tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post6535788523218566679..comments2024-03-29T06:03:45.545-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: What You See is What You Grok. Or Hallucinate.Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-62834344091770772372018-02-02T22:04:23.827-08:002018-02-02T22:04:23.827-08:00I started watching it again tonight, looking for c...I started watching it again tonight, looking for clues...Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15814448685069849242018-02-02T19:37:26.615-08:002018-02-02T19:37:26.615-08:00I really loved Silence. Even blogged about it at t...I really loved <i>Silence</i>. Even <a href="http://twistingthetailofthecosmos.blogspot.com/2017/04/silence-and-conviction.html" rel="nofollow">blogged</a> about it at the time. Definitely a labor of love on Scorsese's part.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39067952778195590542018-02-02T14:53:36.870-08:002018-02-02T14:53:36.870-08:00Anyone see Scorsese's Silence from a couple ye...Anyone see Scorsese's <i>Silence</i> from a couple years ago? I recorded and watched it last night. Very powerful, with incredible acting and cinematography (now I wish I'd seen it in a theatre). However, I don't really know what to make of it. It raises many questions, with no easy answers...Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-28132550466589816882018-02-02T14:16:28.972-08:002018-02-02T14:16:28.972-08:00Also, we do not propose solutions because that'...Also, we do not propose solutions because that's the left's business. In other words, they specialize in presenting attractive but bogus solutions to ontological, existential, psychological, and other types of problems outside the sphere of politics.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53861040227705451392018-02-02T14:13:16.268-08:002018-02-02T14:13:16.268-08:00My attraction to the left was based on the fact th...My attraction to the left was based on the fact that I was an idiot. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-24984949647000870692018-02-02T14:08:26.052-08:002018-02-02T14:08:26.052-08:00Robert, Julie:
Your reply comments are well taken...Robert, Julie:<br /><br />Your reply comments are well taken. However, I did not imply being a cad disqualified someone from being a decent president. Being vulgar and lecherous does not either. Robert might not wish Leslie stuck on an elevator alone with the President for 12 hours, but he'll do I suppose.<br /><br />The point I was trying to make, when dealing with opposition persons, most try to find the common ground, for the good of all. We as a nation do this year in and year out, and that's why we have a great centrist nation. This blog don't seem interested in solutions, only defining problems and declaring them intractable, due to the opposition being evil. Like bitter spouses locked in combat, the negative is the only vibe emanating from here. And you used to love the left, didn't you? What was the initial attraction? Start from there.<br /><br />Even the good in your own conservative culture bloc gets short shrift from you, as you seem to have already declared defeat in the culture wars. Keep fighting, but why not try fighting in a way that might accomplish something? You drift off into historical, philosophical, and literary byways which only seems to reinforce a gloomy belief that all is lost.<br /><br />Why not say: "All is not lost; the centrist path is a path to stupendous achievements and glorious gains for all through this century and beyond." Right? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-13495799412170812412018-02-02T10:09:19.410-08:002018-02-02T10:09:19.410-08:00"Witch" has two meanings, including &quo..."Witch" has two meanings, including "an ugly or unpleasant woman," so it is intended in that sense. As for Satan, he is the personification of human evil, or evil upon contact with the human psyche. <br /><br />Also, I wouldn't call Kennedy's screed "exaggerated moonbattery," since exaggeration presumes an underlying reality that is exaggerated. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44806671327297727782018-02-02T10:04:48.485-08:002018-02-02T10:04:48.485-08:00Ye gods, a cad in the White House! Let me get my s...Ye gods, a <i>cad</i> in the White House! Let me get my smelling salts! It would have been so much better to have a corrupt and evil woman whose husband is an <i>actual rapist</i> leading our country than a man who *gasp* is not a paragon of chastity. Oh, the shame!!<br /><br />How can I possibly think in shades of gray when my President isn't stark, gleaming white?!<br /><br />I think I shall go find a fainting couch and read something to ease my mind. Perhaps a nice, brief memo.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87270374877593150452018-02-02T09:28:03.757-08:002018-02-02T09:28:03.757-08:00I don't know as the left is as deluded as you ...I don't know as the left is as deluded as you make them out to be. I think you're down into some hallucinosis too, as you describe. Or at the very least, hyperbolic writing.<br /><br />Sure, Kennedy's screed is exaggerated moonbattery. But do you need to counter his madness with your own, knee-jerk and commensurate irrational response?<br /><br />You throw terms like witches and Satan around like these might be actual things. Are they, or aren't they? I'd like to know which answer you stand firm on without obfuscation or qualifying. Then your readers can have a benchmark as to how much they can believe what you write.<br /><br />Trump is a good President, but has also had verifiable instances of being a vulgar, lecherous cad. A balanced person can see the whole picture without having to make the President all good, or all bad. And that goes for anything.<br /><br />Celebrate clear thinking, shades of gray, and things being pretty much down the middle most of the time. This allows reasonable right wingers and left wingers to balance the nation somewhere in the middle of that sweet, sweet Bell Curve. Get your Bell curve on and snap out of your snit. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90532088999054052462018-02-01T18:05:29.229-08:002018-02-01T18:05:29.229-08:00No wit, either. And of course, it's hard to t...No wit, either. And of course, it's hard to trust a man who doesn't drink.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12511239167507306452018-02-01T17:09:58.769-08:002018-02-01T17:09:58.769-08:00No, I see it too. Shapiro is a tad young, and prob...No, I see it too. Shapiro is a tad young, and probably a bit full of hubris in regards to his skills and success. Prager brings in more life experience. Or as Flannery O'Connor said: "Conviction without experience makes for harshness."<br /><br />But the discussion was very rich! Glad you like it!tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66292876188342774182018-02-01T15:40:50.612-08:002018-02-01T15:40:50.612-08:00Watched the whole thing -- really great. Although...Watched the whole thing -- really great. Although there's always something about Ben Shapiro that irritates me. Not sure what it is, because I agree with almost everything he says. It's more the way he comes across -- like a precocious know it all, or something. The opposite of Prager, whose voice is deep and slow, whereas Shapiro's is high and fast, which detracts from any gravitas... Or maybe it's just me.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-33989988585328136212018-02-01T13:45:33.395-08:002018-02-01T13:45:33.395-08:00Very good! (I'm only ten minutes in.)Very good! (I'm only ten minutes in.)Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-79937460221459843682018-02-01T13:31:43.039-08:002018-02-01T13:31:43.039-08:00This Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson discussion is...This <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRPDGEgaATU" rel="nofollow">Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson discussion</a> is well worth viewing.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-56031723727100491912018-02-01T11:08:24.039-08:002018-02-01T11:08:24.039-08:00Speaking of HS endarkening, how about Michael Wolf...Speaking of HS endarkening, how about <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/373649.php" rel="nofollow">Michael Wolf</a>:<br /><br />"This was too much for Mika, who told him, 'This is awkward,' Brzezinski shot back, 'you’re on the set with us. I'm sorry, but you're done.'<br /><br />"I guess there are some liberal lies that are too embarrassing even for Chirping Parrot."<br /><br />*****<br /><br />In other words, Joe and Mika may be diabolical, but they're not crazy!<br /><br /><br /><br />Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52448368822033377402018-02-01T10:40:10.110-08:002018-02-01T10:40:10.110-08:00Perhaps even more problematic than virtue signalin...<i>Perhaps even more problematic than virtue signaling is "intelligence signaling" (for lack of a better term).</i><br /><br />A fair number on the right are guilty of this one, as well, and it's always cringeworthy. Intelligent is as intelligent does; you don't have to be a genius to say something that is wise or true.<br /><br />re. Joe Quim, er, Kennedy, it was hard to follow what he said while he was speaking, the gleam from the corners of his mouth was incredibly distracting. He sure did emote a lot, though, like a passionate Howdy Doody.<br /><br />Re. mass hysteria, these days it gets more and more difficult to know just what really <i>is</i> true. As <a href="https://amgreatness.com/2018/01/29/conspiracy-theories-conspiracies/" rel="nofollow">VDH noted this week</a>, "Not all conspiracy theorists are unhinged paranoids."juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com