tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post7572050085101264669..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: One Truth, One Cosmos, One Transdimensional LodgeGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54108609907115273302014-01-28T08:43:23.801-08:002014-01-28T08:43:23.801-08:00Hello,
Having stumbled upon this blog, I was char...Hello,<br /><br />Having stumbled upon this blog, I was charmed by the style and have ordered the One Cosmos book. The commentary is odd, seemingly not related to the post. I'll put this book on my wish list, but my take on the general idea is "of course" but the roots of it all are the Roman church, against which a rebellion was inevitable, and against whose theology there has not been a reformation. The roots of atheism as well lie in the theology of the west, whether Catholic or Protestant.onethinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14535034825090836447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-17849206530622346712014-01-14T07:07:18.681-08:002014-01-14T07:07:18.681-08:00I don't see anything in the spam file. Might ...I don't see anything in the spam file. Might be another hallucination.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-6750582214442035572014-01-13T22:45:48.192-08:002014-01-13T22:45:48.192-08:00---and i 'think' i left a comment on this ...---and i 'think' i left a comment on this thread that vanished toogehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45004576108254861142014-01-13T17:05:41.597-08:002014-01-13T17:05:41.597-08:00Weird - I know you did publish it, because I left ...Weird - I know you did publish it, because I left a comment. Then wondered why nobody else was saying anything.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23183315820911557662014-01-13T16:15:48.265-08:002014-01-13T16:15:48.265-08:00And I have no idea what happened to today's po...And I have no idea what happened to today's post. Could have sworn I published it. Guess I'll try again tomorrow morning. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-32965656312053533452014-01-13T16:10:00.562-08:002014-01-13T16:10:00.562-08:00Bob, I think you have him pretty much pegged. Bob, I think you have him pretty much pegged. Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-77006330879137346132014-01-12T17:47:27.938-08:002014-01-12T17:47:27.938-08:00He even goes out of his way to assure readers of h...He even goes out of his way to assure readers of his concern about Global Warming. Like that has a lot to do with the Reformation. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-24976147541504217512014-01-12T17:45:36.689-08:002014-01-12T17:45:36.689-08:00He seems like someone who wants desperately to be ...He seems like someone who wants desperately to be accepted by the tenured, which makes him come off as pathetic. I finally gave up today after one too many uses of the word "gendered." Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45094425030531711792014-01-12T17:15:39.030-08:002014-01-12T17:15:39.030-08:00Gregory evidently feels a need to tell Grand Narra...Gregory evidently feels a need to tell Grand Narratives, to fly at 30,000+ feet, because other people with endowed professorships do the same, and big boy academicians gain prestige by telling Big Stories. And if they fudge a bit to get there, well, that's the price that has to be paid in order to have The Grand View. Counterfactuals are for little people, the ankle-biters, the untenured.<br /><br />He has done an awful lot of homework, and I would bet seriously that his heart is in the right place. He just lacks political savvy and (sometimes) charity. He reminds me of the old saw that academics are people that care more about ideas than people.<br /><br />I have it on very good authority that he can be lovely in person, very generous to his students, and without a doubt sincere in his fidelity and devotion.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-74695359203548506732014-01-12T15:05:35.372-08:002014-01-12T15:05:35.372-08:00Oh, SMOD. Via Vanderleun, without whom I might rem...<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/368158/gender-neutral-dating-kevin-d-williamson" rel="nofollow">Oh, SMOD</a>. Via Vanderleun, without whom I might remain blissfully unaware of some things.<br /><br />But to tie that in with the end of the post, <i>If there is only one world, one order of being</i>, or one gender<i>, symbol has no place.</i> And life has no meaning.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12838208390102391072014-01-12T04:45:51.425-08:002014-01-12T04:45:51.425-08:00ON perpetual topic, if that boast still stands:
Th...ON perpetual topic, if that boast still stands:<br />The Best Article About the Velvet Underground Ever, by Lance Loud in 1975 <br />http://www.litkicks.com/VelvetsByLanceLoud#.UtKL8vviGks<br /><br />I knew that guy...gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2461709896653314372014-01-11T09:47:00.914-08:002014-01-11T09:47:00.914-08:00Yet another weekend discovery of hard-to-pronounce...Yet another weekend discovery of hard-to-pronounce current postmod. Euro writer of wild potential relevance!<br /><i><br />Seiobo translator Ottilie Mulzet notes in her interview with Krasznahorkai that he addresses what has effectively become taboo: “The question of ‘sacred’ in a world which has no need for it anymore.” The Hungarian author’s works are known for their promise of higher meaning and their tendency to approach, but never quite reach, resolution. Krasznahorkai’s previous titles in English (War & War, The Melancholy of Resistance, and Satantango) earned critical recognition from Susan Sontag and James Wood for their strange, apocalyptic impression. Rife with peculiar characters and sealed into sophisticated structures (Satantango adopts the form of the tango dance, while Seiobo There Below, though billed as a novel, presents distinct stories numbered by the Fibonacci sequence), Krasznahorkai’s fiction makes contact with the otherworldly...</i><br /><br />http://www.themillions.com/2013/10/a-prism-of-hidden-meanings-on-laszlo-krasznahorkais-seiobo-there-below.htmlgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-75391887194153686202014-01-10T20:04:50.845-08:002014-01-10T20:04:50.845-08:00Speaking of Dalrymple, In Praise of Prejudice is a...Speaking of Dalrymple, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/In-Praise-Prejudice-Necessity-Preconceived/dp/1594032025/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1389412984&sr=8-1&keywords=in+praise+of+prejudice" rel="nofollow">In Praise of Prejudice</a> is a winner too.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4862753656677634452014-01-10T16:45:38.859-08:002014-01-10T16:45:38.859-08:00That's awful. I guess he turned out pretty wel...That's awful. I guess he turned out pretty well, considering.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36700434514900773512014-01-10T16:44:14.513-08:002014-01-10T16:44:14.513-08:00Wow, talk about a stiff upper lip!Wow, talk about a stiff upper lip!tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20900860719263012442014-01-10T16:43:04.206-08:002014-01-10T16:43:04.206-08:00He might be agnostic, or at least he's entirel...He might be agnostic, or at least he's entirely sympathetic to sane religion. He had an extremely bizarre childhood, and I think it foreclosed certain psychic avenues. If memory serves, I heard him say that his father never once spoke to his mother during his entire childhood, and he never knew why. A little tense, you might say. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-73801245300790531142014-01-10T16:30:01.102-08:002014-01-10T16:30:01.102-08:00That was my sense, but I'm ok with someone rec...That was my sense, but I'm ok with someone recognizing the disease without laying out the medicine or prevention. Especially if they have the flair for it! I do find it amusing that although he's an atheist, he is a strong advocate for religion. He must see a cure in there.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-64203632124615887722014-01-10T15:30:13.821-08:002014-01-10T15:30:13.821-08:00They're all equally good. He is a terrific es...They're all equally good. He is a terrific essayist, the only problem being that, taken together, the start to add up to a rather sour worldview. He's an excellent diagnostician, but he offers no cure; he bums you out but doesn't lift you up -- except perhaps by the crackling sprightliness of his prose. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66569824884388818512014-01-10T14:30:39.343-08:002014-01-10T14:30:39.343-08:00Bob, I'm thinking of reading a book by Theodor...Bob, I'm thinking of reading a book by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Theodore-Dalrymple/e/B001HOAFBW/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1" rel="nofollow">Theodore Dalrymple</a>. Got some suggestions?tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23594892113663355942014-01-10T13:37:43.763-08:002014-01-10T13:37:43.763-08:00Now that I think about it, his thoughts are quite ...Now that I think about it, his thoughts are quite banal when not dressed up in tortuous academese.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65689152968653024182014-01-10T13:34:33.775-08:002014-01-10T13:34:33.775-08:00Nevertheless, on to chapter 2 (of 6). We'll s...Nevertheless, on to chapter 2 (of 6). We'll see if he can mount a comeback.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-61969366341319710192014-01-10T13:32:50.083-08:002014-01-10T13:32:50.083-08:00Just seems like a mediocre mind trying to put on h...Just seems like a mediocre mind trying to put on his big boy academic pants and imitate the pompous and affected manner of the tenured, substituting turgidity for depth.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85547125626950127112014-01-10T13:07:56.392-08:002014-01-10T13:07:56.392-08:00I've heard reliable historians describe this b...I've heard reliable historians describe this book as disingenuous, politically unhelpful, and "screedy." Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-17487717318579856592014-01-10T10:45:47.999-08:002014-01-10T10:45:47.999-08:00I personally don't think we could ever recover...<i>I personally don't think we could ever recover and restore such historical </i>innocence<i>, probobly because I personally couldn't (maybe you can). I don't see how one can put the truthpaste back in the tube, so gnostalgia is futile. </i><br /><br />I think part of the issue is that innocence - historical and otherwise - is so intertwined with <i>ignorance</i>. Going all the way to the beginning, come to think of it, since Eve was convinced that she'd be learning something worth knowing if she just took a bite of the forbidden stuff.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-28719983994389676522014-01-10T10:24:02.948-08:002014-01-10T10:24:02.948-08:00Developments in the last couple of hundred years h...Developments in the last couple of hundred years have been more specialized and increasingly isolated.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.com