tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post8874960529696006217..comments2024-03-28T12:10:26.197-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Shedding Metalight on the Subject of SubjectivityGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-16251891797306770602021-04-12T19:33:45.056-07:002021-04-12T19:33:45.056-07:00"It may be obvious to you and me, but we'..."It may be obvious to you and me, but we're weird."<br /><br />Good point. Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85836229471717408272021-04-10T19:52:36.020-07:002021-04-10T19:52:36.020-07:00Of course climate change is real. A warming trend ...Of course climate change is real. A warming trend correlating to people emitting green-house gases has been identified. The warming trend and the causes of same are well-documented and established fact. <br /><br />Climate change deniers are to be counted among the flat-earthers, moon landing conspiracy buffs and election fraud believers; I know there are a few CC deniers who read this blog and oh well. As Tom Petty said, you believe what want you want to believe. <br /><br />But let us move past this irritating disagreement. The authorities are taking matters in hand and all will be well. So it doesn't matter what anyone believes on the subject of climate change. It is handled.<br /><br />Now we must turn our attention to incels. Among the animal kingdom, competition for mates is fierce and usually some dominant male gets exclusive access to all the females and the rest of the males just try to horn in usually to no avail. <br /><br />Now, people don't have to let this happen. The geeky, socially awkward person should be able to go to some government agency and be matched with a suitable mate if they can't find one.<br /><br />I am in a position to lobby for the development of this program and I want everyone's support. <br /><br />-C. Trittellevitz, Social Policy Developer, Barcelona Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57665175001117310342021-04-10T09:04:46.417-07:002021-04-10T09:04:46.417-07:00climate science is such a travesty
The way I’ve d...<i>climate science is such a travesty</i><br /><br />The way I’ve dealt with climate change, easily observable in my forest acreage, which I remember a mere 20 years ago as being over-populated with fat western hemlocks and lush sword ferns, now mostly dead or dying, is to assume that my regions morphing from marine coastal climate to Mediterranean is permanent and that I’ll need to adapt accordingly. Vinca, laurel and holly aren’t as lushy-fat but they’ll do. I like landscaping as much as I do problem solving.<br /><br />They say that the big leaf maples and western red cedars are showing signs of being the next to go. And amongst them as always, those planted into the most stress inducing of situations shall get it first and worst, a dynamic easily observable on my property by the objective eye. But I’m hopeful that I’ll be long gone before any of that happens.<br /><br />Yes, my conservative evangelical BIL has seen the yard. Yet strangely, instead of the ‘scientific curiosity about the root cause for the sake of creative problem-solving ideas’ thing typical of most other doctors I know, he tries to blame it on something I did wrong and gets angry and walks away in a huff if I get anywhere near suggesting climate change. It’s the very same response as when I told him that invading Iraq could be an expensive boondoggle, which it indeed, became.<br /><br />Will the Zuiderzee Works be overtopped? Shall the California firestorms an annual occurrence? Will our really great new border wall be swarmed by heat stroke avoiding latins?<br /><br />To be honest, these things are of little concern to me. What is concerning to me is that faith in Jesus may eventually be taken about as seriously as faith in Sinthgunt. Christianity will become something tribal-fun with clued-in insiders and outcaste outsiders, but never to be taken more seriously than one’s own daily survival concerns.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-88084515718474454232021-04-10T07:41:29.022-07:002021-04-10T07:41:29.022-07:00This post sheds light on what the author calls &qu...This post sheds light on what the author calls "Meta-subjectivity." After finishing the post I grasped the point, that God is a person and is approachable as such. The author noted Godel almost but not quite grasped that. <br /><br />Serious metaphysical thinkers sometimes conclude that God is impersonal, abstract, and absolute. The blog author points out that is not the complete picture. God is all that, but also a Person as well. <br /><br />This two-fold nature of God, the Absolute and the Personal, was understand and taught by sages dwelling on the Brahmaputra river as early as 3500 BC. Jesus proved the fact beyond a shadow of a doubt. And today we are still having to teach that to the overly cerebral masses (thank you Bob). <br /><br />That is because people don't like complicated concepts. And also, the cult of appearance has overtaken us. <br /><br />The single most famous poem of the early 21st century, "Skyrizi," well illustrates the narcissism and worship of physical appearance we have fallen prey to. Witness today the primacy of the human skin as the most important organ, surpassing the brain. And the soul is nowhere evident. <br /><br />And the conclusion: nothing is everything, which means effectively, everything is nothing. This is the Foucault's work reaching full fruition in our time. <br /><br />"Things are getting clearer; I feel free<br />To bare my skin- yes, that's all me<br />Nothing and me go hand in hand; <br />Nothing on my skin- that's my new plan. <br /><br />Nothing is Everything."<br /><br />Weep, raccoons, weep as to where we have collectively ventured. Rage, Rage, against the dying of the light. <br /><br />-X TacyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-62614667849509202052021-04-09T14:52:10.245-07:002021-04-09T14:52:10.245-07:00Or Woo Hoo!, depending on how you look at it, beca...<i>Or Woo Hoo!, depending on how you look at it, because it means that meaning always persists despite our efforts to contain it via form.</i><br /><br />No matter how meaningless something may seem, the very fact that a person participates in it at all renders it meaningful. juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com