tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post3463046986378963562..comments2023-06-06T04:11:58.204-07:00Comments on Samuel Scoville: Making the World a Better PlaceSamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comBlogger138125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-30759521508888820452015-01-13T11:18:39.015-08:002015-01-13T11:18:39.015-08:00Except for Jesus who was never wrong: all the rest...Except for Jesus who was never wrong: all the rest,large and small, famous and infamous, published and unpublished, masc or fem. terrorist or conformist--all fall short , are inadequate, insufficient, wrong and damaged and damaging. And so of course accuse-able. Any one can be accused for his inadequace, incompleteness. This makes for a field day for us accusers--satanic: we can point out the shortcomings and errors and wrongs and hypocrisy and fear and envy and desire --hidden hate--and think our selves perceptive and even righteous. .<br /><br />Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-79997795223120826282015-01-13T11:17:35.088-08:002015-01-13T11:17:35.088-08:00Sam, you will be glad to hear, I will leave you no...Sam, you will be glad to hear, I will leave you now. I confess I have a Pavlovian thing going here, but I will break it. <br /><br />Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-19578305075436293682015-01-13T11:17:28.932-08:002015-01-13T11:17:28.932-08:00Except for Jesus who was never wrong: all the rest...Except for Jesus who was never wrong: all the rest,large and small, famous and infamous, published and unpublished, masc or fem. terrorist or conformist--all fall short , are inadequate, insufficient, wrong and damaged and damaging. And so of course accuse-able. Any one can be accused for his inadequace, incompleteness. This makes for a field day for us accusers--satanic: we can point out the shortcomings and errors and wrongs and hypocrisy and fear and envy and desire --hidden hate--and think our selves perceptive and even righteous. .<br />Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-4703273101454340652015-01-13T10:43:57.050-08:002015-01-13T10:43:57.050-08:00But, ah, ya, I forget. It is vocation, sacred voc...But, ah, ya, I forget. It is vocation, sacred vocation, no less. But whatever we do, let's make sure we never look at Jesus, unless we are getting Sam's favorite quote about hating. Everything else is maladroit.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-22291732789921999942015-01-13T10:35:54.600-08:002015-01-13T10:35:54.600-08:00You told Carl you are Satan and hearing voices, an...You told Carl you are Satan and hearing voices, and whatever else. I wasn't in on the conversation. He warns you in the strictest terms to save your soul, and then you print that all over the Internet, over and over again. I have not trusted you ever since with a private communication.<br /><br />You tell me about your wonderful Christian family and pastoral life style in North Carolina, you tell me I am as smart as Flannery O'Connor of whom I have never heard, and then proceed to flog me a fundamentalist for holding and defending Biblical teaching. <br /><br />You engage with Bror and think you have accomplished something for "educing" a "fuck", or "ridiculous". You will mock him for Jesus' circumcision, and think this a meaningful "challenge"?<br /><br />Things are meant to be "play". I said it will turn out to be flippant. You said, no it won't be flippant. It feels flippant, which is problematic already, but the holy Socrates is papering over something else, yet.<br /><br />Jesus may have challenged, but he was not flippant nor manipulative, nor did he fail to reach conclusions, nor did he window dress dyonesian tendencies as leading to a higher appreciation. <br /><br />One day you say to someone: you are gracious, thank you. The next day you scold them the most ungracious, and the lowest life form. This is "challenging" the "sacred"?<br />Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-9244809075580986192015-01-13T10:04:27.436-08:002015-01-13T10:04:27.436-08:00http://www.lisaescott.com/2010/11/15/crazymaking-b...http://www.lisaescott.com/2010/11/15/crazymaking-behavior-narcissistBrigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-13854522734814663552015-01-13T10:04:08.248-08:002015-01-13T10:04:08.248-08:00Challenge is one thing, crazy making is another. ...Challenge is one thing, crazy making is another. Google crazy making.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-80873046777453077752015-01-13T10:02:02.191-08:002015-01-13T10:02:02.191-08:00Did you watch "God is not dead"?Did you watch "God is not dead"?Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-39032057375647270662015-01-13T10:00:57.986-08:002015-01-13T10:00:57.986-08:00Does feeling revolted make you a man or does it di...Does feeling revolted make you a man or does it diminish you? Liking ideas and liking people is not mutually exclusive.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-69804740111888636082015-01-13T09:12:06.375-08:002015-01-13T09:12:06.375-08:00My old man told me people are more important than ...My old man told me people are more important than ideas and I agree but I like ideas better <br />Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-43291928566168586322015-01-13T09:05:09.980-08:002015-01-13T09:05:09.980-08:00The MEDIA is the MESSAGE. Not the message. (Can yo...The MEDIA is the MESSAGE. Not the message. (Can you tell the difference? The relationship?)<br /><br />To students in my classes.<br /><br />You may recall that I sent you pre-school pre-ludic messages in an effort to prepare you of course for my kind of “course.” "Anything sacred must be challenged <br />to the utmost or it will hide untold falsities." (Bill Branyon)<br /><br />Prerequisite to the Beginning of Liberal Art<br /><br />My goal & aim in all classes is to under cut & undermine & confuse the issues, subvert & tangle & twist what might otherwise be measurable out comes, taunt & tweak, mock & ridicule, spank in manners of speaking so that all my students won’t know whether they’re<br />coming or going, selfish or unselfish liberal or conservative, good or evil, motivated or lazy: & down and down we go, round and round we go, loving<br />the din that we spin, the spin that we’re in under that old black magic called liberal art.<br /><br />Did I succeed?<br /><br /><br /><br />IT can’t be forced.<br /><br />Challenge IT to the utmost. Put IT in play. <br />Whatever’s sacred: make profane.<br />Whatever’s profane: make sacred. <br /><br />Other wise: only the sound of one hand clapping.Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-69894710696438077562015-01-13T09:04:40.634-08:002015-01-13T09:04:40.634-08:00I only ever liked you.I only ever liked you.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-15417321065862075232015-01-13T08:44:56.756-08:002015-01-13T08:44:56.756-08:00Yes - and feel revulsion for the non-slack, the ni...Yes - and feel revulsion for the non-slack, the nit pickers, the righteous, exclusive, tight-assed and grim even as they think they cultivate humor and taste and intellect.<br /> Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-76316538630907507422015-01-13T08:42:35.360-08:002015-01-13T08:42:35.360-08:00That was your novel synthesis of the world and chr...That was your novel synthesis of the world and christian teaching?--voila a slack Christian-- you just discovered the way to be!Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-28854719274973898422015-01-13T08:41:01.106-08:002015-01-13T08:41:01.106-08:00The MEDIA is the MESSAGE.
not the message. (Can y...The MEDIA is the MESSAGE.<br />not the message. (Can you tell<br />the difference? The relationship?)<br /><br />To students in my classes.<br /><br />You may recall that I sent you pre-school<br />pre-ludic messages in an effort to prepare<br />you of course for my kind of “course.”<br /><br /> "Anything sacred must be challenged to<br />the utmost or it will hide untold falsities."<br /> (Bill Branyon)<br /><br />Prerequisite to the Beginning of<br /> Liberal Art<br /> <br />My goal & aim in all classes is to under<br />cut & undermine & confuse the issues,<br />subvert & tangle & twist what might<br />otherwise be measurable out comes,<br />taunt & tweak, mock & ridicule, spank<br />in manners of speaking so that all my<br />students won’t know whether they’re<br />coming or going, selfish or unselfish<br />liberal or conservative, good or evil,<br />motivated or lazy: & down and down<br />we go, round and round we go, loving<br />the din that we spin, the spin that we’re <br />in under that old black magic called<br />language<br /><br />Did I succeed?<br /><br /> <br /><br />IT can’t be forced.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Challenge IT to the utmost.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Put IT in play.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Whatever’s sacred: make profane.<br /><br />Whatever’s profane: make sacred. <br /><br /> <br /><br />Other wise: only the sound of one hand<br /><br />clapping.Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-37474038253727988622015-01-13T08:39:54.082-08:002015-01-13T08:39:54.082-08:00You are 80 years old and you did not realize you w...You are 80 years old and you did not realize you were not really a slack Christan?Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-55495445824842454752015-01-13T08:37:50.597-08:002015-01-13T08:37:50.597-08:00"Crazy making" is what Lewis calls it."Crazy making" is what Lewis calls it.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-79023449028863179292015-01-13T08:34:27.138-08:002015-01-13T08:34:27.138-08:00Elenchus to aporiaElenchus to aporiaSamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-5891691159073803792015-01-13T08:33:14.723-08:002015-01-13T08:33:14.723-08:00I'm not a Christian. Most of my life I used to...I'm not a Christian. Most of my life I used to think I was--loose and slack but never the less. But like NP I can't associate with what seems to be Christianity. Kazooing the Messiah, it seems like to me. Revolting. Have to have opposition in order to have dialectic. "Without Contraries is No Progress." What would I argue with if I didn't allow others their point of view?<br />Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-17723401591097849962015-01-13T08:31:04.544-08:002015-01-13T08:31:04.544-08:00You deliberately set out to create a double bind. ...You deliberately set out to create a double bind. It is really a kind of abuse.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-18641403138015572332015-01-13T08:27:36.675-08:002015-01-13T08:27:36.675-08:00Why do you keep picking up Christian conversation ...Why do you keep picking up Christian conversation partners if it is all incomensurate to philosophy and fundamentalism is revolting? Just for your debating and insulting pleasure? Gold's gymn? Because you enjoy hurting? How are you supposed to be a Christian and not defend and believe his words? How do you want a sharp debate that "educes" things but not allow that people have a point of view? <br />Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-33568409214494091412015-01-13T08:27:17.577-08:002015-01-13T08:27:17.577-08:00Except for Jesus who was never wrong: all the rest...Except for Jesus who was never wrong: all the rest,large and small, famous and infamous, published and unpublished, masc or fem. terrorist or conformist--all fall short , are inadequate, insufficient, wrong and damaged and damaging. And so of course accuse-able. Any one can be accused for his inadequace, incompleteness. This makes for a field day for us accusers--satanic: we can point out the shortcomings and errors and wrongs and hypocrisy and fear and envy and desire --hidden hate--and think our selves perceptive and even righteous. . Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-63213952248696267962015-01-13T08:26:42.600-08:002015-01-13T08:26:42.600-08:00Didn't. Plato wins is a silly statement, as is...Didn't. Plato wins is a silly statement, as is Jesus wins. I wasn't even caught up in your censorship concerns.Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-36859459534364788872015-01-13T08:18:34.316-08:002015-01-13T08:18:34.316-08:00Jesus was never wrong. It does make one think.
...Jesus was never wrong. It does make one think. <br />Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-50324490910230470272015-01-13T08:16:35.752-08:002015-01-13T08:16:35.752-08:00How did that relate to "Plato wins", in ...How did that relate to "Plato wins", in relation to censorship?Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.com