Month: July 2015

26.6.15

– Sexual, religious & political orthodoxies

– Distinguish:
Philosophy,
Theology &
Ideology

– “Philosophy is not a (neat) theory for the explanation of the world. It is simply a statement of facts as they exist, that the very basis of our being is contradiction.”
He/she who cannot cope with conflict is not fit to live in this world…

28.6.15

– No reading on the Sabbath!
Play games (iPad, etc.)

– I (don’t) believe that the family is the building block of society. I think (individual) citizenship is more important.

– Strengthened by His presence ~ rejoicing in faith/hope

– Incarnation – GOD knows what it is like to be human.
Glorification (eschatological) – we will know what it is like to be GOD!

– “Mortality – the witness to our sins & the witness to GOD’s resistance of the proud…”

– Seek –> find –> praise

– Know Him –> believe in Him –> call upon Him –> love Him

– “While they say to me continually, ‘Where is thy GOD?’ ”

– “For I shall AGAIN praise him…”
World without end.
Amen!

– Devotional ejaculations!

– The celibate/chaste is not necessarily prudish or timid!

– From the valley of (the shadow of) death, I remember joy ……!

– Memories of the (unimaginable) future and anticipations of the (glorious) past

– My Rock has forgotten me…….

– “At night his song is with me…”

– What happens when your (closest) companion becomes your (worst) adversary??
“…as a deadly wound in my body”!

– Disquieted ~ cast down
__________ ~ lifted up

– The one who died to save = the one who conquered the grave!

– Mephibosheth – crippled in both feet, orphaned, & eating at the King’s table!

– Idol-breaker ~ shame-destroyer

– What happens to the Evangelicals & Liberals when they are cut-off from each other?

– How could Jonathan & David be (personal) friends? Were they not (political) rivals?

– No ‘good riddances’ among Christians!

– What can I do to perpetuate the lineage & legacy of my (late) enemy?

– Living under Grace –> faithful human covenants (making & keeping promises made to each other)

– “I am just like a dead dog (before Thee)”!

– He calls me out by my very name!  🙂

– I will restore to you what is rightfully yours, but you have now lost (by becoming unworthy of your inheritance)…

– “Don’t be afraid!” – David
Even before
“Please don’t kill me!” – Mephibosheth

– Rastafarianism – pre-coronation name!

– Adopted into royalty

– James Burke

– Book trailers!

– Movies:
“Dhil Dhadakne Dho”
It takes enormous maturity/security to let the other (beloved) be/go!
2 contrary(?) views of family as matrix for personal growth:
Blossoming
Vs.
Moulding
I can very well identify with someone like Ayesha Mehra, especially in that scene of the family conference/confrontation, when she is sitting with head bowed, quiet, but stubborn!
What (positive) difference could a professional counselor have made in a (dysfunctional) family such as this?

29.6.15

– Uncommon common sense
Heroic irrationalism

– Fortuity & gratuitousness

30.6.15

– seance

– jocund

– fulminate

– arcana
elixir
Holy grail

– “Buoyant and irreverent wit”

– philanderer

– baroque

– antediluvian

– Positive and negative light

– Shifu

– Movies:
“When Nietzsche Wept”
At what exact point in the story did the hypnosis begin??
Joseph, Salome, &……
Philosophy vs. Psychology vs. sexuality = spirituality!

– Energetic arts

– A feverish brain & a comatose spirit!  😦

– Internal martial arts training –> spiritual transformation

– Spiritual capitalism

– What would a conversation between John Caputo and David Bentley Hart be like?

– ersatz