tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post4630740800354072209..comments2024-03-29T06:03:45.545-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Is a Dream a Lie if it Don't Come True, or Is it Something Worse?Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-16054923428533802212011-07-05T05:13:06.697-07:002011-07-05T05:13:06.697-07:00In fact, this is often the dynamic that the cult l...<i>In fact, this is often the dynamic that the cult leader preys upon to hypnotize and seduce cult members. The leader will usually have some sort of genuine gift that he uses to hook people who are prone to idealization. </i><br /><br />Cf. the recent case of (former Fr.) John Corapi, who had not only a gift for preaching, but filled a vast yawning void caused by two generations of crap catechesis.<br /><br />While his fall is sad and all involved need prayer- what strikes most people thinking, not just reacting emotionally, to the case<br />is the blind loyalty of a large portion of his "fans". A wholly innappropriate term- but that's what they are called on his new site.<br /><br />Cooler heads remind them that Corapi didn't convert anyone- the Holy Spirit did that. They point out the warning signs that have made them uneasy about him and his rock-star public persona for the last few years: all are explained away by the true believers.<br />Who, in turn, vilify the ones who are only talking sense.<br />IOW, the father of lies is all over this case. Again, very sad.<br /><br />Thanks, Bob- an excellent resource to refer others to.Salhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13201226644704622876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65203914955181537242011-07-05T04:02:47.299-07:002011-07-05T04:02:47.299-07:00Bob, Thanks for your 7 month old article from whic...Bob, Thanks for your 7 month old article from which we get this quote ;<br /><br />"While Mr. Bush's ratings are up, his 51 percent disapproval rating in the same poll leaves him as one of only two presidents in the last 50 years to have a higher unfavorable than favorable rating - the other being Richard Nixon."<br /><br />Obama's approval is on the + side.Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05861596158055480390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87505396531922411882011-07-04T23:31:47.705-07:002011-07-04T23:31:47.705-07:00Bravo zulu, Bob!
This post is better the second t...Bravo zulu, Bob!<br /><br />This post is better the second time around.<br />Kind of like spaghetti. Sure, it tastes great when fresh, but it tastes even better as a leftover.<br /><br />Van: Obama is lefftist catnip, LOL!<br /><br />I would throw in psychodelic <br />L(leftist)S(super stupid)D(ick).USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-60560798446599032432011-07-04T21:46:17.625-07:002011-07-04T21:46:17.625-07:00Catching up after four solid days of non-computing...Catching up after four solid days of non-computing. And relatives. <br /><br /><br /><i>If one rejects truth, polls are pretty much all that's left.</i><br /><br />Amen.<br /><br />Not only is the old post holding up, it is looking prophetic. <br /><br />Reagan said it: Government is the problem. The solution is not to elect people who will do what we want but to stop asking the government to do what we can do for ourselves. When we do need to have a collective effort -- e.g., building roads and bridges, keep the government involvement at the lowest possibly level -- never above the state.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29232501501708224852011-07-04T21:16:25.847-07:002011-07-04T21:16:25.847-07:00Jewel said "Polls. The current truth. What fo...Jewel said "Polls. The current truth. What fool puts any faith in polls? Why are they so concrete? They're polls. "<br /><br />Yeah... but you believe that you can know what is true and what is false - the leftist doesn't.<br /><br />Remember my aninny test the other day?<br />1. Reality - it exists.<br />2. Identity - What exists, exists as something, and cannot at the same time and in the same context be something else.<br />3. Consciousness - through our awareness of what existence exists as, we become conscious of the fact that we are conscious, and are able to identify the world around us.<br /><br />Leftists flunk this test hands down.<br /><br />Hume rejected our ability to know anything about #2, and so all possibility of Truth with it, #3 he basically dismissed as an illusion of experience. Kant rejected #3, and through that, #1 & #2 too, but he wasn't willing to toss his feeble faith out the window with it, so he got the clever idea of removing our ability to know reality, but leave open the door for it to know us, or as he put it “I have found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith”. <br /><br />He said no individual could ever really be aware of reality itself, only the appearance of it... but that through the dim intuitions of the mass of people, reality was able to communicate some impression of truth to us through our perceived feelings. In other words, not only is 'perception reality', but what is believed by the largest number of people is far more likely to have some truth to it than what a single person perceives. <br /><br />The power of Polls are a direct result of leftists fundamental disconnect from reality, the belittling of the individual and the superiority of the collective.<br /><br />Very few leftists know of Kant, though they buy into everything that followed from him, especially the inability to know anything for sure and the necessity to reject the idea of Principles on principle aka: Pragmatism.<br /><br />Still, what they no longer know, lingers on in what they say no to.<br /><br />Metaphysics. What a concept.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22803245195214527462011-07-04T19:49:38.143-07:002011-07-04T19:49:38.143-07:00If one rejects truth, polls are pretty much all th...If one rejects truth, polls are pretty much all that's left.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-28868232295381214162011-07-04T19:14:44.289-07:002011-07-04T19:14:44.289-07:00Polls. The current truth. What fool puts any faith...Polls. The current truth. What fool puts any faith in polls? Why are they so concrete? They're polls. Nothing more, nothing less, not important or relevant...except for trolls who live and die by polls.<br /><br />But on your deeper point about chaotics. It would seem our culture is afflicted with chaosis. The unraveling of relativists' unrealities.Jewelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10766356570958377494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2363135468234093522011-07-04T19:08:17.585-07:002011-07-04T19:08:17.585-07:00The very definition of the psychoanalytic understa...The very definition of the psychoanalytic understanding of envy: "Alas, they so want to punish the rich that they are even willing to lower government revenue in the process."Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53392749011194104252011-07-04T19:02:03.871-07:002011-07-04T19:02:03.871-07:00David:
Speaking of fantasy ideologies, it's t...David:<br /><br />Speaking of fantasy ideologies, it's the same with the left's economic theories, which no doubt "feel good" to them despite the damage they do: <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/271013/folly-soaking-rich-mario-loyola" rel="nofollow">The Folly of Soaking the Rich</a>.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57835969649973892922011-07-04T17:17:13.253-07:002011-07-04T17:17:13.253-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-91368682261671474542011-07-04T17:08:40.106-07:002011-07-04T17:08:40.106-07:00We have no interest in defending George Bush, but ...We have no interest in defending George Bush, but checkmate anyway: <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20024865-503544.html" rel="nofollow">Obama's Approval Rating Dips Below George W. Bush's</a>.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12369817532892933552011-07-04T17:00:06.213-07:002011-07-04T17:00:06.213-07:00"Therefore, the real reason for 9-11 wasn'..."Therefore, the real reason for 9-11 wasn't actually to bring down western civilization -- which only the left can do anyway, from within. Rather, it was for the Islamists to deepen their trance."<br /><br />That is brilliant, brilliant. However, a quibble: the left (see below my preference for "chaotics") can deform western civilization (an anti-Christian academics' polemical phrase meant to confuse and ultimately obliterate the Latin Church), and has, and bring it low, but it/they cannot destroy it (the Latin Church) in the sense of bring it down.<br /><br />In the same way, Mohammedans cannot destroy Christians.<br /><br />We see the low, we will not see the down (in the sense of out) because there will be none.<br /><br />That said, the insight is brilliant, richly illuminating.<br /><br />"Actually to keep the parallel, Obama would be the Beast and Chaos would be he who comes after."<br /><br />Or she: Michelle, the two girls and kin from Kenya. Africa and Caribbean are rich with witches. So is USA for that matter. I use the term technically. The Constitution does not figure in that crowd and its supports.<br /><br />The word chaos jumps out at me. It is, IMO, supremely descriptive of the intentions of these people. Were it beneficial to forgo the words leftist, progressive, liberal in favor of the more descriptive "chaotic(s)?" I think so.<br /><br />The noted correlation between chaotics and "Islamists" also stands out to me as important. I use "Mohammedans" in place of Islamists or Islamic radicals, etc. because it describes the formal structure of their dis-ease: idolatry of a man and a book.<br /><br />Julie is right, the old post holds up.David R. Grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416692639208634879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84846523637489495072011-07-04T15:43:24.733-07:002011-07-04T15:43:24.733-07:00Right Bob.
You're funny.<a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/106741/bushs-69-job-disapproval-rating-highest-gallup-history.aspx" rel="nofollow">Right Bob. </a><br /><br />You're <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/01/poll-bush-most-unpopular-in-modern-history/" rel="nofollow">funny.</a>Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05861596158055480390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-13409265092968806062011-07-04T15:23:34.682-07:002011-07-04T15:23:34.682-07:00The Boss is a broken hero on a last chance power d...The Boss is a broken hero on a last chance power drive. He's out on the run tonight, but there's no place left to hide.<br /><br />wv says glate<br />I have glate day so far. more fun come, too.<br /><br /><br />JWMJWMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05564732483476859555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50176053712313566622011-07-04T12:34:32.480-07:002011-07-04T12:34:32.480-07:00This is nice. There's a ten-foot statue of Ron...This is nice. There's a ten-foot statue of Ronald Reagan gone up in front of the British Embassy. It really must have made the news presenters at the BBC choke having to report it. I hope someone had to be resuscitated with Heimlich maneuvering and other painful means. The only thing missing was some Bruce Springsteen music, but hey...who listens to him, anymore anyway? Maybe somewhere in Jersey they'll put up a statue of him.Jewelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10766356570958377494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-11710449266531478862011-07-04T11:31:58.375-07:002011-07-04T11:31:58.375-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86367251207668630292011-07-04T11:28:04.020-07:002011-07-04T11:28:04.020-07:00Oh, let's say, compared with Bush: 61% to 43%...Oh, let's say, compared with <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/124922/Presidential-Approval-Center.aspx" rel="nofollow">Bush</a>: 61% to 43% after 885 days in office.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86273978121118871762011-07-04T11:09:54.351-07:002011-07-04T11:09:54.351-07:00"the fall of Obama"
heh.
Fall? Co..."the fall of Obama" <br /><br />heh. <br /><br />Fall? Compared with <a href="http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm" rel="nofollow">what</a>?Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05861596158055480390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52823352387471355762011-07-04T09:21:47.136-07:002011-07-04T09:21:47.136-07:00"This would suggest that we are about to ente..."This would suggest that we are about to enter a beastly chaos..."<br /><br />Actually to keep the parallel, Obama would be the Beast and Chaos would be he who comes after.vanderleunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10296245324443413545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3812696852473148252011-07-04T07:25:46.658-07:002011-07-04T07:25:46.658-07:00Sounds shovel ready to me.Sounds shovel ready to me.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-13891211751178022502011-07-04T07:09:02.595-07:002011-07-04T07:09:02.595-07:00And that's assuming a 100K job...And that's assuming a 100K job...Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-79915294587938144202011-07-04T07:07:56.881-07:002011-07-04T07:07:56.881-07:00The Keynesian multiplier in action: $2.78 of pork...The <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-s-economists-stimulus-has-cost-278000-job_576014.html" rel="nofollow">Keynesian multiplier</a> in action: $2.78 of porkulus = $1.00 of employment.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-92151615658984170232011-07-03T22:50:44.716-07:002011-07-03T22:50:44.716-07:00anunce said "You have a hell of a nerve appro...anunce said "You have a hell of a nerve appropriating Springsteen for your vicious wingnut screeds. "<br /><br />Troll's got a point, you gotta wonder, I mean it's all fine to ridicule the boss in the deilight,<br />But come the wee wee hours maybe baby the Petey lied<br />So when you look at Petey you better look hard and look twice<br />Is that Petey baby or just a brilliant Deusguise?Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89270338601604075802011-07-03T21:52:36.182-07:002011-07-03T21:52:36.182-07:00But I do apologize to any other literal-minded moo...But I do apologize to any other literal-minded moonbats who missed the irony in my appropriation of Springsteen's juvenile lyrics to ridicule his own lying dreams of a socialist paradise.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-72062924205436280332011-07-03T21:32:02.353-07:002011-07-03T21:32:02.353-07:00And yet, even with Springsteen's help, the Sov...And yet, even with Springsteen's help, the Soviet Union still lost the cold war. Go figure.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.com