tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post5958471931348083253..comments2024-03-28T12:10:26.197-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Just How Low Could a Logos Go if a Logos Could Go Low?Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52576986888697543992010-10-23T11:35:51.151-07:002010-10-23T11:35:51.151-07:00I like the album art for The Power of Negative Thi...I like the album art for The Power of Negative Thinking. It looks like it could have been the inspiration for Gaiman's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sandman-Dream-Hunters-Neil-Gaiman/dp/1401224245/ref=sr_1_18?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1287858730&sr=1-18" rel="nofollow">Sandman</a>. Of course, lots of people in the 80s went for that look...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20630051440668365772010-10-23T10:06:00.953-07:002010-10-23T10:06:00.953-07:00Good point, Julie. I like to surf my brain-waves, ...Good point, Julie. I like to surf my brain-waves, except for when I wipeout. And the sharks. And the jellyfish.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41395769526140684102010-10-23T09:24:47.127-07:002010-10-23T09:24:47.127-07:00Or when it's meat flavor. And I'd be leery...Or when it's meat flavor. And I'd be leery of the lime green, too, what with the brain waves and all...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-16925225292287080682010-10-23T09:24:10.053-07:002010-10-23T09:24:10.053-07:00"In other words, even the most middling relat..."In other words, even the most middling relativity must spend some timelessness in the Principle's office:"<br /><br />I spent time in the Vice Principle's office. Does that count?USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26419047583006858792010-10-23T09:19:36.494-07:002010-10-23T09:19:36.494-07:00I reckon that could also be spelled gelometry if&#...I reckon that could also be spelled gelometry if'n you wanna be generical about it. <br />But everyone likes jello. 'Cept for commies.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-28774514513792926132010-10-23T09:16:27.456-07:002010-10-23T09:16:27.456-07:00"Or perhaps musically, which is just fluid ar..."Or perhaps musically, which is just fluid architecture or or jiggly geometry...."<br /><br />Jellometry. Which may or may not include the arc of jello shots. <br />I wrote this so you wouldn't have to. You'll thank me later.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-78702677160230157572010-10-22T20:21:20.311-07:002010-10-22T20:21:20.311-07:00Rick - how funny. I had left off just past it :)Rick - how funny. I had left off just past it :)juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89200727757716934512010-10-22T19:14:29.229-07:002010-10-22T19:14:29.229-07:00"Or perhaps musically, which is just fluid ar..."Or perhaps musically, which is just fluid architecture or or jiggly geometry...."<br /><br />Amen to that.Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708393262849661076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20750939862040309922010-10-22T19:13:17.567-07:002010-10-22T19:13:17.567-07:00Started reading Jung's "The Undiscovered ...Started reading Jung's "The Undiscovered Self" and have to admit that so far he is proving himself to be far more of a Raccoon than I remember from reading him years ago...at least in this book.Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708393262849661076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36661155996040290232010-10-22T16:27:31.099-07:002010-10-22T16:27:31.099-07:00Thanks Julie.
I can't believe it.. I actually ...Thanks Julie.<br />I can't believe it.. I actually had stopped reading right before that part.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-63469688356072191192010-10-22T15:24:03.551-07:002010-10-22T15:24:03.551-07:00Page 39. The description sounds pretty neat - it w...Page 39. The description sounds pretty neat - it would be interesting to see a model of how it looked. Though chances are nobody could really do it justice.<br /><br />Does remind me, though, of the first time I visited a synagogue. My impression then was that I could see how churches developed, from a design perspective.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-81477140437710666472010-10-22T15:06:08.479-07:002010-10-22T15:06:08.479-07:00Oh good! I have the book but barely started it. I ...Oh good! I have the book but barely started it. I have another I re-picked up to finish because it eats at me to leave them that way. It's Rene Girard's "Battle to the End". It's really chatty but here and there are some great insights. But man, if he says "mimetic" one more time...<br /><br />What page is that, if you don't mind?Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-69920880676552245962010-10-22T14:57:26.450-07:002010-10-22T14:57:26.450-07:00Re. the book, it was in the sidebar a couple weeks...Re. the book, it was in the sidebar a couple weeks ago - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/What-Jesus-Saw-Cross-Sertillanges/dp/0918477379/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1287784549&sr=1-2" rel="nofollow">What Jesus Saw from the Cross</a>, by Sertillanges.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67389952220501991242010-10-22T14:42:42.633-07:002010-10-22T14:42:42.633-07:00...and the Lileks link is definitely Extra-Tangent......and the Lileks link is definitely Extra-Tangential.. or at least otta this whirl.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65238406770060171492010-10-22T14:39:58.180-07:002010-10-22T14:39:58.180-07:00Julie,
Your excerpt "...the Temple in Jerusal...Julie,<br />Your excerpt "...the Temple in Jerusalem", What is that from?Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90992932774932531942010-10-22T13:25:12.012-07:002010-10-22T13:25:12.012-07:00Well, Jeez, i think i disagree here.
I kind of li...Well, Jeez, i think i disagree here.<br /><br />I kind of like the democratic presidents on your list; they are fine people.<br /><br />I think you might be contaminated by the geopolitics of fear. <br /><br />What is your conception of the Other? <br /><br />What is your vision of America's future? <br /><br />I can't diagnose you unitl I know what your afraid of.black holehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07366633817665791528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-33430789081180188392010-10-22T12:08:11.855-07:002010-10-22T12:08:11.855-07:00"Or, Creator → Inalienable Rights → Founding ..."Or, Creator → Inalienable Rights → Founding Fathers → Constitutional Republic → Limited Government → Liberals → Left → Roosevelt → Inversion → Carter → Subversion → Obama → Perversion → Unlimited Government → Hell."<br /><br />Speaking of tangents, a bit of a jiggly rant last night when my wife told me that the aclu and their jiggly assoulmates in the westboro bumpkins churls, had threatened our neighboring town into repealing their ordinance against 'protesting' at a funeral. What <a href="http://blogodidact.blogspot.com/2010/10/four-funerals-for-free-speech.html" rel="nofollow">I posted</a> was a nearly stream of consciousness rage rant on free speech. Just last week one of our locals who was still a kid at our high school last year, was killed in Afghanistan,<br /><br />"<i>...Before the start of the game where they had planned to play the school fight song, there was instead the announcement that the flag was flying at half mast for a graduate from the previous year, had just been killed in Afghanistan... and into that hush a young girl sang, without accompaniment, the "Star Spangled Banner", which was one of the most moving renditions I've ever heard - no dry eyes were to be found in the stands or the field.<br /><br />That young man was laid to rest today... and it is to be claimed that some group of thugs has a Right to subject his family to abuse, has a Right to disrupt their right to peaceably assemble to bury their son who fell in defense of his nation, has a Right to disrupt the free exercise of their religious observance in funeral of their son?...</i>"<br /><br />Maybe need to insert one arrow between "Unlimited Government" → "Hell", for "Unlimited horizontal literalism"... or maybe that's just the union of the two.<br /><br />wv:paingst<br />Yeah, I'll buy that tooVan Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7710047703848948372010-10-22T11:53:20.182-07:002010-10-22T11:53:20.182-07:00"... jiggly geometry..."
Ha!"... jiggly geometry..."<br /><br />Ha!Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-42853117078374362722010-10-22T11:50:49.324-07:002010-10-22T11:50:49.324-07:00"To say Truth is to say Principle, so even th..."To say Truth is to say Principle, so even the most confused atheist confesses his faith in the Principle, so long as he is speaking truthfully. Hence Eckhart's wise crack to the effect that the more they blaspheme the more they praise Him. Way it is."<br /><br />Gotta what burns them the most... that it is impossible to attack reality, without counting on it to be there, impossible to lie without using the truth.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59844786856323468712010-10-22T11:23:37.918-07:002010-10-22T11:23:37.918-07:00Since Rick already started with a tangent, I'm...Since Rick already started with a tangent, I'm going full non-sequiter:<br /><br />"<a href="http://lileks.com/institute/gallery/knudsen2/9.html" rel="nofollow">It goes without saying</a> that the pea cluster is wired directly to the weapons array."juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67149864105994773432010-10-22T10:57:23.370-07:002010-10-22T10:57:23.370-07:00Rick, speaking of geometry I read this last night ...Rick, speaking of geometry I read this last night re. the building of the Temple in Jerusalem:<br /><br /><i>Although it was one day to be surpassed, the work thus completed by Solomon was magnificent. We should note that the measurements of the building were in no way arbitrary: they correspond to that symbolism of numbers which, together with the symbolism of forms and words, was popular among the Egyptians. The dimensions adopted for various parts of the edifice were like the elements of an arithmetical problem, to which the whole provided the solution. The side elevation was based upon the equilateral triangle and the front upon the right-angled triangle which was, according to Plato, the perfect and most beautiful of all triangles, its sides represented by the numbers 3, 4, and 5.</i>juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84561843338725669292010-10-22T10:10:24.431-07:002010-10-22T10:10:24.431-07:00Jiggly geometry..
I like that.
I understand Dr Sei...Jiggly geometry..<br />I like that.<br />I understand Dr Seinfeld could get jiggly with it.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-68544838969971919082010-10-22T10:08:44.147-07:002010-10-22T10:08:44.147-07:00Oops. Was talking to my boss - before hitting the ...Oops. Was talking to my boss - before hitting the publish button. I think you answered it..Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53637382951372443362010-10-22T10:07:50.292-07:002010-10-22T10:07:50.292-07:00Well, I didn't care for the "school versi...Well, I didn't care for the "school version" either. Fortunately it didn't squish my interest in how it relates to symbolism.<br /><br />You must have always had an affinity for it, though it didn't show in school, wasn't provoked for.. whatever reason..<br />No clues come to mind?Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-64481518980050236922010-10-22T09:47:23.197-07:002010-10-22T09:47:23.197-07:00Or perhaps musically, which is just fluid architec...Or perhaps musically, which is just fluid architecture or or jiggly geometry....Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.com