tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post5546467923914344028..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: The Emergence of EmergenceGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3640857951339402022022-07-04T23:25:05.234-07:002022-07-04T23:25:05.234-07:00Engaging in dialogue with those who do not share o...Engaging in dialogue with those who do not share our assumptions is nothing more than a stupid way to kill time.<br />Nicolásnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-49512466336351230822022-07-04T14:27:55.764-07:002022-07-04T14:27:55.764-07:00I find it interesting that Bob thought his way int...I find it interesting that Bob thought his way into becoming a right wing kook. <br /><br />Usually something traumatic happens, like planes, towers then cranes, after which the constant rationalizing of Mayor Giuliani’s slomo pratfall from national hero to clown car driver became critical to the Saving of America. <br /><br />At least that’s the typical explanation. Less typical is that one was enraptured by Fox News’ flashy graphics and blonde bimbos and just went with the flow along with friends, family, and the church fellowship crowd.<br /><br />I went the other way. Interestingly, I fell off the Fox News bandwagon after their constant debating over Monica’s blue dress became too tediously boring for me to handle anymore. It was only after 911 that I returned, only to find that Fox wasn’t doing debates anymore. I lived for those debates.<br /><br />IMHO, respect for debates is the most American thing of all.<br /><br />I learned a while ago that regardless of movement, whether it be white evangelical, Marxist, metrosexual libertarian, or LGBTQ DINK (except with the fashionable minority gayby who’s being raised/groomed as some sort of spoiled pet Brüno-style), that at the end of the day, the mindless exercising of power always ruins the movement. Exercising power is just too pleasurable.<br /><br />And this is the important part: the mindless exercising of power which always ruins movements, along with most anybody else give or take, can only happen when debates don’t happen anymore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29629750567875402002022-07-04T07:21:18.765-07:002022-07-04T07:21:18.765-07:00I must be a smelly deplorable and Christo-fascist ...I must be a smelly deplorable and Christo-fascist MAGA insurrectionist, as I nodded in agreement a couple of times. Happy Independence Day! Real freedom, though, is in Christ.John Venlethttps://freemenfreeminds.usnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-63401642883775329082022-07-03T12:30:29.608-07:002022-07-03T12:30:29.608-07:00Come to think of it, in letters it isn't so di...Come to think of it, in letters it isn't so different from ABBAjuliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3594377485752207062022-07-03T12:23:53.169-07:002022-07-03T12:23:53.169-07:00Or, you can be like that enterprising Flatland dwe...<i>Or, you can be like that enterprising Flatland dweller who peeps outside his cave and has a close encounter with the sphere, O.</i><br /><br />And then the poor unsuspecting Flatlander must try to figure out what the dickens he just experienced, and... <br /><br />!? ?! <br />juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com