tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345889130053053070.post976393550668516315..comments2023-08-20T21:14:43.398-07:00Comments on Before Nine: Miracle Of The SeasonMongo, At The Momenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00973606827337262084noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345889130053053070.post-62774699308333882972015-12-15T11:38:19.461-08:002015-12-15T11:38:19.461-08:00the egg cream is also good made with almond milk -...the egg cream is also good made with almond milk - i speak from experiencemistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345889130053053070.post-85888269454966962512015-12-15T11:04:18.170-08:002015-12-15T11:04:18.170-08:00This here is a miracle -- Chocolate syrup, milk, a...This here is a miracle -- Chocolate syrup, milk, and seltzer water. They call it an Egg Cream but it's got no eggs in there. Still, I don't know where it's been all my life.<br />-- William Howard Taft, President Of The United States (1909)Mongo, At The Momenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00973606827337262084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345889130053053070.post-50712588264498426292015-12-15T08:12:13.855-08:002015-12-15T08:12:13.855-08:00(1) "of all miracles, the greatest is that an...(1) "of all miracles, the greatest is that anything exists at all" - gustav fechner, pioneering experimental psychophysiologist<br /><br />fechner's metaphysical thought is the subject of one chapter in william james' <i>A Pluralistic Universe - Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy</i> (1909)<br /><br /><b>LECTURE IV<br />CONCERNING FECHNER 131<br /><br />Superhuman consciousness does not necessarily imply an absolute mind, 134. Thinness of contemporary absolutism, 135. The tone of Fechner's empiricist pantheism contrasted with that of the rationalistic sort, 144. Fechner's life, 145. His vision, the 'daylight view,' 150. His way of reasoning by analogy, 151. The whole universe animated, 152. His monistic formula is unessential, 153. The Earth-Soul, 156. Its differences from our souls, 160. The earth as an angel, 164. The Plant-Soul, 165. The logic used by Fechner, 168. His theory of immortality, 170. The 'thickness' of his imagination, 173. Inferiority of the ordinary transcendentalist pantheism, to his vision, 174.</b><br /><br />(2)during the cuban missile crisis my mother and two brothers and i were living in temporary quarters at fort lee, virginia - we had just moved back to the states from a posting in italy - for two or three weeks my father was detailed from his duties at the quartermaster school to go to norfolk to participate in planning the invasion of cuba - which did not happen<br />mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.com