tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post6788624177574311153..comments2024-03-19T04:32:18.795+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Life v Reality: The basis of all philosophy and religionBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-33985999755714292292011-11-04T17:40:14.580+00:002011-11-04T17:40:14.580+00:00Life, Reality. Then where is God? Is God a kind of...Life, Reality. Then where is God? Is God a kind of life that creates reality? Well, obviously this cannot be answered rationally..chebeknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-36936004076504025982011-11-02T18:57:15.550+00:002011-11-02T18:57:15.550+00:00Bunny Power has been a given since Bugs, Peter, an...Bunny Power has been a given since Bugs, Peter, and the Easter Dude formed the First Triumverate.joetexxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15111050086795498701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-44567384987748693462011-11-02T05:58:26.988+00:002011-11-02T05:58:26.988+00:00@Crow - being an avid reader of Watership Down, I ...@Crow - being an avid reader of Watership Down, I feel I can guess the kind of rabbit who now rules you.Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-59947726295592461262011-11-02T01:41:28.505+00:002011-11-02T01:41:28.505+00:00Don't worry, Bruce: 'masterful', as yo...Don't worry, Bruce: 'masterful', as you observe, is only an adjective. <br />It is achieved without effort, and so is transparent to the master. <br />Mastery, probably, is all in the eye of the beholder. <br />I have recently been adopted by a rabbit, who strolled in from the woods and set up a sort of benign dictatorship. <br />Three cats and a score of raccoons all flee at his approach. <br />It is a rather small rabbit, and I am unable to detect any manifestation of threat, power, or control.<br /> <br /><i>That's</i> mastery :)The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04323413604073160469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-25344171329449984212011-11-01T14:22:37.460+00:002011-11-01T14:22:37.460+00:00@joetexx - thanks for the comment and compliment -...@joetexx - thanks for the comment and compliment - 'masterful' is the kind of adjective that could go to a man's head...Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-56607995311274390412011-11-01T14:08:30.868+00:002011-11-01T14:08:30.868+00:00'From this metaphysic of Life and Reality; ari...'From this metaphysic of Life and Reality; arise all questions, all philosophy and all religions.'<br /><br />Sounds like Spengler's cosmic symbolism of Space and Time:<br /><br />Space: woman, plant, formal theology, philosophy, science; priest, scholar, theorist, cathedral,<br />styles of art, music, architecture, cosmic destinity, truth<br /><br />Time: man, animal, techniques, crafts, skills, noble, entrepreneur, gambler, castle or peasant home,<br />lived history, fact<br /><br />Spengler unlike most systematic writers preferred Time to Space; Life to Reality.<br /><br />'in history a shrewd blow means more than a shrewd conclusion', <br /><br />'an ethical philosopher of the stripe of Kant is never a"judge of men"'<br /><br />'And so the drama of a high Culture that wondrous world of deities, arts, thoughts, battles, cities closes with the return of the pristine facts of the blood eternal that is one and the same as the ever-circling cosmic flow. The bright imaginative Waking-Being submerges itself into the silent service of Being, as the Chinese and Roman empires tell us. Time triumphs over Space, and it is Time whose inexorable movement embeds the ephemeral incident of the Culture, on this planet, in the incident of Man a form wherein the incident life flows on for a time, while behind it all the streaming horizons of geological and stellar histories pile up in the light-world of our eyes.'<br /><br />curiously enough our post modern intellectual class may be obsessed with Life and disdain Reality<br />but they are determind to force Life into the mold of a rigorous intellectual system.<br /><br />BTW FINISHED THOUGHT PRISON; MASTERFUL.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-16729217157847272882011-11-01T07:28:12.038+00:002011-11-01T07:28:12.038+00:00Well this sure beats talking about the weather.
R...Well this sure beats talking about the weather. <br />Reality is what interests a crow the most. <br />That is what crows are for. <br />Messengers from the one realm, to the other. <br />There is a lot of one-way traffic, lately. <br />And the recipients are rarely home.The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04323413604073160469noreply@blogger.com