tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post4742308440975814581..comments2023-09-15T08:07:28.542-06:00Comments on Western Hero: "Why has the GOP become the freedom party?"Silverfiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-66345585187817634862012-10-26T05:25:08.624-06:002012-10-26T05:25:08.624-06:00I still have that headache. Eternal contentiousnes...I still have that headache. Eternal contentiousness induces great pain.<br /><br />(:-xFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-57589030066840481482012-10-25T20:28:49.464-06:002012-10-25T20:28:49.464-06:00Lame Ducky, but then I knew you had nothing all al...Lame Ducky, but then I knew you had nothing all along.<br /><br />The louder they quack, the emptier the argument.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-73401430219561660822012-10-25T16:36:42.104-06:002012-10-25T16:36:42.104-06:00@Silverfiddle --- On her statements I feature here...@Silverfiddle --- On her statements I feature here, she is absolutely and demonstrably correct, and I agree with her completely.<br />----------<br />Oh-oh, that's Beulah the Buzzer announcing right wing nonsense. Let's look at her brilliant analysis.<br /><br />1. The first is simple opinion. Repeating the a variation of the "mainstream media" silly. This is hardly obvious to anyone but the rabies radio fringe.<br /><br />2. What health care models has this lamer run? Has she factored out the insurance company vigorish (Obummer hasn't), factored in less expensive delivery, better preventative care? Just what models has she run. <br />The huge volume of the health care dollar is spent in the last two years of life (generally low quality of life). Is she ready to discuss that like an adult or is she going to defend Sarah the Pole Dancer?<br /><br />3. She scolds liberals. BFD, I scold ugly short women. Now were are we.<br />She doesn't even show that she knows the difference between the delivery and the insurance systems. Absolute cheese from someone who isn't that strong in her own field and definitely someone who i trying to punch outside her weight.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-39137290360766965442012-10-25T14:42:02.407-06:002012-10-25T14:42:02.407-06:00Chill, FT. ;)<a href="http://farmersletters.blogspot.com/2012/10/metaphysical-sorcery.html" rel="nofollow">Chill</a>, FT. ;)-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-26091640203437802172012-10-25T14:33:35.898-06:002012-10-25T14:33:35.898-06:00Minutiae!
Minutiae!
Minutiae!
"Straining...Minutiae! <br /><br />Minutiae! <br /><br />Minutiae!<br /><br />"Straining out gnats while swallowing camels" makes for piss poor occupation.<br /><br />Worse, it gives me a headache.<br /><br />(:-xFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-62681639418637855972012-10-25T14:31:52.689-06:002012-10-25T14:31:52.689-06:00(cont) Such was the age of Cronos, and the age of ...(cont) <i>Such was the age of Cronos, and the age of Zeus is our own. Tell me, which is the happier of the two? Or rather, shall I tell you that the happiness of these children of Cronos must have depended on how they used their time? If having boundless leisure, and the power of discoursing not only with one another but with the animals, they had employed these advantages with a view to philosophy, gathering from every nature some addition to their store of knowledge;—or again, if they had merely eaten and drunk, and told stories to one another, and to the beasts;—in either case, I say, there would be no difficulty in answering the question. But as nobody knows which they did, the question must remain unanswered. And here is the point of my tale. In the fulness of time, when the earthborn men had all passed away, the ruler of the universe let go the helm, and became a spectator; and destiny and natural impulse swayed the world. At the same instant all the inferior deities gave up their hold; the whole universe rebounded, and there was a great earthquake, and utter ruin of all manner of animals. After a while the tumult ceased, and the universal creature settled down in his accustomed course, having authority over all other creatures, and following the instructions of his God and Father, at first more precisely, afterwards with less exactness. The reason of the falling off was the disengagement of a former chaos; 'a muddy vesture of decay' was a part of his original nature, out of which he was brought by his Creator, under whose immediate guidance, while he remained in that former cycle, the evil was minimized and the good increased to the utmost. And in the beginning of the new cycle all was well enough, but as time went on, discord entered in; at length the good was minimized and the evil everywhere diffused, and there was a danger of universal ruin. Then the Creator, seeing the world in great straits, and fearing that chaos and infinity would come again, in his tender care again placed himself at the helm and restored order, and made the world immortal and imperishable. Once more the cycle of life and generation was reversed; the infants grew into young men, and the young men became greyheaded; no longer did the animals spring out of the earth; as the whole world was now lord of its own progress, so the parts were to be self-created and self-nourished. At first the case of men was very helpless and pitiable; for they were alone among the wild beasts, and had to carry on the struggle for existence without arts or knowledge, and had no food, and did not know how to get any. That was the time when Prometheus brought them fire, Hephaestus and Athene taught them arts, and other gods gave them seeds and plants. Out of these human life was framed; for mankind were left to themselves, and ordered their own ways, living, like the universe, in one cycle after one manner, and in another cycle after another manner. </i>-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-3507425393145252332012-10-25T14:31:42.802-06:002012-10-25T14:31:42.802-06:00Jowett summary of Plato's "Statesman"...Jowett summary of Plato's "Statesman"<br /><br /><i>There was a time when God directed the revolutions of the world, but at the completion of a certain cycle he let go; and the world, by a necessity of its nature, turned back, and went round the other way. For divine things alone are unchangeable; but the earth and heavens, although endowed with many glories, have a body, and are therefore liable to perturbation. In the case of the world, the perturbation is very slight, and amounts only to a reversal of motion. For the lord of moving things is alone self-moved; neither can piety allow that he goes at one time in one direction and at another time in another; or that God has given the universe opposite motions; or that there are two gods, one turning it in one direction, another in another. But the truth is, that there are two cycles of the world, and in one of them it is governed by an immediate Providence, and receives life and immortality, and in the other is let go again, and has a reverse action during infinite ages. This new action is spontaneous, and is due to exquisite perfection of balance, to the vast size of the universe, and to the smallness of the pivot upon which it turns. All changes in the heaven affect the animal world, and this being the greatest of them, is most destructive to men and animals. At the beginning of the cycle before our own very few of them had survived; and on these a mighty change passed. For their life was reversed like the motion of the world, and first of all coming to a stand then quickly returned to youth and beauty. The white locks of the aged became black; the cheeks of the bearded man were restored to their youth and fineness; the young men grew softer and smaller, and, being reduced to the condition of children in mind as well as body, began to vanish away; and the bodies of those who had died by violence, in a few moments underwent a parallel change and disappeared. In that cycle of existence there was no such thing as the procreation of animals from one another, but they were born of the earth, and of this our ancestors, who came into being immediately after the end of the last cycle and at the beginning of this, have preserved the recollection. Such traditions are often now unduly discredited, and yet they may be proved by internal evidence. For observe how consistent the narrative is; as the old returned to youth, so the dead returned to life; the wheel of their existence having been reversed, they rose again from the earth: a few only were reserved by God for another destiny. Such was the origin of the earthborn men.<br /><br />'And is this cycle, of which you are speaking, the reign of Cronos, or our present state of existence?' No, Socrates, that blessed and spontaneous life belongs not to this, but to the previous state, in which God was the governor of the whole world, and other gods subject to him ruled over parts of the world, as is still the case in certain places. They were shepherds of men and animals, each of them sufficing for those of whom he had the care. And there was no violence among them, or war, or devouring of one another. Their life was spontaneous, because in those days God ruled over man; and he was to man what man is now to the animals. Under his government there were no estates, or private possessions, or families; but the earth produced a sufficiency of all things, and men were born out of the earth, having no traditions of the past; and as the temperature of the seasons was mild, they took no thought for raiment, and had no beds, but lived and dwelt in the open air.</i>-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-7543646567433495932012-10-25T14:22:32.771-06:002012-10-25T14:22:32.771-06:00Smith and Marx may be the poles, but America and ...Smith and Marx may be the poles, but America and Saudi Arabia ain't the same snake. One's a cobra, the other a ball python.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-22338769923778847752012-10-25T14:19:34.359-06:002012-10-25T14:19:34.359-06:00Now, just why do you support the major thesis of h...<i>Now, just why do you support the major thesis of her writing.</i><br /><br />You're committing a logical fallacy, Ducky.<br /><br />Just because someone may be wrong on one issue doesn't make her wrong on all issues.<br /><br />On her statements I feature here, she is absolutely and demonstrably correct, and I agree with her completely.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-61576570351212172212012-10-25T14:13:47.215-06:002012-10-25T14:13:47.215-06:00Let Godard be auteur today, and Scorcese, tomorrow...Let Godard be auteur today, and Scorcese, tomorrow. Don't force them to direct this film by consensus-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-7158963698443855012012-10-25T14:09:29.340-06:002012-10-25T14:09:29.340-06:00...not BEST resort....not BEST resort.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-19705386163324701072012-10-25T14:09:12.056-06:002012-10-25T14:09:12.056-06:00Keep throwing dates and nuts into the audience to ...Keep throwing dates and nuts into the audience to "win the Palm", and the standards for judging your play will likely change to suit the tastes of your audience, the combined "consensus" opinion becoming the defacto "arbiter "of LAST resort.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-47844796900534296732012-10-25T13:54:25.855-06:002012-10-25T13:54:25.855-06:00Father,
How many poles would he have you spin on?...<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUd5E32G4nw" rel="nofollow">Father</a>,<br /><br />How many poles would he have you spin on?-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-34517393826926063612012-10-25T13:50:46.492-06:002012-10-25T13:50:46.492-06:00Coeus, we hardly knew ye!<a href="http://www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanKoios.html" rel="nofollow">Coeus</a>, we hardly knew ye!-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-31597072425174594712012-10-25T13:47:52.239-06:002012-10-25T13:47:52.239-06:00Good and Evil, duckman.
Not Good, Bad AND Evil.
...Good and Evil, duckman.<br /><br />Not Good, Bad AND Evil.<br /><br />a single binary.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-52579870957297060192012-10-25T13:46:28.116-06:002012-10-25T13:46:28.116-06:00Silverfiddle, folks like yourself and z (and mysel...<i>Silverfiddle, folks like yourself and z (and myself also) are dismayed about the overt vulgar sexualization of the culture.</i><br /><br />The man who built Fishtown inside Belmont now regrets that Fishtown's bathos is becoming Belmont's pathos?<br /><br />lol!-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-16983593659914460242012-10-25T13:42:46.356-06:002012-10-25T13:42:46.356-06:00But what if they are the same snake, Farmer?But what if they are the same snake, Farmer?Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-46528171192768084622012-10-25T13:40:35.646-06:002012-10-25T13:40:35.646-06:00Stop trying to convince America of it's need t...Stop trying to convince America of it's need to go on the wagon.<br /><br />You want to join the temperance union? Do it in Saudi Arabia.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-5152747506800301352012-10-25T13:39:40.313-06:002012-10-25T13:39:40.313-06:00Silverfiddle, folks like yourself and z (and mysel...Silverfiddle, folks like yourself and z (and myself also) are dismayed about the overt vulgar sexualization of the culture.<br /><br />That change has had no greater champion than Paglia. Now, just why do you support the major thesis of her writing.<br /><br />She did a competent essay on "The Birds" but anything poor Hitch put on the screen that was longer than it was wide was phallic. The women has a serious blind side.<br /><br />But like z (and unlike Farmer) I can't get a response.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-74391500646673868982012-10-25T13:37:15.251-06:002012-10-25T13:37:15.251-06:00ie - Shakespeare, "Hamlet" (Act I Sc IV)...ie - Shakespeare, "Hamlet" (Act I Sc IV)<br /><br /><i><b>HAMLET</b><br /><br /> The king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse,<br /> Keeps wassail, and the swaggering up-spring reels;<br /> And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down,<br /> The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out<br /> The triumph of his pledge.<br /><br /><b>HORATIO</b><br /><br /> Is it a custom?<br /><br /><b>HAMLET</b><br /><br /> Ay, marry, is't:<br /> But to my mind, though I am native here<br /> And to the manner born, it is a custom<br /> More honour'd in the breach than the observance.<br /> This heavy-headed revel east and west<br /> Makes us traduced and tax'd of other nations:<br /> They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase<br /> Soil our addition; and indeed it takes<br /> From our achievements, though perform'd at height,<br /> The pith and marrow of our attribute.<br /> So, oft it chances in particular men,<br /> That for some vicious mole of nature in them,<br /> As, in their birth--wherein they are not guilty,<br /> Since nature cannot choose his origin--<br /> By the o'ergrowth of some complexion,<br /> Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason,<br /> Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens<br /> The form of plausive manners, that these men,<br /> Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,<br /> Being nature's livery, or fortune's star,--<br /> Their virtues else--be they as pure as grace,<br /> As infinite as man may undergo--<br /> Shall in the general censure take corruption<br /> From that particular fault: the dram of eale<br /> Doth all the noble substance of a doubt<br /> To his own scandal.<br /><br /><b>HORATIO</b><br /><br /> Look, my lord, it comes!</i><br /><br /> Enter Ghost<br />-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-8015836253330233642012-10-25T13:06:27.932-06:002012-10-25T13:06:27.932-06:00One tragic comedy is enough for ANY man's life...One <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/art/masks/images/mask01.jpg" rel="nofollow">tragic comedy</a> is enough for ANY man's lifetime.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-46528547513727584072012-10-25T13:03:00.894-06:002012-10-25T13:03:00.894-06:00The
paradox (binary) is a GREAT tool for thinking...The <br /><a href="http://farmersletters.blogspot.com/2012/10/if-some-frail-tubercular-lady-circus.html" rel="nofollow">paradox</a> (binary) is a GREAT tool for thinking, duckman, but a lousy one for living. You want to live in "interesting" times? Move to China.<br />-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-21659301699310311792012-10-25T13:00:36.575-06:002012-10-25T13:00:36.575-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-11788768745046831442012-10-25T12:48:13.112-06:002012-10-25T12:48:13.112-06:00Why is it in error to move away from a system of s...<i>Why is it in error to move away from a system of strict binaries?</i><br /><br />Because it isn't really. Deleuze/ Guattari Anti-Oedipus isn't a move away from strict binarties, it's a substitution of a "single" binary for "multiple" binaries. And the only way to <a href="http://farmersletters.blogspot.com/2012/10/richard-lindner-boy-with-machine-1954.html" rel="nofollow">free the boy</a> is to give him a SINGLE body w/o organs.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/s/images/snake_carav.medusa.lg.jpg" rel="nofollow">Medusa</a>, we hardly knew ya. Put <a href="http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/Images/109images/greek_archaic_classical/parthenon/Ath_parth_mod_recon.jpg" rel="nofollow">ONE snake</a> behind Pallas' shield. But ya GOTS ta CHOOSE one!<br /><br />If ya don't like the snake you've got, by all means MOVE to a country that protects the snake (binary) you favour.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-58456633219617295882012-10-25T12:31:43.305-06:002012-10-25T12:31:43.305-06:00And Ducky, like all the other people you bash and ...And Ducky, like all the other people you bash and trash, Paglia has produced intelligent and entertaining writing, unlike you.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.com