tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post916700695345958365..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Get Ready for the Future: It is MartyrGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65191387756580650162007-04-18T15:28:00.000-07:002007-04-18T15:28:00.000-07:00Bob: I couldn't agree more about the victimhood an...Bob: <BR/>I couldn't agree more about the victimhood and nihilism.<BR/><BR/>"Hitler was a victim"<BR/><BR/>Maybe just a small matter in the big picture here, but I think that in the eye of the leftist - he is the only only guy who was not a victim, because he was as an fascist, an "extreme right wing"... <BR/><BR/>They always have a way to turn it around, you know.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-91783251098427683152007-04-18T12:54:00.000-07:002007-04-18T12:54:00.000-07:00Obama my boy, I'm saving that last $100 to flee t...Obama my boy, I'm saving that last $100 to flee the country when you and Hillary have taken the grand prize. But I'll be sure to give you at least that much in free publicity on my blogola.And promise to enjoy every minute of it!Webutantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02909008993551106296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85520157815879018752007-04-18T10:58:00.000-07:002007-04-18T10:58:00.000-07:00As a woman of a "certain age" (old fart and proudl...As a woman of a "certain age" (old fart and proudly so), I can say that (hopefully) tbe pendulum WILL swing back the other way. BUT I don't see it happening soon enough and this nonsense is very wearying, to say the least.<BR/><BR/>Meanwhile, all we can do is demand responsible words and actions where we can and laugh at the other jerks. Laughter is the one weapon that cannot be banned. That and my Glock!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-38570658261076172552007-04-18T09:26:00.000-07:002007-04-18T09:26:00.000-07:00There are none so blind as those that will not see...There are none so blind as those that will not see.I R A Darth Aggiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03580296517949279444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67116734335431131332007-04-18T08:53:00.000-07:002007-04-18T08:53:00.000-07:00Ben,I think if you look closely, the Vertical Myst...Ben,<BR/>I think if you look closely, the Vertical Mysterious Joan of Argghh! casts her reflections in many ways and places.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67050638350395089932007-04-18T08:25:00.000-07:002007-04-18T08:25:00.000-07:00Webutante,So can I count on you then for say, $100...Webutante,<BR/><BR/>So can I count on you then for say, $100?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-35982832614250357812007-04-18T06:50:00.000-07:002007-04-18T06:50:00.000-07:00Yes, yes, Obama. The great white, er, black, er, ...Yes, yes, Obama. The great white, er, black, er, Muslim hope.<BR/><BR/>What candidate better embodies the projections of a society sliding towards relative nihilism than a man who is as undefined and untried as Obama.<BR/><BR/>As yet I can find no principles he stands for (except "hope") and thus he is a man for all emotions and fades.Webutantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02909008993551106296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-78718104780208667972007-04-18T06:47:00.000-07:002007-04-18T06:47:00.000-07:00Joan, I hope you can somehow manage to recover you...Joan, I hope you can somehow manage to recover your lost blogs.<BR/>I didn't know you had a blog. Where is it?USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-82927770057900405722007-04-18T06:11:00.000-07:002007-04-18T06:11:00.000-07:00What if the Beatles were Irish?Just needed a laug...What if the Beatles were <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFjH4ZqwOB4&NR=1" REL="nofollow"> Irish?</A><BR/><BR/>Just needed a laugh today. Blogger has vaporized the blogs I've had since 2003. Sigh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5709937529436219992007-04-18T05:24:00.000-07:002007-04-18T05:24:00.000-07:00Magnus -Thanks for the lead. Amazon listed only 1...Magnus -<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the lead. Amazon listed only 1 used copy of Aslasken's Last Messages. I look forward to reading him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3078637315158916992007-04-18T05:20:00.000-07:002007-04-18T05:20:00.000-07:00Magnus-Thank you for sharing that.I used to be lik...Magnus-<BR/>Thank you for sharing that.<BR/>I used to be like that too. It took me longer to realize it, but thank God I did.<BR/>Those are words of wisdom.<BR/>Well said!USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85587562570390496422007-04-18T04:57:00.000-07:002007-04-18T04:57:00.000-07:00Until I was 15 years old, I had the exact same att...Until I was 15 years old, I had the exact same attitude as the crazed murderer and the emotionaly wounded black girls. (Because their basic attitude is exactly the same, only their choice of weapon differs.) I thought that it was important how others made me feel. My older brother got much amusement out of this, by pushing my butons and watch me get hysterical.<BR/><BR/>Then one day in my grandfather's rocking chair I read a small tract by the Christian mystic (and former naval officer)Elias Aslaksen, where he very simply described how we always have the choice of how to act. What others did to us might inform us about them, but it does not decide what to do next. Only we can decide that. It should have been obvious, and the momet I read it, it was.<BR/><BR/>When my brother returned to push my buttons as usual, he was surprised to find that they no longer worked. Because *I had been the one pushing my buttons all along*. He recovered from that shock well enough and went on to become a psychologist. But my life changed beyond recognition. From being the archetypal bullying victim plotting revenge, I became a free man.<BR/><BR/>It goes beyond left and right or religious or atheist. Until you get this, you are a human larvae, not yet the real thing. Your birthright as a human is free will. Please don't encourage people to stay in their larval stage longer than necessary.Magnus Itlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445902788427523461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84936485644287343372007-04-18T02:22:00.000-07:002007-04-18T02:22:00.000-07:00"Unless, of course, the networks are now proposing..."Unless, of course, the networks are now proposing to apply the Imus standard to all performers, in which case the Grammy Awards will last 10 minutes (Best Liner Notes on a Polka Album and Best Tony Bennett Celebrity Duets CD of the Last Two Months)."<BR/><BR/>Although I have decried the hidden dangers of polka music (see polkabotomy), it pales in comparison with the feminized male version of rap and hip hop (rapabotomy and hip hopabotomy wrapped in envy and bitterness; see- psychopath/sociopath).<BR/><BR/>A shame subculture that is rivalled only by radical jihadists.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-10720322105159290532007-04-18T02:04:00.000-07:002007-04-18T02:04:00.000-07:00"They are not liberals and therefore do not libera..."They are not liberals and therefore do not liberate."<BR/><BR/>True. That's why leftists have to rely on the envy of the "victims" they victimize and enslave.<BR/><BR/>It ain't the "man" keeping the black man down, it's the milquetoast metrosexuals of pacifism and the cruel feminazi femme fatales of perpetual victimization.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3910852009999803942007-04-18T00:54:00.000-07:002007-04-18T00:54:00.000-07:00"When all is said and done, there is only One hope..."When all is said and done, there is only One hope for all this."<BR/><BR/>Obama?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-24515017338296431532007-04-17T21:51:00.000-07:002007-04-17T21:51:00.000-07:00Wonderful, post, Bob.Our slide towards nihilism a...Wonderful, post, Bob.<BR/><BR/>Our slide towards nihilism and victimhood is being exacerbated by the global media, as civilization slides into a huge regression.<BR/><BR/>And it will continue to be characterized by unrealistic calls for laws to protect society from all risks. At the same time relativism will more and more reign as this world darkens.<BR/><BR/>When all is said and done, there is only One hope for all this.Webutantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02909008993551106296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7636638154435731102007-04-17T21:49:00.000-07:002007-04-17T21:49:00.000-07:00"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, ..."For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." Ephesians 6:12<BR/><BR/>But the real story is in the surrounding text - look it up yourself.NoMohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01100042056270224683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66610381597954258692007-04-17T21:27:00.000-07:002007-04-17T21:27:00.000-07:00Tsebring - It isn't just them. There is a whole wo...Tsebring - It isn't just them. There is a whole world of evil watching everything we do. Studying every weakness - preparing. Alliances are being formed against us that seem unimaginable, because the same evil wears a million different faces. Anyone who doesn't think they are coming for us sooner or later, is deluded. We have to build up the fire to keep the wolves away. Right now, the flame is looking pretty dim and the glowing eyes in the dark are closing in.<BR/><BR/>But, on a lighter note - you fill in the blank.NoMohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01100042056270224683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-38518293703972398042007-04-17T21:26:00.000-07:002007-04-17T21:26:00.000-07:00BP - I would say offhand that you've been over-psy...BP - I would say offhand that you've been over-psychologized. <BR/><BR/>In that condition, your judgment calls make sense (but I do not believe they are right.)<BR/><BR/>It is a nasty condition of our culture these days.<BR/><BR/>PS - you don't need to be psychologized to receive or benefit from therapy <I>when it is truly needed.</I>Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-43437468985957032882007-04-17T20:52:00.000-07:002007-04-17T20:52:00.000-07:00Bob, excellent, excellent post. What a great insig...Bob, excellent, excellent post. What a great insight into the awful events of yesterday. Some thoughts of my own:<BR/><BR/>I go back to my previous posting about the orgy of wallowing in grief and "exploring the causes of violence" that followed 9/11, and that one courageous Newsweek writer who called for a renewal of "purple rage" only a day after that event. That article was the only one I could find that broke through the miasma of liberal hand-wringing and pacifist platitudes to express what I was really feeling at that moment, and furthermore, had a perfect right, even an obligation, to feel. This one article was the only one I found that week that gave me permission to be angry and want to kill bin Laden. Unbelievable. As Dennis Prager have pointed out, all this "grief counseling" that is always trumped out when events like this occur, especially at schools, is modern liberal psychology's attempt to play God and play mom and dad, something that they seem determined to prevent the real God and the real mom and dad from doing. It's also an attempt to foster the pacifist notion that its not OK to be angry, because, God forbid, that might make us focus on evil and want to fight it. Well, I say that, if Righteous Anger is good enough for my God, it's good enough for me. I won't let any "grief counselor" tell me how to feel or how to process. That's between me and Him, period. <BR/><BR/>A scary thought: I just wonder if, in some isolated safe house in Pakistan, bin Landen and al Zawahiri are watching all this take place on the international news. Most likely they are. Watching....and taking notes. Taking notes on our weaknesses...sniffing us out, like a stalking wolf...planning to, like Admiral Nimitz in WWII, "hit em where they aint". And right now, "where we aint" is not so much the lax security on our college campuses (though he may be noting that with some interest). I'm speaking of the bigger picture here; our national will to defend ourselves, our ability to see evil as it is, our ability to defend our borders, along with our logistical failures, not only at schools, but in most public places. It all comes down to whether we have the testicles to acknowledge that we are in a war for our survival, and stand up and defend this country, from without and within, or whether we don't. If not, perhaps God needs to allow us to elect Hillary Clinton, and endure 8 years of whatever disasters that brings, to shock us back to reality and re-focus us on what really matters. Problem is, what will be left of us to defend after those 8 awful years? I would much rather hold out prayerful hope that there are enough of us who have not drunk the koolaid to prevent this national surrender that hangs menacing on the horizon. <BR/><BR/>On a lighter note: no one has blamed the enormous northeaster that hit us here in the East on global warming yet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89944326637036920892007-04-17T20:50:00.000-07:002007-04-17T20:50:00.000-07:00Bob,Thanks for another great post. I'm ordering y...Bob,<BR/>Thanks for another great post. I'm ordering your book today.<BR/><BR/>As for Bo Diddley, I've brought him to my theatre twice in three years. He's still one ofthe hardest working men in the music business and always puts on a great show.<BR/><BR/>Doug in AlbertaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22688263798668410702007-04-17T20:34:00.000-07:002007-04-17T20:34:00.000-07:00One of your best thoughts ever, Bob. I do like yo...One of your best thoughts ever, Bob. I do like your work better when it's cutting and serious. Nice stuff and an honor to have you gift it to the worldAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-76852282935325663302007-04-17T19:10:00.000-07:002007-04-17T19:10:00.000-07:00Big Possum, (I suppose Vittles was probably too lo...Big Possum, (I suppose Vittles was probably too long ago & posts too few & far between, to carry that forward)... <BR/><BR/>You are not one I wish to in anyway mock or put down, I'm taking your comment seriously, as well as my response to it. <BR/><BR/>First I've got to discard the group aspect - race, class, gender, whatever. You might feel that's discarding the whole point - which is probably a point of difference between us, I think it is, and must ultimately be seen as, completely irrelevant.<BR/><BR/>Seems to me you are portraying a prime example of the unearned guilt that victimology thrives on. Anybody would be to some degree miffed, angered, indignant at hearing someone publicly describing them in the way that Imus did. How long do they hold onto it? <BR/><BR/>Once the comment is made, do they proceed maturely or immaturely? And which should you encourage?<BR/><BR/> Do they discard such comments as meaningless muck, or indulge in the unpleasantness? Do they seek to behave as an adult, or go with the easy, and easily justifiable, hurt child role? Are they willing to allow the visible willingness of another to indulge them, as permission to wallow in the feelings of insult further?<BR/><BR/>And how responsible is it to foster or encourage an immature response, no matter how much justification there may be for it?<BR/><BR/>Would I be more likely to take offense on hearing an insult from someone I'd believed had hurt or insulted me before, over say a foolish acquaintance? Perhaps. Would I let any of my kids get away with wallowing in such easy sense of offendedness? Not at all. I'd be more severe with my oldest, less so with the youngest – and quite harsh with an adult. To allow someone to continue, or worse grow up, believing that such self indulgent behavior is acceptable, healthy or justifiable, is I think irresponsible and misguided at best.<BR/><BR/>Is that unfeeling? No, not at all - it is simply not mistaking sympathy for help or healing. Thinking further down their lives on your response to the situation - what do you think giving such comfort will lead to? Rebounding from the insult, or feeling it ever and ever more deeply?<BR/><BR/>No one is served well by providing fertile grounds for such feelings of offense to take root. Not the offended party, not the one trying to provide them with richer soil for it to develop in. What kind of crop will such a harvest reap if nurtured and brought in? I think we can look around us and see it. It's not a nourishing fruit. It's a weed and it's killing the garden that everyone depends on for their and their families lives.<BR/><BR/>This isn't any justification for Imus or any other slimer who speaks or thinks in such a way - either in person, on the radio or in their albums. They should all be rebuked and discarded. But far more damage is done by letting their poison remain, not to mention actively cultivating its affects.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9914396388352693492007-04-17T18:31:00.000-07:002007-04-17T18:31:00.000-07:00Don't forget to check out the Coony Tunes in the s...Don't forget to check out the Coony Tunes in the sidebar. I'll be adding and deleting songs every day. You might just hear something that will change your life, like Dearest Darling, by sensei Bo Diddley, master of time and space.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22335424306799721092007-04-17T18:15:00.000-07:002007-04-17T18:15:00.000-07:00Mr. gagdad bob,A couple of weeks ago I became acqu...Mr. gagdad bob,<BR/><BR/>A couple of weeks ago I became acquainted with your blog. Now I am drawn to it like a moth to a flame. Thank you for your daily words of wisdom and spiritual insight. <BR/><BR/>Your thoughts on the Virginia Tech murders were a patch of clear blue in an otherwise dark and dreary sky. I refer not to my state of mind, but to our society’s tragic “slide” into nihilism, as you call it.<BR/><BR/>By way of introduction, I am an old coot (not coon). However, I have decided to read your book sooner rather than later, which at my age is a hell of a compliment. (Frankly, up till now, I’ve had more in common with squirrels than coons, but that's neither here nor there.)<BR/><BR/>At any rate, being an old non-coon is probably the reason why I wasn’t injured in any manner, temporary or permanent, psychic or otherwise, by the mass murders at Virginia Tech. Therefore, I’m not in need of any healing, either by means of a mass convocation or a personal session of grief-therapy. <BR/><BR/>Is that wrong or insensitive or me?<BR/><BR/>Any how, I’ve lived through murders like this before and expect to survive more of the same before I crack my last nut. For heaven’s sake, the MSM is behaving as if senseless, horrifying murder is a singular event in our society. On the contrary, every day in this once great nation kids are killing kids, either actually on the streets of our cities or virtually in our home theaters and computers. Few presidents make plans to hold convocations to begin the healing process from these terrible tragedies. <BR/><BR/>I’ve heard a group of parents of some of the murdered Virginia Tech students have called for the university president to be fired. It seems he (or his campus police chief) wasn’t Godlike-enough (i.e., omnificent-enough, omniscient-enough, omnipresent-enough and omnipotent-enough) to erase misfortune and evil from these parents’ pristine experience (not to mention the worlds of their slaughtered children). <BR/><BR/>Oh well, a few firings and a few lawsuits and a plethora of public apologies seem to make all wounds – psychic or otherwise – heal nicely nowadays in modern America. <BR/><BR/>Sorry, I didn't mean to sound cynical, crotchety or unfeeling in my introductory post. My sympathies really do go out to the friends and relatives of the murdered students and faculty -- just not to the entire Virginia Tech student and faculty population.<BR/><BR/>(For the record, the only healing I’m counting on is His mercy. Hopefully, our one, true God will see to it that we Americans get it rather than “what we deserve.”)<BR/><BR/>Hello and farewell,<BR/><BR/>Sherman (Mr. Peabody’s pet boy)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com