Heavy, Happy Thinking

My scattered mind rarely finds its way through long, complex posts at the "thinking blogs," but I've found one (thanks to American Digest) that mixes humor, bright insight and excellent prose, and I like it:

One Cosmos, subhead, "The Innersection of Lumin Development, Mental Gymgnostics, Paleoliberal Futurism, Leftist Noise Abatement, Supernatural Election, Darwinian Revelation, Isness Ministration, Orthonoetic Logomystique, Stand-up Cosmology, Escatological Upunishantics, and Dilettantric Yoga."

Here's an example of what Robert Godwin is up to at One Cosmos:

I believe the ultimate basis of the culture war is in fact nihilism vs. theism. While the left would like you to believe that it is simply a battle between right-wing religious zealots and "free thinking" secular liberals, you can conceptualize it in more subtle ways--for example, a belief in absolute Truth vs. relative truth, moral absolutes vs. moral relativism, spiritual hierarchy vs. "flatland" materialism, meaningful existence vs. existential meaninglessness, spiritual evolution vs. mere Darwinian evolution, etc.

I also liked the reviews for Godwin's book, One Cosmos Under God, which includes mock blurbs by Mohammed, Pat Robertson, Joseph Smith, and in case you want to know what the book really is about, this one by I. F. Naughty-Bitz, Professor of Blurbology and Applied Inside Flap Notes:

"One man's attempt to sing the Song of Creation, a four-part cosmic suite that takes us from the tune up in the orchestra pit before the performance, to the opening chords of the Big Bang, through to the blissful crescendo of mystical consciousness. A euphoric and euphonious ululation across the nation in celebration of all creation, this best of all possible bangs, our one cosmos under God, inexplicable, with liberation and joyousness for all."