Month: December 2016

​9.12.16

– Private logic Vs. Common sense 
Hidden purposes
Mistaken goals

Sense of equality & social interest

Unique worldview & lifestyle 

Imbibed values & acquired needs

Agenda & attitudes

Interpreting early memories

Unconscious decisions

Beliefs as working ideas

Mental blocks

Attainable assignments 

Consistent patterns & recurrent themes

Client-led therapy sessions

Self-discovery 

Non-verbal exercises 

Language ability 

Carers

What was your place/role in the family constellation?

Self-image & expectations 

10.12.16

– paronomasia

Private tunnel

– Who is Tetiana Aleksina? 😉
Do you really wanna know?
What if I don’t?
You’ll never know what you’re missing…

Isn’t that better?

11.12.16

– Too tired to relax??
NAH!

– Distinguish:
GOD (Being)
&
(Divine) Presence

– gala
Ground reportage
Policy analysis
Infographics

12.12.16

– Mini-series

13.12.16

– cat’s paw
paideia
mathesis
Ignorant outspokenness
Cowardly ambivalence
Social types & their political consequences
Argos
Homeric
Agora
Autourgos
Ekklesia
Thorubos
Soldier-leader
First citizens
Logos, nomos, aletheia
isegoria
Education vs. Sophistry
The problematization of democracy – equality & freedom; truth & power; speech & education
Institutions, practices & ideas
New questions that incite debates and induce crises
Humane & beneficient tyrant
Constitution & hierarchy
Megalopsychos
Personal virtues & political institutions
Aletheia vs. Doxa
Rational courage
The parrhesiastic figure & the care of the self
Socratic game
Illustrious, distinguished
Aptitude + education = success
Sparta vs. Athens
hoplite
The wisdom required to discern the true sage
Soul-testing
Personal formation
Solon
Giving an account of one’s life
Critical discourse vs. Examination of conscience
The intelligible form of one’s lifestyle – the harmonic relation between logos & bios
“basanos”
Chafe at learning
Trail of my integrity
Military wisdom & political courage
Ontological harmony
Dorian mode
genos & demos
Virtue – testing the relation of the interlocutor’s existence with truth
The vital place of advisors in any form of government
The art of statesmanship
The Cynic School
Priest Vs. Prophet
King vs. Sage
Philosophical truth & moral virtue
Aesthetics of the self
General schema & intermediate forms
Epicurean – relationships
Cynicism – politics
Stoicism – self
Clinical technai

– Truth-telling in relation to oneself is wisdom.
Truth-telling in relation to others is love.
Truth-telling in relation to power is justice.

14.12.16

– impersonation
Commercial & cultural ties
Foreign interns
Veiled message
Learning deficit
Enforcement Directorate
Cosmic dust
PETA
Local self-government bodies
Pastoralist
Agrarian economy
Conundrum in the dialogue >> pugnacious debates
Ethical ideologies
Conservation governance
Depredation by Western MNCs
Corrupted traditions
Aid packages
Normalizing ties
‘One-China Policy’
Cyclone Vardah
Ripple effects

– Can taming be done without any cruelty?

– Go offline (mobile & Internet) during fasting days!

– Include 30 Challenges for Enlightenment (High Existence) to my New Year Resolutions

– Third Isaiah
Self-styled
Isa. 63:16
Divisive internal struggle
Origin, identity & destiny
Geostrategic & socio-economic factors subsumed under religious & spiritual meanings
Communal efforts
Conflicts for redefinition
Collecting & editing >> composing!
Self-conscious reconstruction
Political stability through religious reform
Recontextualizing history
Decree of Cyrus
Second Temple Psalmody
Reinterpreting tradition
The normative story & the narrative law
Military colony

Escaping the trauma of conquest, through surrender

15.12.16

– Gymnosophists
Indo-Greek synthesis
Peregrinus
Heracles/Hercules
Ulysses/Odysseus
Self-cremation!
Spectacular, scandalous & provocative witnessing
Exemplifying > explaining
blazon
Life-knowledge
Doctrinal personification
Mythical personalities as philosophical modalities
Lives as canonical commentaries
Heroes > authors
Critical preaching
Impromptu public address
Autobiographical sermons
Christianity & Cynicism
Popular philosophy
A mode of life completely free of social institutions, political opinions, cultural norms & rules of law
Inversion of standards
Desacralizing customs
Fire worship
Sun vs. Son
Moral authority ~ spiritual power
turntable

– Eleutheria, Autarkeia – No enjoyment of freedom/liberty without the achievement of independence/self-sufficiency!

– Parrhesia
Vs.
Propaganda

– YouTube – persons becoming topics!

– uncial

16.12.16

–  National Pension System (NPS)
Behavioral therapy
Extinction of classical conditioning
Neutral stimulus
Exposure therapy
Systematic desensitization
Operant conditioning
Reward learning
Animal intelligence

– Parenthood (anticipation) anxiety ;-(
Alopecia areata (beard)

– Maya: (from World Wisdom)
“The Sovereign Good is real, the world is dream;
The dream-world has its roots in the Supreme,
Who casts His image in the endless sea
Of things that may be or that may not be.
The fabric of the Universe is made
Of rays and circles, or of light and shade;
It veils from us the Power’s burning Face
And unveils Beauty and Its saving Grace.”
— Frithjof Schuon
Theology, depth psychology & critical theory – all coming together in mystical spirituality.
This world is NOT necessary!
Things (including Christ) both reveal AND conceal (GOD) – this is essential for our salvation (to know, & not be destroyed).

– “When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice!”
— American Indian Saying
Most people live in such a way that, when they die, they cry and the world rejoices!
The deadweights.
And what about those babies that are greeted by laments and regrets??
Remembering one’s beginning & ending is essential to live well in between. So never let all the noise & chaos get to you!
We need to recover the wisdom of the ancient indigenous (now mostly extinct!) peoples……
When Jesus died, most people did rejoice, right?? And didn’t he cry when he died?!

17.12.16

– “Pleased as man with men to dwell”
WOW! Am I (yet)…??

19.12.16

– Advent – preparing for the celebration!

– A confirmation sign from the sovereign one…

– Apodosis & protasis

– Higher logic

29.11.16
– Diversity of opinions is good for self-education.

As long as the quality of the primary relationship is not negatively affected, I think anything (emotional, romantic, spiritual or sexual) is alright!

I think married people should give maximum freedom to their partners.

As love increases, fear decreases!

Self-control and (physical) safety measures are essential.

The more mature/responsible one is, the more freedom one is able to handle & share!

Adulthood is not a stage, but a never-ending process!
– Desire + discipline = motivation!
– Flesh/matter + spirit/energy = life/world/GOD!

Spirit does not mean non-material, but that which animates/gives life to, stuff.
– 1Pet. 5:7 – you cast and he cares or you care and he casts…

The opposite of anxious is not relaxed, but prayerful.

Let GOD do the worrying for you!
– “But blessed are your eyes, for they see. And blessed are your ears, for they hear.”

Visualizing & audializing

“The account of the mission ends with several remarks about joy.”

Rejoice ~ bless ~ glorify ~ praise ~ thank!

The pre-messianic, messianic & post-messianic age

Intelligent + humble = wise

Are you able to become a beginner, repeatedly?

Humble ~ open – honest ~ free ~ relaxed ~ unassuming

Unique flaws – the truth of our glorious imperfections!

Worldly fears

Vs.

Holy awe

Accepting God, myself, others & the world, just as they are!

Intelligent – humble = vain

Humble – intelligent = naïve

Be BOTH pure & mature!

GOD – Father-Lord

Reverence ~ indirect reference

Syntactical & conceptual similarities

What a great honor to live in such a time, at the fullness of this great revelation!

Blessed ~ happy ~ lucky ~ chosen ~ special ~ gifted

The highest is accessible only to the lowly.

Advent-waiting

Distinguish:

Imitate

&

Discern
– Distinguish:

Innocent

&

Gullible

Shrewd

&

Culpable
– darnedest

damnedest

Ego-contest

Skilling India

Hashtag

#I am Defiant

Football team killed in plane crash!
– Freedom/privacy/mobility

Vs.

Safety/survival/stability
– If I have to walk away from my family (wife & kids), would I be able?

Does this mean I am just human, or that I am a coward? Or are they both the same thing?!

Who knows what I would do under certain extraordinary conditions??
– Where are those soaring depths?
– Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC)

30.11.16
– Can one be a slave to one’s own convictions?

Are there certain (rare) forms of slavery which are good??
– “Believing in the need to believe” & true content

Power configurations

Operative apparatuses & interpretive disciplines

The textuality of (the experiences & practices of) everyday life

Stratospheric/ethereal aesthetics

Dominant ideologies

Vs.

Alternative/divine ordering

Tactical resistances & reactionary micro-politics

Consciousness/perception & experience/representation

“Truth as the march of metaphors”

Religious models for postmodern philosophy

The aesthetics of (all) experience and aesthetic experience

The metamorphosis/rebirth of Theology
– Is anything really inanimate or essentially unconscious? Isn’t all matter pervaded by energy/spirit?
– Bio-hacking!

1.12.16
– Olympian

Ideas > techniques
– Everyday, stretch your (present) limits a little.
– How I treat my body ~ how we relate to each other ~ how man interacts with the environment
– Religion/philosophy >> spirituality/arts >> science/technology
– Instead of bringing the social & professional dimensions under the purview of the personal/inward life, we’ve got it all inverted and therefore become screwed up!
– How do you keep the fire burning inside, when it’s so cold outside?
– “Do you think the advertising you are doing, for ventures like 123, is ethical??” – X

“Well I’ve bypassed the cruel dungeon of ethics a long time ago. Most of the stuff in the world is not ethical and even the Universe is not ethical but complex. I don’t think in terms of good and evil anymore, but in terms of adding complexity….I dont intend to do this all my life but this is the path that I have to go through now and I’ve thought this through for a long long time…” – Y

“Ha ha ha! The cruel dungeon of ethics…… 😅😂

Ethics is an integral part of the complexity of life! Getting rid of it is only oversimplification. And ethics is not the same as dogmatic moralism…” – X
– The discipline of self-love

&

The love of self-discipline 
– Overextended empire

Extravagant propaganda of the Davidic dynasty

Partial restoration of a subsistence economy
– New Oxford Annotated Bible – was Sennacherib’s invasion of Jerusalem thwarted by the angel of the LORD, or was he pacified by a heavy tribute from Hezekiah??

Was Cyrus’s decree for the rebuilding of the Jerusalem temple just a part of his general policy of religious tolerance throughout the empire, or a consequence of a supernatural intervention?

The anonymous prophet known as ‘Second Isaiah’
– Post-exilic Judaism – without king or temple

Post-modern Christianity – ?
– 3 categories of Jews:

1. Those who were left in Judea

2. Exiles who stayed in Babylonia

2. Those who returned to Jerusalem

2.12.16
– Metacommunication
– “Your affectionate smile is like a sunflower 🌻 in my life! ☺”
– Keep the mid-week semi-off day a floating one!

Anywhere between Tuesday & Friday will be good.
– “His loss is irreplaceable, but his presence is always there. He is & always will be blessing you from heaven.” – X

“…that could be said of Jesus Christ also! But in a more profound & real way than for any other person

His presence & his absence exist together as a paradoxical experience now! And he is fully here, even more than when he was in the flesh, not just up in “heaven” somewhere. ”
– What is the meaning of “good” or “bad” when used to describe a job, and what do they mean when qualifying a boss?

Is being a Christian a “good” job? Is GOD a “good” boss?
– “AMEN! And return to CHRIST, not Christendom or Christianity.” – X

“But can Christ & Christianity be fully separated??

Isn’t the Bible & the Church (as tradition & community) also Christ (the person) mediated to us through Christianity (the religion)??” – Y

3.12.16
– “Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

— Plato
“Vision without action is a daydream. 

Action without vision is a nightmare. 

— Japanese Proverb
Hmmm… sounds like something I might say!?

What do you do when you’re surrounded by fools, and most of your past is either a daydream or a nightmare?

Time to repent – both spiritually and contextually!

4.12.16
– Austerity measures
– “It was a beautiful mistake!” – from the movie “Captain Fantastic”
– I love you ~ I accept, respect, & care for, you!
– didgeridoo

stilted

hammy

kooky

mojo
– Breaking out

Coming out
– American exceptionalism

6.12.16
– cagey

craven

8.12.16
– From saving to investing