tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post6704332414063267120..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Abstractions, Nightmares, and the Frustrated Gods of the LeftGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-6758213062793930872015-04-03T08:38:44.313-07:002015-04-03T08:38:44.313-07:00With great freedom comes great responsibility.With great freedom comes great responsibility.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-47959069904159982622015-04-03T06:35:25.329-07:002015-04-03T06:35:25.329-07:00In the Christian view, we are first given our free...<i>In the Christian view, we are first given our freedom; which means that we receive it before we act on it.</i><br /><br />Missed this bit yesterday, but a very apropos observation for the day of the Last Supper/ Passover. Importantly too, once this freedom is given we are not abandoned to just do, like, whatever; we are given a set of guidelines for how best to experience that freedom, which when followed act as a scaffolding to lift us into a better life.<br /><br /><i>But contemporary liberals make themselves into what that are. In short, they become their own gods, since they give the form to their own existence.<br /><br />But even here they are never consistent, since they never run out of excuses as to why they can't be who they want to be.</i><br /><br />Lacking the uplifting scaffolding of the Law which they find so oppressive, they can only roll around in the mud and pretend they're flying.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-75317905490480173972015-04-03T06:14:25.831-07:002015-04-03T06:14:25.831-07:00A very good post, Van. Thanks, Ben, for sharing it...A very good post, Van. Thanks, Ben, for sharing it.Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-75795957556591937702015-04-02T13:46:42.396-07:002015-04-02T13:46:42.396-07:00Thanks Ben!Thanks Ben!Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-64356524847450718732015-04-02T13:45:39.380-07:002015-04-02T13:45:39.380-07:00""Thus Descartes' vaunted claim of a...""Thus Descartes' vaunted claim of a method essentially neutral toward any content already and in principle favors an ontology which primitively separates subject and object and dichotomizes objectivity and subjectivity."<br /><br />An airy abstraction at one end, an all too concrete nightmare at the other."<br /><br />Oh, I Doubt that would cause any problems. (ahem). The method of artificial doubt, is the means of making the thought that "we receive our being from elsewhere" to be truly unthinkable, it is the method of exiling the subjective to eat our steaks. <br /><br />To learn the habit of pretending to doubt, is nothing like learning to Question, it is the means of eliminating the ability to wonder and question and to expect and value Answers that add to and expand understanding, rather than being a means of accumulating facts that are useful to doubt. Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-92154013810697283822015-04-02T13:22:41.592-07:002015-04-02T13:22:41.592-07:00But even here they are never consistent, since the...<i>But even here they are never consistent, since they never run out of excuses as to why they can't be who they want to be. They are gods, to be sure, but very frustrated gods. There is structural racism, or campus rape, or gender oppression, or birth control that isn't free, or "marriage inequality," or the "wage gap," or oppressive "religious freedom," etc. It's always something!</i><br /><br />If only plastic surgeons could perfect the art of <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCQQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.urbandictionary.com%2Fdefine.php%3Fterm%3Dnegroplasty&ei=W6QdVfzWB4KINrOihLAF&usg=AFQjCNE2mS01328IFYNedzvQ368pLSdu7g&sig2=ul5w_LTE2IOqmfR99wac1Q&bvm=bv.89744112,d.eXY" rel="nofollow">negroplasty</a>, leftists could transform themselves into the most perfect of perfect victims...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4329043208715148982015-04-02T11:48:38.706-07:002015-04-02T11:48:38.706-07:00http://www.amazon.com/Human-Image-Resurrection-Sac...http://www.amazon.com/Human-Image-Resurrection-Sacred-Cosmology/dp/0903880504<br /><br />Great book along the same linesJohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08797912120688482383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-13722438775259814702015-04-02T10:03:59.377-07:002015-04-02T10:03:59.377-07:00Mushroom,
Aye. Just because we wanna be left alon...Mushroom, <br />Aye. Just because we wanna be left alone to exercise our rights n' liberties (without violating anyone elses rights n' liberties) we are labelled evil oppressors.<br /><br />The left truly are hysterical and delusional.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30320674684590417522015-04-02T09:47:41.025-07:002015-04-02T09:47:41.025-07:00...they never run out of excuses as to why they ca...<i>...they never run out of excuses as to why they can't be who they want to be</i><br /><br />I half expect to walk into the post office one day and see my picture on the wall. "Have you seen the Oppressor? #YouAreTooSpecial"mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2045742908690693602015-04-02T09:03:52.425-07:002015-04-02T09:03:52.425-07:00Yeah, freedom to obey whatever pleases tantrum thr...Yeah, freedom to obey whatever pleases tantrum throwing tyrants.<br />Like hell!<br />I aim to misbehave.Skullynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-35818556452110432612015-04-02T09:01:41.286-07:002015-04-02T09:01:41.286-07:00"Some god. Some freedom. It is why the so-cal..."Some god. Some freedom. It is why the so-called freedom of the left always results in less freedom. It is why the denial of sexual reality leads directly to the Cake Police and the Pizza Thugs. The little gods need a big machine-god to force reality into a shape that pleases them."<br /><br />For the left it's freedom of tyranny, and how dare we be intolerant of the slavery the left calls freedom.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54088363838966373442015-04-02T08:59:11.041-07:002015-04-02T08:59:11.041-07:00Sorry, here's the link:
http://blogodidact.blo...Sorry, here's the link:<br />http://blogodidact.blogspot.com/2015/03/you-built-that-rfra-and-i-object.htmlUSS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-62407926373745038742015-04-02T08:57:47.812-07:002015-04-02T08:57:47.812-07:00"This goes to yesterday's penultimate par..."This goes to yesterday's penultimate paragraph about how liberalism is founded upon a divided reality, with the false objectivity of bonehead scientism on one side, and the radical subjectivism and relativism of postmodernity on the other. For the former, freedom must be an illusion (since science by definition cannot account for it), while for the latter it reduces to either power or desire (or both in the case of leftist politics"<br /><br />Right on, brother Bob!<br />There is no individual liberty in that, only mob rule and "rich" hunts.<br /><br />BTW, Van has a new post up that goes well with Bob's last few posts:<br />https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32362551&postID=2256406857530487234&page=1&token=1427989391219USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.com