tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post4708699407130509397..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: God's Not Only Merely True, But Really Most Sincerely TrueGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5065774050430869092015-04-14T21:10:09.807-07:002015-04-14T21:10:09.807-07:00Love your pictures and the magical way you have p...Love your pictures and the <a href="http://getwellfruit.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/staff-rewards-for-workaholics.html" rel="nofollow">magical way</a> you have put your story across - you're an inspiration and I am following your journey - awesome work!Bren Murphyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15484789907845282383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53225855943509460742015-03-03T09:11:13.434-08:002015-03-03T09:11:13.434-08:00Mushroom hits with more tweetable gold: "They...Mushroom hits with more tweetable gold: "They have it all summed up and figured out -- premature encapsulation."<br /><br />Hey ya Magnus! <br />Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-31239669136972191712015-03-03T09:08:21.816-08:002015-03-03T09:08:21.816-08:00"This weekend I was reading in a book by F.J...."This weekend I was reading in a book by F.J. Sheed of the distinction between knowledge and understanding. Specifically, he talks about how understanding can obscure knowledge. I would put it the other way around, but it's the same difference: a premature understanding of the the world -- or of human beings, or of oneself, or of God, or of history -- serves to prevent new learning."<br /><br />And going another way around to saying the same thing, I'd say that concluding that you need know no more in order to Understand, is the means of limiting the depth of your potential understanding. Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30823423312760313162015-03-03T00:18:45.068-08:002015-03-03T00:18:45.068-08:00Hei! Yes, I'm still around and been watching t...Hei! Yes, I'm still around and been watching the recent Schuonigans. Magnus Itlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445902788427523461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-82329787684576264452015-03-02T21:36:11.435-08:002015-03-02T21:36:11.435-08:00Hei Magnus!
Hvordan har du det?Hei Magnus!<br />Hvordan har du det?USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-35169452547277394012015-03-02T20:19:38.165-08:002015-03-02T20:19:38.165-08:00Hi Magnus! Good to see you commenting. Been wond...Hi Magnus! Good to see you commenting. Been wondering how you have been.John Lienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02302615225311776021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9237005379954934522015-03-02T14:08:44.332-08:002015-03-02T14:08:44.332-08:00Hi Julie! Yes, Kierkegaard means churchyard and ge...Hi Julie! Yes, Kierkegaard means churchyard and generally refers to the "hallowed ground" where graves are kept. I can only try to imagine how it feels to grow up with a family name like that. Not conductive to excessive levity, I would guess! Søren was a man who took humor very, very seriously.Magnus Itlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445902788427523461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86064639266210722752015-03-02T13:26:29.808-08:002015-03-02T13:26:29.808-08:00... a premature understanding of the the world -- ...<i>... a premature understanding of the the world -- or of human beings, or of oneself, or of God, or of history -- serves to prevent new learning.</i><br /><br />They have it all summed up and figured out -- premature encapsulation. mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54590326749910239842015-03-02T12:33:02.477-08:002015-03-02T12:33:02.477-08:00Magnus!
And of course - "Kierkegaard" -...Magnus!<br /><br />And of course - "Kierkegaard" - literally "church garden," right?juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52186280867203416782015-03-02T12:31:28.443-08:002015-03-02T12:31:28.443-08:00For "Knowledge serves love, each new truth le...For "Knowledge serves love, each new truth learnt is a new reason for loving God. Love craves knowledge, craves to know: it would be strange to love God and not want to know more and more about him." <br /><br />Me like.John Lienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02302615225311776021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-55250716011319018712015-03-02T12:31:19.081-08:002015-03-02T12:31:19.081-08:00"So, poetic knowledge is a retail thingummy, ..."So, poetic knowledge is a retail thingummy, never wholesale. In fact, not even retail, more door-to-door, or maybe some guy selling it out of his trunk. Most people who have it don't even bother trying to sell it, because the demand is so low."<br /><br />True, there is no Slack Market for poetic knowledge.<br />There is, however a Hack Market for stupid tricks based on hack magic (or Chak magic).USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-42315370785280441872015-03-02T12:30:37.566-08:002015-03-02T12:30:37.566-08:00Just to expound on our joy-spreading fellow Scandi...Just to expound on our joy-spreading fellow Scandinavian, Kierkegaard (the name is still the common Scandinavian word for cemetery). He did have a way with words, but he wasn't the first to suspect that the world was a terrible judge of character:<br />"Woe whenever all people speak well of you, for their fathers used to do the same things to the false prophets." (Luke 6.) So, he was in good company there.Magnus Itlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445902788427523461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48654907068922786292015-03-02T12:14:30.926-08:002015-03-02T12:14:30.926-08:00To put it another way, "We begin with silence...<i>To put it another way, "We begin with silence," then "progress from that into speech," and finally transition "into silence again, not a silence we lapse into but a silence we rise into..."</i><br /><br />Sounds like we're back to that old asymmetrical Trinitarian nature of reality!tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-11762224753745950342015-03-02T11:07:35.721-08:002015-03-02T11:07:35.721-08:00I'm reminded of the old joke about the search ...I'm reminded of the old joke about the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence: why look elsewhere when we haven't proven it exists here yet?juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12961293439876306542015-03-02T10:22:30.416-08:002015-03-02T10:22:30.416-08:00There is a suffering -- or sophering -- that goes ...There is a suffering -- or sophering -- that goes with Being Smart. In fact, if it didn't come with a cross, it wouldn't be worth much.<br /><br />This weekend I stumbled upon a great quote by Keirkegaard:<br /><br />"Yes, this is the highest thing that can be said of any human being: one is sacrificed. The only question is whether it is the highest for which one is sacrificed. But, in the eternal sense, to be sacrificed is and continues to be, as long as the world remains the world, a far greater achievement than being victorious; for the world is not so perfect that to be victorious in the world by conformity to the world does not involve a dubious mixture of the world's paltriness. Being victorious in the world is like becoming something great in the world; usually it is a dubious matter to become something great in the world, because the world is not so excellent that its judgment of greatness has especially great significance -- except as unconscious sarcasm."<br /><br />So yeah, we're soooooo smart....Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2427088686325939152015-03-02T10:19:03.701-08:002015-03-02T10:19:03.701-08:00Or how Asians are docked like 50 SAT points just f...Or how Asians are docked like 50 SAT points just for being too smart, while blacks are granted 250 for reasons that cannot be spoken of. The first is like a continuation of Roosevelt's WWII policy, while the second is reparationsGagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66265846912265508882015-03-02T10:11:54.279-08:002015-03-02T10:11:54.279-08:00That's funny, because for the past fifty years...<i>That's funny, because for the past fifty years or so we've been laboring under the delusion that everyone should attend college.</i><br /><br />Apropos, <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/414585/trigonometry-racist-kevin-d-williamson" rel="nofollow">Williamson discusses </a> the racism of trigonometry. Actually, what seems fitting is his mention of the 80s battle against "the rising tide of mediocrity." I had to wonder, what's so bad about mediocrity anyway? At least, in the way it was meant, which translates roughly to the awfulness of ordinary people doing ordinary jobs and living ordinary lives. In 80s America, there was actually nothing awful about any of that. Most of the world should be so lucky!<br /><br />But of course, none of that speaks to the meat of the post, with which I can only agree wholeheartedly. Most days, I think I'm pretty normal, but then I'm always caught up by surprise when people are surprised at the things I know...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-69315496033090426512015-03-02T10:01:37.299-08:002015-03-02T10:01:37.299-08:00Therefore I prayed, and prudence was given me;
I p...Therefore I prayed, and prudence was given me;<br />I pleaded and the spirit of Wisdom came to me.<br /><br />I preferred her to scepter and throne,<br />And deemed riches nothing in comparison with her, nor did I liken any priceless gem to her;<br /><br />Because all gold, in view of her, is a bit of sand,<br />and before her, silver is to be accounted mire.<br /><br />Beyond health and beauty I loved her,<br />And I chose to have her rather than the light,<br />because her radiance never ceases.<br /><br />Yet all good things together came to me with her,<br />and countless riches at her hands;<br /><br />I rejoiced in them all, because Wisdom is their leader,<br />though I had not known that she is their mother.<br />Solomonnoreply@blogger.com