tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post9064134557724024851..comments2024-03-29T06:03:45.545-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: One Nation Divided by GodGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30352780817642469562016-08-05T13:30:40.920-07:002016-08-05T13:30:40.920-07:00"Not for nothing did Dante reserve the lowest..."Not for nothing did Dante reserve the lowest circles of Hell for fraud and treachery."<br /><br />And homosexuality, if memory serves, because they violate their God-given nature.mainemannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37092549949954718242016-08-05T10:15:09.028-07:002016-08-05T10:15:09.028-07:00Not for nothing did Dante reserve the lowest circl...Not for nothing did Dante reserve the lowest circles of Hell for fraud and treachery.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-47108024402387858832016-08-05T10:08:35.812-07:002016-08-05T10:08:35.812-07:00Gagdad said "That's why I take stupid ove...Gagdad said "That's why I take stupid over evil."<br /><br />Stupid,greedy and/or brutal, over Evil. Every time. Borrowing from C.S. Lewis, the thugs lusts can be sated, Evil's never will; and evil is unlimited in the lengths of brutality and cruelty it will resort to. Evil will eventually pass that point where the brute would blush and cower.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-19451851439477689302016-08-05T10:02:56.779-07:002016-08-05T10:02:56.779-07:00John Wright offers an outstanding summary of the p...John Wright offers an outstanding summary of the phenomenon in his Restless Heart of Darkness posts:<br />http://www.scifiwright.com/2014/01/the-restless-heart-of-darkness-part-one/<br /><br />Fr. Seraphim Roses's "Nihilism" is also excellent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-76195757968426983662016-08-05T08:53:50.833-07:002016-08-05T08:53:50.833-07:00It is increasingly clear that the answer to "...It is increasingly clear that the answer to "Who do you say that I Am?" is the crux of all. (Or, "What do you want?" We are about to get just that.) Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-80926348443305252302016-08-05T08:48:58.509-07:002016-08-05T08:48:58.509-07:00That's why I take stupid over evil. Evil is p...That's why I take stupid over evil. Evil is predictable, but with stupid you never know. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-61905183322944401512016-08-05T08:47:51.580-07:002016-08-05T08:47:51.580-07:00"Seriously, you have children, right? Do you ..."Seriously, you have children, right? Do you really think you would be doing what's best for them by giving Trump access to the nuclear codes and all the other powers of government? You really think Hillary Clinton would be worse than that? Honestly?"<br /><br />Under Hillary, things are going to continue to get worse.<br /><br />Under Trump, there is chance things will get better. However, there is a significant chance that things could get much worse more quickly than anything Hillary would do.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66660951996025382932016-08-05T08:30:05.538-07:002016-08-05T08:30:05.538-07:00A double appeal to authority -- the New York Times...A double appeal to authority -- the New York Times <i>and</i> a Hillary supporter who supports Hillary. The case is closed!Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-69930842872012062522016-08-05T08:26:56.928-07:002016-08-05T08:26:56.928-07:00http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/opinion/campaign...http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/opinion/campaign-stops/i-ran-the-cia-now-im-endorsing-hillary-clinton.html?mwrsm=FacebookAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-49750679017896379392016-08-05T06:27:47.003-07:002016-08-05T06:27:47.003-07:00See here: http://thelifeofjulia.com/
This was Oba...See here: <a href="http://thelifeofjulia.com/" rel="nofollow">http://thelifeofjulia.com/</a><br /><br />This was Obama's fictional woman/ ward and wife of the state, trotted out during the last election.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-80035013111418813552016-08-05T06:11:57.286-07:002016-08-05T06:11:57.286-07:00"Recall the infamous Julia of the liberal ima..."Recall the infamous Julia of the liberal imagination, who, at every vital stage of life, was married to the state. They don't consider that pathetic, but rather, the ideal."<br />-Who is this Julia? Is this a "1984" reference?BZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08890124310041399087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-60055380782221387242016-08-05T06:01:51.236-07:002016-08-05T06:01:51.236-07:00Ephrem Antony Gray said "Not voting isn't...Ephrem Antony Gray said "Not voting isn't checking out of society - it's simply admitting the political property they keep subdividing and handing down to the kids is pretty worthless, and not just because it's such a tiny fraction, but because the thing it represents has become so debased."<br /><br />Yehhh Riv... B.S., or at least that's B.S. in the general election. The Primaries are where you support and vote for the candidate you think best represents your ideals and would be best for the office. That's where your preferences and opinions matter.<br /><br />In the General election though, it isn't about you, at all. It is about who will obtain political power over you and your locale, state, nation. That isn't a choice that your feelings matter a damn in, it's a choice that you have a moral duty to, if not help elect the candidate that would use that power best, then to oppose the one who would do the most harm with that power, via casting your vote in the column of the candidate most able to keep the greater threat from office.<br /><br />There is vast difference between kings, tyrants, thugs who might seek power over what you do, and pro-regressive marxist fiends who want nothing more than to get their filthy fingers into your soul and cleanse you of the thoughts you think.<br /><br />There's a choice to be made in this election, and anyone who doesn't make it should take special note of what Kurt pointed out above:<br /><br /><i>"...I couple this with a verse Revelations 21:8 that lists those who will receive the 'second death' in the lake of fire at the end of days. You know who is first on the list? The cowardly. I was not expecting that at all...."</i>Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-79987061034786784892016-08-05T05:51:28.829-07:002016-08-05T05:51:28.829-07:00Riffing on a couple tones here, I put up a too hur...Riffing on a couple tones here, I put up a <a href="http://blogodidact.blogspot.com/2016/08/if-youre-saying-i-am-done-ive-gotta-ask.html" rel="nofollow">too hurried anti-rant, rant post</a>, after our state primary Tuesday, tired of the "I. Am. Done." crowd, and two points seem to relate,<br /><br /><i>"...If you are whining about America being lost, and tearfully asking<br />'How do we come back from this?!'<br />, the answer - if you are actually interested in it - is a simple one:<br />When we again become a people who strive to be a nation of moral, self governing individuals, capable of living lives worth living in society with others, under the Rule of Law - not to achieve order, but to seek Justice (and wise enough to know that order will follow from that, secondarily)<br />, then, and only then, will we be a nation of Americans again...."</i><br /><br />, and,<br /><br /><i>"...I don't know if our, my, America will 'win' out again in the popular sense, but I do know this, if we do, eventually it will be lost again - that's the reality of human life and the nature of being human. But here's a more important reality: Success isn't the justification for attempting to succeed, and if you think it is, you are a fool. Failure, loss, eventually, is far more likely and assured, but again: guaranteed results are not the point... realizing and striving for the best, as best you are able, is.<br /><br />As the line goes from George Washington's favorite play, Cato, goes:<br /> "’Tis not in mortals to command success,<br /> But we’ll do more, Sempronius; we’ll deserve it."<br /><br />If you think that guarantees are possible or what you should be striving for... you've already failed...."</i>Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86716255214409407682016-08-05T05:16:07.965-07:002016-08-05T05:16:07.965-07:00"More generally, you can divide conservatives..."More generally, you can divide conservatives into two camps. There are those of us who see the left as quite manifestly evil, and those who think they are just dealing with different ideas about which it is possible to negotiate. Note that, unlike the left, I do not say the people holding the views are necessarily evil. Rather, it is the ideology that is evil, and when the ideology hijacks the personality, the person helps bring about evil despite the "best of intentions.""<br /><br />Yep on both counts, well said. <br /><br />Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-32034586124921740352016-08-04T20:35:50.655-07:002016-08-04T20:35:50.655-07:00As Eliot said, there is no such thing as a lost ca...As Eliot said, there is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause.<br /><br />And this book I'm reading on Complexity is a helpful reminder that no plan ever survives contact with reality, and that the future cannot be extrapolated from current trends. <br /><br />Who knows. It might be helpful for the left to be in charge when their whole shithouse goes up in flames. Let the catastrophe happen. Only then will people wake up.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-38412290938952127932016-08-04T20:20:04.632-07:002016-08-04T20:20:04.632-07:00Of some comfort, I suppose, are James Madison'...Of some comfort, I suppose, are James Madison's words in the Federalist Papers, 'A bad cause never fails to defeat itself.' As an ideology unhinged from reality moves ever further into insanity (it has nowhere else to move, after all...) the movement inevitably fractures and begins to devour itself. Stalin's purges killed mostly other communists, as did Mao's multiple cultural revolutions and internal back stabbings. The multiple victim groups that make up the Progressive left will eventually reach a point where they will turn upon each other as they grab for power and the diminishing spoils of a once great nation.<br /><br />But how many innocents will be harmed in their defeat? <br /><br />Some measures are clearly dictated by prudence at this point: some extra food and water, a temporary power source, and, of course, the means to defend one's family and property. Maybe we will never need these things, but the political, social and economic conditions only seem to be getting worse...four years of the Hillary in the Whitehouse? Yeah, that'll really help...Kurthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01750808052006968358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20254590090414889362016-08-04T20:14:37.456-07:002016-08-04T20:14:37.456-07:00Ah, Carlyle in a prominent position in that pictur...Ah, Carlyle in a prominent position in that picture. Crossed out, that's some serious counter-signaling.Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-82818544801175712922016-08-04T19:56:44.710-07:002016-08-04T19:56:44.710-07:00Here, attending to some important lodge business.<a href="http://www.myretroflix.com/tv/honeymooners/ShowPictureTV.asp?ID=51" rel="nofollow">Here</a>, attending to some important lodge business.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-6406269486971425072016-08-04T19:51:52.877-07:002016-08-04T19:51:52.877-07:00And at least one of them was a Raccoon. And at least one of them was a Raccoon. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20241314677442543132016-08-04T19:50:46.306-07:002016-08-04T19:50:46.306-07:00Feynman certainly does sound like Norton. Both he ...Feynman certainly does sound like Norton. Both he and Art Carney were born in the NYC area and both in 1918.katzxyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02271736861541089213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4566630922212176842016-08-04T19:50:04.490-07:002016-08-04T19:50:04.490-07:00That's deconstruction -- words refer only to o...That's deconstruction -- words refer only to other words, in a closed circle of tenure.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90767917461616218692016-08-04T19:40:10.297-07:002016-08-04T19:40:10.297-07:00Not voting isn't checking out of society - it&...Not voting isn't checking out of society - it's simply admitting the political property they keep subdividing and handing down to the kids is pretty worthless, and not just because it's such a tiny fraction, but because the thing it represents has become so debased.<br /><br />The William Irwin quote is reminiscent of the order of symbols - that of 'simulation' (the final debased state) - nothing points to anything at all but itself, and is, although similar in some respects to the real, not directly connected with it at all. There's even a poem for it: <br /><br />http://ionthesky.blogspot.com/2014/06/correspondence.html<br /><br />The passage from each level of order is similar to Fr. Rose's <i>Nihilism</i> - the order of progression of cultural states.Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2566550488540597162016-08-04T18:56:40.267-07:002016-08-04T18:56:40.267-07:00He sounds a lot like Ed Norton.He sounds a lot like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6D-oBK6EIg" rel="nofollow">Ed Norton</a>.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26581466282250171612016-08-04T18:52:44.830-07:002016-08-04T18:52:44.830-07:00Imagine if climate scientists obeyed Feynman's...Imagine if climate scientists obeyed Feynman's simple rule: if your model doesn't predict reality, then your model is wrong.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48081814143523147142016-08-04T18:48:29.735-07:002016-08-04T18:48:29.735-07:00The question every leftist asks himself: sure, it...The question every leftist asks himself: sure, it works in reality, but does it work in theory?Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.com