tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post8403396943461670149..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Many a Peer Have to Fall, But it's All In the Game (1.07.11)Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-16534657702788388812008-01-06T15:35:00.000-08:002008-01-06T15:35:00.000-08:00Onea these days, Gagdad, ona these days.... BANG! ...Onea these days, Gagdad, ona these days.... BANG! ZOOM! RIGHT TO THE MOON!<BR/><BR/>THE MOON, GAGDAD! THE MOON!vanderleunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10296245324443413545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3892444211202922342008-01-06T12:33:00.000-08:002008-01-06T12:33:00.000-08:00mudslide said "...I'm not looking to argue, I'm lo...mudslide said "...I'm not looking to argue, I'm looking for answers...."<BR/><BR/>No Answers. Just questions, better questioning, and some answering... but no Answers.<BR/><BR/>Other than perhaps, sometimes Shit happens. AssUming you aren't the shit that happened, your choice is whether or not to clean it up.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-25012279838866466062008-01-06T12:28:00.000-08:002008-01-06T12:28:00.000-08:00I'm afraid I'm not sure what you're asking. Pleas...I'm afraid I'm not sure what you're asking. Please formulate your question as clearly and concisely as possible, in full sentences.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-38842051283999654752008-01-06T12:07:00.000-08:002008-01-06T12:07:00.000-08:00better yet, agree you'll cover it in one of your f...better yet, agree you'll cover it in one of your future posts...<BR/>and I don't really care if you make fun of me, call me names, think terrible things about me...just cover it...agni, karma, trials the whole existenchiladaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5205803663537494172008-01-06T11:57:00.000-08:002008-01-06T11:57:00.000-08:00and I'm not looking to argue, I'm looking for answ...and I'm not looking to argue, I'm looking for answers....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-58344767222618672812008-01-06T11:55:00.000-08:002008-01-06T11:55:00.000-08:00bob's unconscious:Not trying to be obstinate or he...bob's unconscious:<BR/>Not trying to be obstinate or heretical...hell...I'm bald (small joke) and I'm hoping you don't go for a Elihu answer (see Job) but just seeing the obvious to you ain't the obvious to me and vice versa.. but the devil is in those details and other than the hand showing up to write on my wall (it hasn't), if you or Bob can offer some prognostication on "Jobs children" in light of that heretical thought of predestination, my army life (actually more like the National Guard - couple weeks a year or as required) analogy, or some of those lesser items you mentioned, it would be a major help, because I've just been standing here shaking my head trying to figure it out....for about 10 years....or am I right and God does have a free will that we can't possibly know??? If so, why is that, or why is that NOT predestination or something danged close????Obviously, my reasoning, or Bob's learned reasoning, don't mean a tinkers damn in His realm...no offense.. and as Bob says, we can't even conceive of the horizon......<BR/>in the meantime, we still have to rightly divide.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30058643951272188102008-01-06T10:09:00.000-08:002008-01-06T10:09:00.000-08:00Mudslide:Of course you are partially correct. I di...Mudslide:<BR/><BR/>Of course you are partially correct. I didn't have time to get into how to discern between trials, purificatory tests, <I>agni</I>, karma, and mere randomness. But if you believe everything is providence, then you are simply a machine by another name, and certainly not a freeborn Raccoon (which I'm sure is of no consequence to you anyway). In any event, be assured that your position is heretical, not mine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-82936513102954436692008-01-06T09:41:00.000-08:002008-01-06T09:41:00.000-08:00Gotta disagree with you, big guy...sorry I don't h...Gotta disagree with you, big guy...sorry I don't have the fancy theophiloscosmitric visionaries to quote... but, after having lived in my shoes, cosmic weeds don't seem to cover it......refer to Job for instance....the Big Guy had His plans for His servant Job, but more importantly and always overlooked, Job's sons, daughters, servants, et al (aka, "cannon fodder") where there was no cosmicity, only what God decided was a good lesson for Job, (ie, time for the roof to come down, put to the sword, or died from disease) was a death sentence for them..no time for their weeds.....<BR/>Nahhhh...More like being in God's army..and like any private, I am never shown the grand strategy (seems I've been on "find the land mine" duty for what seems like forever) <BR/>weeds, schmeads, don't think it works that way.......God has free will as well as His plan .....but that doesn't sell as well as the prosperity gospel (blame them) or cosmic weeds (blame me).......<BR/>Well, I see I've wondered into another minefield (boom!) and (blammo!) I'll just find my way out...anybody find a spare foot?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29415808771213770272008-01-05T23:58:00.000-08:002008-01-05T23:58:00.000-08:00I braved the drizzle tonight to check out the Plas...I braved the drizzle tonight to check out the Plas Johnson Quartet tonight. I am fortunate to live by a really chill club. Plas-sax, Roy McCurdy-drums, John Gianelli-bass, Jon Mayer-piano. Carol Kaye also sat in on a few songs at guitar. Live music and especially good jazz is so soothing for the soul. Mind-parasites just melt away for a timeless moment. A nip of good tequila never hurts....Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04969685296436358865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48611504592043376212008-01-05T21:19:00.000-08:002008-01-05T21:19:00.000-08:00"Remember, even if you were to forcefully yank on ..."Remember, even if you were to forcefully yank on the brake of the Karmic Express, its sheer momentum will continue to carry it down the tracks for a while, so that you shouldn't be surprised at the persistent weeds that continue to sprout in your spiritual garden. These are the result of karmic 'seeds' you have mindless deposited throughout your life, each with a different life cycle (many seeds take years to sprout). They will continue to sprout up long after you've stopped being naughty, just as the good seeds you are currently planting will take some time to germinate and yield their sound fruit."<BR/><BR/>I will be a witness to this, Bob!<BR/>The weeds, seeds and fruit and the karma that produces each according to my free will.<BR/><BR/>That's one of the reasons I never ask "why me?" when the weeds seem to outnumber the fruit in my life.<BR/>Because I know why. <BR/><BR/>In fact, I no doubt deserve all weeds and no fruit when you boil it down and cut to the quick mart of karma.<BR/>I could never claim to be like Job, for instance, who was still wrong to ask "why me?"<BR/><BR/>But now that I do gno why, I also gno that I'm the one responsible for planting the weeds that have plagued me.<BR/><BR/>All I can do is accept that truth and start planting fruit seeds.<BR/>I may never see any of the fruit, or not as much fruit as weeds in my own life, but I do gno the Master gardener has given me the courage and strength to take my medicine, so to speak, and to plant more seeds if I watch my p's and Q's.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, thanks for this post, and all of your posts, because they are full of resonating truth. :^)USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-75880748006426396512008-01-05T20:16:00.000-08:002008-01-05T20:16:00.000-08:00Thanks for the link Bob,It's interesting that I do...Thanks for the link Bob,<BR/>It's interesting that I don't recognize any of his book titles except 'Tenured Radicals'.<BR/>More homework ahead!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-88179877615639232742008-01-05T19:24:00.000-08:002008-01-05T19:24:00.000-08:00Commended to all Raccoons: The Proper Conservativ...Commended to all Raccoons: <A HREF="http://pajamasmedia.com/xpress/rogerkimball/2008/01/01/the_proper_conservative_view_o.php" REL="nofollow">The Proper Conservative View of Gloominess, Truth, and Change</A>, by Roger Kimball. I would be a conservative if only for the superior writers.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-978816755859184602008-01-05T15:09:00.000-08:002008-01-05T15:09:00.000-08:00"... The materialist will dismiss it a priori, as ..."... The materialist will dismiss it a priori, as his conclusions are always buried in his premises. This is not to be confused with "thinking." "<BR/><BR/>That is so often IT in a NutShall... as with the loony Lincoln linker at VanDerleun's site the other day - they allow their systems to determine what they are willing to acknowledge - there is much whiring and thundering of 'principle', but they exclude the full picture on behalf of their cystemick princeIpall - all is predetermined and they are just lost at See.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48928531157510295272008-01-05T12:31:00.000-08:002008-01-05T12:31:00.000-08:00Also in recent days, there has been some discussio...Also in recent days, there has been some discussion about mind parasites -- about how to deal with them, and can they be "gotten rid of," and are they "us" or "other."<BR/><BR/>When Bolton says --<BR/>"By keeping increasingly free from certain states of mind for long enough, one may exhaust the negative reactions from the world which would need to connect with such corresponding inner states in order to be manifest. In this way, the 'cosmic debts' incurred by the use of negative energies can be dissipated" --<BR/>does this provide a clue or "strategy" regarding mind parasites, that in some cases simple avoidance will in time defuse their energy?<BR/><BR/>I once read an interview with a therapist who said the main treatment for sex addiction was simply "impulse inhibition," i.e. getting the patient to <I>stop the behavior.</I>walthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388218390016612051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-61874300694068532552008-01-05T12:28:00.000-08:002008-01-05T12:28:00.000-08:00Redeemedbase of a brain stemblowing away in a wind...<A HREF="http://robinstarfish.blogspot.com/2008/01/redeemed.html" REL="nofollow">Redeemed</A><BR/>base of a brain stem<BR/>blowing away in a wind<BR/>the mount of olivesrobinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45576130049495610872008-01-05T12:27:00.000-08:002008-01-05T12:27:00.000-08:00At the beginning of each month I have been creatin...At the beginning of each month I have been creating a different photo banner at the GA blog. <A HREF="http://gobsmackedagain.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">January's</A> is an image of young, sprouting bulbs, bright sunlight and <I>dirt. </I> Why include the dirt? I didn't have but a vague notion, but today, a gift from Van:<BR/><BR/>"Surely all your <I>dirt</I> will turn into gold." Van Morrison, "The Mystery"<BR/><BR/>Painter Paul Klee: "It is the artist's mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth. Which artist would not wish to dwell at the central organ of all motion in space-time (be it the brain or the heart of creation) from which all functions derive their life? In the womb of nature, in the primal ground of creation, where the secret key to all things lies hidden? ...Our beating heart drives us downward, far down to the primal ground." from The Van Morrison <A HREF="http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:kQ-AHOFGNKsJ:www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/van/glossary/philosophers.html+%22Surely+all+your+dirt+will+turn+into+gold.%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=safari" REL="nofollow">Website</A>Mizz Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02325435271880036807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15409934203273957602008-01-05T11:25:00.000-08:002008-01-05T11:25:00.000-08:00I guess you could ask the people who have been usi...I guess you could ask the people who have been using the easier softer way of positive thinking their entire life, has it worked? Or has it just covered up what is still underneath.<BR/>Without attention, weeds in a garden always choke out the good plants. I suspect it is the same with an unattended mind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-83427162885061889942008-01-05T10:22:00.000-08:002008-01-05T10:22:00.000-08:00Wouldn't it be great if Bob's book was the cosmic...Wouldn't it be great if Bob's book was the cosmic equivalent of Round-Up? <BR/><BR/>The weed analogy is a great way to describe this problem. I suspect the only way to truly get rid of the weeds is to over-plant the mind with desired/good seeds that will eventually overcrowd and runoff the weeds. Another thing to consider is what is actually a weed so to speak. More to ponder...as always.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04969685296436358865noreply@blogger.com