tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post5917934800704332185..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Right Thinking, Right Doing, Right Being, or Why Obama Hates Me Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-27798109222148473732014-07-10T09:13:50.833-07:002014-07-10T09:13:50.833-07:00I'd never heard of that, Magister, but it look...I'd never heard of that, Magister, but it looks like a great idea. Their next submission window begins <a href="http://www.templeton.org/what-we-fund/our-grantmaking-process" rel="nofollow">August 1</a>...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-38344036434787325772014-07-10T08:29:54.840-07:002014-07-10T08:29:54.840-07:00I was kinda hoping you'd do it for me.I was kinda hoping you'd do it for me.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-42759190773820617512014-07-10T08:00:46.019-07:002014-07-10T08:00:46.019-07:00Most divisive president ever. Unworthy of the offi...Most divisive president ever. Unworthy of the office. Unworthy of our country. I'm with Sam Adams:<br /><br />"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!"<br /><br />By the way, Bob, have you ever considered applying to the Templeton Foundation to support the writing of your next book?Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-19534681623510154682014-07-10T07:44:31.848-07:002014-07-10T07:44:31.848-07:00Well, I wish I had more time to get into the dynam...Well, I wish I had more time to get into the dynamics of narcissism, but you get the general idea. This is a world-historical political narcissistic tantrum the likes of which we have not seen in my lifetime."<br /><br />I'll say! Obama acts more like a two-bit dicktater than a President of the US.<br />Come to think of it, I can't recall one moment when Obama has ever acted as a President of a Republic should. Nothin'I would call Presidential, even in a shallow sense.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-11695318064518589552014-07-10T06:45:33.304-07:002014-07-10T06:45:33.304-07:00"Orthodaimonia," perhaps."Orthodaimonia," perhaps.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39346250128533791432014-07-09T18:57:54.893-07:002014-07-09T18:57:54.893-07:00Yep. And in large part because of the bold part, a...Yep. And in large part because of the bold part, all of the rest of it has come apart:<br /><br />"<i>... an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. <b>Dewey is one of the primary figures associated with philosophy of pragmatism</b> and is considered one of the founders of functional psychology. A well-known public intellectual, he was also a major voice of progressive education and liberalism.[2][3] Although Dewey is known best for his publications concerning education, he also wrote about many other topics, including epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, art, logic, social theory, and ethics.</i>..."<br /><br />He started off as a prominent enthusiast for Hegel, taking an active part in more than his fair share of muddying the waters to make them appear deep, and then deciding that there was no such thing as depth, he pragmatically set about eliminating anything that smelled of depth. <br /><br />As mentioned in the comments the other day, the imaginative stuff of story, poetry & religion that makes learning interesting & worthwhile... out. He was a big part of finalizing the process of "<i>can't be measured or quantified on tests, or be spun in the most useful direction of the moment? Gone."</i><br /><br />Workers & Drones please, that's what was needed... after all, in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king (and the two eyed One is a threat).Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52810632350821772692014-07-09T16:55:09.352-07:002014-07-09T16:55:09.352-07:00I guess I didn't realize that Dewey's mali...I guess I didn't realize that Dewey's malign influence extended back that far, but <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey#On_education" rel="nofollow">sure enough</a>. I don't spend much time studying people I deplore. My main knowledge of them is from whatever I picked up when I was one of them. For example, I actually read a lot of Chomsky, Parenti, Zinn, etc., back in the day. Talk about a shadow pursuing shadows! Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-91893790945761528272014-07-09T16:29:07.089-07:002014-07-09T16:29:07.089-07:00Gagdad said "There are so many outstanding in...Gagdad said "There are so many outstanding insults of the tenured in this autobiography of Kirk. He saw the problem way back in 1953."<br /><br /><br />ehmmm... not to take anything away from Kirk other than chronological coonism, I do mucho-enjoy him, but Irving Babbitt beat him to the dunce punch by at least a half century, with every bit as much bite to his wit (and maybe even with a bit more depth).<br /><br />From an article <a href="http://www.nhinet.org/davis19-1.pdf" rel="nofollow">Irving Babbitt, the Moral Imagination, and Progressive Education</a><br /><br />"<i>...When Literature and the American College, Irving Babbitt’s critique of the new educational theories, was first published in 1908, it was a shot fired across the bow of the ship of progressive reform in American higher education. Babbitt fired a sound shot, but he lost the war. Since that time, educational reform has run through various movements, including, but not limited to, the industrial education movement, the mental testing movement, differentiated curriculum, child-centered education, the mental hygiene movement, the efficiency movement, constructivism, and education for life-adjustment, all reform movements advanced under the rubric of “progressive education.”1 Yet, readers who review educational practice and who delve into the voluminous works on educational theory over the past century, will recognize that Babbitt’s writings on education as an ethical pursuit remain topical. Now more than ever, Americans argue the purpose and value of education and debate the central issues of educational content and methodology, as Babbitt did one hundred years ago. Babbitt’s voice should continue...</i>"<br /><br /><br />BTW, it's online: <a href="http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=RfQTAAAAIAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=Irving+Babbitt&ots=crjPk6TVGP&sig=5mKdI-SFzRbe-Q1aNCHNt32-yzs#v=onepage&q=Irving%20Babbitt&f=false" rel="nofollow">Literature and the American College: Essays in Defense of the Humanities</a>Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-79255880794020638542014-07-09T15:28:11.575-07:002014-07-09T15:28:11.575-07:00There are so many outstanding insults of the tenur...There are so many outstanding insults of the tenured in this autobiography of Kirk. He saw the problem way back in 1953. That's what you call wide-open cOOnvision.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14722535696660668712014-07-09T15:25:27.574-07:002014-07-09T15:25:27.574-07:00The Man or Tran won't buy our silence with rai...The Man or Tran won't buy our silence with rainbow wrapped unicorn burgers!USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53854359898653920342014-07-09T15:16:28.768-07:002014-07-09T15:16:28.768-07:00Bob @ 1:55
Nope, it's Moops.Bob @ 1:55<br /><br />Nope, it's Moops.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-73796534721009881312014-07-09T15:10:52.404-07:002014-07-09T15:10:52.404-07:00We're here, we're queer, and we're not...We're here, we're queer, and we're not going away!Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3782983467739031612014-07-09T15:08:25.447-07:002014-07-09T15:08:25.447-07:00Preach it brother!
Preach it brother!<br />USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-11639716864811155652014-07-09T14:39:20.240-07:002014-07-09T14:39:20.240-07:00From Vanderleun's sidebar. I agree entirely: ...From Vanderleun's sidebar. I agree entirely: stick it to the man!<br /><br />"You get to flip the bird to The Man, to be anti-establishment, to get off the grid of pop-culture garbage and live the way you see fit.<br />Those of the alternative right are not just in the positions of being the Marxes and Nietzsches and Gramscis opposed to bourgeois mass-culture morality, but we also get to be Kerouac in San Francisco, to be Wyatt and Billy on the open highway, to be Ken Kesey on his Magic Bus, to be Lenny Bruce making people faint from the stage. Nearly everything necessary for this is already in place. In many ways, the alternative right community reminds me of my father’s descriptions of Greenwich Village circa 1964. It is filled with all manner of eccentrics and thinkers and radicals and rebels and misfits. Some speak deep truths, some seem half-crazy; some are charismatic and charming, others seem scary and dangerous. Sometimes it is the scary, dangerous, and half-crazy among them who speak the most deep truth. All throughout, there is a feeling of throwing off what the establishment gives us, of finding a better way. There is also a feeling that something big is inevitable, and coming sooner rather than later."<br /><br />Tune out, Turn right, and Drop rhetorical bombs on 'em. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7173536719388775322014-07-09T13:55:45.314-07:002014-07-09T13:55:45.314-07:00Re Rick's comment, I think of be-ing as intrin...Re Rick's comment, I think of be-ing as intrinsically ing-ing. Plain old "be" would be a static and unmoving abstraction from the dynamism of being. Being is being because of relation and dialogue, beyond which there is no whicher. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-930057784755398512014-07-09T12:51:02.461-07:002014-07-09T12:51:02.461-07:00Meanwhile, and I do mean mEan with a capital Evil,...Meanwhile, and I do mean mEan with a capital Evil, Obama will have VA employees helping out with Obamascare.<br />This is his final solution to help the veterans and stop the systematic abuses at the VA.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36308393953632636672014-07-09T12:47:04.652-07:002014-07-09T12:47:04.652-07:00Our newest troll's real name is Opi. Same effe...Our newest troll's real name is Opi. Same effect at any rate.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59555482774865009812014-07-09T12:44:46.742-07:002014-07-09T12:44:46.742-07:00Bob, maybe it's one of those VA employees who ...Bob, maybe it's one of those VA employees who stole morphine from a dying vet trying to get rid of it's stash.<br />We can rest assured the Obama's thugs will punish the whistleblowers though.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52221387560060585562014-07-09T12:37:39.306-07:002014-07-09T12:37:39.306-07:00Tramadol over Trolls!Tramadol over Trolls!mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-43890874441355726592014-07-09T12:14:09.089-07:002014-07-09T12:14:09.089-07:00And I mentioned in a comment that most of my anony...And I mentioned in a comment that most of my anonymous commenters want to sell me some tramadol, whereas our recent guest is peddling a dangerous and addictive opiate.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-74187233882687004292014-07-09T12:11:42.745-07:002014-07-09T12:11:42.745-07:00Obama's plan: encourage enough people to flee...Obama's plan: encourage enough people to flee from their dysfunctional homelands, thus turning ours into the type of dysfunctional homeland from which they are fleeing. Then they'll flee here. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29745384321868036352014-07-09T11:32:02.319-07:002014-07-09T11:32:02.319-07:00Anyone notice that the 'Coach Factory Outlet&q...Anyone notice that the 'Coach Factory Outlet" Anonymous makes more sense than our aninnymouse?<br />Ortho-Anon!Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44549050236564227842014-07-09T10:57:54.017-07:002014-07-09T10:57:54.017-07:00Ortho Aweigh!Ortho Aweigh!USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9390970400419774472014-07-09T10:57:03.917-07:002014-07-09T10:57:03.917-07:00Semper Ortho!Semper Ortho!USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44370666935949645522014-07-09T10:55:13.360-07:002014-07-09T10:55:13.360-07:00Bob, have you taken the orthoDontest?!Bob, have you taken the orthoDontest?!USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.com