tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post8868949333651096519..comments2024-03-29T06:03:45.545-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: The Axis of Evol... utionGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1219939633832516412015-11-29T12:45:48.994-08:002015-11-29T12:45:48.994-08:00Since this is the first Sunday of Advent, for Chri...Since this is the first Sunday of Advent, for Christmas music I really enjoy this album by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wishing-This-Leigh-Nash/dp/B01152TIN6/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1448829761&sr=8-6&keywords=leigh+nash" rel="nofollow">Leigh Nash</a>. She has such a sweet voice, and while I don't know a ton of her songs she's one of the few female singers today who comes across as neither jaded, bitter, nor skanky. Don't think she qualifies as bubblegum pop, but I find her delightful.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-19705169696216342702015-11-29T10:43:50.927-08:002015-11-29T10:43:50.927-08:00I love Sturgill Simpson's Turtles All the Way ...I love Sturgill Simpson's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gBV-Nzq7Pg" rel="nofollow">Turtles All the Way Down</a>.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-31771634471248774262015-11-26T15:12:52.714-08:002015-11-26T15:12:52.714-08:00Hey, I know the Milk Carton Kids. One of them sin...Hey, I know the Milk Carton Kids. One of them since he was like seven years old. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-78510520020199908642015-11-26T12:53:42.477-08:002015-11-26T12:53:42.477-08:00There is a ton of great music being made today, in...There is a ton of great music being made today, in spite of the wildly popular nonsense-The Wood Brothers, Sturgill Simpson, Gillian Welch, The Milk Carton Kids, Old Crow Medicine Show, Fred Eaglesmith, etcJohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08797912120688482383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-21153430762745672012015-11-26T11:09:50.947-08:002015-11-26T11:09:50.947-08:00Thanks! It's been a fun project, and I really ...Thanks! It's been a fun project, and I really hope people enjoy it. Never thought I'd learn so much about old Jerusalem and Herod the Great :)juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-24750465815477804872015-11-26T10:55:12.141-08:002015-11-26T10:55:12.141-08:00Julie, that is fantastic! I'll buy the book fo...Julie, that is fantastic! I'll buy the book for Tristan and a few friends. Congratulations! Leslie Godwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11794375005614166921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-49321163681948284802015-11-26T09:55:52.703-08:002015-11-26T09:55:52.703-08:00Speaking of people with little talent engaging in ...Speaking of people with little talent engaging in digital artwork, God willing I'll have <a href="https://juliecork.wordpress.com/2015/11/26/coming-soon/" rel="nofollow">a book coming out</a> on Amazon within the next few days, just as soon as my town allows that I can use my computer to make money from my living room.<br /><br />Just in case anyone knows some young kids (say, ages 3 to 9) that might like a nice non-secular Christmas story...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20604853772820464792015-11-26T09:35:33.163-08:002015-11-26T09:35:33.163-08:00Agreed. I have to think at least some of that is d...Agreed. I have to think at least some of that is due to technological advances; what is popular depends less and less on musical ability, and more and more on the lowest common appeal. And behind it all, a skilled IT guy. Same is true for art.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-88321723741240197462015-11-26T08:58:48.463-08:002015-11-26T08:58:48.463-08:00But so too is the fall from Elvis or Jerry Lee to ...But so too is the fall from Elvis or Jerry Lee to Justin Bieber.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-80195982093730003902015-11-26T08:57:51.412-08:002015-11-26T08:57:51.412-08:00The fall from Mavis Staples to Beyonce or whoever ...The fall from Mavis Staples to Beyonce or whoever is more or less infinite. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-11850314175209813472015-11-26T08:56:09.691-08:002015-11-26T08:56:09.691-08:00Seriously, in my opinion, black music in all its f...Seriously, in my opinion, black music in all its forms from 1925 to 1975 is America's greatest contribution to world art. So, what happened to cause all the subhuman music that's come out since then? It's like cultural genocide. <br /><br />I suppose all culture has regressed. It's just that black culture is the leading edge of the deterioration.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8307236680634078852015-11-26T08:49:33.695-08:002015-11-26T08:49:33.695-08:00Another phenomenal reissue is Northern Soul Odysse...Another phenomenal reissue is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JYDGJHM?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B00JYDGJHM&linkCode=xm2&tag=onecos-20" rel="nofollow">Northern Soul Odyssey</a>, which contains 222 tracks of classic soul music. I've listened to seven of the eight CDs, and so far there is hardly a weak track. Which is amazing, because I thought I'd heard everything, and I'd heard none of these before. Unfortunately, it just goes to show the unbelievably prolific flowering of black genius before the left destroyed their culture and put them back on the plantation. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-47470590699675035422015-11-26T08:38:44.561-08:002015-11-26T08:38:44.561-08:00Yes, ultimate reality is not a thing but a relatio...Yes, ultimate reality is not a thing but a relationship, a communication, a process.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-24341387770285516942015-11-26T08:37:50.742-08:002015-11-26T08:37:50.742-08:00Speaking of complementarity, Faith and Grace by th...Speaking of complementarity, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015FWTAOO?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B015FWTAOO&linkCode=xm2&tag=onecos-20" rel="nofollow">Faith and Grace</a> by the Staple Singers will definitely be in my top ten reissues of 2015. Music straight from where the soul of man never dies.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41980592905162442222015-11-26T08:37:40.907-08:002015-11-26T08:37:40.907-08:00I'm reminded of how frequently some bit of cos...I'm reminded of how frequently some bit of cosmic Wordplay is actually reflected in scientific discovery. For instance, how in the beginning was the Word, and how at the quantum level that's exactly what everything is: information, or rather, the Word.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15278425024482429872015-11-26T08:31:10.100-08:002015-11-26T08:31:10.100-08:00Can I buy some pot from you?Can I buy some pot from you?Pintonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2675480456652431352015-11-26T08:30:51.334-08:002015-11-26T08:30:51.334-08:00In order to exist at all, everything must be deplo...In order to exist at all, everything must be deployed in time. That's where evolution comes from. It's just the order of time: nonlocal space temporalized or something. Maybe on earth space is temporalized, whereas in heaven time is spatialized. Isn't that one of the attractions of dreams, i.e., time spatialized? Same with painting, I suppose, whereas music is space temporalized. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-27801795779510708432015-11-26T08:22:41.852-08:002015-11-26T08:22:41.852-08:00It's like the quest has no external 'objec...It's like the quest has no external 'object,' but is reality itself becoming luminous for its movement from the ineffable, through the Cosmos, to the ineffable or something.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46161336178445713872015-11-26T08:20:39.899-08:002015-11-26T08:20:39.899-08:00Note also that it is not either/or right or left b...Note also that it is not either/or right or left brain. In reality they function stereoscopically, like the eyes, to engender a deeper experience reality. So we shouldn't look at the world scientifically or religiously, but religio-scientifically. One hemisphere's vision is grist for the other. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48023732511343100692015-11-26T08:17:20.910-08:002015-11-26T08:17:20.910-08:00There are so many fruitful ways to look at this qu...There are so many fruitful ways to look at this question. For example, thanks to science we know we have right and left cerebral hemispheres which process and experience the world in very different -- complementary -- ways. Furthermore, just as the right can never be contained by the left, religion can never be contained by science. Indeed, if anything, it is the other way around. Scientism does not "speak" to the right brain, so, to the extent that it does speak to this or that man, it's because that man is only half a man. Or less. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29538343617629201122015-11-26T08:09:42.928-08:002015-11-26T08:09:42.928-08:00Just as there can be no future human world without...Just as there can be no future human world without art, because without art we wouldn't be human. Art is like a personal myth while myth is like collective art. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9513962592442826592015-11-26T08:07:16.006-08:002015-11-26T08:07:16.006-08:00And no, there is no mythless future world, since m...And no, there is no mythless future world, since myth articulates things that are over the subjective horizon and inaccessible to any other mode of contact or communication. With some exceptions, like God's energies -- grace -- which come from the same place. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14873715681399749722015-11-26T08:05:04.513-08:002015-11-26T08:05:04.513-08:00Dougie:
Complementarity, my boy. For the Raccoon...Dougie:<br /><br />Complementarity, my boy. For the Raccoon it is rarely either/or, but both/and. Science and religion aren't only not at odds, but mutually illuminating. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-49957765726390725252015-11-26T05:07:26.636-08:002015-11-26T05:07:26.636-08:00It occurred to me this morning the reason there co...It occurred to me this morning the reason there could be no merely human version of collective development: at some point, in order to call a group properly evolved, as it were, every individual within the community would literally have to be a saint. <br /><br />The only place I know of that meets that description is on the other side of the veil.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9334328746856357572015-11-26T03:26:06.973-08:002015-11-26T03:26:06.973-08:00Not so fast, Dougie. Evolution goes all the way-my...Not so fast, Dougie. Evolution goes all the way-myths evolved; religion evolved; language evolved. So, for science to truly be science, it needs to accept that these universals must have an adaptive role, and therefore are as important as science itself. If not, it's a bit like an auto maker asking language not to exist.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08797912120688482383noreply@blogger.com