tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post2958339392122013827..comments2024-03-29T06:03:45.545-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: The Almighty B'ob, Master of TrollsGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59668537052192736152010-06-16T08:35:10.600-07:002010-06-16T08:35:10.600-07:00Thank you, Kurt. I'd still do the verticalist...Thank you, Kurt. I'd still do the verticalisthenics anyway, but it's always encouraging to know that someone besides me benefits from the exercise.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-16257224599816964752010-06-16T00:57:03.099-07:002010-06-16T00:57:03.099-07:00Bob,
May I thank you, brother, for your labor...Bob,<br /> May I thank you, brother, for your labors on this blog and in your book, on behalf of all of us wounded, tired and tattered souls, those who seek safe haven, rest and restoration even while we walk this falling and fallen earth? May I encourage you to walk on a bit further with all of us, and with Him who is Faithful and True, and who loves us so very much? God bless you, sir, for your faithfulness to His call and for loving us, all of us who read your words everyday. Thank you for sharing your heart, even when it hurts.<br /><br />KurtKurthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01750808052006968358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8917906613040405792010-06-15T18:50:38.616-07:002010-06-15T18:50:38.616-07:00And memo to trolls: stop trying to make me your ↓....<i>And memo to trolls: stop trying to make me your ↓...</i><br /><br />The irony there is that the trolls are trying to do just that, but at the same time they want to dictate and control the flow they think they should get from you. They want to be told what they want to hear. Anything else is unacceptable.<br /><br />That being the case, one wonders why they don't spend all their time around someone more new-agey or Chopraesque. Those guys seem all too happy to play at being purveyors of ↓.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-61936647366662092102010-06-15T16:14:14.532-07:002010-06-15T16:14:14.532-07:00Re: the government overriding one's right to s...Re: the government overriding one's right to self-determination: <a href="http://www.hslda.org/hs/international/Sweden/201006140.asp" rel="nofollow">It's not inconceivable. </a> This family's crime? Homeschooling.Susannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381272662339466736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41504659774559572612010-06-15T14:46:43.960-07:002010-06-15T14:46:43.960-07:00"I find it fascinating that one of our trolls..."I find it fascinating that one of our trolls persistently mischaracterizes our position as one of certitude and finality, when precisely the opposite is true. Only the atheist has that kind of bovine certitude. Again, for the person in (•) --> O, we are always on the way, never at our final deustination."<br /><br />Very true, and it is in fact always the leftist troll which utterly rejects context and movement (life?). They always want to latch onto something noted as being True, bind it, gag it and affix it to some lifeless unchanging thing which they then want to claim is the truth we said (<i>"You think people should be able to choose? What about drug addicts! They can't be trusted to choose! Give them a choice and they'll kill themselves! There's your choice, come claim it!" </i>)... and then seem surprised as we shake our heads at their darling zombies and deny that it lives.<br /><br />The higher things are permanent, but in the horizontal they are in constant motion... I suppose from the troll's perspective down in the flats, things really do seem to be unrelated and completely different from moment to moment; if something moves, it’s assumed to be something new. If only the little fools would look up and become <i>"...however you wish to conceptualize it -- "born again from above,"</i>... just doesn't seem to happen though.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-43783556532864250862010-06-15T14:08:25.042-07:002010-06-15T14:08:25.042-07:00Truth -- I may not be able to define it, but I gno...Truth -- I may not be able to define it, but I gno it when I see it.<br /><br />Trolls, like other leftists, are about as offended by truth as decent folks are by obscenity (I'm not necessarily all that decent myself). They are not bothered by dweebs without skills living in a playboy-fantasy world. Why should they be offended if we are -- as they seem to imply -- indulging in spiritual fantasies? <br /><br />Fish will do a lot of thrashing and splashing to throw a hook.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20683751486139555452010-06-15T13:34:03.127-07:002010-06-15T13:34:03.127-07:00For Bob.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTxINWXNrPA" rel="nofollow">For Bob.</a>Skorpionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07637971946739703816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53454520190914098442010-06-15T12:52:06.010-07:002010-06-15T12:52:06.010-07:00I should emphasize that the Glock joke is *just* a...I should emphasize that the Glock joke is *just* a joke (lest Bob's trolls accuse him of attracting militia-type people).<br /><br />I'm a firm believer that Romans 13 is as relevant and applicable as the rest of Scripture.Susannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381272662339466736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71120341445333828372010-06-15T12:06:37.071-07:002010-06-15T12:06:37.071-07:00Link #1: beautiful.
Link #2: Ugh.
Well, at lea...Link #1: beautiful.<br /><br />Link #2: Ugh.<br /><br />Well, at least we're homeschooling, receive our livelihood from an institution that refuses federal aid, and don't use any "community health centers." I suppose we could work ourselves further off grid if necessary...not that I have any habits targeted by these busybodies (aside from the occasional Big Mac Attack). <br /><br />It's my offspring they'll have to pry from my cold, dead hands. (Which, isn't it interesting, fit perfectly around the handgrip of a Glock. ;) ) But seriously, I do wonder about the future of educational choice. These lefties by and large actively mischaracterize and oppose it, although a few of my more liberal friends do homeschool.Susannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381272662339466736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9847526795306283582010-06-15T11:54:59.748-07:002010-06-15T11:54:59.748-07:00They'll have to pry my grog from my cold, dead...They'll have to pry my grog from my cold, dead meat hook. Have you ever noticed that the human hand fits perfectly around a beer bottle? More evidence that God loves us and wants us to be happy.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46627815575049494022010-06-15T11:49:10.665-07:002010-06-15T11:49:10.665-07:00...and then there's "goodness", god ......and then there's <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/article/obama-begins-lifestyle-health-modification-program-mandating-behavioural-changes-within-us-s" rel="nofollow">"goodness"</a>, god help us.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-47818965611969593752010-06-15T11:33:59.161-07:002010-06-15T11:33:59.161-07:00Speaking of goodness...Speaking of <a href="http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-world-asia/20100613/AS.Australia.The.Suicide.Watchman/" rel="nofollow">goodness</a>...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-60512145129419591652010-06-15T11:11:17.128-07:002010-06-15T11:11:17.128-07:00Yes, interestingly, one can hope wrongly, in that ...Yes, interestingly, one can hope wrongly, in that misplaced hope is still hope, but, say, justice, cannot remain justice if it is not oriented to the good. Likewise love and knowledge, in that one can love the wrong things, but "untrue knowledge" is a kind of contradiction.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-49462593944062904852010-06-15T10:51:24.033-07:002010-06-15T10:51:24.033-07:00Or again, if memory serves, wasn't it the Towe...Or again, if memory serves, wasn't it the Tower in MOTT?<br /><br />Unmoored from Grace, goodness is no goodness at all, just as one cannot be wrongly virtuous.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65685520076307464122010-06-15T10:12:24.460-07:002010-06-15T10:12:24.460-07:00Pieper explains that when this happens, magnanimit...Pieper explains that when this happens, magnanimity -- the aspiration of the spirit to great things -- is transformed into pride and grandiosity.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-31940742059812995732010-06-15T10:06:32.207-07:002010-06-15T10:06:32.207-07:00An important essay by Prager that touches on today...An important <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/436333/when-good-people-do-bad-things/dennis-prager?page=1" rel="nofollow">essay</a> by Prager that touches on today's post, and what becomes of virtue -- or the desire to do good -- when it is unhitched from O and becomes horizontalized: the left wing Road to Hell Paving Company.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-79166142139617150852010-06-15T09:24:17.112-07:002010-06-15T09:24:17.112-07:00Today's seminal post is a fine little pocket m...Today's seminal post is a fine little pocket map with a "You Are Here" arrow to orient new visitors to up and down. It folds up nicely too. <br /><br /><b>Free Map - Take One</b> would look nice in a sidebar rack. Just like gas stations used to have, back when the attendants washed your windows, inflated your tires, and topped off your oil. <br /><br />WV says it has <i>dyedness</i>...robinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com