tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post571136576501336472..comments2024-03-29T06:03:45.545-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: How to be a Big unKnow-it-AllGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-47002587965018577822008-12-30T20:09:00.000-08:002008-12-30T20:09:00.000-08:00"We've had stupid commenters and ignoranuses galor..."We've had stupid commenters and ignoranuses galore here before, but you may be the first full retard (and I say this in the horizontal sense since you don't even rise to the level of retard in the vertical sense) we have ever had."<BR/><BR/>Goodness you can't even see half of the posts made and you're making that argument. I can't believe you went to that level to say something when you don't even know what was said to back it up. You're worse than the others who made basically all the same claims in that you can't even see what was said. <BR/><BR/>I finally get it, you all basically said the same things, but none of you really addressed any of the arguments anyway. So you were just arguing for fucks sake, and you get mad that I argue over nothing, when I at least tried to inject some content into. Wow, I am thoroughly awestruck ant the sheer stupidity of calling somebody stupid when you don't even know what was said.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8953867840669160972008-12-30T09:17:00.000-08:002008-12-30T09:17:00.000-08:00this place is the opposite of a divorce....i get t...this place is the opposite of a divorce....i get the goldmine AND the shaft!<BR/>happy new yearAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-74456654732155102582008-12-30T06:31:00.000-08:002008-12-30T06:31:00.000-08:00What Apu said...although I have been known to blur...What Apu said...although I have been known to blurt out on occasion.NoMohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01100042056270224683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8293432161835464902008-12-30T04:19:00.000-08:002008-12-30T04:19:00.000-08:00"diehards, dead-enders, cultists, and stalkers"Yes..."diehards, dead-enders, cultists, and stalkers"<BR/><BR/>Yes, I'll have a little bit of everything, thanks. Goes well toghether with some "quiet lurking" too!<BR/><BR/><BR/>/JohanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9184984580907028712008-12-30T00:48:00.000-08:002008-12-30T00:48:00.000-08:00Ben, check the dates/time stamps on the ends the c...Ben, check the dates/time stamps on the ends the comments for the last couple of days & there's our current Subwoofer maniacally giving in to logorrhea, spewing torrents, today, on threads days old.<BR/><BR/>Errr.... forget something?<BR/><BR/>It's a wonder it can remember where it left any of its droppings.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36661084457311906692008-12-29T22:48:00.000-08:002008-12-29T22:48:00.000-08:00"We're down to the diehards, dead-enders, cultists..."We're down to the diehards, dead-enders, cultists, and stalkers."<BR/><BR/>You forgot Quiet Lurkers, Bob. You know we exist,just from tracking your stats. Been Quietly Lurking myself since Week One of this adventure and loving every minute of it. And QLs are most certainly not stalkers. :)Apuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07432020535664454784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85241402808345347862008-12-29T21:52:00.000-08:002008-12-29T21:52:00.000-08:00Anon-Man, you're about as bright as one of them "g...Anon-<BR/>Man, you're about as bright as one of them "green" bulbs. <BR/>If Bob wanted to delete your comments then certainly he would delete your reposts.<BR/><BR/>Most likely you imagined it after sniffing glue again, or blogger (which lost my entire blog) was bein' blogger.<BR/><BR/>Either way, your explanation defies logic (as indeed, all your comments do).<BR/><BR/>We've had stupid commenters and ignoranuses galore here before, but you may be the first full retard (and I say this in the horizontal sense since you don't even rise to the level of retard in the vertical sense) we have ever had.<BR/><BR/>Congratulations! You can say you were the first to receive that dubious honor.<BR/><BR/>Of course, I may be rating you too high.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-38321650908766488212008-12-29T21:30:00.000-08:002008-12-29T21:30:00.000-08:00"It's not as if the B'ob tells you anything you do..."It's not as if the B'ob tells you anything you don't already know, I mean, right?"<BR/><BR/>1Cor 12:8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-79303427155604793402008-12-29T21:08:00.000-08:002008-12-29T21:08:00.000-08:00Van-You were a music programming salesman instruct...Van-<BR/>You were a music programming salesman instructor?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23275354904577248252008-12-29T21:04:00.000-08:002008-12-29T21:04:00.000-08:00Mine's mulante. A special champagne-grog (grogpagn...Mine's mulante. A special champagne-grog (grogpagne?) made in Madagascar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-56093026581902311112008-12-29T21:02:00.000-08:002008-12-29T21:02:00.000-08:00Van gets 'bindog' & I get 'cooki&#...Van gets 'bindog' & I get 'cooki'? <BR/>Now we're talk'in!<BR/><BR/>That's your secret cult names, Ximeze.<BR/>Mine is redrum.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-75988415133614022322008-12-29T20:59:00.000-08:002008-12-29T20:59:00.000-08:00BTW, Bob, have you seen my shrine of you? You woul...BTW, Bob, have you seen my shrine of you? You would like it, I think. It ain't creepy or nothin'.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-64815110282760513702008-12-29T20:57:00.000-08:002008-12-29T20:57:00.000-08:00We're down to the diehards, dead-enders, cultists,...We're down to the diehards, dead-enders, cultists, and stalkers.<BR/><BR/>Look, I already told the judge I WASN'T STALKING YOU!!!!!!!!!USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-68289648705745386752008-12-29T20:16:00.000-08:002008-12-29T20:16:00.000-08:00WV! where ya been pal? We've missed your depth...WV! where ya been pal? We've missed your depth & hinting ways, all the while awash in cycles of dullards & dopes that straggle in, nary a clue to rub between them.<BR/><BR/>Hey, I can see you've had a retrofit of language skills. Way to upgrade, dude.<BR/><BR/>Van gets 'bindog' & I get 'cooki'? <BR/>Now we're talk'in!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86831438211535796542008-12-29T19:16:00.000-08:002008-12-29T19:16:00.000-08:00non-a said "It's never hard to make Van look stupi...non-a said "It's never hard to make Van look stupid"<BR/><BR/>Ha, true enough, true enough, it's never been hard to do, in fact I fully concede that it is just the opposite, quite a simple task to make me look stupid, and have said so before. <BR/><BR/>Many have successfully done so, and I press them for all I can when I find them.<BR/><BR/>It does however, require that you have somewhat of a mastery of what makes human thought simpler, namely principles, and how they integrate; sadly, that's anathema to lefties and leftie-symp's, who are pragmatically unprincipled on principle, and so you leave the field wide open for me, a former musician, former salesmen, former instructor, almost former programmer (two more days of work left), who has only a so-so grasp of it all, to sweep your intelligently idiotic butts off the field, laughing all the way.<BR/><BR/><I>Still</I> laughing!<BR/><BR/>(wv's back! 'bindog', that's my guess too)Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52931470562156561182008-12-29T19:13:00.000-08:002008-12-29T19:13:00.000-08:00Nagarjuna has lost his title.Nagarjuna has lost his title.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-69527573252398979722008-12-29T18:45:00.000-08:002008-12-29T18:45:00.000-08:00Capitol post, my good man! Or section of one, any...Capitol post, my good man! Or section of one, anyway.<BR/><BR/>This troll stands down, with nothing negative to say. <BR/><BR/>I'll be back tommorrow to make trouble, never fear.<BR/><BR/>Give it up Aloysius...the anonymous troll is welcome here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-80701944532111947212008-12-29T18:38:00.000-08:002008-12-29T18:38:00.000-08:00I posted the following on yesterday's open discuss...I posted the following on yesterday's open discussion of ideas just now. Thought it rated a repost over here in the current open discussion of ideas. Call it an experiment –<BR/><BR/>Interesting. For all the complaining re: Sir Charles the Liztard, seems LGF's censorship policy is something Bob's growing to admire. I noticed one of my comments missing after I thought I'd posted it, but what the hey. It's never hard to make Van look stupid. This evening however I see that a brother anon is remarking on deleted posts.<BR/><BR/>So carry on with your big selfs, coonage. Looks like Daddy's gonna mix up practice and preach yet again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52476797760260728072008-12-29T14:38:00.000-08:002008-12-29T14:38:00.000-08:00whether shock treatment would help us poor sots re...<I>whether shock treatment would help us poor sots remember or forget.</I><BR/><BR/>Now that's a lovely breakfast chat that the Jolly Roger and I have yet to consider.<BR/><BR/>The other day it was about my decidedly reasonable decree that after I have died, I should like a true burial, and a memorial place in the ground, not in some reliquary on a mantle. <BR/><BR/>Not nearly as somber as it sounds, however...Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90257297333013448182008-12-29T13:35:00.000-08:002008-12-29T13:35:00.000-08:00Were I or anyone omitting a dimension we would not...Were I or anyone omitting a dimension we would not have existence.<BR/><BR/>Existence is <I>tauta panta</I>, literally, "all these things [that are made from the five]" (the five dimensions).<BR/><BR/>Please no lectures that <I>panta</I> does not mean five, <I>penta</I> does. If you feel the urge regardless, study the cognate of both words.<BR/><BR/>St. Paul was nothing if not a foremost exponent of Pythagorean as well as Christian thought and practice.<BR/><BR/>What has existence has five dimensions. Even the defective.<BR/><BR/>And in any case, the five dimensions are experienced as combinations and permutations of all five, never as singles, much less single linearities, which is the phenomenon that subverts the pretense of the "scientistical" (classically called "nominalistic") assumption set.<BR/><BR/>Shock treatment is effective one way or another, forget or remember, depending on the character of the shocker, the character and destiny of the shockee and their relationship.David R. Grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416692639208634879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-73706307738138789592008-12-29T12:41:00.000-08:002008-12-29T12:41:00.000-08:00There's nothing more fun than stalking diehard dea...There's nothing more fun than stalking diehard deadender cultists.<BR/><BR/>Wifey and I were just this morning discussing whether shock treatment would help us poor sots <I>remember or forget</I>.<BR/><BR/>Can't decide which is preferable. Heads or tails - you call it.robinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-58836133351575316532008-12-29T11:55:00.000-08:002008-12-29T11:55:00.000-08:00I have lobbied Bob to at least require that they u...I have lobbied Bob to at least require that they use some sort of moniker. Blogspot does allow for requiring some sort of name field.<BR/><BR/>Bob seems to think that it stifles commentary. I think it will raise the level of commentary to be able to respond to a name.Aloysiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13858618410784962169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57589080552409738752008-12-29T11:51:00.000-08:002008-12-29T11:51:00.000-08:00The path has five dimensions. You're probably jus...The path has five dimensions. You're probably just omitting a few.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67972810417678960022008-12-29T11:40:00.000-08:002008-12-29T11:40:00.000-08:00I understand and accept that the metaphor of being...I understand and accept that the metaphor of being on a "path" reflects self-understanding for many, probably very many, but for myself, I just do not feel it or understand it.<BR/><BR/>I have never felt I was on a path of any kind. Certainly that is not a normative feeling generally, nor should be, but it expresses my experience.<BR/><BR/>I just do not understand the metaphor of "path." Nor am I asking to, mostly because I am sure I cannot understand it and would gain nothing from an effort to.<BR/><BR/>I can grasp that there are vectors of light hurtling thither and fro like birds through the air. But a path, in the sense of deliberate, directional travel pregnant with meaning? I have no such experience.<BR/><BR/>Nor want any. Nor deny that some have such experience.<BR/><BR/>Merely an observation.<BR/><BR/>More to the point, I suspect there is not any experience that can be called "understanding" as that word is customarily employed.David R. Grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416692639208634879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70158371131628194762008-12-29T10:45:00.000-08:002008-12-29T10:45:00.000-08:00...forms of speech "that comprise the 'shock treat...<I>...forms of speech "that comprise the 'shock treatment' of a mystical discourse designed to awaken by challenging traditional modes of speaking and understanding"...</I><BR/><BR/>Oh wait! For a moment there I thought he was referring to One Cosmos.<BR/><BR/>And ... I am definitely a stalker:<BR/>I just "live" for a <I>rare glimpse</I> of the nous taking wing -- a sight that piques my interest, and leaves me hot and bothered.walthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388218390016612051noreply@blogger.com