tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post7012861769682676935..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: In Need Of A Word: A Slightly Skewed RuminationFrancis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-21165024800729145692017-09-09T18:54:21.097-04:002017-09-09T18:54:21.097-04:00You ask, "Why are the laws of the Universe wh...You ask, "Why are the laws of the Universe what they are?"<br />Perhaps, as discussed by religious astrophysicist Hugh Ross in his many YouTube presentations, we would not exist as life. The fine-tuning of hundreds of variables necessary for existence of our Universe and life is mind-boggling. The existence of our planet is also complexly improbable. Ross calls Earth, Improbable Planet, book and YouTube presentations.<br />Revel in his and His revelations.<br /> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01555726542017160201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-25509854938599303202017-09-09T18:05:01.506-04:002017-09-09T18:05:01.506-04:00Fran, you've turned me into a ferret.
Philosop...Fran, you've turned me into a ferret.<br />Philosophy is love of wisdom.<br />Love of knowledge is philology.<br />Between them is the human search for our proper place in living.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01555726542017160201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-47861293992812777862017-09-09T17:14:20.656-04:002017-09-09T17:14:20.656-04:00Regarding your last two questions:
1. Try combinat...Regarding your last two questions:<br />1. Try combinations of all possible actions with all combinations of resources and report back to the rest of us.<br />2. If Who is not included in We, ask Who, not We (us). Who has all the answers; we have 83.7% of all the questions.<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01555726542017160201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-26463784901614780972017-09-06T00:23:19.957-04:002017-09-06T00:23:19.957-04:00When asked such a question, the Zen Master, usuall...When asked such a question, the Zen Master, usually the cook, tends to kick over a jar of water, or some other seemingly unimportant, but highly mundane thing.<br /><br />Maybe "Zen" is the closest to the word you're looking for. Can't say I really understand what it is, though I read many stories in my early spiritual career.<br /><br />The best way I've found to dissipate extreme anger is to break glass. The anger turns into cleaning up the broken glass and is completely gone by the time that task is done.Bill St. Clairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18239727850851239731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-55403339764576641612017-09-05T22:30:50.224-04:002017-09-05T22:30:50.224-04:00Here's a word (neologism): schrodingerkatzen
...Here's a word (neologism): schrodingerkatzen<br /><br />Would that work for you?Reg Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14099612693763932005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-15018529064101561402017-09-04T20:03:46.209-04:002017-09-04T20:03:46.209-04:00Wasn't that the goal of Robert Pirsig's Ze...Wasn't that the goal of Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? DN3https://www.blogger.com/profile/04716010929278480083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-68549293411961354202017-09-04T12:37:31.814-04:002017-09-04T12:37:31.814-04:00Regarding the purpose for the word you seek, consi...Regarding the purpose for the word you seek, consider Brother Theodore's comment, paraphrasing, 'We want to know what's beyond the Beyond, when we still don't know what's behind our Behind.'Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01555726542017160201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-36655136559217653082017-09-04T08:34:17.418-04:002017-09-04T08:34:17.418-04:00Not a word, but a concept. Used in One Hundred Yea...Not a word, but a concept. Used in One Hundred Years of Solitude, among other books/art.<br /><br />Magical Realism - the concept that reality can be created, bent, twisted, re-written, etc. Held by relatively few, IF they have to define it that way. Believed, at an unconscious level, by many, and used, in fact, in their daily lives.<br /><br />Somewhat related to those people in earlier civilizations, who had no way of capturing a memory, outside of their own experiences. Pre-film/video times. <br /><br />Reality could be shifted according to the trusted people who held the collective history in their own memories (aided with use of visual and audio practices to help store memories long-term). Use of rhyme/poetry helped the people fix those memories (or what portion of them was officially accepted).<br /><br />After the invention of printing/literacy for average people, it's no surprise that rebellion became so widespread. For the first time, people had a way to keep their memories intact from degradation or alteration.<br /><br />The same upheavals in political regimes occurred when photography (and, later, video) allowed a fixed memory to be captured and distributed.<br /><br />Unfortunately, with the ability to alter text and pictures, that unalterability can no longer be relied upon. Hence, the rise of Magical Realism in Modern Times.Linda Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15024201252345608291noreply@blogger.com