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30.11.14
– Jn.11:25-26
“Do you believe this?”
NOT, “Do you understand this?”!
– Compare “Inception” & “Last Lovers Alive”
– Nimrat Kaur
– Man in the mirror:
Get the fuck off my back!
– “We name thee,
We claim thee.
And adoring bend the knee,
While we own the mystery.”
– Father & Son ~ husband & wife (persons)
Holy Spirit ~ marriage (relationship)
The third element is (made) real (by the former 2)!
– Christmas has to do with evangelism,
And evangelism has to do with Christmas.
Grace » music
Gospel » song
Joy » shouts!
Our radiant faces in the midst of this (dark) world IS the Good News…
– Those who most belong to this planet are also those who are most alienated from this world!
What have we done with his creation??
– The message of Christmas will always be future & present, and then present & future… never past!
Rejoice, rejoice,
Emmanuel (God IS with us) SHALL come to thee, O Israel.
– “Suddenly the LORD descending, in his temple shall appear.
Always suddenly!
– Impromptu accompaniment
– Artistic ~ angelic
– The whole wide world, saved by one baby!
– Song-writing
– Advent Sunday
Advent-ure!
– Inter-testamental period (silence/darkness) – the only message was “wait!”
Looking forward to see what you have heard…
– “My dear sisters & brothers……”
– The people below are looking up to the heavens above, for the one who will come, and hold to account those who are in power over them…
– If you have seen Him, then communicate to others in words.
If you have heard the message, then look forward to seeing the Promised One!

2.12.14
– Movies:
“Interstellar”
But won’t entering another dimension dissolve our very constitution?!

03.12.2014
– Cosmology & theogony
– Fingered by the digital
– How can one’s (predominantly inward) work be seen (& appreciated) by others?
– Your primary relationship is with yourself!
– The curse of (too much) information
– The tyranny of the outward/corporate over the inward/personal
– Faith is nothing but trust in the one who makes the promise.
– The Internet of things
– What I want
Vs.
What I need.
What is available
Vs.
What is good.
Where I am going
Vs.
Who I am.
What I am becoming
Vs.
What I am made for.
– Being (Immanuel Joseph)   >> doing – primary dynamic.
Doing (Insightful facilitator)  >> being – secondary dynamic
– Sanity – lost & found >> found & lost >> lost & found >> found & lost……
– 7 habits – “Intimacy & Solitude” fits into psychological independence &  social interdependence.
But which book best fits the foundation of spiritual dependence?
“The Road Less Travelled”,  “Man’s Search for Meaning”,  etc.
The level next to interdependence is Leadership!
– “No notifications”
WOW!  😀
– Communion requires unity, & communication requires difference.
– Ontological awareness
Apocalyptic imagination
Existential thinking
Orthodox believing
Passionate feeling
Teleological action

7.12.14
– Democracy & populism
– “Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.”
– “When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”

8.12.14
– “Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.”
Marianne Williamson (spiritual activist)
– “Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
Maria Montessori

9.12.14
– “Wow dad in Christ Jesus there we r under the  divine infusion and transfusion unto His enlargement and corporate expression which has its consummation in New Jerusalem. Amen” –  x
“Amen! May we cooperate with the Spirit in making the mystical & eschatological an experiential & practical reality”
“Already & always >> here & now!”
“We access the Father through JC. We access Jesus through the Holy Spirit. We access the Spirit through Scripture & prayer. We practice reading & meditation in solitude & community!” – y
– “The reason we miss scandalous grace in the old testament is we are trained to read their bible morally especially the old testament. This is a thought from the book charis:gods scandalous grace for us.”
“Author of this book is Preston sprinkle” – x
“Morality is an integral aspect of human existence.
But it must not be seen as a condition for GOD’S love. It must be seen as the path to abundant life.
It is a natural outcome of seeing people not only as individuals with freedoms, but also as members of a society with duties.
Finally, it must not primarily be an externally imposed standard but first of all an inner conviction…” – y

10.12.14
– Ember days
– The liturgical & natural year:
Advent, Christmas & Epiphany ~ Winter
Lent & Passion ~ Spring
Easter & Pentecost ~ Summer
Ordinary season ~ Autumn

11.12.14
– 3 values:
1. Individual rights
E.g. Freedom of expression
2. Social welfare
E.g. Communal harmony
3. Abstract principles
E.g. Equality
– Self-pity is the root of all evil!
– Cosmic anthropology:
1. Brain waves – lightning in the sky
2. Breathing lungs – the wind blows
3. Heart-beat – the water flows
The water cycle!
– “What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” – General Dwight Eisenhower

12.12.14
– The philosophy of the fashion model
– Movies:
“Under the Skin”

13.12.14
– Being > doing > having
– Sentiments
Vs.
Sentimentalities
– Knowledge, flexibility & optimism
– Female – connectedness, cooperation, egalitarianism & respect for difference
– Harmonizing the inner (the deepest part of you) & the outer (your everyday living)
– What is dialectic but two-way feedback?
– When the presence of GOD is most real, one is able to be comfortably alone!
– Distinguish :
GOD
&
Presence of GOD
– Pickup bar
– Desires & conflicts
– Distinguish:
Fears
&
Doubts
– Divide your solitude:
Half alone
&
Half with others
– Power is freedom
Freedom is power
Which is more true?
Or are the two just different names for the same thing?
– Distinguish:
Cajole
&
Coerce
– Solitude
&
Mortality
Intimacy
&
Maturity
– Tuning out
– Special someone
– Nothingness
Vs.
Somethingness
– Helplessness, insufficiency & unworthiness

14.12.14
– Kochi-Muziris Biennale
– Culinary artist
– Solemn gladness
Lord, delight us with the light of your face!
– “And he did not deny, but confessed that he was not the Christ, nor the Prophet.”
– The Cross:
Live & let live > die & let live > live & let die > die & let die (from often to rare)
The crucial shift is between the 2nd & 3rd!
Right? There is a place for everything, but each in its proper place…

15.12.14
– Behove
Belie
– An open society that is both safe & free!
– Decency/fairness is to respect & consider the views of the others.
– The glory of mortality!
– Movies:
“Guardians of the Galaxy”
The divine (or demonic) in the human is revealed, when pressed to the extreme (E.g. martyrdom), in the form of resurrection!
When you take it upon yourself to save the world (along with a few other kindred spirits), knowing full well that you will fail, then (the power of) JC is manifested there…
Salvation always comes from unlikely places.
– Untreated sewage
– Biodiversity for poverty eradication
– Anticipation >> innovation
– Citizen journalists
– “Without fear or favour”
– Moses – the secret of your real vocation is found in your original roots. And do discover that, you must uncover what is hidden under your (acquired) cultural identity!

01.12.2014

No freedom, no responsibility.
No responsibility, no discipline.
No discipline, no freedom!

Weimar culture

Communitarian

Attitudinising
Affectation

Collectivist

Pinkie

02.12.2014

Obligation as auto-coercion!

5.12.14

Self-leadership

6.12.14

Practitioners & academicians

Keep around 30% of RAM free!

11.12.14

Maven

Convert an eyesore into a cynosure

FTV music

12.12.14

What usually preoccupies you? Is it deep/spiritual stuff or the routine/shallow stuff?

Sky-blue, tree-green & soil-brown
Imagination, vocational progress & spiritual rootedness.
But in the reverse order!

“Under the Skin” – when you try to be what you are not (noble), you end up dead! But if you are satisfied with just being yourself (brutal), then you end up a monster…
Therefore, one must focus on becoming what one desires to be.
What if you start living by prioritizing what you want & can do, over what you must & ought to be?

The Universal is to be found deep within the particulars!

Can any other animal give up the survival instinct, like man can?

CAN GOD be weak?

To be who you are, you must become something that is nothing like what you are now!

Did Jesus ever trip and fall?

This GOD/self/life/world/nature/death is a horrible beauty!

13.12.14

Leery ~ suspicious

Sycophant ~ flatterer