tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post4855085968465924690..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: An Ass Always Gets What He Brays ForGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-80887277164893532062011-02-17T04:09:12.829-08:002011-02-17T04:09:12.829-08:00Fragiler is also what we used to call the designat...Fragiler is also what we used to call the designated grenade thrower (or launcher launcher, depending on what was available att the moment)...oh wait...maybe it was fragolier....or...fragger?. .well, one of those. Ben...cant sign into blogerrAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-78437409234560374702011-02-16T20:28:55.706-08:002011-02-16T20:28:55.706-08:00Heh - it figures. People are far more willing to f...Heh - it figures. People are far more willing to fetch someone a waaahmbulance than to believe that anyone could actually be heroic. Everyone can be a "victim;" heck, everyone pretty much <i>is</i> a victim, if they only choose to see their lives that way. It's a lot tougher to be a hero, and heroes make the "victims" look, well, like the whiners they know they are.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-74449571562774113342011-02-16T19:57:32.916-08:002011-02-16T19:57:32.916-08:00This may explain quite a bit about certain segment...<a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-02/uom-teb021611.php" rel="nofollow">This</a> may explain quite a bit about certain segments of our society. It turns out <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-02/uom-teb021611.php" rel="nofollow">you can get much more mileage out of being a victim than out of being a hero.</a>mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12249765693037871082011-02-16T17:22:38.125-08:002011-02-16T17:22:38.125-08:00>>I don't think that Magnus is saying th...>>I don't think that Magnus is saying that you should be mundane to seek protection<<<br /><br />I don't think he was saying that either. My point was that such protection can't last all that long, and that given the current state of the world, such protection is even more fragile and probably getting fragiler (a word of my own coinage) by the hour.willnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-76672960263527398492011-02-16T16:26:51.615-08:002011-02-16T16:26:51.615-08:00scholar's ink martyr's bloodscholar's <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=scholar%27s+ink+martyr%27s+blood&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a" rel="nofollow">ink martyr's</a> bloodgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90700626894860051932011-02-16T15:49:36.282-08:002011-02-16T15:49:36.282-08:00I don't think that Magnus is saying that you s...I don't think that Magnus is saying that you should be mundane to seek protection.<br /><br />Rather, it's that most people are mundane and are incapable of playing directly with the most destructive and demonic thoughts of the lower vertical.<br /><br />And thus, the fact that they are mundane is itself a form of protection.<br /><br />For those who are not mundane, there is no protection in trying to become what you are not.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14249947137060952032011-02-16T15:01:17.672-08:002011-02-16T15:01:17.672-08:00magnus:
>>most people are thoroughly mundan...magnus:<br /><br />>>most people are thoroughly mundane, but in this there can sometimes be a great protection<<<br /><br />For a while at least. But in the long term, ignorance ain't bliss - remaining mundane takes a certain amount of repression, and that which is repressed is going to come back and manifest in various debilitating forms. <br /><br />Anyway, I have the feeling that the days of the "protection of the mundane" are going to come to a close. To be sure, we seem to be living in times in which the extraordinary is now ordinary. And I suspect things are going to become even more spectacular. <br /><br />Those who are looking for the protection of the mundane are in for some sleepless nights.willnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-76069432907737056092011-02-16T14:34:05.190-08:002011-02-16T14:34:05.190-08:00There can, as I sometimes say, be no meaningful co...There can, as I sometimes say, be no meaningful conversation between and asshat and and an <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/arhat" rel="nofollow">arhat</a>. Even if the two speak the same language about the same topic, these are just the pipes through which runs the water of their lives. One has an aqueduct from Heaven, one a sewer from Hell.<br /><br />Of course, most people are thoroughly mundane, but in this there can sometimes be a great protection. Philosophy is not a path without danger, to say the least.Magnus Itlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445902788427523461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-78994375235420981902011-02-16T12:15:45.900-08:002011-02-16T12:15:45.900-08:00Formulating the problems of today in a traditional...Formulating the problems of today in a traditional vocabulary strips away their false pretenses.Don Colachonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22758143255679503622011-02-16T11:44:25.454-08:002011-02-16T11:44:25.454-08:00When values replace virtues, reach for your revolv...When values replace virtues, reach for your revolver.Cousin Dupreenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50260301098696065772011-02-16T11:43:05.494-08:002011-02-16T11:43:05.494-08:00Mushroom, I must say I like your proposition much ...Mushroom, I must say I like your proposition much better than the various 'Repeal Amendments' and proposals for Article V conventions making the rounds these days. Very much better.<br /><br />Julie's quote:"Either way, we should regard "pragmatism" as another form of highly suspicious semantic infiltration. I'll take the older Aristotelian idea of prudence instead. Prudence keeps the fixed ends always in sight and always on our mind."<br /><br />I'll double down on that one too.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-55742588654066981702011-02-16T11:35:24.818-08:002011-02-16T11:35:24.818-08:00Re: semantic infiltration -
"social justice...Re: semantic infiltration - <br /><br />"social justice"<br /><br />or how about the MSM fave "so and so politician is "growing in the job"", meaning of course so and so is morphing into a lefty.willnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4070883146655888142011-02-16T11:31:29.365-08:002011-02-16T11:31:29.365-08:00"For if the purpose of language is to conceal..."For if the purpose of language is to conceal thought, the purpose of secular philosophy is to conceal man from himself."<br /><br />And oh, it does a bang-up job at that, doesn't it?Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3950643150618418792011-02-16T11:31:02.383-08:002011-02-16T11:31:02.383-08:00Re. the Power Line link, I like the last couple of...Re. the Power Line link, I like the last couple of lines:<br /><br /><i>Either way, we should regard "pragmatism" as another form of highly suspicious semantic infiltration. I'll take the older Aristotelian idea of prudence instead. Prudence keeps the fixed ends always in sight and always on our mind.</i>juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37031190861102375242011-02-16T11:16:35.522-08:002011-02-16T11:16:35.522-08:00Regarding language and the damned, beware of seman...Regarding language and the damned, beware of <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/02/028378.php" rel="nofollow">semantic infiltration</a>.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-88087316194735692542011-02-16T10:40:46.782-08:002011-02-16T10:40:46.782-08:00I don't seen a difference between absolute mat...I don't seen a difference between absolute materialism and nihlism.<br /><br />In other news, I cannot remember a single thing about John Ashcroft, either good or bad. I had forgotten he existed. Is he still alive?JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-91313624465171315982011-02-16T10:29:01.936-08:002011-02-16T10:29:01.936-08:00"Appropriate speech is a way of keeping one&#..."Appropriate speech is a way of keeping one's distance from the damned." <br /><br />In this context, I'd say that <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1356930/Serene-Branson-stroke-Hospitalized-Grammys-live-CBS-broadcast.html" rel="nofollow">Serene Branson</a> comported herself admirably at the Grammys.robinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48161391837659137462011-02-16T10:21:52.353-08:002011-02-16T10:21:52.353-08:00Mushroom, I can't find a single flaw with that...Mushroom, I can't find a single flaw with that plan.<br /><br />Okay, maybe there are a couple, but it can't possibly be any worse than what we've got now.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85947764962740805762011-02-16T10:19:24.810-08:002011-02-16T10:19:24.810-08:00Great stupidities do not come from the people. Fir...<i>Great stupidities do not come from the people. First, they have seduced intelligent men.</i><br /><br />My fellow Missourians once elected a dead man to the Senate -- granted, he was running against John Ashcroft*. <br /><br />I'm thinking we should elect Don Colacho President of the United States for life -- and since he's already dead, that would pretty well eliminate having to ever elect another one. We could get a Max Headroom CGI or one of those creepy Japanese robots to randomly speak one of the Don's aphorisms for the SOTU, press conferences, Oval Office addresses, fireside chats, and all. <br /><br />We'd have to repeal the 25th and 22nd Amendments (I think those are the right ones) and maybe add a new that says, "Don Colacho is the President, like forever."<br /><br />Signing bills would be a bit of a problem, so we'd just assume he'd veto everything -- with the issuance of an applicable Don Colachoism. That would mean nothing could become law without a 2/3 vote from both chambers. <br /><br />I don't see a problem with this.<br /><br />Now I need to read the rest of the post. <br /> <br /><br /><br />*Attorney General Ashcroft and I used to go to the same local church and had a number of mutual friends. I'm told he's really a pretty decent guy.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-73816929470341493722011-02-16T10:09:21.702-08:002011-02-16T10:09:21.702-08:00Sorry Walt :-)
Now I want to use the "they br...Sorry Walt :-)<br />Now I want to use the "they broke the mold" joke.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8221169852462959192011-02-16T10:06:16.081-08:002011-02-16T10:06:16.081-08:00Rick -
I feel like I've been replaced.Rick -<br /><br />I feel like I've been replaced.walthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388218390016612051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-61368821218440854402011-02-16T09:58:30.634-08:002011-02-16T09:58:30.634-08:00Pardon me, Will (not Walt),
re "some truth&qu...Pardon me, Will (not Walt),<br />re "some truth", brings to mind:<br /><br />"…it is necessary to not be hypnotized…to not disparage a mountain because of a fissure and, conversely, praise an evil because of an inevitable particle of good.” ~ SchuonRickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14179733537835132552011-02-16T09:40:51.015-08:002011-02-16T09:40:51.015-08:00>>Epicureanism, like most any other brand-na...>>Epicureanism, like most any other brand-name philosophy from materialism on up, surely possesses a "fragment of truth<<<br /><br />I think William James said something to the effect of : "Every religion has some truth to it." Well, yeah, even Scientology has a few nuggets of truth, hell, I'll so far as to say that there are a few outlines of truth in the Nation of Islam, though you have to look very hard to see them. <br /><br />The problem is, of course, that these sprinkles of truth are in service of what is ultimately a materialistic doctrine - in the case of the Nation of Islam, it manifests as sheer racism and anti-Semitism, and in the case of Scientology, it manifests as a manipulative self-empowerment.<br /><br />The very fact that there is some truth in these "religions" renders them not just wrong and misleading but demonic.willnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39671376950559549602011-02-16T09:11:56.635-08:002011-02-16T09:11:56.635-08:00Julie, re your Bobquote, truly, "the son of T...Julie, re your Bobquote, truly, "the son of Toots has nowhere to lay his head.."<br /><br />Great post, BobTMRickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-21324916530094823552011-02-16T08:46:38.014-08:002011-02-16T08:46:38.014-08:00Speaking of which, yesterday I had a pleasant conv...<i>Speaking of which, yesterday I had a pleasant conversation with a very cultured man who describes himself as an "absolute materialist." I informed him that if his metaphysic were true, he couldn't possibly know it.</i><br /><br />Heh - I'd like to have been a fly on the wall for that conversation.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com