tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post5039877403622074150..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Circumnavelgazing Heaven and HellGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29593767442637334312013-07-22T03:42:43.975-07:002013-07-22T03:42:43.975-07:00but Kosher killing sucks bigtime! Any God worthy o...but Kosher killing sucks bigtime! Any God worthy of worship would be a nondualist vegetarian spake the voidgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54331125373554653692013-07-21T19:13:26.893-07:002013-07-21T19:13:26.893-07:00Make sense. Seems the first recorded murder revol...Make sense. Seems the <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+4%3A4-5&version=NIV" rel="nofollow">first recorded murder</a> revolved around that aroma.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53058484182371320692013-07-21T19:00:43.379-07:002013-07-21T19:00:43.379-07:00Indeed; it seems as though most of the Old Testame...Indeed; it seems as though most of the Old Testament chronicles the efforts of various individuals battling the constant backsliding into greater primitivism.<br /><br />Getting back to the sensorium idea, though, I can't help wondering if heaven doesn't smell at least a little like the best barbecue ever. Word has it the Man liked the aroma of a good roast, after all...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39291745204116729972013-07-21T17:43:05.966-07:002013-07-21T17:43:05.966-07:00I don't think most people realize that both Ch...I don't think most people realize that both Christianity and rabbinic Judaism are late offshoots of a more primitive kind of Yahwism (which was nevertheless an advance -- or leap in being, as Voegelin called it -- over the surrounding polytheism of antiquity).Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-381021081201404892013-07-21T17:33:55.171-07:002013-07-21T17:33:55.171-07:00Random thought of the evening:
It occurred to me,...Random thought of the evening:<br /><br />It occurred to me, while eating dinner, that the temple of the OT Jews must have smelled, outside at least, like barbecue pretty much all the time...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-32802733578713894442013-07-21T15:10:36.551-07:002013-07-21T15:10:36.551-07:00Then you mix in negatives and multiplication, and ...Then you mix in negatives and multiplication, and things get <i>really</i> weird...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87662545798001440382013-07-21T14:50:54.131-07:002013-07-21T14:50:54.131-07:00I for 1 find it odd
you for 2 find it even
that 2 ...I for 1 find it odd<br />you for 2 find it even<br />that 2 odds always make an even<br />and 2 evens always make an even<br />but an even & an odd <br />always make an odd!<br />[it doesnt seem even<br />it seems rather odd]<br />--it works like mother nature<br />it feels like holy god<br />2 odds always make an even<br />2 evens always make an even<br />but an even & odd <br />always make an odd!gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-47284776222554456122013-07-20T14:49:25.940-07:002013-07-20T14:49:25.940-07:00:D
Well, to serve is to love...:D<br /><br />Well, to serve is to love...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85747595459379883082013-07-20T14:23:32.875-07:002013-07-20T14:23:32.875-07:00Today's job description .Today's <a href="http://bizarrocomics.com/files/2013/07/Bz-04-17-06-GodBirdPooWEB.jpg" rel="nofollow"> job description </a>.robinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-27331791777629505722013-07-20T10:57:41.911-07:002013-07-20T10:57:41.911-07:00Peyton, Regulatory Law is a fundamentally Anti-Ame...Peyton, Regulatory Law <i>is</i> a fundamentally Anti-American view of law, it is in fact the nuanced means of achieving Marx's ideal of abolishing private property. <br /><br />But it is simply the means, not the motive force. <br /><br />The visibly motive force behind Regulatory Law, a necessary requirement of it, is that Free Will is an illusion, which implicitly replaces Ethics with Determinism and those who believe they are better suited to flipping the flippers of the pinball machine than the average Joe, soon result in <a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=638&chapter=70992&layout=html#a_1686922" rel="nofollow">Rousseau's "This means nothing less than that he will be forced to be free"</a>, and to ever more disastrous ideas such as followed from Godwin, Bentham, Hume, J.S. Mill, Marx, etc.<br /><br />But what drives that is the desire to remake reality in your own image - and the belief that you can - and Descartes, with his Cogito & 'Method of Doubt' provided the intellectual basis for that.<br /><br />Rousseau gave the means of translating that into Education and Politics, and everything else has followed, or fallen, from there.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-11896412069024036652013-07-20T10:28:34.731-07:002013-07-20T10:28:34.731-07:00One guess.One guess.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70422384804095287352013-07-20T10:21:53.351-07:002013-07-20T10:21:53.351-07:00Also Bob, where's that wikipedia link that has...Also Bob, where's that wikipedia link that has you linked to that musician instead of to you?JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-18183088107436819982013-07-20T10:18:18.716-07:002013-07-20T10:18:18.716-07:00"Eh, I give up. No time for a proper post thi..."Eh, I give up. No time for a proper post this morning."<br /><br />I'm content for the next 48 hours anyway at least. Maybe the next 72. Or more.<br /><br />So, it's all good from my perspective. <br /><br />I also figure that we don't really need an open thread until we get to 100 comments or 7 days anyway (whichever comes first).JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-6700093399629235042013-07-20T10:01:21.925-07:002013-07-20T10:01:21.925-07:00Nice comparison to LotR, Van. May I suggest a slig...Nice comparison to LotR, Van. May I suggest a slight shift, though: Regulatory Law is Sauron! The American Revolution defeated it, for the most part (versus the French Revolution which enshrined it). Its re-entry into the American system came through the Commerce Clause and the compromises on slavery.<br /><br />Unfortunately I have run out of analogy. What is the One (and not Whatsisname)? Who are the unlikely trio of Frodo, Sam and Gollum? Where is Orodruin (Mount Doom)?<br /><br />A personal note: My wife and I are reading The Lord of the Rings to a friend whose only communication is yes/no with his right thumb. It is a slow but rewarding project. We just got the trio shut off at the Dark Gate and started on the desperate journey south. It gives one a lot of time for reflection.Peytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12270784303736251238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26627004458246264682013-07-20T09:32:00.854-07:002013-07-20T09:32:00.854-07:00From Gagdad's link "Horny devils are repo...From Gagdad's link "Horny devils are reported to be plaguing Zambia's school system"<br /><br />Ummm... anyone seen the sorts of teachers who've made it into the headlines with their students, here in our own school systems?<br /><br />Just sayin'.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-38792648965856656672013-07-20T09:25:42.900-07:002013-07-20T09:25:42.900-07:00IRS, NSA, EPA, Obama, Pelosi, Reid, stolen electio...IRS, NSA, EPA, Obama, Pelosi, Reid, stolen elections, imperfect or corrupt defense... it all becomes even more frustrating if you take those as <i>the</i> battles to be fought.<br /><br />Luckily they're not. Though... of course they do need to be fought, they just aren't <i>the</i> battle to be fought.<br /><br />Having seen part of the Lord of the Rings movies again last night, it's on the brain again, so I'll give the Gandalf Strategy.<br /><br />Yes Rohan needed to be fought for at Helms Deep. Yes Gondor needed to be fought for, at Minas Tirith and even an army of the dead was needed, the Nazgul and even a last stand at the Black Gate of Mordor... necessary, but all were fought without the slightest hope of their defeating The Enemy.<br /><br />Only destroying the One Ring, which was Sauron's means of maintaining and exerting power, would do that. <br /><br />That's clarifying.<br /><br />So you fight where you have to, stand where you can, expect both the craven and the traitors, knowing full well that the wins and loses, though necessary, haven't a hope in hell of winning the war. And knowing that, you place your only real hopes in the hopeless strategy that you have no hope of winning, because winning cannot be done without that.<br /><br />Our One Ring, the means of consuming and exerting power, is (in the secular sense) Regulatory Law, and the motive force it serves, the idea that Free Will is illusory, that people can't (or won't) think and so must be 'nudged'; that the Greater Good gives you the right to deprive your fellows of their Rights, justifies living another person's life for them, and that any Greater Good can be accomplished through engaging in Evil.<br /><br />Unless that can be accomplished, or even called into serious question, nothing else can possibly have any real or lasting affect. So you trudge your way through the swamps and deserts of Education - the actual system and the public assumptions - knowing that on the way to seeing the Ring's return to the Crack of Doom - and what can be more daunting than the prospect of getting a people consumed with 'Honey Boo-boo' to consider philosophical and metaphysical issues of Free Will and Truth - knowing that it is hopeless, but that it is the only hope, and that even in the end... it will all come down to Choice, Chance and Grace.<br /><br />As all the best Wizards know, there's a lot of hope to be found in hopelessness.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5111754689071556582013-07-20T09:01:35.749-07:002013-07-20T09:01:35.749-07:00Hey, waitaminit - how did Zambians come to be spea...Hey, waitaminit - how did Zambians come to be speaking Tonga?juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-19084530722502508102013-07-20T08:58:33.270-07:002013-07-20T08:58:33.270-07:00That's a great review. And observation. The bo...That's a great review. And observation. The book looks interesting, too...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9165706906243128442013-07-20T07:50:33.268-07:002013-07-20T07:50:33.268-07:00I was just wandering around the aisles of amazon a...I was just wandering around the aisles of amazon and ran into this book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Darwins-Doubt-Explosive-Origin-Intelligent/dp/0062071475/ref=wl_mb_recs_2_dp" rel="nofollow">Darwin's Doubt</a>. The first reviewer writes that <br /><br />"by its very nature, information is fungible -- it can be exchanged into many different forms.... the demands of the anti-ID critics are like a person who would demand that you deduce from reading a novel whether it was first written with pen and ink, or with a typewriter, or with a modern computer processor. While one can easily identify information when one has it, the very fact that information can remain the same while being embodied in any number of different media, makes it impossible to deduce a physical cause for it."Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52991456226399264132013-07-20T07:41:40.252-07:002013-07-20T07:41:40.252-07:00Hypersexual mind parasites on the loose among Zamb...<a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100226564/zambian-teachers-say-they-live-in-fear-of-invisible-sex-with-witches-the-witches-have-yet-to-comment/" rel="nofollow">Hypersexual mind parasites on the loose among Zambian Tonga-speakers</a>.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23809739207974553432013-07-19T19:00:26.758-07:002013-07-19T19:00:26.758-07:00But the same within may manifest in different with...<i>But the same within may manifest in different withouts.</i><br /><br />Along those lines, I'm finally back to reading <i>Splendor of the True</i>. Chapter 2 begins with this very same idea in regard to the complementarity between esoterism and exoterism:<br /><br /><i>But in fact this second truth exists independently of the first; hence it is not a complement or half in its intrinsic reality but only extrinsically and as it were "accidentally." This means that the word "esotericism" designates not only the total truth insofar as it is "colored" by entering a system of partial truth but also the total truth as such, which is colorless.</i>juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71128339430947302942013-07-19T15:06:34.882-07:002013-07-19T15:06:34.882-07:00Something sure happened with the election, as this...Something sure happened with the election, as this twitterer points out:<br /><br />"They told me that if I voted for @MittRomney, Detroit would go bankrupt. They were right."Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8249143032421796922013-07-19T15:06:34.327-07:002013-07-19T15:06:34.327-07:00Something sure happened with the election, as this...Something sure happened with the election, as this twitterer points out:<br /><br />"They told me that if I voted for @MittRomney, Detroit would go bankrupt. They were right."Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-61051740178594803182013-07-19T13:46:19.115-07:002013-07-19T13:46:19.115-07:00Things have to get worse before they can get bette...Things have to get worse before they can get better. <br /><br />I'm a little worried that the apocalypse might be triggered since <a href="http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-charles-barkley-george-zimmerman-verdict-20130719,0,6016207.story" rel="nofollow">Charles Barkley</a>, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/jimmy-carter-thinks-zimmerman-jury-made-decision-144907848.html" rel="nofollow">Jimmy Carter</a> and I all agree about something.<br /><br />It's scary, but not as scary as Carter's picture in the link.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-82015780831555618012013-07-19T11:14:55.380-07:002013-07-19T11:14:55.380-07:00Even so, though, if conservatives had actually sho...Even so, though, if conservatives had actually shown up to vote, he probably would have won. Far too many felt betrayed by the Republicans; they wanted Reagan II, and were offered Obama-lite. At least, that's the perception. It's hard to imagine, now, <i>any</i> Republican administration being as casually scandal-laden and generally awful as the current occupant's...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com