tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post6113250176233667426..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: The Pneumatic BleatGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53302193558854804572010-09-24T06:50:55.173-07:002010-09-24T06:50:55.173-07:00OT as usual:
Long time no see coons!
Anyone save...OT as usual:<br /><br />Long time no see coons!<br /><br />Anyone save a life lately?<br /><br />WV:<i>enshor</i> your sins will be hidden by doing so.Dougmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08468871451814828157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50867267462624466182010-09-24T06:23:06.137-07:002010-09-24T06:23:06.137-07:00wv: slacting.
I couldn't pass up sharing that...wv: slacting.<br /><br />I couldn't pass up sharing that one. My word for the day. I will be taking "slaction" and taking it easy today.<br /><br />I hope everyone has a slack-filled day...Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708393262849661076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-25012480168070226802010-09-23T11:34:14.119-07:002010-09-23T11:34:14.119-07:00Good post over at Fr. Stephen's today:
"...Good post over at <a href="http://fatherstephen.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/existence-and-truth/" rel="nofollow">Fr. Stephen's</a> today:<br /><br />"Instead, the Orthodox language on the subject has been that God is truly the ground of all existence, and that apart from Him, everything is moving towards non-existence. It is the Scriptural correlation between sin and death. This shifts the reality of the whole of our lives. Prayer no longer serves as a component of my personal “spirituality,” but is instead communion with the God Who Is, and apart from Whom, I am not. It teaches us to pray as if our lives depended on it – because they do.<br /><br />By the same token, it moves our understanding of what it means to exist away from mere biology or even philosophy and to its proper place: to exist is to love."juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67333463216023906532010-09-23T10:52:17.654-07:002010-09-23T10:52:17.654-07:00Bob wrote in his post:
"In any event, all we...Bob wrote in his post:<br /><br />"In any event, all we're really trying to do here is have a genuine encounter with O and then memorialize it in language. That's it."<br /><br />This is the best possible endeavor and why I read the blog religiously.<br /><br />Bob, you are a splendid conduit for O and a national treasure. I do not underestimate your abilities to memorialize your encounters with O in words.<br /><br />Aurobindo and yourself have much in common.<br /><br />Tusar Mohapatra commented about the latest on Aurobindo from Heehs. I have read it; Heehs mainly points out that Aurobindo was a man, had his ego failings and weaknesses. I found it to be interesting but did not detract from A, in my opinion.<br /><br />A's disastrous marriage to Mrinalini is a point in case. Yes, A had his failings all right. <br /><br />But we all do, even the best of conduits.Open Trenchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06354412002318534131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1258494305041557132010-09-23T10:45:23.630-07:002010-09-23T10:45:23.630-07:00To be fair and give credit where it's due, I w...To be fair and give credit where it's due, I wouldn't have read it if Bob hadn't first. I would have remained happily convinced that it didn't have anything I needed to hear, otherwise.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39845335707047157682010-09-23T10:32:01.579-07:002010-09-23T10:32:01.579-07:00"what, is this decaf?!"
Hate it when th..."what, is this decaf?!"<br /><br />Hate it when that happens. Like non-alcoholic beer. <i>WTF?!</i><br /><br />decaf is like the anti-doh! to Sertillanges,<br /><br /><i>...which confers "benefit on us even before teaching us anything. They set the tone for us; they accustom us to the air of the mountaintops. We were moving in a lower region; they bring us at one stroke into their own atmosphere," or atmasphere."</i><br /><br />What with Julie's recommendation the other day & that, I may have to give Joseph a sales commission & buy it too.<br /><br />As Magnus's head said <i>"...one should read the geniuses even if they are not scientifically correct, because they still have the ability to confer wisdom, or rather a capacity for wisdom, or rather a kind of intellectual shakti."</i><br /><br />Whether or not you can fully grasp and explore such works, I do think that just by coming into contact with such works - art, music or written (or lived) word - they imprint their image, or at least the shape of them, within you... ready and waiting for you to explore them further at your leisure.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-21615328007821988142010-09-23T10:25:43.905-07:002010-09-23T10:25:43.905-07:00Magnus,
"but the reviews implied that the ma...Magnus,<br /><br />"but the reviews implied that the main message would already be familiar to me"<br /><br />That was what I thought, too. On the one hand, it's true. On the other, it's really an excellent book and absolutely worth the time to read. He has a way of shining a bright light through the heart of the message, such that while reading you can't help thinking, "of course, I already know that," simultaneously with, "wow, that's a brilliant observation!" <br /><br />I don't think I've underlined so much in a book since reading HvB's <i>Glory of the Lord</i>.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71595761802626885882010-09-23T09:47:01.895-07:002010-09-23T09:47:01.895-07:00Great post. I wish I was in the right frame of min...Great post. I wish I was in the right frame of mind to explore-enjoy it more completely.<br />And not in a salt mine.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-83663981234733837402010-09-23T09:39:53.209-07:002010-09-23T09:39:53.209-07:00I did consider buying "The Intellectual Life&...I did consider buying "The Intellectual Life" when it was mentioned in the comments recently, but the reviews implied that the main message would already be familiar to me thanks to books by Blasphemous Tax-cutting Buddhist touching on the same topic. The quote about the exposure to genius (or "High Spirits" as the other call them) is certainly eerily similar. That could be because it just happens to be true, I suppose.<br /><br />The voice in my head expounds that one should read the geniuses even if they are not scientifically correct, because they still have the ability to confer wisdom, or rather a capacity for wisdom, or rather a kind of intellectual shakti. (No unnecessary blasphemy intended.)<br /><br />In other words, the available information in a society is more or less independent from the capacity of the human vessel to engage with it. It is this capacity that is (partially) downloaded from higher spirits, if all goes well.Magnus Itlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445902788427523461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-73557920939320513582010-09-23T09:35:26.711-07:002010-09-23T09:35:26.711-07:00I hope to explore that mystery in more detail in a...I hope to explore that mystery in more detail in a subsequent post...Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70296604989954135932010-09-23T09:30:09.679-07:002010-09-23T09:30:09.679-07:00couldn't Icouldn't Imushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-56555261168447031582010-09-23T09:29:48.921-07:002010-09-23T09:29:48.921-07:00Back to that quote about the mystery of communicat...<i>Back to that quote about the mystery of communication: "strictly speaking, thought is incommunicable from man to man."</i><br /><br />We could compare the words to a grid that functions a catalyst. One <i>whatever</i> will fit like a puzzle piece in one place on the grid; another <i>whatever</i> will fit another space in the grid. And the two <i>whatevers</i> come into contact like binary explosives. Or in this case binary seeds.<br /><br />Or, I could have just said <i>matrix</i>, could I?mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59869055859528483162010-09-23T09:23:51.121-07:002010-09-23T09:23:51.121-07:00It's true. The world is such a moronic place,...It's true. The world is such a moronic place, especially at the center. Lots of good stuff at the edges, however.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-73692554160489872222010-09-23T09:19:21.193-07:002010-09-23T09:19:21.193-07:00the few for whom the world, as it is, is no longer...<i>the few for whom the world, as it is, is no longer livable</i><br /><br />That sure would make a nice creed: short, sweet, to the point.<br /><br />Romans 13:11 "Besides this, knowing the time, it is already the hour for you to wake up from sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed."mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2624177932132805122010-09-23T08:37:37.297-07:002010-09-23T08:37:37.297-07:00Teresa d'Avila: "What I seek to explain i...Teresa d'Avila: "What I seek to explain is the feelings of the soul when it is in this divine union."<br /><br />Van M. has been known to hit those notes too<br /><br />wv=ablogar<br />one with a blog?gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9997487313183745482010-09-23T08:15:59.715-07:002010-09-23T08:15:59.715-07:00Thanks for elucidating the scenario as Vrekhem nar...Thanks for elucidating the scenario as Vrekhem narrates them. But interpreting the past events has its own hazards as Heehs has demonstrated recently. [TNM]Tusar Nath Mohapatrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12067509498066370100noreply@blogger.com