tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post8657395566640392708..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: The Inverted Parody of God's CreationGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-79542352822149641802017-03-02T10:58:00.772-08:002017-03-02T10:58:00.772-08:00“If nothing else, I guess we learned why this blog...“If nothing else, I guess we learned why this blog will never be popular.”<br /><br />As we know, all of the advent-ures of the cosmic bus appeals to a small -- and reactionary -- demographic!<br /><br />Recall this report about Annie Dillard: <i>A reporter once interviewed Annie Dillard over the phone: "You write so much about Eskimos in your book" she said, "How come there are so many Eskimos?" Dillard said: "The spare artcic landscape suggested the soul's emptying itself in readiness for the incursions of the divine." There was a pause. At last the reporter said: "I don't think my editor will go for that.”</i>Mizz Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02325435271880036807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53397972298041105682017-03-02T10:43:02.260-08:002017-03-02T10:43:02.260-08:00Chris said "...Pure Absolute/ Relative Absolu...Chris said "...Pure Absolute/ Relative Absolute maps onto the Eastern Orthodox Essence/ Energy distinction?"<br /><br />Brings to mind an interesting assertion I heard a while back, about the generational cycle between East and West. There's an idea that goes back in some sense to the Romans, and can be (carefully) traced in operation from their time to ours, that there's an apprx 80 yr generational cycle that oscillates from aspects of individualism to collectivism, and back. I've no idea what basis they have for this additional comment, but someone who's supportive of that cycle theory, said that the East tends to be always in the opposing point of that cycle, to the West. Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52149803975697094282017-03-02T10:03:08.255-08:002017-03-02T10:03:08.255-08:00It's interesting that some schools of Tibetan ...It's interesting that some schools of Tibetan Buddhism talk about essence/energy/nature. Sort of a trinity in regards to manifestation that fits in with the distinction in Eastern Orthodoxy. Of course, this should not come of so strange since there was probably some cross pollination between religions during history.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-82574600046896537522017-03-02T09:24:51.408-08:002017-03-02T09:24:51.408-08:00Or passible and impassible, rather.Or passible and impassible, rather.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84236854410310628082017-03-02T09:23:55.401-08:002017-03-02T09:23:55.401-08:00I do indeed. Also perhaps the passable vs. impass...I do indeed. Also perhaps the passable vs. impassable God.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9629089762724804972017-03-02T09:06:27.329-08:002017-03-02T09:06:27.329-08:00Hi Bob,
You were discussing the principle of &qu...Hi Bob,<br /><br /><br />You were discussing the principle of "beyond-being"- do you think that Schuon's (Advaitan) Pure Absolute/ Relative Absolute maps onto the Eastern Orthodox Essence/ Energy distinction?<br /><br />Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04865413665629644313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89013438337359855272017-03-02T08:58:37.369-08:002017-03-02T08:58:37.369-08:00"If nothing else, I guess we learned why this..."If nothing else, I guess we learned why this blog will never be popular."<br /><br />Thank God. To imagine otherwise, would be like imagining pyramids with no tips. There's no having a Toppermost of the poppermost, without there being fewer at the top, than the bottom. Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-82297544642133423232017-03-01T13:10:33.481-08:002017-03-01T13:10:33.481-08:00For a while, the Nothing will feel "free,&quo...<i>For a while, the Nothing will feel "free," but this is because it necessarily begins closer to God. </i> <br /><br />So now Bob has me reading “Nihilism” again and wishing I could be the fly on the wall as he and Fr Seraphim discuss ideas. From the book, a simple sentence summarizes a lot about freedom and choice, and how the adamant choice of so many becomes so great an error (“misuse” -- what a mild word for go horrible a destiny!).<br /><br />“He has created the world that it might live in enjoyment of Him, and everything in the world is oriented toward this end, which however men may miss by a misuse of their freedom.“ (p24)garyeurekahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05624923563231964117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90693533101844274432017-03-01T09:54:27.167-08:002017-03-01T09:54:27.167-08:00Envy and pride tend to go together. It may start ...Envy and pride tend to go together. It may start with covetousness, but I can wish that I had my neighbors's truck without thinking that he ought to give it to me. It's when I start thinking that I deserve his truck because I'm really better than he is that we arrive at the sad state of society today. <br /><br />Even sadder, perhaps, is that pride comes these days, not from competence and achievement but from how much of a victim we can paint ourselves. I actually got called a "cis white male" in an exchange last week. My facts and experiences were thereby rendered invalid as I have no victim credits.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-80052100631087166442017-02-28T17:56:27.867-08:002017-02-28T17:56:27.867-08:00I think envy may be as destructive as pride. At a...I think envy may be as destructive as pride. At any rate, both are central to the left.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51370267092169523682017-02-28T17:53:22.186-08:002017-02-28T17:53:22.186-08:00we may gain an insight into why the godless left &...<i>we may gain an insight into why the godless left "creates" -- which is to say, destroys.</i><br /><br />In “Genesis, Creation and Early Man”, Fr Seraphim Rose responds to a student (p 488): <br /><br />“But man is going to get that which the devil lost, that is, Paradise and heaven. And that is why, to this day, the devil is just plain <i>angry</i>. Then there is this other being who is lower than you, who is not worth even spitting on, and he is going to get that which you lost. Of course, you are going to be terribly <i>envious</i> because there is no repentance for you. You are going to be trying every possible way to get him in the same state you are in.”<br /><br />Anger and envy are the ancient evil pillars, being revealed daily as the standard operating procedure of the destroying, inviting spirit of the left.<br />garyeurekahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05624923563231964117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36740149205050169542017-02-28T11:51:33.944-08:002017-02-28T11:51:33.944-08:001John 1:5. Here is the message we heard him give. ...1John 1:5. Here is the message we heard him give. GOD IS LIGHT. And not the faintest shadow of darkness can exist in him.<br /><br />Nothing in John's characterization limits God's freedom, or decreases our freedom to choose darkness. Don Colacho! Not to speak of God is idiotic. "Every knee should bow."swiftonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00532818697764708659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71594180806820913272017-02-28T10:50:38.345-08:002017-02-28T10:50:38.345-08:00Which reminds me of something that brings us back ...<i>Which reminds me of something that brings us back to the main subject, the evil of the left.</i><br /><br />Along those lines, I saw a video last week of the opening of a town hall meeting in Louisiana. It seems this particular township always begins the meetings with prayer - a fact the left cannot abide. Half the people in the room erupted into hissing, shrieking, actual cries of "praise Lucifer," howls of indignation... you'd think an exorcism had been threatened. <br /><br />Evil reveals its true face in such displays.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7071622236641346912017-02-28T10:31:53.397-08:002017-02-28T10:31:53.397-08:00If nothing else, I guess we learned why this blog ...<i>If nothing else, I guess we learned why this blog will never be popular.</i><br /><br />I think that speaks to the nature of man, too.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.com