tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post4513460956614151341..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: You Must Be One Before You Can Be SomeoneGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22637252803027585522013-02-21T16:08:06.722-08:002013-02-21T16:08:06.722-08:00"I guess you could say that "AM" ac..."I guess you could say that "AM" accounts for oneness, but only "I" accounts for someoneness, the particularity in the universal."<br /><br />;-)<br /><br />Sweet.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29402115761364207652013-02-21T16:04:09.120-08:002013-02-21T16:04:09.120-08:00"However, ONE can only be discovered in THREE..."However, ONE can only be discovered in THREE. In other words, if there is only ONE, then there is nothing to discover and no one else to discover it. And TWO is either an irreconcilable dualism or an imaginary one, for as Wittgenstein said, "to draw a limit to thought, thought must think both sides of that limit.""<br /><br />Yep. The failure (or refusal) to grasp that, is at the heart of most philosophical errors and historical horrors. On the Philosophical end, Reality, Identity and Consciousness are a Three-Pack, and to deny that is to risk becoming a Depak.<br /><br />Reality exists, <br />Identity is what Reality exists as (in a given context),<br />Consciousness is your awareness of them.<br /><br />There's no getting below, behind or around any of them, they are the axioms that are required in any attempt at describing the others.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-38555130544224598802013-02-20T08:03:05.789-08:002013-02-20T08:03:05.789-08:00this article seems related:
http://chronicle.com/...this article seems related:<br /><br />http://chronicle.com/article/The-Quest-for-Permanent/137039/<br /><br />written by an untenured English prof, so be fairwarned<br /><br />I'm puzzled by his saying this:<br /><br /><i>The poet can't have what he wants; even worse, he can't even say exactly what it is he wants.</i><br /><br />Is it not obvious that Keats wants to keep lying there on his lover's breast? Has the professor never experienced this or felt the same? Why on earth does the professor hear "despair" in this poem instead of pretty understandable erotic longing?<br /><br />Perhaps it's significant that the professor omits the middle of the poem, which goes on to talk about the moon as watching over the tides, which are like "priest's ablutions." The religious connotations here are important and perfectly in line with other poems of his which contrast youthful/energetic eroticism and aged/static religion.<br /><br />Paying attention to that contrast would lead the professor not to hear "despair" at all, but the typical Romantic rebellion.<br /><br />Keats was good with language but died a youth. It would've been interesting to hear what he'd have written as a Victorian.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89040672779008632622013-02-20T06:18:56.822-08:002013-02-20T06:18:56.822-08:00Heh - the comments below that video certainly seem...Heh - the comments below that video certainly seem to be nothing but barking...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30560589156016329952013-02-20T06:18:21.375-08:002013-02-20T06:18:21.375-08:00Works for calling coyotes or brujos...Works for calling coyotes or <i>brujos</i>...mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39926486836399656022013-02-20T06:16:01.962-08:002013-02-20T06:16:01.962-08:00This is why, although dogs have co-evolved right a...<i>This is why, although dogs have co-evolved right alongside human beings, I don't see any progress in them at all.</i><br /><br />Just came across a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxDLkoK8vQQ" rel="nofollow">trailer</a> for some of these dogs.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-21660796906189280242013-02-19T20:49:39.436-08:002013-02-19T20:49:39.436-08:00Mush, you sure that isn't that your predator c...Mush, you sure that isn't that your predator calling tape? <br /><br />I had to stop it at 3:51 because the Mighty Quinn started growling and barking.John Lienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02302615225311776021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70304403473473249842013-02-19T19:55:54.033-08:002013-02-19T19:55:54.033-08:00I remember personally installing an 8 track in my ...I remember personally installing an 8 track in my dad's Gran Torino, and listening to the Moody Blues' Seventh Sojourn and Floyd's Dark Side on it. It's been all downhill since then. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30582693278737671012013-02-19T19:12:01.269-08:002013-02-19T19:12:01.269-08:00The Moody Blues reminded me of this classic that I...The Moody Blues reminded me of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1tfUaBezFo" rel="nofollow">this classic that I once had on 8-track</a>. We'd listen to this in the car, out in the boonies, not a light around for miles. The sound on the car stereo was surprisingly good, though I could hear much better back then.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-18036639969560686542013-02-19T17:55:22.582-08:002013-02-19T17:55:22.582-08:00Hey I remember that! Only it was a bloated and pon...Hey I remember that! Only it was a bloated and ponderous <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylW8vdXV6v8" rel="nofollow">stoner fantasy</a> I heard while smoking a doob on my water bed. Still, a big influence on the Cosmogenesis section of One Cosmos.<br />Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-6488211247019076692013-02-19T17:42:31.809-08:002013-02-19T17:42:31.809-08:00Back to music, I just came across this. What a jou...Back to music, I just came across <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=If_T1Q9u6FM" rel="nofollow">this</a>. What a journey for man!tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1964062211308112562013-02-19T16:59:12.020-08:002013-02-19T16:59:12.020-08:00"Clearly, the unity of which we are speaking ..."Clearly, the unity of which we are speaking must be prior to any act of knowledge, of any kind."<br /><br />Which re-thinks that the Ten Divine-Human Pleas were not created when Moses received them, but rathe in the beginning.<br />Hearing requires readiness.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9091736931872331142013-02-19T16:45:38.663-08:002013-02-19T16:45:38.663-08:00Spork!Spork!Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-55790470249996323132013-02-19T15:22:18.565-08:002013-02-19T15:22:18.565-08:00Yes, MOTT has helped me in several ways, not the l...Yes, MOTT has helped me in several ways, not the least of which is uprooting and exposing my own romantic sympathy for certain aspects of pantheism. One of the bad things about smoking dope was that goofy, pseudo-experience of one-with-everything.<br /><br />And there was also all the weight I gained from the urge to have one with everything.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-63642099939336682782013-02-19T14:25:02.627-08:002013-02-19T14:25:02.627-08:00Yes, material mysticism is a kind of pantheism, an...Yes, material mysticism is a kind of pantheism, and therefore precisely half the story. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-33613870420887541592013-02-19T14:10:42.767-08:002013-02-19T14:10:42.767-08:00Some ... are fully aware of this, but it is by no ...<i>Some ... are fully aware of this, but it is by no means similar to being a religious mystic ...</i><br /><br />This is the misunderstanding that will sometimes cause people to argue that God doesn't explain anything more than one gets from the Big Bang. The ultimate unity makes sense in the case of religious mysticism, but material mysticism is still derivative.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-43166367933415441722013-02-19T12:16:04.394-08:002013-02-19T12:16:04.394-08:00With God, the inquiry remains alive forever. Witho...With God, the inquiry remains alive forever. Without him, it can all be wrapped up in some equation. Will those string theorists ever learn?tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54780525241685780472013-02-19T11:21:28.493-08:002013-02-19T11:21:28.493-08:00Indeed, one might say that ONE is the most importa...<i> Indeed, one might say that ONE is the most important discovery of man, and is a prerequisite for all that follows.</i><br /><br />Way back when, before I ever encountered OC, but after listening to Prager for a while and certainly part of what led me here, I was asking myself my own version of Pascal's Wager, which was essentially: What does it mean if god <i>isn't</i>, and what does it mean if god <i>is</i>. Following both of those questions to their logical conclusions, I found of course that one was a dead end. The other I am still answering because the implications are pretty much infinite. But the only way to get to all that follows is to start with Is. Or rather, Am.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com