tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post690137404234175478..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: On Having a Distant Relationship to TruthGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87924894279409172082014-06-12T16:32:15.305-07:002014-06-12T16:32:15.305-07:00Speaking of evil computers and what is there, I ju...Speaking of evil computers and what is there, I just paged over to Amazon looking for who knows what, only to discover that Prime now does music.<br /><br />Those bastards.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89261352134870211722014-06-12T14:26:43.970-07:002014-06-12T14:26:43.970-07:00Ha. He's still around?
Re. searching, I find ...Ha. He's still around?<br /><br />Re. searching, I find just as often that's it's useful to simply try to observe <i>what is there</i>, maybe even particularly if I'm looking for a something-in-particular; often, the object sought is there in front of us, but we are so busy looking past it that we don't see it at all. juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22606251969255613922014-06-12T14:25:29.801-07:002014-06-12T14:25:29.801-07:00The other day I read an unintentionally funny edit...The other day I read an unintentionally funny editorial by Professor <a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-adv-kaelin-oj-anniversary-20140608-story.html" rel="nofollow">Kato Kaelin</a>, who inadvertently utters the following postmodern koan:<br /><br />"Perception is reality, and unfortunately, the media don't always get it right." <br /><br />Reminds me of the one that made the evil computer explode on an old Star Trek episode.<br /><br />Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84405262743472775512014-06-12T14:22:54.015-07:002014-06-12T14:22:54.015-07:00Which makes them absolutists...
Ah yes, that is w...<i>Which makes them absolutists...</i><br /><br />Ah yes, that is what Habermas called the performative contradiction. Saying everything relative is taking a stand somewhere that is not relative.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-43429169711611165932014-06-12T14:19:47.837-07:002014-06-12T14:19:47.837-07:00I guess I can only search for what I know I don...I guess I can only search for what I know I don't know...and that is endless. It also interesting when we consider man's teleological ends which can never be reached. Man's end is no dead end (with the exception of a few buffoons).tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37178465919505811922014-06-12T14:19:41.886-07:002014-06-12T14:19:41.886-07:00Which makes them absolutists....Which makes them absolutists....Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-33490979792635776692014-06-12T14:19:01.779-07:002014-06-12T14:19:01.779-07:00Although this morning I was thinking to myself tha...Although this morning I was thinking to myself that I am a relativist, in that I believe all knowledge is relative to the absolute. I suppose liberals must believe that everything is relative to relativity.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30622921943267296342014-06-12T14:16:55.052-07:002014-06-12T14:16:55.052-07:00Relativism is the simply the doctrine that there i...Relativism is the simply the doctrine that there is no truth in things.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-21424560047243188202014-06-12T14:15:46.040-07:002014-06-12T14:15:46.040-07:00The intellect can only extract truth or knowledge ...The intellect can only extract truth or knowledge out of something that has truth in it. Which is why it is impossible to argue with a liberal.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86149461912476379742014-06-12T13:49:26.138-07:002014-06-12T13:49:26.138-07:00"I can figure this out. It was made by humans...<i>"I can figure this out. It was made by humans and they had good reasons for doing what they did."</i><br /><br />British automotive electrical systems might be an exception. <br /><br />Wait, you said <i>made by humans</i>. Never mind.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-21151364767602079822014-06-12T13:29:31.651-07:002014-06-12T13:29:31.651-07:00In short, the reason things are intelligible is th...<i>In short, the reason things are intelligible is that they are created; the reason they are not ultimately knowable is that we aren't their Creator</i><br /><br />The first part of that statement used to puzzle me. Then I remembered I used to say to myself when looking at an engine or piece of machinery, "I can figure this out. It was made by humans and they had good reasons for doing what they did."<br /><br />So, using that realization on the horizontal level I figured it must apply vertically as well.John Lienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02302615225311776021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22365089356103193212014-06-12T12:14:13.348-07:002014-06-12T12:14:13.348-07:00Well, for starters -- IMHO -- he is in a perpetual...<i>Well, for starters -- IMHO -- he is in a perpetual state of ecstatic self-emptying, or kenosis.</i><br /><br />The Incarnation and the Cross is a culmination, but it also a point of acceleration. <br /><br />The Holy Spirit was "poured out" -- in John 7, it says the Spirit was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified. mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86906346733284183642014-06-12T09:33:58.204-07:002014-06-12T09:33:58.204-07:00But human learning-play has no end -- not chronolo...<i>But human learning-play has no end -- not chronologically, ontologically, developmentally, or epistemologically.</i><br /><br />Never fear, Common Core will fix that...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com