tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post8908170997331284927..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: One + Many = ThreeGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-6266926839546105352011-12-15T06:54:26.206-08:002011-12-15T06:54:26.206-08:00via Joan's link "The story begins in 1934...via Joan's link <i>"The story begins in 1934, when a breeder asked the Reich <br />Forestry Office, then led by future top Hitler aide Hermann Göring, for permission to release the masked-faced mammals to "enrich the local fauna" outside Kassel, a small city north of Frankfurt."</i><br /><br />It was the beginning of the end, and the rest is history.<br /><br />This concludes this episode of "Little known facts of how history <i>really</i> unfolds!"Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39972153670830054262011-12-15T04:56:46.280-08:002011-12-15T04:56:46.280-08:00Because there's a cool raccoon pic there, and ...Because there's a cool raccoon pic there, <a href="http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,1390574,00.html" rel="nofollow">and not because they're Nazi raccoons.</a><br /><br />*waves to everyone*<br /><br />Now, back to work.<br /><br />wv: gud <i>mortin</i> everybody!Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-64894242385380041632011-12-14T19:39:41.758-08:002011-12-14T19:39:41.758-08:00...for the latter, it is the logos which is respon...<i>...for the latter, it is the logos which is responsible for both intelligence and intelligibility -- which are two sides of this same Word.</i><br /><br />That's true. <br /><br />Tradition is good. It's really good enough for most people -- probably more than good enough. It's like a boat that will get you across the ocean, and it's pretty handy if you want to dive from it as well.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-72943057285073098462011-12-14T13:34:46.826-08:002011-12-14T13:34:46.826-08:00“As we know, the early Fathers were influenced by ...“As we know, the early Fathers were influenced by Platonism and neo-Platonism, while the scholastics brought in Aristotle. Up to that point, philosophy was far more unified than it is today. Not to exaggerate, but prior to Kant, one could discern a kind of linear path of philosophical development. “<br /><br />Very true, and not only a linear path, but a shared goal – to discover the truth and discern wisdom – after kant, the only answer to whether you could say what was true, was ‘I kant say’.<br /><br />“ Nowadaze -- or so we are asked to believe -- there is no philosophical unity, just a multitude of unprovable opinions. In such a timid and confused climate, it is no wonder that a bloodless scientism is able to carry the day. It is as if these people -- like New York Times readers -- are capable of trusting no source of information above the lowest and most coarse.”<br /><br />And the specifically deny that Truth is even a goal, leaving the ‘old method’ for discovering it, Reason, as only a tool for being a tool and getting your way, <a href="http://blogodidact.blogspot.com/2011/07/importance-of-being-in-earnest-or-of.html" rel="nofollow">right or wrong, any way you can</a>Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-92027879125907294652011-12-14T11:44:27.345-08:002011-12-14T11:44:27.345-08:00Dusting off a haiku from Robinstarfish for the Fea...Dusting off a haiku from Robinstarfish for the Feast Day of St. John of the Cross<br /><br /><i>advent-ure sailing <br />closer to the world's bright edge <br />dark night full of soul</i><br /><br />And offering up Something really One.der.ful . . .<br /><b><i>Dark Night of the Soul,</i> John of the Cross's poem, sung in French</b>. . . <br /><a href="http://veareflejos.tumblr.com/post/14224024861" rel="nofollow">Listen</a>Mizz Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02325435271880036807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-116540606460637542011-12-14T10:48:58.595-08:002011-12-14T10:48:58.595-08:00Ok, lemme see if I'm getting this.
If you thi...Ok, lemme see if I'm getting this.<br /><br />If you think of Logos=word+reason as something lifeless, is your tweaking it to language+creativity bringing life to word+reason? I mean,it takes an intelligence to make language out of words. Is that intelligence the "Three"?John Lienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15607964922479543670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20644824131105747052011-12-14T09:36:55.895-08:002011-12-14T09:36:55.895-08:00What if we tweak that formulation a little, and in...<i>What if we tweak that formulation a little, and instead trancelight the two -- word and reason -- as language and creativity, which automatically and continuously create three?</i><br /><br />Yes, I think you're right about that.<br /><br /><i>"religion is among the data of experience which philosophy must weave into its own scheme"</i><br /><br />Not only philosophy, but science as well, if it is to be any kind of science at all. Especially among those who work not only with biology, but with the human subject in particular; the atheistic among them love to try to write religion off as some kind of evolutionary throwback, convinced that with intellectual growth and greater understanding of how the brain functions, people should just stop believing in Something, and instead embrace Nothing. The <i>a priori</i> assumption being that religion was a tool of evolution, and that it couldn't possibly be the other way around.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com