Month: April 2018

MISCELLANEOUS

4.4.18
– The chief charges against me:
1. Not earning any money nor having any inherited asset.
2. Immoral, indecent, selfish, brutal and mean
3. Too critical/negative in outlook
4. Not adjusting, because of which the other person(s) has to compromise too much.
5. Not hospitable/sociable (enough).
– politicizing
Big talk
Anti-viral ministries (unpopular revolutions)
Downscaling utopia
Non-entrepreneurial inventions
Solo movements
Micro transformations
– 3 Sublimewe starters:
1. What is in your heart/mind that you would like to express?
2. What would you like to ask me in this open context, that you might not, otherwise?
3. What would you ask yourself, in order to understand yourself better?
4. What would you like to tell me now, that you might hesitate to say outside of this space?
– Kalina Silverman
Vs.
Immanuel Joseph
– Fake news order
Cauvery Tribunal
The SC on the SC/ST Act
10 point cheat sheet to the big story
Any neutral umpires left??
Bharat Bandh & Dalit agitation
From blame-game to the way forward
Does the Supreme Court have the power to alter legislation?
ANI News
Review petition
Virtual ID
Innocent terrorists
CBSE papers leak
Nerve-agent attack probe
– Power-knowledge
Vs.
Truth-speaking
Vested interests
Vs.
Legitimate authorities
– Distinguish:
Activist
&
Idealist
Critiquing both……!?
– Politics
Vs.
Public service
Clergy
Vs.
Christian ministry
What have we got ourselves into?! And how did we get here??
– This TV anchor has jumped from being a discussion moderator/facilitator to becoming a passionate debater himself!
– Destitute helpline
Auto Raja
Mansoor Chetlu
Citizen Matters, Bengaluru
Bottoms up
5.4.18
– Movies:
“Call Me By Your Name”
“And I will call you by mine”!
If they could be lovers, can’t they also become life-partners?
Why does anything good have to last forever?
Is there any element of abuse here? How old is Elia? Isn’t he just a kid??
Apricot ~ precocious
Is Oliver getting married to a woman?
Compare with Russell’s confusion between being a bisexual & homosexual, in “Six Feet Under”
6.4.18
– Is Jesus also a symbol/pointer of the messianic Kingdom, which is always “future”?
Is GOD going to establish his Kingdom now?
Are you ready for it yet?
Is the Eschaton dependent on our achievements?
No.
Is it independent of our state?
No.
7.4.18
– Genre-bending
Designer drugs
– Will relieving my depression (chemically) blunt my intellect & passion?
9.4.18
– hmu
7.4.18
– GOD wants to exist, that’s why he creates the universe, and especially our world!
Is GOD a product of human religion?
Yes.
Is religion a product of divine inspiration?
Yes.
– AGI
Super-intelligence
Future Studies
– Dream:
A shemale is ass-fucking a bleeding & decaying corpse!
?Salome & Christ University?
This sanitized culture is disgusting and its very hygiene is nauseating……
– Am I scared that people might call me preachy, perverted, nihilistic & crazy?
Yes. But I speak my mind & act out my heart anyway……!
– Anti-depressant – to take or not to take…
Is it essential to be miserable, in order to be a philosopher or artist?
Respect Biology!
12.4.18
– Adele & Leo Moracchioli ~ Christianity & Immanuel Joseph
Metal covers!
14.4.18
– Data mining
Institutional separation
Learning crisis
Decentralized action
District report cards
Schooling outcomes
Heat index
Self-reflexivity
Confucian religiousness and ancestral cult
ideogram
Co-humanity
– Religion & politics
Vs.
Economics & technology
– Movies:
“You Were Never Really Here”
“Morvern Callar”
18.4.18
– The theology of the unforgiven
– Enlightenment follows, the day AFTER the (LSD) trip!
19.4.18
– Contradictions & excesses
Drag racing
Naturalized hegemonies
Arborescent thinking
Totalizing logic
Non-finalizable
Deterritorialize and reterritorialize
Pre-symbolic desire
Anti-theory and anti-method
Overdetermining
multivalency
afoot
Moral inquiry
Character education
Contemporary phenomenology
Multicultural society
Critical pedagogy
Disciplined subjects
Power-knowledge
Virtual community
Online spirituality
Reflective arts
Chaordic leadership
Advanced beginner
Intentionally ambiguous
Evolving concept
– I met a “homeless” man, who is at home in the sidewalk!

HAPPENINGS

24.3.18
– suds
Disaster & revelation
False mysticism
– This shitty culture calls me “shit”!
Ha ha ha ha ha……
– When it comes to the temptation to make you alter your behavior because I find it offensive, my line is clearly drawn.
I will not cross it, unlike most others around me……
– “Ogling is sick!”
So says a sick world……
– You think you are something, because of all those layers you have put on, and I seem like nothing, because of my nakedness.
But my whole point is to help us all realize our essential emptiness, and disillusion ourselves from the mass hysteria of self-preservation!
– Church as body of Christ
+
Doctrine of Incarnation & resurrection
=
?!
– What does creativity have to do with sanity?
– Are you willing to suffer unhappiness & frustration for the rest of your life because of this spiritual vision??
Are you strong enough for such an arduous calling?
– Amazing Grace – I once was lost, because I believed I was found.
But now……!
– If expertise/passion = 100 credits.
Then one could either earn it via 100 credits in 1 field or 50 credits in 2 fields or 34 in 3, or……
Get my drift?
So, what are your fields, Joe, and do you have enough credits totally?
Inward/reflection _____
Study/learn _____
Conversation/discussion _____
– Distinguish:
Inherent worth
&
Productive value
Thingify
– Pre-modern postmoderns
Temple tax
Sexual apprentice
Technical skills
Secular/cultural/popular religions
Accusations of misanthropy
The statue that fell from heaven
Competition in humility
Futile self-abasement
Demonic powers, worldly authorities & planetary forces
Heavenly evil
Cosmic Christ
Female leadership
The unknown God
Philosophy as exclusive/elitist
Healing the soul
– Distinguish:
Magic
&
Miracle
If I experience clear supernatural signs of the truth of the Gospel, will I be reconverted??
– Imagination
Vs.
Superstition
26.3.18
– Super-generalist
Micro-fasting
– If women have a right to dress in a sexually provocative manner, then men have the right to ogle all they want.
The tingling in the groin…… 😉
– Movies:
“Malcolm X”
Nation of Islam (envy) + CIA (political establishment) => assassination of the rebel/critic/prophet.
Crisis of faith >> liberalization of the fundamentalist
Denzel Washington – what a great actor!
Compare with “Get Out” – psycho-analyzing religion and psychoanalysis as religion
Is martyrdom the true destiny of the hero??
The power of truth & the truth of power
Racism and the failure of Christianity
Compare with Ambedkar & Buddhism in India
“Mohawk”
Haunted by the past & avenged by the ghost – your sins will catch up with you!
The forest-spirit as witness & judge!
Stupid film – why such a high rating on Metacritic?!
Scalping, raping & burning
A mediocre imitation of “Apocalypto” & “Revenant”
– Palm Sunday – I feel like I have participated in the self-emptying (especially social, professional & economic stripping) of Christ!
Transforming suffering, without sadomasochism.
Celebration of life in all its fullness includes the affirmation of pain & death (distinguish from sin/injustice) also……!?
Making the cross out of the palm ~ making a crown out of thorns
The man-forsaken GOD and the GOD-forsaken man, in eternal bond!
The cross of Christ as the ultimate mockery of evil
– Cold War 2.0
– FOOD FOR THOUGHT 💭
3 Relationship types (adapted from Martin Buber):
1. I-it – I am the subject who uses the other as object (as a means to my own ends).
2. Thou-it – self-sacrifice – I become the thing to be abused by the other person.
3. I-Thou – ideal inter-personal relationship – mutual & reciprocal respect, trust & care – equal love, both for oneself & for the other!
27.3.18
– sombunall
GIGO
E-Prime
Realty tunnel
Spooky essences
Restricting language usage to phenomenological/operational/existential descriptions
Spacetime events
Born naked, hungry & curious
Ethno/ego-centrism – I am/we are the only rational, natural & moral/godly person/people in the world
Robert Anton Wilson
orga(ni)sm
Aristotelian traps
Policing ~ unifying ~ ordering
The scientific community
Timothy Leary
“Forgetting is the enemy”
Political prisoners
Christopher Wylie
NXIVM
– Normies
Vs.
Hipsters
– The indecent rebel
The ingenious trickster
ingenuous
Quantum psychology
28.3.18
– spiel
29.3.18
– Who is Steve Bannon?
Is Christopher Wylie gay?
– agitprop
– Passover >> Last Supper >> Eucharist
Blood >> wine >> blood >> wine >>>
Distinguish:
Actual
&
Literal
Real symbols & symbolic realities
Participate, celebrate, worship
Liturgical ~ sacramental ~ missional
Maundy Thursday:
Could it be that the meaning of the cosmos is actually divine love?!
30.3.18
– Movies:
“Phantom Thread”
“Killing Jesus”
– GOOD FRIDAY

The Cross of Christ stands for:

1. Courageous witness to truth (especially when confronting power)

2. The ultimate truth is the unconditional & unreserved love of GOD, who is the ruler of the world.

3. The human identity & vocation is found in this revelation of GOD in Jesus.

Worship of this GOD leads to:

1. Gratitude for such unlimited Grace >> radical generosity.

2. Humility, & penitence for one’s own sins.

3. The readiness to suffer for one’s faith in the Cross.

The Christian claim is that the meaning of the entire universe is found in the Cross!

31.3.18
– Easter:
Jesus is risen, so everyone may (must) rejoice, irrespective of the contingents!
All I need to do is just keep celebrating the liturgy, until I am finished.
Robert Farrar Capon is the best preacher of (Christ’s) Resurrection, because he is the best preacher of (our) death.
The mystery of faith:
“Christ has died,
Christ is risen,
Christ will come again.
Yes, Christ has died,
Christ is risen,
Christ will come again.”
“When we eat this bread,
And drink this cup,
We proclaim your death, O Lord,
Until you come again.”
“Dying you destroyed our death, rising you restored our life. Lord Jesus, come in glory.”
“Lord, by your cross and resurrection, you have set us free. You are the Savior of the World.”
They had been asking each other, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?” (Mark 16:3 NET) – the problem of religion, and the Gospel of Resurrection
Exultet
– Movies:
“Theory of Everything”
I believe God created the universe in the future/eschaton
1.4.18

– Conceptual art
Polynesia

Austronesia