Month: May 2018

NUGGETS

15.5.18
– Dream:
I am trying to swallow a tablet that’s stuck in my throat. I am in a beach-house, a monstrous wave is coming in from the sea, and I start running for cover……
– Non-exemplary instances
Metaphysical ethics ~ political ontology
Inclusive disjunction
– denormatise
homunculus
non-thetic
The is as ought
– Christ University?
The behemoth becomes the dinosaur, and then goes extinct……! Is this evolution??
– Theoretical Humanities
Rigorous art
– Wedding Anniversary reflections:
6 years of marriage.
Last year –
– Moving out on our own >> more commitment & confidence.
– Becoming closer to each other & more independent of others, especially parents (financial & psychological).
– Feeling of stability in spite of serious challenges facing us, or because of overcoming them.
Next year –
– To assist Salome in spiritual growth & physical fitness.
– To work on improving the quality of our communication in sensitive/controversial areas. Use Sublimewe, etc.
– Plan to have a child, once her working conditions are more ideal for parenting. Most probably, after a year or so…
(Celebration yesterday was good.
Maybe we can have the marital vows renewal & physical intimacy today)
16.5.18
– Certainty ~ arrogance
Satisfaction ~ complacency
– My work is fundamentally alertness/awareness/attentiveness!
– YONO
Agress – approach ~ attack ~ undertake
Misanthropic egotist
idiotism
Comedian ~ critic
कुसुम
सर्वेक्षण
Mega-fraud
diamantaire
Psycho lover
– “If my people, who belong to me, humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, and repudiate their sinful practices, then I will respond from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.”
2 Chronicles 7:14 NET
“Seek my face” ~ seek to please me
Spiritual repentance >> moral reformation >> social welfare
I think Indian Christians are grossly mistaken in their “application” of this “promise”…!
– “I always keep some whiskey handy, in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.” – W. C. Fields
Non-philosophy + spiritual disciplines + pornography! 😉😛
– News:
“With friends like Trump, who needs enemies!” – EU Chief
Virat Kohli to Surrey (County Cricket)!
‘This is an eye-opener’: Changes in global water supply hint at future conflicts and crises
Vector control only way to control Dengue: Experts
World Hypertension Day
Good & bad calories
Did you ever think of an Ambani company going bankrupt?
RTE quota students
Cops quarrel over disparity in bribes – Chennai
IPL betting scam
Evaluation standards, questions better – TN class XII exams
Low voter turnout in Bengaluru – error?
18.5.18
– My ministry – Flesh made words via spirit!
– My 3 anchors in choppy/unchartered waters:
1. Daily routine
2. Friends
3. Sense of personal vocation/individual identity
– eCAS
Common Account Statement containing financial transactions across all mutual funds!
– Movies:
“Revenge”
Violence is the mature adult’s sex!?
Intense communion through passionate conflict……
“Sexy Beast”
The last (postmortem) scene is crucial!
Why this title??
– TV series:
“Sneaky Pete” (Season 1 Episode 1 & 2)
Will to power
Vs.
Ethical sensibility
18.5.18
– Reading as experience and vice versa!
Do I overuse the exclamation mark? What does this show about me??
– TV guide – What’s On app
– Angel investor
19.5.18
– Shaka sign
Art filters
Sleep naked
– Christian Management Devotional articles:
1. Be true to yourself.
2. Be relevant to the audience.
3. Create something better!
– Future/potential
Realizing who you are
&
Improving what you’ve become
20.5.18
– Movies:
“Borg Vs. McEnroe”
WOW! An archetypal sports film.
An explosive combination of style and substance
“Assassin’s Creed”
The critics ripped this one apart, but I love it!
– LiveScore app!
19.5.18
– Animated book summary
aftermovie
Self-starter
21.5.18
– Zero-sum game
Utorrent Web!
Curious app
Mind mapping
Diagrammatology
Tim Ferris
Curios & puzzles
Ken Ken
Catching lightning in a bottle
– “An army of self-experimenters for testing assumptions!”
“The minimum effective dose to be super-effective”
The 80/20 Principle
“What is measured is managed”
– “There is something ever so slightly dishonest about this character, something false about the boundaries drawn around his sadism and his rage. Deadpool 2 dabbles in ugliness and transgression, but takes no real creative risks.”
(From the NYT review )
Sounds like Rowan Moses’s review of Immanuel Joseph! 😝

THINGS

21.4.18
– recuse
22.4.18
– levee
traduce
iterative
piddling
– “Nature’s Fortune” (book on Blinkist)
“Economics is too important to be left to the economists”
“Wedding the scientific method and radical imagination”!
23.4.18
– Non-human philosophy
Regional knowledges
– Is Ravi Zacharias able & willing, to promote the application of critical thinking, upon his own faith too? Or is it only for punching holes into the case made by the opponents of Christianity?
– Movies:
“A Quiet Place”
The finish is where we are now!
– Do you have the guts to cross swords with other(s) yet??
24.4.18
– hamper
pip
25.4.18
– mofussil
urdoxa
Originary faith
Eidetic variation
Invariant structure
Identity ~ essence
Natural(ized) hallucinations ~ ideologies ~ epistemes
An inherent complex of attitudes
Intricately constructed logic
Unified theory of philosophy & science
Disempowering the authoritarian impulse
Incompleteness theorems
nimbus
Philosophy as metascience
Given-without-givenness
– Phenomenology
Vs.
Psychologism
29.4.18
– From humanism to anti-humanism to non-humanism!
– exigency
golem
– What is Gollum’s (LOTR) “us/we” all about??
1.5.18

– Christianity as non-Judaism

2.5.18

– The politics of desire
Romancing death

3.5.18

– Eklavya

12.5.18

– 6 years of marriage.
Last year:
– Moving out on our own >> more commitment & confidence.
– Becoming closer to each other & more independent of others, especially parents (financial & psychological).
– Feeling of stability in spite of serious challenges facing us, or because of overcoming them.
Next year:
– To assist Salome in spiritual growth & physical fitness.
– To work on improving the quality of our communication in sensitive/controversial areas. Use Sublimewe, etc.
– Plan to have a child, once her working conditions are more ideal for parenting. Most probably, after a year or so…
(Celebration yesterday was good.

Maybe we can have the marital vows renewal & physical intimacy today)
14.5.18
– rejig
– Virtual immanence
Abstract sex
– 420
– Dream:
Mummy is diagnosed with HIV! I try to reassure my parents about their future quality of life.
Chellam is ?flirting with one of her male colleagues, and I am disturbed about it. I would rather not know such things……