tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post4778811756641401269..comments2024-03-28T12:10:26.197-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: When Ought Becomes Is, Reach for Your RevolverGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-28714475983703556172014-04-24T16:01:01.497-07:002014-04-24T16:01:01.497-07:00Glad to see you weathered the storm, Bob.
Raccoons...Glad to see you weathered the storm, Bob.<br />Raccoons leave no one behind. USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67638705051172954592014-04-24T13:18:55.626-07:002014-04-24T13:18:55.626-07:00I am now enjoying a sweet Fentanyl High, which com...I am now enjoying a sweet Fentanyl High, which compensates for the nasty day of prep. Even Steven. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65083460005550263382014-04-24T12:22:18.822-07:002014-04-24T12:22:18.822-07:00The moment has arrived for the seven year medical ...<i>The moment has arrived for the seven year medical screening that dare not speak its name. </i><br /><br />It was a dark and stormy night ...mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52583350164069681942014-04-24T10:24:00.197-07:002014-04-24T10:24:00.197-07:00Oh, dear. So Vanderleun's post from a couple o...Oh, dear. So Vanderleun's post from a couple of weeks ago was a little too close to home.<br /><br />Just remember, if it feels like more than two fingers, it's probably... well, let's just hope it doesn't feel like more than two fingers.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-73132811834460579222014-04-24T07:38:19.012-07:002014-04-24T07:38:19.012-07:00No post today. The moment has arrived for the se...No post today. The moment has arrived for the seven year medical screening that dare not speak its name. My turn in the barrel. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-75466807248769067232014-04-24T05:46:39.013-07:002014-04-24T05:46:39.013-07:00So now when we say someone is as dumb as a box of ...So now when we say someone is as dumb as a box of rocks, we can mean that in a perfectly literal sense.<br /><br />Science progresses to pantheism. Who would have thought it?<br /><br />Ironically, though, even if it were somehow proven to be true, it would simply mean that yes, it is a <i>living</i> cosmos.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46667038317580024332014-04-23T23:11:07.135-07:002014-04-23T23:11:07.135-07:00Van,
Matter over mind(lessness)? Lol.Van, <br />Matter over mind(lessness)? Lol.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59613809570990692292014-04-23T20:47:49.756-07:002014-04-23T20:47:49.756-07:00"When Ought Becomes Is, Reach for Your Revolv..."When Ought Becomes Is, Reach for Your Revolver"<br /><br />What about when Mind becomes Matter?<br /><br /><a href="https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/5e7ed624986d" rel="nofollow">MIT’s Max Tegmark is championing a new way of explaining it: he believes that consciousness is a state of matter.</a>: "Tegmark calls his new state of matter “perceptronium.”"<br /><br />Just when you thought that stupid was as stupid as stupid could get....Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20649662924399662642014-04-23T16:52:34.891-07:002014-04-23T16:52:34.891-07:00Excellent bloggin' n' commentin' today...Excellent bloggin' n' commentin' today! <br />Those who despise or close themselves off to truth seek to be wise while rejecting past wisdom that has been tried and true.<br />Putzes.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1695852013469766272014-04-23T14:35:52.209-07:002014-04-23T14:35:52.209-07:00"Now, this Why is made of truth. This sounds ..."Now, this Why is made of truth. This sounds like an odd thing to say, but isn't it true that question and answer always go together? Indeed to paraphrase Don Colacho, there is far more Light in a good question than a stupid answer.<br /><br />So, the Why is an artifact or echo of the Truth it seeks."<br /><br />Big <i>Yes!</i> on that, but only a small nod on: "only a kind of habitual intellectual listlessness", not because it isn't true, but because it's only a shallow surface description. Why? Where does the listlessness come from? <br /><br />Don't cut short the importance of 'far more Light in a good question than a stupid answer'. The implications of :"Why is an artifact or echo of the Truth it seeks" have been enormous for modernity, with our turning away from Questioning, and towards Doubting. I won't repeat my rant again, you've heard it often enough before (it's <a href="http://blogodidact.blogspot.com/2014/03/farewell-to-friend-doubtful-roots-of.html" rel="nofollow">repeated here</a>), but learning the method of doubt requires faking doubts, and invites accepting answers without reasons, and desensitizes us against true doubts. It also enables a satisfaction with answers which there is no real basis for, and fosters no sense of commitment to them.<br /><br />Why habitual listlessness? Because there is no intellectual Why for what they've accepted as being true.<br /><br />Tall plants with no roots. Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-82383760050293204842014-04-23T14:26:43.421-07:002014-04-23T14:26:43.421-07:00Social conservatives seem more likely to be "...Social conservatives seem more likely to be "Ought to Ought" -- Jesus said it Ought to be this way so we Ought to make a law since we can't possibly trust an Important Thing Like This to the Holy Ghost.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1814947092516842102014-04-23T14:02:24.735-07:002014-04-23T14:02:24.735-07:00Just right off, that is a beautifully Chestertonia...Just right off, that is a beautifully Chestertonian title.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85866295296068410452014-04-23T12:52:25.244-07:002014-04-23T12:52:25.244-07:00Magister, in DBH's defense I would argue that ...Magister, in DBH's defense I would argue that intellectual listlessness and aggressive contempt and derision go hand in hand. If one can't be arsed to go and discover the truth for oneself, having decided that one knows enough about what he doesn't understand to write it off as worthless, one is likely to respond to any prodding on the matter not with intellectual curiosity and a willingness to change one's mind (which takes tremendous effort), but rather with aggressive contempt and dismissal. <br /><br />We encountered much the same here when we had trolls - the contempt came through loud and clear, and there was absolutely no inclination on their part to do even the simplest of reading - not even of the posts with which they "disagreed," as often as not. juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41670086230879821942014-04-23T12:12:01.756-07:002014-04-23T12:12:01.756-07:00Yes, and Hart further comments:
Everything else i...Yes, and Hart further comments:<br /><br /><i>Everything else is idle chatter—and we live in an age of idle chatter. Lay the blame where you will: the internet, 940 television channels, social media, the ubiquity of high-fructose corn syrup, whatever you like. Almost all public discourse is now instantaneous, fluently aimless, deeply uninformed, and immune to logical rigor.</i><br /><br />I agree and sigh. Thank god for blogs like this to counter that online reality!tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-75148543437820132002014-04-23T11:59:24.676-07:002014-04-23T11:59:24.676-07:00habitual intellectual listlessness
I just spoke w...<i>habitual intellectual listlessness</i><br /><br />I just spoke with a Catholic faculty member in Ireland who would disagree with this characterization. Against her, she finds not listlessness, but aggressive contempt and derision. <br /><br />DBH's mileage may vary. He's also a gentleman, which may color his perceptions.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.com