012162013-07-01T10:12:53.444-07:002013-07-01T10:12:53.444-07:00...pagan polytheism, which is just a fractured, pe...<i>...pagan polytheism, which is just a fractured, personified, and immanentized projection of the psyche.</i><br /><br />You've probably said this before, perhaps in different words, but that really gonged today.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36859474315529862602013-07-01T08:25:48.396-07:002013-07-01T08:25:48.396-07:00Love the title today. Now to read the post...Love the title today. Now to read the post...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-10859345417866244462013-07-01T08:12:55.504-07:002013-07-01T08:12:55.504-07:00Yes. As soon as you discover you're more inte...Yes. As soon as you discover you're more intelligent than the herd, you're headed for a fall.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37248866497540773802013-07-01T08:08:58.423-07:002013-07-01T08:08:58.423-07:00Wow. My morning Bible reading was in I Corinthians...Wow. My morning Bible reading was in I Corinthians today: "We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know. But the man who loves God is known by God." (v1b-3)<br />The man who thinks he knows something...seems our world is full of such folks these days (and I have been guilty of it, too.) When I shared these verses with my wife she said - "And when you get all puffed up there's no room on the bench for anyone else." No one else, not even God.Kurthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01750808052006968358noreply@blogger.com