Month: October 2014

30.9.14

Why do I feel so sleepy even after getting enough sleep?

Where can I relate my life with Hannibal (TV series)?
Surprisingly, there are points of contact!

Online communities

Wheedle

1.10.14

How do you enjoy life to the maximum without a lot of money?
Can one attain spiritual ecstasy without crucifixion of the flesh?
The Cross doesn’t mean that you deny all self-interest, it only means that you have something else which is more important. This priority is what you focus on most of the time, & choose, when you have to decide between it & the ego…

Unhappiness
Vs.
Kindness

“Performative Utterances”

“Satyamev Jayate” => “Satyagraha”!

Prayer as adoration, confession, thanksgiving, agreeing & supplication.
What is missing?
Communion, questioning, lamenting, wrestling, chasing, hiding, etc.

Accepting GOD on his terms => letting go of our lives!

Change the world ~ save mankind ~ perfect oneself

Immanence + transcendence = Imminence!

GOD as ‘prior actuality’

“Love Almighty & Ills Unlimited”

“Tragic vision & Divine Compassion”

The gospel of salvation, according to Immanuel Joseph

Enjoy life = love one another
Save yourself = fight evil

Is greed (money) worse than lust (sex)?

Apathy as violence

Every face I see is a bundle of frustrated desire & forlorn hope……

“He was with wild animals, and angels were ministering to his needs.”

Wilderness, immediately, gospel, repent

Baptism => temptation => preaching

I am God ~ Kingdom of Satan ~ triumph of evil ~ Hell!

True liberation involves transformation!

2.10.14

“There is no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone – which is not, in some form or degree, in every heart.” – George Macdonald

In order to love your neighbour as yourself, you need to see something of yourself in him/her.

Is spiritual regeneration a violation of human free-will?

8.10.14

Transformation
Vs.
Development
Healthy living is built on the foundation of basic physical survival, but abundant/eternal life has nothing to do with it!

Bliss is the state in which the difference between happiness & sadness has collapsed!
Because happiness is what we experience when our desire is fulfilled, and sadness is when it is defeated. Bliss is what we experience when desire is transcended!

Is sex a basic human need?

Instead of trying to make this world a better place for me to live in, I must focus on transforming myself so that I become one more positive step in the evolution of this world.

“Smile, breathe, & go slowly.”

Man is fundamentally a physical (biological, ecological & instinctive), spiritual (expressed as mystical, vocational, religious, moral & intellectual) & psycho-social (includes sexual & relational) creature.
Only then is one also an economic & political entity…
Salvation is the full realisation of our true nature, not becoming something we are not.

Survival is a means, NOT the end!

The ability to enjoy everything in life, as a whole, without exception, without fear & without attachment.

I want to be utterly unapologetic!

Survival is not a need, it is a responsibility.

9.10.14

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We humans cannot ever be sure that we believe. Ultimately, we only believe that we believe. Everything depends on how one believes in one’s belief.”

Life-world

Cupola

Turret

Ideological imaginary

“Truth is partial, accessible only when one takes sides, and is no less universal for this reason.”
What?! 😁

“When we are dealing with a truly great person (or text), the question to be raised concerns not what this person/text means to us today, but rather the opposite, namely, what we are, what our contemporary situation might be, in his/her eyes.”

“The only way to grasp true novelty is to analyze the world through the lens of what was eternal in the old. An eternal idea is not a series of abstract principles that may be applied everywhere, but a ‘concrete universality’ that has to be reinvented in each historical context.”

Nomenklatura

“You will win (now), but you will not convince.”
“You will convince, but you will not win (now).”

Obscenity is being permitted to see what fascinates us, but without knowing what it is that we see.

The market is effectively based on what (majority of the) people believe about other people’s beliefs!

Wall Street
Vs.
Main Street

Financial speculation
Vs.
The real economy

Most human suffering in our world today is (directly &/or indirectly) man-made.
True or false?

Theology
Vs.
Ideology
…Or is Christianity ‘just another religion’?

Truth – Meaning = the Real!

Dispositif

10.10.14

Eat, sleep & fuck => Think, pray & speak => Believe, love & work

The meaning that I give life is contingent on my context, therefore……

The doctrine of GOD (eternality, sovereignty, perfection, etc.) is actually about man! It says what man is NOT. His limitations & faults…

Suffering – escaping it through numbing, denial, etc.; alleviating it through loving service; eliminating it through self-transcendence….

13.10.14

Segue

9.10.14
– Festive blues
What is all this celebration about?? Much ado about nothing!
– Blue-light LED
– Place cells & grid cells
– Is self-education possible without the internet?
Is a contemplative lifestyle possible without a financial back-up plan?
Is independent ministry possible without a loyal social base (e.g. Family support)?
– Social energetics
– There are no ordinary persons, only boring views of them.
– Should I use the amount allotted for sponsoring retreat, to help a needy person get an important medical investigation done?
Nope!
– “Art is a space that problematises as a method of introspection, is confrontational, subversive, & is not designed to entertain the consent of another to validate its existence.”
– Triadic rhythm – 1 day of ascetic contemplation + 1 day of hedonistic indulgence + 1 day of ethical action
– Who you really are right now, can be known quite well by identifying the top 3 problems that bother you, & which you are actively trying to solve.
– M.A distance education – can I get the study material for the 2nd year even if I haven’t passed the first year exams? 😉
– Do an M.A in Religion after finishing Philosophy & Christian Studies.
– If I don’t have to, then why should I?
– “In such a crisis, the pressure to ‘do something’ is so great that it is almost impossible to do nothing, & just observe (& understand) the process over which we have no real influence.”
– “True, we often talk about something instead of doing it; but sometimes we also do things to avoid talking & thinking about them.”
– “It is indeed true that we live in a society of risky choices, but it is one in which only some do the choosing, while others do the risking…”
– A tiger in a cage is still a tiger!

10.10.14
– “How is it with ur soul?” -x
“I am slowly getting back to the usual routine after the trip.
* Getting better at focusing on a particular attitude and pace/rhythm rather than specific activities – contemplative lifestyle above theological study!
* Becoming more regular @ physical exercise & mental relaxation.
* Trying to enjoy all things without attachment or need. I feel it is actually possible to overcome the fear of suffering in this life!
* I feel I am becoming more mature in that I am more at peace with everything. But I need to move on to the next level of taking care of others (father) from individual independence (adult). Not talking about parenting a child but being more willing to help/serve others with whom I live – especially those who are weak in one way or another.” – y
– Could it possibly be that the moralistic society & the possessive/insecure/ jealous woman is the villain as opposed to the playful/loose/free man who is actually the victim?!
– The ministry of titillation
– Christ saves us by making us independent of ‘GOD’!

11.10.14
– SFG meetings – learning:sharing = 2:1
– Family – biological » sexual » spiritual

12.10.14
– You overcome evil when you embrace suffering & allow yourself to be transformed by it!
Distinguish:
The reality of death (grave)
&
The sting of death (evil)
– See to it that your hedonism does NOT negatively affect your capacity for asceticism, & vice versa.
No deposit of fat, flabbiness of the will, etc.
– If I love you, I must not only pamper you, but also discipline you, right?
– You can have a genuine relationship only between authentic individuals.
– Idees recues
Catch-phrases
– Demimonde
– Metic
– Dream – medical college alumni reunion!

13.10.14
– “The Bible reads you” – let the way you read (& don’t read) the Bible show who you really are.
– Mat.28:20b + Nero = ??
– Art (movies, music, books, etc.) – but doesn’t all the pathos, gravity & profundity, ultimately come down to ‘just entertainment’?
– Identify your worst fears » face them » deal with yourself inside them » get over them » go forward!
– Sin (our problem) is NOT the mess in which we find ourselves, that is evil (GOD’s problem), it is the fucked up way we deal with the mess, thereby sustaining it & worsening it, because we keep attempting to ‘repair’ it, & refuse to be changed by it……
– Evo Morales (Bolivia) – a politician who is loved by his people!?
– Wonderful ~ puzzling ~ perplexing!
– Problematization (or problematisation) of a term, writing, opinion, ideology, identity, or person is to consider the concrete or existential elements of those involved as challenges (problems) that invite the people involved to transform those situations. It is a method of defamiliarization of common sense.
– Readers’ Editor
– What does it mean to be “rich toward GOD”?
– “Centre for the Study of Developing Societies”
– Incisive questions
– Education – knowledge, attitude & behavior
– Idle curiosity
– Employability criteria
– Higher-order skills
– How can humility & courage go together?
– Personal security apps
– Diurnal rhythm: Calendar review » newspaper » physical-mental exercise (first) » stillness (middle) » chores » study (last)
Maintain this order.
– Frat
– Phat
– Our (utopian) idea of the Good Life might actually be unbearable!
– Movies:
“Sherlock Jr.”
Nice finish! 😉
– Are children asexual?
– “‘The Truth is not in the middle, and not in one extreme, but in both extremes’ Charles Simeon. So we need people presenting both extremes. (about Calvinists and Armenians) Zac Poonen. So what about the pendulum symbol for Legalism and Hyper Grace. I think the topic itself needs drastic change.”