tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post3209551982135846150..comments2024-03-28T13:10:44.555-04:00Comments on Iliocentrism: We must first harrow. Then may we sow.Ilíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-3999536370539057182010-02-03T06:38:10.765-05:002010-02-03T06:38:10.765-05:00AWA: "Offhand, what do you recall from the ed...<b>AWA:</b> "<i>Offhand, what do you recall from the educational system teaching you about being disrespectful to parents/authority figures?</i>"<br /><br />Well, you have to keep in mind that school was a long time ago for me (I'm 52).<br /><br />Also, the indoctrination tended to be subtle (subtle works best); I think most of the indoctrination was not done consciously. That is, Ilíonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-53167629062132545542010-01-31T14:58:59.145-05:002010-01-31T14:58:59.145-05:00Offhand, what do you recall from the educational s...Offhand, what do you recall from the educational system teaching you about being disrespectful to parents/authority figures?kh123https://www.blogger.com/profile/15230935976084971917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-37940138962227871972010-01-31T14:52:12.401-05:002010-01-31T14:52:12.401-05:00"To which I say: indeed. I noticed this as a ...<i>"To which I say: indeed. I noticed this as a child in the public schools; I noticed and understood that I was being indoctrinated to hate and despise my own parents."</i><br /><br />See what tolerance the Dewey post-modern educational tradition has for anything that doesn't fit <i>its</i> own framework? <i>"How could you raise or teach your children on Talmudi... I mean, *kh123https://www.blogger.com/profile/15230935976084971917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-75558761662718373682010-01-29T20:13:41.559-05:002010-01-29T20:13:41.559-05:00A comment that disagreed with Kristor's essay ...A comment that disagreed with Kristor's essay apparently, which was interesting:<br /><br /><i>"Genuine Gnosticism, I believe, arises when the God of the Covenant (Christian, Jewish or even Muslim--the Shi'a) is seen to have broken the Covenant and is rejected as an imposter, a low demiurge who keeps the world in ignorance. The true God is then posited as radically transcendent, kh123https://www.blogger.com/profile/15230935976084971917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-19051902667888575472010-01-29T02:01:17.315-05:002010-01-29T02:01:17.315-05:00I couldn't have said it better, but i share yo...I couldn't have said it better, but i share your dislike and contempt of avatar, nice graphics, but not much else.MathewKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14385674205383405783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-353190015943628172010-01-29T01:02:20.576-05:002010-01-29T01:02:20.576-05:00On the original site, 'Gintas' comments:
&...On the original site, 'Gintas' comments:<br />"<i>There's something that Kristor doesn't mention explicitly, although it suffuses his essay. The disenchantment we find isn't something we just discover at adolescence--we are helped along into it by most of our culture, the schools especially. Disenchantment is a way of life right from birth. And we are told that the Ilíonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-25085224779856718302010-01-29T00:53:33.765-05:002010-01-29T00:53:33.765-05:00AWA: "Always great how those who reject the t...<b>AWA:</b> "<i>Always great how those who reject the theistic understanding of "good" never get around to ditching their reflexive reaction to perceived "evils" - real, imagined, or misconstrued.</i>"<br /><br />The "Problem of Evil" (also called the "Problem of Pain") is really rather jejune. The *real* problem to be explained is the reality ofIlíonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-45435270455164408092010-01-28T22:53:58.944-05:002010-01-28T22:53:58.944-05:00Almost a St. Dawquinus, referencing pitiless logic...Almost a <i>St. Dawquinus</i>, referencing pitiless logic of the world via the theistic understanding of.<br /><br />This was a good read - a Shakespearian way of describing why the West is "slouching towards Gomorrah". <br /><br /><i>"Finally, he rejects the limit of form: he rejects formality in art, dress, sex, work, politics, worship, diction, comportment, station, and so forthkh123https://www.blogger.com/profile/15230935976084971917noreply@blogger.com