tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post2283470580144523940..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Life Amidst the Postmodern RuinsGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37311226968666959842007-11-28T11:45:00.000-08:002007-11-28T11:45:00.000-08:00Ben said "A healthy rock star that is (I thought I...Ben said "A healthy rock star that is (I thought I should clarify)."<BR/><BR/>;0)<BR/><BR/>I tried to put a profile pic up when I first moved to blogger, but couldn't get it to work. My 8 yr old came down the other day with her Mom's camera phone & told me she was going to take my portrait... and then wanted to see it somewhere... soooo ... viola!Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29678289687346537552007-11-28T11:39:00.000-08:002007-11-28T11:39:00.000-08:00Vogz, No, I haven't read Johnson's book - looks in...Vogz, No, I haven't read Johnson's book - looks interesting though. I just found that at the end of trail of nearly every rotten thoughts that I tracked down, Rousseau was there looking bloated and smug. <BR/><BR/>You can take the trail one direct step further back to Descartes, but I have difficulty seeing him as making anything other than honest errors; Rousseau on the other hand, I think knew exactly what he was doing, why, and had a good idea that only bad things would come of his words.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-55346825998860373002007-11-28T07:00:00.000-08:002007-11-28T07:00:00.000-08:00Van,Regarding Rousseau you are correct (I am guess...Van,<BR/><BR/>Regarding Rousseau you are correct (I am guessing you've read Paul Johnson's Intellectuals too). For the purposes of the story, I have to wonder if Percy inserted his name (and Skinner too) as an ironic point on the word "harmless".vogzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04777803276210863997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51328946335349277342007-11-28T06:12:00.000-08:002007-11-28T06:12:00.000-08:00Nice photo, Van. I always wondered what you looked...Nice photo, Van. I always wondered what you looked like. <BR/>You look like a rock star! :^)<BR/><BR/>A healthy rock star that is (I thought I should clarify).USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20723912784391951542007-11-28T06:03:00.000-08:002007-11-28T06:03:00.000-08:00Chesterton writes that "there is a thought that st...Chesterton writes that "there is a thought that stops thought. That is the only thought that ought to be stopped." It is the thoroughly irrational thought that our thoughts have no relationship to reality and that truth is therefore inaccessible to human beings. This radical skepticism was "the ultimate evil against which religious authority was aimed," which is why, "in so far as religion is gone, reason is going. <BR/><BR/>That small statement says pretty much everything that's wrong with any ideology that would take away, or limit liberty. <BR/><BR/>Then again, most leftists no longer understand what liberty is, mistaking it for their own sub-type of freedom, or freedom that fits their particular M.O.<BR/>Anything that falls outside of their pervrameters they seek to stifle.<BR/><BR/>Only the thought that stops thought can bring about such utter depravity, because one must stop thought to accept evil as "good."<BR/><BR/>Great series of posts, Bob!USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84205566511375800362007-11-28T04:30:00.000-08:002007-11-28T04:30:00.000-08:00Oooops! Alan Watts wrote that.(Hey: it's early, o...Oooops! Alan Watts wrote that.<BR/><BR/>(Hey: <I>it's early,</I> out here!)walthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388218390016612051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71481376216424263272007-11-28T04:28:00.000-08:002007-11-28T04:28:00.000-08:00Just for fun:There was a young man who said, "Thou...Just for fun:<BR/><BR/>There was a young man who said, "Though<BR/>It seems that I know that I know,<BR/>What I would like to see<BR/>Is the I that knows me<BR/>When I know that I know that I know."walthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388218390016612051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-10546122688674256172007-11-27T21:11:00.000-08:002007-11-27T21:11:00.000-08:00Tee-hee... come for the Thanksgiving, stay for the...Tee-hee... come for the Thanksgiving, stay for the Limericks.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53153319249882803282007-11-27T20:59:00.000-08:002007-11-27T20:59:00.000-08:00tsebring said... "tap, I don't sniff my friends' b...tsebring said... <BR/>"tap, I don't sniff my friends' butts, pee on hydrants, and bite people..."<BR/><BR/>One senses tapiwoohoo's reaction to readin...(perhaps a bit optimistic) decoding that, as being something along the lines of "What? You don't? Why on earth not?"<BR/><BR/>wv:oxdthcup - probably true, but a bit rude, veri.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-79396136109220264062007-11-27T20:56:00.000-08:002007-11-27T20:56:00.000-08:00Rousseau...the Ignoble Savage.Rousseau...the Ignoble Savage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15073634286952219462007-11-27T20:54:00.000-08:002007-11-27T20:54:00.000-08:00Of course someone like Ahmadinijad or bin Laden ma...Of course someone like Ahmadinijad or bin Laden may indeed do those things...you may have a point after all, tapuwasi.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-21504730836641818832007-11-27T20:52:00.000-08:002007-11-27T20:52:00.000-08:00Vogz said "...If you are a theorist of Mankind lik...Vogz said "...If you are a theorist of Mankind like Rousseau or Skinner, who believes he understands man's brain and in the solitariness of his study or laboratory writes books on the subject, you are also probably harmless and might even contribute to human knowledge..."<BR/><BR/>I don't doubt your intent, and I do get the point... and sure, Rousseau was a danger to no one, but his wife... and his children... but among the men of modernity, you'd be hard pressed to find a more root cause for the destruction of modern education and philosophy than Rousseau. The inspiration behind Kant, Hegel and Marx and the torrents of destruction from their time to ours, have a main tributary source in Rueso.<BR/><BR/>Harmless? Nothing could be further from the truth. Contribute to human knowledge? Only to its destruction.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-81603727085433980602007-11-27T20:51:00.000-08:002007-11-27T20:51:00.000-08:00tap,I don't sniff my friends' butts, pee on hydran...tap,<BR/>I don't sniff my friends' butts, pee on hydrants, and bite people. I think the divide is a bit larger than you might imagine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-6446834398370132732007-11-27T20:46:00.000-08:002007-11-27T20:46:00.000-08:00There once was a wise man named Bobwho considered ...There once was a wise man named Bob<BR/>who considered it his righteous job<BR/>to enlighten mankind<BR/>with his vertical mind<BR/>and hit leftism right in the gob.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-27547372774415191692007-11-27T20:41:00.000-08:002007-11-27T20:41:00.000-08:00Will said "I would think misplaced hearts brewed u...Will said "I would think misplaced hearts brewed up this ridiculous and dangerous Palestinian/Israeli "peace summit" in Annapolis."<BR/><BR/>Oh, you gno it. A farce indeed - just what do they think even a successful summit will bring? Can't you just picture Hamass's press release? <I>"Ah! They shook hands! On TV! We have no recourse, but to say, we're sorry, and will start being good! Peace be upon the infidels, and don't forget...Death to America!</I>"Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-88933178565219198292007-11-27T20:38:00.000-08:002007-11-27T20:38:00.000-08:00Yes, the road to hell is indeed paved with good in...Yes, the road to hell is indeed paved with good intentions. Marx just wanted everyone to be equal...what's wrong with that? Oh, yeah, 50 million dead, forgot about that...I guess that when people don't want to be forced to be equal, you have to....kill them. And if people don't want to buy into global warming or multiculturalism, you...silence them. And if people don't want to follow Sharia law, you...kill all of them. Well, I don't want to do any of those things...so...try and catch me :DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-56081278241362368562007-11-27T20:35:00.000-08:002007-11-27T20:35:00.000-08:00Nice job Cuz, now THAT's talent!Nice job Cuz, now THAT's talent!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2736543388524971672007-11-27T20:19:00.000-08:002007-11-27T20:19:00.000-08:00"When this happens, "it is not merely the vices th..."When this happens, "it is not merely the vices that are let loose." Rather, "the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage." "<BR/><BR/>Indeed - virtues without Virtue, can lead nowhere else but towards,<BR/><BR/>"Of all the animals, only a human being can sink beneath himself -- and even beneath the animals. And he does so primarily by imagining that an animal is all he is, for when human intelligence is in the service of animal instinct, the result is hell on earth... "<BR/><BR/> and such people will eagerly "...spend some $100,000 plus on an elite university education, only to learn that truth doesn't exist and we possess it."<BR/><BR/>and not only admit to the purchase, but boast about it.<BR/><BR/>Ugh... quick, pass the Tums....Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-27765073916636044182007-11-27T17:47:00.000-08:002007-11-27T17:47:00.000-08:00I leave my comment in an asterisk*I leave my comment in an asterisk<A HREF="http://www.river-cocytus.com/w.htm" REL="nofollow">*</A>Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54916755458936107612007-11-27T17:14:00.000-08:002007-11-27T17:14:00.000-08:00It is all on a spectrum, all of the same cloth.Woo...<I>It is all on a spectrum, all of the same cloth.</I><BR/><BR/>Woof!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-74607411544225639022007-11-27T17:03:00.000-08:002007-11-27T17:03:00.000-08:00I'm sure your dog agrees.I'm sure your dog agrees.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86502811238417454852007-11-27T16:52:00.000-08:002007-11-27T16:52:00.000-08:00Bob--We are intelligent animals and of course repr...Bob--<BR/><BR/>We are intelligent animals and of course reproduction is in many ways the main event for us, just as among the beasts. <BR/><BR/>That doesn't preclude our spirituality (or that of the beasts). We are smart mammals but mammals we are. Not so great a divide between dog and man. <BR/><BR/>It is all on a spectrum, all of the same cloth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-64047298866878603972007-11-27T15:47:00.000-08:002007-11-27T15:47:00.000-08:00Amber's annual gimmickWas to recite a Thanksgiving...Amber's annual gimmick<BR/>Was to recite a Thanksgiving limerick<BR/>But she stumbled on One Cosmos<BR/>And got frightened by what Bob knows<BR/>'Cause in Knoxville there's hardly a dimmer chickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-42589872754186188122007-11-27T14:45:00.000-08:002007-11-27T14:45:00.000-08:00Wow, I was just looking for Thanksgiving limericks...<I>Wow, I was just looking for Thanksgiving limericks, and I found your blog. It's frightening.</I><BR/><BR/>Man, I can relate! I mean, like, who among us <I>doesn't</I> look for Thanksgiving limericks, you know, five days after Thanksgiving?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66276928571981677162007-11-27T11:42:00.000-08:002007-11-27T11:42:00.000-08:00That's a bizarre temple, dloye. It is beautiful, b...That's a bizarre temple, dloye. It is beautiful, but it does not feel original. <BR/><BR/><I>I think my humility is wrong. It sure does take a long time to get rid of this garbage.</I><BR/><BR/>Yeah, thats the truth, man. The enemy loves layin' caltrops. Guess that's what the shoes of the Gospel of peace are about?<BR/><BR/>The more I read (of both books, Everlasting Man and Orthodoxy) the more I'm convinced the man (Chesterton) WAS a prophet. Both he and Lewis. <BR/><BR/><I>Wow, I was just looking for Thanksgiving limericks, and I found your blog. It's frightening.</I><BR/><BR/>Dante, thy Virgil awaits...Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.com