tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post3589597586331518163..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: "Nae hauf-way hoose" - life at the right extremeBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-2633861473612000982021-11-02T01:50:00.902+00:002021-11-02T01:50:00.902+00:00Even a drop of sewage into a glass of wine makes t...Even a drop of sewage into a glass of wine makes the entire glass a glass of sewage. So is it with lies, they contaminate allStephen Murrayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09224830867251899458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-71889342309188120872021-10-19T17:37:50.023+01:002021-10-19T17:37:50.023+01:00@JG - People don't care what is true - not eno...@JG - People don't care what is true - not enough to be inconvenienced by truth; and this is a rooted habit. <br /><br />On top of this is this weird incapacity to hold two contradictory statements or actions in the mind simultaneously and compare them. The past (like the day before yesterday) goes down the memory hole. This is so striking and near-universal as to seem like a mass dementia. <br /><br />It may partly be a product of the thinking/ living style imposed by the mass media, but seems to go much deeper. Even face to face, most people seem to switch off or blank out when faced by the gross contradictions of the 'normal'. <br /><br />Much is, I think, due to a combination of the inability to understand evil combined with the refusal to consider evil to be motivating the major policies of the world, and collaborated-with by almost everyone (whether they are personally nasty or nice).<br /> Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-59245720319634175662021-10-19T16:45:24.457+01:002021-10-19T16:45:24.457+01:00Glad you extrapolated on this. You're really g...Glad you extrapolated on this. You're really good at wrangling a slippery topic to a refined, upright & stable position. The somewhere in the "Middle Path" (the path most taken, though the middle is so broad that there is a wide spectrum within it so most don't see it as: ordinary) is the path of comfortable, palatable lies (fake context) intermingled w some true principles. Like Truman in the Truman Show (a decent enough person in a total fiction). Today's "respectable" path does not disturb the delusions of others. That may well be its entire criteria! (Replete w modern,zingless axioms like, "You do you, I'll do me" etc.) You'll be generally well-liked as a lying middleman who simply let's others enjoy their own lies. It is conceit that keeps us there. But as the world dissolves & the middle turns more & more to mush, the only buoy is the extremity of full truth. It does call up the implications of pre-determination/pre-destination for me. Although I cannot verify pre-destination under a microscope, I'm seeing the different natures, desires and encoding of people manifest blatantly before me. People literally DON'T CARE about what is true. I cannot fathom that orientation. Could we be fundamentally different, by God's own purposes?jana gatienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01341290730621953185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-47977363599691960272021-10-17T12:04:44.598+01:002021-10-17T12:04:44.598+01:00@Brief - "God, Truth, Goodness and Beauty are...@Brief - "God, Truth, Goodness and Beauty are not in their own right extreme" - Not in their own right; but they are at an extreme in today's spectrum of opinion. . Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-76543142628829150302021-10-17T11:10:27.661+01:002021-10-17T11:10:27.661+01:00God, Truth, Goodness and Beauty are not in their o...God, Truth, Goodness and Beauty are not in their own right extreme unless we fill each of these concepts with fallen worldly ideas that are the extreme opposites of other fallen worldly ideas like materialistic, leftist, mainstream secularism. God is infinite, He cannot be extreme to anything, otherwise it would imply God is no greater than His extreme opposite, ie, Satan. Brief Outlineshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18153534581115253885noreply@blogger.com