RAMBLINGS

6.9.18

– Aggression YES, malice NO

Anger YES, hatred NO

– Keygen ~ virus!?

– Reality Kings free trial

Canna-butter

1 lb = 0.5 kg

1 ounce = 28 g

245° F = 118° C

0.5 kg butter + 30 g ground decarboxylated cannabis + 3 cups of water

Taste 1 tsp first

– If we’re really close, then why can’t we freely express anger with each other?!

What is it about this one emotion that makes us wanna repress it almost completely??

– Plus size sexxxy 🤤🤗

– Teacher’s Day (India) = Robert Farrar Capon’s death anniversary 😍

7.9.18

– Compare:

Jothi Kumar (Christ University) telling a student to repeat the year because of low attendance

&

Immanuel Joseph telling an SFG member to rethink their membership because of inadequate participation

– My ministry = SFG + SCG + blog + annual retreat/seminar + other (random/spontaneous/situational) stuff

It’s an integrated multiplex! So, don’t analyze or evaluate any of these isolated from the others.

– American Horror Story (TV series) – the house (and by extension, the historical roots, cultural context & natural environment) as a living character (if not the main protagonist) in the (including my & your) story……!

“What are you afraid of?” – is that normal?

Paytm Automatic

– If freaking out is not allowed in the systematic days, then why should moderation be done for the off days?

Distinguish:

Rhythm (contemplative/attitude/mood) – 24/7

&

Order (volitional/decision/plan) – 5/7 days

– Compare webpage:

Chrome (browser) view,

Mercury Reader add-on &

Pocket article

8.9.18

– Brazilian pines

Atlantic forest

Nalayani

– Are words meant to show what is within the speaker, or is it just a tool to manipulate what is inside the listener?? 😠

– Project X

“Disputation on the Power of Indulgences”

– Distinguish:

Periyar,

Annadurai &

Kamarajar

– I wanna stay as I am >> Let me become who I could be!

Cultivating my second nature – self-culture (vb.)

– Lost favorites

– “Can you give some reasons for leaving the SFG? Just as feedback”

– I should plan the next seminar on FAMILY!

Defamiliarize it……

– System – even those at the top of the hierarchy seem to be cattle/slaves!

– I am NOT able to get high quality video for films like “Babasaheb Ambedkar”, “Periyar”, etc.

Is this because of a conspiracy against these figures?!

– Can you “freak out” WITHOUT alcohol, cigarettes, pornography, TV, etc.??

10.9.18

– Tactical compromises

Self-observation

Mutual masturbation

Corporate silence

11.9.18

– Cantonment town

British India

Mahar/untouchable Vs. Baniya/Mahatma

Tukaram

Capricious lessons

Slippery ethics

Explosive deployment of hitherto colonized knowledge

chawl

matriculate

Progressive Maharaja

The caste system and Indian muslims/Christians

The feudal doctrine of trusteeship

The law – sustaining order via force, for the sake of the common good

Ritual slaughter

Arundhatiyars

Community deity and class profession

Eternal servitude as inescapable fate

craven

Under threat of physical violence, economic sanctions, social boycott and divine retribution

Service/help & condescension/contempt

Inter-dine, inter-trade & inter-marry

Politicize & mobilize

Represent grievance & claim redress

Leader of the voiceless

Avarna

Excluded India

Labour unrest

Intitutionalized discrimination

Duragraha

Sweet persuasion

Unacceptable exceptionalism

Self-governance

Independent Labour Party

Radical constitution

Cooperative marketing societies

lackeys

livery

Dalit Panthers

Revolutionary constituency

Militant class

Renunciation Vs. Reclamation

The primitive communism of the Adivasis

Hindu Mahasabha

Civilize/educate/assimilate

People’s Liberation Guerilla Army of the Communist Party of India (Maoist)

squatters

Criminalizing traditional rights

Public face-off

Princely states

Union territories

Partial statehood

National Capital Region (NCR)

The Minority Committee

Inflammable questions. E.g. Communal

The Depressed Classes

Public Service Commission

Politico-legal firewall

Virtual disenfranchisement

fratricide

Killing softly

Defusing revolution

Spiritual enlightenment & political awakening

The infection of imitation

Night soil

Autochthonous & allochthonous

“Ghar wapsi”

Navayana Buddhism

Jim Crow

– Eat – slowly, little-by-little and with breaks

– Distinguish:

Propriety

&

Proprietary

– India fighting for Britain against the Nazis ~ Dalits fighting for the Hindus against the Muslims

– Would the free expression of hitherto repressed biological drives be the engine to drive political revolution?

– Took cannabutter.

Getting stoned with a loved one is awesome. Usual relational distance & personal difference overcome!

Uncontrollable laughter.

Not able to follow the serial running on TV.

Feels like I am observing myself from an external perspective sometimes. Sometimes seems like I am totally free from “the interference of thought” (like UG’s “natural state!?).

In touch with the repressed/unconscious self.

Deep insights and brilliant intuitions……

No less trippy than LSD!

12.9.18

– Magical realism

“Paulo Coelho’s Best Story”

Quicksilver

Higher purpose

Municipalism

– Sometimes, what we really need the most is just the support to help us keep on believing/working/loving, when we feel like giving up.

That’s what true friends are for!

– I’m an Indian, so why should I settle down in Canada?!

– Biopics:

B. R. Ambedkar

Aurobindo Ghosh

Bhagat Singh

E. V. R. Periyar

Subramanya Bharathi

Rabindranath Tagore

Mahatma Gandhi

– Follow sports on mobile – Google Sports (shortcut), LiveScore app

– Dialectic-didactic

conspectus

“How is Christian self-description related to external descriptions of Christianity?”

Second naïveté

Language-games & life-forms

Multi-cultural curricula in public education

Faithful experience

Cross-cultural rationality & realism

Self-differential identity

Narrative relations

– From my experience in “ministry”, I have realized that trying to get people to commit to a regular program (like SFG meetings) is futile!

And I also don’t believe that occasional programs like seminars and retreats are effective enough.

So, in the future, I could just concentrate on spontaneous interactions, and my personal witness, as the only ways I contribute to the spiritual growth of those around me……!

– Distinguish:

Need

&

Demand

“Not waving but drowning”!

– Sense-desire as the primary guide for living, rather than belief-reason!

– Gandhi – do theistic, pious & ascetic folks inevitably become pharisaical?

Self-denial >> Narcissism!

– Self, home & world

Church, academy & society

The voluntary association, government and marketplace

Neo-conservative reaction

Liberal ~ liberationist

Civic ~ critical

Educated ~ responsible

Thiemann Vs. Hauerwas

Generous orthodoxy

Co-constructed God-talk

Common sense Vs. Critical realism

13.9.18

– Violent prayer

Ritualized rape

“Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum” – DON’T let the bastards grind you down!

The Daily Dot

Audio erotica

– Swallow the smoke!

– Bon Jovi:

“We weren’t born to follow

Come on and get up off your knees

When life is a bitter pill to swallow

You gotta hold on to what you believe

Believe that the sun will shine tomorrow

And that your saints and sinners bleed

We weren’t born to follow

You gotta stand up for what you believe

Let me hear you say yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah”

“Faith: you know you’re gonna live thru the rain

Lord you got to keep the faith

Now you know is not too late

Oh you got to keep the faith

Faith: don’t let your love turn to hate

Right now we got to

Keep the faith

Keep the faith

Keep the faith

Lord we got to keep the faith

Walking in the footsteps

Of society’s lies

I don’t like what I see no more

Sometimes I wish that I was blind

Sometimes I wait forever

To stand out in the rain

So no one sees me cryin’

Trying to wash away the pain

Mother father”

– Why do I hate “The Handmaid’s Tale” so much?!

Most critics love it……

Am I a misogynist?

The obsession with family really disgusts me!

Except the aesthetics, I didn’t find anything else impressive

– “What is fun?” – Alan Watts

Delightful nonsense

14.9.18

– Radical traditionalist movements

Classical bourgeois theism

The future effects of constructivism

Mary Daly

Heteronomy of social life

A post-critical, and faithful/Christian, reading of Scripture

Religious resurgence

Pluralism, eclecticism, skepticism

Meaning of the God-symbol and the truth- status of God-talk

GOD the problem

“God-in-himself”

The mundane-mystical

Natural theology & special revelation

– Distinguish:

Science

&

Technology