tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post351617447039964010..comments2024-03-29T06:03:45.545-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: I Am a Revelation. Up to a Point.Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50445387153657569072013-07-07T19:35:51.324-07:002013-07-07T19:35:51.324-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Juleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10119193175145977768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87842304630868912732013-07-07T19:35:28.176-07:002013-07-07T19:35:28.176-07:00I was looking up at the many stars in the warrumbu...I was looking up at the many stars in the warrumbungles national park, nsw , australia. Known for its clear skies. At one stage i said "thabkyou god for this beauty." And at that precise moment, a very bright greenish shooting star streaked for a few sevonds like a flare. MagicalJuleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10119193175145977768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-72377488930908695962013-07-03T08:24:59.720-07:002013-07-03T08:24:59.720-07:00-Just a quik footnote to add reminder re 'smas...-Just a quik footnote to add reminder re 'smashan sadhanas' or the Indo-Tibetan yogic practice of spending nights or living at cremation grounds, where opportunities are embraced rather than shunned for ego boundary-terrifying challenges to one's calm & sanity---ghost & demon encounters encouraged as ideal for emptiness-compassion in extremis traininggehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44728985119217897802013-07-03T05:15:24.106-07:002013-07-03T05:15:24.106-07:00It seems to me that our sense of wonder is like th...It seems to me that our sense of wonder is like the residue, or a vertical recollection, of this ontological situation. We have just enough wonder to destabilize any pat answer to life's enigmas, but not enough to obliterate our very selves."<br /><br />Wonderful. Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-78107546861386703442013-07-02T22:48:36.048-07:002013-07-02T22:48:36.048-07:00Hey, Mizz E!
Is it safe to ask how the elopemen...Hey, Mizz E! <br /><br />Is it safe to ask how the elopement went?mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-40647357449064846872013-07-02T22:47:21.953-07:002013-07-02T22:47:21.953-07:00Honoring your father and mother could mean living ...Honoring your father and mother could mean living and acting in such a way that someone observing you would say, "You must have had wonderful parents." We should be a credit to our parents, even if they were idiots. At least they didn't manage to screw us up.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-13379665430139225502013-07-02T18:16:46.421-07:002013-07-02T18:16:46.421-07:00This one struck the other day :
"Honor thy f...This one struck the other day :<br /><br />"Honor thy father and mother": may also mean to honor your archetypes or fatherness or motherness as such. Your future self as father or mother (perfected). Your specific meant-of-you parents you should become. In other words, say in my case, the teleological father that God pleas that I become for my child - I must always keep my future me as father (perfected) in mind, it says. There is some type of faith required of it. Or assigned to it.<br />With this mental icon, you may still honor fatherness and motherness even if your actual parents, say, abused you.<br /><br />Help me out here, Bob.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41372526356652471242013-07-02T14:55:31.075-07:002013-07-02T14:55:31.075-07:00Ahh, the secret to raising children...love and bou...Ahh, the secret to raising children...love and boundaries...or is that redundant?NoMohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01100042056270224683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67537174618102395732013-07-02T14:05:12.202-07:002013-07-02T14:05:12.202-07:00Excellent and very apropos poem. Excellent and very apropos poem. USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-35693310205556816192013-07-02T14:03:34.491-07:002013-07-02T14:03:34.491-07:00Hi Tanis!
It's a pleasure to see ya! :^)Hi Tanis!<br />It's a pleasure to see ya! :^)USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36528515363103088632013-07-02T13:52:56.578-07:002013-07-02T13:52:56.578-07:00Ben!Ben!Mizz Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02325435271880036807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-88647679692300433372013-07-02T13:52:30.814-07:002013-07-02T13:52:30.814-07:00"Tell All The Truth"
Tell all the truth..."Tell All The Truth"<br /><br />Tell all the truth but tell it slant,<br />Success in circuit lies,<br />Too bright for our infirm delight<br />The truth's superb surprise; <br /><br />As lightning to the children eased<br />With explanation kind,<br />The truth must dazzle gradually<br />Or every man be blind.<br /><br />- Emily DickinsonMizz Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02325435271880036807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48868331260009665272013-07-02T11:58:32.845-07:002013-07-02T11:58:32.845-07:00Btw, I like the title of todays post, Bob.
Very d...Btw, I like the title of todays post, Bob. <br />Very deep. To a point. :)USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41096554343620834862013-07-02T11:52:23.066-07:002013-07-02T11:52:23.066-07:00Also, what Mushroom said.
No wonder the left hates...Also, what Mushroom said.<br />No wonder the left hates boundaries, except their own, which is far more restrictive than sensible boundaries.<br /><br />Or, rather the left wants to obliterate the boundaroes God has given us and impose their own hellish boundaries which is a prison.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45396036316964204092013-07-02T11:46:30.668-07:002013-07-02T11:46:30.668-07:00Pf is the new of. Pf is the new of. USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86643813013628223332013-07-02T11:43:46.756-07:002013-07-02T11:43:46.756-07:00The older I get, the more I realize how blessed we...The older I get, the more I realize how blessed we are to have God given boundaries...not to restrict us or imprison us, but to protect us and actually liberate us.<br /><br />Aye. without boundaries we wouldn't...couldn't have liberty.<br /><br />Not to be confused by manmade boundaries, many pf which do enslave.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54690791374806477722013-07-02T11:38:29.646-07:002013-07-02T11:38:29.646-07:00"we would become transparent; we would be as ..."we would become transparent; we would be as if suspended over an abyss or rushed through an incommensurable macrocosm, with its entrails exposed, so to speak, and filled with terror."<br /><br />That happened to me once when I ate some bad fried rice in the Phillippines. It was a week of hell, I tell you. <br />USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53796495170936196702013-07-02T11:37:20.831-07:002013-07-02T11:37:20.831-07:00Exodus 33:17-23
Moses wanted to see the glory of ...<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2033:17-23&version=ESV" rel="nofollow">Exodus 33:17-23</a><br /><br />Moses wanted to see the glory of God, but to look straight into the face of God, i.e., pure, unfiltered Reality, is to be shredded. So God said, Stand up here on this rock and when I pass by, I'll put you in a cleft of the rock and put my hand over you until I've passed. Then you can see the glory that lingers.<br /><br />So God confines and binds us in order to reveal to us what we are ready and able to perceive and understand.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.com