tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post3767544110593534658..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Cosmic Plumbing and The Flow of PresenceGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36334378479593948152020-07-08T11:40:35.224-07:002020-07-08T11:40:35.224-07:00Most of all this is all about keeping the mob unde...Most of all this is all about keeping the mob under control so they don’t storm the wrong castle. I'd rather they just go to church on Sundays. But the current strategy has been to keep the mob squabbling amongst themselves. I fear they’re starting to figure this out.<br /><br />So I consider the EPA. Sometimes it’s needed to keep people healthy and alive, and other times, to keep the mindlessly quarter profit driven corporations solvent. But a lot of the time it’s a real pain in everyone’s butt. Plus it’s a leftist thing. Damn that tricky Nixon straight to hell.<br /><br />So if we abolish the EPA, the lawyers, many rich and powerful, will litigate loudly. Regulate the EPA and the EPA will cry “Regulation? We do the regulation! Not you, you dumb fuckers.” Take your eye off the EPA and corruption will infiltrate and you get many back room deals meant to enrich all the players and only the players. <br /><br />Yet in the words of those plastic red hatted aphorists, “If a problem comes along, you must whip it!” No truer words badly sung. So what to do? Is now a good time for a thought experiment?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59521146167771354702020-07-08T11:23:29.210-07:002020-07-08T11:23:29.210-07:00History is not cleared of its miasmas except in th...<i>History is not cleared of its miasmas except in the brief periods in which Christian winds blow.</i><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3048/3048-h/3048-h.htm" rel="nofollow">A passage we read last fall comes to mind</a>, describing a journey through Normandy and France in the mid- 900s:<br /><br />"It was pretty much the same through the whole journey, waste lands, marshes, and forests alternated. The Castles stood on high mounds frowning on the country round, and villages were clustered round them, where the people either fled away, driving off their cattle with them at the first sight of an armed band, or else, if they remained, proved to be thin, wretched-looking creatures, with wasted limbs, aguish faces, and often iron collars round their necks. Wherever there was anything of more prosperous appearance, such as a few cornfields, vineyards on the slopes of the hills, fat cattle, and peasantry looking healthy and secure, there was sure to be seen a range of long low stone buildings, surmounted with crosses, with a short square Church tower rising in the midst, and interspersed with gnarled hoary old apple-trees, or with gardens of pot-herbs spreading before them to the meadows. If, instead of two or three men-at-arms from a Castle, or of some trembling serf pressed into the service, and beaten, threatened, and watched to prevent treachery, the King asked for a guide at a Convent, some lay brother would take his staff; or else mount an ass, and proceed in perfect confidence and security as to his return homewards, sure that his poverty and his sacred character would alike protect him from any outrage from the most lawless marauder of the neighbourhood."juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59473892398057886052020-07-08T09:37:02.916-07:002020-07-08T09:37:02.916-07:00Why do ideologues cling to their ideology despite ...Why do ideologues cling to their ideology despite its proven failures?<br /><br />Indeed. Trying to control the coronavirus by taking away our liberties will only lead to failure, as history irreconcilably demonstrates. We must roll with manmade disasters, like the peaceful leaf on the stormy sea just minding its own business, because disasters are actually not manmade. It was God all along. Unless somebody says the left caused it and then it will have been the left all along. <br /><br />Because God is punishing the left by punishing the right for allowing the left, despite the right.<br /><br />And so thus, I can only see a ruthlessly godless communist government in our future, made mostly of mad leftists and misguided rightists trying to gain power for the ultimate purpose of trying to control God. But God cannot be controlled. God shall destroy you all.<br /><br />Here endeth my sermon of Truth.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com