tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007958.post111135398450746821..comments2023-11-03T09:15:35.699-04:00Comments on Into Good and Evil: The Beings, the Creatures and....the Beast? Eh, who can say...mynymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095211421748579139noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007958.post-1112148614077849332005-03-29T21:10:00.000-05:002005-03-29T21:10:00.000-05:00Sorry about that. I had to censor Carl, the fake ...Sorry about that. I had to censor Carl, the <I>fake</I> Carl. He's quite the thankful chatter box. <BR/><BR/>"<I>How have I fibbed?</I>"<BR/><BR/>Why, you said that you don't argue with your wife. The Yin and the Yang is all so mysterious, so difficult to figure! Yet I do know enough to know that that's just not the way of things.mynymhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07095211421748579139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007958.post-1112063917327054272005-03-28T21:38:00.000-05:002005-03-28T21:38:00.000-05:00"A bit of a fibber though...at least the fake Carl...<I>"A bit of a fibber though...at least the fake Carl is honest."</I> <BR/><BR/>Dang it!!! How have I fibbed? (If we weren't friends--of a sort, having never met--this comment might lead to fisticuffs!)<BR/><BR/>Carl, <BR/><BR/>who is now going to bed so I can get up at the aforementioned four o'clock. (You'd better have a sound reply. Else, how can one reply to a reply that is no reply? Or rather, let us see how your words shall answer mine that I may answer thine.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007958.post-1112063512489800502005-03-28T21:31:00.003-05:002005-03-28T21:31:00.003-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007958.post-1112063485583616312005-03-28T21:31:00.001-05:002005-03-28T21:31:00.001-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007958.post-1112063478666192582005-03-28T21:31:00.000-05:002005-03-28T21:31:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007958.post-1112063330848900062005-03-28T21:28:00.003-05:002005-03-28T21:28:00.003-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007958.post-1112063309446641962005-03-28T21:28:00.002-05:002005-03-28T21:28:00.002-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007958.post-1112063298729320642005-03-28T21:28:00.001-05:002005-03-28T21:28:00.001-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007958.post-1112063289067135042005-03-28T21:28:00.000-05:002005-03-28T21:28:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007958.post-1112063211497736722005-03-28T21:26:00.001-05:002005-03-28T21:26:00.001-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007958.post-1112063163785514392005-03-28T21:26:00.000-05:002005-03-28T21:26:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007958.post-1112063133792096382005-03-28T21:25:00.000-05:002005-03-28T21:25:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007958.post-1112063046316219122005-03-28T21:24:00.000-05:002005-03-28T21:24:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007958.post-1112062911560093962005-03-28T21:21:00.000-05:002005-03-28T21:21:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007958.post-1112059767924558792005-03-28T20:29:00.000-05:002005-03-28T20:29:00.000-05:00"Am I now only "so-so" because I write to better u..."<I>Am I now only "so-so" because I write to better understand what I am pondering?</I>"<BR/><BR/>Not at all, I think the <I>fake</I> Carl doesn't like you because he cannot be as kind and gentle as you are. The kind and gentle <I>real</I> Carl, he's so nice! A bit of a fibber though...at least the <I>fake</I> Carl is honest. <BR/><BR/>Do not worry so, your logic and reason is often quite sound, making you seem philosophical, a gentleman and a scholar. Maybe a little too gentle.... <BR/><BR/>As to writing to better understand your own thoughts, that's probably a good thought to write. I will let my words do my communicating for me and then I'll see what your words have to say back. For no man gets to the writer but by his words, as they do not get to the Writer but by the Word. Liberals do not like words because they are narrow and judge. So they blur, pervert and subvert them in various ways.<BR/><BR/>It seems that they fail to understand that a Writer may break his Word without killing its spirit, which opens the way they are seeking.<BR/><BR/>"<I>Nice wackos on my site who would rather have clean water than a human life...hmm?</I>"<BR/><BR/>Yes, I was wondering, why can't I have some wackos on my site? I would like some. <BR/><BR/>"<I>But it is entirely conceiveable that, in my sleep deprived state, I am misunderstanding something.</I>"<BR/><BR/>I think I shall post something for those with little ones sometime. Some in my family have them too. Such a blessing! The trick with these lil' blessings seems to be to let others have them, and then you get to hold them! To hold, but not to have....not at 4:00am in the morning, anyway...mynymhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07095211421748579139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007958.post-1112057610262243042005-03-28T19:53:00.000-05:002005-03-28T19:53:00.000-05:00Mynym,
Am I now only "so-so" because I write to b...Mynym,<br /><br />Am I now only "so-so" because I write to better understand what I am pondering? Surely you jest. <br /><br />As to the quote from Lewis, I trust that you do not believe I am merely trying to convert people to nice-ness in what I write. <br /><br />Are you, by the 'fake Carl/real Carl' dialogue implying that logic is not a good thing? Are you saying instead that my logic is no good? If the latter, I heartily agree. If the former, I can only say, surely you jest.<br /><br />But it is entirely conceiveable that, in my sleep deprived state, I am misunderstanding something.<br /><br />Carl<br /><br />P.S.<br /><br />Nice wackos on my site who would rather have clean water than a human life...hmm?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007958.post-1112041750614712372005-03-28T15:29:00.000-05:002005-03-28T15:29:00.000-05:00Wow...blogger is slow. Later.Wow...blogger is slow. <BR/><BR/>Later.mynymhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07095211421748579139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007958.post-1112041584472396452005-03-28T15:26:00.000-05:002005-03-28T15:26:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.mynymhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07095211421748579139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007958.post-1112041529755467582005-03-28T15:25:00.000-05:002005-03-28T15:25:00.000-05:00"This is the only thing that you wrote which troub..."<I>This is the only thing that you wrote which troubles me. It troubles me, no doubt, because I do not fully understand your meaning.</I>"<BR/><BR/>It is troubling, yet not worrying. For worry is so worrisome.<BR/><BR/>What I mean is if you are going to muse about your writing then you may as well read the words to see if they are despicable and hateful. If they are, then it follows that you should change them. Supposedly, through the if/then/if/then processes of logic I have just told you how to unpack the present from the past. So now you can have a nice presentation of the present, which would be a nice present to give people.mynymhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07095211421748579139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007958.post-1112040340884536002005-03-28T15:05:00.000-05:002005-03-28T15:05:00.000-05:00"I had about said 'nice'..."Yes, the nicety of it!..."<I>I had about said 'nice'...</I>"<BR/><BR/>Yes, the nicety of it! <BR/><BR/>One very nice fellow said once,<BR/>"We must not suppose that even if we succeeded in making everyone nice we should have saved their souls. A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world -- and might even be more difficult to save. For mere improvement is no redemption, though redemption always improves people even here and now and will, in the end, improve them to a degree we cannot yet imagine." --C.S. Lewismynymhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07095211421748579139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007958.post-1112039849395116102005-03-28T14:57:00.000-05:002005-03-28T14:57:00.000-05:00"I am really enjoying this dialogue between you tw..."<I>I am really enjoying this dialogue between you two.</I>"<BR/><BR/>Carl, the <I>fake</I> Carl says, "Thanks!" <BR/><BR/>Hmmm, you seem to be quite a thankful fellow, full of thanks! <BR/><BR/>"Thanks!"<BR/><BR/>So <I>fake</I> Carl, what do you think of Carl, the <I>real</I> Carl? <BR/><BR/>"I think that such and such follows from so and so, if it is so. So in conclusion, I think he is so and so." <BR/><BR/>So it is reasonable that he is so.<BR/><BR/>"Only so-so!"mynymhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07095211421748579139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007958.post-1112008965605511062005-03-28T06:22:00.000-05:002005-03-28T06:22:00.000-05:00""Your perception,"I perceive to be the reality th...<I><B>""Your perception,<BR/>"I perceive to be the reality that I should be more gentle in presentation. Else, perhaps I am doing more harm than good."<BR/><BR/>That is not really tangible. It would be better for you to go through the writing you fear will inspire hatred and demonstrate how it can be changed. (Changed to avoid such and such following from so and so.) Otherwise, all you're really writing about is a vague sense of angst.</B></I><BR/><BR/>This is the only thing that you wrote which troubles me. It troubles me, no doubt, because I do not fully understand your meaning. If you would be so kind--I had about said 'nice'--as to elaborate, I would be grateful.<BR/><BR/>And no, I do not argue with my wife in that manner. Being highly spiritual, I do not argue with my wife at all! ROFL!!!<BR/><BR/>CarlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007958.post-1111977811804859022005-03-27T21:43:00.000-05:002005-03-27T21:43:00.000-05:00I am really enjoying this dialogue between you two...I am really enjoying this dialogue between you two. Very amusing! :)<BR/><BR/>~BertieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007958.post-1111959626589443352005-03-27T16:40:00.000-05:002005-03-27T16:40:00.000-05:00Okay. Let me get this straight, o sibilant serpen...Okay. Let me get this straight, o sibilant serpent. Are you saying that my merely musing on the possibility that I should be more compassionate in the presentation is somehow, I don't know, wrong? <BR/><BR/>And what the heck is up with 'worrying?' I never said I was worrying. I plead again that I was contemplating, musing, theorizing, etc.<BR/><BR/>Awaiting your enigmatic reply,<BR/>I remain,<BR/><BR/>The 'Grub Street' Plumber,<BR/>aka<BR/>Carl<BR/>aka<BR/>Worry-wart. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007958.post-1111898068238772562005-03-26T23:34:00.000-05:002005-03-26T23:34:00.000-05:00(Hmmm, there he goes off into reason and big words...(Hmmm, there he goes off into reason and big words. I wonder if he argues with his wife that way. If this is so, then such and such. If such, then this follows that. Since that, then this...and then a little this and that too!) <BR/><BR/>"<I>I sincerely apologize for causing such thoughts of revenge to rise in your breast.</I>"<BR/><BR/>Not revenge, but thinking on the salubrious effect of clear eyed judgment and how it follows that such and such is so and so, which all works to the good. <BR/><BR/>"<I>...is it wrong to speak softly sometimes?</I>" <BR/><BR/>I think I shall try writing softly sometimes, subtly, like a sibilant serpent.<BR/><BR/>Your perception,<BR/>"<I>I perceive to be the reality that I should be more gentle in presentation. Else, perhaps I am doing more harm than good.</I>"<BR/><BR/>That is not really tangible. It would be better for you to go through the writing you fear will inspire hatred and demonstrate how it can be changed. (Changed to avoid such and such following from so and so.) Otherwise, all you're really writing about is a vague sense of angst. <BR/><BR/>For instance, I've noticed that I use the terms moral degenerate more now. The other day the zipper on my jacket just wouldn't go and I almost thought, "<I>This zipper is such a moral degenerate!</I>" But before I did I thought, "<I>You know, I've probably been using the terms moral degenerate a bit too much.</I>" <BR/><BR/>Then I thought, "<I>Besides, this zipper is inaminate matter. Its substance trails off into fields of energy. It is the same ancient matter that was there in the Big Bang. It is thousands of years old, perhaps millions, the matter of star dust. This zipper is the key to many mysteries!</I>" <BR/><BR/>Just kidding....what was the discussion? Oh, that's right, how nice and gentle you're going to be. Well, I guess you'll have to keep worrying about it and see how it goes.mynymhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07095211421748579139noreply@blogger.com