tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post5572820749447313033..comments2024-03-28T12:10:26.197-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: The Left Talks About Evolution. Why Not Put it into Practice? Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-43582325907428138972013-09-14T08:44:53.938-07:002013-09-14T08:44:53.938-07:00Mushroom, you can buy phosphates (trisodium phosph...Mushroom, you can buy phosphates (trisodium phosphate) in the paint section of department stores. "Get some today!" And add a pinch to your dishwashing and laundry detergents.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-61128268261709976282013-09-05T19:30:46.173-07:002013-09-05T19:30:46.173-07:00...that don't do what they're supposed to ...<i> ...that don't do what they're supposed to do, because they need to meet "green" regulations.</i><br /><br />They took away my phosphates. <br /><br />And these stupid front-loading washing machines. They are probably great for washing, I don't know, a spandex bicycle outfit.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5693466337657501832013-09-05T17:39:49.278-07:002013-09-05T17:39:49.278-07:00On so many levels, they are such SlackBandits. On so many levels, they are such SlackBandits. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-691295731704489922013-09-05T17:14:04.251-07:002013-09-05T17:14:04.251-07:00Good point. Also, it occurs to me that a lot of th...Good point. Also, it occurs to me that a lot of the things leftists support (mostly for other people) require much more effort than whatever system was already in place (and probably working just fine). For instance, modern appliances that don't do what they're supposed to do, because they need to meet "green" regulations. Or the hard work required to get the right permits to remodel a backyard.<br /><br />Very few things they support make life easier, for anyone. But that seems to be the point. They don't think people should be allowed to have it easy.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-80148527480383603552013-09-05T15:38:40.066-07:002013-09-05T15:38:40.066-07:00The thing is, if you have the wrong structure in p...The thing is, if you have the wrong structure in place, hard work can't pay off. A Mexican laborer works just as hard in Mexico, but has nothing to show for it. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4012621927729531572013-09-05T15:13:01.011-07:002013-09-05T15:13:01.011-07:00Magister, I think it's not only that genuine e...Magister, I think it's not only that genuine evolution requires work; I think it's that many progressives, at some level, are deeply misanthropic. If not explicitly, then implicitly.<br /><br />They don't strive to evolve because many of them honestly don't think there's any future worth evolving toward. So they don't have kids, and they aren't bothered by abortion, and they don't honestly believe the human race in general is worth saving because the human race is, like, <i>killing</i> the <i>planet</i>, man.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-75396105617199966202013-09-05T15:11:40.863-07:002013-09-05T15:11:40.863-07:00Au contraire -- there are Bushes -- and they have ...Au contraire -- there are Bushes -- and they have birds in them, or maybe just bird brains. <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/09/unreal-jeb-bush-to-give-hillary-clinton-liberty-medal-for-furthering-ideals-of-freedom/" rel="nofollow">One is presenting an award for furthering freedom, democracy, and equality against great odds to the bullet-dodging Bitch of Benghazi.</a>mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15840427200326257032013-09-05T13:32:41.556-07:002013-09-05T13:32:41.556-07:00The problem at this point is that so many people w...The problem at this point is that so many people work for the government and government at all levels is such a significant part of what is calculated as the GDP, removing it here or in Europe would result in an undeniable depression. We'd work our way out of it. If we would have done it voluntarily it would have been a lot better. Eventually it will happen, and things will get sorted out. I feel sorry for the younger folks. It will be a rude awakening.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-31494485759433459392013-09-05T10:13:48.116-07:002013-09-05T10:13:48.116-07:00Speaking of evolution, here's something from v...Speaking of evolution, here's something from von Balthasar: <br /><br /><i>Even if I knew that</i> God <i>had granted me faith as an infused gift, I could never be certain that</i> I <i>had received this faith in the manner God expects of me. ... If faith is the freely given participation in the perfect covenant-fidelity of Jesus Christ, then this faith does not really belong to me in its origin and in its centre, but to God in Christ. He is the mother-plant, so to speak, and I am only a shoot from it, and I cannot clasp faith's supernatural reality to myself as if it were something belonging to me as a possession. In faith and through it, rather, I am made open and dispossessed of self. The 'psychological' element of which I could become certain is the least interesting and characteristic side of faith. The important thing is the movement away from myself, the preference of what is other and greater, and precisely the person who has been expropriated for God does not want to become fully secure with regard to this Other and Greater.<br /><br />Seen from this perspective, Christian experience can mean only the progressive growth of one's own existence into Christ's existence, on the basis of Christ's continuing action in taking shape in the believer.</i><br /><br />So that <i>homo sapiens</i> can finally walk, er, upright.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-18895489966528855252013-09-05T08:49:32.461-07:002013-09-05T08:49:32.461-07:00Why don't they practice it? Because it require...Why don't they <i>practice</i> it? Because it requires effort. <br /><br />I had a good long conversation with an Italian yesterday who said that, in Italy, he is stripped of 55% of what he earns by the State. "I work for the State!" he laughed, thinking of its absurdity. He is a constitutional lawyer, has significant property, a wife, and four young children. He's thinking seriously about retiring and collecting a pension because his government pension would be only slightly lower than his current private salary. "It is crazy," he says. "The problem in Italy, as everywhere, is the Welfare State. We can't afford it, and we can't sustain it. Something has to change, but it is difficult with this generation."Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.com