Rantings

19.6.14

Distance education:
M.A. Philosophy – IGNOU
&
M.A. Christian Studies – Madras University

20.6.14

Patient assistance

Useful questions

Clearance reader

21.6.14

Freedom/struggle/truth
Vs.
Enjoyment/well-being/illusion

Ideologies are the secular religions!

Bourgeois
Vs.
Proletariat

What is ideology?

What is the (Lacanian) Real?

WWZS – What Would Zizek Say?

So have I, the adamant individualist, finally succumbed to the pressures of functionalism (both from within & without), and joined the mass of the institutionalised/domesticated (albeit by proxy)?

Uncovering the deeper logic, as opposed to reaching for a higher meaning……

Whatever happened to OWS??!

Movies:
Pervert’s Guide to Ideology

23.6.14

There is a kind of knowledge that is closer to wisdom, and there is a kind of knowledge that is far away from it…

Methics – the ethics of recreational drug use

Methexis – the relationship between actual objects and their corresponding (Platonic) forms/ideals. Participation.

24.6.14

Elitism/idealism
Vs.
Populism/pragmatism

25.6.14

This intractable boredom is a test of my resilience/tenacity! Will I fold easily? Or will I fight in a manner worthy of the Man?

Am I an academic (student/scholar/teacher/researcher)? Am I a medical doctor? Am I a Christian minister?
Or am I none of these things? Is there any other (new!) category into which I can fit? Should there always be a category into which each & every individual can/does fit?

The sage – neither scholar nor saint!
Can one be a good (even great!) thinker without being a trained philosopher?

Should I try to carve out my own unique, original niche, or should I try to fit myself into something that already exists in the world?
After all, isn’t it almost impossible (& hard as hell!), to try to live in this world as an individual without any structural support or classified identity?

26.6.14

Fix your mind on the details of the things at hand always, except during the contemplative periods when you can soar to get the eagle’s eye view of life.

There is no recorded Gospel according to Jesus!

Vanity of life – you have 2 options: Suicide or Spirituality!

There is only one categorical imperative – the 2nd commandment. The first is only the matrix or base for the second.

Self-conscious => self-confident
Self-sufficient => self-stretching
Self-complacency => self-discipline
Self-obsession => self-redemption

Weekdays (6 days a week): Foreground – do what will take you to where you want to reach in the long-term. Background – basic stuff you have to do.
Sabbath (Sundays) & vacation (1 month per year): relax, do whatever you like/want!

The Cross as negative revelation – the idoloclastic icon!

Globalization ~ Westernization ~ Christianization

27.6.14

Every human must have the enabling conditions to give him/her the freedom to choose what he/she will believe-seek & how he/she will live-love.

Cosmo-the-andric vision – If GOD himself is indwelling man & the world, then can they ever be destroyed?
Yes & No!

Primary questions – what, how & why.
Secondary questions – who, where & when.