6.12.17
– Distinguish:
Goals
&
Desires
No to the former. Yes to the latter.
– http://airpollutionapi.com/aqi/india/karnataka/hulimavu
PM2.5
– Less is more >> Nothing is everything!
– Equalizing the intellect-will with the body-emotions……!
Putting biology back on an equal footing with culture. No more hierarchical domination, only peer-negotiation.
In fact, I should empower the flesh a little more than the spirit!
Positive regression
Physiological development
– Readings:
“Saving God” by Mark Johnston – Chapter 1
“University & Pedagogy: Critical Theory & Practice” by Monica McLean – Chapter 1
“On Critical Pedagogy” by Henry Giroux – Chapter 1
“Coaching & Mentoring” by Simon Western – Chapter 1
“Beyond Objects, Beyond Subjects: Giorgio Agamben on Animality, Particularity and the End of Onto-theology” by Colby Dickinson (Journal article from Cosmos & History)
– Savvy
Vs.
Intelligent
– The politics of intimacy
Inward culture
The marketization of life
Capital, commodity & spectacle
Google – Kids coding & interactive doodle
– Bios
Vs.
Biology
The revolt of life, against the hegemony of language (ontology & technology)
Naturalizing (adj. & v.) religion
The ethics of the animal
Carnal spirituality
Psychological depression as a symptom of the rape of creation by superimposed knowledge (The Fall)!
– “Hello, what do you do?”
– “Hi… I am trying to live!”
– Arekere, Bengaluru – should we buy an air-purifier for the house?
AIR POLLUTION KILLS TWO INDIANS EVERY MINUTE!
– Distinguish:
Prosperity
&
Productivity
– My goal is to live without goals.
My purpose is to destroy all definitions of purpose.
My meaning is to let the body-moment dictate.
7.12.17
– Microsoft print to PDF
3M Command wall strips & hooks
– Sleeping without alarm
Hallelujah! 🙌
8.12.17
– Nature as a tourist spot
9.12.17
– Beliefs –> values –> desires –> plans –> decisions –> actions
– “Lay down & die”
Sometimes, giving up is not always the easiest, and may also be the wisest, thing to do!
– cram
slotched
Ace the class
Homai Vyarawalla
Lab infection
This day in history
Article, image, idiom, doodle of the day
acerbate
Dingle ~ dell
Flagellation ~ tanning
laundress
Overspill ~ runoff
Ailment ~ complaint
jousts
Independent watchdog
State media
shero
Parallel cinema
– “To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.” – Charlotte Gilman
A female reformer, therefore a great person!
She committed suicide.
What was HER “dominant weakness”?
Chronological snobbery is as bad as blind faith.
STILL – How long, how long……??! Time is running out for us, and we cannot take it for granted, that we will overcome any challenge in the future, just because we have come so far from our humble beginnings……
– “When you pass through the waters, I am with you; when you pass through the streams, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not harm you.”
Isaiah 43:2 NET
http://bible.com/107/isa.43.2.net
You will somehow make it through! That’s how you will know that I am always with you.
The Hindu past
Vs.
The Buddhist present
Vs.
The Christian future
It is “when”, not “if”… then, as you breathe freely, you will really be fully alive!
– News:
4 CRPF personnel shot dead allegedly by colleague
Withdraw ‘autocratic’ order cancelling Max Hospital licence, demands Delhi Medical Association
JNPT SEZ & Nitin Gadkari
Separatist seminar disallowed in J&K – Human Rights Day
Greater Noida twin murder: Teen (hooked to violent videogame) confesses to killing mother and sister, was upset after being scolded
UN rejects U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital
Iraq declares final victory over Islamic State
The poll body has appointed Praveen P Nair as the returning pfficer in the place of K Velusamy who was embroiled in controversy over rejection of nomination papers filed by actor Vishal Krishna.
Black holes not as powerful as imagined
PHYSICS BREAKTHROUGH: NEW FORM OF MATTER, EXCITONIUM, FINALLY PROVED TO EXIST AFTER 50-YEAR SEARCH
More minors smoking, chewing tobacco in Maharashtra
Do you know where your Aadhaar has been used? This is how you can find out
Why is adultery an offence for men and not women? Plea in SC
Inadequate infrastructure a bane of dry waste collection centres
Bengaluru woman cheated of Rs 95K by NRI Facebook friend
Bengaluru Signs Up For Cleaner Air With World’s Biggest Cities
Experts tear into Bengaluru’s Revised Master Plan 2031, say it is filled with major errors
– Doing as being (role-playing)
Vs.
Being as doing (meditativeness)
Vs.
Unconsciousness as peace (sleep)
Unbecoming!
Breathe: calm ~ aware ~ nimble
Equilibrium/homeostasis:
3 stimuli/forces – inner/body, outer/environment & ideal/spiritual
At each given moment, allow the equal & free interplay of all the above 3, and then act (respond) accordingly.
(No more fixed periods/places for the exclusive focus on any one!)
Human – neither animal nor machine nor angel, but a unique entity which also includes the other 3!
Inner ~ me
Outer ~ us
Ideal ~ we
Distinguish:
Conscience/reason/will
&
Consciousness/awareness/instinct
Integrate the Sabbath into all 7 days! But can it be done without any dedicated (sacred) clearing?
– The music is the noise
and
the noise is the music!
Distinguish:
Mild background music
&
Loud intense listening
– Image ~ reflection ~ shadow
– Wash your eyes everyday
– Free money
11.12.17
– Movies:
“Mother!”
Exceptional acting by Lawrence! She is the star here, not Bardem. All the horror is seen on her face!
The unremitting nightmare of being feminine, in this world……
Beautiful & terrible Genesis/Fall parable – GOD, earth, the Garden, Adam, Eve, the Fruit, Cain, Abel, etc. They are all there!
Where is the Serpent??
Were you able to identify religion & the church in the story?
What is the book and who is the publisher?
It became too preachy & obvious in certain scenes where violence, war, etc. were depicted too graphically, and it was not shocking either. Could’ve been left out.
I wonder if there is any autobiographical elements from Darren & Jennifer’s relationship……
The relational life of a great artist – in short – fucked up!
The wife, as assistant, & muse
Religious ~ motherless!
Ecology as religion
The baby, of course, is Christ!
“Who are (all) these people?!”
“I’ll just get started on the apocalypse.”
“Where is he?
Where’s my baby?
– He’s not dead.
– What? Where is he?
– A voice still cries out to be heard, loud and strong.
– What?
– Do you hear that?
– No! No!
– Do you hear that?
That’s the sound of life.
The sound of humanity!
His cry of love!
His love for you!
– Get off! Get off!
You killed him!”
Review
Poster 1
Poster 2
http://www.indiewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/mother-poster-cropped.jpeg?w=780
Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtTE_DBKpRY
– Worldly ecclesiastic
Middle English
flighty
Troilus & Criseyde
Black comedy
Vs.
Romantic tragedy
Remote ~ mysterious ~ fascinating
Learned & witty
Wily & hopeful
Earthy humor
Distinguish:
Subtle
&
Deceitful
“Guffaw (belly laugh) at that old & mighty bully, the world!
Renaissance lore
scapegrace
penniless
Pantagruelist
The Modern Library
– Church/mass review! 😉
Instead of just paying attention to every word, try to sense & imbibe the flavor/mood of the occasion.
Zeroing as heroism! Ego-death or self-transcendence as GOD-realization.
The baptist pointed to the Messiah. So, who/what did the Messiah point to? Obviously himself, right?
That’s how it seems at first, but if you look more carefully, he is then canceling himself out. So, what’s the point of the Cross??
Is religion pointing us to a really existent GOD, or is GOD fully present in & through religion?!
No religion, no GOD.
True.
But also,
No GOD, no religion!
– I must start to enjoy dressing up.
For whose sake?
12.12.17
– Encounter groups
halter
Central paranoia
– orphic
– Unnamed
Famous for being unknown
The author is always anonymous!
– Mute certain WhatsApp status updates 👍
– If (my being) explicit is obscene (for you), then so be it!
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