tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post1464863036772070792..comments2024-03-28T02:54:46.537-04:00Comments on The TOF Spot: Bruce Jenner, Rene Descartes, and Stolen ValorTheOFloinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-61447442342799937952015-08-19T09:36:27.287-04:002015-08-19T09:36:27.287-04:00Yoda has the excuse of being a caricature of a Zen...Yoda has the excuse of being a caricature of a Zen master by someone who thinks Buddhism is Christian Science.<br /><br />It's actually the reverse, of course: in Buddhism, matter is only unreal because "spirit" is unreal (Sanskrit "anatman" is cognate with "inanimate"), and India knows metaphysics well enough to know that when you deny formal parts, you ipso facto deny anything "real" about matter.<br /><br />The Mahayana sects, at least, may be interpreted as, so far from being an "atheist religion", a-"everything but God"-ist; they essentially, though they prefer not to put it that way, assert that the Monad is the sole reality, as a way out of the infinite regress atomism always tends toward. And then consider <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Sutra#The_nature_of_the_Buddhas" rel="nofollow">the Lotus Sutra</a> if you'd like to see how well their "but it's totally not the same thing as the Christian God" argument holds up to scrutiny.Sophia's Favoritehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02871625814389904112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-59875170712695909502015-08-13T17:44:49.246-04:002015-08-13T17:44:49.246-04:00Actually, since he lived a long, long time ago, I...Actually, since he lived a long, long time ago, I think it all goes back to Yoda - "Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter."CJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13883761718979175423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-82440805634799395122015-08-13T10:50:58.097-04:002015-08-13T10:50:58.097-04:00Thanks!
Note also the resonance with Eric Voegeli...Thanks!<br /><br />Note also the resonance with Eric Voegelin's <a href="http://watershade.net/ev/ev-spg.html" rel="nofollow"><i>Science, Politics and Gnosticism</i>.</a><br /><br />The prevalence of Marxist polemic in contemporary LGBTQRSUVWXYZ agitation is not merely a case of one movement cynically or opportunistically exploiting the other. Rather, since both movements have the same Gnostic origin, all that has happened is merely, as it were, a transformation of coordinates.<br /><br />I particularly like Voegelin's discussion of the importance of the "prohibition against asking questions". The prophets of the gods of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming enforce this prohibition so severely that I am amazed that anyone claiming to have scientific training can remain untroubled by it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-77545393630676583942015-08-13T10:35:44.533-04:002015-08-13T10:35:44.533-04:00The opinion was delivered jointly by O'Conner,...The opinion was delivered jointly by O'Conner, Kennedy, and Souter -- itself a significant combo -- but yes, Kennedy is given credit for the wordsmithing. I've made suitable modification of the text. TheOFloinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-56938370370164237072015-08-13T09:53:31.778-04:002015-08-13T09:53:31.778-04:00"It all goes back to Plotinus, as you knew it..."It all goes back to Plotinus, as you knew it would," made me laugh. Great article.<br /><br />However, I think the quote you attribute to Sandra Day O'Connor is actually Anthony Kennedy in a more recent ruling. Jessica Carneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07636693197301731087noreply@blogger.com