BROWSING

​16.8.16

– Distinguish:

Specialty

&

Speciality

– Fulfillment > achievement

– Wisdom:

Insight

Vs.

Skill

– Christian ~ traditional ~ orthodox ~ conservative

– To live, is to believe, to learn, to be present, to love & to work…

– Distinguish:

Danger

&

Suffering

– The medicalization of death

The romanticization of poverty

The spiritualization of tragedy

– Change – events & processes

Birth >> growth >> decay >> death >> ……

– Distinguish:

Reproduction

&

Generativity

– Identity:

Reverence –> integrity

– Seánce parlor

Hospital resuscitation

– Praise ~ exalt ~ magnify

– Annunciation, visitation & assumption

– Faith – I believe in the GOD who has made the promise, so I will yield with expectation……!

“Let it be unto me, according to your word.”

The courage to remain, rejoice & serve

17.8.16

– Courage, sacrifice & violence

Jn. 15:13 + Mat. 26:52

Nobility & justice

– Patience & thoughtfulness

– The momentous momentary & the momentary momentous

Fuck the momentum (inertia)!

18.8.16

– Who are the Parsis?

Are they related to Jains?

– Critical realism

– cockles

– repechage

– CBMs – Confidence Building Measures

– ad hocism

– Personal

&

Personnel

– Balochistan

– putsch

– lockstep

19.8.16

– It is the ones who “love to sit at the feet of the LORD” who find it most difficult to let go of the LORD! The ultimate challenge (& failure) for the devotee is the Cross (like Peter’s rebuke of Jesus & the disciples’ total abandonment of Jesus during his passion) – the self-annihilation of the Messiah. GOD himself is the greatest idol & addictive drug in the history of the world. That is why Christianity is NOT a religion, just like many other faith traditions! The final greatest act of worship is the iconoclastic act – the renunciation of any absolute image of GOD (Scripture, theology, mystical experience, miraculous events, charismatic gifts, etc.) & the placing of one’s trust & desire in the absolutely unknowable ONE.

This is why the progressive revelation of GOD is first as Law (OT), then as person (Jesus) & finally as Spirit (NT)!

Spirit > person > law

But are Christians today ready for the final stage??

I think most Christians are in the first stage still, glorying in their confidence & attacking those who lack their simplicity & clarity!

Even Karl Barth says that the one true GOD of the Gospel cannot be reduced to the object of evangelical theology, since he/she/it is a living subject!

The more we know, the more we know we don’t know.

The less we know, the more we think we know!

– “Cultivating disconcertment”

20.8.16

– Leviathan – Job, Thomas Hobbes and Andrey Zvyagintsev

– gurney

22.8.16

– Special needs

– geoglyph

– repartee

adroit

– bandana

– Lucid dreaming

– Lament as wisdom

– Is there a difference between privacy and secrecy?

– Feeling the tension between my emphasis on individual freedom and the consideration of my social context

– Mourn ~ moan

– A loud homiletics without a critical hermeneutic

– Personal(ized) canons

– Narcissistic obedience

– Distinguish:

Coercion

&

Submission

– GOD-talk that is NOT self-delusion

– Eeyore

– Puzzlement need not always be associated with sadness

– The audacious insanity of prayer!

– The canonizing community

– Lament

Vs.

Cynicism

– Obedience as wisdom and criticism as faithfulness

23.8.16

– Balance:

Gaining control over my life (proactive) 

&

Taking things as they come (responsive) 

Distinguish:

Reactive

&

Responsive

– Develop, transform & create! 

– When you’re relaxing, try walking back & forth, instead of sitting or lying down.

– Moving from answer/solve to respond/address

– Truthful > faithful > loyal

– integral

– Remote intimacy

– Not all contradictions are nonsense!

– detente

– Screws & nuts

– plaintive

– tortuous

– Social media, gaming & pornography 

– I don’t know what is lacking/wrong in my lifestyle.

Why do I feel sad or restless so often??

How can I do something about this, if I don’t have a clue about what’s going on inside/underneath it?

– Beatitudes – notice both the present & future tense of the blessing. It is definitely a guaranteed destiny (eschatological state) & a deeper spiritual reality, that is being spoken of here! 

– GOD ~ Heaven ~ Kingdom

– “Poor in spirit” – pious & needy

– Detaching my consciousness/will/awareness from (being identified with, & therefore determined by) my feelings, thoughts & circumstances 

Self-transcendence! 

How does this relate to self-realization?