tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post5941052943426167280..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: No Success Like FailureGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-35402347408035497762012-01-25T10:40:42.686-08:002012-01-25T10:40:42.686-08:00I know it's a tangent but let's talk Newt,...I know it's a tangent but let's talk Newt, the nasty auto-immune disorder of the right. His mob is the vulgar mirror image of the leftist rabble. They think that Jimmy Swaggart was sincere, that pro wrestling is sport and that porn is sex. They are full of lusts and their itching ears are anxious for scratching by the nastiest con man around. <br /><br />Alinsky and like lower forms are chortling in their graves. Nancy only has one foot in and she can hardly contain her self until the nomination.Aloysiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13858618410784962169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45103741176951844202012-01-24T20:24:57.909-08:002012-01-24T20:24:57.909-08:00"Truth is both timeless and universal, so tha..."Truth is both timeless and universal, so that what is true will always be so. Scientific fads and fashions will come and go, but Man will always be in the image of the Creator, a meta-cosmic truth from which our rights, our duties, and our dignity flow. An undignified man has no rights, and a man with no rights has no dignity. Likewise, a man with no obligations is not a man. (We are not speaking legalistically, of course, but morally, or better, ontologically.)<br /><br />Man's obligations are prior to his rights, for if the reverse is true, man makes himself a god. This is the upside-down god of the left, for it is the undignified man who is entitled to his rights, which are actually your obligations. But to be forcefully obligated in this manner is to be treated in an undignified manner, so we end in a tyranny of the undignified. See contemporary culture for details."<br /><br />Aye! The OWSers believe that what they are doing is grandiose, but in reality they are promoting victimology and they are hostile towards obligations, responsibility and accountability (all of which are essential if one is to have the right of liberty.<br /><br />In effect they think they want licentiousnesslike freedom or anarchy.<br /><br />Of course, if they actually got their wish it would be chaos and a nirvana for predators (like the OWSer rape camps).<br /><br />Some OWSers are both predator AND victim. How they make that work I have no idea. <br />Passive/aggressive I suppose.<br /><br />Great series Bob! This is a wealth of wisdom and well worth going over and over.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-49516073445856016362012-01-24T14:10:39.171-08:002012-01-24T14:10:39.171-08:00"Nor are we suggesting that we succeed, only ..."Nor are we suggesting that we succeed, only that <b>to even attempt to do this is the privilege of a lifetome.</b> Or painting. Or photograph. Or musical composition.<br /><br />Otherwise, there is no point whatsoever in putting pen to paper or fingers to keyboard, at least regarding the matters we discuss here. This is not supposed to be an exercise in (•), but an exorcism thereof, a verticalaesthetic and a gymnostic."<br /><br />Hear here.<br /><br />wv:child<br />A bit terse, but that could be another way of putting it.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-47720740655186935402012-01-24T12:12:15.423-08:002012-01-24T12:12:15.423-08:00"If so, space merely introduces man to his ow..."If so, space merely introduces man to his own insignificance, as he is a kind of absurd projection of infinite finitude, which we symbolize ( ). Note that the symbol implies "containment," but of nothing, so that man's very existence mocks itself."<br /><br />I went through feeling like this through high school and college. Fortunately, that phase eventually passed.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-69613646092943732382012-01-24T12:09:50.814-08:002012-01-24T12:09:50.814-08:00Nor are we suggesting that we succeed, only that t...<i> Nor are we suggesting that we succeed, only that to even attempt to do this is the privilege of a lifetome. </i><br /><br /><br />Come to think about it, only with God do good intentions count. With everybody else, well, results are pretty much what they would prefer.John Lienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02302615225311776021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-38330280250229103082012-01-24T12:08:44.149-08:002012-01-24T12:08:44.149-08:00Don't worry, MOTT blogging is part of the One ...Don't worry, MOTT blogging is part of the One Cosmos liturgical year. <br /><br />It will come around again.<br /><br />Eventually.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1975583478731796242012-01-24T11:27:34.915-08:002012-01-24T11:27:34.915-08:00See contemporary culture for details.
That is the...<i>See contemporary culture for details.</i><br /><br />That is the truth. <br /><br /><i>Among other things, that condensed little dot stands for saturation, the consoling absence of ambiguity...</i><br /><br />Even the most exoteric Christians become aware of this once in a while. I heard a guy talking just last night about misperceiving Christ as a "stained glass cartoon" -- which I thought was a good phrase. <br /><br /><i>Nor are we suggesting that we succeed, only that to even attempt to do this is the privilege of a lifetome.</i><br /><br />That meshes with what John and I were talking about in terms of prayer and praying over the "trivial" which then makes it not trivial at all.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4297242208848334862012-01-24T10:05:40.768-08:002012-01-24T10:05:40.768-08:00Is that the Cheshire coon?Is that the Cheshire coon?John Lienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02302615225311776021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8108343620725648552012-01-24T10:00:30.860-08:002012-01-24T10:00:30.860-08:00Well, it seems I've jumped into MOTT just as ...Well, it seems I've jumped into MOTT just as you're finishing. I suppose, if we are really true to our experience, we all have our own rates of climb.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14625918236796065772012-01-24T09:07:24.535-08:002012-01-24T09:07:24.535-08:00Thanks for the refresher course, Bob. MOTT never g...Thanks for the refresher course, Bob. MOTT never gets old.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com