tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post6127297589660686390..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Cosmic Theophany and Natural ReligionGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57777949317338424212010-09-18T01:30:08.886-07:002010-09-18T01:30:08.886-07:00Mushroom said...
"I've heard He might m...Mushroom said... <br /><br />"I've heard He might make you an offer you can't refuse."<br /><br />Well, He is the original God Father. <br /><br />Technically, you CAN refuse, however, nothin' good ever results from turnin' down the God Father. <br />Waking up next to a disembodied horse head would be the least of your worries. :^)USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-81282461352375701472010-09-17T07:40:25.138-07:002010-09-17T07:40:25.138-07:00*sigh*
A religion? It's certainly enough to ma...*<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_rel_piercing_church" rel="nofollow">sigh</a>*<br />A <i>religion</i>? It's certainly enough to make me want to bang my head against the wall repeatedly until a dent forms in my forehead. I wonder if that would qualify me for membership?juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3482970682932073032010-09-17T07:18:46.401-07:002010-09-17T07:18:46.401-07:00Well, according to Yahoo, the Seattle Mohammad car...Well, according to Yahoo, the Seattle Mohammad cartoonist has gone into hiding and changed her identiy.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-80635575030382572592010-09-17T06:54:35.408-07:002010-09-17T06:54:35.408-07:00..but I still love technology.....but I still love technology...Kipnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66076679626172116872010-09-17T06:51:42.186-07:002010-09-17T06:51:42.186-07:00If you wanted a really good shave you just grabbed...If you wanted a really good shave you just grabbed a couple of empty clam shells and plucked a bumblebee outside your bathroom window.<br /><br />That may have been the Flintstones.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-62932915434109293172010-09-17T06:45:24.753-07:002010-09-17T06:45:24.753-07:00I read a series of books on the middle ages.
Life...I read a series of books on the middle ages.<br /><br />Life in a Mideveal City<br />Life in a Mideveal Castle<br />Life in a Mideveal Village<br /><br />The best one was Life in a Mideveal City, which was the first one that husband and wife team wrote. A lot of it was a pretty dry read.<br /><br />Basically, what I got from those books was the following:<br /><br />1) It was a real pain being a villager. Life was often nasty brutish, and short. Although you had some holidays and feast days that were kind of fun.<br /><br />2) If you wanted anything resembling a decent life, you had to live in a city. Even though life was still hard, it was basically liveable.<br /><br />3) Castles at the end of the high middle ages were developing some neat techniques like indoor plumbing.<br /><br />4) Being a knight was fun only if you liked to fight and kill people. Knights in general were somewhat sociopathic.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-76918551297653504232010-09-17T06:29:09.446-07:002010-09-17T06:29:09.446-07:00Sir Bedevere: What makes you think she's a wi...Sir Bedevere: What makes you think she's a witch? <br />Peasant: Well, she turned me into a newt! <br />Sir Bedevere: A newt? <br />Peasant: [meekly after a long pause] ... I got better. <br />Crowd: [shouts] Burn her anyway!Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-83817200286109007272010-09-17T06:25:48.904-07:002010-09-17T06:25:48.904-07:00It's just a flesh wound!It's just a flesh wound!The Black Knightnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-55547942272802495432010-09-17T06:20:32.775-07:002010-09-17T06:20:32.775-07:00Your point being?Your point being?A.N. Islamistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41386413460219637522010-09-17T06:19:16.672-07:002010-09-17T06:19:16.672-07:00I recently read a book about what day-to-day life ...I recently read a book about what day-to-day life was like for the typical person in the middle ages. Despite its detail -- or perhaps because of it -- I found it as impossible to truly imagine as trying to imagine what it would be like to have the consciousness of a bat or lion. To cite just one area: imagine what it would be like to have no awareness of animal suffering, or to take pleasure in watching someone being drawn and quartered. Ever see the end of Braveheart? The level of sadism is so extreme as to become almost a Pythonesque parody:<br /><br />"Following the trial, on 23 August 1305, Wallace was taken from the hall, stripped naked and dragged through the city at the heels of a horse to the Elms at Smithfield. He was hanged, drawn and quartered — strangled by hanging but released while he was still alive, eviscerated and his bowels burnt before him, beheaded, then cut into four parts. His preserved head (dipped in tar) was placed on a pike atop London Bridge. It was later joined by the heads of the brothers, John and Simon Fraser. His limbs were displayed, separately, in Newcastle upon Tyne, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Stirling, and Aberdeen."Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-11756693070523993412010-09-17T06:05:25.881-07:002010-09-17T06:05:25.881-07:00Recording technology means that we will collective...Recording technology means that we will collectively have more access to the akashic record.<br /><br />More access to both thoughs and memory.<br /><br />Of course, you can only really get the feel of an age by living throug it.<br /><br />We might have the books of the Romans and Greeks but we have lost the feel of what it was like to live there.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-72458635899745563842010-09-16T23:00:49.208-07:002010-09-16T23:00:49.208-07:00If I had staircase like that, I'd at least ha...If I had staircase like that, I'd at least have to skip down it. Impossible to step down for that long and merely walk, anyway. Of course, sooner or later I'd probably end up tumbling down it, too...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15117253089170939502010-09-16T19:33:39.442-07:002010-09-16T19:33:39.442-07:00Julie said "Or just think of how the meaning ...Julie said "Or just think of how the meaning of the word "gay" has shifted. And for what it once described, there is no comparable modern word that comes to mind. "<br /><br />I was going to go for the easy ref, like something with Fred Astaire, but you can even see it with James Cagney <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veZVoisjzmU&feature=related" rel="nofollow">'walking' down a flight of stairs</a> or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wVuZ2mrhfY&NR=1" rel="nofollow">when he's doing his tough guy roles</a>.<br /><br />What's interesting, and going to be more interesting, is that we're raising the first generation in the history of the world, that not only has access to the ideas & learning materials that previous fabled generations had access to <i>without</i> having to go through the elites filtering them out to them, but they will be the first ever generation to be able to <i>see</i> what those previous generations looked, sounded and acted like.<br /><br />It'll be interesting to see what they might think when given the chance to compare between, say, John Wayne in a John Ford Western, and some woe is me dude in a 'dances with wolves' type offering. <br /><br />I don't know that they'll choose 'rightly'... but it'll at the very least be interesting to see what they think of the choices that have been made before them.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-91047860360422259572010-09-16T18:09:54.433-07:002010-09-16T18:09:54.433-07:00I've heard He might make you an offer you can&...I've heard He might make you an offer you can't refuse.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57393557414988434132010-09-16T17:51:36.832-07:002010-09-16T17:51:36.832-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-62349582264534231732010-09-16T17:50:28.551-07:002010-09-16T17:50:28.551-07:00God won't interfere with the exercise of our f...God won't interfere with the exercise of our free will.<br /><br />There's a certainty about God to start with.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52820339528148997142010-09-16T15:49:01.400-07:002010-09-16T15:49:01.400-07:00Van, I like that description much better. Context ...Van, I like that description much better. Context makes such a difference.<br /><br />Re. language, indeed. Or just think of how the meaning of the word "gay" has shifted. And for what it once described, there is no comparable modern word that comes to mind. Anything even approaching it tends still to smack of, well, gayness - think "festive," for instance - as euphemisms for the euphemism, until all we are safely left with is "happy" to describe a range of emotion, personality and being that cannot possibly be properly conveyed by so vague a term. And as for genuine gaiety in the original sense, does such an innocent lightheartedness even exist in our culture anymore, with no way to conceptualize it?juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-40378857577164566132010-09-16T15:35:11.492-07:002010-09-16T15:35:11.492-07:00"sustain"
I mentally feel my finger hol..."sustain"<br /><br />I mentally feel my finger holding the string to the fretboard in such a way so that the note will sustain out to the utmost limit....<br /><br />wv:indholou<br />hmmm... probably cursing at me in Hawaiian.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-64003132010692058552010-09-16T15:29:52.700-07:002010-09-16T15:29:52.700-07:00Julie said "... another thing that has occurr...Julie said "... another thing that has occurred to me lately is the severe limitation of language - perhaps even particularly modern American English - to even begin to express (!?) without immediately putting it in terms most profane..."<br /><br />Yes, if I'm following you, the reflexive need to chuckle, wince, roll the eye, or restate something in a way that is sanitized of any conviction of Goodness. Not so much the language - it is still there - but the habit of using it, the winked at fashion of it, or maybe as Will would say, the Glamour of it.<br /><br />Watch a typical movie from the 1930's, 40's... even into the 50's, with someone of our time, and watch their reactions when a character says something - almost anything - with earnestness, happiness or belief.<br /><br />There's a measurement, an apetite even, of capacity there that has been lost.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-81799251924715992812010-09-16T14:02:53.921-07:002010-09-16T14:02:53.921-07:00JP,
Funny about the geometry.
RE things I still b...JP,<br />Funny about the geometry.<br /><br />RE things I still believe, there is much we can know about God (thank God) but nothing compared to what we can't know. I mean, I even get a little uncomfortable when the very holy among us make some far out statements as to what God can or won't do. He loves us, that's for certain. In how many mysterious ways?Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-16209335069372986742010-09-16T13:56:47.945-07:002010-09-16T13:56:47.945-07:00Heh - yep, that too. If ever a word were supersatu...Heh - yep, that too. If ever a word were supersaturated...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67081925263292442662010-09-16T13:54:13.511-07:002010-09-16T13:54:13.511-07:00Actually, "sustain" always reminds me of...Actually, "sustain" always reminds me of the green meanies.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-92108323024656184442010-09-16T13:49:32.141-07:002010-09-16T13:49:32.141-07:00I'm talking about Creation, generally. Not th...I'm talking about Creation, generally. Not the fact that this world (and this universe) is going to pass away.<br /><br />Perhaps more along the lines of what I recall from UF about "The World" as opposed to "the world"?<br /><br />In any event, I still assume that I have a beginning, but no end, until proven otherwise. I also assume that my personality can be represented by a distinct unique geometric form, until proven otherwise.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-56571843665846226902010-09-16T13:42:16.301-07:002010-09-16T13:42:16.301-07:00Rick, I have to wonder if "sustain" is e...Rick, I have to wonder if "sustain" is even the right word. It reminds me too much of the Islamic idea that god recreates the universe moment to moment.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-55637997290123154572010-09-16T13:31:05.657-07:002010-09-16T13:31:05.657-07:00JP,
For the record, I did not say that.
I "li...JP,<br />For the record, I did not say that.<br />I "lifted" it. From Bob.<br /><br />And..<br /><br />"However, the corolary, that God loves the world and will sustain it forever is also true."<br /><br />That's not what I heard, the "sustain it forever". Then again, it depends on which world we're talking about..<br />I read somewhere, I think it was some Gil Bailie, something like, "Christianity is the only religion that foretells its own destruction." And by "its", I take to mean "the World".Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.com