tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post3057867933729365310..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Open Your Door to the Love Explosion!Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30093140291332404442015-03-24T14:12:20.871-07:002015-03-24T14:12:20.871-07:00Hi Joan and JR,
Yes, that's true. The sea can ...Hi Joan and JR,<br />Yes, that's true. The sea can take any sized ship at any time, even with the best Cap'n n' crew.<br />Any sailor doesn't respect that is s foolish as those who thought the Titanic was unsinkable.<br /><br />That's why it's best to have faith in Cap'n God. :)USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-24192221425507227752015-03-24T04:35:56.812-07:002015-03-24T04:35:56.812-07:00Ben, the J.R. and I were discussing this morning t...Ben, the J.R. and I were discussing this morning that now matter how big one builds their ship, it becomes very small on the vasty sea. <br /><br />Love the "reverence points" and shall now appropriate the term for all matters vertical.Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66566618370743675512015-03-23T12:14:36.763-07:002015-03-23T12:14:36.763-07:00"...The liberal idea that a fetus has no more..."...The liberal idea that a fetus has no more value than a decayed tooth has deep metaphysical roots."<br /><br />Indeed, and what an abscess it causes. Simply can't get those wisdom teeth in until that's treated, and until then it's a spoon fed Grrbr leftie diet. Beware the diaper blow outs. ...Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-11653939938446720402015-03-23T11:11:32.660-07:002015-03-23T11:11:32.660-07:00"If the Trinity provides us with a point of r..."If the Trinity provides us with a point of reference, then it should come as no surprise that we open out to reality, just as reality offers itself to us. There is this mutual indwelling that results in that familiar metacosmic spiral that carries us aloft. How can we be "adrift" when we are quite obviously aloft?"<br /><br />Aye, the Trinity is not just a reference point, it's a trireverence points, which gives a multidimensional fix that is mOst precise, showing where we are in relation(ship) to God (and our bearings from and to), thus giving us a course we should be navigating.<br /><br />And we must continually receive our bearings to these reverence points to ensure we remain on the course we are destined to be on.<br /><br />Like a ship at sea, currents can cause our ship to drift, and without these points of reverence we cannot safely correct our course when needed.<br />USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-60216297861719555332015-03-23T10:51:48.248-07:002015-03-23T10:51:48.248-07:00""The human form cannot be transcended,&...""The human form cannot be transcended," writes Schuon, being that "its sufficient reason" is "precisely to express the Absolute." Now, the Absolute can have no absolute form, for reasons alluded to above: because the finite cannot contain the infinite. But to say that man is the image and likeness of God is to say that man is a point of reference to God.<br /><br />That's the good news. But what if man has sunken beneath this proper form? You know, fallen? Then we will be in need of a vertical intervention: call it an Incarnation. Given this principle, then we can say that Jesus (the man) becomes an unsurpassable icon of God; and that our relationship to this icon is likewise another icon, or rather, a participation in the same icon."<br /><br />Now that is iconoclad icoonovision. USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-64951514505181820862015-03-23T10:29:08.044-07:002015-03-23T10:29:08.044-07:00Eventually, in the days of Hezekiah, the bronze se...Eventually, in the days of Hezekiah, the bronze serpent had become an idol and had to be destroyed. <br /><br />I imagine that's some of the thinking behind Protestantism's rejection of iconography. It has been or could be misused, so let's just get rid of all it. <br /><br />It's the same reason we get our "fruit of the vine" unfermented in our little communion cups, and we all get individual ones. Sanitized for your protection.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-88867119805887994322015-03-23T09:46:53.277-07:002015-03-23T09:46:53.277-07:00I like that last quote by Sheed; well said.
This ...I like that last quote by Sheed; well said.<br /><br /><i>This gives new meaning to Jesus' comparison of himself with a door. That's not just the parochial shoptalk of a carpenter.</i><br /><br />Another good one is the comparison of Jesus to Moses' bronze snake on a pole: the icon to which the Israelites needed only turn their eyes to be healed from being snake-bit. But of course, it must have bothered them to make the snake given that they probably couldn't see the difference between an icon and an idol. Come to think of it, most people still can't.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com