tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post4535400724842863796..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Trinocular Myopathy and Freewheeling Angelology Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7208903706044604852013-05-02T00:02:57.356-07:002013-05-02T00:02:57.356-07:00[imagine a don colacho but more gnostic-nietzschea...[imagine a don colacho but more gnostic-nietzschean...check out ol' E M Cioran]<br /><br />Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other.<br />-Drawn and Quartered<br /><br />If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.<br /><br />Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind.<br /><br />Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself.<br />-A Short History of Decay<br /><br />Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone. <br />-The Trouble with Being Born<br /><br />A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.<br />-History & Utopia<br /><br />Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.<br />-The Temptation to Exist<br /><br />Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.<br />-The Trouble with Being Born<br /><br />A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society.<br />-History & Utopia<br /><br />So long as man is protected by madness, he functions and flourishes.<br />-A Short History of Decay<br /><br />A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.<br />-History & Utopia<br /><br />I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night.<br />-On the Heights of Despair<br /><br />Life inspires more dread than death — it is life which is the great unknown.<br />-A Short History of Decay<br /><br />What is pity but the vice of kindness.<br />-History & Utopia<br /><br />God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.<br />-The Trouble with Being Born<br /><br />It's not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.<br />-The Trouble with Being Born<br /><br />Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.<br />-History & Utopia<br /><br />What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.<br />-History & Utopia<br /><br />A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.<br />-The Trouble with Being Born<br /><br />He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.<br />-The Fall Into Timegehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9074021519031335302013-05-01T18:44:07.427-07:002013-05-01T18:44:07.427-07:00Wow Julie. The testing, like tempering of steel. ...Wow Julie. The testing, like tempering of steel. There's the walk I've been traveling with our little congregation. <br /><br />Sounds like tracing the Greek and the changes is like following the twists and turns of Christian history and philosophy. Where do you go to learn some biblical Hebrew and/or Greek, and relearn some Latin? Maybe not the nail I should hammer on, but of interest nonetheless. swiftonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00532818697764708659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-62347654542331016372013-05-01T18:26:14.162-07:002013-05-01T18:26:14.162-07:00I've heard the Greek was 'sosophrine',...I've heard the Greek was 'sosophrine', but I'm not finding it right now. There's 'temperance' in the scripture, but that's 'enkratios' or some such, meaning 'self-power(mastery).'<br /><br />This other word which came into use later, probably inspired by monastic tradition, meant more of balance or 'economy of being'. <br /><br />My supposition is that it relates to the pre-modern ideas of medicine, i.e. the balancing of humors. Nonetheless, it definitely has the sense not merely of self mastery, which is about exertion of the will, and more of the sense of 'temperance' - being 'well tempered', being as being, in balance.Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-60122452370805616502013-05-01T13:14:02.467-07:002013-05-01T13:14:02.467-07:00Nice, Julie.
Tune your blade.
John and I shoul...Nice, Julie.<br /><br />Tune your blade. <br /><br />John and I should have gotten that one.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-32639537886589340432013-05-01T12:56:49.141-07:002013-05-01T12:56:49.141-07:00Re. the original meaning of temperance, it shares ...Re. the original meaning of temperance, it shares the same root meaning as the process of <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=temper&allowed_in_frame=0" rel="nofollow">tempering steel</a>:<br /><br />"temper (v.) <br /> late Old English <i>temprian</i> "to bring to a proper or suitable state, to modify some excessive quality, to restrain within due limits," from Latin <i>temperare</i> "to mix correctly, moderate, regulate, blend," usually described as from <i>tempus</i> "time, season" (see <i>temporal</i>), with a sense of "proper time or season," but the sense history is obscure. Meaning "to make (steel) hard and elastic" is from late 14c. Sense of "to tune the pitch of a musical instrument" is recorded from c.1300. Related: <i>Tempered; tempering</i>."juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-19038416758086118492013-05-01T12:42:58.726-07:002013-05-01T12:42:58.726-07:00err.. phenomena...err.. phenomena...John Lienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02302615225311776021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-25842973620609289012013-05-01T12:40:27.530-07:002013-05-01T12:40:27.530-07:00The multidimensional implicate order is anterior t...<i>The multidimensional implicate order is anterior to the explicate order, so that what you solid folk call 'consensus reality' is more of a mutual agreement to limit the implicate order in a certain way.</i><br /><br />Makes me think back to a question a reader made a couple of years ago concerning all the supernatural phenomenon described at a Coptic monastery.<br /><br />It may be that the monks all watch a different channel than we do.John Lienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02302615225311776021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-47576281736472965662013-05-01T12:28:58.838-07:002013-05-01T12:28:58.838-07:00You know the drill: what subversive angels consume...You know the drill: what subversive angels consumes you in Vegas, stays in Vegas.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36242479846956173472013-05-01T11:45:40.789-07:002013-05-01T11:45:40.789-07:00Must have been some farming accident.Must have been some farming accident.Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-42822550800815639122013-05-01T11:19:57.533-07:002013-05-01T11:19:57.533-07:00Peggy Lee addresses the latter.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCRZZC-DH7M" rel="nofollow">Peggy Lee addresses the latter</a>.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-63911797446784441862013-05-01T10:05:24.238-07:002013-05-01T10:05:24.238-07:00Re the implicate/explicate, it reminds me of a par...Re the implicate/explicate, it reminds me of a paradoxical aphorism of Don Colacho: <br /><br /><i>The universe is important if it is appearance, and insignificant if it is reality.</i>Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-68281762475825224752013-05-01T09:57:52.141-07:002013-05-01T09:57:52.141-07:00...a mutual agreement to limit the implicate order...<i> ...a mutual agreement to limit the implicate order in a certain way ...</i><br /><br />That scares me a little for some reason.<br /><br />I appreciate Petey taking the time from his regular duties to soliloquize for us. It was just what I needed today.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44502699424573686002013-05-01T09:49:05.110-07:002013-05-01T09:49:05.110-07:00...analogous to progressive bifocals ...
I like t...<i> ...analogous to progressive bifocals ...</i><br /><br />I like that one. You've got to match your view to the distance from your object.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.com