tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post2324397875958055814..comments2023-11-03T08:52:13.914+00:00Comments on The Moonshine Memoranda: TOWARDS INFINITY...(A Post In Which Dreamy Baby Can Be Seen To Make A Long-Distance Phone Call)Selena Dreamyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-90790478371208939702008-08-18T07:04:00.000+01:002008-08-18T07:04:00.000+01:00I suppose the source of the problem for the left m...I suppose the source of the problem for the left might lie ultimately in the concept of the 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' (which I believe was Marx's originally). In it, at least in its later application, lies the presumption that ordinary folk will not be able to regulate their own affairs once the capitalists have been shrugged off.<BR/><BR/>It gives ideological justification for a new ruling class for the left, even if in itself it does not mandate either Stalin's or the modern left's differing abuses of their status. What ensures that abuse is human nature unrestrained by a metaphysical conscience that is commonly, if not always, denied by the left.<BR/><BR/>Isnt it the way that so many who have sought to speak 'from above' for the working class ultimately dont trust them....funny in a way.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467412541030183747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-28870399434691685042008-08-17T18:23:00.000+01:002008-08-17T18:23:00.000+01:00Really! How is that a question for me? I am not ...Really! <BR/><BR/>How is that a question for me? I am not a socialist - grubby or otherwise - and I have never been tempted by the idea of standing for Parliament - though I do know many MPs - all Conservatives. Indeed I join you is despising the 'to the manor born' style of such lefties as Diane Abbot and her ilk with their love of private schools for themselves and comprehensives for everyone else, for example. Hypocritical obnoxious and so on.. I am with you an all this..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-36793982169112653782008-08-17T13:42:00.000+01:002008-08-17T13:42:00.000+01:00"The reality is, infinity is not a property of the...<I>"The reality is, infinity is not a property of the universe, but it must logically be a propery of primary relaity, where time and space do not exist, where are everything is both eternal and simultaneous, where everything is unbounded, yet takes place in zero dimensions..."</I><BR/><BR/>... and where the "Minimum is the Maximum!"<BR/><BR/>Thank you for that, Crushed (and thank you,too, if you will, for reading my forthcoming post of that title)!Selena Dreamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-52122604119254495632008-08-17T13:18:00.000+01:002008-08-17T13:18:00.000+01:00Nature is a deep imitator. And as man is the princ...Nature is a deep imitator. And as man is the prince of organisms he is the master of adaptations. He is the artist of suggestions. He himself is his principal work of art.<BR/>What miracle! What triumph! Also , What a disaster!percy stiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01352733097698649041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-53857199338651101012008-08-17T13:06:00.000+01:002008-08-17T13:06:00.000+01:00I have posted on this, a month or so ago, most rec...I have posted on this, a month or so ago, most recently.<BR/><BR/>The problem is actually discussed by Kant, and rests in the fact that mathematics, in reality, is an empirical sceince, not in fact, neccasrily an absolute truth.<BR/><BR/>The reality is there must be an end number, and the relationship of all quantities to eachother, is in fact related to what the ultimate quantity is.<BR/><BR/>The reality is, infinity is not a property of the universe, but it must logically be a propery of primary relaity, where time and space do not exist, where are everything is both eternal and simultaneous, where everything is unbounded, yet takes place in zero dimensions.Crushedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02479751225625007588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-5489843287958861502008-08-17T12:26:00.000+01:002008-08-17T12:26:00.000+01:00“I have always preferred political philosophy as I...<I>“I have always preferred political philosophy as I like to see ideas in action.”</I><BR/><BR/>Fine, Mutley! <BR/><BR/>Then please tell me why grimy, inveterate shop-steward type socialists never have a problem collecting thumping big Westminster perks and salaries, accepting rent-free apartments and a guaranteed seat in the House of Lords? <BR/><BR/>Or is it not, my dear Mutley, the bizarre contradiction between their rabid socialism and their corrupt readiness to renege on its principles that makes active socialism so complex and intriguing?Selena Dreamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-26957011688618895942008-08-16T23:55:00.000+01:002008-08-16T23:55:00.000+01:00Ideas in action...ah yes Mutleydog, if only. You a...Ideas in action...ah yes Mutleydog, if only. You are aware of the modern state of non-ideological play in politics?<BR/><BR/>The line of Marx I do love is when he says that philosphers should want not to understand the world but to change it.<BR/><BR/>But the problem is you can change the world in all kinds of worse ways, change not necessarily being for the better.<BR/><BR/>I reckon Selena's heart is broad and vast and deep, that it could accommodate us both. Though you'd need to ask her this, I guess.<BR/><BR/>Not that I presume at all to be a resident of her heart of course, this being your suggestion.<BR/><BR/>If I could be briefer I would be, but I fear not including relevant detail, you see.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467412541030183747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-48387998287695431632008-08-16T19:56:00.000+01:002008-08-16T19:56:00.000+01:00I think you prefer Johnathan to me as he keeps mak...I think you prefer Johnathan to me as he keeps making long comments and is really clever,<BR/><BR/>To my plus I have always preferred political philosophy as I like to see ideas in action. I have some cheap white wine and 20 Mayfair as well as e-smuggled footage from Georgia of Russians arming an SS21 rocket launcher pointing at Tbilisi... the Archduke moment looms...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-47866131218909956252008-08-16T15:29:00.000+01:002008-08-16T15:29:00.000+01:00'but enough has been said in preceding instalments...'but enough has been said in preceding instalments to show that already across the world - in research laboratories and scientific institutions - a race of “Supermen” is gradually evolving; a race, I am convinced, that can see visions, read riddles, dream dreams, talk to the stars, and even - and it would be disingenuous to avoid the subject - communicate with higher beings...'<BR/><BR/>Are you suggesting that such higher types can only be spawned by an involvement in formal science and its processes?<BR/><BR/>Men have always tried to be better and grander than they are. Their Promethean endeavours to become supermen, or to 'reach God', or to 'be God', to storm heaven etc, etc, blah, blah, though laudable in their intentions regarding the desire to be better and stronger than they have been (and even to escape mortality), fail, I think, because of a lack of balance and self-awareness of humanity's place in the universe, and the true nature of their actually now reigning finitude.<BR/><BR/>I do believe eternity and infinity is our destiny, that we shall become divine. But alas it cannot be on our own mistaken terms..or as it were, on terms that do not work. My opinion anyway.<BR/><BR/>If I might return to Genesis 3. God didn't mind Adam becoming divine (why else would the Tree of Life have been there in the Garden?)...it was the notion of his and Eve's becoming immortal and like a God after learning about the divisive dualism that is Good and Evil that was the problem, as I see it.<BR/><BR/>Hope you have a great Saturday night whatever it is you do at such times. It may be the village local for me again.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467412541030183747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-45232890120060082852008-08-15T18:19:00.000+01:002008-08-15T18:19:00.000+01:00“Which is why to me the current methods of science...<I>“Which is why to me the current methods of science are fine insofar as they restrict themselves to what they clearly thrive at - allowing us to get, sans miraculous powers, the upperhand over matter in functionally useful ways; and yet prove out of their depth when they seek cosmic understanding....”</I><BR/><BR/>...the fulfilment of such an undertaking as getting “the upper hand over matter“, is not, of course, a mere scientific issue, nor the work of a moment. A sense of cosmic enterprise and the prospect of a plurality of potential futures belongs to a surpassing and forward-looking sense of destiny, precisely - as far as the record shows - where the intellectual pride of man would most wish to deploy it. <BR/><BR/>To me, at least, science makes obvious the fact that no other development would be more fitting to men’s superior conception of themselves. I cannot go here into these developments as fully as I should like to, since they will be discussed in subsequent posts, but enough has been said in preceding instalments to show that already across the world - in research laboratories and scientific institutions - a race of “Supermen” is gradually evolving; a race, I am convinced, that can see visions, read riddles, dream dreams, talk to the stars, and even - and it would be disingenuous to avoid the subject - communicate with higher beings...<BR/><BR/>...and thank you for stylistic suggestions, Jonathan, so much appreciated.<BR/><BR/>DreamySelena Dreamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-13661585575520733922008-08-15T16:48:00.000+01:002008-08-15T16:48:00.000+01:00Is there a common source for these saucy pictures?...Is there a common source for these saucy pictures? I wonder if I may like to peruse it as I find them all rather charming.<BR/><BR/>Good post. To me in these realms you can be a lively educator, as well as a stimlulator to reflection. I sense an improvement (ok, my criterea) in your writing in the last months and a clearer directness about what you really want to say. What do you think? Not that you were bad to begin with! (what a devil is implication!).<BR/><BR/>Sometimes I wonder if you could still use a few more shorter sentences to break up and lubricate the rhythm, given the intensity of your content. Just some arbitrary, gratuitous thoughts. But to me you become ever leaner and directer.<BR/><BR/>'One may of course insist that the relevant sciences have yet to be<BR/>born, that methods have not matured, that the inaugural utopian purpose of<BR/>solving the riddle of creation is probably as far removed from fulfilment as<BR/>ever.'<BR/><BR/>Well put if I may say. Which is why to me the current methods of science are fine insofar as they restrict themselves to what they clearly thrive at - allowing us to get, sans miraculous powers, the upperhand over matter in functionally useful ways; and yet prove out of their depth when they seek cosmic understanding.<BR/><BR/>It is a bit as if we presume that the so called 'riddle of creation' set itself up before we invented these methods to be solved only by these methods. Rather the methods only allow the finite mind to do what the finite mind can with finitude...which is alot, I grant, but not everything, and even less with infinitude.<BR/><BR/>'The finite cannot grasp the infinite.'<BR/><BR/>Too right. But does this necessarily also mean that the finite cannot be met by, encounter and experience the infinite? Grasp to me suggests ratiocination for the purposes of knowledge system construction. It is for me but one part of what we are and do, namely the mind. Important for sure, but not all that we are.<BR/><BR/>Greetings from leafiest Suffolk Selena.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467412541030183747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-34941293139147319082008-08-15T12:20:00.000+01:002008-08-15T12:20:00.000+01:00"Are you like the fat lesbian type..."None of me c...<I>"Are you like the fat lesbian type..."</I><BR/><BR/>None of me corresponded to the actual lesbian type, if the test of that is either being fat or physical consummation. <BR/><BR/>Should you, however refer to a dynamic female whose casual attitude to science is newly and desturbingly male, then I would have to say that 65% of my output is either gay or lesbian...Selena Dreamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-33305718424692738602008-08-15T11:15:00.000+01:002008-08-15T11:15:00.000+01:00...well, you were supposed to read the previous on......well, you were supposed to read the previous one, Mutley!Selena Dreamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-46366298526260119122008-08-14T21:23:00.000+01:002008-08-14T21:23:00.000+01:00I think I may give up reading this blog as I cant ...I think I may give up reading this blog as I cant say anything at all....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-91813375089877545782008-08-14T19:32:00.000+01:002008-08-14T19:32:00.000+01:00Are you like the fat lesbian type maybe? I knoe a...Are you like the fat lesbian type maybe? I knoe about directions of travel.. semi ... semi..Mu Tai Donghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14492637882088387333noreply@blogger.com