23.10.18
– Avoiding the 2 pitfalls – the shallow conforming life, and succumbing to the deep-dense dark
I need to move back & forth, so that I am able to balance, on the razor’s edge!
– Return to (modified) system:
1. Monday & Friday – work-chores
2. Wednesday – fasting-disciplines
3. Tuesday & Saturday – basic rhythm (limited freedom)
4. Thursday & Sunday – freak-out.
No serial/movie on Monday, Wednesday & Friday.
Slim dinner on Monday & Friday. Wednesday – full day slim diet.
No exercise & meditation on Thursday & Sunday.
Reading together – Wednesday &/or Friday
– falafel
couscous
Maghreb
Green firecrackers
PUBG
STEAM
Sea cucumber
25.10.18
– lambaste
Dead nuts
Pis aller
Egiosme a deux
Cowardly instincts sanitized as moral habits
– Ontology-ethics is inseparable from the existential-practical. And they are mutually affecting!
– Movies:
“துப்பரிவாளன்”
Not good enough.
First half was better. A movie with a better second half would be a better movie…?
Author + actor + audience = Impact/Art!
Does Sherlock Holmes have ESP?
Anyone close, in reality?
– Distinguish:
WhatsApp
&
What’s up?
– setts
hosiery
stumpy
warren
flagstone
collectibles
Jumble/flea market
Garage sale
Swap meet
Pure happiness from unfolding living thoughts
Down-at-the-heels
frisson
costermonger
nonplussed
– Unproductive creativity & uncreative productivity
26.10.18
– Daily Manna from Biblica (using Scripture for hope & encouragement)
Vs.
Lectionary readings from BCP (Scripture as the Spirit’s instrument to shape the Church)
Ps. 89:11-17 – is it possible for a person (even/especially GOD) to be all-powerful and all-good?
Distinguish:
Theology proper
&
GOD-in-GOD
Is the creator of this world the same as the righteous king of Israel??
Would (a fuller) knowledge of (the awful) GOD make worship (more) problematic?
– “You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.” – Henry Ford
Doesn’t history teach us to face the future?
Un-education
Creating reality
Vs.
Consuming knowledge
Fordism
Taapaca – Andean volcanic chain
Inca citadel
nipper
Lava dome
emplacement
Holy writ
Clutch one’s pearls
Gerrymandering
“It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.” – George Eliot
Accidental murder
Assassination attempts
Military junta
interpolate
countermand ~ rescind
barefacedly
The military-industrial complex
Idealized traits
Covering up the ugly with fancy explanations
Social norms prevent unnecessary competition
Prospective mates as scarce resources
27.10.18
– Wannabe >> ?
Just me! 😎
– Romantic slow rock jams
Heavy ballads
Joey Aslan
Travails of childhood
28.10.18
– Satan’s molten tears
29.10.18
– flitting
30.10.18
– untrammelled
zither
twang
toboggan
magpie
gnome
wastrel
splothering
raillery
1.11.18
– outstrip
Extrajudicial killings
Militarization of the police
Jair Bolsonaro – Brazil’s Trump?
Stochastic models/nondetermined systems
coimplicated
Steady-state quality
Classical & evolving images
Passion to think the Real
Distinguish:
Nature
&
Ecosystem
Environmental philosophy
Theological ecology
4.11.18
– Further afield
Nature as a first name of the Real
Ethics as first philosophy
The economic ecologies of thought
-logy & – sophy
Deep science
Nefarious & pathetic agnosticism
5.11.18
– Is there any (cultural) symbol of India other than the map & flag (political)?
OM/AUM
– Big Science
Life-world
The scientific nature of philosophy & the philosophical nature of science
Anonymous, transcendental subjectivity
The natural attitude
Fact Vs. Value
Accidental escape
epoché – A completely unique, universal & total transformation of attitude!
Phenomenological reduction/bracketing
De-absolutizing of the world
The world as phenomenon
Ray Brassier – “We are already dead”
What could be more pernicious than the quest for objectivity?
Meontic absolute
Bare life
Man as GOD’s self-objectivation
Transcendent radicality
Above pre-givenness
Intersubjective consciousness
Unnatural attitude – a position beyond worldly interest
The permanent crisis of humanity
The actual substratum
Reclaiming & radicalizing naïvety
– Another DNA
Designing software
– Why did Modi/BJP choose Sardar Vallabhai Patel, a secular anti-Hindutva figure, for the humongous unity statue project?
6.11.18
– Post-scarcity
LBRY – blockchain + bittorent
Distributed ledger
escrow
Naifs & knaves
Activator/keygen crack detected as virus
– Distinguish:
Conservative
&
Conservatory
7.11.18
– Treats!
Lascivia
Nuts
8.11.18
– Get the lyrics of the song நான் யார் from the film பரியேரும் பெருமாள்
What is the significance of the color blue?
– Is Meatloaf a great/one of the greatest, songwriters?
– Should I aim to attain a perfect body?
– Should I change my ministry to a purely reactive one, responding to needs expressed by others around, as and when they arise, with no proactive formal structure?
– There are those with no intentional spirituality/overarching philosophy, and then there are the religious fanatics.
We need more of the third variety, which lies in between the two.
People like me…!?
– “வட சென்னை”
Distinguish:
What happens to you
&
What you do
Events & choices
“96”
Why did Baradwaj Rangan say that this is an “unsentimental romance”??
9.11.18
– Lake Superior
briny
Personal dictionary
– What is Ray Brassier’s philosophy?
Thomas Ligotti
Lovecraftian
Hackneyed vocable
coruscate
Rylean
Ordinary Language Movement in Philosophy
Propositional attitudes
Thought-episodes
Nomology
The manifest (philosophical) and the scientific (empirical) image
Normative valence
Relative potency
Combining power
Stereoscopic integration
Human ~ person ~ agent
The irrecusable primacy of the instrumentalist conception
Originary, pre-scientific understanding
Functional role and ontological status
Methodological primacy and substantive superiority
Philosophical reductionism
Pragmatic substratum
Being-in-the-world
Rational purposiveness
Intellectual intuition & subtle theoretical construction
Normative autonomy
ineliminability
Corrigible speculative achievement
Quasi-sacrosanct status
Scrutinizing the spontaneous judgment of introspective certainty
Mechanistic discourse of causation and the rational language of intention
Neurocomputational enhancement
vitiate
Epistemological tension
Eliminative materialism
Common sense psychology Vs. Completed neuroscience
Apocalyptic proclivities
Cognitive catastrophe
Cultural revolution – reconstructing the future of human self-understanding
irrealism
– Distinguish:
Invisible
&
Hidden
– WARNING:
Life is injurious to health, living kills! 💀
10.11.18
– New MFX
– God ~ non-human eternal creative mystery
– marionette
scotch
flout
chary
Dot-com bust
chetif
prepossession
Evil prognostications
Murderous love
Voluptuous & final consummation
Intrinsic insignificance >> limitation of conceit
Eternal unrelief
The slumber of constant repetition
Hetty Sorrel
The illusion of possibility
The dreariness of actuality
The monotony of contingencies
schnapps
alpenstock
exeunt
– Instead of a little entertainment whenever one has had too much work, I’m gonna work whenever I’ve had too much entertainment……! 😁
– Counterclockwise Swastika
Kali/tantra
Vs.
Om/mantra
Now, it is the right half that’s moving against gravity……!
The face of the hours
– ATP Next Gen Playoffs
-
From intellect & intention to instinct & intuition
-
Pure (as opposed to applied) mathematics
-
Is it possible to live independent of, or in opposition to, culture, without succumbing to the darkness within?
-
Mathematics as non-naturalistic science
-
Content (as opposed to form) is affective
-
Apodeicity – universal, necessary and inevitable validity
-
Scientific realism
-
Circular definitions
-
Auto-justifying
-
Beautiful widgets
-
Process – in between, & therefore common to, both being (ontology/rigor) & event (non-ontology/creative novelty)!
-
Beyond subject & object
-
The multiple presents as one, or, the one presents as multiple?
-
Appearance as operation
-
Presence & presentation
-
Being >> situations >> context
-
Count-as-one ~ state of the situation
-
Sub-multiples
-
Metaphorical affinity
-
The one is not
-
From state-inclusion to self-belonging!
-
Truth ~ evental revelation ~ impossible occurence ~ futuristic unbecoming ~ real change ~ complete transformation ~ radical rupture ~ unnatural negation ~ re-presenting inconsistency ~ paradoxical existence
-
The axioms of set theory as foundational for ontology
-
Are you worried about me, or worried for yourself because of me?
11.11.18
– When I suspended the small group meetings, one of the (ex-)members said, “So, what is Joe going to do?”
My reply is, “What are YOU going to do now??” 👊🏾
– “At least pretend like you’re interested.” – a relative to me, during a socializing event.
For almost all people, there is no distinction between their individual personality and their social roles.
I DON’T want to become like that!
– Movies:
“Hold the Dark”
Yes!
The Dog(s) & me
Animal morality
Natural family and social construct
“The Wreck of the Deutschland” BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
– This planet is (or made into – what’s the difference?) a giant ash-tray!
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