tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post3110545959144287961..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Power, Truth, Freedom, and Proof that Liberals Don't ExistGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57582307475893003252013-10-21T07:42:13.239-07:002013-10-21T07:42:13.239-07:00Laziness in the pursuit of Slack! :o)Laziness in the pursuit of Slack! :o)Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-83253286291549204412013-10-21T07:30:09.456-07:002013-10-21T07:30:09.456-07:00Sorry for the lapse. Just laziness on my part, no...Sorry for the lapse. Just laziness on my part, not any lack of malevolence.Cousin Dupreenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1319033438483995162013-10-21T07:19:53.236-07:002013-10-21T07:19:53.236-07:00Thanks Joan, feeling positively perky now - nice w...Thanks Joan, feeling positively perky now - nice work Cuz.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-966600194415940072013-10-21T06:44:59.218-07:002013-10-21T06:44:59.218-07:00Wow! Does THAT feel better!
:o)Wow! Does THAT feel better!<br /><br />:o)Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37198128104418593452013-10-20T11:36:03.600-07:002013-10-20T11:36:03.600-07:00Link to it here. I take it as being about half-mea...Link to it here. I take it as being about half-measures.<br /><br />http://wordonfire.org/trackback/599bd019-04a0-402a-a824-2b22436a2cbb/Violence-in-the-Bible--A-commentary-from-Fr--Barron.aspx<br />Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-13255229998412870322013-10-20T11:21:39.063-07:002013-10-20T11:21:39.063-07:00Haven't seen it or heard of him.
I only spea...Haven't seen it or heard of him. <br /><br />I only speak to, not an intellectual tedium, but of a grieving of the Holy Spirit.<br /><br />If Bob's blog is merely an intellectual exercise, I'd allow as how everything is a "learning opportunity." Sometimes it's best to learn when enough is enough. The quenching of the Spirit is not a trifle or a speed bump in the pursuit of revelation and wisdom. It's a pernicious, persistent evil.<br /><br />Again, be done with it.Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-35872746774951524502013-10-20T10:48:47.587-07:002013-10-20T10:48:47.587-07:00Joan,
Have you watched Father Barron's latest ...Joan,<br />Have you watched Father Barron's latest video commentary on the violence in the Bible. If you haven't, you both are on the same wavelength...Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1681318317042316692013-10-20T09:59:01.938-07:002013-10-20T09:59:01.938-07:00I mean, it's practically begging you to cast i...I mean, it's practically begging you to cast it into some nearby unclean entity --HuffPo?-- which if fine with me if he drives them off a cliff.Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53445418110520154242013-10-20T09:49:04.523-07:002013-10-20T09:49:04.523-07:00" liberals require leviathan not so much to c..." liberals require leviathan not so much to curtail their freedom as to impede their compulsiveness."<br /><br />At some point, Bob, you must exert authority. You must act. Not for the benefit of the Raccoons, but for those who are pointed here to find the questions they haven't asked yet. <br /><br />Only iron sharpens iron. The soft pluff mud found in an open trench only sucks truth down to its dulling level. It's a mewling little demon that should not be suffered to speak. It is a lie. I wonder that you entertain it.<br /><br />Be done with the foul thing. Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4911946060973485562013-10-18T09:05:06.914-07:002013-10-18T09:05:06.914-07:00Ted;
Yes, I felt the need for a little balance --...Ted;<br /><br />Yes, I felt the need for a little balance -- some music to go along with the words. Although Hart can be pretty pompous. Seems to be afflicted by a slight case of tenure. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41282925264184418192013-10-18T08:15:08.983-07:002013-10-18T08:15:08.983-07:00I look forward to your thoughts on Hart's book...I look forward to your thoughts on Hart's book. It will be an interesting complement to all this process stuff. I read some of the preview pages, he makes an interesting point that Henry Newman could find nothing in the idea of evolution/process contrary to or problematic for the traditional doctrine of creation.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50394819406561816112013-10-18T07:48:23.433-07:002013-10-18T07:48:23.433-07:00Hey, I'm a slow learner.
Only clicked this mo...Hey, I'm a slow learner.<br /><br />Only clicked this morning (thanks to these posts, watching the 1966 movie "The Bible" last night, and current events) the aspect of the Tower of Babel which previously seemed to me to only explain the origins of all our different languages. The rest of the story I just didn't see the connection -- between the tower and languages, ie <i>communication</i>.<br /><br />By current events, I mean, our Emperor Nimrod. What is he trying to do with his Obamacare tower? What his kind always try to do: purchase immortality.<br /><br />Certainly, he's shooting for "President For Life." Certainly, so far, no one has been able to "bend his bow" (wehy, the Repubs caved just the other night).<br /><br />Isn't it interesting this "communication break-down" with those trying to deal with the Obamacare website -- the users and builders.<br /><br />Man cannot purchase life no matter how much bread he coughs up, but by every communication <i>with</i> God.<br /><br />Or no soup for you! One age.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20142676554338952752013-10-17T10:26:15.238-07:002013-10-17T10:26:15.238-07:00if I am not free, I am just an extension, or prolo...<i>if I am not free, I am just an extension, or prolongation, or effect, of something else, something necessary.<br /><br />This being the case, freedom must be "the highest gift," since it is nothing less than the gift of real existence.</i><br /><br />Wow! Nice.John Lienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02302615225311776021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12109948653945721962013-10-17T10:15:09.642-07:002013-10-17T10:15:09.642-07:00Consider how the Old Testament took on an entirely...Consider how the Old Testament took on an entirely different meaning in light of the New....Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23176221115325341432013-10-17T10:12:48.112-07:002013-10-17T10:12:48.112-07:00Yes, just as there are aspects of the future that ...Yes, just as there are aspects of the future that are determined, there appear to be aspects of the past that are undetermined, in the sense that they don't reveal their meaning until the future sheds light on them. Alternative futures imply different pasts. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3237948012040108702013-10-17T10:07:13.580-07:002013-10-17T10:07:13.580-07:00I was thinking this morning that the past, while s...I was thinking this morning that the past, while set and done, can be changed. That is, it can be redeemed. No matter how much evil it contains, that which carries us to Christ is holy. If our past brings us to redemption, it, too, is redeemed. <br /><br />Herman Wouk had a great line in <i>The Caine Mutiny</i> equating the character of the men involved to small hinges on which a very large door may turn. It's the same thing with faith and the Cross, the whole of human history pivots on two very small points.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85893809759722324132013-10-17T10:05:44.685-07:002013-10-17T10:05:44.685-07:00For me, one of the most shocking implications of t...<i>For me, one of the most shocking implications of the Incarnation is that God submits to his own creation -- to history, to human nature, to suffering, and to cosmic injustice. This is unlike any other notion of God, either before or since. And clearly, the apostles had a great deal of difficulty wrapping their minds around it. I mean, what is the point if your god can't just go all Chicago on his enemies, like, say Allah or Obama? </i><br /><br />Yes, the Last Supper must have been quite a shock for the apostles. Here before them, God in the flesh, whom they have observed performing miracles left and right, is saying, "Tomorrow, I'm going to die. Now, eat me."juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67050096033333896772013-10-17T09:58:07.359-07:002013-10-17T09:58:07.359-07:00There are two (transliterated) Greek words that us...There are two (transliterated) Greek words that used to get a lot of play in Pentecostal/Charismatic circles: <i>exousia</i> and <i>dunamis</i>. <i>Exousia</i> is authority -- so I'm told. <i>Dunamis</i> -- power in action -- and the root, as I heard a hundred times, of the word dynamite -- might equate to force. When Jesus said, "All power in heaven and on earth has been given to Me", He was talking about authority.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.com