tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.comments2023-11-02T04:21:10.340-04:00The way the Ball bouncesBallBounceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08776039024486455199noreply@blogger.comBlogger6757125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-11454974071947072092020-01-02T13:23:42.874-05:002020-01-02T13:23:42.874-05:00Thank you for telling more about Phillips Brooks a...Thank you for telling more about Phillips Brooks and this hymn's origin. I loved learning about the lost stanza!Emily Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18085440907673349130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-15765497328238055592019-11-07T09:30:35.733-05:002019-11-07T09:30:35.733-05:00Guys. The arsons were done by black metal musician...Guys. The arsons were done by black metal musicians and fans because there was a general dislike for the church and they wanted to be perceived as "trve" black metal fans, its a google away and most people who listen to metal in recent times know all about it anyway. Also they were reported loads! There was a massive hype about it in the media in Norway, framing the fabled "black metal inner circle". It caused a massive wave of fear across the nation, which was exactly what the arsonists wanted. The most well known and the man who started it all, most commonly known as Varg Vikernes, said that Christians were disrespecting Odin by building churches on "Odin's soil", and that the builders of the Churches were the evil ones, not the ones who burned them down. Several convictions were also made although lots of the burnings are attributed to people who can't be sufficiently linked to the crime.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-50121641215160252482019-10-03T08:23:28.048-04:002019-10-03T08:23:28.048-04:00Nice to hear from you, Anon1152! Good times!Nice to hear from you, Anon1152! Good times!BallBounceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08776039024486455199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-20793612334531460772019-07-10T09:22:40.183-04:002019-07-10T09:22:40.183-04:00Did I ever respond to this? I've been away so ...Did I ever respond to this? I've been away so long. In around 2013 I moved to the other side of the world, then back to Canada, then back to the other side of the world. I just found your thesis. I haven't read it. And I haven't written mine.<br /><br />At first I thought I had gotten more conservative. I am in favour of punishing people. Did I ever mention that I'm not in principle against corporal punishment? I'd rather be whipped 20 times than spend 20 years in jail. And... imprisonment is technically "corporal punishment" since it's applied to "the body". And... I'm not against the death penalty in principle... though I am in practice. Did I become more conservative? Probably not. Looking at this I think 6 years for "just breaking into cars" is a long time for me to be paying for someone's room and board. But I haven't looked at the details. Anyway. I wonder if you left other precomments....Anon1152https://www.blogger.com/profile/04904955680638696334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-76112160127447730832018-10-21T11:23:59.913-04:002018-10-21T11:23:59.913-04:00Yes jacks with chocolate milk was the very best. Yes jacks with chocolate milk was the very best. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06689755063153236924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-51803508657829898002018-08-29T12:04:36.553-04:002018-08-29T12:04:36.553-04:00Makes a lot of sense.Makes a lot of sense.Canadiannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07989445513101340683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-90427991997017698802018-07-07T09:18:35.223-04:002018-07-07T09:18:35.223-04:00Ha. Joke is on me I guess. I was wondering if one ...Ha. Joke is on me I guess. I was wondering if one could grant an illegal immigrant, as a new person suddenly in the polity, a fresh start and chance... like a new baby born (or conceived). BUT the joke is on me since Kant mentions the out-of-wedlock birth to make a different point. He says that all murderers deserve death, but there might be some cases where someone has done something that deserves death but where... it isn't quite right to actually execute them. One such case is that of an unwed mother who kills her bastard newborn.<br /><br />"A child that comes into the world apart from marriage is born outside the law (for the law is marriage) and therefore outside the protection of the law. It has, as it were, stolen into the commonwealth (like contraband merchandise), so that the commonwealth can ignore its existence (since it was not right that it should have come to exist this way), and can therefore also ignore its annihilation; and no decree can remove the mother's shame when it becomes known that she gave birth without being married". (Metaphysics of Morals 6:336).<br /><br />So... I guess Kant wouldn't help my argument... if I want to argue that people who "stolen into the commonwealth" might deserve equal concern and respect and protection...<br /><br />That passage in Kant is important though since it shows that, while he is definitely an absolutist when it comes to the nature of morality and moral judgment... he allows for exceptions when it comes to practical policies...<br /><br />Anyway. I'm just thinking out loud... ideas flying around my head in response to reading your blog post.Anon1152https://www.blogger.com/profile/04904955680638696334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-89387740771082233092018-07-07T08:56:07.415-04:002018-07-07T08:56:07.415-04:00Hi.
When I said "does that remind you of some...Hi.<br />When I said "does that remind you of something?" I was wondering if I could make an analogy between someone new, from the outside, suddenly entering the polity, and a child being born (or conceived). <br /><br />There is a line in... Kant? I think in the Metaphysics of Morals... where he says that a child born out of wedlock is like someone who has sneaked into the country illegally. If I had my books nearby I'd be able to find that right away. Maybe I can find it through other means.Anon1152https://www.blogger.com/profile/04904955680638696334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-14792404522242113902018-07-06T11:50:30.629-04:002018-07-06T11:50:30.629-04:00Hello again!Hello again!BallBounceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08776039024486455199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-6963199007669973112018-07-06T11:47:48.197-04:002018-07-06T11:47:48.197-04:00
No?<br /><br />No?BallBounceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08776039024486455199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-58693744678062874472018-07-04T10:29:58.733-04:002018-07-04T10:29:58.733-04:00Also: hello again. It has been a long time.Also: hello again. It has been a long time.Anon1152https://www.blogger.com/profile/04904955680638696334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-85912620311937266932018-07-04T10:29:41.182-04:002018-07-04T10:29:41.182-04:00The nature of border crossing is different than th...The nature of border crossing is different than the nature of the other actions we're talking about here. In the case of cheating on taxes or breaking into someone's home or shoplifting, everyone involved is a member of a single political community, living under a common power. Immigration involves someone leaving their previous political community and entering another. Of course, you are always subject to the laws of the land you are on. But the fact that an "illegal immigrant" is not originally from the country they immigrate to matters in some way.<br /><br />It is almost as if... an "illegal immigrant" is a unique individual, a full person, who suddenly appears in a country.<br /><br />Does that remind you of something?Anon1152https://www.blogger.com/profile/04904955680638696334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-19853438051306700802018-07-04T10:28:32.220-04:002018-07-04T10:28:32.220-04:00Hm...
The reasons why someone crosses a boarder i...Hm...<br /><br />The reasons why someone crosses a boarder illegally isn't irrelevant. A Canadian in a car, unwilling to wait their turn in line for a day of cross-border shopping, isn't comparable to someone trying to escape war/poverty/violence in their home country.<br /><br />Other things to keep in mind:<br />- all borders are artificial. The location and permeability of a boarder can and does change over time.<br />- where one is born affects one's chances in life, and no one has any control over where they are born, or to whom.<br />- John Locke believed in the importance of borders and private property rights, but he starts with an important premise: God gave the earth to mankind in common. If that is true then we need to have good reasons to say that some thing or some land belongs to one person or group and no one else.<br /><br /><br /><br />Anon1152https://www.blogger.com/profile/04904955680638696334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-59876839665891088762018-07-01T18:49:02.957-04:002018-07-01T18:49:02.957-04:00Jan - that's an interesting, novel way of desc...Jan - that's an interesting, novel way of describing it. Thank you.<br />BallBounceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08776039024486455199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-56340652983171204632018-07-01T07:58:49.385-04:002018-07-01T07:58:49.385-04:00e. It's more liking cheating on another person...e. It's more liking cheating on another person's taxes so they you get the money and doing it by breaking into their home.jan scheitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-81666411477714301242018-06-30T15:34:22.950-04:002018-06-30T15:34:22.950-04:00Hi BB, I don't think I was the guy that sent y...Hi BB, I don't think I was the guy that sent you the info you mentioned,although with my memory..........<br /><br />There was another DMorris on the blogs a few years ago, he changed his monicker to Dudley Morris,that could be the person you referred to.dmorrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00068077596719584731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-70704996849336113082018-06-29T10:33:47.523-04:002018-06-29T10:33:47.523-04:00Either a border means something, or it doesn't...Either a border means something, or it doesn't. Most Canadians are very familiar with crossing our border to US and they are also familiar with lineups at busy times, Suppose one doesn't feel like waiting and decides to simply drive around the barrier, or get out and walk across the line. People don't as a rule, because they no full well the might of the law with come down on them quickly and unmercifully. Reasonable Canadians simply want the same rules applied to these economic migrants, but instead they get a lot of bafflegab about how the law prevents application of the rules.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02442074610206099695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-2827012212817393862018-06-29T08:24:01.330-04:002018-06-29T08:24:01.330-04:00DMorris You make good points, that go largely und...DMorris You make good points, that go largely undiscussed. The left likes to blur everybody as just "immigrants". It's like reducing shoplifters to "undocumented customers", who, after all, have the same aspirations for food, clothes, iPhones, etc. as everyone else.<br /><br />Good to hear from you after all these years! You're the guy that sent me that info on the cross-shaped biological thingy, right?!BallBounceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08776039024486455199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-22627253698830957292018-06-29T05:10:59.915-04:002018-06-29T05:10:59.915-04:00old white guy asks------------------how many illeg...old white guy asks------------------how many illegal aliens do you allow in before your own culture and society are subsumed by those who have no right to be here. I consider illegal border crossing to be a very serious crime and all should be deported immediately. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-79467552038759094232018-06-28T20:58:49.939-04:002018-06-28T20:58:49.939-04:00D. It's as serious as cheating on your income ...D. It's as serious as cheating on your income tax,which is a far greater crime than any of the others on your list. Illegal Border crossing is not only unfair to Canada as we have to pay their way, possibly for years,but it is most unfair to the immigrants who respected our laws and went through the legal immigration system.<br />To a potential immigrant who's waited for years to get into Canada, it's like the illegals are spitting in their faces,with the help of the government.<br /><br />We have Beverley McLachlin and her SCC to thank for this ongoing fiasco,which will get a lot worse in the next few years. The violence that has occurred in Europe hasn't hit Canada yet, but it will with 190 jihadis returning to Canada, and we are not prepared to deal with it.dmorrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00068077596719584731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-36470606910073784442018-06-25T15:19:03.900-04:002018-06-25T15:19:03.900-04:00I will make it easy for you. Liberal, socialist, d...I will make it easy for you. Liberal, socialist, democrats are to blame.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-48585319723655726672018-06-07T14:56:44.067-04:002018-06-07T14:56:44.067-04:00Peterson is a globalist. no more needs to be said....Peterson is a globalist. no more needs to be said.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-37965326169815845672018-01-23T21:45:51.748-05:002018-01-23T21:45:51.748-05:00Lori:
Yesss! Jacks cheesies were the best! I get ...Lori:<br /><br />Yesss! Jacks cheesies were the best! I get something similar in Buffalo called Jax. They are sooo good! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-46119137134697784222017-04-19T10:38:17.224-04:002017-04-19T10:38:17.224-04:00I prefer "Christ".I prefer "Christ".BallBounceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08776039024486455199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-81770729709950110622017-04-18T00:10:37.700-04:002017-04-18T00:10:37.700-04:00Unless it's a miracle we want, we pray for the...Unless it's a miracle we want, we pray for the wisdom and strength to see a problem through. By opening our hearts and minds to Christ's guidance - or "the force" if you prefer - we reach deep into some well of sparkling logic that is otherwise hidden by the clamour around us. In going there we have to accept that the answer will probably be unwelcome though correct.<br />There is no nice way to solve North Korea just as there is no nice way to deal with Islam. Recognizing evil at the core of hate-promoting ideologies must be the first answer to any prayer concerning them; history has demonstrated time and again that failure to heed that first reality makes all subsequent prayer ineffectual.Dollopshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11354772344117801692noreply@blogger.com