Notes

4.5.14

– Maybe the Apocalypse is (primarily) an unveiling of our own eyes!

– Maintain equilibrium by increasing both the extremes instead of augmenting the middle!

– “World of worship”

– Distinguish:

What you ought

&

What you must

– Possessive/female/ conservative

Vs.

Covetous/male/progressive

– Needy – the dependent AND the ambitious

– Faith as sight

Vs.

Faith as blindness

Fideism/rationalism

Vs.

Empiricism/scepticism

– The complementary

AND

The contradictory

Enjoy being played (pushed & shoved)!  😉

– Fantasy/imagination/ dream/hope

Vs.

Experience/reality/ memory/context

– Passion

Vs.

Purpose

Vs.

Peace

– “Spirit of GOD, descend upon my heart, wean it from earth.

…I ask no sudden rending of the veil of clay…”

– Encounter ~ confront

– “If a man does not stumble in what he says, he is perfect.”

– Jas.3:6 – “course of life” ~ “wheel of birth”!

How can my tongue corrupt my own body?

– Freedom is solitude,

Solitude is freedom.

Company is security,

Security is company.

– Boast (self), rebel (GOD) & slander (others)

– The whisperers

– Non-malicious, but still destructive!

– Mutual pastoring

– We have legs – neither roots nor wings!

– Feeling good about oneself when savoring the fall of another!

– “Meekness of wisdom”

– Bitter jealousy ~ selfish ambition

– Integrity » impartiality

– “My brothers & sisters, this is how things are, but they ought not to be so.

Who is wise and understanding among you (concerning this)?”

– Self-deception is always involuntary/unconscious!

– He who dares to walk in external darkness will experience the inner light!

– “If you love somebody,

Free, free, set them free!”

– Creating & using religious, moral & social categories/norms to compensate for the lack of personal spiritual/ existential/psychological adequacy……

The frail/pathetic individual seeks shelter under the wings of marriage, family, church, office, government, etc.

– State terrorism

– Retreat from ministry ok. But what about:

Retreat from marriage?

Retreat from religion?

Retreat from work?

Retreat from law?

– Am I just sawing at the branch on which I myself am sitting??

– Recognize ~ acknowledge ~ appreciate

– Horrific comedy

Bizarre, surreal, macabre

– Too clever for your own good!

– Picaresque

– Is all you want just to break her, force her to surrender & confess your superiority?

– Randy

– Who is Vatsyayana?

– Boudoir

– Ingenue

Naïve, curious & enthusiastic!

– Frigid (sexually) & caustic (socially) women

– “One Hundred Years of Solitude”

– ‘Chinki’

– PDSO

– Mapping the sexual landscape of contemporary India