tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post7221966173215935910..comments2024-03-29T06:03:45.545-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Breaking the Fifth Wall & Living on the Right Side of HistoryGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-32302631904823393592020-05-26T08:47:47.087-07:002020-05-26T08:47:47.087-07:00This part especially resonated: "In other wor...This part especially resonated: "In other words, a human is human because he lives downstream from his own telos, and the discovery of this vertical stream is the event of human awakening." To be downstream from the source that pulls us in time is transcendence itself. As I see it, "The Telos exists in order to do the will of the Logos, which is to unfold Love into Creation." friendsafirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12544185438851395441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-17780757985277096722020-05-24T01:11:48.680-07:002020-05-24T01:11:48.680-07:00The Egyptian elites were inbred. And like the Hab...The Egyptian elites were inbred. And like the Habsburgs, were well known for their bad teeth and unusually large ears. <br /><br />And then there are the scientists, large of brain but small in soul, who say that we're are all living inside a black hole, our infinite universe being inside a singularity of somebody else's black hole. And in that one a lusty sinful couple also ate the forbidden fruit. And in the black hole universe above that one. And the one above that one too. And on and on.<br /><br />An endless mirror hall of black hole universes with forbidden fruit, populated with Egyptian elites sporting bad teeth and large ears.<br /><br />Our God may be great, but he's also quite a strange one methinks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44130461808833546052020-05-23T17:48:54.218-07:002020-05-23T17:48:54.218-07:00What if God is inherent in the material world and ...What if God is inherent in the material world and seeking Him in an imaginary other world place is displaying a blindness to His cosmic presence and an ingratitude for the miracle that is self and furthermore to find out what happens when we die follow the body and see does it become part of a poppy plant or a nettle.It doesn't make a lot of sense to me knowing that each of us must have two parents and four grandparents and so it keeps on doubling with each generation of ancestors to spin a yarn that if you go back far enough and call it the beginning there were only two.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-33060995515133323252020-05-23T17:28:17.830-07:002020-05-23T17:28:17.830-07:00Daisy, apparently Akhenaton was what we would toda...Daisy, apparently Akhenaton was what we would today call a "visitor." Not that there is anything wrong with them visitors. <br /><br />I've heard bullies refer to visitors as "bug-heads." Notably bullies do not call them that to their faces. A wise choice. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-31544908573120875882020-05-23T08:45:05.124-07:002020-05-23T08:45:05.124-07:00Admittedly Akhenaton had an odd-shaped head. Not t...Admittedly Akhenaton had an odd-shaped head. Not that there's anything wrong with that. <br /><br />The radiant beauty of his wife Nefertiti makes up for that. His son and four daughters were very comely as well.<br /><br />Was ever a family more loved by God? Have you not seen the reliefs of God reaching down with multiple open hands to cares?<br /><br />Therefore I propose the founding of New Amarna and a gathering of the faithful to this city of hope and love. But where shall it sited? And how funded?<br /><br />Those are the questions on the table. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89698888395256029342020-05-22T21:43:03.460-07:002020-05-22T21:43:03.460-07:00No thanks, my head shape is fine just the way it i...No thanks, my head shape is fine just the way it is.<br /><br />Daisynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44238957313289336242020-05-22T21:30:58.923-07:002020-05-22T21:30:58.923-07:00Natural selection and dialectic materialism seem l...Natural selection and dialectic materialism seem like one and the same. Are Darwin and Marx on the same page?<br /><br />Marx theorized clashes of opposing social forces driven by materialism (goods and services, the means of production, ownership of land, etc) formed the warp and weft of history; that is, all that was important. Religion was relegated to being a sop to the feeble-minded. <br /><br />Reading history books one is struck by how much recorded history focuses on kingdoms, empires, and the wars that created them. Another common theme is the development of technologies such as sailing vessels, cannon, steam engines, and on up through atomic bombs and onward to todays killer drones and space forces. <br /><br />Military history is the single most prominent branch of historical studies, beyond a doubt.<br /><br />Religious history tends to focus on schisms, controversies, inquisitions, and crusades. Mostly violent. <br /><br />Every topic can be viewed historically, but our culture tends to favor the military and the mercenary. <br /><br />This carried on from the start. Egyptian Pharoahs of the Old Kingdom devoted most of their historical communication describing how many enemies they smote and where they smote them. <br /><br />Are we doomed to continue on like this?<br /><br />The exception was the great Akhenaton (hallowed be thy name). He alone devoted stelae, pylons and wall to illustrations of people being grateful to the one God and portrayed living in the present moment loving children and each other. <br /><br />Let us be more like Akhenaton. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-10419244734863927862020-05-22T17:52:53.071-07:002020-05-22T17:52:53.071-07:00Regarding the soul and natural selection, about th...Regarding the soul and natural selection, about the most we can say is that at some point the brain of the human primate becomes sufficiently complex to host an immortal soul. Evolution, which is wholly horizontal, cannot in principle account for this vertical reality. Much more on this as we proceed.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59009590235750181212020-05-22T16:21:55.507-07:002020-05-22T16:21:55.507-07:00Good Lord, I'm not worthy to be the first comm...Good Lord, I'm not worthy to be the first commenter. But I can't hold it in. <br /><br />First off, loved the post. The concept of the Fourth and Fifth Walls was fascinating. I'll have to cogitate on that for a week or more. Where do you get this stuff? You are very inventive to say the least. <br /><br />One section of the post resonated with me and I'll add what I can to the discussion. <br /><br />You wrote "...either natural selection explains man, or man explains natural selection;..." <br /><br />The Master in the Centre where I grew up used to say something to this effect: <br /><br />"Mankind ascends two lines of evolution simultaneously. Natural selection is part of the gradual development of an ever more appropriate body, the physical vehicle for the soul. We each participate in this evolution by reproduction and survival.<br /><br />The other line is the evolution of the each individual immortal soul into an ever more complex, sovereign, and beautiful formation. So each human life pushes forward this dual evolution. For each successive life the soul enters the body as one might enter a vehicle for a drive. During this drive the vehicle combines with others and is modified. The soul has experiences which it keeps. At the end of the drive the vehicle is returned to Earth and the soul returns to heaven, with advances to both the vehicle and the soul." <br /><br />My Master, God bless his immortal soul, was seldom wrong about anything.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-72543661913371971572020-05-22T16:07:32.216-07:002020-05-22T16:07:32.216-07:00...the Incarnation breaks the fifth wall in a fina...<i>...the Incarnation breaks the fifth wall in a final way, such that it stays broken once and For All.</i><br /><br />And yet even now, 2k years later, we still struggle mightily with that fact. Humans are a peculiar bunch. juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com