14.2.18
– armature
quad
Reverse engineering
– LENT – Return, secret, intensify
My life of solitude & inner work is “pleasing to GOD”! 😃
15.2.18
– neutrinos
Weak force
Quantum fields
quarks
Standard model
Super-symmetry
leptons
Dark matter & energy
Lame Deer
Rolf Dobelli and World Minds
– My Pocket
16.4.18
– croon
Robert Burns
Aboriginal wisdom
– When was the last time you flirted with, seduced, and bedded, your partner/spouse?
17.2.18
– True colors
Controlled promiscuity
vole
macadam
bitumen
asphalt
V-bomb
crepuscular
disgorge
Pre-, mid- & post-match analysis
Statistician/dissectionist
downy
Apocalyptic intensity
irides
tyke
– How do you (go about trying to) change an entire culture??
– Masters & Johnson think they have fucked Freud with their “scientific research”, but their own personal lives are exposed as fucked up, by Freud’s theories! 😉
– The anatomy of inspiration, hidden in the “Watchmen”, illuminated by the “total eclipse of the heart”!
– Watching all these beautiful & enthusiastic (Christ University) students in the neighborhood, makes me nostalgic about my own youth……
Bittersweet memories of joy & loss
18.2.18
– Salvation is to fully love yourself!
To be totally comfortable with who you are.
To live in the moment, deeply in touch with your core, and the world around, from that central orientation.
To be contemplative/spontaneous is bliss!
Focus on enjoying relaxation. Then you can truly work and rest……
19.2.18
– Masters of Sex:
I’m sick & tired of the lies (hypocrisy, cowardice, deception, manipulation, etc.)!
I think Season 4 will be a breath of fresh air……
– Did you watch the music video of “Total eclipse of the heart”?
It’s really profound and powerful… very unexpected!!
Deserves a full essay of analysis/criticism
– Operating principles:
Maintain a minimal structure (skeleton) to support passion, spontaneity & creativity.
Be in the body.
Slow & steady pace.
Focus on the interface/interaction between the inner & outer worlds.
– Routines:
Daily
Half-day
Tasks
20.2.18
– Movies:
“देवदास” (Devdas – Hindi, 2002)
Truly deserves to be a classic!
Watched it at home with Chellam. The video quality was not good enough.
Best film for 14.2.18 – Valentine’s Day + Ash Wednesday!?
Madhuri Dixit/Chandramukhi is the brightest star of this show!
Love Vs. Honor
Passion Vs. Survival
An anatomy of grief via the lens of developmental psychology
“No objection, my Lord!”
“Black Panther”
Refreshing to see a mainstream Hollywood movie with an all-black cast!
Compare Wakanda with biblical Israel.
Political ethics – Exclusivism Vs. Imperialism Vs. Inclusivism
A true king is independent of tradition, although he prioritizes virtue. What righteousness and wisdom in leadership mean, must evolve!
The Queen is the king’s real mentor!
Ancestral plane – come to terms with your roots, only then can you spread your own wings……
To be truly free, you must first overcome your legacy of slavery.
Distinguish:
Authentic liberty
&
Reverse slavery
Is Ryan Coogler black?
“Wakanda forever!”
&
“You get to decide what kind of king you will be.”
Awesome review by the Atlantic!
Get the post-credits song.
“The Shape of Water”
This one left me feeling ambivalent and puzzled!
There is definitely another beast here, crouching underneath the guise of a classical (albeit atypical) romance……
“Is he/it (a) God??” and “What is God really like?” – I think the central theme is theology!
God (or the Messiah) is a mute (NOT deaf) humanoid amphibian, deity of South American jungle tribes, and captive of the North American militia.
The Gospel as fairy-tale
Salvation is achieved/found whenever ordinary (read marginalized/powerless – the menial laborers, the Black, the women, the unemployed, the elderly, the queer, etc.) persons dare to disobey/subvert the brutal might of the System, for the sake of concrete love, NOT attack or resist it in search of ideals such as justice!
The beloved as the embodiment of Hope – the shape of water. Find the poem.
“Unable to perceive the shape of you,
I find you all around me,
Your presence fills my eyes with your love,
It humbles my heart,
For you are everywhere.”
Does religion do with God what science/politics does with “the asset”?
Inter-genreic film –> Inter-species romance via body language – incarnational (as opposed to Scriptural) theology
“A fairy-tale for troubled times”
GOD, as the monster, worthy of love! In/un/non-human
Beautiful NYT review
Connect, compare, contrast & merge “Black Panther” & “Shape of Water”
– clairvoyance
carapace
mongrelization
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