tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post6189676747805416982..comments2024-03-29T06:03:45.545-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: God is a Joke and Bill Maher is a Barbaric IdiotGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36595527670897443502008-09-23T20:46:00.000-07:002008-09-23T20:46:00.000-07:00Nomo! I'm a slowby. Belated HBTY wishes!!Nomo! I'm a slowby. Belated HBTY wishes!!Susannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381272662339466736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-75766001646170822512008-09-23T08:42:00.000-07:002008-09-23T08:42:00.000-07:00BOO!BOO!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-33510394370262384722008-09-23T08:21:00.000-07:002008-09-23T08:21:00.000-07:00idiots. scary, scary idiots. the lot of you.idiots. scary, scary idiots. the lot of you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-34236487258682705122008-09-23T07:24:00.000-07:002008-09-23T07:24:00.000-07:00So when Aurobindo talks about "divinizing matter" ...So when Aurobindo talks about "divinizing matter" or reconciling all the levels of creation, he is really talking like an Orthodox Christian<BR/><BR/>- Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha <BR/><BR/>Biggest Joke. Do some sadhana/yoga/spiritual practice to get what he is saying. He is saying the ultimate form of divination not Christian form.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37720797659115951232008-09-23T07:21:00.000-07:002008-09-23T07:21:00.000-07:00Doh! It was so obvious, I was just looking in the ...Doh! It was so obvious, I was just looking in the wrong place :D<BR/>HBTY, Nomo! Well, I hope it was, anyway ;)juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-18851156517600139092008-09-23T04:48:00.000-07:002008-09-23T04:48:00.000-07:00HBTY, NoMo!Sammy Hagar says, hey, not so fast.HBTY, NoMo!<BR/><BR/>Sammy Hagar says, hey, not so fast.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51799480718237821022008-09-23T04:41:00.000-07:002008-09-23T04:41:00.000-07:00Geez, even I can’t tell them apart.Geez, even I can’t tell them apart.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-75383593840435447252008-09-23T04:40:00.000-07:002008-09-23T04:40:00.000-07:00Anon,For the last time, I’m not interested.Anon,<BR/>For the last time, I’m not interested.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3913542178421963922008-09-23T02:19:00.000-07:002008-09-23T02:19:00.000-07:00Nothing to add, except I thought NoMo's secret mes...Nothing to add, except I thought NoMo's secret message shouldn't go unremarked upon. :-) HBTY, NoMo!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1704278829635760492008-09-22T21:52:00.000-07:002008-09-22T21:52:00.000-07:00julie said... "Robin, I was thinking the same thin...julie said... <BR/>"Robin, I was thinking the same thing :D"<BR/><BR/>Heh, me three.<BR/><BR/> Ricky Raccoon said "Robin,<BR/>I didn’t want to say… But there is an upside: the boy soon enough will be sleeping till at least 11am."<BR/><BR/>Been there... done... and doing that!Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-88237872480740143912008-09-22T21:49:00.000-07:002008-09-22T21:49:00.000-07:00Ricky:There are no female trolls, because they jus...Ricky:<BR/><BR/>There are no female trolls, because they just don't give a s**t about Darwinism. In fact, they all HATE IT. They are all very willing to believe in "O", in more ways than one. However, if you want a contentious woman up in your grill, have a relationship with one. But you already knew that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-31521850860593420712008-09-22T21:48:00.000-07:002008-09-22T21:48:00.000-07:00"I don't know about you, but when I attend a relig..."I don't know about you, but when I attend a religious service -- or even just write a post -- that is precisely what I am doing. It has nothing to do with 2000 year-old space gods, but reascending to the father shore. It has nothing to do with going back in time, but rather, beyond time and up in space like an astralnaut. Ware agrees that "When the intellect is no longer dissipated among external things or dispersed across the world through the senses, it returns to itself; and by means of itself ascends to the thought of God." "<BR/><BR/>Nothing to add... just thinking similar thoughts... or twin thoughts of different druthers.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65045067404045935382008-09-22T17:12:00.000-07:002008-09-22T17:12:00.000-07:00With Ware, it is always helpful to read all of his...With Ware, it is always helpful to read all of his statements with a Chestertonian Oxford Accent.Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51093137336657839522008-09-22T16:27:00.000-07:002008-09-22T16:27:00.000-07:00A person like Bill Maher is an extreme case. But i...A person like Bill Maher is an extreme case. But if, by chance, he read the sentence that you quoted from Ware -- "When the intellect is no longer dissipated among external things or dispersed across the world through the senses, it returns to itself; and by means of itself ascends to the thought of God." -- he would disagree, of course, but would <I>assume he understood the statement.</I> Because such horizontal creatures believe the word "intellect" refers to what is proceeding in <I>their</I> mind.<BR/><BR/>But it can be observed: their "intellect" is entirely <I>dissipated</I> amongst externals, for that is their world, and their awareness is completely <I>dispersed</I> through incessant restless reactivity; there is <I>no self to return to,</I> no center or inner stability; and such a state can<I>not</I> ascend, because it is automatic, and only a subject to the next stimulus.<BR/><BR/>It will never occur to Maher, or his peers, that the word "intellect" references anything but which they are certain they possess. And so Ware's statement is another example of the secret protecting itself. Or, as you said a little later in the post:<BR/> <I>"...we are not going from the "natural" to the "supernatural" world. Rather, we are going from the unnatural to the natural world."</I>walthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388218390016612051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-38674433311596203622008-09-22T15:17:00.000-07:002008-09-22T15:17:00.000-07:00"the house is a wreck. But we'll clean it in a cou..."the house is a wreck. But we'll clean it in a couple of years, when he starts school. There would be no point before that."<BR/><BR/>Not funny! Get Leslie some housecleaning help at least once a month, every two weeks better. Sanity matters!<BR/><BR/>Don't make me come out there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12048298833880055882008-09-22T14:45:00.000-07:002008-09-22T14:45:00.000-07:00I’m partially serious.I’m partially serious.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-83020571443356143472008-09-22T14:44:00.000-07:002008-09-22T14:44:00.000-07:00Bob,Quick question. I was digging a hole in the ba...Bob,<BR/>Quick question. I was digging a hole in the backyard yesterday…or maybe it was sweeping the street…anyway, are there any female trolls?<BR/>Not that I’m interested, of course. It’s just…I suddenly couldn’t help not noticing.<BR/>I bring it up because I get the sense it’s somehow related to natural selection…or not, as in, if natural selection were true, or "all there is" then there would be female trolls showing up here, right?Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-55643269062210342962008-09-22T14:35:00.000-07:002008-09-22T14:35:00.000-07:00Robin,I didn’t want to say…But there is an upside:...Robin,<BR/>I didn’t want to say…<BR/><BR/>But there is an upside: the boy soon enough will be sleeping till at least 11am.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44828317240010643452008-09-22T13:43:00.000-07:002008-09-22T13:43:00.000-07:00I couldn't agree more that the "TOE" has to includ...I couldn't agree more that the "TOE" has to include the spiritual.<BR/><BR/>Yet I haunt the science dailies waiting for the various pioneering efforts to yield fruit. I used to be able to keep track of the fundamentals of quantum theories in so far as you can without the requisite math, but ever since the advent of the string theories, it has gotten beyond me. Now the Higgs boson is the big thing over at CERN. They need to find it or revamp the theories in big ways. It seems they need a boson (Higgs) to function in much the same way that a lepton (photon) does. The Higgs is the mass particle as the photon is the energy particle. But to find it or its after effects isolated they have to create collisions at such a high impact that it is virtually a "time travel" to conditions only found at the "beginning" of our present cosmos.<BR/><BR/>That possibility creates in me the same feelings that spiritual possibilities do. Either they find the Higgs and confirm the theories even more strongly, or they don't and then have to start somewhat over, because the theories then have to take a new shape. And they will reshape the theories if they have to. The work will demand it, either way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-21298629592835489262008-09-22T13:33:00.000-07:002008-09-22T13:33:00.000-07:00Mmmmm, theophagy.Mmmmm, theophagy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14382087634505015852008-09-22T13:21:00.000-07:002008-09-22T13:21:00.000-07:00River,I had the same reaction. If Maher keeps talk...River,<BR/><BR/>I had the same reaction. If Maher keeps talking like that, he's going to get quite a few young people checking out the Church. Mysterious ways, and all that. ;-)Warrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13623170987747998335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22047594225077036382008-09-22T13:16:00.000-07:002008-09-22T13:16:00.000-07:00I agree with River there. It sounds like something...I agree with River there. It sounds like something that would impart cosmic powers or somesuch. Or blow your mind to bits if not properly prepared.Magnus Itlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445902788427523461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66977418626905076252008-09-22T12:50:00.000-07:002008-09-22T12:50:00.000-07:00Drinking the blood of a 2000-year-old space God ma...Drinking the blood of a 2000-year-old space God makes it sound really cool, actually.<BR/><BR/>But there's the simplemindedness again..Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30967305686465067182008-09-22T12:24:00.000-07:002008-09-22T12:24:00.000-07:00Boy howdy, that'd be an amazing transformation. Th...Boy howdy, that'd be an amazing transformation. The question is, does he have the strength of character to endure that kind of revelation without completely and irrevocably cracking up? Because really, how could he live with himself after that? Facing my own garden-variety personal demons is tough enough. I can't even comprehend what it would be like facing his, especially knowing that he has spent a big portion of his life showering them upon the masses. He also seems the type to think that he's smarter than everyone else; post rev, he'd have to be pretty canny to avoid the trap of believing he's worse than everyone else/ suffering more than everyone else/ holier than everyone else (famous people often have this problem)... or some variant thereof. Anyway, he's lacking a critical element of <I>humility</I>, which is just as serious a problem in the believer as in the unbeliever.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I'm trying to picture a Maher filled with joy and wonder and humility and awe. Which is making my brain hurt, because I don't think he's currently capable of such emotions.<BR/><BR/>That's actually rather tragic.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-75162379505668935402008-09-22T12:01:00.000-07:002008-09-22T12:01:00.000-07:00Is Bill Maher a Saul of Tarsus? As Maher makes his...Is Bill Maher a Saul of Tarsus? As Maher <A HREF="http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/06/06/religulous-movie-trailer/" REL="nofollow">makes his rounds</A> persecuting believers of all stripes, you have to wonder just how far he can push it before either he snaps or he sees the blinding light. <BR/><BR/>Stranger things have happened. And I wasn't so different than him before I was struck by holy lightning when and where I least expected it.robinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com