tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post4974045691323800894..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Cosmic Perverts & Your Transnatural Right to Truth Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46460716680247415862014-04-17T11:49:23.918-07:002014-04-17T11:49:23.918-07:00Joan, I hope they all have daughters so my sons ca...Joan, I hope they all have daughters so my sons can marry. God help them if they marry anything less!Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-18446028161561185832014-04-17T10:44:33.898-07:002014-04-17T10:44:33.898-07:00No, here's the Real Deal.
Former swept-wing p...No, here's the <a href="http://mausersandmuffins.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Real Deal</a>.<br /><br />Former swept-wing pilot, huntress, amazing cook, devoted daughter, now a Secret Squirrel CSI. And red hair.<br /><br />One of the best writers on the Internet, as well. Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-60532302218522369662014-04-17T08:00:30.099-07:002014-04-17T08:00:30.099-07:00Now this is a chick.
*falls over*Now <a href="http://huckberry.com/blog/posts/modern-pioneering" rel="nofollow">this</a> is a chick.<br /><br />*falls over*Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53384065431976794732014-04-17T07:31:55.371-07:002014-04-17T07:31:55.371-07:00Magister:
That's a really good point. Speaki...Magister:<br /><br />That's a really good point. Speaking of cosmic rights, the baby certainly has a legitimate right to the mother's body, which is why, you know, breasts. More generally, as we've discussed in the past, not only are our minds intrinsically intersubjective, but our bodies are too. Man and woman point beyond themselves and "refer" to one another. So to say that we "own" our bodies and that's that is a little simplistic, to say the least, and certainly not humanistic. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5306221991701012052014-04-17T06:53:20.187-07:002014-04-17T06:53:20.187-07:00Feminists seem to be perpetually at war with their...Feminists seem to be perpetually at war with their own bodies. Ogled? Fight it! Fertile? Prevent it! Pregnant? Kill it! Etc.<br /><br />It all looks like a long war against internal enemies. The last thing they want is some helpless internal immigrant messing up their liberated feminist economy. <br /><br />Does any of this make the garden-variety feminist happier? Not that I can see. What seems most evident is massive amounts of projection and avoidance behavior.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12575281963100693072014-04-16T18:49:33.042-07:002014-04-16T18:49:33.042-07:00Anyway, that wanting to be God and be omnipotent s...Anyway, that wanting to be God and be omnipotent should make a lot of players a little nervous. My daughter has made a lot of progress in her life, and one of the things she kept saying about my wife being sick was along the lines of accepting the limitations of our knowledge about what is going on. She said, "Maybe what we are supposed to learn from this is that we not only don't know everything, some things we aren't even supposed to know."<br /><br />We may not agree entirely with that, but I think part of the root of her alcohol problem was that sense that she ought to be omnipotent and omniscient. So I was kind of encouraged by it.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-27917920962499887512014-04-16T18:37:43.097-07:002014-04-16T18:37:43.097-07:00Arthur "Blind" Blake pre-dates Bo -- not...<a href="https://ia600208.us.archive.org/5/items/BlindBlakeDiddieWaDiddie1929/01_Blind_Blake-Diddie_Wa_Diddie_1929.mp3" rel="nofollow">Arthur "Blind" Blake pre-dates Bo </a>-- not a bad recording once you get past the guy talking in the intro. Sweet, complex ragtime finger-picking. <br /><br />It really puts Ry Cooder's version from "Paradise and Lunch" -- where I first heard it in '74, to shame. mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70504658926575457102014-04-16T18:12:48.779-07:002014-04-16T18:12:48.779-07:00I thought it was that ambiguous locale -- neither ...I thought it was that ambiguous locale -- neither town nor city -- from where Bo Diddley's gal hails. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-25424360074203129102014-04-16T18:03:09.906-07:002014-04-16T18:03:09.906-07:00But the secular world doesn't even believe in ...<i>But the secular world doesn't even believe in natural rights, let alone transnatural rights. </i><br /><br />I wish somebody would tell me what Ditty-Wah-Ditty means.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3286040527735588402014-04-16T17:15:05.307-07:002014-04-16T17:15:05.307-07:00As Lileks bleated this morning, "I don’t thin...As Lileks bleated this morning, "I don’t think kids plug all the holes in your life, but at least they’ll turn a fast drain into a slow leak." Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-42724489714059185622014-04-16T16:46:08.849-07:002014-04-16T16:46:08.849-07:00How did the Future Leader princeling grow so much?...How did the Future Leader princeling grow so much? Have you been feeding him all this time? That must be it.<br /><br />A very handsome young man. Compliments to his mother!<br />:o)Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7244414328733848622014-04-16T16:41:54.751-07:002014-04-16T16:41:54.751-07:00Whenever you mention your son, I just think what a...Whenever you mention your son, I just think what a lucky kid to have you as a parent (and Mrs G too).Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16652102016905951809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89455737170810588752014-04-16T13:09:13.655-07:002014-04-16T13:09:13.655-07:00He'd better. Playoffs start in May, and he...He'd better. Playoffs start in May, and he's one of our best players. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-69615866071718638182014-04-16T13:06:54.057-07:002014-04-16T13:06:54.057-07:00Speaking of epistemophilic perversions, perverse a...Speaking of epistemophilic perversions, perverse attractions, and feminism, I wonder how many feminists see the irony in the fact that feminism is all about obliterating that which is truly feminine?<br /><br />Re. FL's friend, that's rough. I hope the chemo helps, and that he gets through it alright.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-32617417111148860692014-04-16T12:30:41.699-07:002014-04-16T12:30:41.699-07:00I have been saying lately that I feel these days l...I have been saying lately that I feel these days like I'm trapped in a very dysfunctional family, where most of the family members are lying all the time, and they're also telling me I shouldn't trust anything I see with my own "lying'" eyes.<br /><br />The last time I felt this frantic was during the Clinton years. The time before that was in my own family growing up.Christina Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03026226686936294936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86388522136788390612014-04-16T12:29:32.533-07:002014-04-16T12:29:32.533-07:00The boy's friend is a Red Sox fan. He should d...The boy's friend is a Red Sox fan. He should do fine!tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-88858528900088027182014-04-16T11:38:46.355-07:002014-04-16T11:38:46.355-07:00'The first rule of Gender-Theory Club, is don&...'The first rule of Gender-Theory Club, is <i>don't talk about</i> Gender-Theory Club!'Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87656228781268493572014-04-16T11:37:47.571-07:002014-04-16T11:37:47.571-07:00Most of what the left believes needs scare quotes,...Most of what the left believes needs scare quotes, e.g., "income disparity," "war on women," "homosexual marriage," "Islamophobia," "white privilege," "homophobia," etc. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-21464568839095624092014-04-16T11:35:37.097-07:002014-04-16T11:35:37.097-07:00It's amazing that people can actually even say...It's amazing that people can actually even say "gender theory" without irony. I remember exactly the last time I used the expression "person of color" without irony. I still wince. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29791311515420852742014-04-16T11:33:47.030-07:002014-04-16T11:33:47.030-07:00The only people who pay for gender theory are the ...The only people who pay for gender theory are the people who fall for it. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-19022480768116318322014-04-16T11:31:09.326-07:002014-04-16T11:31:09.326-07:00I, Ms. G, and our son are all quite happy she wife...I, Ms. G, and our son are all quite happy she wifed the fuck out. But then, none of us are paid to write gender theory. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-18759466687084402862014-04-16T11:26:13.401-07:002014-04-16T11:26:13.401-07:00Dunst is not paid to write gender theory so it sho...<i>Dunst is not paid to write gender theory so it shouldn't surprise anyone that she's kind of dumb about it</i><br /><br />Awesome. All we have to do is be paid to write about something in order to be smart about it. <br /><br />"Wife the fuck out." This phrase sure packs a lot of ignorance into a small package.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-10081183006994244952014-04-16T11:20:07.423-07:002014-04-16T11:20:07.423-07:00Magister, you have a good point. And yet, the Trut...Magister, you have a good point. And yet, the Truth rains freely on the just and unjust alike...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66134969803055005682014-04-16T11:18:32.688-07:002014-04-16T11:18:32.688-07:00Re. Kirsten Dunst, it occurs to me that any woman ...Re. Kirsten Dunst, it occurs to me that any woman opposed to abortion and off birth control is essentially off the feminist reservation. Setting aside those who use childbearing to get more goodies from the state, a woman who lives true to her femininity simply cannot afford to ignore nature.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65099039792681908022014-04-16T11:16:19.473-07:002014-04-16T11:16:19.473-07:00whether man qua man has this right [to Truth]
If ...<i>whether man qua man has this right [to Truth]</i><br /><br />If there is no law other than what is defined in positive law, then man (at least in his collective form) has a legal entitlement to the truth in a court of law or contract. We have positive laws against perjury -- not that they appear to matter much, especially if you're a politician.<br /><br />Genesis tells us that man lost his natural entitlement to the truth when he told God to bugger off, eating the one thing God said not to. As a result, man lost the intuition of truth and instead had to deal with the rocky soil of words words words. We have the natural capacity for truth, but we reject the conditions that make it possible. <br /><br />We were made in the image of God, and for communion with Him, so surely it's possible. I think we lost the claim to be entitled to it, though.<br />Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.com