tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post8580215713095572465..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: The Best Operating System For Your WetwareGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87348674837875683092010-04-06T11:26:43.712-07:002010-04-06T11:26:43.712-07:00Susannah said "they can turn it all over in ...Susannah said "they can turn it all over in one generation--that they can somehow innovate out of their gut, with no guidelines, essentially ignore (by "interpreting" away) what's fixed in the eternal...and somehow, some way, their freestyle improvisations are supposed to defy reality and bring heaven on earth."<br /><br />Ask them to describe what it is that a tyrant does... and what it is that makes one <i>not</i> a tyrant?<br /><br />The problem, for them, of course is that what a tyrant does, what makes him a tyrant, is that they follow no fixed and eternal rules and just " innovate out of their gut, with no guidelines, essentially ignore (by "interpreting" away) what's fixed in the eternal...and somehow, some way, their freestyle improvisations are supposed to defy reality and bring heaven on earth"<br /><br />Ask them to point out an instance when tyranny has ended well? <br /><br />When they answer that "Well... it's not like that today, Obamao wants to help the people and care for them!", ask them to point out an instance when a tyrant came to power with the support of the people <i>without</i> claiming that he wanted to "help the people and care for them!".<br /><br />And my personal favorite, ask them what they would say to <a href="http://blogodidact.blogspot.com/2010/01/to-be-house-slave-or-to-be-american.html" rel="nofollow">a well cared for house slave</a> to entice them to leave their comfortable situation, to escape and risk capture and losing their cushy status, in order to come to the world they're concocting... how would it differ from what they're already experiencing?<br /><br />I've seen it help a few honest fools to flick their lights on.<br /><br />"I argue with these people. I shouldn't, I guess."<br /><br />Buffalo cookies. You don't need to debate them, but you should correct them, and the more people who overhear you the better. They aren't living in their own private Idaho, their uninformed and ill-considered 'common sense' is a real threat to you and your family now and for generations to come.<br /><br />Call them on it.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39993930541348766662010-04-06T09:17:19.835-07:002010-04-06T09:17:19.835-07:00Susannah,
If you can do that, where does your all...Susannah,<br /><br /><i>If you can do that, where does your allegiance really lie?</i><br /><br />With the lie, of course. <br /><br /><i>Might more easily and honestly just pitch the whole thing and make your -isms your god.</i><br /><br />Which goes back to my earlier point about light and dark. The Truth is dangerous - to face it and accept it means to try to conform oneself to it, a process that is often difficult and painful. A great many people would rather cling to a lie which allows them to follow their pleasures (and even better if they can claim that their pleasures are sanctioned by scripture) than accept a truth which requires constraint. But since the truth is always there, its messengers (of necessity human and with their own flaws) must be attacked.<br /><br />Same as it ever was.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29861409438256816732010-04-06T07:07:24.545-07:002010-04-06T07:07:24.545-07:00Julie, I think it's more a matter that God'...Julie, I think it's more a matter that God's revelation doesn't conform to their leftist sensibilities. So, out with whatever doesn't agree with them. For some reason, they feel obliged to go through the machinations of "Paul didn't really mean what he actually wrote," or "The red letters have priority over the other letters," but really, as I said, why bother? Might more easily and honestly just pitch the whole thing and make your -isms your god.Susannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381272662339466736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-40016393522330863872010-04-06T06:53:19.805-07:002010-04-06T06:53:19.805-07:00Oh, and it always comes with a nice dose of disdai...Oh, and it always comes with a nice dose of disdain for traditionally orthodox brethren. Constantly, constantly, wagging a finger at the church, while with the other arm embracing people who have nothing but out and out hatred for it, for obvious reasons. <br /><br />What kind of Christian votes for a guy who doesn't even blink at infanticide, believing that he's somehow going to "reduce abortion" with his magical, mystical nation healing powers. If you can do that, where does your allegiance really lie?Susannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381272662339466736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66891478787025342282010-04-06T06:47:10.662-07:002010-04-06T06:47:10.662-07:00"Sadly, lefties think they do know better...&..."Sadly, lefties think they do know better..."<br /><br />That's what bothers me. My left-leaning Christian friends seem to think they can turn it all over in one generation--that they can somehow innovate out of their gut, with no guidelines, essentially ignore (by "interpreting" away) what's fixed in the eternal...and somehow, some way, their freestyle improvisations are supposed to defy reality and bring heaven on earth. Frankly, why bother with the "interpretation" part? Why not just go full leftist? <br /><br />I argue with these people. I shouldn't, I guess. But I figure, esp. in written form, others should be able to witness that one doesn't have to knuckle under to the nonsense.Susannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381272662339466736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-27676423369614349992010-04-06T03:20:56.129-07:002010-04-06T03:20:56.129-07:00Susannah said...
I have a terrible time staying a...Susannah said... <br />I have a terrible time staying away from debate. No, not likely to convince people by being combative...but seeing people who ought to know better unthinkingly swallow pure darkness just irritates the fire out of me."<br /><br />Sadly, lefties think they do know better which is why they always try to impose their own delusions on reality (if they don't flat out deny it) and on us, always with disasterous results.<br /><br />And because they do think they know best, THIS time all their (repeatedly proven) failures will work and reality will bend to their every whim (sarc).<br /><br />Just like the Coyote tryin' to catch the Roadrunner only not as funny or as deep as the Coyote.<br /><br />I cooncur with you and Julie.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-32499766085297135282010-04-06T03:03:30.086-07:002010-04-06T03:03:30.086-07:00One might think of each of the horizontal planes a...One might think of each of the horizontal planes as a kind of operating system one uses to recognize and "read out" the content of O. Each is a discipline, but if you fail to maintain discipline and become a disciple of just one plane, you won't be able to pilot your plane above or below your abstract little errpart. "<br /><br />I find my ayepad seems to help. :^)USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-72877737376879731282010-04-05T18:30:18.213-07:002010-04-05T18:30:18.213-07:00Susannah, I think in the case of the ones who ough...Susannah, I think in the case of the ones who ought to know the problem is less a lack of knowledge and more a lack of will to align the self with the knowledge they already have.<br /><br />It's kind of like with someone who has tried diet after diet after diet, only to inevitably end up each time worse off than when they started. It's not that they don't know how to eat healthily (they may even have amassed as much knowledge about dietary health as the average nutritionist), it's that they're unwilling to implement that knowledge in such a way as to maintain a healthier weight over the long term. <br /><br />With such a person, argument is futile. Mind parasites are at play; they already "know better," but they are also adept at turning the argument around so that they can excuse themselves for any number of reasons from behaving more healthily.<br /><br />For instance, suggesting to a diabetic family member that maybe they should at least try the sugar-free ice cream if they're going to eat it every night just doesn't work. The rationale? The chemicals substituted for the sugar aren't "real food," and might cause some kind of mysterious and unknown harm. Never mind that the short term pleasure of the real stuff is extremely likely to result in the well-known long term pain of cataracts, heart attacks and missing limbs. And untimely death.<br /><br />It's not that they don't know, it's that they've girded themselves so strongly against the reality that they're damn near impervious. I know I still try to reason on occasion, but I also know it's probably futile.<br /><br />Eventually, there comes a point when all you can really do is pray for them while learning from their mistakes.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86954118077916838612010-04-05T17:30:45.438-07:002010-04-05T17:30:45.438-07:00I have a terrible time staying away from debate. ...I have a terrible time staying away from debate. No, not likely to convince people by being combative...but seeing people who *ought to know better* unthinkingly swallow pure darkness just irritates the fire out of me.<br /><br />I need to get away from the "you ought to know better" attitude. But really, anybody who reads the Bible with any seriousness of thought OUGHT to know better when it comes to foundational, principial issues in which it's not just a "matter of interpretation." (I get so tired of that cop-out po-mo answer!) <br /><br />Whereas with people who really have no reason to know better, I tend to try to be more winsome, or just plain silent.Susannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381272662339466736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4943289548607148942010-04-05T17:29:13.916-07:002010-04-05T17:29:13.916-07:00Tigtog said "I am I to understand that you ar...Tigtog said "I am I to understand that you are woman, in a bar, with a short skirt sans skivvies?... Is there some reason your blog name is Smelly?"<br /><br />It's not obvious why?Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-49971475788144291522010-04-05T17:13:01.021-07:002010-04-05T17:13:01.021-07:00To Smelly re:
"Back to the pub, in a short d...To Smelly re:<br /><br />"Back to the pub, in a short dress, knickerless, to get the jollies some other way. G'day."<br /><br />I am I to understand that you are woman, in a bar, with a short skirt sans skivvies? Where might this pub be? Is there some reason your blog name is Smelly?Tigtoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03290914498892961024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-27546325585097985602010-04-05T16:44:55.288-07:002010-04-05T16:44:55.288-07:00Tigtog and James:
For some, debate is a calling, ...Tigtog and James:<br /><br />For some, debate is a calling, and the more acrimonous, the greater the sense that something important is at the heart of it.<br /><br />The habitual debater must be over herself to even get started.<br /><br />Then, with heart and mind no longer prejudiced with the need for any particular outcome, enter the debate.<br /><br />SBT enters into contention for the art of it all, for the acrimony, for the stirring of emotions and thoughts. It is an end unto itself.<br /><br />I have no bombs in my sack today, because the post must contain debatable postitions that are sen to have weak spots. This one does not.<br /><br />Back to the pub, in a short dress, knickerless, to get the jollies some other way. G'day.Smelly O'Dellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-74675977713066418552010-04-05T16:14:14.635-07:002010-04-05T16:14:14.635-07:00To James re:
"I always wanted to be the smar...To James re:<br /><br />"I always wanted to be the smart guy in the room. I am uber Geek, hear me roar! But O is beyond mere rationally. You can't think your way to salvation, nor can you can you contain the Good, the True, and the Beautiful with your mind."<br /><br />Think you are on to something. I always wanted to be right and enjoyed a good argument. I was raised to be a warrior. Now I realize that I may have been intended for other things. I believe being humble is generally being right or at least in the right ballpark. That is not to say I won't mount my steed and charge now and again when riled, but that I may be moving from the infantry to reconnaissance or intelligence. Finding an observation post to assess my surroundings is preferable to slogging it out in the trenches. Its also more fun. <br /><br />Rationality is over rated. In reality, how many arguments have you actually won as compared to how many friends you have lost?Tigtoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03290914498892961024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-35642422466809301202010-04-05T14:44:28.194-07:002010-04-05T14:44:28.194-07:00Krenshaw,
There is no technique, just humilit...Krenshaw,<br /><br /> There is no technique, just humility and prayer. It is simple, but not easy. I don't comment here much anymore because I realized I usually don't have anything meaningful to add. I always wanted to be the smart guy in the room. I am uber Geek, hear me roar! But O is beyond mere rationally. You can't think your way to salvation, nor can you can you contain the Good, the True, and the Beautiful with your mind. Letting go of needing to be right, or appear like the smart guy was a big step for me. It's a funny paradox that only buy giving up Intellectualism, are you able to truly become an intellectual. I hope this helps.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03149296283560293988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14006300667858080822010-04-05T14:15:58.571-07:002010-04-05T14:15:58.571-07:00Van said: ... not as a system which is threatening...Van said: <i>... not as a system which is threatening to supersede capitalism by its actual success as an alternative system of production, but merely as a theory or belief that such an alternative is possible. </i><br /><br />I don't know if Obama is Napolean, but I'm pretty sure George Bush is Snowball.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15658809397535404362010-04-05T14:10:35.959-07:002010-04-05T14:10:35.959-07:00Julie said: So instead, it fixates on that which r...Julie said: <i>So instead, it fixates on that which reveals and reflects the Light (that is, the smaller light of individuals oriented toward the Source; light doesn't come from them, rather it shines through them)</i><br /><br />Which also reminds me that anything the light doesn't shine <i>through</i> casts a shadow. <br /><br />The darkness makes much of the shadows -- "See, you are just like <i>me</i>."mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59629611422066868882010-04-05T13:48:05.778-07:002010-04-05T13:48:05.778-07:00James:
So, you are a DG user. Tell me more about...James:<br /><br />So, you are a DG user. Tell me more about this. <br /><br />Julie: Point taken. The correct road is often the difficult one. The cluebat strikes hard. This brings up the question of the ultimate aim of life.<br /><br />Although ease and pleasure cannot be ultimate goals, nevertheless it is sensible to seek them; to seek pain would be absurd. Pain should be, logically, the side effect of seeking pleasure.<br /><br />It is difficult to parse.Krenshaw Melonheadnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-19589072298253030582010-04-05T12:44:07.089-07:002010-04-05T12:44:07.089-07:00Julie,
"Those whom O loves, O chastises; &qu...Julie,<br /><br />"Those whom O loves, O chastises; "<br /><br />Thanks for the reminder. :-)katzxyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02271736861541089213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-73976873557366375702010-04-05T11:33:30.670-07:002010-04-05T11:33:30.670-07:00Krenshaw,
I used to think I knew something abou...Krenshaw,<br /><br /> I used to think I knew something about everything. Then I thought I knew something about a few things. Now I realize I know nothing. That makes it easier to "fly-by-wire." I don't have as much ego getting in the way. Although it is a struggle to keep silent enough to hear the call.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03149296283560293988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-68699487362107683232010-04-05T10:57:24.800-07:002010-04-05T10:57:24.800-07:00Darkness is attracted to the light.
I wonder if i...<i>Darkness is attracted to the light.</i><br /><br />I wonder if it comes down to a question of possession? What I mean is, Darkness doesn't want anything to do with the Light, which would annihilate it, but at the same time it hungers for it. So instead, it fixates on that which reveals and reflects the Light (that is, the smaller light of individuals oriented toward the Source; light doesn't come <i>from</i> them, rather it shines <i>through</i> them), trying in various ways to contain those gleams within its own darkness - which will always and inevitably fail.<br /><br />Or in a word, I could have just called it envy...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29337183939109287942010-04-05T10:43:27.073-07:002010-04-05T10:43:27.073-07:00Krenshaw, what you describe is essentially (⇅).
H...Krenshaw, what you describe is essentially (⇅).<br /><br />However, you being you I'd add the caveat that just because nonlocal operators are standing by, doesn't mean they all have your best innerest at heart. "If it feels good, do it" is just as foolish in the vertical as in the horizontal.<br /><br />Those whom O loves, O chastises; progress comes as often at the end of a massive cluebat as anything else. If all your guide ever does is ply you with spiritual pleasures, you may want to check what's on offer against some older, wiser references (any of the books at the Raccoon store, for instance. Or simply the Bible, especially the hard parts that sting when you read them). If your experiences don't leave you feeling genuinely humbled, that should be a great, flashing warning sign that you're headed nowhere fast (32' per second per second, if memory serves).juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15255412139291063082010-04-05T10:24:48.431-07:002010-04-05T10:24:48.431-07:00"Darkness is attracted to the light."
A..."Darkness is attracted to the light."<br /><br />And when the light calls it out, it runs. If it's smart. Like a fox.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4995955174911424842010-04-05T10:22:56.442-07:002010-04-05T10:22:56.442-07:00Well, actually, Petey, I thought maybe it was some...Well, actually, Petey, I thought maybe it was something like this:<br /><br />Let’s say the True You is a point that is coated in all these parasites. Or one really big one. However it got there, the “voice” of the TY has been yoinked for what should have been a good voice box. The implanted voice box (the parasites) can only “speak out” three words: ugly, pain, bad – since this is what the True You is experiencing as a result of the yoink. In trying to get away, the TY must bring the ugly, pain, bad with it – because, how else will you know?Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12898860808074477642010-04-05T10:17:09.129-07:002010-04-05T10:17:09.129-07:00Krenshaw said "My suspicions is that human be...Krenshaw said "My suspicions is that human beings can make decisions two ways: independently using programming built up by nature and human intelligence, or utilizing a second "fly-by-wire" direct guidance system from a remote source."<br /><br />I think it's also the leading edge of <a href="http://blogodidact.blogspot.com/2006/08/more-ahh-ha-ha-aha.html" rel="nofollow">Humor and Eureka! moments.</a><br /><br />Gotta be careful though, while it can lead you places, some of those places may be fender benders.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-88826964446664233702010-04-05T10:06:52.688-07:002010-04-05T10:06:52.688-07:00"Obviously, leftism -- or any philosophy that..."Obviously, leftism -- or any philosophy that can trace its lineage to Marx -- is also a horrible operating system, partly because it legitimizes some of the most regretable characteristics of human beings -- both innate and parasitic -- but also because it poses a more or less permanent barrier to obtaining the true operating system (which can only come from the being who created the computer). It warps reality, but even worse, it gradually perverts the person who uses it. "<br /><br />Yep, perverts the person who uses it, who then passes it on like a STD, to the next person. I put up a <a href="http://blogodidact.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-std-socialistically-transmitted.html" rel="nofollow">short comment of a post this morning</a>, and a book I've just started reading, from a fellow named W.H. Malleck, an Englishmen from the turn of the 19th-20th centuries and a favorite of Russell Kirk. He notes from way back in 1908 when he wrote this that,<br /><br /><i>"... Socialism, on the other hand, has risen and spread thus far, not as a system which is threatening to supersede capitalism by its actual success as an alternative system of production, but merely as a theory or belief that such an alternative is possible. Let us take any country or any city we please—<b>for example, let us say Chicago, in which socialism is said to be achieving its most hopeful or most formidable triumphs</b>—and we shall look in vain for a sign that the general productive process has been modified by socialistic principles in any particular whatsoever. Socialism has produced resolutions at endless public meetings; it has produced discontent and strikes; it has hampered production constantly. But socialism has never inaugurated an improved chemical process; it has never bridged an estuary or built an ocean liner; it has never produced or cheapened so much as a lamp or a frying-pan. It is a theory that such things could be accomplished by the practical application of its principles; but, except for the abortive experiments to which I have referred already, it is thus far a theory only, and it is as a theory only that we can examine it..."</i><br /><br />Even way back then Chicago was a center of STD's.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.com