tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post6523356131177302803..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Dateline Earth: Fog in Language, God Cut OffGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54897007076356447892010-07-02T04:47:47.181-07:002010-07-02T04:47:47.181-07:00...the Apple does rule...
where else can you get t......the Apple <i>does</i> rule...<br />where else can you get the best of evwything at competitive prices, NOW!? Plus you can thrive there carless!!!! What g-d leftoid invented speed humps & bumps?gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-62233969868947442542010-07-01T19:42:53.036-07:002010-07-01T19:42:53.036-07:00Steve Martin is a funny funny man (most of the tim...Steve Martin is a funny funny man (most of the time).<br /><br />GB- And I just got me some Dinah Washingon. "Back to the Blues".<br /><br />Oh my. I hadn't really listened to her before. This I like! Also, by the way, some mean blues harp playing (and I don't mean the harmonica). Thanks for the recommend. I don't know how I missed her!Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708393262849661076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23979668548533647212010-07-01T19:26:26.255-07:002010-07-01T19:26:26.255-07:00Some of the guest writers in the "Shouts and ...Some of the guest writers in the "Shouts and Murmurs" section were hilarious.<br /><br />Steve Martin did some columns, and I was pleasantly surprised to learn that he is a VERY funny writer, and very good at it.Diannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16301129417706219603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-79016519044241914492010-07-01T19:18:23.360-07:002010-07-01T19:18:23.360-07:00Oh my...my dad was in advertising in NYC and he ha...Oh my...my dad was in advertising in NYC and he had a poster of that New Yorker cover framed on the wall in the house I grew up in. Moving out West thankfully cured me of my New York-centrism. Though honestly as great a city as New York is...I've met some of the most "provincial" people there. Which I suppose is part of the point...<br /><br />Hadn't seen it in a while...Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708393262849661076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-16515123715670952812010-07-01T19:07:01.407-07:002010-07-01T19:07:01.407-07:00"the essence of Christianity was belief in th..."the essence of Christianity was belief in the person of Jesus, rather than anything he said."<br /><br />"rather than," hm?Susannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381272662339466736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-73067120982698640322010-07-01T18:35:11.391-07:002010-07-01T18:35:11.391-07:00I doubt anyone cares, but I feel compelled to say ...I doubt anyone cares, but I feel compelled to say that the little summary of Christianity quoted above is of couse not my complete take on it. It was a response to someone arguing that the essence of Christianity was belief in the person of Jesus, rather than anything he said. Obviously there is a great deal more to Christianity, being one of the pillars of Western Civilization and all that -- the philsophical side, the mystical side, the ethical side, the literary and artistic side. The quote was just an attempt to demonstrate that the particular argument is not convincing. Oh well, thought I'd clear that up, I wouldn't want you folks to think ill of me (ha ha ha). <br /><br />And of course, if you don't like it when your belief system reduced to the crudest terms possible, maybe you should refrain from doing that to other people's belief systems. But that would require a measure of intellectual integrity.anonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207020184445548247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39366902629456917342010-07-01T16:32:42.911-07:002010-07-01T16:32:42.911-07:00To beat a dead horse (on my part), I've said b...To beat a dead horse (on my part), I've said before that I'm no longer afraid of God. I guess that's not really true (or maybe it's now more about respect for God and his purpose) - because I try to be very mindful of my actions, especially toward others, because it's my perception that the self should be consciously and diligently "worked on." <br /><br />Probably why every time I interact with anon/trolls, I feel slimed afterwards.<br /><br />Something said in a previous post by someone else is maybe more appropriate - I'm not as confused. <br /><br />I think I understand my boundaries, and frankly they're comforting and not hard to live with. In fact, I feel more free to enjoy life and have hope and pursue dreams. Maybe it's that peace that passes understanding.<br /><br />And then reconcile that with the realization that the more I know and understand, the more I understand there's so much I don't know. But I'm willing to learn.Diannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16301129417706219603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67218604015509344532010-07-01T15:45:55.020-07:002010-07-01T15:45:55.020-07:00I don't own a Kindle. I bought the download fo...I don't own a Kindle. I bought the download for iPhone Kindle ap. The ap is free, weighs nothing, and the whole rig fits in me pocket. Book included. I'm saving my bread for the 4,000 word paper version.<br />Plus, Van gets mad when I buy Kindle versions.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-32711172950449844472010-07-01T15:36:01.976-07:002010-07-01T15:36:01.976-07:00As the sun is the eye of God, so the Son is the &q...<i>As the sun is the eye of God, so the Son is the "I" of God, which latter would seem to 'be' mysterious Subjectivity---the grasp and scope of Consciousness, the "I"-est I, the ultimate Subject [who yes 'created' All, for there is nothing that isn't occurring to a Mind]</i><br />-wrote this [Injun-flavored thought?] after plugging the idea into some of your God-mentions today:<br />'the apophatic "unsaturatability" of God.'... [or of Subjectivity]...<br />'Interestingly, Thomas is quite aware of this issue, which is why he actually emphasized the eternal mystery of O: "Because we are not capable of knowing what God [knowing!] is but only what He is not [object of knowledge], we cannot contemplate how God is but only how He is not." [that's so true of noumenon/subjectivity also] Even for beginners, he cautioned that "this is the ultimate in human knowledge of God: to know that we do not know Him."'<br />Mind/'I' never graspeth itself...noumenon perceives all phenomena, but never itself!<br />like the eye-the tongue etal that can never see-taste themselves... all critters and especially us featherless bipeds are granted our various sparks of this mysterious ball of knowing fire, i'm calling 'God'<br /><br />now for some vanilla fudge!gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-63294306866380819992010-07-01T15:13:07.196-07:002010-07-01T15:13:07.196-07:00I got mine used for cheap. Of course, I do feel b...I got mine used for cheap. Of course, I do feel bad about depriving the Aquinas family of royalties.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-19521779220894217152010-07-01T14:53:22.254-07:002010-07-01T14:53:22.254-07:00Meh. The Kindle version is actually substantially ...Meh. The Kindle version is actually substantially pricier than the paper version. Despite no printing costs, no transportation costs, no storage costs, and the fact that you can't sell it, can't lend it to a friend, can't even leave it behind when you leave this world.<br /><br />Well, in my case it is probably cheaper because of the shipping cost, and I have no friends, relatives, heirs or even enemies who would actually open even the shortest of Summa even if they found it on my dead body. Still, I don't like to support a racket.Magnus Itlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445902788427523461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41895524088352676552010-07-01T14:07:18.446-07:002010-07-01T14:07:18.446-07:00Oh, Sal.
Watch out for those sweet ladies from ...Oh, Sal. <br /><br />Watch out for those sweet ladies from the <i>friendly</i> state. They'll cut you up and make you like it.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-82179885611883876132010-07-01T13:53:46.627-07:002010-07-01T13:53:46.627-07:00The "Shorter Summa" is on Kindle for 9-i...The "Shorter Summa" is on Kindle for 9-ish bucks. But Van already knew that (wink).<br /><br />Bob, does the "Summa Summa" begin with a glossary too? It must.. But wondering if it's longer than the Shorter.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-83014211935370718712010-07-01T13:40:39.316-07:002010-07-01T13:40:39.316-07:00Well, he should know...Well, he should know...Salhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13201226644704622876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-56172784659071317512010-07-01T13:19:19.663-07:002010-07-01T13:19:19.663-07:00"From a distance, language can appear to be a..."From a distance, language can appear to be a "solid" thing. But it's really more like a cloud, in that if you try to get up close in order to examine it directly, it dissolves into a kind of boundaryless fog. Proceed even further, and you run into Noam Chomsky." And <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2010/07/01/obama-american-citizenship-not-a-matter-of-blood-or-birth/" rel="nofollow">Barackobama: </a>"Being an American isn't a matter of blood or birth, it's a matter of <b>faith</b>."Mizz Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02325435271880036807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12826900700574392892010-07-01T11:15:50.755-07:002010-07-01T11:15:50.755-07:00:)
When I was thinking the other day about patienc...:)<br />When I was thinking the other day about patience, the context was that on the one hand, I can't wait to see who he's going to be when he grows up; on the other, it means that he won't be who he is right now, not ever again. Both are parts of the whole. The blessing and curse of time is that we can't experience that whole all at once, and the things that are past can only live on in our untrustworthy memories.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65837951660014113282010-07-01T11:08:51.140-07:002010-07-01T11:08:51.140-07:00Julie said "... great things about growing ol...Julie said "... great things about growing older, for me anyway, is getting to know my parents from a different perspective...."<br /><br />Agreed. And in a related matter, the really cool side of that that I'm discovering now, is that it happens from the parents side too - you get to discover that this person who you thought you knew so well, was little more than the wrapper on the DVD.<br /><br />Awesome.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-42388545288089224312010-07-01T11:05:01.745-07:002010-07-01T11:05:01.745-07:00Would you say the word "trust" is as hig...Would you say the word "trust" is as highly saturated as the word "faith"?<br /><br />I have always thought that faith would be better translated as trust:<br /><br /><a href="http://tektonics.org/whatis/whatfaith.html" rel="nofollow"><b>"Faith"</b></a> is believing what you know to be true and trustworthy based on evidence.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07033051400545893690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85313606295526850222010-07-01T11:00:32.344-07:002010-07-01T11:00:32.344-07:00"If Mozart or Shakespeare were alive today, t..."If Mozart or Shakespeare were alive today, they'd still be cranking out mysterpieces.”<br /><br />And, of course, at the end of his life, Thomas was granted that vision of the other side of O. He was plunged into its radical mystery, to such an extent that all he had written seemed to him insignificant in Light of it."<br /><br />Speaking of Mozart, one of the things Kreeft said about Aquinas that struck me, was that, like Mozart, Thomas didn't go back and revise his works, he birthed them whole. He dictated it to several scribes (I forgot how many...3 or 4?, but enough so that he would be able to speak without having to pause for a single scribe to catch up... and didn't have to go back and revise his work. <br /><br />He simply poured out Philosophy, and theology, the deepest and most integrated ideas of all... without erasures or a delete key... astounding.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-58896535675222460922010-07-01T10:59:32.782-07:002010-07-01T10:59:32.782-07:00No matter how well you know someone, you can never...<i>No matter how well you know someone, you can never have complete knowledge of them.</i><br /><br />One of the great things about growing older, for me anyway, is getting to know my parents from a different perspective. Sometimes the people you've known the longest can be the most mysterious, if only because it is so easy to fall into the habit of thinking we know the whole person, when all we've seen are a few facets.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-88516415602520692642010-07-01T10:51:03.206-07:002010-07-01T10:51:03.206-07:00"A person -- since he is the most adequate an..."A person -- since he is the most adequate analogue of God in the herebelow -- can never be saturated, even though, at the same time, man-as-such clearly has an unvarying nature. He has form, but the form is "empty" until filled out by life (which clearly distinguishes man from any kind of "blank slate")."<br /><br />Well put. <br /><br />Man's slate of knowledge is indeed empty on entry into the herebelow, but something is there which holds it and participates with what will be written upon it, and in what style it will be written with, and that Form is fixed. <br /><br />And of course, what enables our thoughts to stay conceptually connected with reality, is our language. <br /><br />To the degree that you allow your verbal connection to become damaged, your slate becomes a corrupted database - what you see and what you think, no longer truly correspond.<br /><br />The modernist/leftist mind assumes that is an opportunity to be able to write in whatever they want, reveling in the power to recreate reality as they see fit (and always trying to scribble on their neighbors slate) and call it 'freedom', but what it actually does is separate and confine them to their own heads. <br /><br />Would they play with the labels in their medicine cabinet in that same way? Well... Ozzy would... but... come on.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-13981935088440159982010-07-01T10:15:49.524-07:002010-07-01T10:15:49.524-07:00"Forget about intent, words mean whatever the..."Forget about intent, words mean whatever they want them to mean which makes any meaningful communication virtually impossible"<br /><br />`When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'<br /><br />`The question is,' said Alice, `whether you can make words mean so many different things.'<br /><br />`The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, `which is to be master -- that's all.'Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06204019386677018162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57988976607857071382010-07-01T09:53:23.420-07:002010-07-01T09:53:23.420-07:00"But as we move up the ontological food chain..."But as we move up the ontological food chain, words can become more problematic. It reminds me of something Stanley Jaki once said. From a distance, language can appear to be a "solid" thing. But it's really more like a cloud, in that if you try to get up close in order to examine it directly, it dissolves into a kind of boundaryless fog. Proceed even further, and you run into Noam Chomsky."<br /><br />LOL! Yes indeed! The very nature of leftism compels leftists to torture, reduce, twist, hide, and even murder the meanings of words and language itself.<br /><br />Forget about intent, words mean whatever they want them to mean which makes any meaningful communication virtually impossible when speaking to leftists (and some on the right are also guilty of this but in a different way).<br /><br />This is why one cannot debate a leftist, because they disregard truth, honor and integrity in favor of craven projections and demonization of those they "debate."<br />Which is not surprising since the left is at war with Reality itself.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-83382046233391294642010-07-01T09:37:34.967-07:002010-07-01T09:37:34.967-07:00I should have qualified that. I meant "with ...I should have qualified that. I meant "with the exception of our trolls," who are always predictable.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-82710419250740577082010-07-01T09:32:57.491-07:002010-07-01T09:32:57.491-07:00"It's really not fundamentally different ..."It's really not fundamentally different than our knowledge of any other person. No matter how well you know someone, you can never have complete knowledge of them."<br /><br />Married folks can really relate to this.<br />My wife and have been married 29 years and there are still times when she or I misunderstand the INTENT of each other.<br /><br />I blame saturated words, mind parasites, emotionalism (lack of detachment), preconceptions and female hormones. (Ducking for cover!).USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.com