tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post6256855663533663448..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Lord Save Us From the Bullshit!Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1792353408903364292016-10-20T12:00:07.145-07:002016-10-20T12:00:07.145-07:00Golden nuggets. I can not resist coming back despi...Golden nuggets. I can not resist coming back despite my disagreement with many things you assert,but most of what you assert are heart filling. Yes it is the law of Brandolini viewed from a wider angle that positive energy outweighs the order of the negative energy, water always moves from the high to the low. When I read you I always view things from the vertical overview and not from the limited vision of the horizontal view, in line with what you advocate. Truth do exist and some do recognize it and try to align their understanding of truth with the only one divine truth, truth do exist and some deny it and refuse to a bide by it and that is why you find them always in an unstable and dissonant mode. Self-sabotaging by accepting the assumptions of the misled others is dangerous. God did send his instructions to humanity in vain but to help the feeble mind of the human to see the right way, also to overcome the heavy burden of the information overload and the drift in the human mental wandering. They say listening to silence is a good tool to ward higher consciousness in order to move away from the religious and cultural boxes that prevent peoples from seeing the demand of the time, one god,one humanity and one earth. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02180761762279054000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50934011661208239982016-10-20T09:03:55.747-07:002016-10-20T09:03:55.747-07:00Talking about voting Democrat -- I've gone the...Talking about voting Democrat -- I've gone the same direction but started from a different place. I always voted Republican interspersed with Libertarian, partly because I smoked dope back in the day. I was happy enough with the cons/neo-cons up until about 2006 when the Republicans tried to push through their Dream Act, and I started to think about the globalist/nationalist split. <br /><br />We are the world ain't workin'. Free of association is a basic human right. Bad company corrupts good character.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-6314184530498927592016-10-20T03:59:41.311-07:002016-10-20T03:59:41.311-07:00Ted, mainman Greg Gutfeld's apt quip:
'I ...Ted, mainman Greg Gutfeld's apt quip: <br />'I may not like Trump but I KNOW Hillary hates my guts'gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-88651569596910270522016-10-19T13:39:56.192-07:002016-10-19T13:39:56.192-07:00Interesting. The first election I could vote was R...Interesting. The first election I could vote was Reagan/Mondale in 1984, and I actually voted Reagan. Mondale seemed so feeble minded, so I went with my gut and actually liked Reagan even if I didn't agree with all his policies at the time. Then went off to college and got indoctrinated (culturally, not academically, since I was an engineering major). Then I voted Democrat every election since. 4 years ago I came so close with going with Romney, but sadly I didn't. Now, this election I was so ready to vote Republican. And then we got Trump... who I really dislike as a person. Talk about dissonance.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-19158673874887651002016-10-19T13:33:54.329-07:002016-10-19T13:33:54.329-07:00I don't remember thinking much about politics ...I don't remember thinking much about politics from then until September of 2001. Bush struck me as not that different from Clinton, just a moderate Republican where Clinton had governed as a moderate Democrat. <br /><br />On September 12, 2001 I bought me a Koran for the same reason Thomas Jefferson did, to find out what Islam was really all about. That's when I found out the extent to which the left was lying about it. After that I discovered Little Green Footballs -- which was then a bastion of sanity (!) -- and began posting wisecracks as Gagdad Bob. I did the same at ShrinkWrapped. Someone at ShrinkWrapped dared me to start my own blog. End of story.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-19063681846605967292016-10-19T13:14:44.329-07:002016-10-19T13:14:44.329-07:00Funny how I really can't remember if I voted f...Funny how I really can't remember if I voted for Gore, but I think I might have, seeing him as an extension of Clinton, who mostly governed conservatively after being trounced in the 94 midterms. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86214980601880354262016-10-19T13:13:00.779-07:002016-10-19T13:13:00.779-07:00I voted for Clinton twice, and it is even possible...I voted for Clinton twice, and it is even possible I voted for Gore. But the switch came shortly after that, as I was appalled at how Gore tried to steal the election. I had been leaning conservative, but that pushed me over the edge. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12683143355162559882016-10-19T13:10:37.658-07:002016-10-19T13:10:37.658-07:00Ted:
It was gradual. Also, although the change wa...Ted:<br /><br />It was gradual. Also, although the change was happening, for a long time I was in denial, mainly because I believed, along with the left, that conservatives were evil and stupid. I couldn't possibly be one of those. So although I was slowly changing my orientation, it took awhile to admit it to myself. Which is why I first called myself a "classical liberal." "Conservative" was beyond the pale.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-28733127234367516342016-10-19T11:51:15.046-07:002016-10-19T11:51:15.046-07:00Actually, I am more interested in Principles as su...<i>Actually, I am more interested in Principles as such. I often think of putting together a list of simple, straight-forward principles which not only cut through the bullshit, but permanently inoculate the mind against taking it on board to begin with.</i><br /><br />That might actually make for the premise of a good parenting book. Or better, pamphlet.<br /><br />Part of the trouble, at least with young minds, is the phase where they start to think they know everything and are thus inclined to believe so much that isn't so; that age of socialist susceptibility, where they reject the wisdom of their parents for a fantasy that sounds so much <i>nicer</i> than the real world.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70195283603866599312016-10-19T11:46:53.479-07:002016-10-19T11:46:53.479-07:00In the old days Left said it needed x amount of ta...In the old days Left said it needed x amount of taxation and power to manage and protect the American machine. Right said it could achieve better results for less. And most thinking voters stood in the middle observing outcomes to make up their own minds. <br /><br />Today the common wisdom is that all politicians are incompetent bureaucrats and corrupt lobbyists who sing to their wings then go about their personal business of being completely incapable of managing or protecting anything. <br /><br />An old fun one: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/12/09/jeb-bush-jokes-of-trump-clinton-conspiracy-theory-heres-a-look-at-the-evidence/<br /><br />Maybe he was joking, but the cynicism is so bad that fewer and fewer people are even bothering with Left-Right debates anymore. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59496422829040113802016-10-19T11:41:00.535-07:002016-10-19T11:41:00.535-07:00Bob, I'm curious about your conversion from le...Bob, I'm curious about your conversion from lefty to classical liberal. Was it a gradual process with lots of fits/starts & dissonance, or did the light switch go off one day?tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-74195985791381089552016-10-19T11:02:22.869-07:002016-10-19T11:02:22.869-07:00"The law is self-evidently true, but why?&quo..."The law is self-evidently true, but why?"<br /><br />Because idiotic ideas have no root. Their premises are incoherent and untrue. Their inferences are invalid. <br /><br />It's like arguing with the insane.<br /><br />The only success I've ever had with bullshitters is simply to inject them with unsettling facts. The only way to deal with them practically is to construct safe prams for them where they can't hurt anyone. Then make them doubt themselves, so they'll lack energy.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.com