12.11.18
– Artist ~ addict (& vice-versa?)
You wanna play risky, and live long-healthy…… 🤣
Sounds like marrying me and wanting social acceptance!
– “Nature is a whore” (Nirvana)
Vs.
Mother Nature (Gaia)
– “Women in Love” – what’s with Gerald’s weird encounter with the crucifix buried in the snow??
– Play-doe, for adults! 😋
– The body is used to being treated like a dumb beast of burden. So, it needs a lot of time & trust to come into its own (inherent wisdom). Are you willing to take that chance??
Routine/situation – instead of looking at it as a (more or less stable) framework within which I need to fit into, I would rather give the self the power/right to arrange (& rearrange) the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle as it sees fit at any given moment……
– Obituary – H. N. Ananth Kumar
“Scientists May Have Put Bacteria in a State of Quantum Entanglement”
Multi-modal terminal
recalcitrant
Midnight sun
Solstice, equinox
prehension
anchorite
contrasty
– World Science Day for Peace & Development – how can science contribute to world peace??
– “Revenge triumphs over death” – Francis Bacon
Really?! How??
13.11.18
– The conventionally impossible
Post-modern; Anti-modernist
The non-conceptual, pre-existent self
absurdist
Reactionary & revolutionary
Mystification & denigration
“Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum”
Johann Kaspar Schmidt
Why did Stirner not become as famous/influential as Kierkegaard? Aren’t the two quite similar in style and spirit?
Left Hegelians
duzbruder
“Stirner had, instead, completed an unprecedented critique of every possible religious, philosophical and ideological system.”
Mass belief ~ imagined reality ~ invested power
Systematic self-alienation –> willing servitude
Immanent/radical criticism –> conscious self-creation
Ubiquitous and unquestioned phenomena
“If egoism was suitable for God, humanity or the sultan, why not for me? Why is it always only the actually-existing, individual egoist who is disparaged, while the imagined masters of the world are so lauded? Why don’t we learn from these imagined masters and put ourselves in their place as masters of our own lives?”
Religious rationality
Fantastic manifestations of conceptual fetishization
Particular ~ finite ~ unique
From “The Ego & Its Own” to “The Unique and Its Self-creation”
Rationale for romantic reification
Recursive nightmare
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” – “Who will guard the guardians?” Or in this case, implicitly, “Who can know a truth is the Truth, a value is the Value, or a reality is the reality?”
Originality + audacity = importance!
Simple observation
Objective truth as subjective projection
Technicians of the sacred
Actually-existing individuals
Fixed idea/spiritual essence
The permanent solution to self-enslavement
Institutions/ideals/powers/goals
Compulsory presuppositions and prejudices based on consensus
Phenomenal, empirical, intentional, nominal, descriptive, immanent egoism
Self-alienated image of self-interest
Whole person lived experience
Deliberate misinterpretations
Ontologizing social practice
Hazarding guesses
– Distinguish:
Primitive
&
Traditional
– John Carpenter’s “The Thing”
“Who Goes There” by John Campbell
Out of fear of becoming the monster (that everyone knows they are, deep inside), they instead choose to become a cog in the machine……
The virus/cancer of culture/society!
Terrorism of ideas –> biological nightmare
– Narcissism, egoism & anarchism
Uniqueness, artistry & addiction
Stirner & Rand
Decisive ~ divisive
– nimbus
Formal existence
Robert Plomin
Polygenic score
Dead rococo
Person ~ free will ~ individual
Critical self-theory
– Those who want the NEW must be ready to enter into the emptiness left by the death of the old……!
I think the SFG (small group meetings For personal growth) stage of my ministry is over.
So, what now??
Wait,
for……!
14.11.18
– Adjust settings for app background activity & notifications
– Labor force
Industrial armies
Association for free development
Power relations
Labor as commodity
Curious app
tomfoolery
Emirate
World Heritage site
Constitutional crisis
Dissolving parliament
Allies, vassals, rebels & enemies
California wildfires
Acre, hectare, inch, feet, chain, furlong, yard, meter
British imperial & US customary systems of measurement
Sticky situation
Reduplicative paramnesia
Delusional misidentification
Lying-in = parturiency
Braggadocio = rodomontade
estivate
AQI – pollution sub-index
– The dialectic of Spirit Vs. Society is what drives history
– “A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.” – Albert Einstein
But aren’t the two inextricably related, because of the way the human mind/brain works?
This is one of the indicators of why Einstein disapproved of quantum theory…
– How can you have reconciliation when both parties think they are right, and each believes it’s the other who has to apologize?
15.11.18
– The soundtrack in a film like செக்கச் சிவந்த வானம் is like pearls on a monkey!
– NSFW – not safe for (this) world!
– Distinguish:
Water lily
&
Lotus
– “The placebo effect is real!”
– Dartos-Cremaster – the respiring Id
– Understanding understanding
Ideological critique of rationalist metaphysics
I-world relation prior to the subject-object distinction.
LSR – a paraphilosophical project (La Mettrie, Max Stirner, Wilhelm Reich)
Egoism & its property ~ subject & object ~ noesis & noema
God ~ soul ~ spirit ~ self
Dasein – phenomenological ontology
Implicit dualism
A priori reasoning
Unprincipled and presuppositionless empirical investigation
Poetic art Vs. Revealed religion
Modern slavery
Empiricist reification
Non-ideological critique of ideology
Historical spirit
Demythologizing Marxism
Pure thought & practical reason
Appearance & thing-in-itself
Life ~ person ~ being
The doctrinal moment
Critical criticism
Transcendent essence of man ~ divine nature
Actual powers ~ life-activity
Unalienated self-possession ~ completely self-determined activity ~ undetermined self-creation.
Heteronomous powers
Integral moments
Extreme creativity
Unwanted innovations
Unprecedented critical synthesis
Dialectical existence/processual being
Forms ~ essences ~ universals
Arbitrary objects
Contextual assumptions
Unexamined premises
Representationalist epistemology
Mathematicism
Phenomenologies
Dogmatic theories of substance/presence
Unique one ~ empty concept
Conceptual consciousness Vs. Nonconceptual life
Completely insubstantial subjectivity (“creative nothing”) and its object-world (its “property”).
Distinguish: Egoism & Solipsism
Self-awareness, world-appropriation & unique expression
Concepts as aesthetic objectifications/indicators
Always operating within, but also upon and beyond, given systems of communication
Evaluative distinctions
Pragmatic, momentary dialectics
My power is my property
– “I Saw the Devil”
Instead of the final guillotine before the family, he could’ve just straitjacketed him in permanent solitary confinement with starvation & remote monitoring (until death crept up on him gradually and excruciatingly)……!
Would that have successfully terrified/tortured/broken him??
Distinguish:
Kill
&
Destroy
Perfect revenge
16.11.18
– If the Maoists (in Chattisgarh & other places) are really fighting for the people, then why do they have to threaten them to boycott the state elections, and even then around 70% of people choose to vote…??
The Communists know that the proletarians are also followers of capitalism, like foolish children who don’t know what is good for them. That’s why they have to be led/parented by the enlightened activists…!
– The Arecibo message
SJ ~ Salome Joseph, Society of Jesus, Sexy Joy
17.11.18
– Alexander Tikhomirov
“The doubts that haunt the hopes that haunt our faith”
“I believe I don’t (fully) know what I (really) believe”
Spooky theology
Mad money
splunking
Aaron van Voorhis
“I rightly pass as…?”
“Help people make peace with the truth of their lives”
Religious/moral/cultural/psychological/relational trauma
Brokenness ~ honesty ~ vulnerability
Responsible & healing approach
Meaningful & necessary community
From skepticism to suspicion
The Perhaps – the possibility of the impossible
Weak theology
Distinguish post-theism and atheism
God – from existence to insistence
Media spectacle
Trumpism
Evolutionary basis for fundamentalism and tribalism
Resurgent fascism
Irreconcilable realities
Diversity & fragmentation
Ident(it)arian
Ignorant optimism, naive progressivism
Dangerous & difficult conversations
– Can I realize, & accept, that I will never (fully) get what I want (the most) from this relationship, and still continue in it??
– If transgressing cultural norms is integral to the spiritual life, does it also include pushing biological boundaries?!
– From religious art to artistic religion!
– Deeper ~ darker ~ heavier
– The successful (celebrities) are lauded for “being themselves”, but what about those like me??
18.11.18
– Marquis De Sade
Animal faith (Santayana)
Mysticism as scepticism
19.11.18
– RBI
Vs.
Government
– scenic
elk
20.11.18
– Just go with it!
Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
Libertine lifestyle
Apostle of freedom & martyr of atheism
Corporal punishment and sexual arousal
Dissolute thinking
Lustmuder
Marginal genres
Pornography as a political weapon
Corrupt church, aristocracy & monarchy
Satirical obscenity
Literary sex
Enlightened debauchery
Distinguihed in action
In & out of love
Practically destitute
Renée-Pelagie de Montreuil
Flagellation & buggery
Libertinage, sacrilege & sadism
Punished for licentiousness
Farcical perversions
The female posterior
Scatological thrill
Orgies of humor
The capital offense of sodomy
Execution in absentia
Hungered after novelty in the bedroom
Too extreme for the marital chamber
coprophilia
opprobrium
Cat-&-mouse game with the authorities
lettres de cachet – detention without trial
Houdini-like escapes
Writing in prison
New revolutionary government
Worn down by years of dogged devotion
Good-for-nothing spouse
Constance Quesnet
ancien régime
Counter-revolutionaries
Unfashionable views
Philosophy in the boudoir, Justine, The Story of Juliette
François de Coulmier, Charenton asylum
Confiscated/destroyed manuscripts
Sulphurous reputation
Dispassionate assessment
Voices from the fuselage
Fitness tycoon
In the public eye
“Jane Fonda in Five Acts”
Sedition & treason
Perpetual revolution
uproot-ing
Lee Strasberg
Science fiction about sex
Dissident soldiers
Silent majority
Actress >> activist
Campaign for economic democracy
Ultimate catharsis
Wild brilliance
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