tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post6677931519377488961..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: The Four Dimensions of FreedomGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85913890822686549002013-12-16T14:14:19.690-08:002013-12-16T14:14:19.690-08:00That's funny. I never thought Iron Mike was s...That's funny. I never thought Iron Mike was stupid, though he was obviously not quite right. He was also very naive early on. His gold-digging first wife took advantage of that.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67351533647305036492013-12-16T13:36:42.964-08:002013-12-16T13:36:42.964-08:00Tyson vs. Kierkegaard.<a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303932504579256390785052798?mod=trending_now_3" rel="nofollow">Tyson vs. Kierkegaard</a>.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89672832499847865342013-12-16T13:07:27.537-08:002013-12-16T13:07:27.537-08:00You could look at it as a move from childhood inno...You could look at it as a move from childhood innocence to the adult maturity that comes at the expense of disillusionment. Thus, to "be as children" would be a recovery of this mentality. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-79213675628985429942013-12-16T13:01:44.897-08:002013-12-16T13:01:44.897-08:00Would it be true to say that in Eden humanity was ...Would it be true to say that in Eden humanity was not so much unconscious as intuitively harmonized with O?<br /><br />Otherwise, how would it make sense that unconscious Man was "sufficient to stand, though free to fall"?<br /><br />The big rupture occurs after the assertion of (illusory) self-sufficiency. Adam and Eve succumbed to that.<br /><br />Like them, we've been succumbing ever since.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48687294008637560272013-12-16T12:49:35.537-08:002013-12-16T12:49:35.537-08:00Ummm... Soph-Determinist?Ummm... Soph-Determinist?Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9397748615960385942013-12-16T12:44:45.214-08:002013-12-16T12:44:45.214-08:00"Since free will is incomprehensible in any m..."Since free will is incomprehensible in any materialistic scheme, materialists will go to absurd lengths to try to convince themselves it doesn't exist. For example, a while back -- can't find the link -- we highlighted a physicist who argues that everything was preprogrammed into the big bang. Why not? If one is going to embrace an absurdity, might as well go all in."<br /><br />Which goes hand-cause in glove-effect, with this:<br /><br />"Genesis introduces the subject of free will and self-determination, whereby man becomes a "partner of the Absolute..."<br /><br />For as you reject reality, you confine yourself to the range of errors determined by the choices you've rejected. People always wonder how anyone, socialists of the German variety circa 1930's-1940's for instance, could possibly have thought it made sense to do the evil that they did. <br /><br />But...<br /><br />When you've rejected truth in favor of what you'd determined reality must be, then, to the extent possible, you've limited the options that enter your awareness, you've transformed yourself into the mindless automaton of your fondest ASSumptions.<br /><br />To escape that black hole, or even to realize that you are in one, requires a very fortunate and gracefull insight - One which could no longer arise from your own thoughts.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-13830410398519851642013-12-16T12:30:28.178-08:002013-12-16T12:30:28.178-08:00I think in many ways one can think of the parable ...I think in many ways one can think of the parable as a story of just what happened (or happens) to man when man became (becomes) man. It goes to that boundary, not so much between animal and man, as <i>homo sapiens</i> and person. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51884608808134933112013-12-16T12:05:54.105-08:002013-12-16T12:05:54.105-08:00"Not everything was revealed to man in paradi..."Not everything was revealed to man in paradise, and ignorance was the condition of life in it. It was the realm of the unconscious."<br /><br />Brain bomb, right there.<br /><br />What did man think of his dream-thoughts -- if he even dreamed or thought at all -- back before then... Did he know awake from sleep?<br />Maybe there was no difference between the two to him. Maybe he just "does what he wants" in both states, and what happens as a result of his decisions/actions, happens just the same in either state.<br />This seems to be on the same plane of discussion re the attached/detached distances from God. But, ouch, my hair hurts now.<br /><br />Anyway, awesome post.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-31807189309294763422013-12-16T11:56:52.407-08:002013-12-16T11:56:52.407-08:00Puts a whole new spin on "having a case of th...Puts a whole new spin on "having a case of the Mondays"...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26514202736879900892013-12-16T11:50:40.790-08:002013-12-16T11:50:40.790-08:00Interestingly, in Jewish tradition a boy isn't...Interestingly, in Jewish tradition a boy isn't circumcised until the eighth day, I suppose signifying a new round of creation.<br /><br />And in Christianity, since the resurrection occurs on the seventh day, you might say that a new round of creation follows on the eighth. So, I suppose this means we're all living in the cosmo-historical Monday.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00808739503045966389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-74257597310559655462013-12-16T11:42:12.079-08:002013-12-16T11:42:12.079-08:00Based on how some things are phrased in the book o...Based on how some things are phrased in the book of Hebrews, I have wondered if the sun did not set on the Sixth Day until the Cross. But that's kind of off-beat. <br /><br />I think it is safe to say that there is truly an ongoing evolution toward the kingdom and the final New Man. <br /><br />I've heard Christians say that "theistic evolution" is the worst of both worldviews. That's only because they have accepted a very twisted definition of evolution.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-35797928839115616642013-12-16T11:24:31.556-08:002013-12-16T11:24:31.556-08:00"Not everything was revealed to man in paradi...<i>"Not everything was revealed to man in paradise, and ignorance was the condition of life in it. It was the realm of the unconscious." </i><br /><br />How does it line up with tradition? Not bad, I'd say. <br /><br /><i>From this time forth I announce to you new things, hidden things that you have not known. They are created now, not long ago; before today you have never heard of them, lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’ </i> -- Isaiah 48:6b-7mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89021851188966522642013-12-16T11:15:23.230-08:002013-12-16T11:15:23.230-08:00Re. JPII's Man and Woman..., I read that a cou...Re. JPII's <i>Man and Woman...</i>, I read that a couple of years back; I seem to recall it often resonated quite nicely.<br /><br />...<br /><br /><i>There's no putting the truthpaste back in the rube. </i><br /><br /><br />Ha - you can say that again...<br /><br />...<br /><br /><i>And a determined evil is absolute and eternal evil. <br /> <br />Christ would not have been God-man if human nature is merely passive, unfree, and reveals nothing from within itself...</i><br /><br />Well of course, when you put it that way. For in a deterministic universe, how could man be anything but absolutely and eternally evil? Man would not then be merely passive and unfree, man would be wholly incompatible with and unknowable to God.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com